1 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Get Short Stories Today. Stories brought to 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:09,720 Speaker 1: us by one of our friends, Simon. Hey, Simon, he's 3 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: does an awesome idea for a story and you can't 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: do Just head over to our website gets Your Stories 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: dot org. Send us to your idea and maybe we'll 6 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:17,959 Speaker 1: turn it into an awesome adventure. And I want to 7 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 1: give a special shout out to Hannah and Danny from Maine. 8 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: Hey guys, and Shepherd from Austin. You guys are super 9 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: duper awesome and I'm so glad that you are on 10 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,559 Speaker 1: the spy Head team. Are you ready for today's adventure? 11 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go. One day, Simon was playing at 12 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: the playground with all of his friends. He had one 13 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: of the coolest playgrounds to play at. It had big 14 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: slides and things to hide in and climb on. Everyone 15 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: loved playing there. Do you guys like to play at 16 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: the playground? Yeah? Me too. The monkey bars and things 17 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: that to climb on those are my favorites. Do you 18 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: guys like the slides? Yeah? Those are so cool too. 19 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: Simon's favorite was to go down the really fun fast 20 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 1: slide and whoa zoom off the bottom. Well, he went 21 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 1: down one of the slides and noticed something moving in 22 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 1: the grass. Right next to the playground was some really 23 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: tall grass and some small bushes and those kinds of things, 24 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: and he saw something wiggling in there, and he had 25 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: to go check it out. You see, Simon was on 26 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: the animal rescue team, and part of his job was 27 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: if he found an animal that was lost, he had 28 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: to help it get home and make sure I found 29 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: its family. Well, Simon was getting closer to the grass 30 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: and he thought he heard a sound, and so he 31 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: peeked in and looked, and what is that? That was 32 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: not a normal animal that he'd ever seen anywhere here before. 33 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: It looked like a penguin. What in the world is 34 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: a penguin doing here? Simon looked down to the penguin 35 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,639 Speaker 1: and said, excuse me, are you lost? And the penguin said, yes, 36 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: yes I am. You see, I'm just a baby penguin 37 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: and I can't find my mama. Oh my gosh, Oh 38 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:37,239 Speaker 1: that's terrible. Are you okay? Are you hurt? No, I'm 39 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: not hurt, but I really missed my family. Could you 40 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: help me find him? Yes? Absolutely, But we don't have 41 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 1: penguins anywhere near here. How did you get here? Well? 42 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: You see, I just got lost and started wandering, and 43 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 1: pretty soon I guess I had wandered very far. But 44 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: I normally live. My home is in Peru. What you 45 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: mean you weren't just like you got lost out of 46 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: the zoo down the street. You're you live like in Peru. Yes, 47 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: that is really far away. And I I thought penguins 48 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:23,119 Speaker 1: lived in an Antarctica. I didn't know that penguins lived 49 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: in Peru too. Yes, we don't like the super super 50 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: cold in Antarctica, so our family we live in Peru. Wow, 51 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: I just learned about Peru. Peru is a country in 52 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: South America. But that is really far away from where 53 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: we are. So yeah, if we're gonna get you back home, 54 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: we're definitely gonna need to figure out a faster way 55 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: than walking to get there, because if we walked, I 56 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: think it might take five years, so we can't do that. 57 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: All right, here, come with me. The baby penguin started 58 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: to follow Simon back to his house. Part of the 59 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: gear that Simon got when he trained to be an 60 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: animal rescuer was he had some special jet packs, one 61 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 1: for him and one that could hold another creature. And 62 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: so they put their jet packs and blasted off on 63 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: their way to Peru. And Peru from where Simon was 64 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: was very far away and they had to fly a 65 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: very long time. So do you know what's important to 66 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: bring with on a long trip? Delicious snacks? Yeah, so 67 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: Simon brought his favorite things to snack on. What are 68 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: your favorite things to snack on? Oh yeah, I like chips, 69 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 1: and I like carrots and apples. Oh, I love all fruits. 70 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: Those are delicious. And oh so those are some really 71 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 1: good ones too. And so Simon had all of his 72 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: special snacks and the little penguin do you know what 73 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: he liked to eat? Yeah, little penguins, they like to 74 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 1: eat minnows and little fish. So Simon had to bring 75 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: a whole big bag of minnow chips and fish chips 76 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: for the little penguin while they were flying there. They 77 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 1: they were still traveling a very long way, and all 78 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 1: of a sudden, oh no, Simon said, those are some 79 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:37,479 Speaker 1: really big clouds. It looks like it's about to storm. 80 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: We gotta find somewhere safe. Let's go. And so Simon 81 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 1: and the baby penguin both landed safely in the middle 82 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: of a middle of a jungle. Ohn. Oh my god. 83 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 1: They were not expecting that. But there's definitely a lot 84 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 1: of jungles in between where Simon lives and where Peru was, says, 85 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: so it makes a lot of sense. But penguins, they 86 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: usually don't like to stay in jungles, so this was 87 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: only going to be a quick trip. But as they 88 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 1: touched down and landed very safely in the middle of 89 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 1: a jungle, they started to look for somewhere safe that 90 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: would keep them dry from the storm, and Simon looked around. 91 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,840 Speaker 1: He saw some very big trees. Do you guys know 92 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: what a rainforest is and what it's made of. Yeah, 93 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: it's made of really big, green, fluffy trees and really 94 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: tall trees, and it rains a lot there, so all 95 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: the plants and all the animals they get plenty of 96 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: water to drink. So a lot of the creatures and 97 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: a lot of the plants in the rainforest grow very 98 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 1: big and strong. So as they were walking around, they 99 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: saw all kinds of new critters that Simon had never 100 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: seen before. He saw some really cool looking frogs that, oh, 101 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: I think those are poison dart frogs. We shouldn't touch those, 102 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: Simon said. And the penguin was a little nervous, so 103 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: the penguins stayed right next to Simon. As they kept 104 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: walking through the rainforest, they came to a nice, big 105 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: pool of water. Oh, this will be perfect, Mr penguin. 106 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: I don't think I ever asked your name. What's your name? 107 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: My name's Paul. Oh, hi, Paul. Well, I bet you're thirsty, right, 108 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: so why don't you take a drink of water right here, 109 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: and we'll take a little rest while this storm passes over. 110 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: Over the next couple of minutes, the storm rained and rained, 111 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: but they were kept dry because they were underneath those 112 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: big trees in the rainforest. Paul the baby penguin, he 113 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: drank a lot of water out of that Ponton. I 114 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: think it had been a long time since he had 115 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: a drink of water. After the storm passed, they put 116 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: their jet packs on. Next stop, Simon said, Peru, and 117 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: they blasted off up into the clouds again as they 118 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: traveled further and further. As they got to Peru, it 119 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: got colder and colder. Oh, we must be getting close, 120 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: Paul the baby penguins said, because oh, I love this 121 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: temperature when it gets not so hot, because the rainforest 122 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: can sometimes get very, very hot. There it is right there. 123 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 1: Paul pointed towards the coast of Peru, right next to 124 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: the ocean, there were some islands, and wow, look at 125 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: all those penguins. You see, there's some islands off the 126 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 1: coast of Peru that has been become home to a 127 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 1: whole bunch of penguins who didn't like Antarctica because Antarctica 128 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: was way too cold for them. And Simon was looking 129 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: around for a family that looked like Paul, but all 130 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 1: the penguins they all looked the same, so it was 131 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: kind of tricky. But as they landed down on the island, 132 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 1: Paul the penguin knew exactly where to go. He ran 133 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: as fast as his little tiny feet could carry him. 134 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: Have you ever seen penguins run? Yeah, he tripped a 135 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: couple of times, but that's okay. He never gave up running, running, 136 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 1: running all the way right into his mommy and daddy's arms. 137 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 1: The penguin was home and so happy. Simon saved the day. 138 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: The end