Welcome to Make-Up, the Kids' Bedtime Stories podcast. Get ready to listen to fun and non-scary stories that I make up on the fly without preparing.

I tell these stories to my five-year-old son as part of his bedtime routine. Thanks for listening.

All right, tonight's story is a request from a listener named McKenzie, and McKenzie asked that we make up a story about a magical monkey named Lisa who lives at the end of an evil rainbow, and the monkey named Lisa likes to play the saxophone. Buddy, what else do you want to add to the story?

Um, a deer and a mountain lion. Okay, so we're also going to add a deer and mountain lion to the story.

Now I'm going to make up the story. Once upon a time, a long time ago, there lived a monkey whose name was Lisa.

Lisa, the monkey, lived in a forest.

Forests usually have lots of trees, but this forest didn't have lots of trees.

Instead of trees, the forest was made of broccoli and cauliflower.

Broccoli and cauliflower are vegetables, and broccoli is green and cauliflower. Broccoli and cauliflower are vegetables,

and broccoli is green and cauliflower is white.

Usually, they fit on a plate,

but this forest was made of such big broccoli

and such big cauliflower that they were as big as trees.

Now, monkeys are very good at jumping.

People can climb up trees, and when people climb up trees, they use their hands and legs, and they climb up from the middle and the bottom of the tree, the tree trunk.

But monkeys like to climb up trees by swinging with their hands, and they climb up the branches.

Well, Lisa, the magical monkey, was such a good monkey at climbing up these broccoli trees,

and she would swing from one piece of broccoli to the other piece of broccoli.

And the rainbow that she lived at the end of was not a colorful rainbow.

It was black and white and gray, and it was made of

sprinkles. And it smelled kind of funny by this rainbow. Instead of smelling like yummy food,

at the end of this rainbow, it smelled a little bit like old, rotten, sour milk.

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