1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: Hello friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kit 2 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: Short Stories. I need to make sure that you have 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: smashed the follow a button. You know that follow button. 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: It kind of looks like a plus sign, or it 5 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 1: might say follow or something like that, so you don't 6 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: miss out on any of our awesome stories every single day. Well, 7 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: today's story comes to us from River. Hey, River, I 8 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: cannot wait for this amazing adventure into outer space. Are 9 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 1: you guys ready for today's story? Me too, Let's go. 10 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,840 Speaker 1: River was just waking up and rolling out of bed. 11 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: What seemed like a normal kind of day would end 12 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: up being a very unusual one. Well, you see, River 13 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: was actually used to unusual days because he was an astronaut. Yes, 14 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: he was on the space squad and so it was 15 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: his job to zoom around and make sure that everything 16 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 1: in space was nice and safe. He ran downstairs and 17 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: grabbed a big bowl of cereal and gobbled it up. 18 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: That was his favorite breakfast. Do you have a favorite 19 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: breakfast that you love to eat every morning, or maybe 20 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: you like different breakfasts and switch it up. Well, whatever 21 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 1: it is, make sure it has lots of good energy, 22 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,479 Speaker 1: because we all need good energy, and especially River, who's 23 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: about to blast off to space. You see, every Thursday 24 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: is when River would blast off to space. Thursday's that 25 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: was his day to protect outer space, and then it 26 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: was other kids jobs different days of the week, but 27 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: Rivers day was Thursday. He loved exploring all kinds of 28 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: different parts of outer space, traveling to the planets, stars 29 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: and moons. There was so much out there to explore. 30 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,519 Speaker 1: But like I said, today was a very unusual day. 31 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: As he entered Space Headquarters, and that's you know, where 32 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: all the astronauts get on all their uniforms and prepare 33 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: for blast off, he took one step inside and was 34 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: met with some emergency instructions. River, here, we need you 35 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: to go to these coordinates on a far moon. We've 36 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: observed some movement, very unusual movement. We need you to 37 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: check it out. Oh absolutely, I'll get right on it, 38 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: said River. He raced over to the changing room to 39 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: put on all his astronaut gear. That meant boots and 40 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: pants and jackets and helmets and gloves and the whole thing, 41 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: and even an oxygen tank. As he tested the oxygen, 42 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: it tasted and breathed like really clean air. Ah, that's 43 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: some fancy air for astronauts, the oxygen that they have 44 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: to breathe. Yeah, because oxygen what we need to breathe 45 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: is not found in space. So that's a really important thing. 46 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: If you ever want to be an astronut, you have 47 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: to make sure that you have your oxygen tank with 48 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: you at all times. Three two one, the rocket that 49 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: River was sitting in had blasted off to space. River 50 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: always loved that part of the blast off on the 51 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: rocket as he was thrown back into his chair because 52 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: it was going so fast. It even made his face 53 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: make some silly faces. Can you make a really silly 54 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: face like you're blasting off to space? In your mouth 55 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: are pulled back in your cheeks, sir, almost touching your ears. 56 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: Those are some amazing space launch faces. But you should 57 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: have seen Rivers face. Even though he was screaming, he 58 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: loved it, and pretty soon he found himself floating through space. 59 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: His rocket ship thankfully knew exactly where to go because 60 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: they had put in the coordinates of the location of 61 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: this strange activity appearing on one of I think it 62 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:39,279 Speaker 1: was Jupiter's moon, well one of them at least. Yeah, 63 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: Jupiter has has a lot of moons. How many moons 64 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: does our planet Earth have and just one? Right, yes, 65 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: just one moon? But Jupiter has more than one. Do 66 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: you know how many moons? Jupiter has seventy nine moons? 67 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: Holy smokes, that is a lot of moons, But there 68 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: was one in particular that That's where River was headed 69 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 1: to figure out what in the world was going on 70 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: on that little moon off of the planet Jupiter. It 71 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: took a very long time to arrive, but thankfully his 72 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: spaceship was very very fast, so instead of it taking 73 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 1: years and years and years, it just took a couple hours, 74 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: which I would take a couple hours over years of traveling, right, Yeah, 75 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: a couple hours, I could do that. As a spaceship 76 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: carefully landed down on the moon, River grabbed a flashlight 77 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: and opened the door and started to search around. It 78 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: was a very strange looking place. The dirt was all gray. 79 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: It looked like everything was in black and white. River 80 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,119 Speaker 1: had been on many moons before, so he was used 81 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,359 Speaker 1: to looking at this because most moons look the same. 82 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 1: River didn't know exactly what he was looking for because 83 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: they didn't give him very specific instructions, only that they 84 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: saw some movement or something happening on the moon. What 85 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: do you think it could be? Do you think it's 86 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: like an alien? Or was it just you know, some 87 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: dirt being blown around in the wind. Do they have 88 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: wind on the Moon's I'm not sure, les River kept exploring. 89 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 1: He saw something. Huh, what is that? He shouted. It 90 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: had all kinds of tentacles and eyeballs and it was moving. Alien, 91 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,839 Speaker 1: shouted River. His dream had come true, except his dream 92 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: was a little scary, exciting, and a lot of things. 93 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: He didn't know what to feel, excited or scared. What 94 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: would you feel if you saw a real alien? Would 95 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: would that be scary or exciting? Well? Either way, it 96 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: was an alien moving in slow motion. River walked over 97 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: to it and said, hello, are you Are you okay? 98 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: Why are you moving in slow motion? Well? Low on 99 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: batter and he just stopped. River stood there in front 100 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: of what looked like a completely frozen alien. Did he 101 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 1: say he was low on battery? Said River. He bent 102 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: down and kind of turned his head to the side 103 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: and saw something that looked like a charging port, like 104 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: for a cable or something. He ran back to his 105 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: spaceship and grabbed one of the cables that had a 106 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: solar power charger connected to it, He attached it onto 107 00:07:52,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: the alien and instantly room mean, hey, ay, thank you 108 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: the show. I was riding low and bettery. But are 109 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: these soulent powers? Oh? Thank you so much. What's your name? 110 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: River was a little confused. Hi, my name's River. What's 111 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: your name? You can call me Charlie. Charlie went on 112 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: to tell River everything about alien life, which was amazing 113 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: to learn about. River had always wanted to meet an alien, 114 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: and thankfully he met a nice alien. I don't know 115 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: if all of them are nice or not, but Charlie, 116 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: he was a nice, tentacled alien. And that day River 117 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 1: not only helped recharge Charlie, which I didn't know aliens 118 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: needed charging. It's kind of silly, but River saved Charlie 119 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: and also learned all about aliens and so on his 120 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: trip back to planet Earth, he was very excited to 121 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: share everything he had learned with his entire space crew. 122 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: This may be the end of our story, but I 123 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: think it's just the beginning of River's amazing space adventures. 124 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: The end. Great job, you listened all the way to 125 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: the end, and you know what some it is. It's 126 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: time for kurd shout out. I want to say Hey 127 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: to Creek from Maryland, Nora from Nova Scotia, Haven from Denver, Colorado, 128 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: Allie and Levi from Alberta, Aurora from Austin, Texas, Kieran 129 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: and Robbie from Indianapolis, Ryan from Cleveland and sit in 130 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,839 Speaker 1: oliverrom Illinois. I'm so glad that you're all on the 131 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: Kid Short Stories family and on our spy team. We 132 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: could not stop Doctor Stinkybreath and his crew without you, 133 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: my friends. Well, you have a super duper day and 134 00:09:55,480 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: I will see you on our next adventure. Bye.