1 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to Kids 2 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: Short Stories. Today's story comes to us from Abel and Anthony. 3 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,319 Speaker 1: Hey guys, they sent us an awesome idea first story, 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: and you can't to Just head over to kid short 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: stories dot com. Send me your idea and maybe we'll 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 1: turn it into an awesome adventure. And don't forget to 7 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: smash the follow button so that you don't miss a 8 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,639 Speaker 1: single one of our stories that come out everyday Monday 9 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: through satur Day. Are you guys ready for today's adventure? 10 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 1: Me too. Let's go one day. Able and his friend Anthony, 11 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 1: we're playing at the park with a whole bunch of 12 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: other kids from their neighborhood and it was not going well. 13 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: Everyone was calling each other really mean names and being 14 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: mean to each other. And has that ever happened to 15 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: you before? Yeah? Me too? Where if I'm playing with 16 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: some friends or some other kids that aren't really friends yet, 17 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 1: But yeah, sometimes kids can be really mean And that's 18 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 1: exactly what was happening. And then all of a sudden 19 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: it started to rain and it was time to go home. 20 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: It was probably a good thing that it started raining, 21 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: because nobody was being nice to each other. And it 22 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 1: was time for that to end, so Able and his 23 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: friend Anthony both went home. Running home in the rain 24 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 1: is pretty crazy because when it rains really fast, it 25 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: makes those ginormous puddles in the street that you have 26 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: to either jump over or jump in, and it can 27 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 1: get a little crazy and messy. Well, by the time 28 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: Able and Anthony got home to their their homes, they 29 00:01:55,480 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: were both completely soaked and needed a bath. Able and 30 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: Anthony both took a bath before bed and went to sleep. 31 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: The next morning, the rain had stopped and Able wanted 32 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: to play with Anthony agan, so he called them up 33 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: and said, Anthony, I want to go to the park again. 34 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: I bet those mean kids aren't there anymore. So, Um, 35 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: did it stop raining by you? Anthony looked out his window. Yep, 36 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: the rains done. Let's do it. Able and Anthony both 37 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: got their stuff ready and then ran towards the park. 38 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 1: They both lived in the same neighborhood, so it didn't 39 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: take them long to get there. When they got to 40 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: the park, they noticed something strange. Able, have you ever 41 00:02:55,200 --> 00:03:02,519 Speaker 1: seen that planned before? No, said it, Able, It's very 42 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: strange looking. Um. What they were looking at was a 43 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: plant that had suddenly overnight grown in the middle of 44 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: the park, and it was getting bigger and bigger every second. 45 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a plant grow before? Yeah? Me, neither. 46 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: But this was the first time that Abel and Anthony 47 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,799 Speaker 1: had seen something like this before, and it was pretty remarkable. 48 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: Every second that moved by, the plant twinkled and grew 49 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: taller and taller, and pretty soon it was taller than 50 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: Able and Anthony. Hold on a second, That plant wasn't 51 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: even there yesterday, and all of a sudden, it's taller 52 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: than them. Something strange is going on here. Able and 53 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: Anthony started to play. They didn't you know? It was 54 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: just a plant, right, so they thought. And as they 55 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: were running around playing every set and then went by 56 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: tick tick talk, the plant grew taller, and all of 57 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: a sudden, all right, Able, let's play tag you're it. 58 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: Anthony ran away and tripped over something on the ground. 59 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 1: Out it was a root from that plant that all 60 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 1: of a sudden grabbed onto his foot. Able hell Abel 61 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: came running as he saw his friend get grabbed by 62 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: that plant. The plant had come alive. Not only was 63 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: it growing bigger and bigger, but it had now grown 64 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: a ginormous mouth. Its leaves had formed together to form 65 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: some kind of very sharp, chomping mouth, and its roots 66 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 1: were like feet and hands that were grabbing on to Anthony. Anthony, 67 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: I'm coming, shouted Abel. He ran as fast as he 68 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: could and towards his friend. Anthony grabbed onto his hands 69 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: and pulled them out just in time before the plant 70 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 1: chomped onto Anthony's feet. Holy smokes. What in the world. 71 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 1: They ran to the other side of the park, far 72 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 1: enough out of reach of the plant for now at least. Well. 73 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: I don't know, Abel, this is super strange. I've never 74 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: seen a real plant like this before, only one in 75 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: like stories. How do you think it keeps getting bigger? 76 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 1: I don't know. Um, let's try and chop it. Abel 77 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: ran over and grabbed a really sharp stick, and he 78 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: had an idea. Maybe we could chop it down and 79 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: that would kill that evil plant from growing. So they 80 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: found a sharp stick and started swinging it at that tall, 81 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: tall plant. It's working, Go go go. Abele kept swinging 82 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: the stick back and forth, cutting the plant down shorter 83 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 1: and shorter. Who all right, it looks like we did it. 84 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: Abel had cut that plant down all the way to 85 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:17,239 Speaker 1: the ground. He turned around and gave his friend Anthony 86 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: a high five. As they were walking away from the 87 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: the where the plant used to be, they heard a 88 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 1: sound yea. As they turned back around, the plant was back. 89 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: It had grown back, bigger, fatter, and taller than before. 90 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: It's like by cutting it down it made it even 91 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: stronger and it came back bigger. It is now over 92 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: ten feet tall. Anthony, this is a problem. We gotta run. 93 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:53,559 Speaker 1: Able and Anthony both started running as fast as they could, 94 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: and they made it to a tunnel on the other 95 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: side of the park. This would definitely keep them safe. Able. Wow, 96 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you. You were so brave. You're 97 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: way braver than me with that stick. I don't know 98 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: if I could have done that, but good job. And 99 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the plant it looked like it 100 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: started to melt. It was in pain, and it was dying. WHOA, Able, 101 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: How did how that happened? Anthony and Abel both couldn't 102 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: understand what was going on. But it's like as soon 103 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: as Anthony started telling Able that he was proud of 104 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: him and saying nice things, the plant started to die. WHOA, 105 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: hold on a second, I've heard of things like this 106 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: in the story I read there's a legend of a 107 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: plant that grows with every time that you say mean things. 108 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: And last night, remember all those kids that were here, 109 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: They were saying a ton of mean things to people, 110 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: and I think it gave this plant energy. And now 111 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: we need to encourage each other. Hurry, we gotta spread 112 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: the word so everyone can start saying kind things to 113 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 1: each other. Go go, go Able and Anthony started running 114 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: around the neighborhood telling all the neighbors about the emergency, 115 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: the emergency, about this ginormous plant that was trying to 116 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: take over the world one mean thing at a time. 117 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: The plant was still growing, but now not as fast 118 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: ever since Anthony said that nice thing to Able, Well, 119 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 1: now the plan was getting angrier and angrier because I 120 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 1: think it figured out that these two boys had figured 121 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: out how to stop it. It started chomping and chomping, 122 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: and it picked up its root feet and it started 123 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: to run around the neighborhood trying to stop this encouraging 124 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: news from spreading. Hurry, guys, we got to encourage each other. 125 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 1: Go go go, go go Oh, And one after another, 126 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: all the kids in the neighborhood started saying kind things 127 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: to each other. Hey, you're pretty good at baseball? Did 128 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: you know that you are the best digger that I know? 129 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: Another kid said, Wow, I really like playing tag with 130 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: you last night. You were super fast. Could you be 131 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: on my team next time? Each and every time a 132 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: kid said another encouraging thing to each other, the plant 133 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: started to melt. Ah. It was like it felt like 134 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: lava to that plant every time it heard a nice 135 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 1: thing that someone said. And pretty soon the news spread 136 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: like wildfire, and the whole neighborhood started encouraging each other, 137 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:57,680 Speaker 1: and the plant couldn't take it anymore and finally died. Hooray, 138 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: Abel and Anthony have saved the neighborhood and probably saved 139 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: the world, because did you know there's a lot of 140 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: people that say really mean things to each other. Yeah, 141 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: and it's our job to say encouraging things to our 142 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 1: friends to stop those evil plans from growing. Well, my friends, 143 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: I hope you have a super duper day, and I 144 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 1: hope you find someone to say a nice thing too. 145 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: I'll see you later. By great job. You listen to 146 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: all the way to the end, and you know what 147 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: stop for kid shout out. I want to say hey 148 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: to Sydney and Clara from Bozeman, Montana, Carla from Columbus, Ohio, 149 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:48,359 Speaker 1: Lonnie from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Herman from Toronto, Canada, Maya from Boston, 150 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:53,599 Speaker 1: Porter from Imperial Beach, California, and Quinn from a magical 151 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:58,679 Speaker 1: bog in Ontario, Canada. I'm so glad that you're all 152 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 1: on our kids, her Stories family, on our spy team. 153 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: We could not stop Doctor Stinkybreath without you. Yes, you 154 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: all right, my friends. Well you have a super duper 155 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 1: day and I will see you on our next adventure. Bye.