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Speaker 1: awesome adventure. Are you ready for this one? Me too,

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Speaker 1: Let's go. One day, Simon was playing at the playground

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Speaker 1: with all of his friends. He had one of the

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Speaker 1: coolest playgrounds to play at. It had big slides and

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Speaker 1: things to hide in and climb on. Everyone loved playing there.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys like to play at the playground? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: me too. The monkey bars and things that to climb on.

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Speaker 1: Those are my favorites. Do you guys like the slides? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: those are so cool too. Simon's favorite was to go

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Speaker 1: down the really fun fast slide and whoa zoom off

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Speaker 1: the bottom. Well, he went down one of the slides

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Speaker 1: and noticed something moving in the grass. Right next to

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Speaker 1: the playground was some really tall grass and some small

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Speaker 1: wiggling in there and he had to go check it out.

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Speaker 1: You see, Simon was on the animal rescue team, and

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Speaker 1: part of his job was if he found an animal

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Speaker 1: that was lost, he had to help it get home

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Speaker 1: and make sure I found its family. Well, Simon was

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Speaker 1: getting closer to the grass and he thought he heard

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Speaker 1: a sound, and so he peeked in and looked, and

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Speaker 1: what is that? That was not a normal animal that

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Speaker 1: he'd ever seen anywhere here before. It looked like a penguin.

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Speaker 1: What in the world is a penguin doing here. Simon

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Speaker 1: looked down to the penguin and said, excuse me, are

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Speaker 1: you lost? And the penguin said, yes, yes I am.

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Speaker 1: You see, I am just a baby penguin and I

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Speaker 1: can't find my mama. Oh my gosh, Oh that's terrible.

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Speaker 1: Are you okay, Are you hurt? No, I'm not hurt,

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Speaker 1: but I really missed my family. Could you help me

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Speaker 1: find him? Yes? Absolutely, But we don't have penguins anywhere

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Speaker 1: near here. How did you get here? Well, you see,

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Speaker 1: I just got lost and started wandering, and pretty soon

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Speaker 1: I guess I had wandered very far. But I normally live.

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Speaker 1: My home is in Peru. What you mean you weren't

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Speaker 1: just like you got lost out of the zoo down

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Speaker 1: the street. You're you live like in Peru? Yes, that

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Speaker 1: is really far away, and I I thought penguins lived

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Speaker 1: in an Antarctica. I didn't know that penguins lived in

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Speaker 1: Peru too. Yes, we don't like the super super cold

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Speaker 1: in Antarctica, so our family we live in Peru. Wow,

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Speaker 1: I just learned about Peru. Peru is a country in

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Speaker 1: South America. But that is really far away from where

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Speaker 1: we're definitely gonna need to figure out a faster way

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Speaker 1: than walking to get there, because if we walked, I

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Speaker 1: think it might take five years, so we can't do that.

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Speaker 1: All right, here, come with me. The baby penguin started

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Speaker 1: to follow Simon back to his house. Part of the

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Speaker 1: gear that Simon got when he trained to be an

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Speaker 1: animal rescuer was he had some special jet packs, one

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Speaker 1: for him and one that could hold another creature. And

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Speaker 1: so they put their jet packs and blasted off on

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Speaker 1: their way to Peru. And Peru from where Simon was

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Speaker 1: was very far away, and they had to fly a

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Speaker 1: very long time. So do you know what's important to

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Speaker 1: bring with on a long trip? Delicious snacks? So Simon

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Speaker 1: brought his favorite things to snack on. What are your

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Speaker 1: favorite things to snack on? Oh? Yeah, I like chips,

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Speaker 1: and I like carrots and apples. Oh I love all fruits.

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Speaker 1: Those are delicious, and oh some those are some really

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Speaker 1: eat minnows and little fish. So Simon had to bring

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, oh no, Simon said, those are some

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Speaker 1: We gotta find some we're safe, let's go. And so

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Speaker 1: middle of a middle of a jungle. Ohn. Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: They were not expecting that. But there's definitely a lot

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Speaker 1: So it makes a lot of sense. But penguins, they

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Speaker 1: usually don't like to stay in jungles, so this was

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Speaker 1: only going to be a quick trip. But as they

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Speaker 1: touched down and landed very safely in the middle of

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Speaker 1: a jungle, they started to look for somewhere safe that

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Speaker 1: would keep them dry from the storm. And Simon looked around.

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Speaker 1: He saw some very big trees. Do you guys know

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Speaker 1: what a rainforest is and what it's made of. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's made of really big, green, fluffy trees and really

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Speaker 1: tall trees, and it rains a lot there, so all

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Speaker 1: the plants and all the animals they get plenty of

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Speaker 1: water to drink. So a lot of the creatures and

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Speaker 1: big and strong. So as they were walking around, they

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Speaker 1: saw all kinds of new critters that Simon had never

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Speaker 1: seen before. He saw some really cool looking frogs that. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I think those are poison dart frogs. We shouldn't touch those,

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Speaker 1: Simon said, and the penguin was a little nervous. So

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Speaker 1: the penguins stayed right next to Simon. As they kept

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Speaker 1: walking through the rainforest, they came to a nice, big

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Speaker 1: pool of water. Oh, this will be perfect, mr penguin.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I ever asked your name. What's your name?

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Speaker 1: My name's Paul. Oh, hi, Paul. Well, I bet you're thirsty, right,

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Speaker 1: so why don't you take a drink of water right here,

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Speaker 1: and we'll take a little rest while this storm passes over.

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Speaker 1: Over the next couple of minutes, the storm rained and rained,

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Speaker 1: but they were kept dry because they were underneath those

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Speaker 1: drank a lot of water out of that Ponton. I

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Speaker 1: a drink of water. After the storm passed, they put

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Speaker 1: their jet packs on. Next stop, Simon said, Peru, and

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Speaker 1: they blasted off up into the clouds again. As they

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Speaker 1: traveled further and further. As they got to Peru, it

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Speaker 1: got colder and colder. Oh, we must be getting close,

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Speaker 1: Paul the baby penguin said, because oh, I love this

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Speaker 1: temperature when it gets not so hot, because the rainforest

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Speaker 1: can sometimes get very very hot. There it is right there,

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Speaker 1: Paul pointed towards the coast of Peru. Right next to

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Speaker 1: the ocean, there were some islands. And wow, look at

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Speaker 1: all those penguins. You see, there's some islands off the

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Speaker 1: coast of Peru that has been become home to a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of penguins who didn't like Antarctica because Antarctica

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Speaker 1: was way too cold for them. And Simon was looking

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Speaker 1: around for a family that looked like Paul, but all

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Speaker 1: the penguins they all looked the same, so it was

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Speaker 1: kind of tricky. But as they landed down on the island,

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Speaker 1: Paul the penguin knew exactly where to go. He ran

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Speaker 1: as fast as his little tiny feet could carry him.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever seen penguins run? Yeah, he tripped a

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Speaker 1: couple of times, but that's okay. He never gave up running, running,

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Speaker 1: running all the way right into his mommy and daddy's arms.

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Speaker 1: The penguin was home and so happy. Timan saved the day,

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Speaker 1: the end m