The Popular Girl Who Was Actually a Tortoise/The Cat That Had a Trumpet

Story Pirates

Lemonada Media

Comedy, Education, Kids & Family

4.5 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Nimene tries to fix everyone’s car sickness with a new invention. Featuring two new stories: “The Popular Girl Who Was Actually a Tortoise”, a story about tortoise who learns that life isn’t always easier when a tortoise witch turns you into a human popular girl, written by Jake, a 12 year old from Michigan, and “The Cat That Had a Trumpet”, a story about a cat who must choose between friendship and jazz-related fame, written by a 9 year old from Indiana named Preston. Peter and Lee also read more stories written by kids in the latest installment of Story Love. Check out a longer, more awesome version of Story Love on YouTube! Submit kids’ stories at storypirates.com/submit-a-story Check out Story Quest, our in-school digital creative writing program, at storypirates.com/about-story-quest Learn about Story Love, our corporate volunteer program, at storypirateschangemakers.org/story-love See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hey, Story Pirates podcast listeners, Lee here.
0:04.4	On today's episode, Nimini once again uses one of her inventions to really make things weird for all of the other story pirates.
0:13.5	And Peter breaks his personal record for a number of different accents he uses in a single episode.
0:19.9	And of course, we have two brand new stories written by kids and more story love with Lee and Peter.
0:26.3	And it's all coming up after a few words for the grownups.
0:35.9	Hey grownups, Lee here.
0:38.2	See Story Pirates Live.
0:40.1	Our amazing touring cast, including Eric, will be visiting some East Coast
0:44.3	cities this spring to perform some of your favorite songs from the podcast.
0:48.3	And they'll take suggestions from kids in the audience to create a brand new story that
0:52.8	will only be seen once.
0:55.1	Best of all, all of our upcoming shows are on weekends, so no need to worry about school nights
0:59.6	or bedtime routines.
1:01.9	We'll see you soon in Munn Hall, Pennsylvania, just outside of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Ohio,
1:07.9	Port Smith, New Hampshire, Medford, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, and
1:12.3	Ridgefield, Connecticut. Tickets to all the shows are on sale now at storypirates.com slash live.
1:30.8	Hey, Story Pirates, guess what? I got our tickets for the new Purple People Party Planet movie in hyper-realistic 3D.
1:36.8	Some say a fifth Purple People Party Planet movie is excessive and a gross attempt to milk a franchise, but
1:45.2	hello, the first four were world building.
1:48.7	I can't believe it's only 10.10 a.m. and we have to wait five hours until the movie.
1:54.5	Uh, Megan, it's 2.50 p.m.
1:57.4	What? But my vintage analog clock clearly has the big hand on the 10 and the little hand on the two. Unless...
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