30 episodes
Bear King & Bobo Chico Stories for Kids Bob Hastings
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- Kids & Family
Bear King & Bobo Chico Stories is an ad-free children’s podcast series narrated by author Bob Hastings. Episodes are about kindness, friendship, and overcoming uncertainty. Bear King is a friendly, knowledgeable talking bear who likes spending time and sharing gifts with his family and young friends. Bobo Chico is a talking river otter who is Bear King’s lovable, highly enthusiastic best friend. While on their adventures, Bear King and Bobo Chico meet many interesting people who help them overcome challenges and learn important, positive life lessons. Each story invites the listener to experience the familiar and also use their imagination. The series is set in the Pacific Northwest, specifically Portland, Oregon, home of the author and his family. Each story was inspired by his children and his grandsons, for whom the stories were originally written. His grand-nieces make appearances in later episodes. Author/Storyteller: Bob Hastings. Producer/Sound Engineer: Scott Whitney of PodWorx, Inc. Program Manager: Vicky Hastings. Musician: Scott Whitney. Artist: Jennifer Reynolds.
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The Adventure of the Tidal Pools [S3:E1]
Bear King and Bobo Chico meet up with Loar and Roen’s bus when they arrive at Cape Perpetua Marine Reserve on the Oregon Coast and help them along the Captain Cook Trail down to the tidal pools. While they’re exploring the tidal creatures at low tide ― learning a LOT from the Reserve’s Marine Biologist ― Bobo Chico becomes distracted. Leaving the safety of the group, he clambers over a rock ledge and discovers an opening. Believing it’s a cave with pirate treasure, he trips and falls, b*****g...
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The Adventure to Japan [S3:E2]
Bear King, Bobo Chico, Loar, and Roar are arriving at Narita Airport in Japan. The boys are excited, but have trepidations about traveling in a strange land. The hosts greet and guide them through the airport to the rail line to Tokyo. Bobo Chico is confident (overly so) that his smartphone will navigate all language, trip, and map challenges. However, he loses this phone on the train and doesn’t discover it's lost until he really needs it. Bobo Chico becomes flustered, rude, and selfish abou...
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The Adventure of the Bridge Over Troubled Waters [S3:E3]
Loar and Roen are merrily playing with their Legos, making a complex series of buildings, bridges, and vehicles that crisscross their ’world.’ When Bear King & Bobo Chico visit, they are impressed with the boys' work. Bear King takes a call from Ana, his civil engineer friend, and learns a disaster has destroyed an old bridge, which threatens to impact a sensitive river wetland area. When they all see images of the disaster, Bobo Chico is genuinely concerned. He is very familiar with the ...
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The Adventure of Robi, The Friendly Robot [S3:E4]
Loar and Roen come to the Sky Cave to help Bear King understand how to use the self-parking feature on his FUV. Baer King explains how he dented his vehicle at the grocery store when Bobo Chico confused him…which Bobo Chico claims wasn’t his fault. Roen says he’d like to have a robot help him do his chores, which inspires Bear King to connect with his friend, a robotics engineer. The four friends get a special visit to the lab and learn that the engineer would like to test her prototype...
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The Farther Adventure - Wonderland [S2:E1]
This children’s podcast is a continuation of Season 1, Episode 13 that brought together all the friends at a party. This new series, The Farther Adventures of Bear King and Bobo Chico, begins as Bear King and Bobo Chico get lost in the balloon as it floats away from Portland. At the same time, back in Portland’s South Waterfront, Loar and Roen discover Bear King’s backpack under the picnic table. Looking inside, they see Bear King’s magic wand but are nervous about touching it. Startled by Ca...
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The Farther Adventure - Over the Rainbow [S2:E2]
The four friends travel to a new place over the rainbow and through an electrical storm. Finding Wonderland to be beautiful beyond belief, they soon realize that they will eventually need to find their way back home. But how? As they climb out of the balloon, Bear King mistakenly deflates it and it disappears in a ‘poof’ of pink. Initially, Bobo Chico is very excited by this magical place where fountains bubble with sparkling, flavored water and bushes sport ice cream sandwiches. ...