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Speaker 1: Hello, Critter Protectors. Mister Jim here and welcome to Kids

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Speaker 1: Animal Stories, a place where there's always a mystery and

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Speaker 1: adventure around every single corner. If you love critters of

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Speaker 1: all shapes and sizes, I need you on our Critter

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Speaker 1: Protector team. Join our adventure as we learn about critters

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Speaker 1: from around the world.

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Speaker 2: And in our back yards. Well, my friends, are you

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Speaker 2: ready for today's adventure? Me too, Let's go. A Connie,

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Speaker 2: the Japanese firebelly newt had just spent her morning eating

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Speaker 2: yummy worms, relaxing out of the water, and thinking about

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Speaker 2: egg laying season that was coming up pretty soon. She

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Speaker 2: tried to put off thinking about all the work ahead

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Speaker 2: for some time, but it was approaching quickly. What After

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Speaker 2: swimming around her entire clear water pond, she realized she

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Speaker 2: had a terribly big problem. She had looked all over

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Speaker 2: her area and hadn't spotted a single green leaf. Wait,

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Speaker 2: that's the problem. A green leaf that doesn't seem very big,

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Speaker 2: You know, big problem. I've definitely gone places where I

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Speaker 2: haven't seen a green leaf and thought the world is ending?

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Speaker 2: So what does this have to do with eggling season?

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Speaker 2: Shouldn't a Connie be thinking about where she should be

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Speaker 2: laying her eggs, and less about the plants in her pond.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any guesses of why a Kanie is

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Speaker 2: so concerned about there not being any green leaves? Well,

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Speaker 2: a Connie was actually thinking about her eggs. These plants

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Speaker 2: play a big part in keeping her eggs safe. Are

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Speaker 2: all the plants completely? God? I can't lay my exit

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Speaker 2: the dirt or rocks. What am I gonna do? She

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Speaker 2: was feeling very worried. You see Japanese fire belly neots

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Speaker 2: he leaves to lay their eggs in. Each egg is

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Speaker 2: carefully laid on a leaf and rolled up for safety.

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Speaker 2: Connie thought for a while, decided her only bed was

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Speaker 2: to leave the area she was used to and try

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Speaker 2: and find some leaves somewhere else. He goodbye, goesy home,

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Speaker 2: good Bye a little rocks where I sleep, good Bye

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Speaker 2: bright sunshutting down my favorite water's ed. Connie was feeling

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Speaker 2: rather sad about leaving, even though she was hoping to

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Speaker 2: hard to leave home. Have you ever had to move?

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Speaker 2: Maybe say goodbye to friends who were moving her family members,

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Speaker 2: It's well, it's always hard and a bit sad to

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Speaker 2: say goodbye. As a Connie headed towards the south end

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Speaker 2: of the pond, she tried to keep her eyes healed

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Speaker 2: for the color green. If I could just find a

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Speaker 2: nice patch of leaves, that's really all I need, she thought.

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Speaker 2: After a bit more swimming started to get dark. A

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Speaker 2: Connie hadn't even realized how quickly the whole day flew by.

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Speaker 2: She forgot all about dinner, but was too tired to care,

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Speaker 2: so she fell fast asleep sh sh The next morning,

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Speaker 2: A Connie woke up to the grumbling of her tummy.

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Speaker 2: I've gotta fight something to eat. I'm starving. A Connie

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Speaker 2: swam around. Large fish passed by what unfriendly? Even a

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Speaker 2: small turtle swam pass without even saying a word. These

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Speaker 2: critters on this side of the pond don't seem to

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Speaker 2: be very friendly. I miss my neighborhood. Just when she

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Speaker 2: was about to cry, she saw some small insects near

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Speaker 2: the surface of the water. These bugs will have to do.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'll be happy or once I get some food

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Speaker 2: in my temmy, Connie thought, and she headed up to

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Speaker 2: the surface to eat. She was right. After some breakfast,

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Speaker 2: things didn't seem so sad anymore. She kept heading south

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Speaker 2: in hopes of finding some green plants for her eggs.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of funny how that happens. Where if our

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Speaker 2: tummies are empty and we're feeling very hungry, sometimes I

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Speaker 2: get a little grumpy or extra sad. Have you ever

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Speaker 2: felt big emotions when you're feeling very hungry? Oh? I

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Speaker 2: definitely have. She searched for hours and hours and still

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Speaker 2: didn't find anything that would work for her eggs. Mmm.

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Speaker 2: I've only got a little more to go, and I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna hit the other end of the pond. I'm running

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Speaker 2: Just before the south bank of her pond, and just

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Speaker 2: before she had to make a decision of whether it

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Speaker 2: look somewhere else, Connie started to see some familiar movement.

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Speaker 2: What is that? A no? It could it be? She

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Speaker 2: started swimming towards a little splash ahead of her. Just ahead,

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Speaker 2: greener than green leaves and plants. Not only did she

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Speaker 2: other firebelly nuts. Left and right, she saw neuts busily

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Speaker 2: but oh, this is perfect. She headed over to a

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Speaker 2: My name is Maya, and welcome to Green Acres. Maya

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Speaker 2: said happily, Oh, thank you. My name's a Connie. Who

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Speaker 2: I'm from the north end of Dada. You would have

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Speaker 2: and some much needed green plants. Connie tried to explain

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Speaker 2: heard about the problems, and a few other newts had

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Speaker 2: traveled to this little secret oasis as a Connie laid

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Speaker 2: her eggs. Throughout the next few months, she made more

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Speaker 2: and more friends. Green Acres quickly started to feel like home,

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Speaker 2: and she was so happy she took the risk of

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Speaker 2: across the pond, she would never have found a perfect

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Speaker 2: make new friends. The end, great job, you listened all

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Speaker 2: the way to the end, and have you heard that

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Speaker 2: we are starting our very first book, Well right now.

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Speaker 2: Down in the show notes below, you can pre order

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Speaker 2: your very first Mister Jim book. I'm so excited to

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Speaker 2: share our very first hardcover book with you that you

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Speaker 2: can read at home. So make sure that your parents

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Speaker 2: know about mister Jim's first book. All the information is

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Speaker 2: down in the show notes below. I'll see you on

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Speaker 2: our next adventure. Bye.