1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister jim Man. Welcome back to Kit 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time, welcome to 3 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: the family. We are the podcast that turns your ideas 4 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: into an amazing adventure every single day. You know, we 5 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: couldn't even exist without imaginations from kids just like you. 6 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: So if you have an idea for a story, I'd 7 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: love to see it. Check down in the show notes 8 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: below for how you can submit your own story idea 9 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. And parents, 10 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: if you're new to kids podcasting, I'm gonna challenge you 11 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:41,519 Speaker 1: to listen to podcasting for five days in a row 12 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: with your kids. It's going to increase their imagination, decrease 13 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: screen time, and we're gonna have a lot of fun 14 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: along the way. Are you guys ready for today's adventure? 15 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go. It was a hot summer day, 16 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: the perfect kind of day for swimming in the pool. 17 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: Julius and Angelo finished their lunch and then inflated their 18 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: pool toys. Excited for a day of swimming cannon ball contest, 19 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: shouted Julius before jumping in and splashing water all over 20 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: the pool deck and all over Angelo. Angelo laughed and 21 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: threw all the pool floats in the water. Once the 22 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: floats were bobbing all around Julius in the pool, Angelo 23 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: jumped in between them and made an even bigger splash 24 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: with his cannon ball. Hi call the pizza float, shouted Angelo. 25 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: He swam toward it and climbed on top. You always 26 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: call the pizza float, responded Julius. I want uh hmm, 27 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: I want the octopus one octopus one, repeated Angelo. He 28 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: hadn't thrown an octopus float into the pool, oh, shouted Julius. 29 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: He scrambled on top of a pizza float with Angelo. 30 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 1: That octopus wasn't a float? What what was it? 31 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:15,359 Speaker 2: Where to go? 32 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 1: Julius pointed toward the bottom of the pool, where something 33 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: blue was hiding toward the bottom in octopus in our pool? Annoyed, 34 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: It can't be, said Angelo. Julius looked at Angelo, annoyed. 35 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: He didn't believe him. Okay, then you go go down 36 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: there and see for yourself. Angelo wanted to be brave, 37 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: and besides. 38 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 2: There was no way it was a real octopus, right. 39 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: Maybe he had thrown an octopus float in the pool 40 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: and it just deflated and sank to the bottom or something. Yeah, 41 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: that must have been it. So Angelo took a deep 42 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: breath and dove down into the pool splash. It wasn't 43 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,119 Speaker 1: until he was under the water that he realized, uugh, 44 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: he had forgotten to put his goggles on. Angelo squinted 45 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: through the water the best he could, which was not 46 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 1: very great visibility. He saw a blurry blue blob in 47 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: front of him and reached his hands out. He felt 48 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 1: something squishy in a bit slimy, like a fish. He 49 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: pulled his hands back in alarm. Then he felt something 50 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: wrap around his waist. Angelo broke the surface of the water, screaming. 51 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: He was swimming as fast as he could, but he 52 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: wasn't going anywhere. That's when he realized that the thing 53 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: was still wrapped around his waist. He looked down and 54 00:03:55,320 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: saw what could only be an octopus tentacle. An octopus, 55 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: shouted Julius, and Angelo turned his head to look at 56 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: what was holding him. There staring at him were two 57 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: ginormous eyes below a giant bulging blue head. Hulloo, said 58 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: the octopus. It waved a few of the tentacles that 59 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: were not holding Angelo. Angelo tried to swim away again, 60 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: and this time the octopus let him go. He leaped 61 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 1: onto the unicorn float nearest him when the octopus began 62 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: to speak again, ooor. 63 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 2: You both day? I didn't mean to scary you. You 64 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 2: look like you were having a hard time down there 65 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 2: without your goggles on your eyeballs, so I thought i'd 66 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 2: help you get back to the surface of the water. 67 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,799 Speaker 1: You're you're an octopus, a real octopus, and are boland 68 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: and you talk, shouted Julius. The octopus waved all eight 69 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: of his tentacles above the water. 70 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:15,679 Speaker 2: Yep, last, I checked. I'm a real octopus. My name's Otto. 71 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 2: You have a very nice pool. I've been living in 72 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 2: it for a few days now. I think, yeah, I 73 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 2: like it here. I think i'll stay a while. You 74 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 2: live in our pool. 75 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: Asked Julius. The octopus nodded its gigantic head. Yep, I 76 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,039 Speaker 1: really like it here. The octopus dove back under the 77 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 1: water and disappeared, just as their mom came outside to 78 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 1: check on them. Uh, you boys, all right, I heard 79 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 1: quite a bit of screaming, Their mom asked, because there's 80 00:05:55,080 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: an octopus in the ball. Oh that's fun, all right. Well, 81 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: I'm glad you two are having fun. Just let me 82 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: know if you need anything. Their mom did not believe them. 83 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: As soon as the door closed, the octopus popped back up. 84 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 2: I have some diving rings does Does anybody want to play? 85 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: The boys were a little hesitant, but decided to give 86 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: Auto a chance. Yeah, okay. The octopus spun the rings 87 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: around on its tentacles and launched them each in separate directions. 88 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: The boys raced to see who could get the rings 89 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 1: back faster. Once they were all collected, Otto announced that 90 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: to win, they would have to throw the most rings 91 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: onto his outstretched tentacles. Oh, that sounds like a fun game. 92 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: Would you like to throw rings onto an octopus's legs 93 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 1: or arms? 94 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 2: Wait? 95 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: Are they arms or legs? 96 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 2: Hmm? I think arms. Yeah. 97 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: The boys ended up playing games with Auto all day 98 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: and having a great time. It couldn't imagine playing in 99 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: the pool without an octopus in there anymore. At the 100 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 1: end of the day, the boy's mom walked back outside 101 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: in Octopus screamed the mom. Oh, mom, it's okay, it's okay. 102 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: This is is our friend Otto. 103 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 2: Hullo. Oh we've been having Bundy. You want to play 104 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 2: our ring game? And he talks, shouted the mom. 105 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: She almost passed out, but after the boys explained that 106 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: Otto is actually a kind, playful octopus, she took off 107 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: running inside the house. The boys thought that she had 108 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: panicked and lost her mind, but soon after she reappeared 109 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: in her swimsuit. Cannon budh looks like their mom didn't 110 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: want to miss out on a fun time in the pool. 111 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 2: The end. 112 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: Great job, you listened all the way to the end, 113 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: and it's time for kid shout out. So I want 114 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: to say hey to Deisi from Portland, Oregon, Zion and 115 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: Elias from Charlotte, North Carolina, Ian from New Hampshire, Avelyn 116 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 1: from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Declan from Virginia, and Ohing from Ontario, Canada. 117 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all in a kid short 118 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: story's family. We could not have this much fun with 119 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,079 Speaker 1: imagination without you, my friends. Well, you have a super 120 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: duber day and I'll see you on our next adventure. 121 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 2: Bye.