Life Episode 20: The Emperor of Empathy and the Journey Through Splash Pad City

The Purple Rocket Podcast

Greg Webb

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Porter is having a hard time understanding the feelings of others. But that all changes when a giant bucket at the local splash pad dumps water on him and transports him to Splash Pad City. Join him on his journey through a land full of jumping geysers, waterslides and opportunities to show empathy.

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0:00.0	The Purple Rocket Podcast presents Life. Oh, Episode 20, The Emperor of Empathy and the Journey through Splash Pat City.
0:39.0	Pass! I'm open! Porter shouted from the side of the field.
0:41.0	He was in the middle of a soccer match and his team, the Sand Sharks, was down by one goal.
0:48.4	The other team, the Sidewinders, had outrun them all game and taken the lead thanks to three quick goals scored by their best player, Charles, who happened to be one of Porter's best friends.
1:02.0	Porter couldn't stand the thought of Charles beating him.
1:07.4	Charles always beat him at video games, sports, on school tests, even at burping contests.
1:16.7	But not today.
1:18.6	This would be the day that Porter triumphed
1:21.4	over his exceptionally athletic friend.
1:25.0	His teammate kicked him the ball and it rolled across the grass under a defender's legs right to him.
1:31.0	Porter dribbled the soccer ball down the field, closing in on the last two
1:35.4	sidewinder defenders. As they reached him, he faked left, juggled the ball between
1:41.1	his feet, and spun around them, making them bonk into each other head first.
1:46.7	For a split second, Porter glanced back at the two kids lying on the ground rubbing their foreheads and took great pleasure in their blunder.
1:56.3	From the sidelines he could hear some of the moms chanting his name as they relived their cheerleading
2:01.4	glory days.
2:02.4	What the? Was that? they relived their cheerleading glory days.
2:03.3	What the?
2:04.8	Was that his mom on top of a human pyramid trying to spell his name with her arms?
2:09.6	Man, that's embarrassing.
2:13.0	Porter looked back at the goal up ahead.
2:15.4	The hot summer sun made its white post glow.
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