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Speaker 1: Hey, friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to Kids

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. There are some birthdays that we're going to

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Speaker 1: celebrate after today's story. But if you have a birthday

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Speaker 1: in September or October, we are scheduling those now, so

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Speaker 1: make sure that you get on the list. Parents, You

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Speaker 1: can check down in the show notes below for the

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Speaker 1: links of how all that works. Well, friends, are you

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Speaker 1: ready for today's adventure? Oh? I most certainly am. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: It was a beautiful day outside, which meant it was

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Speaker 1: a perfect day for Jack to play at the beach.

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Speaker 1: He loved walking over to the beach in his neighborhood

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Speaker 1: because he just never know what you just might find

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Speaker 1: over there. You know, there's all kinds of mysteries at beaches,

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Speaker 1: and beaches come in all different shapes and sizes, so

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Speaker 1: there might be a beach at a pond, beach at

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Speaker 1: a lake, or a beach at the ocean, but all

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Speaker 1: beaches I have some kind of magical abilities to to

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Speaker 1: create some awesome adventures. But Jack was not ready for

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Speaker 1: what he was about to find the beach today. All right,

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Speaker 1: I'll see you later, Jack waved to his parents and

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Speaker 1: he walked out the door. Holding a bucket in one

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Speaker 1: hand with some shovels a net in the other, Oh,

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Speaker 1: and a backpack with some water and snacks. I hope

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Speaker 1: I find some really cool shells today, said Jack as

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Speaker 1: he was walking along the sidewalk headed to the beach.

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Speaker 1: Oh what's that smell? He said? Oh, it sounds like

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Speaker 1: some nasty, nasty coconuts that just went really bad. Oh

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Speaker 1: have you ever smelled rotten coconuts before? Oh, it's pretty

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Speaker 1: atrocious if you get close enough. But it's change because usually, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you do have to get close enough to a coconut

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Speaker 1: to smell it if it's rotten. How did Jack smell

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Speaker 1: it from all the way back here? Jack was pretty

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Speaker 1: confused because he never smells such a horrendous rotten coconut

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Speaker 1: smell before, And as he walked onto the beach, the

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Speaker 1: smell just got worse and worse. It must have been

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Speaker 1: pretty bad because there was nobody else on the beach.

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Speaker 1: I think that bad smell must have kept everyone way

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Speaker 1: because it was like a really nice, beautiful day outside,

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Speaker 1: and I guess everyone just thought it was way too

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Speaker 1: stinky to be at the beach. Huh, I've never seen

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Speaker 1: this many crab tracks in the sand. This way before,

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Speaker 1: Jack noticed in the sand that there was a path

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Speaker 1: of like crab tracks that were made on a trail

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Speaker 1: in the beach, all the way down, kind of headed

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Speaker 1: towards some trees down there. Jack had been to the

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Speaker 1: beach a thousand times before, and he'd never noticed such

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Speaker 1: a strange trail of crab tracks, and he thought about

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Speaker 1: following them, so he did. The tracks went all the

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Speaker 1: way over some sand dunes on the side of the beach,

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Speaker 1: and all the way down and all the way up,

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Speaker 1: and finally, the smell was so bad Jack had stumbled

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Speaker 1: into a giant pile of stinky, rotten coconuts. The smell

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Speaker 1: was so overbearing Jack almost couldn't breathe. This is the

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Speaker 1: worst smell of fover lucas. Who would Why are all

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Speaker 1: these in a pile? Jack had so many questions, but

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Speaker 1: a voice, Hey, are you a purple ninja? Who said that? Wait,

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Speaker 1: purple dinja? Where Jack started looking around in in a panic,

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Speaker 1: because you know, if there's a purple engine nearby, you

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Speaker 1: don't want him sneaking up on you. As Jack spun

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Speaker 1: to him was actually a crab. Not your normal average crab.

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Speaker 1: This was a giant crab. It was very, very large,

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Speaker 1: and it could talk. Was that you, Mr? Crab? Said Jack? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'll say it again. Are you the purple diga that's

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Speaker 1: supposed to pick up all these rot coca DUTs? Um? No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not. But wait, are you working with Purple Ninges?

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Speaker 1: Asked Jack. Well, if you're not a purple Dija, that

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Speaker 1: I have nothing but to say to you. Good day.

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Speaker 1: And the crab kept walking. You know how what I

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Speaker 1: just walk away, mr crab, um a, I are you

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Speaker 1: working with the Purple Ninjas? Because if you are, I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's a good idea. The crab froze and

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Speaker 1: good idea? Well? I just mean, if they're tricking you

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Speaker 1: they promised if I got him a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: They promised you gold coins, said Jack with big eyes.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they're tricking you. I'm pretty sure after

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Speaker 1: they take the stinky coconuts from you, they're not gonna

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Speaker 1: this whole thing for gold coins, and they're gonna As

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Speaker 1: crabs are loyal, and if a purple Nija is not loyal,

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Speaker 1: then we will not work for him. I'm really sorry

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Speaker 1: to break the news to you, but yeah, you just

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Speaker 1: don't want to work for a purple Ninja. I had

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Speaker 1: a bad feeling about this, but Sally over there told

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Speaker 1: because as crabs, we really love shiny things. Oh you

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Speaker 1: you like shiny things? Yes? Uh do you have any

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Speaker 1: shinny things? Uh? Yeah, I do have some coins in

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Speaker 1: my pockets. They're just pennies and nickels. You have real

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Speaker 1: pennies and nickels. Oh, please please plase plaits. Let me

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Speaker 1: see it, let me see it, Let me see here.

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Speaker 1: How about this. You can have these pennies and nickels

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Speaker 1: if you get rid of all those stinky coconuts. Oh short, think, sure,

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Speaker 1: think short think. Just let me see. Jack showed the

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Speaker 1: pennies and nickels that were in his pocket. The crab

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Speaker 1: was so excited to see those very shiny things and

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Speaker 1: immediately got to work. This giant crab and all of

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Speaker 1: his friends were able to move all those very stinky

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Speaker 1: rotten coconuts far far away into the ocean where nobody

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Speaker 1: would ever smell them again. And it was a pretty

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Speaker 1: far enough away place from those purple ninjas who are

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Speaker 1: always looking for the stinkiest of things. And by the

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Speaker 1: end of the day Jack it was time for him

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Speaker 1: to head back home had made new friends with these crabs.

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Speaker 1: You see, those crabs they value too things a lot

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Speaker 1: in their friendships. Trust and loyalty. You see, being a

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Speaker 1: trust it means that you're going to follow through and

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Speaker 1: doing what you said, which, as we know, those purple

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Speaker 1: trustworthy loyal friends. But I'm so glad that this crab

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Speaker 1: the end. I need your help celebrating two birthdays. Drum

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Speaker 1: roll please, Happy birthday Freddy Sturning five years old. Freddie

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Speaker 1: loves to collect slugs. That's pretty awesome, Liz in Austria,

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Speaker 1: and I'm so glad that we got to celebrate your

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Speaker 1: big birthday together. Well, I hope you have a super

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Speaker 1: And next up we have drum roll please, Happy birthday

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Speaker 1: viv Maybe Starning five years old. She just went on

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Speaker 1: a East Coast Canada trip with her brother Clark and

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Speaker 1: her parents the summer. Oh, that sounds like an awesome trip.

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Speaker 1: She's a great soccer player and very excited to celebrate

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Speaker 1: her birthday on the show. Well, I hope you, Vivy

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Speaker 1: have the best birthday ever. I'm so glad that we

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Speaker 1: could celebrate Freddie and Vivy on today's show. Well, friends,

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Speaker 1: it's now time for kurd shout out. I want to

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Speaker 1: say hey to Landing from Dennessee, Carlos from Australia, Mira

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Speaker 1: from New Zealand, Emmy from Indiana, Oliver from Florida, Tie

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Speaker 1: and Benn from Dennessee, and Eliah from Vancouver. I'm so

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Speaker 1: glad that you're all on the Conture Series family and

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Speaker 1: Don the spy Tea. We could not stop Doctor Sticky

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Speaker 1: Breath and his crew without you, my friends. Will I

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Speaker 1: hope you have a super duper day and I'll see

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