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Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister jim Man. Welcome back to Kit

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the family. We are the podcast that turns your ideas

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Speaker 1: into an amazing adventure every single day.

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Speaker 2: You know, we.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't even exist without imaginations from kids just like you.

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Speaker 1: So if you have an idea for a story, I'd

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Speaker 1: love to see it. Check down in the show notes

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Speaker 1: below for how you can submit your own story idea

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Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. And parents,

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Speaker 1: if you're new to kids podcasting, I'm gonna challenge you

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Speaker 1: to listen to podcasting for five days in a row

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Speaker 1: with your kids. It's going to increase their imagination, decrease

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Speaker 1: screen time, and we're gonna have a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: along the way. Are you guys ready for today's adventure?

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Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go. Today is Valentine's Day. The sun

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Speaker 1: was shining and the breeze was light in Evie's beach community.

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Speaker 1: She was finishing up her Valentine's cards for the party

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Speaker 1: at school Today. You Shine Valentine, Evie laughed as she

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Speaker 1: read out loud as she wrote her last Valentine card.

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Speaker 1: There all done, she gathered her handmade cards and put

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Speaker 1: them in her backpack, each one decorated with a big

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Speaker 1: yellow sun. Wearing sunglasses, She couldn't wait to hand them

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Speaker 1: out to all of her classmates. Have you ever made

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Speaker 1: your own Valentines before? Ooh, that is pretty fun. Get

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Speaker 1: out all the markers and paper and crans and maybe

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Speaker 1: even some glitter. Make it sparkle Evie skipped out the

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Speaker 1: door and headed across the boardwalk to her beach front school.

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Speaker 1: As she skipped along, Valentine's lipped out of her backpack

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Speaker 1: and onto the ground. A parrot perched in a nearby

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Speaker 1: tree saw it fall. It dove down after the card

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Speaker 1: and snatched it in its beak. Then it flew out

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Speaker 1: to the sea, landing on the.

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Speaker 3: Shoulder of ooy woah.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see that coming. A feared pirate. His name

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Speaker 1: is Captain Cupid. Ah what he have here? Captain Cupid

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Speaker 1: took the card from the parrot's beak. He held the

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Speaker 1: Valentine and broke into a sinister smile. Captain Cupid secretly

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Speaker 1: loved all things about Valentine's Day, even though he pretended

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Speaker 1: not to. He told his crew their mission was always

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Speaker 1: to steal the Valentine's gifts and eat all the chocolate,

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Speaker 1: but he never told them how he actually kept all

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Speaker 1: the cards for himself. Captain Cupid hung the cards all

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Speaker 1: around his office, pretending they were for himself. No one

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Speaker 1: had ever given him a Valentine, so he made it

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Speaker 1: his pirate mission to plunder all the Valentines in the world.

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Speaker 1: Plunder is a fancy word for steel. He and his

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Speaker 1: crew were very busy around the fourteenth of February, but

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Speaker 1: they occupied themselves the rest of the year by searching

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Speaker 1: for any treasure involving love, like anniversary presents, friendship bracelets,

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Speaker 1: and even wedding presents h oh. But their specialty was Valentines.

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Speaker 1: For Captain Cupid and his Heartbreak crew, Valentine's Day was

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Speaker 1: always the main mission.

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Speaker 3: Your maties, come see what the pirate parent brought us today.

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Speaker 1: Captain Cupid stood atop the ship deck as his crews

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Speaker 1: crambled around him. They all yo hold as they looked

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Speaker 1: at Eve's Valentine card.

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Speaker 3: Asked me heart ease, set sale to the School of

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Speaker 3: Little land Lubbers.

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Speaker 1: Back at school, Evie and her classmates set out they're

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Speaker 1: handmade Valentine's mailboxes on their desks. Eve's was a heart

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Speaker 1: monster whose open mouth was the mail slot. Everyone went

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Speaker 1: around admiring each other's mailboxes and filling them with Valentine's

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Speaker 1: and candy. When they finished, every classmate's mailbox was stuffed

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Speaker 1: and overflowing with Valentine's gifts. Alright, class, all right, all right,

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Speaker 1: this time for lunch. When we get back, we will

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Speaker 1: play some Valentine's games and open our mailboxes, announced their teacher,

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Speaker 1: mister Jim. The class was a bit disappointed. They had

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Speaker 1: to wait. They lined up and followed mister Jim out

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Speaker 1: of the classroom. No sooner had they left than Captain

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Speaker 1: Cupid and his crew appeared peeking in their classroom window.

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Speaker 1: The pirate ship was parked in the water right outside

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Speaker 3: Imy heart ease tisby the bland. Snatch those boxes of

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Speaker 3: Valentines from the little scallywags desk, then run back to

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Speaker 3: Ji Sip, give.

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Speaker 1: All the Valentines to me to a lightly fireplace. Of course,

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Speaker 1: Captain Cupid corrected himself at the last minute, Hi, a captain,

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Speaker 1: shouted his heartbreak crew. They slipped through the window when

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Speaker 1: Captain Cupid watched his crew and snuck the heart decorations

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Speaker 3: These will look mighty swell in my quarters, he said

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Speaker 3: to his pirate.

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Speaker 1: The crew had only one more mailbox to grab. Captain

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Speaker 1: Cupid tried to grab Evie's Heart Monster mailbox off her desk,

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Speaker 1: but it wouldn't budge. You are what be the meaning

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Speaker 1: of this? He growled. He yanked and tugged the box

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Speaker 1: while his crew held on to him. Eventually they were

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Speaker 1: all pulling the captain, while the captain pulled at the box,

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Speaker 1: refusing to let go.

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Speaker 3: No valentine left behind for the landlubbers.

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Speaker 1: They are all mine, Captain Cupid shouted. He mustered all

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Speaker 1: his strength, yanking the box once more, and a loud

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Speaker 1: tearing sounded through the room. The box had ripped in half.

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Speaker 1: Cards candies flew everywhere while the crew jumped around trying

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Speaker 1: Evie stepped into the room and was shocked at the scene.

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Speaker 1: The pirates were all frozen in plates, arms full of

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Speaker 1: Valentine's mailboxes and loose cards candies. She saw her mailbox

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Speaker 1: but she had prepared for this. Read what. Evie pulled

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Speaker 1: out her walkie talkie, pressing on the button and making

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Speaker 1: it crackle. Sh yep, the pirates are here. Bring them in,

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Speaker 1: sh bring who in?

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Speaker 3: We will be taking your Valentine's little land lubber and

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Speaker 3: no one can stop us.

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Speaker 1: Sorrow right on cue. The other students stepped into the room,

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Speaker 1: dressed as mermaids and sharks. Oh dear, the two creatures

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Speaker 1: shade are shrieked one of the pirates, cowering behind a desk.

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Speaker 1: The rest of the pirates took a step back, shaking

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Speaker 1: in their boots. Leave the Valentine's or I will let

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Speaker 1: them all into the room, said Evie. Her tone was

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Speaker 1: all business. Captain Cupid put his hands up in defeat.

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Speaker 3: All right, little less you, in this time we will

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Speaker 3: take our leave. Just keep those creatures away from me

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Speaker 3: and my heart. These are the pirates, whimpered as they

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Speaker 3: placed the boxes down and threw their hands up they

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Speaker 3: backed towards the windows and took off running. Evie and

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Speaker 3: her classmates erupted into cheers. They had been planning pirate

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Speaker 3: precautions for their party since last Valentine's Day.

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Speaker 1: Oh that was a disaster and it had paid off.

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Speaker 1: The class had their party as planned, and Evie's classmates

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Speaker 1: helped her make a new mailbox. Meanwhile, back on the

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Speaker 1: pirate ship, the Heartbreak Cruse tummies rumbled as they moped around,

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Speaker 1: wishing they had been able to keep some of that candy.

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Speaker 1: Captain Cupid was in his cabin holding onto the only

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Speaker 1: Valentine card he had that gear, the one that his

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Speaker 1: parrot had found. He opened it and it read, Happy

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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, Captain Cupid, here's one card you won't have

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Speaker 1: to steal.

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Speaker 2: Captain Cupid couldn't help but cry. He was so happy

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Speaker 2: that they thought of him. He hung the card on

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Speaker 2: the wall, his very first Valentine that was actually for him.

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Speaker 1: The end. Hey friends, I need your help celebrating a birthday.

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Speaker 4: Drum roll please, Happy birthday Benjamin, who's starting six years old.

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Speaker 4: Benjamin loves dinosaurs, shiny things like gems, and digging four fossils. Wow, Benjamin,

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Speaker 4: I'm so glad we got celebrated you and your big

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Speaker 4: day on the show.

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Speaker 1: Happy sixth birthday friends. If you want to celebrate your

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Speaker 1: big day have your parents check down on the show

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Speaker 1: notes below to see how to make that happen. And

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Speaker 1: I'll see you on her next adventure.

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Speaker 2: Bye,