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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. Today's story comes to us from Connor and Michaela.

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

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Speaker 1: and Michaela were sitting on their couch inside and they

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Speaker 1: had run out of ideas of what to do. We're

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Speaker 1: so bored, Connor said, what do we do? Michaela and

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Speaker 1: Connor were both a little frustrated. They run out of

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Speaker 1: things to do. Well, why don't you guys go play outside.

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Speaker 1: It's a pretty nice day. Why don't you go figure

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Speaker 1: out something to do? Said their parents. Connor and Michaela

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Speaker 1: looked at each other and they said, it's so hot

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Speaker 1: and I don't know what to do. We've played all

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Speaker 1: you ever felt like that before? Oh? Definitely me too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it can be fun when you, you you know, can think

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Speaker 1: of something fun to do. But what do you do

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Speaker 1: when you don't know what to do? Connor and Michaela

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Speaker 1: Connor and Michaela both put their shoes on and started

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Speaker 1: to walk outside, when all of a sudden, something crazy happened. MICHAELA,

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Speaker 1: do you see that in the sky? Is that an

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Speaker 1: don't know what. It looks like it's moving and wait,

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Speaker 1: Connor and Michaela dove behind some trees and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, crash. What was that? Said Connor. He was

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Speaker 1: Michaela was the first that poker head up and look, Connor,

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Speaker 1: open your eyes. You're not gonna believe this. As they

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Speaker 1: opened their eyes and looked around the tree, there it

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Speaker 1: was a ginormous space rock from the moon. Done done, done?

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Speaker 1: What What is it? How did they get here? Some

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Speaker 1: kind of asteroid or meteor? I don't know, Connor. Michaela

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Speaker 1: like steam, but there was a lot of it. Pooa, woa, whoaoa. Michaela,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's fine. I just want to take a

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Speaker 1: look at it. Michaela walked closer and gently touched it.

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Speaker 1: It was like she was touching it to see if

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Speaker 1: what she was doing. Yeah, Connor, it's it's warm, but

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Speaker 1: it's wait a second, it's not warm, it's cold. What

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Speaker 1: feels Connor? Come over here. Connor reluctantly walked over and

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Speaker 1: is old. And as they laid both of their hands

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Speaker 1: on this ginormous rock, something happened. What Connor and Michaela

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Speaker 1: started spinning in circles, Smoke was flying everywhere, and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, they were the size of an aunt.

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Speaker 1: As they looked up around, they realized that they were

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Speaker 1: in the middle of their backyard, but the grass looked

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Speaker 1: like trees. They were so small. Everything was ginormous. That

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Speaker 1: rock was now a mountain. The grass were now ginormously

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Speaker 1: Michaela shouted. Connor looked around. He was breathing really fast.

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Speaker 1: how do we? How? Touch it? Again? Touch the rock?

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Speaker 1: Connor ran over and put both his hands on the

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Speaker 1: turn back? Did we get shrunken down forever? Okay, calm down,

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Speaker 1: Connor said Michaela. We gotta take a deep breath and

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Speaker 1: rain can be nice and fun, except when you're really small.

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Speaker 1: The rain drops that were falling from this guy looked

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Speaker 1: The two of them ran to look for cover. They

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Speaker 1: It was unlocked. Should we go in? Said Connor? I

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Speaker 1: There were ants all over the place, and these ants

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Speaker 1: my name is Michaela and this is Connor, and could

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Speaker 1: you guys help us? Hey, what's going on there? Said

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Speaker 1: one of the ants. Um, Well, we accidentally got shrunken

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Speaker 1: terrible happened. Our queen has been stolen. Your queen has

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Speaker 1: been stolen. That's that sounds serious, said MICHAELA. Uh so

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Speaker 1: like the queen aunt who's what do you mean stolen? Yes,

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Speaker 1: said one of the ants, I mean stolen. You see,

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Speaker 1: there's grasshoppers back here, and they really mean and they've

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Speaker 1: always been trying to get rid of us. I guess

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Speaker 1: they want this land for themselves, and there stole the

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Speaker 1: to come up with a plan. That's terrible, said MICHAELA.

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Speaker 1: Why would they do such a thing. Well, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but I guess ants and grasshoppers have been fighting for

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Speaker 1: a very long time, said one of the ends. Well, hi,

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Speaker 1: my name is Connor and this is MICHAELA. What's your name?

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Speaker 1: Oh you can call me bart hey Bart? Well, is

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Speaker 1: there any way that we can help? Like where where

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Speaker 1: do the grasshoppers have? The ant? Have you your queen?

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Speaker 1: And well, we're not exactly sure, but we have come

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Speaker 1: for good, said bart WHOA Like, what do you mean? Well,

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Speaker 1: we have got to find a way to scare them away.

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Speaker 1: And and when we saw that ginormous thing craph down

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Speaker 1: onto the earth, it made a giant earthquake. Oh, the

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Speaker 1: ants are talking about that huge asteroid thing that crashed

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Speaker 1: in the backyard. Yeah, I imagine if that that must

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Speaker 1: have felt like a ginormous earthquake to the ants, right, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Bart started to tell Connor and Michaela the plan to

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Speaker 1: scare away the grasshoppers. Well, I guess that could work.

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Speaker 1: But won't they just come back and fight you again later,

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Speaker 1: said MICHAELA. Yeah, but maybe, but we gotta show him

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Speaker 1: whose boss. Connor and Michaela looked at each other. They

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Speaker 1: had learned recently that it might be a there might

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Speaker 1: be a better way than fighting to solve this problem.

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Speaker 1: Connor and Michaela came up with a good plan. We

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Speaker 1: should throw a party, like like an all bug party,

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Speaker 1: said MICHAELA. A party. What are you talking about? They

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Speaker 1: stole our queen. Yeah, that's really bad. But sometimes parties

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Speaker 1: are better at solving problems than fighting, said Connor. Connor

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Speaker 1: and Michaela convinced the ants to put together a giant

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Speaker 1: party and to invite the grasshoppers that night, there was

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Speaker 1: an amazing bug party. I've never been to a bug

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Speaker 1: party before, but this one looked pretty amazing. If you

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Speaker 1: were to throw a party for bugs, what would you

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Speaker 1: include in the party? Yeah, I would. I think they

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Speaker 1: want sweet things, so probably candy. Bugs like sweet things

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Speaker 1: wonder what games bugs like to play? Well? At that party,

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Speaker 1: the ants and the grasshoppers had a really fun time together,

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Speaker 1: and they learned that they could actually be friends instead

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Speaker 1: the ant kingdom, and now what are we gonna do

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Speaker 1: with Connor and Michaela? They're still the size of ants.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad that they solved that problem, But oh dear,

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Speaker 1: they got a problem for themselves. All right, Connor and Michaela,

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Speaker 1: thanks for helping us, said Bart. Is there any way

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Speaker 1: we can help you? Yeah, we're trying to get back

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Speaker 1: to that giant rock over there, but it looks like

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Speaker 1: it would take days to make it all the way back.

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Speaker 1: Oh don't worry, we'll help you. The Ants and the

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Speaker 1: Grasshoppers found a way to get Connor and Michaela back

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Speaker 1: touched it with both their hands, they instantly turned back

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Speaker 1: to normal size. WHOA, that would be so cool to

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Speaker 1: have that magical rock in my backyard or wouldn't that

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Speaker 1: be cool to have one in yours where if you

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Speaker 1: touched it it turns you into the size of a bug. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep my eyes eyes out for a shrinking

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Speaker 1: rock and you should too. We'll see you next time.

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Speaker 1: By great job, you listened all the way to the end,

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