ZOOM, Series I; 413

Presentation of Zoom is made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation. Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom, zoom-a-zoom Everybody's doing it, everybody's doing it Everybody's having a ball and dance So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom, zoom-a-zoom I'm Powder I'm Tishy I'm Red I'm Kate I'm Norman I'm Tracy I'm Tommy I'm Carmen I'm David I'm Andre Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you We need you

So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom, I zoom Come on and zoom, I zoom, I zoom, I zoom Come on, give it a try this program is funded by grants from mcdonald's corporation and mcdonald's restaurants fund and by public television stations the ford foundation and the corporation for public broadcasting home on the range what did one flea say to the other when they came out of the theater i don't know it said shall we walk or take a dog home home on the range Waiter! Walter! Waiter! Walter! Waiter, I want water! You want water, Walter? Yes, waiter, water. Walter wants water.

We're gonna get Ned this time. He's gonna get it. Okay. How do you like them, Walter? Where the deer and the antelopes play Say, did you ever want to fly? You bet I do Well, yeah, I have this one Where the deer and the antelopes play. Doom, doom, doom, do-a-zoom-doo. Do-a-zoom-doo, do-a-zoom-doo. Me hungry, me very hungry. What to eat, what to eat?

Beans, of course. Oh, beans, me no like beans. Hmm, let me think. How do we fix beans? What about bean sprouts? What bean sprout? That's a sprouted bean. You can sprout almost any kind of bean. Get me some beans, and I'll show you. Lentil. Lentil beans. Dried lentil beans. Now, to sprout these lentils, you need one jar. Get me the jar, Boogie. Jar. Take a quarter cup full, I just use a handful of those beans. Put them in the jar, okay? And soak them for 24 hours. Give me the water, Toby. Water. Put it in, Toby. Is that enough? Yes, that's enough. Okay, you soak these beans for 24 hours, we say. Okay? Where you soak, where you soak? In a dark, warm place. Dark, warm place. No, no. Downstairs in the basement next to the furnace is good. Okay. Time's up.

Okay, so now you have to rinse them after they're soaked. How do you rinse? Well, Miko, be right back. Hey, come. You need a screen and a rubber band. Screen. Hold on. Rubber band? Put on wrist? No, no. Put it around the jar. Like that. Good, good. This way you can rinse them easy. Now get the pan so we can rinse them. You rinse them twice a day, every day, for a few days. Pour? About three days. Pour? Yes, pour. Okay, now get some water. Water. Let me have water here. Okay, rinse. Okay. Rinse again, rinse again. Dirty beans. Rinse. Okay, now you do that twice a day for three days. Okay, until they're ready. Time's up! Hey, look pretty good, huh? Yep. You want to eat some? Try anything once.

These aren't bad at all, Worm. If you like a Zoom card of sprouts, just... Try something, double-o-n, box-three-five-o. Boston, that's those who want me home. Don't forget to send a saisy. A SAZE is a self-addressed stamped envelope. Where seldom is heard a discouraging word. Say, do you know which president wore the largest shoes? Why, the one with the biggest feet, of course. Where seldom is heard a discouraging word. If you write to Zoom and you want a Zoom card back, here's a song which tells you how to do it. Here in the land of the Zumba tree, we're waiting for you to send a saisy.

Because if you want Zoom to send a Zoom card to you, then that's the very thing that you have to do. Well, what the heck is a saisy? If you don't know now, don't you give up hope. It's a self-addressed aunt envelope. Self-addressed, that means address to yourself. Add a stamp and then it will return itself. I get it. SASE means self-addressed stamped envelope. But what the heck do you do to SASE? Take another envelope and a pencil or pen. In the upper left corner, write your name again. Your number and your suite and your city and state. And don't forget your zip so you won't have to wait. Okay, okay, but what happens to the SASE? Take whatever you want to send to Zoom And put it in the envelope and leave some room Now take your Stacey and fold it right And put it in the envelope and seal it tight Then on the envelope

My Zoom Z-double-O-M-Block Z-double-O Boston Pass 0-2-1-3-4 Ready to Zoom! Zoom. We'll re-zoom after this important message. Here is a letter from Margarita Benilo.

So, me llamo Margarita y vivo en Puerto Rico. Tengo 12 años y estoy en el sexto grado. Veo siempre su programa y me gusta mucho. Muchas gracias, Margarita. And that means, you know, here's a letter from Margarita Venilo. My name is Margarita, and I live in Puerto Rico. I'm 12 years old, and I'm in the 7th grade. I watch your show all the time. Thank you very much, Margarita. This is a letter sent in by Andy and Mandy Metzger of Plymouth, Indiana. Dear Zone, we believe we have one of the longest words on record. The word is, here we go, hi-lo-in-ee-me-ni-ki-ki-in-cha-cha-ina-pi-wa-wa. It is an old Indian word for help. That sure is long. Pee-wee-wa-wa.

Here's a letter from Jane Carey of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Dear Zoom, we are a small club called the Concerned Kids. We are concerned about the world today, and we are trying to do something about it. For example, we have visited our local government and are getting up a petition for bike paths on busy streets. Why don't you start your own concerted kids' club and try to make some changes? Don't you think it's a good idea? Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty good. I wonder why they got these words. It can be dangerous. Yeah, in case they get hit. That's a long word, too. Let me try to pronounce it. What a way they got it. Oh, Monique, forget it. And the sky's not cloudy all day. Oh, did you know that my grandfather once made a scarecrow too terrible? It scared every single crawl out of the whole place. You think that's something? Well, I made one that's so bad

That it scared the crows so much That they brought back the corn they stole last year Um, oh no Oh yeah And the clouds are high Oh no And the sky is not cloudy no more You said it wrong Sorry here's a game you can play at your next party each person gets two pieces of paper on each one each person writes down a stunt for another player to do you can ask anything sensible such as singing a certain song or doing something you know the person is especially talented at collect all the slips of paper put them into a hat and then have each person choose one Of course, when you're asked to do something, it's time to do your own thing, so don't be embarrassed. And to find out what's inside you, hey! Tommy, get on your knees and tell Tracy you have a lover. Oh, no!

Who the heck, girl, is that? Next one! No, you're going to do it. No, that's ridiculous. All right, I'll guess. Tommy, do your James Cagney imitation. Ta-da. Okay. Who did he match you, right? Me and my boys are going to fool you for today. Okay. Okay. No. I've got one. Tommy, try to do a head stand. Don't put it back in the mirror. Take out the ones we already did. Yeah, he did it. He did it. He did it. I did it. He did it. Okay. Red, sing the Zoom song. Come on. All right. As fast as you can. We're gonna Zoom, Zoom, Zoom-a-Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom-a-Zoom. Okay.

Let's go. Carmen, say two words in Spanish. Okay. In abby-dabby. Um. Oba-loba. Cabot-a-bo. What does that mean, though? Hello, cat. Have you ever wondered what we mean by, come on, give it a try? Well, there's a guy named Julio Ferrias, and he works on a circus. I think he knows exactly what we mean. Watch this. I've been around the circus all my life, and I've been in my parents' trapeze stack for the last two and a half years. The thing I do is three somersaults in the air at the same time that my father catches

And that's called trippery. You have to keep your body straight and tight. Don't get your body loose because... And I'm gonna trade her. And we traveled around the circus for 48 weeks. And we started down to Florida. Our home was in Florida, really. Then we go to California and Texas. we go to Georgia, we go to Alabama, New Mexico. We got a whole bunch of states. The little girl is my sister, Carmelina, she's five. My little brother is Tata. Tata, what about you? He's three years old. And you can do it? Yeah. Right? Yeah. I think so. I hope. I do too. The nicest time of the day is when there's no people around. When I wake up, I go and water my ponies and set them up.

I walk around, you know, I see the animals getting fit, especially the lions. There's two baby lions that we've got here. She feeds them with a dick and she puts meat on the front of it. And then she feeds it to the net rabbit. Sometimes they have fights. Good boy. Good. Get in here now. Here, not this. Leave it. A little short one, but it was good. But they were cute, those two little cubs, like that. First time I seen an elephant, I started crying around to my mother. I thought it was a big giant. Sometimes you got to watch out for them. If the elephants are mad, you got to stay away from them. We've got a 6,000-pound elephant in the menagerie. That's too bad. Oh, poor thing. See? That's what he did on my back.

Now it's the time to see a real life gorilla girl. Pony rides! Pony rides! What I like is in the circus, that I take care of that pony ride. That's what people are, and that I take care of the money bag, and that's what I like most of the circus. Sometimes when I have a few minutes off, I go, but I grab a glove and a ball and start playing with the other kids. Sometimes they're circus kids. Sometimes we just make up friends. different times when i leave this i leave all my friends i met and that's what i don't like I really like my parents a lot.

Some of the kids, they don't like their parents, and they call them bad names, and they do what they say. But I really like mine, I don't know why, because it's because we work together. My dad really didn't push me because I wanted to do the triple. There's only really eight people who can do that in the world. And then I say, I want to do that then. He said, OK, I'll try it. Circus Vargas proudly presents those fantastic trapeze magicians from Cuba, the fabulous Flying Pariah. So I kept on missing and missing and missing. and then he said, do it on the show. I said, okay. I did the triple and he kissed me. When we opened the platform and I looked down, all the people that I see, you know, when there's a big crowd, it doesn't really worry me that much. All it doesn't worry me so much is the triple when I do it

and it gets me a little bit nervous, not too much. And now watch 10-year-old Julio Farias, the youngest trapeze artist in the world to ever attempt the most difficult feat ever devised for the flying trapeze, the legendary Triple What I'm trying to think is to, I'm trying not to miss. I'm trying to just keep my mind on what I'm doing. May we have complete silence, please. Hey! I was too long and I hit my father in the chest, so I went to knit.

And it's a little bit embarrassing, I know with people. The secret when you make it is that you gotta get a lot of energy, you know, so you can go high up in there and catch it, you can feel like you're secure, you can do anything. That makes me feel funny, the way we do love people. the biggest fun of the act is when you drop down and it just feels like when you're on the air like you're falling all of a sudden you hit something that spurs you up now it's fun The one and only 10-year-old Julio.

Let's hear it for the fabulous Life for Liars. Now, my first trick to di... Tommy, you don't happen to have another trick today, do you? It just so happens I do. Now, the trick. First, you take an ordinary strip of paper and fold one end into the center. Then, you take a paper clip and you connect it. Like so. Then, you take the other side and fold it around like this. You take another paper clip, and you connect it. But don't connect three sides, or the trick won't work. Then, you grab both sides of the paper, and you pull slowly.

And there you have it, the magic paper clip trick. The paper clips are magically hooked. It's very good. Very good. Hey, man, what are these, drumsticks? Tommy, do you realize that a lot of people don't eat with knives, forks, or spoons? Yeah, just like my little brother. He eats with his fingers. No, I mean, a lot of people eat with these. These are chopsticks. They're not really very hard to handle, you know. All you have to do is put this one in between your thumb and your forefinger. And then, just like a pencil, then you just put the other one the same way, and you kind of hold it on, you know, lean it against your fingers. What do you do with your fingers? Here. Here. Oh, like this? Yeah, and then you just go like this. You did it. sometimes you can't even reach your mouth

i think i'd rather join my little brother eating with his fingers i'd starve garbage garbage we're filling up the world with garbage garbage garbage what will we do when there's no place left to put all the garbage Many of you have written poems, songs, or plays about pollution. So we're going to do a song about pollution, which we call Garbage. Mr. Thompson calls the waiter, orders steak and baked potato. Then he leaves the boning bristle and he never eats the skin. The busboy comes and takes it with the caulk, contaminates it. Then he puts it in the can with coffee grounds and sardines tins. Then a truck comes by on Friday and cuts it all away And a thousand trucks just like it are converging on the bay Garbage, garbage We're filling up the sea with garbage Garbage, garbage

What will we do when there's no place left to put all the garbage? Joe Ney, who lives in High Point, North Carolina, sent us a poem about Wicked Wanda the Pollution Machine. Wicked Wanda, the pollution machine She hates anything, live in her clean Garbage on the ground and smoke in the air Smoke from her lungs and garbage from her hair Dying things for as far as you can see She is killing our ecology No more oxygen made by green leaves They're all falling off our pitiful trees We need help, our oxygen's low We need help against this terrible foe Hey look, it's the end of the pollution machine She just got beat up by Sister Clean She washed her up for three whole years And the people, thanks to Sister Clean, have no more fears Garbage, garbage We'll fill up the air with garbage

Garbage, garbage What will we do when there's nothing left to breathe but garbage? Now, here's a poem by Dwanna Martin from Houston, Texas. Are you helping to rid pollution? Have you thought of any solution? Are you prepared to live with this foe? Or do you think it will simply go for something that has no mind or brain? Pollution is society's pain. But we created it, so let's make it die Before it kills our water and sky Garbage, garbage We're filling up the world with garbage Garbage, garbage What will we do when there's nothing left on Earth but garbage? Yeah, like, we're really all good friends.

Like, people, like, when I was watching Zoom before I was on, and, like, I go, you know, I think how, like, if they had any fights or anything, you know, I thought they were all really great friends and everything until we came on and are fighting. But we don't usually always fight because we're basically always friends, but, like, if it's a bad day, we come in mad and everything. We take it out on people. Like, if you have a bad day at school or something like that, then you come here and you take it out on people, and it just hurts other people when you do that. It's good to get it off. but not on other people yeah you can go in a room and scream in a bag i used to punch the walls when i got mad and i got one time i got um those what do you call blisters on them maybe some people may think like oh aren't those things get along together oh aren't they little darlings they're angels look at how they get along so nicely and then yes like sometimes we're getting in a fight Yeah, they should have a tour of us sitting in the zone. When we first met, we were really friendly and everything.

We didn't really know each other. We just got meaner and meaner sometimes. It wasn't like we got meaner or something. It was just that we started talking behind people's backs. I know. Oh, well, Tracy dresses too good. Thank you. And, you know, stuff like that, just stuff that should be said to their face. We, you know, we were talking behind each other's backs and we thought we were all good friends. And we are, but sometimes we talk about each other behind their backs, which is really stupid. If you have something to say, you say it to their face. We'll be right back. We'll be right back.

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 Come on and zoom, come on and zoom, zoom This program was funded by grants from McDonald's Corporation and McDonald's Restaurants Fund and by public television stations, the Ford Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Presentation of Zoom was made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation.