In tonight’s bedtime story for kids, we are following Ozzy as he chases a diamond ring down the plug hole in the kitchen of Potato & Beans Diner. He ends up on an adventure through pipes and chutes, to the ocean, where he teams up with a squid named Pearl to return the lost ring to its rightful owner.
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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Koala 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: a dream. Before we start Tonight's story, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: for subscribing and joining our club, and I hope you
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Speaker 1: enjoy all your extra stories now. Then, Oh, Tonight's story.
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Speaker 1: It reminds me that I just hate losing things, especially
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Speaker 1: precious things. I once lost a pendant worn every day
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Speaker 1: for ten years, and I felt so distressed I couldn't
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Speaker 1: eat for a whole day, and when I eventually found it,
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Speaker 1: I cried with happiness. It may have just been some
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Speaker 1: precious metals and gemstones, but to me, it symbolized so
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Speaker 1: much more than that, and it's really only me that
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Speaker 1: it mattered to. So Tonight's story brings back some of
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Speaker 1: those memories. Have you ever lost or misplaced anything precious? Tonight,
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Speaker 1: we're following our octopus friend Ozzie as he chases a
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Speaker 1: diamond ring down the plug hole of his sink in
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Speaker 1: the kitchen of Potato and Beans, his diner. Lucky for him,
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Speaker 1: he ends up on an adventure through pipes and shoots
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Speaker 1: all the way to the ocean, where he teams up
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Speaker 1: with a squid named Pearl to achieve his mission of
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Speaker 1: returning the lost ring to its rightful owner. What a
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Speaker 1: superstar octopus he is for trying so hard. Now, relax
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Speaker 1: and steady your breath as you get comfy in your bed.
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Speaker 1: Maybe wriggle and shake and jiggle and pat your body
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Speaker 1: to get rid of any extra energy still in there
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Speaker 1: from the day. That's it all over? Okay, Now give
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Speaker 1: me a lovely long sigh and we'll begin Ossie's Adventures
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Speaker 1: down the plug Hole by Susannah McLaughlin. It was a
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Speaker 1: beautiful day in the middle of nowhere, where the sun
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Speaker 1: hung low in the sky, glinting on the roof of
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Speaker 1: the only building in sight, a roller skate diner owned
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Speaker 1: by two cats by the names of Potato and Beans.
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Speaker 1: The long road that ran through the desert valley was
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Speaker 1: mostly empty, save for a few passers by on long
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Speaker 1: road trips across the country, traveling in full cars with
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Speaker 1: the roofs down, letting the warm breeze ruffle through their
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Speaker 1: fur and flapping the ears of those with ears floppy
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Speaker 1: enough to flap. In the kitchen of the diner, Missus
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Speaker 1: Pig was baking bread, and Ozzy the Octopus was finishing
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Speaker 1: off a stack of plates left over from the lunchtime rush.
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Speaker 1: As usual, he was soaking in the bubbly water as
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Speaker 1: he washed with a sponge in each tentacle. His favorite
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Speaker 1: rock music was blaring from the radio, and he was
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Speaker 1: bopping his head in time to the music. As he
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Speaker 1: polished a particularly shiny glass, he saw something glint in
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Speaker 1: the water beneath him. He put down his sponges and
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Speaker 1: the crockery he was holding and looked closer. In between
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Speaker 1: the fluffy clouds of bubbles, there was something shiny bobbing
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Speaker 1: on the bottom of the sink. Ozzie tried to pick
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Speaker 1: it up, but every time he nearly had it, it
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Speaker 1: would bob away to hide in another corner. His tentacles
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Speaker 1: were too soapy and slippery. Ozzie scratched his head. He
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Speaker 1: thought maybe it was best to empty the sink to
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Speaker 1: recover whatever this shiny trinket was and reached into the
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Speaker 1: depths of the water to yank out the rubber plug
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Speaker 1: from the drain. As the bubbles began to swirl and
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Speaker 1: whirl down the drain, he caught a glimpse of the object.
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Speaker 1: It was a shiny diamond ring. As soon as he
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Speaker 1: saw it, he was gone, swept away into the whirlpool
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Speaker 1: leading down the drain. Ozzie gulped and yelped and tried
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Speaker 1: to catch it, but it was no good. The ring
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Speaker 1: was gone. He sighed and rolled his eyes. There was
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Speaker 1: no option for him. He had to follow it. Did
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Speaker 1: you know octopuses can squeeze into the tiniest of places.
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Speaker 1: They can contort their tentacles, breathe in, and disappear into
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Speaker 1: the tiniest of on the ocean floor. This came in
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Speaker 1: handy in times like this. Ozzie took a breath in,
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Speaker 1: lined up his tentacles, and wriggled and squeezed into the
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Speaker 1: plug hole. Along with all the water. He slipped and
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Speaker 1: slid down the mazer pipes, giggling and whooping as he went.
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Speaker 1: It was like a water park down there, drops and
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Speaker 1: twists and loop the loops bends and shoots and curly wirlies.
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Speaker 1: He went down, down, down, until eventually he flew out
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Speaker 1: of the last pipe to splash into the bobbing river below.
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Speaker 1: Ozzie looked all around him. He seemed to be in
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Speaker 1: some kind of underground tunnel, swimming on a lazy river.
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Speaker 1: Ahead and behind, the river split into different passageways heading
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Speaker 1: goodness knows where. Ozzie scratched his head with one of
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Speaker 1: his tentacles. How would he possibly know which way the
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Speaker 1: ring went? A small voice called from one of the
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Speaker 1: concrete river banks. Are you looking for something? The voice asked,
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen you down here before. Ozzie spun in
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Speaker 1: a whirlpool and turned to find the source of the voice.
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Speaker 1: Her little mouse, with a dainty pink nose and soft
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Speaker 1: white fur, was peering down at him from the dry bank.
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Speaker 1: Ozzie smiled at her with his most dazzling smile. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he said, I'm looking for something that slipped down my
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Speaker 1: plug hole. It's a ring, a real shiny one. The
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Speaker 1: mouse smiled and blushed as Ozzie kept grinning at her.
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Speaker 1: I think I know where it went, she said. A
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Speaker 1: shiny object came shooting out of that shoot not long
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Speaker 1: before you did. It landed with a splash, right next
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Speaker 1: to a bathing otter. The otter dove after it and
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Speaker 1: found it on the riverbed before bursting back up. He
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Speaker 1: was thrilled, He said, his wife would absolutely love the ring.
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Speaker 1: I think he must have gone to give it to her.
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Speaker 1: Ozzie frowned, crinkling his smooth, coral colored forehead. He was
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Speaker 1: a sucker for romance, but he couldn't let the otters
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Speaker 1: keep a ring that wasn't theirs. The ring probably already
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Speaker 1: had its own love story, and someone would be missing it.
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Speaker 1: He asked the little mouse if she knew where the
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Speaker 1: otter was headed, and she twitched her nose and nodded.
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Speaker 1: He's a sea otter, she said, and there's only one
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Speaker 1: tunnel that leads to the sea. That one. She pointed
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Speaker 1: a poor at the largest branch of the river, where
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Speaker 1: a paint wooden sign pointed towards the ocean. Other arrows
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Speaker 1: on the sign pointed to various other tunnels, each labeled
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Speaker 1: with their own destination, the Niagara Falls, Lake Michigan, and
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Speaker 1: the Mississippi. One glowing tunnel was even labeled the Lost
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Speaker 1: Kingdom of Atlantis. Ozzie raised his eyebrows. He had no
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Speaker 1: idea how many places you could reach through the plug hole.
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Speaker 1: He had spent many hours perusing where his dishwater went
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Speaker 1: after he let its stream out of his sink, but
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Speaker 1: he'd never imagined it might have streamed its way to
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Speaker 1: the Mississippi, let alone an underwater kingdom. Ozzie bid a
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Speaker 1: farewell to the little mouse and swam towards the sea.
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Speaker 1: The tunnel led downwards until the whole thing was submerged
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Speaker 1: in clear, twinkling, sparkling so water. Ozzy swam down, down, down,
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Speaker 1: until the tunnel ended, and he emerged into the sea.
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Speaker 1: Beneath him, a sandy plain stretched as far as the
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Speaker 1: eye could see, dotted with swaying seaweed and twisted multi
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Speaker 1: colored coral. Wriggly and enemies of green, orange, and purple
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Speaker 1: grew between the coral and tropical fish darted here, there,
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Speaker 1: and everywhere. Above him was the ocean. It was quite
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Speaker 1: shallow here, so Ozzie suspected he wasn't too far from
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Speaker 1: the shore. He saw bigger fish ahead, with lazily swimming
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Speaker 1: sea turtles, a snoozing whale, and one slinky, acrobatic seal.
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Speaker 1: Ozzy was here to see the otters, and he knew
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Speaker 1: he mustn't forget his mission, but he saw no harm
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Speaker 1: in enjoying the ocean for a little while whilst he
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Speaker 1: found himself deep within it. He stretched out his tentacles.
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Speaker 1: He had been above land for a while now, and
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Speaker 1: he loved nothing more than zooming around on his roller skates,
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Speaker 1: but it was nice to float weightlessly in the sea
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Speaker 1: once in a while while. He stretched his eight legs
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Speaker 1: and squeezed them together, sending him shooting through the water
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Speaker 1: like a balloon through the sky, inflating and deflating with
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Speaker 1: every movement. He popped the air bubbles that floated past
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Speaker 1: him with a lazy flick of the tentacle, and watched
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Speaker 1: the sun streaming through the water above him, warming his
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Speaker 1: skin as it trickled down to the seabed. He wished,
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Speaker 1: how do you do to slowly flapping stingrays, and raced
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Speaker 1: alongside hurried seahorses as Ozzie caught his breath. Lazing on
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Speaker 1: a rock and using some vacant seashells as castanets, he
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Speaker 1: saw something in the distance towards the surface, heading in
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Speaker 1: his direction. It looked like a kite or a balloon,
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Speaker 1: but instead of drifting here and there, he was swimming
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Speaker 1: purposefully in his direction. It swam so quickly that Ozzie
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Speaker 1: barely had time to make out what it was before
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Speaker 1: it landed on his rock, nearly knocking him off with
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Speaker 1: its sudden landing. Ozzie steadied himself and took in the
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Speaker 1: creature that had come his way. Here was a squid,
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Speaker 1: but not an ordinary squid, a giant one, almost twice
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Speaker 1: the size of Ozzie. She had huge sparkling eyes and
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Speaker 1: her ballet slipper pink skin shone with a purlscent gleam.
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Speaker 1: The squid smiled pleasantly at Ozzy and bid him aer hi.
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Speaker 1: Ozzie said hello, and the two of them sat quietly
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Speaker 1: on the rock for a while as a shimmering school
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Speaker 1: of sardines swam by. I'm Ozzy, Ozzie said, I'm a
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Speaker 1: roller scathing dishwasher from Potato and Beans diner. The squid smiled.
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Speaker 1: I'm Pearl, she said, a swimming, scuelching squid from the
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Speaker 1: Big Blue Sea. What on earth are you doing here, Ozzy?
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Speaker 1: Ozzie told Pearl about the missing ring, and she nodded
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Speaker 1: at him wide eyed. I've seen it, she said. Old
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Speaker 1: fury Tad swam through here not long ago, clutching a
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Speaker 1: shiny ring in his pow. He said he was going
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Speaker 1: to give it to his wife Edy. I was thrilled,
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Speaker 1: as Edy's such a lovely sea otter. She deserves a tree.
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Speaker 1: In fact, jes last week she helped me out when
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Speaker 1: I got all tangled up in seaweed, and she didn't
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Speaker 1: laugh at me once, even though I must have looked
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Speaker 1: pretty funny. Ozzy asked whether she knew where Edy and
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Speaker 1: Ted lived, and Pearl nodded her head. She crossed her
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Speaker 1: front two tentacles and put a stern look on her face.
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Speaker 1: She wasn't used to being stern, and she had no
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Speaker 1: eyebrows to furrow, but Ozzie understood her intent. Hmm, you
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Speaker 1: can't take the ring from Edy and leave her with nothing,
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Speaker 1: though Pearl said, it's not polite. It's not her fault.
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Speaker 1: The ring was floating towards the ocean. Was He thought
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Speaker 1: this was reasonable. Ted found the ring and deserved some
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Speaker 1: kind of reward anyway, What do you think I could
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Speaker 1: give them an exchange? Pearl? As he spoke the giant
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Speaker 1: Squid's name. The answer to his question appeared in his mind.
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Speaker 1: A new ring, of course, and what better ring for
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Speaker 1: a sea otter than one studded with a bright, shiny pearl, Ah, Pearl,
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Speaker 1: Where do pearls come from, Ozzie asked. Pearl laughed, well, Izzy,
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Speaker 1: you'd have to ask my friend Shelley about there. She's
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Speaker 1: an oyster. Pearls are made by oysters. They often keepin
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Speaker 1: tucked away in their shells for safe keeping. Without another word,
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Speaker 1: Pearl rocketed off into the ocean, and Ozzy sprang off
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Speaker 1: after her, wishing he had his rollerskates to speed him up.
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Speaker 1: This squid could swim fast. The squid and the octopus
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Speaker 1: swam side by side for a mile or two, ducking
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Speaker 1: through caves and slinking through seaweed, dodging their way through
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Speaker 1: a gaggle of jellyfish, and giggling endlessly. Pearl came to
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Speaker 1: a sudden and abrupt stop next to a particularly vibrant
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Speaker 1: orange coral, and Ozzy barreled on into the current for
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Speaker 1: another ten meters before he himself could slow down. She
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Speaker 1: chuckled as he swam back to join her. This is Shelly,
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Speaker 1: she said, pointing at a knobbly gray stone the size
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Speaker 1: of her hand. As Ozzie looked closer, the stone sprang open,
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Speaker 1: revealing itself as an oyster shell with a shiny sod
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Speaker 1: over inside and a blobby pink oyster calling hello. Shelley
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Speaker 1: greeted the two Kefalopods and made some polite small talk
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Speaker 1: about what a beautiful day it was out here in
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Speaker 1: the big Blue Ozzie and Pearl agreed with her and
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Speaker 1: complimented how the sunlight danced on the metallic sheen of
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Speaker 1: the inside of her shell. Pearl told Shelley about the
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Speaker 1: missing ring and explain that they would like to replace
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Speaker 1: Edie's newfound accessory with a pearl ring instead, which wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be missed by its owner. Shelley laughed and said, of course,
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Speaker 1: flipping a shiny, milky colored pearl their way. She had
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Speaker 1: an abundance of them. Shelley asked how they were going
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Speaker 1: to turn the pearl into a ring pretty enough to
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Speaker 1: rival the one that had come from the diner, and
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Speaker 1: Ozzy scratched his head. He hadn't thought that far yet, Shelley.
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Speaker 1: He told Pearl and Ozzy that there was a creature
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Speaker 1: that could help them. Had they ever heard of a manateee.
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Speaker 1: Ozzie nodded his head. Recently, a friendly gaiter had stopped
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Speaker 1: off at the diner whist on a long road trip
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Speaker 1: to hear there and everywhere. The gator had come from
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Speaker 1: Louisiana and had recounted lazy evenings on the marina watching
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Speaker 1: the round, gray blobs of manatees float happily in the water.
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Speaker 1: They were often called sea cows, the gator said, since
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Speaker 1: they spend their days munching on sea grass and lazing
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Speaker 1: around in the water. They looked kind of like cows too,
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Speaker 1: with rounded snouts and rotund bellies. Shelley told them that
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Speaker 1: manatees are very skilled at making jewelry, so good, in fact,
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Speaker 1: that when they sunbathed on the rocks above the water,
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Speaker 1: wearing their shiny necklaces, they looked so beautiful that sea
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Speaker 1: exploring humans thought they were mermaids when peering through their
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Speaker 1: binoculars at them from their ships. So the octopus and
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Speaker 1: the squid thanked the oyster and took off through the
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Speaker 1: ocean in search of a manateee. With the pearl safely
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Speaker 1: suctioned to one of Ossie's suckers, they headed towards the
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Speaker 1: shore up near the surface where there could have been
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Speaker 1: some manatees snoozing in the sunshine. Before long, they were
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Speaker 1: nearing the coastline, and they floated upwards to poke their
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Speaker 1: heads above the surface. Immediately on one of the rocks
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Speaker 1: in the distance, Pearls spotted a large gray splodge and
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Speaker 1: cooed out a cooy to catch the creature's attention. Are
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Speaker 1: you a man a tea? She called? The splodge looked
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Speaker 1: up to reveal the big brown eyes and cute stub
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Speaker 1: nose of a seal. He slowly shook his head and
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Speaker 1: pointed a fin out to his right. Following the point
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Speaker 1: of his fin, Ozzie and Pearl spun slowly to see
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Speaker 1: another splodge on another rock, and this one had the
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Speaker 1: snuffling snout and little beady eyes of a manateee. Pearl
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Speaker 1: whooped and dived back into the water to rock it
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Speaker 1: her way over to the manatees sunbathing spot. Ozzie rolled
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Speaker 1: his eyes, giggled, and followed her at the closest pace
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Speaker 1: he could to her rocketing swim Looking up from the water,
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Speaker 1: the manateee seemed huge, but she had the kindest little
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Speaker 1: smile of perhaps any animal Ozzie had ever seen. She
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Speaker 1: was wearing little round glasses, which she pushed down her
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Speaker 1: snout to better see her two visitors. She had a
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Speaker 1: little tool box balanced on the rock to her left,
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Speaker 1: and in her flippers with some beautiful tangle of wire
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Speaker 1: threaded with glistening glass beads. Hello, my DearS, the manatee said,
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Speaker 1: What can I do for you? Ozzie used his suckers
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Speaker 1: to hoist himself up on the rock and shook hands
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Speaker 1: with the lady. Pearl remained in the water, but reached
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Speaker 1: up a long pink tentacle and waggled the manatees hand
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Speaker 1: in greeting. We've heard that manatees are skilled jewelers, Pearl said,
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Speaker 1: and we're seeking a skilled jeweler. Ozzie explained their conundrum
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Speaker 1: with the lost ring, presenting their shiny pearl, and asking
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Speaker 1: the manatee if she could pretty please possibly consider making
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Speaker 1: them a ring. Edy will really appreciate it, Pearl added,
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Speaker 1: as she's really nice. The manateee chuckled and said, of
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Speaker 1: course she would help them. It would be her pleasure
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Speaker 1: and it would be ready in a jiffy. The manateee
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Speaker 1: pushed up her glasses and pulled out a new roll
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Speaker 1: of wire, winding it around the pearl and bending it
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Speaker 1: into beautiful weaving patterns before cutting it from the spool
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Speaker 1: with a decisive snip. She handed it to Pearl and Ozzy,
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Speaker 1: who marveled at it, complimenting the man Tee on her talent.
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Speaker 1: The Manateee dismissed their praise with a flip of the
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Speaker 1: flipper and wished them well on their mission. With final
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Speaker 1: thank yous, Pearl and Ossie slipped back down into the ocean.
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Speaker 1: It was time to head to Ted and Edy's place
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Speaker 1: to retrieve the ring. Pearl took the lead and Ozzie
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Speaker 1: swam along in her wake, humming to himself as he went.
00:22:04
Speaker 1: Now well accustomed to swimming competitively against the sea's current,
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Speaker 1: Pearl led them along the rocky coastline to an isolated
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Speaker 1: craggy cove bordered by rock pools and palm trees. Here
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Speaker 1: in the shallows, Ted and Edy, the two loved up
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Speaker 1: sea utters, were floating on their backs, poor and poor,
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Speaker 1: as the sun glinted off the ring on Edy's finger.
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Speaker 1: Ozzy sidled up next to them and called out a
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Speaker 1: sheepish hello, trying not to startle the bathing otters. Ted
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Speaker 1: and Edy opened one eye each and bathe the octopus Hello,
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Speaker 1: flipping lazily over on to their stomachs to better see him.
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Speaker 1: Ozzie introduced himself and apologized for disturbing their sunny snooze.
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Speaker 1: I've spent the day sliding down chutes, bobbing in the rivers,
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Speaker 1: rocketing through the ocean, and bobbing along the shoreline in
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Speaker 1: pursuit of that ring on your finger, Edie, I hope
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Speaker 1: you don't mind, but I think it belongs to a
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Speaker 1: customer of mine, all the way back at Potato and
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Speaker 1: Beans's diner on a long desert road in the beginning
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Speaker 1: of nowhere. Ted and Edy blushed and handed the ring
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Speaker 1: immediately to Ozzy. Why things in the ocean are barely
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Speaker 1: ever found? Ted said, I thought there was no way
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Speaker 1: we could find its owner. We didn't count on an
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Speaker 1: adventurous octopus like you to follow it all this way.
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Speaker 1: Ozzie smiled and thanked them for returning the ring. He
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Speaker 1: said he'd brought them a reward in its place, and
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Speaker 1: placed the pearl ring in Edy's open palm. Edy gasped
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Speaker 1: and her eyes welled up with happy tears. It's beautiful,
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Speaker 1: she said, an ocean made ring especially for me. Thank you, Oozsi.
00:24:24
Speaker 1: Pearl bobbed up behind Ozzy with a grin. Edy giggled,
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Speaker 1: I should have known you'd be involved in this somehow, Pearl,
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Speaker 1: thank you. Ted beamed at the two of them and
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Speaker 1: wrapped them in a hug. He said it was even
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Speaker 1: better than the ring he had found, and now Ozzy
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Speaker 1: was going to return it to its rightful owner. Everybody
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Speaker 1: could be happy. The animals hugged and Ozzie wished them
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Speaker 1: a farewell. It's time I get back to the diner,
00:25:03
Speaker 1: he said. It's almost time for the dinner rush. Pearl
00:25:08
Speaker 1: swam Ozzie back to the pipe and gave him a hug.
00:25:12
Speaker 1: Ozzie told her to please visit the diner any time.
00:25:17
Speaker 1: He said he'd love for her to meet his friends
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Speaker 1: Potato Beans and Missus Pig and promised they'd make her
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Speaker 1: the best lunch she had ever tasted. Pearl nodded and
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Speaker 1: promised she would visit. With one last wave, Ozzy swam
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Speaker 1: back into the pipe and up to the underground river.
00:25:39
Speaker 1: He climbed up shoot after shoot and squeezed once more
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Speaker 1: through the plug hole to emerge in the warm glow
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Speaker 1: of the kitchen of potato and beans diner. Missus Pig
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Speaker 1: was no longer at her station stirring pots and flipping pancakes.
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Speaker 1: Ozzie dried himself off with a warm, fuzzy tea towel,
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Speaker 1: tied one of his eight skates onto each of his
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Speaker 1: eight tentacles, and glided through the door to the diner. There,
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Speaker 1: two kind cats and one cuddly pig were comforting a
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Speaker 1: weepy customer. The customer had a poofy bonnet on her
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Speaker 1: head and diamonte studdied glasses on her snout. She was
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Speaker 1: wrapped up in a light, multi colored shawl and had
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Speaker 1: little high heels on her feet. Ozzie recognized her immediately.
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Speaker 1: It was Agnes, the road tripping gaiter Beans looked up
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Speaker 1: and smiled a little smile at Ozzy. Few there you are,
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Speaker 1: she said. We were beginning to worry poor Agnes here
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Speaker 1: has lost her ring. She can't find it anywhere, and
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Speaker 1: she's leaving town tomorrow. Ozzie said nothing, but opened his
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Speaker 1: tentacle to reveal the sparkling diamond ring. Agnes squealed and
00:27:12
Speaker 1: threw her arms around Ozzie, thanking him for returning her ring.
00:27:18
Speaker 1: He wasn't just me, Ozzie said. It was a mouse,
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Speaker 1: an oyster, a man tee, a giant squid, and two
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Speaker 1: friendly otters too. The cats and Missus pigg looked at
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Speaker 1: him with befuddlement, but didn't want to interrupt Agnes's happiness
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Speaker 1: with too many questions. Well, I know just how to celebrate, Potato, said,
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Speaker 1: Hot chocolates all round with cream and sprinkles. Ozzie spent
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Speaker 1: the rest of the afternoon sipping on yummy hot chocolate
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Speaker 1: with his best friends and resting his tired tentacles before
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Speaker 1: climbing back into his bubbly sink ready for the evening rush.
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Speaker 1: At night, he slept better than he had ever slept before,
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Speaker 1: dreaming of the endless ocean, sparkling rings, and a giant
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Speaker 1: squid named Pearl to the win.