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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's story comes from Truman.

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Speaker 1: Hey Truman. Truman left a review on her Apple podcast

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Speaker 1: with an idea for a story, and guess what today,

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Speaker 1: We're going to turn it into an adventure. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Truman was an amazing soccer player. He scored lots of

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Speaker 1: goals for his team and played it every day in

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Speaker 1: practice really hard. But that's not all he was. Truman

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Speaker 1: was not just a soccer player, but he was also

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Speaker 1: a member of the Spy Kids Headquarters team. He had

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Speaker 1: been a spy for two years and was a part

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Speaker 1: of many important missions. When he got home today, there

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Speaker 1: was a message waiting in his room from Spike Kids

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Speaker 1: and said Truman, something terrible has happened. There's poison soccer

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Speaker 1: balls that are getting planted inside of soccer teams. We

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Speaker 1: need you to find them. You can find a gold

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Speaker 1: star as of the marker on the soccer balls that

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Speaker 1: are poisoned. We need to put them in this black

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Speaker 1: bag and bring him back to headquarters. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: Truman said, that's crazy. Who in the world would poison

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Speaker 1: soccer balls that could make kids sick? Ah, that makes

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Speaker 1: me so mad. We gotta stop him. Let's go, and

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Speaker 1: Truman raced over as fast as he could to the

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Speaker 1: soccer fields that Saturday morning. There were hundreds of kids,

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Speaker 1: dozens of teams that were playing that day, so that

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Speaker 1: means there were lots of soccer balls that he had

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Speaker 1: to investigate. And one by one he checked all the

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Speaker 1: soccer balls. They all looked clean. None of them had

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Speaker 1: that gold star. But wait a second, done, done, done.

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Speaker 1: He found one, and he carefully picked it up and

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Speaker 1: put it in the black bag. The rest of the

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Speaker 1: morning he checked all the soccer balls and found four more.

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Speaker 1: So what's one plus four? Five? He found five poisoned

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Speaker 1: soccer balls. He put them all in the black bag.

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Speaker 1: He had to get it out of there so that

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Speaker 1: no kids would get sick. He brought it back to

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Speaker 1: Spy Kids headquarters and showed them what he found. They

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe it that there were five poison soccer balls

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Speaker 1: all at one field. Oh my gosh, this is worse

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Speaker 1: than we thought. Truman. We're gonna need you to go

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Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh. We need you to go to a Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: Steelers football game. There's gonna be a man there on

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Speaker 1: the Spy Kids team. It's going to meet with you

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Speaker 1: and give you some more clues to follow. Okay, we

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Speaker 1: need you to go there today. Your plane is waiting.

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Speaker 1: Truman raced to the airport as fast as he could

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Speaker 1: and got on the next flight to Pittsburgh. During the flight,

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Speaker 1: he started to think, Man, I wonder who in the

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Speaker 1: world would do this? Why would they put gold stars

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Speaker 1: stickers on the balls and poison them? What are they doing?

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Speaker 1: Why would they do this? He couldn't figure it out.

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Speaker 1: As the plane landed in Pittsburgh and he drove all

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Speaker 1: the way to the Pittsburgh Steelers game, there was a

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Speaker 1: man waiting there from the Spy Kids headquarters. It's Dan. Hey, Dan,

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Speaker 1: Truman said, Truman, I'm glad you came. This is a

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Speaker 1: very important mission and here is a bag of clues.

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Speaker 1: I need you to take this very seriously because there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of kids that get very sick

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Speaker 1: unless we stopped this. Can you chew this? Truman said absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready, and then Truman sat down on a park

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Speaker 1: bench and started to look at all the clues. The

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Speaker 1: first clue it was a black eye patch that they

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Speaker 1: had found near some of the soccer balls. A black

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Speaker 1: eye patch that's weird. The next clue, what is Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, this this was a like a deflated soccer ball,

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Speaker 1: one with without air, so it was flat, um, and

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Speaker 1: it looked like it had seaweed on it. What like

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Speaker 1: this from the ocean? That's really weird. And then the

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Speaker 1: last flue, what is this? It looks like a a

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Speaker 1: black flag with a white X and a white Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's like a skull. Oh, it looks like a black

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Speaker 1: flag with a skull and a white X. Mm hmm.

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Speaker 1: That's weird. So we have a black flag, a black eyepatch,

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Speaker 1: and a flat soccer ball that has seaweed all over it.

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Speaker 1: That's weird. But I think that means we need to

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Speaker 1: go to the ocean to find the next clue. So

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Speaker 1: Truman got as fast as he could on the next

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Speaker 1: flight to the ocean, and he's landed and got to

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Speaker 1: seaweed because the seaweed on the ball was red and purple,

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Speaker 1: which that's not a normal seaweed color. And so he

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Speaker 1: started to look around and sure enough, there it was.

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Speaker 1: He was in the right place. There was seaweed all

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Speaker 1: over the beach. What oh, my gosh, do you think

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Speaker 1: this is part of the poison that we're used in

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Speaker 1: the soccer balls? Oh? Because this seaweed doesn't look right.

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Speaker 1: It smells terrible, and oh, my gosh, someone's coming. Truman

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Speaker 1: ducked and hid behind some trees. What in the world

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Speaker 1: are here some more seaweed? Let's collect it all and

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Speaker 1: bring it back to the ship. Is that what I

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Speaker 1: think it is? Truman couldn't believe his eyes. There were

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Speaker 1: three pirates. Oh my gosh, that's those were the clues.

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Speaker 1: The black eye patch pirates love to wear those, and

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Speaker 1: the black flag pirates have those flags flying over their ship.

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Speaker 1: Do you think the pirates are poisoning all the soccer balls?

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Speaker 1: Me too. We got to investigate. So Truman followed the

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Speaker 1: pirates back to their little boat, and their boat took

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Speaker 1: him back to the ship. So Truman brought his spy

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Speaker 1: binoculars with and it looked at him and watched, and

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Speaker 1: sure enough he could see on the pirate ship they

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Speaker 1: were filling the soccer balls with that really stinky seaweed.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what in the world are we going

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Speaker 1: to do? He had a plan. He still had those

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Speaker 1: five poison soccer balls with him. So his plan was

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Speaker 1: to somehow get those soccer balls and launch him onto

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Speaker 1: the pirate ship. Maybe that will stop them. So Truman

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Speaker 1: built a giant slingshot. Do you know what a slingshot is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's something that launches things really far farther than you

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Speaker 1: can throw up. And so he built this giant slingshot

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Speaker 1: that could shoot these poison soccer balls back at the

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Speaker 1: pirate ship. And he loaded one up and pulled it

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Speaker 1: back and launched it. Man, you should have seen it fly.

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Speaker 1: It flew all the way and direct hit. It hit

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Speaker 1: the pirate ship perfectly, and the poison exploded everywhere. And

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Speaker 1: he loaded up another one, and another one and another one,

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Speaker 1: and he shot all of the soccer balls, sir, right

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Speaker 1: at the pirate ship, and they all exploded. Pretty soon.

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Speaker 1: He could see the pirates getting kind of sick. Oh

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Speaker 1: what the darnation are? I feel terrible. The pirates were

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Speaker 1: getting sick. They said, let's get out of here. I

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Speaker 1: think someone's onto us are and the pirates vanished, never

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Speaker 1: to be seen again. Hooray, Truman solved the mystery of

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Speaker 1: the poison soccer balls and saved all the kids. That

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