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Story Pirates

How Do You Scare a Mermaid?/Chickening (feat. Busy Philipps)

Story Pirates

Lemonada Media

Comedy, Education, Kids & Family

4.517.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A new restaurant gets ready to open with a nervous proprietor (Busy Philipps). Featuring two new stories: “How Do You Scare a Mermaid?”, a song about one narrator’s startling obsession, written by Lainey, a 9 year old from Wisconsin, and “Chickening,” a story about the newest craze to sweep the nation, written by an 11 year old from Maryland named Camilo. For more from the Story Pirates, visit storypirates.com/podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey Story Pirates listeners, Lee here.

0:03.8

Today's episode features bewildering new trends, promising restaurants and antagonistic

0:08.8

narrators, unflinching mermaids and spooky musicals.

0:13.2

And today's special guest, the amazing actor, Busy Phillips.

0:18.0

All of that in more after these quick words were the grownups.

0:33.4

Hey Megan, you've been loudly sighing for the past 40 minutes.

0:38.0

Is there something wrong?

0:39.7

Oh, it's nothing baby with the mustache.

0:42.3

Oh, okay, well if it's nothing obviously…

0:44.3

It's just that we've been underground for such a long time now and we haven't met any

0:48.2

ghosts.

0:49.2

Why would we have met ghosts?

0:51.6

Think about it, ghosts can walk through walls and float up and down through floors, so

0:57.1

why wouldn't a bunch of them sink deep into the earth?

1:01.0

Nature's floor.

1:02.0

Oh, that's a pretty good point.

1:04.8

But couldn't they just float on the surface all the time?

1:08.1

Listen, if it were me, I'd get pretty tired of it.

1:11.2

I mean what muscles do you think they used to float?

1:13.7

Their butts?

1:14.7

It's probably their butts.

1:16.7

Whoa, what is it, Nimini?

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