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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's story comes from

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Speaker 1: one of our listeners, William. Hey, William, he had an

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Speaker 1: awesome idea about a story about a snow monster in space.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready, William, let's go. One day, William was

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Speaker 1: at home. It was a Saturday. It was a beautiful

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Speaker 1: day outside of sunny and se and he was playing

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Speaker 1: outside with all his friends and was having a great time.

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Speaker 1: And one thing that you need to know about William

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Speaker 1: is he's a member of the Spy Kids team. And

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Speaker 1: the Spy Kids team. They look like normal kids and

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Speaker 1: they act like normal kids, but they are special. The

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Speaker 1: special thing about Spy Kids is even in the middle

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Speaker 1: of their normal life, while they're playing, or doing homework

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Speaker 1: or doing all kinds of things with their family, they

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Speaker 1: could get a call any second from headquarters asking for

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Speaker 1: their help. And today was that day. William got a

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Speaker 1: call on his phone from Spy Kids headquarters. It said, William,

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Speaker 1: we need your help. NASA has a huge problem and

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Speaker 1: we need you to go to the moon. Do you accept?

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Speaker 1: William very eagerly said oh yeah, and William raced over

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Speaker 1: to Spy Kids headquarters. Is his parents had to drive him,

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Speaker 1: but it's okay, because they passed their security clearance special

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Speaker 1: training too, so they were you could they were safe.

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Speaker 1: But as William two headquarters, they were waiting for him

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Speaker 1: and said, William, I'm so glad you got here so fast.

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Speaker 1: It's terrible on the Moon. There's a smoke a snow monster,

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Speaker 1: like a real snow monster, and he has a horrible

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Speaker 1: plan of covering the whole Earth, our whole planet in ice.

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Speaker 1: You're the only one that knows how to stop him.

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Speaker 1: We need to get you on a missile a shuttle

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Speaker 1: to space to fly you to the Moon as soon

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Speaker 1: as possible. Are you ready to go? William couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 1: He had always dreamed of going to space, but he'd

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Speaker 1: never done it before, and so he's a little nervous,

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Speaker 1: but he said, oh yeah, I'm definitely ready. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: And so they spent the next hour preparing the spaceship

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Speaker 1: and getting William's space suit already because he had never

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Speaker 1: been an astronaut before, and so they had to make

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Speaker 1: all the it's cool gear for him that would help

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Speaker 1: him breathe and help him fly. And you see, the

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Speaker 1: Moon doesn't have as much gravity as Earth does, and

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Speaker 1: so you know, when you jump here on Earth, when

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Speaker 1: you jump, whoa bunk, you come back down right. Well,

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Speaker 1: on the Moon, the gravity that pulls us back down

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Speaker 1: to Earth is not as strong there, and so if

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Speaker 1: you jump too high, you could go really high and

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Speaker 1: that could cause a problem. So they had to put

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Speaker 1: on his suit um some extra gravity that would help

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Speaker 1: him come back down to the Moon in case he

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Speaker 1: needed to jump and run from the snow Monster. And

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Speaker 1: so as the time was ticking closer and closer to

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Speaker 1: the launch, William's parents were getting worried. William, are you

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Speaker 1: sure you want to go this? This just seems dangerous.

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Speaker 1: Are you sure you know how to do all this? William,

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Speaker 1: even though he was five, he was very well trained

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Speaker 1: and he knew a lot of things about space. He

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Speaker 1: knew the planets like Venus and Mercury and Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus,

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Speaker 1: and Pluto. He was really smart and so he told

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Speaker 1: his parents Mom and Dad, don't worry, Everything's gonna be okay,

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Speaker 1: and it's just trust me. It was only two minutes

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Speaker 1: away from another blast off, and William, he's trapped in.

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Speaker 1: They had a really special buckle for his seat, you know,

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Speaker 1: like our normal ones. In our seats or um they

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Speaker 1: like go over our shoulders, or in between our legs

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Speaker 1: or next to us. It was. It covered his whole body,

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Speaker 1: and it like glued him to the seat. Because when

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Speaker 1: you're in a spaceship and you blast off to the moon,

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Speaker 1: it goes so fast that you have to make sure

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Speaker 1: that you're stuck onto the seat really good, or else

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Speaker 1: you'll get thrown around and it can get you can

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Speaker 1: get hurt. But they took care of all that, and

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Speaker 1: they had a special seatbelt made just for William, and

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Speaker 1: so he sat down and clicked all in and he

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Speaker 1: looked at the clock. Oh my gosh, only one minute,

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Speaker 1: and they closed the door. Good luck, William. We'll be

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Speaker 1: following you on your radio and your radar. So always

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Speaker 1: Earth is gonna be frozen. William closed his eyes, leaned

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Speaker 1: back and could hear the counting ticked down five four, three,

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Speaker 1: much smoke and fire and flames. The rocket blasted off

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Speaker 1: so fast, right to the moon. Pretty soon his parents

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Speaker 1: and everyone else at NASA they couldn't even see the

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Speaker 1: spaceship anymore. As they were watching it blast off from

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Speaker 1: Earth and into the clouds towards the Moon. They hoped

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Speaker 1: that William would remember all his training. William, as he

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Speaker 1: was flying through space towards the Moon, it was really

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Speaker 1: bumpy getting through the atmosphere, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: a lot less bumpy. And it was only thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: until he got to the Moon, and so he had

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Speaker 1: he had some time to get some things ready. He

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Speaker 1: got all of his spy gear, his supplies and everything

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Speaker 1: ready because they said the snow monster he only had

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Speaker 1: one weakness, and it was if you throw salt at him.

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Speaker 1: So they made special guns that shot salt pellets right

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Speaker 1: at him. He was made out of The snow monster

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Speaker 1: was made out of this like jello, slimy, gooey. It

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Speaker 1: was gross, and he could shoot snow and ice so fast,

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Speaker 1: and so William had to be really careful when he

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Speaker 1: got to the Moon and I was going to defeat

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Speaker 1: the snow Monster, he had to act fast because it

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Speaker 1: would start shooting ice and snow at him immediately right away,

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Speaker 1: the spaceship landed on moon. On the moon, William was

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Speaker 1: so excited to get off and start exploring and looking

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Speaker 1: for the snow monster. He knew that they had landed

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Speaker 1: his spaceship very close, but where was it? He started

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Speaker 1: looking for clues. He thought, maybe, well, what do you

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Speaker 1: think would be a good clue to find a snow monster?

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Speaker 1: What do you think his footprints might look like? If

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Speaker 1: he was a snow monster? Would he have footprints made

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Speaker 1: of cotton candy? No? No, no no? What do you

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Speaker 1: have footprints made of barbecue sauce? No? No, no, no?

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Speaker 1: I I bet he would have footprints made of like

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Speaker 1: snow or ice? Right, yes, totally. And so Williams started

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Speaker 1: hunting around looking for footprints with snow or ice in him,

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Speaker 1: and immediately there it was. There was a trail, but

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Speaker 1: it wasn't footprints. It was like like you know a

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Speaker 1: slug or a worm when they crawl on the ground

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Speaker 1: and they leave a slime trail behind. It was just

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Speaker 1: like that, but it was a slime trail of snow

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Speaker 1: and ice. It was crazy, and so William had to

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Speaker 1: very quietly follow this trail and it led to an

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Speaker 1: ice cave. Done done dune. Oh my gosh, Williams said

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Speaker 1: he had a radio back to headquarters, headquarters, headquarters, come in,

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Speaker 1: what are you three? You? Um? Well, I found I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty sure like some clues that led to it's like

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Speaker 1: icy cave and I haven't been inside, but I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: sure he's in there. Over Oh, Corey, William just through,

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Speaker 1: very careful. Just remember to have that gun ready because

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Speaker 1: it too, he will and it will freeze you. There's

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Speaker 1: nothing we can do, so just be careful and to

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Speaker 1: be safe. Good luck. And William very slowly walked through

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Speaker 1: the dust on the moon. It slowly turned to snow.

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Speaker 1: As he entered the cave, it was pitch black and

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Speaker 1: all he could see we're sparkles from Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: there's icicles. Icicles. Do you know what what icicles are there?

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Speaker 1: They're like hanging pointy pieces of ice. They're all over

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Speaker 1: the cave, super sharp. I bet if he touched him,

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Speaker 1: it would like cut right through him, so he shouldn't

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Speaker 1: go by those. And then pretty soon, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: he could hear something breathing like this, Uh, I think

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Speaker 1: that's the snow monster. He got his salt gun ready,

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Speaker 1: and then oh what oh no, williams slipped on a

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Speaker 1: big slab of ice. The snow monster hurd him. Here

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Speaker 1: he comes, Here he comes, William. Look out, William ready

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Speaker 1: aim fired through through the salt pebbles ricochet in the

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Speaker 1: cave and missed. He's got to get out of there.

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Speaker 1: The snow monsters on his way. As William ran out

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Speaker 1: monster came out. Oh my gosh, he's huge. He was

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Speaker 1: as big as my garage at home, maybe even bigger.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. All right, I gotta choose to be brave.

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Speaker 1: This is scary, but all right, let's count to three, one, two,

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Speaker 1: three h and William turned on his brave muscle. Did

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Speaker 1: you know everyone has a brave muscle in their brain

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Speaker 1: that sometimes you know, when you get scared, you just

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Speaker 1: gotta choose to be brave. Well, William had a muscle

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Speaker 1: just like all of us that he knew how to

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Speaker 1: turn on. And when he turned on, he turned into

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Speaker 1: a brave machine. Done done do Look out, snow monster,

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Speaker 1: here comes William. As he fired the salt cons through true,

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, William did it. Oh my gosh, the

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Speaker 1: snow Monster. He melted and is gone. He melted into

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Speaker 1: a big pile of gooey, gooey slimy. Uh. All right,

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Speaker 1: it's time to get out of here. William loaded back

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Speaker 1: into a spaceship and headed towards home. What a crazy adventure.

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Speaker 1: He saved Earth from getting iced over from the snow Monster.

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Speaker 1: The end