1 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: Hey, friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kid 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time or you're 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: still newer to our family, I want to encourage you 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: to try five. That's our challenge, where for five days 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: in a row, your kids listen to some awesome stories 6 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: to use their imagination and watch their creativity come to life. 7 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: You see, we make stories every single day for you, 8 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: and you just never know what kind of story you're 9 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: gonna find on any given day. So hang with me 10 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 1: for five days, whether maybe driving in the car or 11 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 1: maybe during lunchtime, and I think you're gonna find something 12 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:49,639 Speaker 1: pretty amazing happens. Well, friends, are you ready for today's adventure? 13 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: Me two, Let's go. Truman was an amazing soccer player. 14 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: He scored lots of goals for his team and played 15 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: it every single day, practicing super duper hard. But that's 16 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 1: not all he was. Truman was not just an amazing 17 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:18,119 Speaker 1: soccer player. He was also a member of our spy team. 18 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: He'd been a spy for about two years now and 19 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: was a part of many important missions. When he got 20 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: home today, there was a message waiting in his room 21 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: from the spy team, and it said Truman something terrible 22 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 1: has happened. There's poison soccer balls that are getting planted 23 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 1: inside of soccer teams. We need you to find these 24 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: dangerous soccer balls. You can find a gold star as 25 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: a marker on the poison soccer balls. We need you 26 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: to put them in this black bag and bring them 27 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: back to HQ so we can dispose of them. Holy smokes, 28 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: Truman said, that's crazy when the world would poison soccer 29 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: balls that could make other kids sick. Ah, that makes 30 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: me so mad. You've got to stop them. Truman raced 31 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: over as fast as he could to the soccer fields 32 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: that Saturday morning. There were hundreds of kids dozens of 33 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: teams that were playing that day, so that means there 34 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,639 Speaker 1: were a lot of soccer balls that he had to investigate. 35 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: And one by one he checked all the soccer balls. 36 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: They all looked clean. None of them had that gold star. 37 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: But wait a second, dun, dun, dun. He found one, 38 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: and he carefully picked it up and placed it in 39 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,519 Speaker 1: the black bag from HQ. The rest of the morning, 40 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: he checked the rest of the soccer balls and found 41 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: four more poison soccer balls. So what is one plus four? Yeah? Five? 42 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: He found five poisoned soccer balls. He put them all 43 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: in the black bag and he had to get out 44 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: of their fast so that no kids would get sick. 45 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: He brought it back to HQ and showed them what 46 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: he'd found. Holy smokes, Truman, that's worse than we thought 47 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: you found. Five Truman, We're gonna need you to go 48 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh. We need you to go to the Pittsburgh 49 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: Steelers football game. There's gonna be a man there from 50 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: the spy team. He's gonna meet you and give you 51 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: some more clues to follow. We need you to go 52 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: there today. Your plane is waiting. Truman raced to the 53 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: airport as fast as he could and got on the 54 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: next flight to Pittsburgh. During the flight, he began to think, huh, 55 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: I wonder who in the world would do this? And 56 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: why would they put gold stars stickers on the balls 57 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: and poison them? What are they doing? Why would they 58 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: do this? He couldn't figure it out. As the plane 59 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: landed in Pittsburgh and he drove all the way to 60 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers game, there was the spy waiting for 61 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: him from HQ. Oh it's Dan, Hey, Dan, Truman called out. 62 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 1: Truman I'm glad you came. This is a very important mission. 63 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: Here is a bag of clues. We need you to 64 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: take this very seriously because there's going to be a 65 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 1: lot more kids that get sick unless we stopped this. 66 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: Are you ready, Absolutely, I'm ready, said Truman, and then 67 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: Truman sat down on a park bench and started to 68 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: look at all the clues that were inside of this bag. 69 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: First clue was an eyepatch that they had found near 70 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: some of the soccer balls. Black eye patch. That's weird. 71 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: The next clue is all he smokes like a deflated 72 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 1: soccer ball without any air in it, so it was flat, 73 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: and oh, it looks like it had seaweed in it. 74 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 1: I think it was from the ocean. That's weird. And 75 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: then the last clue, what is this? It looks like 76 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: a black flag with a white X and a h Oh, 77 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: it's a skull on it. Yeah, it looks like a 78 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: black flag with a skull and a white X. Hmm, 79 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 1: so that's weird. The three clues we have a black flag, 80 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: a black eyepatch, and a flat soccer ball with seaweed 81 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: all over it. That's pretty strange. But I think that 82 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: means we need to go to the ocean to find 83 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: the next clue. Truman boarded the next flight to the ocean. 84 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: He landed, got to the beach and started to look 85 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 1: around for the same seaweed because the seaweed on the 86 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: ball was red and purple, which that's not a normal 87 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 1: seaweed color. He started to look around the beach and 88 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: sure enough, there it was. He was in the right place. 89 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,799 Speaker 1: There was this seaweed all over the beach. Holy smokes, 90 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: do you think this is part of the poison that 91 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: was used in those soccer balls? Oh? Because this seaweed 92 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 1: doesn't look right itselfs terrible. He said, Wait, someone's coming. 93 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: Truman hid behind some trees. Are what in the world? 94 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: We have some more seaweed. Let's collect it all and 95 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 1: bring it back to the ship. Is that what I 96 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: think it is? Truman couldn't believe his eyes. There were 97 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: three pirates. Holy smokes. Those were the glues. That all 98 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: makes sense. The eyepatch, Yeah, pirates love to wear those 99 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 1: in that black flag. Yeah, they have those flags flying 100 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,479 Speaker 1: all over the ship. Do you think the pirates are 101 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: the ones poisoning all the soccer balls? Me too. We 102 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: got to investigate more. Truman followed the pirates back to 103 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: their ship. He brought his spy binoculars with him to 104 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: look and watch, and sure enough he could see the 105 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: pirate ship. It was filled with soccer balls, and they 106 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:16,239 Speaker 1: were oh putting that disgusting, stinky seaweed into the soccer balls. 107 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: Holy smokes, what are we gonna do? It only took 108 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: Truman a second to come up with a great plan. 109 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: He still had those five poisoned soccer balls with him 110 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: from before. So hm, I wonder if there's a way 111 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: to launch them onto the ship. Yeah, oh, build a 112 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: giant slingshot. Truman got to work immediately. Do you know 113 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: what a slingshot is. Yeah, it's something that launches those 114 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 1: balls really far, much farther than he could throw them 115 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: using palm trees. He built a ginormous slingshot that could 116 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: launch these poison soccer balls back at the pirate ship. 117 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: He loaded them up one by one. I wish you 118 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: could have seen them fly. They flew all the way 119 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: and direct hit the pirate ship perfectly, and that boys 120 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: had exploded everywhere all over them. Pretty soon he could 121 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: see the pirates starting to get pretty sick. What inn't 122 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: turn nation? I feel terrible. Let's get out the pirates shouted, 123 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: They turned their pirate ship back to the ocean and 124 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: were never seen again. Wow, great job, Truman, you saved 125 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: us all and all the kids on the soccer fields. 126 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 1: That was a pretty incredible mission, one that will never 127 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: forget the end. Make sure you stick around to the 128 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,439 Speaker 1: end to hear kids shout outs. Will be right back 129 00:08:52,520 --> 00:09:00,959 Speaker 1: after a brief word from our sponsor. Job you listened 130 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: all the way to the end. All right, Who remembers 131 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: how many poison soccer balls did Truman find? Was it three? Four? 132 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: Or five? Yes? Five poison soccer balls. Great job. Well, now, 133 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 1: my friends, it's time for Kurd shout out. I want 134 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: to say hey to Parker and Kennedy from Texas, Ali 135 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 1: from Hawaii, Iona from Atlanta, Natara from Canada, Enzo from Florida, 136 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: Sila's from Chicago, and Shearan from Philadelphia. I'm so glad 137 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: that you're all on her Kid Short Stories family. I 138 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: definitely cannot have this much fun with imagination without you, 139 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: so I will definitely see you on our next adventure. Bye.