TDW 1668 - Finding Reality In Houston

1:02 in the back quite possibly one of the

1:02 coolest

1:04 mailboxes in existence and when a stiff

1:07 wind comes through you really get quite

1:10 the musical interlude with them clanging

1:14 around like that it's interesting this

1:16 little section all of these are rusted

1:19 out because these are not beer cans

1:22 these are probably like blackeyed pea

1:25 cans green bean cans homon did you ever

1:29 try Hony John the Creator passed away in

1:32 1988 and his wife in

1:35 2002 but his vision lives

1:39 on right here in Houston with that view

1:43 of

1:44 downtown right here in this

1:46 neighborhood was a scene from one of the

1:49 quintessential 1990 movies 1994 was a

1:53 very pivotal year for a lot of Pop

1:55 Culture enthusiasts Green Day Offspring

1:59 all those bands brought punk rock into

2:01 the mainstream and it was also the year

2:04 that Ben Stiller directed his very first

2:07 film and he summed up Generation X

2:09 pretty well right here on the corner of

2:11 clay and Taff Street this was the road

2:14 where Steve's on Ethan Hawk Janine Garo

2:17 and wona Ryder lived this was their

2:20 apartment in a little movie called

2:23 Reality Bites it's pretty neat to think

2:25 about all four of them being roomies

2:28 right in there and out of all of them

2:30 which one do you think would have owned

2:33 the

2:34 cat one of the final scenes of the movie

2:37 Ethan Hawk is standing right here wona

2:39 Ryder is up on that porch and the

2:41 skyline of Houston in the background

2:44 this bush has grown

2:46 considerably over the last couple of

2:48 decades but this is where they confessed

2:52 their love to each

2:55 other right there in a way that only the

2:59 mid99s

3:01 could present wona Ryder would have

3:03 leapt over that railing ran down and

3:06 gave him a

3:07 kiss why didn't she kiss me oh yeah

3:10 because I wasn't here but honestly who

3:13 didn't have a crush on that

3:15 woman oh man the interesting thing is a

3:18 location manager would not choose that

3:21 spot in current day because these big

3:24 buildings and this new construction are

3:27 blocking the cityscape which made that s

3:30 so memorable it's always an adventure in

3:32 a big city to try to find a parking spot

3:36 for the RV but I found one I don't know

3:39 how but I found one there's a mural on

3:41 the back side of this barber shop I love

3:44 Houston it's quite a few of those around

3:46 town that state that as well finding a

3:49 spot for Large Marge

3:52 definitely slightly difficult in this

3:54 area but check this out the bethl

3:57 Baptist Church it's no longer a

3:59 congregation in fact years ago it burned

4:02 on January

4:04 24th 2005 it is kind of neat that it's

4:06 just wedged in this little road right

4:09 next to these

4:39 this is definitely really cool

4:39 established

4:41 1891 The Fountains are still running and

4:45 it's now a public

4:56 park down the back

4:58 alleys

5:00 I hit a major traffic jam and I took a

5:03 turn down this way to avoid

5:06 it I'm wedged in between this soiled

5:10 mattress and some razor bar wire fencing

5:13 on the

5:20 right Smither

5:20 Park this place looks awesome behind

5:23 this fence is a metal dragon it's almost

5:26 like a parade float before hopping on

5:28 board though you might might want to get

5:30 your tet in a shot cuz if that guy bites

5:32 you it's bad news at first glance the

5:35 structure looks like a huge eyeball but

5:38 I think maybe it's a

5:39 fish I'm not really sure what that is

5:42 this is the inside of it you can see my

5:44 reflection there in the broken

5:47 artistic glass work and as you back out

5:51 you'll notice this is kind of like a

5:53 mouth with teeth up there this thing

5:56 scared the crap out of so many people

5:59 there's a port of potty there just in

6:01 case you could stare at this wall for

6:02 hours and still not see everything that

6:05 monkey this throne with alligators at

6:08 the bottom this longhorn steer you hang

6:11 out here

6:13 often what's your

6:15 name it's like talking to a

6:31 wall the people who watch over the park

6:31 also take care of the beer can house and

6:34 the orange show a former postal worker

6:37 spent 25 years building this homage to

6:42 his favorite Citrus food now we can't go

6:45 inside because there is a lock on the

6:48 gate and according to their website this

6:51 is under renovation for about the next

6:54 month or so and there is a guard dog up

6:57 there many years ago I did an unedited

6:59 vlog log wandering around the inside of

7:01 that gosh that seems like only yesterday

7:03 but it's been a few

7:12 years I'm not 100% sure on what this is

7:12 it could be a taco

7:14 man or maybe a piece of toast the more I

7:17 think about it it could have been a

7:20 foot let's answer some

7:23 questions let's try that

7:27 again let's answer some questions

7:30 that's

7:37 better do you believe in the Loch Ness

7:37 monster I think it'd be amazing if the

7:39 loch nest monster was real as well as

7:41 the Jersey Devil and Moth Man and

7:44 Sasquatches I think part of the Mystique

7:47 though is not really knowing you always

7:50 are left wondering do you ever plan on

7:52 marrying or settling down having kids of

7:54 course I'm not opposed to that first I

7:56 have to find someone who can deal with

7:58 my traveling lifestyle

8:00 in my insane mind hey Adam what's your

8:02 favorite baseball team honestly I don't

8:04 really have a favorite I like a lot of

8:05 different teams I like a lot of

8:06 different players especially back when I

8:08 really followed baseball in the 80s and

8:09 90s I am more of a fan of the game I

8:12 wanted to be a professional baseball

8:14 player when I was younger and there was

8:15 a small portion of my life probably 5 or

8:18 10 years ago I actually considered going

8:20 to school for

8:22 umpiring there's something you probably

8:24 didn't know how are you finding your

8:26 little areas that you're going to are

8:28 you Googling them before you get there

8:31 or are you using a GPS on your phone

8:34 when it comes to the route I'm going

8:35 it's kind of just on a whim there's

8:36 really no Rhyme or Reason to it when it

8:38 comes to researching spots or what I'm

8:40 going to do in that certain area it's

8:42 kind of done a day or two before with

8:44 exception sometimes there will be things

8:45 I want to specifically go to but

8:47 normally it's Word of Mouth things left

8:50 in comments or something I've had in the

8:52 back of my mind for a long time or maybe

8:54 even something the internet provides

8:56 just a bunch of different things that

8:58 conglomerate into one

9:09 factor do I still leave stickers in

9:09 locations that I have visited I don't

9:11 really do that anymore I did that when I

9:13 first started doing videos and people

9:14 would go find them but I find out now

9:16 that after one person gets all the

9:18 stickers a lot more people go out of

9:20 their way to go to that location to get

9:22 them and the stickers are gone and I

9:24 feel bad that people are traveling to a

9:26 spot to get stickers that no longer

9:29 exist that's why I don't put stickers

9:31 and hide them around at the former Vlog

9:33 spots anymore hi Adam Theo will you tell

9:37 us how you came up with your Hitchcock

9:38 phrase and have you ever thought about

9:40 going to the filming location of the

9:41 birds because we think Hitchcock would

9:45 be proud it just kind of happened like a

9:47 lot of catchphrases I see something and

9:49 I just make a comment then I make it

9:51 another day I make it another day and

9:52 then it just kind of becomes the thing

9:54 that sticks in my mind and sticks in the

9:56 viewer's mind that's how I came up with

9:58 it and yes definitely Northern

9:59 California trip to Bodega Bay to visit

10:03 the location of the birds and Hitchcock

10:05 he will be proud if you were to win the

10:09 lottery on one of your trips what kind

10:12 of car would you purchase with that

10:14 money I don't think I'd have my mind on

10:15 any particular car like a sports car or

10:17 a classic car or anything like that

10:19 maybe I'd get a bigger RV a larger

10:23 Marge if you will what YouTubers do you

10:26 follow other than my friends and those

10:28 who appear in my videos really don't

10:29 watch a whole lot of videos on YouTube

10:33 unless I'm researching something or

10:35 something of that nature I'm usually so

10:37 focused on doing my own thing that I'm

10:39 not spending a lot of time searching and

10:41 browsing YouTube and following a lot of

10:44 other YouTubers I know it sounds bizarre

10:46 but it's kind of the nature of my life

10:48 and how hectic everything is sometimes

10:50 when are you going to come to the UK I

10:52 know you've already answered this

10:53 question recently um but if I were to

10:56 start a petition how many names would it

10:58 take for uh you to come to the UK

11:01 because I will do it I've been wanting

11:03 to get over there for quite a while it's

11:04 not really in the cards right now I'm

11:06 not sure if petition would really help

11:08 but it would be fun to see how many

11:10 people would sign it that's for sure

11:12 this is an example of theming done

11:14 correctly your call Firehouse Saloon put

11:17 a fir truck in front of your

11:20 place that's the way it's done a very

11:22 long Stones Throw from downtown but I

11:25 still had trouble finding parking I had

11:28 to wedge Ed the RV in that parking lot

11:32 Corner way over

11:34 there but I made it happen under the

11:36 bridge near

11:38 downtown there's a colony of bats and if

11:42 you think I'm kidding take a gander at

11:45 these signs never handle grounded bats

11:50 in the crevices of the undercarriage of

11:52 this road are thousands and thousands

11:55 and thousands and thousands and

11:58 thousands of actual bats if you listen

12:02 closely you can hear them

12:11 chirping right along these little lines

12:11 these parallel lines they barricade

12:14 themselves up in there they're up in

12:17 there specifically they are Mexican

12:19 freetail bats this is what they look

12:22 like up

12:23 close look like a little mouse with

12:25 wings there's the skeleton of one of

12:27 those little creatures

12:31 kind of looks like the sorny Weaver

12:33 chasing alien if you look all along the

12:36 railing here this is not dirt this is

12:39 not mud this

12:42 is bat hoop it's hard to hear them with

12:45 the traffic up above but listen very

13:22 there got to love these Houston roads

13:22 certain times of the year there are way

13:23 more bats in that area than there were

13:26 tonight I'm not really sure I think the

13:28 weather comes into play a little bit on

13:30 this but there really weren't a whole

13:32 lot I can hear them up there but they

13:34 weren't making it visible they weren't

13:36 coming out to

13:37 play usually they take flight from under

13:40 the bridge they go off into the Houston

13:44 sky but not

13:47 tonight is it the time of

13:50 year maybe it's the time of year maybe I

13:54 came here at the wrong time to see the

13:56 bats I wanted to see some bats

TDW 1668 - Finding Reality In Houston

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