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Don’t Underestimate a Turtle
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Rover and Story play Ray’s Rocket Race, WHAT Is It?, What is IT!?, What Color Is It? and Quick Quest with viewers. You help Story write the World’s Best Story Today. We meet a wood turtle at the John Ball Zoo. Plus You’re Joking, Choose! and from the WGVU television archives, Our Show Yesterday! (This program originally aired live.)
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Don’t Underestimate a Turtle
Season 2 Episode 8 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Rover and Story play Ray’s Rocket Race, WHAT Is It?, What is IT!?, What Color Is It? and Quick Quest with viewers. You help Story write the World’s Best Story Today. We meet a wood turtle at the John Ball Zoo. Plus You’re Joking, Choose! and from the WGVU television archives, Our Show Yesterday! (This program originally aired live.)
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We get to know each other, right?
We say, hey, what do you think about today?
We asked to you.
Do you think you could be a turtle in a race?
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I think they usually pretty stout, right?
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Friends.
Its story here reporting live with the world's best story today.
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Words like dance or meow or grade.
So it's something you can do and we want to know what verbs you can think of.
So make sure you share what.
Have.
All right.
So our story today is going to be.
>> A sports report.
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It's a very exciting day for Michigan Sports, baseball, hockey, basketball.
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In baseball news, the red McGee's swept their opponents 12 to 0.
>> They've been undefeated this season when asked what they attribute their winning streak to the coach said the players saying before and after every game for I get tired from singing and playing baseball and thinking So hopefully they're doing a cat nap as well.
Our dream, a hockey team may have started a Little monkey mascot was with the fans, but it was late and they couldn't get of it.
Many fans joined Adam are also playing.
A big play all around the stadium.
However, this started to distract the team.
So everyone was asked to settle down and luckily they did.
So the blue monkeys were able to focus and secure breaking.
Those don't tell Jack longer lumber, but I'm stealing his thunder we should ask what your country about that race too.
But our breaking news is that a brand new has just been invented.
Where men to get But what is the sport you may ask?
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>> And you may think that dry fall.
>> Would require driving.
But you don't need a license at all.
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♪ You dance in front of a panel of 6 judges.
And they rank you out of 10.
>> And then they averaged the scores.
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>> And that was our sports report.
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It's wrong runway and here at John Ball Zoo again today with Maddie how you great how do.
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She is generally pretty interested in seeing new things many questions walking.
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which sounds a little.
right.
turtle, but these guys can actually lives to be up to about 60 years old, sometimes even longer more they are public turtles, but they actually from the Bay Rivers.
So they're going to live rivers that have nice Andy beds and streams.
They're going to be in the water for most of the time that they're going to come out to sandy shores to lay their really putting a without the shell.
She does like show you would find on the see shot right tonight.
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>> As she grows.
So she's full grown now.
But when they're born, they're about an inch long.
So they're really, really small.
And that shows actually going to be about that size.
2 is going home with her.
So it's not like a hermit crab.
It's not like they're going to find a new show as they get bigger.
stays a So what is the dividend?
And sometimes people talk about like the tortoise and the Hare was the difference between tortoise and a turtle.
That's a really great question.
There's actually a lot of differences.
first thing you know, is that they're all technically turtles.
They're all one big family and they're all turtles.
Tortoises are just going to be a special type of Tortoises are going to be more on land.
You might see a tortoise that has you see how her shell is really nice and flat.
>> Tortoises are going to have a nice don't show normally, whereas these guys are going to be little bit fighter because they're going to be more in the water and that helps them move through water.
It's actually a threatened species.
And that means that there's actually not a whole lot of them left in the wild.
So we do our best to protect the ones that we have in the and so well and they normally live in the wild.
So these guys are actually needed right here in Michigan say you can find in mostly in northern Michigan.
You might find them a little bit into Canada and the Northeast.
United so if you want to find one on the wild, you would just say hi likely leave it alone.
But yes, we would say hi, we would say, wow, what a pretty turtle.
And we would politely leave it alone.
I love go about their day.
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Purple drag racing stripes.
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It might be sideways.
>> I think sideways and upside down.
>> All right, Bob, barely nobody has guessed the right answer yet because the game is still still thinking about now.
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One door to our door 3 we'll see what's behind right?
We don't even know.
So it's up to you right now.
You need to vote.
I'm not usually very good at guessing this story let you guess first book.
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And guess door 3, okay.
I'm gonna get store one.
Then and let's see if we can find out where we're going to go next.
What we're going to do next.
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Ice.
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>> It's not at this, >> Nice from WGVU television archive's.
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>> Max.
What's the matter?
>> School starts tomorrow.
>> But you like school.
Remember all the fun things that we did last year?
>> Yeah, but this year is going to be different at the learn all kinds of new things like math and spelling hog words and science.
What if all the other kids already know this stuff?
I'll be the only one that doesn't understand.
No, you won't.
That's what schools all about.
Learning new things everybody learns together.
>> Are you sure of course we'll have just as much fun in school this year as we did last year.
The work might be harder, but we'll just keep learned.
Thanks, Ben.
>> I feel a lot better now.
No problem.
Problem at all.
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You know what I love best about starting school.
It getting a krantz.
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I love playing with his and not the better than a fresh box of crayons might not yet ideas.
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We get you new Bucks, right?
Yeah.
>> If you put covers, I don't mean it.
That's pretty cool.
I what are you most excited.
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Especially when you get a bunch of friends together.
You play a game together my princess and get to run around that.
>> Teachers 2 miles.
that's always fun to write.
>> Yeah.
Till the next plan.
Soccer.
That's pretty content.
That is super fun.
music is one of my favorite classes to talk music star.
I I love music.
>> Purple to red.
Seeing my friends.
Yeah.
It's always exciting to see your friends or your back.
It's cool right?
>> And you know, the thing I think is fun about that is that there's always an answer, right?
Some things.
You use a chip in it.
You go.
Yeah, it's kind of big.
Maybe sometimes math always gotten answer.
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thanks for sharing with his friends.
was really neat.
Hey, I think it's time for another game.
♪ ♪ I thought they were going to have us play.
What is it?
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Yeah, there's another one.
But not this pretty close to about.
This one is what color is it?
So that's also pretty We got a lot of games to start with a wet one.
We came to I'm not really Okay.
South.
Here's We play this game.
We tell you in abject today.
It's a garbage truck.
And then we ask you what kind you think it you about?
And then we see how close we today I got father is.
When you think story.
>> Maybe.
>> It Luke Babbitt start.
I've also seen eye.
I seen green ones.
signed up.
Here's what everybody voted.
Let's see how we did and then we'll stick.
It will do the reveal.
It was very popular.
Stay at Brown, Green pink.
Those very in red, OK?
So good guesses.
Let's do the reveal.
Let's see how how close we came.
>> Wow, OK?
Well, good job friends.
There was a tricky one.
can't win a mile.
That's OK, hey, I bet fraternal was planned.
A wedding guest, yellow.
All right.
But hey, let's time for a joke.
I love your jokes to really good jokes knock knock who's there.
Cat Hopefully this next one better.
♪ >> What of bunnies favorite place to eat?
>> Bunnies, what is of moneys favorite place to eat?
>> I >> It's almost like it was made by I know, right?
Love >> Just want everybody to know.
We did not have a theme planned for today and look at theme has become turtles rabbits.
Yeah.
You would think, you know, actually, maybe we should tell agree every play that, yeah, we had a plan all along, but I honestly can't.
It's happening now.
Works out that way.
It okay.
Hey, we've got time for another game.
This was one of my favorites Cove Quick last.
♪ Okay is how we play this game.
We put 2 minutes on the clock and we give you a secret quest go that secret because we tell you all the details.
Okay.
today we want you to go outside and knock on your then come back inside and say and then decide who is coming up a visit tell us who was.
So right now, right time, kind talk, not that bad.
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Thanks for having me open.
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lumberjack lumberjack.
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I'm very tired from shredded by actual day-to-day.
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Yeah.
Come on Bloomberg, he says came I would love to see Park.
Is it?
>> Wow.
My gosh.
I love when grandma comes over.
Everyone's Graham is coming to visit.
What a great day away.
Oh, my goodness.
That would be a really cool houseguest.
♪ ♪ Its crab.
>> Pratt And the show today.
I'm everybody came to see our show Yeah, we that everyone comes back next week.
That will price That would be That would be sober pattern.
Okay.
It was nice to see you.
Nice to see too.
Take care.
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