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Today's brand new story, plus another edition of Roll Call Live with Lee and Peter coming up after a few more words for the grownups.
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The Story Pirates. Welcome back to the Story Pirates podcast. It must be hard being a narrator.
Here at Story Pirates, we get a lot of stories about narrators who are really getting into it with the characters that they're narrating.
It's almost like narrators are control freaks.
The one in today's news story certainly is.
Here's the author to introduce it.
Hi, I'm Belle. I'm nine years old and I live in Oklahoma.
This is my story, Bears Forest Days.
Welcome to Bears Forest Days.
What wild and happening misadventures will he get up to to this week well i'll tell you this momentous day began like many others with bear rising from his nightly slumber good morning narrator good morning bear are you ready for a day full of adventure oh i don't know about that i was hoping to just have another pleasant day here in the the forest full of high jinx and wackiness probably not no every day i do have a problem to be sure but every day i solve it not much to it we'll see now what should i wear today and so he dressed up in his soft red t -shirt at which point the bear was struck by a profound
Oh, what a sound. Startling realization.
Something just occurred to me.
Yes? I can't shake the feeling that I...
Go on. Am hungry. No. I think I will go to the berry bush to eat.
So that's what the bear did.
Here I go. Ah, berry bush, berry bush, I love my berry bush.
It's full of berries and it's a bush.
Boy, my Berry Bush song just keeps getting better and better.
Well, better head home.
The bear set out for home.
But on his way, he saw his friend, the rabbit.
Hello, rabbit. Hello, bear.
Goodness only knows what secrets he might divulge or what hijinks he might get into on this fateful day.
Well, it was good seeing you.
You too, bear. Bye.
Bye. Uch, I guess the rabbit didn't have much going on today, so the bear went back home.
Here I go. Ah, back in my den.
Time to eat my berries.
Huh, that's funny. My dining room table seems to be missing.
Aha, I knew it. Today is special.
So many questions. Who could the culprit be?
This is juicy stuff.
And at that moment, the bear had an idea.
I have an idea in this moment.
I think I have to...
Find out who took your table.
Solve the mystery. Defeat a villain.
Become a hero. Build myself a new table.
What? But wait. Oh.
There's my friend, the Cardinal.
Oh, hi, bear. Hi, Cardinal.
No time to talk. Because he had an urgent errand?
Because I'm busy making morning songs for the animals in the forest. Can I hear one?
Really? Now? Sure. Here in the forest we are full of glee, us animals live so very happily.
Oh my goodness. Cardinal, that was beautiful.
Thank you, bear. Toodle -oo.
Bye -bye. Okay, and then the bear finally set out to solve his problem.
Here I go. Bear went looking for a tree stump.
Oh, this one looks nice.
He tore the stump out of the ground to use as a table.
And then he got some big rocks to use as stools.
Back to home. Hey, hey, it's my job to change locations.
Oh, sorry, narrator.
Anyway, the bear went home to set up his brand new dining room table just outside his cozy cave. Ah, what a pleasant day it is.
Oh, I can't take it anymore.
What's up? I promise these people thrills, chills, wild misadventures.
Why did you do that?
It's time for me to take things into my own hands.
OK, if you say so. Suddenly, there appeared crashing through the forest a giant rhinoceros.
Hey there, rhino. Ha!
Bear! Good seeing you.
Would you mind not crashing so hard?
Oh, sure thing. Sometimes I don't realize what I'm doing.
We'll see you later.
Crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash.
Bye -bye. Oh, fine. Scratch that.
I don't know. Okay, how about five million snakes suddenly fall from the sky.
Welcome, new friends.
Thank you, Bear. And they all slither off.
What? Ow! Uh, then a bunch of humans show up to cut down the forest to build commercial real estate.
How great would a yoga studio be right here?
Hi, humans. I was wondering, would you mind building somewhere else?
Okay. Bye! How are you so charming?
Excuse me, ne 'er -raiser?
What? Could I talk to you for a moment?
Sure. Not all stories are adventure stories.
Some stories can just be really pleasant.
But if there's no adventure, then what's happening?
Plenty. I saw two of my best friends.
I ate my favorite breakfast. I sang my very good Barry song.
Didn't you notice any of that?
Well, sure I did, but who...
We always have problems to solve.
But I don't really like to think of my life as just the problems. If I do, I tend to miss all of the really nice things.
I guess that does make sense.
Would you like to narrate the rest of my day?
And be warned, it's going to be pretty pleasant.
You know what, Bear?
I'll give it a go. And the rest of the day was very pleasant.
There you go. Bear ate some lunch, drank from the stream, and took a nap.
In the evening, Bear went to the stream to catch fish.
Come here, fishy, fishy, fishies.
He caught enough for dinner, took a bath in the stream, and sat down to eat at his new table.
Gotta find a way to send this in the morning, but it's looking pretty good for now.
And then Bear went to bed, hoping for an equally momentous, equally special day tomorrow.
But the question of what really happened to his dining room table began to nag him terribly, And he vowed right then and there to discover the true villain responsible for...
Oh, you know what? I just remembered.
I never owned a table before.
Oh! The end! We'll be right back after a few words for the grown -ups.
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And now it's time for Story Pirates Roll Call!
Welcome back to Story Pirates Roll Call, where we take stories written by kids and we talk about them the way that we would before we adapt them for the Story Pirates podcast. Peter, hello.
Hello, Lee. How are you?
I'm very good our first story today is a doozy yeah would you please read it for us it would be my honor this first story comes to us from a 12 year old from Idaho named Gemma and Gemma's story is called New Eyebrows now before we read the story uh Gemma wrote a note that I think is going to give us some very interesting context okay this is a note from the author hi Lee Peter Peter, Megan, Rachel, Niminy, Rolo and Eric.
I love your podcast. Peter is hilarious.
He and the fish, character from the story we're about to hear, would get along well.
Recently, a new baby entered our family.
Congrats. Her name is Charlotte and she is so cute.
Okay, I wrote my story in Latin because we are learning Latin in school.
Latin? Yes. It sounds kind of weird in English because I translated it exactly.
Hope you like it. I wrote it in ancient Roman font.
Sincerely, Gemma. P .S.
We have a cat named Rolo.
Unbelievable. We have never, ever had a story submitted to us in Latin before, let alone ancient Roman font.
Yeah. I mean, I can't even read this, but it's very, very well done.
All right. Read us the translation, please.
In English. New Eyebrows by Gemma.
The fish is without eyebrows.
He searches for handsome and new eyebrows.
Behold, the wolf's beautiful eyebrows get found by the fish.
The fish shears the beautiful eyebrows.
The mad wolf punches the fish.
The wolf is sad, so he cries and screams. The fish gives the wolf gems and pearls.
The wolf is no longer sad or mad.
The wolf is happy. The fish says, tomorrow, I will give you your eyebrows.
I will search for better eyebrows.
The next day, the fish somehow walks towards the ship.
The fish sees a pirate.
The pirate's eyebrows are beautiful and handsome, but small.
The pirate has a big club.
The fish punches the pirate.
The pirate is an enemy.
Now the pirate is in chains.
The pirate has been defeated by the fish.
the fish eats cheese the fish throws the wolf's eyebrows to the wolf the wolf catches them now the fish shears the pirate's eyebrows the fish is happy and peaceful the wolf is a hilarious friend the fish eats ham bread and cheese the end i'm now i now see why the fish and i get along yeah yeah Snacks.
This is genius. Such a good story.
And I know that Gemma said that she felt like it sounded kind of funny translated.
Yeah. But I don't think that's true.
To me, like the simple declarative sentences sound very authoritative.
Yeah, there is a satisfying clarity to the absolute nature of these word choices.
That's right. That's right.
The wolf is a hilarious friend.
You do see, you can feel a little bit how the translation creates interesting word choices that you might not normally use this sentence here where it goes the wolf is sad so he cries and screams you know in my mind I think the original meaning was more boo -hoo loud crying or like wailing exactly but I love having it as cries and screams it sounds amazing ahhh I think it's at the same time though Yes.
They're not one after the other.
Let's read another story.
Okay. This one's from six -year -old Caleb in Maryland, and it's called Vinegar and My Bagel.
Uh -oh! Once I was sitting at a kitchen table at a restaurant.
Actually, the name of the restaurant was The Kitchen, so every table was The Kitchen Table.
I ordered a bagel, but I noticed there was vinegar on my bagel.
I wanted a cinnamon bagel, not a vinegar bagel.
We told the police That the chef was being mean And gave me vinegar on my bagel The police fired the chef What?
The chef was angry because cinnamon bagels were too much work The chef had to go to the underground slime puddle Except the underground slime puddle Had baking soda in it So when the chef tried to use vinegar in it It exploded everywhere The chef turned into a goblin And the restaurant was sticky with goo The people watching asked what was going on, but one of the customers shouted, the end, so no one found out why they were gooey.
Don't you wish in your life that when you're in an uncomfortable situation, you could just say, the end, and get out of it?
Yeah. I just love the escalation of this story where it's, I want a cinnamon bagel.
Ugh, too hard. Vinegar.
I'm calling the police.
Yeah. I didn't know the police have this authority to fire the chef.
This is a rather scary world.
Less scary in some ways.
And so it seems like a very reasonable thing, but then suddenly he's in an underground slime puddle.
Yeah, it goes wild.
Also, his solution to everything?
Vinegar. He's in prison.
I better put vinegar on the prison.
Cinnamon too hard to put vinegar on it.
When was the last time you put vinegar and baking soda together?
other uh it's been at least 35 years you never did that with your kids no not for fun last time i did it i was a child you're not a home chemistry dad no i'm not you're really not i think that's for the best yeah i think so too all right caleb incredible story my friend peter we have one more would you do us the honors yes this final story comes to us from a seven -year -old from wisconsin Mekonsen named Harlow.
And Harlow's story is called Super Banana.
Once a banana did not like crime.
Every day he watched the news there was a crime right before.
When he turned 16, he made a cape and mask.
He was a superhero.
They called him Super Banana.
One day, Super Banana was snatched from behind.
It was his arch nemesis.
The evil Pom Pom. He was a giant Pom Pom.
he peeled super banana he ate super banana super banana had a chance to tickle pom -pom and he took it he was free the end or is it you really gave it he took it some flavor that's right i love this story my favorite detail is every day he watched the news there was a crime right before like he's pointing out something really interesting here he's like every time i turn on the news it's like they're reporting on something that just happened which is like really suspicious or the banana doesn't understand that the things they're reporting on could have happened anytime in the last 24 hours and he
just assumed well this must have just happened amazing story any thoughts that you have on it uh i love a superhero that uh doesn't have powers hmm you know he just put on a mask uh and a cape and it said i'm gonna do good you're batman over superman you know in some ways yes don't get me wrong i love superman i collected superman comics for two years in middle school that was my comic but as an adult you know it's like he's a little too perfect batman it's dangerous he's taking a risk this banana has taken big risks i also like a superhero that That doesn't have powers.
But I especially like one with a very strong moral compass.
Like Banana. And the story begins with it.
Once a Banana did not like crime.
Yeah. He's got a want from sentence one.
That's right. That's right.
He has a code. Yeah.
I do not like crime.
Also, he never gives up.
Because at the end, he got peeled.
He got eaten. eaten and even in in the face of defeat he's being eaten i guess this means not all of them because super banana had a chance at the very end to tickle pom -pom and he took it and he took it maybe he tickled his from the inside because that's what i assumed wow even though he's totally done he doesn't give up till the very end the easiest way to tickle a tum -tum is from the the inside that's right it's there's go it's there's all these arms in the way of the tum on the outside but inside no arms blocking the tum he's in there going i do not like crime the end or is it i don't think
he'd tickle with his fists though that that was me trying to just he's a mass of banana chewed up okay so he's going i think it's more of a thing where the The banana was swallowed whole.
Otherwise, how do you tickle?
Well, that's like this.
And on that note, that is what we've got for Story Pirate's roll call today.
Thank you, Harlow. And to everyone who sent us stories and to read today's roll call stories, just head to StoryPirates .com.
And remember, you can watch an even longer version of Roll Call on the Story Pirates YouTube page with help from your grownups.
And now it's time for you to write us a story because summertime is a great time to write stories.
Grownups can submit stories at StoryPirates .com and remember, we respond to every single story we receive.
That was Roll Call.
That's it for today's episode.
Thanks for listening and a big thanks to today's author, Belle.
We'll be back next week with more brand new stories.
Until then, stay creative and stay kind.
Bye! are Rachel Wienitzki and David Sidoroff.
Bears Forest Days was adapted by Will Jacobs.
Production coordination by Denisa Wartenbeek.
Episode artwork by Camilla Franklin.
This episode features performances by Christina Grospeach, Tara Halpern, Ileana Innocencio, Randy McKay, Peter McNerney, and Kyle Moore.
You know, after hearing that story today, I am so glad that I don't have a narrator in my own life, you know?
Feels like it could be kind of irritating.
On the other hand, think about how much you could get done every day if you had a narrator guiding you.
A narrator like me.
Yeah, I'm gonna pass.
I already have an interior monologue going all the time in my head, you know?
There's plenty of voices already Why did I just reveal that I have an interior monologue?
Now when I'm not talking, everyone's going to know that I'm listening to it Anyway, now that the episode's over Guess I gotta figure out what to do next You could clean your private bathroom I don't really want to clean my private bathroom I probably should clean my private bathroom And so Lee cleaned his private bathroom the room no i didn't but again i probably should enough everybody quiet okay sorry
