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Feb 2024
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118. Aria asks: What if monsters were ma...

Eric O'Keeffe / Starglow Media
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Cthunkle, Squiderella, and Scully think they must scare chickens to get eggs from them. Could there be a better way? Find out in this extra whacky April Fools’ story.

Lessons include: Kindness and cooperation can be much more effective than being loud and scary; messing with technology you don’t understand can be dangerous.

This remastered story originally aired on April 1st, 2019.

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