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Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister jim Man. Welcome back to Kit

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the family. We are the podcast that turns your ideas

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Speaker 1: into an amazing adventure every single day. You know, we

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Speaker 1: couldn't even exist without imaginations from kids just like you.

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Speaker 1: So if you have an idea for a story, I'd

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Speaker 1: love to see it. Check down in the show notes

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Speaker 1: below for how you can submit your own story idea

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Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. And parents,

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Speaker 1: if you're new to kids podcasting, I'm gonna challenge you

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Speaker 1: to listen to podcasting for five days in a row

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Speaker 1: with your kids. It's going to increase their imagination, decrease

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Speaker 1: screen time, and we're gonna have a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: along the way. Are you guys ready for today's adventure?

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Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go. Patton and his mom were taking

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Speaker 1: a walk outside after a rainstorm. Patton loved to splash

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Speaker 1: in the puddles with his cool, squeaky rain boots. He

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Speaker 1: splashed and a few small ones, pretending to be a

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Speaker 1: ginormous dinosaur, terrorizing that I'm just kidding. Splashing through lakes,

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Speaker 1: he found one with leaves floating inside and pretended to

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Speaker 1: be a tidal wave, sending the leaf boats whizzing to shore. Okay, Patten,

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Speaker 1: let's keep walking, his mother would say after each puddle,

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Speaker 1: so Patten would stop stomping and walk next to his mom,

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Speaker 1: searching for the next puddle. They turned the corner and

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Speaker 1: he gasped at the sight of it. The largest puddle

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Speaker 1: Patten had ever seen was spread out right before him. Mom,

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Speaker 1: look at that puddle. I needed splashing it, Patten's mom laughed,

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Speaker 1: before nodding, Okay, go ahead, I'll be right there. Patten

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Speaker 1: ran with glee towards the puddle. It looked very brown

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Speaker 1: and muddy, which he thought was even cooler. He made

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Speaker 1: it to the puddle, and without even stopping, he took

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Speaker 1: a giant leap into it. Instead of the splash of

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Speaker 1: his boots hitting the water and the muddy ground under it,

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Speaker 1: Patten's feet went straight through the puddle, followed by his legs,

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Speaker 1: body and head w spoosh. Patten's mom watched in shock

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Speaker 1: as Patten stumped into the puddle and disappeared. She ran

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Speaker 1: over to it and poked it with her foot. It

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Speaker 1: felt like an ordinary muddy puddle. She looked around to

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Speaker 1: the yards all around. Maybe she was seeing things and

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Speaker 1: Patten had really just ran away somewhere quickly, but she

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Speaker 1: didn't see him among the mailboxes or shrubs nearby. She

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Speaker 1: looked at the puddle again and saw no other option. Patten,

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Speaker 1: pime coming, She shouted before jumping into the puddle with

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Speaker 1: both feet and disappeared. Spoosh. Patten was sitting at the

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Speaker 1: edge of a puddle, dangling his feet inside of it

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Speaker 1: as his mom plopped out of the puddle sky and

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Speaker 1: landed on the grass beside him. Ha. She squeaked when

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Speaker 1: she saw what was peeking out of the puddle next

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Speaker 1: to Patten. Menacing tentacles were attached to the horn sea

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Speaker 1: monster that was floating in the puddle by Patten's legs.

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Speaker 1: Patten watch out Instead of jumping away from the puddle, However,

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Speaker 1: Patten looked around confused. The sea monster raised a tentacle

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Speaker 1: towards Patten's mom and waved, Oh, hey, you must be

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Speaker 1: Pattons boom. He was dusted telling me about peanut butter

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Speaker 1: and day's Audwinter's all days sound delicious? Did you bring

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Speaker 1: any Patten's mom frowned at the sea monster. Uh, no, sorry,

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Speaker 1: where are we? Patton smiled at his mom That puddle

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Speaker 1: was a portal to another world. Isn't that cool? Mom?

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Speaker 1: He waved by to the sea monster in the puddle

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Speaker 1: and stood up, heading over to another. This puddle had

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Speaker 1: a light pink glow to it, and Patten stuck his

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Speaker 1: hand inside. He reached around for a bit, and eventually

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Speaker 1: he pulled out two chocolate cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles. Here

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Speaker 1: you go, he said, handing one to his mom. How

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Speaker 1: did you know there were cupcakes down there? Oh? I

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Speaker 1: asked the sea monster. He told me about the puddles,

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Speaker 1: Patton told his mom, as if it was no big deal. Okay, Patten,

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Speaker 1: magic puddle portals, friendly talking the sea monsters and puddle cupcakes. Cool. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: sounds totally normal, his mom said, trying not to panic.

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Speaker 1: Without warning, Patten ran and leaped into another puddle. This

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Speaker 1: time he went up to his neck. When he climbed out,

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Speaker 1: he was wearing a superhero costume that he was definitely

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Speaker 1: not wearing before. Try it, mom, he urged her. She

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Speaker 1: walked over to the puddle and jumped in, not knowing

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Speaker 1: His mother called into the puddle, Panten. She sighed and

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Speaker 1: then jumped in after him once more, only to immediately

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Speaker 1: was sitting in the driver's seat beside her boom. He

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Speaker 1: revved the engine and raced them around the grassy, puddle

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Speaker 1: filled field. Sometimes he would drive through puddles, ending up

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Speaker 1: in tunnels, then hopping back out of other puddles. It

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Speaker 1: was awfully confusing. Other times he would wave to different

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Speaker 1: creatures as they poked their heads out to watch. Patten's

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Speaker 1: mom was laughing and having a good time too. When

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Speaker 1: Patten slowed the race car to a stop, his mom said, okay, woo,

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Speaker 1: this was all very fun, but how do we get home?

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Speaker 1: Patton sighed and got out of the car. Follow me, Mom.

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Speaker 1: He led his mom back to the puddle with the

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Speaker 1: horn seamum from when she first arrived, leaving so soon

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Speaker 1: the sea monster asked them. Yeah, we we have to

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Speaker 1: go have lunch anyway. Okay, next time, bring me back

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Speaker 1: a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, said the monster. Patten

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Speaker 1: promised he would, and then he grabbed his mom's hand.

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Speaker 1: Together they jumped through the puddle, landing back onto the

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Speaker 1: road at home. Besides the humongously muddy puddle, they walked

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Speaker 1: back home, raving about their puddle jumping adventure and Patten

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Speaker 1: was already planning their next trip the end. Great job,

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Speaker 1: you listened all the way to the end, and you

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Speaker 1: know what demon is. It's time for kid shout out.

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Speaker 1: I want to say hey to Melitsa from British Columbia,

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Speaker 1: Athena from Iran Hudson, and Graham from Long Beach, Beckett

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Speaker 1: from Ohio, Even from New Jersey, and Kay from South Africa.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all in the kit Chart

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Speaker 1: Stories family. We could not have this much fun with

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Speaker 1: the imagination without you, my friends. Well, true, you have

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Speaker 1: a super urdo Berday and I'll see you on our

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Speaker 1: next adventure. Bye.