ZOOM, Series I; 125

. . . . . . . . . Thank you. Hi. This week's show's got lots of pieces in it that you said you liked best in the first Zoom series, and that you said you'd like to see again. In a few weeks, some new Zoomers will be at work on new material for next season, and they'll need your ideas just as we did. So keep writing. And now, on with the show. Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom

You gotta zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Everybody's doing it, everybody's moving it Everybody's having a farm, yeah So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom I'm Joe! I'm Mina I'm Kenny My name's Tracy I'm Tommy I'm Nancy Oh, I'm John Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you, we need you We're gonna 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 high Come on and zoom, come on and zoom, zoom Come on and zoom, come on and zoom, zoom Here's a tongue twister from Cal Santoraco of Rochester, New York. Do you like tongue twisters? Then try to say, boy, girl, ten times in a row, very fast. Boy, girl, boy, girl, boy, girl, boy, boy, boy, girl, boy, boy, boy, boy. Good luck. This is a limerick sent in by Karen Shukman of Pachecoi, New York. She says,

There once was a man from Blackheath who sat on his set of false teeth. He said with a start, Oh, Lord, bless my heart. I've bitten myself underneath. That's great. Oh, here's a, oh, well, I don't know what it is, but it's from Paul Chisholm of Ridgewood, New Jersey. Why is Zoom better than absolute happiness? Well, nothing is better than absolute happiness, and Zoom is definitely, definitely better than nothing. Thank you, Paul. I have a joke by Paula Falcone of Mount Prospector Doors. What did the chicken say when she lay a square egg? What? Ouch. What? Zoom. Shuk, shuk, shuk, shuk, shuk, shuk, shuk, shuk. What was that?

A zoom-a-ring. Yeah. Have you ever thought about time? Some of our viewers have. Here's what they sent in. Time can be fast if you are doing something nice, and slow if you are not. Time always manages to disappoint you. Sometimes, when you are waiting for something exciting, time will go slower than ever. Once upon a time, there lived a giant clock, and it talked, just like people, except there were no people, because it was on Saturn. This was far into time, and there were 500 or more, and still coming. They were having babies. They would slide on the rings and and watched the rainbow.

Then later, time came, and all the rest stopped and came to an end. Here's a tongue twister that was sent in by Gary Glasser of Dover, New Jersey. It goes like this. Tie twine to three twigs. Tie twine to three twigs. Tie twine to three twigs. Tie twine to three twigs. Tie twine to three twigs. Have fun. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Thank you. The hardest part I found when I was learning was centering it and shaping it.

If it's going around with the wheel, you try to push it into the center so that it stays in one place, isn't wobbling all over the place. It feels like a very fine, fine, fine mud pie with very fine dirt. I like the feel of that, how it's nice, soft, and smooshy. When you're finished making the pot and you've cut it off with a wire and you've put it on

your board you let it get to a leathery hard stage and then with a tool you kind of trim it down to get the shape you want. When you're trimming I like the way it shapes itself and just adding the finishing touches to the shape of the pot. After that, you usually put your name on it, and then you let it dry so it's hard. Firing turns it into a reddy-brown color. It's its first firing.

Then you glaze it. Sometimes it comes out really weird, and then other times it comes out really nice. The best part of potting is the results if they come out good, I guess. It's really fun. I really like it. Here's a story that was sent in by Peggy Porter of Charlotte, North Carolina. It's called Chris the Chicken. Once there was a chicken who didn't even know his name. A goose came down the street and said, Chicken Chicken, what is your name? Chris said, name? What is a name? Something you don't know, answered the goose. And away she went, mumbling. Imagine not knowing the word name. A turkey came and said, chicken, chicken. Do you know what time it is?

Time? asked Chris. What is time? A stupid chicken, said the turkey. Many animals came and left. So finally, Chris got so confused, he went to school after asking a cat what school was and learned more than anyone. So now, people, or rather animals, ask him more questions than they do Mr. Owl. So you can see, a chicken is a very fine thing to be. Some things take time when you are small. You want to grow big, and that takes time too. If I had a palace, I would live in it like a queen. But of course, that would be a dream. I would have cream and cherry pie. Nobody would cry. I would make them as happy as a flying bird. I would have white swamps swim about in my pool.

And only the thieves would have a duel. But what am I dreaming about? I'm only a kid. It takes time to grow big enough to be a queen. I love your jewels. Would you give me something you'd die? It takes time to have a baby and for something new to grow. It takes time for almost everything that you should know. It takes time to learn to fly and it takes time to cry. It takes time to make a web and spin it, and time to fall asleep in it. Dolores Gray of Brooklyn, New York, Jenny Schmidt of St. Louis, Missouri,

and Jerry Allen of Klute, Texas, wrote to us to ask us how it felt to be on TV. We had a Zoom rap about it. A lot of kids in school that I thought were really, you know, tough and all that, they saw me and they just came up and they said hello and everything. And it wasn't because I was on that, it's just that they never... they just they didn't yeah they never noticed me and they just came up and they said hi and they just they thought i was a good kid or something like that and they're a lot there are different sides to people like you know you think you may think one thing of someone they may turn out to be completely different and like i've seen a lot of that especially now because they do come up to you and like people you never thought would even look at you they come up and they say oh i saw you on zoom or something people walk up to me that I hardly know. Well, not hardly know, but I know them.

And they asked me to say the Hubby-Dubby weather report. And that's my main attraction now, you know? Let's talk some Hubby-Dubby. Now everybody comes and talks Hubby-Dubby to me. One time I was going over my friend's house out in Lexington. So I'm just walking down the street, and this station wagon drives up, and this lady says, weren't you on that new television program? And I didn't know what to say. After school, I used to... Like I go home and get changed my play clothes which I wear to school anyways But anyways, I'd go to my friend's house and we get under this Pomeroy house Which is down the street like we get some coke and we fool around the swings and all this but I can't do that anymore I mean if I if we were all like Jody and Buffy and all They don't consider themselves kids anymore. They consider themselves stars We'll be the same people when we leave. We'll be different, but we'll be the same. Basically the same people with some minor changes. But some actors, they'll create a new image for themselves.

No, they'll create a new image for themselves. To get themselves known, they'll create a new image. Like Ted Mack's name used to be Fred McGinnis. I want them to know that I'm different from them, but I don't want them to think that I'm different because I'm on zoom I want them to think that I'm different because I'm me and I'm not you know I'm representing them in some of the things I do but not because like I'm not them I'm not trying to be them and I'm different but not because I'm on zoom just because I'm a kid Hail or rain cannot stop me, sleet or snow cannot stop me, smog or smoke is pollution

And it can't stop me. I wish I had some snakes. I wish I had some bees. But the funniest thing I've ever seen is a three-toed sloth. Hey, don't you think it's getting late? Yeah, let's go home. Yeah, yeah. Time moves along in a wondrous thing. It floats and stoats until the earth has passed so the people will go to bed at last. If you'd like a Zoom card with two poems about time,

send us a stamped self-addressed envelope. That's an envelope with your name, address, and a stamp on it. And we'll send you the Zoom card. I'm going to wrap myself in paper, I'm going to dab myself with glue, stick some stamps on top of my head, I'm going to mail myself to you. I'm going to tie me up in a red string, I'm going to dab blue ribbons too, I'm going to I'm up in my mailbox, I'm gonna mail myself to you. I'm gonna wrap myself in paper, I'm gonna dab myself with glue. Stick some stamps on top of my head, I'm gonna mail myself to you.

When you see me in your mailbox, cut the strings and let me out. Wash the blue off of my fingers, stick some bubblegum in my mouth. I'm gonna wrap myself in paper, I'm gonna dab myself with glue Stick some stamps on top of my head, I'm gonna mail myself to you Take me out of my wrapping paper, wash the stamps off of my head Pour me full of ice cream soda, put me in my nice warm bed I'm gonna wrap myself in paper, I'm gonna dab myself with glue, stick some stamps on top of my head. I'm gonna mail myself to you, I'm gonna mail myself to you, she's gonna mail herself to me.

zoom ... zoom... zoom! I don't know how long I've been skating.

I started class lessons when I was seven years old at the MDC rank around our house. And then I started private lessons when I was eight years old and I went into my first competition when I was eight years old and that's how I started. When I practice after school, one of the things I do are patches. They're one of the things that are required for competition. The patch is based on the figure eight and it has lots of turns and twists and you go backwards and forwards. The point of patches is to trace figures on the ice. They help you gain control for freestyle because there are lots of changing of edges and twists and turns and moves. When I was doing figures in the New England Championships, I was so light that the judges had to get down on their hands and knees to see my tracings. I've worked on my freestyle program for about a month it takes a really long time

to get it together you need the freestyle program for competition Thank you. When I'm out on the ice in the freestyle competitions, I'm too busy to think about

the judges and the audience, I'm just thinking about my program. When I go into freestyle competition, I'm wondering if I'm going to land my jumps or or if I should take out that jump because I won't land it, or if I'm going to go fast enough. And I'm looking at my competitors to see what they're like, so I'll know what they're doing. When I fall in a competition, I just say, get up. It's not the end of the world. And don't fall again or I'll kill you, and that's it. I really want to skate all my life.

I want to go into the Olympic Championships and be a competitor. then after that I want to go into ice capades or ice volleys and be a professional skater. To become a professional championship skater you have to practice a whole lot. I practice at least two hours every day. I usually skate all the time that's why I can't imagine not skating because I skate so much. I can't wait till after school to start skating because then I'm free. We'll be right back.

Thank you. Good evening. Tonight's nautical narrative is by Paul Sergios of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Join us as we take a voyage on the Sea of Terror. The Atlantic Ocean, a sea of mysteries. A brave sea captain, Mark, was going to set out on a voyage. Some of the neighbors had gone scuba diving, and they never returned.

Their wives were worried. Mrs. Deuce, do you ever think our husbands will return? Well, Mrs. Callipool, I just hope Mark and Brad can rescue them. From what? I don't know. Mark and Brad sit out in a boat. By night, the sky was all misty and foggy. Mark, do you think we'll ever find out we've made the town people disappear in this fog? I hope so. The next night, the fog cleared. And there, in the middle of the water, was a big, dark, black castle. Brad and Mark docked their boat. Suddenly, out of the castle came a walkway. Mark and Brad went in. They soon found out they were in the castle of Dr. Weaver, a mad scientist.

Are you the cause of the disappearance of the townspeople? I am. I put in the water an invisible poisonous red liquid that would attract them here. When they got here, I killed them. I want to take over the whole of the East Coast. Since you found out what I'm doing, I must kill you. How are you going to do that? Come, and I'll show you. Dr. Weaver put them in a giant glass tube in a room far away from the castle, so that when the bomb that was attached to it blew off, it would not blow up the castle. Dr. Weaver was clever, but the men were cleverer. Dr. Weaver put us in the same tube on top of each other.

So, if you stand on tippy-toe, I'll be able to press a button up here that will open the glass door, and we'll be free. Brad did, and Mark pressed the button. They were free. Quietly, they tiptoed up to Dr. Weaver and knocked him out. then they took the bomb and threw it into the castle and went away in their boat in a few minutes the castle blew up in smoke when mark and brad got home they were awarded a medal of courage and they all lived happily ever We hope you've enjoyed this season's presentation. If you have a play or story that you have written and would like to see dramatized next season,

please send it in to Zoom, box 350, Boston, Mass., 02134. Thank you. Now, good night and goodbye. We're out of time, but some will come back to do some more Zoom. You'll see them on TV in your TV room. And now we say with a sigh goodbye. We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom.

Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom. Come on, give it a try We're gonna show you just one We're gonna teach you to fly high Come on and zoom Come on and zoom, zoom Come on and zoom, zoom Come on and zoom, zoom Come on and zoom Thank you.