Once again, NBC presents Real People, an in-depth look at those who attained achievement off
the beaten track.
Some find a place in the sun, others seek a place in the sun, and here and there we
find a few who've been out in the sun too long.
Hello, and welcome again to our show, where the real people get a chance to be seen and
heard.
Before the show tonight, we saw and heard from some people who were really terrific.
John?
Go ahead, sir, say it.
I came on down here, John, to see Sarah Purcell and be closer to her.
What do you have on your mind?
Do you know that Tellus Savalas got hurt?
No, I don't.
King Kong thought he was a roll-on.
Are you ready?
Okay.
On a visit to a nudist colony, I learned two things.
What's that?
Well, one is that not all women are endowed by their creator, and all people are not created
equal.
I lucked out.
What do you have to say?
I think we ought to pull out of the Moscow Olympics.
We ought to show Russia that we've stopped playing games with them.
Okay, thank you.
Looks like you have something you'd like to say.
Well, my husband came down to see Sarah Purcell, and I came down to make sure he didn't get
too close to her.
You have no shoes on.
Did you know that?
Oh, as long as you knew it.
Okay, go ahead.
I'd just like to wish peace and happiness to all real people everywhere.
God love you, you too.
Okay?
Once again, we've seen the mantle of winter.
Descend upon our fair and frosty land.
Up in Maine, where we saw a lot of booted and bundled figures visibly shoveling snow.
And up in Minnesota, where we saw a lot of snowbound cabins with smoke rising from cheery
fireplaces.
And down to Florida, where we found a lot of people from Maine and Minnesota.
Hey, now, don't freeze up on us, will you?
We'll be right back with more real people, so stay tuned, Mother, because real people
are so much fun.
That's easy.
As the 1904 World's Fair...
...watch now as Real People Sports presents the world's first animal ski off.
This is Shotzi, a six-year-old pooch that was picked up from the pound as a puppy by
owner Drew Keyes for $10.
Shotzi loves the water, but instead of being in it, she'd rather be on it.
Shotzi's part Doberman, part shepherd, and as it turns out, a full-blooded water skier.
Crazy dog.
Fortunately, I don't own a bear.
This wouldn't be possible.
For the past four years, while other purebred dogs her age were entering dog shows and joining kennel clubs,
Shotzi was becoming a member of the Greater Miami Ski Club.
We were out on the slalom dock one day, and we were just playing around,
doing a little barefooting, and decided Shotzi wanted to come along, so he jumped on the board with me.
And the next thing I knew, she was pulling the two of us around the lake,
so I figured if she could do that with the two of us, she could do it by herself.
A few people claim that there are dogs that ski, and I've seen a few pictures,
but in a sense I don't think they're really skiing,
simply because they don't hold a rope in their mouth and stand on their own,
including a squirrel that I saw not too long ago.
Well, Shotzi was not going to be outdone by any squirrel.
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Sarah, that's got to be one of the world's all-time unusual sporting events.
How much? Don't you know it?
If you know about an unusual, odd, or weird sporting event, let us know about it,
and we'll do our best to cover it.
And if we do cover it, we'll cover you and the winning team with real people T-shirts.
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Now we have some photos from our viewers.
It seemed to show that animals are starting to act more and more like people.
From Helma Schmidt of Bismarck, Arkansas,
here's a pony helping out with a little horse sense.
There's one in every family.
And from Randall Haraldson of Fordland, Missouri,
here's a group of noble steeds doing their best to keep the pasture free from meadow muffins.
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You like that, didn't you?
Meadow muffin.
Bill Atkinson of Houston, Texas,
sends us this picture of one of man's best friends trying to horn in on this man's best friend.
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And from Ruth Tilden of Bricktown, New Jersey,
we find that not only are the animals starting to act like people,
but some are beginning to look like people.
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And this really is a monkey.
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Now known as the Ayatollah Coal Monkey.
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Also known as Times Monkey of the Year.
Now don't forget, we can't send them back,
but if we use your photo on the air, we're going to send you a real people T-shirt.
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Oh, I love it.
You know, we Americans really do love animals,
and Byron Allen recently talked to a man who loves to talk to animals.
Do you believe that?
I believe that.
Sunite?
Sunite, shut the box, shut your mouth.
I love you.
I love you too, shut the box.
That's okay.
Okay, okay.
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Dear marine land, the main attractions are the dolphins and the killer whales.
People come here from all over the world to see these sleek and intelligent aquatic stars do their thing.
But what draws us here is a very special man named Andy Sork.
And what makes Andy so special is that he's got a way with walruses.
Andy, how did you come up, I mean, how did this come about you working with walruses?
Well, just luck.
Andy's luck started back in the early 60s when he became the official marine land walrus trainer
and raised his first walrus.
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As you can see, even a trained walrus won't listen to just anybody, but they do listen to Andy.
He's been doing it for 18 years, I've been doing it for about a year and a half.
I've tried his techniques, I've tried talking like him, and they look at me like, who are you fooling?
You can communicate.
Well, I can do anything, no problem.
Hi, Byron.
So, we went with Andy to see just how you're supposed to talk to a walrus.
How you do?
To talk to a walrus is one thing, but to kiss a walrus, that's another.
Venga, venga.
A kiss of caramelos.
Okay, venga, amigos.
Yeah, yeah, do it.
The language, what is it?
Well, sometimes I try to say something in English, you know, to not make tension.
So, I try Italian, or Spanish, or Croatian.
So, one of these four languages, say, okay, I understand.
Hey, big guy.
Andy says one language they always understand is Dena, and they must understand real good,
because these suckers do look real fit.
Their manners leave a lot to be desired.
But then, how would you put a napkin on a walrus's lap?
Very carefully.
Why are you in love with walruses?
That's a couple of reasons.
Yeah, you want to share?
My job, my living, and I love working with both, and same something like my father.
That's my second family.
Your second family?
Yeah.
You're like a father to them.
I don't feel nothing.
And there's no question, these walruses listen and mind their day.
Getting to know you, getting to know all about you.
Getting to like you, getting to hope you like me.
Getting to know you, putting it my way, but nicely.
You are precisely like a cup of tea.
Getting to know you, getting to feel free and easy.
When I'm with you, getting to know what I am.
I can notice only I'm bright and free.
Of all the beautiful and new things I'm learning about you day by day.
You can feel us coming now, a fresh look on the scene.
With a whole new style of living, light and crisp and clean.
That's why now we say the age of 7-up is here.
Because we love that crisp, refreshing taste so light and crystal clear.
Moving up, moving up, looking up, looking up.
America is turning 7-up.
Reaching up, reaching up, feeling up.
America is turning 7-up.
My family, we're 8 at the table every night, and with grandpa.
Dinner, serious business.
I remember the first time I made all righter crispers.
Oh, they look like french fries, but they're extra crisp.
Taste it, grandpa.
All righter crispers.
If you love crisp french fries, you don't mind the little noise.
When it says all righter, it's all righter.
They have two kinds of kahunas.
The bad ones and the good ones.
I'm the good one.
I'm so glad.
I don't do no evil, I just help.
Some of the kahunas, they can take the life of the people to make them suffer.
That's what we call evil.
Really scary.
Is anyone ever afraid of you?
I don't think so, but sometimes they say I'm a spooky woman.
That's what they tell me because they're afraid of Madame Pelly, I guess.
Have you ever seen Madame Pelly?
In Aloha Week, I have met her in person.
She was very scary, very ancient looking.
She wore mumu, white mumu, with lavender prints,
and her hair was of silvery gray running to her shoulder,
and she had a cane in her hand.
We're surrounded by lava rock.
Do people pick up lava rocks around?
Yes.
The one that most pick up is a tourist that comes from mainland,
and the tour guide tells them not to pick it up because you're going to have problems,
but they don't listen.
What can you do?
So they bring it home, then they have problems.
Just about every day, we get a package or a pile of these rocks,
sometimes a large old green sack of bundles of packages of rocks like these.
For about a year now, they've been coming in like this,
and they come from people that have visited the park here,
and they've taken a piece of lava rock back home,
and they discover they're having bad accidents, broken legs, automobile accidents, and so on.
The only thing they can do is to return that lava rock,
and that's for forgiveness, that they shall be forgiven.
And I've received some letters here from some of these people that have sent packages of rocks,
and here I'd like to read some of them.
This one states, on my visit to Volcano, I removed these two rocks
and brought them home to Honolulu to remind me of beautiful Hawaii.
The picture in close shows what happened to me the night I came back to Honolulu.
Another one here states, please return this lava rock to its natural habitat in the park.
It is not very content in Michigan.
And people don't believe that, but they have to learn the hard, hard way.
Even I should go there.
But I asked, I wanted to take my own risk to help people to get well.
Each time I go, I have to sign. If anything should happen, they won't be responsible.
I called her, and I asked her to help me, to help this person.
They have a problem, or they have rare sicknesses.
This is a gift from a jeweler.
In Honolulu, there's a jeweler, makes a beautiful, mildly leaf.
It comes as a Hawaiian culture, so that's the reason.