Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
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, our idea takes place in the Spaceship universe, which,
if you've never listened before, is basically a place where
you have a magic spaceship and it takes you on
all kinds of adventures. Honestly, that's all you really need
to know. Let's check out the suggestion for today.
Speaker 2: Hi, Mio Shepherd, and I've been listening for three hundred years,
and I'd like a story about for the Spaceship series.
And yeah, and so you wake up in your spaceship,
and Spaceship says, I think we should go to a
portal and you go into the quarttal and you end
up in a new universe, and you see a planet
where you were. Everything's away out of clay and Rex
comes and he has this gadget that transforms the clay
into playing monsters. Thank you. I love for podcast.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you too, especially for listening for three hundred years,
because that is about one hundred times longer than I've
been doing the podcast which is amazing. Though in those
three years, I have done about one point six million
downloads I believe, which in my mind is hopefully about
one point six million happy bedtimes. Now, if I wasn't
doing a podcast and I was just telling bedtime stories
to my own kids one per night, it would take
me four three hundred and eighty three years to tell
that many bedtime stories to my own kids, which is
a calculation that doesn't matter in any way. Big thank
you to everyone who's listening, everyone who's sharing the podcast,
and even more to anyone who's rating and reviewing the podcast,
especially with five stars. I did get one two star
rating recently that said I had a great voice and
great stories, but they didn't link the AI generated artwork,
and I'm sorry about that. But honestly, if we didn't
have the AI generated artwork, we wouldn't have artwork at
all because I cannot draw at all, nor do I
have time as I work a full time job too,
nor do I have enough money to pay somebody to
do those on their own. So that is why they
are AI generated. But to be fair, they are made
by me putting stories that I make myself into AI
for it to read and turn into a picture. So,
if you think about it, I actually put a lot
of non AI work into those things. So there, maybe
write that in a review. I'll stop now. Time to
close your eyes, get as comfy as you can in
that bed, and imagine yourself doing what the kid in
the story does. You wake up on Spaceship, swing your
legs over the side of your bed and stretch your
arms up into the air. You get up and walk
towards the door. It opens automatically as you approach with
a little whish sound. You step into the main part
of the ship and look out the viewscreen to see well,
kind of strange and interesting looking glowing thing in front
of the ship. Oh what's that, you ask, Spaceship. It
appears to be some type of anomaly. My readings indicate
that it leads to a different universe, one much like
our own, with slightly different rules, like an alternate reality,
you ask. I believe. So, however, I cannot determine the
rules for this specific reality. Should we go check it
out on our own, you ask? Calculating safety of that option,
interesting calculations indicate that my systems should be able to
return the ship to our current reality using my portal
technology even if we get stuck, meaning we can go
in safely and check things out. You ask, yes, that
is exactly correct. Well, then let's head inside. You sit
down on the control seat, grab a hold of the
joystick and point the ship towards the glowing blue circle
of light. You press forward on the throttle and blast
straight towards the colorful thing. As soon as you pass
the threshold, you find yourself in a weird and colorful tunnel,
a wormhold of some kind. The ship stays directly in
the center as you move left, right, up and down,
eventually flying out the other side. As you do, a
wave passes over your body, a wave of well, something
you can barely articulate late, like a change in reality
or something like that. It feels tingly as it passes
over your body. You look down at your hands and uh,
what they're made of? Clay or something that looks like clay.
Your hands, your legs. The entire ship suddenly looks like
it's out of a claymation cartoon from the eighties. The
ship has little clay buttons, little clay joysticks, and a
sort of soft feel to the entire thing. Spaceship, what's
going on? You ask? I believe this new reality has
new and interesting rules. Instead of creating carbon based life
forms like our reality, this one seems to have clay
based life forms and clay based everything. You press down
on the control panel a little bit, and sure enough,
it squishes, as if it's actually made out of clay.
Looking through the window, you see a little clay planet,
blue and green, very earth like honestly, except well, except
for that distinct clay like look. It's as if the
entire thing was sculpted by a child for some sort
of science project or something. Is it safe to explore more?
You ask, spaceship, as you look around at the weird
clay like structures now inside. My scans indicate that the
portal is currently stable. We should be able to explore
without any issues. Would you like to check out the
nearby planet? I think I would? You say? You press
forward on the little clay joystick, and the ship points
down towards the world, just as it normally does. You
push forward on the throttle and you begin to move.
You fly down through the atmosphere through little clay clouds
that well, don't really look like they should be floating
and above a beautiful green and blue landscape. Trees and
rivers and lakes stretch out below you, all of them
of well made of clay. You find a large field
that looks like it would be a good place to land,
and you slowly you lower the ship down. Instead of
the normal pissing noise you normally get as the ship
touches down, this time it sounds more like a squeosh
or something like that. The back hatch opens up and
you walk outside. The ground itself is made of clay,
with little clay grass sticking up. It smushes down as
you step on it. There's clay trees and clay bushes,
and well, even the water itself seems to be made
out of clay, though it's moving still. You kneel down
and place your fingers into the ground. You scoop up
a huge ball of green and brown clay. You start
squishing it together into different shapes, different sizes. Honestly, Lee,
it feels just like the play clay you used to
use when you were younger. Hi, there, a voice says
from beside you. You look to the left to see
a clay boy. He looks human, if well humans were
made out of clay, of course. He waddles over towards you,
like a character in an old claymation film. Is that
your spaceship? Did you just mold that today? He asks? No, Actually,
I flew in it to this planet. I've never seen
anything like this place. Everything's made out of clay, of
course it is. What else would it be made of?
The boy asks, my name's Shepherd. How do you do. Hey,
nice to meet you, Shepherd. You respond and introduce your
I'm kind of an explorer here. I travel all over
the universe, and I guess different universes, but this is
my first time on a planet like this. Wow, all
around the universe. That's so cool. I've never thought about
doing something like that. Maybe I should mold myself a
ship that can travel all over the universe. You could
do that, you ask, well, of course I can. You
can mold anything you can imagine and of course put
together with your hands. You just stare at Shepherd. You
can make anything, you say, even a spaceship. Yeah, of
course you can, Shepherd response, as long as you can
shape it and infuse it with well, your own imagine nation.
It's important to be really specific with that. You can
create anything you can think of. Have you really never
done this before, he asks, looking at you inquisitively. Well,
I mean no, they don't do that on most planets.
Can you show me what you mean? Ah? Sure, I guess.
Shepherd takes a second to think, and then he starts
moving left and right, collecting clay from well different colored objects.
He grabs a bunch of orange flowers, some black dirt,
some white stones, and begins to press them together, sheeping
a little head and little arms, and a tail, and
then well wings on the side. It becomes apparent that
he's creating a tiger, of some kind of winged tiger. Anyways,
he stops and looks at his creation, tapping his chin
like something's missing. He runs over to the water, grabs
a huge blob of blue clay and starts shaping it
into lightning bolts, or well, at least something that looks
alid like a lightning bolt. He shoves the lightning bolt
directly into the tiger's mouth and nods as if well
as if his creation is perfect. Suddenly the tiger comes
to life. It presses up against Shepherd, and he scratches
the thing on the chin. I introduce you to flying
lightning tiger. He says, you mean you can make things
that are living too, You ask, of course you can.
Hand As I said, all it takes is a little
bit of imagination. Can that thing really shoot lightning? Huh? Yeah?
Watch this lightning tiger blast. As soon as he orders it,
the lightning tiger shoots out a blast of blue well
clay electricity. It sparks through the air, crashes into a tree,
causing an explosion of clay in all different directions. WHA
that almost well, that doesn't make any sense at all,
but I'm willing to give it a try myself. You
start looking around for different colors of clay of your own.
You grab the trunk of a tree, some leaves, some dirt,
some water, some well red roses, and you start smushing
them all together. You make a brown body using the trunk,
large green wings using the leaves, and something that looks
like fire using the red and well orange flowers you collect.
You carefully shape the head into the head of a
very fearsome but somewhat friendly dragon. You imagine them being
a very obedient dragon, one that likes to go on
adventures and protect you from dangerous things. Shepherd did say
it was important to imagine, after all. As you place
the fire in the dragon's mouth, you step back and nod,
looking at your creation approvingly. Slowly, the thing starts to move.
It moves up towards you and presses its head into
your hand. You scratch it on the side of the cheek,
and it moves as if it really enjoys that, kind
of like a cat. Well, you want to go for
a ride and explore things, Shepherd asks, I guess, so
can these things really fly? Of course they can, as
long as you imagined it flying. If you didn't imagine
it flying, you might not want to get on. No,
I imagined it flying, you respond, As you climb on
to your clay dragon. All right, then, Shepherd says, climbing
atop his clay winged lightning tiger, be careful, Spaceship says.
As you give your dragon a little kick, it jumps
into the air and takes flight, flapping its massive clay
wings and floating in a way that well, a real
dragon wouldn't. I mean, real dragons can fly, but not
quite the way that a clay dragon flies. Shepherd leads
the way up into the air, up above the little
clay floating clouds. You look up at the sky to
see the sun, or hey, sun anyways looking down at you.
It also looks like it's made of clay, only for
some reason, it has a face, and it's wearing sunglasses.
It winks at you as you fly below. Very strange.
You fly high above the clay world, over clay forests
and clay lakes, until you catch a glimpse of something
else coming down from the sky, something kind of space like.
You fly closer to get a better look, and a
familiar shape appears, a spaceship shaped like the head of
a Tyrannosaurus Rex, though of course in this case made
entirely out of clay. Rex, you say, or at least
a Rex clone. What's he doing here? Follow me, you
say to Shepherd, giving a little kick to your dragon
and heading straight towards Rex's spaceship. The ship lands on
the ground. You and Shepherd drop down right in front
of it. The mouth of the ship opens up, a
little platform slides out, and soon you see him. Even
if he's now made of clay, he's un mistake ekable,
a humanoid tea Rex wearing a lab coat.
Speaker 2: Rex.
Speaker 1: Well, hello there, Rex says, I wondered if you'd find
my little universe here, just a little experiment I whipped up.
I knew someone as curious as you wouldn't be able
to resist exploring it. Oh wait a second, you made
this universe, you ask, looking over at Shephard, who just shrugs,
not having any idea if this dinosaur made the universe
or not. Well, I'm not sure I actually made it,
but I did discover it, and I created a portal
to it, and I've been working on some interesting technology
to use on it. Observe pulls a little button out
of his pocket, like a tablet with a big red
button on it. He moves a little joystick on top
of the tablet, and a gigantic ray gun pops out
of the top of his ship. It points down towards
the ground. Rex hits the big red button and a
blast of laser clay shoots out and makes contact with
the ground. Slowly, the ground starts to rumble. The clay
rises up shapes itself into the general shape of a
gigantic well, yeah, sort of like a clay monster creature
with arms and legs and a portly shaped head. The
creature roars, making a very odd and high pitched noise.
The gun continues to move, blasting more areas of the ground,
blasting clay trees and clay rocks. Each one slowly transforms
itself into one of these strange clay monstrosities. Now have fun,
get them boys, Rex orders. The clay creatures look at
you and Shepherd and begin to walk forward, picking up
large clumps of clay and throwing them towards you. You
quickly jump out of the way using your dragon, then
take to the air again. Come on, Shepherd, we have
to take care of these things quickly. Dragon fire, you say,
as you turn the dragon towards one of them. The
dragon opens its mouth and out of it comes a
huge plume of boor ach and red clay, shaped like fire.
It shoots across the air straight into one of the creatures,
and strangely, it actually makes the creature slowly melt, leaving
a pile of gray clay with little red and orange
flames sticking out at the top of it. Shepherd tries
the same thing with his lightning tiger, unleashing a clay
bolt of lightning that hits one of the creatures and
causes them to explode, but Rex continues to make more.
The clay creatures continue to march towards you and throw
giant clumps of clay. You blast as many as you can,
but there's just too many of them. Okay, Sheppard, I
think we need time to come up with a better plan.
Let's go, you say, giving a little kick to your
dragon and zooming off in the other direction. You fly
over top of the forest, over top of a small mountain,
and land on the ground on the other side. All right,
this should give us enough time to come up with something. Spaceship,
Are you there? You ask?
Speaker 2: Be there?
Speaker 1: In one moment, A clay ship with clay fire shooting
out of the back of it, hovers above your head
and lands on the ground beside you. How can I
be of assistance? It asks, Well, we're going to need
to create something to get rid of those clay people,
And well, I figure we can make anything we want.
A creatures are pretty basic. As long as we can
imagine something more powerful, I think we'll be able to
take it on interesting. May I propose that each of
us comes up with a design of our own liking
and sculpts it out of clay as quickly as we can.
That does sound look a good idea, you say, looking
over at Shepherd. Eh, I'm cool with it, Shepherd says,
and will gets started. Spaceship first transforms himself into a
more robot like creature with giant robot arms and robot legs.
He quickly begins picking up trees, smashing them into the ground,
carving huge clay bodies with arms and legs and heads,
and then he starts crafting things that look like ray
guns or blasters, strapping them onto the clay creature's shoulders
and hands. Shepherd immediately gets to making well more lightning tigers.
It's all I could think of under the pressure, he says,
as he continues to smush together different clay pieces into
lightning tigers of all different shapes and sizes. You simply
shrug your shoulders and decide to follow his lead. You
gather as much clay as you can the trunk of
a tree, leaves, feathers, roses, flowers, bushes, and you begin
smushing them together, making a body much bigger than the
first dragon you created, with wings, a tail, a scary
looking head, and of course, flames in its mouth. Then
you start putting together another dragon, only this time you
decide to make it out of water, an ice dragon,
you say, as you begin to craft the gigantic blue dragon,
this time with flames of blue energy that you imagine
to be a sort of ray in its mouth. Soon
you hear the booming and sort of squishing footsteps of
Rex's clay army. As the giant clay pieces march towards you,
you look around and see that you've actually amassed a
bit of an army of yourself. Ten lightning tigers, nine dragons,
and three gigantic and fully armed robots, much larger than
Spaceship himself. I believe we are ready, Spaceship says. You
jump atop the largest dragon, and Shepherd jumps atop the
largest winged lightning tiger. Each of you gives it a
little kick, and you take to the air. The other
tigers and other dragons fly up behind you. The robots
begin to march forward, and you yell attack all at once.
Clay streams of flyer shoot out of the dragon's mouths
well except the ice dragon that shoots a huge plume
of blue clay. The fire dragons almost immediately melt their
clay opponents, while the ice dragon surrounds his and some
sort of hard layer of blue clay. The lightning tigers
make many of the others explode, and the giant robots
begin to unleash weapons of all different kinds, rockets and
lasers and some sort of giant cannon mounted on their
arms that shoots large cannon balls or something like that.
One by one, Rex's clay creatures fall, all smushed to
the ground, melted down or frozen in blue clay. Rex's
ship floats closely behind, creating more as quickly as a can.
You set your sights on the large cannon atop the
ship and give the dragon a little kick. You blast
forward at incredible speed and yell fire blast, all at once.
A huge blast of fire shoots out of the dragon's
mouth and connects with the clay ray gun. The gun
is blasted off and broken into pieces, all of which
are on fire or at least covered in clay fire,
which is sort of hard to explain and weird looking.
As the tigers and dragons and robots defeat the last
remaining giants in Rex's army, as ship suddenly turns around,
blasts off into the atmosphere, and disappears into space. Oh wow,
Shepherd says, that was awesome. I haven't been able to
do something like that. And well, ever, well I'm glad
you enjoyed it, you say to Shepherd, as you carefully
land your dragon and flying lightning tiger on the ground.
Things like that seem to happen to me a lot.
It's as if adventures always looking for me. Either way,
it's been fun, but we should probably get going. What
do you want me to do with all these dragons
and tigers, you ask, Yeah, just leave them here. They
seem nice, all right, Then, you say, as you slide
off of your own dragon, pat it on the side
of the head and wave goodbye. Spaceship remolds itself beside you.
Instead of glowing blue and transforming like it normally does,
it just kind of smashes itself together back into the
spaceship shape. The back door opens up and you climb
aboard into the main part of the ship, which has
a living room made of clay, a kitchen made of clay,
a toy room and book area made entirely out of clay,
and of course, a control center at the front, which
has made entirely out of clay. As well. Our spaceship
time to go home, you order, the back hatch closes,
spaceship lifts up off of the ground and blasts up
through the clouds, through the atmosphere, and back into space.
You watch as it heads directly for the poor, which
on this side looks like a huge swirl of clay
moving around in circles. As the ship passes through it,
that strange sensation passes over your body again. You look
down and see that your hands have become normal hands,
and the spaceship has become a normal, magical spaceship. Once again,
You yawed, feeling kind of tired from such an adventure. Well, Spaceship,
I think I better get to bed, you say, as
you head over towards the bedroom door. Have a good night,
spaceship replies. The door opens up and you step inside
your very own bedroom. You climb into the bed, pull
the covers up to your chin, and the lights fade automatically.
You close your eyes and begin to just focus on
your breath, noticing as your stomach rises and falls with
each breath. You imagine your arms and legs sinking down
into the mattress, releasing any tension they're holding it. All,
and with each breath you drift a little bit further,
You become a little more comfortable, and soon your mind
begins to wander off to thoughts of new dreams, new adventures,
and new universes to come. Good Night everyone, Vernon.
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