Joe Pera Talks With You 1x1

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In which Joe Pera, a middle school choir teacher, presents to viewers the importance of Northern Michigan geology, especially iron. Also copper, azurite, tourmaline, and Lake Superior agate.

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1. Iron.

2. It makes up most of the earth's core

3. and is in our blood.

4. It's also the reason we're here, for the most part.

5. In 1844,

6. the Marquette Iron Range was discovered.

7. And soon after, north Michigan iron

8. was building the country,

9. shipped through Marquette's harbor

10. and across the Great Lakes to be made into steel

11. for railroads, skyscrapers, ships, and bridges.

12. So if you like this train bridge,

13. you have iron to thank.

14. Hello.

15. My name is Joe Pera,

16. and unlike previous family generations,

17. I'm not a miner,

18. but a soft-handed choir teacher who is just in awe

19. of Michigan's geological splendor.

20. Simply put, the upper peninsula is a rock hound's paradise.

21. And I'd like to introduce you

22. to some of the most special of our rocks and minerals.

23. The story of an area can be told by its rocks.

24. Geologically speaking, the U.P. is very old

25. and has been through a lot.

26. Two billion years -

27. Two billion years ago,

28. geologists said -

29. Uh, excuse me for a moment.

30. Hi. I'm Sue Melsky.

31. Is now a good time?

32. Yeah, it's a good time.

33. Okay, great.

34. Oh, you want to come in?

35. Yeah, we were looking at houses

36. and saw your sign out front.

37. Don't touch that. Don't touch that.

38. You want to ring it?

39. You can look around the room, okay?

40. Yes. Here's a bell.

41. Someone else put the sign on my lawn,

42. but I guess I gotta honor it.

43. Should we take our shoes off?

44. Yes, please. Okay. Come on.

45. I'm Mike. That's Nicole, Josh, and Kelsey.

46. Oh, nice to meet you. This is, uh, Gus.

47. We're thick as thieves, and we share everything.

48. That's where Gus sits.

49. That's where I sit.

50. Uh, what are those rocks for?

51. I'm doing a presentation.

52. Are you a teacher? Yes.

53. This is my music room, but it's also got technology.

54. Ho! Up!

55. What a lovely back yard and garden.

56. I don't know how it happened,

57. but this year is the year of zucchini for me.

58. What are you doing?

59. I'm looking at the appliances.

60. Don't they look really well maintained?

61. Yeah.

62. Thank you.

63. I wipe them down every time I use them.

64. Hey, how about we make some turkey, huh?

65. Aah! Huh? You want to get in the oven?

66. Come on!

67. Let's get you in the oven!

68. This is seriously one of the top 10

69. best kitchens I've ever been in in my life, okay?

70. Do you entertain a lot?

71. Sometimes Gene will come over

72. and we'll watch "Phenomenon."

73. This room's mine.

74. Okay.

75. I know this sounds crazy, but I love this bedspread.

76. Here. Mike and I wrote down a number.

77. We hope it's all right.

78. Our contact info is on there, too.

79. Let us know when you can, okay?

80. All right.

81. Can I have this copper?

82. Yeah, sure.

83. Thanks so much for letting us take a look around.

84. Hematite.

85. Azurite.

86. Pyrite.

87. And the Lake Superior agate.

88. These are a few of my favorite regional minerals.

89. Wow.

90. My friend Gene is a true rock hound

91. and agreed to share what he knows

92. about the Lake Superior agate.

93. I was gonna ask you about minerals, Gene,

94. but can I ask you something else first?

95. Okay.

96. Is your house for sale

97. if someone else puts a for sale sign on your lawn?

98. I think I'm being pranked again by local teens.

99. One time, I was at a yard sale with Lulu.

100. I got a blue dot sticker stuck to my shirt.

101. Someone offered me three dollars for it.

102. W-What happened, Gene?

103. I thought about selling it, but I couldn't.

104. It's a shirt my sons designed for me.

105. Yeah.

106. And also,

107. I didn't want anyone to see my nipples.

108. I understand that.

109. I was a chubby boy.

110. Yes.

111. The family was so nice, though,

112. and I don't think I can bring myself to let them down.

113. At the same time, I can't imagine

114. moving away from Marquette.

115. Remember the time we talked about

116. how different our lives would be

117. if we lived in Thunder Bay, Ontario?

118. To throw stones into Lake Superior

119. from the other direction.

120. It's only eight hours away.

121. Oh. Can you give this to Nana?

122. I must be a magician

123. 'cause I made all those cookies disappear.

124. I'm gonna miss you, Gene.

125. Walking across

126. the four-billion-year-old quinine peridotite

127. and worrying about my upcoming move to Canada,

128. I reminded myself that,

129. if there's anything I have learned from rocks,

130. it's that change is a good thing,

131. that, without the underwater volcanic activity

132. along the mid continental rift,

133. there would be no copper in the U.P.

134. And if the Laurentian Ice Sheet hadn't formed,

135. then retreated, there would be no Great Lakes,

136. and when Lake Superior was just a shallow sea trough,

137. if iron sediments didn't build up

138. and become part of the Huronian rock formation,

139. there would be no Marquette,

140. no walks by the Lower Ore Dock,

141. or watching freighters load at the Upper Ore Dock.

142. No football at the Superior Dome,

143. the largest wooden dome in North America,

144. no bingo supplies, no books,

145. smoked whitefish, fried whitefish,

146. and no great view from the Range Bank parking deck

147. where you can just stand by your car and look.

148. I don't want to move to Ontario.

149. But I also can't have another lawsuit in my life right now.

150. I need an ice cream.

151. Can I have some of your ice cream?

152. May I?

153. Thank you.

154. That's very nice of you.

155. Hi, Mike. Hi, Sue. Hi, kids.

156. Hey, Joe. We're just having a celebratory...

157. May I please tell you something?

158. sundae.

159. I-I'm not a rock.

160. I'm a person, and I can choose where I live,

161. and I decided that, right now, I've gotta be here.

162. It's my fourth year teaching,

163. and I know good things are up for me and my choir,

164. but also, it's my house.

165. It's where I grew up.

166. It was my grandparents', but now, in the garden,

167. I plant my own squash, if you know what I mean.

168. And it's got my best thinking spots —

169. the piano bench, the chair that faces the yard,

170. and my side of the bed where I can look

171. out the window and think about stuff

172. like, "What is the future of casual dining?"

173. Because it's cold in m—

174. Because I am a single man

175. in a place where it's cold most of the year,

176. I have plenty of thinking time.

177. I know I'm no Mr. Einstein, but I do try

178. and think about interesting stuff,

179. like, "How come some birds live at the airport?

180. And what's the number one Chinese lake?"

181. Plus, Gus lives there, too, and one time,

182. seven wild turkeys walked through my back yard

183. and I fed them Apple Jacks

184. and I'm hoping they'll come back.

185. Please don't buy my home.

186. Sure.

187. Uh, we called the number

188. on the for sale sign to get in touch

189. and found out it was the Johnson's house

190. across the street, which we ended up buying.

191. Sorry we didn't let you know.

192. We just figured it was a little weird anyhow.

193. Oh.

194. Um...

195. well, since you now live here,

196. you should own some iron.

197. Uh, here.

198. Lake Superior agate.

199. Hi, Nana. I have good news.

200. I'm not moving to Thunder Bay.

201. What's that, honey?

202. Also, Gene gave you a Lake Superior agate.

203. But I gave it to the Melskys

204. so that they wouldn't buy my house.

205. I-I also gave them iron and copper.

206. That's all right, honey.

207. I think I have enough paperweights.

208. Oh.

209. I should be forward about the lawsuit I'm in.

210. Me and Gene are just suing each other

211. to learn about the legal system,

212. also to determine if there's racial bias in the courts.