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Speaker 1: Hey, friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kids

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. I love reading through these reviews that you

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Speaker 1: send me on Apple Podcasts. This one is a five star.

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Speaker 1: It says it's from Mira Brooklyn. I love your stories.

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Speaker 1: When I can't watch my iPad, I listen to you

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Speaker 1: and I'm six and a half years old. That's awesome. Yes,

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Speaker 1: stories can be an awesome thing to do, to just

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Speaker 1: use your imagination while you're playing or in the car,

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Speaker 1: maybe getting ready for bed. Well, friends, are you ready

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Speaker 1: for today's adventure? Me too. Let's go one day, far

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Speaker 1: far away. In the middle of pitch black dark space

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Speaker 1: lived a group of space pirates. Yeah, space pirates. You know.

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Speaker 1: These were actually good space pirates, but they had a

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Speaker 1: very important job. Their job was to protect all of

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Speaker 1: space from asteroids that were cruising around and making sure

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Speaker 1: that they wouldn't crash into anything that would cause too

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Speaker 1: much damage. Are right today? We have several asteroids that

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Speaker 1: are on our schedule. We have to make sure one

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Speaker 1: doesn't crash into the Moon and Mars, and oh dear,

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Speaker 1: there's one headed to planet Earth. Okay, ugodbyes by, how

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Speaker 1: we gotta do that? If there's three asteroids and only

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Speaker 1: two of us in one jetpack. The math doesn't add

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Speaker 1: up on that. Wait one second, you mean there's only

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Speaker 1: two of us? Now, what happened to Roger?

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Speaker 2: Well, Roger he went on vacation.

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Speaker 1: He I think he's in Jupiter. Well, I'm gonna need

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Speaker 1: you to get to planet Earth and get yourself another jetpack.

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Speaker 1: I'll use this one to get the two. Then you'll

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Speaker 1: need to stop the one asteroid before it crashes into Earth.

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Speaker 1: You mean Earth?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Earth? You see these pirates? Uh? I guess you

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Speaker 1: know Roger he's on vacation in Jupiter. And so it's

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Speaker 1: only these two that have to protect all of space

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Speaker 1: and all of its asteroids. It looks like two are

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Speaker 1: headed to the well, ones to the Moon and once

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Speaker 1: to the Mars, and on one to Earth. And they

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Speaker 1: only have one jetpack. Oh dear, So Pete the pirate

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Speaker 1: he started on a voyage to planet Earth. He had

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Speaker 1: never actually been to Earth. He was a little nervous

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Speaker 1: because he had always heard that pirates don't you know,

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Speaker 1: most people don't really like pirates on planet Earth. So

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Speaker 1: he was a little nervous about asking for some help.

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Speaker 1: But he was going to be in for a big

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Speaker 1: surprise when a very unsuspecting helper would help him get

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Speaker 1: a jetpack. Meanwhile, down on planet Earth, Simon was playing

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Speaker 1: with some friends at a lake near his house. They

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Speaker 1: were doing cannonballs off the pier into the water. One two, three,

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Speaker 1: bah splash. That was awesome, Simon shouted his friends. They

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Speaker 1: were having such a great day that day. It was

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Speaker 1: pretty hot outside and so it was a perfect day

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Speaker 1: to spend at the lake doing cannonballs into the water.

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Speaker 1: But pretty soon there was gonna be a cannonball unlike

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Speaker 1: they'd ever seen before. As Simon pulled himself up back

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Speaker 1: on the dock of the lake, he looked around and

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Speaker 1: wait a second, guys, what's that coming from the clouds?

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Speaker 1: Is that an asteroid? Everybody take cover. Simon and all

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Speaker 1: of his friends dropped to their knees and protected their

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Speaker 1: heads with their arms, as all of a sudden, there

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Speaker 1: was a ginormous explosion, well, a giant splash in the lake.

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Speaker 1: Water when flying everywhere, completely dousing them on the dock,

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Speaker 1: and they all screamed in terror. Oh what's going on?

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Speaker 1: Shouted Simon. We gotta get out of here, yelled his

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Speaker 1: friends as they started running down the dock towards shore.

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Speaker 1: Simon turned around to see what had happened and heard

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Speaker 1: someone calling for help.

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Speaker 2: Help me, had somebody help me?

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Speaker 1: What is all this? What stuff? All of everybody? Help,

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Speaker 1: I'm coming, shouted Simon as he dove into the water

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Speaker 1: and swam to that person who needed help. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you can just help me. Okay, don't worry, you're safe.

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Speaker 1: I have you now, and I'll just take you to shore.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I don't feel my nose and I'm think I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna take a little nap.

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Speaker 1: Don't fall asleep on me, Oh dear. Simon kept swimming

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Speaker 1: this person all the way to shore. Finally they washed

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Speaker 1: Just where did you come from? Simon was a little confused,

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Speaker 1: and I would be too, if all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: a real pirate just showed up in the middle of

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Speaker 1: a lake. I don't think that's where pirates usually like

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Speaker 1: to hang out. But this pirate had somehow crashed into

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Speaker 1: know what to do. Uh, you should probably wake up now,

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Speaker 1: Simon said as he shook the hit the shoulders. Who's

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Speaker 1: doing that? Oh? Hello, there byes, Okay, please don't hurt me.

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Speaker 1: The pirate, I'm my name was Simon, and I just

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Speaker 1: helped saved you. I pulled you out of the lake.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, thank you, yes, thank you for doing that.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't have done it without you. But you see,

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm here because I'm here to save planet Earth

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Speaker 2: from an alsteroid that's crashing.

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Speaker 1: You're what, said Simon with a blank look on his face.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I know, I'm a space pirate and I was

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Speaker 2: said here because I need a jet pack. It's kind

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Speaker 2: of complicated, but anyway, do you know how I can

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Speaker 2: get a jet pack?

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Speaker 1: Simon's eyes were very large as he was very surprised

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Speaker 1: and didn't exactly know how to answer that. Wait a second,

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Speaker 1: you said you're a space pirate, like you're actually from space.

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Speaker 1: I know there are space pirates, Like, wait a second,

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Speaker 1: are you here to steal things or explain yourself? Said Simon.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, no, we're not the stealing kind

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Speaker 2: of pirates where the protecting pirates just call me protector Pete.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a pretty cool name Protector Pete. All right, uh,

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Speaker 1: Protector Pete. So you need jet pack? I can get

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Speaker 1: you one of those. Uh all right, come with me.

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Speaker 1: Simon led Protector Pete the pirate on a trail that

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Speaker 1: was headed towards HQ. Simon was on the Spy Team

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Speaker 1: and they were always looking for new members to the

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Speaker 1: Spy team, and he didn't ever remember hearing about any

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Speaker 1: pirates on the Space Team's force. So maybe maybe this

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Speaker 1: would work out. So you mean to tell me that

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Speaker 1: all the asteroids in space, you and the other Space

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Speaker 1: pirates make sure that they don't crash into anything super damaging. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you've got everything absolutely perfect.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what we do.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I always said here because one of the

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Speaker 2: other space pirates he's a vacation a.

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Speaker 1: Jupiter, vacation on Jupiter, said Simon. You alwa's just come

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Speaker 1: to the lake on vacation. I've never been to another planet. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a part of being in space. There's not many

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Speaker 1: good vacations bats, but Jupiter. Jupiter's great. That's tabby air. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're almost to HQ, said Simon. Once we get there

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Speaker 1: and you explain everything, I'm sure they'll be able to

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Speaker 1: get you what you need. And that's exactly what happened

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Speaker 1: as Simon introduced the space pirate to HQ. HQ is

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Speaker 1: able to get him a beautiful, brand new jet pack,

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Speaker 1: which is what he needed to save the day in

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Speaker 1: space and to save planet Earth from a giant crashing asteroid.

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Speaker 1: But that is a story for another time, A story

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Speaker 1: of many more space pirates and adventures says they save

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Speaker 1: us all from crashing asteroids the end. Hey, friends, I

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Speaker 1: need your help celebrating a birthday. Drum roll please, Happy birthday,

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Speaker 1: Biggoda La Cruz, who's turning five five years old. He

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Speaker 1: is a very fancy and professional dancer, Holy smokes, and

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Speaker 1: his favorite violinist is I don't know how to say this,

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Speaker 1: Jaskai Fez. I'm so sorry. I'm sure it's a very

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Speaker 1: famous violinist, but you are far more intelligent than myself.

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Speaker 1: And and he designs the world's most amazing paper airplanes. Wow,

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Speaker 1: big a day, La Cruise. I'm so glad we got

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Speaker 1: to celebrate you and your big day on the show.

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Speaker 1: Happy fifth birthday? Who friends, Well, I hope you all

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Speaker 1: have a super duber day and I'll see you on

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Speaker 1: our next adventer. Bye,