1 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister jim Man. Welcome back to Kit 2 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time, welcome to 3 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: the family. We are the podcast that turns your ideas 4 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 1: into an amazing adventure every single day. You know, we 5 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: couldn't even exist without imaginations from kids just like you. 6 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: So if you have an idea for a story, I'd 7 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: love to see it. Check down in the show notes 8 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: below for how you can submit your own story idea 9 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. And parents, 10 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: if you're new to kids podcasting, I'm gonna challenge you 11 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,599 Speaker 1: to listen to podcasting for five days in a row 12 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: with your kids. It's going to increase their imagination, decrease 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: screen time, and we're gonna have a lot of fun 14 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: along the way. Are you guys ready for today's adventure? 15 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 2: Me too? 16 00:00:51,080 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: Let's go. Every night during nesting season, Bruh the ecologist 17 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 1: went to the beach to check on the sea turtle nests. 18 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: He needed to make sure that they were not being 19 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: disturbed by predators, you know, the kinds that want to 20 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: eat them or people walking to closely. Brooks job was 21 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: very important. He and the other ecologists protected the endangered 22 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: critters until they were ready to hatch. Does that sound 23 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: like a pretty cool job? Oh, that sounds like something 24 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: I need to sign up for protecting the baby turtles. Well, 25 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: one night, as Brooks was walking on the sandy beach, 26 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: he spotted an egg. Oh dear, it was lying above 27 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: the sand. It was all alone, sitting near one of 28 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: the sea turtle nests. How do you get out here, 29 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: little fella, Brooks asked the egg. You should be buried 30 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: under the sand with the rest of the nest. Brooks 31 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: thought that maybe a predator must have gotten scared when 32 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: it saw him leaving the egg and ran away. You 33 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 1: were almost someone's midnight snack. He picked up the egg 34 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: and gently cradled it in his hands. Then he uncovered 35 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 1: the nearest sea turtle nest and nestled it carefully down 36 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: beside the others. There you go back home, safe and sound. 37 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: Brooks covered the nest back up with sand and patted 38 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: it gently. Several weeks later, it was hatching time for 39 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: the baby sea turtles. All this this is the day 40 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: that we've all been waiting for. Right well, As the sunset, 41 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:57,679 Speaker 1: people gathered around to watch the deedy tiny turtles dig 42 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: their way out of the sand and waddle as fast 43 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:07,079 Speaker 1: as they could towards the ocean. Brooks was busy making 44 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: sure all of the guests and nearby buildings did not 45 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: have any bright lights or shiny items that might confuse 46 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 1: the baby sea turtles. He wanted them to follow their 47 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 1: instincts and towards the shiny light of the moon reflecting 48 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: off the ocean, and not towards someone's porch light, you know, 49 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: or flashlight. That's really important. Friends, If we're ever watching 50 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: sea turtles crawl out of the sand and towards the ocean, 51 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: you can't touch them. We just got to watch with 52 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: our eyes because that's a really important part in a 53 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: baby sea turtle's life, as they crawl their way and 54 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: learn the map of that beach, because one day they're 55 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,119 Speaker 1: gonna come back, and this is when they have time 56 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: to learn how to crawl as well. Underneath the sand, 57 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: sea turtles began using their tiny sharp beaks on their 58 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: noses to break through the eggshells. The egg that Brooks 59 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: had returned to the nest was doing the same. Remember 60 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: that one egg that was sitting on the top of 61 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 1: the sand, Well, I don't think it was quite the 62 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: normal sea turtle egg. It used its beak to break 63 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: through and reached out long. What is It's a tentacle. 64 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 1: There's a tentacle coming out of the egg. And another, Oh, dear. 65 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,599 Speaker 1: The first sea turtle emerged from the nest, and the 66 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: crowd quietly responded, you know, the typical oh, it's so cute. 67 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,559 Speaker 1: Because it was an adorable little baby turtle. It didn't 68 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: want to be too loud and scare the baby turtles. 69 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: They watched in awe as one after another, the cutest 70 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: turtles they'd ever seen emerged from the nest across the beach. 71 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: Then you know the thing with the tentacles crawling out 72 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 1: of that egg. Ugh, yep, then that's about when the 73 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: people on the beach saw it a monster. Look at 74 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 1: those tentacles. Brooks heard the screams tentacles, thought Brooks. He 75 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: raced back towards the nest, ready to scare off and 76 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: he squid waiting in the water, wanting to eat the 77 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: baby turtles. But instead Brooks was scared himself. Among the 78 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: cute baby turtles popping out of the sand. Ten tentacles. 79 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: Wait ten, okay, so it's not an octopus. 80 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 2: Ten tentacles were waving wildly as the gritter tried to 81 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 2: grip the sand. 82 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 1: Then long, what are those? 83 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 2: They're like spikes, spiky things. It started poked through, and 84 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 2: they lined the whole back of this creature more and 85 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 2: more a beard as it escaped the sand. Its head 86 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 2: was the last to emerge. The long beak poked through, 87 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 2: followed by big purple eyeballs, ah hands, the same monster. 88 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: The people screamed, the sea monster was, in fact a 89 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: sea monster. Turned and waved, and then it began walking 90 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: on its tentacles towards the water with the baby sea turtles. 91 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: He's gonna hate them, they cried to Brooks. Do something, 92 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 1: but Brooks wasn't sure. He was a trained ecologist and 93 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 1: critter protector. The sea monster followed the turtles like it 94 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 1: thought it was one of them. I think it thinks 95 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: it's a turtle, said Brooks, trying to calm everyone down. 96 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: The sea creature monster thing kept waving to the terrified 97 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: people as it neared the water. It was about to 98 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:18,679 Speaker 1: reach the waves when it stopped and sniffed the air 99 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: behind him, the sea monster exclaimed. Then it began running 100 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: back up the beach towards the crowd. Of screaming. People run, 101 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:38,559 Speaker 1: it's after us. The people dove out of the way 102 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: into the sand, cowering, but the sea monster walked right 103 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: past them. Its tentacles gripped the railing and it pulled 104 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: itself up, climbing over onto the boardwalk. Oh dear, and 105 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: that's when the chaos began. Shopkeepers began to scream and hide. 106 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: The sea monster totally ignored them. It was not trying 107 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: to hurt anybody, and it went straight towards the snack shack. 108 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: It reached its tentacles over the counter and swiped a 109 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: row of hot dogs with one tentacle, ice cream with 110 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: the other end, pickles with the other. Gross. You don't 111 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: think he's gonna try to eat all those things that, 112 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:33,079 Speaker 1: Oh dear, he did? Hot dog, ice cream, pickles. Gross. 113 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: The sea monster grinned and made a sound that sounded 114 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: like he liked that terrible looking snack, and it headed 115 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: back down the sand towards the water. With a bloop, 116 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 1: it disappeared beneath the waves as quickly as it had 117 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: appeared out of the sand. It had now disappeared. What 118 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: would you be thinking if you were on this beach 119 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 1: watching that sea monster just eat some weird snacks and 120 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: leaf I would be very confused. Well, the crowd released 121 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 1: a collective sigh of relief. I think they were glad 122 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: to not be eaten. They stood around watching the rest 123 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: of the turtles make their way down the beach, careful 124 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: this day, away from the ocean, and on the lookout 125 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:31,719 Speaker 1: for any more tentacles in the sand. A few seabirds 126 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: began circling by the shore, waiting to snatch a baby 127 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: sea turtle snack. The crowd was worried watching the seabirds 128 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: circle closer. The birds were about to dive for the 129 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: most adorable baby turtle when a tentacle popped out of 130 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: the water and flicked the bird across the air. Yay, 131 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 1: the people cheer. When all the turtles had made it 132 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 1: to the ocean, the tentacle popped out once more and 133 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,959 Speaker 1: waved goodbye to the crowd. All the baby turtles swam along, 134 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: following the monster out to see the end. Great job, 135 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: you listened all the way to the end, and you 136 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: know what time it is. It's time for Kurd shout out. 137 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,719 Speaker 1: So I want to say hey to Nicholas and Nathaniel 138 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: from Wisconsin, Ezra from Los Angeles, Pricia from India, Matthew 139 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 1: and Jonah from New Jersey, and called her from Montana. 140 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all on the kid shirt 141 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: Story's family. We could not have this much fun with 142 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 1: imagination without you, my friends. Well, you have a super 143 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: duperday and I'll see you next time. Bye.