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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. 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. Snort was a dragon with quite

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Speaker 1: convenient scales. They were orange and shiny and glowed in

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Speaker 1: the sunshine. They were really quite magnificent all things considered,

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Speaker 1: But this was part of the problem. They were so magnificent,

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Speaker 1: so spectacularly sparkly, that no one could resist getting a

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Speaker 1: closer look. You know, they would get closer and closer

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Speaker 1: until swamp they became stuck to his incredibly sticky scales. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Snort was a sticky dragon. Anything he touched would be

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Speaker 1: stuck to him instantly. It made a lot of things

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Speaker 1: really hard to do. It was hard to make friends,

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Speaker 1: but he had to keep his distance. He couldn't high

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Speaker 1: five them or play freeze tag without someone ending stuck

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Speaker 1: along his scales. Once he tried to go camping, but

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Speaker 1: he woke up with everyone's sleeping bags ah stuck to

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Speaker 1: his back. Oh hum oi, my glum, Snort said. One

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Speaker 1: day as he wandered through the woods alone. Hey, their

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Speaker 1: dragon cup play with us, called a voice from up ahead. Huh.

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Speaker 1: Snort looked around for another dragon. He didn't think anyone

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Speaker 1: would be asking him to play, you sticky dragon. The

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Speaker 1: voice called again. Snort was surprised they really were talking

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Speaker 1: to him. He was very excited. He bounded ahead until

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Speaker 1: he came to a clearing with three humans dressed head

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Speaker 1: to toe in purple. Hi, I'm snored, Do you really

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Speaker 1: want to play between you and me? These people in

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Speaker 1: purple looked a lot like you know, purple ninjas, even

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Speaker 1: laugh a laugh that seemed a bit you know, suspicious.

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Speaker 1: Of course we do, come on, follow ass. Snort was

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Speaker 1: so psyched to have playmates he overlooked the evil looks

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Speaker 1: on their faces as they grinned at one another. They

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Speaker 1: invited him to travel to town with them, and he accepted.

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Speaker 1: Snort climbed up a ramp into what he thought was

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Speaker 1: a big purple balloon, but looked a lot like you know,

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Speaker 1: the purple names purple blimp, Oh dear. He tried his

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Speaker 1: best not to touch anything. Snort stayed very still during

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Speaker 1: the ride over the woods and into town. His new

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Speaker 1: friends shouted questions to him so as not to get

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Speaker 1: too close. The question seemed, uh, you know, a bit evil,

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Speaker 1: though Snort thought maybe they just wanted to make sure

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Speaker 1: he was a good dragon. He Stewart, do you like steally?

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Speaker 1: Oh oh no, no, no, Snort gasped, of course not yeah,

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Speaker 1: but what about like borrowing without asking? Isn't that kind

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Speaker 1: of the same thing? You were, dragon though, you must

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Speaker 1: like shiny things. Snort nodded, and his new friend snickered,

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Speaker 1: rubbing their hands together. They arrived in town, landing in

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Speaker 1: the town's square. When they were on the ground, one

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Speaker 1: of the purple people yelled to Snort, tag you're it

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Speaker 1: and took off running. Snort ran after them, gleefully, thinking

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Speaker 1: they were playing. No one had ever wanted to play

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Speaker 1: tag with him before. He chased them all through the

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Speaker 1: park into the farmer's market. The aisle was pretty skinny, though,

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Speaker 1: and the vendor shrieked as Snort bumped into their table.

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Speaker 1: Jars of honey, knitted plush toys, vegetables, and fruits. All

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Speaker 1: of it got stuck to Snort as he bounded after

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Speaker 1: the purple group. He was so focused on playing dag

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Speaker 1: that he didn't even notice the collection of things that

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Speaker 1: were snatched up by his sticky scales. The people at

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Speaker 1: the Farmer's Market noticed the dragon with beautiful scales running

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Speaker 1: through and wanted to take a closer look. They admired

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Speaker 1: Snort as he ran closer, not realizing their mistake until

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Speaker 1: it was too late. Slap their bags were snatched by

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Speaker 1: his sticky scales. Snort had no idea, of course, he

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Speaker 1: was a good dragon who would never steal. The Purple

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Speaker 1: playmates kept weaving in and out of the tables, and

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Speaker 1: Snort kept following. Stop two kids jumped in front of Snort.

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Speaker 1: He skidded as he dug his heels, trying to stop

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Speaker 2: Oh, oh, it's close. You know you shouldn't jump out

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Speaker 2: in front of a sticky dragon. You almost got stuck

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Speaker 2: to me. The boy stepped forward. We had to stop you.

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Speaker 2: You're stealing everything.

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Speaker 1: Boo stealing. I would never steal. Snort gasped. Now that

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Speaker 1: he was stopped, though, he noticed a tickle on his side.

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Speaker 1: He turned to scratch it and.

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Speaker 3: Saw everything stuck to sticky scales, flowers, soaps, chases, waltz,

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Speaker 3: pursesn't even a kitten.

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Speaker 1: Oh dear, how do we get that kitten off of there?

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Speaker 1: Everything that had passed while chasing his new friends was

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Speaker 1: caught on his sticky scales. Snort's new purple playmates reappeared

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Speaker 1: next to the kids. Hey, this is our sticky get

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Speaker 1: your own. The kids recognized them right away. It's the

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Speaker 1: Purple ninjes. Oh he should have known you were behind this.

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Speaker 1: Snort realized what was happening. The Purple Ninjas had used

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Speaker 1: him to steal things from the farmer's market, never really

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Speaker 1: wanted to play with him. Oh that was really mean.

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Speaker 1: Snort turned to the kids and apologized. I promise I

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Speaker 1: didn't know I thought they just wanted to play, he said.

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Speaker 1: Then he turned to the ninjas. Smoke and fire began

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Speaker 1: sizzling from his dragon's snout. Now he was an angry,

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Speaker 1: sticky dragon. There is one thing that needs to be stuck,

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Speaker 1: he told them. Then he charged. The Purple Ninjas tried

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Speaker 1: to run, but it was too late. They were too

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Speaker 1: close to get away. Snort whipped his sticky scaled tail

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Speaker 1: at them, and they were stuck, kicking and whining. Oh well,

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Speaker 1: ask the kids in. Snort returned all the accidental lyas

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Speaker 1: dolen items with the help of a little homemade olive

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Speaker 1: oil sold by a nice vendor. The kitten didn't really

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Speaker 1: seem to like the oil, but it was happy to

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Speaker 1: get off of the dragon scales. After the mess was

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Speaker 1: all cleaned up and the Purple Ninjas were taken to HQ,

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Speaker 1: Snort turned to leave. He was sad he had been

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Speaker 1: tricked and just wanted to get back to his forest

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Speaker 1: where he couldn't cause any more trouble. Wait, shouted one

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Speaker 1: of the kids. He ran up to him holding a

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Speaker 1: giant sweater made by one of the vendors. We got

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Speaker 1: this for you. Now you can cover up your scales

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Speaker 1: and play without getting anything stuck.

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Speaker 2: Fun.

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Speaker 1: We hope you'll stay and play with us, So Snort

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Speaker 1: the Sticky Dragon stayed and played with his new anti

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Speaker 1: sticky sweater. No longer sad, he finally found real true

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Speaker 1: friends the end. We'll be right back after a brief

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