1 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: Hey Friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to kids 2 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:09,479 Speaker 1: short stories. Did you know that I built an Alexa 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 1: skill for you so that you can listen to a 4 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: whole lot easier on your Alexa devices? Yes, so, down 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: in the show notes below there's a link for your 6 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,960 Speaker 1: parents to enable that skill on a kid's Alexa device, 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: and that is gonna make it a lot easier. So 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: all you have to do is say, Oh, looked up 9 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 1: open kids short stories and it will play today's episode. Well, friends, 10 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 1: are you ready for today's adventure? Oh, I definitely am. 11 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:49,319 Speaker 1: Let's go. It was early one morning. As DWANNIE was 12 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: starting to wake up. She stretched her arms and looked around. 13 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: She was disappointed to see that it was still dark 14 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: again outside. You See, something very strange had been going 15 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: on over the past three or four days. You see, 16 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 1: it wasn't raining, but the sky was just so dark. 17 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: It never turned blue, the sun never came out and 18 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: the days just kept ticking on by. It's like almost 19 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: it was nighttime all the time, but you couldn't even 20 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: see the stars or the moon at night. It was 21 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:34,119 Speaker 1: like the sky was completely missing, and Dwani she had 22 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 1: to do something about it. All Right, today is the day, 23 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: she said, today is the day that I rescue the 24 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: missing sky. Wow, that sounds like something that is almost 25 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: impossible to do. How in the world is she going 26 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: to do that? Do you have any ideas of how 27 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: you could rescue the missing sky? Well, she started to 28 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: think can. You should too. She started to wonder what 29 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: she needed to do. M Do I need to clean 30 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: the sky? Okay, maybe I can use some window cleaner 31 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: and fly right up there and wash all that darkness away. 32 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: I don't think I have enough window cleaner for that. 33 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: m what's another good idea? Well, I could paint a 34 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: new sky. That could work, but I don't have enough 35 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: blue paint. We're white for clouds. What am I gonna do? 36 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: DWANI was running out of ideas but did not want 37 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: to give up. She was in the middle of eating 38 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 1: breakfast that morning and she heard a sound that gave 39 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: a really good idea. Outside, one of her parents was 40 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: blowing leaves out of the front yard grass with a 41 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: giant leaf blower, and her eyes got very wide and big. 42 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: I wonder if I flew up there on my jet 43 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: pack and I used that leaf blower to blow away 44 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: all those dark clouds. That are covering up the whole sky. 45 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: That could actually work. She raced up to her bedroom 46 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: to grab her jet pack, which was all charged up 47 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: and ready to go. She threw it on over her 48 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: back and ran out to the front yard. H Could 49 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: I borrow this leaf blower? It's really, really important of 50 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 1: what you need it for, said her dad. It's kind 51 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: of hard to explain, but you know how the sky 52 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: has been completely filled with all those really dark clouds 53 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: and we can't see anything for forever. I I thought 54 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: I could maybe fly up there and blow them all 55 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: the way. Huh, that's actually not a bad idea, said 56 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: her dad. Let me go grab you a fresh battery 57 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: and so you can get a fully charged leaf blower 58 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: and see if you can clean up that ridiculous sky 59 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: up there. Hold on. Her Dad ran over to the 60 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: garage to grab a fresh battery. That was really good news, 61 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 1: because hopefully, maybe, just maybe, her plan would actually work. 62 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: All Right, here you go, dwanny. Good luck up there, 63 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: said her dad, as dwanni blasted off towards the sky, 64 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: or at least where the sky used to be. Her 65 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: jet pack was on full throttle turbo mode. All Right, 66 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:42,600 Speaker 1: I think this is as high as I could go, 67 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: she said to herself. She was right. I don't think 68 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 1: there's any way that she could go any higher. That 69 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:53,119 Speaker 1: like black cloud thing, whatever is stuck in the sky, 70 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: was way too thick to push your way through. It 71 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: was like there was a ceiling on the sky. That 72 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: is not normal. She turned on the leaf blower and 73 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: pointed it towards all that black cloud gunk. It instantly 74 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: started working. She was pushing all those black clouds away 75 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: to let all the sunlight in. She could see her 76 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: dad down below standing with his hand over his eyes, 77 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: looking way up high. He started jumping around, cheering and 78 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:36,039 Speaker 1: clapping when he saw the Sun Peek through the clouds 79 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: that were now broken up by that leaf blower. DWANTI 80 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: spent the next several hours blowing as many of these 81 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 1: black clouds away to open up the sky. Everybody came 82 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 1: out from their houses to see what was going on 83 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: because it had been so long since the sun had 84 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: come out. When that sunlight finally broke through and lit 85 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: up everyone's houses and grassyards, they were all so happy 86 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: to see the sun and they all wondered how this happened. 87 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: As dwantie finished the job and had cleaned up the 88 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:20,679 Speaker 1: whole sky. She landed back down in her home front yard. Dwanni, 89 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you. Great job. Thanks Dad. I 90 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: cannot wait to tell everybody that was it was you 91 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: that saved the sky. Oh, that's okay, Dad, said Danny. 92 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: I don't need everybody to know. I'm just glad that 93 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: the sun is finally back and that darkness is finally gone. Wow, 94 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: that's so cool. How dwanni not only, you know, save 95 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: the day and Save the sky, but she didn't need 96 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: all the attention of getting the praise for it. Yeah, 97 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: that is a really special thing. That means she is humble. 98 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: Do you know what it means to be humble? Well, 99 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: it can mean a lot of things, but in this example, dwanny, 100 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: she didn't clean up the sky to get all the 101 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: attention of being the superhero of the day. She did 102 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: it to help the sunlight come through for herself and 103 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: for everybody else. That isn't a very important lesson that 104 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:31,559 Speaker 1: we should all learn about more. So maybe tomorrow, maybe 105 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: there's something really nice that you can do for somebody else, 106 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: almost even secretly, like you are a good deed spy, 107 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: just like Dwanni, well, friends, that maybe the end of 108 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: this story, but I think it's just the beginning of 109 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: TWANI's amazing adventures ahead the end. Great job, you listen 110 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: to all the way to the end, and you know 111 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: what Tom is. It's time for kid shout out. So 112 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: I want to say hey, Tu Enzo, Aaron and Addison 113 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: from Texas, lose Marie from Washington, D C Emmanuel from Vancouver, 114 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: Teddy and Keaton from Nashville, North Carolina, Damien from Utah, 115 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: Jake from Toronto and to stop from Eugene Oregon. I'm 116 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: so glad that you were all in the kids, short stories, 117 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: family and on the spikey. We could not stop doctor 118 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: stinky breath and his crew without you, my friends. Well, 119 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:43,439 Speaker 1: you have a super duper day. I'll see you next time. Bye.