[Laughter] [Music]
[Music]
when a black cat meets a white cat and they have some kittens you might think
the kittens would all be gray but more than likely some will be black some
white and some will be in between gray have you ever wondered how people get to
be different shades of color this is Stephie Treadway and her brother Brad
their parents are Frank and dealed are Treadway dealed are is from India and
Frank was born in the United States if you look at steffie's hand next to
Brad's you see that Stephie's is somewhat lighter that's because children with the same
parents can be different shades of color let's look at another family josh has
straight hair like his mother Seth has curly hair just like his father
yet it's josh who has his father's brown eyes and seth has blue eyes just like
his mother when two people have children the children don't look exactly like
either their mother or their father but they share some qualities from each what
happens is not a mixing of qualities each child is a new creation with some
parts that look like each parent but each comes out looking like a totally new and original person Josh and Seth
shades of skin color color of eyes color and kind of hair these and many other
qualities we get from our parents but we are never exactly the same as our parents
Steffie and Brad Josh and Seth you and I
we are each and original inside and out [Music]
story it's the retelling time
[Music]
ah that's big dog and that's the little
dog there's a song about my mother used to sing to me when I was about charity she learned it from her mother
I've seen the song about the new Japanese [Applause]
oh you know one watch each other [Music] want to look it up
oh you know one when she channel 1 1 Wow
itsumo Nakayoshi Otto
[Music] and when I go well always such chunks
always great pals oh wow always friends whoa whoa hey I tell you
what come on doggies let's go for a walk
[Music]
hi look at those don't know what they call tedo poses I grew up in this
country you stand over here so I used to say rain rain go away but when my
grandmother was a little girl in Japan she used to make these little dolls and hang them up on the eaves of her house
and she'd sing teru teru bozu teru bozu Teddy Teddy BOSU Teddy ballsy make
tomorrow a bright sunny day like the day I dreamed of so long
long ago if you make it sunny I'll give you a silver bell
[Music]
teru teru bozu teru bozu teru teru bozu
teru bozu wash the tankini still pudding
eat suka know you [Music]
it [Applause] you
Suzu [Music]
hey kids I don't think it's working look it's raining [Laughter]
[Applause] Suzu
[Music]
and now we join the big-game hunt the show which asks the question can a nice
girl like cricket wicket find new games to play every day with the help of a small stuffed doll named Ringo Livio or will
their quest be foiled by the devious deviltry of Long John spoilsport bounder Leiter and part-time Blackard
tell me Long John do you enjoy your work frankly I hate it this job isn't as easy
as it looks you know I get blisters from tooling my moustache all day and those
nos make me feel like there's a Boy Scout in my throat trying to start a
fire by rubbing my tonsils together I brought you to sunny exotic Hawaii
by this time you're probably wondering why well since we are always out looking
for MOA games to play let's try this one they play here called Noah the kids here play marbles and
hopscotch and skate but Noah is native to only this state now this is the Noah
well so far so good it's a small piece of stone it can also be wood we split into two teams one team
on each side the first team picks one of its members to hide the Noah beneath one
of these piles of Thapa hold on just a minute I want you to stop a sec tell me
what stopper its cloth made of bark there are five kinds of tapa I'll name them so hark first we have Kiki buchaiah
and next we have pili mo then we have cow P Luka and k*ll emo the Noah is
stashed under one of these things and the person who hides it as he does so sings i'ii not ieave us there it is
there it is eek a cow I can't pee late I came out under the cow or the P lay or the morrow
I love a cow I cut Noah a cow ekoo there are no it's
- yes it's - now the other team guesses which tapa it's under the first team
with ten correct guesses has won me first I want the first yes well well look what crawled out from
under the top long-johns pause boy himself I think we better let him guess
or else he'll make this game a mess oh well okay take a guess Long John wino are coming
up wrong now ah it's enough to make me
cry for 40 days and 40 nights why don't
you make a new friend make a new friend make a new friend today why don't you
make a new friend make a move then make a new friend
today we live in Hawaii
Aloha my name is Rana and I have a twin sister named Julie Rana and I are seven
years old you can tell us apart because her hair is shorter I live with my
sister Julie my little sister Tina and my mother
I like Rana because she draws really well I like Julie because we play
together [Music]
daddy made a big pond in the backyard for the fishes and I eat them every day
[Music]
when we go to the zoo we pick up dates from the ground and feed the goats
[Music]
then we all have a stack of slush slush
is China ice cream then after the zoo we
all walk over to the beach [Music]
we stay on to the end of the day and then we go home
[Music]
mister hinson mister my mother said you wanted enough phone well son that was a
long time ago so how did you find it well we use the
sextant what is it sexy come I'll show you what does the North Pole look like
actually it's not a polled at all that's spot on the map is this all you need to
find a North Pole oh no you need the sextant ship lots of food men planning
lots of sleds because there's nothing there but snow and ice it took us 18
years and several tries before we reached the North Pole Wow
18 years the Silverhawks turn a genius or a hundred years we were determined to
be the first men to walk on top of the world commander Robert II Perry was leader and organized of the expedition I
worked with the Eskimos and was responsible for everybody's safety at
times I thought we wouldn't make it there were days when it was sixty degrees below zero and we had to worry
about freezing as we travel towards the North Pole we had to build camps and store food for
our return trip we had to be very careful traveling on the ice it could
break at any moment and we'd be swallowed up by freezing cold water as
we neared the North Pole there were only six men left if it had not been for our
Eskimo friends Perry and I might not have made it wow you must be famished
not exactly however you may read more about what we did in this book I wrote
the greatest day of my life was April 6 1901 had ever stood on the North Pole
we built a mountain and planted a fly on it and we got out of there as fast as we
could Gary couldn't walk anymore so I pushed him about 400 miles by sled funny thing
we never saw each other again did you
know that words passed [Music]
listen to [Music]
hey brothers and sisters let's rap about word have you ever said busting stuff
instead of wash the dishes you ever call a little kid a crumb crusher [Music]
have you ever called money bread or Apple okay okay if you have you using
words and expressions originated by black Americans do you dig I'm hip back
to dig hip hep are all black American words meaning to understand you don't
have to pull my coattail you mean I don't have to explain it to you all of these words and phrases are
what we call slang it's a special language of words that don't appear in the standard dictionary why do we talk
slang bend my ear baby sometimes because there is no word in standard English
that says what you want to say as accurately or as colorfully as the word to invent yourself for example in slang
a black man who acts like a white man is called an Oreo because an Oreo is a
cookie that's black outside and white inside there's no dictionary word as
descriptive is that sometimes we speak slang because I swear our friends talk to be a part of the group share things
with our friends you've got to speak their language otherwise you're out to
lunch meaning you don't understand another reason slang is spoken is because it's a
secret language only you and your friends know the meaning of the words in England the c*ck speaker rhyming
slang that only they understand in c*ck bread and honey equals money
bread and honey rhymes with money secret language [Music]
much of American Slang started among the black people and much of black slang
came from black musicians part of a secret language only other musicians understood until the code was broken and
our musicians picked it up slang may not be proper but it's certainly missed our
vocabularies Ruby if I tell you to cool it I get all decked out in a new set of
threads if you're an Eightball or a fat cat you're feeling funky oh hung up if
you talk this way to describe who you are or how you feel what to do or how to do it you're speaking the slang of black
Americans crazy right on dig you later brothers and sisters
[Music]
I'd like to introduce you to some
people [Music]
my name is Martin I have a pet snake now mom I'm gonna take the bite to the shop I'm gonna be out of the house most of
the day and what about Mary's dog no problem I'll see guys it's Kate someplace up high okay remember the
latke okay and don't forget your key okay and be careful okay okay that one's
made trouble for me by pretending Nigel bit him here's Pat now what am I gonna
say hi no no that's that's okay IRA oh
thanks well did you get anything
it's move light flash your horn radio all in one I saved up all my money
for it I bet it was expensive I think I'm gonna have to leave my advice here
you see the gears lock and we see the pail here that's tough gear here that is
gone right missus just frozen solid won't move it off yeah guess you want to
gonna have to leave it are you gonna walk home well I thought I might go over to the bullion bolo little you like
bowling Oh crazy around bowling you got some time what a bowl sure let's do that
just wait here me
[Music]
[Music]
why don't we cut through the park it's wet shorter yeah but what about the brook we can walk the bike through I do
it all the time okay hey you drop something the key oh boy my
mother would tell me if I lost this she has this thing about locking the house you'd think something burger was just
waiting to break in did you know the world's is crawling with burglars
[Music]
[Music] you see sometimes when you don't know somebody very well the kind of insight
in advance it's not gonna like it yeah boy that's happening me even with
somebody I dunno like the time the ID was stolen and the first person I thought of was Clary and it was all
wrong yeah things really turned out different than you expect sometime
[Music]
in bitten by any boys lately I was sort
of wondering if you were gonna bring that up I was just teasing I got over that thing no really I do feel bad about that stupid lie I was sorry the minute
was out of my mouth I just didn't know how to take it back in a way it was a compliment you
wouldn't have done it if you didn't think Nyjah was special even if he is kind of an underdog in the pet world
it's good to stick up for the underdog makes you feel like you can stand on your own two feet you should get a boa a
girl boa I bet your Niger would like that and soon we two have half a dozen
little baby Boas and both our mothers would kick us out of the house
[Music] [Applause] [Music]
[Music]
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[Music]
swollen oh she made it's broken don't
talk crazy basketball practice starts next week well I can I can move it a
little I'll tell you what [Music]
the way I fight [Music]
I'm almost ready [Music]
Thanks thanks for taking me home and style rights hey since I cheated you out
of the bowing why don't you come in a little you like monopoly better watch you out on my listen I promised my
mother I'd get other papers so let me do that and I'll be right back and I'll beat you with one foot soaking at a foot
bath here mom I just got here why are
you listening huh hey what happened here I just asked you that did you leave the
window open of course not I had you know what must have been a burglar I wonder
why I left it all behind something was too scared my job of course and what
happened to that marvelous watchdog of Larry's probably sleep somewhere but
Nigel's here say it mom Nigel's a hero [Music]
greetings friends I'm glad to see you today I have a treat from Korea
it's bold oak I fired beef to you now what he's gonna tell you what's the zoo
take one teaspoon of garlic powder and a dash of pepper then two tablespoons of
soy sauce and two teaspoons of sugar our brand one green onion thinly slice two
teaspoons of sesame seeds isn't that nice good now take a bowl and mix them
up nice take 1/2 pound of beef sirloin
slice real fish and then cut across the grain put the meat in the mixture and
let it stand there for 15 minutes now
you know that sauce that you just made it's a really delicious marinade when
you remove a beef let someone who is older boil it until it's done when the
edges are critics on one side turn it over and cook it but don't let it burn
[Music] Korean Americans all over the state bla
foci they think it's great they say mess with me yup yup you'll
fail too when the beat isn't it great in the US mercy what happened to you I was
in a fight this kind of thing never happened until those no kids moved here
I'll pick you up like that my sister
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Laughter] [Music]
[Music]
[Music]
I don't care about the other fathers I'm
me they're there I'm staying here I'm watching the baggage so to go by yourself or shut up
a small play with that yeah go home to
your mama come on let's go play why
can't everyone be the same yes it might
solve some problems if everyone were the same but it also might be kind of boring
there's no getting around the fact of our differences we're born with skin
color eye and hair color that don't change some people go to be very tall
some people will always be short no two people in the world are ever exactly
alike even identical twins have different fingerprints
different voices my name is Jason Begley I got a whole new scope so some people
are very different some people are only
different in a few ways but all people are different enough to be one of a kind
sometimes it helps to be very tall or very small for some jobs it helps to
have no fear of heights or a good ear for music much of what makes us
different comes from our parents they give us our names and your shade of skin
color your eyes your hair and the many other things that make you look the way
you do came from your parents but you are also you and original you are the
only person who can decide what to do in your life you can study dinosaurs or
climb a mountain dance or drive a taxi
[Music] you could take care of animals sing or
fly to the moon [Music]
[Applause] [Music]
[Music]
have you ever thought about how the first railroad that went across this country was built it took a lot of men
to build and it never would have been finished if it weren't for the Chinese railroad workers the Central Pacific
Railroad was to start from California and join up with the Union Pacific tracks at Utah but the mountains were
too high and the work was too dangerous the Central Pacific Railroad couldn't find enough men to work for the very
little money they were willing to pay the need for men to work on the railroad
to thousands of Chinese men from China hungry left them no choice but to try
the gold mountain of America a place they thought was rich my home and my
parents at the age of 21 in a family of eight children I was the
youngest son little choice was left to me but to go to a far land on the
passing of this wandering we sailed for America in 1864 they packed
us in the wooden ships so they could fit no more we sailed a stormy seas from
March until me there was Chinamen for lo the deck without the light a day
I will not be responsible for work done by Chinese laborers I don't think they can build their era we came to build a
railroad others fear to go through deserts without water Rocky Mountains
covered in snow some died from the heat and cold we lost men everyday the
company crooks with their phony books is told away our pay from sunup to sundown
they leave thousands of miles of track so when I'm gone don't bury me just send
my bones back home a pick and a shovel to my friends no longer will I roam
children we built a Western Railroad some say we were the best but when we
were done son of a g*n they forgot us with all the rest
[Music]
and my name is Robert head I can draw on it with lead time for any lines you can
have a real good time rub a dub-dub sailing sailing over the bounding main
don't pull the plug or else you'll let the water down the drain why the sailor's cap Brouillard haven't you
heard mates we're taking a sea cruise sea cruise courtesy of mr. emmer itis I
love sea cruises the foaming brine the towering waves the roar of the deep
there's only one problem what's that I get seasick where are we going I don't
know let's check what's this it's a
Portuguese fishing boat
[Music] who put that ocean there the Portuguese
are fine fishermen so Portuguese in this country headed toward coastal areas to
make their living from the sea let's make a Portuguese fishing boat in
Portuguese that's vamos construido un Barco de pesca Portuguese right vamos
I'm so either un Barco de pesca Portuguese huh
to make the kind of boat used by the Portuguese we start with two patterns
that look like these rubber head some paper be back in the gym too soft we
need paper paper that stiff where is ruler just a few inches away we need two
rectangles squares that are long one a bit longer you can't go wrong they go
right here can't you use me on the job I
don't feel in it patience Julia in a minute make the
second the larger one almost done
add the lines here's the last one okay
Julia let her rip I'm a regular cut up cuz I love to snip crayon the petals hey
watch out it makes them colourful and
waterproof neatly crease along each dotted line paste the tabs to the boat
hey this job is mine
now glue the smaller part to the inside of the boat and we've got a model good
enough to float all aboard our Portuguese fishing boat hoist sail
mate Anchors Aweigh aye aye sir we
there's nothing like the sea with its spray and foam but as for me there's no
place like home
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause] [Music]
oh hello correct please be seated [Music]
[Applause] oh yes the tickets for your parents and
you to Africa we have them ready you're going to find countries in Africa and
your first stop is Monrovia Liberia I know you're going to enjoy how did you
just start it how did I get started in the travel business oh it's rather a long story but really
I'm I traveled abroad myself one time I went to Europe and was really so fascinated
about the way the trip was organized we had to have airline tickets hotels everything was well planned and I said I
thought more of our people more black people would travel if they knew how easy it was to travel so I came back
talked it over with my husband and we opened an agency so now we write tickets like this for people who are gonna
travel all over the world we make their hotel reservations we wrecked cars for them we arranged steamship cruises when
people like to travel by ship bus any kind of travel we arrange it and help it
help make travel easier for people who want to go on business or on pleasure a
pleasure do you like your job yes this
job is very exciting one gets a chance to learn a lot about geography you study
geography in school I'm sure we are learning about people and places and a
lot of the fun is just in helping other people to do what they want to do because you see in travel we're selling
dreams people dream about where they want to go but they want to see and what they do and we help them to do it
if you're interested in becoming a travel agent one thing you should do is study your geography lessons and learn
all you can about all parts of the world then also it's good to learn a foreign
language that will help you to talk with the people abroad what's better and to
UM understand their types of money as well as our language anytime you can understand people then you can be a
greater success and dealing with them one nice thing about travel is that
they're men and women both in the travel business it's an exciting world and opens wide
areas that you've never heard of never thought about [Music]
to introduce you to some people
[Music] come on Martin Nigel's a snake I think we're handling
him too much like we're always expecting him to put on a show hey you guys I gotta go anyway it's just
they needs a rest wait a minute Martin why don't you make a little bit at a cotton boss for a little sneaky wait oh come on Scott oh
it's finally become an important guy to you isn't it easily you know everything he says goes
you're just jobs cuz you don't have a cool friend like Scott oh he's okay for a black man Oh get out of here whoa come
on don't you doesn't have one of those ooh shows at the library this afternoon
watch it there now well it doesn't start till 3:30 and I have an awful lot of homework so if you
don't get out here I'm gonna kick you out we'll look I'm scared yes that means me
too huh yeah it does but meet me over at the zoo show okay all right I'll be there okay I'll see you later TJ yeah
Martin what did you do oh what happened now oh nothing nothing I'm just cleaning
at his cage funny I thought you just cleaned it out yesterday oh well actually he got a little sick Oh No
well if he's sick I guess you better try to find out what's the matter with him maybe you could call Scott but Scott's
not home right now he's over at the library doing the zoo show hey wood maybe I could bring Nigel over that
sounds like a good idea uses a fetus
paddles similar to a rope over can this pushes himself through the water
the land turtle doesn't have webbed feet it just says fairly long nails to help
him grip the land and to dig the food
take it straight no foam in the library yeah why'd you bring your bowling ball
for it isn't a bowling ball yeah what is it then it's it's a snake
a 30-foot rattler I'm scared
[Music]
[Music]
[Music] husky
[Music] [Applause] [Music]
in the library the lady doesn't butyrate
he doesn't feel nice let's see the corn stubble surmise
[Music]
[Applause] [Music]
it is new running in this library what are you looking for a kid he has
something of mine but we're not gonna have a chase going on in here what was it that he took my bowling bag
it's very important I have to have it right away all right all right I'll find him don't worry he won't get away from
me where were you headed the zoo show oh well that's in the children's library
now you go there quietly and I'll find the bag and bring it to you okay well
okay but it's very important I have to have it right away it has don't worry don't worry I'll
bring it for you all right okay this is
a green iguana this found in South America it's called an de bourree you live
[Applause] [Music]
nothing to be afraid of these kind of likes and page
[Music]
this is Paul thank you black doesn't
come out in UK or at night right tonight reason for this is because of his
coloration now have you ever been in the woods at night with trees with with the
moon shining through the trees and you get little spots of darkness and little spots of light
well this animal blends right in with it
[Applause] this is a red-tail boa constrictor and
it's a non poisonous snake if it bites you it won't poison but it can't hurt if
all constrictors have usually nice atoms they don't hurt people they don't eat
people and there's really there's really no need to be afraid of in fact there's
a fellow out here now that has one thing he's not afraid of them in office mark come on up mark show you how people can
can get used to snakes Martin's a nice guy and he's look at him he's not afraid
of them at all so there's no need to be afraid of snakes as long as you know how to handle them to take good care of them
they're gonna be nice to you all snakes have no ears
they can't hear a thing the way they do here is by sound sound vibrations they
pick up vibrations through their skin and this is the way they feel
[Applause]
[Applause]
they're not wet and slimy they're very dry and they feel cool because they're
cold-blooded and they also like to wrap
around things they feel very secure and happy when they're wrapped around things
[Music] the reason he's going up my sweater is
because snakes don't really like bright lights and they try to find dark corners
to hide
hey Scott that was a great show you didn't come here just to see me in action did you I would have come anyway
but I brought nigel along I've been worried about him he he threw up a little while ago
what do I tell you about handling Nigel too much especially after he's gone it's
gone the kid get us stalled the bag Nigel must still be in the library
[Music]
[Applause] they say there's a sneak you better grab something to hit with
if he had been found we would have heard it by now let's just go and find it come on
[Music]
[Applause] Lambie yes dear
look a big wave yes dear where come on let's go oh thank you
[Music]
[Music]
you know why I love this library because nothing ever happens here
[Music] greetings friends I'm glad Thea today I
have a treat from Correa get old oak I hired beef to you now what he's gonna
tell you what's the boo take one teaspoon of garlic powder and a dash of
pepper Bend 2 tablespoons of soy sauce and two teaspoons of sugar plan one
green onion thinly slice two teaspoons
of sesame seeds and mix them up take one
half pound of beef sirloin slice will fit and then cut across the grain put
the meat in the mixture and let it stand there for 15 minutes now you know that
sauce that you just made it's a really delicious marinade when you remove the
beef let someone with older boil it until it's done when the edges are crisp
on one side turn it over and cook it but don't let it burn
[Music]
[Music]
we're not the same Luther my skin is pink yours is brown my hair is curly
mine is straight my nose is round mine is pointed was so different and still so
much to say [Music]
[Music]
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01x18 - Episode 35 & 36
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