Potato & Beans' Sleepy Collection 🐱🛼 Premium Kids Story Compilation

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[00:00:19] Hey, cosy koalas! The holiday festivities may have ended, but we're just getting started on our new Coco Club stories for 2025. And because so many of you loved our December promotion of 30 nights free access, we've decided to extend our special offer into January.

[00:00:39] Until January 27th, new subscribers can claim an extended free trial of Coco Club, just in time to settle into a soothing bedtime routine after the busyness of the holidays. With Coco Club, you'll unlock over 450 ad-free bedtime stories, including a brand new Potato & Beans Mega Compilation, coming on January 21st.

[00:01:05] This special story features all previously released Potato & Beans, Mrs. Pig and Ozzy the Octopus tales, offering you hours of uninterrupted, cosy diner adventures. And, if that's not magic enough, join Coco Club as a yearly member, and you'll receive a personal shout-out from me in an upcoming episode. I can't wait to hear all your names.

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[00:03:05] If you have babies and toddlers in your family, then this announcement is for you. I'd like to tell you about my other sleep show, Koala Tots. It's got all the magic of Koala Moon, but it's made especially for the littlest of listeners, babies and toddlers. Koala Tots is packed with soothing stories and calming rhymes, perfect for helping babies and toddlers sleep like a dream.

[00:03:28] Not only are the stories incredibly relaxing, but they have easy to understand language and gentle repetition designed to help with babies' cognitive development as they drift off to sleep. There's even appearances from some of the Koala Moon star favourites alongside the cutest episodes like How to Hug a Hedgehog and Nugget's Cozy Night.

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[00:04:16] Sign up on Apple Podcasts or for all other podcast players, click the Supercast link in the show notes. Anyway, here's a preview of this very special episode. Sydney the Squirrel was poking his head through the crack in the open window, grinning and munching on an acorn. Hey, do you guys want a midnight snack? he asked. The two dogs nodded.

[00:04:46] I know somewhere where you can get anything you like, he said. A diner of dreams. Hector and Sunny grinned at one another. It sounded like they were going to go on another adventure. Hector pinched himself to see whether he was dreaming and yelped, realising that he wasn't. Sydney pointed to a glass door that had appeared in the wall behind them.

[00:05:15] It had a neon sign hanging on it which read, Open. The dogs whispered their thanks to Sydney and opened the door, excited to see where they might appear. The first thing Hector and Sunny noticed was the breeze blowing in their fur and flapping their ears. They seemed to have found themselves in a huge red car.

[00:05:42] They were sprawled on a wide back seat and the roof was down so they had uninterrupted views of the desert around them. The ground was dusty and orange and the sky might have been the bluest blue they had ever seen. The desert was vast and there were orange rocky canyons beyond. Cacti stood up like scarecrows here and there, blurring into the distance.

[00:06:11] In the front seat was a crab wearing a chauffeur's hat and an air freshener hanging from the rearview mirror was emblazoned with a logo for Crabs Cabs. Hey guys, he said. To a potato and beans' diner, is it? The dogs nodded, assuming that this was the right destination. There couldn't be many other diners around here in the middle of nowhere.

[00:06:37] They relaxed back into their seats and let their tongues loll in the wind. Before too long, a building appeared in the distance, marked with a red neon sign. It got bigger and bigger as they drove, until they pulled up in its parking lot. Despite it being so far into the middle of nowhere, the diner was bustling.

[00:07:03] Hector and Sunny said goodbye to the crab and climbed out of the car, out of the heat and into the diner. The booths and chairs were full, all taken by animals and the occasional human, and the tables were laden with delicious-looking food. Hector and Sunny stood by the door and took a huge, deep inhale. It smelt amazing.

[00:07:31] A little pot-bellied pig was swooping from table to table, delivering food and taking away plates, a whirlwind on roller skates. An octopus was skating on four tentacles and handing out milkshakes and slices of pie with his other four. Every so often, a kind-looking lady pig would pass plates of food through the service window and ring a little golden bell to indicate they were ready.

[00:08:00] Behind the counter, two cats were pouring drinks, slicing pie and squirting whipped cream onto cake. Listen to the full episode by joining the Coco Club. Unlock the entire back catalogue of Coco Club exclusives and enjoy all episodes completely ad-free.