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The Movie Planet and the Popcorn Dog - Spaceship 343 - A Bedtime Story · Dad’s Bedtime Stories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's Bedtime Stories.
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  Speaker 1: And this time, we'll be headed back into the spaceship universe.
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  Speaker 1: Because that's what I feel like doing. And I got
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  Speaker 1: some cool suggestions for it. Specifically this one.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, my name is River. I'm from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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  Speaker 2: And I would like a story for the spaceship series
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  Speaker 2: where you could go to a planet that's like filled
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  Speaker 2: with like movie things and you find a popcorn dog.
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  Speaker 2: So and the popcorn dog becomes your best friend and
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  Speaker 2: you have a blast. Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: River, that is an excellent idea. And somehow, when it
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  Speaker 1: got into my mind, the story-making machine, and I was
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  Speaker 1: storyboarding it, I decided it was kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: broken-down movie theater planet with abandoned things and food and
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  Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff, including a popcorn dog, of course,
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  Speaker 1: all in kind of a retro adventure but it's honestly
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  Speaker 1: platforms or something, but I don't know at this point
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  Speaker 1: because I've never... Actually, I've not never made a game before.
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  Speaker 1: I have actually made games before, but this is the
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  Speaker 1: first one of this size and extent that I've made. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: enough about that. Time to get on with our story
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  Speaker 1: after a possible word from a possible sponsor. Get as
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  Speaker 1: comfy as you can in that bed, close your eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does.
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  Speaker 1: You find yourself relaxing on spaceship, sitting on your favorite couch,
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  Speaker 1: looking out through the enormous front window with all the
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  Speaker 1: little stars stretching across the galaxy. Changer, your shape-shifting dog,
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  Speaker 1: is curled up at your feet in his favorite form,
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  Speaker 1: a fluffy little earth puppy. His paws seem to be
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  Speaker 1: twitching a little bit, as if he's dreaming. You wonder
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  Speaker 1: what he's dreaming about. Chasing squirrels or something? Incoming transmission. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this looks very interesting. Spaceship says. A colorful advertisement appears
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  Speaker 1: across the front screen. Welcome to Movie Planet. A cheerful
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  Speaker 1: voice begins speaking. Do you love movies? Do you love adventures?
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  Speaker 1: Then come visit the greatest movie experience in the entire galaxy.
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  Speaker 1: The screen shows an enormous planet covered in theaters and
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  Speaker 1: roller coasters and restaurants and gigantic movie screens. Experience your
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  Speaker 1: favorite movies in spectacular 2D, incredible 3D, or step right
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  Speaker 1: inside the action with our amazing 4D immersion adventures. The
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  Speaker 1: advertisement shows a family walking into a movie screen and Well,
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  Speaker 1: suddenly finding themselves standing beside a friendly dinosaur. Another family
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  Speaker 1: flies through space alongside a superhero. And another group rides
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  Speaker 1: a pirate ship across a stormy ocean. Whoa, this looks amazing,
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  Speaker 1: you say. It certainly does, spaceship replies. Apparently, they can
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  Speaker 1: recreate almost any movie ever made. Would you like to visit? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: I would. Changer wakes up at the sound of your
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  Speaker 1: excitement and gives a cheerful bark. Looks like Changer wants
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  Speaker 1: to come too. You settle back in your seat as
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  Speaker 1: Spaceship changes direction and jumps to super hyperdrive. Next stop,
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  Speaker 1: the movies. Moments later, you emerge from your faster-than-light travel
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  Speaker 1: beside a huge purple and blue planet. It looks magnificent
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  Speaker 1: from here, but as you get closer, something starts to
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  Speaker 1: feel wrong. Hmm, Spaceship says, this is strange. You lean forward.
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  Speaker 1: What is? The advertisement showed a very busy planet, thousands
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  Speaker 1: of visitors, bright lights, enormous celebrations, but my scanners are
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  Speaker 1: only detecting a few life signs, some artificial, some biological,
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  Speaker 1: sort of. You wonder what he means by sort of biological.
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  Speaker 1: You approach the surface. Below you, enormous movie theaters rise
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  Speaker 1: above sprawling entertainment parks. Giant advertisements still flash across rooftops,
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  Speaker 1: though some of them are flickering. And everywhere you look,
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  Speaker 1: things seem to be going wrong. A little crazy. One
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  Speaker 1: enormous machine is launching popcorn into the air like a
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  Speaker 1: volcano that won't stop. Another machine is spraying rivers of
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  Speaker 1: bright purple slushy across the plaza. A nearby soda fountain,
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  Speaker 1: like a literal fountain, is sending enormous streams of fizzy
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  Speaker 1: orange pop hundreds of feet into the sky. You watch
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  Speaker 1: a pepperoni pizza fly past your window. Did that pizza
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  Speaker 1: just fly through the air, you ask? I believe so,
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  Speaker 1: and judging by its trajectory, I believe it will land
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  Speaker 1: in approximately three seconds. You watch it disappear behind a building.
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  Speaker 1: This place looks weird. Maybe we should go check it out.
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  Speaker 1: Spaceship lands beside an enormous theater, and the doors open.
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  Speaker 1: Changer jumps outside, immediately sticking his nose in a pile
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  Speaker 1: of popcorn. Don't eat that, you say. We have no
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  Speaker 1: idea how long it's been sitting there. Changer looks up
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  Speaker 1: at you with a piece of popcorn balanced on his nose.
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  Speaker 1: He flips it up into the air. and eats it defiantly.
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  Speaker 1: It's your funeral, buddy. Spaceship transforms into a smaller version
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  Speaker 1: of himself and then floats beside you as you walk
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  Speaker 1: around the planet, your boots crunching through a thick carpet
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  Speaker 1: of popcorn. Above the entrance to the nearby movie theater,
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  Speaker 1: an enormous sign reads, Movie Planet, where movies come alive.
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  Speaker 1: Near the sign stands a strange-looking antenna. It stretches hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of feet into the sky, covered in spinning dishes and
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  Speaker 1: glowing receivers, except several of the dishes look kind of
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  Speaker 1: bent and sparks are occasionally jumping out between lines. loose wires. Spaceship,
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  Speaker 1: what's that thing, you ask? Interesting, this appears to be
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  Speaker 1: the planet's central entertainment receiver. My scans indicate that it
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  Speaker 1: collects movie transmissions from thousands of planets across the galaxy.
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  Speaker 1: What does it do with them? Well, it intercepts the
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  Speaker 1: movies and recreates them here, sometimes on ordinary screens, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: as interactive adventures, and sometimes it actually builds robotic versions
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  Speaker 1: of the movie characters.
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  Speaker 2: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: Very cool. Spaceship agrees, but the system appears badly damaged
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  Speaker 1: and nobody is maintaining it. A beam of blue light
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  Speaker 1: extends from spaceship toward a nearby computer terminal. Allow me
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  Speaker 1: to investigate. After a moment, he continues. Ah, I believe
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  Speaker 1: I have found the historical records. Movie Planet was once
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  Speaker 1: one of the most popular entertainment destinations in this region
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  Speaker 1: of the galaxy. Millions of visitors traveled here every year.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened, you ask? Personal immersion technology became popular.
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  Speaker 1: People invented small devices that allowed them to experience entire
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  Speaker 1: artificial worlds without leaving their home. Eventually, nobody needed enormous
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  Speaker 1: movie theaters or entertainment planets any longer. So everyone just
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  Speaker 1: stopped coming? Unfortunately, yes. It seems that the inhabitants who
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  Speaker 1: previously came here stopped going almost anywhere. They now prefer
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  Speaker 1: to sit inside their homes, immersed in virtual realities. The
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  Speaker 1: planet was abandoned. Without maintenance, the machines began breaking down
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  Speaker 1: and their programming started getting mixed up. You look around
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  Speaker 1: at the abandoned attractions. That's kind of sad. It is,
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  Speaker 1: Spaceship replies. But the good news is that most of
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  Speaker 1: the equipment is still operating. Perhaps we can enjoy some
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  Speaker 1: of the attractions. You grin. Well then, let's explore. You
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  Speaker 1: enter the enormous movie theater. Inside, dozens of screens stretch
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  Speaker 1: along a hallway. Some show alien adventures while others display
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  Speaker 1: movies you recognize from Earth. On one screen, dinosaurs are
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  Speaker 1: stomping through a jungle. On another, a superhero soars between
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  Speaker 1: skyscrapers A third shows cartoon animals riding a bright yellow
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  Speaker 1: submarine and singing some sort of song. Hey, some of
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  Speaker 1: these are Earth movies, you say? Of course, Spaceship replies.
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  Speaker 1: Earth has been broadcasting entertainment into space for quite some time.
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  Speaker 1: Changer watches the dinosaur screen with enormous interest. A Tyrannosaurus roars.
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  Speaker 1: Changer gives a tiny bark back. Yes, Changer, very scary,
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  Speaker 1: you say? You continue past the regular 2D theaters, then
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  Speaker 1: the 3D theaters with their enormous floating holographic pictures. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: you reach an enormous doorway marked 4D Immersion Adventures. Become
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  Speaker 1: part of the movie. I mean, 4D doesn't really mean that.
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  Speaker 1: It's still technically three dimensions, but you understand what they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to get across. This is gonna be good, you say,
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  Speaker 1: and you step through. Inside, you find an entire artificial city.
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  Speaker 1: Buildings stretch overhead, streets wind between them. and a glowing
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  Speaker 1: artificial sky hangs above everything. Suddenly you hear shouting, Look out!
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  Speaker 1: A large silver robot charges around the corner, firing bright
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  Speaker 1: red energy beams. You dive behind what looks like a
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  Speaker 1: parked hover car or something. Spaceship, what's happening? Apparently you've
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  Speaker 1: entered an action movie. Another robot appears, swinging a giant
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  Speaker 1: metal fist. Well, I guess we better play along then.
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  Speaker 1: You tap your watch. Instantly, your space armor unfolds around
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  Speaker 1: your body. Glowing sections of protective metal cover your arms, legs,
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  Speaker 1: and chest, and your helmet forms around your head. You
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  Speaker 1: activate your jet boots and rocket into the air. The
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  Speaker 1: robot lunges toward you. You dodge, spin around, and then
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  Speaker 1: blast it with a pulse of energy from your right wrist.
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  Speaker 1: With a boom, the robot crashes backward into a wall. Changer,
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  Speaker 1: a little help? You call. Changer transforms. his little puppy
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  Speaker 1: body expands into an enormous bear-like creature with thick, rocky
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  Speaker 1: armor covering his shoulders and two gigantic boulders for hands. Whoa!
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  Speaker 1: Changer charges, and with a crash, one robot goes flying
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  Speaker 1: and smashes into another. Then you hear another voice say, RANGERS, TRANSFORM!
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  Speaker 1: You look over to see five colorful characters leaping from
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  Speaker 1: a nearby rooftop, each wearing a special wristwatch, kind of
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  Speaker 1: like yours. They press the watches simultaneously, do a very
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  Speaker 1: strange and obviously rehearsed dance, and brilliant flashes of light
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  Speaker 1: surround their bodies. Suddenly, they're wearing colorful battle armor. The
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  Speaker 1: red ranger performs a flying kick. The blue one spins
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  Speaker 1: through the air. The green ranger sweeps a robot off
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  Speaker 1: its feet. And together, they move with incredible ninja-like speed,
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  Speaker 1: dodging and striking the remaining enemy robots. With your armor
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  Speaker 1: and Changer's tremendous strength, the battle ends surprisingly quickly. The
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  Speaker 1: last robot crashes to the ground. Silence falls over the city.
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  Speaker 1: The five rangers look around in amazement. Then, the red
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  Speaker 1: ranger approaches you. That was incredible. Are you, like, a
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  Speaker 1: new battle ranger? You look down at your armor. Eh,
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  Speaker 1: not exactly. I'm just visiting. The Blue Ranger points toward Changer.
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  Speaker 1: And what kind of battle creature is that? Changer raises
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  Speaker 1: his enormous, bolder hands proudly and kind of shrugs. That's
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  Speaker 1: just my dog, you explain. The Rangers stare at him.
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  Speaker 1: We've been battling those evil robots for years, the Red
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  Speaker 1: Ranger says. Every day the same thing, basically, but we've
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  Speaker 1: never managed to completely defeat them. Years? you repeat. Spaceship
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  Speaker 1: speaks quietly through your helmet. I believe I understand. These
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  Speaker 1: are entertainment robots, too. THEY WERE PROGRAMMED TO BATTLE EACH
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  Speaker 1: OTHER WITHOUT CAUSING PERMANENT DAMAGE. THE FIGHTING WAS SUPPOSED TO
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  Speaker 1: RESET FOR THE NEXT GROUP OF VISITORS. YOU GLANCE AT
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  Speaker 1: THE ENORMOUS PILES OF BROKEN ROBOTS, AND CHANGER WELL BROKE,
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  Speaker 1: AND YOU COME TO A REALIZATION. OOPS, SPACESHIP CONTINUES. Technically,
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  Speaker 1: I do not believe you were supposed to actually destroy them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting that impression, you say. Eh, nothing we can
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  Speaker 1: do now. Changer shrinks back to his familiar fluffy puppy
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  Speaker 1: form and trots happily to your side. The rangers don't
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  Speaker 1: seem upset. In fact, they're celebrating. You saved the city,
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  Speaker 1: the red ranger announces. Well, you say, glad we could help.
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  Speaker 1: You wave goodbye and head back toward the entrance. leaving
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  Speaker 1: the rangers cheering behind you. As you step outside, a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful smell drifts through the air. Popcorn. Warm popcorn. Fresh popcorn.
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  Speaker 1: And something that smells sweet. Suspiciously like strawberry slushy. Your
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  Speaker 1: stomach begins to rumble. Ah, Spaceship, I think it might
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  Speaker 1: be time for a snack. An excellent idea. Although, judging
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  Speaker 1: by my scanners, the snack area might be the strangest
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  Speaker 1: part of the entire planet. You look down at Changer.
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  Speaker 1: He wags his tail. Well, I've probably seen stranger. You respond.
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  Speaker 1: You follow the delicious smells through another enormous doorway until
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  Speaker 1: you find yourself inside what might be the biggest food
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  Speaker 1: court in the entire universe. Whoa, you exclaim. Hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: restaurants stretch out in every direction. There are pizza stands,
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  Speaker 1: candy shops, popcorn machines, ice cream counters... and gigantic fountains
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  Speaker 1: spraying every flavor of soda you can imagine. Unfortunately, none
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  Speaker 1: of them seem to be working properly. One popcorn machine
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  Speaker 1: is producing so much popcorn that an enormous mountain is
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  Speaker 1: formed beneath it. Another machine is shooting pizzas across the
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  Speaker 1: room like flying frisbees. You duck as a pepperoni pizza
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  Speaker 1: sails over your head and splatters against a wall. A
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  Speaker 1: nearby slushie machine is pouring bright blue slushie into an
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  Speaker 1: enormous puddle that now stretches across the floor and out
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  Speaker 1: the door. Spaceship, can we actually eat any of this stuff? Scanning,
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  Speaker 1: Spaceship replies, a blue light sweeps across the food cord.
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  Speaker 1: Good news! The food replicators are still producing perfectly edible food. However,
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  Speaker 1: I would recommend eating something freshly created rather than anything
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  Speaker 1: that has been sitting here for possibly years. Good idea.
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  Speaker 1: You walk over to the pizza machine. A fresh pizza
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  Speaker 1: slice slides onto a tray. You pick it up and
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  Speaker 1: take a bite. It's Actually really good. Changer sits beside
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  Speaker 1: you and starts wagging his tail, so you tear off
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  Speaker 1: a piece and, well, hand it to him. He gobbles
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  Speaker 1: it up immediately. Next, you try some freshly made popcorn,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of candy. Then you grab a cup and, well,
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  Speaker 1: you stick it under the strawberry slushy dispenser. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: take long before it's half full. It's all rather delicious.
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  Speaker 1: You look around at the terrible mess as you eat,
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  Speaker 1: and something seems to catch Changer's attention. His ears perk up,
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  Speaker 1: and he begins to sniff around the place. He makes
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  Speaker 1: his way over to the enormous popcorn mountain following his nose.
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  Speaker 1: Something in the mountain begins to stir. You think there's
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  Speaker 1: something there, buddy? You ask. Spaceship nods and barks. And then,
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  Speaker 1: with a poof, popcorn flies everywhere. Something small tumbles out
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  Speaker 1: of the pile and lands directly in front of you.
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  Speaker 1: You stare. It's... a dog.
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  Speaker 2: A dog?
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  Speaker 1: But not an ordinary dog. It's, well, it's a little
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  Speaker 1: dog that's made entirely out of popcorn. Its body is
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  Speaker 1: covered in fluffy white popped kernels. Its ears look like
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  Speaker 1: two enormous pieces of popcorn, and its tail is a
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  Speaker 1: long curly collection of popcorn that wiggles back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: It even has a little round nose and two bright,
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  Speaker 1: friendly eyes. The popcorn dog looks up at you. As
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  Speaker 1: it barks, a single popcorn kernel pops off the top
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  Speaker 1: of its head. What? What are you? Spaceship, is this
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  Speaker 1: a robot too? Spaceship scans the little creature. Fascinating. No.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: It appears to be something different. My scans indicate that
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  Speaker 1: the damaged entertainment systems have somehow combined information from the
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  Speaker 1: food replicators with characters' designs from the movies. So.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: The machines accidentally created a living popcorn creature. It seems
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  Speaker 1: to be a spontaneous evolution of popcorn... designed to consume
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  Speaker 1: the enormous quantities of leftover material. It actually answers the
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  Speaker 1: question that I did not speak earlier as to why
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  Speaker 1: the food had not completely taken over the area. You
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  Speaker 1: look at the little popcorn dog. It picks up a
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  Speaker 1: piece of popcorn from the floor and munches it happily.
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  Speaker 1: Then another and another and another. Well, I guess that
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  Speaker 1: explains it. Indeed, Spacer replies. Although, I should warn you
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  Speaker 1: that other unusual creatures may have been created by similar accidents.
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  Speaker 1: The planet's systems are rather badly crossed. You kneel down.
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  Speaker 1: Hey there, little guy. The popcorn dog approaches cautiously. You
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  Speaker 1: hold out your hand. He sniffs your fingers. Then, very gently,
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  Speaker 1: he licks your hand. It feels like a tiny, warm
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: puff of popcorn brushing against your skin, which is sort
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  Speaker 1: of cute and sort of weird at the same time. Then,
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  Speaker 1: the popcorn dog jumps up into your arms. You're pretty cute,
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  Speaker 1: you say, patting the little thing on the head. Changer
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  Speaker 1: approaches and sniffs your new friend. The popcorn dog jumps
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  Speaker 1: down and sniffs back. They stare at each other for
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  Speaker 1: a moment and then they start to wag their tails.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like you two are actually going to get along.
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  Speaker 1: The popcorn dog gives an excited bark and starts running
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  Speaker 1: in circles around Changer. Changer starts chasing him and soon
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  Speaker 1: the two puppies are racing around the food court. bouncing
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  Speaker 1: through popcorn piles and sliding across the floor. You laugh
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  Speaker 1: as you watch them. Alright, you two, let's see what
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  Speaker 1: else we can find. You continue through the food court
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  Speaker 1: with your two new companions trotting happily beside you. You
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  Speaker 1: pass an enormous chocolate fountain, a candy store filled with
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  Speaker 1: colorful sweets, and, well, another pizza stand. Lots of pizza stands.
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  Speaker 1: But as you approach the pizza stand, you hear a deep,
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  Speaker 1: rumbling growl. You freeze. Uh, spaceship? Yes. Please tell me
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  Speaker 1: that that's just another popcorn dog. I'm afraid it is not.
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  Speaker 1: Something enormous moves behind the pizza counter. Then another shape
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  Speaker 1: rises beside it. Two gigantic bears step into view, except
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  Speaker 1: they aren't any ordinary bears, because their body seems to
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  Speaker 1: be made out of pizza. Their fur looks like melted
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  Speaker 1: cheese with pepperoni slices covering them. One bear has mushrooms
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  Speaker 1: growing along its back. The other has a particularly large
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  Speaker 1: pepperoni stuck to his forehead. Pizza? Bears? you ask. Apparently.
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  Speaker 1: The bears look at you, then they look at the
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  Speaker 1: pizza machine beside them, and then they start to growl. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I get it. You think we're going to steal your pizza.
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  Speaker 1: But we're not. You can have all of that dirty
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: pizza that's fallen on the ground. We don't need any pizza.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I've got my own replicators. You say, but before you
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: can decide what to do, Something enormous rises from the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: slushy fountain nearby. A gigantic purple and blue blob climbs
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  Speaker 1: out and sort of wiggles over towards you. Oh, come on,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you exclaim. A slushy monster too? The slushy creature slides
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: toward you. leaving a trail of icy slushy behind it.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: You reach toward your watch, but before you can activate
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: your armor, the popcorn dog steps in front of you.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: His tiny little body puffs up, his ears stand straight,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and he starts to growl. It's a very small growl,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: but a growl nonetheless, and the pizza bears actually stop
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: for a moment Changer looks at the popcorn dog, then
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: at the bears, and then he transforms as well into
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: a second popcorn dog, only twice the size, which is
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: probably helpful here. The two of them continue to bark
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and growl. The slushy creature seems to second think things and, well,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: it starts moving backwards and transforms back into a huge blob.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: The pizza bears look at each other, and then they
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: turn around and run in the opposite direction. You stare
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: at the two popcorn dogs, and then you laugh. Well,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: good job, you two. You've scared them away. Well done,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: but maybe we better get out of here before we
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: find something even stranger. I believe that is an excellent idea.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: You make your way back out of the food court
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: to an open area outside where Spaceship grows back to
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: his regular size and lands in front of you, opening
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: up the back hatch. You and Changer climb up the
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: ramp and look back at a very sad-looking popcorn dog.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: It begins to make a little whimper sound. Its tail
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: drops and, well, it just looks so sad. Sorry, buddy,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: we have to go. This place is a little weirder
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: than I thought it would be. The popcorn dog continues
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: to whimper. You look over at Changer, who, well, shrugs
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: his little popcorn dog's shoulders. Then, transforms back into an
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: earth puppy. Okay, I mean, if you really want to come,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: maybe you can hang out for a bit. We can
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: always drop you off later. The little popcorn dog starts
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: jumping up and down excitedly and then runs past you
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: into the ship. He and Changer jump up on the couch,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: curl up around each other, and lay down. Okay, you
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: make yourself at home, you say. The doors close behind you,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the ship hums to life, and takes off into the air. You,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: on the other hand, head directly for the bedroom. You
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: lay down in the bed, pull the covers up to
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: your chin, and close your eyes. With every breath, You
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: let go of a little more tension from your muscles.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: You relax your arms, your legs, your neck, your shoulders,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: your head. With every breath, you sink down a little
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: deeper into the mattress, and your mind wanders a little
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: further off, off to thoughts of new dreams, new adventures,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and new planets to come. Good night, everyone.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: You Thank you.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Thank you.