Hello and welcome. You are listening to LOL Storytime, the Goofy Story Podcast for Kids.

So apparently, this is episode 50, which I'm still having a hard time believing.

50 episodes. That's nuts. It's also weird for me to think that many of you have not only listened to every episode,

but some of you have listened to every episode multiple times.

Elabel Storytime truly has the best fans.

Fans like Nico, Nora, and Nash, who all have characters named after them in today's story.

But before we begin, we've got some bonus shoutouts for Nancy, Alistair, Aden, Gabriel,

Xavier, Houston, Hatif, Kavia and Atharv, with a special 9th birthday shoutout to Huey from

Scotland, as well as a birthday shoutout to Boss. All right, today's story is called The Worst Story Ever.

Let's get into it.

This is the story of a story that a boy named Nico thought was the worst story ever.

It began with some birds, or rather a school presentation about some birds.

Every student in Nico's class had been asked to prepare a presentation about their favorite animal.

Nico's classmate Nora was the first to present, and at the end of her presentation, she asked if anyone had any questions.

I have a question, said Niko, waving his hand in the air.

Did you seriously just make a whole presentation on birds?

You do realize you were allowed to pick any animal on the planet, right?

Nora shot Nico the stink eye. Yes, Nico. In case it wasn't obvious from my presentation,

I happen to really like birds. I find them fascinating. Nico scratched his head like he'd just

been asked to solve a grade 12 algebra problem.

Are we talking about the same birds that eat worms and do their business wherever they please,

even if that happens to be on someone's head? Norah's stink eye got even stinkier.

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