1 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to kid 2 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: Short Stories. Did you know that every day we make 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 1: some awesome activities for you to do at home. Yep, 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: Summer is coming up and that means we're gonna all 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 1: be looking for fun things to do. So our Kids 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: Animal Stories podcast we create an activity just for you, 7 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 1: So down in the show notes below, your parents can 8 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: click on that link and check out some awesome things 9 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: to learn about animals and also do a fun activity 10 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: about them. Well, friends, are you ready for today's adventure? 11 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go. Hey, Silas, do you want to 12 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 1: take a turn? As the engineer asked Felix, Yeah, I'm ready. 13 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: Why don't you grab the binoculars and head up top 14 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: and keep a lookout. Felix grabbed the binoculars and ran 15 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: up top to the top of the train. Yeah, Felix 16 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,639 Speaker 1: in Silas were engineers on a train. That meant they 17 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: were responsible for driving and operating the train and making 18 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 1: sure that everything went according to plan. They had just 19 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,960 Speaker 1: finished dropping off a whole bunch of packages that were 20 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 1: in that train. They were now on their way home 21 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: after a long day of work. They were taking turns. 22 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: One would drive the train, and the other would go 23 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: up to the roof of the train with binoculars, you know, 24 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: looking out for any animals that might be running over 25 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: the tracks or something else. And then he would blow 26 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: the horn on the train to scare off that animal 27 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: so that they wouldn't get hurt. It was a very 28 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,119 Speaker 1: important job to make sure that everyone was safe while 29 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: operating that train. As Silas was operating the train and 30 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:56,639 Speaker 1: driving it forward, they gave the train horn a big 31 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: pull to alert the whole down that they were coming through. 32 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: They didn't want any cars on the road in their way. Hey, Felix, 33 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: are we all clear up there, yelled Silas from down below. 34 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 1: Felix was on the roof of the train with his 35 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: binoculars keeping an eye out far up ahead on the tracks. Yep, 36 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: everything looked good so far. Wait wait, hold on a second, 37 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: said Felix. Uh, there's something up there. It's way up there. 38 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: But I think you should hit the brakes now. Silas 39 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: pulled on the brake lever, not knowing exactly what Felix 40 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: was talking about. But it does take a long way 41 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 1: in a long time to stop a big train from moving. 42 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,959 Speaker 1: When a train is super big and super heavy. You 43 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: gotta start those brakes early because as the train breaks 44 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: poll it's it keeps moving. It takes a long way 45 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: for that train to come to a stop. Felix came 46 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: down from up above and told Silas there's a ginormous 47 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: tree that has fallen on the tracks. We we gotta 48 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,119 Speaker 1: be able to stop this in time, said Felix. As 49 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: the trains breaks, we're screeching. It was too little, too late. 50 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 1: Boom crash. The train crashed right into that ginormous tree 51 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: that was laying over the tracks. Whoa, Silas? Be okay, 52 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: said Felix. Oh ouch, yeah, I'm okay. I just got 53 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: bumped around a little bit, said Silas as he rubbed 54 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: his head with his left hand. Let's go outside and 55 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: take a look and see what the damage is. Felix 56 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: and Silas climbed down the edge of the train, and 57 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 1: unfortunately we're met with bad news. Oh no, that tree 58 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: knocked the train off the tracks. What are we gonna do? 59 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: Cried Felix. We're still nowhere near home and I don't 60 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: even know where we are. Silas, what do we do? 61 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: Silas looked around for a second. He knew that they 62 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 1: were running out of daylight. It was almost getting nighttime, 63 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: so they were running out of time. First, we've got 64 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: to get our bearing straight. We gotta figure out which 65 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: way's north and which way's home. Come on, what do 66 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: you mean, said Felix as he chased behind Silex. Come on, 67 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: we gotta take a look at these trees and find 68 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: the moss. That's gonna be the easiest way to figure 69 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: out what's north. What are you talking about, asked Felix. 70 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,599 Speaker 1: Come on, I'll show you. Just come here. Silas was 71 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 1: looking from tree to tree looking for moss growing on 72 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: the tree. Do you know why he would be doing that. 73 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: It's an old trick that on a tree green moss 74 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 1: only grows on the north side, and so if you 75 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 1: know the north side of something, then you also know 76 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: where east, south, and west is. Silas finally found a 77 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: tree that had a whole bunch of moss in this 78 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: one side of the tree. All right, here, come take 79 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: a look at this, Felix. Look. Silas was pointing to 80 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 1: where the moss was and said, see, now that we 81 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:23,359 Speaker 1: know that's north, I know that on our route that 82 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: home was west of here, that we just had to 83 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: go west. A couple more miles and that would get 84 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: us back to our city. So if that's north, that 85 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: way is west. He pointed west with his left hand. Well, 86 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: I trust you, Silas, Let's go, said Felix. Felix and 87 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 1: Silas then started marching through the forest. It was a 88 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 1: very challenging hike, as they had to pull themself up 89 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: over boulders and squeeze in between thorny bushes and so 90 00:05:55,480 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 1: much more. But finally, after several hours, popped out the 91 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: other side of the forest. Oh, thank you, there's our neighborhood, 92 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: said Felix with great relief. All right, once we get home, 93 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: we got to call the train station to let them 94 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: know about the accident that happened back there, and then 95 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: tomorrow we can get a tow truck out there and 96 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: flip the train back over. But for now, it is 97 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: time for bed, said Silas. Good work today, Felix. I'm 98 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 1: glad we made it home. I couldn't have done it 99 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: without you, Silas. I'll see you tomorrow. As Felix and 100 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: Silas went back to their houses to get ready for 101 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: bed and go to sleep, they knew they had a 102 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,160 Speaker 1: big day tomorrow. Tomorrow was gonna be a day of 103 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: a train rescue, Well, more like flipping the train back 104 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: up onto the tracks and moving that big tree out 105 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: of the way so they wouldn't bump into it again. Well, 106 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: I'm glad we have Felix and Silas as train engineers 107 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: because without them, all of our packages wouldn't make it 108 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 1: on their way to where they need to be. And 109 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: I bet Felix is grateful that Silas knew how to 110 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: find their way home after they got lost in the 111 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: middle of the forest. Hmm. Maybe I'll remember that trick 112 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: one day if I get lost in the forest, just 113 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: look for moss on the tree and that way is 114 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: north the end. Great job, you listened all the way 115 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: to the end, and you know what time it is. 116 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: It's time for kid shout out. I want to say 117 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: hey to James, Grace and Ethan from Salt Lake City, Bixby, 118 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: Griffin and Piper from Tennessee, Carter and Dean from Toronto, 119 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: Hudson from Washington, d c Ori from Ontario, Penela Bee 120 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: from Washington, Hillary from California, and No from British Columbia. 121 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all in the Kits short 122 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: Story's family and on the Spy team. We could not 123 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: stop Doctor Stanky Breath and his crew without you, my friends. 124 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: Well you have a super duper day and I will 125 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: see you on our next adventure. Bye.