4.4 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Erika Ishii (Worlds Beyond Number, Apex Legends) headlines this Vietnamese tale about getting a bee in your bonnet, buzzing off, and feeling the sting.
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0:29.0 | There's an old saying that goes, |
0:32.0 | keep the gold and keep the silver but give us wisdom. In other words |
0:38.0 | knowledge good judgment insight they can be way more valuable than so-called treasures like silver and gold. |
0:47.1 | In today's story, we'll meet a character who doesn't have much silver or gold to speak of, but when it comes to wisdom, she's beyond rich. |
0:56.0 | I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time. |
1:08.0 | Today our story is called A Bee in the Bush. |
1:12.0 | Versions of this tale come from the Southeast Asian country of Vietnam. |
1:17.0 | Some really great people came together to bring you our adaptation of this folk tale |
1:24.6 | including Erica Ishii, a storyteller in the podcast Worlds Beyond Number, an |
1:30.3 | improviser on dropout, and the voice of Valkyrie in Apex Legends. |
1:34.4 | You kids may recognize Erica's voice from the Disney series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. |
1:39.7 | So circle around everyone for a bee in the village. The little red house didn't belong to Rose and her mother. |
2:03.2 | They rented it from a landlord who somehow managed to squeeze every penny he could out of them in rent. |
2:10.3 | What's more he was always raising the rent and squeezing them even more? |
2:15.0 | Eventually the landlord raised the rent so high that Rose's mother had to take on several jobs. |
2:22.0 | One paycheck just wasn't enough. So each morning she |
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