NORB Episode 1: The Ascent
The Purple Rocket Podcast
Greg Webb
4.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Preston gets the biggest birthday surprise of his life when he finds seven glowing Norbs on his front porch.
***This series is for kids ages 9 and up.
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| 0:00.0 | Parents, this story is meant for kids ages 9 and up as it contains some intense action sequences. |
| 0:08.0 | Ultimately, you're the judge, and if your kid can handle the original Star Wars trilogy, they should be just fine. |
| 0:14.5 | Enjoy. |
| 0:18.6 | The Purple Rocket Podcast presents, |
| 0:21.9 | NORB. Episode Yes presents, Norb. |
| 0:24.0 | Episode 1, The Assent. Oh, God please, Preston pleaded between sobs. |
| 0:57.0 | He squeezed his grand-boss clammy hand and looked up at the ambulance's sunroof. |
| 1:02.0 | Through a blur of tears he watched the story. and looked up at the ambulance's sunroof. |
| 1:02.9 | Through a blur of tears he watched the stars and moon shining |
| 1:06.4 | in the once quiet night sky. |
| 1:09.4 | Like most kids, Preston imagined his first trip in the back of an ambulance to be the result of falling out of a tree and breaking something, not to watch his grandpa take his last breaths. |
| 1:21.0 | Preston came his grandpa's weak voice. They barely broke through the screeching |
| 1:26.7 | sirens as they sped into the night. Preston pulled his gaze from the stars above |
| 1:31.7 | and looked down at his Grandpa who lay on a stretcher. |
| 1:35.0 | Just minutes ago they were laughing around a campfire, telling jokes and singing songs. |
| 1:40.0 | But their laughter turned to panic when his grandpa grabbed his arm and |
| 1:44.0 | pain and dropped to his knees. |
| 1:46.1 | Get help, his grandpa'd managed to say. |
| 1:50.1 | Preston ran as hard as he could through the dense forest trying to find someone, anyone. |
| 1:56.0 | By the time he found help at a gas station in the middle of nowhere, he had run nearly three miles. |
| 2:02.0 | It took time, too much time for the ambulance to get to his |
| 2:06.2 | grandpa. |
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