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In this silly story, Ellis finds out the principal has a juicy little secret. He knows you shouldn't go sharing other people's secrets, but this one is just too juicy not to share. He decides he can trust his best friend Theo. It's not like secrets sometimes spread like wildfire... right??
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In this silly story, Ellis finds out the principal has a juicy little secret. He knows you shouldn't go sharing other people's secrets, but this one is just too juicy not to share. He decides he can trust his best friend Theo. It's not like secrets sometimes spread like wildfire... right??
Warning: this goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, el story time really not a glory time. Rabbis standing.
You'll be fine. Follow the whole storyline, Hellol, story time.
Might you love at least one time? Story time? Welcome
to the show. Glad you're here. I've got another goofy
story to share with you today, and this one is
called It's a Secret. This story features characters named after
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brothers Ellis and Theo. Some other shouts this week go
out to Jackson Terry from Muskoka, Canada listening with his
mom and stepdad, Will Fiona from Cleveland, Ohio along with
her cats Bella and Penelope. Ella and Will from jan Juck,
Australia with Sam their dog with the tiny tail, Ike
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Elmer Mama, Jamma, Matt White and their casts, Lord Nerdle
Dropcloth and Jack Lafite from New Quay, England, Emmanuel and
Aurora from Los Angeles, Elion Quinn from Austin, Texas, Harry
from Dublin, Ireland, and Riva Hillard from Colewich, Kansas, Andre
from Vancouver and Eleanor Caitlin and Alex from Los Alto's Hills, California.
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Marshatduts next time, But for now, let's get into the story.
This is the story of a juicy little secret, a
secret a boy named Ellis was not supposed to know.
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One day at school, Alice had been sent to the
principal's office, but not in a bad way. His teacher
had asked him to deliver a note. Miss wrap it up?
Are you sending me to the office with a note
because I'm loud and ask a lot of questions and
you actually just want a break from me? Miss wrap
it up? Looked like she had just got caught stealing
gumballs from a candy machine. Oh no, that's not what
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it is. I've just never seen anyone deliver notes the
way you do. You're like the Tom Brady of note delivering.
Alice had once dropped a note in the toilet while
taking a pit stop on his way to the office,
so he wasn't so sure where this was coming from.
When he arrived at the office, the secretary quickly picked
up a phone and tried to look busy. Strangehow that
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seemed to happen every single time. He slid the note
across her desk and then caught a glimpse of the
principal talking to the vice principal. And that was the
moment he heard the principal share a very juicy secret.
Afraid for his life, Alice dropped at the floor and
began crawling toward the doorway. He was hoping the principal
hadn't seen him, but grown ups can detect floor crawlers
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from miles away. Young man, What are you doing on
the floor crawling around like that? You're gonna get your
pants all dirty. Alice had to think of something fast, anything,
But I was just trying to hide that I overheard
you telling someone your juicy secret. But coming up with
good excuses is hard when your principal is up on
your face breathing. Principal breath on you. Ah, I was
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just trying to figure out what type of flooring you
have in here. I'm really into floors, like they're kind
of my favorite thing. Say, is this linoleum? The principal
had not been expecting that. Uh, I don't know, kid,
it's some kind of tile. I'll hurry back to class
on your feet. Alice did as he was told, but
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the principal called him back before he made it too far.
You Uh didn't happen to hear anything back there? Did you?
The look of suspicion on the principal's face was very discomforting. Uh.
The only thing I remember hearing was the wonderful sound
this floor makes when you walk on it. It's gotta
be linoleum, all right, get out of here you. Alice
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returned to class but found it more difficult than ever
to keep his mouth shut. All he could think of
was how much he wanted to tell someone what he
had just heard, the secret. At one point, Alice raised
his hand and asked a question, miss wrap it up.
If a person who let's just call Gallus knows really
juicy secret and they don't think they'll be able to
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keep it to themselves, should they just tell the entire
class right now or something? Good? Thing Alice hadn't revealed
that it was him telling a secret means it's no
longer a secret. You should never break someone's trust by
sharing their secret. But we don't keep secrets here at school,
so you can go ahead and tell Gillis to spit
it out. Understand, Alice did not understand. Had she just
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told him to keep the secret but also not keep
the secret? What a brain bender? No wonder. His parents
made him work with a tutor Alice told his teacher
not to worry about it anymore. Gillus had just quit
school and was never coming back. Case closed, But it
wasn't long before Alice wished he had told the entire class.
Keeping this juicy secret to himself was one of the
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hardest things he'd ever done. After one week, he didn't
know if he could take much more. It didn't help
that his best friend, Theo kept asking him to spill
the tea. THEO, what makes you think I have a secret?
Alice wondered. How best friends were so good at knowing stuff. Alice,
I've known you most of my life. I know when
you're lying, I know when you're holding in a fart,
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and I know when you're hiding a secret. Gallous, Now
let's hear it. But Alice couldn't do it. He wanted
to tell him, he really did, but he also wanted
to prove that he could be trusted to keep a secret.
If he told Theo, then the secret wouldn't be a
secret anymore. Perhaps it was time for some fatherly advice, Dad,
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Is it possible for someone to keep a secret until
their one hundredth birthday? Even if it feels like you're
on one of those family road trips, and you have
to pee, but the nearest washroom is still an hour away.
Alice's dad gave his questions some careful consideration. Son, the
thing about secrets is that they have to stay a
secret in order for them to be a secret. But
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secrets can also be a heavy burden for one to carry,
especially the longer you keep the secret. Maybe at first
it feels like you're carrying a bag of sand on
your shoulders, but then over time it begins to feel
like someone added some heavy bricks to that bag of sand,
and it only gets worse. Soon you've got some of
that thick, chunky soup in that bag, with the sand
in the bricks. And then because you've got soup in
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the bag, a bear tries to climb in. Alice stopped
his dad. But if the bear eats all the soup,
won't that make the sand bag a little lighter. His
dad paid no attention to this question and carried on.
Before long, the weight of the sand bag will have
you completely stuck, especially when that bear invites over a
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few of its cousins. Alice tried to pretend like this
all made sense. So if I'm understanding you correctly, I
should tell someone the secret so I can let some
sand out of the bag on my shoulders, even though
there isn't really a bag of sand sitting on my shoulders.
Got it? Thanks Dad. At school the next day, Alice
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pulled THEO into a closet that was used to store xcils.
So many pencils this place is gonna give me nightmares.
All right, THEO, here's the deal. I'll tell you my secret,
but first you have to tell me one of your secrets.
I just really need to get some of the sand
out of this bag. THEO looked at his friend's sideways sand.
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What sand? Anyway, You've got yourself a deal. I'll even
tell you my most embarrassing secret that I've never told anyone,
even my dog. He then leaned in close to Alis
and whispered his secret. Whoa, THEO, that's wild. I can't
believe that. THEO quickly stopped him before he could say anymore.
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Sh it's a secret, Keep it down, and let's never
speak of this again. Now, what's your juicy little secret?
Alice began rubbing his hands together like he was about
to unleash the granddaddy of secrets. So get this. I
heard the principal tell the vice principle that he has
a very juicy secret. THEO impatiently put his hands on
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his friend's shoulders, and and that's my secret. THEO thought
his friend had to be playing. Wait, your secret is
just that the principle has a secret, But you don't
even know what the secret is. Alice didn't get what
all the fuss was about. Knowing that the principal had
a juicy secret was a big deal, So what if
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he didn't know any more than that. Yet, THEO couldn't
believe that he'd wasted his number one most embarrassing secret
just to find out that Ellis's secret was that the
principal had a secret. Then he almost laughed in his
friend's face when Alice told him that under no circumstances
was he to tell anyone. What a joke. But even
though Alice made THEO swear not to tell anyone, he
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himself realized after getting home that he didn't think he'd
be able to keep Theo's secret to himself. Ah, the
sandbags are feeling so heavy right now. I don't think
I can oof. Alice dragged himself like an injured soldier
toward the phone and dialed his cousin's phone number. His cousin, Pete,
went to a different school, so he seemed like a
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safe person to talk to. Pet I have something juicy
to tell you, but you are not allowed to tell
anyone else. Okay, this is strictly for sandbag weight lowering
purposes and sand beg weight lowering purposes. Only. It felt
good to get the secret off his chest. But of
course there was also the whole friend betrayal thing, which
felt a whole lot less good. And you might be thinking,
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how could Ellis do that to his best friend? But
don't start feeling badly for THEO just yet. Around the
same time that Ellis was on the phone blabbing to
cousin Pete, THEO was spilling the tea to Sophie Walkman. Yo, Sophie,
apparently the principal has a really juicy secret and I
am dying to know what it is. Do you have
any idea what it could be? Sophie seemed quite confident
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that she knew. Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure the secret
is that he has a tidere tied up in the
basement of the school. Actually, he might even have four
tigers down there, which is exactly why I never do
anything bad enough to get me sent to the principal's office.
THEO had only planned on telling the secret to one person,
but clearly he had made a mistake by choosing Sophie Walkman. Tigers,
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Yeah right. THEO had to find someone who knew the
principle really well. Charlie Wicklestackle. Charlie Wicklestackle was the only
kid THEO knew who wanted to be a principal when
he grew up. As such, Charlie Wicklestackle spent a lot
of time following the principle around. He was like a
puppy dog. He even dressed like the principle. Hey, Charlie,
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apparently the principal is hiding a juicy secret. Any idea
what it could be? Charlie Wicklestackle adjusted his tie and
cleared his throat the way a principle might do it.
M Our honorable principle would never keep a secret because
he has a rule against keeping secrets at school. But
if he had to break that rule just once, I
would say, it's probably because he's getting rid of the
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vice principal and replacing her with me. That's the only
secret that would make sense. Charlie Wicklestackle then immediately turned
around and told on THEO teacher, THEO here is telling
secrets about the principle having a secret. Do you want
me to call his parents? THEO was grateful that Ellis
was not in the classroom for any of this. Miss
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rapp it Up muttered something under her breath. No, Charlie,
that is not your job. You are not the vice principal.
You still need your mommy to help you tie your tie.
Their teacher was not interested in getting THEO in trouble.
She just wanted to know what the juicy secret was.
And then it clicked. Miss wrap it Up figured it out.
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Oh no, I think I know what's happening. They're planning
on shutting down the school at the end of the year.
They're going to tear this old building down and send
each one of us elsewhere. THEO now wished that Sophie
Walkman had been right. The school closing down was terrible news.
This was the only school he'd ever known, and what
should have stayed between THEO and mis wrap it Up
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in Charlie Wicklestackle soon spread through at the school like wildfire.
Apparently Charlie Wicklestackle wasn't so good at keeping his mouth shut.
Many kids around the school got excited when they first
heard the news. Oh yay, we'll be on summer holidays forever.
Huh No, that's not how it works. Nuts, wish we
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could just stay here. Then. The news of the school
closing should have reached Ellis by now, but it hadn't.
Alice was back in the principal's office, and this time
not in a good way. Elis, Ellis, Ellis, there's a
rumor going around here that you told somewhat a secret.
Is that true? The smell of the principal's breath made
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Alice want to get out of there as quickly as possible.
Are we talking about the juicy secret or the other one?
The principal was talking about the secret Alice had told
his cousin Pete, Theo's secret, the one he had promised
not to tell anyone. But here's what had happened. Pete
had decided it was far too big of a secret
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for him to keep to himself. The weight of the
secret was too heavy, so pd told Erica, who then
told Reina, who then blabbed about it to Sedona, who
was already known for being the worst secret keeper ever.
Sedona told five other people, who each shared it with
someone they knew. It wasn't long before Theo's secret was
not so much a secret anymore. Alice, I'm calling your
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friend THEO down to the office right now. This needs
to be dealt with immediately. I can't believe what your
friend did. Alice could not think of anything more humiliating
for his best friend than having to find out from
the principle of all people, that everyone now knew his
embarrassing secret. Principal Sir Uh would if instead of dealing
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with this immediately, we just dealt with it never like,
could we not just sweep the whole thing under the rug.
Isn't that what rugs are for, Alice? We are not
sweeping this under the rug. Your friend has been pouring
pickle juice all over his clothes to give himself an
excuse to leave class. There are two things that I
don't like, secrets and kids not staying in their classrooms.
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Alice would have tried to stop the principal before he
stormed out of the office to call for THEO, but
now he was confused. Pickle juice. THEO had never told
him anything about pickle juice. Turns out Alice didn't have
to stop the principal anyway. The principal got blocked by
an angry mob of students and teachers waiting outside of
his office. What is the meaning of this? I need
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to find that pickle juice boy. Where's THEO? The mob
didn't back down. We want answers about that juicy secret.
You know. Well, that's what I'm trying to get to
the bottom of right now. I heard THEO has been
sneaking jars of pickles from the teacher's fridge and pouring
pickle juice all over his clothes so that us teachers
will excuse him from class. Then while he's getting changed,
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he gets a nice long break from learning. Well, not
on my watch. Alice wasn't the only one confused. Wait.
I heard THEO was trying to turn the school water
fountains into soda fountains, said one kid. I heard THEO
was taking showers into school water fountains, said another. Well,
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I heard THEO brings a change of clothes because he
pours his water bottle all over himself. Nope, that's not right.
He's just clumsy. He accidentally spells water on himself all
the time. He's not doing it on purpose. And trust me,
I heard it straight from Theo's best friend's cousin, Pety. THEO,
who was among the group of kids that had gathered
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outside of the principal's office, was shocked by what he
was hearing. Alice, you told people my secret? How could you?
I specifically said, sh it's a secret, don't tell any one.
Alice felt terrible. He really did, Sorry, THEO. I guess
I can't be trusted to keep a secret. It's just
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more sand than I can handle. But the good news
is then no one seems to know your secret. Somehow
it all got jumbled up as it got passed along
showering in the water fountain. How would one even do
that anyway? But I guess it's a lot better than
people knowing that. You sometimes get spooked and pee your
pants a little whenever the teacher announces a pop quiz,
and that's the reason you keep a change of clothes
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at school. Oh dear, I just told everyone your secret,
didn't I. It felt like a real life game of
Broken Telephone, where at the end, the first person reveals
the original message, only in this case the first person
should just kept their mouth shut. Thankfully, no one was
laughing at THEO. The only one laughing was THEO himself.
He was laughing and how unbelievably bad his friend was
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at keeping secrets, apparently far worse than Sedona. A few
of the kids shared stories of getting sick when finding
out about a pop quiz. Another shared about his struggles
with bladder control. I won't say an entire watermelon before bed,
and well, let's just say those bedsheets were no longer
dry by morning. It wasn't long before the mob of
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students and teachers remembered why they had gathered. Principal Sir,
we know your juicy little secret too. Why do we
have to go to a different school after they shut
down this school? Couldn't we at least just have a
never ending summer holiday. The principal looked less surprised than
when THEO found out people thought he was taking showers
in the water fountain. Kids, I've been hearing a lot
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of different rumors going around lately. Listen carefully. I am
not replacing our vice principal with that wicklestackle kid, and
never once have I said anything to anyone about the
school shutting down. That is simply not true. Then what
was the juicy little secret you were telling? The vice
principal asked Alice. The principal tried to act cooy, but
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the vice principal couldn't hold it in any longer. Kids,
The reason the principle was mad when he thought THEO
was sneaking pickle juice is because he drinks pickle juice
to purposely give himself bad breath. Pickle breath has a
way of making students tell the truth. No one can
think straight when someone is breathing stinky pickle juice breath
on them. It had been a juicy secret, indeed, a
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pickle juicy secret. The vice principal looked over at the principal. Sorry, sir,
I just couldn't hold that secret in any longer. It
was like I had these heavy sandbags on my shoulders
that were getting heavier by the minute, almost like I
had a family of bears living in those bags. Everyone
was relieved and grossed out at the same time. The
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school was thankfully staying open. But pickle juice breath weird. So, sir,
does this mean you don't have four tigers tied up
in the basement. The principal looked like he had just
got caught stealing gumballs from a candy machine. No, of
course not, that's absolutely ridiculous. We have one tiger down
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there the end. That's the story. And here's your question
of the week. Are you good at keeping secrets or
do you think it's best just to avoid them altogether. Anyway,
that's a wrap on episode one fourteen. Thanks for tuning in,
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and I'll catch you on the next one.
Hello, el story time really not a glory time. Rabbis standing.
You'll be fine. Follow the whole storyline, Hellol, story time.
Might you love at least one time? Story time? Welcome
to the show. Glad you're here. I've got another goofy
story to share with you today, and this one is
called It's a Secret. This story features characters named after
(00:23):
brothers Ellis and Theo. Some other shouts this week go
out to Jackson Terry from Muskoka, Canada listening with his
mom and stepdad, Will Fiona from Cleveland, Ohio along with
her cats Bella and Penelope. Ella and Will from jan Juck,
Australia with Sam their dog with the tiny tail, Ike
(00:44):
Elmer Mama, Jamma, Matt White and their casts, Lord Nerdle
Dropcloth and Jack Lafite from New Quay, England, Emmanuel and
Aurora from Los Angeles, Elion Quinn from Austin, Texas, Harry
from Dublin, Ireland, and Riva Hillard from Colewich, Kansas, Andre
from Vancouver and Eleanor Caitlin and Alex from Los Alto's Hills, California.
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Marshatduts next time, But for now, let's get into the story.
This is the story of a juicy little secret, a
secret a boy named Ellis was not supposed to know.
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One day at school, Alice had been sent to the
principal's office, but not in a bad way. His teacher
had asked him to deliver a note. Miss wrap it up?
Are you sending me to the office with a note
because I'm loud and ask a lot of questions and
you actually just want a break from me? Miss wrap
it up? Looked like she had just got caught stealing
gumballs from a candy machine. Oh no, that's not what
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it is. I've just never seen anyone deliver notes the
way you do. You're like the Tom Brady of note delivering.
Alice had once dropped a note in the toilet while
taking a pit stop on his way to the office,
so he wasn't so sure where this was coming from.
When he arrived at the office, the secretary quickly picked
up a phone and tried to look busy. Strangehow that
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seemed to happen every single time. He slid the note
across her desk and then caught a glimpse of the
principal talking to the vice principal. And that was the
moment he heard the principal share a very juicy secret.
Afraid for his life, Alice dropped at the floor and
began crawling toward the doorway. He was hoping the principal
hadn't seen him, but grown ups can detect floor crawlers
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from miles away. Young man, What are you doing on
the floor crawling around like that? You're gonna get your
pants all dirty. Alice had to think of something fast, anything,
But I was just trying to hide that I overheard
you telling someone your juicy secret. But coming up with
good excuses is hard when your principal is up on
your face breathing. Principal breath on you. Ah, I was
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just trying to figure out what type of flooring you
have in here. I'm really into floors, like they're kind
of my favorite thing. Say, is this linoleum? The principal
had not been expecting that. Uh, I don't know, kid,
it's some kind of tile. I'll hurry back to class
on your feet. Alice did as he was told, but
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the principal called him back before he made it too far.
You Uh didn't happen to hear anything back there? Did you?
The look of suspicion on the principal's face was very discomforting. Uh.
The only thing I remember hearing was the wonderful sound
this floor makes when you walk on it. It's gotta
be linoleum, all right, get out of here you. Alice
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returned to class but found it more difficult than ever
to keep his mouth shut. All he could think of
was how much he wanted to tell someone what he
had just heard, the secret. At one point, Alice raised
his hand and asked a question, miss wrap it up.
If a person who let's just call Gallus knows really
juicy secret and they don't think they'll be able to
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keep it to themselves, should they just tell the entire
class right now or something? Good? Thing Alice hadn't revealed
that it was him telling a secret means it's no
longer a secret. You should never break someone's trust by
sharing their secret. But we don't keep secrets here at school,
so you can go ahead and tell Gillis to spit
it out. Understand, Alice did not understand. Had she just
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told him to keep the secret but also not keep
the secret? What a brain bender? No wonder. His parents
made him work with a tutor Alice told his teacher
not to worry about it anymore. Gillus had just quit
school and was never coming back. Case closed, But it
wasn't long before Alice wished he had told the entire class.
Keeping this juicy secret to himself was one of the
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hardest things he'd ever done. After one week, he didn't
know if he could take much more. It didn't help
that his best friend, Theo kept asking him to spill
the tea. THEO, what makes you think I have a secret?
Alice wondered. How best friends were so good at knowing stuff. Alice,
I've known you most of my life. I know when
you're lying, I know when you're holding in a fart,
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and I know when you're hiding a secret. Gallous, Now
let's hear it. But Alice couldn't do it. He wanted
to tell him, he really did, but he also wanted
to prove that he could be trusted to keep a secret.
If he told Theo, then the secret wouldn't be a
secret anymore. Perhaps it was time for some fatherly advice, Dad,
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Is it possible for someone to keep a secret until
their one hundredth birthday? Even if it feels like you're
on one of those family road trips, and you have
to pee, but the nearest washroom is still an hour away.
Alice's dad gave his questions some careful consideration. Son, the
thing about secrets is that they have to stay a
secret in order for them to be a secret. But
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secrets can also be a heavy burden for one to carry,
especially the longer you keep the secret. Maybe at first
it feels like you're carrying a bag of sand on
your shoulders, but then over time it begins to feel
like someone added some heavy bricks to that bag of sand,
and it only gets worse. Soon you've got some of
that thick, chunky soup in that bag, with the sand
in the bricks. And then because you've got soup in
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the bag, a bear tries to climb in. Alice stopped
his dad. But if the bear eats all the soup,
won't that make the sand bag a little lighter. His
dad paid no attention to this question and carried on.
Before long, the weight of the sand bag will have
you completely stuck, especially when that bear invites over a
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few of its cousins. Alice tried to pretend like this
all made sense. So if I'm understanding you correctly, I
should tell someone the secret so I can let some
sand out of the bag on my shoulders, even though
there isn't really a bag of sand sitting on my shoulders.
Got it? Thanks Dad. At school the next day, Alice
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pulled THEO into a closet that was used to store xcils.
So many pencils this place is gonna give me nightmares.
All right, THEO, here's the deal. I'll tell you my secret,
but first you have to tell me one of your secrets.
I just really need to get some of the sand
out of this bag. THEO looked at his friend's sideways sand.
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What sand? Anyway, You've got yourself a deal. I'll even
tell you my most embarrassing secret that I've never told anyone,
even my dog. He then leaned in close to Alis
and whispered his secret. Whoa, THEO, that's wild. I can't
believe that. THEO quickly stopped him before he could say anymore.
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Sh it's a secret, Keep it down, and let's never
speak of this again. Now, what's your juicy little secret?
Alice began rubbing his hands together like he was about
to unleash the granddaddy of secrets. So get this. I
heard the principal tell the vice principle that he has
a very juicy secret. THEO impatiently put his hands on
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his friend's shoulders, and and that's my secret. THEO thought
his friend had to be playing. Wait, your secret is
just that the principle has a secret, But you don't
even know what the secret is. Alice didn't get what
all the fuss was about. Knowing that the principal had
a juicy secret was a big deal, So what if
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he didn't know any more than that. Yet, THEO couldn't
believe that he'd wasted his number one most embarrassing secret
just to find out that Ellis's secret was that the
principal had a secret. Then he almost laughed in his
friend's face when Alice told him that under no circumstances
was he to tell anyone. What a joke. But even
though Alice made THEO swear not to tell anyone, he
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himself realized after getting home that he didn't think he'd
be able to keep Theo's secret to himself. Ah, the
sandbags are feeling so heavy right now. I don't think
I can oof. Alice dragged himself like an injured soldier
toward the phone and dialed his cousin's phone number. His cousin, Pete,
went to a different school, so he seemed like a
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safe person to talk to. Pet I have something juicy
to tell you, but you are not allowed to tell
anyone else. Okay, this is strictly for sandbag weight lowering
purposes and sand beg weight lowering purposes. Only. It felt
good to get the secret off his chest. But of
course there was also the whole friend betrayal thing, which
felt a whole lot less good. And you might be thinking,
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how could Ellis do that to his best friend? But
don't start feeling badly for THEO just yet. Around the
same time that Ellis was on the phone blabbing to
cousin Pete, THEO was spilling the tea to Sophie Walkman. Yo, Sophie,
apparently the principal has a really juicy secret and I
am dying to know what it is. Do you have
any idea what it could be? Sophie seemed quite confident
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that she knew. Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure the secret
is that he has a tidere tied up in the
basement of the school. Actually, he might even have four
tigers down there, which is exactly why I never do
anything bad enough to get me sent to the principal's office.
THEO had only planned on telling the secret to one person,
but clearly he had made a mistake by choosing Sophie Walkman. Tigers,
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Yeah right. THEO had to find someone who knew the
principle really well. Charlie Wicklestackle. Charlie Wicklestackle was the only
kid THEO knew who wanted to be a principal when
he grew up. As such, Charlie Wicklestackle spent a lot
of time following the principle around. He was like a
puppy dog. He even dressed like the principle. Hey, Charlie,
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apparently the principal is hiding a juicy secret. Any idea
what it could be? Charlie Wicklestackle adjusted his tie and
cleared his throat the way a principle might do it.
M Our honorable principle would never keep a secret because
he has a rule against keeping secrets at school. But
if he had to break that rule just once, I
would say, it's probably because he's getting rid of the
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vice principal and replacing her with me. That's the only
secret that would make sense. Charlie Wicklestackle then immediately turned
around and told on THEO teacher, THEO here is telling
secrets about the principle having a secret. Do you want
me to call his parents? THEO was grateful that Ellis
was not in the classroom for any of this. Miss
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rapp it Up muttered something under her breath. No, Charlie,
that is not your job. You are not the vice principal.
You still need your mommy to help you tie your tie.
Their teacher was not interested in getting THEO in trouble.
She just wanted to know what the juicy secret was.
And then it clicked. Miss wrap it Up figured it out.
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Oh no, I think I know what's happening. They're planning
on shutting down the school at the end of the year.
They're going to tear this old building down and send
each one of us elsewhere. THEO now wished that Sophie
Walkman had been right. The school closing down was terrible news.
This was the only school he'd ever known, and what
should have stayed between THEO and mis wrap it Up
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in Charlie Wicklestackle soon spread through at the school like wildfire.
Apparently Charlie Wicklestackle wasn't so good at keeping his mouth shut.
Many kids around the school got excited when they first
heard the news. Oh yay, we'll be on summer holidays forever.
Huh No, that's not how it works. Nuts, wish we
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could just stay here. Then. The news of the school
closing should have reached Ellis by now, but it hadn't.
Alice was back in the principal's office, and this time
not in a good way. Elis, Ellis, Ellis, there's a
rumor going around here that you told somewhat a secret.
Is that true? The smell of the principal's breath made
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Alice want to get out of there as quickly as possible.
Are we talking about the juicy secret or the other one?
The principal was talking about the secret Alice had told
his cousin Pete, Theo's secret, the one he had promised
not to tell anyone. But here's what had happened. Pete
had decided it was far too big of a secret
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for him to keep to himself. The weight of the
secret was too heavy, so pd told Erica, who then
told Reina, who then blabbed about it to Sedona, who
was already known for being the worst secret keeper ever.
Sedona told five other people, who each shared it with
someone they knew. It wasn't long before Theo's secret was
not so much a secret anymore. Alice, I'm calling your
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friend THEO down to the office right now. This needs
to be dealt with immediately. I can't believe what your
friend did. Alice could not think of anything more humiliating
for his best friend than having to find out from
the principle of all people, that everyone now knew his
embarrassing secret. Principal Sir Uh would if instead of dealing
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with this immediately, we just dealt with it never like,
could we not just sweep the whole thing under the rug.
Isn't that what rugs are for, Alice? We are not
sweeping this under the rug. Your friend has been pouring
pickle juice all over his clothes to give himself an
excuse to leave class. There are two things that I
don't like, secrets and kids not staying in their classrooms.
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Alice would have tried to stop the principal before he
stormed out of the office to call for THEO, but
now he was confused. Pickle juice. THEO had never told
him anything about pickle juice. Turns out Alice didn't have
to stop the principal anyway. The principal got blocked by
an angry mob of students and teachers waiting outside of
his office. What is the meaning of this? I need
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to find that pickle juice boy. Where's THEO? The mob
didn't back down. We want answers about that juicy secret.
You know. Well, that's what I'm trying to get to
the bottom of right now. I heard THEO has been
sneaking jars of pickles from the teacher's fridge and pouring
pickle juice all over his clothes so that us teachers
will excuse him from class. Then while he's getting changed,
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he gets a nice long break from learning. Well, not
on my watch. Alice wasn't the only one confused. Wait.
I heard THEO was trying to turn the school water
fountains into soda fountains, said one kid. I heard THEO
was taking showers into school water fountains, said another. Well,
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I heard THEO brings a change of clothes because he
pours his water bottle all over himself. Nope, that's not right.
He's just clumsy. He accidentally spells water on himself all
the time. He's not doing it on purpose. And trust me,
I heard it straight from Theo's best friend's cousin, Pety. THEO,
who was among the group of kids that had gathered
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outside of the principal's office, was shocked by what he
was hearing. Alice, you told people my secret? How could you?
I specifically said, sh it's a secret, don't tell any one.
Alice felt terrible. He really did, Sorry, THEO. I guess
I can't be trusted to keep a secret. It's just
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more sand than I can handle. But the good news
is then no one seems to know your secret. Somehow
it all got jumbled up as it got passed along
showering in the water fountain. How would one even do
that anyway? But I guess it's a lot better than
people knowing that. You sometimes get spooked and pee your
pants a little whenever the teacher announces a pop quiz,
and that's the reason you keep a change of clothes
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at school. Oh dear, I just told everyone your secret,
didn't I. It felt like a real life game of
Broken Telephone, where at the end, the first person reveals
the original message, only in this case the first person
should just kept their mouth shut. Thankfully, no one was
laughing at THEO. The only one laughing was THEO himself.
He was laughing and how unbelievably bad his friend was
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at keeping secrets, apparently far worse than Sedona. A few
of the kids shared stories of getting sick when finding
out about a pop quiz. Another shared about his struggles
with bladder control. I won't say an entire watermelon before bed,
and well, let's just say those bedsheets were no longer
dry by morning. It wasn't long before the mob of
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students and teachers remembered why they had gathered. Principal Sir,
we know your juicy little secret too. Why do we
have to go to a different school after they shut
down this school? Couldn't we at least just have a
never ending summer holiday. The principal looked less surprised than
when THEO found out people thought he was taking showers
in the water fountain. Kids, I've been hearing a lot
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of different rumors going around lately. Listen carefully. I am
not replacing our vice principal with that wicklestackle kid, and
never once have I said anything to anyone about the
school shutting down. That is simply not true. Then what
was the juicy little secret you were telling? The vice
principal asked Alice. The principal tried to act cooy, but
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the vice principal couldn't hold it in any longer. Kids,
The reason the principle was mad when he thought THEO
was sneaking pickle juice is because he drinks pickle juice
to purposely give himself bad breath. Pickle breath has a
way of making students tell the truth. No one can
think straight when someone is breathing stinky pickle juice breath
on them. It had been a juicy secret, indeed, a
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pickle juicy secret. The vice principal looked over at the principal. Sorry, sir,
I just couldn't hold that secret in any longer. It
was like I had these heavy sandbags on my shoulders
that were getting heavier by the minute, almost like I
had a family of bears living in those bags. Everyone
was relieved and grossed out at the same time. The
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school was thankfully staying open. But pickle juice breath weird. So, sir,
does this mean you don't have four tigers tied up
in the basement. The principal looked like he had just
got caught stealing gumballs from a candy machine. No, of
course not, that's absolutely ridiculous. We have one tiger down
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there the end. That's the story. And here's your question
of the week. Are you good at keeping secrets or
do you think it's best just to avoid them altogether. Anyway,
that's a wrap on episode one fourteen. Thanks for tuning in,
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and I'll catch you on the next one.
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