1 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's story comes to 2 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: us from one of our listeners, Benny. Hey, Benny, he 3 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: sent us an awesome idea on our Instagram page, and 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: you can too. Just go over to our Instagram Kids 5 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 1: Short Stories. Neither leave a comment or send us a 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: message with your name and your idea for a story, 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. Are 8 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: you ready for this one? Me too? Let's go. One day, 9 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: Benny was getting ready for bed. Who what do you 10 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: guys do when you're getting ready for bed? You brush 11 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 1: your teeth, think your potty, and put on Jamie's. Yeah, 12 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: that's exactly what Benny was doing. And he was doing 13 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: all those things and with his special lion blanket named Roar. 14 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: You see, Roar was a really special lion blanket because 15 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: sometimes it turned into a real lion. And so as 16 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: they were getting ready for bed, Benny was brushing his 17 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: teeth and then when he went into his room, wait, 18 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: my pillows missing. He Oh gosh, he was looking everywhere. 19 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:27,919 Speaker 1: He looked under his bed and his closet. This is tough. 20 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: And then wait a second, he saw something in his bed. 21 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 1: There was a note right where his pillow should be 22 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:46,479 Speaker 1: and it's said thank you for your pillow, signed Mr 23 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: grumpy Pants. What Mr, is this for real? I gotta 24 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: go to bed and I don't have a pillow. Benny 25 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. Oh man, who's this Mr grumpy Pants guy? 26 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: Why is he taking my pillow? That is rude. Okay, 27 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: we gotta figure this out. Roar. Let's open up our 28 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: Spy Kids iPad and see what's going on. And so 29 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: Benny opened up his Spy Kids iPad and typed in 30 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: Mr grumpy Pants to see what kind of history this 31 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 1: guy has and if he's known for stealing people's pillows. 32 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: And when he typed in Mr grumpy Pants and hit enter, 33 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, all the results that it pulled up. 34 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: Oh no, this guy's been stealing people's pills for a 35 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: long time and no one has ever caught him before. 36 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 1: Benny couldn't believe it. Did this guy just steal my 37 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: pillow and think he could get away with it? Uh? 38 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: No way, no way. So Benny sent a message to 39 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 1: the Spy Kids headquarters saying that he had just found 40 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 1: a clue from Mr grumpy Pants. Spy Kids Headquarters responded 41 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: and said, all right, when you get a good night's sleep, 42 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: because tomorrow it's going to be a busy day. Benny 43 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: cuddled up with Roar and tried to go to sleep, 44 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: but it was really hard because he didn't have a 45 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: pillow and his mind was running thinking about all the 46 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: different ways that they were going to have to try 47 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: and find this Mr. Grumpy Pants. But pretty soon he 48 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: was fast asleep. When he woke up the next morning, 49 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: he was ready to get to work. He had to 50 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: find this guy. He had to stop them from stealing 51 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: more pillows from other people. People need pillows. Aren't pillows 52 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: the best? They're so comfy? Yeah, And so Benny and 53 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: his Roar Blanket got all their spy gear and got 54 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: ready to head to work. After eating a delicious breakfast, 55 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: they walked outside to start to look for clues. Where 56 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: in the world. Okay, let's think for a second. If 57 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: someone like Mr Grumpy Pants really wanted to steal like 58 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 1: all the pillows, why what do you think? Maybe he 59 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 1: lives in like something that's really not comfy, and so 60 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:30,799 Speaker 1: he wants more pillows to be more comfy. Maybe. Um, 61 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: all right, let's let's start looking around. And so, as 62 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: they walked around the backyard had um the edge of 63 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: kind of like a steep hill, okay, and there's lots 64 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 1: of rocks and some caves, and Benny thought maybe it'd 65 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 1: be a good idea if we checked out one of those, 66 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 1: like rocky caves. And as they were walking closer, Benny 67 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 1: saw something. He saw a tiny little pillow at the 68 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: edge of this cave. Oh my gosh, do you think 69 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: that's something important, like a clue? And Roar looked up 70 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: at him and nodded his lion head. He thought Benny 71 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: was right. Let's get closer, Benny said, and they carefully 72 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,840 Speaker 1: walked closer to the cave and peeked inside using their 73 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 1: spy kids flashlight. Oh my gosh. As he shone the 74 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: flashlight back in the cave, he saw that it was filled, 75 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 1: I mean filled with pillows. It looked very comfy. Can 76 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: you imagine a big cave which are really cool, but 77 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 1: they're really rocky and hard. Imagine a cave filled with 78 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: comfy pillows. Wouldn't that be cool? Yeah, that would be 79 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 1: kind of cool. But Mr grumpy Pants didn't do it 80 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: the right way. He was stealing pills instead of using 81 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: his own pillows. M hmm, that is not right. We 82 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: gotta stop him, and so Benny and Roar the line 83 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: Blanket snuck inside to look and see who Mr grumpy 84 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: Pants was what they were dealing with. The used their 85 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: binoculars and sure enough, there he was. Oh what, oh, 86 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:35,159 Speaker 1: my gosh. Mr grumpy Pants was a porcupine. H oh, 87 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: porcupines are really pokey. I don't want to have to 88 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: touch him because he'll poke us with his booky tail. 89 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: Benny came up with an idea, what if we just, um, 90 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: what if we just talked to him and tell and 91 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: try to understand like what he's doing, and maybe we 92 00:06:54,400 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 1: can get our pillows back? Um, hello, hello, Oh the 93 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 1: cave was really echoy and Mr grumpy Pants turned around 94 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: and looked and said, hey, what are you doing in 95 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: my cave? Um? Well, you see, I you stole my pillow, 96 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: Mr grumpy Pants, and I would like it back. And 97 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: I see that you've stolen a lot of pillows, and 98 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: I want to bring all those pillows back to the 99 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: rightful owners. Mr grumpy Pants said, there's no way I'm 100 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: gonna let you have all these pillows. This is my 101 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:40,239 Speaker 1: home and living a life as a very pokey animal 102 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: with all these pokeis I need more pillows than the 103 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: average animal. Okay, and so what are you gonna do 104 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: about it to make my life better? Um? Well, we 105 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: could brainstorms some ideas, but I just I need my 106 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: pillow and all these people's back. And then Benny had 107 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: a great idea. What oh he he remembers he had 108 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of fluff that he was using for 109 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: an art project like fluffy cotton. Oh what if? Al right, 110 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: Mr grumpy Pants, I have a great idea. What if 111 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: I make you some really cool pillows. I can put 112 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of really comfy, fluffy things in some 113 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 1: bags and it's like a custom pillow. And I'll even 114 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 1: make him look really cool. What do you think? M M? 115 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: I guess that'll be okay? And Mr grumpy Pants let 116 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 1: Benny get all the pillows back. Benny saved the day. 117 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: All those people are gonna get those pillows back. And 118 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: I think Benny actually made a new friend instead of 119 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: that grow be porcupine being mean and stealing more pillows, 120 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: I think Mr grumpy Pants made his first friend. That's 121 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: pretty cool. Have you ever done that before? Been nice 122 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 1: to someone that was mean to you? Yeah, Benny's really 123 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: good at that. It's a really cool thing to be 124 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: kind and loving to maybe someone like Mr grumpy Pants, 125 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: who's mean because he doesn't have any friends. So it's 126 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 1: really cool to be kind to other people even if 127 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 1: they're not kind to you. That is a really cool story. 128 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: Thank you, Benny, have a great day. Bye.