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Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to kit

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. I was just reading through this five star

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Speaker 1: review from Beckham, Olivia and Millie says, you're so grateful

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Speaker 1: for a new story every day. The whole family enjoys

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Speaker 1: listening and we love the conversations as stemmed from the episodes.

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Speaker 1: Even our eighteen month old has an evil laugh she

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Speaker 1: does whenever doctor Sinky Breath has mentioned that's hilarious. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for sending that review. Are you

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

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Speaker 1: was a very rainy day in the jungle as our

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Speaker 1: friend Archie the pygmy Hippo was walking along squishing and

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Speaker 1: squashing in the mud. Archie, as a pygmy hippo, was

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Speaker 1: a very small hippopotamus, so small in fact, that he

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Speaker 1: was often afraid of many other things. He had to

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Speaker 1: look around everywhere he went and keep his eyes open

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Speaker 1: just to make sure that there wasn't anything scary up

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Speaker 1: around the next corner. But today, something pretty amazing would

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Speaker 1: happen to Archie as he would need to choose to

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Speaker 1: be brave to help out a new friend. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: just love a good rady day. That makes it so

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Speaker 1: great to splash it splash in the mud? I just

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Speaker 1: I love it? What what?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: What? With each step he took, it squished and all

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Speaker 1: in between his toes. Wait a second, do hippos have toes? Oh,

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Speaker 1: of course they have toes. And so as he squashed

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Speaker 1: and squashed his way through the mud, his toes got

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Speaker 1: very muddy, raw raw. Archie turned around and looked they

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Speaker 1: were in the world. Did that terrifying noise come from?

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Speaker 1: Must be someone trying to eat me. I gotta get

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Speaker 1: out of here. Archie the pigmy hippo started running as

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Speaker 1: fast as he could, which was not very fast because

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Speaker 1: he had very short legs. His four little feet tried

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Speaker 1: of a sudden he tripped and fell and slid right

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Speaker 1: in the mud. Wh help me. It was in all

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Speaker 1: the pandemonium that he had actually started running towards the

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Speaker 1: big noise, not away from it. He closed his eyes

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Speaker 1: he was trying to hide from whatever terrible he scary

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Speaker 1: creature that was really close to him. Somebody there, I

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Speaker 1: need help. I got stuck in all of this mud,

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Speaker 1: like a crocodile, said Archie. Well, maybe I'll just take

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Speaker 1: a little peek. Archie poked his eyes up out of

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Speaker 1: As he scanned the horizon that was in front of him,

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Speaker 1: towards a lake that was right there, and right in

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Speaker 1: front of him was a ginormous crocodile. But that crocodile

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Speaker 1: and looked like it couldn't move an inch. Archie, the

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Speaker 1: pygmy hippo, raised his head up out of the mud

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Speaker 1: to take a better look. So, uh, how'd you get

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Speaker 1: stuck in the mud like that? Ah ooh you scarred me, oh,

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Speaker 1: said the crocodile. Yeah, I uh, I got stuck in

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Speaker 1: And now my tail can't even move and I don't

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Speaker 1: but just a little hippo like you. There's no way

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you want to see me tray, said Archie. Ha,

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Speaker 1: there's no way. Archie was always up for a challenge,

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Speaker 1: and so because the crocodile thought that Archie couldn't do it,

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Speaker 1: Have you ever felt like that before? Someone ever told you, oh,

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Speaker 1: there's no way you can do that, and it deep

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Speaker 1: can and I'm gonna prove it to you. Step aside. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's exactly what Archie, the pygmy hippo felt inside. He

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Speaker 1: wanted to prove that crocodile wrong. You should have seen

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Speaker 1: how fast Archie could move around in that deep, wet mud.

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Speaker 1: He was an expert mud swimmer. Have you ever gone

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Speaker 1: mud swimming before me? Neither. Just imagine if you were

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Speaker 1: Hey be careful down there, it's kind of ticklish on

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Speaker 1: my on my belly, said the crocodile. All right, at

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Speaker 1: But you're not gonna be able to push me out

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Speaker 1: of the mud, said the crocodile. Archie breathed in deep

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Speaker 1: and on the count of three, one, two, three, Archie

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Speaker 1: ginormous crocodile's belly. Even though Archie was small and his

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Speaker 1: what is going on? I'm stirring up out of the mud.

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Speaker 1: How did you do that, little guy, said the crocodile.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, just keep moving. I can't hold you forever.

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Speaker 1: Just step up out of the mud and get back

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Speaker 1: out of the water, said Archie. Oh oh, yes, oh okay. Squish,

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Speaker 1: squash squishes. The crocodile picked up each step and squashed

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Speaker 1: it back into the mud and slid right back into

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Speaker 1: the lake. Hoy, Wow, you got a big belly there,

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Speaker 1: mister crocodile. Wow, you're pretty strong for a little fellah.

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Speaker 1: What's your name. My name's Archie. It's great to beat you.

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Speaker 1: What's your name? My name is Lenny. But uh huh,

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Speaker 1: I've never been friends with a big me hippo. But

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Speaker 1: today is a new day, and you happened to help

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Speaker 1: me get unstuck from the mud. Would you like to

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Speaker 1: come on over to my house and I can make

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Speaker 1: you a delicious dinner? Do you mean have me for

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Speaker 1: dinner or make me a dinner? Oh no, no, I

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Speaker 1: don't eat hippopotamuses. I would love to have you over

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Speaker 1: and make you something delicious to eat. Please, it's my pleasure,

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Speaker 1: said Lenny the crocodile, and that was the day that

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Speaker 1: Archie the pigby hippo, who used to be very afraid

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Speaker 1: of a lot of things, learned to be brave. And

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Speaker 1: it was all it stems from when Lenny the crocodile

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Speaker 1: told him that he didn't think he could do it,

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Speaker 1: but Archie proved him wrong. And so even though this

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Speaker 1: is the end of the story, maybe you can prove

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Speaker 1: somebody wrong. Maybe you'll be like Archie one day and

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Speaker 1: help a crocodile up out of the mud. Well maybe

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Speaker 1: not exactly that, but maybe, just maybe you'll find something

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Speaker 1: amazing that you'll be able to do. The end.

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Speaker 2: I need your help celebrating some birthdays.

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Speaker 1: Drum roll please.

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Speaker 2: Happy birthday Benjamin, who's durning seven years old. Benjamin loves

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Speaker 2: going to school, all things Star Wars, and snuggling with family.

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Speaker 2: Oh I love all of those things, Benjamin. I'm so

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Speaker 2: glad we got celebrated you and your big seventh birthday

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Speaker 2: on the show. I hope it's the best one ever.

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Speaker 2: And next up we have.

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday Delilah, who's earning four years old. Delilah love's

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Speaker 1: nature and animal. She's a great little sister and loves

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Speaker 1: the color purple. Wow. Delilah.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad that we got celebrated you and your

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Speaker 2: big day on the show.

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Speaker 1: Happy fourth birthday, Delilah. Great job, you listened all the

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Speaker 1: way to the end and you know what tumm it is.

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Speaker 1: It's time for kid show outs. I want to say

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Speaker 1: hey to Ali from Georgia, I Slee, Brooklyn and Luna

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Speaker 1: from Alberta, Canada, Evelyn from Massachusetts, Fielder from Colorado, Harper

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Speaker 1: from Brisbane, Australia, Jude from Illinois, Aiden from Montreal, Alexandra

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Speaker 1: from Romanian Alex and Abby from Sain Baul, Minnesota. I'm

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Speaker 1: so glad that you're all on the Kid George Story's

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Speaker 1: family and on the spy team. We could not stop

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Speaker 1: Doctor Stickybread and his crew without you, my friends. Will

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Speaker 1: you have a super duper day and now I'll see

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Speaker 1: you next time. Bye.