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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's story is another

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Speaker 1: story about Leppi the Spy Gecko. Remember Leppie, Yes, he

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Speaker 1: is a spy leopard gecko who goes on super secret missions. Well,

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Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel, the j Cubbies, look for our

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Speaker 1: episode called Leppi the Spy Gecko and you can meet him.

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Speaker 1: He's so cool. We build a maze for him and

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Speaker 1: help him explore. And actually, today's story you don't want

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Speaker 1: to miss because Leppie saw a river monster in our backyard.

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Speaker 1: Not kidding you, it's a real There's a river monster

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Speaker 1: in our backyard and Leppie is the one that saw

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Speaker 1: it last night. You have to hear the story. Let's

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Speaker 1: go One day, Leppie the Spy Getto found out that

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Speaker 1: he was being transferred to a new spy team. This

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Speaker 1: spy team lived in South Carolina. They were Miles, Malachi

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Speaker 1: and Derek. They were so excited to have a new

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Speaker 1: spy get Go on their team. And so when Leppie

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Speaker 1: showed up that day, they greeted him with balloons and

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Speaker 1: a huge party. But it was a spy party, so

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Speaker 1: only spies were there. But that night, after all the

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Speaker 1: songs were sung and the stories were told, and everyone

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Speaker 1: climbed into bed. Leppie went to his bed too. He

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Speaker 1: had a hard time falling asleep. Have you ever had

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Speaker 1: a hard time falling asleep where you're just kind of

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Speaker 1: rolling around in bed? Yeah, Leppie was doing the same

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Speaker 1: thing x scept all of a sudden he heard a

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Speaker 1: sound like a big splash. And you see, in their

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Speaker 1: backyard was a big river, and this river was surrounded

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Speaker 1: by trees and was kind of going through a forest.

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Speaker 1: And the river sometimes got really deep and sometimes it

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Speaker 1: was really shallow. But today and right now, it was

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Speaker 1: pretty deep. And he definitely heard something humongous splashing around

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Speaker 1: in there. It was not normal. And let Be walked

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Speaker 1: over to the window and looked out, and he put

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Speaker 1: on his night vision spy goggles. Oh my gosh, let

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Speaker 1: Be said, there's like a giant creature in there. It

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Speaker 1: has spikes on its back and glowing red eyes, a

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Speaker 1: huge long tail. It looks Oh my gosh, is that

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Speaker 1: a river mom ster? Let Be said, I gotta call

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Speaker 1: this in. And so he ran over to wake up

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Speaker 1: Miles and Malkai and Dare and tell them that there

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Speaker 1: was a real river monster in their backyard. They couldn't

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Speaker 1: believe it, and so they called it into to spy headquarters.

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Speaker 1: They had to tell the headquarters that they had seen

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Speaker 1: a real river monster. After they told them about what

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Speaker 1: they had seen, they decided, all right, we need to

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Speaker 1: get back to sleep. We need our energy for tomorrow

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Speaker 1: because we're gonna have to set some traps or we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to figure out something in order to get

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Speaker 1: this river monster out of here, because it's just not safe.

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Speaker 1: There's there's kids that play back here, and it's not safe.

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Speaker 1: So that next morning, it was a beautiful morning. It

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Speaker 1: was nice and sunny and warm but not too hot,

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Speaker 1: and it was just perfect. And so they put all

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Speaker 1: their spy gear on, went outside towards the river. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, there were these giant, muddy footprints everywhere. It

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Speaker 1: looked like some giant creature. And Lettie was probably right,

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Speaker 1: like some kind of river monster was crawling around here,

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Speaker 1: and it was oh my gosh. You pulled their toys

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Speaker 1: into the water. They got to pull them out miles

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Speaker 1: of Malchi and Derek started pulling all their toys out

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Speaker 1: of the river. Oh my gosh, this is worse than

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Speaker 1: we thought. All right, guys, what do you think a

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Speaker 1: river monster eats? Like? What can we use as bait

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Speaker 1: for a trap to catch the river monster? Derek said,

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Speaker 1: what about cheese? I bet river monsters really like cheese,

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Speaker 1: and Lettie said, I don't know about cheese. Miles said,

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Speaker 1: oh about worms, and let Me said maybe, but this

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Speaker 1: river monster was so big he probably wouldn't even see

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Speaker 1: the worm mhm. Maliki said, Oh, what about a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of hot dogs. We could throw a bunch of

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Speaker 1: hot dogs like time on a string, throw him in

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Speaker 1: the water and trick him into coming out, and then

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Speaker 1: we can drop a big net on him. Let Me said, oh,

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Speaker 1: I like that idea. Let's do it, And so they

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Speaker 1: all ran inside and found a package of hot dogs.

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Speaker 1: They tied a bunch of strings onto the hot dogs

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Speaker 1: and asked their mom and dad if there was a

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Speaker 1: big net that they could borrow, and sure enough, there

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Speaker 1: was a big net that they had from their trip

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Speaker 1: to the ocean one time. It's called the cast net.

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Speaker 1: This cast net when you road, it gets really big,

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Speaker 1: or you could tie it to a string and and

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Speaker 1: lower it or raise it up under a tree, and

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Speaker 1: then it gets dropped down on a river monster. And

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Speaker 1: so that was their plan. They went out and sat

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Speaker 1: out there all day, but the river monster never came.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, guys, that's getting kind of late and

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Speaker 1: he still hasn't come. What do we do? Like, he said, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting pretty tired too. Maybe let's head back to

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Speaker 1: the house. We can leave the trap set up, and

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Speaker 1: if we hear anything, we can race back out here

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Speaker 1: and then like catch. It sounds like a plan. And

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Speaker 1: so they went back inside and had dinner, and but

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Speaker 1: always kept an eye out from the window. And then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, splash, crash, hurry, run, he's out there.

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Speaker 1: By the time they got out there, the hot dogs

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Speaker 1: were gone. Dune, dune, dune. The river monster had taken

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Speaker 1: all the bait. Oh no, what are we gonna do?

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Speaker 1: Let me said, hmmm, looks like the river monster one

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Speaker 1: round one. We gotta come up with a new plan

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Speaker 1: tomorrow because we can't let him live here forever. Someone

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Speaker 1: is going to get hurt. All right, guys, let's head

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Speaker 1: back to bed. Let's get some sleeping. Tomorrow, we gotta

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Speaker 1: come up with a new idea. The end