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Speaker 1: you ready for today's adventure? Me too, Let's go. It

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Speaker 1: was a cloudy but pretty nice day as THEO was

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Speaker 1: playing with his friends outside. They were at the playground

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Speaker 1: in their neighborhood and having a ton of fun racing

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Speaker 1: around and playing all kinds of different playground games. Seven eight, nine, ten,

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Speaker 1: Ready or not? Right? Come? Shouted THEO as he uncovered

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Speaker 1: his eyes with his hands and started to look around.

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Speaker 1: I don't see anybody. Where did they go? He started

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Speaker 1: everybody had crawled inside of one of those slides that's

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Speaker 1: like a tube. Yeah, they were all squeezed inside and

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Speaker 1: had nowhere to go but down. I got you all

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Speaker 1: shouted THEO, as one by one they slid down the

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Speaker 1: slide right into his hand. I guess that wasn't a

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Speaker 1: good idea for us all to get in that slide,

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Speaker 1: said one of his friends. And then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: shouted THEO. All right, guys, well, I guess we'll play

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Speaker 1: more tomorrow, said one of his friends. By THEO, they

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Speaker 1: all waved and ran their different directions to head home.

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Speaker 1: THEO was pretty bummed because they were having a ton

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Speaker 1: of a sudden and unexpectedly. Oh, change can be hard, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Sometimes when we're playing or doing something that we really

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Speaker 1: changes our plans, just like what happened to THEO. They

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Speaker 1: were having a ton of fun. Then that rain came

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Speaker 1: out of nowhere. THEO grabbed his things and started running home.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want to get completely soaked, so he ran

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Speaker 1: him at the door. As he ran up the driveway, THEO,

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Speaker 1: said his parents. They gave him a big hug and

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Speaker 1: really frustrating to all of a sudden just change your plans,

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Speaker 1: but maybe we can play something better inside. Come on.

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Speaker 1: His parents wrapped a towel around THEO and helped him

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Speaker 1: day did end up being really fun. They did some

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Speaker 1: cool indoor art projects. But later in the afternoon, something

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Speaker 1: amazing was about to happen to change Theo's life forever. Hey, THEO,

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Speaker 1: why don't you run upstairs and see if there's any

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Speaker 1: a great idea, said THEO. He raced over to his

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Speaker 1: games and had a ton in his closet, many of

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Speaker 1: which that he had never played before, but he was

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Speaker 1: wanting to try something new. Do you like playing games

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Speaker 1: like board games or card games? Yes? Those are super

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Speaker 1: many that I love to play. What's your favorite? Well

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Speaker 1: as THEO got to his room and opened up his

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Speaker 1: games to choose from. There were many, and it was

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Speaker 1: I not played yet? THEO said to himself, Umm, oh,

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Speaker 1: What is that? It must be an old instructions manual

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Speaker 1: to one of these games. So he got down on

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Speaker 1: seen something like this before, said THEO. It was a

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Speaker 1: where did you find this? It was back behind all

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Speaker 1: of my games. I've never seen this thing before. It

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Speaker 1: three of them leaned closer to the table to get

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Speaker 1: It didn't take long before they all came to the

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Speaker 1: same conclusion. THEO, this looks like a treasure map, but

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Speaker 1: it's not real, right, Like this has just got to

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Speaker 1: be a pretend one right, asked THEO. I don't know, uh,

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Speaker 1: if it was behind that old dresser in your closet.

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Speaker 1: We didn't bring that dresser here when we moved into

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Speaker 1: the house. That dresser was already there. And so if

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Speaker 1: is actually real? Shouted THEO. His eyes were very big,

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Speaker 1: his hands were on the side of his head, and

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Speaker 1: all three of them were speechless. Well, let's see if

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Speaker 1: we can figure out, like where this map is located,

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Speaker 1: said one of his parents. You see every single treasure map. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Like maybe there's a big mountain nearby and that so

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Speaker 1: then on the treasure map there will be a big

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Speaker 1: There's all kinds of different things. Those are called landmarks

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Speaker 1: that someone would put on a treasure map to help

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Speaker 1: three stones right there? Theo's finger was pointing to the

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Speaker 1: edge of the map, and there were three big, like

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Speaker 1: kind of wobbly circles that look like stones. Right by

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Speaker 1: the park, there's there's those three really big rocks. Do

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Speaker 1: you think that's where the treasure map is talking about,

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Speaker 1: asked THEO. That's actually probably true. You're right right next

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Speaker 1: of his parents. I want to go check it out.

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Speaker 1: Can I put on some boots in a rain jacket

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Speaker 1: on your boots and rain jacket and maybe an umbrella too.

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Speaker 1: Just stay dry and don't get too mundy. They barely

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Speaker 1: finished their sentence before THEO ran off to go get

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Speaker 1: off as you know, it's kind of a hard day

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Speaker 1: because of the changing of the plans has turned into

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Speaker 1: possibly one of Theo's greatest days ever. Will he discover

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Speaker 1: a treasure? Is this map reel or is it just

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Speaker 1: an old piece of paper? I'm not sure, but we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to wait and see what happens on the

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Speaker 1: next episode of Kids Short Stories. You listened all the

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Speaker 1: way to the end, and you know what time it is.

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Speaker 1: It's time for could show out. I want to say

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Speaker 1: hey to aspen in Valor from Missouri, Anna from Finland,

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Speaker 1: Holcome from Idaho, Archie from Australia, Sienna and Elliott from Toronto,

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Speaker 1: Felicia from Massachusetts, Luca from Qatar, and Hannah and Morgan

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Speaker 1: from California. I'm so glad that you're all on the

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Speaker 1: Kit Short Stories family and Don the spy team. We

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Speaker 1: could not stop Doctor Stickybreath and his crew without you,

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Speaker 1: my friends. Will you have a souper due ber Day

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Speaker 1: and I'll see you next time. Bye,