 It's time. It's time. It's time. For what? For the curious derecho. Sit back and relax. Oh, we'll sing chat and laugh. Oh, I'm the curious derecho. I am so glad to see you back today. And every time, we like to know for sure who's who on the curious crew. So I've asked Milo today if he would use Jeanette Giraffe to introduce everybody because Jeanette likes to talk and she's going to speak up and ask people their names. Go ahead. You could say to Dona. What's your name? What's your name? Dona. Hi, Dona. Hi, Dona. Yeah? Now ask somebody else. What's your name? Emily. Hi, Emily. What's your name? What's your name? Olivia. Hi, Olivia. What's your name? Claire. Hi, Claire. What's your name? Julia. Hi, Julia. What's your name? Hi, I'm Sungwoo. Hi, Sungwoo. Hello. What's your name? I'm Dorothy. Hi, Dorothy. And who are you? Who are you? I'm Milo. Hi, Milo. Hi, Milo. Thank you very much. Milo, you can help the puppet to sing, but if your hand gets warm, you can take her off to rest her, okay? We're going to start with the curious giraffe song and see what the giraffes are wondering about today. Okay. And this time the first verse is about a zebra. The second verse is something new. We're going to surprise you, actually, I think, on the second verse. Here we go. Giraffe ducked over at zebra and said, Why do I have spots? Why do you have stripes? Zebra just shrugged and said, We come and all text. Fun, we all share one big sky. Oh yeah, here we go. Share one big sky. Share one big sky. Give the world a big high five. Yeah, we're different and we know it, but we all get along. Cause we can all share and we can all care. We're different, but we all belong. Now here's to the special verse. Giraffe looked over at zebra and said, I know this, we look different, though we live in the same place. It's curious to learn about culture and race underneath this one big sky. Oh yeah. Share one big sky. Share one big sky. Give the world a big high five. Yeah, we're different and we know it, cause we can all share and we can all care. We're different, but we all belong. Such awesome singing. And we are different, but we all belong. And so the question says, I'm curious to learn about culture and race. Does anybody have an idea, Julia? I'm going to give you a chance, but let them think for a minute. Any idea of what we mean by those two words, culture and race. So Julia, you start us off. Well, culture, first of all, culture means like where you live or what you came from. Like Native Americans, that's your culture. And your race is who you are and what kind of person you are, like your color skin or how you look. Excellent. You really thought about this. Thank you. Does anybody else want to add to that? This is my friend Sung Woo. Hello. And he is especially interested in those words too. And I want him to tell us a little more. Okay. Well, I can't really speak. I'm not going to try to tell the terms, the definitions of those words, but I'm going to tell you a story like when I was your age. So when I was kind of like a background of mine. So I was born in Seoul, Korea. That's in Southeast Asia. And I was born in Seoul, Korea and I came to America when I was four years old. So I think I was in kindergarten or preschool to kindergarten age. But when I first came to this country, since I was from Korea, everyone in Korea, they look a certain way, in a way that's different from where I came to, which is Cambridge, Massachusetts and Boston. And my neighborhood, you know, it was extremely strange for me when I first came because I'll see people that are white. I'll see a lot of black people. I'll see a lot of Hispanic, Latina people. And my neighborhood that I moved to actually was predominantly, it was mostly black and darker skinned people. And I was the only Korean slash Asian American Asian family in my apartment. All of our neighbors were African American black friends of ours. And we came to our neighborhood moving at that age, being a little foreign because we've never seen people like this before. And as soon as we moved in, everyone was introducing their names to us. We're giving us gifts for moving in. They would invite us to their block parties and stuff like dinners. And it was great because even though we look so different from everyone there or we have different backgrounds or culture, they all treated us like we're family and friends. And to me, that was one of the biggest lessons I learned when I first came to America was everyone just gets along really well. And these things, you know, skin color or ethnicities, culture, whatever, people that I was around with, they just looked past that and we were all just friends and nothing was different. So that's kind of like how I understand the differences in this country. I felt super welcomed and everyone was super awesome to us. What a good experience you have. Wow, does anybody have a question they want to ask? I was like in the first year of kindergarten around this time. I'm wondering, did you know how to speak English? Oh, I was really bad at English. No one could understand what I was saying. And I tried my best, but people didn't care. They would still be friends with me and we'd spend time together and it was no different. And you could smile. Yeah, that's the language everyone understands. That's so great. So the next song is about how we can have friends. All of us can have friends with every shade of skin or every language from different parts of the world. So this is called What Makes a Person a Person? What makes a person a friend? And Sung Woo likes our show because we do music and songs and so he has brought his instrument. We'll learn a little more about that later, okay? Join me if you know the chorus. What makes a person a person? What makes a person a friend? What makes a person be black or brown or tan? Friendships come in every shade of skin. Our parents and grandparents gave us their DNA. It happened long ago. We didn't have a say. We all can walk in knowledge. Whatever skin we're in, that we wear them love and wisdom from our ancestors back then. What makes a person a person? What makes a person a friend? What makes a person be black or brown or tan? Friendships come in every shade of skin. It's always closest to us every night. What makes a person a person? What makes a person a friend? What makes a person be black or brown or tan? Friendships come in every shade of skin. A person is a person. A person, a person. Friendships come in every shade of skin. Friendships come in every shade of skin. So I'd like to be a better friend to you, Sung Woo. Okay. And we don't know each other very well. We met here at the studio. And what I'm wondering about your guitar. Yes. It is different than mine. It's very different. And mine has six strings. How many does yours have? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven strings. That is so cool. I have never seen a seven string guitar until I saw you with yours. Yay. That is so exciting. So I'm curious, where did you learn to play the guitar? Oh, I learned to play guitar in, I was in sixth grade. And I have heard a Beatles song a couple months ago. And I became fascinated with the song that I wanted to play guitar. And I learned at a lessons store where I took lessons in sixth grade. In sixth grade you took lessons. That was 11 years ago. Well, for me, 11 years ago. Yes. Wow. For me, someone I knew had a guitar and they weren't using it. And I said, could I borrow it? And I got a book that showed pictures of where to put my fingers. And I practiced and practiced to learn to play guitar. So you can take lessons or you can teach yourself. And I just think your guitar is beautiful. Thank you. You all like his guitar? Yes. Yeah. I like blue. It's really special. I like it a lot. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. So it makes a special sound. Yay. Okay. So we could meet people and notice their differences. Or I have a friend, Patricia, she wrote a question. She also, she looked a little different than the people in her neighborhood. And people would notice that she looked different. So she said to herself, what if we all met in the dark and learned about each other by what's in our hearts? Not by color or size or lots of other things we're going to sing about. So let's sing this song. What if we all met in the dark? Didn't see the differences. Interesting question. What if we all met in the dark? What do you think it would be like if we met each other in the dark? Yes. Don't ask. It'd be cold. You might be cold in the dark. Okay. We wouldn't see each other and wouldn't know what we looked like. Wouldn't know what we looked like. How would you get to know each other? Yes. By what's in our hearts. And how would you share that with each other? You would tell them. You would have to speak up, wouldn't you? You would have to use your words. So what might you ask? What's your skin color? You could ask about the skin color because you want to know that. How would you find out what's in their heart? By asking them. By asking them. You could say, what's special to you? What do you love? Yes? Like how do you feel or something? How do you feel? Sure. These are tricky questions. It's not easy. I'm just going to pose them for us. Now, I have a story song and this is about some animals that paid a lot of attention about how things looked and not about the hearts until later. So Olivia, would you get our mystery box? Because we need the characters that are in the mystery box. Take it over there and open it up for us. How about Emily? You pull on the other one. I usually, okay. Now pass out, there are four. So since the two of you got to open it, share them with the other kids. Pass out the characters that are going to be in the story. Okay. Do you know what character you got, Milo? Skunk. Skunk. And Dona, what character do you have? A tiger. Yes. Which character do you have, Emily? A zebra. Yes. And who do you have? I have a leopard. Julia, a leopard. Okay. So here's the story. It says a tiger, skunk, and a zebra belong to the same club. And the words repeat a lot. So listen to me and you can sing along. You'll catch on. A tiger, skunk, and a zebra belong to the same club. The leopards tried to join it, but they said no way, bub, cause you gotta have stripes to join the club. You gotta have stripes to join the club. You gotta have stripes to join the club. You gotta have stripes, have stripes. The leopard wanted to join so much that she got some paint at a shop. She painted herself and when it dried, she painted stripes on top, cause she had to have stripes to join the club. She had to have stripes to join the club. She had to have stripes to join the club. She had to have stripes, have stripes. So the leopard joined the club and they became best friends, just like family can. But one hot day they went swimming. Jump in the water, everybody. And when the leopard jumped in, it washed away all her stripes. One by one, it washed away all her stripes. One by one, it washed away all her stripes. One by one, it washed away all her stripes. No stripes. Well, the tiger, skunk, and the zebra, they could not believe their eyes. The leopard looked herself over and then she started to cry. I don't have any stripes. I just have spots. I don't have any stripes. I just have spots. I don't have any stripes. I just have spots. I don't have any stripes. No stripes. Well, the tiger, skunk, and the zebra, they saw what they had. They told them leopard, they changed their club and make it open to everyone. You don't have to have stripes to join the club. You don't have to have stripes to join the club. You don't have to have stripes to join the club. You don't have to have stripes. No stripes. You don't have to have stripes. You can be yourself. You don't have to have stripes. You can be yourself. You don't have to have stripes. You can be yourself. You don't have to have stripes. No stripes. So how do you think they felt at the end? Happy? Why? Everybody felt happy. Who else would like to say? Yes, Julia? They felt a little sad because they had saw what they had done. They had made the leopard cry. They had. They had learned about the leopard's heart. We were all talking about hearts before. They found out that she cared. And guess what? It woke up their hearts to care. And they could change what they were doing. So I think that's really important for animals and for people. So I would like to teach you a kindness march about people deciding to be kind. Okay, I'll lead it and you march right after me. Today's the day I set my mind. Be strong. Be kind. I'll find a way. I'll find. Be strong. Be kind. So I will be a better friend. A smile, a wave, a welcome, us all belong. So sing this mighty song. Today's the day I set my mind. Be strong. Be kind. I'll find a way. Be strong. Be kind. So I will stop and look about. And make sure there's not any doubt. Then everyone belongs. So sing this mighty song. Today's the day I set my mind. Be strong. Be kind. I'll find a way. I'll find. Be strong. Be kind. I love to laugh and play and run. But I always have more fun. When the game's with everyone. And we all get along. Today's the day I set my mind. Be strong. Be kind. Oh, that's great. Does a circle have one person in it or lots of people? Lots of people. Yeah, however many people you open it to, right? So say the words after me. Open the circle. Open the circle. The time has come. Open the circle. Open the circle. To everyone. It's my circle. Without a doubt. I'll keep it open. I'll keep it open. Till nobody's left out. Till nobody's left out. And when they sang that song to me, I said, why don't we sing It's Our Circle? Because there's many of us in the circle. And do you know what Frank told me? Frank is the one who couldn't see. He said, all it takes is one person in the circle to open it. So if each person in the circle says, I noticed somebody's feeling left out or maybe they're new and they just don't know how to ask to play. And you could just turn. And I thought it was interesting that Sung Woo felt he made friends right away in the new country even when they didn't understand each other's words. They smiled and they gave each other things and they just showed each other. So I think I'd like to sing this and then practice words we could say to open the circle, each of us. So it goes like this. Open the circle. The time has come. Open the circle. Let's do it again. A little peppier. If you looked around and saw somebody who wasn't a part of it, what's one thing you can say? We're going to come up with, let me say, let's try at least five different things we could say to welcome somebody into your game or your circle. Claire. Come on. Come on. Everybody practice that. Come on. Come on. All right. Great. Olivia? Come. You're welcome. Practice. Please come. You're welcome. Thank you. Donate. Come play with us. Everybody practice. Come play with us. There's room for everyone. Everybody practice that. There's room for everyone. Anybody have another idea? Would you play with me? Everybody practice. Would you play with me? You have another idea? I'll give you one to say. What's your name? Three by practice. What's your name? My name is. My name is. And then they'll know at least one person's name and you can know their name and you can say, I want you to meet Milo. I just met him, but let's get to know each other. Okay. So do you put your hand on your heart if you think you could remember and say something like that if you see someone looking left out? You think you can remember one of those things or make up your own thing? You think you could? Anyway, we practice today and it's okay. It's okay because we all have feelings. We feel happy when we belong and we sometimes feel like somebody could help us if we feel left out. Okay? All right. So it's already time for our closing song. So I want to say Sung Woo, thank you for visiting our show today. Oh, I'm glad to be here again. Yes. Now I want you to know you might not realize it, but Sung Woo is part of this TV station and I met him because he worked one of the cameras for us. And then I learned that he was a musician too and that he used to teach. So I'm so happy to know many more things about you. And today I learned where you came from and how you got comfortable being in a new country. That's great. Okay, let's stand up and sing our giraffe song. Keep singing, keep looking up, keep asking questions and never give up. Keep singing, keep looking up, keep asking questions and never give up. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time.