1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: Hey, friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to Kids 2 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time, welcome to 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: the family. We have a ton of fun here. And 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: for all of my other awesome listeners, thank you for 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: listening every day. I know you have so many different 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: options to listen from, but parents, thank you for inviting 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: our stories into your home, into your cars, and into 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: sleepy time. Well, friends, are you ready for today's adventure? 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: Me too? Let's go all right. I just need a 10 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: few more fees and then it will look so cool, 11 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:52,480 Speaker 1: said Owen. He was building amaze for his hamster. Yeah. 12 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a hamster try to walk through 13 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: amaze before? Yeah? Maybe you put its favorite food at 14 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: the end of the maze and they sniff their way 15 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 1: through the maze. Have you ever been inside of a 16 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: maze where you can actually walk around? Whoa like a 17 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: corn maze? Have you ever heard of those before? Yeah? 18 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: Sometimes farmers take their corn field and they cut a 19 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:22,839 Speaker 1: path through the corn fields and you can wander through 20 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: the maze. It's really fun, and so I can understand 21 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: why a hamster would have a lot of fun walking 22 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: around in that maze looking for that delicious snack. Waiting 23 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 1: for him at the end. Well, you see, today's story 24 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: is actually not a lot about Owen and his twin brothers, 25 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 1: Aidan and Jack. Owen was building this amazing course that's 26 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: maze for their hamster. But meanwhile across the room, inside 27 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: of another enclosure, were two lizards that had been planning 28 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: for weeks their attempt to go on a real advance 29 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: sure outside of their enclosure. Hey, you you keep an 30 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: eye on over there, because I think it's almost time 31 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: for when Owen changes our water or a little ruddle 32 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: r knocking, I must stop those town lord the dumble 33 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: of the first run to jump out the horable rut 34 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: behounds or. These two lizards had been friends with Owen 35 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: for a very long time. He had a lot of 36 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,279 Speaker 1: pets in his house, uh, the lizards and the hamsters 37 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: and and even more. And these two lizard friends were right. 38 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: It was almost time for Owen to come and change 39 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: their water, which meant that the top lid was going 40 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: to be opened, and that was going to be their 41 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: chance to sneak out and go on a crazy adventure. 42 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: What do you think he's working on over there. He's 43 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:55,679 Speaker 1: been building that thing for a very long time. I 44 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: don't know. I think it's coming. How the two lizards 45 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: ducked underneath some of the leaves and hiding places that 46 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: were inside of the enclosure. As Owen opened up the 47 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: top lid, he grabbed the water bowl and walked over 48 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: to the bathroom to fill it up with some new, fresh, 49 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: clean water. Now's our chance, hot star, All right, I'm 50 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: I'm at the top here, grab my tail, I'll pull 51 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: you up. As the first lizard was sitting on the edge, 52 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: he draped his tail down kind of like a rope 53 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: for the other lizard to grab onto and pull himself up, 54 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: but it was a little hard for him to hold 55 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: onto the tail. And then Owen came back from the bathroom. 56 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: Herner run for it, go with armel. The second lizard 57 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: let go of his friend's tail, which sent him flying 58 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: back into the enclosure and the other lizard flying out 59 00:03:54,640 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: of the enclosure. Oh oh where am i? As Owen 60 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: brought the water bowl back into the enclosure and closed 61 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: the lid, we now had the two lizards separated from 62 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: each other. Don don don. As the lizard picked himself 63 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: up off the ground after that very big jump from 64 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: his enclosure, e, he looked around. Wow, looks like I'm 65 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: in a different world. These walls are so tall, and 66 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: how do I get out of here? As he started 67 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: walking around, he got very lost. It was like he 68 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: was inside of amaze. Oh it feels like I just 69 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: keep walking in circles and circles and circles. This is 70 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: like the fifth time that I've seen this same place. 71 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: He licked the ground and realized that he had definitely 72 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: been here before. Yep, I that tastes like me. I've 73 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: I've been here before. It's like this, It's like what 74 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: are those things called? And just then he heard a sound, 75 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: a screwring scratching sound that sounded like a giant free monster. 76 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: What was that sound? I've never And just then Owens 77 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 1: Hamster stuck his head out from the corner. The lizard 78 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: and the hamster looked right at each other. Oh, hey, 79 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: gotta get out of hand. The lizard started running around 80 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: inside of the maze. You see, the lizard had accidentally 81 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: jumped out of the cage and into the hamster maze, 82 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: and the hamster was in there chasing him behind. It 83 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 1: was absolutely chaos. You see, this lizard thought that he 84 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: had jumped into some kind of like death trap? Who 85 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: was stuck inside with this furry beast? It was only 86 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 1: a hamster, but from the lizard's perspective, it was gyenormous. 87 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: I gotta get out of here. He started to climb 88 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: up the side of the wall of the maize, hoping 89 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: that he could get out, and he jumped out just 90 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: in time as the hamster ran past him. Oh dear, this, 91 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: this world is not not a safe place. I gotta 92 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,840 Speaker 1: get back to my home. The lizard ran back towards 93 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: his enclosure and climbed up the side just as Owen 94 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: was walking past. Whoa, whoa, whoa there a little guy, 95 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: what do you think you're going? You gotta get back 96 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: in your home. He picked up his lizard and put 97 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: him back inside of the enclosure. How did you get 98 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 1: out in the first place? Holy smokes, I'm glad you 99 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: didn't run into the hamster. You would have gone crazy 100 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: with you, said Owen, as the lizard was now back 101 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: in his home. His friend was there waiting. Worm. So 102 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:06,159 Speaker 1: a love terms everything? Where does the last character? Those 103 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: are from? An exciting done? That was terrible? We're away 104 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: safer it here that outsided that wild there was a 105 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: giant furry monster that tried to eat me, Nora. That's unthumb, 106 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: Carlo Smarts. I'm circled or back horme um a little, 107 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: a little by that giant furrow the mouthster. And that 108 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: was the day that Owen's lizards learned that they should 109 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: not jump out of that enclosure. Even though it was 110 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: just that hamster maze that he fell into. I think 111 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: it was a very scary experience for a little lizard 112 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: to be chased around by a giant, furry hamster. The 113 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: great job. You listened all the way to the end, 114 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: and you know what time it is, It's time for 115 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: kid shout out. I want to say hey to the 116 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: Shortshi Pre School in Cleveland, Ohio. 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