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Speaker 1: Hello, our friends.

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Speaker 2: Let's start soon on a welcome round to short story

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Speaker 2: and welcome back to kids short stories. Holy smokes, what

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Speaker 2: was that? If this is your first time listening, My

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Speaker 2: name is mister Jame and my wife and my three kids.

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Speaker 2: We live in South Carolina. We love story times so

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Speaker 2: much that we make and create and write stories every

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Speaker 2: single day for you. So send me your ideas and

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Speaker 2: I would love to turn them into an awesome adventure.

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Speaker 2: Just like Sterling, he wants to bring the zombie worms back.

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Speaker 2: Are you guys ready for today's adventure? Me too?

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Speaker 1: Let's go.

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Speaker 2: All right, Purple ninches, I see that we have some

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Speaker 2: more zombie verms over there. What is the planned for them?

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Speaker 1: Well, boss, I know that we weren't able to get

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Speaker 1: rid of all the books in the world when the

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Speaker 1: zombie worm is trying to eat all the books and

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Speaker 1: we were stopped about that.

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Speaker 2: Told remind me about our failures. Remember I need no ideas?

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Speaker 2: What ours?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, yes, Well, we were thinking about maybe trying

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Speaker 1: out dropping off some zombie worms at the school library.

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Speaker 2: And how exactly vis the zombie worms helped me take

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Speaker 2: over the world.

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Speaker 1: Well, we were thinking about using the grumby serum, and

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Speaker 1: maybe the zombie worms couldn't help deliver it into all

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Speaker 1: the pages of the books.

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Speaker 2: And with the.

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Speaker 1: Grumpy serum, just consider it a small step towards world domination.

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Speaker 2: The grumby theorem. Yes, I remember that that is what

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Speaker 2: makes the whole world grumpy.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and gruppiness pressin's stinkiness. So if we can make

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Speaker 1: them grumpy, we can make them stinky.

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Speaker 2: All right, Purple Ninjas, let's get to work. Those were

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Speaker 2: the voices of Doctor Stinkybreath and the Purple Ninjas who

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Speaker 2: are trying to take over the world. And I guess

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Speaker 2: turning everyone grumpy is step one of this terrible evil plan.

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Speaker 2: What started as a very normal day for Sterling and

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Speaker 2: his friends quickly spun out of control. During recess, their

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Speaker 2: whole class was in the library picking out some books

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Speaker 2: their turn to clean up the classroom. You see, all

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Speaker 2: the students in the class, they had different chores and

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Speaker 2: different jobs that they would have to rotate through, and

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Speaker 2: today happened to be Sterling and Noah's cleaning up the

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Speaker 2: room day. That meant they had to wipe down all

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Speaker 2: a really important job to make sure that the class

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Speaker 2: to learn. Wow, great job, guys, said their teacher. All right,

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Speaker 2: it's about time to head over to re I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: call the rest of the class in from the library. Okay.

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Speaker 2: Sterling and Noah couldn't wait to get out in the sun.

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Speaker 2: They got their things and ran out to the playground. Hey, Noah,

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Speaker 2: said Sterling, let's get some people together to play lava tag.

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Speaker 2: I want to be at first. Okay. Noah ran around

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Speaker 2: and he quickly came back to Sterling. Uh, something's weird,

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Speaker 2: Sterling said, Noah. Nobody wants to play. Everyone is just

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Speaker 2: sitting around being really grumpy today. What said Sterling? Let

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Speaker 2: me ask, hey, guys, who wants to play lava tag?

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be the lava monster who's in It was silent.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's faces looked very grumpy, kind of like a scowl

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Speaker 2: on their face, and they glared at Sterling, who dared

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Speaker 1: Noah, like in the wall, just going on over.

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Speaker 2: There, said Sterling. I don't know this. That's so weird.

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Speaker 2: It's a beautiful day today, said Noah. Well, the two

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Speaker 2: It wasn't as fun with just two people playing tag.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever played tag with two people? It's not

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Speaker 2: very fun because it's just a game of I tag you,

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Speaker 2: then you tag me, then I tag you. Well, Sterling

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Speaker 2: else just moseyed on into class. Do you know how

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Speaker 2: to make a grumpy face? Let me see your grumpy face. No,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to play lava tag. Yeah that isn't

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Speaker 2: I don't like making that face. But yes, I can

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Speaker 2: But all the students got on the school bus and

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Speaker 2: his house. How is school today, Sterling said his mom. Oh,

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Speaker 2: it was a pretty good day, except everyone was just

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Speaker 2: I don't know, everyone was really weird today. Everyone just

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Speaker 2: Like it seemed to start like ran around recess, like

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Speaker 2: That is really strange, Honey, said his mom. Maybe tomorrow

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Speaker 2: will be a better day. You know, everyone has a

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Speaker 2: grumpy day, right, Yeah, that's what I was thinking too,

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Speaker 2: said Sterling. He ran upstairs to grab some of his

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Speaker 2: walkie talkies and to check in on all of his friends. Noah, Jack, Izzy,

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Speaker 2: are you all there, hey, Sterling? Shout out Jack, I'm here,

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Speaker 2: sh so is Izzy s. Jack and Izzy were Sterling's

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Speaker 2: friends from his old school. They love to talk on

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Speaker 2: the walkie talkie together. All right, I'm glad you're here, guys,

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Speaker 2: said Sterling. But where's Noah? Noah, can you hear us over?

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Speaker 2: Sh Hey, guys, Hey, sorry, I was all the way downstairs.

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Speaker 2: I had to row upstairs all the way to my

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Speaker 2: said Izzy. All right, Jack, and Izzy said Sterling, this

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Speaker 2: is an important call. We had something crazy happened at

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Speaker 2: happened at your school today. Sh Well, Jack, I don't

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Speaker 2: know about you, said Izzy. But I thought everyone at

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Speaker 1: A little bit.

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Speaker 2: Jack, you're kind of grumpy. I wasn't grumpy. What are

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Speaker 2: you talking about, sh said Jack.

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Speaker 1: Well, uh, maybe it was just me.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Did you say grumpy? Said Sterling. That's

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Speaker 2: exactly what happened at school today. At our school, everyone

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Speaker 2: was super super grumpy. Jack. Tell me, are you grumpy today?

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Speaker 2: Said Sterling. Sh Oh, I told you I'm not grumpy.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what she's talking about, said Jack. There

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Speaker 2: was then a long pause of silence because I don't

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Speaker 2: was just like a full moon or something, said Noah.

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Speaker 2: Not that we're turning into werewolves or anything. But you know,

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Speaker 2: sometimes people can have weird days, so I'm sure tomorrow

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Speaker 2: will be better, said Noah. Sh Well, let's check in

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Speaker 2: tomorrow and see how it's going. Bring your walkie talkies

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Speaker 2: to school tomorrow. I'll see you later, Jack, is he

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Speaker 2: Noah bah Sterling signed off and everybody got ready for bed. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: up at the Stinky Lab, the Purple Ninjas were onto something.

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Speaker 1: Ah, this is fantastic. Those zombie worms work perfectly and

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Speaker 1: delivering that grumpy serum into the books in the library

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Speaker 1: and all the schools around here.

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Speaker 2: What do you mean you means the plan is actually working,

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Speaker 2: said Doctor Stinky Breath.

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Speaker 1: Well, so far, so good. We've done some of our

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Speaker 1: preliminary testing, and yes, the rate of grumpiness is far

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Speaker 1: above normal, and it seems to be directly correlated to

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Speaker 1: the amount of grumpy serum that we put in the books.

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Speaker 1: So tomorrow, shall we put more grumpy serum in there?

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Speaker 2: Doctor Stinkybreath paused and put a hand on his chin

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Speaker 2: like he was thinking very deeply. Yes, I seek, we

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Speaker 2: should definitely do that. Let's increase the amount of zombie

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Speaker 2: worms that are delivering this grumpy serum and cranking into

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Speaker 2: phase two for tomorrow. Oh no, we're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: wait and see what happens on tomorrow's episode of Kids'

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Speaker 2: Short Stories. Great job, you listened all the way to

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Speaker 2: the end, and you know what time it is. It's

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Speaker 2: time for Kude shout out. I wanna say hey two

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Speaker 2: miles from Maine, Autumn from Scotland, Have and Zach from Turkey,

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Speaker 2: Hannah from Ontario, Micah from New Jersey, James and Ellie

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Speaker 2: from Boston, Maya from Boston, Noel and I are from India.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad that you're all on the Kids Short

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Speaker 2: Stories family and on our spy team. We could not

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Speaker 2: stop Doctor Stinky Breath and his crew without you, my friends.

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Speaker 2: Will you are a super duper day and I'll see

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Speaker 2: you next time. Bye,