1 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: Hello friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to Kit 2 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: Short Stories. I need to make sure that you have 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: smashed the follow button. You know that follow button. It 4 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: kind of looks like a plus sign, or it might 5 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: say follow or something like that, so you don't miss 6 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: out at any of our awesome stories every single day. Well, 7 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 1: today's story comes to us from River. Hey, River, I 8 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: cannot wait for this amazing adventure into outer space. Are 9 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 1: you guys ready for today's story? Me too, Let's go. 10 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: River was just waking up and rolling out of bed. 11 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: What's seem like a normal kind of day would end 12 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: up being a very unusual one. Well, you see, River 13 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: was actually used to unusual days because he was an astronaut. Yes, 14 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: he was on the space squad and so it was 15 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: his job to zoom around and make sure that everything 16 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: in space was nice and safe. He ran downstairs and 17 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: grabbed a big bowl of cereal and gobbled it up. 18 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: That was his favorite breakfast. Do you have a favorite 19 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: breakfast that you love to eat every morning, or maybe 20 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: you like different breakfasts and switch it up. Well, whatever 21 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: it is, make sure it has lots of good energy, 22 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: because we all need good energy, and especially River who's 23 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: about the blast off to space? You see, every Thursday 24 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: is when River would blast off to space. Thursdays, that 25 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: was his day to protect outer space, and then it 26 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: was other kids jobs different days of the week, but 27 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: Rivers day was Thursday. He loved exploring all kinds of 28 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: different parts of outer space, traveling to the planets, stars 29 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: and moons. There was so much out there to explore. 30 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,519 Speaker 1: But like I said, today was a very unusual day. 31 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: As he entered Space Headquarters and that's you know, where 32 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: all the astronauts get on all their uniforms and prepare 33 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: for blast off, he took one step inside and was 34 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: met with some emergency instructions. River, here, we need you 35 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 1: to go to these coordinates on a far moon. We've 36 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 1: observed some movement, very unusual movement. We needs you to 37 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: check it out. Oh absolutely, I'll get right on it, 38 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: said River. He raced over to the changing room to 39 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: put on all of his astronaut gear. That meant boots 40 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: and pants and jackets and helmets and gloves and the 41 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: whole thing, and even an oxygen tank. As he tested 42 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: the oxygen, tasted and breathed like really clean air. Ah, 43 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: that's some fancy air. For astronauts the oxygen that they 44 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: have to breathe. Yeah, because oxygen what we need to 45 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: breathe is not found in space. So that's a really 46 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 1: important thing. If you ever want to be an astronaut, 47 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: you have to make sure that you have your oxygen 48 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 1: tank with you at all times. Three two one, the 49 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: rocket that River was sitting in had blasted off to space. 50 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: River always loved that part of the blast off on 51 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: the rocket as he was thrown back into his chair 52 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: because it was going so fast. It even made his 53 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: face make some silly faces. Can you make a really 54 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: silly face like you're blasting off to space in your 55 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: mouth or pulled back and your cheek, sir, almost touching 56 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: your ears? Those are some amazing space launch faces. But 57 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: you should have seen Rivers face. Even though he was screaming, 58 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 1: he loved it, and pretty soon he found himself floating 59 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: through space. His rocket ship thankfully knew exactly where to 60 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 1: go because they had put in the coordinates of the 61 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: location of this strange activity appearing on one of I 62 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 1: think it was Jupiter's moon, well one of them at least. Yeah, 63 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: Jupiter has has a lot of moons. How many moons 64 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: this our planet Earth have and just one, right, yes, 65 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: just one moon, but Jupiter has more than one. Do 66 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:56,919 Speaker 1: you know how many moons? Jupiter has seventy nine moons? 67 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: Holy smokes, that is a lot of moons. But there 68 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: was one in particular that that's where River was headed 69 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: to figure out what in the world was going on 70 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: on that little moon off of the planet Jupiter. It 71 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: took a very long time to arrive, but thankfully his 72 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: spaceship was very very fast, so instead of it taking 73 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 1: years and years and years, it just took a couple hours, 74 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: which I would take a couple of hours over years 75 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: of traveling, right, Yeah, a couple of hours, I could 76 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: do that. As a spaceship carefully landed down on the moon, 77 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: River grabbed a flashlight and opened the door and started 78 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 1: to search around. It was a very strange looking place. 79 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 1: The dirt was all gray. It looked like everything was 80 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: in black and white. River had been on many moons before, 81 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: so he was used to looking at this because most 82 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: moon look the same. River didn't know exactly what he 83 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: was looking for because they didn't give him very specific instructions, 84 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: only that they saw some movement or something happening on 85 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: the moon. What do you think it could be? Do 86 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: you think it's like an earlier or where was it just? 87 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: You know, some dirt being blown around in the wind. 88 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 1: Do they have wind on the moons? I'm not sure, 89 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: les River kept exploring. He saw something. What is that? 90 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: He shouted? It had all kinds of tentacles and eyeballs 91 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: and it was moving. Hellen, shouted River. His dream had 92 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: come true, except his dream was a little scary, exciting, 93 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: and a lot of things. He didn't know what to feel, 94 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: excited or scared. What would you feel if you saw 95 00:06:55,960 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: a real alien? What would would that be? Scarier? Exciting? Well? 96 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: Either way, it was an alien moving in slow motion. 97 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: River walked over to it and said, hello, are you 98 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: Are you okay? Why are you moving in slow motion? 99 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: Whoaum low on batter? And he just stopped. River stood 100 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: there in front of what looked like a completely frozen alien. 101 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: Did he say it was low on battery? Said River. 102 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: He bent down and kind of turned his head to 103 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: the side and saw something that looked like a charging port, 104 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: like for a cable or something. He ran back to 105 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: his spaceship and grabbed one of the cables that had 106 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: a solar power charger connected to it. He attached it 107 00:07:51,760 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: onto the alien and instantly, Hey, I thank you Soto. 108 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: I was riding low at battery. But are these solid powers? Oh? 109 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. What's your name? River was a 110 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: little confused. Hi, my name's River. What's your name? You 111 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: can call me Charlie. Charlie went on to tell River 112 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: everything about alien life, which was amazing to learn about. 113 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: River had always wanted to meet an alien, and thankfully 114 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: he met a nice alien. I don't know if all 115 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: of them are nice or not, but Charlie, he was 116 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: a nice, tentacled alien. And that day River not only 117 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: helped recharge Charlie, which I didn't know aliens needed charging. 118 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: That's kind of silly. But River saved Charlie and also 119 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 1: learned all about aliens and so on his trip back 120 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 1: to planet Earth, he was very excited to share everything 121 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 1: he had learned with his entire space crew. This may 122 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:05,959 Speaker 1: be the end of our story, but I think it's 123 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: just the beginning of rivers amazing space adventures. The end. 124 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,319 Speaker 1: Great job. You listened all the way to the end, 125 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: and you know what time it is. It's time for 126 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,679 Speaker 1: kid shout out. So I want to say hey to 127 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,680 Speaker 1: Creek from Maryland, Nora from Nova Scotia, Haven from Denver, Colorado, 128 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: Allie and Levi from Alberta, Aurora from Austin, Texas, Kieran 129 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: and Robbie from Indianapolis, Ryan from Cleveland and said in 130 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: olive from Illinois, I'm so glad that you're all on 131 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 1: the Kids Short Stories family and on our spy team. 132 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 1: We could not stop Doctor Stinky Breath and his crew 133 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 1: without you, my friends. Will you have a super duper 134 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: day and I will see you on our next adventure. 135 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: Bye O.