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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. If this is your first time, Hello, my

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Speaker 1: name is Mr Jim and I love story time so

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Speaker 1: much parents. I am a dad of of three kids.

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Speaker 1: Me and my wife we live in South Carolina and

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Speaker 1: we love story time. We know the battle with screen

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Speaker 1: time can be relentless, but we love that these stories

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Speaker 1: give you an opportunity for your kids to still have

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Speaker 1: fun and be imaginative without a screen. Well, today's story

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Speaker 1: comes to us from one of my friends, Slater. Hey Slater,

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Speaker 1: he sent me an awesome idea for a story, and

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Speaker 1: you can too. Just head over to Kids Short Stories

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Speaker 1: dot com. Send me your idea and maybe we'll turn

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Speaker 1: it into an awesome adventure. This one's super crazy about

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Speaker 1: a cotton candy volcano. Are you guys ready for today's adventure?

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Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go or Pearl, Let's rubble. I've been

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Speaker 1: watching so hard on those Artner. That's final fool work.

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Speaker 1: The world run a love totten tonel Forever. That was

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Speaker 1: the voice of Tickles, the troll. Tickles lived underground and

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Speaker 1: he was a little troll that was obsessed with cotton candy.

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Speaker 1: I I like cotton candy to you, what is your

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Speaker 1: favorite color of cotton candy? Or if you could make

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Speaker 1: cotton candy any color, what would it be. I think

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Speaker 1: I love I really like the blue and the pink

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Speaker 1: when they're mixed together. That's kind of a fun one. Well,

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Speaker 1: Tickles was so obsessed with cotton candy that he had

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Speaker 1: discovered away to make a volcano that launches out cotton candy.

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Speaker 1: I know that sounds pretty amazing, right. Well, unfortunately this story, uh,

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Speaker 1: it takes a turn for the worst. Slater was working

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Speaker 1: for a really long time and finally could go super

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Speaker 1: duper fast. Who As he zoomed down the street and

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Speaker 1: turned into his driveway, he pretended that he was in

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Speaker 1: at slamming on his back brakes and sliding his tire. WHOA,

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Speaker 1: that was a cool one. Slater was also on the

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Speaker 1: sometimes bikes are better. Oh, I gotta go check that message.

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Speaker 1: S Later, he ran inside to a secure location his

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Speaker 1: message Slater, this is HQ, something unusual has happened in

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Speaker 1: your neighborhood. Volcano is starting to grow under the ground.

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Speaker 1: A volcano, shouted Slater. Yes, a volcano. You need to

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Speaker 1: evacuate the entire neighborhood before it erupts all of its lava. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's go. Slater started running house to house telling everyone

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Speaker 1: It was growing over by the park that was in

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Speaker 1: and in just a few minutes it was now bigger

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Speaker 1: Everyone fell on the ground and covered their heads with

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Speaker 1: not lava, shouted Slater. They couldn't believe it. They didn't

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Speaker 1: was a lot of this pink stuff as it gently

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Speaker 1: where all the board. Slater was the first to touch

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Speaker 1: it as he poked it with a stick. The stick

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna burn you. But I'm not sure what

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Speaker 1: it is. Slater knelt down and smelled it. It smells

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Speaker 1: a cotton candy volcano. Everyone erupted into screaming with excitement.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't believe it. This was like the best party ever.

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Speaker 1: They thought this was gonna be the worst day in

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Speaker 1: As they started to gather it in bags, the ground

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Speaker 1: their houses. Slater, what are we gonna do? I can't

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Speaker 1: all to go back home. Something isn't right here. Slater

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Speaker 1: the best day ever to have a cotton candy volcano

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Speaker 1: the best day. But what if it never turned off?

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Speaker 1: What if it kept shooting out cotton candy like forever

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Speaker 1: it into h Q HQ, come in, we have an

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Speaker 1: a cotton candy volcano. That's amazing. Yeah, I know it

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Speaker 1: sounds amazing, but it's not stopping. Can you pull up

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Speaker 1: this is not good. We're sending you to the report now.

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Speaker 1: Slater received the report of the X ray of underground

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Speaker 1: volcano and oh no, based on my calculations, said Slater,

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Speaker 1: this might keep erupting for weeks or months or forever. Done, done, done,

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Speaker 1: or pearl. This is the prasteal Ava, said Tickles the Troll.

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Speaker 1: He was so happy to spread his cotton candy love

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Speaker 1: his lifelong project. Ouch, who is that? Said Slater? Marlongs

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Speaker 1: out how to turn off this volcano, says Slater, turn

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Speaker 1: best thing in the wild world, shouted Tickles. Slater and

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Speaker 1: Tickles then talked for a very long time. Slater was

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Speaker 1: describing how this volcano would now never turn off. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you see that's why we have to turn it off.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise the whole world is gonna get covered in cotton candy,

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Speaker 1: way too much for people to eat, and now it's

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Speaker 1: gonna get dangerous. Oh wow, that's sounds bad. Um roll

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Speaker 1: listen off Proton Underground. But if I turn it off,

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Speaker 1: the nonverb turn it back on over a thumb. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, Tickles, said Slater. I know you've worked

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Speaker 1: the volcano for good. Wow, Tickles, I know that was

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Speaker 1: so hard for you to do, but you saved the

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Speaker 1: city and maybe even the whole world, said Slater. Wow,

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Speaker 1: All those cotton Tundle Now, well, I think I have

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Speaker 1: an idea that Slater that weekend, Slater, Tickles and the

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Speaker 1: whole city through a ginormous cotton candy party. They had

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Speaker 1: to do something with all this cotton candy, and so

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Speaker 1: they made a party out of it. WHOA, that would

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Speaker 1: be awesome. I wish that happened in my neighborhood. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you ever see a cotton candy volcano, please invite

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Speaker 1: me to the party. The end. Great job, you listened

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Speaker 1: all the way to the end, and you know what, Timadays,

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Speaker 1: it's time for kid shout out. I want to say

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Speaker 1: hey to Brennan Reese from Houston, Texas, Tema from Chapel Hill,

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Speaker 1: could not stop Doctor Stinky Breath without you, my friends. Well,

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Speaker 1: you have a super duper day and I will see

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Speaker 1: you on our next adventure. And guess what, there's so

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