a unicycle.like something out of the circus, but there's a group of people who are devoted to riding it. >> favorite part about unicycling is that it's different from other sports and it's really fun to learn new tricks. >> probably the...adrenaline, like, when you ride, and the balance techniques. >> my favorite part about unicycling is when, if you're riding around town, is people notice you and they talk about you and you feel special. >> so, i guess, what is this group that you have? >> this is the new york unicycle club. i founded it, along with a friend and my brother, back in 2001. >> now david's group has over 300 members, both young and young at heart. most historians believe the unicycle was created in the late 1800s, when a contraption called the penny-farthing boomed in popularity. the penny-farthing was named after two british coins. its big front wheel looked like a penny, and its small back wheel looked like a farthing. but it wasn't long before riders realized they didn't need the

have a biological father who wasn't in his life but this person had a remarkable history was in a unicycle group and weighs in a bike shop in phoenix and didn't even know his son had become a billionaire and was running this worldwide company. >> to find him, you must have been completely shocked that this man didn't know who jeff bezos was. >> the question was, why is this important in the amazon story? i think that bezos is such a unique, driven individual just like jobs or frankly, president obama or bill clinton, and you wonder, does the absence or let's say the disappearance of the biological father, now he had a great adoptive father. but somewhere in the stew of this unique individual, that definitely had an impact. >> i know the biological father then wrote him and that he wrote back. any -- do you know whether he has any interest in meeting his biological dad? >> i actually don't know. i would assume that -- you know let's sort of go back to the steve jobs story, he didn't have a lot of interest in meeting his biological father. he said he had a great father and wasn't interested

we have folks on unicycles. we have a float or two. some clowns. this is like the 94th year.el's is. gumbel's is the original sponsor. now, it's dunkin' donuts. the favorite station of philadelphia, wpvi, i love them. this is the show that gives you two parades this morning. my lovely ginger zee is standing at the macy's parade in new york city. ginger, how is it going? the pictures look beautiful this morning. >> it is. it is. for a very cold morning, this is beautiful. how lucky are we that we have just learned, just now learned -- you see right here, the net is off snoopy. is nets are off. and that means, yes, we are going to fly. the balloons will fly. all of new york city happy here. so many millions will come right here, descend on new york city. so excited, paula. >> that is great news, ginger. >>> we're not going to do your cooking this morning. but we're going to answer some of your cooking questions. right? all of the tips and tricks you need as you hit the kitchen this thanksgiving. all you need to do is send us your turkey questions using the #gmathanksgiving. >>

yale, i'll talk to my students as to what you doing over spring break and they would be like, i'm unicycling across thailand while reading to lepers, that sort of thing. and they have mastered incredible skills as professional students. have a talent for showing talent. they are able to dominate classroom discussion, even though they have never done any of the readings. they have the ability to look at you with admiration and attention even though they are sound asleep. and so these are the kids we all know that grown up in the achievement culture. they move to washington where they provide their congressmen and other bosses with policy advice and sexual tension. [laughter] they come here and they stay. and they stay and those of us who are here, we're basically those kids a few years later. washington is a town of the children, that we were not the kids to put the cat in the dry. with the kids who paddled on the kids who put the cat in the dryer. [laughter] and so we are products of this, and a lot of us, your products of the line. it's a line that encourages strategic thinking. it encourag