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Speaker 1: Hey, friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to kid

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Speaker 1: Short Stories, where we turned your ideas into some amazing adventures. Yeah, like,

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Speaker 1: today's story comes to us from Alex from Seattle. Hey Alex,

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Speaker 1: he sent me an awesome idea for a story, and

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Speaker 1: you can't do Just head over to kidshort stories dot com.

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Speaker 1: Send me your idea. Maybe we'll turn it into an

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Speaker 1: amazing adventure. Are you guys ready?

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Speaker 2: I definitely am. Let's go, and Alex, don't.

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Speaker 1: Forget to brush your teeth, shouted Alex's parents. Alex was

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Speaker 1: getting ready for his first day of school. This was

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Speaker 1: a very exciting day for him and any others. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever gone to school?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that first day. It's very exciting sometimes a little scary,

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Speaker 1: just not sure exactly what's gonna happen, right, yeahs, your

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Speaker 1: teacher gonna be nice? Are there gonna be friends there?

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Speaker 1: Do you know anyone in your class?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Dear, so many different things. But oh wait, but what

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Speaker 1: about all the amazing new things that are waiting for you,

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Speaker 1: Like there might be new friends and and one new

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Speaker 1: playground to play on, and all new teachers that are hilarious.

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Speaker 1: Starting a new school year may feel a little nervousy,

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Speaker 1: but it's also super duper awesome. Well, Alex was getting

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Speaker 1: ready for that very first day of school when he

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Speaker 1: was looking for his shoes. He was looking everywhere his closet,

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Speaker 1: underneath his bed, even behind the toilet, which I don't

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Speaker 1: even know why would he even look there, because how

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Speaker 1: would your shoe end up behind the toilet? But you know,

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Speaker 1: I guess when you have something, you look in every

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, finally he heard the best news ever, Alex,

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Speaker 1: your shoes were in the car. Hurry, we gotta get going.

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Speaker 1: You found my shoes, said Alex. He was so relieved.

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Speaker 1: They were his brand new school shoes that he was

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Speaker 1: going to be wearing to this first day of school.

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Speaker 1: And oh, he forgot that he left him in his car.

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Speaker 1: He had actually put them there the day before so

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Speaker 1: that they wouldn't get lost, and then he forgot that

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Speaker 1: he put him there. This day is not off to

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Speaker 1: a very good start. I hope it gets better, but unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: something crazy is about to happen. As Alex climbed into

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Speaker 1: his parents' car, he jumped in his seat, clicked the buckle,

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Speaker 1: and off they were on the road. Thankfully, his school

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Speaker 1: was pretty close to where he lives, so it wasn't

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Speaker 1: going to be as super dupe.

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Speaker 2: For long drive.

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Speaker 1: And on the way they were gonna listen to their

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Speaker 1: favorite music. What do you like to listen to in

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Speaker 1: the car maybe while you're going to school? Do you

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Speaker 1: have some favorite music you like to listen to, or

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Speaker 1: or maybe even some Kid Short Stories podcasts?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, parents, did you know that we actually have

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Speaker 1: different podcast feeds?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So Kid Short Stories is one feed, and then there's

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Speaker 1: a ton of other stories on our Biology Squad podcast

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Speaker 1: and our Kids Animal Stories podcast. So you have to

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Speaker 1: make sure that you're subscribed to all three of those

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Speaker 1: so you don't miss out on any of our awesome stories.

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Speaker 1: Well that's what Alex was listening to on his way

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Speaker 1: to school. He was ons Biology Squad, but he also

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Speaker 1: liked to listen to the stories to catch the latest

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Speaker 1: updates on what doctor Stinky Breath might be up to.

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Speaker 1: But then Alex looked up at the clock in his

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Speaker 2: Are we gonna be late?

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure, Alex said his parents, Uh, this red

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Speaker 1: Alex pressed his face up against the window in his

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Speaker 1: Like nobody was moving. He leaned up even further to

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Speaker 1: see the next street, and the next street, and the

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, high up.

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Speaker 1: In the clouds up above, doctor Stinkybreath was laughing that

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Speaker 1: his evil plan was actually working. Ninja's please tell me

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Speaker 1: how did you pull this off? I could see that

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Speaker 1: every single stop light in the Soul City is turned red,

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Speaker 1: only bad traffic. I love bad traffic. Well, bus.

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Speaker 3: We actually program this robot to walk around the whole city,

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Speaker 3: and it has some special laser eyes. When let's set

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Speaker 3: a stoplight with those laser eyes, it instantly turns it

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Speaker 1: Wow, purple, Ninja, that is great to hear. How can

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Speaker 1: we make sure that this robot knows exactly what to

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Speaker 1: do and where to go? Can we make him go

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Speaker 1: to other cities as well to take over all of

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but we're able to control him from way

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Speaker 3: up here at the lamp, and looks like he's running

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Speaker 3: a little bit low at battery, so he'll need to

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Speaker 3: stop for a charge somewhere. But what's these fully charge

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Speaker 2: I love it, Purponinez.

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Speaker 1: It was now eight oh seven, which means that school

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Speaker 1: had started seven minutes ago. Well, actually it wasn't only

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Speaker 1: Alex that was late to school. It was the entire school.

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Speaker 1: The whole school was late and so they weren't even

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Speaker 1: able to start on time. The teachers, the principles, everybody

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Speaker 1: was stuck in bad traffic. Alex heard a buzz coming

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Speaker 1: from his backpack. He reached in, unzipped the top and

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Speaker 4: SH this is Alex, sh Alex, this is HQ. We

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Speaker 4: need your help. Based on your GPS location, it looks

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Speaker 4: like you are stuck in the same gridlock of traffic

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Speaker 4: that many of our other agents are.

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Speaker 2: SH.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I knew there must be something crazy going on.

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Speaker 1: What's the mission, sh, We believe that there is a

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Speaker 1: robot walking around the city with laser eyes able to

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Speaker 1: control the stoplight. Sh holy smokes, I see him right now,

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Speaker 1: said Alex. It was It was true. Alex was looking

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Speaker 1: out the window and there it was a giant robot

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Speaker 2: Boom boom boom.

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Speaker 4: Sh Alex, we need you to chase down that robot

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Speaker 4: and see if there's a way that you can stop him.

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Speaker 4: Hurry sh Before even Alex was able to get a

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Speaker 4: knew that he had to go save the day. Go Alex, go,

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Speaker 4: they shouted as he jumped out the door of the car.

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Speaker 4: But then all of a sudden, the robots started to

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Speaker 4: do something very strange. It was like opening up a

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Speaker 4: charging cable. Alex knew exactly what he had to do.

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Speaker 1: That robot was standing over by a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: charging stations, you know for cars to charge themselves. But

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Speaker 1: it looks like that robot needs a charge. Alex knew

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Speaker 1: immediately what he had to do. He had to get

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Speaker 1: and grabbed one of his net blasters out of his

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Speaker 1: spy pack. All right, I think I only got one

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Speaker 1: chance at this, said Alex as he aimed it.

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Speaker 3: Up, and.

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Speaker 1: The net blaster flew out and grabbed onto the charger

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Speaker 1: right out of the robots and and he was able

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Speaker 1: to pull it away. Oh dear, Now the robot sees Alex.

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Speaker 2: Ron, Alex run.

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Speaker 1: Alex took off, running as fast as he could, with

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Speaker 2: Alex was running.

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Speaker 1: As fast as he could with that robot's charging cord

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Speaker 2: The robot ran out of batteries.

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Speaker 1: Holy smokes, I didn't realize that robot was just gonna

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Speaker 1: run out of batteries that fast, but Alex did it.

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Speaker 1: He grabbed his walkie talkie called it in HQ, and

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Speaker 1: normal working order, and everyone continued on their day. Except

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Speaker 1: fuckings the world happened.

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Speaker 2: Down, Ziah. Why do I see so many green lights?

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Speaker 3: That's unfortunately, our robot ran out of batteries.

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Speaker 2: How did that happen?

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Speaker 1: I thought you said that he just needed to charge up.

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Speaker 3: Well, unfortunately, the charging cable for our robot is missing. Now, Oh,

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Speaker 3: get the nuzzle fun, Just get it.

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Speaker 2: Chargs back up night now.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately that was our only cable her.

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Speaker 1: Ponyan Wow, great job, Alex always smokes. Who what an

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Speaker 1: incredible first day of school. I hope the rest of

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Speaker 1: trafficky morning.

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Speaker 4: The end.

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Speaker 1: Hey friend, Ziony your helps celebrating two birthdays.

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Speaker 2: Drummer roll please.

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Speaker 1: Sh Happy birthday Ava, who's turning seven years old. Ava

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Speaker 1: loves penguins, Her little brother Grady is her best bud,

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Speaker 1: and she loves to put on her performances for her

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Speaker 1: friends and family. Oh I love it, Ava, I'm so

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Speaker 1: glad we got celebrated you and your big day on

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Speaker 1: the show. Happy seventh birthday, and next up we have

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday Beckett, who's turning four years old. Beckett likes

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Speaker 1: to ride his bike, lay with construction vehicles, and lessen

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Speaker 1: to kids short stories.

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Speaker 2: WHOA, I love it, Beckett.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad we got to celebrate you and your

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Speaker 1: big day on the show. Happy fourth birthday, Beckett. Well, friends,

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Speaker 1: I hope you will have a superbird you bday and

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Speaker 1: I'll see you next time.

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Speaker 3: Bye.