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Hi! I'm Jim Jacob, a South Carolina based creator. I started as a podcaster by accident. Our first real episodes on the internet were me trying to find a solution to help tell my sons stories as I was traveling for work. I recorded some stories and hoped that by uploading them to a podcast app, my wife and kids could have easy access to listen. What started as a fix for our family’s bedtime routine interruption has grown into a worldwide audience with hundreds of thousands of listeners. My wife Jocelyn and I have 3 kids and love inspiring others towards greater imagination and curiosity.
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Episode Transcript
Hello, friends, and welcome to Kids Animal Stories, where we
learn all about critters of all shapes and sizes. And
today we are welcoming our Kids Short Stories friends. Hello,
it's mister Jim and we are about to listen to
part two. So if you haven't heard part one, make
sure you jump on over to Kids Short Stories to
(00:24):
hear Leppie's spy adventure on the part one. Well, friends,
are you ready to hear part two? What in the
world is gonna happen with that toilet paper? Let's find out.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
After hearing that crazy sound from outside, Rommy and Leppie
were running over to the front door to take a
peek outside. Who in the world would be sneaking around
outside at night? Rommie was very suspicious. Ugh, I can't
see any uh, Leppie, you have better night vision than me, right, yeah,
(01:05):
just step aside, let me take a look, said Leppie.
He's right. Leopard geckos have really good night vision for
a very particular reason. Do you think leopard geckos mostly
come out during the day or during the nighttime? Yeah,
if they have a really good night vision, that's probably
because they come out at nighttime. They're nocturnal. Wow, has
(01:29):
Leppie poked his eyes outside? He was expecting to not
see anything. He thought it was just the sound of
the wind. Oh no, you've gotta be kidding me, said Leppie.
And why are they here? And why do they have
leaf blowers? What are you talking about? Said Romy, who
(01:50):
has leaf blowers? Holy smokes, guys, Leppie has just seen
the Purple Ninjas. The Purple Ninjas are standing outside of
Ramuse holding leaf blowers. And this is serious. Leppie had
to race over to grab his spypack. Let be, what
are you doing? Where are you going? I have to
(02:13):
call this into HQ. Whenever the Purple Ninches are around,
there's always trouble and HQ has got to know about
this one.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
HQ, HQ.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
This is Leppie over sh.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Leppie, it's great to hear from you. But we thought
you were on vacation. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Sh yes, I thought I was on vacation too, But
the Purple Ninches are here, said Leppie. Sh that is
not good. Send us your location and we'll send out
a team. Hang tight, Leppie over sh.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Romy couldn't believe what he was hearing. Leppy, are you
on the spy team. There's no way. We've been friends forever.
How did I not know this? Said Romy? Well, well,
it's kind of complicated, but it's just you know, there's
some things in life that you can't really talk about,
and though this is one of those. Well, uh, yes,
(03:09):
I've been on the spy team for a long time
and the Purple Ninches are trying to take over the
world with doctor Sinky Breath, and it's it's kind of complicated,
but just just trust me. Hq' is gonna be here
soon and they'll sort it out. Don't worry. Even though Rommy,
the nobtail gecko could blink, ah, he was not blinking.
His eyes were frozen. Holy smokes, I can't believe it.
(03:33):
Let Bee, you're a real spy. That's so awesome. Rommy
raced over to give Leppie a big high five. Okay, okay, awesome. Well,
now that the secret is out, I think I might
need your help. But wait, what's that sound? That was
(03:54):
the sound of the leaf blowers. They're trying to flush
us out. We can't leave the cave.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
We got a holder ground, said Leppie. Thankfully, these two
species of geckos are built for this. You see, they
live naturally in the desert where it can get pretty
sandy in those windstorms, and so Leppie and Rami are
both able to not only close their eyelids, but they're
also their ears to protect them from all that blowing sand.
(04:26):
So outside of those Purple Ninjas we're trying to flush
him out, they didn't know that they were dealing with
critters that were built to withstand the force of leaf
blowers in the sand. Guys, why are we blowing leaf flowers?
This is like the strangest thing that the Boss has
(04:48):
ever told us to do.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Yeah, I know, but he said something about he sees
this god keep breaking toilet paper in this cave, and
so this this is the way that he thought it
would be a good way to flush him out.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Yeah, but it doesn't seem to me working. It's just
blowing back in my face. This is terrible, all right,
Purple Ninjas, that's time we move in and check and say,
if there's really a million rolls of toilet paper in here,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
As the Purple Ninjas entered the cave, they coughed their
way in and were very surprised to see two small
geckos guarding the toilet paper.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
What in the world you mean it's just been too
little lizards in here guarding this the whole time. I
think this could have been a lot easier if we
didn't make it so dusty.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And just then the rocks began to fall.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Do you see what's going on over there? It looks
like the caves about to collipse.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Eh, you're right, We're gonna get out of here.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Run.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The Purple Ninjas took off running. All that blowing with
the leaf blowers must have loosened all the rocks in
the cave in, and now it's starting the cave in.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Ha.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Wait a second, Wait a second, what about Leppie and Ronny?
They're still in there. As the dust settled and the
rocks came to a stop from all their falling, Rommi
called out to Leppie. Leppie, Leppie, are you okay? I'm
over here, shouted Leppie. My tail is stuck under some rocks.
(06:34):
I need help. Okay, I'm coming. Ronny tried his best
to loosen the rock so that Leppi could slip his
tail out, but unfortunately that rock was way too big
and heavy, and leopard gecko's tails they're very large. They
actually store all their food that they eat in their tail.
It's kind of like a refrigerator. They can eat way
(06:58):
more food than they actually need in a day, but
they have a pretty cool way of storing it for
the times that they can't find food. And so that
big fat tail that every leopard gecko has is like
their pantry or their refrigerator, like I said, and it's
very important. Oh dear, I think the only way out
of this is if I dropped my tail, said Leppie.
(07:20):
I've worked so hard on getting that tail nice and fat.
I guess I'll need to start all over a year ago. Nothing,
Holy smokes, what just happened the tail on, Leppie? It
just fell right off. Huh that's surprising. Wait, hold on
a second, what just happened?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yes, So leopard geckos are like a lot of other critters,
a lot of other lizards that can drop their tail.
They have a little button inside their brain and in
an emergency situation, they can release their tail. Sometimes it's
to get away from a prea, and so when they
(08:02):
drop their tail, the tail starts flopping around like a
fish and the predator jumps on the tail and the
lizard gets away. It's a pretty cool defensive trick. Well,
in this situation, Leppie is very stuck and letting go
of his tail means it he has to grow back
another one, which takes a long time, but he will escape.
(08:23):
And they better get out of there because I think
more rocks are about to start falling. We better get
out of here. Can you help me dig a tunnel
over here? Yeah? Sure, thing. Letpie started digging very quickly
with his front little feet. They have claws at the
end of all the fingers, and so he's really good
at digging. He was able to dig a tunnel just
in time to sneak out the back of the cave.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
All right, guys, I think it's safe to start going
in there. Let's go see if we can get that
toilet paper like the boss asked us to.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
As the Purple Ninjas started to walk through all that
fallen debris in the cave, saw something squirming. Ew.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
What in the world is that thing? Ew?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Is that a gecko tail? It's squiggling around like a worm.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
That is so discussing.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm out of here. The Purple Ninjas had just seen
Leppie's tail flopping around stuck in that rock and it
totally freaked him out. And they're headed back to the blimp,
and I don't think Doctor Stinkybreath is gonna be very
happy about them coming back empty handed without any toilet paper.
(09:32):
Leppie and Rommie were now at the back of the cave.
There's like a back entrance that they had dug a
tunnel out through and had met HQ outside.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Leppie, it's great to see you. We're so glad that
you and your friend are safe. But what in the
world happened with your tail?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Well, me and Rommy you were We got cut in
a the cave that was falling in and fell on
my tail. And it's a long story. But don't worry,
my tail will grow. I just I now have to
eat a lot more food, but it's okay. We'll be okay.
Were you at least able to catch some of the
Purple Nindas before they got away?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
No, Unfortunately, they returned back to the blimp just as
we arrived. But you can tell your friend that we're
gonna install a new security system to protect all of
his things and we'll help him clean up the mess
along the way.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Wow, that's awesome, Thank you so much. Rommy will be
so happy. Meanwhile, up in the purple blimp, what in
the world are you talking about? Purple ninjas? You mean
to tell me that a little squiggly lizard tail scared you?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Of way didn't get me all the toilet papers, that
purple ninja. Whoo, great job.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Let me you were able to save Rommy and all
of his important things like toilet paper and plywood. I
never thought those would be very important, but they're very
important to ram This may be the end of the story,
but it's just the beginning of Leppie's spy adventures the end.
(11:20):
Great job, you listened all the way to the end,
and it's time to learn more about leopard geckos who
remembers all those awesome things like they can you can
shine a flash like through the head of a leopard
gecko because their ears connect and you can see all
the way through. That's kind of creepy. And they can
blink their eyes blink, blink. They have amazing night vision
(11:41):
because they're a nocturnal and something about a refrigerator in
their tail. Wow, leopard geckos are pretty amazing and Leppie
is one awesome spy gecko. Well, friends, I know if
you have a super duper day, and I will see
you on our next adventure.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Bye and
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