Alex Stops the Red Light Robot

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to kid
Short Stories, where we turned your ideas into some amazing adventures. Yeah, like,
today's story comes to us from Alex from Seattle. Hey Alex,
he sent me an awesome idea for a story, and
you can't too. Just head over to kidshort stories dot com.
Send me your idea. Maybe we'll turn it into an

(00:25):
amazing adventure. Are you guys ready? I definitely am. Let's go,
and Alex, don't forget to brush your teeth, shouted Alex's parents.

(00:45):
Alex was getting ready for his first day of school.
This was a very exciting day for him and many others.
Have you ever gone to school?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, that first day. It's very exciting sometimes a little scary,
just not sure exactly what's gonna happen, right, yeahs your
teacher gonna be nice? Are there gonna be friends there?
Do you know anyone in your class? Oh? Dear, so
many different things. But oh wait, but what about all
the amazing new things that are waiting for you, Like

(01:19):
there might be new friends and and one new playground
to play on, and all new teachers that are hilarious.
Starting a new school year may feel a little nervousy,
but it's also super duper awesome. Well, Alex was getting
ready for that very first day of school when he

(01:41):
was looking for his shoes. He was looking everywhere his closet,
underneath his bed, even behind the toilet, which I don't
even know why would he even look there, because how
did your shoe end up behind the toilet? But you know,
I guess when you have something low do you look
in every single place possible? Right? Yeah, Well, finally he

(02:05):
heard the best news ever, Alex, your shoes were in
the car. Hurry, we gotta get going. You found my shoes,
said Alex. He was so relieved. They were his brand
new school shoes that he was going to be wearing
to this first day of school. And oh, he forgot

(02:27):
that he left him in his car. He had actually
put them there the day before so that they wouldn't
get lost, and then he forgot that he put him there.
This day is not off to a very good start.
I hope it gets better, but unfortunately, something crazy is
about to happen. As Alex climbed into his parents' car,

(02:48):
he jumped in his seat, clicked the buckle, and off
they were on the road. Thankfully, his school was pretty
close to where he lives, so it wasn't going to
be as super duper long drive. And on the way,
they were gonna listen to their favorite music. What do
you like to listen to in the car maybe while
you're going to school? Do you have some favorite music

(03:10):
you like to listen to, or or maybe even some
Kid Short Stories podcasts? Right?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Well, parents, did you know that we actually have different
podcast feeds?

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:22):
So Kid Short Stories is one feed, and then there's
a ton of other stories on our Biology Squad podcast
and our Kids Animal Stories podcast. So you have to
make sure that you're subscribed to all three of those
so you don't miss out on any of our awesome stories.
Well that's what Alex was listening to on his way
to school. He was ons Biology Squad, but he also

(03:44):
liked to listen to the stories to catch the latest
updates on what doctor Stinky Breath might be up to.
But then Alex looked up at the clock in his
car to check the time and he said, wait a second,
are we we're not at school yet? Are we gonna
be late? I'm not sure, Alex said his parents, Uh,
this red light feels like it's been red forever. And look,

(04:08):
all the other lights are around here, are all read too.
Alex pressed his face up against the window in his
car and saw exactly what they were saying. Every single
stoplight had turned red, even the stop light you know,
of the other direction. Like nobody was moving. He leaned

(04:29):
up even further to see the next street, and the
next street, and the next street. Every single stoplight had
turned red. Nobody was moving? What is going on? Meanwhile,
high up in the clouds up above, doctor Stinkybreath was
laughing that his evil plan was actually working per Ninja's

(04:56):
please tell me how did you pull this off? I
could see that every single stop light in the Soul
City is turned red, and nobody can move anywhere. No school,
no wirk, no nothing, only bad traffic. I love bad traffic.

(05:18):
Well bus.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
We actually program this robot to walk around the whole city,
and it has some special laser eyes. When let's set
a stoplight with those laser eyes, it instantly turns it
to red.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Wow, purple, Ninja, that is great to hear. How can
we make sure that this robot knows exactly what to
do and where to go? Can we make him go
to other cities as well to take over all of
the stoplights.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh yeah, but we're able to control him from way
up here at the lamp. And uh, it looks like
he's running a little bit low at battery, so he'll
need to stop for a charge somewhere. But what's these
fully charged that will have him head over to the
next city.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
I love it, purponinhaz It was now eight o seven,
which means that school had started seven minutes ago. Well, actually,
it wasn't only Alex that was late to school. It
was the entire school. The whole school was late and

(06:22):
so they weren't even able to start on time. The teachers,
the principles, everybody was stuck in bad traffic. Alex heard
a buzz coming from his backpack. He reached in, unzipped
the top and pulled out his walkie talkie. SH this
is Alex, sh Alex, this is HQ. We need your help.

(06:47):
Based on your GPS location, it looks like you are
stuck in the same gridlock of traffic that many of
our other agents are. SH. Yeah, I knew there must
be something crazy going on. What's the mission? Sh. We
believe that there is a robot walking around the city
with laser eyes able to control the stoplight. Sh holy smokes,

(07:12):
I see him right now, said Alex. It was It
was true. Alex was looking out the window and there
it was a giant robot walking down the street. Boom
boom boom. Sh Alex, we need you to chase down
that robot and see if there's a way that you

(07:33):
can stop him. Hurry sh Before even Alex was able
to get a word out of his mouth to ask
his parents, they knew that he had to go save
the day. Go Alex, go, they shouted as he jumped
out the door of the car. But then all of
a sudden, the robots started to do something very strange.

(07:54):
It was like opening up a compartment in the back
of it. It was like reaching around into its back
and it's it's pulling out a charging cable. Alex knew
exactly what he had to do. That robot was standing
over by a whole bunch of charging stations, you know
for cars to charge themselves. But it looks like that

(08:17):
robot needs a charge. Alex knew immediately what he had
to do. He had to get that card. He ran
over as fast as he could and grabbed one of
his net blasters out of his spy pack. All right,
I think I only got one chance at this, said
Alex as he aimed it up, and the net blaster

(08:41):
flew out and grabbed onto the charger right out of
the robots and and he was able to pull it away.
Oh dear, now the robot sees Alex Ron Alex run.
Alex took off, running as fast as he could with
the robot close behind. Alex was running as fast as

(09:04):
he could with that robot's charging cord in hand, when
all of a sudden, the robot ran out of batteries.
Holy smokes, I didn't realize that robot was just gonna
run out of batteries that fast, but Alex did it.

(09:26):
He grabbed his walkie talkie called it in HQ, and
HQ was able to reset all the stoplights to their
normal working order, and everyone continued on their day. Except
futtings of world happened on Ziah. Why do I see
so many green lights that Unfortunately our robot ran out

(09:48):
of batteries. How did that happen? I thought you said
that he just needed to charge up.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, unfortunately, the charging cable for a robot is missing.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Now get a nuzzle fun Just get it Jorgs back
up night now.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Unfortunately that was our only cable her ponyance.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Wow, great job, Alex always smokes. Who what an incredible
first day of school. I hope the rest of your
day goes a little bit better than this crazy trafficky morning.
The end. Great job, you listened all the way to

(10:34):
the end. And I have a very special edition of
kids shout outs. You see, we've did our very first
live event a little while ago where I got together
with a whole bunch of other friends and we had
a nerf amazing battle to protect this one place from
doctor Stinky Breath. Yes, he was actually trying to take
it over. And there's a few friends that I want

(10:56):
to give a very special hello to. Hey, annescy Liam Logan, Finland,
Elijah Levi, Lannen and Carson. Wow, it was so great
to hang out with you guys, and so many more.
I hope you all have a super duper day and
I will definitely see you all next time we do

(11:18):
a live event. Speaking of live events, oh, that reminds me.
We are having a new live event on September fifth. Yes,
Labor day. That's probably a day that you are maybe
home from school, or maybe he's sitting somewhere that morning
looking for something to do. So how about we do

(11:40):
another kids Short Stories trivia game show with prizes and
all kinds of fun stuff. All right, I think that
sounds like a super duper idea, So mark your calendars
for September fifth, and make sure that you follow the
Hey mister Jim Instagram page right now, have your parents

(12:00):
check on Instagram for Hey mister Jim and follow that page.
That is where this live event will be happening. And
I will see you on our next adventure. Bye.