GT136 - Mocker and the Flaming Gobi Cliffs
Goop Tales — Storytelling Podcast for Kids
Maria Calanchini
4.6 • 736 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Mocker is a Goop boy with a habit he simply cannot switch off -- whatever voice goes into his ears comes straight back out again, pitch perfect, not one tiny bit wrong. It's funny, mostly. Until he mimics his best friend Spirit's strange and beautiful sound at the old stone wall at the edge of Goop World, and the wall swallows him whole.
He lands in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, tiny and alone at the base of the Flaming Cliffs -- ancient orange rock filled with oval shapes sealed inside the stone for eighty million years. With only a wild Bactrian camel for company and something moving beneath the sand that no one wants to get too close to, Mocker quickly discovers that copying the wrong voice at the wrong moment can land you somewhere very difficult to get down from.
Will Mocker find a way to use his most embarrassing habit to silence the thing beneath the sand? And where in the world has Spirit disappeared to while he was gone?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Goop Tales, Episode 136, Mocker and the Flaming Cliffs of the Gobi. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Maria Kalanchini, and I am the founder, writer, and narrator of goop tales. |
| 0:22.5 | And today's story was inspired by Archer. |
| 0:27.2 | Archer, thank you so much for leaving me a voicemail |
| 0:31.3 | and for creating Mocker out of your imagination. |
| 0:36.8 | Mocker is a little goop boy who can repeat pretty much anything you say and say it back to you |
| 0:46.0 | in your voice and a little bit of a mocking tone. |
| 0:51.9 | So let's hear from Archer. |
| 0:57.1 | Here's what he left me in his voicemail. |
| 1:04.6 | Hi, my name is Archer, and I would like to make a new goat. And his name is mocker, and he likes to mock the other goops. And his friends are hissy fit and sure. Bye. |
| 1:12.7 | So thank you, Archer, for using your imagination and creating Mark Mocker. |
| 1:18.6 | And make sure you stay until the end because you might have a shout out. |
| 1:24.0 | And I'm going to tell you who won the voting contest for one of the upcoming goops. |
| 1:32.1 | All right. I will see you at the other side of this story. Let's get into it. |
| 1:40.0 | Mocker and the Flaming Cliffs of the Gobi, episode 136. |
| 1:52.2 | Young Mocker was a clever little goop, who loved to make his friends laugh in a group. |
| 2:04.3 | He was quick and he was sharp and he was bright. |
| 2:08.4 | But he'd repeat what you said and get it perfectly right. |
| 2:14.1 | In your very own voice, not one tiny bit wrong, he carries a megaphone to perform each borrowed song. |
| 2:24.4 | Chapter 1. Once upon a time, there was a most amusing young goop boy named Mocker. |
| 2:33.6 | He was clever and quick, and the kind of goop who could make you |
| 2:38.7 | laugh without even trying. If you told a joke, Mocker would listen with great interest, |
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