Welcome back to the Story of Pirates podcast. I'm Lee. I'm Peter. And like always, we're

playing for you stories written by kids. Peter, what's today's story? Today, Lee, our

story comes to us from a then kindergartener from Old Lee Maryland. His name is Eli Chung,

and his story is called Monster Broke. Unbelievable. I'm excited for this story, but before we hear

the story Pirates adaptation, let's read the original one that Eli sent it to us. Go for it.

Monster Broke. Once upon a time in a little land where trucks were, one strange truck went in.

It was a monster truck named Kuku Bad Tractor. It could crush cars and anything else in its

way. The driver's name was Kuku Bad Tractor 2. The driver's resolution was to help his friends when

their monster truck motor was broken. And that monster truck driver could call the tow truck right

away for his friends. Because if their phone fell out of the car when they were driving, he would

call the tow truck right away for them. And one day, that driver, Kuku Bad Tractor, his phone fell

out and his monster truck stopped working. So his friends found his phone and gave it to him so

he could call the tow truck himself. Then he dropped his phone and all of his friends dropped their

phones and the wind blew them out of the window and onto the roof so all the phones got mixed up

and no one knew who's who's who's. That's because they all got mixed up. And then one of his friends

had an idea. They should climb up on the roof with a ladder. But they had to call the fire

department to do that. But the fire department ladder was too high. They reached all the way to the

top of a skyscraper. One of the fire buyers had an idea. They took off the two-tall ladder and put

on the nice little perfect ladder. And then there was trouble. The nice little perfect ladder was two-tall-two.

One of the fire fighters was wrong. The two-tall ladder was actually perfect with the little ladder in

the middle of it because the monster trucks were higher than the subway train tunnel. The ladder went

across the roof so one of the fire fighters was wrong. They got the phones with the ladder going

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