ZOOM, Series I; 323

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and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. What do you call a sunburn on your stomach? I don't know. Exactly what do you call a sunburn on your stomach? A pot roast. Here's a game we play where you try to guess a secret word, except you have to draw the clues. Divide up into teams, and the side that gets the word first wins. Oh, yes! Weird! Host! A hat! A duck! A bird! A squirt! A pimpid! A skunk! A skunk! We got it! We got it! We got it! Oh, look at our shot! Look at our junk. Look at a squirrel. Come on, squirrels. Come on, come on, what is it?

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Happen to have it up your sleeve. Yes, and you comb your hair real fast, and comb your hair. Oh, look at this. Oh, where those things go? If all the birds and dragons were one thing, what a lovely bird dragon that would be. My name is Jack West, and I live in St. Charles, Missouri, and I've been playing the guitar for about five years. I had a little problem trying to learn that song, because when I started out, I had to

go real slow, but finally I got the hang of it, and I started going faster. when we're practicing all three of us together we just go over some songs we know and try to learn them try that mic see if it's gonna squeal jack mark test testing one two three barry he plays too with my dad while i'm playing lead on the guitar yesterday country road take me home Almost everybody in my father's family plays music, and most of them play country western. We get together sometimes when we can, like on weekends we go down to my grandma's and we play music down there.

There's about eight or nine people in the West family that play, and it all started out by my grandma. My dad, he always thought that if I wanted to have a chance at something, he'd let me take at least one try at it, and so, uh, he got me the guitar. What are you supposed to do when you come down from the neck? You started off on the seventh fret again.

And so you'd be. Then you do the same thing as we always did, like air. Right. But then what do you do after that, though? Well, get it right here. Well, the reason that we got my brother Barry a bass, it's not too hard to play, and we can take it almost everywhere we go. You're doing pretty fast picking there, Wood. Across the bridge, there's no more sorrow. Across the bridge, there's no more pain

The sun will shine across the river And you'll never be unhappy again Across the bridge, there's no more pain When I grew up, I was thinking about getting a band and going around and go to nightclubs and everything and perform. I don't get nervous at performing too much, as long as the people like what you're playing. And you'll never be unhappy again. How about this? Each week at this time, Zoom invites you to Try it at home. Did you know that you could make sculptures out of food?

Watch. I got a cane. My name's cane. Do you want me to stick this in here? Yummy, yummy, yummy. Oh, wow. Look at that. Oh, shoot, look at that. Oh, look at that. It's got elevators. Oh, yes. Outside elevators? No. Let's see what's next. He's calling John Donut. My name is John Donut. Yes. You get a macaroni. Oh, she is good today. Look at a skillful kid. Donut and macaroni. It's like making a model.

Oh, my building is toppling. Okay, that's that. I've got to put something to add to that. I know. Oh, I know what I'll put there. Our cookies. There we go. I'll put some over here. Two more anchors. hmm hurry up with the green marshmallows up there after braced fall falls down take my marshmallows wow hey that's pretty good oh yeah and the martian ship falls from stardom to sunrise

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U. U, U. Z, Y, X, W, V, U, T, S, R, T, S, R, Q, P, O, N, M, L, K, J, I, H, F, G, D, E, D, C, V, I've never seen so many flyers in my life. Don't you ever shoo them? No, we just let them go barefoot. Come on, Gail. Time to get new shoes. Blacksmithing has been our family's business for seven generations, only eight. When we get our shoes, they're just flat with nail holes in them.

And before we put them on a horse, we have to put it in the forge to heat it up and to make it easy to bend. Here's some paper for you, John. I've been working with my father for four-and-a-half years. Looks like a volcano. My grandfather built these forges 35 years ago. In his day, blacksmiths had to make their own shoes. Now we get most of ours ready-made. This shoe is too big for the horse and I'm doomed so I have to cut the end off. You've got to keep eating or you'll be pounding it all day.

How are you doing, John? Almost finished. I'm just going to flatten it out. All right, we're going to get going. We've got about eight hikes to get done today. Most of the work my father does is on the road. On summer times and weekends, we work from 4 in the morning to a dock. His truck is equipped with all the stuff we need.

Shoes, tools, and even a small forge. Watch this, I've been using this kind of apron for hundreds of years. You have to have the split in the middle so you can hold the horse's foot steady while you're shooting him. We ain't going to get her done. Once you get the old shoe off, you have to clean it off the inside of the hoof.

Don't take too much of the bar. Don't get too deep. Oh, hoss. Nice hossie. Come on, Gail. You're supposed to be a nice hossie. Not that one. What's this time? Grab this one, Jim. Bring it up. Come on, boy. Then you have to fire it down so it will be flat for the new shoe. Is that good enough? That's good. Oh, Gail, watch it, John. Here you go, Con.

You're coming on. The tie keeps the inside of the foot lubricated when the shoe is on. When you put the stuff on called oakum, it's kind of like rope. The oakum protects the inside of the hoof from getting bruised. Then there's a leather pad that goes in between the horse's hoof and the shoe. The nail's going on a slant so it comes out on the outside of the hoof. So that way it doesn't hurt the tender part of the hoof. The thing I like least about horseshoeing is when the horses dig their feet into your legs. I don't like to get kicked, either. Come on. She get you? You can kick her back up the lawn. One time, a horse flipped me up in the air, and I fell flat on my face, and you almost stepped on me. I got up and just went back to work. Rasp it up. But that horse and I still don't get along too well. Laundry tool's up and let's go home.

Huh? Like him? Here, just like him. If all mice and ladybugs were one thing, what a lovely lady mouse that would be. If I was watching TV and all of a sudden my brother came in or his sister came in with some food, all of a sudden I'd think of food and I'd go to the kitchen. Like steak? It doesn't matter what kind of food as long as it's some kind of food. Except for cereal, right? No, it depends. I think the best kind of food is holiday dinners like Thanksgiving and Christmas, and my grandmother's, there's turkey and mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes, and all the stuff all over the table, and it's all the good stuff.

There's no good stuff. There's no bad stuff. Or maybe Chinese New Year's. I like TV dinners. What about Chinese New Year's? What do you mean? Chinese New Year's, they give you some kind of, you know, like chicken, a lot of meat and some soup, which they have chicken, eggs. Yeah, I love that soup. Well, I like, I love the wins with the skin if it's so hard. If it's all ripped off, right? I always say. No, Chinese New Year's, right? I get the leg, right? And I say, I don't like the skin, so I peel it off. Oh, I love the skin. And one whole long piece, I give it to my brother, he eats it, and I eat the skin. Dip it in that oyster sauce. I eat it with rice. Chicken and butter taste like lobster. Anybody like watermelon? Oh, I love it. Oh, who doesn't? In the summertime, I love that. I know.

Every time my father brings a whole piece of watermelon, I cut it in half like that, and then I cut that pot, cut it again. I take one, and I eat it, and then I keep on cutting it until I'm full of watermelon. You know what I do sometimes? I take a little slice, and we have one of those things that's round, and then you scoop it up, and it looks like they're a little tiny. Yeah, it looks like a little ball. Clams are good. Yeah, they're steams. They fry them. And you put them in water, you dip them in water. I love that. And how about lobsters? Anybody like fried clams? Yeah. In Puerto Rico, we go to the beach, right? And there's, like, these little things. They're in the shell, and they have things that come out. And they walk all over the place. And we try to catch them. Clams. And they come up. Crabs, yeah, crabs. No, not crabs. Crabs walk on their sides. They don't. They have a shell on top of them, like a shell that goes like this. A snail. Hermit crabs. Hermit crabs. Yeah, them. And they sneaks all over. In Puerto Rico, there's holes, and we get the crabs out of there. But when you try to get them, you have to get them out with the snakes.

Did you get them out of the water? Did you get them out of the water? Yeah, sometimes they're in the water. I once got a big hermit crab. He was in a huge shell, and he had huge claws, you know? I tried to take him out, but he's going... I went to a dance, and the animals come. The chamber again took the horseshoes on. The grass offered him till he fell on the floor. Get along, get along, get along. Get, get, get, get along home Fish didn't answer the fishing reel The lobster danced on the peacock's tail The baboon danced for like a moon Hop along, hop along, hop along home Hop, hop, hop, hop along home Hop, hop, hop, hop along home Hop along, hop along, hop along home

Mama rat took off her hat Shook the house with the old tomcat The alligator bean is toe on the drum Run along, run along, run along home Run, run, run, run, run along home Run, run, run, run, run along home Run, run, run, run, run along home Run, run, run, run, run, run, run home The boys said, And the house did shake The clouds did laugh and the world did quake The new world razzled on silver's gold Skip on skip on skip on home Kip, kip, kip, skip, skip on home Skip, skip, skip, skip on home Skip, skip, skip, skip on skip on home Skip, skip, skip, skip, skip on home Woohoo! We'll be right back.

I got to go. Close the door, will ya? Hey, other door. Oh, yeah, don't forget to close the door. I got it wrong. Close the door. Hey, remember the door, please. Don't forget to close the door. Here comes the door! Zoom is made possible by grants from McDonald's Corporation and McDonald's Restaurants Fund

and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Presentation of this program was made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation and by public television stations and a grant from the Ford Foundation. Thank you.