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Story Pirates

Alligator Droppings/Bees in the Ballot Box

Story Pirates

Story Pirates

Comedy, Education, Kids & Family

4.516.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Story Pirates begin their roadtrip to StoryTellerCon. Featuring two new stories: ‘Alligator Droppings’, a story about a very fancy breakfast. dish that isn’t what it sounds like (or is it?), written by Jocelyn, a 10 year old from Canada, and ‘Bees in the Ballot Box’, a story about the importance of voting even when there are bunch of bees around, written by a 9 year old from Virginia named Trevor. Peter and Lee also sit down with Nimene to read more stories written by kids in the latest installment of Story Love.

Help us finish our season and get a personalized video from a podcast host at storypirates.com/support

Submit kids’ stories at storypirates.com/submit-a-story

Check out Story Quest, our in-school digital creative writing program, at storypirates.com/about-story-quest

Learn about Story Love, our corporate volunteer program, at storypirateschangemakers.org/story-love

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:02.0

Hey, grown-ups, Lee here.

0:10.0

Welcome back to episode two of season eight.

0:13.0

Before we start, I'd like to take just a minute here before the episode starts to ask for your help with finishing the season. We want to be honest with

0:23.1

our listeners that it is a really challenging time right now for educational media providers

0:28.8

like story pirates. And unless we're able to raise more funds, this season could unfortunately

0:35.8

be a short one. So right now, we're asking for your help

0:40.1

in a new way. We're offering for the first time personalized videos from us to you. That's right,

0:47.0

for your donation, we'll send you or your kids or whoever in your life you think will appreciate

0:52.4

it, probably be your kids, a personalized

0:55.8

video saying, hello, happy birthday, happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, whatever. You can choose

1:02.1

a video from me or Peter or Megan or Nimini or Eric or even Rollo or Smitty. This is the only

1:09.4

time we've ever offered this and we're not going to be offering it again anytime soon.

1:14.4

So this is your chance. Get a video for that special imaginative kid in your life and help the story pirates finish our season.

1:22.3

And if you're hearing all of this and you have more significant resources to spare, we're looking for some larger patrons

1:30.1

who may want to have a conversation with us about becoming credited producers on the show.

1:35.3

If that sounds like you, drop us a line. You can do that and get your personalized video today

1:41.6

at storypirates.com slash support.

1:44.5

You can also find that link in the show notes.

1:48.1

Okay, thanks for listening and thanks again for all your support.

1:51.8

It means the world to us.

1:54.1

On to the show after a few more words for the grown-ups.

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