1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: Hello friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kid 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: Short Stories. If you haven't already, and you need to 3 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: make sure that you have smashed the follow button and 4 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: left your five star rating or review on either Spotify 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: or Apple Podcasts. That helps spread these stories out for 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: the whole world to hear. And today's story comes to 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 1: us from Luca. Hey, Luca, your story is about to 8 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,599 Speaker 1: head out across the entire world. Are you ready for 9 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: today's adventure? Me too, Let's go. Today was supposed to 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 1: be a very normal day as Luca was getting home 11 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: from school. He was supposed to have a very normal 12 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: day with friends playing soccer in the field nearby and 13 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: laughing and making some really fun memories. That was all 14 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: supposed to happen today, But something very unusual happened that 15 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: changed everybody's plans forever. But before we get to the 16 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: part where Luca enters the story, we must go back 17 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: to this morning. Earlier, this morning, far far away, lived 18 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: a ginormous creature. We would call him Bigfoot, but he 19 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: just likes to be called Biggie. Is just call me Biggie. 20 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: And Biggie lives in the middle of a forest, far 21 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 1: away from people. He does not like to be seen 22 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: or heard or even known about his whole life. He 23 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:51,919 Speaker 1: just wants to live in secret. Every morning, he would 24 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: cook up a delicious breakfast and then go up on 25 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: a hip up a mountain to his favorite place to 26 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 1: look out over the hills, right next to a beautiful, 27 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:14,959 Speaker 1: crystal clear river where he could drink his morning tea. Yes, 28 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: Biggie loved to drink a pine needle tea. He would 29 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: gather a whole bunch of pine needles, and somehow he 30 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: had a cup that he had made from a branch, 31 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: And so Biggie would make that delicious cup of tea 32 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: and dangle his feet off the edge of another branch, 33 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: a branch that was big enough for him to sit on. 34 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: He had tested many branches before and came crashing down 35 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: many times before because Biggie is very hairy. Yes he 36 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: is big, but he's also very hairy, and all that 37 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: hair makes him very heavy. But this morning his plans 38 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: got all messed up. You see, he loved to do 39 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 1: the same routine over and it's something that made him, 40 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: I think, feel safe and feel good. Do you like 41 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: to do the same thing over and over like a 42 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 1: routine like maybe when you wake up, you walk over 43 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: to the bathroom, brush your teeth, you come downstairs and 44 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: eat breakfast, get ready for school, and then you go 45 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: to school. Like having a routine is pretty nice because 46 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: you know exactly what needs to do when it needs 47 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 1: to be done. But unfortunately for Biggie, something happened last night. 48 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: It messed up his entire day. Where did my tree go? 49 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: Somebody ate my sitting tree with my sitting branch? Who 50 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: did it? As Biggie looked around back and forth, there 51 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: was nobody there, but the evidence around made it pretty 52 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: clear who was responsible for this. I think it was 53 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: a beaver that ate his tree. But Biggie did not 54 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: like change. He did not know what to do, and 55 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: so he needed to find a new place to sit 56 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: and drink his pine needle tea as fast as possible. Okay, 57 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: looks like I'm hitting up a new mountain. We gotta 58 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: find the perfect branch on the perfect tree so I 59 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: can drink my morning tea. Biggie started hiking up this 60 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: new place, somewhere he had never been before. Squish, squash, squish, squash. 61 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: Biggie's ginormous feet squashed through the mud and all of 62 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: a sudden, he slid down the side of a hill. Woh. 63 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: His giant feet had accidentally stepped into some very slippery mud, 64 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 1: which led him sliding all the way down the side 65 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: of a mountain into a valley below. This valley was 66 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: completely surrounded by very steep hills, almost like cliffs, so 67 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: it was gonna be very hard, maybe impossible for Biggie 68 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: to get out. Oh what in the darnation where where 69 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: am I? As Biggie looked around, he was a little scared. 70 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,359 Speaker 1: Even though he was very big, new places did not 71 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: make him feel safe. But off in the distance he 72 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: saw a cave, a cave with a bright light on 73 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 1: the other side, which meant it looks like that cave 74 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: is the only way in or out of this valley, 75 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 1: and if Biggie wants to get back to his home, 76 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: he's gonna need to go through that cave. Squish, squash, 77 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: squish squash. As he huffed and puffed his way to 78 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: the cave, his footprints left a muddy trail behind. As 79 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 1: he approached the cave, he was met with a ginormous roar. R. 80 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: What do you think you're doing coming into my cave? 81 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 1: Said the big, big voice from in the cave. Biggie 82 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: did not know what to do, and so all the 83 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: only thing he thought of what to do was he 84 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: ran away as fast as he could. Squish, squash, squish, 85 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: squash his feet squashed his way through the mud, and 86 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: he finally jumped behind a pile of rocks. He would 87 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: be safe here. He reached inside his pocket and called 88 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: for help to HQ. Wait a second, what he didn't 89 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: he knows HQ. Yes. In fact, Biggie used to be 90 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: on the spy team a long long time ago and 91 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: still has a spy beeper. He was on the spy 92 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: team a long time ago and now he's retired, so 93 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: that's why he just lives out in the mountains. But 94 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: in case of an emergency, HQ will be there to help. Meanwhile, 95 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: back on Luca's side of the world, he was playing 96 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: soccer with his friends. I'm open, I'm open. Passant here, 97 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: shouted Luca. Wait, I'm not open. Hold on you guys, 98 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: keep playing. I'll be right back. He had gotten the 99 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: alert from HQ, and so he ran off to the 100 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: side to listen to this message, and it said, Luca, 101 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: we need your help. One of our spies has fallen 102 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: into a place where he needs help. There seems to 103 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: be a dinosaur stopping him from escaping, and we'll send 104 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: you the coordinates to go help him. Over and ow shh, 105 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 1: a dinosaur, Lucas shouted. He did not understand what in 106 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: the world could be going on. HQ. Hold on a second, 107 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: did you say a dinosaur? Sh Yes, Luca, a dinosaur 108 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: has trapped one of our old bigfoot spies inside of 109 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: a valley surrounded by mountains. He's unable to get out, 110 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: and our bigfoot, who goes by the name Biggie, he 111 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: has requested backup and so we need you to go 112 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: rescue him. Over and out sh as. Lucas stood there 113 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: on the soccer field. His eyes were very large and 114 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: his mouth was hanging opened. Somehow he had just slipped 115 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: into a mission to save a bigfoot from a dinosaur. 116 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 1: He didn't even know those things were still around. And 117 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: oh dear, this is gonna be quite the adventure for Luca, 118 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: and it's only just begun. He has no idea what 119 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: is in store for him, and waiting on that mysterious forest, 120 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:45,719 Speaker 1: We'll have to wait and see what happens. On the 121 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: next episode of Kids' Short Stories. Great job, you listened 122 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: all the way to the end and you know what 123 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: time it is. It's time for kid shots. I want 124 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: to say to Sammy and Rocky from Winston Salem, North Carolina, 125 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: Riker from Wheaton, Illinois, Arena from. 126 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:15,440 Speaker 2: Denver, Colorado, Jack and Carle, Ashley and Evelyn from Wesley, Seattle, 127 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 2: and Chloe from Royal Oak, Michigan. And I have from India, 128 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 2: Charlie and Eddie from British Columbian, Ruga from Seattle. I'm 129 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,959 Speaker 2: so glad that you're all in the Kids Short Stories family, 130 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 2: and Don the spy team. 131 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 1: We could not stop Doctor Stinky Breath and his crew 132 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: without you, my friends. Well you have a super duper day. 133 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: I will see you next time. 134 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 2: Bye.