1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister jim Man. Welcome back to Kid 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:11,639 Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time, welcome to 3 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: the family. We are the podcast that turns your ideas 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: into an amazing adventure every single day. You know, we 5 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: couldn't even exist without imaginations from kids just like you. 6 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: So if you have an idea for a story, I'd 7 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: love to see it. Check down in the show notes 8 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: below for how you can submit your own story idea 9 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. And parents, 10 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,639 Speaker 1: if you're new to kids podcasting, I'm gonna challenge you 11 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: to listen to podcasting for five days in a row 12 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: with your kids. It's going to increase their imagination, decrease 13 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: screen time, and we're gonna have a lot of fun 14 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: along the way. Are you guys ready for today's adventure? 15 00:00:50,479 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 1: Me too? Let's go Happy Birthday Tucker. All of Tucker's 16 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: friends had gathered around to watch him open his birthday presence. 17 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: He unwrapped a big, ginormous blue monster truck from Ali 18 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:19,040 Speaker 1: while everyonent ooed in ah. Then a great green dinosaur 19 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: from Fallon, a squishy orange octopus from Lottie. Wow. Have 20 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: you ever gotten some birthday presents from friends. Yeah, that 21 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: is a really fun thing to open. Well, he thought 22 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 1: he had opened everyone's presence when he noticed a box 23 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: sticking out from under the table. Oh cool, one more. 24 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: Tucker dove for the box, ripping off the sparkling green 25 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: wrapping paper to reveal a shoe box. Huh, maybe there's 26 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: something cooler inside it, Tucker hoped as he opened up 27 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: the lid. Nope, just shoes. He tossed the box down 28 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: and ran off to go play with his new lego 29 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: set from Jack. Tucker and his friends had funfetti cake, 30 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: joggled ice cream, and played with all his new gifts 31 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: until his last friend left. All his new gifts, that is, 32 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: except his new shoes. Because it's kind of hard to 33 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 1: play with those. He grabbed a bunch of toys to 34 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: bring upstairs as he got ready for bed. His monster trucks, 35 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: Dino's Slime, and legos all came with him. Tucker played 36 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: with his new toys in bed until he fell asleep. 37 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: Little did he know there was something truly magical, very 38 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: not ordinary about those shoes. In the middle of the night, 39 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: as Tucker was sleeping, crash, something fell over loudly in 40 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: Tucker's room startled. He woke up. Who was that? What 41 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: was that? There on his floor was the boring brown 42 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: shoe box. Hoppled over. Ooh, how'd that get up here? 43 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: Tucker thought, he definitely didn't bring them to his room 44 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: to play with. He began to then close his eyes 45 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 1: again as they felt very heavy, and something started glowing 46 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 1: from his bedroom floor. Slowly inching his face towards the 47 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 1: edge of the bed, he peeped over. The open shoe 48 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,079 Speaker 1: box was still on the floor, but now the shoes 49 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: were sitting next to it and glowing. A bright greenish 50 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: glow was shining from inside the shoes. Very curious now, 51 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: Tucker hopped out of bed, grabbed a shoe. There weren't 52 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: any lights inside of it. There wasn't even a spot 53 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: for batteries. He stuck his hand carefully inside the shoe 54 00:03:56,440 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: and felt around. There was nothing unusual except the green 55 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: light still shining from inside them. Tucker was stumped, but 56 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: being the curious sword, he sat down and slipped his 57 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: feet inside, left foot first, then his right shoe. The 58 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: shoes fit perfectly and felt really comfy. We were still 59 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: glowing green, making Tucker's legs looked like green beans. Tucker 60 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: sat there and just ordinary boring shoes. While still wearing 61 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:39,160 Speaker 1: the shoes, he tried to stand up, but the floor disappeared, 62 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: screamed Tucker. As he fell, colors of every single kind 63 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: whooshing past him. His arms waved wildly, trying to grab 64 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: onto something. His hand finally caught hold of something solid 65 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: and oof. Everything immediately stopped pushing past as Tucker landed 66 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: hard on the grass. The sun was shining and there 67 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 1: were trees and tall grass scattered around. Tucker gulped when 68 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: he saw what his hand was holding on. To let 69 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: go of my tail. Tucker jumped at the side of 70 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: the cheetah, immediately letting go of the spotted tail in 71 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: his hand. He put his hands up and backed away slowly. 72 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:44,359 Speaker 1: Nice kitty, nice kitty, Rah Rah, come back here. Tucker 73 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 1: took off running. He sprinted through the long grass, the 74 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: cheetah chasing closely behind. Rah growled the cheetah hol deer. 75 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: He was mad. I'm I'm sorry, Tucker yelled back to 76 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: the cheetah. I didn't mean it, pull your tail. I 77 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: just I don't even know where I am or how 78 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 1: I got here. He was too afraid to stop running. 79 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: He hopped on one foot as he ripped off one 80 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: shoe and then the other. The moment both shoes were 81 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: off his feet, Tucker fell again, this time spinning head 82 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 1: over heels until he landed back into his bed. He 83 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: landed so hard he bounced three times. He threw the 84 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 1: shoes across the room. What in the world, how is it? 85 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: How it was that a dream? He was so exhausted 86 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 1: from his running adventure he fell fast asleep. Tucker woke 87 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: up the next morning late for school. He rushed out 88 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: the door and just made it onto the school bus, 89 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: but he couldn't stop thinking about last night, about those shoes. 90 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: He tried to tell his friends about it. Everyone laughed, 91 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: thinking it was a funny story, but they didn't believe him. 92 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: That's one crazy dream you had, a friend said. Tucker 93 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: was starting to think maybe they were right, Maybe it 94 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: was just a dream. He rushed off the bus that 95 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: afternoon and ran to his room as fast as he could. 96 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: He found the shoes in the corner where he had 97 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: thrown them. There was now no light coming from them. 98 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: He just looked like regular, normal shoes. He tried them 99 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: on just to be sure, though left foot first. And 100 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: then the right. Hold on a second, would you do that? 101 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: Would you try on those shoes like Tucker is doing. 102 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: He took a deep breath before standing up, and he 103 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: stood up in his room. No falling, no whooshing of colors. Huh. Yes, 104 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: it was just a dream, Tucker said, and he took 105 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: off the shoes, very disappointed. That night, as Tucker got 106 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: into bed and was about to close his eyes, he 107 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: heard another crash coming from the corner of his room, 108 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: the same sound that he heard the night before. He 109 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: jumped up when he saw the green glow. It was real. 110 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 1: Tucker was so excited and just a little nervous as 111 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: he pulled the shoes back on left foot, then right, 112 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: He stood up and whoosh, colors flew past him. He 113 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: tried again to reach out to grab something, but everything 114 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 1: just slipped through his fingers like water and funny, may 115 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: it be that splash? As he splashed right into water, 116 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: the colors stopped flying by. As Tucker dropped into the 117 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: ocean underwater, his shoes transformed into a wetsuit with an 118 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: oxygen tank. He floated around as whales and dolphins swam by. 119 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: Hey Bro called a voice from behind him, wanna ride? 120 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: Wanna ride the waves? A sea turtle was floating next 121 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: to Tucker, waiting for him to answer. Tucker nodded excitedly 122 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: and hopped on. The two zoomed off all over the 123 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 1: ocean until Tucker grew tired and slipped off of his shoes, 124 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: Falling back into bed. He fell asleep, smiling thinking of 125 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: what amazing adventures awaited him tomorrow night. Wow, that may 126 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: be the end of our story. It's only just the 127 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: beginning of Tucker's incredible adventures that lie ahead the end. 128 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: We'll be right back after a brief word from our sponsor. 129 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 1: Great job, you listened all the way to the end, 130 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: and you know what time it is. It's time for 131 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: coud shout out. So I want to say that Theodore 132 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 1: and Valentina from North Carolina, Annabelle and Jacob from Oregon City, 133 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: Jude and Luke from Vermont, Johnny from Belize, Fanni from Texas, 134 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: Elliott from California, Monvi from Hyperderbad, and Charlie and Henry 135 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: from British Columbia. I'm so glad that you're all in 136 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: the kidchen Sorry's family. We definitely couldn't have this much 137 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: fun with imagination without you, my friends, well you have 138 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:54,719 Speaker 1: a super dupera. I will see you on our next adventure. Bye.