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

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. I was just reading through this five star

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Speaker 1: review from Beckham, Olivia and Millie says, you're so grateful

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Speaker 1: for a new story every day. The whole family enjoys

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Speaker 1: listening and we love the conversations that stemmed from the episodes.

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Speaker 1: Even our eighteen month old has an evil laugh she

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Speaker 1: does whenever doctor Sinky Breth has mentioned that's hilarious. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for sending that review. Are you

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Speaker 1: guys ready for today's adventure? Me too, Let's go. It

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Speaker 1: was a very rainy day in the jungle as our

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Speaker 1: friend Archie the pygmy Hippo was walking along squishing and

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Speaker 1: squashing in the mud. Archie, as a pygmy hippo, was

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Speaker 1: a very small hippopotamus, so small in fact, that he

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Speaker 1: was often afraid of many other things. He had to

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Speaker 1: look around everywhere he went and keep his eyes open

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Speaker 1: just to make sure that there wasn't anything scary up

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Speaker 1: around the next corner. But today, something pretty amazing would

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Speaker 1: happen to Archie as he would need to choose to

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Speaker 1: be brave to help out a new friend. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: just love a good rady day. It makes it so

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Speaker 1: great to splash it splash in the mud. I just

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Speaker 1: I love it? What what? What? What? With each step

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Speaker 1: he took, it squished and all in between his toes.

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Speaker 1: Wait a second, do hippos have toes? Oh, of course

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Speaker 1: they have toes. And so as he squashed and squashed

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Speaker 1: his way through the mud, his toes got very muddy,

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Speaker 1: raw raw. Archie turned around and looked in the world.

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Speaker 1: Did that terrifying noise come from? Must be someone trying

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Speaker 1: to eat me. I gotta get out of here. Archie

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Speaker 1: the pigmy hippo started running as fast as he could,

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Speaker 1: which was not very fast because he had very short legs.

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Speaker 1: His four little feet tried to go as fast as

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Speaker 1: It was in all the pandemonium that he had actually

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Speaker 1: started running towards the big noise, not away from it.

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Speaker 1: He closed his eyes and pushed his face deeper into

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Speaker 1: whatever terrible, scary creature that was really close to him.

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Speaker 1: Somebody there, I need help. I got stuck in all

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Speaker 1: It's gotta be a trap. There's no way I'm picking

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Speaker 1: It sounds like a crocodile, said Archie. Well, maybe I'll

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Speaker 1: just take a little peek. Archie poked his eyes up

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Speaker 1: out of the mud and blinked them to wipe the

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Speaker 1: mud off. Blink, blink. As he scanned the horizon that

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Speaker 1: was in front of him, you realize that he had

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Speaker 1: slid all the way back towards a lake that was

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Speaker 1: right there, and right in front of him was a

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Speaker 1: ginormous crocodile. But that crocodile had sunk down very deep,

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Speaker 1: how'd you get stuck in the mud like that? Hah

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Speaker 1: Ooh you scarred me, oh, said the crocodile. Yeah, I uh,

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Speaker 1: I got stuck in the mud. My feet just sunk

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Speaker 1: like you. There's no way you could help me get

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Speaker 1: out of here, said the crocodile. Oh yeah, you want

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Speaker 1: to see me tray, said Archie. Ha, there's no way.

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Speaker 1: Archie was always up for a challenge, and so because

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Speaker 1: the crocodile thought that Archie couldn't do it, it kind

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Speaker 1: of made Archie want to prove him wrong. Have you

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Speaker 1: ever felt like that before? Someone ever told you, oh,

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Speaker 1: there's no way you can do that, and it deep

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Speaker 1: can and I'm gonna prove it to you. Step aside. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's exactly what Archie, the pygmy hippo felt inside. He

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Speaker 1: wanted to prove that crocodile wrong. You should have seen

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Speaker 1: how fast Archie could move around in that deep mud.

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Speaker 1: He was an expert mud swimmer. Have you ever gone

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Speaker 1: mud swimming before me? Neither. Just imagine if you were

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Speaker 1: my on my belly, said the crocodile. All right, at

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Speaker 1: of the mud, said the crocodile. Archie breathed in deep

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Speaker 1: what is going on? I'm stirring up out of the mud.

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Speaker 1: How did you do that, little guy, said the crocodile.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, just keep moving. I can't hold you forever.

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Speaker 1: out of the water, said Archie. Oh oh yes, oh okay.

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Speaker 1: Squish squash, squish squads. The crocodile picked up each step

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Speaker 1: back into the lake. Ho. Wow, you got a big

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Speaker 1: belly there, mister crocodile. Wow, you're pretty strong for a

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Speaker 1: little fellah. What's your name. My name's Archie. It's great

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Speaker 1: to beat you. What's your name? My name is Lenny.

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Speaker 1: But uh huh, I've never been friends with a big

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Speaker 1: me hippo. But today is a new day, and you

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Speaker 1: happened to help me get unstuck from the mud. Would

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Speaker 1: you like to come on over to my house and

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Speaker 1: I can make you a delicious dinner? You mean have

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Speaker 1: me for dinner or make me a dinner? Oh no, no,

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Speaker 1: I don't eat hippopotamuses. I would love to have you

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Speaker 1: over and make you something delicious to eat. Please, it's

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Speaker 1: my pleasure, said Lenny the crocodile. And that was the

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Speaker 1: day that Archie the pigby hippo who used to be

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Speaker 1: very afraid of a lot of things learned to be brave.

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Speaker 1: And it was all it stems from when Lenny the

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Speaker 1: crocodile told him that he didn't think he could do it,

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Speaker 1: but Archie proved him wrong. And so even though this

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Speaker 1: is the end of the story, maybe you can prove

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Speaker 1: somebody wrong. Maybe you'll be like Archie one day and

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Speaker 1: help a crocodile up out of the mud. Well maybe

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Speaker 1: not exactly that, but maybe, just maybe you'll find something

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Speaker 1: amazing that you'll be able to do. The end a

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Speaker 1: great job. You listened all the way to the end,

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Speaker 1: and you know what, tumm it is. It's time for

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Speaker 1: kid shout out. I want to say he to Ali

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Speaker 1: from Georgia, I Sley, Brooklyn and Luna from Alberta, Canada,

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Speaker 1: Evelyn from Massachusetts, Fielder from Colorado, Harper from Brisbane, Australia,

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Speaker 1: and Abbe from Saint Paul, Minnesota. I'm so glad that

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Speaker 1: you're all in the Kid Short Story's family. And Don

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Speaker 1: the spy team. We could not stop Doctor Stickybread and

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Speaker 1: his crew, without you, my friends. Will you have a

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Speaker 1: super duper day And now I'll see you next time. Bye.