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Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kid

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. Before we hop into this story, I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to thank you. I wanted to thank you for

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Speaker 1: making this podcast one of the biggest kids podcasts in

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Speaker 1: the world. Yes, it's because of you and you telling

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Speaker 1: your friends about it. It just means so much to

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Speaker 1: me that you have loved these stories so much that

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Speaker 1: you listen to like one hundred a day. Right, well, friends,

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Speaker 1: I am so excited to share today's story with you.

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Speaker 2: Are you ready for it?

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Speaker 1: Me too?

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Today's story takes place far far away, not quite in

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Speaker 1: another galaxy, but definitely on another planet.

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Speaker 2: You see on our neighbor planet named Mars.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 2: You see, we actually learned how to grow trees.

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Speaker 1: Trees are the first step if we ever want to

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Speaker 1: live on Mars because trees produced oxygen. But the problem

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Speaker 1: with trying to grow trees on Mars is because.

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Speaker 2: Mars doesn't have the right dirt to grow the trees on.

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Speaker 1: And so we tried and tried and tried and tried

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Speaker 1: for many, many, many many years.

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Speaker 2: And finally found the secret. The secret the snail poop.

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Speaker 1: Yes, snail poop is the best ingredient for trees to

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Speaker 1: grow in. And so once we released a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of snails onto planet Mars.

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Speaker 2: Bloop bloop, bloop bloop.

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Speaker 1: They pooped their way all the way into the tree

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Speaker 1: fertilizer and the trees started to grow.

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Speaker 2: Magic, right, I know.

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Speaker 1: But unfortunately that is where the story takes a terrible turn,

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Speaker 1: and our friend Spike is going to need to save

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Speaker 1: the day.

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Speaker 2: Beep beep beep.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh, good morning world, said Spike as he woke

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Speaker 1: up out of bed and stretched his arms.

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Speaker 2: The alarm clock had gone off.

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Speaker 1: It was very early, but it was time to get

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Speaker 1: He checked his walking talkie and there was a message

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Speaker 1: from HQ SH Spike.

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Speaker 3: We need your help. We need you to fly the

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Speaker 3: planet Mars because unfortunately all the trees have begun dying.

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Speaker 3: We don't know what's causing it, but we need you

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Speaker 3: to figure it out.

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Speaker 2: Good luck, sh.

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Speaker 1: Mars, said Spike. I've never been to Mars before, but

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Speaker 1: oh Kinoki. After finishing a delicious breakfast, he put on

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Speaker 1: all of his SPI gear and and his spacesuit. He

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Speaker 1: was gonna need that if he was gonna fly to Mars,

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Speaker 1: hopped inside of his spaceship jet that was parked in

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Speaker 1: his backyard, buckled in, pushed the red button, and shoo.

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Speaker 1: He blasted off in a puff of smoke. It's a

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Speaker 1: good thing that his spaceship jet was so fast because

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Speaker 1: planet Mars is very far away, but his jet got

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Speaker 1: him there in only three and a half minutes long.

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Speaker 1: What how's that even possible? I can barely put my

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Speaker 1: shoes on that fast. As his spaceship jet touched down

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Speaker 1: on planet Mars, he was greeted with a nice big

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Speaker 1: poof of red dust. That red dust is pretty famous

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Speaker 1: on planet Mars. I've never been, but but I imagine it's

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Speaker 1: a new color red that I've never seen before. As

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Speaker 1: Spike stepped out of his space jet, Wow, this place

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Speaker 1: is beautiful, he said, Oh, don't worry. He was wearing

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Speaker 1: his astronaut suit fully equipped with oxygen breather. Because you know,

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Speaker 1: Mars wasn't totally ready for people to live on. There

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Speaker 1: were many trees growing, but it wasn't quite ready yet.

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Speaker 1: And as Spike walked over to the first group of

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Speaker 1: trees that he saw, he was very surprised to see

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Speaker 1: what is all that disgusting goo pouring out of the

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Speaker 1: side of the tree, said Spike. You see, he was

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Speaker 1: looking at these trees, trees that were very tall and

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Speaker 1: full of big green leaves that was going to produce

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Speaker 1: side of the tree, like the trunk part, it looked

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Speaker 1: like it was leaking out. Ummmm, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Oohey, gooey brown slime goo.

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Speaker 1: It was pretty disgusting and he didn't want to touch it,

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Speaker 1: tip would be a good thing to scoop out this

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Speaker 2: What oh, that.

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Speaker 1: Is the ooeest, gooeyest goo I've ever seen, said Spike.

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Speaker 1: He had plopped on this goo inside of his beaker

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Speaker 1: his way back to the spaceship, he saw another thing.

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Speaker 1: Not a person, not an animal, another thing, a thing

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Speaker 1: that he had never seen before. We're out a got

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Speaker 1: out of that, girl, said the creature. Oh hello, I'm

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Speaker 1: just taking it back to my lab inside of my jet.

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Speaker 1: I gotta inspect what's going on with these trees. The

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Speaker 1: trees seem to be dying, and the goo is strange,

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Speaker 1: So I must.

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Speaker 2: Are little talking about their strong spots growing out of

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Speaker 2: the mud. Strange spiky things. You mean these trees?

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Speaker 1: Less? They're absolutely terrifying, So less rettle trying rather them raw?

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Speaker 2: Are they not lundrels?

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Speaker 1: No, they're not dangerous.

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Speaker 2: These are trees and they make oxygen so that people

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Speaker 1: Oh d Lenarda. This martian would go on to tell

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Speaker 1: Spike about what him and all of his friends had

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Speaker 1: been doing ever since the tree started growing. They were

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Speaker 1: very afraid of them. They'd never seen a tree before,

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Speaker 1: and so they learned that the snail poop is what

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Speaker 1: was keeping the trees growing and alive. So they moved

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Speaker 2: That OUI gooey stuff because they were dying.

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Speaker 1: My friend charm me that those trills were us on

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Speaker 1: our slope.

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Speaker 2: Was that not true?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, trees are very nice. Uh where

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Speaker 1: did you put all those snails? Commerce Moal the officeler

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Speaker 1: who Spike was very relieved to find all the snails

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Speaker 1: over on the other side of the hill. The Martians

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Speaker 1: had taken the snails as pets that I think they

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Speaker 1: really liked the snails. They reminded them of themselves, and

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Speaker 1: they brought the snails back to the trees so that

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Speaker 1: the snails could continue pooping on the trees, dart so

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Speaker 1: that they could get the nutrients that they needed. And

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Speaker 1: by the end of the day, the ooey gooey goo

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Speaker 1: stopped sliming out of the trees, and Spike waved goodbye

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Speaker 1: to his new Martian friends, climbed in back to his

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Speaker 1: spaceship jet and blasted off towards planet Earth. Woo, another

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Speaker 1: mission well accomplished. Great job, Spike, you saved all the

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Speaker 1: trees on planet Mars and made some new Martian friends

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Speaker 1: along the way. The end, Hey friends, I need your help.

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Speaker 1: Celebrating two birthdays. Drummer roll please. Happy birthday Layla, who's

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Speaker 1: turning five years old. Layla loves science, imagination and has

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Speaker 1: a new sister named Esma.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Leila, I'm so glad we got to celebrate.

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Speaker 1: You and your big day on the show. Happy fifth birthday,

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Speaker 1: and next up we have sh Happy birthday, Dominic, who's

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Speaker 1: turning five years old. He loves drumming, learning his ninja's skills,

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Speaker 1: and playing video games with his sister Anastasia. Wow, Dominic,

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

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Speaker 1: big day on the show. Happy fifth birthday, Dominic. I

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Speaker 1: hope you all have a super due ber Day and

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Speaker 1: I'll see you on our next adventure.

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Speaker 3: Bye.

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