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Hey there, Story Pirates podcast listeners. Today's episode features hidden
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roller coasters, rambunctious vegetables, chicken costumes, obnoxious group text threads,
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and one of the best singers and actors on Broadway,
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the one and only Krista Rodriguez.
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All of that and more after these quick words for
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the grownups.
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Doodly-doo, da-da-da, skipping down the hall, walking into the lounge,
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gonna say hey to everybody. Hey, wait a second, the
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lights are off. Where is everyone?
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Hello?
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Hello?
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Surprise!
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What's the surprise for? It's not my birthday or my graduation.
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Or is it? Did I graduate from something?
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Well, Smitty, now that you're helping us with our journey
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to the surface of the Earth, we thought it was
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high time to make you an official member of the
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Story Pirates!
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Really?
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Me? Wow!
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What an honor!
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It is, isn't it? I remember the day I became
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a story pirate. The year was 1987. There was a
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slight chill in the air as Bono from U2 presented
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me with my.
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Megan, not now.
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Okay, then. Later.
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Do I get to wear a story pirate shirt?
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You certainly do. Here you go. And the Story Pirates
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hat that we are all always wearing.
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Oh, thank you.
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And don't forget your Story Pirates socks.
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Thanks, everyone. Muchos gracias.
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And here, put on your Story Pirates suspenders.
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We're all wearing ours.
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Okay. And your Story Pirates cape.
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Wow, the whole outfit.
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And here are your Story Pirates yellow rain boots.
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And, of course, your Story Pirates chicken costume. That goes
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on over everything.
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Wait, I've been wearing my chicken costume under everything. I
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think I know why my suspenders don't fit.
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Peter!
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I know, I know.
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Go on, Smitty, put everything on.
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Trying. There's a lot to, uh, okay, one more boot,
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and the chicken costume, and done. How do I look?
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Like a story pirate.
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Yay! Fantastico. Well, I'm wiped. Gonna go have a lie down.
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See you all tomorrow.
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Tomorrow?
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Smitty, now that you're a story pirate, you get to
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hang out with us all day.
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We have so many activities planned. Niminy, what's on the agenda?
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Let's see. Today we've got roller hockey, still life painting,
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an escape room, reading over each other's shoulders, and we're
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all going to knit a group scarf.
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You're doing all that today?
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No, no, no, no, no, no. We're doing all that
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in the next hour.
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But I have to rest.
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We'll rest later.
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Oh, good.
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Together.
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We'll all rest together at the same time. We do
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everything together.
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But time for our group run.
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Oh, no.
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Que lastima.
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You know, I speak some Spanish myself. I learned it
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from my dear friend Bono from U2. And in his
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immortal words, uno, dos, tres, catorce.
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Let's run.
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I love Story Pirates.
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We were just bored and said, hey, why don't we
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write a story? I have a huge imagination. If you
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only use your eyes, then you'll see less stuff. It's
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$ 1 or 100 pennies.
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We inspire each other.
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And the world will never be the same.
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The Story Pirates.
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Welcome back to the Story Pirates podcast, everyone.
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Where we take stories written by kids.
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And turn them into sketch comedy.
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And songs. Smitty, catch. Whoops. I think you caught that
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with your head.
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I didn't know we were playing football now.
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We were, but now football's over. It's time for bowling.
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And now that that's done, let's do a story.
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Okay, listeners, this first story features the fantastic Broadway star,
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Krista Rodriguez. Here's the author to introduce it.
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Hi, I'm Simone.
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I'm 10 years old, and I'm from New Jersey. This
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is my story, Secret Theme Park.
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And that's how I spent my summer counting all the
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different rocks in my backyard.
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Thank you. Wow.
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Thank you, Wyatt. All right.
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Next up to tell us about their summer is Simone.
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Simone, tell the class the most exciting thing that happened
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to you this summer. Um, nothing really exciting happened.
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But there was this one day.
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One summer day, I was playing some video games when
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my mom.
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Popped in and said, Simone, we're going to my friend's house.
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I met her at an online work event.
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Trust me, she's Nice. Who is Mom's most serious friend?
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And why did she pause before nice?
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I wondered all this as we got in the car.
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But the drive to.
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Her house wasn't really that far.
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At Alicia's house. That's her name.
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We sat on the couch.
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And Alicia said, I'll go grab popcorn for the movie.
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I'm so happy you all could come. Trust me, I'm thrilled.
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Please keep your hands and feet inside the roller coaster
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at all times.
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Wait, what?
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Then we went upside down and super fast.
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I saw the Ferris wheel as we zoomed on past.
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And it all began with a single spark.
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Yeah, my mom's friend's house.
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Was a secret theme park.
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Cotton candy, popcorn, mediocre pizza.
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This is incredible.
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Miss Alicia, when did you build a theme park in
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your house?
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Don't worry about it, Mom.
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Just have fun.
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I couldn't believe it.
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Okay, now I'm a little queasy.
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We had unlimited soda and commemorative cups, and.
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I won a giant plushie.
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Yeah, my mom's friend's house is a.
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Secret theme park. We went upside.
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Down with crazy drops, but my mom didn't mind. She
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just hung out at the shops. You don't have to
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go home.
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Till it gets dark when your mom's friend's house is.
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A secret theme park.
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That was a great story, but I'm going to go
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get a little shut-eye.
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Wait, wait, wait.
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It's not rest time yet.
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It isn't?
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No!
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It's time for everyone to participate in a reading of
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my new piece, Megan, A Story of Megan. We do
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everything together, remember? And that includes workshopping my theatrical masterpieces.
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Does everyone have their scripts?
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Yep.
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Yes.
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Uh-huh.
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Got it.
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Oh, Smitty, sorry. Here's yours.
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This is 600 pages!
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The story of Megan is long and makes no sense,
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just like my life.
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Smitty.
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You will read the role of narrator.
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Begin. Narrator. The year was 1987. 1987. There was a
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slight chill in the air as Bombo from U2 presented
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Megan with her.
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Yay!
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What does that alarm mean?
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Time for a new activity. Eric, take it away.
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Okay, you know how I've been wanting to build a
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Statue of Liberty out of peanut butter?
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Uh-huh, yes, of course.
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Well, I thought we could do it all together. Ooh!
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But why?
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Uh, why not?
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Yay!
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Time to stretch.
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Separately.
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Together.
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And left and right and up and down and up.
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Yay!
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Ooh, it's scrapbooking time.
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Yay!
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What?
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There wasn't even time to scrapbook.
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Oh, Smitty, it's not about having time to scrapbook.
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It's about scrapbooking together.
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Yay!
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Yay!
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Now can we rest?
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Yes!
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But why? Why must we? Wait, did you say yes?
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Yeah, now's the time where we all take a break.
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Oh, thank goodness.
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Together!
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Of course.
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Well, I'd rather go to my room for a little bit,
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but I guess I can just settle down here for
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some quiet time.
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That's why we all have our own personal beanbags in here.
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Plop on down! Ready, everyone? Time to... Oh, wait.
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Smitty, now that you're really one of us, we need
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to add you to our text thread.
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You what?
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We all have a group text where we text each
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other stuff. Work stuff, memes, funny selfies. You get it.
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No, I.
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really don't.
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Just adding your phone number and.
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Added ya.
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Thank you.
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And now we can rest all together in this room.
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And a one, and a two, and a three, and a.
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Shh.
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Oh, this is nice. We're actually resting. LOL.
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Peter, that is too funny.
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Now that's a cheeseburger.
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Stop!
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Stop, stop, stop, stop!
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Whoa, Smitty, what's going on? We're just texting each other
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pictures of sandwiches and laughing.
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You said we were going to have some rest. Quiet,
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alone time. But you're all just sitting and texting each other.
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It's too much. I need to be alone.
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Great, we'll come with you.
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No, alone means just me. By myself, nobody else. Solamente Smitty.
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You understand?
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Okay. See you in a few minutes? We're going to
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go wakeboarding in the Wave Room.
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Not a few minutes. Not ever. I'm done.
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It's too much.
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I'm handing in my Story Pirates t-shirt and my chicken costume.
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Casp!
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If you need me, don't.
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We'll be right back.
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Smitty, wait!
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No, no, I've seen enough.
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But we were just having fun.
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I understand, and I love to have fun, but I
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also need time alone to recharge.
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But being alone is so lonely.
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Yeah, I was all alone in the ocean for years
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and got sick of it.
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The only way to be alone is alone on stage
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with a huge, adoring audience before you.
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I get it. Some people prefer to be surrounded by
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other people all the time. And some people, like me,
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need time to be by themselves so they can sit
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with their thoughts and get ready to be around people again.
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Huh.
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I guess when I think about it, sometimes I prefer
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to be alone and sometimes I prefer to be with
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other people.
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Sure. Some people go back and forth. There is no
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one way to be a person.
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Oh, just like there's no one way to eat a
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peanut butter statue of liberty.
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If that's what you need, then sure. I like being
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a story pirate, but I can't be a story pirate
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all the time. Sometimes I just have to be Smitty,
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and Smitty likes to be by himself. I believe in
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the joy of solitude.
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The joy of solitude.
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That just means being alone, right?
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Correcto. Wow.
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We're really sorry, Smitty.
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We were trying to make you more like us when
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really we should be more like you.
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Or not.
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Just be yourself. But a little alone time is nice,
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I do gotta say.
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But wait, Smitty, will you come back up here when
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you're done resting? And maybe put your t-shirt and chicken
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costume back on?
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Sigh.
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Sure.
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Yay!
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Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to go sit
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in silence for a couple hours and read and write
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some poetry and think about butterflies.
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And we come with you and also do that?
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No!
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Eric?
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Right. Right, right. Sorry.
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Well, bye.
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Adios.
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Ah, what does that alarm mean?
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That it's time to do another story?
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Oh, okay, okay. Well, I'll stay for one more story,
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and then I'll go think about butterflies.
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Yay!
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Okay, listeners, this next story is all about the joys
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of gardening, specifically the vegetable rhubarb, and specifically in the
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town of Rhinebeck, New York.
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It's a lovely place. Here's the author to introduce it.
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Hi, my name's Arthur, and And I'm five and a
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half years old. I live in New York. And this
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is my story with Ryan Ryback. Gross.
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Boo-bye.
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And that ought to about do it. My garden is
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free of weeds.
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Congratulations, Friar.
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Thanks, Bunny.
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Thanks, Frog.
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Weeding, dishes, and taxes. They're never done.
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I hear that.
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You know, I.
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Aw, look.
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There's another weed. How'd I miss that one? A few
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months ago, in Brooklyn, when I first dreamed of buying
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this upstate getaway in Rhinebeck, I never thought that I'd
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be spending most of my free weekends up here working
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on this garden.
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And what a garden it is. I've never seen a
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merrier marigold.
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Well, I don't know about that.
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And your geraniums caused a neighborhood pandemonium.
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Oh, come on, you two.
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This garden is perfect.
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Not quite.
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Owl?
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What are you doing out in the daytime?
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I had to pee.
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Anyway, Ryan, there's one thing that would level up this
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garden IMO, and that is rhubarb.
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Rhubarb?
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Of course.
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Just think of it.
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The color, the baked goods.
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Your garden isn't complete without some rhubarb.
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I don't understand people who, who,
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who can be up this early. Good morning.
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Hmm, maybe Owl is right. I do love rhubarb pie.
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I'll pop down to the gardening center and see if
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they've got any rhubarb seeds lying around. See you later.
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Bye, Ryan.
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Hello?
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Huh.
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Nobody seems to be in this garden shop, but the
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sign says they're open.
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Hello.
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I'm Linda.
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I own this store.
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I didn't see you there. Your long, mossy robe camouflages
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in with the moss department.
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It's a poncho, not a robe.
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My bad.
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You can tell because the sleeves are shorter and it
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slips over your head.
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Got it.
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And a robe has a belt. Anyway, welcome.
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How can I, uh, help?
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Well, I'm looking for rhubarb.
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Rhubarb was popular this year, so we're down to our
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last seed packet.
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Here you go.
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Huh.
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It says Magic Seed Packet. Never heard of that brand before.
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Brand? Right.
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Yeah, it's a brand. Sorry, this moss poncho tickles.
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So, how much for the seeds?
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$ 7.
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50.
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$ 7.
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50?
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For seeds?
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Are you serious?
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As serious as this poncho.
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That's pretty serious.
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All right, here you go.
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Thanks.
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Oh, and make sure you read the warnings on the
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seed packet. If you don't, you'll be sorry.
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Now, if you'll excuse me, it's time I disappear.
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Wow, and I thought Brooklyn had characters. Back home I go. Frog, Bunny,
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I'm back with the seeds. The store owner was a
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little strange. She was wearing a moss poncho.
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A poncho?
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It's like a robe, only with short sleeves and, uh.
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Right, we know what a poncho is.
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Well, time for planting.
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Whoa, whoa, hold on. You're just gonna plant the seeds,
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not read the instructions?
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Bunny, please, look at this garden. I think I know
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what I'm doing.
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Okay.
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Everyone's an expert, I guess.
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And there. Well, you two, it's 4.06 on a Sunday,
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and you know what that means. Time for me to
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sit in three hours of traffic while I head back
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to Brooklyn. See you next weekend.
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See you later!
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Bye!
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There goes Ryan.
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Oh, hey, Al.
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Looks like he planted the rhubarb seeds.
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Did he read the directions?
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No, but maybe we should.
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Okay, it says, one, don't put seeds near mouth, okay? Two,
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seeds are magic.
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Hmm, I wonder what that means. I know exactly what
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that means.
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Huh, I wonder what that's about.
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Bunny, you can read this whole time?
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Yep.
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And another weekend is here and I'm back in Rhinebeck.
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I'm Rhine-back.
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That's funny.
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Anyway, there's nothing like being in my garden. All my
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plants are gone.
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Except the rhubarb.
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What happened?
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Ryan, thank goodness you're back.
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Bunny, Frog, did you eat the plants in my garden?
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I just showed up this morning and it was like this.
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Yeah, me too. All your plants were here when we
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left last night. Let's ask Owl. Maybe she saw something
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since she's nocturnal.
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Hey, Owl, will you wake up? Ryan? Come down from
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that tree.
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The sun is only just setting.
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What are you doing waking me up?
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The other night, someone came and ate up most of
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my plants. You're nocturnal. Did you see who it was?
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You're asking the wrong question.
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It's not who, who ate your plants, but what, what.
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What?
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What?
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Precisely.
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Did you see the warnings on the back of the
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rhubarb seed packet?
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What warnings?
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Oh, sorry. Owl pellet.
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Ow, what's happening to my garden?
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The sun has almost set. Why don't you stay and
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see for yourself?
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Yikes, that growling must be my stomach. I skipped dinner, so... Whoa,
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maybe I forgot lunch? Wait a minute, that grumbling's not
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coming from me. It's coming from that patch of.
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Rhubarb!
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The rhubarb is alive and eating all the plants around it.
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Ow, help me.
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What do I do?
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Ryan, you should have read the directions.
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Bunny, Frog, look. It's Linda from the gardening store.
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We can tell by the poncho.
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No, no.
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This one is a robe.
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See?
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Belt.
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Right. I see it now.
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Yeah. Also, both ponchos and robes can have a hood,
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so maybe you were confused by that.
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Not now, Cricket.
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My bad.
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Linda, you're Owl? Or Owl, you're Linda?
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Yes to both.
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That rhubarb ate up your other plants. Maybe next time
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you'll not only read, but heed the warnings on a
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packet of magic seeds.
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Linda, away!
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And you thought you had characters in Brooklyn.
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What am I going to do? I wish that rhubarb
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would stop.
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That worked?
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Rhubarb?
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You can understand me? Look, I don't want any other
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plants to get hurt, including you. And I'm not exactly
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sure why Linda gave me magic seeds for plant-eating rhubarb
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and then admonished me for not reading directions and then
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flew off without explanation, but here we are.
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Rhubarb, you destroyed this garden. It was like a second
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home to me.
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And me.
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And me. I mean, because literally, it is my second home.
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I pay for it.
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Not now, Cricket.
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What?
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I thought it was funny.
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Rhubarb, let's make a deal. I put you in a planter,
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and you promise to only eat weeds. That way, my
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other plants will be safe, and I don't have to
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spend so much time weeding.
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Hooray!
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And honestly, this is an opportunity for me to build
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my garden back even better. Only this time, I'll always
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read the directions on the seed packet before I plant them.
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The end.
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And now, Lee speaks with the author.
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Hi, Oliver.
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It's Lee from Story Pirates. How are you?
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Good.
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So, Oliver, your story is about rhubarb, right?
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Yeah.
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So we had just bought the house, and the people
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who had it for a long time, there was a garden,
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and we grew rhubarb in it.
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Can you tell someone listening who doesn't know what rhubarb
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is what it is?
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It's like a plant thingy that just grows. You eat
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the stems of it.
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Oh, you do? I didn't know that.
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Yeah, because it said online that the leaves were poisonous.
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But yeah, we read that you eat the stems.
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And so what does it taste like?
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It tastes like kind of a little bit fruity. I
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think it looks kind of like strawberry-ish. And it tastes
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really good, actually.
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So what else do you grow in your garden besides rhubarb?
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We moved some kale, but the kale eventually, very quickly,
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the caterpillar just went nom, nom, nom, eat it up.
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A caterpillar did?
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Yeah, a green caterpillar. We didn't know what was eating it,
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and one day we were slicing into it, and on
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the knife was a green caterpillar.
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Oh my gosh, he made it all the way to
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your dinner plate?
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Yeah, he didn't get cut, but he was climbing on it.
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What did you do with the caterpillar when you found it?
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We found more and more of that kale that night,
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and we just put them on the cutting board. I
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think my dad basically just picked them up and put
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them outside.
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So, Oliver, if you could plant anything in your garden,
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even something that wouldn't normally grow in a garden, what
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would you plant?
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Maybe strawberry bushes, because strawberries are my favorite fruit.
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Oliver, do you have any questions for me?
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If you were me, and I was your dad, what
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What toys would you want to get for Christmas? No,
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I would be Santa. What toys would you want to get?
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I'm you.
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Yeah, you're me, and I'm Santa. So what toys would
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you want for Christmas?
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Can I call you Santa?
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Yeah.
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Okay, just dialing up the North Pole. Hi, Santa.
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Hi.
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Thank you so much for taking this call. My name's Oliver.
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I'm really excited to tell you what I want for Christmas.
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Ho, ho, ho.
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Oh, wow.
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You ho, ho, ho just like Santa does.
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Yeah.
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Well, Santa, what I would like most for Christmas is,
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first of all, I would like some strawberry seeds.
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That would be a hundred bucks.
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I mean, pennies.
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That's one dollar, please.
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You're charging me?
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Yeah, one dollar.
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And I'll get you a hundred thousand strawberry seeds.
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I didn't realize that Santa charges for gifts.
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It's one dollar or a hundred pennies.
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Okay, you got it.
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It's a deal.
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One dollar, please, or a hundred pennies.
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Okay, here you go.
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Thank you. Here's some grocery sheets, 100,000 of them.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Santa, thank you so much.
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Maybe you can just call me Oliver now.
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Yeah, sure. Oliver, you are the best, my friend. Thank
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you so much for talking to me today.
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You're welcome.
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Bye-bye.
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Bye.
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And now it's time for Story Pirates Roll Call. First up,
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we got Quentin, a four-year-old from California who wrote the story,
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The Boy That Was Not In A TV, which is
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a cleverly deceptive title because just in the first sentence,
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he gets into a TV. Next, we have a story
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from Dash, an eight-year-old from Illinois called The Dougal Dwarfs,
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A True Story, which has pretty much the best twist
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ending I've seen in a while.
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It rains cats, all of a sudden, with zero warning.
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Shout out to Swan June, a seven-year-old from North Carolina
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who wrote Mr. Shadowlands Nightly Boba Run, wherein Mr. Shadowlands
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the cat orders something that I think sounds delicious. An
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extra large taro boba tea with soy milk, extra ice,
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and extra sugar with one extra large vegan ginger chicken ongiri.
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Yum!
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Next up, we have an entire book from a nine-year-old
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in Kansas named Ethan.
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It's called Super Boogie Save the World, Novel Number One.
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And if you've ever wondered what a booger would be
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like as a superhero, you're going to want to check
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this one out. And finally, from Aaron, a six-year-old in
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the Philippines, we have the man with the glasses with
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a man on his glass, which is pretty much the
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story about glasses on top of glasses within glasses that
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I never knew I needed until right now.
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And you need it, too.
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Read all of.
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Today's Roll Call stories at storypirates.com slash podcasts.
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Now it's time for you.
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To write us a story. And if you don't know
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what to write, here's a story spark. Brought to you
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by Simone, the author of The Secret Theme Park. Simone,
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take it away.
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Kids, write a story about a character who unexpectedly gets
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transported to a strange new place. Give us details, like
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where are they and why or how did they get there?
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Be sure to emphasize the contrast between where the character
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began and where they traveled to. How are the two
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locations different?
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Thanks for listening to today's show and a huge thanks
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to today's authors, Simone and Oliver. Grownups can submit kids'
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stories and story sparks at storypirates.com. And remember, every single
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story we receive gets some love, some story love. We'll
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be back next week with another episode. Until then, stay
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creative and stay kind.
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Bye!
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The Story Pirates Podcast is a production of Story Pirates Studios.
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Executive produced by Lee Overtree and Benjamin Salka. This episode
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was produced by Sam Baer, Mike Cavallon, Minzwe Karami, Mahala Lawrence,
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Peter McNerney, Andrew Miller, Megan O'Neill, Lee Overtree, Rachel Winitsky,
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and Nimany Ware. Our theme song was written by Bobby
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Lord and produced by Brendan O'Grady. Roll call theme by
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Andrew Barbato. Musical scoring by Jack Mitchell. Our head writers
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are Rachel Winitsky and Minzwe Karami. Staff writers are Mike Cavillan,
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Mihaela Lawrence, and Alexis Simpson. Contributing writers are Peter McNerney,
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Megan O'Neill, and Lee Overtree.
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Special guest, Krista Rodriguez.
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This episode features performances by Eric Austin, Andrew Barbato, Chris Ferry,
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Minswe Karami, Leslie Kareen, April LaValle, Peter McNerney, Alexandra Nader,
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Emily Olcott, Megan O'Neill, Lee Overtree, Jamie Watson, Addie Weyrich,
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Niminy Ware, and Matt Zambrano. The Secret Theme Park was
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written by Jack Mitchell and produced by Brennan O'Grady.
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And Jack Mitchell.
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You know, speaking of spending some time alone, when I'm alone,
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I like to sing my favorite song about being alone.
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Can you guess what it is?
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That's right.
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It's my emo song from Season 2, Episode 15, I'm
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All Alone. And I always bring a live band with
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me everywhere I go, just in case I want to
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break into song.
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So here we go.
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All right, everybody, hit it!
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No one understands.
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Me understands me they look but they don't look they
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don't see i'm bleeding them bleeding them but.
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Who's bleeding me i'm all alone i'm all alone Nobody.
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Here but me.
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I'm all alone.
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Yeah, I'm all alone.
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He's all alone.
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All I've got is me, myself, and me.
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Take a look around.
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And tell me what you see.
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It's a man who's all alone.
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Yeah, that man is me.
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And me.
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And me.
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And me.
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He's all.
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Alone He's all alone Yeah, there's no.
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One backing me up here on this stage I'm.
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Definitely the only person.
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On this stage I'm alone
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Thank you, I'm Lee
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Hey there, Story Pirates podcast listeners. Today's episode features hidden
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roller coasters, rambunctious vegetables, chicken costumes, obnoxious group text threads,
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and one of the best singers and actors on Broadway,
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the one and only Krista Rodriguez.
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All of that and more after these quick words for
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the grownups.
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Doodly-doo, da-da-da, skipping down the hall, walking into the lounge,
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gonna say hey to everybody. Hey, wait a second, the
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lights are off. Where is everyone?
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Hello?
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Hello?
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Surprise!
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What's the surprise for? It's not my birthday or my graduation.
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Or is it? Did I graduate from something?
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Well, Smitty, now that you're helping us with our journey
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to the surface of the Earth, we thought it was
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high time to make you an official member of the
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Story Pirates!
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Really?
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Me? Wow!
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What an honor!
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It is, isn't it? I remember the day I became
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a story pirate. The year was 1987. There was a
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slight chill in the air as Bono from U2 presented
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me with my.
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Megan, not now.
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Okay, then. Later.
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Do I get to wear a story pirate shirt?
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You certainly do. Here you go. And the Story Pirates
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hat that we are all always wearing.
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Oh, thank you.
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And don't forget your Story Pirates socks.
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Thanks, everyone. Muchos gracias.
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And here, put on your Story Pirates suspenders.
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We're all wearing ours.
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Okay. And your Story Pirates cape.
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Wow, the whole outfit.
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And here are your Story Pirates yellow rain boots.
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And, of course, your Story Pirates chicken costume. That goes
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on over everything.
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Wait, I've been wearing my chicken costume under everything. I
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think I know why my suspenders don't fit.
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Peter!
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I know, I know.
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Go on, Smitty, put everything on.
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Trying. There's a lot to, uh, okay, one more boot,
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and the chicken costume, and done. How do I look?
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Like a story pirate.
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Yay! Fantastico. Well, I'm wiped. Gonna go have a lie down.
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See you all tomorrow.
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Tomorrow?
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Smitty, now that you're a story pirate, you get to
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hang out with us all day.
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We have so many activities planned. Niminy, what's on the agenda?
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Let's see. Today we've got roller hockey, still life painting,
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an escape room, reading over each other's shoulders, and we're
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all going to knit a group scarf.
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You're doing all that today?
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No, no, no, no, no, no. We're doing all that
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in the next hour.
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But I have to rest.
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We'll rest later.
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Oh, good.
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Together.
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We'll all rest together at the same time. We do
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everything together.
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But time for our group run.
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Oh, no.
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Que lastima.
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You know, I speak some Spanish myself. I learned it
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from my dear friend Bono from U2. And in his
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immortal words, uno, dos, tres, catorce.
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Let's run.
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I love Story Pirates.
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We were just bored and said, hey, why don't we
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write a story? I have a huge imagination. If you
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only use your eyes, then you'll see less stuff. It's
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$ 1 or 100 pennies.
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We inspire each other.
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And the world will never be the same.
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The Story Pirates.
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Welcome back to the Story Pirates podcast, everyone.
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Where we take stories written by kids.
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And turn them into sketch comedy.
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And songs. Smitty, catch. Whoops. I think you caught that
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with your head.
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I didn't know we were playing football now.
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We were, but now football's over. It's time for bowling.
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And now that that's done, let's do a story.
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Okay, listeners, this first story features the fantastic Broadway star,
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Krista Rodriguez. Here's the author to introduce it.
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Hi, I'm Simone.
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I'm 10 years old, and I'm from New Jersey. This
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is my story, Secret Theme Park.
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And that's how I spent my summer counting all the
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different rocks in my backyard.
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Thank you. Wow.
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Thank you, Wyatt. All right.
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Next up to tell us about their summer is Simone.
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Simone, tell the class the most exciting thing that happened
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to you this summer. Um, nothing really exciting happened.
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But there was this one day.
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One summer day, I was playing some video games when
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my mom.
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Popped in and said, Simone, we're going to my friend's house.
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I met her at an online work event.
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Trust me, she's Nice. Who is Mom's most serious friend?
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And why did she pause before nice?
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I wondered all this as we got in the car.
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But the drive to.
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Her house wasn't really that far.
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At Alicia's house. That's her name.
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We sat on the couch.
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And Alicia said, I'll go grab popcorn for the movie.
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I'm so happy you all could come. Trust me, I'm thrilled.
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Please keep your hands and feet inside the roller coaster
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at all times.
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Wait, what?
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Then we went upside down and super fast.
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I saw the Ferris wheel as we zoomed on past.
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And it all began with a single spark.
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Yeah, my mom's friend's house.
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Was a secret theme park.
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Cotton candy, popcorn, mediocre pizza.
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This is incredible.
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Miss Alicia, when did you build a theme park in
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your house?
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Don't worry about it, Mom.
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Just have fun.
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I couldn't believe it.
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Okay, now I'm a little queasy.
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We had unlimited soda and commemorative cups, and.
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I won a giant plushie.
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Yeah, my mom's friend's house is a.
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Secret theme park. We went upside.
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Down with crazy drops, but my mom didn't mind. She
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just hung out at the shops. You don't have to
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go home.
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Till it gets dark when your mom's friend's house is.
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A secret theme park.
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That was a great story, but I'm going to go
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get a little shut-eye.
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Wait, wait, wait.
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It's not rest time yet.
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It isn't?
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No!
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It's time for everyone to participate in a reading of
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my new piece, Megan, A Story of Megan. We do
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everything together, remember? And that includes workshopping my theatrical masterpieces.
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Does everyone have their scripts?
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Yep.
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Yes.
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Uh-huh.
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Got it.
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Oh, Smitty, sorry. Here's yours.
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This is 600 pages!
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The story of Megan is long and makes no sense,
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just like my life.
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Smitty.
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You will read the role of narrator.
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Begin. Narrator. The year was 1987. 1987. There was a
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slight chill in the air as Bombo from U2 presented
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Megan with her.
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Yay!
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What does that alarm mean?
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Time for a new activity. Eric, take it away.
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Okay, you know how I've been wanting to build a
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Statue of Liberty out of peanut butter?
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Uh-huh, yes, of course.
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Well, I thought we could do it all together. Ooh!
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But why?
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Uh, why not?
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Yay!
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Time to stretch.
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Separately.
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Together.
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And left and right and up and down and up.
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Yay!
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Ooh, it's scrapbooking time.
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Yay!
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What?
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There wasn't even time to scrapbook.
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Oh, Smitty, it's not about having time to scrapbook.
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It's about scrapbooking together.
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Yay!
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Yay!
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Now can we rest?
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Yes!
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But why? Why must we? Wait, did you say yes?
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Yeah, now's the time where we all take a break.
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Oh, thank goodness.
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Together!
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Of course.
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Well, I'd rather go to my room for a little bit,
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but I guess I can just settle down here for
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some quiet time.
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That's why we all have our own personal beanbags in here.
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Plop on down! Ready, everyone? Time to... Oh, wait.
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Smitty, now that you're really one of us, we need
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to add you to our text thread.
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You what?
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We all have a group text where we text each
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other stuff. Work stuff, memes, funny selfies. You get it.
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No, I.
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really don't.
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Just adding your phone number and.
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Added ya.
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Thank you.
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And now we can rest all together in this room.
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And a one, and a two, and a three, and a.
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Shh.
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Oh, this is nice. We're actually resting. LOL.
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Peter, that is too funny.
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Now that's a cheeseburger.
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Stop!
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Stop, stop, stop, stop!
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Whoa, Smitty, what's going on? We're just texting each other
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pictures of sandwiches and laughing.
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You said we were going to have some rest. Quiet,
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alone time. But you're all just sitting and texting each other.
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It's too much. I need to be alone.
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Great, we'll come with you.
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No, alone means just me. By myself, nobody else. Solamente Smitty.
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You understand?
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Okay. See you in a few minutes? We're going to
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go wakeboarding in the Wave Room.
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Not a few minutes. Not ever. I'm done.
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It's too much.
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I'm handing in my Story Pirates t-shirt and my chicken costume.
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Casp!
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If you need me, don't.
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We'll be right back.
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Smitty, wait!
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No, no, I've seen enough.
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But we were just having fun.
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I understand, and I love to have fun, but I
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also need time alone to recharge.
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But being alone is so lonely.
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Yeah, I was all alone in the ocean for years
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and got sick of it.
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The only way to be alone is alone on stage
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with a huge, adoring audience before you.
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I get it. Some people prefer to be surrounded by
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other people all the time. And some people, like me,
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need time to be by themselves so they can sit
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with their thoughts and get ready to be around people again.
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Huh.
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I guess when I think about it, sometimes I prefer
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to be alone and sometimes I prefer to be with
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other people.
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Sure. Some people go back and forth. There is no
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one way to be a person.
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Oh, just like there's no one way to eat a
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peanut butter statue of liberty.
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If that's what you need, then sure. I like being
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a story pirate, but I can't be a story pirate
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all the time. Sometimes I just have to be Smitty,
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and Smitty likes to be by himself. I believe in
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the joy of solitude.
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The joy of solitude.
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That just means being alone, right?
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Correcto. Wow.
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We're really sorry, Smitty.
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We were trying to make you more like us when
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really we should be more like you.
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Or not.
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Just be yourself. But a little alone time is nice,
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I do gotta say.
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But wait, Smitty, will you come back up here when
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you're done resting? And maybe put your t-shirt and chicken
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costume back on?
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Sigh.
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Sure.
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Yay!
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Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to go sit
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in silence for a couple hours and read and write
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some poetry and think about butterflies.
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And we come with you and also do that?
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No!
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Eric?
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Right. Right, right. Sorry.
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Well, bye.
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Adios.
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Ah, what does that alarm mean?
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That it's time to do another story?
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Oh, okay, okay. Well, I'll stay for one more story,
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and then I'll go think about butterflies.
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Yay!
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Okay, listeners, this next story is all about the joys
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of gardening, specifically the vegetable rhubarb, and specifically in the
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town of Rhinebeck, New York.
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It's a lovely place. Here's the author to introduce it.
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Hi, my name's Arthur, and And I'm five and a
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half years old. I live in New York. And this
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is my story with Ryan Ryback. Gross.
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Boo-bye.
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And that ought to about do it. My garden is
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free of weeds.
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Congratulations, Friar.
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Thanks, Bunny.
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Thanks, Frog.
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Weeding, dishes, and taxes. They're never done.
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I hear that.
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You know, I.
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Aw, look.
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There's another weed. How'd I miss that one? A few
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months ago, in Brooklyn, when I first dreamed of buying
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this upstate getaway in Rhinebeck, I never thought that I'd
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be spending most of my free weekends up here working
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on this garden.
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And what a garden it is. I've never seen a
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merrier marigold.
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Well, I don't know about that.
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And your geraniums caused a neighborhood pandemonium.
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Oh, come on, you two.
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This garden is perfect.
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Not quite.
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Owl?
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What are you doing out in the daytime?
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I had to pee.
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Anyway, Ryan, there's one thing that would level up this
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garden IMO, and that is rhubarb.
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Rhubarb?
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Of course.
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Just think of it.
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The color, the baked goods.
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Your garden isn't complete without some rhubarb.
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I don't understand people who, who,
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who can be up this early. Good morning.
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Hmm, maybe Owl is right. I do love rhubarb pie.
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I'll pop down to the gardening center and see if
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they've got any rhubarb seeds lying around. See you later.
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Bye, Ryan.
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Hello?
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Huh.
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Nobody seems to be in this garden shop, but the
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sign says they're open.
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Hello.
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I'm Linda.
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I own this store.
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I didn't see you there. Your long, mossy robe camouflages
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in with the moss department.
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It's a poncho, not a robe.
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My bad.
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You can tell because the sleeves are shorter and it
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slips over your head.
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Got it.
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And a robe has a belt. Anyway, welcome.
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How can I, uh, help?
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Well, I'm looking for rhubarb.
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Rhubarb was popular this year, so we're down to our
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last seed packet.
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Here you go.
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Huh.
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It says Magic Seed Packet. Never heard of that brand before.
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Brand? Right.
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Yeah, it's a brand. Sorry, this moss poncho tickles.
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So, how much for the seeds?
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$ 7.
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50.
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$ 7.
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50?
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For seeds?
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Are you serious?
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As serious as this poncho.
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That's pretty serious.
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All right, here you go.
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Thanks.
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Oh, and make sure you read the warnings on the
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seed packet. If you don't, you'll be sorry.
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Now, if you'll excuse me, it's time I disappear.
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Wow, and I thought Brooklyn had characters. Back home I go. Frog, Bunny,
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I'm back with the seeds. The store owner was a
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little strange. She was wearing a moss poncho.
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A poncho?
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It's like a robe, only with short sleeves and, uh.
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Right, we know what a poncho is.
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Well, time for planting.
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Whoa, whoa, hold on. You're just gonna plant the seeds,
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not read the instructions?
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Bunny, please, look at this garden. I think I know
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what I'm doing.
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Okay.
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Everyone's an expert, I guess.
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And there. Well, you two, it's 4.06 on a Sunday,
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and you know what that means. Time for me to
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sit in three hours of traffic while I head back
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to Brooklyn. See you next weekend.
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See you later!
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Bye!
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There goes Ryan.
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Oh, hey, Al.
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Looks like he planted the rhubarb seeds.
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Did he read the directions?
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No, but maybe we should.
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Okay, it says, one, don't put seeds near mouth, okay? Two,
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seeds are magic.
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Hmm, I wonder what that means. I know exactly what
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that means.
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Huh, I wonder what that's about.
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Bunny, you can read this whole time?
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Yep.
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And another weekend is here and I'm back in Rhinebeck.
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I'm Rhine-back.
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That's funny.
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Anyway, there's nothing like being in my garden. All my
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plants are gone.
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Except the rhubarb.
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What happened?
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Ryan, thank goodness you're back.
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Bunny, Frog, did you eat the plants in my garden?
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I just showed up this morning and it was like this.
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Yeah, me too. All your plants were here when we
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left last night. Let's ask Owl. Maybe she saw something
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since she's nocturnal.
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Hey, Owl, will you wake up? Ryan? Come down from
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that tree.
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The sun is only just setting.
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What are you doing waking me up?
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The other night, someone came and ate up most of
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my plants. You're nocturnal. Did you see who it was?
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You're asking the wrong question.
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It's not who, who ate your plants, but what, what.
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What?
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What?
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Precisely.
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Did you see the warnings on the back of the
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rhubarb seed packet?
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What warnings?
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Oh, sorry. Owl pellet.
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Ow, what's happening to my garden?
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The sun has almost set. Why don't you stay and
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see for yourself?
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Yikes, that growling must be my stomach. I skipped dinner, so... Whoa,
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maybe I forgot lunch? Wait a minute, that grumbling's not
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coming from me. It's coming from that patch of.
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Rhubarb!
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The rhubarb is alive and eating all the plants around it.
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Ow, help me.
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What do I do?
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Ryan, you should have read the directions.
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Bunny, Frog, look. It's Linda from the gardening store.
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We can tell by the poncho.
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No, no.
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This one is a robe.
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See?
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Belt.
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Right. I see it now.
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Yeah. Also, both ponchos and robes can have a hood,
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so maybe you were confused by that.
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Not now, Cricket.
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My bad.
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Linda, you're Owl? Or Owl, you're Linda?
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Yes to both.
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That rhubarb ate up your other plants. Maybe next time
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you'll not only read, but heed the warnings on a
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packet of magic seeds.
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Linda, away!
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And you thought you had characters in Brooklyn.
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What am I going to do? I wish that rhubarb
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would stop.
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That worked?
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Rhubarb?
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You can understand me? Look, I don't want any other
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plants to get hurt, including you. And I'm not exactly
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sure why Linda gave me magic seeds for plant-eating rhubarb
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and then admonished me for not reading directions and then
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flew off without explanation, but here we are.
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Rhubarb, you destroyed this garden. It was like a second
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home to me.
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And me.
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And me. I mean, because literally, it is my second home.
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I pay for it.
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Not now, Cricket.
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What?
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I thought it was funny.
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Rhubarb, let's make a deal. I put you in a planter,
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and you promise to only eat weeds. That way, my
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other plants will be safe, and I don't have to
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spend so much time weeding.
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Hooray!
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And honestly, this is an opportunity for me to build
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my garden back even better. Only this time, I'll always
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read the directions on the seed packet before I plant them.
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The end.
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And now, Lee speaks with the author.
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Hi, Oliver.
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It's Lee from Story Pirates. How are you?
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Good.
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So, Oliver, your story is about rhubarb, right?
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Yeah.
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So we had just bought the house, and the people
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who had it for a long time, there was a garden,
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and we grew rhubarb in it.
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Can you tell someone listening who doesn't know what rhubarb
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is what it is?
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It's like a plant thingy that just grows. You eat
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the stems of it.
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Oh, you do? I didn't know that.
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Yeah, because it said online that the leaves were poisonous.
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But yeah, we read that you eat the stems.
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And so what does it taste like?
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It tastes like kind of a little bit fruity. I
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think it looks kind of like strawberry-ish. And it tastes
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really good, actually.
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So what else do you grow in your garden besides rhubarb?
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We moved some kale, but the kale eventually, very quickly,
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the caterpillar just went nom, nom, nom, eat it up.
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A caterpillar did?
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Yeah, a green caterpillar. We didn't know what was eating it,
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and one day we were slicing into it, and on
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the knife was a green caterpillar.
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Oh my gosh, he made it all the way to
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your dinner plate?
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Yeah, he didn't get cut, but he was climbing on it.
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What did you do with the caterpillar when you found it?
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We found more and more of that kale that night,
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and we just put them on the cutting board. I
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think my dad basically just picked them up and put
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them outside.
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So, Oliver, if you could plant anything in your garden,
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even something that wouldn't normally grow in a garden, what
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would you plant?
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Maybe strawberry bushes, because strawberries are my favorite fruit.
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Oliver, do you have any questions for me?
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If you were me, and I was your dad, what
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What toys would you want to get for Christmas? No,
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I would be Santa. What toys would you want to get?
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I'm you.
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Yeah, you're me, and I'm Santa. So what toys would
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you want for Christmas?
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Can I call you Santa?
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Yeah.
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Okay, just dialing up the North Pole. Hi, Santa.
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Hi.
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Thank you so much for taking this call. My name's Oliver.
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I'm really excited to tell you what I want for Christmas.
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Ho, ho, ho.
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Oh, wow.
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You ho, ho, ho just like Santa does.
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Yeah.
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Well, Santa, what I would like most for Christmas is,
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first of all, I would like some strawberry seeds.
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That would be a hundred bucks.
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I mean, pennies.
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That's one dollar, please.
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You're charging me?
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Yeah, one dollar.
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And I'll get you a hundred thousand strawberry seeds.
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I didn't realize that Santa charges for gifts.
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It's one dollar or a hundred pennies.
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Okay, you got it.
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It's a deal.
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One dollar, please, or a hundred pennies.
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Okay, here you go.
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Thank you. Here's some grocery sheets, 100,000 of them.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Santa, thank you so much.
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Maybe you can just call me Oliver now.
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Yeah, sure. Oliver, you are the best, my friend. Thank
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you so much for talking to me today.
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You're welcome.
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Bye-bye.
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Bye.
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00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:33.650
And now it's time for Story Pirates Roll Call. First up,
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we got Quentin, a four-year-old from California who wrote the story,
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The Boy That Was Not In A TV, which is
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a cleverly deceptive title because just in the first sentence,
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he gets into a TV. Next, we have a story
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from Dash, an eight-year-old from Illinois called The Dougal Dwarfs,
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00:25:53.299 --> 00:25:56.819
A True Story, which has pretty much the best twist
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ending I've seen in a while.
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It rains cats, all of a sudden, with zero warning.
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Shout out to Swan June, a seven-year-old from North Carolina
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who wrote Mr. Shadowlands Nightly Boba Run, wherein Mr. Shadowlands
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the cat orders something that I think sounds delicious. An
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extra large taro boba tea with soy milk, extra ice,
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and extra sugar with one extra large vegan ginger chicken ongiri.
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Yum!
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Next up, we have an entire book from a nine-year-old
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in Kansas named Ethan.
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It's called Super Boogie Save the World, Novel Number One.
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And if you've ever wondered what a booger would be
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like as a superhero, you're going to want to check
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this one out. And finally, from Aaron, a six-year-old in
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the Philippines, we have the man with the glasses with
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a man on his glass, which is pretty much the
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story about glasses on top of glasses within glasses that
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I never knew I needed until right now.
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And you need it, too.
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Read all of.
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Today's Roll Call stories at storypirates.com slash podcasts.
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Now it's time for you.
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To write us a story. And if you don't know
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what to write, here's a story spark. Brought to you
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by Simone, the author of The Secret Theme Park. Simone,
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take it away.
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Kids, write a story about a character who unexpectedly gets
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transported to a strange new place. Give us details, like
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where are they and why or how did they get there?
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Be sure to emphasize the contrast between where the character
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began and where they traveled to. How are the two
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locations different?
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Thanks for listening to today's show and a huge thanks
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to today's authors, Simone and Oliver. Grownups can submit kids'
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stories and story sparks at storypirates.com. And remember, every single
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story we receive gets some love, some story love. We'll
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be back next week with another episode. Until then, stay
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creative and stay kind.
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Bye!
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The Story Pirates Podcast is a production of Story Pirates Studios.
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Executive produced by Lee Overtree and Benjamin Salka. This episode
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was produced by Sam Baer, Mike Cavallon, Minzwe Karami, Mahala Lawrence,
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Peter McNerney, Andrew Miller, Megan O'Neill, Lee Overtree, Rachel Winitsky,
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and Nimany Ware. Our theme song was written by Bobby
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Lord and produced by Brendan O'Grady. Roll call theme by
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Andrew Barbato. Musical scoring by Jack Mitchell. Our head writers
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are Rachel Winitsky and Minzwe Karami. Staff writers are Mike Cavillan,
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Mihaela Lawrence, and Alexis Simpson. Contributing writers are Peter McNerney,
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Megan O'Neill, and Lee Overtree.
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Special guest, Krista Rodriguez.
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This episode features performances by Eric Austin, Andrew Barbato, Chris Ferry,
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Minswe Karami, Leslie Kareen, April LaValle, Peter McNerney, Alexandra Nader,
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Emily Olcott, Megan O'Neill, Lee Overtree, Jamie Watson, Addie Weyrich,
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Niminy Ware, and Matt Zambrano. The Secret Theme Park was
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written by Jack Mitchell and produced by Brennan O'Grady.
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And Jack Mitchell.
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You know, speaking of spending some time alone, when I'm alone,
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I like to sing my favorite song about being alone.
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Can you guess what it is?
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That's right.
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It's my emo song from Season 2, Episode 15, I'm
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All Alone. And I always bring a live band with
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me everywhere I go, just in case I want to
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break into song.
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So here we go.
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All right, everybody, hit it!
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No one understands.
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Me understands me they look but they don't look they
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don't see i'm bleeding them bleeding them but.
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Who's bleeding me i'm all alone i'm all alone Nobody.
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Here but me.
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I'm all alone.
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Yeah, I'm all alone.
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He's all alone.
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All I've got is me, myself, and me.
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Take a look around.
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And tell me what you see.
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It's a man who's all alone.
650
00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:57.599
Yeah, that man is me.
651
00:30:57.680 --> 00:30:57.950
And me.
652
00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:00.380
And me.
653
00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:00.990
And me.
654
00:31:12.769 --> 00:31:13.809
He's all.
655
00:31:15.109 --> 00:31:20.710
Alone He's all alone Yeah, there's no.
656
00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:23.779
One backing me up here on this stage I'm.
657
00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:25.640
Definitely the only person.
658
00:31:25.400 --> 00:31:31.259
On this stage I'm alone
659
00:31:31.339 --> 00:31:32.460
Thank you, I'm Lee
