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Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister jim Man. Welcome back to kid

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the family. We are the podcast that turns your ideas

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Speaker 1: into an amazing adventure every single day. You know, we

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Speaker 1: couldn't even exist without imaginations from kids just like you.

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Speaker 1: So if you have an idea for a story, I'd

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Speaker 1: love to see it. Check down in the show notes

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Speaker 1: below for how you can submit your own story idea

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Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. And parents,

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Speaker 1: if you're new to kids podcasting, I'm gonna challenge you

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Speaker 1: to listen to podcasting for five days in a row

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Speaker 1: with your kids. It's going to increase their imagination, decrease

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Speaker 1: screen time, and we're gonna have a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: along the way. Are you guys ready for today's adventure?

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Speaker 2: Me too? Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Ready or not? Here I come. Stella and Eden were

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Speaker 1: playing hide and seek in their backyard and Stella was

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Speaker 1: it do you love playing hide and seek? Oh, that

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Speaker 1: is such a fun game to play in the backyard.

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Speaker 1: And Stella took her hands off her eyes and started

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Speaker 1: to scan her surroundings. Hmmm, treehouse, slide, garden, hmmm, Sella

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Speaker 1: was listening off the things that she could see in

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Speaker 1: the yard interesting places to hide, but none of them

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Speaker 1: being Eden. A bush started to wiggle in the distance,

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Speaker 1: and that is an awfully important clue if you're playing

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Speaker 1: hide and seek, because bushes don't wiggle. Stella ran at

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Speaker 1: the bush, pouncing around the other side, saying, gotcha, squeaked

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Speaker 1: the startled squirrel on the other side. O sorry, squirrel,

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Speaker 1: laughed Stella. It swished its tail at her before sprinting

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Speaker 1: up a tree. Oh yeah, I forgot about squirrels. They

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Speaker 1: can wiggle bushes too, so okay, keep looking. Stella walked

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Speaker 1: and tree trunks. She walked through the taller patches of grass,

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Speaker 1: not seeing any sight of Eden. The long grass tickled

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Speaker 1: her ankles, but her giggles turned into a screech when

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Speaker 1: the grass stopped brushing up against her and something grabbed

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Speaker 1: her ankle instead. A Stella heard Eden burst into laughter,

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Speaker 1: but she didn't see her. Stella down here. Eden's head

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Speaker 1: popped up again from under the tall grass, this time

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Speaker 1: to wave at Stella. What in the world who? Stella

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Speaker 1: was very scared after her foot got grabbed and started

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Speaker 1: to part the grass, and Saw had found the best

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Speaker 1: hiding spot. She was standing inside of a giant tunnel

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Speaker 1: hidden beneath the long tall grass. Aiden, how did you

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Speaker 1: find this place? Stella gasped as she jumped in. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it actually found me, replied Eden. I was

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Speaker 1: when I saw this patch of grass that was glowing

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Speaker 1: like really, it was bright green, so obviously I went

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Speaker 1: to look at it, and this all appeared cool, said Stella.

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Speaker 1: But Eden, this isn't just a hole, it's a tunnel. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen where it goes yet? Eden smiled at her. Nope,

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Speaker 1: I was waiting for you to find me so we

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Speaker 1: could find out together. Come on, let's go. He didn't

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Speaker 1: grab Stella's hand, and the two girls headed through. Stella

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Speaker 1: thought it would have gotten darker as they left the

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Speaker 1: entrance to the hole because the sunlight wouldn't be able

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Speaker 1: to reach them, but it didn't get dark at all. Instead,

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Speaker 1: it became more colorful. The dirt walls were lined with

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Speaker 1: glittering stones of blues and purples that glowed softly wow,

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Speaker 1: while the ground beneath them became fluffier like yeah, you

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Speaker 1: heard me right, fluffier with every step. It wasn't squishy

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Speaker 1: like mud. It actually felt kind of like cotton balls.

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Speaker 1: In fact, the farther they went along the tunnel, it

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Speaker 1: actually began to look like they were being surrounded by clouds.

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Speaker 1: The dirt walls and ceiling above them were no longer brown.

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Speaker 1: The fluffy material all around them began to part where

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Speaker 1: the glowing stones were and were lath by sunbeams shining through.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Stella, I don't think we're underground anymore. Stella nodded

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Speaker 1: Babe boop blue. Stella and Eden swiveled their head in

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Speaker 1: the direction of that sound. Floating ahead on one of

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Speaker 1: the clouds was an alien. It was a yellow creature

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Speaker 1: with a fluffy cloud face and a very thin body.

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Speaker 1: It made it look like cotton candy on a stick.

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Speaker 1: Stella and Eden both waved slowly at the alien, unsure

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Speaker 1: or not. It zipped right over to them, floating around them,

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Speaker 1: right in front of them, Bloop sweep blue peep. It

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Speaker 1: tried again, Bippity buppity boo, responded Eden. The alien looked confused.

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Speaker 1: Uh sorry, said Stella. Oh, we don't understand what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: The aliens swirled around in a circle, and three clouds

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Speaker 1: raced up to them. The alien jumped in and the

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Speaker 1: cloud formed around it like a seat. It looked at

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Speaker 1: Stella and Eden, waiting for them to do the same.

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Speaker 1: Stella and Eden held hands as they each stepped one

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Speaker 1: foot very carefully into their own clouds. I would be

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Speaker 1: pretty afraid to step on a cloud, would you. I

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Speaker 1: feel like my would fall right through it. But they

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Speaker 1: with both feet. Maybe beepy boo boo, shouted the alien

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Speaker 1: as it bounced up and down. I think it wants

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Speaker 1: and they both sat down at the same time. The

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Speaker 1: cloud formed around them like a seat, just as it

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Speaker 1: had for the alien, and a fluffy steering wheel popped

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Speaker 1: out in front. WHOA, is this like a cloud car?

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Speaker 1: The alien revd its cloud engine and shouted back at

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Speaker 1: them bloo bloop before it sped off. I think it

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Speaker 1: wants to play with us, Maybe e race our cloud cars,

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Speaker 1: said Stella, so her and Eden rev their cloud cars

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Speaker 1: and darted after the alien. The three of them raced

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Speaker 1: all throughout the cloud world. They soared over blue cloud

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Speaker 1: mountains and under green cloud trees. What this wasn't even

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Speaker 1: their same world? This was a totally different world. Everything

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Speaker 1: was made of clouds. The game of chase turned into

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Speaker 1: a game of hide and seek tag WHOA, with Stella, Eden,

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Speaker 1: and the alien taking turns being it. They hid behind

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Speaker 1: They played until the girls grew tired. Oh wow, oh,

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Speaker 1: I think this is why I found their tunnel. Oh,

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Speaker 1: yawned Eden. I think the alien saw us and wanted

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Speaker 1: to play too, me blue bloop boop, said the alien,

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Speaker 1: sounding like it agreed. The girls thanked the alien for

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Speaker 1: inviting them to their cloud world and explain the best

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Speaker 1: they could that they were sleepy and had a head home.

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Speaker 1: It took a lot of yawning and fake snoringsh, but

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Speaker 1: the alien finally understood it. That's pretty funny if if

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Speaker 1: you were trying to talk to an alien that understand you,

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Speaker 1: and you're trying to tell it that you needed to

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Speaker 1: go to sleep, how would you do would you act

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Speaker 1: it out or make Oh yeah, you could put your

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Speaker 1: hands over your next to your cheek like you're laying down. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: make snoring sounds. And finally the alien understood them. It

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Speaker 1: showed them back to the tunnel and waved goodbye. Wow

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Speaker 1: that was so fun, said Stella as the girls pop

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Speaker 1: back through their side of the tunnel, back into their world. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Eden agreed. I can't wait to find out where the

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Speaker 1: other tunnels go. Other tunnels, said Stella. She chased after Eden, Hey,

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Speaker 1: wait for me, I want to see the other tunnels. Wow,

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Speaker 1: this may be the end of our story, but what

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Speaker 1: about those other tunnels? Huh, well, I think our imaginations

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Speaker 1: are going to have to continue the story of what

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Speaker 1: happened in the next tunnel when Stella and Eden crawl inside.

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Speaker 1: Where do you think they'll wind up next? I'm not sure,

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Speaker 1: but I can't wait to see what your imaginations come

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Speaker 1: up with.

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

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Speaker 1: glad that you're all on the Kits 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. Well, you have a super duber day and

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

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