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Speaker 1: Have you ever laughed when you weren't supposed to? It's

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Speaker 1: hard to hold back a laugh, and laughs can be contagious.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Linga. Listen story Time Today is a story

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Speaker 1: that has some scary parts, but it's full of laughter.

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Speaker 1: It takes place in a seaweed or kelp forest off

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Speaker 1: the coast of Japan. Subscribe or follow us so you

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Speaker 1: never miss one of our episodes. Riku was a young

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Speaker 1: seal who loved jokes. He always made his mother laugh.

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Speaker 1: One night, as they made kelpcakes, Riku told a joke.

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Speaker 1: How do ocean say hello to each other? I don't know,

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Speaker 1: son said Mother Seal. They wave sh They didn't want

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Speaker 1: their laughter to wake father Seal. He had to wake

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Speaker 1: up early to catch fish. Ricu started to pile the

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Speaker 1: kelp cakes in a basket. Mother Seal would take them

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Speaker 1: to the sea market the next morning, but first he

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Speaker 1: wanted to tell another joke. What starts with tea, ends

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Speaker 1: with tea and is filled with tea? A tea bot.

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Speaker 1: Mother Seal barked, her seal laugh, then nudged her son

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Speaker 1: back to work. Ricu started to PLoP the kelpcakes into

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Speaker 1: a basket. Suddenly, a huge whale swam by creating a

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Speaker 1: strong underwater wave. The current caught the kelpcakes and sent

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Speaker 1: them swirling down, down, down into the dark tore the

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Speaker 1: ooney cave. The one was a scary creature who slept

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Speaker 1: during the day and came out at night to eat

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Speaker 1: it ate whatever it could find. Oh, no, gott it.

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Speaker 1: Swim fast to get our kelp cakes, said Ricu. Mother

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Speaker 1: Seal saw Ricu was headed for danger and swam after him.

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Speaker 1: No Ricu, but Ricu disappeared into the darkness. His mother

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Speaker 1: followed him down and saw him picking up the kelpcakes.

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Speaker 1: Right outside the oney cave. The giant one came out

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Speaker 1: of the underwater cave, snatched a calpcake, and in one gulp,

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Speaker 1: swallowed it hole. Then the one dumped the whole basket

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Speaker 1: of kelpie cakes into his mouth, and that he had

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Speaker 1: tasted how deliciously kelpie they were, he wanted more. He

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Speaker 1: grabbed the two seals and swam with them up to

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Speaker 1: the beach. There in the sand was a large black pot.

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Speaker 1: There was nothing in the pot but a long wooden spoon.

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Speaker 1: The ony pointed to Mother Seal, then pointed to the spoon,

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Speaker 1: so she picked up the spoon and began stirring. Magically,

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Speaker 1: a bunch of kelpcakes appeared. The spoon had special powers.

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Speaker 1: The Ony gobbled up these kelp cakes too, and Mother

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Speaker 1: Seal en Ricu had to stay up all night feeding

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Speaker 1: the onony. This is horrible. What are we going to

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Speaker 1: do when the sun rises, said Mother Seal. The Ony

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Speaker 1: will return to his sea cave to sleep, will offer

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Speaker 1: to make more kelpcakes when he leaves. We'll use the

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Speaker 1: pot as a boat and paddle quickly to our nice,

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Speaker 1: safe kelp forest. As the sun rose, the one started

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Speaker 1: to get sleepy. The only, of course, agreed that the

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Speaker 1: seals should make more kelp cakes while he slept, so

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Speaker 1: he dove into the water and swam down. The two

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Speaker 1: seals quickly jumped into the pot. They used the long

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Speaker 1: wooden spoon to row toward the kelp forest. Just then

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Speaker 1: the water started to disappear. Mom the Ony, look he's back.

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Speaker 1: The Ony was up on the beach again, and he

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Speaker 1: was sucking up the water with a straw. Their pot

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Speaker 1: was moving right towards him. The One's cheeks were full

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Speaker 1: of water. Mother Seal came up with a plan. She

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Speaker 1: ordered Ricu to tell her a joke, Ricu thought quickly, Ah, okay,

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Speaker 1: what's the best thing to put into a kelpcake? Your teeth?

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Speaker 1: Oh Beacu's mother laughed hard and loud, almost falling out

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Speaker 1: of the pot, and this made Ricu laugh. Hearing their laughter,

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Speaker 1: the one couldn't help but burst out laughing too. Water

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Speaker 1: gushed out of the one's mouth. Pushing the pot far

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Speaker 1: away from the beach, Ricu and his mother paddled to

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Speaker 1: the kelp forest and spotted Father Seal fishing. They hugged

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Speaker 1: and cried tears of joy. Mother Seal proudly explained how

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Speaker 1: Ricu's joke had saved their lives. But Ricu was wororried

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Speaker 1: about one thing. Mom, we have no kelpcakes for the

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Speaker 1: sea market. A big smile crossed Mother's face and she giggled.

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Speaker 1: She held up the magical wooden spoon. Ricu let out

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Speaker 1: a big whoo. That sealed the deal. They could use

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Speaker 1: the magic spoon to make kelpcakes. Mother Seal and Riku

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Speaker 1: stayed up all night making kelpcakes, telling jokes and laughing.

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Speaker 1: We hope you liked the story. Lingo listeners, what's your

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Speaker 1: favorite joke? Think about it? Goodbye until next time