Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
I I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's Bedtime Stories,
the podcast that takes listener ideas and turns them into
bedtime stories. Tonight, we'll be headed back into the Spaceship
universe based on our suggestion for today. And if you've
never listened before, all you really need to know is
that you are the main character, and you have a
magical spaceship that can take you pretty much anywhere and
do pretty much anything. The possibilities are endless. Let's check
out the suggestion.
Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Kiara, and I would like a
story about an animal creating planet where you choose any
animal and anything such as food, other animals, or even
just things around you like laptops or controllers, and it come.
Once you've chosen those two things, it combines them and
creates a whole new animal.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 1: I love your podcasts, and thank you for the suggestion.
It took me a little while to get my head
around how this might be created, but eventually I decided
that this might be the kind of thing that other
people would want to make suggestions for. So if you
have a suggestion for the animal creation Planet, different animals
to combine or race or you know, fly around with
or whatever. You can write to me at dad Bedtime
Stories at gmail dot com, or you can leave me
a voice message on speak pipe. The link is in
the description, or you can fill out the Google form.
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If you're not on Patreon, close your eyes, get as
come as you can in that bed, and imagine yourself
doing what the kid in the story does because you
are the main character here.
Speaker 3: You wake up on your.
Speaker 1: Spaceship and you get a out of bed, stretch your
arms and legs, and say good morning to spaceship. Good morning, spaceship,
Good morning, spaceship replies you walk out into the main area.
Speaker 3: Of the ship.
Speaker 1: So have we come across any cool planets to check
out or anything like that? You ask, as you usually
do in the morning. Yes, I have found many interesting planets.
The one I suggest we check out first, I have
titled the animal creation Planet. Animal creation Planet. Oh what
do you mean by that? Well, it seems to be
a new and interesting pastime on this planet to create
new and interesting animals. Ah, okay, that seems cool, I guess.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Set a course. Spaceship sets a course for the planet.
The ship turns slightly to the left and downward a
bit and blasts off at super hyper drive, taking you
through a sort of wormhole until it eventually stops in
front of a beautiful, blue, green, and white planet, one
that honestly looks a lot like Earth, only there's a
whole bunch of satellites around this one. You sit down
in the main control chair. Why are all these satellites here?
You ask this. This planet seems to be very technologically advanced,
don't worry. I have mapped the satellites and will avoid
them easily. Spaceship makes a couple turns and drops below
the field of satellites, through the atmosphere, through the clouds,
until you find yourself floating above the planet, where you
see a herd of deer with glowing crystal antlers racing
across the sky. What are those, you say, I believe
those may be some created animals or genetically enhanced animals.
My space probes were not particularly specific on the details.
You continue to fly over the planet. You see birds
with dolphin tails leaping in and out of the water.
You pass a group of people riding giant rabbit horses
across the plains, and besides you, you see someone riding
what looks like a cloud eagle, an eagle that's also
shaped like a cloud. My probes indicate that the epicenter
of activity is just ahead, and sure enough, you soon
see a lot of activity, the whole bunch of high
tech machines and a large circle surrounded by all kinds
of different animals well participating in different activities. There's one
area that looks like a battle arena, where strange and
unusual animals.
Speaker 3: Are fighting each other.
Speaker 1: Some kind of alligator bear is fighting off against a well,
a fox with nature powers or something like that. On
the other side is what looks like a high tech
race track where a whole bunch of super fast animals
are racing. And there's another arena where there seem to
be people putting on some sort of animal show, like
a beauty pageant for genetically engineered animals. Above you, there's
all sorts of animals flying through the sky. All kinds
of them have wings or well, flames shooting out of
their bottoms. Flying rabbits, flying turtles, flying horses, flying turtle bears. Honestly,
the creatures look so different and so strange that you
can't really identify them. And well, only some of them
are human looking animals from Earth, I mean, others are
completely alien and too strange to describe. Spaceship lands on
a little landing area just beside the circle of machines.
My probes indicate that the circle of machines is where
we should start investigating. The back hatch opens up, fresh
air spills in, and you walk out onto the planet
and over towards the circle of machines. As you approach
a strange, tall and sleek robot approaches you. Welcome visitor,
says the robot. Do you require assistance with animal creation
or combination? Perhaps you need an animal or object supplied
from our replicators. We can provide almost anything you need,
as long as it is legal, safe, and not deemed
too annoying. H we're not really from this planet. You
explain what exactly is going on here? The robot suddenly
looks excited. Ah, first time guests, That is wonderful. This
is the animal creation planet. For many years, our robots
and automated systems have handled most jobs food, building, cleaning, repairs,
sorting socks, folding towels, remembering birthdays, knowing all important information.
Uh okay, well that sounds pretty cool. It was, says
the robot. But then people had a new problem. They
had too much free time and too little to do.
Speaker 3: You nod.
Speaker 1: I see. So the people here invented hobbies, many hobbies, painting,
racing boats, competitive, stacking of different objects, But most popular
was the hobby of animal creation. The robot points towards
the center, where there's a whole bunch of huge machines.
Each machine has two side chambers and one larger chamber
in the middle. Some have animals on one side and
objects on the other. Some have two animals. Some have
glowing containers marked with an element fire, ice, wind, water, nature, dirt, lightning, shadow,
that sort of thing. The machines can combine animals with
other animals, objects, elements, or special materials. The computer studies
both things and creates the best possible living combination. Some
people make pets, some make racers, some make show animals.
Some create animals for battle, others create animals for transportation.
Speaker 3: You glance at a.
Speaker 1: Nearby arena where a lizard made partly of lava is
being given a drink from some sort of bottle of fire.
Does it hurt them?
Speaker 3: You ask?
Speaker 1: The robot shakes its head. No, The process is completely painless.
Most animals enjoy their new forms, their minds stay comfortable,
and the computer only allows combinations that will be healthy.
If a creature dislikes its new form, we return it
to normal. Would you like to try, asks the robot.
There are races, beauty shows, flying contests, swimming contests, and
battled tournaments throughout the day that you could participate in.
You look across the plaza where some sort of very
fast looking animal that seems to be made of lightning
blasts across a track so fast that you can't even
see it. Well, the land race looks cool, you say,
any chance you have a cheetah interesting not currently in storage. However,
if you can provide a DNA sample, we can safely
replicate one. Spaceship's voice comes clearly through your watch. I
have extensive biological archives, he says, cheetah. DNA sample transferring.
Now excellent, says the other robot. A nearby replicator hums
to life. Light gathers inside it, spinning faster and faster,
and a moment later, a fully grown cheetah steps out.
It's absolutely beautiful, sleek, golden, covered in spots, extremely cheatah
like the robot scans it very good. I believe this
animal is comfortable, healthy, calm, and ready for optional combination.
Now what would you like to combine with it? You
think about all of the fun things you could put
on a cheetah to make it faster, rockets, roller skates, lightning,
maybe a genant spring, so who could like bounce around
and stuff like that, And then it hits you. Do
you have a Formula one race car? You ask hmm,
not at the moment, Please provide the schematics for Formula
one race car transferring schematics. Now, spaceship says ah, I
see printing. Now the replicator hums to life again, and
this time the energy combines into a yeah, well, a
full sized Formula one race car. Let us prepare for combination.
A single robot walks over and puts a leash around
the cheetah, leading it over into the chamber. On the left,
a team of small flying robots pick up the Formula
one car and fly it into the chamber. On the right,
the machine powers up. Would you like to press the
combined button? The robot asks, of course, I would you say?
You step forward, press the big button, and everything starts
to glow. The cheetah glows in one chamber, the race
card glows in the other chamber. Then both shapes start
to dissolve into pure energy, swirling around in front of you.
The energy streams into the center chamber, twists together, and
well begins to combine. When the light fades, the creature
in the middle of the chamber looks like a cheetah
from the future. Its body is still, you know, spotted
and cheetah like, but it has thin racing stripes along
its side. Its legs look powerful and partially metallic, with
smooth metal joints that gleam in the sun. Its eyes
shine like headlights. The door opens up and the Cheetah
race car steps out. For a second, it walks like
a normal cheetah. Then its legs fold and shift wheels
slide out from its paws, Its body lowers slightly, and
its tail sort of transforms into a tiny little spoiler
on its back.
Speaker 3: Whoa, you say.
Speaker 1: The cheetah car purrs, which you honestly can't tell if
it's an engine or the cheetah purring, but it sounds
pretty cool successful combination. Would you like to register in
a land race? I guess so. I mean, I don't
see why not. You climb on top of the Cheetah
and put your hands on a set of handlebars that
are there for some reason. You drive the Cheetah over
to the racetrack area, and some other robots wave you in.
You find yourself lined up beside a whole bunch of
other racers. One is sitting on a horse that looks
like it's mixed with a motorcycle. Another looks like a
kangaroo mixed with a pogo stick, which you can't help
it is probably only a small improvement from an actual kangaroo.
There's a kid on a rhino with roller blades and
a rockets strapped to its back, and a squirrel that
looks like it's mixed with a monster truck or something
like that. A floating drone announcer buzzes overhead, rain stars Ready, three, two,
one go, The race explodes forward. You give the cheeta
a little kick. There are no petals anywhere, and it
blasts forward. It starts running on its legs, sprinting with
incredible power. You feel each stride like a drum beat
wind rushing against your face. You're amazed at how quickly
its legs can move on their own. Then it transforms.
Its legs transform into wheels. It ducts down towards the ground.
Its tail becomes a spoiler, and it blasts even faster
down the little track. The track curves sharply. The motorcycle
horse slows to turn, but your cheat, a race car,
just digs its wheels in and makes the curve perfectly
without even slowing down.
Speaker 3: The pogo kangaroo.
Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't even have a chance of keeping up.
It's still it's way behind you. You're honestly not sure
why somebody thought that that would be a particularly fast vehicle,
but it clearly is not. In fact, you easily pull
ahead of all of the other vehicles. The only thing
that seems to be able to keep up with you
is the Rocket Rhino on roller skates. You and the
Rocket Rhino face each other head to head as you
turn to the left, turn to the right, and head
into the straightaway. The blaster on the back of the
Rhino lights up and he blasts forward in front of you.
Come on, Cheetah, we can't let that happen. The Cheetah
nods and understanding focuses, and its tires spin even faster.
You slowly gain ground on the Rocket Rhino as you
approach the finish line, and you pull slightly ahead, just
in time to be announced the winner a crowd of robots,
strange looking racing animals, and well humans who have created them.
I'll clap for you. At the finish line, the Cheetah's
legs reform from the wheels and you trot back over
to the combination machine. That was pretty cool. What's next?
You ask, perhaps you would like to combine something else.
The robot says, yeah, well, honestly, I'm feeling kind of hungry,
so maybe we should have lunch first. Well, we may
be able to help with that as well. We have
many animal combinations that can create food. You have animals
that can create food, you ask, Of course, combining animals
with food related products is a favorite pastime of people
on this planet. Okay, well, then I guess the question
is what kind of food do I want? And what
kind of animal do I want to give it to me?
You think for a second and you realize that the
answer is absolutely clear. You want ice cream. Then you
start to think of what would go well with ice cream?
What kind of animal would you want to give you
ice cream? What kind of animal would you know naturally
enjoy ice cream? And the answer is obvious, a polar bear.
I'd like to combine an ice cream machine with a
polar bear spaceship. Transfer the DNA samples, and you know,
some schematics for a soft served ice cream machine with
all sorts of different flavors understood. Transferring DNA and schematics.
Now schematics received replicating polar bear. The replicator lights up
and a polar bear swirls to life again. A little
helper robot walks over, places a collar with a leash
around its neck, and well kind of gestures for the
polar bear to follow, which, strangely it does. Polar bears
aren't particularly tame animals. In fact, they're wildly dangerous animals,
so you're surprised with how easily it follows orders. Next,
the ice cream machine comes to life in the replicator.
A team of little robots picks it up and puts
it in the chamber on the other side. You step
up to the giant combined button, press it, and once again,
both sides of the chamber light up with energy. They
swirl together into the larger chamber and well. A moment later,
a new creature is standing there. It still looks mostly
like a polar bear, soft, huge, and strangely friendly looking
for such a deadly creature, but now it has bell
a soft serve ice cream dispenser built into its belly
like a serving station. On one side of its stomach
is a cone holder, and in the other are a
whole bunch of different flavor buttons with a little nozzle
in the middle. The bear looks down at itself, then
it looks at you. It picks up a cone, places
it in the center of its belly, and presses go
soft serve ice cream starts to spill out. It turns
the cone around in a little circle, creating the perfect
layer of soft serve ice cream, and then it sits
down on the ground and begins to eat.
Speaker 3: Can I have one? You ask?
Speaker 1: The polar bear, looking rather unimpressed, eats the rest of
its ice cream cone in one gulp. It walks out
of the chamber over it towards you and sits down
on its bum. It grabs a little cone, presses the
button on the dispenser, and creates a multi flavor cone
for you in a perfect little swirl. It hands it
to you. You take a hold, and you take a bite.
It's cold, sweet, ice creamy and delicious. This is actually
really good. Honestly, I thought this idea would turn out horribly,
but wow, can we keep.
Speaker 3: This ice cream bear? You ask? I will think about it,
Spaceship says.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 1: Take a moment two finish the ice cream, all the
while thinking about what you want to make next. I
think I want to make something I can ride in
the air. You say, good idea. A flying mount is
a popular thing to combine. What would you like to
make for the animal combination? You think about it, You
think about mythical creatures, and you eventually land on the answer.
A lion and a hawk transferring DNA samples.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Immediately, the replicator lights up with two glowing objects. A
lion appears on one side and a hawk on the other. Again,
the helper robots move over, put little leashes around the
creatures and guide them into different parts of the chamber.
You press the combined button and the two light up
and transform into energy once again. The energy shoots together
in the central chamber and forms itself into exactly what
you imagined, essentially a giant griffin with huge hawk wings.
The griffin steps out of the chamber and lowers its head.
You slowly move closer and pet it on the side. Uh,
any chance I can go for a ride? You ask?
The griffin agrees. It bends down, allowing you to climb
on its back. Then it begins to run. You hold
on to its furry feathers around its neck and seem
to mind. It jumps into the air, spreads its wings,
and begins to flap them As it flies higher and
higher and higher. You soon find yourself high above the planet,
the wind against your face, the sun against your skin.
It's incredible and relaxing to fly around on something like this.
Below you, you see a crowd gathered inside a massive
arena where a bear covered in vines and leaves looks
like it's fighting some sort of ice fox. The bear
is using vines to shoot out and wrap around the creature,
while the ice fox is sending frozen spikes of ice
across the ground and through the air that looks intense.
You land beside the helper robot. Any chance I can
combine something and fight.
Speaker 3: In the arena, you ask? Of course?
Speaker 1: Can I combine the griffin again? You ask?
Speaker 3: Certainly?
Speaker 1: Layered combinations are allowed if the creature remains healthy and comfortable.
The griffin lifts its head watching you. How about fire,
you ask. The griffin nods in agreement. Very good, we
will combine the griffin with the element of fire. Please
lead the griffin into the chamber on the left. You
lead the griffin into the chamber on the left as
another robot places a little container full of well fire
on the other side al Anyboddy, you ask, the griffin nods.
You press the combined button, and immediately the griffin lights
up and transforms into energy, as does the fire Again,
the two of them combine into a stream of energy
and form themselves into something new in the other chamber.
Before long, the fire Griffin solidifies. Its feathers now glow
on the tips like embers. It's lion main flickers with
well some kind of flame as well. Lines of fire
run along its wings, and its talons shine as if
they're peated or something. It doesn't look as fun to
ride anymore. It looks like it'll feel kind of well
burnie if you do, but it does look like it
could take bart in the battle arena. Ready for battle,
you ask, yes, I have put you on the docket
to perform. Next, you walk over to the battle arena
with the griffin helper. Robots allow you inside and bring
you over to the side of the arena itself. Aren't
you ready? The person asks. The door opens and the
Griffin steps inside. A door on the other side opens,
and the same nature bear that was taking on the
fox steps out. Battle begins in three two one. The
nature bear attacks first. It slams both paws into the ground.
Roots burst outward and try to wrap around the griffin.
The fire Griffin leaps into the air. Flames blast from
its wings, giving out extra lift and allowing it to
sort of float instead of needing to flap its arms.
The roots snap together beneath it, narrowly missing fire burst.
You call not really sure what to call the Griffin's
attacks or exactly what it can do, but the griffin
seems to understand. It dives and sends a stream of
flame across the ground in front of the bear. The
fire doesn't seem to hurt the arena floor, but it
burns through the vines the bears controlling the bear growls
and stops again. This time, full trees shoot up from
the ground, forming themselves into a cage around the griffin.
The griffin lights up with white hot flame, and the
branches begin to sizzle, burn, and then pull away again.
The griffin lands and the round in front.
Speaker 3: Of the bear.
Speaker 1: It takes in a deep breath and breathes out a
plume of fire. The fire hits the bear sends it
flying backwards into the wall, where it raises its hand,
indicating that it gives up.
Speaker 3: It doesn't seem.
Speaker 1: Too hurt, but it clearly wasn't sure what to do
with its nature powers versus this fire element. Obviously, fire
would be stronger in a battle like this. The griffin
walks over to the side, where you carefully pat it
on the side of the head, not wanting to burn
yourself or anything. To your surprise, it doesn't even really
seem warm. Your hands are unbothered by the fire. Interesting,
you say. You lead the griffin back out of the
arena and over to the central machines. Did you enjoy
your battle? Yeah? I mean I could see doing that again.
Coming up with different combinations of animals to fight against
each other seems like a great idea for another adventure.
But right now I'm feeling kind of tired. Honestly, I
don't think I have room for a fire griffin. Is
there somewhere it can hang out on this planet? Yes,
we have a sanctuary for such animals. Please leave it
with me. It will be quite happy, I promise. You
hand the reins over to the robot and you once
again pet the griffin on the side. All right, buddy, Well,
maybe we'll come back and visit or try another animal
creation combination, race or battle or something like that in
the future. You turn around and walk back to the spaceship.
You climb aboard, the door closes, and you laid down
on the couch. You place your head on the pillow
at one end. The lights dim all around you, and
you start to simply focus on your breath, noticing as
your stomach rises and falls, and with each breath you
release a little more tension from your body, letting your
arms relax and sink down into the couch, letting your
shoulders drop down, your legs melt, and your eyes close.
With each breath, you sink down deeper and deeper, and
the deeper you sink, theter you feel, and the better
you feel. The deeper you sink, until you feel as
if you're floating on a cloud, and your mind begins
to wander off to thoughts of new dreams and new
adventures to come. Good night, everyone in.
Speaker 4: New York. No more.
Speaker 1: N no Thing, no.
Speaker 4: More nan Union, no music game,