In tonight's rewind bedtime story for kids, we will be looking back on our first trip to the moon, when Morty and his family set out on a mission to discover whether the moon was really made of cheese! Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Kuala Moon, a podcast of
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Speaker 1: original children's bedtime stories and meditations designed to make bedtime
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Speaker 1: space travelers out there, or you lovers of small queue
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Speaker 1: furry animals, and most of all, I think it will
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Speaker 1: be a huge hip with my fellow cheese fans. In
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Speaker 1: this captivating tail by Alicia, we learn once and for
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Speaker 1: all the answer to a question that loomed large in
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Speaker 1: my childhood, perhaps yours too. What is the moon really
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Speaker 1: made of? Or more specifically, is the moon really made
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Speaker 1: of cheese? Before we find out, let's get into bed
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Speaker 1: and start relaxing. Our bodies ready to lie still and listen.
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Speaker 1: Try wriggling around a bit to find your comfy spot.
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Speaker 1: Stretch out your legs, your feet, point your toes for
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Speaker 1: a few seconds, and wriggle your fingers. And now let
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Speaker 1: everything go floppy. Take some nice deep breaths in and out,
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Speaker 1: another one in and out, and now snuggle down a
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Speaker 1: little bit more great. Now you're ready, it's time for
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Speaker 1: me to begin. Mice on the Moon by Alicia Ainslie.
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Speaker 1: Mice are known for three things. One they are tiny
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Speaker 1: and fluffy, Two they speak with the most adorable, high
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Speaker 1: pitched voices, and three they love cheese. And no mice
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Speaker 1: love cheese more than Morty the mouse and his family.
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Speaker 1: Morty was married to Martha, and together they had nine children.
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Speaker 1: With so many little mouths to feed, Morty had to
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Speaker 1: go out and work very hard to provide for his family,
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Speaker 1: whilst Martha stayed at home and looked after the children.
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Speaker 1: They were an excellent partnership, and as their little ones
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Speaker 1: grew up, they became a great big team. Morty had
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Speaker 1: spent his whole life working diligently around the clock to
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Speaker 1: build a comfortable life for his family. When he had
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Speaker 1: first started out he was swiping fallen pieces of food
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Speaker 1: off the ground of human houses to take home to
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Speaker 1: feed his little ones. But as the years went on,
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Speaker 1: with plenty of graft, smart thinking, and quick wit, Morty
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Speaker 1: eventually opened his own shop. It wasn't just any shop,
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Speaker 1: it was a cheese shop. Morty, Martha and their children
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Speaker 1: learned how to make their very own cheese and served
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Speaker 1: it up on the counter of their little shop for
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Speaker 1: other animals to buy each day. At first, business was
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Speaker 1: booming and everybody wanted a taste the amazing smelly cheese
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Speaker 1: that they created. They offered cheeses such as gowder and Brie, Cheddar, Edam, Camelbert,
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Speaker 1: and blue cheese, just to name a few. Whatever people wanted, Morty,
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Speaker 1: Martha and their family could whip it up in next
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Speaker 1: to no time. However, as time went on, the other
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Speaker 1: animals started to grow bored of cheese, and the number
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Speaker 1: of customers walking through Morty's shop door dwindled by the day.
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Speaker 1: On one particularly quiet day in the shop, Martha counted
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Speaker 1: up the cash and the register, and Morty leant across
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Speaker 1: the glass counter and sighed, huh, I don't think we've
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Speaker 1: had one customer yet today. He sighed disappointedly. Martha Mouse
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Speaker 1: continued rifling through the cash and the register and counted
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Speaker 1: up they had. We have barely made any money this week,
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Speaker 1: she confirmed, defeatedly. Nobody appreciates cheese any more like they
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Speaker 1: used to. Mortie and Martha glanced behind them at their
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Speaker 1: nine children sitting together in the back room. Their oldest child, Maggie,
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Speaker 1: was teaching her little brothers and sisters a science lesson,
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Speaker 1: like she did every Friday afternoon. Once the children were
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Speaker 1: old enough, they took turns to help teach their siblings
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Speaker 1: about different subjects, and they all learnt together. Today, Maggie
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Speaker 1: was teaching them all about outer space. She pointed to
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Speaker 1: a large diagram that she had drawn on the whiteboard
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Speaker 1: as she spoke. Her younger siblings all gasped with delight
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Speaker 1: as she taught them all about the different planets and
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Speaker 1: stars that float in space millions of miles away. Morty
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Speaker 1: and Martha smiled with pride and turned back to face
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Speaker 1: their empty shop floor. How will we feed our children
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Speaker 1: if we can't earn enough money, Martha whispered to Morty.
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Speaker 1: We have lots of cheese to feed ourselves with right now,
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Speaker 1: But when the money dries up, we will have no
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Speaker 1: way to buy our ingredients anymore. Then we will be
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Speaker 1: in a tricky place. Morty twirled his whiskers and thought hard.
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Speaker 1: There had to be a way that they could keep
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Speaker 1: their shop open and keep food on their table without
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Speaker 1: the worry of running out of cheese. Morty looked back
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Speaker 1: at his nine sweet children, so eager to learn and
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Speaker 1: sew and thrall by the notion of space. He would
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Speaker 1: do anything for them. Then suddenly a light bulb switched
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Speaker 1: on inside Morty's head, and he had a thought. As
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Speaker 1: Maggie pointed to the Moon on her class diagram, Morty
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Speaker 1: record a myth that he had heard as a little boy.
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Speaker 1: When he was younger, Morty's parents would tell him bedtime
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Speaker 1: stories all about the moon and how it was made
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Speaker 1: of the most delicious cheese. It was said that if
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Speaker 1: you took a big bite out of the Moon, then
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Speaker 1: you would taste the most scrumptious cheese you have ever tasted.
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Speaker 1: You can even see the Moon's cheesy exterior from planet Earth.
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Speaker 1: If you take a telescope and point it directly at
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Speaker 1: the Moon and then zoom in close, you can see
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Speaker 1: the holes in the moon's crater just like you find
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Speaker 1: in a block of Swiss cheese. Morty had many pleasant
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Speaker 1: dreams as a child where he walked on the moon
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Speaker 1: and ate cheese all day every day. As far as
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Speaker 1: Morty was aware, nobody had ever been to the moon
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Speaker 1: to prove that this theory was correct, but maybe it
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Speaker 1: was time somebody did. Morty, Martha, and their nine children
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Speaker 1: woke up early every morning to make as much cheese
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Speaker 1: as they could for the day in the shop. But
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Speaker 1: wouldn't it be nice if the hard work was already
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Speaker 1: done for them? Morty thought, if they could get to
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Speaker 1: the moon and pack up as much cheese as possible,
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Speaker 1: then they would have enough cheese to keep the shop
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Speaker 1: running and the family fed for years to come. It's
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Speaker 1: time for a little adventure, Morty decided to himself. In
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Speaker 1: his limited spare time, Morty started to plan his ambitious mission.
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Speaker 1: His plan was to build a tiny rocket ship with
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Speaker 1: the help of his big family and fly up to
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Speaker 1: the Moon to see if it was in fact made
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Speaker 1: of cheese. Then, if the stories were true, they would
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Speaker 1: pack up as much cheese as possible into their rocket
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Speaker 1: ship and fly it back down to Earth to sell
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Speaker 1: it was a simple plan in theory, but nothing is
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Speaker 1: ever as easy as it first seems. To begin with,
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Speaker 1: Morty had to convince his wife Martha that it was
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Speaker 1: a good plan. At first, she was not impressed with
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Speaker 1: his idea, and she thought that Morty had gone mad.
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Speaker 1: You can't be serious, she cried, taken aback by Morty's suggestion.
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Speaker 1: Mice don't go to the moon, Morty, and even if
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Speaker 1: they did, they'd be sorely disappointed by the lack of
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Speaker 1: cheese when they landed. You are bonkers. Despite his wife's protests,
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Speaker 1: Morty still believed that it was worth a try. They
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Speaker 1: would never know if the moon was truly made of
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Speaker 1: cheese unless somebody went there to find out. The next
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Speaker 1: problem was rather a big one. If Morty and his
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Speaker 1: family were going to build a rocket ship big enough
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Speaker 1: for all of them, then they would have a lot
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Speaker 1: of work on their hands and a lot of studying
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Speaker 1: to do. But in true Mouse fashion, they all worked
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Speaker 1: together fantastically to put the plan into action. Maggie Mouse,
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Speaker 1: their oldest daughter, started teaching the rest of the children
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Speaker 1: lessons in space travel so they could learn what it
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Speaker 1: took to send a rocket up into space. The second
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Speaker 1: oldest child, Marley, started leading lessons in carpentry to teach
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Speaker 1: them all the skills that they would need to fix
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Speaker 1: up a rocket ship. Then the third oldest child, Murray,
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Speaker 1: led art and design lessons in which they all had
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Speaker 1: a go at designing the perfect rocket ship to send
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Speaker 1: them up into space. After some time of learning and planning,
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Speaker 1: the mouse family felt ready to embark upon the next
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Speaker 1: important step. In order to build their rocket, they needed
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Speaker 1: lots of large, strong materials to form the walls of
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Speaker 1: their ship. By working together, they managed to find scraps
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Speaker 1: of metal to create the outside walls, and little chairs
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Speaker 1: from children's dolls houses to be their flight seat. Inside
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Speaker 1: the ship, they discovered an old piece of a milk
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Speaker 1: bottle that would act as their window to see outside
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Speaker 1: into space, and they compiled lots of matches to fire
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Speaker 1: up the rocket with. Once they had all of the
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Speaker 1: pieces they needed, the family worked together every night when
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Speaker 1: their shop was closed to build the rocket. They hammered
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Speaker 1: in nails, superglued walls, and expertly pieced the scrap together
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Speaker 1: to make a rather impressive ship large enough for the
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Speaker 1: mouse family all to travel into space together. To complete
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Speaker 1: their masterpiece, they painted the outside of the rocket bright purple,
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Speaker 1: with three yellow stripes around the fins at the back.
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Speaker 1: For a bit of fun, they painted the pointed nose
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Speaker 1: at the front of the ship with a white nose
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Speaker 1: and some yellow whiskeys. They named their rocket ship Apollo
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Speaker 1: Fromage and painted the name on the side in big
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Speaker 1: white letters. Their rocket ship was finally finished. Are we
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Speaker 1: going to the moon now, Daddy, their youngest mouse, Maddie,
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Speaker 1: asked with delight as they all stood back to admire
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Speaker 1: their finished masterpiece. Mortie smiled with wide excited eyes and replied, yes,
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Speaker 1: yes we are, But first we need to close up
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Speaker 1: our shop here on Earth before we begin the journey.
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Speaker 1: So the big family of mice closed up their beloved
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Speaker 1: shop and donated the remaining cheese to their friends. Then
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Speaker 1: they piled through the door of their rocket ship and
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Speaker 1: sat down in their seats. There were eleven of them
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Speaker 1: traveling in total, and they all had their own individual
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Speaker 1: seat belts attached to each of their tiny chairs. The
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Speaker 1: children all buckled into the back, and Morty and Martha
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Speaker 1: sat up front in the driver's seats. Martha plotted their
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Speaker 1: course to the moon and prepared the engines for liftoff.
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Speaker 1: Are you sure about this? She whispered to Morty, still
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Speaker 1: a little on shore, as to whether he was crazy
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Speaker 1: or simply adventurous. He placed his little mouse hand on
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Speaker 1: top of hers and whispered back, I've never been more sure.
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Speaker 1: She smiled and grew with confidence at her husband's reassurance.
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Speaker 1: She looked over her shoulder and into the back of
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Speaker 1: the rocket ship, where her nine children all sat patiently waiting,
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Speaker 1: and shouted, are you ready? They all began whooping and
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Speaker 1: cheering with joy, begging for her to set off. As
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Speaker 1: Martha reved up the engines, Mortie looked out at the
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Speaker 1: window and down at the ground, where their other mouse
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Speaker 1: friends all watched on with intrigue. He waved down to them,
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Speaker 1: and they waved back. Two of his good friends held
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Speaker 1: up a banner which said bon voyage in big red letters,
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Speaker 1: and Martha's best friend waved her off with a waft
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Speaker 1: of her lace handkerchief. Everybody was so impressed by the
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Speaker 1: family's efforts, and they were all inspired by their brave mission.
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Speaker 1: Who knew maybe one day the other mice would join
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Speaker 1: them on the moon too. The rocket ship suddenly began
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Speaker 1: to rumble and shake as the engines switched on, and
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Speaker 1: everybody sat back in their seats. Martha flicked a switch
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Speaker 1: and pressed a button, and the countdown began ten nine, eight, seven, six,
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Speaker 1: five four three two one. Blast off. The rocket began
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Speaker 1: to shoot up into the air, and the mice left
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Speaker 1: behind on the Earth began to cheer. Morty, Martha and
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Speaker 1: their children all squealed with enjoyment as the rocket raced
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Speaker 1: through the sky, pushed past the clouds, beyond the earth atmosphere,
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Speaker 1: and into the dark expanse of space. As the rocket
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Speaker 1: ship left the Earth's field of gravity, it felt like
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Speaker 1: the vehicle had slowed down and they were now floating
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Speaker 1: in slow motion. Can we take off our seat belts yet? Maggie,
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Speaker 1: the oldest child, asked eagerly, Yes, you can. Martha agreed,
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Speaker 1: but be careful you don't all bump into each other.
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Speaker 1: The children didn't need to be told twice, and they
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Speaker 1: all unbuckled their seat belts at the same time. As
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Speaker 1: they did, their little fluffy bodies began to lift and
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Speaker 1: bob around the rocket ship. They couldn't keep their feet
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Speaker 1: on the ground, and they all swam through the air
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Speaker 1: as if they were swimming through water. Wow. This is incredible, Murray,
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Speaker 1: their arty child, exclaimed, as he spun around in mid air.
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Speaker 1: Are we flying? Little Maddie questioned, confused but exhilarated by
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Speaker 1: what was happening, sort of replied Maggie, ever the intelligent one.
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Speaker 1: There is no gravity in space, so there is no
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Speaker 1: gravity pulling us down to the floor like there is
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Speaker 1: on Earth, which means we can float around in space
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Speaker 1: and feel like we are flying. The children all delighted
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Speaker 1: by their new ability, and despite their mother's instructions, they
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Speaker 1: all moved around the space, bumping into one another and
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Speaker 1: causing quite a cacophony of chaos. On board the ship,
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Speaker 1: Mortie and Martha kept their eyes firmly on what was
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Speaker 1: outside of their window as they directed the rocket through
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Speaker 1: space and towards the Moon. It was unbelievable that they
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Speaker 1: were all in outer space. Everything that they could see
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Speaker 1: now was almost close enough to touch, And yet they
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Speaker 1: had spent all of their life on Earth gazing up
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Speaker 1: at the stars and the planets, knowing that they were
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Speaker 1: far out of reach. They had never thought in their
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Speaker 1: wildest dreams that they would be the first mice to
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Speaker 1: go to space. They could see the big ball of
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Speaker 1: light that is, the Sun shining so brightly that they
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Speaker 1: couldn't look at it for too long. The Sun was
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Speaker 1: so enormous that it dwarfed every other planet and star
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Speaker 1: in its Solar system. They could see Venus and Mercury
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Speaker 1: on the way to the Sun, and Mars wasn't too
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Speaker 1: far behind them, But the planets were not what they
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Speaker 1: had come all this way for. In fact, their journey
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Speaker 1: was going to be a lot shorter, as the Moon
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Speaker 1: was quite close to the Earth. Their journey only took
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Speaker 1: a small amount of time in the grand scheme of things,
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Speaker 1: as they hurtled through space with great grace and ease,
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Speaker 1: eventually landing their rocket ship on the surface of the Moon.
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Speaker 1: As soon as they touched down on the Moon, the
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Speaker 1: children all floated gently back down to the ground and
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Speaker 1: dashed over to the window to look outside. There was
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Speaker 1: nothing to be seen except for lots and lots of
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Speaker 1: deserted land and the dark sky above them. Far away,
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Speaker 1: they could see the Earth spinning on its axis, going
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Speaker 1: about its day just like normal. Are we getting out now, daddy,
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Speaker 1: little Marcel asked, prodding at his father's shoulder. Morty took
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Speaker 1: a deep breath and gulped now was the moment of truth.
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Speaker 1: They were about to find out if the moon was
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Speaker 1: actually made of cheese, and whether this whole mission had
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Speaker 1: been worth it. The family of eleven all piled out
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Speaker 1: of the rocket ship and set foot on the moon.
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Speaker 1: The ground felt slightly squidgy beneath their feet. Each footstep
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Speaker 1: they bounced and boined a little as they moved. Morty
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Speaker 1: sniffed the air and noted that there was a slight,
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Speaker 1: sweet pungency that permeated their surroundings. But it was like
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Speaker 1: nothing he had smelt before. It didn't smell like cheese,
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Speaker 1: that was for sure. As Morty took in the sight
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Speaker 1: of the barren moon, he started to think that his
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Speaker 1: plan had been all for nothing. This didn't look like
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Speaker 1: the cheese that he knew. Perhaps it was just a myth,
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Speaker 1: after all, the moon wasn't really made of cheese. Martha
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Speaker 1: noticed that Morty seemed disappointed, so she attempted to lift
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Speaker 1: his spirits. Should we try a bit of the moon, then,
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Speaker 1: she asked, teasingly, I know you've been wanting to find
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Speaker 1: out for a while what moon cheese tastes like. Their
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Speaker 1: nine children all gathered around eagerly waiting for their father
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Speaker 1: to take the first bite out of the moon. Mortie
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Speaker 1: pulled his cheese knife from his pocket and sliced a
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Speaker 1: bit off the corner of a hole in the moon's surface.
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Speaker 1: He held the slice out in front of him and
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Speaker 1: inspected it. It was a gray color, not yellow or orange,
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Speaker 1: like the cheeses he knew back on Earth. It also
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Speaker 1: smelt of the same sweet tangy aroama he had noticed earlier,
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Speaker 1: but it did feel soft in his hand. Mortie took
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Speaker 1: a deep breath, placed the slice of the moon into
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Speaker 1: his mouth, and began to chew. To his delight, his
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Speaker 1: taste buds lit up with the taste of a familiar flavor.
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Speaker 1: The surface of the moon was indeed made of cheese.
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Speaker 1: It might have been a gray color, and it might
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Speaker 1: have smelt unusual, but it was undeniable. As soon as
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Speaker 1: the slice of the moon had hit his tongue, he
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Speaker 1: had recognized it as delicious cheese. In fact, this cheese
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Speaker 1: tasted better than any he had had before. It's cheese,
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Speaker 1: Morty declared, and the family all began to cheer. They
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Speaker 1: all began to pick chunks out of the ground and
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Speaker 1: ate up lots and lots of moon cheese. They all
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Speaker 1: agreed that it was the best tasting cheese they had
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Speaker 1: ever tasted. Morty couldn't wait to share it with everyone
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Speaker 1: on Earth back in their shop. The mouse families spent
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Speaker 1: the next few days enjoying their time on the Moon.
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Speaker 1: They slept under the stars and played joyously across the
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Speaker 1: face of the Moon, hopping from place to place, aided
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Speaker 1: by the Moon's weak gravity. In fact, I bet if
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Speaker 1: you got a telescope focused on the Moon and zoomed in,
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Speaker 1: you would probably have been able to spot eleven tiny
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Speaker 1: mice running across the Moon's face as you prepared for
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Speaker 1: bed at night. They all ate moon cheese until they
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Speaker 1: were full, and then continued to sleep and play until
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Speaker 1: they were ready to devour more. It was a perfect
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Speaker 1: baked existence. After a few days of fun on the moon,
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Speaker 1: Morty started to slice up big chunks of moon cheese
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Speaker 1: and began loading them onto their rocket ship. What are
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Speaker 1: you doing, his wife, Martha questioned, as she saw him
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Speaker 1: working away. What do you think? He said, I'm packing
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Speaker 1: up the ship with moon cheese to take back to
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Speaker 1: Earth to sell in our shop. That was always the plan, remember,
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Speaker 1: Martha nodded her head in realization she had forgotten all
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Speaker 1: about their plan. She was having such a nice time
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Speaker 1: on the moon with her family that she had forgotten
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Speaker 1: that they were supposed to go home eventually. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to go home, she confessed, sadly. I like it
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Speaker 1: here on the moon. I want to stay. Morty gave
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Speaker 1: her a hug and chuckled. We can't stay on the moon, Martha,
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Speaker 1: he replied, who would we sell the cheese to. There's
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Speaker 1: nobody here. Martha sulked and shrugged her shoulders before suggesting
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Speaker 1: maybe we wouldn't need to sell the cheese to anyone.
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Speaker 1: Look around, There's plenty of cheese for us to eat,
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Speaker 1: and we'd never have to do any work again. It's
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Speaker 1: all here ready for us. Morty looked around them at
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Speaker 1: the moon that they had currently called home. It was
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Speaker 1: totally idyllic. They had endless amounts of cheese at their disposal,
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Speaker 1: and the children all loving playing all day whilst Martha
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Speaker 1: and Morty relaxed. They hadn't relaxed like this in a very,
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Speaker 1: very long time. Morty was starting to come around to
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Speaker 1: the idea of staying on the moon, but then he
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Speaker 1: caught himself. It could get very lonely up here, without
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Speaker 1: any friends or anybody else to talk to. Eventually, they'd
00:28:31
Speaker 1: all get bored and wish that they had jobs to do. Besides,
00:28:37
Speaker 1: Morty missed his cheese shop. He missed all of the
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Speaker 1: animals that he got to meet every day as he
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Speaker 1: served them, and he loved sharing his passion and knowledge
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Speaker 1: about cheese with his customers. Just then, they heard a
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Speaker 1: jumble of voices calling out from behind one of the hills.
00:29:00
Speaker 1: They turned to follow the sound and saw their nine
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Speaker 1: children running over the hilltop towards them, chatting animatedly. Mummy Daddy,
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Speaker 1: Little Maddie called out, you'll never guess what. We've found
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Speaker 1: other creatures on the moon. Then her brother Marcel added,
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Speaker 1: and they're really nice. Mortie and Martha were shocked. They
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Speaker 1: didn't think that anybody else lived on the Moon. They
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Speaker 1: hadn't seen any one else since they arrived. This was
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Speaker 1: wonderful news. The children had been exploring and ventured into
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Speaker 1: one of the caves on the surface of the Moon.
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Speaker 1: When they delved deep into the cave, they came to
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Speaker 1: the entrance to an underground city where lots of other
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Speaker 1: moon creatures lived. The children eagerly led the way back
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Speaker 1: to the place where they made this remarkable discovery and
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Speaker 1: guided their parents underground. Just like they had said, there
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Speaker 1: was a thriving city underneath the surface of the Moon,
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Speaker 1: and even more amazingly, the moon creatures looked very familiar.
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Speaker 1: The moon creatures were small, fluffy mice. Many years ago,
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Speaker 1: a family of mice must have migrated just like them
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Speaker 1: to the Moon but decided to stay. They all had
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Speaker 1: pointy whiskers and twitchy noses with big round ears. Although
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Speaker 1: there were two main differences between the moon mice and
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Speaker 1: Morty and his family of earth Mine, One was that
00:31:02
Speaker 1: the moon mice had bright orange fur from lots of
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Speaker 1: time basking close to the Sun in outer space, and two,
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Speaker 1: they had big, wide feet with hooked toes that could
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Speaker 1: cling on to the Moon's surface with ease. This way,
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Speaker 1: they didn't bounce around and float through space too much.
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Speaker 1: The moon mice was so welcoming to Morty and his family,
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Speaker 1: and with this friendly community now on the Moon, Morty
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Speaker 1: felt inclined to stay, much to the delight of his family.
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Speaker 1: Morty and Martha set up their new cheese shop on
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Speaker 1: the Moon and used their amazing skills to create lots
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Speaker 1: of new recipes that the moon mice had never tried before.
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Speaker 1: They used the moon cheese to whip up new recipes
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Speaker 1: such as gooey moon fondu, moon cheese, soufles, and mac
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Speaker 1: and moon cheese. The moon mice absolutely loved their crazy
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Speaker 1: concoctions and their shop became a hit. They even created
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Speaker 1: a delivery service all the way back to Earth, with
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Speaker 1: their daughter Maggie as the main delivery driver. They loaded
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Speaker 1: up their rocket with chunks of moon cheese and she
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Speaker 1: delivered them to their loyal customers back on Earth. Their
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Speaker 1: moon cheese was a hit, and everybody agreed that the
00:32:47
Speaker 1: taste was out of this world. Every day Mortie and
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Speaker 1: Martha served their regular happy customers with a smile. Sometimes
00:33:02
Speaker 1: they even had visitors come from other planets too. Their
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Speaker 1: good reputation had spread so far that people and animals
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Speaker 1: all over the universe were flying by spaceship to come
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Speaker 1: and sample their special moon cheese. One day, they even
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Speaker 1: had a visit from a polite young koala named Cocoa
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Speaker 1: and his friendly auntie Shirley. He played them a sweet
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Speaker 1: song on his ukulele in exchange for a big chunk
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Speaker 1: of moon cheese. It was the highlight of their week. Mortie, Martha,
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Speaker 1: and their nine children had never been happier. Their life
00:33:53
Speaker 1: on the moon was perfect in every way. They had
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Speaker 1: everything that they could ever need, food, friends, relaxation, and
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Speaker 1: Morty found his sense of purpose. Their new life on
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Speaker 1: the moon was truly out of this world