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

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Speaker 1: to learn more. Well, my friends, are you ready for

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Speaker 1: today's adventure? We do?

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Speaker 2: You?

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Speaker 1: Let go? Hi? Little ants? I love it hill you built,

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Speaker 1: Jonas said as he sat on the ground with his

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Speaker 1: magnifying glass raised to his eye. He watched them marching

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Speaker 1: in single file lines in and out of the large

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Speaker 1: ant hill. Some were carrying grains of sand and tossing

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Speaker 1: them out of the ant hill, and others were carrying

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Speaker 1: tiny crumbs inside to feed everyone. Jonas imagined what the

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Speaker 1: inside of the ant hill looked like as he watched it.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever wondered what's inside of an ant hill?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: They have maizes of tunnels, stopping off in different rooms.

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Speaker 1: In this underground ant mansion, he pictured a large room

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Speaker 1: where all the ants gathered at a long table to

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Speaker 1: feast on the crumbs they gathered that day. They would

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Speaker 1: break for lunch and then have family dinner together. Then

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Speaker 1: they would go to another large room off of the

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Speaker 1: tunnel in like games like raids and Uno Yeah, UNO's

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Speaker 1: their favorite. Jonas wasn't sure where they'd find the ant

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Speaker 1: size Uno cards, though, hm hm. He talked to the

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Speaker 1: ants as he watched them. Watch out for that big leaf,

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Speaker 1: he said, as one fell right into the ant's path.

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Speaker 1: That is a giant piece of food for such a

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Speaker 1: small ant, he commented when he saw the ant carrying

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Speaker 1: a piece of toast that was twice its size. After

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Speaker 1: a while, Jonas moved on from the ants and watched

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Speaker 1: some other bugs, like a horned beetle on some roly pulleys,

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Speaker 1: and a long skinny worm. It was a quiet afternoon

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Speaker 1: and Jonas was having a great time until the aliens arrived.

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Speaker 1: A whizzing sound came from the air above Jonas. He

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Speaker 1: turned around and saw something small flying in the sky.

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Speaker 1: It was too round to be an airplane and was

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Speaker 1: flying and zig zaggy patterns. It looked tiny, like a bug,

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Speaker 1: but Jonas could tell it was just very far away.

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Speaker 1: He pointed his magnifying glass toward it to get a

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Speaker 1: better look. A large round object zip through the air.

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Speaker 1: It looked like a helicopter and a beetle mashed together.

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Speaker 1: It had a shiny black shell, pinctures sticking out the front,

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Speaker 1: and six legs what the sticking out of the bottom,

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Speaker 1: But instead of wings, there was a propeller and a

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Speaker 1: pointy rotor. The whizzing sound grew louder as the flying

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Speaker 1: object zipped closer to the ground and closer to Jonas's backyard.

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Speaker 1: He jumped behind a bush. As the spaceship landed in

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Speaker 1: the grass, the door squeaked open, and out came three

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Speaker 1: of the most ginormous beetles Jonas had ever seen. They

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Speaker 1: walked on two of their back legs while the other

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Speaker 1: four waved around wildly, like a beetle trying to flip

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Speaker 1: back over from its back. The beetle alien in the

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Speaker 1: middle was holding a green, glowing laser. They chomped their

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Speaker 1: pincers in the air bush and looked around there everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Let's fine. Then the middle beetle alien declared. They began

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Speaker 1: walking around the yard, and Jonas gulped, trying his best

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Speaker 1: to stay hidden. He watched them walk over to the

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Speaker 1: ant hill he was watching earlier. The beetle alien with

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Speaker 1: the laser pointed it at the ant hill, and the

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Speaker 1: green laser beam blasted out of it. No shouted Jonas

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Speaker 1: forgetting to hide. He was worried they were gonna hurt

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Speaker 1: the ants, but his worry quickly changed to fear as

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Speaker 1: he watched the ants grow larger and larger, larger than

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Speaker 1: the bush he was next to. Dear the laser beam

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Speaker 1: had reached five of the ants at one time, and

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Speaker 1: they were now crowded in the backyard next to the

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Speaker 1: beetle aliens. They had planned on laser beaming more bugs,

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Speaker 1: but stopped when they heard Jonas's voice.

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Speaker 2: A hubed gross.

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Speaker 1: Said the third beatle in disguise. The rest of the

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Speaker 1: beetle aliens made grossed out noises. The good get rid

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Speaker 1: of it, Ants get the human. Jonas watched in terror

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Speaker 1: as the ants scurry toward him on their six fast legs.

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Speaker 1: He ducked down under the bush and found a large

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Speaker 1: stick trying to protect themselves. Jonas waved it around in

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Speaker 1: front of him. The ants approached quickly with their large

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Speaker 1: mandibles snapping, but instead of grabbing Jonas when they reached him,

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Speaker 1: they formed a protective circle around him and faced the aliens.

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Speaker 2: What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Ants?

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Speaker 2: You are bugs and he is a gross human. Don't

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Speaker 1: The ants menacingly snapped their mandibles towards the Beetle Aliens.

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Speaker 1: They inched forward as a group, blocking Jonas from them.

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Speaker 1: The Beetle Aliens began to back away slowly towards their spaceship.

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Speaker 2: Ramp ats, how dare you maybe get that human?

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Speaker 1: Not us? But the ants refused. Jonas was always kind

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Speaker 1: to them. He was their friend. The ants picked up

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Speaker 1: speed and charged at the Beetle aliens. Ah richie, they

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Speaker 1: screamed as they ran back to their spaceship. They hurried

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Speaker 1: inside and whizzed off. The ants snipped at the spaceship's

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Speaker 1: of sight. Jonas walked towards the ants slowly. Hi, uh, hello,

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Speaker 1: thank you for saving me, but you're humongous and they

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Speaker 1: took the laser. What are you going to do now?

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Speaker 1: The five ants said nothing. I don't know if they

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Speaker 1: knew how to talk, but they got right to work.

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Speaker 1: They used their mandibles and began digging. By the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, they had created a new ant hole

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Speaker 1: big enough for giant ants. Oh yeah, and Jonas he

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Speaker 1: was finally able to see what it was like inside

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Speaker 1: of an ant hill. He was excited to see that

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Speaker 1: it was also just as he imagined. Jonas in the

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Speaker 1: five ants sat around their table underground, eating dinner together.

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Speaker 1: Then they played charades and cards. The ants were very

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Speaker 1: good at Uno, but Jonas was unsure where they found

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Speaker 1: the large Uno cards. I wonder where they got those

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Speaker 1: large Uno cards? What about you? Well, I'm gonna have

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Speaker 1: to be extra careful the next time I'm hanging outside

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Speaker 1: the next one ant hill. That would be pretty wild

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Speaker 1: if those ants turned ginormous in real life. This may

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Speaker 1: be the end of the story. That is only just

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Speaker 1: the amazing adventure for Jonas and his five new ant friends.

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Speaker 1: The end. Great job, you listened all the way to

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Speaker 1: the end, and you know what, Tom, it is. It's

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Speaker 1: time for cod shout out. I want to say it.

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Speaker 1: Hank from Fort Mill, South Carolina, all the spokes that's

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Speaker 1: where I live. Denise from Massachusetts, Levy from Texas, Cole

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Speaker 1: and Sloan from Saint George, Ellison Knox from Marvin, North Carolina. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty close to me. And Bennett from Minnesota. I'm

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Speaker 1: so glad that you're all on the Kid Short Stories family.

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Speaker 1: We could not have this much fun with imagination without you,

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Speaker 1: my friends. Will you have a super Uberdean, I'll see

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Speaker 1: you on our next adventure. Bye,