Season 5 Preview:
Never-Before-Heard Story Adaptations

We’ve been hearing from SO MANY of you about how excited you are for season 5 of the Story Pirates Podcast. I don’t think you’ll be surprised to hear that WE’RE EXCITED TOO! We have so many new stories and songs to share with you soon, as well as brand new adventures from our journey to the center of the earth. We’re working with our partners to bring the show back as soon as humanly possible because we REALLY MISS YOU! We’ll have more to announce soon, but in the meantime, we wanted to give Creator Club an exclusive sneak peek of two brand new stories from season 5!

“The Dangerous Plumbers” by an 8-year-old named Julian in New York

Press play on each story below to listen. Scroll down for the original stories!

“Ryan in Rhinebeck Grows Rhubarb” by a 5-year-old named Oliver in New York

“Laugh Day ( A New Holiday)” by a 6-year-old named Miles in Massachusetts

Original Stories

“The Dangerous Plumbers” by 8-year-old Julian

“Hey Mommy, the bathroom drain is clogged,” Billy said.

“Billy, that is absurd, I checked it last night and it wasn’t clogged!”

Billy’s father says, “No, he is right. It is really clogged.”

“Ok–I’ll call the plumbers.”

Then, after Billy’s mother called the plumbing company, they arrived.

One plumber said, “Where is the drain we need to unclog?”

Billy’s Dad replied, “Yeah, right this way, we have a bathroom drain that is clogged with hair and dirt and other stuff.”

The plumber said, “OK, we’ll just go ahead and fix it. You folks may want to step out of the house for a moment.”

“Why are you holding those big canisters? And what is that glugitty glugh glugh noise?”

“Oh, don’t worry. Just the stuff we use to unclog your drain.”

“Billy! Janice! we are leaving the house now. The plumbers want us to leave the house.”

When the family got outside, they started hearing strange noises. They were looking at the truck for the name of this unusual plumber. The name painted on the side of the truck was “Melting the Drain.” Below that was painted, “We’ll unclog your drain with our special stuff.”

William, the father, says, “I see smoke coming out of the plumbing vent on the roof. What kind of plumbers are these?”
The plumbers come out of the house with smoke coming everywhere through the air. The say, “You better wear these air masks inside the house for a little while.”

William says, “What kind of plumbers are you?”

Billy does not wait for an answer. He gets the air mask on like the plumbers asked, and rushes to the house with his parents behind him.

When they open the door to the house, William, Janice, and Billy realize that the plumbers dumped hot lava down the bathtub drain! The bathtub was melting and the pipes were melting, too.

Then, they noticed the sink was running and the water was running on the floor, cooling some of the hot lava into stone where they flowed together.

They also realized that the bathroom shower was on and so was the kitchen sink! Two sinks and a shower were running water on the floor.

Billy says, “I guess that is for safety reasons.”

Billy’s parents rushed downstairs, realized that the basement was filled with lava and was melting everything in its path.

They also noticed the roof was on fire from the large amount of heat.

The family ran out of the house at this point and called the fire department and the police.

Walking back to the plumber’s truck with the police in front of them, and the fire department trying to put out the burning house, the police say to the plumbers, “You are under arrest!”

The plumbers relied, “But why? We turned the water on everywhere, we didn’t think the house would burn because we had been thoughtful enough to do that. And, what did you think our name meant? We melted your drain!”

“Ryan in Rhinebeck Grows Rhubarb” by 5-year-old Oliver

"Here is Ryan. He is Oliver's Dad. He has a house in Rhinebeck with a garden. One day... Ryan went to the store and bought magic rhubarb seeds. Unfortunately, Ryan didn't realize they were magic seeds with two warnings.

Warning #1 – Don't put near your mouth.

Warning #2 – Seeds are magic.

(Warnings written by rhubarb. Just kidding!)

Ryan planted the seeds and went to Brooklyn for the week. When he came back to Rhinebeck, he noticed that some of the other plants were missing!

“Oh no!” said Ryan. He also noticed that the rhubarb was… HUGE!

Ryan thought it was one of the animals. He went to bunny’s underground house and asked him, “what were you doing in the night? Did you eat my plants?”

“I was sleeping!” said the bunny.

Ryan went to the pond to find frog. He checked every single lily pad. Frog had to wait an hour while he did. At the last lily pad, he found frog.

“What were you doing last night? Did you eat my plants because the rhubarb is huge!”

“Rrrrryan, I was sleeping! You should ask Owl, he’s nocturnal.”

Ryan walked to Owl’s tree and climbed up.

“Owl, were you eating my plants last night?”

“Did you see the warnings on the seed packet?” asked Owl.

“What?! Huh?! What warnings?”

That night…

Ryan decided to sleep in a tent by the garden. He peeked out of his tent and saw the giant rhubarb eating the other plants.

“STOP” yelled Ryan. “I’ll give you your own garden.” The rhubarb kept eating the plants, so Ryan picked him up and put him in his own planter and gave him some weeds to eat.

THE END!"

“Laugh Day ( A New Holiday)” by 6-year-old Miles

Today is laugh day. If you see a new person your goal is to make them laugh. Then at the end of the day we have a giant feast. On one side of the table there’s candy. In the middle, there’s candy and healthy stuff. And on the other side there’s just healthy stuff. And then after that before you go to bed you watch yourself laughing. And then you go to bed. But your goal is to dream about yourself making other people laugh, and making other people feel happy. And that is the magic of laugh day.

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