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Hello friends, it's Mr. Jim and welcome back

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to Kid Short Stories. I need you on

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the spy team! And you

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have to listen close and look carefully. Down

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in the show notes below is the

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very top secret phone number for

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HQ. This is where we send out all of our

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communication to our spies. So if you look in the

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show notes below and send us a text, then we

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can send you all of the challenges and let you

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know if the purple ninjas or

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Dr. Stinky Breath are in your area.

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Friends are you ready for today's adventure? Me too!

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Let's go! It

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was a beautiful day as Monty and

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Kai were driving on the school bus

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on the way home after

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a great day at school. As

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the school bus came to

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a squeaky stop, the

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doors opened and Monty and Kai grabbed

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their backpacks and walked down the steps

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out the door of the school bus.

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They waved by to their friends as

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the bus zoomed off. What

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do you want to do today? said Kai. I

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think we should definitely keep working on our

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fort. What do you think?

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Yes! Let's do that! Monty

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and Kai raced back to their house to

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get to their backyard. This was

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where they were building their fort. It

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was made of a whole bunch of sticks

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and branches and trees that they had found

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in the forest nearby. They

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had been building the structure for many,

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many weeks. It was big enough for

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them to both go inside

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and even stand up. Have

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you ever built a fort before? They

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can be a really fun thing to do

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outside with friends. And

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Kai and Monty were

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both very good fort builders.

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But all of a sudden they

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heard that sound. Bzzzp

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bzzzp bzzzp. Hey

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looks like we got a message. Let's check it out.

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Monty and Kai, this is

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HQ. We have stumbled

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onto a new location of a

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stinky crystal. It

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appears to have been accidentally

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swallowed by a giant hippopotamus.

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We will send you the coordinates and it's your

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job to recover that very

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stinky crystal before Dr. Stinky

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Breath and Professor Sticky Fingers

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get their hands on it.

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Good luck. Monty and Kai froze

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and looked at each other. Did

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they say a hippopotamus swallowed

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it? Said Monty. Like

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one, how did that happen? And

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two, how

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are we gonna get it out of the belly of a

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hippopot- I don't even want to think about it. Kai

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closed his eyes and shivered. They

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both knew what it might mean of how

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they were gonna get back that stinky crystal.

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Do you guys remember what the stinky crystal

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is? Yes, it's a crystal that

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Dr. Stinky Breath has wanted to steal for

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a very long time and I guess there's

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more than one. And

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if he gets his hands on that stinky crystal,

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it will give him stinky powers. Oh,

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we cannot let that happen. Meanwhile,

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up in the purple blimp high up

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in the sky, Professor Sticky Fingers was

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on to a new plan. Oh

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boy, Doctor, come over here.

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Look at our stinky radar. It's

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going beep beep beep beep. I

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think I found one. What

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are you talking about, Professor? It

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better be talking about the

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stinky crystal because the

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last ones that we stole-

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Oh, those spy teams, they took

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it back. All right, it

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better be good news about- do you

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know where the location of another stinky

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crystal is? Oh boy,

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of course I do. Look at this. Professor

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Sticky Fingers was looking at a big

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screen and it had a flashing

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red dot in the middle of a map. You

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mean our stinky radar? actually

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works Wow oh

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those purple ninjas actually did something good

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this time okay professor

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well let's put in the

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coordinates for that red flashing

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light and turn our

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purple blimp towards findings that

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crystal said we

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will be able to make

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the world very very stinky

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back at Monty and Kai's house they

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were grabbing all their spy gear and

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they were gonna need all of it

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for this very unknown mission of

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protecting the stinky crystal from dr. stinky breath

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but that crystal was inside the

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belly of a giant hippopotamus all

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right you got your jet pack said Monty it's

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all ready to go let's roll said

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Kai Kai and Monty

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blasted off with their jet packs

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zooming towards the clouds they had

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the coordinates of this hippopotamus it

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was pretty far away but

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their jet packs would get them there very

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quickly so Kai

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do you have any ideas of how we're

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gonna get the stinky crystal out of the

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hippopotamus asked Monty Kai

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took a deep breath and said yeah

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I've been thinking about that for a while I'm

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pretty sure that we're gonna

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have to get a little extra stinky to

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get the stinky crystal if you know what

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I mean Monty shook

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his head they both understood

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the mission they were

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gonna need to go digging through

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some hippo poop oh

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goodness gracious do you think you

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could do that oh

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I am glad Monty and Kai are

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on the spy team because that takes

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some super special skills that

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is not a part of spy training I don't

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think we're certified in hippopotamus

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poop but you

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know sometimes the job for

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some extra bravery and maybe

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even something to plug your nose with. As

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Monty and Kai were zooming through

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the clouds they could see off

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in the distance the place where

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it was believed where the hippopotamus

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lived. You see hippopotamuses

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do you think they live in

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the desert or in the water? Yes

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very much in the water. They are

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they live pretty much their entire life

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in their in the water. They're very

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good swimmers and very fast and

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powerful. You never want to

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step foot in the same water as

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a hippopotamus because they can be actually

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very dangerous. Did you

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know that hippopotamuses kill more people

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than lions? Yeah

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that's pretty dangerous. I don't know how

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close these two spies are gonna want

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to get to a hippopotamus but

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it's a good thing they brought their spy gear with

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them because I think that is gonna help them out

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quite a bit as they started

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approaching the lake where it was believed that

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the hippopotamus was they thought

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they saw something in the clouds. Hey

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Monty did you see that over there? Said

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Kai he was pointing to a big cloud

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that looked like there was something behind it.

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No I didn't see anything what

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was it? Said Monty I

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don't know it looked like I

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don't know something really big behind the cloud I

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gotta go check it out. Monty

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flew down towards the ground and

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landed on the lake as Kai flew

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around to get a better

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look at what was behind that cloud over there.

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Monty started unpacking some of his spy gear

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on the beach there because he wasn't exactly

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sure what he was going to need in

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order to find this hippopotamus that

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swallowed the stinky crystal but

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then Kai started shouting for him.

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Monty get down hide under that

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tree over there! Shouted Kai.

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Monty grabbed all of his gear and listened

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to Kai. Wait what did you say?

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see over there. What is it? Said

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Monty. I just

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saw the purple blimp for real.

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I don't know how in

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the world they always seem to know

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everything what's going on, but I think

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Dr. Stinky Breath is here to

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steal the stinky crystal.

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What are we gonna do? Shouted

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Kai. What in

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the world are Monty and Kai

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going to do? They need to

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act fast if they're going to save

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this stinky crystal and not let

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the professor and the doctor get it

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and take over the world through

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their ultra power stinkiness. Oh

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dear. I don't know what's gonna happen,

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but we're gonna have to wait and see what

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happens on the next episode of Kids Short Stories. Great

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job. You listened all the way

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to the end and you know

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what time it is. It's time

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for a kid shout out. I

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want to say hey to Osaka

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from Saskatchewan, Carter and Taylor from

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Costa Rica, Jewel from Iowa, Isaac

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from British Columbia, Charlotte and Evan

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from North Carolina, Eddie from Michigan

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and Monty and Kai from Nashville,

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Tennessee. I'm so glad that you

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are all in the Kids Short

9:18

Stories family and on the spy

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team, we could not stop Dr.

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Stinky Breath and his crew

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without you my friends. Well,

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you have a super duper

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day and I will see

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you on our next adventure. Bye.