1 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: Hey, friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kid 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time or you're 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: still newer to our family, I want to encourage you 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: to try five. That's our challenge, where for five days 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: in a row, your kids listen to some awesome stories 6 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: to use their imagination and watch their creativity come to life. 7 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 2: You see, we make stories. 8 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: Every single day for you, and you just never know 9 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 1: what kind of story you're gonna find on any given day. 10 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: So hang with me for five days, whether maybe driving 11 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: in the car or maybe during lunchtime, and I think 12 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,480 Speaker 1: you're gonna find something pretty amazing happens. Well, friends, are 13 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: you ready for today's adventure? 14 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 2: Me too, Let's go. 15 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: Truman was an amazing soccer player. He scored lots of 16 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 1: goals for his team and play it every single day, 17 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: practicing super duper hard. But that's not all he was. 18 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: Truman was not just an amazing soccer player. He was 19 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: also a member of our spy team. He'd been a 20 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: spy for about two years now and was a part 21 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: of many important missions. When he got home today, there 22 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: was a message waiting in his room from the spy team, 23 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: and it said. 24 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 2: Truman something terrible has happened. There's poison soccer balls that 25 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 2: are getting planted inside of soccer teams. We need you 26 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 2: to find these dangerous soccer balls. You can find a 27 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 2: gold star as a marker on the poison soccer balls. 28 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,279 Speaker 2: We need you to put them in this black bag 29 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 2: and bring them back to HQ so we can dispose 30 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 2: of them. 31 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: Holy smokes, Truman said, that's crazy in the world would 32 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: poison soccer balls that could make other kids sick. Ah, 33 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: that makes me so mad. You've got to stop them. 34 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: Truman raced over as fast as he could to the 35 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: soccer fields that Saturday morning. There were hundreds of kids 36 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: dozens of teams that were playing that day, so that 37 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,519 Speaker 1: means there were a lot of soccer balls that he 38 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,679 Speaker 1: had to investigate. And one by one he checked all 39 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,119 Speaker 1: the soccer balls. They all looked clean. None of them 40 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 1: had that gold star. But wait a second, dun, dun, dun. 41 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: He found one, and he carefully picked it up and 42 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: placed it in the black bag from HQ. The rest 43 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: of the morning, he checked the rest of the soccer 44 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: balls and found four more poison soccer balls. So what 45 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: is one plus four? Yeah? Five? He found five poisoned 46 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: soccer balls. He put them all in the black bag 47 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: and he had to get out of their fast so 48 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: that no kids would get sick. He brought it back 49 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: to HQ and showed them what he'd found. Holy smokes, Truman, 50 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: that's worse than we thought you found. Five Truman, We're 51 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:28,559 Speaker 1: gonna need you to go to Pittsburgh. 52 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 2: We need you to go. 53 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: To the Pittsburgh Steelers football game. There's gonna be a 54 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: man there from the spy team who's gonna meet you 55 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: and give you some more clues to follow. We need 56 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: you to go there today. 57 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: Your plane is waiting. 58 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: Truman raced to the airport as fast as he could 59 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: and got on the next flight to Pittsburgh. During the flight, 60 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: he began to think, huh, I wonder who in the 61 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: world would do this? And why would they put gold 62 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: stars stickers on the balls and poison them? 63 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 2: What are they doing? 64 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: Why would they do this? He couldn't figure it out. 65 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: As the plane landed in Pittsburgh and he drove all 66 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: the way to the Pittsburgh Steelers game, there was the 67 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: spy waiting for him from HQ. Oh it's Dan, Hey, 68 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: Dan Truman called out. Truman I'm glad you came. This 69 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 1: is a very important mission. Here is a bag of clues. 70 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: We need you to take this very seriously because there's 71 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: going to be a lot more kids that get sick 72 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 1: unless we stopped this. Are you ready, Absolutely, I'm ready, 73 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: said Truman, and then Truman sat down on a park 74 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: bench and started to look at all the clues that 75 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: were inside of this bag. First clue was an eye 76 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: patch that they had found near some of the soccer balls. 77 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: Black eye patch. That's weird. The next clue is all 78 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: he smokes. It was like a deflated soccer ball without 79 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: any air in it, so it was flat. And oh, 80 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: it looks like it had seaweed in it. I think 81 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: it was from the ocean. 82 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 2: That's weird. 83 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 1: And then the last clue, what is this? It looks 84 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 1: like a black flag with a white X and a 85 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,040 Speaker 1: h Oh, it's a skull on it. Yeah, it looks 86 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: like a black flag with a skull and a white X. Hmmm, 87 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: so that's weird. The three clues we have a black flag, 88 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: a black eyepatch, and a flat soccer ball with seaweed. 89 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 2: All over it. 90 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: That's pretty strange. But I think that means we need 91 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: to go to the ocean to find the next clue. 92 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: Truman boarded the next flight to the ocean. He landed, 93 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: got to the beach and started to look around for 94 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 1: the same seaweed because the seaweed on the ball was 95 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: red and purple, which that's not a normal seaweed color. 96 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: He started to look around the beach and sure enough, 97 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 1: there it was. 98 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 2: He was in the right place. There was this seaweed 99 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 2: all over the beach. 100 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: Holy smokes, do you think this is part of the 101 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 1: poison that was used in those soccer balls? Oh? Because 102 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: this seaweed doesn't look right itselfs terrible. He said, Wait, 103 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 1: someone's coming. Truman hid behind some trees. 104 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 2: Are what in the world? We have some more seaweed. 105 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 2: Let's collect it. 106 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: All and bring it back to the ship. Is that 107 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: what I think it is? Truman couldn't believe his eyes. 108 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: There were three pirates. 109 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 2: Holy smokes. 110 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: Those were the clues. 111 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 2: That all makes sense. 112 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 1: The eyepatch, Yeah, pirates love to wear those in that 113 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 1: black flag. Yeah, they have those flags flying all over 114 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: the ship. Do you think the pirates are the ones 115 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: poisoning all the soccer balls? Me too. We got to 116 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 1: investigate more. Truman followed the pirates back to their ship. 117 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: He brought his spy binoculars with him to look and watch, 118 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,479 Speaker 1: and sure enough he could see the pirate ship. It 119 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 1: was filled with soccer balls, and they were oh putting 120 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: that disgusting, stinky seaweed into the soccer balls. Holy smokes, 121 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: what are we gonna do? It only took Truman a 122 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: second to come up with a great plan. He still 123 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: had those five poisoned soccer balls with him from before, So, hmm, 124 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: I wonder if there's a way to launch them onto 125 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: the ship. Yeah, oh, build a giant slingshot. Truman got 126 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: to work immediately. Do you know what a slingshot is. Yeah, 127 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: it's something that launches those balls really far, much farther 128 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: than he could throw them using palm trees. He built 129 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: a ginormous slingshot that could launch these poison soccer balls 130 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: back at the pirate ship. He loaded them up one 131 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: by one. 132 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 2: I wish you could have seen them fly. 133 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: They flew all the way and direct hit the pirate 134 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: ship perfectly, and that boys had exploded everywhere all over them. 135 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: Pretty soon he could see the pirates starting to get 136 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: pretty sick. What in tarnation? 137 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 2: I feel terrible. 138 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: Let's get out, the pirates shouted, They turned their pirate 139 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: ship back to the ocean and were never seen again. Wow, 140 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: great job, Truman, you saved us all and all the 141 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: kids on the soccer fields. That was a pretty incredible mission, 142 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: one that will never forget the end. Hey, friends, I 143 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: need your help celebrating a birthday. 144 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 2: Drum roll please, Happy birthday. Aubrey's turning nine years old. 145 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: Aubrey loves her friends, she loves her family, and she 146 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: is one of a kind diva to the Max, Aubrey, 147 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 1: I'm so glad we got to celebrate you and your 148 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: big day on the show. 149 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 2: Happy ninth Birthday, and next up we have. 150 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:25,239 Speaker 1: Good Jow. 151 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 3: Happy birthday Liam. Yes, Liam is turning nine years old. 152 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 3: He loves gaming, kids, short stories, podcast, oh yeah, and 153 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 3: Thai food. I love it, Liam, and I'm so glad 154 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 3: we got celebrated you and your big day on the show. 155 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 2: Happy ninth birthday. 156 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: Well, my friends, I hope you all have a super 157 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: duper day and I'll see you on her next adventure. Bye.