The Chicago Bullet Train for Discombobulated Inventors | 129

Little Stories Everywhere

Wondery

Fable, Classics, Folktale, Fiction, Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Fairy Tale, Story

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Winston’s mind is always overflowing with ideas for contraptions and gadgets. But being a kid inventor comes with a lot of frustrations — things constantly go wrong! When Winston boards a mysterious train through Chicago, the zany journey shows Winston just how important inventors like him really are.

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0:00.0	From Wonder, I'm Carla Tissara, and this is Little Stories Everywhere.
0:17.0	Each episode will bring you stories for kids that spark the imagination, take you to other worlds, and bring joy. This is the Chicago Bullet Train for Discombobulated Inventors. It's 645 a.m. which can only mean one thing. It's time for the greatest radio show in Chicago this
0:55.1	inventor's life. Good morning Chicago inventors. Winston cranks up the volume as
1:01.0	he jumps out of bed. I'm bubblechoo be easy and you're listening to this inventor's life.
1:07.0	Coming up on our program, Gabby's Pizzeria and Highland Park becomes the first pizza place to leverage a new secret ingredient.
1:16.0	Ooh, I hope it has something to do with cheese.
1:19.0	Winston is a brainy kid with a knack for inventing things.
1:23.4	He's invented all kinds of stuff from high-flying bottle rockets
1:27.6	to remote-controlled water balloon catapults.
1:30.8	But sometimes, Winston gets so wrapped up in his inventions that he winds up losing track of time and being late for, well, everything.
1:39.0	One more piece and then Winston drills a circular orb into the center of his latest invention,
1:45.7	a flying thinking talking backpack. We're done! He holds it up triumphantly.
1:52.1	Behold the ultimate digital flying backpack!
1:57.0	I'll call it, Digit!
2:00.0	Digit has iron handlebars covered in hundreds of buttons and levers.
2:04.7	Winston presses the blue button and digit lights up.
2:08.8	Hello, comrade.
2:10.0	Pleased to meet you, Digit!
2:12.0	Winston hoist Digit onto his back and buckles the straps.
2:15.8	Now time for the testing phase.
2:18.4	Test. Won't you be late for school, comrade?
2:21.2	Your train arrives in, quote, whoa, minute.
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