ZOOM, Series I; 337

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I'm Mike. My name's Rose. I'm Hector. I'm Donna. I'm Timmy. My name's Sean. I'm Dini. Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Nothing from you We need you So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom Come on, give it a try We're gonna show you just why We're gonna teach you to fly Come on and zoom Zoom is made possible by grants from McDonald's Corporation and McDonald's Restaurants Fund

and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Waiter! Yeah. Waiter, it's a fly in my soup. It counts. Why not a fly in my soup? Waiter! Yeah? There's a fly in my shoe. That's impossible. I put the flies in the raisin cookies. Here's a game you can play sitting in a circle, like Categories.

It's called frogs. One frog. Two eyes. Four legs. Ka-ponk. In the puddle. Two frogs. Four eyes. Eight legs. Ka-ponk, ka-ponk. Ka-ponk in the puddle. You said it twice. You said ka-ponk. Ka-ponk, ka-ponk. Ka-ponk. Three frogs, six eyes, twelve legs, ka-plunk, ka-plunk, ka-plunk, ka-plunk, ka-plunk, ka-plunk, Oh, oh, oh. How many? Four. I said four. Four frogs. Eight eyes. Sixteen legs. Ka-plunk, ka-plunk. Ka-plunk, ka-plunk.

In the puddle, in the puddle. In the puddle, in the puddle. It says that. I'm so cute. I said that. I actually thought there was something to say. Five frogs. Five frogs. You're going to get out. Five frogs. This kid always works. Five frogs. Five frogs. Ten eyes. Twenty legs. Oh, yeah! I don't know what to say in the puddle or ka-plunk. Ka-plunk. Ka-plunk. Ka-plunk. I'm going to get out this time. This kid's going to beat you, Mike. I know. Six frogs. Four, no, it's seven, seven. No, it's six. Well done. If all pelicans and giraffe were one thing, what a lovely giraffican that would be. Some people ride to school on a bicycle, which is two wheels, but my friends and I, we decided

to change all that. Now we're riding to school on one wheel, on a unicycle. We all belong to a unicycle club. Some of us knew each other before we all joined, but now our group's even bigger, and lots of times we get together and ride. One really neat thing about riding the unicycle is that you have two hands free, so you can play a game or something. But it's very hard to play a game of catch or frisbee or anything like that because you have to set part of your mind on catching the ball or frisbee or whatever and the other part on trying to balance. Mic off. Go up. Ready? Everybody remembers how they tried to learn how to ride a bicycle

but it's much harder on a unicycle because you have no handlebars to hold on to. It took me about two weeks before I could ride just a little bit and at least a month before I could really ride. When we play basketball, we don't really have a competition game. We just sort of split up into teams and try to help each other out, yet still have fun competing. One of the first things you do in learning how to ride the unicycle, one of the hardest, is mounting. The trick is in positioning your pedals. You position them like this.

It's very frustrating when you learn because you can never get your balance quite perfect. and you keep falling, either one way or the other. One of the nice things about riding a unicycle is you usually, when you fall, you land on your feet, like this. Oops. But of course, sometimes you do fall sideways, so it's good to wear shoes that cover your ankles. Many people think that a unicycle is just a sawed-off bicycle, but it's not. It's very hard to balance on the unicycle because the seat is right above the wheel, which means your balance has to be just perfect. One thing we do when we get together as a group is formations. They're fun, but they're hard work. The formations look quite easy, but they really aren't.

It takes a lot of practice to get them how they are, which isn't exactly perfect. Another thing we do in a group is set out practice courses for each other to get more control. The basic thing behind the schlalom course is to teach us how to control our turns. We start out with cups further apart, and gradually as we get better, move them closer together, which is harder because we have to make quicker turns. Going in the straight line is kind of fun. Right now our paths about a foot wide, but we're gradually going to move it until it's a little over a straight line Once you learn how to ride the unicycle, it's just like a bicycle

You just get on and ride off, never forget how. Glenn Herndon of Matthews, North Carolina, sent us her glass sculpture. And all she used was a piece of glass, some glass stain, and a piece of tinfoil. And if you'd like to learn how to make your own glass sculpture... And don't forget to send us a self-addressed stamped envelope so we can send you a Zoom card. Here's something sent in by Laura Lynn Parlador of Richmond Hill, New York. Try this. You'll need a long loop of string and a little piece of folded paper. To start, hold the loop taut between your hands and place the folded paper over the top string. Now, here's the trick. Try to pass the paper from the top string to the bottom string

and back again without touching the paper. Good luck. Let's see. Hold it taut between your hands. Taut. Well, first you sort of like... Then you... Oh, come on. Take the paper. okay now the trick is to pass the paper from the top string to the bottom string and back and back let's see try it again and you're making a mistake you gotta do it again yeah oh i hate putting things on strings okay hey that's good hot skill here hot hot pizza michael please control yourself the real task is getting that paper on

Aha, on the bottom string. Right. That's what I was trying, but something... Hey, I did it again! I did it! Yay! At least they're not going to be done. If all giraffes and lions were one thing, what a lovely girl on that would be. The Underwater Kingdom, sent in by Tommy Sakamoto of Newtonville, Mass. Once upon a time, there were four bears. Their names were Bill, Jack, Harry, and Don. As they walked along, they came to a big shack.

Bill and Harry said, Let's go inside. It was dark, so Jack turned the light on, and there was a big machine. They looked at it and thought it was a big imaginary toy. Let's get in it, they said. So they did, and the machine made all sorts of noises. And everybody got dizzy. The machine stopped, and they went outside. Everybody thought that it was a little different. Bill said, Let's go exploring. They walked down the beach, and after a while, they met a sea monster. He said, Don't be scared of me. I'm a good sea monster. The monster asked if they wanted to go down and see his world. He told them to hop on his back, and they did. They saw all kinds of fish, and then they came to the bottom of the ocean. It was beautiful. First they met King Narwhal and Queen Coral.

They looked like people, except they had tails instead of feet. They also met General Barracuda and his big seahorse army. Then the sea monsters took the bears to the royal kitchen, and the octopus cook made the food. It was delicious! The next day, after they had slept at the sea monster's house, the king wanted to show them through the ocean countryside. So they set off. They rode on seahorses until they reached an area where the fish were playing polo. The bears played, too. It was fun. Then they went into an ocean forest where the trees looked just like pines. They had a picnic lunch in the forest. The next morning, a messenger fish came and gave a message to the sea monster. It said that the bears had to get away because some enemy sharks were coming. So for the last time, they saw the beautiful kingdom and countryside, and the sea monster started to take them back towards the shore. When they got to the shore,

the bear said goodbye, goodbye to the sea monster and thanked him. Thank you. They walked down the beach and soon they saw the big shack again. They wanted to get back to their family and friends. They turned on the machine and once again, the machine made all kinds of noises. Ba-joo, ba-joo, ba-joo. and they were dizzy when it stopped they went outside but the place was not familiar the bears that lived there were really strange and different and then they knew that it was a time machine and you could never go back again for every day they had stayed at the kingdom a hundred years had passed at home they walked around the town all crying and then they met an old bear he was a nice and had the voice of the nice king in the water world. They lived with the old bear happily ever after. The end. When Zoom first asked me to be on television,

I thought it would be fun to be filmed because I really got such a great hobby. During the weekends, I go over to Monterey and go out with Bill on the boat. Bill is my stepfather. Bill does a lot of nature photography of like sea lions, birds, mountain lions, all sorts of different things, but he especially loves sea otters. I like to go out with him because I can help him get the pictures that he really wants to get. On the way out to the otters on the Coast Guard water break,

there are California sea lions. And they stop off there on their way to the south. and they just pile up on the rocks and sun themselves and eat and just enjoy themselves swimming around in the water. And if you get downwind of them, you really smell bad. Come on. A while ago, they thought sea otters were extinct because they had been hunted so much for their fur. now they are protected as an endangered species and there's about 1400 of them before we start filming we have to get a sea otter close to the boat and you sort of get friendly with them if you give them squid and clams they'll stick around because they're they really eat a lot they eat 25 of their body weight every day one two three well when bill and are out in the water, I sometimes get my wetsuit on and get in the water and lure the otters in

so Bill can get good pictures. That water's about 52 degrees Fahrenheit. There's the poopers, Tess. Now all we need to do is find an otter. Want to hold the bait bag for me? Okay, now you can bring the animals in so I can photograph them. Sometimes I joke and complain about getting in the water because it's so cold, but I really like it. You really feel like you're an otter yourself, and they're really playful creatures. Bring him in closer, Tess. Ah, that's good. Hold everything really close. Is that close enough? One of the great things about otters is that they're really gentle and they're really cute, because they just look like a little fat teddy bear. Let's try it again. OK.

Keep moving, Jess. There we go. Oh, that's nice. There we go. Sea otters are one of the few animals that uses a tool. If you give them two clams, he will use one clam as the anvil, and he'll beat beat the other clam on his chest as he pounds on the clam he turns over and over to get rid of the waste and the broken shells and and the pieces of unwanted garbage sea otters live in kelp because it's a protective forest and they are streamlined and they can swim through kelp really easily and they can escape their enemies. Like if a shark came in, which is rare, it wouldn't be able to swim in kelp at all. They don't wrap the kelp around themselves. They just sort of drape it over like a blanket to prevent drifting. Swimming under the water with an otter is really something else

because you feel like you're in a totally different place and the sea otter is just swimming around you, and he's just graceful. It's like watching an underwater ballet with a sea otter. Sometimes I feel like an otter, but when I try to swim like one, it just doesn't work. A little bit kicked. Here we go. I consider myself lucky because I've got them right here and I can go out and see them every weekend. Sometimes people ask why they stay here, but the only reason as far as we know is it's just a nice place to live for otters. If all elephants and grasshoppers were one thing, what a lovely What an L-hopper that would be. It's time to roll out the barrel.

Dear Zoom, try to hold a pencil under your nose and above your upper lip. Now say, run, rabbit, rabbit, run. How many times can you say it without dropping the pencil? It's fun. sent in by Yvonne Stace of Somerville, Mass. Ron, explain it again. Run, rabbit, rabbit, run. And to find out what's inside today. What's the word again? Run, rabbit, rabbit, run. Run, rabbit, rabbit, run. Oh, I see how you do it. Run, rabbit, rabbit, run. Run, rabbit, run. She said it run. Run rabbit rabbit. Run rabbit rabbit run. Run rabbit rabbit run. One. Two.

One, two. I'm getting it with my mouth. None, one. Oh, come on. You have a nice yellow mustache. Run, run, run, ribbit, ribbit, run, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit. Ribbit, ribbit. You say ribbit. You're not a frog anymore. Shut up! If all giraffes, lambs, elephants, and tigers are one thing, what a lovely glett that would be. Each week at this time, Zoom invites you to try it at home. Did you use to blow soap bubbles? Well, if you get some tin cans and some other stuff, you can make some really incredible bubbles. Wait a sec, I just want to do one more, okay?

Oh, wicked! That's cool. Try this. Oh, cancer, huh? Hey, look at it! Oh, my God. Oh, wow. Get it. I'd do that. I'd try that. It wouldn't work. It wouldn't work. Imagine being inside that thing. Whoa!

Oh, it's something that was... What's that? I needed that. I give up, I give up. I don't. Oh, the bubble man can. Oh, there's hay! When the sun goes down, the tide goes out The people gather round and they all begin to shout Hey, hey, I'm going to die It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud What a dance do they do

Bloody how, I'm telling you They don't need no bands They keep time by clapping their hands Just as happy as a cow Chewing on a cotton Where the people beat their feet On the Mississippi mud M-I-S-S-I-S-I-P-P-I M-I-S-I-S-I-P-P-I M-U-D M-I-S-I-S-I-P-P-I M-U-D

Beat your feet on the M-U-D Beat your feet on the M-U-D Beat your sweet feet When the sun goes down, the tide goes out, and people get around and they all begin the show. Hey, hey, it all goes down, it's a street to beat all the mists in mud, it's a street to beat all the mists in mud. What a dance, do they do? I ain't how I'm telling you. They don't need no band. They keep time by clapping their hands. Just as happy as it counts Chewing on a good When the people beat their feet When the people beat their feet Are on the mills And sit behind Beat your sweet feet, y'all Why don't you sit?

down and write something for us to do on Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! Everybody! Zoom! We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom Come on, give it a try We're gonna show you just why Zoom is made possible by grants from McDonald's Corporation and McDonald's Restaurants Fund and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Amen.