Lochlan and the Very Stinky Ocean| Part 1

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey friends, welcome back to Kitchurt Stories. If this is
your first time, welcome to the family. My name is
mister Jim and me my wife and three kids. We
live in South Carolina and we love stories so much
that we make them every single day. From the ideas
sent by you and your kids, this has become such
an amazing thing for us to reduce screen time and
increase imagination, whether in the car getting ready for bed,

(00:26):
these stories I have just been super fun. Make sure
you hit that follow button so you don't miss that
on our daily stories. Friends, are you ready for today's adventure?
Me too. Let's go eponinas. I like these plans that

(00:49):
you are working on. I can see this is a
good idea, and let's do it right now. Okay, bush Well,
I'll just neat a get a few park thanks, ready,
and we shall be ready by lunchtime. Perfect. All right,
Purple Ninjas, Let's make these happen and don't let the

(01:11):
spy team ruin our plans because this one might actually work.
A Meanwhile, across town, Lochlan and his family were getting
ready for a beach day. Hey Lochlan, make sure that
you grab your buckets and shovels and that one net

(01:33):
over there, Okay, said one of his parents. Oh, I
already got it all in its bag. Look, Lachlan had
been preparing for this beach day for a long time.
They loved going to the beach, making sand castles, collecting shells,
and maybe even jumping over a wave or two. What
are your favorite things to do at the beach. There's

(01:56):
so many different things to do at the beach. I
can't even like come up with my favorite because I
think I like them all. Well. Lachlan put on his
sandals and followed his family into the car, and off
they drove to the beach. While they were driving, Lochlan
was working on a plan inside of his mind. He

(02:17):
wanted to come up with the best plan for how
he was gonna spend his time at the beach. He
was thinking through the perfect day all right. First, I
think I want to dig a hole in the sand
in a trench that goes all the way to the water.
Then build a castle around it with a city, and yes,

(02:39):
then find shells, because I have to decorate all the
sand castles with shells. Yes, today is gonna be the
best day, said Lachlan. He had put together a pretty
fun plan between building sand castles, finding shells, and building
that trench all the way to the water. This was
gonna be the best day ever? Or was it? Little

(03:02):
did he know that today's beach day would actually turn
into a spy adventure. They parked the car and got
out and Lachlan helped carry all the things to the beach.
Here's a lot of things that you might need to
bring to the beach. What are some things besides toys
that you might want to bring with you? Maybe some
chairs or an umbrella to make shade, and oh definitely

(03:26):
food and some water to drink. Oh, these things are
so heavy. Lachlan was working really hard to carry all
this stuff with his family over to a really good spot.
They looked around at the beach to find a good
place to you know, set up their spot of laying

(03:47):
down a blanket and the chairs and the umbrella and
a great place for him to also work on his
awesome plans over there. Let's go over there, said Lachlan.
It was next to some large rocks, which was gonna
be cool because that might mean that there are some
tidepools over there for him to explore as well. He

(04:08):
helped his family set up everything, and then he asked
if he could go check out the tidepools over there.
His parents said that was okay, just to not go
too far. As Lachlan walked over to the closest tidepool,
he looked inside and wow, I've never seen it so
full of critters and fish and there's an octopus jellyfish. Wow,

(04:33):
this is like the coolest tidepool ever. Have you ever
looked inside of a tidepool that had some creatures inside
of it? Yeah, it could be a really cool place.
It's like a whole nother world in there, a world
that looks very different from the one that you and
I live in. Right. There might not be any trees
in there, but there's there's seaweed, yeah, and kelp and

(04:58):
other kind of ocean plants, enemies and fish and crabs.
There's so many cool things that you can find inside
of a tide pool. After he jumped down from the rocks,
he ran back to grab his shovel start digging his
hole and building the most amazing sen castle city the

(05:18):
world has ever seen. As he was running back to
where his family was, he saw some splashing in the
water splashing that looked very unusual. And then a big
of water that came shooting out of the ocean. What
in the world, and it's a giant whale that is

(05:39):
so aweso. Oh no, oh no, he's coming towards the beach,
shouted Lachlan. He was right. The whale looked like it
was swimming very fast and towards the beach. Oh no,
he's gonna crash. Lachlan started running and running as fast
as he could towards where his family was because the
whale was headed right towards our blanket. Look out, everybody,

(06:05):
shouted Lachlan. There's a giant whale coming. Everybody look out,
And just in the niked time, his whole family moved
out of the way and there crashed the whale. As
the water and sand came down to a rest, they

(06:28):
all brushed the water and sand off of their faces.
There was like an explosion of water and sand from
that whale crashing onto the beach. Oh what in the
world are you doing here? Whale, said Lachlan. Do you

(06:52):
know how to speak whale? Yeah, it could be really
hard to understand, but maybe let's try and listen. And again,
is really sneaky. Did he just say the water is
really stinky? Said Lochlann to his family. I think so,

(07:14):
that's that's what I heard, said his parents. Oh no,
whenever they're stinky, that is That is not a good sign,
said Lachlan. And then it started to get even worse
and worse. One by one, critters from the ocean started
flying out of the water and onto the sand. It's

(07:34):
like they couldn't get out of the water fast enough.
From dolphins, octopus, fish and crabs. Nobody wanted to be
in that water. Oh, it is stinky, said Lochlan as
he finally caught up the breeze in the smell of
the ocean. I've never smelled this before. This is awful.

(08:02):
His whole family didn't know what to do with all
these creatures from the ocean coming out looking pretty sick.
They didn't know what in the world to do. And
what in the world was going on? Was the water
polluted by something really stinky? How in the world are
they gonna get all these ginormous creatures back into the water,

(08:24):
and how are they gonna clean the water from its
very stinky smell. I don't know what in the world
is gonna happen, but I think Lachlan is gonna have
to grab a spy gear out of the car and
get to work. We'll have to wait and see what
happens on the next episode of Kids Short Stories. Great job,

(08:49):
you listened all the way to the end and you
know what time it is. It's time for kid shout out.
I want to say hey to Ethan and Olivia from California,
Luke from Atlanta, Georgia, Katrina from Wisconsin, Raga from Seattle, Washington,
Rellion from Alaska, Cora and Lucy from California, Aaron and

(09:09):
Ezra from Texas, Francis from Pennsylvania, and Dayton and Marissa
from Utah. I'm so glad that you're all in the
Kit Short series family and on the spy team. We
could not stop Doctor Stinky Breath and his crew without you,
my friends. Well you have a souper new Breday. Now
I'll see you next time. Bye.