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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's stories brought to

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Speaker 1: us by two of our friends, Marco and Thomas. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: guys ready for today's adventure? Me too? Let's go a

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Speaker 1: long time ago on the Mississippi River were two boys,

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Speaker 1: Marco and Thomas were brothers that protected the Mississippi River

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Speaker 1: from pirates. Yeah, the Mississippi River is a ginormously along

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Speaker 1: river that goes all the way through the United States.

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Speaker 1: From almost from the very top to the very bottom.

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Speaker 1: And this was a very important job because there were

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Speaker 1: many pirates that would sneak up and down the river

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Speaker 1: stealing from people that lived nearby. Marco and Thomas lived

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Speaker 1: on a houseboat trolling up and down the river looking

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Speaker 1: for any pirates that needed to be scared away. They

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Speaker 1: had some really awesome partners on their team. You see

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Speaker 1: a lot of the other animals and creatures that lived

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Speaker 1: in the river helped them scare the pirates away, and

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Speaker 1: so whenever they would see something, they would radio down

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Speaker 1: to one of their animal partners to scare the pirates,

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Speaker 1: and it worked every single time. But there was this

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Speaker 1: one pirate ship. It was a strange pirate ship. Um

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Speaker 1: This one was brown with purple polka dots. I think

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Speaker 1: they were trying to pretend they weren't a pirate ship

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Speaker 1: and maybe a part of the circus, but they were

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Speaker 1: definitely pirates, real mean pirates, and this ship always came back.

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Speaker 1: They have scared it away so many times, and so

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Speaker 1: they needed to find a way to scare it away

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Speaker 1: once and for all. They had put a tracker on

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Speaker 1: this pirate ship many months ago, just so that they

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Speaker 1: ship would be. All of a sudden, Marco saw something, Thomas, Thomas,

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Speaker 1: come here, come here, I think on on the radar,

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Speaker 1: it shows that pirate ship is getting really close. I

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Speaker 1: think now's our chance. Yes, that's awesome. You see, they

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Speaker 1: had formed a really good plan. One of the creatures,

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Speaker 1: or one species of the creatures that had many friends,

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Speaker 1: or catfish. Catfish are really big, scary looking fish that

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Speaker 1: live in the Mississippi River. They have they're kind of

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Speaker 1: silly because they have whiskers just like a cat and

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Speaker 1: that's I think that's why they call him catfish. Well,

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Speaker 1: these specially trained catfish had developed some kind of electrical

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Speaker 1: lightening bolts out of their whiskers right at the bad guys.

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Speaker 1: And so the plan was whenever they were able to

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Speaker 1: the catfish would zap them and they would never come

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Speaker 1: back again. All right, Marco, we need to call into

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Speaker 1: our catfish and give them a heads up of what's

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Speaker 1: start stealing stuff right away. We have to act fast.

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Speaker 1: Marco and Thomas grabbed their walkie talkies that were specially

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Speaker 1: programmed to talk to the catfish. Catfish. Catfish come in

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Speaker 1: over little quickly like we don't have It's really hard

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Speaker 1: to understand catfish talk while they're underwater and through a

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Speaker 1: walkie talkie, but somehow Marco and Thomas understood every word.

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Speaker 1: They said, that sounds like a great plan. Guys. All right,

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Speaker 1: we'll keep an eye on the pirate ship when it

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Speaker 1: gets close, and we'll give you the signal when you're

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Speaker 1: gonna zap them with your lightning bolts. Bub Oh, no,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be okay, don't worry. Just stick with us

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Speaker 1: and you'll be safe. It sounds like the catfish are

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Speaker 1: a little nervous of the pirates because they had never

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Speaker 1: zapped a pirate ship before, and they were a little nervous.

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Speaker 1: But don't worry, Marco and Thomas, we're gonna keep them

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Speaker 1: safe and make sure everything went according to plan. As

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Speaker 1: were perfectly camouflaged. They're screams owe. The pirate ship was

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Speaker 1: getting closer, b B, that's our Q Marco. All right,

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Speaker 1: as they radioed into the catfish, the catfish, we're ready,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's do this over on the pirate ship.

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Speaker 1: These pirates were so mean, all right, and we have

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Speaker 1: got to take as much as we can from this town.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of important things here, but the thing

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Speaker 1: that I want the most is all of the candy. Yes,

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Speaker 1: as pirates, I think we're all out of candy, and

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Speaker 1: so we must take everyone's skittles and lollipops and even

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Speaker 1: the rece's peanut butter cups. Yes, all right, everyone grab

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Speaker 1: your swords and let's get to work. Are That was

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Speaker 1: the sound of very angry, mean pirates that were about

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Speaker 1: to take all of the town's candy. We cannot let

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Speaker 1: this happen. The catfish swam into position. Thomas grabbed the

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Speaker 1: gotta start zapping. You gotta start zapping, now, go go go.

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Speaker 1: The catfish swam to the surface of the water and

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Speaker 1: pointed their whiskers right at the pirates. Three two one

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Speaker 1: turn out of here. My booty hurts. Ah, I think

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Speaker 1: the pirates booty got zapped. The catfish did it. Great job, guys,

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Speaker 1: Marco shouted. Marco and Thomas save the river again and

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Speaker 1: all that delicious candy in that town. But one amazing

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Speaker 1: thing about being heroes is sometimes nobody knows. Yeah, heroes

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Speaker 1: work undercover and they do really amazing things, and sometimes

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Speaker 1: town doesn't even know how awesome Marco and Thomas is.

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Speaker 1: Except us superheroes. We know how awesome they are. And

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Speaker 1: I know how awesome you are. So even when you

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Speaker 1: do something amazing and no one else sees it, I

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Speaker 1: see it, and you are awesome. Well, you have a

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Speaker 1: super duper day. We'll see you next time. On Kids

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