Something Fishy

Circle Round

WBUR

Ages 4-10, Children, Storytelling, Kids & Family, Childrens' Story, Books, Stories For Kids, Kids, Storytime, Story

4.4 • 14.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Jorma Taccone (The Lonely Island, Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse) stars in a tale from Hawaii about a fisherman whose magical gift leads to a fishy situation.

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0:00.0	Great news, Circle Round fans.
0:01.7	Tickets are still available for our 2024 live tour.
0:05.8	We've added a second show on June 23rd in Seattle, Washington,
0:09.6	and we'd love to see you there.
0:11.6	Get your tickets now at WB.org
0:13.9	slash Circle Round.
0:16.2	WBR Podcasts
0:18.7	Boston There's an old proverb that goes,
0:27.0	You must bait the hook to catch the fish.
0:31.0	What the saying means is you must prepare fully and properly if you want to
0:36.6	succeed at something. In today's story we'll meet a character who baits the hook and
0:42.1	catches the fish.
0:43.7	But the success he finds smells anything but sweet.
0:48.0	I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round where story time happens all the time.
0:59.0	Today our story is called Something Fishy.
1:03.4	Versions of this tale come from Hawaii,
1:05.6	the only US state made up completely of islands.
1:09.0	Some really great people came together to bring you our adaptation of this story, including
1:16.8	Yorma Taconi, whom you grown-ups may know as one-third of the comedy group The Lonely Island.
1:22.4	You kids may recognize Yorma's voice from the
1:24.4	Spider-Man Spider-Ververse and LEGO movies. Yorma's also the producer of the new
1:28.7	podcast Kamee Reed's. So circle around everyone for something fishing. In a vast turquoise sea there, a little village on a lush island in a vast turquoise sea, there lived a fisherman.
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