1 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,200 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 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go. Hudson the Liger was a very 16 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: special animal. He was both a lion and a tiger. 17 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: He lived in the jungle with his mama tiger and 18 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: his daddy lion. Hudson was so proud of his tiger 19 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 1: and lion's sides. Look, Mama, I have stripes just like you, 20 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: Hudson would say to his Mama tiger. Yes, you do, 21 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: my little liger, Mama would say, and you have a 22 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: long tail like me too. Then Hudson would say to 23 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: his daddy, Lion, our fur is gold, Dad, I'm big 24 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: just like you. Yes. Hudson loved being a liger. He 25 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: loved being part of both his mama's family, called a 26 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: streak and his daddy's family, called a pride. Hudson thought 27 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: he was lucky to be part of such a big family. 28 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: One day, Hudson was chasing birds through the jungle, leaping 29 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: and pawing playfully as they fluttered ahead. 30 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 2: What what can't catch me? 31 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: Called the two can Hudson laughed and growled back. He 32 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: ran faster after the Tucan passed the watering hole and 33 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:17,239 Speaker 1: deeper into the jungle than he had ever gone. After 34 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: a while, though, this Tucan took off into the trees, 35 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 1: too far for Hudson to reach him. He roared at 36 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: the bottom, trying to get it to come down, but 37 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: eventually he gave up. He looked around and realized it 38 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: was getting dark. Where elm I, wondered Hudson. He saw 39 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: a light shining through the trees. Up ahead. He prowled 40 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: towards it, wanting to know what was shining so brightly. 41 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 1: As he approached, the light grew bigger and spread out 42 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: in front of him. It even got noisier too. What 43 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: is this thing? Hudson could smell and sweet things, but 44 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: I couldn't quite figure it out. They definitely weren't from 45 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 1: the jungle. There was a break in the trees up ahead, 46 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 1: and he poked his head through to see. 47 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 2: Step right up, Come see tiny the tiger, the oly crator. 48 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 1: Of its kind, Hudson froze. 49 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 2: It was a human. 50 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: He was dressed in a red jacket with a tall 51 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: black hat in his hand. Was along with what Hudson 52 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: had learned about those at school. It was the dreaded 53 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: lion Tamer. He was about to get his way onto there, 54 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: and then he heard a sound. Behind the lion Tamer 55 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: was a large tent, a bright red tent, and the 56 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: roaring was coming from inside of it. The lion Tamer 57 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: spoke loudly again, but Hudson wasn't sure who he was 58 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: speaking to. He didn't notice other people walking all around 59 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: the big tent. 60 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 2: Come watch me, boris the brave tame this wild beast 61 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 2: at our eight o'clock show. What does he have in that. 62 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: Tent, wondered Hudson the lagger The roaring continued, and Hudson 63 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: needed to figure out who it was coming from. Do 64 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: you know who might be roaring inside of that tent? Well? 65 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: Hudson slunk back into the forest in the jungle and 66 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: headed away from the lion Tamer. He didn't want to 67 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 1: get caught and become the newest part of that lion 68 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: tamer's show, so Hudson found a spot that was a 69 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: safe distance from the lion tamer's tent. The deliciously sweet 70 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: smell was much stronger here. He popped out and walked 71 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 1: closer to it, trying to figure out what on earth 72 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: could possibly smell that delicious People gasped do you know 73 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 1: how to gasp? And backed away. As Hudson strolled up 74 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: to the candy cart, the man who was working. 75 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 2: Just stared, his eyes as big as two fall moons. 76 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: Holy smokes, those are some large eyeballs. Hmm, said Hudson, 77 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: What is this? 78 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 2: Can I have some? 79 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: He waved his paws at the pink cotton candy. Oh, 80 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: that's what he was smelling. Oh, and there's bright red candy. Apples, 81 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 1: but the person could not speak lion, tiger, or lager. 82 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:52,720 Speaker 2: All they heard was raw raw, and all he saw 83 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,799 Speaker 2: was a giant lger waving his clawst the cart. 84 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: He was very scared. 85 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 2: Here you go, big kiddy, No take it all. I please, 86 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 2: just don't need me. 87 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: He's green. Before running away, Hudson wasn't quite sure where 88 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: the man was going. He seemed to be in an 89 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: awful hurry. But it must mean that he could have some, 90 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 1: so he gobbled up the cotton, candy and candy apples 91 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 1: as the people around him just took pictures. Mmmm, they 92 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 1: go this, that's the leshous they go. Hudson shouted after 93 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: the man, who was still running away as fast as 94 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: he could. Now happy and full, Hudson continued on his 95 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: plan to find out who was roaring in that tent. 96 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: He passed many tents of all colored shapes and sizes 97 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:49,479 Speaker 1: along the way, listening for roars and sniffing for any 98 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: signs of another animal. Some tents were dark and quiet, 99 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: while others were bright and full of loud sounds made 100 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: by people laughing. A roar or a giant roar came 101 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: from the big tent ahead. It was dark as if 102 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: no one was inside of it yet, Oh good, thought Hudson. 103 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: That meant the show hadn't started. Hudson crept closer and 104 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: could hear the lion tamer still calling out to the 105 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: passing crowd on the other side of the tent. Hello, 106 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: whispered Hudson, who's in there? He squeezed under the bottom 107 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: of the tent and crawled inside. He could see a 108 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: big cage in the middle with something inside pacing back 109 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: and forth. They looked just like him. It had stripes, 110 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: but they were too small to be a tiger. He 111 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: small to be a liger either. He tried to remember 112 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: what the lion tamer had called it. Was it a 113 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: tie on or a lire? The animal name Tiny noticed 114 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: him and growled, what are you doing? You shouldn't be here, 115 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: lion Tamer will be back any minute for the show. 116 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: I'm here to save you, said Hudson. Now that he 117 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: had seen the animal, he couldn't just leave him. They 118 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: are all alone. Save me, why, asked Tiny. Hudson explained 119 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: how he had heard him growling when he was in 120 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: the jungle and came across all the people in the tents, 121 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: and I just can't leave now. Said Hudson. Hudson began 122 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 1: looking around for something to try and open the cage with. 123 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: He spoke to Tiny as he did, I'm a liger. 124 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: You look like me, but I heard the Lion Tamer 125 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: call you something else. I was that a tire. I'm 126 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 1: a Tigon, Tiny explained, I'm half tiger from my dad 127 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: and half lion from my mom. The Tigon seems sad now. 128 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 1: They were part of another circuit though, so it's it's 129 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: just me now. Hudson felt very sad for Tigon. Don't worry. 130 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: I'll get you out. Then you could go live with 131 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: me at the Juggle. Just then, Hudson found a key 132 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: lying on a table by the stage. Aha, got it. 133 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: He used his lagger teeth to put the key into 134 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: the lock and turn it. Then Hudson and Tiny snuck 135 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: back out of the tent and took off into the 136 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 1: trees together. Just before eight o'clock, people were starting to 137 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: fill the seats in the Lion Tamer's tent. The Lion 138 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: Tamer marched into the back behind the stage to get 139 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,719 Speaker 1: the tyg on ready for the show. The crowd had 140 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: now grown so loud he didn't even realize that there 141 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: hadn't been any roaring in quite some time until he 142 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 1: approached the cage. 143 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 2: And found it empty. 144 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:03,839 Speaker 1: No ooh, shouted the lion tamer, shaking his fists at 145 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: the sky. By that time, Hudson and his new friend 146 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 1: Andy had made their way back into the jungle, safe 147 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: and sound and happy to have found each other. This 148 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: may be the end of the story, but it's only 149 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: just the beginning of the amazing adventures at lie ahead 150 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: for Hudson the Liger and Tiny the ti Guon the end, 151 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: we'll be right back after a brief word from our sponsor. 152 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 2: Wow, looks like we're already back to the show. 153 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 1: Hey, friends, I need your help celebrating your birthday. Drummer 154 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: roll please, Happy birthday, Audies turning four years old. Audie 155 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: loves volcanoes, space and is the best big brother. Wow, Audie, 156 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that we got to celebrate you and 157 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: your big day on the show. 158 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 2: Happy fourth birthday, Audie. 159 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: Great job, you listened all the way to the end, 160 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: and you know what, Timm, it is It's. 161 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 2: Time for kurd shout out. 162 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: So I wanna say hey to Grayson from California, Elliott 163 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: from Prince Edward, Island, Ruth from Michigan, Sloan from British Columbia, 164 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: Cult from Idaho, Leave from California, River and Ocean from Ido, 165 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: and Adam from Canada. I'm so glad that you're all 166 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 1: on the Kid Short Stories family. We could not have 167 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: this much fun with imagination without you, my friends. Well, 168 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,719 Speaker 1: you have a super duper day and I'll see you 169 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: on our next adventure. 170 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 2: Bye.