What's Inside That Cave

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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.

Welcome to "Kids Short Stories," the unique podcast where your child's imagination becomes the star of the show! Dive into a world of adventure, mystery, and fun as Mr. Jim brings to life exhilarating tales inspired by story ideas submitted by kids from around the globe. Whether your child dreams up a story about space-traveling aliens, underwater adventures, or magical forests, "Kids Short Stories" transforms their creative sparks into captivating audio experiences.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to kid
Short Stories. If this is your first time or you're
still newer to our family, I want to encourage you
to try five. That's our challenge, where for five days
in a row, your kids listen to some awesome stories
to use their imagination and watch their creativity come to life.

(00:27):
You see, we make stories every single day for you,
and you just never know what kind of story you're
gonna find on any given day. So hang with me
for five days, whether maybe driving in the car or
maybe during lunchtime, and I think you're gonna find something
pretty amazing happens. Well, friends, are you ready for today's adventure?

(00:51):
Me too, Let's go. It was a beautiful day as
Sid was playing at a park near his house. He
loved to go on all the swings and slides and
climb on everything. It was a really cool park. Have

(01:12):
you ever been to a playground like that before that
just has a ton of different things to play on?
Oh yeah, we love finding really cool playgrounds that we
can play a great game of lava Monster. That's what
our family likes to play, where I'm the lava monster
and they have to run away and not touch the
wood chips, and then this slow lava monster tries to

(01:35):
get them. As Sid was running around at the park
with his friends, he was just having the best day ever,
and then all of a sudden, he heard a sound. Oh,
I gotta hey, guys, I have this message. I gotta
take this message. I'll be right over here. Sid didn't

(01:57):
want anyone else to hear this super secret spy message
from the spy team, so he walked over to the
edge of the park and clicked the button to play.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Sid, we need your help. There was an apple orchard
nearby that its entire apples have been eaten and stolen.
We're not sure who have done such a terrible thing,
but we need you to investigate. We'll send you the
coordinates over and out.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Sh Sid couldn't believe it. He loved apples, and who
would do such a terrible thing of stealing all the
apples from the apple orchard? Oh dear, all right, hey guys,
I gotta head back home. I'll see you later, said
wave goodbye to his friends, and him and his parents
walked back home. He knew that he had to grab

(02:45):
a spy gear before entering onto this mission. He ran
up to his room, grabbed his gear, waved goodbye to
his parents, and blasted out the window with his jetpack.
SHM followed the coordinates that HQ had sent him, and
it led him over towards some mountains nearby. But on

(03:05):
that hillside was a beautiful apple orchard, or at least
there used to be one, because as he arrived he
could tell that something terrible had happened. All the trees
and branches looked like they had been almost pushed over.
Broken branches lay on the ground, but not an apple
to be seen. What do you call an apple orchard

(03:28):
with no apples? I guess just a forest. Well. As
Sid arrived, he asked some questions to the owner of
this apple orchard. Hello, my name is Sad. I'm with
the Spine team and I see that something must have
happened terrible here. Can you do you know what happened?

(03:49):
It was absolutely terrible. This giant huh, I don't know,
monster came and he ate all of our apples. You
don't know what to do. If you're able to return
our apples, that would be very helpful. Oh my goodness,
that's so terrible, said Sid. Do you have any video

(04:11):
or anything showing me what I should be looking for. No, unfortunately,
we don't have any cameras here at the apple orchard.
There's some big footprints over here. Come take a look
at these. Sid followed the owner and couldn't believe it.
The owner was pointing to some ginormous holes in the ground.

(04:32):
Those can't be footprints. Those things are huge, said Sid. Oh,
I know, I know. That's how big that thing was.
It looked kind of like a lizard, but it was giant.
Could have been a dragon. Hmm, an apple eating dragon.
Very strange, but all right, Well, thank you for explaining

(04:55):
all this. I hope to find your apples, sir, and
I'll let you know if I do. Oh, thank you,
Thank you very much, Good luck and be safe. The
owner waved goodbye as Sid blasted off on his jetpack.
He was trying to follow the footprints, and it looked
like they were headed in this direction. Pretty soon he

(05:18):
saw exactly where they went. Holy smokes, it looks like
those tracks go right into that huge cave on the
side of that mountain. Oh dear, I think that giant
thing must live in that cave. Let me fly closer
and see if I can check it out. He flew
his jetpack closer, hovering over the ground, but right in

(05:41):
front of the entrance to the cave. He didn't see anything,
but then all of a sudden, ow, hey, let me go,
shouted Sid. You're coming with me. It was the giant
apple stealing lizard dragon thing. It had grabbed onto Sid

(06:02):
with its claws and was pulling it into the cave.
Let me go, Hey, like, go with me out, Let
me go. You're going in here. Stay here, said the
giant apple eating lizard dragon. He dropped Sid into a
cage and closed the door. Where am I? Sid coughed

(06:28):
and looked around. He realized that he had been captured
by that creature, and there were several others inside of
this cave cave an eye on him. I'm gonna look
for more apples, and off that giant creature flew. There
were two other apple eating lizard dragons guarding the cage

(06:49):
that Sid was in. Please let me go. I'm just here.
To holy smokes, that is a lot of apples. Sid
could see right behind all those lizard dragons that there
was a giant pile of apples. You've gotta let me go.
I'm not an apple. We're not letting you go. You're
gonna tell everybody where all of our apples are. You're

(07:12):
never getting out of here, said one of those giant
apple eating lizard dragons. Sid was stuck and did not
know what to do. Over the next several hours, all
Sid could do was sit there in his dark cage
in the cave. Every once in a while, one of
those apple eating lizard dragons would toss him an apple

(07:33):
and you'd be able to eat a snack. But finally,
as the day rolled on, something happened that gave Sid
a chance to escape. Oh it's time to take an
app All of a sudden, those two apple eating lizard
dragons fell asleep. Sid remembered that lizards or dragons are reptiles,

(08:00):
and that means they're cold blooded. They need sunlight to
stay warm and alert and awake. Ever since they were
given the job to look after Sid and keep him
in his cage, that means they've been inside of the
cave in the darkness for several hours. Their bodies are
starting to slow down, which means they're gonna take a nap.

(08:22):
This is my chance, said said to himself. I gotta
reach for the keys. One of the apple eating lizard
dragons fell asleep right next to the door. Sid squeeze
his arm out through the bars and reached for the keys,
and finally he got them. Okay, now I just gotta
unlock the door really quietly so I don't wake them up.

(08:46):
He carefully put the keys in and was careful to
not jingle them because that might wake them up. He
unlocked the door and slowly opened it, and off he ran.
He grabbed his spy gear that was laying on Then
at the entrance to the cave, he threw on his
jetpack and blasted off, so which woke up the apple

(09:08):
eating lizard dragons. He oh that out? What the ooh? Here,
Larry's not gonna be happy about this. It was then
that they realized that Sid had gotten away. As Sid
blasted off, he called into HQ and told them the
coordinates of the cave. HQ, I found all those stolen apples.

(09:32):
There's some kind of apple eating lizard dragon out here
and he's stealing all the apples. Send out a team
here and and uh, you should be able to bring
all these apples back to the orchard. Over and out. Shhh. Wow,
great job, Sid, you saved the day and all of
the apples from that apple eating lizard dragon. That apple

(09:55):
eating lizard dragon, it's got to find a new way
to get his own apples and not steal them. Maybe
those apple eating lizard dragons can make their own orchard
on top of that mountain one day. The end. Great job,
you listened all the way to the end, and you

(10:16):
know what time it is. It's time for kid shout out.
I want to say hey to Isla and Logan from Portland, Oregon,
Maximus from California, Eddie, Zach and Rose from Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Marin from Shawnee, Kansas, AJ and Charlie from Columbia, South Carolina,
Oscar and Lucia's from Vancouver, and Connor and MICHAELA from Sydney, Australia.

(10:40):
I'm so glad that you're all on the KITS Short
Stories family and on the spy team. We could not
stop Doctor Stickybreath and his crew without you, my friends.
Will you have a super duper day and I will
see you next time. Bye.