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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello friends, It's mister Jim and welcome back to Kid
Short Stories. Today's stories brought to us by December and Levi. Hey, guys,
they sent me an awesome idea for a story, and
you can too. Just head over to Kidshortstories dot com.
Send me your idea and maybe you will turn it
into an awesome adventure. And parents, I just wanted to
give you a special Hello. My name's mister Jim. I'm dad,

(00:28):
a husband, and we have three kids who you know,
we're always talking about screen time and managing that, and
so we've really found that these stories, like Kid Short
Stories or Kids' Animal Stories, these podcasts have been super
helpful for us and thousands of families all around the world,
and so we love sharing these stories with you to
help manage screen time and really promote creativity and imagination. Well,

(00:51):
enough of that, are you guys ready for today's story?
Me too? Let's go. All right, December, are you ready
to head back for a your surgery? Okay, I gotta
choose to be brave. One, two, three, Yes, let's go,

(01:17):
said December victoriously. Today was a big day that she
had been a little nervous about for a long time.
It was the day that she was gonna have surgery
on her eye. Her eye had something that only a
doctor could fix. And I know doctors can sometimes be scary,
You're right, Yeah, whenever I go to the doctor, I'm

(01:39):
a little I'm I'm honestly, I'm nervous every time. Mister
Jim yep, even mister Jim is nervous when he goes
to the doctor. But doctors are pretty awesome. Do you
know why. Yeah, because our grown ups, our parents, and
doctors their job is to keep us safe and to
do the best things for us. And so December she

(02:02):
needed the surgery on her eye, and even though it's
a little scary, it was the best thing for her.
And you're not gonna believe what happens. It's pretty amazing.
But that's at the end of the story, so let's
get there. Well, December headed back for surgery and there
were all kinds of tubes and wires and all kinds

(02:23):
of different things that were attached to her. And it's
really important for the doctors to know exactly what your
body is doing while they're about to go into surgery,
because they need to make sure that your blood has
the right oxygen needs to know that a that you're
breathing well and that everything is just right, that your

(02:45):
heart is beating at the right time. Everything is perfect.
And then it's time to go to sleep. You see,
when you go into surgery, you go to sleep. The
doctors do all the work and you just get to
sit back and sh sh, just dream about the most

(03:08):
amazing adventures that you've ever gone on. Well, as soon
as December closed her eyes and went to sleep, it
felt like it was just a split second or a minute,
and then she felt her grown ups, her parents, tapping
her on her arms, saying, December, December, it's time to

(03:29):
wake up. You're all done and you're all better. She
carefully opened up her eyes. But the one eye that
had the surgery done on it, there was a little
bit of a patch on it, kind of like a
pirate patch. So the first thing out of December's mouth
was I'm hungry. Everybody in the room laughed because December

(03:51):
was so hilarious. Well, back at home, her best friend
Levi was planning a party for her with all of
her friends, and as soon as she got home, they
surprised her surprise. She walked in the door and was
greeted by Levi and all the friends. They were so

(04:13):
happy to see December back home. Wow, thanks guys so much.
You're the best friends in the whole wide world. Isn't
it great to have really good friends. Yeah? I love
having good friends and that they can be there for
you when you need them, or maybe you can be
there for them, Like if if your friend has surgery

(04:36):
or is not feeling well or has a rough day,
then you can send them a really happy voice memo,
or maybe call them and FaceTime them and tell them
that you miss them, or all kinds of fun things.
There's all kinds of creative ways, maybe drawing a picture. Well,
it was time for Levi and all the friends to

(04:57):
leave because December needed to rest. You see, one of
the things that's really important about after surgery is that
you have a lot of rest time, which is kind
of nice. You get to curl up in your bed
with your special blankets and pillows and just have a
lazy couple days of resting and maybe listening to stories

(05:20):
or just relaxing. Nice. December laid down. She felt sleepy
and fell right to sleep. Over the next few days,
December's body was healing and her eyes were feeling a

(05:41):
lot better. It was finally time to take off that
pirate patch. Are as fun as it was to pretend
to be a pirate, December was very ready for it
to come off. As she carefully removed the eye patch
from her eye, she blinked her eye and something felt funny.

(06:02):
Everything looked really good, and her vision was perfect and
everything was good. But she almost felt kind of a
tingly superpower inside of her eye. Hmmm, strange, it must
be just you know, that feeling will wear off soon.
Levi came over later that day and they wanted to

(06:25):
build a fort together. That was one of the favorite
things that they loved to do is build blanket forts
and make caves and all kinds of cool places to
make pretend stories in Hey, December, said Levi. He had
just gotten there and December was all ready for their fun. Perfect. Well,

(06:50):
I have all our blankets and pillows and chairs and
everything that we need to make the most amazingly epic fort,
said December. They got to work immediately, and pretty soon
they had created the most amazing epic, giantest blanket fort
of all time. Have you ever made a blanket fort? Before. Oh,

(07:14):
I love blanket forts. I think you've heard me talk
about them before. But blanket forts are so cool. I
wish I wasn't so big. I kind of miss being
smaller that I can fit inside of those blanket forts,
because when you get bigger, it's kind of hard to
squeeze inside a blanket cave without knocking it all over.
Or maybe I need bigger chairs and a bigger fort. Maybe. Well,

(07:38):
December and leave I were having a great time, and
all of a sudden they realized that they had stumbled
into some kind of secret cave that led down to
the basement. How did this happen, Levi, I said, I
don't know. This secret passage was never here before. December
had lived in this house for a very long time

(08:00):
and had never noticed a secret passage that went down
to the basement. The only secret passage that she knew
about to the basement was through the door, like the
normal door. But this was something different. All right, it's
kind of dark down there, said Levi. December peered around
the corner and said, you, it's not that dark. Come on.

(08:20):
December led the way down deeper and deeper towards the basement.
They crawled, and pretty soon LEVI couldn't see anything. Uh,
maybe we should go back and get a flashlight. Like,
this is so dark, what are you talking about? I
can see just fine. Then December blinked her eyes a
few times and realized, I'm seeing night vision right now.

(08:46):
What said LEVI, I'm serious. December couldn't believe it. She
kept blinking her eyes. I can see in the dark.
I believe you that it's pitch black down here, but
I can see just fine. It's like I have night
vision goggles built into my Oh my goodness, holy smokes.

(09:07):
I think the doctors might have I don't know if
they did this on purpose, but I think they gave
me some kind of night vision. This is amazing. Levi
had to run back and grab a flashlight to join
December the rest of the time in their basement journey.
But this was just the beginning of December's night vision adventures. Yes,

(09:29):
that surgery had somehow transformed her eyes into having night vision. Wow,
I wish I had night vision too. That would be
so cool to be able to walk around in a
dark place and see everything. Oh man, I'm a little
jealous of December's eyes, But I'm pretty excited to hear

(09:50):
about the adventures ahead for December and LEVI Wow, what
an amazing adventure. I'm so glad that she chose to
be brave and do that eye surgery that helped her
eye and even gave her a bonus superpower. We'll see
you next time. Bye. Great job, you listened all the

(10:19):
way to the end, and you know what time it is.
It's time for Kude shout out. I want to say hey,
or Alia from Montreal, Maya from Boston, Nada from America,
Mica from London, Brooks from Montana, Nora, and Conrad from Venice, Florida.
Ario from Oakville, Ontario, Canada, and Juliet and Benji from Chattanooga.

(10:44):
I'm so glad that you're all in the Kid short
Story's family and on our spy team. We could not
stop Doctor Stinky Breath without you, my friends. Well, you
have a super duper day and I will see you
next time. Bye.