1 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: Hello friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kit 2 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: Short Stories. I need to make sure that you have 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: smashed the follow a button. You know that follow button. 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: It kind of looks like a plus sign, or it 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: might say follow or something like that, so you don't 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: miss out at any of our awesome stories every single day. Well, 7 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: today's story comes to us from River. Hey, River, I 8 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: cannot wait for this amazing adventure into outer space. Are 9 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: you guys ready for today's story? Me too, Let's go. 10 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:49,840 Speaker 1: River was just waking up and rolling out of bed. 11 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: What seemed like a normal kind of day would end 12 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: up being a very unusual one. Well, you see, River 13 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: was actually used to unusual days because he was an astronaut. Yes, 14 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: he was on the space squad and so it was 15 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: his job to zoom around and make sure that everything 16 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 1: in space was nice and safe. He ran downstairs and 17 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: grabbed a big bowl of cereal and gobbled it up. 18 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,960 Speaker 1: That was his favorite breakfast. Do you have a favorite 19 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: breakfast that you love to eat every morning, or maybe 20 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: you like different breakfasts and switch it up. Well, whatever 21 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: it is, make sure it has lots of good energy, 22 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: because we all need good energy, and especially River, who's 23 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: about to blast off to space. You see, every Thursday 24 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: is when River would blast off to space. Thursday's that 25 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: was his day to protect outer space, and then it 26 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: was other kids jobs different days of the week, but 27 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: Rivers day was Thursday. He loved exploring all kinds of 28 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: different parts of outer space, traveling to the planets, stars 29 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,519 Speaker 1: and moons. There was so much out there to explore. 30 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: But like I said, today was a very unusual day. 31 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: As he entered Space Headquarters, and that's you know, where 32 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 1: all the astronauts get on all their uniforms and prepare 33 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: for blast off, he took one step inside and was 34 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: met with some emergency instructions. River, here, we need you 35 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: to go to these coordinates on a far moon. We've 36 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: observed some movement, very unusual movement. We need you to 37 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: check it out. Oh absolutely, I'll get right on it, 38 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: said River. He raced over to the changing room to 39 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: put on all of his astronaut gear. That meant boots 40 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: and pants and jackets and helmets and gloves and the 41 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: whole thing, and even an oxygen tank. As he tested 42 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: the oxygen, it tasted and breathed like really clean air. Ah, 43 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: that's some fancy air for astronauts the oxygen that they 44 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: have to breathe. Yeah, because oxygen what we need to 45 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: breathe is not found in space. So that's a really 46 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: important thing. If you ever want to be an astronut, 47 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 1: you have to make sure that you have your oxygen 48 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: tank with you at all times. Three two one, the 49 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: rocket that River was sitting in had blasted off to space. 50 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: River always loved that part of the blast off on 51 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: the rocket as he was thrown back into his chair 52 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: because it was going so fast. It even made his 53 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: face make some silly faces. Can you make a really 54 00:03:55,440 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: silly face like you're blasting off to space? In your 55 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: mouth are pulled back in your cheeks, sir, almost touching 56 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: your ears. Those are some amazing space launch faces. But 57 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: he should have seen Rivers face. Even though he was screaming, 58 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: he loved it, and pretty soon he found himself floating 59 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: through space. His rocket ship thankfully knew exactly where to 60 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: go because they had put in the coordinates of the 61 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: location of this strange activity appearing on one of I 62 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: think it was Jupiter's moon, well one of them at least. Yeah, 63 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: Jupiter has has a lot of moons. How many moons 64 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: does our planet Earth have and just one? Right? Yes, 65 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: just one moon? But Jupiter has more than one. Do 66 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 1: you know how many moons? Jupiter has seventy nine moons? 67 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: Holy smokes, that is a lot of moons, But there 68 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: was one in particular that That's where River was headed 69 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 1: to figure out what in the world was going on 70 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: on that little moon off of the planet Jupiter. It 71 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: took a very long time to arrive, but thankfully his 72 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: spaceship was very very fast, so instead of it taking 73 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: years and years and years, it just took a couple hours, 74 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: which I would take a couple hours over years of traveling, right, Yeah, 75 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: a couple hours, I could do that. As a spaceship 76 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: carefully landed down on the moon, River grabbed a flashlight 77 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: and opened the door and started to search around. It 78 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: was a very strange looking place. The dirt was all gray. 79 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 1: It looked like everything was in black and white. River 80 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: had been on many moons before, so he was used 81 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: to looking at this because most moons look the same. 82 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 1: River didn't know exactly what he was looking for because 83 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: they didn't give him very specific instructions, only that they 84 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 1: saw some movement or something happening on the moon. What 85 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: do you think it could be? Do you think it's 86 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,600 Speaker 1: like an alien? Or was it just, you know, some 87 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,840 Speaker 1: dirt being blown around in the wind. Do they have 88 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: wind on the moons? I'm not sure, we les. River 89 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: kept exploring. He saw something. Huh, what is that? He shouted. 90 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: It had all kinds of tentacles and eyeballs and it 91 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:45,239 Speaker 1: was moving. Alien, shouted River. His dream had come true, 92 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: except his dream was a little scary, exciting, and a 93 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: lot of things. He didn't know what to feel, excited 94 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: or scared. What would you feel if you saw a 95 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 1: real alien? Would that be scary or exciting? Well? Either way, 96 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 1: it was an alien moving in slow motion. River walked 97 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: over to it and said, hello, are you Are you okay? 98 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: Why are you moving in slow motion? Well? Low on 99 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: batter and he just stopped. River stood there in front 100 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: of what looked like a completely frozen alien. Did he 101 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: say it was low on battery? Said River. He bent 102 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: down and kind of turned his head to the side 103 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: and saw something that looked like a charging port, like 104 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: for a cable or something. He ran back to a 105 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: spaceship and grabbed one of the cables that had a 106 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: solar power charger connected to it. He attached it onto 107 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: the alien and instantly. 108 00:07:55,200 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 2: Room mean, hey, ay, thank you the shoe. I was 109 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 2: riding low at bettery. But oh are these solent powers? 110 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: Oh? Thank you so much. What's your name? River was 111 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 1: a little confused. Hi, my name's River. What's your name? 112 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: You can call me Charlie. Charlie went on to tell 113 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: River everything about alien life, which was amazing to learn about. 114 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: River had always wanted to meet an alien, and thankfully 115 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: he met a nice alien. I don't know if all 116 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: of them are nice or not, but Charlie, he was 117 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: a nice, tentacled alien. And that day River not only 118 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: helped recharge Charlie, which I didn't know aliens needed charging. 119 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: It's kind of silly, but River saved Charlie and also 120 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 1: learned all about aliens and so on his trip back 121 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 1: to planet Earth, he was very excited to share everything 122 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: he had learned with his entire space crew. This may 123 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: be the end of our story, but I think it's 124 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: just the beginning of River's amazing space adventures. The end. 125 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 1: Great job, you listened all the way to the end, 126 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: and you know what te it is. It's time for 127 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: Kurd shout out. So I want to say hey to 128 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: Creek from Maryland, Nora from Nova Scotia, Haven from Denver, Colorado, 129 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: Allie and Levi from Alberta, Aurora from Austin, Texas, Kieran 130 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 1: and Robbie from Indianapolis, Ryan from Cleveland and Sit in Oliver, Illinois. 131 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all on the Kid Short 132 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,439 Speaker 1: Stories family and on our spy team. We could not 133 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: stop Doctor Stinkybreath and his crew without you, my friends. Well, 134 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: you have a super duper day and I will see 135 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: you on our next adventure. Bye.