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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. This week, we are celebrating the launch of

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Speaker 1: my first book called The Day We Saved the Lightbulb.

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Speaker 1: Make sure that you tell your parents to go check

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Speaker 1: out the show notes below, where that link will send

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Speaker 1: you to the page where you can preorder it. I

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Speaker 1: just need to know how many of you want your

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Speaker 1: own book, and maybe you'll even click a reward where

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Speaker 1: I will sign your book. There's some pretty cool rewards

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Speaker 1: waiting for you over there that you've got to see

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Speaker 1: for yourself, including some puzzles and some other surprises. Well, friends,

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Speaker 1: are you ready to get into today's adventure? I definitely am.

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Speaker 1: Let's go. Hey, Silas, do you want to take a turn?

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Speaker 1: As the engineer asked Felix, Yeah, I'm ready. Why don't

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Speaker 1: you grab the binoculars and head up top and keep

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Speaker 1: a lookout. Felix grabbed the binoculars and ran up top

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Speaker 1: to the top of the train. Yeah, Felix in Silas

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Speaker 1: were engineers on a train. That meant they were responsible

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Speaker 1: for driving and operating the train and making sure that

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Speaker 1: everything went according to plan. They had just finished dropping

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Speaker 1: off a whole bunch of packages that were in that train,

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Speaker 1: and they were now on their way home after a

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Speaker 1: long day of work. They were taking turns. One would

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Speaker 1: drive the train and the other would go up to

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Speaker 1: the roof of the train with binoculars, you know, looking

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Speaker 1: out for any animals that might be running over the

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Speaker 1: tracks or something else, and then he would blow the

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Speaker 1: horn on the train to scare off that animal so

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Speaker 1: that they wouldn't get hurt. It was a very important

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Speaker 1: job to make sure that everyone was safe while operating

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Speaker 1: that train. As Silas was operating the train and driving

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Speaker 1: it forward, they gave the train horn a big pole

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Speaker 1: to alert the whole down that they were coming through.

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Speaker 1: They didn't want any cars on the road in their way. Hey, Felix,

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Speaker 1: are we all clear up there, yelled Silas from down below.

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Speaker 1: Felix was on the roof of the train with his

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Speaker 1: binoculars keeping an eye out far up ahead on the tracks. Yep,

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Speaker 1: everything looks good so far. Wait wait, hold on a second,

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Speaker 1: said Felix. Ah, there's something up there. It's way up there,

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Speaker 1: but I think you should hit the brakes. No. Silas

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Speaker 1: pulled on the brake lever, not knowing exactly what Felix

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Speaker 1: was talking about, but it does take a long way

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Speaker 1: in a long time to stop a big train from moving.

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Speaker 1: When a train is super gag and super heavy, you

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Speaker 1: gotta start those breakes early because as the train breaks, Paul,

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Speaker 1: it's it keeps moving. It takes a long way for

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Speaker 1: that train to come to a stop. Felix came down

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Speaker 1: from up above and told Silas there's a ginormous tree

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Speaker 1: able to stop this in time, said Felix. As the

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Speaker 1: train's breaks were screeching. It was too little, too late.

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Speaker 1: Boom crash. The train crashed right into that ginormous tree

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Speaker 1: that was laying over the tracks. Whoa Silas? Be okay,

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Speaker 1: said Felix. Ouch, yeah, I'm okay. I just got bumped

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Speaker 1: around a little bit, said Silas as he rubbed his

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Speaker 1: head with his left hand. Let's go outside and take

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Speaker 1: Silas climbed down the edge of the train, and unfortunately

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Speaker 1: we're met with bad news. Oh no, that tree knocked

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Speaker 1: Cried Felix. We're still nowhere near home, and I don't

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Speaker 1: even know where we are, Silas, what do we do?

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Speaker 1: Silas looked around for a second. He knew that they

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Speaker 1: were running out of daylight. It was almost getting nighttime,

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Speaker 1: so they were running out of time. Um, first, we've

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Speaker 1: got to get our bearing straight. We gotta figure out

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Speaker 1: which way is north and which ways home. Come on,

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Speaker 1: what do you mean, said Felix as he chased behind Silex.

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Speaker 1: Come on, we gotta take a look at these trees

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Speaker 1: and find the moss. That's gonna be the easiest way

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Speaker 1: to figure out what's north. What are you talking about,

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Speaker 1: asked Felix. Come on, I'll show you. Just come here.

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Speaker 1: Silas was looking from tree to tree looking for moss

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Speaker 1: growing on the tree. Do you know why you would

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Speaker 1: be doing that? It's an old trick that on a

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Speaker 1: tree green moss only grows on the north side. And

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Speaker 1: you also know where east, south, and west is. Silas

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Speaker 1: come take a look at this, Felix. Look. Silas was

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Speaker 1: pointing to where the moss was and said, see now

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Speaker 1: that we know that's north. I know that on a

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Speaker 1: that way is west. He pointed west with his left hand. Well,

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Speaker 1: I trust you, Silas. Let's go, said Felix. Felix and

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Speaker 1: Silas then started marching through the forest. It was a

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Speaker 1: But finally, after several hours, they popped out the other

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Speaker 1: side of the forest. Oh thank you, there's our neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: said Felix with great relief. All right, once we get home,

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Speaker 1: we gotta call the train station to let them know

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Speaker 1: about the accident that happened back there, and then tomorrow

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Speaker 1: we can get a tow truck out there and flip

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Speaker 1: for bed, said Silas. Good work today, Felix. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: we made it home. I couldn't have done it without you, Silas.

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Speaker 1: See you tomorrow. As Felix and Silas went back to

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Speaker 1: They knew they had a big day tomorrow. Tomorrow was

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Speaker 1: gonna be a day of a train rescue. Well, more

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Speaker 1: like flipping the train back up onto the tracks and

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Speaker 1: moving that big tree out of the way so they

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Speaker 1: wouldn't bump into it again. Well, I'm glad we have

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Speaker 1: Felix and Silas as train engineers because without them, all

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Speaker 1: of our packages wouldn't make it on their way to

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Speaker 1: where they need to be. And I bet Felix is

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Speaker 1: grateful that Silas knew how to find their way home

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Speaker 1: get lost in the forest. Just look from Moss on

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Speaker 1: the tree and that way is north the end. Great job,

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Speaker 1: you listened all the way to the end, and you

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Speaker 1: know what something it is. It's time for kid shout out.

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Speaker 1: I want to say, hey, did James, Grayce and Ethan

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Speaker 1: from Salt Lake City, Bixby, Griffin and Piper from Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: Carter and Dean from Toronto, Hudson from Washington, D C.

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Speaker 1: Worry from Montari open Elbe from Washington, Hillary from California,

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Speaker 1: and Noah from British Columbia. I'm so glad that you're

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Speaker 1: all in the Kid Stories family and on the spy team.

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Speaker 1: We could not stop Doctor Stinky Breath and his crew

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Speaker 1: without you, my friends. Well you have a super duper

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Speaker 1: day and I will see you on our next adventure. Bye.

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