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Speaker 1: Hey, friends, welcome back to kids' short stories. If this

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Speaker 1: is your first time, welcome to the family. My name

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Speaker 1: is mister Jim, and I love turning your ideas into

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Speaker 1: awesome adventures. You see, parents, We do stories every single

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Speaker 1: day based on ideas. That's kids all around the world.

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Speaker 1: Send in. I turn that little idea into a really

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Speaker 1: fun adventure and this has helped reduce screen time and

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Speaker 1: increase imagination. So if that sounds awesome, click that follow button. Well, friends,

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Speaker 1: are you ready for today's adventure? Me too? Let's go.

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Speaker 2: All right, pepperonins, I need updates. What are you working

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Speaker 2: on today?

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Speaker 3: Well, but Professor sticky fingers he was working on something.

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Speaker 3: It looks like a big bouncy ball, except it's the

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Speaker 3: big sticky ball and if somebody touches it then they

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Speaker 3: get stuck inside and that's sticky ball.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I like the idea. Is the professor around? Oh boy,

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Speaker 2: hey boys, yeah, I'm over here. I was just working

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Speaker 2: on these really sticky balls, and I think it could

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Speaker 2: be perfect in catching a whole bunch of people. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: how many of them?

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Speaker 1: Could do you think you could make for me?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I think we could have a couple of thousand by

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Speaker 2: the end of today. Perfect, No pepper ninches. How Vilvik

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Speaker 2: scatter all these bouncy bows everywhere without people knowing exactly

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Speaker 2: what it is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we want to keep it a surprise for like

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Speaker 3: a trap. So you know how we have all those

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Speaker 3: volcanoes kind of under our control?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I do.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: We were thinking maybe we could fill up some of

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Speaker 3: the volcanoes with these sticky bounty balls and then you know,

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Speaker 3: engage the volcanoes blasts. I'm into the sky. What do

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Speaker 3: you think about that?

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Speaker 1: I like it? Now, get you work. It was a

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Speaker 1: beautiful day outside as Silas was playing with his friends.

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Speaker 1: They were playing a game of Critter Protectors at the playground.

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Speaker 1: As they were imagining all the amazing critters that were

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Speaker 1: on the loots at the park and it was up

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Speaker 1: to them to protect them. Have you heard of our

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Speaker 1: Critter Protector Team? Yes, we are a team that loves

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Speaker 1: critters of all shapes and sizes, and it's our job

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Speaker 1: to protect them either around the world or in our backyard.

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Speaker 1: And if that sounds fun to you, have your parents.

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Speaker 1: Go down to the show notes of this episode, click

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Speaker 1: on the link, and you will receive your very own

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Speaker 1: critter protector badge in the mail for free guys. Don't

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Speaker 1: let those herd of buffaloes run off. There's a cliff

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Speaker 1: over there, shouted Silas. They were working together to calm

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be okay now, just calm down, said Silas,

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Speaker 1: as he was helping these critters feel safe. Hey, Silas,

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Speaker 1: there's some real frogs over here. Come on over. Silas

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Speaker 1: and his friends raced over to where his friend was

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Speaker 1: and they were right. There were frogs and tadpoles and

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Speaker 1: Now that we know that this stream is full of

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Speaker 1: Their imaginative game of saving imaginative buffaloes had now shifted

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Speaker 1: message from the spy team. He looked down in his

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Speaker 1: to listen to this message. Hey, guys, I think I

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Speaker 1: all those frogs and tadpoles. Maybe we can finish it

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Speaker 1: more tomorrow. Okay, see letter Silas. They waved goodbye as

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Speaker 1: Silas ran back to his house to listen to this message.

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Speaker 4: Silas, we need your help. There is a volcano nearby

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Speaker 4: that looks like it's about to explode.

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Speaker 4: Yes, the local zoo is the most closest to the volcano.

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Speaker 4: We need you and all the other Critter Protectors to

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Speaker 1: Sh I gotta get back to the playground and tell

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about, Silas, They asked, like, it's

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Speaker 1: It was real. There's a volcano that's about to explode

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Speaker 1: be protected. Who's with me? Immediately, every single friend of

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Speaker 1: Silas's raised their hand and stepped forward. We're in Silas,

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Speaker 1: let's do this. Little did they know that that game

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Speaker 1: they did not know what to expect. Was it gonna

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Speaker 1: As they arrived at the zoo, there were a ton

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Speaker 1: There's a volcano that's about to explode, yelled Silas. A

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Speaker 1: of them. They have a lot of work to do.

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Speaker 1: If you were needing to protect critters from a volcano explosion,

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Speaker 1: what would you do. I don't know exactly what I

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Speaker 1: But then all of a sudden, the ground began to shake.

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Speaker 1: Everybody take cover, shouted Silas. Oh no, what in the

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Speaker 1: it really gonna be lava? Or wait a second, what

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Speaker 1: was it that the Purple Ninjas and Doctor Sinky Breath

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Speaker 1: to wait and see what happens on the next episode

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Speaker 1: of Kids Short Stories. Great job, you listened all the

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Speaker 1: way to the end, and you know what time it is.

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Speaker 1: It's time for Kid shout out. So I want to

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Speaker 1: say hey to Cedar and Sage from Westchester, Nina from Canada,

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Speaker 1: Jennifer from Maryland, Emily and Izzy from New Hampshire, Gabe

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Speaker 1: from British Columbia, and Dakota from Lafayette, Indiana. I'm so

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Speaker 1: glad that you're all in the Kit Short Stories family

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Speaker 1: and on the spy team. We could not stop Doctor

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Speaker 1: Stinky Breath and his crew without you, my friends. Will

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Speaker 1: you have got to check out those Critter Protector badges

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Speaker 1: down in the show notes below. We'll see you next time.

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Speaker 2: Bye,