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02:00Glad we're together again, television neighbors.
02:04I just saw Joe Negri a little while ago, and he invited us to come over to his place in
02:09a little while to meet a mandolin player.
02:13Yes, somebody who plays a mandolin.
02:15But before that, I want to show you something.
02:17One of my wooden blocks here.
02:28This is an idea I had I wanted to tell you about.
02:32When I was a little boy, I would watch my dad and my uncle and my granddad shave, and I
02:39could hardly wait till I got old enough to shave, too.
02:44I used to take a block like this and pretend I was shaving.
02:49But sometimes I'd do it in the bathroom.
02:51Come with me right over here.
02:53I'll show you.
02:55Hi, fish.
03:01Here.
03:02I would just stand right in front of the mirror and zzzz.
03:09Pretended this was my electric shaver.
03:11Did you ever look at yourself in a mirror?
03:18What do you suppose people think when they look at themselves in a mirror?
03:26Let's go back in here.
03:35Let's get the trolley and have some make-believe.
03:39Trolley?
03:41Yes, I was looking in the mirror and pretending that I was shaving.
03:48Last time, we were pretending that Lady Aberlin saw King Friday and Queen Sarah and Prince
03:55Tuesday all angry, and she's been thinking about it ever since.
04:02Also, Lady Elaine and her play director, Mayor Maggie, are getting ready to do their soap opera.
04:09So let's think about those things.
04:10As the trolley goes into the neighborhood of Make-believe.
04:14Ready, trolley?
04:15All right.
04:16All right.
04:16It's all right.
04:25It's all right.
04:26Uh, niece Eberlin, I presume?
04:42Correct.
04:42As usual, Uncle Friday.
04:44Would you like to hear me play something on my bass violin?
04:48I would, but I didn't think you approved of playing anything these days.
04:53Oh, hello.
04:54Hello, dear.
04:55Hi, Aunt Sarah.
04:56Hello, Friday.
04:58Oh, hello there, Sarah.
05:01I was just about to play something for our niece.
05:04Oh, that'd be lovely.
05:05Would you like to listen?
05:07Oh, I would, dear.
05:09Very well.
05:10I shall begin.
05:11Oh, that's just beautiful.
05:25Oh, that's just beautiful.
05:37You get better every year, dear.
05:39Oh, thank you, Sarah.
05:41Oh, thank you, Sarah.
05:44Now, did you like it, niece Eberlin?
05:47Oh, yes, of course.
05:49It's just I'm a bit confused today.
05:51Something bothering you, niece?
05:53I'm not quite sure.
05:54I'm not quite sure.
05:55Would you like to talk with us about it, dear?
05:58Not just now, thanks.
06:00I'll see you later.
06:02Very good.
06:03In the meantime, Sarah, I'm ready to help you with that food for the world report.
06:08Oh, thank you, Friday.
06:09Hey, Lady Eberlina, how in the world are you?
06:18Oh, hi, Axe.
06:19I'm fine.
06:21I wonder, though, if you would try to answer a question for me.
06:26I'll try my very best.
06:27What kind of question is it?
06:29A hard question.
06:31Well, I'll still try my best.
06:33What is the question?
06:35What is love?
06:38What is love?
06:40That's my question.
06:42Oh, what is love?
06:45Let me see.
06:46Well, love is a feeling you have when you love somebody.
06:51Yes, but that doesn't tell what it is, does it?
06:57Hmm, let me think.
06:59Love, love, moon above, love, dove.
07:04Wait a minute.
07:05Surely Benjamin Franklin knows the answer to this one.
07:13There.
07:15What an impressive book.
07:18Uh-huh.
07:19Benjamin Franklin Speaks.
07:21Oh, yes, I read it all the time.
07:23Ben Franklin's my hero.
07:25I know, but does he say anything about love?
07:29Well, he says that love is good, and love is wonderful, but he doesn't explain what it is.
07:42Oh, for a moment there, I thought we might have found the answer.
07:48Oh, Lady A, you know what love is.
07:51It's when you feel it, you know it.
07:54You may be right, X.
07:55It's just I'm trying to find a little more about it than that.
07:59Like what?
08:00Well, that's the problem.
08:02I don't know what to ask.
08:05Pretty hard to ask important questions, isn't it?
08:08It's hard to even know what I'm asking.
08:11Well, I sure hope you find out whatever it is you want.
08:15Oh, me too.
08:17Thanks, X.
08:19Oh, you know something?
08:22What?
08:22I love you, X.
08:26Well, thanks, Lady A.
08:29That's the best thing I've heard all day.
08:32Somehow, I think it's the best thing I've said all day.
08:35I sure do wish you happy flying.
08:38You too.
08:39Thanks.
08:39Thanks.
08:49Hi, Ellen.
08:50Oh, hi, Robert Troll.
08:52Isn't this a beautiful day?
08:54We can send them out on the bottom of the sky and the sun up on the rise and everything.
08:58Yes.
08:58Oh, it really is a beautiful day.
09:00Yeah.
09:01And I have a very important question I'm trying to ask.
09:05Oh, well, ask me.
09:06Ask me.
09:07Sure.
09:07I know I know the answer.
09:09I better just ask me.
09:10What is it?
09:11Oh, okay.
09:12Ready?
09:13Yeah.
09:13Yeah, I'm ready.
09:15Robert Troll.
09:16Yeah.
09:18What is love?
09:22What is love?
09:27That's what I'm wondering about.
09:28Oh, boy.
09:29That's a tough one.
09:30What is love?
09:31I see.
09:31Would it be maybe when you hug and kiss and everything?
09:35We can send Bob a lot at best?
09:38Maybe?
09:38Well, not necessarily.
09:40Because I love X the owl, but I don't hug and kiss him.
09:45Uh-huh.
09:46Well, how about maybe when you get married?
09:50That's love.
09:51Isn't it?
09:52I don't know.
09:53I mean, I love Uncle Friday and Aunt Sarah, but I won't be marrying them.
09:59Yeah, well, it's true, too.
10:00Let's see.
10:01But, uh, um, um, um, I, I, I think love is a feeling, then.
10:08Yes, love.
10:08You have to feel love.
10:10That, that, that's it.
10:11And you know what else?
10:12What?
10:12I'm going to be an usher in a soap opera.
10:16Yeah.
10:17Is that something you want to do?
10:18Oh, yes.
10:19Since I was a little troll, I worked around me.
10:21I always wanted to be an usher in a soap opera.
10:23In a soap opera?
10:24Yeah, well, in anything, really, you know, because I just, just love doing it.
10:28That's why I can't sing, but I don't.
10:30Oh, and there are so many people who love you, Robert Troll.
10:33Oh, lady, eh?
10:35You sure make a troll feel good, and I thank you.
10:40Doot.
10:41Oh.
10:43Doot to you, Robert Troll.
10:45Okay, lady, hey.
10:47Doot.
10:47Doot.
10:47As the museum turns, its major heartthrob welcomes you.
10:58Hey, where are you looking so serious on such a beautiful day?
11:04Oh, lady Elaine, I'm trying to find out what love is.
11:09What love is?
11:10Well, you've come to the right place, toots.
11:12You know what love is?
11:14Sure, that's easy.
11:15I look into my mirror, and it's love.
11:20I'm serious, lady Elaine.
11:23So am I.
11:25You can't love anybody else if you don't love yourself.
11:29I hadn't thought of it that way.
11:38You ought to talk with your Aunt Sarah.
11:40She'll tell you all about it.
11:42Do you think so?
11:44I know so.
11:45She and Friday are crazy about each other.
11:49Really?
11:50Of course they are.
11:51Don't you see how angry they can get once in a while?
11:55And how lovey they are, too.
11:58That's all part of it.
12:00You know something.
12:01What?
12:02You can be such a big help.
12:06Anytime, toots.
12:07I'm the one everybody's in love with in the soap opera.
12:11I should have guessed.
12:13There will be plenty of parts as the season rolls on, whenever you want to be in it.
12:18As the museum turns.
12:20Yes, and we're going to do a game show someday, too.
12:24Oh, what are you going to call it?
12:25When the museum turns.
12:30That's the one I'd like to be in.
12:32Okay, you can be the chief turner.
12:34Oh, Lady Elaine, I love you.
12:37Me, too, toots.
12:38See ya.
12:39See ya.
12:39Aunt Sarah?
12:52Aunt Sarah?
12:53Aunt Sarah?
12:56Oh, Lady Evelyn, I'm so glad you came back, dear.
13:00Oh, Aunt Sarah, I should have asked you my question in the first place.
13:04What question?
13:05What is love?
13:09Ah, what an important question.
13:13I know it's an important question.
13:15I can feel how important it is.
13:18What do you think love is, dear?
13:21Well, I used to think that if you loved someone, they always made you happy and never made you angry.
13:30Never made you angry?
13:33Well, almost never.
13:35And I thought that the more you loved someone, the less possible it would be to be angry at them.
13:44Did you know that Friday and I got angry at each other yesterday?
13:50I did know that, Aunt Sarah.
13:55We weren't very happy about each other at the moment, were we?
14:02And yet, you know, anyone who has ever been loved is able to feel love.
14:11But how can you feel it if you don't understand it?
14:17I don't know.
14:18But I do know that I love Friday and Tuesday and you and X and Lady Elaine and all.
14:28And we love you, too.
14:30But we all get angry sometimes.
14:32And we all get happy sometimes and sad and everything.
14:37But the love doesn't go away.
14:40That's true.
14:41And that's one reason it's the most important thing in the world.
14:47But if you don't understand it, what do you do?
14:53Just go right on loving, whether I understand it or not.
14:58Oh, I do love you, Aunt Sarah.
15:01Oh, and I trust that you know that I love you, too, dear.
15:07And that's something we can always talk about.
15:11Yes, let's go inside.
15:13Friday and Tuesday, we'll both have ideas about this to share, I'm sure.
15:18Good.
15:20Oh, how right you are, Charlie.
15:23Hmm.
15:31That was a hard question Lady Aberlin was asking.
15:39Do you ever talk about love with somebody you care for?
15:43I hope you do.
15:45People who make each other angry can often still love each other very much.
15:51And we'll think more about the soap opera they're planning the next time, too.
15:56But now, I want you to meet Joe Negri's friend, the mandolin player.
16:02I could just use my block to be a mandolin.
16:09Put this back.
16:10So we can go over to Negri's music shop.
16:15Come along.
16:30Hey, Jared.
16:31Have you ever heard a mandolin?
16:33Oh, I have, and I love that sound.
16:36Oh, well, go on right back.
16:37He's waiting for you, and I'll be in a little later, because I love to play along with one.
16:41Good, I will.
16:42Thank you, Joe.
16:43See you later.
16:53Peter, it's Fred.
16:54Oh, Fred.
16:55It's good to see you.
16:56Glad to see you.
16:56Thank you for dropping by.
16:58I'm really happy and lucky that Joe had the space available for me to rehearse tonight.
17:04As you know, we're doing a concert this evening, and I've been sitting here running through a few pieces.
17:10I just love the way you play, and I like the mandolin.
17:15Well, thanks.
17:16I was just trying to remember the words to a Ukrainian lullaby that I'm trying to get ready for tonight.
17:24I don't know if you know this, but Ostrushko, my last name, is Ukrainian.
17:29My parents immigrated to this country, and like a lot of Ukrainian names, it has a meaning.
17:37In Ukrainian, it's pronounced Ostroushko.
17:41Ostroushko.
17:42Yeah, you have to be able to roll your R's in the Ukrainian language.
17:45R.
17:46Yeah, Ostroushko, and it literally translates as sharp ears.
17:50Sharp ears.
17:51Yes, and I'd like to think of it in a musical sense.
17:54Peter Sharp ears.
17:54Yes, that's right.
17:56I'd like to hear what you were talking about.
17:57Well, this is a little lullaby, and quickly, there's a, in the Ukrainian language, a word for that place right before you go to sleep called the drimota.
18:09There's that R again, drimota.
18:12Drimota.
18:13And son, which is dream in the Ukrainian language, and they're walking down the road together, and they find this house and look inside the window and decide that they're going to spend the night there because they see this beautiful little girl laying in a crib, and they're going to go in and rock her to sleep.
18:30So hopefully I can get through all the words here for you.
18:33No, no, no, no, no, no.
19:03No, no, no, no, no.
19:05No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
19:07No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
19:37Oh, what a beautiful song.
20:03It is a beautiful song.
20:04I'm glad I was able to remember the words.
20:06I am, too.
20:08It can just make you go right off to sleep.
20:11Well, I hope I don't do that with the concert folks tonight.
20:13But, you know, I was trying to think of some other tunes that I got from my parents.
20:20I learned a lot of my music when I was first growing up,
20:23when I was just a wee little person like this, from listening to my parents.
20:28My mom doesn't play an instrument, but she loved to sing.
20:32You know, she used to sit around the house when she was thinking about what meals to cook for the evening supper.
20:39You know, and then as she started cooking the meals and stuff,
20:43she would start singing these songs, and I would sit there and listen to her.
20:48One of her favorite songs goes like this.
20:51It has lots of words to it.
21:13A fun song, but I learned a lot of the old Ukrainian folk songs from her.
21:20And my dad played the mandolin and guitar and other instruments,
21:24but he didn't like to sing too much.
21:26But he loved to play dance tunes, a polka, for instance.
21:30So you were filled with music from the time you were a little boy.
21:59Well, you know, I've had so many people come up to me and ask me,
22:03where did you learn how to play?
22:05You know, I'm pretty much self-taught.
22:07And I did it basically by when my dad was at work,
22:11I'd sneak into his bedroom and take his mandolin that was hanging on the wall down,
22:15and I would just start by making sounds on it.
22:18I would hit a note and hit another one until I found, you know,
22:23a series of notes that sounded good to my ear.
22:25And that's the way I learned.
22:28I'd try to mimic what I was hearing on the radio
22:30or even just sounds out in the yard or whatever.
22:34You know, I would hear music and I would try to play it on the mandolin.
22:39And usually, like on Saturday nights,
22:41my parents would invite all their friends over,
22:44and a lot of them played music too.
22:45None of them played professionally for money,
22:48but they just would come over and the women would make these big meals
22:52and we'd eat lots of food featuring sour cream and cabbage and all these things,
22:58and then they would sit and play dance tunes for hours.
23:02And as a child, I would sit there and I would just look at that,
23:05and, you know, they weren't outside playing baseball.
23:09They were inside playing.
23:10You know, at one time, I thought all dads played the mandolin
23:13because that was my experience.
23:15All the adults that I knew played the mandolin,
23:17and I would watch them having a good time,
23:20and it seemed the most natural thing in the world to want to play music.
23:24And now you're a dad.
23:25And I'm a dad too, you know, and like a true dad,
23:29I've got the pictures with me to prove it.
23:31Oh, I want to...
23:32I introduce you to Anna Kim Ostrushko.
23:35There she is.
23:36What a beautiful child.
23:38She loves to listen to music too.
23:40I can sit on the couch, and I put her down in front of me,
23:45and I'll pick up my mandolin and just play tunes,
23:48and she'll...
23:48She's so fascinated by it.
23:50And sometimes she'll want to sing along, you know.
23:53I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:55She finds a certain note, and sometimes I'll follow her,
23:58and sometimes she follows me.
24:00You know, we kind of, what we musicians call, we jam together.
24:04Sure you do.
24:04We make up music together.
24:06Well, you're living together, and what a wonderful thing
24:10to be able to grow together through music.
24:13This is the best thing that could have happened.
24:16You play sometimes with Joe Negri.
24:19Yes, I've asked Joe this evening to come and play a few songs with me this evening,
24:24so we're actually, we're thinking about rehearsing a little bit.
24:27Could I go get him?
24:28Oh, please do.
24:29You'd do a little duet with him?
24:42Peter.
24:43How's it going?
24:44Oh, great.
24:45How about a duet?
24:46Oh, I'd love to, I'd love to.
24:48Fred wanted to listen to us rehearse for this evening's concert.
24:52Which one would you like to try?
24:53How about the Trees, Trees, Trees one?
24:55All right.
24:55How do you say tree in Ukrainian?
24:58You're going to have to roll your eyes again, Fred.
25:00Okay.
25:00This is Darbo.
25:03Darbo.
25:04Darbo.
25:05Darbo.
25:05Yeah, so technically it will be Darbo, Darbo, Darbo.
25:09Darbo, Darbo, Darbo.
25:11Very natural, Fred.
25:12Here we go.
25:13Darbo.
25:14Darbo.
26:14Oh, I hope you'll play that for Anna Kim someday.
26:19I'll tell her I played it just from you.
26:21Give her a hug for me, too.
26:23It's great to be with you, Peter.
26:25Thanks for stopping by.
26:26Peter Sharp ears.
26:27Thank you very much.
26:28See you later.
26:30Well, you want to try it to dry?
26:33How about the end?
26:39Hey, David.
26:40See you later, Mr. Rogers.
26:41Bye-bye.
26:41Peter Sharp ears.
26:56That little daughter of his, Anna Kim, will have lots of music in her life, lots of music mixed with lots of love.
27:05Love seems to be something that keeps filling up within us.
27:09And the more we give away, the more we have to give.
27:13It's such a good feeling to know you're alive.
27:19It's such a happy feeling you're growing inside.
27:23And when you wake up, ready to say, I think I'll make a snappy new day.
27:31It's such a good feeling, a very good feeling.
27:36The feeling, you know, that I'll be back when the day is new.
27:43And I'll have more ideas for you.
27:47And you'll have things you'll want to talk about.
27:52I will, too.
27:54You always make each day a special day by just your being yourself.
28:02That's right.
28:03I like being with you.
28:05And I'll be back next time.
28:06Bye-bye.
28:07Bye-bye.
28:08Bye-bye.
28:09Bye-bye.
28:11Bye-bye.
28:13Bye-bye.
28:15Bye-bye.
28:17Bye-bye.
28:19Bye-bye.
28:21Bye-bye.
28:23Bye-bye.
28:24Bye-bye.
28:24Bye-bye.
28:24Bye-bye.
28:24Bye-bye.
28:54Bye-bye.
29:24Bye-bye.
29:26Bye-bye.
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