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Speaker 1: Hey, friends, welcome back to kids' short stories. If this

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Speaker 1: is your first time, welcome to the family. My name

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Speaker 1: is mister Jim, and I love turning your ideas into

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Speaker 1: awesome adventures. You see, parents, We do stories every single

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Speaker 1: day based on ideas. That's kids all around the world.

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Speaker 2: Send in.

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Speaker 1: I turn that little idea into a really fun adventure

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Speaker 1: and this has helped reduce screen time and increase imagination.

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Speaker 1: So if that sounds awesome, click that follow button. Well, friends,

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Speaker 1: are you ready for today's adventure? Me too? Let's go.

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Speaker 2: All right, pippins, I need updates. What are you working

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Speaker 2: on today?

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Speaker 3: Well, but Professor sticky fingers he was working on something.

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Speaker 3: It looks like a big bouncy ball, except it's the

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Speaker 3: big sticky ball and if somebody touches it then they

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Speaker 3: get stuck inside and that's sticky ball.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I like the idea. Is the professor around? Oh boy,

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Speaker 2: hey boys, yeah, I'm over here. I was just working

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Speaker 2: on these really sticky balls, and I.

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Speaker 1: Think it could be perfect in catching a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of people.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, how many of them? Could do you think

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Speaker 2: you could make for me?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I think we could have a couple of thousand by

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Speaker 2: the end of today. Perfect no pepper ninches. How Vilvik

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Speaker 2: scatter all these bouncy balls everywhere without people knowing exactly

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we want to keep it a surprise for like

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Speaker 3: a trap. So you know how we have all those

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Speaker 3: volcanoes kind of under our control?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I do.

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Speaker 3: Well, we were thinking maybe we could fill up some

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Speaker 3: of the volcanoes with these sticky bounty balls and then

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Speaker 3: What do you think about that?

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Speaker 4: I like it?

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Speaker 2: Now, get you work.

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Speaker 1: It was a beautiful day outside as Silas was playing

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Speaker 1: with his friends. They were playing a game of Critter

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Speaker 1: and it was up to them to protect them. Have

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Speaker 1: you heard of our Critter Protector Team? Yes, we are

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Speaker 1: a team that loves critters of all shapes and sizes,

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Speaker 1: and it's our job to protect them either around the

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Speaker 1: world or in our backyard. And if that sounds fun

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Speaker 1: to you have your parents. Go down to the show

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Speaker 1: notes of this episode, click on the link, and you

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Speaker 1: will receive your very own critter protector badge in the

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Speaker 1: mail for free guys. Don't let those herd of buffaloes

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Speaker 1: run off. There's a cliff over there, shouted Silas. They

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Speaker 1: were working together to calm down these imaginative buffaloes who

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Speaker 1: just calm down, said Silas, as he was helping these

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Speaker 4: Come on over.

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Speaker 1: Silas and his friends raced over to where his friend

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Speaker 1: Now that we know that this stream is full of

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Speaker 1: Their imaginative game of saving imaginative buffaloes had now shifted

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Speaker 4: Silas, we need your help. There is a volcano nearby

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Speaker 1: It's about to explode.

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Speaker 4: Yes, the local zoo is the most closest to the volcano.

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Speaker 4: We need you and all the other Critter Protectors to

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about, Silas, They asked, like, it's

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Speaker 1: There's a volcano that's about to explode by the zoo

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Speaker 1: Little did they know that that game that they were

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Speaker 1: They have a lot of work to do. If you

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Speaker 1: it that the Purple Ninjas and Doctor Sinky Breath were

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Speaker 1: Kids Short Stories. Great job, you listened all the way

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Speaker 1: It's time for dude shout out. So I want to

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Speaker 1: say hey to Cedar and Sage from Westchester, Ninave from Canada,

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Speaker 1: from British Columbia, and Dakota from Lafayette, Indiana. I'm so

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Speaker 1: glad that you're all in the Kit Short Stories family

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

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Speaker 4: You, my friends.

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Speaker 1: Will you have got to check out those Critter Protector

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Speaker 1: badges down in the show notes below. We'll see you

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Speaker 1: next time.

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Speaker 2: Bye,