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The Tornado Two-Step | Pecos Bill Tall Tale Retold | Stories for Kids · Dorktales Storytime | Stories for Kids Who Love Big Adventures

• 0:02
  Jonathan: Hello, Dork Squad.
• 0:03
  Jonathan: I'm Jonathan Cormur, and you're listening to Dork Tales the podcast for kids and their pop culture loving grown-ups.
• 0:14
  Theme Song: It's a beautiful day for a story, adventuring glory, new and old ones, too.
• 0:20
  Theme Song: It's an excellent day to get swept away in a tale, so let us
• 0:44
  Redge: Bother! I told you.
• 0:46
  Nicolai: No worries, I got it, I got it.
• 0:54
  Jonathan: Redge, Nicolai, are you two all right?
• 0:59
  Redge: Oh, Jonathan! Perfect timing.
• 1:01
  Redge: I'm glad you're here.
• 1:02
  Redge: I'm afraid for our birdhouse, we've just hit a big snag with to the design.
• 1:10
  Jonathan: Oh, well, uh anything I can do to help?
• 1:13
  Nicolai: Oh, no, thank you.
• 1:14
  Nicolai: I got this one.
• 1:16
  Redge: Um actually, Nikolai, uh chap, maybe Jonathan has some good for us.
• 1:22
  Redge: We are borrowing his tools for this project, after all.
• 1:28
  Nicolai: Fine.
• 1:29
  Jonathan: Uh wait, you're borrowing my t all right.
• 1:32
  Jonathan: Uh what seems to be the trouble, my builder friends?
• 1:37
  Nicolai: Well, we weren't seeing eye to eye about some details.
• 1:42
  Redge: Some details?
• 1:43
  Redge: Only the most important details.
• 1:48
  Redge: What, it's true.
• 1:50
  Nicolai: Ugh.
• 1:50
  Nicolai: This is exactly why I don't want to work on projects with you as much as I used to.
• 1:57
  Redge: I thought you said you were busy with a new dance class.
• 2:01
  Jonathan: Whoa, whoa, Redge! Nikolai, hold your horses.
• 2:04
  Jonathan: Uh why don't we start from the top?
• 2:07
  Jonathan: You gotta catch me up here.
• 2:08
  Jonathan: When I loaned you my workbench, you said you were excited finally get started on the home for Midge.
• 2:16
  Redge: Yes, that's right.
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  Redge: This morning, Nikolai and I set out to craft the birdhouse for
• 2:25
  Nicolai: the Pigeon.
• 2:26
  Redge: Yes, Midge the Pidge is moving here in a couple of days, and had the blueprints for her birdhouse planned, but they don't to be manifesting the way we expected.
• 2:39
  Jonathan: Oh, why not?
• 2:42
  Nicolai: Well, first the kitchen.
• 2:44
  Redge: We disagree about the layout.
• 2:46
  Redge: You see?
• 2:47
  Redge: The window?
• 2:49
  Jonathan: Yes.
• 2:49
  Jonathan: I see the window.
• 2:53
  Redge: Well, I wanted Midge while she was washing dishes and standing the sink, to be able to look out upon the bridge.
• 3:03
  Nicolai: And that means we'd have to relocate the fridge.
• 3:07
  Jonathan: Which you don't want, right, Nicolai?
• 3:10
  Redge: He claims it limits cabinet space, but I'm only shifting it a
• 3:16
  Jonathan: So uh let me make sure I have this correct.
• 3:18
  Jonathan: Nicolai the Firefly and Redge the Hedge are building a for Midge the Pidge, and you disagree about where to shift fridge, a smidge, because it impacts her view of the bridge.
• 3:32
  Redge: Exactly.
• 3:33
  Nicolai: Simple as that.
• 3:34
  Jonathan: I hate to break it to you two, but from what I'm gathering, issue doesn't sound so simple.
• 3:43
  Redge: Ugh is right.
• 3:44
  Redge: I knew I should have called our beaver friend Glimmer and asked her for her expert builder advice.
• 3:52
  Jonathan: Well, okay, but I don't think it's your plans, but rather I'm picking up on quite a bit of tension between you two.
• 4:02
  Nicolai: Well, I didn't start it.
• 4:04
  Redge: Nor I.
• 4:05
  Nicolai: Yes you did.
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  Redge: No, you did.
• 4:08
  Both: No, you did.
• 4:08
  Both: No, you did, you did, you did, you did, you did, you did, you did, you did, you did, you did.
• 4:15
  Jonathan: Friends, friends, friends did all this start today?
• 4:22
  Redge: Well, I was kind of unhappy when we drafted the blueprints, but I wanted to see how today went.
• 4:28
  Redge: I thought I could convince him.
• 4:32
  Jonathan: And Nicolai, I picked up that you have some unresolved about working with Redge.
• 4:38
  Jonathan: Why didn't you tell him this before?
• 4:41
  Nicolai: Oh I was nervous about how he'd react.
• 4:46
  Redge: What?
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  Redge: You always do this.
• 4:50
  Nicolai: Well, you always do this to me.
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  Both: No, you do.
• 4:53
  Both: No, you do, no you do, no you do, no you do, no you do, no you do, do.
• 5:00
  Jonathan: Hey fellas, fellas, please Not again.
• 5:03
  Jonathan: Can I tell you two a story I think relates to the situation?
• 5:08
  Jonathan: It might help.
• 5:11
  Nicolai: Oh yes, please.
• 5:13
  Redge: By all means.
• 5:15
  Jonathan: Okay.
• 5:15
  Jonathan: Have you two ever heard of the story of Pecos Bill and the
• 5:21
  Nicolai: Uh Pecos who and the what now?
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  Jonathan: Well, Pecos Bill was the rootinest tootinest, roughest and cowboy in the wild west.
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  Jonathan: He was a big deal in the cowboy scene.
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  Jonathan: He could hurl a lasso thirty feet.
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  Jonathan: He could hit the spittoon across the saloon.
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  Jonathan: But his most impressive skill of all was that Pecos Bill stay astride anything.
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  Jonathan: Gnarly waves, wild horses, bucking broncos, you name it.
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  Jonathan: He was an expert rider, known for never falling, even on the most tumultuous of rides.
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  Redge: Hmm, uh that's all well and good, mate, but how does this cowman relate to a hedgehog and a firefly building a birdhouse?
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  Jonathan: Oh you'll see, here's the interesting part.
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  Jonathan: There was just one time Pecos Bill ever got bucked.
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  Jonathan: One day, he was in Kansas and decided to ride a tornado.
• 6:32
  Nicolai: A tornado?
• 6:34
  Jonathan: Yep.
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  Jonathan: He decided to hop on the back of what the newspapers called biggest gol' darn tornado you ever saw.
• 6:43
  Jonathan: It turned the sky black and green, and farmers say they its roar all the way in China.
• 6:52
  Redge: From Kansas?
• 6:55
  Jonathan: Yep.
• 6:56
  Nicolai: Wow!
• 6:57
  Jonathan: Oh, wait.
• 6:58
  Jonathan: We live in Once Upon a Time.
• 7:00
  Jonathan: Do you two even know how far apart Kansas and China are?
• 7:05
  Both: Oh yeah! No.
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  Both: I can't say I do, mate.
• 7:10
  Jonathan: Well, it's like the distance from here to the farthest of the Fantasea, or the Biograsea.
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  Both: Wow.
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  Jonathan: What Pecos Bill didn't realize as he straddled the roaring with a hearty Yeehaw was that this tornado didn't want to be ridden.
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  Jonathan: So, as soon as Bill jumped on its back, it began a spitting and a spurtin' across the south of the United States.
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  Jonathan: It rocked through Kansas all the way down to Texas.
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  Nicolai: Oh, what did Bill do?
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  Jonathan: Well, he couldn't do much but hang on tight.
• 7:55
  Jonathan: The tornado was picking up speed and ferociousness everywhere it went.
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  Jonathan: It tied rivers into knots, flattened forests, and even carried cows far from their pastures.
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  Redge: Yikes!
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  Jonathan: I know, right?
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  Jonathan: What Bill thought was something simple turned out to be a dervish, only picking up strength as it continued on its
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  Nicolai: And he couldn't plan for any of it?
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  Nicolai: Not really.
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  Nicolai: He just had to ride along.
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  Nicolai: The best he could do was chab it with his spurs from time to But this tornado had a stubborn will of its own.
• 8:59
  Redge: Hmm, sounds a lot like you, Nicolai.
• 9:02
  Nicolai: What me?
• 9:04
  Redge: Well, isn't that why you're telling this story, Jonathan?
• 9:08
  Jonathan: Um not exactly, Redge.
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  Jonathan: It's about both of you.
• 9:13
  Redge: It is?
• 9:15
  Jonathan: Yes.
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  Jonathan: As you know, Bill was riding that tumultuous tornado country.
• 9:22
  Redge: Yes, yes, yes, we get it, Cad Bane.
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  Redge: The river twisting, the forest flattening, etc, etc.
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  Jonathan: Ah, but what you didn't know is this tornado also brought Finally, it decided it wasn't getting rid of old Pecos Bill it headed to rain itself out in Californ-y and buck ol Bill
• 9:47
  Pecos Bill: Tarnation!
• 9:50
  Jonathan: And it downpoured its way through Arizona.
• 9:53
  Jonathan: And Bill exclaimed, when he saw that the rain washed out the Grand Canyon.
• 10:03
  Redge: Wait, you told me about the glorious Grand Canyon before Uh how it was made?
• 10:14
  Nicolai: No blueprints?
• 10:17
  Jonathan: That's how the legend goes.
• 10:18
  Jonathan: Pecos Bill saw the Grand Canyon get carved out by the rain.
• 10:24
  Jonathan: Then the tornado got Bill off its back in one swoop in California, where Bill hit the ground a little too hard.
• 10:33
  Jonathan: In fact, it's been said that thud made the ground sink below sea level.
• 10:40
  Jonathan: And that spot is what folks now call Death Valley.
• 10:44
  Jonathan: And yeah! The rodeo was born.
• 10:52
  Redge: That's wild, Jonathan.
• 10:56
  Nicolai: Didn't really seem like Pecos Bill had very much control of situation.
• 11:01
  Jonathan: Well he didn't.
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  Jonathan: That's kind of the point.
• 11:06
  Redge: why?
• 11:07
  Jonathan: Well, Reg and Nikolai, I noticed you two were kind of doing Pecos Bill was.
• 11:13
  Jonathan: You both had a big problem to tackle, and you both knew the way to do it.
• 11:18
  Jonathan: Just like Bill, you didn't give up on your stance.
• 11:21
  Jonathan: And that's admirable, but just like with the Tornado and Bill, sometimes little problems can quickly spiral out of control much bigger issues.
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  Nicolai: Hmm.
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  Nicolai: I can see that.
• 11:37
  Redge: Yes, I suppose I can too.
• 11:39
  Redge: Nicolai, I'm sorry I didn't tell you before that I disagreed your change to the plans.
• 11:47
  Nicolai: Ah thanks, Redge.
• 11:49
  Nicolai: I should have told you sooner that I was annoyed too.
• 11:53
  Nicolai: Our blueprints couldn't stand a chance when I was coming in heated.
• 11:59
  Redge: Well, friend, I wasn't trying to create a metaphorical Grand in our relationship either.
• 12:06
  Redge: I guess I should have compromised a bit more.
• 12:10
  Jonathan: Exactly.
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  Jonathan: Nobody can predict how things will go, but it's important realize that it's better for tough situations to be talked before they grow into tension tornadoes, destroying in their path.
• 12:24
  Jonathan: Then nobody wins.
• 12:28
  Redge: Right.
• 12:28
  Redge: We can work it out as a team instead.
• 12:32
  Jonathan: Wow, you two are really embracing the story.
• 12:35
  Jonathan: But what'll you do about Midge, her fridge, and the view of bridge?
• 12:42
  Redge: Well I'm certain we can figure it out together.
• 12:51
  Nicolai: then the window wouldn't need to be so small.
• 13:02
  Nicolai: and Midge would get a glorious view of the bridge.
• 13:08
  Redge: Brilliant! Well solved, my friends.
• 13:11
  Redge: Oh, and anything else we disagree on, we'll discuss and come with a compromise.
• 13:19
  Nicolai: You're darn tootin'.
• 13:20
  Nicolai: Thanks for the story, Jonathan, and for loaning us the
• 13:26
  Jonathan: My pleasure.
• 13:26
  Jonathan: I think you two make mighty fine pardners.
• 13:31
  Nicolai: Yeehaw!
• 13:34
  Redge: Tallyho!
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  Jonathan: This has been a Jon in Character Production.
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  Jonathan: Today's story was written by Amy Thompson and performed by Cormur.
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  Jonathan: Sound recording and production by Jermaine Hamilton at Sound Studios.
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  Jonathan: Reach out to us on Instagram or email us at at gmail.com.
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  Jonathan: Find links in the show notes or go to Now, go be the hero of your own story, and we'll see you once upon a time.
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  Theme Song: So gather your squad.