Pirates, Mermaids, and Octopuses: The Tale of Jonah and Jesse
Maked Up Stories: Imaginative Kids Stories
Maked Up Stories
4.3 • 810 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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To request a custom story, visit www.storybird.ai. Two boys named Jonah and Jesse go on a fishing trip with their family in Wanaka, New Zealand. While on the boat, they catch a fish, and a mischievous octopus wearing a pirate hat and eye patch jumps on board and drills holes in the boat, causing it to sink. With quick thinking and teamwork, the group manages to save themselves and discover a new island where they encounter a mermaid who may or may not be a trickster. Eventually, they find a way to return home after turning into octopuses and back into humans. The story is full of imaginative twists and turns and showcases the power of teamwork and quick thinking in times of crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name's Madeline, welcome to make good stories, the best podcast ever. Tell your friends. |
| 0:22.6 | Okay, Jesse, what do you want tonight's makes-up story to be about? |
| 0:28.4 | A toenail that can make a whole entire, like this thing. |
| 0:35.4 | A whole entire toe? |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah, it's a toenail that can make a whole entire toe. |
| 0:41.3 | Okay, Jesse wants the story to be about a toenail that could make a whole entire toe. |
| 0:48.3 | And Jonah, what do you want the story to be about? |
| 0:52.3 | I don't know. Okay, and Jonah doesn't really know. |
| 0:58.2 | Once upon a time, a long time ago, there were two kids named Jonah and Jesse. |
| 1:08.1 | And Jonah and Jesse lived in a house in Wanaka, New Zealand, and they used to sleep on a bunk bed. |
| 1:21.6 | And outside of their house, there was a lake. |
| 1:28.6 | And in that lake, there was a really big octopus. |
| 1:34.5 | And the octopus that lived in that lake used to always hide, so it was hard for people to find him. |
| 1:43.3 | And the reason the octopus would hide so much |
| 1:46.4 | is because the octopus did not want anyone to catch him. |
| 1:53.1 | But one day, Jonah and Jesse went on a boat |
| 1:56.4 | with their dad and their mom and a captain of the boat. |
| 2:02.0 | And while they were on the boat, they were fishing and they caught a fish on a fishing |
| 2:09.9 | and Jonah was reeling the fish in. |
| 2:13.4 | And just as he reeled the fish in, the octopus jumped out of the water and went onto the boat. |
| 2:22.4 | And the octopus was wearing like a pirate's hat and it also had a patch over one of its little |
| 2:29.9 | octopus eyes. |
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