Speaker 1: I'm Jacob by Donovan and welcome to a Discovery Mountain podcast.
Speaker 2: This is Jake's take an podcast.
Speaker 1: You can trust.
Speaker 2: Our guests today our Harold Peabody and Natalia Lee.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Oodcast.
Speaker 3: Chapelain, Jake, do I have to do this?
Speaker 2: You don't have to, Harold, but I think you'll be
glad you did.
Speaker 4: What are you afraid of? Harold Peabody?
Speaker 3: Afraid nothing? Now?
Speaker 1: Hold on? You do?
Speaker 2: I told you we'd solve this thing on the Oodcast.
Speaker 4: There's nothing to solve, is there? There was a test
answer sheet under Harold's desk. Everyone saw it.
Speaker 3: Natalia, how do you even know? You're in like kindergarten?
Speaker 4: I'm in second grade? Same thing, Harold Peabody, It's not
the same thing you, you.
Speaker 3: Test cheater, Natalia Lee? How dare you accuse me of cheating?
I'm an honest person and I wouldn't do that, Harold.
Speaker 2: Hold on, Natalia, quit making Harold missus O'Leary's cow.
Speaker 4: I wasn't. Huh what does that even mean? Chaplain Jake?
Speaker 3: So now we're calling me a test cheater and a cow.
I'm done, herold.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not calling you a cow. Natalie is accusing
you of something really serious, taking an answer key to
a test.
Speaker 3: I didn't do it right.
Speaker 2: You maintain your innocence just like missus O'Leary's cow.
Speaker 3: I'm very confused and still upset.
Speaker 4: Story Time, Chaplin, Jake, this isn't kindergarten and we're not
in the mood for a story.
Speaker 2: Oh listen to this one. It'll make perfect sense at
the end.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: I mean it gets me away from everyone who's looking
at me funny thinking I'm a cheater thanks to Natalia.
Speaker 4: I heard my mom say they found it under your desk, Harold.
Speaker 1: But Storytime, listen.
Speaker 2: Ever been to Chicago?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: No, but I want to see the bean sculpture there.
Speaker 2: Well, Chicago is a beautiful city today, but back in
eighteen seventy one, it was almost destroyed how by a
fire on the night of October eighth. The fire started,
it was windy.
Speaker 3: Isn't Chicago called the windy City?
Speaker 4: Everyone knows that, Harold.
Speaker 1: Well, the city share lived up to it's nickname that night,
because the fire spread quickly and burned for three days.
Speaker 3: WHOA, that's a long time yep.
Speaker 2: Three point three square miles of the city were destroyed.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 4: No, people's homes burned down.
Speaker 2: They did, and the fire left about one hundred thousand
people without homes.
Speaker 3: That's terrible, it was.
Speaker 2: And even more terrible, three hundred people died.
Speaker 4: Died. Ooh, that was a bad fire.
Speaker 3: It sure was. How'd it start?
Speaker 2: It started in Missus O'Leary's barn.
Speaker 4: Missus O'Leary.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: And in the days after the fire, a reporter from
the Chicago Tribune made up a story.
Speaker 3: Reporters are supposed to make up stories. They're supposed to
report the facts.
Speaker 2: Right, But this reporter didn't follow that. He wrote the
fire started when Missus O'Leary's cow kicked over a lamb
and while.
Speaker 4: Being milked Missus O'Leary's cow.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: The reporter admitted years later that he'd made the whole
thing up. It didn't matter by then, because you see,
everyone had heard the story and he believed it.
Speaker 3: So what really happened. How'd the fire actually start?
Speaker 2: Well, nobody knows for sure. It might have been a
chimney spark that set some hay on fire. Maybe a
neighbor's carelessness.
Speaker 4: Poor Missus O'Leary.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, In needy people made up songs about her
and her cow, blaming them for starting the terrible fire.
Speaker 4: That's not nice.
Speaker 2: M mmm, sure isn't. Missus O'Leary lived the rest of
her life away from everybody. Everyone else believed the reporter
story even though it wasn't true.
Speaker 4: Ah, I get it. So he took one piece of
information and added to it exactly, Harold, I'm sorry. I
didn't mean to call you a cow.
Speaker 3: Thanks. And by that, I guess you mean he didn't
mean to say I cheated on a test.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there could be another reason that test
answer key was under your I guess a reason like this.
Speaker 3: Read it a text for miss Holt. Hey is this
a teacher group chat? What all do you guys talk about?
Speaker 2: Never mind that Natalia read the message for miss Holt.
Speaker 4: Okay, hey, y'all, I figured out what happened. I dropped
my test answer key in class and it must have
slid under Harold's desk. He's innocent, as his greade on
the test clearly proves. And then Miss Natasha replied with
a laughing face in moji and and.
Speaker 2: That's enough of reading the teacher group chat. So Natalia,
would you think.
Speaker 4: Harold, you're innocent. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, and I told you I was.
Speaker 4: I was being like the reporter. I have to make
it right.
Speaker 2: Do you want to make an announcement, Natalia, we can
ask DS if that's.
Speaker 4: Okay, definitely, I'll go right now.
Speaker 3: I'll go with you, just to make sure you say
it right.
Speaker 4: I'll apologize, Harold.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'll make sure you don't call me a cow.
Speaker 1: Fine, come on, book you guys.
Speaker 2: The podcast, Well, listeners, my story really helped. Have you
ever been in a situation like this. There's a verse
about this in the Book of Proverbs. Let me read
it for you to close.
Speaker 1: Since my guests have left me. It says, for lack of.
Speaker 2: Wood, the fire goes out, and where there's no whisper,
quarreling ceases. That's Proverbs twenty six, verse twenty. So if
you hear something, don't add wood to the fire. Find
the truth before you spread a lie. Lies can spread
faster than fire.
Speaker 3: Hey chaplain Jake, Oh, Harold, Yeah, thanks for helping me.
Speaker 1: We're welcome, and that's our show for today. I'm Jacob P.
Donathan and you've been listening to Jake's take an podcast
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