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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories Today. Story comes to

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Speaker 1: us from one of our friends, Mayor. Hey, Mayor, he

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Speaker 1: sent us an awesome idea for a story, and you

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Speaker 1: can't do just head over to our website, Kids short

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Speaker 1: Stories dot Org. Sent it's your idea and maybe we'll

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Speaker 1: turn it into an awesome adventure. And while you're there,

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Speaker 1: so I can say hello to Nivan from Seattle, Stephen

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Speaker 1: am so glad that you guys are part of the

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Speaker 1: Kids Short Stories family and on our spiking team. Are

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

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Speaker 1: One day, Mayor was playing in his backyard because it

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Speaker 1: was a beautiful day and he loved to go outside.

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Speaker 1: Outside is where all the fun happens. There is endless

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Speaker 1: possibilities of all the fun things that we can do,

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Speaker 1: Like maybe we could dig a hole that's super deep,

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Speaker 1: or maybe we could collect a bunch of sticks and

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Speaker 1: build a fort. Well, Mayor was really good at using

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Speaker 1: his imagination to come up with the coolest ideas, and

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Speaker 1: today was no different. He had come up with a

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Speaker 1: plan that he was going to build a secret four

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Speaker 1: and wait what is that? That was his Spike Kid beeper. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You see, Mayor was on the Spiky team on the

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Speaker 1: animal division. So he was on the animal rescue team,

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Speaker 1: and so he got all kinds of calls and emergencies

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Speaker 1: about animals that really needed help and sometimes people too. Well,

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Speaker 1: this one, what's kind of complicated. As he listened to

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Speaker 1: the message, it said, Mayor, we need your help. We

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Speaker 1: need you to go to the beach as soon as possible.

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Speaker 1: There are sharks everywhere over and now, oh no, that

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Speaker 1: is not good, Mayor said. If there's sharks at the beach,

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Speaker 1: that could get really dangerous if the people and look up.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, Mayor has got to get out of here,

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Speaker 1: so he'll get back to building his fort later. He's

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Speaker 1: got to go grab his spy gear. He ran upstairs

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Speaker 1: to his room, build his bag with all of his

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Speaker 1: spy gear that he needed, threw on his jet pack

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Speaker 1: and blasted off. It was gonna be a long drive

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Speaker 1: in a car over to the beach, So it's a

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Speaker 1: good thing that he had his jet pack that would

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Speaker 1: get him there really quickly. As Mayor blasted through the clouds,

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Speaker 1: he could see the beach in the distance, and holy smokes,

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Speaker 1: it looks like a giant chaos mess over there. There

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Speaker 1: are sharks splashing in the water. Looks like the sharks

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Speaker 1: are trying to get up on the beach and people

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Speaker 1: are screaming like crazy. Wouldn't that be a scary thing

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Speaker 1: to see? If all the sharks were trying to get

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Speaker 1: out of the water and onto the beach, the people

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Speaker 1: did not know where to run well. As Mayor landed

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Speaker 1: on the beach, things quickly made since there was a

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Speaker 1: lot of confusion. But he started talking to one of

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Speaker 1: the sharks. He said, Mr shark, what on earth are

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Speaker 1: all of you doing? Why are you trying to eat

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Speaker 1: all these people on the beach. We're not trying to

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Speaker 1: eat anybody. We're trying to get out of the ocean

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Speaker 1: because there's a terrible monster swimming in the ocean. Wait,

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Speaker 1: you're not trying Oh, you're just trying to get out

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Speaker 1: of the ocean. You see. I think all the people

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Speaker 1: were trying to eat them. But that's not true. That's good,

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Speaker 1: all right, So Mr shark, you can call me Sammy.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, hey Sammy. My name is Mayor and I'm

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Speaker 1: part of the Animal Rescue Team and the Spike Kid Division.

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Speaker 1: And um, so can you tell me a little bit

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Speaker 1: more about this monster that you say lives in the ocean. Oh? Yes,

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Speaker 1: but he is so scary and that's you see, the

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Speaker 1: story started spreading around the ocean and we heard that

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Speaker 1: he must be nearby, and that's why all of us

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Speaker 1: as we could. Okay, well, um, can you tell me

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Speaker 1: maybe I can figure something out. Oh well, he's very

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Speaker 1: scary to talk about. His name is Rusty the Minnow.

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Speaker 1: Wait did you say Rusty the minnow? Yes? I did.

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Speaker 1: Have you heard of him? Um? Mayor kind of chuckled himself, Um, like,

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. But did you say minnow like

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Speaker 1: like a minnow? Oh? Of course I did. Minnows are

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Speaker 1: very scary and uh in the ocean, they always tell

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Speaker 1: as big as a ship and as hungry as a piranha.

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Speaker 1: And you see, our sharks can't handle that kind of

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Speaker 1: a fish, Um, Mayor chuckled to himself. All right, so

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Speaker 1: you're telling me that there's this fish called Rusty the

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Speaker 1: Minnow that the whole ocean is afraid of. He's as

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Speaker 1: big as a shark, or big as a ship, and

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Speaker 1: as hungry as a piranha. Yeah that's right. Okay, well

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Speaker 1: that does sound very scary, but um, the only meadows

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Speaker 1: that I've ever seen are very very small, and usually

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Speaker 1: they are afraid of sharks. Oh well, Rusty the Minnow

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Speaker 1: is not like you're an ordinary little fish. He's massive.

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Speaker 1: He's I don't want to talk about him anymore. Just

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Speaker 1: go in the ocean, look around and I'm sure you'll

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Speaker 1: see him. Okay, Well, have you guys ever seen him? Like?

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Speaker 1: What does he look like? Oh? No, we've never seen him.

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Speaker 1: You see, if no one has ever survived meeting Rusty

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Speaker 1: the Minnow and and swimming away to tell about it,

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Speaker 1: no one has ever seen him before. Oh okay, And

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Speaker 1: just like that, Mayor put on some of his spy

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Speaker 1: snorkel gear and jumped into the water. You see, Mayor

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Speaker 1: was really brave, and he wasn't really sure if he

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Speaker 1: believed this legend of Rusty the minnow being this ginormous

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Speaker 1: scary um, I don't know scary fish because all minnows

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Speaker 1: are really small. Right, Well, let's investigate. As he started

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Speaker 1: to swim around, there was nobody around, only all these

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Speaker 1: small fish. All the big fish heads swam away, and

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Speaker 1: it's it's like they all got afraid and just took off.

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Speaker 1: And so Mayor started asking all the little fish what

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Speaker 1: was going on? Um? Hi, my name's Mayor, and I

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Speaker 1: was wondering, have you ever heard of Rusty the minnow?

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Speaker 1: And the little fish looked around and started a giggle

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Speaker 1: less real part of him, Okay, why are you laughing?

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Speaker 1: Can your keeper super? Um? Yes, I can keep a secret,

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Speaker 1: uncle real. We'll tell him about the story about rust

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Speaker 1: of the minow of houles like a John Parrenna, just

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Speaker 1: to scare are the sharks world this Holy smokes, are

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Speaker 1: you serious? This was all a big trick to play

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Speaker 1: on the sharks. As Mayor asked more questions, he learned

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Speaker 1: quickly that this was totally a made up story about

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Speaker 1: Rusty the minnow that was I didn't even it wasn't

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Speaker 1: even real, but all the sharks believed it was real,

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Speaker 1: and so they had to get out of the ocean.

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Speaker 1: Okay um. Mayor didn't know what to say. I um, well,

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Speaker 1: you see, I have to tell the sharks that it's

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Speaker 1: safe to get back into the water because they're scaring

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Speaker 1: all the people at the beach. Oh well hmm. And

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Speaker 1: the little fish thought to themselves, well, we don't want

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Speaker 1: occur as their plans at the beach, but maybe you

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Speaker 1: can turn the sharks. What Resty then alas swims around

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Speaker 1: the beach, and that repeat the sharks around from the beach.

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Speaker 1: That's a fantastic idea. You see, we don't want real

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Speaker 1: sharks women around by the beach, and so that's exactly

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Speaker 1: what we will do. Mayor race back over to the

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Speaker 1: sharks and told them the new legend of Rusty to

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Speaker 1: menou our Mayor started talking like a pirate. Are you

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Speaker 1: see there is a ginormous, scary, scary fish, you know,

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Speaker 1: Rusty the minnow, and the sharks started to shake. Well,

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Speaker 1: you see, Mayor said he likes to stay right by

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Speaker 1: were right by a beach. We gonna get out of here,

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Speaker 1: and off the sharks swam. I've never seen sharks swim

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Speaker 1: that fast before, but they knew they had to get

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Speaker 1: out of here or else. That's scary. Rusty the Minnow's

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Speaker 1: gonna get him. What a silly story, and Mayor saved

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Speaker 1: the day. The beach went back to normal and the

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Speaker 1: people went back to swimming, and sharks were never seen

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Speaker 1: again at the beach. The end