. >> and i am going to go to venice beach, and what they don't know is that i'm horrible. >> you areo fall out. >> he is going to see how long it takes these guys to figure out he may not be verdell jones. >> oh, my goodness. here can barely do anything. he is terrible. >> you have to be wondering what these guys are thinking. >> that is [ bleep ]. >> if you go to the nba, i'm the president. >> somebody looks up verdell jones. >> that is not verdell jones, and this kid is not. >> you are not him, bro. >> i love the excuses. >> playing in germany will change your style. >> finally, it is serious. >> are you saying that my little brother is funny right now? >> watch out. watch out. >> 250. >> yeah, $2.50. >> he does make a bet. >> we play bank account. >> let me tell you that he does not score anything. and they go up to five. >> his prank did not work, because nobody was buying it. >> you are not verdell, boy. >>> juggling with cats. >> come on. >> you know, for the amount of pop corn videos that i have shown you, this one takes you inside and makes you feel like a part of the acon. w

pictures from southern california that just need to be seen. >> fourth of july festivities in venice beachr and mrs. venice muscle beach. doesn't hurt to be tan. apparently, as well as toned. all amateurs. if you get cracking, next year you can enter the event. >> i have a long way to go. i like they know their poses. like a dance that they do. >> holy cow. >> serious stuff. reminds me of the famous comic strip about the muscle guy. >> charles atlas. >> no, something about the beach, someone gets picked on and the muscle guy comes and takes care of them. >> yeah, ads, charles atlas, weight lifting program. and the weakling gets sand kicked in the face. >> look at that. i didn't even know. coming up a celebrity quits twitter. tell you who in "the skinny." >> first the inspiring story of an inspired man. the american lawyer who moved to south africa and ended up helping hundreds of young people. you are watching "world news now." ♪ because we have worked real hard to get this far we were ♪ catching the bus before we bought the car ♪ >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by ho

venice beach in l.a. there were, when you think about it, they were just these tiny specs of the vast american landscape. and that's why, creative people, misfits, outcasts fed to those places because it was kind of hard to be an artist anywhere else. >> well, i'd like to thank our speaker john strausbaugh. [applause] >> booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guests an viewers. watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> i'm the beneficiary of a right total hip. i had daily nocturnal and nocturnal pain. if i didn't know better i would think i had metastatic prostate cancer, cancer to the bone and i saw the best surgeon and i got a wonderful procedure, right total hip. that was by the way just seven weeks ago. and a week ago i played nine holes of golf. that is how good it is. so i would challenge anyone in integrative medicine to say, could you have done that? if somebody has pneumonia you need penicillin. if anyone has hiv or hepatitis-c, you need the ri

i'm not talking about muscle beach in venice, california, but kiev. >> what is that?> this is a legitimate gym, but as you can see the equipment is unconventional and made using parts and scrap metal from soviet world war ii tanks. >> this is smart and recycling material already out there, and they put old equipment to good use. >> they have the elliptical machines and the girl is doing it backwards. >> nevermind that, it is looking completely dangerous and awesome, and you will feel like a total man after working out here. you are like, ugh, erg. >> tank parts? that makes you feel stronger no matter what. >> this was apparently founded back in the '70s by yuri cook, and it is maintained by enthusiasts and as time has passed, people have built their own machines. >>> somebody went fishing for a large mouth bass in pennsylvania, and that is not what he caught. >> he was using a blue gill to lure a large mouth bass. >> is that a snake? is that a snake? >> that is a northern water sna snake. >> but i don't know what the water snake to do with it. >> if you notice that th

>> literally, i was making a pilot for warner brothers, i would go to venice beach at 8:00 in the morning newborns from 4:00 to 7:00, then i would go to "er" in burbank. and my son said, 11 the -- at the time, he said, you finally finished. and i thought, i better take time off. >> did you have any ethical issues with what you were bringing to the show to what you just left in the pediatric unit, or usc medical center? did you have any issues there? >> no, i always changed and disguised the patients, so that they would never be identifiable. because i was really concerned about that. so really, i drew on what the substance of the story was, or how i was inspired by them. but never making it a direct link to any patient i ever took care of. the one time i was doing a rotation at ucla's emergency room, while "er" had just started, and i was sewing up a kid's leg, he had been in an accident playing baseball, and people were like, oh, noah wiley could do this better than you. and i said, yeah, he could. because they practiced much more on chicken parts than i did. i wanted to say, you're righ