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Speaker 1: Hey Friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to kids

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Speaker 1: short stories. I lovely reading through the reviews that you

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Speaker 1: leave for me on apple podcast. This one I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at right now is from Kate Olive. It says it's

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Speaker 1: great for bedtime. Five stars. For over a year my

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Speaker 1: four year old has listened to these stories as he

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Speaker 1: goes to sleep. He requests them every night. That's so awesome. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we at our house we loved listening to these stories

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Speaker 1: as we're getting ready for bed as well. Well, are

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Speaker 1: you ready for today's adventure? Me Too. Let's go as

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Speaker 1: Theo ran through his house to grab his boots, rain

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Speaker 1: jacket and umbrella. He was so excited to see if

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Speaker 1: this was a real treasure map. Remember in the last episode,

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Speaker 1: Theo found this old legendary map hidden in the back

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Speaker 1: of his close. It and had some markings on it

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Speaker 1: that looked familiar. Look kind of like the three big

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Speaker 1: stones that were at a playground near his house, and

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Speaker 1: Theo was going to check it out to see if

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Speaker 1: this was indeed a real treasure map. He put the

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Speaker 1: map inside of a plastic bag to keep it dry

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Speaker 1: from the rain. It had been raining now for a

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Speaker 1: long time. And so all the mud and puddles had

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Speaker 1: appeared by now. He had to keep that map dry,

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Speaker 1: or else he might lose some really important information. All right, Theo,

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Speaker 1: said his parents as he walked outside. Okay, I'll be

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Speaker 1: back in a little bit. He waved goodbye and started

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Speaker 1: on his adventure towards the playground. Squish, squash, squish, squash.

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Speaker 1: His boots squashed through the mud with every step. Oh

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Speaker 1: that was a deep puddle. Wow, I'm glad I'm hearing

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Speaker 1: some tall boots, said Theo. Just a little bit further

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Speaker 1: up ahead, he could see the park where he was

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Speaker 1: playing with his friends earlier. Now the wood chips had

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Speaker 1: formed a whole bunch of different puddles from all the rain,

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Speaker 1: so it was not going to be a good time

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Speaker 1: to play. And of course he was on a mission,

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Speaker 1: so he had to stay focused. All Right, Um, where's

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Speaker 1: that big pile of those big rocks? Oh it's over there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let me go check it out. Over there, Theo was

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Speaker 1: looking to find the landmarks that he had seen on

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Speaker 1: the treasure map. You see, every treasure map it leaves

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Speaker 1: behind drawings of of different places that can help you

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Speaker 1: remember like how to get to where the treasure is.

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Speaker 1: So on the map they had seen three Scho wiggly

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Speaker 1: circles that kind of looked like three boulders. Theo had

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Speaker 1: remembered seeing some boulders in the park. As he got

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Speaker 1: closer and closer, he counted one, two, three boulders. This

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Speaker 1: has gotta be it. As he pulled out the map

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Speaker 1: that was inside of that plastic bag from inside of

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Speaker 1: his ring jacket, he held it up and it matched

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Speaker 1: perfectly with those three boulders that were on the edge

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Speaker 1: of the playground. You See, these boulders were pretty big.

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Speaker 1: They were a little bit bigger than Theo, but you

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Speaker 1: could like get on top and climb on them. Right

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Speaker 1: now they were pretty slippery from all that rain. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I think I just got to climb up there and

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Speaker 1: take a better look and see if I can find

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Speaker 1: the next clue on the map. By looking at the map,

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Speaker 1: it looked like the next thing he needed to find

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Speaker 1: was some kind of tree that looked like the letter y.

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Speaker 1: he'd never seen a y tree before, but maybe if

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Speaker 1: he climbed up on the rocks, you could get a

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Speaker 1: better look there. Ah, who that was really slippery. As

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Speaker 1: he looked around, he turned in circles looking for that

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Speaker 1: y tree. M Hmm, there's a lot of trees. I

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Speaker 1: don't see one that looks wait a second, over there

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Speaker 1: there's a ginormous old oak tree. It does kind of

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Speaker 1: look like the letter why. I wonder if that's it.

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Speaker 1: He turned to jump off the rocks to get back

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, what splash? Oh Theo slipped off of

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Speaker 1: the big boulders and right into a huge mud puddle.

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Speaker 1: Oh No, the map. The map had flown out of

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Speaker 1: Theo's hands and landed right in the mud. Oh No,

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Speaker 1: is it ruined? Said Theo as he nervously picked it

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Speaker 1: all this mud from that plastic bag. He wiped off

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Speaker 1: well almost, said Theo as he began his next adventure

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Speaker 1: be so fun to follow a real treasure map? Said venture.

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Speaker 1: That leads you from clue to clue to clue, and

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Speaker 1: then maybe there's a real treasure waiting for you just

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Speaker 1: s up ahead. As Theo arrived at the tree, he

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Speaker 1: heard in the distance. Theo, Theo, where are you? That

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Speaker 1: was the voice of his parents shouting from a distance.

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Speaker 1: Looks like they didn't want to miss out on all

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Speaker 1: the fun that Theo was having. I'm over here, shouted Theo,

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Speaker 1: as he waved his arms up really high so that

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Speaker 1: any more clues? And Wow, you got pretty muddy. Are

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Speaker 1: you okay? They asked. Yeah, I'm okay. I kind of

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Speaker 1: slipped off those big boulders and the map fell in

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Speaker 1: the mud, but thankfully it's in this plastic bags. I

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Speaker 1: just had to wipe it off on my leg, said Theo.

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Speaker 1: But I'm at the next clue it it pointed me

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Speaker 1: over to this tree that looked like a y. see,

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Speaker 1: he held up the map and his parents agreed that

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Speaker 1: that tree looked exactly like the one that was drawn

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Speaker 1: on this old treasure map. All right, so what do

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Speaker 1: we do next? They asked? Um, I don't know. This

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Speaker 1: map doesn't have a big X on it. Um, I

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Speaker 1: don't exactly know what we're looking for, but this big

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Speaker 1: tree does seem to be in the center of the map,

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Speaker 1: so it must be important. Let's look around, said Theo.

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Speaker 1: The three of them started to walk around the tree

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Speaker 1: and look in all the nooks and crannies, because it

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Speaker 1: was a very big old tree. It had some hollow

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Speaker 1: parts and some old broken branches that had a hole

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Speaker 1: and eyed, and so they were looking for something that

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Speaker 1: might be hidden inside of that old old tree. Wait

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Speaker 1: a second, Theo, come over here, look down here. One

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Speaker 1: of his parents was pointing down to an old hollow

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Speaker 1: part of the tree. Do you know what a hollow

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Speaker 1: part of the tree is? Yeah, it's kind of like, uh,

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Speaker 1: the center of the tree is empty and there's a

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Speaker 1: little opening to it and sometimes critters like to build

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Speaker 1: a nest inside there. But this one had something else

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Speaker 1: inside here. Let me reach inside and pull it out.

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Speaker 1: Theo laid down on the wet grass and reached inside.

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Speaker 1: Be careful, said his parents. I got it and out

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Speaker 1: popped a very old wooden box. Is this a treasure chest?

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Speaker 1: Shout at Theo. That's what it looks like. Get it

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Speaker 1: open fast, shouted his parents. I think they were just

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Speaker 1: as excited as Theo was thankful there wasn't a lock

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Speaker 1: on it. As Theo opened it up, it was empty. What?

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Speaker 1: It's completely empty, shouted Theo as he closed the box.

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Speaker 1: A man, said one of his parents. I kind of

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Speaker 1: wish that there was like a gold coin in there

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Speaker 1: or something. Let me take another look. One of his

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Speaker 1: parents knelt down and picked up the box and opened

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Speaker 1: it up. Wait a second, there is a gold coin. Look,

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Speaker 1: he reached inside and pulled out a gold coin. How

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Speaker 1: did that happen? I just looked in there, said Theo,

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Speaker 1: and it was empty. They all looked at each other

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Speaker 1: and couldn't believe it, but it was a real gold coin.

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Speaker 1: You don't think it's because you said that you wish

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Speaker 1: that there was a gold coin in there, do you?

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Speaker 1: Asked Theo. I don't know, but let's try it again.

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Speaker 1: I wish there was cotton candy inside, said one of

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Speaker 1: his parents. As they opened the box, they couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 1: A Beautiful, Bright Pink Spool of Cotton Candy. All three

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Speaker 1: of their mouths dropped open. No Way, said Theo. It's

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Speaker 1: a wishing box. The three of them couldn't wait to

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Speaker 1: get home and try some more wishes. But holy smokes,

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Speaker 1: they found a real wishing box. I've never seen one

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Speaker 1: of those in real life, but if you had a

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Speaker 1: wishing box, what would you wish for inside that you

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Speaker 1: could open up and find sitting there waiting for you?

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Speaker 1: Oh that would be so cool. Even though this is

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Speaker 1: the end of this story, it's the only just the

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Speaker 1: beginning of Theo and his parents great adventure with this

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Speaker 1: new treasure that they just found. Great job, you listen

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Speaker 1: to all the way to the end and you know

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Speaker 1: what time it is. It's time for kid shout out.

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Speaker 1: So I want to say hey to Janelle and Jaden

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Speaker 1: from Toronto, Vihan from India, Aidan from Oregon, James and

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Speaker 1: Ethan from California, Leo and Brooks from Maryland, Carter and

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Speaker 1: Vanessa from New Hampshire, Max from Ottawa and Nicholas from Illinois.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all in the kits. Short series,

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Speaker 1: family and Don the spy team. We could not stop

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Speaker 1: doctor stinky breath and his crew without you, my friends. Well,

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Speaker 1: you have a super duper day and I will see

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Speaker 1: you on our next adventure. By