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Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister jim Man. Welcome back to Kit

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the family. We are the podcast that turns your ideas

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Speaker 1: into an amazing adventure every single day. You know, we

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Speaker 1: couldn't even exist without imaginations from kids just like you.

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Speaker 1: So if you have an idea for a story, I'd

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Speaker 1: love to see it. Check down in the show notes

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Speaker 1: below for how you can submit your own story idea

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Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. And parents,

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Speaker 1: if you're new to kids podcasting, I'm gonna challenge you

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Speaker 1: to listen to podcasting for five days in a row

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Speaker 1: with your kids. It's going to increase their imagination, decrease

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Speaker 1: screen time, and we're gonna have a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: along the way. Are you guys ready for today's adventure?

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Speaker 1: Me too? Let's go. On the last episode, we saw

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Speaker 1: that Anaya and her mom just climbed onto this mysterious

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Speaker 1: looking island in the middle of a lake and they

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Speaker 1: saw a waterfall, but the waterfall had something very sparkly

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Speaker 1: inside and a secret cave. Oh dear, let's see what

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Speaker 1: happens next. As a Naya and her mom stood next

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Speaker 1: to this crashing waterfall, they saw an opening to the

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Speaker 1: side that would lead into a secret cave. Come on, mom,

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Speaker 1: let's go check it out, said Anaya. H If we

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Speaker 1: get in there, we're gonna get soaked. Are you okay

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Speaker 1: with that, asked her mom. Of course, it looks like

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Speaker 1: there could be a mystery inside it there. At least

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Speaker 1: it'd be a really cool picture to stand on the

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Speaker 1: inside of a waterfall. Come on, and Naya grabbed her

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Speaker 1: mom's hand and they squeezed along the edge of this

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Speaker 1: rocky cliff. It was very wet and full of moss.

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Speaker 1: They squeezed their way behind the waterfall, and finally they

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Speaker 1: were inside of the secret cave. Wow, it's so cool

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Speaker 1: in here, said Anaya. She looked all around. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: a very big cave, but it was so cool to

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Speaker 1: be kind of like on the inside of a waterfall.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a flashlight in the backpack. Let me

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Speaker 1: open it up, said her mom. Hm. She unzipped the

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Speaker 1: backpack and looked inside, moving all the other snacks and

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Speaker 1: things inside, and finally, all the way at the bottom

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Speaker 1: was the flashlight. It's funny how it's usually the thing

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Speaker 1: that you want the most it's usually on the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the backpack. Right. She pulled out the flashlight and

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Speaker 1: two granola bars that they could both eat and flipped

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Speaker 1: on the light to take a look around. Wow, this

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Speaker 1: place is amazing, said Anaya. I've never seen anything like it.

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Speaker 1: It was a true amazing cave with stalag tights and

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Speaker 1: stalag mites. Do you know what those are? Yeah? Those

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Speaker 1: are those pointy things inside of caves. And if you

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Speaker 1: remember the trick, the lag tight is the pointy one

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Speaker 1: that holds onto the ceiling because it's got to hold

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Speaker 1: on tight, and it's the lag might is the one

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Speaker 1: on the ground. But hold on, Ananaya. Didn't we see

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Speaker 1: something really colorful inside of that waterfall? Oh? Yeah, said Anaya.

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Speaker 1: She turned around with the flashlight and pointed it over

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Speaker 1: said her mom. Let me walk around to the outside

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Speaker 1: see if it's still there. Her mom squeezed her way

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Speaker 1: along the edge that wet, mossy, rocky wall around the

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Speaker 1: waterfall and came out to the other side. The waterfall

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Speaker 1: was so loud her mom had to shout, Anaya, I

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Speaker 1: see it. It's it looks like it's right behind where

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Speaker 1: the water is crashing down. Come a little closer. Anaya

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Speaker 1: was walking closer to the waterfall and her mom was

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Speaker 1: almost guiding her, and finally Anaya saw it. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: see it. Come back in mom. Her mom came back inside,

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Speaker 1: and Anya reached down into the dirt and pulled back

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Speaker 1: pulled it out. Wow, look at this thing, mom. Anaya

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Speaker 1: was holding something almost the size of a baseball that

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Speaker 1: was very muddy but seemed very sparkly. Wow, let's wash

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Speaker 1: it off in the water and see if fiddle clean up.

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Speaker 1: They knelt down into a pool of water and started

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Speaker 1: washing off this thing that looked almost like a giant gemstone.

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Speaker 1: There's no way it was as big as a baseball.

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Speaker 1: There's no way that would be a real gemstone. Right.

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Speaker 1: The more they rubbed it, it got brighter and brighter.

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Speaker 1: on it, and it emitted the brightest light they'd ever seen. Whoa, oh,

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Speaker 1: how how is it possible? They had to squint and

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Speaker 1: cave was filled with this beautiful blue light that was

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Speaker 1: the cave where that blue light was shining on, had

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Speaker 1: somehow just been turned into an opening of sorts, like

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Speaker 1: something that they could keep walking in hold on, said

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Speaker 1: her mom. That wasn't there a second ago. Where did

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Speaker 1: that opening come from? I don't know, said Anaya. It

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Speaker 1: must be from that blue light of that blue stone.

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Speaker 1: Come on, let's go check it out. Anaia was very brave,

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Speaker 1: always the first one to try something new, so she

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Speaker 1: Her mom grabbed onto that blue stone, which was now

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Speaker 1: feeling pretty warm. As they walked into this new opening

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Speaker 1: full of so many crystals, shouted Anaya. The floor, the walls,

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Speaker 1: the ceiling were full of all of these very pointy crystals.

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Speaker 1: You should have seen it. As they waved the flashlight around.

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Speaker 1: It reflected off of all of these different crystals and

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Speaker 1: made the room filled with all kinds of rainbows. It

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Speaker 1: was amazing. But all those pointy crystals were way too

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Speaker 1: They just had to look with their eyes. Wow, this

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Speaker 1: in behind the waterfall, and as that blue crystal was

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Speaker 1: still shining very bright, it shined in a new way

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Speaker 1: and opened up a new door. But this door did

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Speaker 1: of underneath this mountain. But this door opened up to

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Speaker 1: a new world. As Anaya and her mom stood at

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Speaker 1: the entrance to this new world, they couldn't believe their eyes.

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Speaker 1: An adventure that had begun this morning as they hiked

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Speaker 1: unnormal door to a new world. Both of their eyes

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Speaker 1: got very big with excitement as they wondered what might

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Speaker 1: lie ahead. And even though this is the end of

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Speaker 1: our story. It's pretty clear that this is only just

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Speaker 1: the beginning the amazing adventures of Anaya and her mom

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Speaker 1: they found that magical blue crystal. I just I wonder

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Speaker 1: what kind of doors it might open for them in

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Speaker 1: the future. Well, that's the story for another time. But maybe,

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Speaker 1: just maybe you and your parents will find something magical

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Speaker 1: together on your next adventure the end. Hey, friends, I

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Speaker 1: need your help celebrating a birthday. Drummer ll please Happy birthday.

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Speaker 1: Hidie's turning seven years old. Heidi wants to be a

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Speaker 1: vet when she grows up, loves playing with her cat

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Speaker 1: Bagels I love that name, and making magic potions. Wow, Heidi,

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad we got to celebrate you and your

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Speaker 1: big day on the show. Happy seventh birthday, Heidi. Well, friends,

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Speaker 1: I hope you all have a super duper day and

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Speaker 1: I will see you on our next adventure. Bye Ey