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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, welcome back to kids short stories. My name

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Speaker 1: is Mr Jim and we love turning your ideas into

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Speaker 1: awesome adventures. So there's our website down below where you

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Speaker 1: can submit your story ideas, and then I picked the craziest,

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Speaker 1: coolest ones and I turned them into an awesome adventure

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Speaker 1: every single day parents. This all started when me and

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Speaker 1: my wife wanted our kids to listen to more stories

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Speaker 1: and not just screens, and so we ditched the switch

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Speaker 1: and started listening to stories every day. So are you

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Speaker 1: guys ready for today's adventure? Me Too. Let's go. It

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Speaker 1: was a beautiful day for river in Ruby to go

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Speaker 1: on their adventure today, and this was not your average adventure,

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Speaker 1: which actually all adventures are different and special in their

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Speaker 1: own ways, but this one they were looking for something

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Speaker 1: very uh, something I've never seen before. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: heard of bigfoot? The bigfoot is a mythical, legendary creature

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Speaker 1: that you don't know if it's real or not. And well,

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Speaker 1: do you think of the Big Foot is real? Hmm,

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Speaker 1: I think it might be. And what is something? When,

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Speaker 1: if you were to imagine a bigfoot, what are the

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Speaker 1: things that comes to mind? Well, I think it's very hairy.

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Speaker 1: I think it's pretty big and tall and it definitely

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Speaker 1: has two very big feet. Yes, and that is what

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Speaker 1: river and Ruby were searching for. They were hiking through

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Speaker 1: a giant redwood forest. Do you know what Redwood trees are? Oh,

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Speaker 1: they're magnificently beautifully ginormous trees. Yes, tree is so big

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Speaker 1: that if you cut a hole through its trunk you

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Speaker 1: one ginormous tree. And speaking of ginormous things, that is

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Speaker 1: actually not the only ginormous thing that is believed to

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Speaker 1: live in this redwood forest. And that is what river

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Speaker 1: and Ruby were after. They had their bags packed with

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Speaker 1: snacks and all their gear that they needed to go

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Speaker 1: on this bigfoot hunting adventure. They were determined to find

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Speaker 1: a big foot footprint. Why do you think you would

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Speaker 1: want to find a footprint of bigfoot? Do you think

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Speaker 1: they were wondering his shoe size? Maybe? Or do you

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Speaker 1: think maybe if we found bigfoot's footprint, do you think

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Speaker 1: that would mean that bigfoot is real? Yes, footprints can

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Speaker 1: be really good evidence for finding information about something. So

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Speaker 1: they brought with them some very special powder that, when

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Speaker 1: they mixed it with water, it would turn almost into

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Speaker 1: like a cement or a concrete and so they would

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Speaker 1: put it into the print in the mud and add

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Speaker 1: water and then they could pull it out and it

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Speaker 1: would have like a permanent formation of that footprint, which

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Speaker 1: is a pretty cool, fun activity to do. Speaking of

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Speaker 1: fun activities, did you know that we make some really

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Speaker 1: awesome activities for you that if you look down in

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Speaker 1: the show notes below and ask your parents to click

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Speaker 1: on that link, we have a ton of really fun

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Speaker 1: activities that you can do every single day. Hey, Ruby,

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Speaker 1: take a look at this footprint. Shouted River, the river

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Speaker 1: was standing right next to a river, and Ruby came

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Speaker 1: running over. Wow, what kind of footprint is that? I

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Speaker 1: don't know, said river. It looks kind of like a

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Speaker 1: duck footprint. Look, I think they are right in the mud,

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Speaker 1: right next to the river, or a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: little footprints that look kind of like a duck feet.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what a duck foot looks like? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's got web toes and I don't know how else

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Speaker 1: to explain it. Uh, you'll have to use your imagination

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Speaker 1: for that one. Let's make a cast of that footprint

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Speaker 1: and let's actually take a cast of all the footprints

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Speaker 1: that we find, said Ruby. That's a pretty good idea,

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Speaker 1: said river. Let's get collecting. A CAST is another word

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Speaker 1: to describe what I was talking about, of putting that

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Speaker 1: magical powder with some water into the footprint and then

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Speaker 1: you let it dry and then you can take it

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Speaker 1: footprint with you forever. That's pretty cool. River and Ruby

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Speaker 1: spent the rest of the afternoon gathering a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of casts of different footprints. They found one set that

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Speaker 1: looked like dear footprints and they had the duck footprints

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Speaker 1: from earlier. They just found something that looked like either

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Speaker 1: fox footprints or raccoons. They weren't sure, but all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden they found something absolutely magnificently ginormous. River and

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Speaker 1: Ruby had been walking next to this river for a

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Speaker 1: very long time gathering all the different footprints. You see

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Speaker 1: bodies of water like a lake, a pond or a river,

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Speaker 1: that can be a great spot to find footprints because

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Speaker 1: every critter of all shapes and sizes they need to

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Speaker 1: drink their water. Right yeah, so if you find a

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Speaker 1: of critters both big and small come to drink. All

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, Ruby froze. River. What is that? She

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Speaker 1: the ground, but as they got closer, it was a

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Speaker 1: ginormous footprint. Holy smoked to we vioine, it shouted river.

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Speaker 1: It looks like a fresh footprint. The mud is still wet.

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Speaker 1: It must be near boy, said Ruby. They were looking

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Speaker 1: at a giant footprint, one that is even hard to explain,

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Speaker 1: but it was almost big enough for them to sit inside.

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Speaker 1: I know that is one big footprint, bigger than I

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Speaker 1: think even a big foot's footprint would leave in the footprint. Well,

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Speaker 1: they were right. The footprint was very fresh. The mud

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Speaker 1: was still wet and squishy, so it must be nearby.

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Speaker 1: You have to stay quiet, whispered ruby as she carefully

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Speaker 1: removed all the powder and water that they needed out

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Speaker 1: of their backpack. Holy smokes, this thing is like bigger

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Speaker 1: than all the powder I have. Do you have any

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Speaker 1: more in your bag, river? The river pulled out her

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Speaker 1: bag and there was a little bit more powder in

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Speaker 1: her bag. They emptied everything they had and carefully added

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Speaker 1: the water. You don't want to mess up the footprint

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Speaker 1: when you're adding all this stuff to make the cast,

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Speaker 1: because you have to keep all the details just the

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Speaker 1: way they are so that when you remove the cast,

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Speaker 1: it still looks perfectly like the footprint you found in

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Speaker 1: the mud. All right, let's take a look around river

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Speaker 1: and Ruby had to wait for it to dry first,

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Speaker 1: because it take it can take a couple of minutes

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Speaker 1: or longer for it to dry fully. So they started

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Speaker 1: still there. All right, that's up that hill. I feel

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Speaker 1: like the footprint was headed in this direction, so let's

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Speaker 1: go that way. River was pointing up away from the

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Speaker 1: river and there was a hill that went up and

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Speaker 1: it was pretty steep. They had to almost crawl with

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Speaker 1: But finally they made it up to the top of

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Speaker 1: this hill. WHOA, that was a crazy climb, said Ruby.

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Speaker 1: I know, but look over there, referend Ruby saw more

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Speaker 1: footprints in the mud over there. They couldn't collect those

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Speaker 1: because they were all out of that powder for their footprints.

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Speaker 1: They were kind of regretting, uh, you know, collecting all

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Speaker 1: those deer ducked in Fox footprints along the way, but

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Speaker 1: they were still pretty cool footprints. All right. Like, what

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Speaker 1: do we do now, asked Ruby. I'm not sure. Well,

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Speaker 1: do we keep following the footprints? All of a sudden

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Speaker 1: in the distance they heard a sound. It was very

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Speaker 1: close by and you should have seen them. Both river

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Speaker 1: and Ruby started sliding back down the hill as fast

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Speaker 1: the big foot footprint had dried and they carefully removed

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Speaker 1: running out of the forest as fast as they could,

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Speaker 1: as much as they wanted to find bigfoot. It was

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Speaker 1: a little scary actually hearing it for real. Well, now

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Speaker 1: they have evidence and so maybe next time they'll see

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Speaker 1: him in the distance and hopefully not too close, because

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Speaker 1: I think that would scare me too. Well, great job,

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Speaker 1: river and Ruby. You discovered a pretty amazing legendary creature

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Speaker 1: in the redwood forest. E. N. 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: somebody is it's time for a kid shout out. So

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Speaker 1: I want to say hey to chance from Markansas, Vivian

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Speaker 1: from Texas, a kill from Pennsylvania, Travis and red from

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Speaker 1: South Carolina, Rosalind from Boulder, Vera from New York, elouis

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Speaker 1: from Nashville and Mav cow, Silas and daddy is from Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all on the kids short stories,

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Speaker 1: family and honor, spiked, we could not stop Dr Stinky

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Speaker 1: breath and his crew without you, my friends. Will you?

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Speaker 1: I'm a super duper day and I will see you

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Speaker 1: on our next adventure. Bye,