Hunter and Reed Have Patience| Part 2

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to kit
short stories. Last time we saw that Professor Sticky Fingers
has started stealing all of our spy gear. And it's
up to Hunter and Read to grow the magical seed
of a bubbleberry bush. Are they going to be able
to choose to be patient and follow the direction so
that it grows in time? I don't know. Well, we

(00:27):
gotta find out. Let's go, Hunter. I don't know how
much longer I can take this. This is one of
the hardest challenges of my entire life, said Reid. Hunter

(00:49):
glanced down and said, Read, We've been watering this plant
for like only four hours so far. Why are you
being so dramatic, Because this is the hardest challenge I've
ever had in my entire life. Not very good at
being patient? Read, I guess was not very good at
being patient. Do you think you know how to be patient?

(01:13):
I bet you do. You see, being patient means that
you value something that's on the other side of being patient.
So imagine if I said, Hey, I'm gonna ask you
to sit in this chair for five minutes. Do you
think that five minutes is gonna seem like a long time,
or how about ten minutes? How about if you had

(01:35):
to sit in a chair for ten minutes. That would
seem pretty hard, right, I'd be hard to be patient.
Well what if on the other side of that ten
minutes you got a cookie? Oh, I bet you'd be
up for that challenge. Well, see, you can choose to
be patient, and sometimes it's something that you have to

(01:55):
choose to do and not. It's all, there's not always
a cookie at the other side. Well, as spies, Hunter
and Reed, they had been to a lot of trainings
about how to choose to be patient, but I guess
it's harder to act it out in real life. And
Reed was really struggling. I don't think I can do this.
Beep beep, beep. All right, it's time to water, said Hunter.

(02:19):
You see, they had an alarm going off every ten minutes.
They had to water the seed so that it would grow,
and then that bush would produce the bubble berries that
we need to stop, Professor sticky fingers. The weird thing
is that they just have to water every ten minutes,
because I guess this is a very thirsty seed. Hunter
reached for the watering can and watered the seed again.

(02:44):
All right, now reset the timer and then uh, we'll
do it again, said Hunter. Reed was really running out
of patients. I don't know, I really need a break. Hunter.
Do you think you could take over for a little
while and then maybe we could take turns. Oh yeah,
that's actually a great idea, said Hunter. Oh good, I'm

(03:07):
gonna go lay down or something. Reid was acting like
this was like one of the hardest things in his
entire life to do. But I get it. Being patient
and doing the same thing over and over and over,
watering that seed over and over every ten minutes, that
could seem like a pretty challenging thing to do. Well.

(03:28):
Reid ran inside to go play with his legos for
a little bit. Sometimes it is nice to take a
break from something every once in a while. It gives you,
ah some fresh eyes and a fresh amount of patience.
Hunter was very focused on the job. He every ten minutes,
when that alarm went off, he would water that seed.

(03:48):
Still nothing was growing. Starting to get a little worried
that it wasn't actually working. Could this seed actually be broken? Like?
What if we're actually supposed to go out and stop
sticky fingers? Why are we wasting our time with the seed,
Hunter's mind began to fill with a whole bunch of
thoughts that maybe he should go off and do his

(04:11):
own thing and stop the professor because he is a
pretty good spy. Hunter thought to himself, Hey, Reid, Reid
couldn't hear him because he was inside. So Hunter left
the seed to go find read. This was not a
very good choice. Oh boy, it's finally left that seed.

(04:34):
Maybe I can go steal it. Oh no, that's the professor.
Is he nearby? Reid? There you are. Hunter had finally
found Reid building his legos. Hey what's up? While I
was thinking, do you think we should really follow the
directions forever? Because maybe we should just go out and

(04:55):
try and stop the Professor. Uh, I don't know about that,
said Reid. I know I was acting really dramatic and
that this was ridiculous, but it is what HQ told
us to do. They're always right, So maybe we should
just stick it out and if we take turns it'll
be a lot easier, said Reid. I guess you're right,

(05:17):
said Hunter. Reid glanced out the window to check and
see if the seed had started to grow, and it
was gone. Hunter, did you move that thing. Where's the seed?
Where'd it go? Hunter couldn't believe it. He had only
gone inside for a little bit. They both raced outside
as fast as they could, and sure enough, the seed

(05:40):
and its little container that it was in was missing.
What's all this sticky stuff all over the ground. You
don't think the professor got here? Oh no, Hunter and
Reed started to look all over the place and wait,
look over there there was a trail going into the
forest with a whole bunch of I don't know, sticky,

(06:02):
gooey stuff. I bet that's him. Let's follow it. Hunter
and Reed didn't have any of their spy gear because
remember it was all stolen by Professor's sticky fingers. They
had to do this all on their own without any
spy gear. Oh no, Reed, this is all my fault.
He never should have left it alone in the first place.

(06:22):
And we're gonna run out of time. The timer is
gonna go off in four minutes. We only have four
minutes left to water that thing, and then it's all
for nothing, said Hunter. Oh it's gonna be okay, dude,
said Reid. We're gonna get it. Don't worry, let's go.
Hunter and Reed We're running faster and faster into the forest,
trying to catch up to the professor. It's a good thing.

(06:43):
The professor is very sticky. Because he's not fast. He
has to every step he takes, he gets sticky everywhere.
Oh boy, there's no way that I can let them
get this thing back. Gotta get this back to doctor
stinky breath, and he is gonna to be selling happy. Yes,
there he is, shouted Hunter. They had finally caught up

(07:07):
to him in the forest. Professor, you better put that
down or else we're gonna send HQ on you. Like
you could ever do that. There's no way. As Professor's
sticky fingers leaned up against a tree to turn around
and laugh at Hunter and read, eh, my hands, they're stuck.

(07:30):
Oh no. Hunter and Reed were able to grab the
pot out of Professor's sticky fingers hands as he was
stuck to the tree. Hurry, let's get out of here.
We're running out of time. Hunter checked the timer and
there was only twenty seconds left before the plant needed
its next watering. They ran back to the house as
fast as they could. Reid grab the water quick. They

(07:54):
grabbed the water and water the seed just in time
as the timer went off, Shure, that was close. All right, Reid,
we really got to stick this out. Yeah, now I
see how important it is if the Professor wants to
steal this. This has got to be the real deal,
said Hunter. The rest of the day, Hunter and Reed

(08:16):
stuck to it every ten minutes. Even though it seems silly,
they still watered the seed every single time. The next morning,
sure enough, a bush had quickly grown out of the
dirt in the pot. Hunter and Reed were able to
send the bush and its berries into HQ for sampling,

(08:37):
and it worked. They were able to create a very
secret formulation of bubble berries. You see with our Bubbleshooters,
we can now shoot these bubble berries, these bubbles at
Professor Sticky Fingers, and that will stop him for good,
well unless he can get sticky again, which I'm sure

(09:00):
he can, but it will at least stop him that
day from stealing anything. Wow, great job, Hunter and Reid.
It's because of you choosing to be patient that you
grew that seed and we now have magical bubble berries.
Who that was an amazing adventure, just the beginning of

(09:20):
stopping Professor Sticky Fingers the end. Great job, you listened
all the way to the end, and you know what
time it is. It's time for good shout out. I
want to say hey to Noah from Texas, Liam from

(09:42):
New York, Frankie and Bianca from New Jersey, Clare and
Connor from Calgary, Alberta, Winston and Charlie's from Stockholm, Sweden,
Asher and Emmett from Austin, Texas, and Hannah from Canada.
I'm so glad that you're all in the Kid Short
Stories Family an honors by team. We could not stop
Doctor Sinky Breath and his whole team without you, my friends.
Well you have a super duper day and I will

(10:06):
see you on our next adventure. Bye.