Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
I'm Martin and you are listening to Dad's bedtime Stories.
Tonight we're headed back into the Spaceship universe. And you
know what, everyone, I get a lot of ideas for
this podcast, and I love them. I love getting every
single one and I listen to every single one. But
I can't make every single one, and I'm really sorry
about that. It doesn't mean I don't want you to
send them in. But tonight I thought I would get
as many of them as I could and put them
all in one episode. First of all, I found this
idea that I thought we could use as sort of
the main thing to go around here.
Speaker 2: Let's check it out.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 3: I'm Harvey from Ontario, Canada. I have an idea for
the Spaceship series where you land on a planet where
there's a bunch of different types of pictures. Each picture
is unique and has a different function. Some pictures are moving,
some pictures create moments in the past, some even in
the future.
Speaker 4: Bye.
Speaker 5: I love your.
Speaker 2: Podcast, Harvey. That is a great idea.
Speaker 1: And when I was going through it and thinking what
pictures will we go into and visit, I decided to
go back through my voicemail and find some other ideas
that I hadn't done yet, and kind of go into
those pictures. So let's check a few of those out
as well.
Speaker 6: My Hi, my name is Rowan, and I mean four
and a dog and frog and they made a cause
on a candy planet, and a candy meal destroyed the house,
and then they have get out.
Speaker 4: Bye.
Speaker 2: Love your podcast, Thanks, Ronan. I love your suggestion.
Speaker 1: I don't actually know what you said, destroyed the house
like a candy meal. You're gonna have to let me know,
but I'm gonna make it a candy meal that destroys
the house in this one. Let's check out our next idea.
Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Allan.
Speaker 6: I am nine years old, and I would like to
suggest a chess planet.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 7: I love your broadcast.
Speaker 2: Goodbye, great idea, Allan.
Speaker 1: I am going to change it to h Chess picture
on a picture planet, but I love the suggestion and
I think we could fit in like one last one here,
let's check it out.
Speaker 5: Hi. Mine is Elliott, and I want to make a
suggestion for your platypus plan. It you see this big, big,
humongous platypus that's metal so you're going to ask a
platypus as a suit what's going on, But before you
can ask him anything, he goes on side of a billion,
so you follow him because you have no idea what's
going on.
Speaker 7: By love your.
Speaker 1: Podcast, and once again I love your suggestion. These are
all really amazing ideas here. I'm going to try to
fit them all in on the Picture Planet. But before
we get started, I do have a couple big thank
yous to give. First up, thank you to Tobin Parker
and Chris for supporting the podcast. That means a lot, guys.
I really appreciate you going on Patreon and doing that.
And second, thank you too, Julie Scott and Kurt from California.
I really appreciate you guys supporting the podcast too.
Speaker 2: It really goes a long way.
Speaker 1: And if you haven't heard, I did start another podcas
Cast called Dad's Anytime Stories kind of story podcast you
can listen to in the car or at kind of
any other time of the day, so if you're interested
in checking that out. Our first season is Cards of Power,
Volume one, based on my novel. It's basically the audiobook
version of the novel, which you can buy on Amazon.
But now it's that time again. Time to get as
comfy as you can in that bed, close your eyes
and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does.
Imagine yourself waking up a board spaceship. You swing your
legs over the side of the bed, stand up, and
stretch your arms up in the air. You head out
on to the main part of the ship and say,
good morning the spaceship. Eh, good morning, spaceship, Good morning,
spaceship lives. I believe I have found something extremely interesting.
A new planet that is full of pictures. I mean,
I guess that's cool. A picture planet. Is there something
weird about it?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: Are the pictures living with arms and legs or running
a picture society or something like that. You ask, no, However,
I am detecting spatial anomalies around each picture. It seems
that each one is a sort of portal. I knew
there was a twist to this. You say, set a course, spaceship,
let's go to the picture planet. And so spaceship sets
a course, veering slightly downe and to the left. In
a flash, you stop high above a beautiful earth life
like planet, and you begin to navigate down towards the surface.
You sit down in the command chair and grab a
hold of the main joystick. You press forward on the
throttle and forward on the joystick, causing the ship to
push downwards through the atmosphere, through the clouds, before pulling
it up slightly and flying over well forests and mountains
and prairies, all full of pictures. You catch the odd
person here and there painting new pictures. But more than anything,
there's just pictures everywhere. Some of them are floating in
the air, some of them are placed on the ground,
some of them are drawn right into mountain sides and cliffs.
Speaker 2: Pictures than you.
Speaker 1: Could possibly count, so many that you actually have a
little bit of trouble finding somewhere to land. But you
soon see a clearing right by some guy in a
painting jacket who looks like he's painting away at a
new picture. You carefully land the spaceship on the ground.
It makes a little bit of a hissing sound as
the hydraulics drop. The back door opens up, and you
immediately smell fresh paint. The person, a young man who
was doing some of the painting, leaves his work and
walks over to you. Hi there looks like you're from
another planet or something. Yeah, I am What is this place,
you ask? This is the picture planet. My name's Harvey.
I'm one of the painters here. You see, every painter
here takes the artist's imagination and makes it real in
the form of a picture. A picture you can step into. Oh,
he can step into the pictures? You respond, well, any
cool ones you can show me? Well, I do have
a couple of my own. Follow me. Harvey waves for
you to follow after him and leads you over to
a small series of different pictures. One of them looks
incredibly futuristic, in the other looks like an old timey
village back on Earth. I call this one future, and
I call this one past.
Speaker 2: A very creative type.
Speaker 1: You respond, yeah, well, come on, let's step in. Harvey
grabs your arm and pulls you towards the futuristic looking picture.
As you approach it, it's as if the frame expands
and then continues to expand, wrapping all the way around you.
When you find yourself inside a futuristic world, a world
of giant, glowing towers, floating roads, silver bridges, and streaks
of light in the sky. There's flying cars, and robots
floating everywhere, and sitting right in front of you is
a flying car, or at least it looks a lot
like a flying car. Want to take a ride, Harvey says, I,
sure do, You respond, jumping into the driver's seat of
the flying car. The controls seem pretty intuitive. There's a
joystick just like in spaceship, and a throttle on the right.
You pull back on the joystick, press forward on the throttle,
and before you know it, you zoom straight up into
the sky. You pull quickly to the left to avoid
another vehicle before leveling the car out. When you eventually
steady the thing and get the hang of the controls,
you decide to go a little bit faster. You push
forward all the way on the throttle, and the car
blasts forward. You weave between shiny towers, moving left and right,
careful not to run straight into one of them. Next,
you dip under a floating train track with a hover
train going over top of it. You zoom over glowing parks.
You pass robots and the Holograms and gigantic sky bus,
and soon you come to a tunnel of light. You
dip inside the tunnel, trying to keep the car directly
in the middle. As the tunnel moves up and down,
left and right, side to side, it feels like you're
zipping through a portal. Before long, you pop out the
other side, turn left sharply to miss a building, and
find yourself back in the same area you start it in.
You pull back on the joystick and the throttle at
the same time, stopping the car and slowly allowing it
to hover down to the ground in front of a
large black frame that has the picture of the picture
Planet on it. That was good driving, Harvey says, Let's
maybe check out something else. Once again. You step into
the picture frame, this time the one of the picture Planet.
The frame grows around you, stretches behind you until well
you find yourself back on the main part of the
picture Planet. Well, I want to check out the past
one next. After that flying car ride you gave me,
I kind of need a bit of a slower pace.
Speaker 2: Harvey leads you.
Speaker 1: Into the small old fashioned painting, and again the painting
grows around you until you find yourself inside it. You're
in a small, old fashioned town with narrow streets, little
cottages with tiny windows lanterns ready to light things at night.
And cobblestone on the ground. It looks really plain compared
to the futuristic one. This is one of my favorites.
It's the simplicity of it all, Harvey explains, check this out.
Two horses start to trot over towards you. They turn sideways,
inviting you to get on. You put one foot in
the stir up, lift your body over top of the horse,
and Harvey gives his a little kick. Moving ahead, you
follow behind him. You pass cottages with smoking chimneys, through
a village square with a giant well in the center.
You pass by a blacksmiths shop with the clinking sound
of metal as the blacks mith hammers away on it.
You pass a baker setting out warm bread on the
side of the window to let a cool You move
along a lane lined with flowers and old stone fences.
The whole thing is very, very peaceful. You watch as
a tiny cat runs in front of the horse, as
children play with a hoop and a stick, a game
you can't imagine would ever entertain anyone, but seems to
be entertaining the children very well. The whole place feels
slow and gentle, as if you don't have a care
in the world, much different from the whole futuristic thing. Ah,
that's kind of it, Harvey says, as he climbs off
his horse in front of a picture of the picture
planet once again. Oh, you say, stopping yours and climbing off,
I want to see what else there is to check out?
Speaker 2: He asks.
Speaker 1: Of course I do, Harvey, of course I do. Together,
you step back through the picture frame, which once again
expands larger and larger wraps around you and transports you
back to the picture planet. Well, there's all kinds of
pictures here, I say. You just walk through them and
pick one that looks fun. They're all made by different people.
You soon come to a picture that looks very strange.
A frog and a dog standing note in front of
a candy house, set between candy trees and candy bushes,
and well, grass that looks like it's made of jelly beans.
Speaker 2: This looks cool.
Speaker 1: Well, ah, yeah, this one is made by Arnold, he explains.
I want to go check it out, do I? Ever,
you say, you step inside the picture. The frame once
again stretches around you until you find yourself in a
cozy little forest beside a dog and a frog standing
in front of a candy house. The house looks like
it's made of a mix of candy bricks with gummy
candy windows. The roof is made of chocolate tiles. It
has frosting around the edges to look like snow, but
nothing about it is cold at all. From the bushes
hang marshmallows and candy of all different kinds. A little
stepping stone walkway made of giant cookies leads you to
the door. Welcome, the frog says, welcome to my house.
Me and my friend dog made this house. He explains
what you like to take a bite? Sure you move
over towards the house. You break off a brick of candy,
place it in your mouth, and realize that it is
absolutely delicious. Harvey grabs a chunk as well. It's good,
isn't it, The frog says, Eat as much as you like,
but try not to eat too much from one place
or it will collapse. Unfortunately, in the time it takes
you to listen to the frog, you've already taken out
several more bricks, leaving a giant hole in the side
of the wall. Harvey pulls another brick out, moves it
up to his mouth, and takes a bite when you
hear the house begin to creak. Oh, dear not again,
I knew candy was not the thing to make houses from.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Slowly, the roof above the little end in the wall
begins to collapse, bending down towards the floor before breaking
and splitting apart. The rest of the house falls piece
by piece. Afterwards, the chocolate roof caves in, followed by
the walls, leaving behind a pile of chocolate and candy.
We well have to rebuild. Come back, waiter, perhaps, the frog,
says man. He and the dog walk over to the
candy house and begin putting it together again.
Speaker 2: You, on the other.
Speaker 1: Hand, let out a big burp and head back through
the picture frame to the picture planet. You continue to
explore all of the different pictures. Some are really odd
and others are well just plain boring. Eventually you come
to one that looks like it's a giant chess board,
only the chess pieces are doing battle, like literal battle.
Speaker 2: What's up with this one? You ask?
Speaker 1: This one was painted by my friend alan Ah. He
might not be able to tell, but he really likes chess.
You step inside the painting, the chess world wraps around you,
until you you find yourself standing on a gigantic chess
board surrounded by living chess pieces, living chess pieces in
the middle of a battle. Pawns run at each other
carrying spears and shields. Knights run at strange ninety degree
angles left and right until they clash with each other.
And on the far side of the board you see
a gigantic white king and queen yelling at all of
the pieces about what to do them, get them, We
must not let them win. The king from the other
side yells, are you going to help us? Or are
you just going to stand there? One of the pawns
yells towards you. At the same time, two gigantic castle
pieces with arms legs run at each other and smash together,
each one trying to push the other out of the way.
You dodge around the ponds, around the knights, moving to
the far side of the board, where the black king
and queen should be. Only something's wrong with the king.
The queen lays down beside him, weeping. No, no, you
can't go where in the middle of a battle?
Speaker 2: What will we ever do?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: You guys? Okay?
Speaker 7: You ask?
Speaker 2: Do I look?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 2: The king has he has he has fallen.
Speaker 1: The queen explains, Ah, so you lose the match.
Speaker 2: No, we will not give up this easily. We must
find someone else, someone to wear the crown.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's not how chess works.
Speaker 2: Will you do it?
Speaker 1: Will you wear the crown, she says, lifting the crown
up in the air towards you. I mean, I guess so,
But again, I'm pretty sure you can't just put a
new crown on somebody else and continue a chess game.
You duck your head down, the crown wraps around it,
and you feel a strange tingling sensation as your body
stretches upward. You suddenly feel the uncontrollable urge to yell orders.
You see patterns on the board, ways that the ponds
can move, places the knights and rooks should go, and
you begin to yell them out, pointing and ordering all
of the pieces to move in specific ways, ways that
you know will win the match. Your side charges forward,
knocking the others out of the way.
Speaker 2: You take out the other.
Speaker 1: Side's pawns, their knights, their rooks, their bishops, until only their.
Speaker 7: King and queen remain.
Speaker 1: Ay, I give in, the other king says, before stiffening
and falling over on his side. The black pieces all
begin to cheer. They lift you up above their heads
and run you around in circles, placing you down right
beside the picture frame. Realizing how weird this whole experience
had been, you pull the crown off of your head,
causing your body to slowly shrink back down to your
normal human form. Then you step through the painting. Once again,
the frame wraps around you, transporting you back to the
well normal picture world. Well how did you like it,
Harvy asks, as you continue to walk through the fields
of pictures. Ah, it was pretty cool. And then you
see something spectacular, a picture of a metallic platypus wearing
a suit and standing in front of an office building.
You don't even wait to ask Harvey what's going on
in this picture? You simply run forward and jump inside something.
The platypus looks suspiciously important, as if he knows a
secret that you would.
Speaker 7: Want to know.
Speaker 1: As soon as you step into the painting, the platypus
sees you and hurries off in the other direction, running
to a large building, whereout explaining anything, you run after him,
and he tries to run faster. Inside the building is
a strange mix of well office building, fancy hotel, museum,
and some sort of secret headquarters. You run through long,
shiny hallways as the platypus tries to get away from you.
He squeezes through some swinging doors on the other side.
You follow as quickly as you can. He races up
staircases and you race after him. He jumps in an elevator.
You run to get inside before the door's closed, but
you're slightly too late and it leaves without you. Luckily,
another elevator is next door. You jump inside it, press
a button that says up, and begin to move. Boring
music plays as the thing slowly goes higher and higher
until you hear a ding.
Speaker 2: The door opens up.
Speaker 1: You run outside to see the platypus running down the hall.
You run after him. As he turns the corner. He
knocks over a cart full of mail to try to
slow you down, but you easily hop over it.
Speaker 2: He turns to the right.
Speaker 1: And runs inside one of the office offices. You run
after him, turn the doorknob, burst inside to find the
platypus looking exhausted. Ah, you finally caught up with me.
Speaker 2: He says, why are you running?
Speaker 1: You ask, I'm running because because you have to see this.
He walks over to the side of the building where
you see a little circle cut away in the wall. Ah,
what's that, you ask? This is the most epic slide
you've ever seen in your life.
Speaker 2: Follow me.
Speaker 1: The platypus jumps inside the slide and begins heading downward.
You look out the window to see a gigantic plastic
slide shooting out of the building, winding down around you
below and leading to the bottom, right near where you
came in in the first place. You shrug your shoulders
and decide to jump inside. You soon find yourself flying downward.
The slide twists left and right, it loops around in circles,
and at one point it even flips upside down, which
makes your stomach jump for a second, until you fly
out the other side, straight through the picture, and find
yourself laying on the ground on the picture planet. Once again,
that was weird, you say, Yeah, that platypus always up
to weird stuff. Anyway, I was thinking, since you're here,
maybe you want to paint your own picture. He hands
you a paint brush and a series of paints on
a little tray. Come on, there's some blank canvases over here.
You walk up to a large blank picture. You can
paint anything you want. All you have to do is
focus on it, and well it'll truly come to life.
You're feeling rather tired, and for some reason, all you
can think to draw is something very relaxing looking. You
paint a nighttime background with a little moon wearing sunglasses
for some reason, eye above it. Then you start to
create little fluffy clouds, very comfortable looking fluffy clouds. Then
you add some music notes for a hint of you know,
that relaxation you're looking for. Then you step back to
stare at the picture. Ah, very relaxing looking. Well, are
you gonna try it out?
Speaker 2: He asks?
Speaker 1: I guess so, you say, stepping into the picture frame
once again. The frame lifts and wraps around your body
until you find yourself standing in your picture, standing on
a cloud, surrounded by night sky. A fluffy little cloud
moves up behind you and slowly scoops you into a
little cloud chair. The cloud chair slowly lifts up into
the air as gentle music plays. The moon looks down
at you, gives you a wink, and releases some kind
of star dust or something. As the dust passes over
your body, you get an overwhelming sense of sleepiness. The
cloud chair reclines backwards and forms itself into a perfect
little cloud bed. Cloud covers pull up over top of
your body.
Speaker 7: And you close your eyes.
Speaker 1: With each breath, you sink down deeper and deeper into
the little cloud bed, and you float higher and higher
into the air as your mind begins to wander off
to thoughts of a new dream, names, new pictures, and
new adventures to come.
Speaker 7: Good night everyone, and.
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