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Speaker 1: Hello friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kid

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. If you haven't already, and you need to

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Speaker 1: the whole world to hear. And today's story comes to

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Speaker 1: us from Luca. Hey, Luca, your story is about to

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Speaker 1: head out across the entire world. Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: today's adventure? Me too, Let's go. Today was supposed to

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Speaker 1: be a very normal day as Luca was getting home

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Speaker 1: from school. He was supposed to have a very normal

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Speaker 1: day with friends playing soccer in the field nearby and

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Speaker 1: laughing and making some really fun memories. That was all

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Speaker 1: supposed to happen today, But something very unusual happened that

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Speaker 1: changed everybody's plans forever. But before we get to the

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Speaker 1: part where Luca enters the story, we must go back

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Speaker 1: to this morning. Earlier, this morning, far far away, lived

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Speaker 1: a ginormous creature. We would call him Bigfoot, but he

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Speaker 1: just likes to be called Biggie. Is just call me Biggie.

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Speaker 1: And Biggie lives in the middle of a forest, far

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Speaker 1: away from people. He does not like to be seen

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Speaker 1: or heard or even known about his whole life. He

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Speaker 1: just wants to live in secret. Every morning, he would

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Speaker 1: cook up a delicious breakfast and then go up on

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Speaker 1: look out over the hills, right next to a beautiful,

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Speaker 1: crystal clear river where he could drink his morning tea. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Biggie loved to drink a pine needle tea. He would

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Speaker 1: gather a whole bunch of pine needles and somehow he

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Speaker 1: had a cup that he had made from a branch,

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Speaker 1: And so Biggie would make that delicious cup of tea

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Speaker 1: and dangle his feet off the edge of another branch,

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Speaker 1: a branch that was big enough for him to sit on.

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Speaker 1: He had tested many branches before and came crashing down

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Speaker 1: many times before because Biggie is very hairy. Yes he

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Speaker 1: is big, but he's also very hairy, and all that

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Speaker 1: hair makes him very heavy. But this morning his plans

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Speaker 1: got all messed up. You see, he loved to do

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Speaker 1: the same routine over and it's something that made him,

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Speaker 1: I think, feel safe and feel good. Do you like

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Speaker 1: to do the same thing over and over like a routine,

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Speaker 1: like maybe when you wake up, you walk over to

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Speaker 1: the bathroom, brush your teeth, you come downstairs and eat breakfast,

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Speaker 1: Like having a routine is pretty nice because you know

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Speaker 1: exactly what needs to do when it needs to be done.

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Speaker 1: But unfortunately for Biggie, something happened last night. It messed

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Speaker 1: up his entire day. Where did my tree go? Somebody

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Speaker 1: As Biggie looked around back and forth, there was nobody there,

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Speaker 1: but the evidence around made it pretty clear who was

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Speaker 1: responsible for this. I think it was a beaver that

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Speaker 1: ate his tree. But Biggie did not like change. He

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Speaker 1: did not know what to do, and so he needed

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Speaker 1: to find a new place to sit and drink his

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Speaker 1: pine needle tea as fast as possible. Okay, looks like

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Speaker 1: I'm hitting up a new mountain. We gotta find the

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Speaker 1: perfect branch on the perfect tree so I can drink

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Speaker 1: my morning tea. Biggie started hiking up this new place,

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Speaker 1: somewhere he had never been before. Squish, squash, squish, squash.

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Speaker 1: Biggie's ginormous feet squashed through the mud, and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden he slid down the side of a hill

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Speaker 1: the side of a mountain into a valley below. This

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Speaker 1: valley was completely surrounded by very steep hills, almost like cliffs,

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Speaker 1: so it was gonna be very hard, maybe impossible for

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Speaker 1: Biggie to get out. Oh what in the darnation where

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Speaker 1: where am i? As Biggie looked around, he was a

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Speaker 1: distance he saw a cave, a cave with a bright

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Speaker 1: that cave is the only way in or out of

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Speaker 1: his home, he's gonna need to go through that cave. Squish, squash,

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Speaker 1: squish squash. As he huffed and puffed his way to

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Speaker 1: What do you think you're doing coming into my cave?

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Speaker 1: thing he thought of what to do was he ran

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Speaker 1: away as fast as he could. Squish, squash, squish, squash

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Speaker 1: safe here. He reached inside his pocket and called for

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Speaker 1: he knows HQ. Yes. In fact, Biggie used to be

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Speaker 1: team a long time ago and now he's retired, so

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Speaker 1: that's why he just lives out in the mountains. But

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Speaker 1: in case of an emergency, HQ will be there to help. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: back on Luca's side of the world, he was playing

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Speaker 1: shouted Luca. Oh wait, I'm not open. Hold on you guys,

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Speaker 1: keep playing. I'll be right back. He had gotten the

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Speaker 1: alert from HQ, and so he ran off to the

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Speaker 1: side to listen to this message, and it said, Luca,

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Speaker 1: we need your help. One of our spies has fallen

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Speaker 1: into a place where he needs help. There seems to

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Speaker 1: be a dinosaur stopping him from escaping, and we'll send

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Speaker 1: you the coordinates to go help him. Over and out. Shh,

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Speaker 1: a dinosaur, Lucas shouted. He did not understand what in

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Speaker 1: the world could be going on. HQ. Hold on a second,

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Speaker 1: did you say a dinosaur? Sh Yes, Luca, a dinosaur

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Speaker 1: has trapped one of our old bigfoot spies inside of

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Speaker 1: a valley surrounded by mountains. He's unable to get out,

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Speaker 1: and our bigfoot, who goes by the name Biggie, he

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Speaker 1: has requested backup and so we need you to go

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Speaker 1: rescue him. Over and out sh as. Luca stood there

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Speaker 1: on the soccer field, his eyes were very large and

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Speaker 1: his mouth was hanging opened. Somehow he had just slipped

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Speaker 1: into a mission to save a bigfoot from a dinosaur.

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Speaker 1: He didn't even know those things were still around. And

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Speaker 1: oh dear, this is gonna be quite the adventure for Luca,

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Speaker 1: and it's only just begun. He has no idea what

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Speaker 1: We'll have to wait and see what happens. On the

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Speaker 1: next episode of Kids' Short Stories. 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: time it is. It's time for kid Shot. I want

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Speaker 1: to say to Sammy and Rocky from Winston Salem, North Carolina,

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Speaker 1: Riker from Wheaton, Illinois, Arnav from Denver, Colorado, Jack and Carle,

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Speaker 1: Ashley and Evelyn from Wesley, Seattle, and Chloe from Royal Oak, Michigan.

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Speaker 1: And I have from India, Charlie and Eddie from British Columbian,

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Speaker 1: Ruga from Seattle. I'm so glad that you're all in

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Speaker 1: the Kid short Stories family, and Don the spy team.

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Speaker 1: We could not stop Doctor Stinky Breath and his crew

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Speaker 1: without you, my friends. Well you have a super duper day.

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Speaker 1: I will see you next time. Bye.