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

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. I love reading through these reviews that you

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Speaker 1: send me on Apple Podcasts. This one is a five star.

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Speaker 1: It says it's from Mira Brooklyn. I love your stories.

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Speaker 1: When I can't watch my iPad, I listen to you

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Speaker 1: and I'm six and a half years old. That's awesome. Yes,

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Speaker 1: stories can be an awesome thing to do, to just

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Speaker 1: use your imagination while you're playing or in the car,

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Speaker 1: maybe getting ready for bed. Well, friends, are you ready

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Speaker 1: for today's adventure? Me too. Let's go one day, far,

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Speaker 1: far away. In the middle of pitch black dark space

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Speaker 1: lived a group of space pirates. Yeah, space pirates. You know.

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Speaker 1: These were actually good space pirates, but they had a

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Speaker 1: very important job. Their job was to protect all of

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Speaker 1: space from asteroids that were cruising around and making sure

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Speaker 1: that they wouldn't crash into anything that would cause too

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Speaker 1: much damage. Are right today? We have several asteroids that

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Speaker 1: are on our schedule. We have to make sure one

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Speaker 1: doesn't crash into the Moon and Mars, and oh dear,

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Speaker 1: there's one headed to planet Earth. Okay, ugodbyes by, how

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Speaker 1: we got to do that? If there's three asteroids and

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Speaker 1: only two of us and one jetpack. The math doesn't

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Speaker 1: add up on that. Wait one second, you mean there's

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Speaker 1: only two of us? Now, what happened to Roger? Well,

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Speaker 1: Roger he went on vacation. He I think he's in Jupiter. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna need you to get to planet Earth and

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Speaker 1: get yourself another jetpack. I'll use this one to get

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Speaker 1: the two. Then you'll need to stop the one asteroid

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Speaker 1: before it crashes into Earth. You mean Earth? Oh? Yeah, Earth?

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Speaker 1: You see these pirates? Uh? I guess you know Roger

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Speaker 1: he's on vacation in Jupiter, and so it's only these

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Speaker 1: two that have to protect all of space and all

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Speaker 1: of its asteroids. It looks like two are headed to

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Speaker 1: the well, once to the Moon and once to the Mars,

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Speaker 1: and on one to Earth. And they only have one jetpack.

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Speaker 1: Oh dear, So Pete the pirate he started on a

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Speaker 1: voyage to planet Earth. He had never actually been to Earth.

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Speaker 1: He was a little nervous because he had always heard

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Speaker 1: that pirates don't you know, most people don't really like

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Speaker 1: pirates on planet Earth. So he was a little nervous

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Speaker 1: about asking for some help. But he was gonna be

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Speaker 1: in for a big surprise when a very unsuspecting helper

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Speaker 1: would help him get a jetpack. Meanwhile, down on planet Earth,

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Speaker 1: Simon was playing with some friends at a lake near

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Speaker 1: his house. They were doing cannonballs off the pier into

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Speaker 1: the water. One two, three, bah splash. That was awesome,

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Speaker 1: Simon shouted his friends. They were having such a great

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Speaker 1: day that day. It was pretty hot outside and so

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Speaker 1: it was a perfect day to spend at the lake

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Speaker 1: doing cannonballs into the water. But pretty soon there was

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Speaker 1: gonna be a cannonball unlike they'd ever seen before. As

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Speaker 1: Simon pulled himself up back on the dock of the lake,

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Speaker 1: he looked around and wait a second, guys, what's that

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Speaker 1: coming from the clouds? Is that an asteroid? Everybody take cover.

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Speaker 1: Simon and all of his friends dropped to their knees

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Speaker 1: and protected their heads with their arms, as all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, there was a ginormous explosion, well, a giant

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Speaker 1: splash in the lake. Water when flying everywhere, completely dousing

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Speaker 1: them on the dock, and they all screamed in terror.

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Speaker 1: Oh what's going on? Shouted Simon. We gotta get out

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Speaker 1: the dock towards shore. Simon turned around to see what

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Speaker 1: had happened and heard someone calling for help. Help me,

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Speaker 1: had somebody help me? What is all this? What? Stuff

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Speaker 1: all over? Everybody? Help? I'm coming, shouted Simon as he

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Speaker 1: dove into the water and swam to that person who

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Speaker 1: needed help. Thank you, thank you can just help me. Okay,

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Speaker 1: don't worry, you're safe. I have you now, and I'll

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Speaker 1: just take you to shore. Okay, I don't feel my

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Speaker 1: Don't fall asleep on me, Oh dear. Simon kept swimming

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Speaker 1: this person all the way to shore. Finally they washed

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Speaker 1: that it was a pirate. Holy smokes, how did a pirate?

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Speaker 1: Just where did you come from? Simon was a little confused,

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Speaker 1: and I would be too, if all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: a lake. I don't think that's where pirates usually like

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Speaker 1: to hang out. But this pirate had somehow crashed into

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Speaker 1: Simon said as he shook the hit the shoulders. Who's

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Speaker 1: doing that? Oh? Hello, there byes, Okay, please don't hurt me.

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Speaker 1: The pirate, I'm my name is I mean? I just

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Speaker 1: helped save you. I pulled you out of the lake.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, thank you, yes, thank you for doing that.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't have done it without you. But you see,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm here because I'm here to save planet Earth

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Speaker 1: from an asteroid that's crashing. You're what, said Simon with

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Speaker 1: a blank look on his face. Yes, I know, I'm

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Speaker 1: a space pirate and I was sent here because I

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Speaker 1: need a jet pack. It's kind of complicated, but anyway,

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Speaker 1: do you know how I can get a jet pack?

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Speaker 1: Simon's eyes were very large as he was very surprised

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Speaker 1: and didn't exactly know how to answer that. Wait, you

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Speaker 1: said you're a space pirate, like you're actually from space.

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Speaker 1: I know there are space pirates Like, wait a second,

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Speaker 1: are you here to steal things or explain yourself? Said Simon.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, no, We're not the stealing kind

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Speaker 1: of pirates where the protecting pirates. Just call me Protector Pete.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a pretty cool name. Protector Pete. All right, uh,

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Speaker 1: Protector Pete, So you need I can get you one

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Speaker 1: of those. Uh all right, come with me. Simon led

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Speaker 1: Protector Pete the pirate on a trail that was headed

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Speaker 1: towards HQ. Simon was on the Spy Team and they

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Speaker 1: were always looking for new members to the Spy team,

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Speaker 1: and he didn't ever remember hearing about any pirates on

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Speaker 1: the Space Team's force. So maybe maybe this would work out.

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Speaker 1: So you mean to tell me that all the asteroids

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Speaker 1: in space, you and the other Space pirates make sure

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Speaker 1: that they don't crash into anything super damaging. Wow, yes,

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Speaker 1: you've got everything absolutely perfect. That's exactly what we do.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I always sitting here because one of the

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Speaker 1: other space pirates, he's a vacation, a Jupiter. Vacation on Jupiter,

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Speaker 1: said Simon. You know, it's just come to the lake

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Speaker 1: on vacation. I've never been to another planet. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: a part of being in space. There's not many good vacations,

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Speaker 1: but Jupiter. Jupiter's great. That's tabby Air. Okay, we're almost

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Speaker 1: to HQ, said Simon. Once we get there and you

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Speaker 1: explain everything, I'm sure they'll be able to get you.

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Speaker 1: What you need, And that's exactly what happened. As Simon

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Speaker 1: introduced the space pirate to HQ. HQ is able to

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Speaker 1: get him a beautiful, brand new jet pack, which is

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Speaker 1: what he needed to save the day in space and

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Speaker 1: to save planet Earth from a giant crashing asteroid. But

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Speaker 1: that is a story for another time, a story of

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Speaker 1: many more space pirates and adventures as they save us

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Speaker 1: all from crashing asteroids. The end. Great job, you listened

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Speaker 1: all the way to the end, and you know what

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Speaker 1: tell it is. It's time for kid shout out. So

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it to Sydney and Noah from Raleigh,

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Speaker 1: North Carolina, Kaiah from New Hampshire, Starvish from Saint Louis

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Speaker 1: Dillon and Calvin from Massachusetts, Carson and Lincoln from Ohio,

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Speaker 1: Cyrus and Raymond from Massachusetts, Read from San Diego, and

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Speaker 1: Shiwan from China. I'm so glad that you're all in

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Speaker 1: the Kid Short Stories family and on the spy team.

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Speaker 1: We could not stop Doctor Stinky Breath and his crew

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Speaker 1: without you, my friends. Well you have a super duper

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Speaker 1: day now. I will see you on our next adventure. Bye.