1 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister jim Man. Welcome back to Kit 2 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time, welcome to 3 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: the family. We are the podcast that turns your ideas 4 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 1: into an amazing adventure every single day. You know, we 5 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: couldn't even exist without imaginations from kids just like you. 6 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: So if you have an idea for a story, I'd 7 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: love to see it. Check down in the show notes 8 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: below for how you can submit your own story idea 9 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. And parents, 10 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: if you're new to kids podcasting, I'm gonna challenge you 11 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,599 Speaker 1: to listen to podcasting for five days in a row 12 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: with your kids. It's going to increase their imagination, decrease 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: screen time, and we're gonna have a lot of fun 14 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: along the way. Are you guys ready for today's adventure? 15 00:00:50,560 --> 00:01:00,080 Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go. Vivi was a venomous snake. She 16 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: was always causing trouble. She was always grumpy and loved 17 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 1: to cause chaos. Her favorite activity was scaring anyone who 18 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: crossed her path. One day, Vivy slithered her way into 19 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: a storm drain on her way to the city. She 20 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: planned to scare some restaurant goers and get a free meal. 21 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: She traveled through the sewers until she heard loud noises 22 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: coming from above. She climbed her way out of a 23 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: different drain and into the middle of the big city. 24 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: She began to slither down the sidewalk when someone stepped 25 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: on the tip of her tail. Hey, viv hissed. Then 26 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: she popped out her fans, reared back her head, and 27 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: launched herself at the person's ankles. Fortunately for the human, 28 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: they heard Vivi hiss and jumped away just in time. Snakes, 29 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: there's a snake, the man yelled as he ran far away. 30 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: Vvy harrumphed. Do you know how to make that sound? 31 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: It's a funny word to say, harrumphed, But it's just 32 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:17,079 Speaker 1: what kind of sound would you make if you were 33 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: angry and wanting to turn your head away? She was 34 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: disappointed that she didn't get to bite him. Wow, she 35 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: is a really angry, mean snake. She slithered off into 36 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: the bushes to avoid more accidental stopping. While in the bushes, 37 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 1: she spotted a cat sleeping ahead. She hissed at the cat, 38 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: hoping it would move. The cat only lazily opened an 39 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:53,519 Speaker 1: eye to look at her go away snake. The cat yawned. 40 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: Vivvy hissed again and revealed her shiny, venomous fangs. She 41 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:02,519 Speaker 1: sprang forward, but the cat leaped out of the way 42 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: just in time. Vivvy bit a branch of the bush instead. 43 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: She hissed in anger and wiggled away. Vivy smelled food 44 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: outside of the bushes and entered the patio of the restaurant. 45 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: Do you know how snakes smell? They don't smell like us, 46 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: You know, we go to smell something. Yeah, snakes stick 47 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: out their tongue. They have a special organ called the 48 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: Jacobsen organ inside their mouth that helps them smell and 49 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: taste the air. A woman pushed the door open, and 50 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: Vivy saw her chance. She wiggled into the open gap, 51 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: her head making it into the building, then her middle. Oh, 52 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: but she wasn't quick enough to get her tail through. 53 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: The door closed on Vivvy's tail, and she hissed in surprise. 54 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: She has so loudly that everyone in the restaurant heard 55 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: it and fell silent. They looked at Vivvy's long, scaly 56 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: self and they all screamed, Ah, a snag. There's a 57 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: snake in the restaurant h somebody, get it out of here. 58 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 1: Vivvy tried to ignore them and pulled her tail out 59 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: of the door. She slithered her way toward the kitchen, 60 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: people jumping up on their chairs as she passed. She 61 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,799 Speaker 1: had almost made it when the chef stepped into the doorway, 62 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:42,479 Speaker 1: blocking her path. Sorry, snake, you're you're not getting into 63 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 1: the kitchen today, he told her. We'll see about that. 64 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: Vivvy hissed in response. Her fang sprang forward towards the 65 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: chef's leg, but the chef was ready for her. He 66 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: pulled out a broom from beside him blocked her venomous fangs. 67 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 1: They bounced off the broomstick, and the chef began sweeping 68 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 1: her away from the kitchen. People all around her watched, 69 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: and now viv was furiously mad. She hissed and swung 70 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: her fangs at anyone near her all the way out 71 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: the door. The door slam shut behind her. Viv saw 72 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: the cat from earlier watching her from the bushes, and 73 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: she'd just decided to try to bite him again. Maybe 74 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 1: that would make her feel better. She slithered quickly toward him, 75 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 1: but this time the cat didn't jump away. Instead, he 76 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 1: held out a flower. A flowers? Are you trying to 77 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: stop me with a flower? I don't like flowers. She 78 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: reared back to bite him again, but as she did, 79 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: the cat blue on the flower. Pollen flew off of 80 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: it into Vivvy's mouth, and she hacked and gagged stown 81 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: black grouse. She sputtered. Then she felt herself go pin straight. 82 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: She couldn't wiggle or slither. Vivy began to float. She 83 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: floated away what she floated higher above the ground without 84 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: being able to control it. She felt like her whole 85 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: body had been inflated like a balloon. Just when she 86 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: thought she was going to float away on the wind, 87 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: the cat grabbed hold of her tail and tied a 88 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: string to it. Gotcha. He tied the string to the 89 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: leg of a chair and left the flower next to her. 90 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 1: Bye snake, Maybe the old thing twice about biting next time. 91 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 1: Then the cat slink off back into the bushes. Vivy 92 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: watched as people walked by her chair unsuspectingly. No one 93 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: seemed to realize she was there. She watched for a 94 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: moment before she heard a meow and the cat was back, 95 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: and behind him were two members of animal control. The 96 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: chef met them on the patio. H we received a 97 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: call for a venomous snake, they asked the chef. He nodded. 98 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: I chased it outside with the broom. I'm not sure 99 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: where it went now. They thanked him, and the chef 100 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: went back and sighed. As they began looking, the cat 101 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: jumped up on the chair, meowing loudly. He was pawing 102 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: at the string tied to Vivy, making her bounce around 103 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: in the air, just like a balloon. Ah, what do 104 00:07:55,120 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: you have here, kitty? A balloon? Strange? The colors looked 105 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: just like that venomous snake they called in, said one 106 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: of the animal control officers. Then the cat picked up 107 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: the flower and blew on it again. The pollen tickled 108 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: Vivy and she felt herself falling. The snake, cried the 109 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: other officer. He dove and placed a cage under her, 110 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: and Vivy clunked right in. She hissed and writhed in 111 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: anger until she smelled something delicious inside. Vivy happily ate 112 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: the food in the cage as the animal control officers 113 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 1: took her back to the wilderness. They opened the cage 114 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: and she slithered it out, hissing at them to keep 115 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: up appearances. Full and exhausted from her long day, Vivvy 116 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: curled up on a warm rock to rest. Plenty of 117 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: people to scare, free food, had a ride back home. 118 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: I got everything I wanted, but somehow I'm still not happy. Wow. 119 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,679 Speaker 1: What do you think Vivi should do if she's wanting 120 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: to be happy? Do you think she should be nicer 121 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: and kinder to people? Yeah? I don't think she's ever 122 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: gonna feel happiness being that angry and mean to everyone around. 123 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 1: Even though this is the end of the story, I 124 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 1: really hope Vivi the Venomous Snake learns her lesson and 125 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 1: is kinder to everyone. Great job, you listened all the 126 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: way to the end, and you know what, Tomas, it's 127 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 1: time for could shout outs. I want to say, hey 128 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: that Thomas from California, Naomi from North Carolina, Wyat from Ohio, 129 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: Breydon from Ontario, Canada, David from virgin and George from Oklahoma. 130 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all on the Kidschert Story's family. 131 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: We could not have this much fun with imagination without you, 132 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: my friends. Will you have a super duber day and 133 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,439 Speaker 1: I'll see you on our next adventure. Bye.