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

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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 1: Me too. Let's go. Time to go to Grandma's house.

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Speaker 1: To go to Grandma's house, Poppy sang as she zipped

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Speaker 1: up her overnight bag. She had all the essentials that

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Speaker 1: you need for such an event as grandma's house. Bed

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Speaker 1: sheets for blanket, fords, check, flashlights for flashlight tag check

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Speaker 1: and check. Oh, and cheese sticks in case they got hungry.

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Speaker 1: You know, Grandma would be there to pick Poppy up soon,

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Speaker 1: so she headed outside to wait. Goodbye, I'm going to Grandma's.

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Speaker 1: Pobby called out to all her toys that were staying behind.

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Speaker 1: It was important that they knew her she was going,

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Speaker 1: so they wouldn't worry, of course. Then she opened the

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Speaker 1: front door and headed into the yard to practice cartwheels.

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Speaker 1: She threw her hands up in the air and went

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Speaker 1: from right side up to upside down. The back again

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Speaker 1: whirled around her, spinning with each cartwheel. Oh, she love

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Speaker 1: the feeling of the wind through her hair. As she

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Speaker 1: was flying around. She also was watching the world above

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Speaker 1: her go from skyblue to grass green when she realized

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Speaker 1: something was missing. Hey, where are the neighbors' houses? Poppy

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Speaker 1: noticed that besides the grass, there wasn't anything else she

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Speaker 1: could see. The neighbors houses were pretty far away, but

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Speaker 1: she still should be able to see them, at least,

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Speaker 1: she thought. She walked to the side of her house

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Speaker 1: and through the grass for a while. I should definitely

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Speaker 1: be able to see them from here, she said to herself.

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Speaker 1: Poppy was about to take another step when she looked

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Speaker 1: down at the last minute and stumbled back under the

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Speaker 1: ground behind her. She shrieked the cliff. What is this

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Speaker 1: doing here? Poppy crawled back towards the edge and looked

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Speaker 1: over way far down below were her neighbors houses, along

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Speaker 1: with the rest of the town. That her house was

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Speaker 1: now raised up high into the sky and on top

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Speaker 1: of a humongous mountain. Where did this mountain come from?

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Speaker 1: How did my house get up here? Poppy shouted?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: The question she was most concerned about was, Oh, dear,

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Speaker 1: how will I get to Grandma's house? It was way

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Speaker 1: too far for Poppy to jump and too steep for

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Speaker 1: her to climb. Poppy sat back and brainstorms some ideas.

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Speaker 1: Tear down the mountain so Grandma could pick her up. Huh,

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Speaker 1: I don't have an airplane or really anything with wings. Hmm,

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Speaker 1: what if I ask a friendly eagle to scoop me

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Speaker 1: up with his talons and carry me down? Yeah? Poppy

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Speaker 1: looked around for one, but you'll only birds in the

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Speaker 1: trees were tiny blue ones. Put a bunch of tiny

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Speaker 1: blue birds carrying me down together. Poppy walked over to

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Speaker 1: ask one, but it just chirped and flew away. With

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Speaker 1: her first idea unsuccessful, Poppy began planning again. What if

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Speaker 1: I tie the bed sheets for the blanket for together

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Speaker 1: and use them like a rope to climb down. Poppy

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Speaker 1: began nodding each one together. When she finished, she went

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Speaker 1: over to the edge and hung them down. But they

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Speaker 1: didn't even make it past the first cloud. Okay, time

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Speaker 1: for plan. See, she said, I can't fly down or

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Speaker 1: climb down on blanket ropes. Maybe I could sled down.

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Speaker 1: She imagined herself, holding her bright red sled and taking

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Speaker 1: a running start before lee onto it and whizzing down

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Speaker 1: the very steep side of the mountain. She would need

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Speaker 1: some controls so she could weave in and out of

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Speaker 1: the boulders and any other obstacles in her path. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: her Grandma would be waiting at the bottom, clapping and

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Speaker 1: smiling at her arrival. This seemed like a great plan,

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Speaker 1: but there was one important detail missing. Sleds need snow,

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Speaker 1: back down in the grass. She watched an ant disappear

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Speaker 1: into its home underground. Under Ground, if I could dig

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Speaker 1: creatures she might meet as she dug. Maybe she would

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Speaker 1: by a rabbit family. Hoppy imagined crunching carrots in the

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Speaker 1: as they sat around the wooden table. Oh, but she

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Speaker 1: needed to focus. Yes, digging seemed like the best option

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Speaker 1: enough shovel. Hoppy made her way behind her house for

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Speaker 1: leave to see the shed was still there and hadn't disappeared.

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Speaker 1: Down the mountain. She squeezed past the lawnmower and rummaged

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Speaker 1: through the gardening tools. Aha, here it is. Poppy held

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Speaker 1: Now it was time to dig. She walked around the

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Speaker 1: grassy mountaintop looking for the best spot to get started.

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Speaker 1: Not too close to the house or the shed, but

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Speaker 1: Poppy stuck her shovel into the ground with all her

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Speaker 1: might and grunted as she pulled out the first large

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Speaker 1: chunk of grass and dirt, tossing it to the side.

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Speaker 1: She got into a rhythm of scoop, dump, repeat, and

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Speaker 1: was making excellent progress. As Poppy stood in the hole,

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Speaker 1: now the ground was just past her knees. She had

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Speaker 1: encountered several worms already, but none of them had responded

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Speaker 1: to her friendly greetings of hello, or who are you

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Speaker 1: enjoying this pleasant day? Mister worm? They weren't very talkative.

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Speaker 1: She wasn't sure if they weren't responding because they weren't misters,

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Speaker 1: or maybe they just couldn't understand her. This is harder

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Speaker 1: than I thought it would be, groaned Poppy as she

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Speaker 1: scooped out another clump of dirt. The hole was almost

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Speaker 1: than she was tall when she heard something that made

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Speaker 1: her stop. There was a low rumbling sound coming from

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Speaker 1: down the road. Poppy stood on her tiptoes to see

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Speaker 1: the ground above. When she saw Grandma's car pulling into

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Speaker 1: her driveway Grandma, Poppy shouted, waving her arms, Grandma over here.

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Speaker 1: Grandma made her way over and looked at Poppy shovel

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Speaker 1: in hand, face and clothes smudged with dirt. What are

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Speaker 1: you doing down there, Grandma asked, I was trying to

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Speaker 1: dig a hole down the mountain, so I could get

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Speaker 1: to you. I woke up and the house was on

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Speaker 1: a mountain, and I looked up the edge and saw

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Speaker 1: there's no way down. Wait, hell a second, Grandma, how

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Speaker 1: did you get here? The mountain is so steep? Grandma

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Speaker 1: smiled and pointed down the road, the opposite direction from

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Speaker 1: where Poppy had spent her morning. Well the road, of course.

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Speaker 1: Grandma helped Poppy get out of the hole, and together

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Speaker 1: they gathered her things. She explained how the other side

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Speaker 1: of the mountain isn't a steep cliff and really is

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Speaker 1: quite lovely with all of its trees and animals. Ah,

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Speaker 1: what a relief. Poppy hopped into her grandma's car and

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Speaker 1: they took down the road down the other side of

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Speaker 1: the mountain to Grandma's house. This may be the end

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Speaker 1: of the story, but I think it's only just the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the amazing adventures that lie ahead for Poppy

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Speaker 1: at her grandma's house.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back after a brief word from our sponsor. Wow,

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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 something is heads time for Kurd

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all in the Kitchen 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 duper day and

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Speaker 1: I'll see you next time.

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