1 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kid 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: Short Stories. Before we hop into this story, I just 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: wanted to thank you. I wanted to thank you for 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: making this podcast one of the biggest kids podcasts in 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: the world. Yes, it's because of you and you telling 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: your friends about it. It just means so much to 7 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: me that you have loved these stories so much that 8 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: you listen to like one hundred a day. Right, well, friends, 9 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 1: I am so excited to share today's story with you. 10 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 2: Are you ready for it? 11 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 3: Me too? 12 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:43,599 Speaker 2: Let's go. Today's story takes. 13 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 1: Place far far away, not quite in another galaxy, but 14 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: definitely on another planet. 15 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 2: You see on our neighbor planet named Mars. 16 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:54,639 Speaker 3: Oh. 17 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 2: You see, we actually learned how to grow trees. 18 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: Trees are the first step if we ever want to 19 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: live on Mars because trees produced oxygen. But the problem 20 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: with trying to grow trees on Mars is because Mars 21 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: doesn't have the right dirt to grow the trees on. 22 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 2: And so we tried and tried and tried and tried 23 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 2: for many, many, many many years, and finally found the secret. 24 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 2: The secret the snail poop. 25 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: Yes, snail poop is the best ingredient for trees to 26 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: grow in. And so once we released a whole bunch 27 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: of snails onto planet Mars. 28 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 2: Bloop bloop, bloop bloop. 29 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: They pooped their way all the way into the tree 30 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: fertilizer and the trees started to grow. Magic, right, I know. 31 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: But unfortunately that is where the story takes a terrible turn, 32 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,479 Speaker 1: and our friends Spike is going to need to save 33 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: the day. 34 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 2: Beep beep beep. 35 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: Oh oh, good morning world, said Spike as he woke 36 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: up out of bed and stretched his arms. 37 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 2: The alarm clock had gone off. 38 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: It was very early, but it was time to get 39 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: up and check to see what the mission was today. 40 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: He checked his walkie talkie and there was a message from. 41 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 3: HQ SH Spike. We need your help. We need you 42 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 3: to fly the planet Mars because unfortunately all the trees 43 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 3: have begun dying. We don't know what's causing it, but 44 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 3: we need you to figure it out. Good luck, sh Mars, 45 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 3: said Spike. I've never been to Mars before, but oh Kinoki. 46 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 3: After finishing a delicious breakfast, he put on all of 47 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 3: his spy. 48 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: Gear and and his spacesuit. He was gonna need that 49 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: if he was gonna fly to Mars, hopped inside of 50 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: his spaceship jet that was parked in his backyard, buckled in, 51 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: pushed the red button, and shoo. He blasted off in 52 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: a puff of smoke. It's a good thing that his 53 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: spaceship jet was so fast because planet Mars is very 54 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: far away, but his jet got him there in only 55 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: three and a half minutes long. What how's that even possible? 56 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: I can barely put my shoes on that fast. As 57 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: his spaceship jet touched down on planet Mars, he was 58 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: greeted with a nice big poof of red dust. That 59 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: red dust is pretty famous on planet Mars. I've never been, 60 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: but but I imagine it's a new color red that 61 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: I've never seen before. As Spike stepped out of his 62 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: space jet, Wow, this place is beautiful, he said, Oh, 63 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: don't worry. He was wearing his astronaut suit fully equipped 64 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: with oxygen breather. Because you know, Mars wasn't totally ready 65 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: for people to live on. There were many trees growing, 66 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 1: but it wasn't quite ready yet. And as Spike walked 67 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: over to the first group of trees that he saw, 68 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: he was very surprised to see what is all that 69 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: disgusting goo pouring out of the side of the tree. 70 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 2: Said Spike. You see, he was looking at. 71 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: These trees, trees that were very tall and full of 72 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: big green leaves. Oh, that was going to produce a 73 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: lot of oxygen for all of Mars. But the side 74 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: of the tree, like the trunk part, it looked like 75 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: it was leaking out. 76 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 2: Ummm, I don't know. Ooey, gooey brown slime goo. 77 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: It was pretty disgusting and he didn't want to touch it, 78 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 1: but he had to for science. He reached inside of 79 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: his pack and pulled out a Q tip. A Q 80 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: tip would be a good thing to scoop out this 81 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: slime onto a beaker. 82 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 3: What. 83 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 2: Oh, that is the ooeest, gooeyest goo I've ever. 84 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: Seen, said Spike. He had plopped on this goo inside 85 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: of his beaker so that he could take it back 86 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: to his spaceship jet and look at it under a microscope. 87 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: But on his way back to the spaceship, he saw 88 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 1: another thing. Not a person, not an animal, another thing, 89 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: a thing that he had never seen before. We're at 90 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 1: al got out of that girl, said the creature. Oh hello, 91 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: I'm just get it back to my lab. Inside of 92 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: my jet, I gotta inspect what's going on with these trees. 93 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: The trees seem to be dying, and the goo is strange, 94 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,280 Speaker 1: So I must are a little talking about their strong 95 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 1: sparss growing. 96 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 2: Out of the mud. Strange spiky things. You mean these trees? 97 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 3: Less? 98 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: They're absolutely terrifying, So less little trying rather them raw? 99 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 2: Are they not launs rulls? 100 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: No, they're not dangerous. These are trees, and they make 101 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:35,119 Speaker 1: oxygen so that people can breathe here, oh rod le narda. 102 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: This martian would go on to tell Spike about what 103 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: him and all of his friends had been doing ever 104 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: since the tree started growing. They were very afraid of them. 105 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 1: They'd never seen a tree before, and so they learned 106 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: that the snail poop is what was keeping the trees 107 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: growing and alive. So they moved the snails away from 108 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: the trees, which made the trees start to ooze that 109 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: oohie gooey stuff because they were dying. My friends arm 110 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: me that those trills were us on our slope. 111 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 2: Was that not true? 112 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, trees are very nice. Uh where 113 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: did you put all those snails? 114 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 3: Commerce there? 115 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: Officler who Spike was very relieved to find all the 116 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: snails over on the other side of the hill. The 117 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: Martians had taken the snails as pets that I think 118 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: they really liked the snails. They reminded them of themselves, 119 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: and they brought the snails back to the trees that 120 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: the snails could continue pooping on the trees dart so 121 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: that they could get the nutrients that they needed. 122 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 2: And by the end of the day, the ooey gooey goo. 123 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: Stopped sliming out of the trees, and Spike waved goodbye 124 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: to his new Martian friends, climbed in back to his 125 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 1: spaceship jet and blasted off towards Planet Earth. 126 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 3: Woo. 127 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: Another mission, well accomplished. Great job, Spike, you saved all 128 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: the trees on planet Mars and made some new Martian 129 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: friends along the way. The end, great job, you listened 130 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: all the way to the end. And you know what 131 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: tem it is. 132 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 2: It's time for kid shout out. 133 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: So I want to say hey to Izzy from Vermont, 134 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: Nina from Spain, Brody in Case from Georgia, Celine from Brazil, 135 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: Jewel from Iowa, Ells from Pasadena, Evelyn from Germany, and 136 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: Kyle from Montreal, Quebec. I'm so glad that you're all 137 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: in the Ka short story's family and Don the spy team. 138 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: We could not stop Doctor Stinky Breath and his crew 139 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: without you, my friends. 140 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 2: Well you have a super duper Tay and I will 141 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 2: see you on our next adventure. 142 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: Bye.