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Speaker 1: Hello friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to Kids

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. Guess what, It's Saturday, which means there's an

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Speaker 1: awesome Kids Animal Stories adventure waiting for you after today's episode.

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Speaker 1: That's That's what I'm gonna go listen to in a

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Speaker 1: couple of minutes. But right now, I am so excited

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Speaker 1: for the Legend of the Moon Eater. Have you heard

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Speaker 1: this legend before? It is one of my favorite stories

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Speaker 1: to tell. Are you guys ready for the Legend of

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Speaker 1: the Moon Eater? Me too? Let's go. One day, Derek

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Speaker 1: was sitting in our backyard. Derek, my son loves to

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Speaker 1: sit outside and look at the stars and the moon.

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Speaker 1: And one day something pretty crazy happened. He was laying

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Speaker 1: out on the trampoline and looking at the stars and

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Speaker 1: this jo giant moon in the sky. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: seen like when the moon gets super duper big. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it looks almost like a street light in the sky.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing. Well, that is what he was looking at.

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Speaker 1: And as he was ah just starting to calm down

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Speaker 1: for the evening, all of a sudden he blinked his

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Speaker 1: eyes and the moon it got a bite taken out

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Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, it just happened like right there in

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Speaker 1: front of his eyes. The moon went from being one

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Speaker 1: bright circle into looking like someone had all chomped a

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Speaker 1: bite right out of it. Derek sat up from the trampoline.

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Speaker 1: He rubbed his eyes because he wasn't sure if what

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Speaker 1: he saw was real. But it was very real. What

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Speaker 1: in the world did I just see? Said Derek. Was

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Speaker 1: that the moon eater the dad always talks about. I

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Speaker 1: thought that was just a joke, but holy smokes, Derek

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. He hopped down from the trampoline and

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Speaker 1: was walking towards the house when all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: he heard a giant splash. He turned around and it

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Speaker 1: definitely came from the river. Are you kidding me? Derek

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Speaker 1: thought to himself. I've got to check this out for myself.

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Speaker 1: He started walking towards the river, and it was getting

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Speaker 1: dark at night. It wasn't totally pitch black dark, but

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Speaker 1: the sun was setting and he could barely see the

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Speaker 1: river up ahead. As he got closer and closer, his

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Speaker 1: feet crunched through the leaves and the sticks. Would you

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Speaker 1: be as brave as Derek is? I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I would, Holy smokes, He's very brave. Hello back there, Hello,

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Speaker 1: I heard a splash. What was that? Shouted Derek. He

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Speaker 1: waited and waited and waited, but nothing made a peep.

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Speaker 1: Pretty soon a long time it had passed and it

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Speaker 1: was time for Derek to go to bed. He yawned

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Speaker 1: and went back to the house and everybody went to sleep.

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Speaker 1: The next morning, when he woke up, he decided that

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Speaker 1: or not. All Right, tonight, when it gets dark, I'm

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Speaker 1: totally gonna see if it takes another bite of the moon,

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Speaker 1: and then maybe I can take a picture of it

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Speaker 1: as it jumps back into the river, said Derek. The

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Speaker 1: day seemed to crawl by as he anxiously awaited the

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Speaker 1: evening when the moon would come out. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: felt like when you're waiting for something to happen, time

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Speaker 1: just goes by so slowly. Well, that is exactly what

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Speaker 1: Derek was feeling. After what felt like an attorney it

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Speaker 1: was the evening, and Derek grabbed a bag of popcorn,

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Speaker 1: which is his favorite snack, and went out to the

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Speaker 1: train ampoline to stare at the moon. All Right, I

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Speaker 1: wonder if he's going to take another bite of the moon. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: Derek thought to himself. He was waiting there for about

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Speaker 1: ten minutes when all of a sudden, another piece of

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Speaker 1: the moon was missing. Derek dropped the bag of popcorn

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Speaker 1: As he knelt at the edge of the river waiting

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Speaker 1: I got it. I got it on camera. Derek was

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Speaker 1: Derek shouted as loud as he could, as the creature

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Speaker 1: Please don't eat me, shouted Derek. I'm only a kid,

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Speaker 1: Please don't eat me. Oh what are you talking about?

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Speaker 1: I only eat the moon, not little boys. As Derek

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. It had, like I said, eight glowing

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Speaker 1: feet it had something that I don't know how to

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Speaker 1: explain it. It looked like rocket booster blaster on his feet. Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's probably how he flies up to the moon. Okay, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: Mr Mr Monster or oh Mr Monsters, my dad's name.

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Speaker 1: You can just call me moon eater. Okay, a moon eater,

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Speaker 1: Mr moon eater. Um, So my name is Derek. And

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Speaker 1: can I take your picture? Oh? I'd rather not. I

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Speaker 1: don't like the publicity and detention that pictures bring. Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: I just have one question. Are you really taking a

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Speaker 1: Us took a little bit of a bite, but it

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Speaker 1: is very tasty and I don't know why. It's just

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Speaker 1: something I do. But then how does the moon come back?

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Speaker 1: Said Derek. Well, that part I am not sure about.

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Speaker 1: But I've heard a legend of somebody that plants a

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Speaker 1: moon seed in the sky, but that is not a

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Speaker 1: part of my job. I just eat the yummy moon.

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Speaker 1: Derek couldn't believe it. He had really met the real

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Speaker 1: moon eater and he was actually a lot nicer than

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Speaker 1: he thought he might be. Okay, Mr moon eater, it's

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Speaker 1: been super great meeting you, but it's actually time. I

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Speaker 1: need to get to bed. But maybe we can hang

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Speaker 1: out again some time, Okay, okay, I'll see you later.

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Speaker 1: And that is the day that Derek met the moon eater.

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Speaker 1: And wait, what was he talking about? Somebody with moon

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Speaker 1: seeds that plants them in the sky. I think that

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Speaker 1: is another legend for another day. 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, seven days it's time for kid shout. Oh.

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Speaker 1: So I want to say hey to Carson from Texas,

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Speaker 1: Lucas from Toronto, Canada, Archie from Melbourne, Australia, Charlie and

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Speaker 1: Cameron from Colorado, Tia and Nash from Australia, Sam from Washington,

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Speaker 1: you're all on the Kids Short Stories family and on

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Speaker 1: our spy team. We could not stop doctor Stinky Breath

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Speaker 1: and his crew without you. My friends, Will you have

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Speaker 1: a super duper day. I'll see you over on the

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