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Alice’s Birthday Bummer | Alice in Wonderland Adventure | Stories for Kids · Dorktales Storytime | Stories for Kids Who Love Big Adventures

• 0:01
  Jonathan: Hello, Dork Squad.
• 0:02
  Jonathan: I'm Jonathan Cormur, and you're listening to Dorktales the podcast for kids and their pop culture loving grown-ups.
• 0:14
  Theme Song: It's a beautiful day for a story, adventure, and glory, new friends and old ones, too.
• 0:20
  Theme Song: It's an excellent day to get swept away in a tale, so let us you.
• 0:34
  Redge: Come along, Jonathan.
• 0:34
  Redge: I believe it's this way.
• 0:37
  Jonathan: Right behind you, Redge.
• 0:39
  Redge: It's absolutely splendid to be back in Wonderland.
• 0:43
  Jonathan: As long as we don't see any scary creatures like last time.
• 0:47
  Redge: Not a chance.
• 0:47
  Redge: We're here for fun and frivolity only.
• 0:50
  Redge: Jonathan, watch your step!
• 0:53
  Jonathan: Uh what?
• 0:54
  Jonathan: What where?
• 0:55
  Redge: Well, the flowers will not be pleased if you step on them.
• 0:59
  Rose: And we aren't afraid to let you know it.
• 1:02
  Jonathan: Oh wow.
• 1:02
  Jonathan: Hello.
• 1:04
  Rose: Hiya.
• 1:05
  Bougainvillea: Hello.
• 1:06
  Daisy: Greetings.
• 1:08
  Jonathan: I don't remember talking flowers on our last visit.
• 1:11
  Rose: We sing too.
• 1:16
  Jonathan: Oh, and they sound as lovely as they look.
• 1:19
  Daisy: Oh, how sweet.
• 1:21
  Bougainvillea: Ooh, I like him.
• 1:23
  Rose: He can stay.
• 1:24
  Redge: Well, we can't stay long, unfortunately.
• 1:26
  Redge: We have somewhere we need to be.
• 1:29
  Jonathan: Yes, and we don't want to be late.
• 1:31
  Redge: For our very important date.
• 1:33
  Redge: Uh let's see.
• 1:35
  Redge: Is it down the path to the left with the large oaks and strange birds?
• 1:40
  Jonathan: Or the path to the right with the rainbow-colored mushrooms uh oversized insects?
• 1:45
  Redge: These directions aren't exactly clear.
• 1:48
  Jonathan: Someone must have been in a rush when they wrote them.
• 1:51
  Redge: Hmm, well it's always so easy to get lost in Wonderland.
• 1:55
  Jonathan: Should we ask the flowers which way to go?
• 1:58
  Rose: Sorry.
• 1:59
  Bougainvillea: We can't help you.
• 2:03
  Rose: spot.
• 2:03
  White Rabbit: Help me, oh my, help me, oh my!
• 2:06
  Redge: The White Rabbit! What's he doing here?
• 2:10
  Alice: White Rabbit, White Rabbit! Wait, wait!
• 2:13
  Jonathan: Oh, and there's Alice too.
• 2:14
  Jonathan: I'm late, I'm late.
• 2:16
  Alice: Uh White Rabbit!
• 2:18
  White Rabbit: No time to wait.
• 2:19
  White Rabbit: I'm late, I'm late, I'm late.
• 2:21
  Alice: But it's my White Rabbit! You promised!
• 2:26
  Redge: Oh White Rabbit, wait!
• 2:28
  White Rabbit: Oh, Redge uh Jonathan! Oh, I'm sorry.
• 2:31
  White Rabbit: I'm late.
• 2:32
  White Rabbit: You understand?
• 2:33
  White Rabbit: I'm late, I'm late, I'm late.
• 2:39
  Alice: White Rabbit!
• 2:41
  Redge: Alice!
• 2:42
  Jonathan: Hello!
• 2:43
  Alice: Oh, hi, Redge.
• 2:44
  Alice: Hi, Jonathan.
• 2:46
  Redge: Are you alright, Alice?
• 2:48
  Alice: It's just well, the White Rabbit is always in a rush, but he promised to slow down and spend the day with me.
• 2:55
  Alice: He was going to show me the new renovations to his house.
• 2:58
  Alice: It's finally completed.
• 3:01
  Jonathan: Oh, how nice.
• 3:02
  Alice: But he keeps running away and won't bring me to the house.
• 3:05
  Alice: I don't know which way to go.
• 3:07
  Alice: It's also terribly disappointing because it's a very
• 3:12
  Jonathan: Oh, is it?
• 3:14
  Redge: Yes.
• 3:14
  Redge: Is it?
• 3:16
  Alice: Yes, it's my birthday.
• 3:19
  Redge: Oh! Happy birthday!
• 3:22
  Jonathan: Yes, happy birthday, Alice.
• 3:24
  Alice: What are you doing in Wonderland?
• 3:26
  Jonathan: Uh, we just came for a visit.
• 3:30
  Redge: Yes, uh just a visit.
• 3:32
  Jonathan: It's very confusing getting around here.
• 3:35
  Alice: Don't I know it?
• 3:36
  Alice: Now which way did the white rabbit go?
• 3:39
  Redge: Uh to the left, through the oaks.
• 3:41
  Jonathan: Uh no no, I believe it was to the right, near the mushrooms.
• 3:44
  Daisy: It was through the trees.
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  Bougainvillea: No, no, by the mushrooms.
• 3:50
  Rose: Don't listen to them.
• 3:51
  Rose: They can't see a thing past my thorns.
• 3:54
  Jonathan: What about you, Rose?
• 3:55
  Jonathan: Did you see which way the white rabbit went?
• 3:59
  Rose: Me?
• 3:59
  Rose: No, the sun was in my eyes.
• 4:08
  Jonathan: Did you hear that?
• 4:10
  Alice: That must be the Mad Hatter.
• 4:11
  Alice: Maybe he's hosting another tea party.
• 4:14
  Jonathan: I think the sound is coming from down this way, through trees.
• 4:18
  Alice: You know what?
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  Alice: If anyone knows how to celebrate, it's the Mad Hatter.
• 4:22
  Alice: And if the white rabbit won't be with me on my birthday, then I'll make my own fun.
• 4:28
  Alice: Will you come with me?
• 4:30
  Redge: Of course.
• 4:31
  Jonathan: Happy to.
• 4:32
  Alice: Oh, thank you.
• 4:34
  Alice: The day has been such a bummer so far.
• 4:36
  Alice: But this might save my birthday after all.
• 4:39
  Alice: Let's go!
• 4:51
  Mad Hatter: One lump, two lump, three lump, four.
• 4:53
  Mad Hatter: Oh, certainly, certainly you can have more.
• 4:56
  Mad Hatter: Just open your mouth and I'll give you a pour.
• 4:59
  Mad Hatter: Swirl it around and spit it on the floor.
• 5:05
  Redge: Hello there.
• 5:06
  Mad Hatter: Stir it, stir it, stir it around.
• 5:09
  Mad Hatter: Stir with your foot and drink it off the ground.
• 5:12
  Mad Hatter: Lick it and lap it slurp it up right now.
• 5:15
  Mad Hatter: Spin, spin, spin, then take a bow.
• 5:18
  Mad Hatter: Oh uh where did you come from?
• 5:25
  Jonathan: Uh just down the path through the trees.
• 5:28
  Mad Hatter: My goodness! You gave me such a shock.
• 5:30
  Mad Hatter: Such a fright!
• 5:33
  Redge: Oh, uh, we're sorry.
• 5:34
  Redge: But now that you're here, tea?
• 5:36
  Redge: Tea?
• 5:36
  Redge: Anyone?
• 5:38
  Mad Hatter: Tea?
• 5:39
  Alice: Oh yes, please!
• 5:41
  Jonathan: Uh cup for each of us, I think.
• 5:43
  Jonathan: Thank you.
• 5:44
  Redge: Jonathan, is there time?
• 5:46
  Jonathan: Uh I think we still have time.
• 5:49
  Mad Hatter: There's always time for tea.
• 5:52
  Alice: Are you in a hurry?
• 5:54
  Redge: Oh no no.
• 5:55
  Jonathan: Of course not, no.
• 5:57
  Alice: Great! Then there's time for cake too.
• 5:59
  Alice: Do you have any?
• 6:01
  Mad Hatter: Cake?
• 6:01
  Mad Hatter: Cake?
• 6:05
  Alice: Yes?
• 6:06
  Mad Hatter: I always have cake.
• 6:08
  Mad Hatter: Always, always, always.
• 6:10
  Mad Hatter: Now, where did I put it?
• 6:12
  Mad Hatter: Uh cake! Where are you?
• 6:15
  Mad Hatter: Hmm Cake?
• 6:17
  Mad Hatter: Cake Oh this hat?
• 6:20
  Mad Hatter: I can't think with it on.
• 6:24
  Jonathan: Oh!
• 6:25
  Redge: The cake!
• 6:26
  Mad Hatter: The cake?
• 6:26
  Mad Hatter: Where?
• 6:29
  Alice: It's on your head!
• 6:31
  Redge: It was under your hat.
• 6:33
  Mad Hatter: Oh! I should have known! I'd do all my best thinking with cake on my head.
• 6:39
  Mad Hatter: Here you are!
• 6:41
  Jonathan: Good thing there wasn't a candle.
• 6:44
  Redge: A candle! Great idea, Jonathan! Then it'd be a proper celebration.
• 6:49
  Mad Hatter: Celebration?
• 6:49
  Mad Hatter: Did you say celebration?
• 6:52
  Mad Hatter: Oh we must blow up balloons!
• 6:56
  Alice: Oh yes!
• 6:57
  Redge: What fun!
• 7:13
  Mad Hatter: And we must have games, games, games!
• 7:20
  Alice: cat! Just like my cat Dinah!
• 7:24
  Mad Hatter: Don't say cat! Don't say cat!
• 7:27
  Mouse: Did somebody say?
• 7:28
  Mad Hatter: Uh no, no, uh, Mr.
• 7:30
  Mad Hatter: Dormouse.
• 7:30
  Mad Hatter: Uh, no, not at all.
• 7:32
  Mad Hatter: Uh uh go back to sleep.
• 7:35
  Mouse: Oh, okay.
• 7:39
  Alice: This is wonderful! You've all saved the day! Thank you for turning it around.
• 7:43
  Alice: Everything's so much better now!
• 7:49
  Redge: course.
• 7:50
  Alice: Maybe it'll be the best birthday yet.
• 7:53
  Mad Hatter: Wait.
• 7:53
  Mad Hatter: Birthday?
• 7:54
  Mad Hatter: A birthday?
• 7:57
  Alice: Yes, today's my birthday!
• 7:59
  Mad Hatter: Oh no, no, no, no, no! No cake for you.
• 8:04
  Alice: What?
• 8:04
  Mad Hatter: Give me that!
• 8:06
  Alice: Why?
• 8:11
  Mad Hatter: And no balloons, no no, pop the balloons, pop up.
• 8:14
  Mad Hatter: Uh, no balloons, not on the birthday.
• 8:16
  Mad Hatter: No, no, it's all wrong.
• 8:25
  Jonathan: What are you doing?
• 8:26
  Mad Hatter: I never celebrate birthdays, only un birthdays! Then you can celebrate 364 days every year, you know?
• 8:37
  Jonathan: But what about the 365th day?
• 8:41
  Alice: Yes, what about your actual birthday?
• 8:44
  Mad Hatter: Your actual birthday?
• 8:45
  Mad Hatter: That's reserved only for birthday bummers.
• 8:51
  Alice: Birthday bummers?
• 8:53
  Mad Hatter: Yes, yes, the day when everything goes wrong.
• 8:56
  Mad Hatter: Will go wrong, must go wrong, has to go wrong.
• 9:03
  Alice: I don't understand.
• 9:05
  Mad Hatter: You can't appreciate the other 364 unbirthdays if you didn't have a birthday bummer, or two, or three, or twelve on your actual birthday.
• 9:18
  Alice: I think I've had enough bummers, thank you.
• 9:21
  Alice: The white rabbit won't celebrate with me, and now this! There's nothing to do now but wait.
• 9:28
  Jonathan: Wait?
• 9:30
  Redge: Wait for what?
• 9:31
  Alice: Just wait for this day to be over.
• 9:34
  Jonathan: Yes, uh, bye-bye.
• 9:35
  Jonathan: Go be a bummer somewhere else.
• 9:37
  Jonathan: Come back on your unbirthday.
• 9:38
  Jonathan: I'm happy to celebrate with you then.
• 9:41
  Jonathan: Uh goodbye, goodbye! Huh.
• 9:44
  Jonathan: Now where was I?
• 9:47
  Jonathan: Oh yes, uh, one lump, two lump, three lump, four.
• 9:50
  Jonathan: I'm sorry, Alice.
• 9:53
  Alice: Me too.
• 9:54
  Alice: I thought that was shaping up to be the best birthday party ever.
• 9:58
  Alice: lost again.
• 10:01
  Redge: I just wish we could find the white rabbit's house.
• 10:05
  Cheshire Cat: If you don't know where you're going, any path will you there.
• 10:09
  Cheshire Cat: Even this one.
• 10:14
  Alice: The Cheshire Cat!
• 10:15
  Jonathan: Was that path there before?
• 10:18
  Redge: Uh, definitely not.
• 10:20
  Alice: Maybe the Cheshire can help.
• 10:21
  Alice: Is this the way to go?
• 10:24
  Cheshire Cat: You'll know when you get there.
• 10:27
  Alice: Uh-huh.
• 10:27
  Alice: But which way do we go?
• 10:31
  Redge: I guess we might as well try this new path.
• 10:34
  Jonathan: Might as well.
• 10:34
  Jonathan: Uh Aren't you coming, Alice?
• 10:37
  Alice: No, I think I'll just wait here until my birthday is over.
• 10:40
  Alice: I don't want any more bummers today.
• 10:43
  Redge: Oh, but Alice, please.
• 10:45
  Redge: Even a bummer on your birthday with friends can't be all
• 10:51
  Jonathan: Just one more try, Alice.
• 10:53
  Cheshire Cat: Good or bad, the road always leads you forward, never
• 11:01
  Alice: Thanks, Redge.
• 11:01
  Alice: Thanks, Jonathan.
• 11:02
  Alice: I guess we can give it one more try.
• 11:06
  Alice: Just one.
• 11:07
  Alice: It is nice being with you, even if everything's been going
• 11:12
  Redge: That's the spirit.
• 11:13
  Redge: One more try.
• 11:15
  Alice: One more try.
• 11:17
  Jonathan: Let's do it.
• 11:19
  Redge: This way.
• 11:20
  Cheshire Cat: See you soon.
• 11:23
  Alice: I'll never understand that cat.
• 11:28
  Jonathan: Lots of riveting frogs.
• 11:30
  Jonathan: I can hear them, but I can't see them.
• 11:33
  Alice: Hmm, I've never been down this path before.
• 11:36
  Alice: I think I would remember all the riveting frogs.
• 11:40
  Redge: There's so much overgrown moss.
• 11:42
  Redge: The frogs must be hiding in there.
• 11:45
  Alice: Wonderland is full of surprises.
• 11:47
  Alice: it's the White Rabbit's house!
• 11:52
  Jonathan: The froggy road led us straight here.
• 11:56
  Redge: Oh, it looks so nice! They did a wonderful job with the renovations.
• 12:00
  Redge: The house is in tip-top shape.
• 12:04
  Jonathan: Cozy yet modern.
• 12:06
  Alice: I can't believe we found it!
• 12:08
  Redge: I just love what they've done with the garden.
• 12:12
  Jonathan: Is that a koi pond?
• 12:14
  Redge: Yes, but instead of fish in the pond, I believe those are little jingle bells.
• 12:19
  Redge: How cute! Isn't it cute, Alice?
• 12:26
  Alice: Yeah, it's cute.
• 12:29
  Jonathan: Come on, let's head in.
• 12:31
  Alice: I don't know.
• 12:31
  Alice: Does White Rabbit really even want me here?
• 12:34
  Alice: He ran away from me all day.
• 12:37
  Redge: Well, let's at least knock on the door.
• 12:40
  Alice: Alright.
• 12:41
  Jonathan: Knock knock.
• 12:44
  Crowd: Surprise! Surprise! It's a me!
• 12:49
  White Rabbit: Happy birthday, Alice!
• 12:51
  Alice: White Rabbit! And all my friends in Wonderland?
• 12:54
  Alice: What are you doing here?
• 12:57
  White Rabbit: Thank you, Redge and Jonathan, for stalling her.
• 13:00
  White Rabbit: I was late for the very party I was meant to be
• 13:04
  Alice: Party?
• 13:05
  White Rabbit: Happy birthday, Alice! Surprise!
• 13:08
  Alice: For me?
• 13:09
  Alice: You didn't forget after all?
• 13:12
  White Rabbit: Of course not! I just need to put the finishing touches on the decor for your birthday tea party.
• 13:19
  Redge: Happy birthday, Alice!
• 13:21
  Jonathan: Happy birthday!
• 13:23
  Alice: Redge, Jonathan! Did you know?
• 13:26
  Jonathan: Well that's why we were here in Wonderland.
• 13:28
  Redge: For the party! We RSVP'd weeks ago.
• 13:32
  Jonathan: When we saw the white rabbit frantically dashing about, we he must need more time.
• 13:37
  Redge: And the Cheshire Cat gave us a hint that everything must be ready to go.
• 13:42
  Cheshire Cat: I love dipping my tail in everywhere I can.
• 13:47
  Alice: I can't thank you enough.
• 13:48
  Alice: How very special!
• 13:50
  White Rabbit: Now come.
• 13:51
  White Rabbit: Anyone want some tea and cake?
• 13:54
  Alice: Oh yes, please!
• 13:55
  Jonathan: Sure, thank you.
• 13:57
  Redge: Certainly.
• 13:58
  White Rabbit: Oh wait! Oh no! Oh no no no no no!
• 14:03
  Jonathan: Oh is everything okay?
• 14:05
  White Rabbit: I forgot to boil the water for the tea.
• 14:07
  White Rabbit: Ah, what a bummer.
• 14:10
  Redge: A birthday bummer?
• 14:12
  Alice: A birthday bummer?
• 14:13
  Alice: How perfect!
• 14:15
  White Rabbit: Perfect! Did she say perfect?
• 14:18
  Jonathan: We'll explain later.
• 14:20
  Redge: Let's get inside.
• 14:21
  Redge: Happy birthday, Alice.
• 14:26
  Jonathan: This has been a Jon in Character production.
• 14:29
  Jonathan: This story was written by Monique Hafen Adams and edited and produced by Molly Murphy.
• 14:35
  Jonathan: Special thanks to Sabrina Glow from Glow Girls Kid and Teen who performed Alice and Rose.
• 14:42
  Jonathan: All other characters were performed by Jonathan Cormur.
• 14:45
  Jonathan: Sound recording in production by Jermaine Hamilton at Grove Soundworks.
• 14:50
  Jonathan: We love hearing from you.
• 14:52
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• 15:00
  Jonathan: You can find even more ways to reach us in the show notes.
• 15:03
  Jonathan: Now, go be the hero of your own story, and we'll see you once upon a time.
• 15:16
  Theme Song: So gather your squad...