ZOOM, Series I; 315

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Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom My name's Danny I'm Edith I'm Mike I'm Donna I'm Timmy My name's Lori I'm Neil Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you. We need you. So watch your zoom, zoom, zooma, zoom. Come on and zooma, zooma, zooma, zoom. zoom is made possible by grants from mcdonald's corporation and mcdonald's restaurants fund

and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Lots of you have written asking to see some of your favorite Zoom segments. In this show, some old Zoomers talk about what it's like to be on TV, play turkey chase, and some other things you've asked for. So on with the show. It's time to roll out the barrel. Here's a zoom barrel sent in by Mark and Stephen Mohammed of Elmhurst, Illinois. Here's a barrel that will make everyone laugh. Sit around in a circle and give each person a wedge of a lemon. Take turns sucking the lemon. See if you can keep from making a sour face. Good luck. And to find out what's inside today. No, you can giggle.

Okay, go, Louie. Yum, yum. Yum, yum. Yum, yum. Oh, Louie, you don't have to suck it off. All right, you ready? You made one. All right. Okay, never mind you. She can do it. She can do it. No, it's good, but it's sour. Why can't they make lemon sweet? I didn't. This is good. You must, I don't think you can make lemon. talk here you know what i mean he likes it it's good let me see some more juice here's some little jokes called show me's that was sent in by derek maetzel of annadale

virginia show me a poison pickle and i'll show you a real killer dilla some of you may have noticed that i have braces well the other day i went into the orthodontist to have the bottom caps put on how's that good about three years ago i had a fang that made me look like half a vampire the dentist told me that the only way to fix it would be to have some teeth pulled, and get braces. All right. All right, good. When he told me, I really didn't like the idea, because I was afraid everyone would call me those names they always call people who have braces. Tinsel teeth, metal mouth, railroad tracks, stove head, household appliances. So, for the first few days after I got them, I walked around trying to talk with my mouth closed.

now and we're going to cement on you and we've got to dry the teeth off because the cement won't hold unless we do it so we're going to blow some air on the teeth but it wasn't that bad one of my friends had had braces for two years and they were so unnoticeable I didn't even know he had them until he told me and my aunt didn't know I had them after I got them until my mother told her this film looks as if braces are really terrible but the only thing that hurts is having you the wire put in and when it gets twisted to make it tighter sometimes you just forget you have them on but you really can't do that because there's certain foods you can't eat two of them are peanut butter and gum they get stuck to the caps another one is apples you can't bite into the whole apple so you have to dice it up another one is hard candy you can't

eat hard candy because the sugar gets inside the caps and eats away at the cement and it makes the braces fall off. You're a good patient patient. I go in for a checkup about every three weeks. I do that so that they can check the wire to make sure it's not loose and make sure the braces aren't falling off. I've been going in for three years and I sure am glad to be getting them off in about three months. Now, Ann, I'm going to bend these under because they're sharp and I don't want to pierce your lip. Actually, braces are sort of a status symbol in our school because almost everybody wears them. Tinsel teeth, indeed.

Here's a game called Turkey Chase. Sended by Terry Lane of Countryside, Illinois. Here's how to play. Get a colored piece of paper and cut it in the shape of a turkey tail. Then pin it to the back of your shirt. The object is for one person to try to see the other person's color without letting that person show his. Try it at home. Put your hand in your hand. Oh, Bernadette. What is it? Everyone gets a name before I get it? And they're off me. Can we... Oh, no. Blue. Blue? Let's see. Oh, it's Leon. Move, Leon. Move, please. Come on, come on. It's your girl or boy.

Get along the way! Figure out one way and get on the other! We always find it real fast and then jump to the other side. Come on, this isn't fair. I'm getting dizzy. I didn't see it. Jump! Jump around! Um, look, like, look, I can't look two ways. What? What? Well... Well... Come on, you guys. Make a move. Come on, Bernadette. You can do it. Make a move, Danny. Take a look. Danny, do it. Get him out, Bernadette. Go around, Bernadette. There she goes. There she goes. Get him moving, Daddy. She's doing it to you. Run by the way. Yeah, run by the way. Run by the way. Run by the way. Run by the way. Run by the way. Run by the way. Run by the way. Red, red, red. Red. Yay! Show me a cat who drank vinegar by mistake and I'll show you a real sourpuss.

My name is Merlin Despo and I live in Lafitte, Louisiana. almost all my family are fishing when i go fishing i go fishing in my piro a piro's uh it's a little narrow boat and it's very tipsy and i use it to check catfish lines and just to ride in it for pleasure and stuff When I go check my catfish lines, if there isn't any bait on it, I take the bait and rebait it, and I put it in the water and keep going down the line. Sometimes I have as many as 32 catfish lines out in the bay.

When you pull a catfish out the water and you put them in the boat to take the hook out, you got to put a net over him or something so you can get the hook out, because he's very dangerous. He has these stickers on the side of me and if they they stick on you it hurts The other kind of fishing I do is grabbing.

Thank you. Since almost all of my family is fishermen, sometimes when they come in at the factory to unload, I go watch them. The lady Loretta is my uncle's butt.

Thank you. They had a pretty good catch. They had 30 boxes, and that's about 3,000 pounds. I don't think I'd like to live any place

where they wouldn't have no buyers because I was born over here and raised and I guess I was so much around water I like it over here. Show me a nervous mosquito and I'll show you a jitterbug. Let's see. Please bring me a bowl of soup. I can't eat this soup. I'm afraid you're going to have to talk to the chef about this, sir.

i can't eat this soup i'm afraid you're gonna have to talk to the manager about that all right what's the matter out here i can't eat this soup why not I don't have a spoon. Why don't you sit down and write a play yourself? Because we might do it. Write Zoom, Box 350, Boston, Mass. 02134. Zoom will resume after this important message. And now, back to Zoom.

Dolores Gray of Brookly, New York, Jenny Schmidt of St. Louis, Missouri, and Jerry Allen of Clute, 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, um, 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 they never um 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 ask 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. Once 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 says, this lady says why aren't you on that new television program and I didn't know what to say after school I used to like I'd go home and get changed my play clothes which I wear to school anyways but anyways I'd go into my friend's house and we go down to 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 if we were all uh like uh what are they 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. Show me an elevator operator, and I'll show you a guy who has his ups and downs. My name is Rebecca Raja, and we have about 25 sheep on our farm.

We started raising them because we were interested in having wool to spin, so we could make our own sweaters and things. Shearing the sheep is a pretty tricky thing to do. You have to be very careful of the shears, and the sheep too. So my mother usually does the shearing. Shearing doesn't hurt the sheep at all. As a matter of fact, if they weren't sheared, their fleece would get all matted and tangled. If the wool is brown or black, you wouldn't dye it. You would just use it as it is. If you have some white wool, you can dye it almost any color you want. There are lots of natural things like plants that you can use to make dyes. I like goldenrod because it's easy to find. You have to use more than just plain goldenrod to make a good dye mixture.

There are other chemicals that you have to put in, too. You boil the goldenrod in water for about 15 minutes, and then scoop it all out. The goldenrod makes the water into a yellow dye. When the wool is dried it's all tangled, you have to brush it out and get it untangled before you can spin it. Combing the wool is called carding.

when the wool gets all nice and fluffy you're finally ready to start spinning to make the wool into yarn you use a thing called a spindle it's sort of like a toy top with a long piece of wood that the yarn wraps around you just give it a twist and it spins the wool around and around and it wraps it into a strand of yarn you have to be a little careful not to pull too hard and break the strands. You just keep spinning and adding more wool until you think you have enough yarn for whatever you want to weave or knit. ¶¶

Show me a sassy bug and I'll show you a cocky roach. Kim Alltop of Elgin, Illinois writes, Dear Zoo, I want to hear you sing I've Been Working on the Railroad Again. I've been working on the railroad All the live long day I've been working on the railroad Just to rest the time away Can't you hear the whistle roll Rise up so early in the morning

Can't you hear the captain calling Dynamo, blow your horn Dynamo, blow your horn Don't you go, Don't you go, Don't you go, Don't you go, Don't you go? Someone's in the kitchen with Dino. Someone's in the kitchen, I know. Someone's in the kitchen with Dino. Strumming on the old band show They're singing

B-plunk, b-plunk, fill the I-O Plunk, b-plunk, fill the I-O Plunk, plunk, plunk B-plunk, b-plunk, fill the I-O Strumming on the old band show I've been working on the railroad All of the little days I've been working on the railroad Just to pass the tide away Can't you hear the whistle blowing Rise up so early in the warm Rise up, rise up, rise up Can't you hear the catchphrase calling Dine out, come and play on ¶¶

I've been working on the railroad All the live long day I've been working on the railroad Just to pass the time away Can't you hear the whistle blowing Rise up so early in the morning Rise up! Rise up! Can't you hear the rapid callin' Die-da! Blow your... Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! That's the show. If you have a favorite Zoom segment, Let us know. Write Zoom, Box 350, Boston Mass, 02134.

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