Super Ant

Today's brand new story is about a superhero who is definitely on the up and up, very

“trustworthy and absolutely on the hunt for bad guys.”

Yeah, you can totally trust this guy, I mean, aunt. I'm in right up after a few words for the grown-ups! Hey grown-ups! Lee here! See story Pirates Live!

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Port Smith, New Hampshire, Medford, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, and Richfield, Connecticut. Take it to all the shows are on sale now at storypirates.com/live. [Music] It just filled me up with joy.

My mom loves the jokes. Yo, yo, my check! It's maybe very proud about my fighting. He couldn't just unbutton, no one wants what he does, and made a dog pile. I definitely think I can be more creative now.

I'm the champion! That's only pilots. [Music] Oh, hey there, welcome back to the storypirates podcast.

“Have you ever met someone who you suspected was, I don't know, up to something?”

Like, they just don't seem like they're telling you the entire truth. Well, after listening to today's story, you definitely will have. Here's the author to introduce it. Hi, my name is Nathan, I made use of the Night Live in Tennessee. This is nice for me, Silver.

[Music] Look, up in the air! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a cloud!

That was fun! I love pointing out things we see in the sky. Same. Wait, what's that on the ground? Where?

There! And, and? It's super ants!

More powerful than a lawnmower!

Am I able to leave garden-nomes in a single bound? Faster than other ants! It's super ants! Today's episode! Hi, in the sky!

Hey, Mom, is that a pie? It smells delicious! Can I have some? Sure, I'm just taking it out of the oven. Wait, what's this on the pie?

It looks like an ants? Not just any ants, I'm super ants! I have all the powers of an ant, but super ants! Whoa! A talking ant!

Honey, don't point at the talking ant! It's rude. I'm here to solve your problem. Our problem. You seem to have come to the wrong house.

We don't have any problems here. Are you sure? Have you checked your bathroom? I can send a criminal activity in here. Pretty sure.

In fact, I just finished renovating this house. It took a long time.

Years actually, but everything is finally exactly the way I've always wanted it.

If anything in this house didn't work, why? I'd lose it! In that case, I'd better go check your bathroom for you. Great, grasshopper! Your toilet is gone!

What? Let me see! Oh no! The toilet is gone. My renovations!

Oh no! It's a crime. We're still lucky you're here, super ant. It must be the gastedly doctor and either my menacees. Why does he steal toilets?

No one knows. And he doesn't want to, I don't know, eat ants. You think he'd want to eat meat, but no. His main thing is stealing toilets. You're very lucky I came here in time.

You can solve the crime, right, super ant? Of course I can. I'll do anything for my young fans. Wow.

“And wait, I believe I hear Dr. It either upstairs now.”

I don't hear anything. Should we all go get him? No, no, no, no. No. Don't worry. I got him. To upstairs! Hi, y'all. Oh, hi, hi. Dr. It's here. We are fighting today. It's for real.

It sounds like he's fighting someone upstairs. Dr. It either should be strong.

No, don't. I'll come back downstairs.

Wait, super ant, you're all by yourself. Where's Dr. Aunt Eater? Oh, no, you actually just missed him. Really? How'd the fight go? Great. I won.

He had to go to the dentist so he gave up. To Aunt Eater's have teeth? Well, um, I'm going to Google it. Wait, I'm sensing more nefarious activity. Is it Dr. Aunt Eater again?

Even worse. It's the dastardly man spider. He's a man, a small spider. What does he do? He steals the day.

No, I love my beday. It has seven different spray jets. I'll go check. No, oh my. He's far too dangerous.

You've been too many cricket.

I'm so sorry that the day is gone. I ran a fish. Super ant, what should we do? Well, we'll need to track him down, but he could be anywhere right now.

A room, Nepal, the Great Wall of China. Are you ready? Hi! Wait, now I'm sensing that he's right upstairs. Observe?

Well, let's all go get him. No, man, it's hard to danger. See, the spider is big as a man. I thought you said he was a man as big as a spider. Well, um, so, I'll find you.

Huh? There were upstairs and we are definitely fighting now. That is what it sounds like. I'm back. What happened?

What? Oh, I want to get him. I tied him up. Can I see him? No.

Okay.

“Super ant, I really think you should go.”

Wait, I'm sensing the most devilish crime. Yes. Hey, everyone, it's me, Dad. I've been upstairs this whole time, but now I'm going to use the bathroom.

Wait, hey, where's the toilet and the beday? I don't go check on him. Oh, oh, oh, oh! Bad news, your dad was kidnapped. By whom?

Um, by the wicked. Um, whom? Dr. Etteyer. Didn't he already take our toilet? Oh, um, I mean, man, spider.

You used that one too. Hello? Dale, where are you now? In the backyard? The backyard, let's go.

Dad, what are you doing? Help! I'm stuck inside this ant hill. How'd you get there? Super ant picked me up and put me here.

I think he's stealing our stuff. I'm pretty sure I feel the beday right under me. My random things aren't.

“Super ant, were you the one stealing from our bathroom?”

I thought you were a hero. Max thing, well, uh, hey, wait a minute. Is that our toilet you're carrying on your back? Fine, you caught me, but you still got to catch me. Here I go.

He's getting away with our toilet. Oh, he's setting up. Catch him. Oh, wait. He's fast for an ant, but he's pretty slow for a person.

Let's just walk over and grab the toilet. We got you. Hey, say, well, I'm still taking a slice of pie. That's fine. There's enough for everyone.

Really? Victory is mine, huh? [laughing] Huh. What a weird ant.

Join us next week for another exciting episode of Super Ant! Yay! And now, Lee speaks with the author. So Nathan, you wrote the story super ant. Well, I thought it was really funny.

That's super ant turned out to be stealing the toilet. First of all.

“And I'm wondering, was Super Ant trying to steal the whole toilet the whole time?”

Or is he really a superhero? I think he was just trying to steal the toilet the whole time. Like, maybe he was trying to drain out of the water to make a home with an ant one.

I think he thought that the slice of bread was the second best home.

But he couldn't have just done what a normal ant would have done. And made a dog pile. Yeah, you're right. He could have just done that. Could Pakistan or one of the other ants, like, have a chat with Super Ant to try to get him to be more of a problem solver

instead of a troublemaker? Yeah, probably. You think he would listen? Hmm. Maybe not the first time, but after, like, three or four times

I've done telling him he might listen. In real life, are you, like, a mischievous guy? Or do you pretty much play by the rules? I most of the time play by the rules, but, like, in state time

Do you remember any little pranks that you've done? I mean, I guess these sets once a month. And for one of them, I tied it to the swids. And when I dad opened the swids to get himself an apple for a ball of salt at him.

How did he react? Was he, was he good natured about it? Was he mad? He was good natured mostly because the ball didn't go for it and I stay at him.

Were you standing nearby pretending like nothing was happening until it happened? Yeah. Actually, I came to get me an apple when I thought that he was getting himself an apple.

Oh, you really set him up there? Yeah. I wanted to make sure that he wasn't not going to decide not to open the swids if he decided not to get himself an apple.

“And what have you had been like, why don't you get it yourself, Nathan?”

What would you have said? I wanted to say, I can't reach the apple with you. And I don't know how to use an ice. He can't avoid it now. He's got to open that fridge.

That's amazing. I can see why super-an is such a well-drawn character in your story because you sounds like you just know a little bit about what it's like to be a mischief maker. Yeah.

Thank you so much for letting us perform your story. Thank you for tuning in. You are so welcome, my friend. Great work. Alright, bye, Nathan.

Bye. We'll be right back after a few words for the great knock. Hey grown-ups, Lee here. See story pirates live.

Our amazing touring cast, including Eric,

will be visiting some East Coast cities this spring to perform some of your favorite songs from the podcast. And they'll take suggestions from kids in the audience to create a brand new story that will only be seen once. Best of all, all of our upcoming shows are on weekends,

so no need to worry about school nights or bedtime routines.

“We'll see you soon in Munhall, Pennsylvania,”

just outside of Pittsburgh. Cincinnati, Ohio, Port Smith, New Hampshire, Medford, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, and Richfield, Connecticut. It's to all the shows are on sale now at storypires.com/live.

Welcome back to Story Love, where we read stories written by kids, actual kids, send us these stories. We read them. And then we talk about them.

You've perfectly explained the story pirates. That's right. The story pirates, we get tens of thousands of stories every year. We respond to every single one, Peter, I would like to read the very first story here. I would love to listen to it.

Okay. All right. This story is from an eight year old from the United Kingdom named Dylan, and it's called The Weird Sky Scraper. Hello. I'm a copybara.

Specifically one that sells skyscrapers. Anyway, I had a wild day today. So, I had a customer come in today. He said he sold computers, but he had a metallic look.

Anyway, he said he wanted the Empire State Building. I thought that was a normal idea. Until he offered me the best deal ever. A literal orange. No.

Your ears are not deceiving you.

“A plump juicy fresh orange picked straight from Spain”

and sent in a frigate plane. You know what I had to say? Yes, big yes. Lots of yes, happy yes.

So I hit the airport and book myself a first class seat

on Capy Air. The airline for Capy Baris. Obviously. So I calmly removed the skyscraper. Like was it an everyday thing?

Of course. But then what I found under was better than what you humans call chocolate. You guessed it. Orange is.

And the only logical thing to do was nom nom. Oh, sorry. Gasped. I dropped it.

Oh, well. Here I am. skyscrapers falling everywhere and NYC in destruction. You know what to do.

Fly all the way back to Cardiff, the capital. Reclaim my sweet orange and eat 18 pounds of beef. Great. The end. Wow.

Lee. Yes. To me, the big twist is that we're in Wales. I guess so. Well, we're over in NYC, aren't we?

Yeah. Well, we start in Wales is what you're saying. Well, I say, yeah. Because it says fly all the way back to Cardiff. Yep.

Which I'm maybe Dylan's Dylan is a well-shame. Perhaps our author is from Wales. There's so many details. So many things to unpack here.

But the very first one is this is a

Capy Barra who sells skyscrapers in what sounds like like an office. You come in. You're like, yeah. I want to buy skyscrapers.

He's like, I got the Empire State Building. I got this. What do you need? It's the most interesting thing about this business. He's not like the price of the Empire State Building is this.

He's like, what do you got? And I think apparently oranges are in high demand.

Capy Barra's do not eat oranges.

“It's not like that's their favorite food or anything.”

Well, I looked it up too. And apparently they don't sell skyscrapers. Oh, really? So there's a lot of fiction in this story. All right.

Well, do you want to know what they do eat? Yeah. They eat grasses and aquatic plants. Oh, yeah. So oranges doesn't feel like they would know what to do with one.

Yeah. So this is a character trait. It's well done. I'm curious about a frigate plane. It does sound a little bit aquatic.

But I assume do is like a refrigerated plane. Which is what it sounds like. Oh, like a fridge plane. Yeah, because he says he sends. He's sending a picture straight from Spain and sent in a frigate plane.

A frigate is a fast maneuverable worship. Well, I like it better than it's a fridge plane. Yeah.

Well, I've never been to Cardiff.

I'd like to go and eat 18 pounds of beef there. Oh, the beef was also a twist. You know, like there's nothing better than oranges. But right now, I have 18 pounds of beef. And the last last line is one word.

Great. Dylan, we like your style, my friend. Good work.

“Peter, would you read the next story for us?”

Yes, I would. Lee, this story comes to us from a six year old from Ohio named Laura Lye. And Laura Lye story is called Too Many Dogs. Hmm.

Dogs in the park. Dogs in the forest. Dogs in the house. Dogs in the treehouse. Dogs in the pumpkin patch.

Too many dogs. The end. Now, let's look at the actual story that was sent into us. It's handwritten. I just love the way this looks.

Hmm. It's got so much personality. Yeah.

You know, I love that there's five lines where there's the first three words are all the same.

Dogs in the. And all the dogs in the ends and those are lined up beautifully. Yep. You know, this, this is a, to me, is a very deep story. We spend so much time wondering who let the dogs out.

Who? Who? Who? I have to consider who let them in. This is the question.

This reminded me I used to when I was six years old and six to ten. I would walk to school. And in where I grew up, there were dogs seemingly everywhere. Yeah. Not on leashes.

Yeah. They could walk around. You had to watch where you stepped. Yeah. And I got chased by dogs.

“Well, I mean, I think they were being friendly.”

But I was so scared of dogs. Wow. Are you still scared of dogs? I'm over it. But walking to school for a little while, I was so scared.

Because they were very friendly dogs. But they'd run up to you and sniff you and that made me scared. Okay. Well, we, you gave us a lot to think about Laura Lied. Thank you very much.

Incredible story. Great story. All right. Our final story is by Rory, a nine year old from Georgia. And it's called the Goose Mayor.

Hmm. There was a talking goose who ran from mayor and one. The goose was very smart. He was a house pet in the town of Waterville. When the goose was elected, he made sure everyone had an indoor pool.

It's about time. Yeah. I love an indoor pool.

And that's because a goose always wants to be in the water, right?

And in the winter, they can't be in an outdoor pool. Well, you geese, they stick around a lot longer in cold places than you think. But they, if they had an indoor pool, they prefer that. They probably would be in there. I would imagine.

I've never been a goose except when I was a goose on the story. It's podcast. Oh, yeah. The goose. Yeah.

What's it called? There are nimony turned me into a goose. Oh, yeah. In a recent season, but the original goose story on the story where it's podcast is a goose prank. Yes.

I played a goose. Goose is geese. I want to goose who lays go eggs for Easter. Amazing story. I love this.

I love the upwards trajectory of this goose. Doesn't seem like he has anything standing in his way. And I just got to say, yeah, we need more candidates like this goose. The goose was very smart. Right.

It's a talking goose. They're taking what they're good at. And they are going into public service, which we need more people who can talk and are smart to do. And this goose is clearly worked its way up, you know, from the bottom as a house pet over in Waterville. And, you know, as I say, it's just a world of talking animals.

It seems like maybe this is a very special goose who is the only one you could talk. And this goose got people to vote for it. If that's the case. We should all follow this goose's example. You have something to give to the world.

Give back public service folks. Give me an indoor pool. All right. Rory, fantastic story, my friend. That's it for today's story.

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That's it for today's episode.

“Thanks to today's author Nathan and we'll be back next week with another brand new episode.”

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Superient was adapted by Jonathan Appell. Episode artwork by Camilla Franklin. The episode features performances by Craig Barnett. Michelle Chan Bennett, Jake Ballon, Kento Marida. Peter McNurney, Magnoneel and Brittany Stahl.

Okay, finally, that episode is over.

I can head over to my private luxury bathroom and take a little break. I'll just open the door here and... My toilet! My beday! My head tub!

My softest bedzer! My toilet brush! My white towels that are folded really nicely! They're all gone! Who could have done this?

Wait a second. Superient!