Finn's First Job at the Commonwealth Games, Part VI: Training
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🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Kids, we need you! After you listen to this episode please send us your ideas for a sport or competition between Godzilla, a T-Rex, and a million cats. You can send your ideas to makedupstories@gmail.com.
When Finn's mom says he can decide not to go to school when he grows up and gets a job, he takes her seriously and does just that, taking a job for The Commonwealth Games where he introduces some new competitors: Godzilla, a T-Rex, and a million cats!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Make It Stories. My name is Anne Louise. |
| 0:17.5 | Hello and welcome to MakeDup. I'm your host, Amanda. Today we're doing part seven of our series, Finn's first job at the Commonwealth Games. |
| 0:27.6 | Before we get started, I wanted to give a shout out to Jacob for sharing his idea to have the sports competition be baseball. |
| 0:36.6 | Thanks also to those of you who responded to our poll in Spotify, |
| 0:40.3 | choosing Decahathlon as the next competition. |
| 0:44.3 | Hopefully you'll get to see a bit of each in this story. |
| 0:51.3 | Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a big kid named Finn who didn't want to go to school. |
| 1:00.2 | His mom said he could decide not to go to school after he grew up and got a job, so that's exactly what Finn did. |
| 1:07.7 | He built stilts for himself and got a job as the person who decides what games |
| 1:12.7 | will be included in the Commonwealth Games. Finn's idea for something new at the games was to have |
| 1:18.8 | a competition between an animatronic Godzilla, a real T-Rex, and a million cats. The first competition |
| 1:26.8 | he held was a game of Gagaball, which the animatronic |
| 1:30.5 | Godzilla won by moving into a handstand before he ran out of batteries. The second competition |
| 1:37.5 | was speed climbing, which the cats won just by doing what comes naturally to cats. Chasing laser pointers and climbing stuff. |
| 1:47.4 | Following the speed climbing event and their first taste of gold, something changed with the cats, |
| 1:53.5 | and they began to work together as they never had before. Previously, the cat trainers had used |
| 2:00.3 | laser pointers to encourage them to try stacking themselves, |
| 2:03.6 | but they had never been able to get more than one cat hopping on the top of one other cat. |
| 2:09.6 | After the medal ceremony for the speed climb, it was like something clicked for the cats, |
| 2:14.6 | and they finally understood why they were there. All together, they seemed |
| 2:19.2 | to suddenly come to the realization that they wanted to win, and that they could maximize their |
| 2:25.1 | chances to do so by working together. Whereas they had once struggled with stacking two cats, |
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