1 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister jim Man. Welcome back to Kid 2 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time, welcome to 3 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: the family. We are the podcast that turns your ideas 4 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 1: into an amazing adventure every single day. You know, we 5 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: couldn't even exist without imaginations from kids just like you. 6 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: So if you have an idea for a story, I'd 7 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: love to see it. Check down in the show notes 8 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: below for how you can submit your own story idea 9 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. And parents, 10 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: if you're new to kids podcasting, I'm gonna challenge you 11 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,599 Speaker 1: to listen to podcasting for five days in a row 12 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: with your kids. It's going to increase their imagination, decrease 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: screen time, and we're gonna have a lot of fun 14 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: along the way. Are you guys ready for today's adventure? 15 00:00:50,560 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go. It was early one morning as 16 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 1: Dwannie was starting to wake up. She stretched her arms 17 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: and looked around. She was disappointed to see that it 18 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 1: was still dark again outside. You see something very strange 19 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 1: she had been going on over the past three or 20 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: four days. You see, it wasn't raining, but the sky 21 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 1: was just so dark it never turned blue. The sun 22 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: never came out, and the days just kept ticking on by. 23 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: It's like almost it was nighttime all the time, but 24 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 1: you couldn't even see the stars or the moon at night. 25 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: It was like the sky was completely missing, and Dwannie 26 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: she had to do something about it, all right, today 27 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: is the day, she said, Today is the day that 28 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: I rescue the missing sky. Wow, that sounds like something 29 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: that is almost impossible to do. How in the world 30 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 1: is she gonna do that? Do you have any ideas 31 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 1: of how you could rescue the missing sky? Well, she 32 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: started to think, and you should too. She started to 33 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: wonder what she needed to do. Hmm, do I need 34 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 1: to clean the sky? Okay, maybe I can use some 35 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: window cleaner and fly right up there and wash all 36 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: that darkness away. I don't think I have enough window 37 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 1: cleaner for that. Hmm. What's another good idea? Well? Uh, 38 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: I could paint a new sky. That could work, but 39 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: I don't have enough blue paint or white for clouds. 40 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: What am I gonna do? Dowannie was running out of ideas, 41 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 1: but did not want to give up. She was in 42 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,839 Speaker 1: the middle of eating breakfast that morning, and she heard 43 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: a sound that gave her a really good idea. Outside, 44 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: one of her parents was blowing leaves out of the 45 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 1: front yard grass with a giant leaf blower, and her 46 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: eyes got very wide and big. I wonder if I 47 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: flew up there on my jetpack and I used that 48 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: leaf blower to blow away all those dark clouds that 49 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: are covering up the whole sky. That could actually work. 50 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: She raced up to her bedroom to grab her jetpack, 51 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: which was all charged up and ready to go. She 52 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: threw it on over her back and ran out to 53 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: the front yard. Ah, could I borrow this leaf blower? 54 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: It's really really important of what you need it for, 55 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: said her dad. It's kind of hard to explain, but 56 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: you know how the sky has been completely filled with 57 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: all those really dark clouds and we can't see anything 58 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: for forever. I thought I could maybe fly up there 59 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: and blow them all away. Huh, that's actually not a 60 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: bad idea, said her dad. Let me go grab you 61 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: a fresh battery, and so you can get a fully 62 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: charged leaf bloor and see if you can clean up 63 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 1: that ridiculous sky up there. Hold on. Her dad ran 64 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: over to the garage to grab a fresh battery. That 65 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: was really good news, because hopefully maybe just maybe her 66 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,799 Speaker 1: plan would actually work. All right, here you go, Dwannie. 67 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: Good luck up there, said her dad as Dwannie blasted 68 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: off towards the sky, or at least where the sky 69 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: used to be. Her jet pack was on full throttle 70 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: turbo mode. All right, I think this is as high 71 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 1: as I could go, she said to herself. That's right, 72 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: I don't think there's any way that she could go 73 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 1: any higher. That like black cloud thing, whatever's stuck in 74 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: the sky was way too thick to push your way through. 75 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,039 Speaker 1: It was like there was a ceiling on the sky. 76 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: That is not normal. She turned on the leaf blower 77 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: and pointed it towards all that black cloud gunk. It 78 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: instantly started working. She was pushing all those black clouds 79 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: away to let all the sunlight in. She could see 80 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: her dad down below, standing with his hand over his eyes, 81 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: looking way up high. He started jumping around, cheering and 82 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,919 Speaker 1: clapping when he saw the sun peek through the clouds 83 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:55,279 Speaker 1: that were now broken up by that leaf blower. Wannie 84 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: spent the next several hours blowing as many of these 85 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: black clouds away to open up the sky. Everybody came 86 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: out from their houses to see what was going on. 87 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: Because it had been so long since the sun had 88 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: come out. When that sunlight finally broke through and lit 89 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: up everyone's houses and grass yards, they were all so 90 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 1: happy to see the sun and they all wondered how 91 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: this happened. As Dwannie finished the job and had cleaned 92 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: up the whole sky, she landed back down in her 93 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: home front yard. Dowannie, I'm so proud of you. Great job. 94 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: Thanks Dad. I cannot wait to tell everybody that was 95 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: it was you that saved the sky. Oh that's okay, Dad, 96 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: said Dewannie. I don't need everybody to know. I'm just 97 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 1: glad that the sun is finally back and that darkness 98 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 1: is finally gone. Wow, that's it's so cool. How Dwannie 99 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: not only, you know, save the day and save the sky, 100 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: but she didn't need all the attention of getting the 101 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: praise for it. Yeah, that is a really special thing. 102 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: That means she is humble. Do you know what it 103 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: means to be humble? Well, it can mean a lot 104 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: of things, but in this example, Dwannie, she didn't clean 105 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: up the sky to get all the attention of being 106 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: the superhero of the day. She did it to help 107 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: the sunlight come through for herself and for everybody else. 108 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: That is in a very important lesson that we should 109 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 1: all learn about more. So, maybe tomorrow, maybe there's something 110 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: really nice that you can do for somebody else, almost 111 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: even secretly, like you are a good deed spy just 112 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: like Dwannie. Well, friends, that may be the end of 113 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: this story, but I think it's just the beginning of 114 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: twenty's amazing adventures ahead the end. Hey, friends, I need 115 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 1: your help celebrating a birthday. Drum roll please, Happy birthday, 116 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: Layla's turning seven years old. Layla loves playing with her 117 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: brother Devin. She loves reading comic books, dog Man, cut 118 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: Kid and stick Dog, playing with snap circuits, and love 119 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: stuff dolls. Wow, Layla, you love a lot of things, 120 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 1: and I'm so glad that we got celebrated you. Yes, 121 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: you and your big day on the show. Happy seventh Birthday, Layla. 122 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: All right, friends, Well, I hope you all have a 123 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: super duper day and there's a really exciting story on 124 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: her next adventure. I'll see you there. Bye.