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Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister jim Man. Welcome back to Kit

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the family. We are the podcast that turns your ideas

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Speaker 1: into an amazing adventure every single day. You know, we

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Speaker 1: couldn't even exist without imaginations from kids just like you.

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Speaker 1: So if you have an idea for a story, I'd

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Speaker 1: love to see it. Check down in the show notes

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Speaker 1: below for how you can submit your own story idea

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Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. And parents,

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Speaker 1: if you're new to kids podcasting, I'm gonna challenge you

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Speaker 1: to listen to podcasting for five days in a row

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Speaker 1: with your kids. It's going to increase their imagination, decrease

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Speaker 1: screen time, and we're gonna have a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: along the way. Are you guys ready for today's adventure?

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Speaker 1: Me too. Let's go. Time to go to Grandma's house.

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Speaker 1: Go to Grandma's house, Poppy sang as she zipped up

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Speaker 1: her overnight bag. She had all the essentials that you

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Speaker 1: need for such an event as grandma's house. Bed sheets

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Speaker 1: for blanket, fords check, flashlights for flashlight tag check and check. Oh,

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Speaker 1: and cheese sticks in case they got hungry. You know

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Speaker 1: Grandma would be there to pick Poppy up soon, so

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Speaker 1: she headed outside to wait. Goodbye. I'm going to Grandma's.

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Speaker 1: Pobby called out to all her toys that were staying behind.

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Speaker 1: It was important that they knew her she was going,

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Speaker 1: so they wouldn't worry, of course. Then she opened the

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Speaker 1: front door and headed into the yard to practice cartwheels.

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Speaker 1: She threw her hands up in the air and went

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Speaker 1: from right side up to upside down and back again,

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Speaker 1: whirled around her spinning with each cartwheel. Oh, she of

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Speaker 1: the feeling of the wind through her hair as she

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Speaker 1: was flying around. She also was watching the world above

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Speaker 1: her go from skyblue to grass green when she realized

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Speaker 1: something was missing. Hey, where are the neighbors' houses? Poppy

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Speaker 1: noticed that besides the grass, there wasn't anything else she

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Speaker 1: could see. The neighbors houses were pretty far away, but

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Speaker 1: she still should be able to see them, at least,

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Speaker 1: she thought. She walked to the side of her house

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Speaker 1: and through the grass for a while. I should definitely

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Speaker 1: be able to see them from here, she said to herself.

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Speaker 1: Poppy was about to take another step when she looked

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Speaker 1: down at the last minute and stumbled back onder the ground.

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Speaker 1: Behind her, She shrieked the cliff. What is this doing here?

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Speaker 1: Poppy crawled back towards the edge and looked over way

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Speaker 1: far down below were her neighbors houses, along with the

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Speaker 1: rest of the town. That her house was now raised

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Speaker 1: up high into the sky and on top of a

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Speaker 1: humongous mountain. Where did this mountain come from? How did

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Speaker 1: my house get up here? Poppy shouted? What? The question

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Speaker 1: she was most concerned about was, Oh, dear, how will

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Speaker 1: I get to Grandma's house? It was way too far

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Speaker 1: for Poppy to jump and too steep for her to climb.

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Speaker 1: Poppy sat back and brainstorms some ideas to get her

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Speaker 1: I don't have an airplane or really anything with wings. Hmm,

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Speaker 1: what if I ask a friendly eagle to scoop me

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Speaker 1: up with his talons and carry me down? Yeah? Poppy

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Speaker 1: looked around for one, But you'n birds in the trees

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Speaker 1: were tiny blue ones. Put a bunch of tiny blue

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Speaker 1: birds carrying me down together. Poppy walked over to ask one,

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Speaker 1: but it just chirped and flew away. With her first

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Speaker 1: idea unsuccessful, Poppy began planning again. What if I tie

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Speaker 1: the bed sheets for the blanket for together and use

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Speaker 1: them like a rope to climb down. Poppy began nodding

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Speaker 1: each one together. When she finished, she went over to

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Speaker 1: she said, I can't fly down or climb down on

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Speaker 1: blanket ropes. Maybe I could sled down. She imagined herself,

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Speaker 1: holding her bright red sled and taking a running start

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Speaker 1: before leap onto it and whizzing down the very steep

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Speaker 1: side of the mountain. She would need some controls so

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Speaker 1: she could weave in and out of the boulders and

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Speaker 1: any other obstacles in her path. Uh yeah, her Grandma

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Speaker 1: would be waiting at the bottom, clapping and smiling at

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Speaker 1: her arrival. This seemed like a great plan, but there

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Speaker 1: was one important detail missing. Sleds need snow, and there

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Speaker 1: was no snow. Think, Poppy think. She lied back down

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Speaker 1: in the grass. She watched an ant disappear into its

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Speaker 1: home underground. Under Ground, if I could dig a tunnel

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Speaker 1: might meet as she dug. Maybe she would pass a

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Speaker 1: rabbit family. Hoppy imagined crunching carrots in the bunnies family's burrow,

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Speaker 1: around the wooden table. Oh, but she needed to focus. Yes,

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Speaker 1: digging seemed like the best option for now. Okay, I

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Speaker 1: just need to find a big enough shovel. Hoppy made

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Speaker 1: her way behind her house for leave to see the

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Speaker 1: shed was still there and hadn't disappeared. Down the mountain.

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Speaker 1: She squeezed past the lawnmower and rummaged through the gardening tools. Aha,

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Speaker 1: here it is. Poppy held the shovel in front of

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Speaker 1: her like a large trophy. Now it was time to dig.

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Speaker 1: She walked around the grassy mountaintop looking for the best

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Speaker 1: spot to get started. Not too close to the house

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Speaker 1: or the shed, but not too close to the edge either.

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Speaker 1: She decided that the middle of the front yard would

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Speaker 1: be the best spot. Poppy stuck her shovel into the

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Speaker 1: ground with all her might and grunted as she pulled

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Speaker 1: out the first large chunk of grass and dirt, tossing

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Speaker 1: it to the side. She got into a rhythm of scoop, dump, repeat,

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Speaker 1: and was making excellent progress. As Poppy stood in the hole,

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Speaker 1: now the ground was just past her knees. She had

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Speaker 1: encountered several worms already, but none of them had responded

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Speaker 1: to her friendly greetings of he or who are you

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Speaker 1: enjoying this pleasant day, mister worm? They weren't very talkative.

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Speaker 1: She wasn't sure if they weren't responding because they weren't misters,

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Speaker 1: or maybe they just couldn't understand her. This is harder

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Speaker 1: scooped out another clump of dirt. The hole was almost deep,

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Speaker 1: then she was tall when she heard something that made

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Speaker 1: her stop. There was a low rumbling sound coming from

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Speaker 1: down the road. Poppy stood on her tiptoes to see

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Speaker 1: the ground above. When she saw Grandma's car pulling into

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Speaker 1: her driveway Grandma, Poppy shouted, waving her arms, Grandma over here.

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Speaker 1: Grandma made her way over and looked at Poppy shovel

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Speaker 1: in hand, face and clothes smudged with dirt. What are

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Speaker 1: you doing down there, Grandma asked, I was trying to

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Speaker 1: dig a hole down the mountain. So I could get

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Speaker 1: to you. I woke up and the house was on

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Speaker 1: a mountain, and I looked up the edge and saw

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Speaker 1: there was no way down. Wait, well a second, Grandma,

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Speaker 1: how did you get here? The mountain is so steep?

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Speaker 1: Grandma smiled and pointed down the road, the opposite direction

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Speaker 1: from where Poppy had spent her morning. Well, the road,

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Speaker 1: of course. Yes. Grandma helped Poppy get out of the hole,

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Speaker 1: and together they gathered her things. She explained how the

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Speaker 1: other side of the mountain isn't a steep cliff and

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Speaker 1: really is quite lovely with all of its trees and animals. Ah,

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Speaker 1: what a relief. Poppy hopped into her grandma's car and

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Speaker 1: they took down the road down the other side of

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Speaker 1: the mountain to Grandma's house. This may be the end

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Speaker 1: of the story, but I think it's only just the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the amazing adventures that lie ahead for Poppy

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Speaker 1: at her grandma's house. We'll be right back after a

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Speaker 1: back to the show. Great job, you listened all the

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

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Speaker 1: Head's time for Kurd shout out I want to say

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Speaker 1: hey to Ave from California, Lewis from Sydney, Australia from Tampa,

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Speaker 1: Javier from Chicago, Hiera from Washington, Dylan from Toronto, oh

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Speaker 1: and Eila from Oregon. I'm so glad that you're all

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Speaker 1: in the Kitchen Stories family. We could not have this

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Speaker 1: much fun with imagination without you, my friends. Well, you

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Speaker 1: have a super duper day and I'll see you next time. Bye.

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