# The Maple Guardian and the Canada Day Caper - A Bedtime Story

An episode of [Dad’s Bedtime Stories](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1652255830), 1 Jul 2026, 50 min.

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When maple syrup transforms 11-year-old Martin into a flying, super-strong Canadian hero, he becomes The Maple Guardian, defender of small-town Ontario. With a flask of syrup in his sock and an army of hissing Canada geese at his command, Martin takes on bandits who dare to steal the Canada Day fireworks. Donate to the show by joining my Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/user/shop?u=95723868 Check out Music From The Storyverse (we take suggestions for new songs):https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Zctlho04sh0A8jMXPbXkt?si=pwjUcikZRBacJ-boNxaMeA Buy my Coloring Book - https://a.co/d/9T67TTy Buy my Wizard Craft 2.0 Book - https://a.co/d/gabO5Of Buy my Cards of Power Book - https://a.co/d/aOIwSiq Buy A T-Shirt - Merch Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheBedtimeStoryVerse You can now leave me a voice clip with your name and story idea. If your story is chosen, I will play it on the show! https://www.speakpipe.com/Dadsvoicemail Click the following link to submit a story idea in writing: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbkoegGV9R2FKVYQsZrA_Th4cGmZLehhMS-6P5MebM-zoBjQ/viewform?usp=sf_link Leave a comment: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8YTTSkUSaFUkPa3UovNGZ729UHkR8xEqSjxvlkFnO9rFBvA/viewform?usp=sf_link Youtube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLefIeJqwi4Bp5WVpcjx9Rx5gD5J_5KYQu&si=Bu7-iyCJqPYg5gTf Now available anywhere you get your podcasts. Help me out by following and/or rating the show. Comment on what you want to see happen next. If you like an episode, it goes a long way to share it on social media. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087924908464 Write to me at dad.bedtimestories@gmail.com Visit my website at www.dadsbedtimestories.com Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dadsbedtimestories/ About The Podcast: Dad’s Bedtime Stories is the family-friendly podcast that turns listener ideas into immersive bedtime adventures kids (and parents) can enjoy together. I originally created these stories for my own children on nights when they couldn’t fall asleep. What started as a simple bedtime ritual has grown into a world of imagination designed to help families wind down together at the end of the day. Play an episode for your kids and encourage them to imagine they are the hero of the story — exploring distant planets, training dragons, discovering magic, or traveling through space — all while lying safely in bed with their eyes closed. Each 15–30 minute adventure is filled with science fiction and fantasy themes kids love: spaceships, dinosaurs, dragons, wizards, and whatever wild idea we dream up next. The stories are exciting, creative, and always safe for young listeners. When the adventure ends, the episode gently transitions into calming music to reduce distractions and help your child drift off to sleep — giving you a quiet moment to step out of the room and enjoy some well-earned alone time. Imagination first. Sleep second. Peace and quiet third. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dad-s-bedtime-stories--6907147/support. Buy Cards of Power Series: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2WYJF2?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tkin Buy Wizard Craft 2.0: https://a.co/d/0h1pdKG5 Buy The Dad's Bedtime Stories Colouring Book: https://a.co/d/04yQEIZT

## Transcript

[0:05] Speaker 1: He Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
[0:09] Speaker 1: My Martin and you are listening to Dad's Bedtime Stories,
[0:14] Speaker 1: a podcast where I normally take listener ideas and turn
[0:19] Speaker 1: them into bedtime stories. But today is a very special
[0:23] Speaker 1: day in Canada. It is Canada Day, at least the
[0:29] Speaker 1: day this is recorded. You might not be listening on
[0:31] Speaker 1: Canada Day, of course, and for some strange reason, I
[0:34] Speaker 1: woke up wanting to do a very Canadian story and
[0:39] Speaker 1: this is what I came up with. It's kind of silly,
[0:43] Speaker 1: but I hope you I hope you enjoy it. If
[0:46] Speaker 1: you like the podcast, don't forget to follow us, rate us,
[0:49] Speaker 1: review us. On whatever platform you're listening on, Hit that
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[1:00] Speaker 1: would make a really big difference to other people finding it.
[1:04] Speaker 1: Maybe we can experiment. Why don't you just hit it now?
[1:07] Speaker 1: Did you do it? Thank you now. If you're not
[1:11] Speaker 1: in Canada, you might not know that Canada Day is
[1:15] Speaker 1: the celebration of the Confederation of Canada, the day we
[1:19] Speaker 1: became a country, and we like to celebrate, or at
[1:23] Speaker 1: least my family likes to celebrate by eating Cowortha dairy
[1:27] Speaker 1: ice cream and watching fireworks. And that's exactly what we're
[1:32] Speaker 1: going to do today after I finished this episode. Now
[1:37] Speaker 1: it's time to get as comfy as you can in
[1:39] Speaker 1: that bed, close your eyes, and just imagine yourself possibly
[1:45] Speaker 1: taking on the you know, the character of Martin in
[1:49] Speaker 1: this story. Martin grew up in a small town in Ontario, Canada,
[1:57] Speaker 1: where people enjoyed hunting fish and four wheelers, wood stoves,
[2:02] Speaker 1: frozen lakes, and boil in the life blood out of
[2:06] Speaker 1: trees into a sort of concentrated substance most people know
[2:13] Speaker 1: as Maple's syrup. To most people, Maple's syrup was a
[2:18] Speaker 1: breakfast topping, but to Martin, it was tree blood. Could
[2:25] Speaker 1: you please pass the tree blood? He would say at breakfast.
[2:29] Speaker 1: His mother would close her eyes for one full second
[2:33] Speaker 1: and say, Martin, please stop calling. At that, his father
[2:39] Speaker 1: would usually shrug and say, well, he's not wrong. Martin
[2:45] Speaker 1: was eleven years old, which meant he was old enough
[2:48] Speaker 1: to help with real jobs around the property, but still
[2:52] Speaker 1: young enough to believe, deep in his bones that someday,
[2:57] Speaker 1: somehow he might be come a superhero. He'd been wishing
[3:04] Speaker 1: for powers as long as he could remember. Every birthday,
[3:07] Speaker 1: when the cake came out and the candles were lit,
[3:11] Speaker 1: Martin made the same sort of wish. I wish I
[3:14] Speaker 1: could fly, he whispered. One year, I wish I could
[3:18] Speaker 1: throw big stuff, he whispered. The next, I wish I
[3:22] Speaker 1: could run so fast that people would only see a
[3:25] Speaker 1: plaid blur, he whispered another time. By the time he
[3:30] Speaker 1: was eleven, he had thought about it a lot. He
[3:35] Speaker 1: didn't want boring powers. He didn't want the ability to
[3:40] Speaker 1: like slightly warm up soup with his finger or something
[3:43] Speaker 1: like that. He wanted the classics flight, super strength, super speed,
[3:51] Speaker 1: maybe even laser eyes, though he was worried that that
[3:54] Speaker 1: might cut some sort of forest fire where he lived.
[3:58] Speaker 1: The incident happened during maple syrup season, just after the winter.
[4:05] Speaker 1: Martin was helping his family gather sap from the maple
[4:09] Speaker 1: trees behind their house. At eleven, he was actually sort
[4:13] Speaker 1: of useful. He could carry proper buckets, stack wood, help
[4:18] Speaker 1: check the taps, and most importantly, complain adamantly about how
[4:24] Speaker 1: much work he was doing. The maple syrup boiling station
[4:29] Speaker 1: sat near the sugar shack, and a clearing steam rolled
[4:33] Speaker 1: out of the evaporator and sweet white clouds. Firewood crackled,
[4:39] Speaker 1: sap bubbled. The whole place smelled like spring, smoke and sugar.
[4:46] Speaker 1: Martin loved it. He loved the sound of sap dripping
[4:50] Speaker 1: into buckets. He loved the mud, He loved the steam.
[4:55] Speaker 1: He loved that making maple syrup was basically a normal
[4:59] Speaker 1: Canadian activity where he was. Then the sky changed. At first,
[5:07] Speaker 1: it was only darker, but then it turned into strange.
[5:12] Speaker 1: The clouds got a sort of green glow around the edges.
[5:18] Speaker 1: The buckets on the trees began to rattle. Martin looked
[5:23] Speaker 1: up at the sky. Is the sky supposed to be
[5:27] Speaker 1: that color? He asked? Uh, nope, his father responded. His
[5:35] Speaker 1: mother stepped out of the shack and looked at the treetops.
[5:39] Speaker 1: Everyone inside quickly, but before they could move, lightning crackled
[5:45] Speaker 1: across the forest. It wasn't normal lightning though, for some reason,
[5:51] Speaker 1: and it was green. A jagged bolt tore down from
[5:56] Speaker 1: the clouds and hit a maple tree. The whole tr
[6:00] Speaker 1: rung flashed like a giant glowstick. Another bolt slammed into
[6:04] Speaker 1: the ground near by, spraying mud and steam everywhere. Martin's
[6:10] Speaker 1: mother grabbed for him. When the biggest bolt struck, it
[6:15] Speaker 1: smashed directly into the maple surrup boiling station. The evaporator
[6:21] Speaker 1: exploded with green light. Sap hissed, steam blasted outward, metal screamed,
[6:28] Speaker 1: and the lightning began to chain. A bright green arc
[6:33] Speaker 1: snapped from the boiling station and hit Martin right in
[6:37] Speaker 1: the chest. For one second, the entire clearing disappeared in light.
[6:44] Speaker 1: His parents screamed his name. Then everything went quiet, except
[6:50] Speaker 1: for the rain, wind and of course, the soft dripping
[6:54] Speaker 1: of sap from the trees. Martin was laying on his
[6:59] Speaker 1: back the mud. His mother ran to him and dropped
[7:03] Speaker 1: to her knees. Martin, Martin, can you hear me? His
[7:08] Speaker 1: father slid in beside, checking his arms, his face, his chest,
[7:12] Speaker 1: his pulse. Hugh, Buddy, talk to us. Martin blinked, then
[7:19] Speaker 1: he coughed. Then he sat up and looked at the
[7:24] Speaker 1: absolutely destroyed boiling station. Did the tree blood machine explode?
[7:32] Speaker 1: He asked. His mother gave him a very very strong hug.
[7:39] Speaker 1: His father stared at him in disbelief. You're okay, Martin
[7:44] Speaker 1: touched his face. Why does my forehead feel cold? His
[7:50] Speaker 1: mother leaned back and her eyes widened. His father just stared.
[7:55] Speaker 1: What Martin asked? His mother swallowed your eyebrows. Martin reached
[8:04] Speaker 1: up and felt nothing. His eyebrows were gone. How man.
[8:12] Speaker 1: That night, his parents checked him over again and again.
[8:17] Speaker 1: Somehow Martin was fine. No burns, no pain, no injury,
[8:23] Speaker 1: just a smoky jacket, wild hair, and two missing eyebrows.
[8:29] Speaker 1: By bedtime, the storm had passed. Everyone agreed it had
[8:34] Speaker 1: been terrifying. Everyone agreed that Martin was very lucky. No
[8:40] Speaker 1: one understood that the maple syrup had changed him forever.
[8:46] Speaker 1: The next morning, Martin came downstairs to find that his
[8:49] Speaker 1: mother had made pancakes. His father poured home made maple
[8:54] Speaker 1: syrup into a small glass pitcher and set it on
[8:58] Speaker 1: the table. Martin eyes lit up tree blood maple syrup.
[9:06] Speaker 1: His mother corrected, tree blood. Martin whispered lovingly. He poured
[9:13] Speaker 1: a large man over his pancakes, possibly too much, if
[9:18] Speaker 1: that was a thing. He took a big bite. The
[9:21] Speaker 1: moment the syrup touched his tongue, a strange warmth spread
[9:26] Speaker 1: through his body. He froze, His fork dropped onto the plate,
[9:32] Speaker 1: his muscles tingled, his arms stretched, his shoulders widened, his
[9:38] Speaker 1: feet pushed against the floor and his hood he began
[9:42] Speaker 1: to creak. His mother stared Martin. His father slowly lowered
[9:50] Speaker 1: his coffee mug. In three seconds, an eleven year old
[9:55] Speaker 1: Martin had grown into a fully grown man, but not
[10:00] Speaker 1: just any man, a gigantic, unbelievably muscular future version of himself,
[10:07] Speaker 1: with a long beard, broad shoulders, and the general appearance
[10:13] Speaker 1: of someone who could shop firewood by just sort of
[10:15] Speaker 1: looking at it. His hoodie ripped apart at the seams.
[10:20] Speaker 1: Martin looked down at himself. Then he opened his mouth
[10:25] Speaker 1: and said, in the strongest Canadian accent anyone had ever heard, Oh, buddy,
[10:31] Speaker 1: this ain't right, eh. His mother screamed, his father screamed.
[10:37] Speaker 1: Martin screamed too, but it came out as sweet maple biscuits.
[10:42] Speaker 1: What in the name Owayne Gretzky is going on here?
[10:45] Speaker 1: He ran to the hallway mirror. A huge bearded man
[10:50] Speaker 1: stared back at him. Martin touched his face. The bearded
[10:55] Speaker 1: man touched his face. Martin gasped, I got a beard.
[11:00] Speaker 1: He then his clothes began to shift. The shredded hoodie
[11:05] Speaker 1: twisted and changed. Red and black plaids spread across his chest.
[11:11] Speaker 1: Denim formed over his legs, Heavy boots appeared on his feet,
[11:16] Speaker 1: and a belt snapped into place. Within seconds, Martin was
[11:21] Speaker 1: dressed like the most powerful lumberjack in Canadian history. His
[11:26] Speaker 1: mother pointed at him with a shaking hand. Why do
[11:30] Speaker 1: you look like a lumberjack? And why are you so tall? Oh?
[11:37] Speaker 1: I don't know, ma, Martin said, horrified. I'm all jacked
[11:41] Speaker 1: up like a moose in hockey season. Oh why are
[11:45] Speaker 1: you talking like that? Asked his father. Oh I can't
[11:49] Speaker 1: stop it, eh, Martin cried. The words are just skating
[11:53] Speaker 1: right out of my face. He backed away from the mirror,
[11:58] Speaker 1: stumbled through the kitchen door, and ran outside. I need
[12:03] Speaker 1: some air there. But the moment he stepped onto the grass,
[12:07] Speaker 1: his boots lifted off the ground one foot into the air,
[12:12] Speaker 1: and then three, and then ten. He looked down. His
[12:19] Speaker 1: mother ran outside and screamed, Oh, no, call the fire department.
[12:25] Speaker 1: His father stood in the doorways, still holding the syrup pitcher.
[12:30] Speaker 1: What are they gonna do? I don't know, she shouted.
[12:34] Speaker 1: Brang a ladder. Martin waved his arms wildly. He spun sideways,
[12:41] Speaker 1: dipped toward the roof, bounced back up, and nearly crashed
[12:45] Speaker 1: into a maple tree, but soon something clicked. He leaned forward.
[12:52] Speaker 1: He moved forward, he leaned backward, he moved backward. He stopped.
[13:00] Speaker 1: Soon he was flying left, right, up, down, and in
[13:04] Speaker 1: slow circles over the yard. Oh, I'm getting the hang
[13:09] Speaker 1: of it now, he called. After a few minutes, Martin
[13:13] Speaker 1: landed clumsily in the yard. His heart was pounding with excitement.
[13:18] Speaker 1: This was it, This was the thing he'd wished for
[13:22] Speaker 1: every birthday. He had powers, actual powers. If I'm a superhero,
[13:31] Speaker 1: he said, I gotta try lift in something. Ah. He
[13:36] Speaker 1: bent down and grabbed a rock sticking out of the ground.
[13:40] Speaker 1: His father had always said it was probably part of
[13:43] Speaker 1: the Canadian Shield, which is why he hadn't been able
[13:46] Speaker 1: to move it. Martin pulled, and the rock tore out
[13:51] Speaker 1: of the earth with a deep cracking sound, and was enormous.
[13:56] Speaker 1: He held it over his head like it weighed nothing.
[14:00] Speaker 1: As parents just stared. Martin grinned, well, slap a duke
[14:06] Speaker 1: on a beaver. That's a big old rock. He threw
[14:10] Speaker 1: it as hard as he could. The boulders sailed into
[14:13] Speaker 1: the forest and landed somewhere far away with a crash.
[14:17] Speaker 1: That well, you could feel in the ground. Then came
[14:24] Speaker 1: the geese. At first there were only a few. They
[14:30] Speaker 1: landed in the yard and stared at Martin. But soon
[14:35] Speaker 1: Moore came and more. Soon the yard was full of
[14:40] Speaker 1: Canadian geese, waddling, honking, flapping. Now, no one in Canada
[14:46] Speaker 1: truly liked Canadian geese. People respected them and maybe even
[14:52] Speaker 1: feared them, but they didn't like them, and no one
[14:57] Speaker 1: liked having them on their lawn because they left behind.
[15:01] Speaker 1: Uh well, presence will call them. Martin stared at the
[15:06] Speaker 1: nearest goose. The goose stared back. Then Martin heard a
[15:13] Speaker 1: voice in his mind, not words exactly, more like meaning hungry, angry. Ready.
[15:23] Speaker 1: Martin blinked, you can you can hear me? The goose honked.
[15:30] Speaker 1: Martin pointed at the geese. All right, then, geese, line up,
[15:36] Speaker 1: he said, and every goose immediately waddled into a neat line.
[15:42] Speaker 1: His father dropped the syrup pitcher. Martin tried some more
[15:47] Speaker 1: orders too. First he had them form into a little
[15:51] Speaker 1: sort of goose pyramid. Then he had them fly around
[15:56] Speaker 1: in circles overhead. I come manned the cobra chickens, he
[16:02] Speaker 1: eventually announced. Martin continued to play around with his powers.
[16:09] Speaker 1: They lasted for about an hour, then he began to
[16:13] Speaker 1: sink from the sky. His beard shortened, his muscles deflated,
[16:19] Speaker 1: his plaid shirt for some reason, just sort of disappeared,
[16:24] Speaker 1: and in moments he was an eleven year old boy again,
[16:28] Speaker 1: standing barefoot in the grass. The next morning it happened again. Pancakes,
[16:37] Speaker 1: homemade syrup, warmth than his body, fully grown, bearded superhero
[16:42] Speaker 1: with a plaid shirt, flying around, throwing things, and commanding geese.
[16:48] Speaker 1: That was when Martin understood it was the syrup. The
[16:54] Speaker 1: green lightning hadn't just hit him, it had given him
[16:58] Speaker 1: some sort of connection to the syrup itself. From that
[17:03] Speaker 1: day on, Martin kept a small bottle of syrup tucked
[17:07] Speaker 1: into his sock, just in case. Over the next few months,
[17:13] Speaker 1: Martin trained in secret, well mostly in secret. It was
[17:18] Speaker 1: hard to secretly fly over a field while being followed
[17:21] Speaker 1: by thirty honking geese, but he did his best. He
[17:25] Speaker 1: learned to fly faster and turn without crashing into things.
[17:30] Speaker 1: He practiced lifting heavy stuff too, fallen trees, old tractors,
[17:36] Speaker 1: and one time, even the back end of his father's truck.
[17:41] Speaker 1: He learned to move at super speed becoming a red
[17:46] Speaker 1: plaid blur across the fields of dirt. Most importantly, he
[17:52] Speaker 1: learned to command the geese. One goose was sort of annoying.
[17:58] Speaker 1: Ten geese were very convenient, but a hundred geese working
[18:03] Speaker 1: together or a natural disaster with wings. Martin trained all
[18:10] Speaker 1: through the spring until summer came July One Canada Day,
[18:18] Speaker 1: a day when Canadians celebrated Confederation, argued about the problematic
[18:24] Speaker 1: past of Canada ate ice cream, and watched fireworks. Martin
[18:29] Speaker 1: was sitting at home when he heard the CBC News
[18:33] Speaker 1: report authorities in Minden Hills are investigating after bandits reportedly
[18:39] Speaker 1: broke into the municipal storage facility and stole tonight's Canada
[18:44] Speaker 1: Day fireworks. Martin froze stole the fireworks on Canada Day, Well,
[18:54] Speaker 1: the dogs would probably be happy, but this was going
[18:58] Speaker 1: too far, and he stood up slowly. He reached down
[19:03] Speaker 1: into his sock and pulled out his emergency syrup flask.
[19:10] Speaker 1: Martin held up the flask, took a drink, and power
[19:15] Speaker 1: surged through him. His body grew, his beard appeared, his
[19:20] Speaker 1: clothes shifted into plaid and denim for some reason, and
[19:24] Speaker 1: his boots hit the floor. With a heavy thump. He
[19:28] Speaker 1: stepped outside, looked at the sky and shouted, all right,
[19:33] Speaker 1: ye majestic hissing sky goblins, come to me, and the
[19:39] Speaker 1: geese came. They formed a giant v over the town,
[19:44] Speaker 1: dark against the summer sky. Martin launched into the air
[19:48] Speaker 1: and flew at the front, spread out. He commanded, searched
[19:53] Speaker 1: the county, find me those fireworks before some absolute hozer
[19:58] Speaker 1: ruins Canada day. The geese broke formation and scattered in
[20:04] Speaker 1: every direction. It didn't take long. A single goose came
[20:09] Speaker 1: honking back. After a while, Martin understood every hawk prock
[20:16] Speaker 1: shed bad men. Fireworks. Lead the way, friend, he ordered.
[20:24] Speaker 1: The goose turned and Martin followed. A few minutes later,
[20:30] Speaker 1: he landed in front of an old shed where several
[20:33] Speaker 1: bandits were unloading boxes of fireworks from a cube truck.
[20:38] Speaker 1: The bandits froze. One of them pointed, who are you
[20:44] Speaker 1: supposed to be? Martin folded his arms. I'm giving you
[20:49] Speaker 1: one chance, voice returned the fireworks, apologized to the town,
[20:55] Speaker 1: and maybe we could all go and get some co
[20:58] Speaker 1: worth at dairy ice cream. The bandit stared, then they laughed.
[21:05] Speaker 1: One ran forward and punched Martin in the chest. His
[21:10] Speaker 1: fist hit Martin like it had struck a steel wall.
[21:15] Speaker 1: The band had yelped and grabbed his hand. How what
[21:19] Speaker 1: are you made of maple? Mostly, Martin said. Another bandit charged,
[21:27] Speaker 1: and Martin shifted into high speed. The world slowed. He
[21:32] Speaker 1: grabbed a rope from the truck, zipped around the first
[21:35] Speaker 1: robber twelve times and stopped. The robber blinked, and then
[21:41] Speaker 1: he fell over, wrapped up in the rope. A third
[21:46] Speaker 1: band had swung a crowbar. Martin leaned aside, still moving
[21:51] Speaker 1: too fast to see, and flicked the man gently on
[21:54] Speaker 1: the forehead, not too hard, just enough. The band and
[22:00] Speaker 1: its eyes crossed, and he dropped into a pile of weeds.
[22:04] Speaker 1: Oh sorry, there, But the remaining thieves grabbed fireworks and
[22:10] Speaker 1: tried to run. Martin raised one hand and silently commanded
[22:16] Speaker 1: the geese. The sky darkened as the flock descended. At
[22:22] Speaker 1: first the robbers didn't understand. Then hundreds of geese landed
[22:28] Speaker 1: around them, on the roofs, on the trucks, on the boxes,
[22:32] Speaker 1: on the driveway, at the edge of the trees. Every
[22:37] Speaker 1: goose lowered its head, every goose opened its beak, and
[22:42] Speaker 1: every goose hissed at the same time. The sound was awful. Now,
[22:48] Speaker 1: many of you may not know that geese can hiss,
[22:52] Speaker 1: and boy can they. One of them is sometimes a
[22:56] Speaker 1: little bit scary. Hundreds of them were an a slute nightmare,
[23:02] Speaker 1: so much so that the thieves dropped everything. They ran
[23:07] Speaker 1: straight towards the police cruiser that had arrived on the
[23:10] Speaker 1: road to check out the commotion, and surrendered, just begging
[23:15] Speaker 1: for them to keep them safe from the geese. Martin
[23:19] Speaker 1: loaded the fireworks back into the cube truck with the
[23:22] Speaker 1: help of the police. Then he grabbed the sides and
[23:26] Speaker 1: lifted the entire thing into the air. He flew it
[23:30] Speaker 1: back to the municipal building. The mayor stood outside, looking
[23:36] Speaker 1: kind of worried. Martin landed gently and set the truck down.
[23:42] Speaker 1: Oh I hope you don't mind, air, Mayor, but I
[23:44] Speaker 1: think I found your fireworks. The mayor stared up at him.
[23:50] Speaker 1: Who are you? Martin looked at the crowd, He looked
[23:56] Speaker 1: at the geese circling above. He looked at the may
[23:59] Speaker 1: belief flag waving nearby, and he smiled, you can call
[24:06] Speaker 1: me the Maple Guardian. That night, fireworks exploded over Minden
[24:13] Speaker 1: hills in red, gold, green, and blue. High above town,
[24:19] Speaker 1: Martin floated in the warm summer air with a bowl
[24:23] Speaker 1: of maple ice cream in one hand. Below him, people cheered.
[24:30] Speaker 1: Beside him, geese flew in a perfect v. Martin took
[24:35] Speaker 1: a bite of ice cream and smiled. Happy Canada Day.
[24:41] Speaker 1: And from that night on, whenever danger came to small town, Ontario,
[24:47] Speaker 1: people knew to look at the skies, not for like
[24:51] Speaker 1: a bat signal or a spotlight or anything like that,
[24:55] Speaker 1: but for a giant flying lumberjack wearing plaid and drinking
[25:01] Speaker 1: maple syrup, as well as a terrifying number of geese.
[25:06] Speaker 1: Of course, good night, everyone.
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