TDW 1671 - Today Was Very Unexpected !

0:13 welcome everyone Adam the woo here it

0:13 was chilly enough last night for me to

0:14 sleep in my pajama

0:16 pants oh heck yeah last night's

0:19 accommodations this Walmart parking lot

0:23 and it looks like I wasn't the only one

0:24 with the same idea couple other people

0:26 joined the party wow look at that

0:30 Sunrise water pump on water heater

0:54 on it feels amazing out here jacket

0:59 weather it's my second channel daily

1:01 Vlog channel it's the

1:09 daily Majestic there's a

1:09 ghost there's a ghost floating across

1:12 the parking

1:14 lot get out of here you haunted thing

1:17 you get out of here be gone be gone you

1:23 know how normally McDonald's signs are

1:25 way up in the air not this one that

1:27 one's a puny one I like it though it's

1:30 from the 80s they haven't even updated

1:31 it I wonder if where that sign was

1:33 erected if it would ever have the idea

1:35 that people would bring a computer in

1:37 and they Don't Mess with Texas bag and

1:39 enjoy the internet while they have a

1:42 coffee probably not you know what's

1:44 interesting there's a whole generation

1:46 of people who have no idea what it's

1:48 like to not have the internet think

1:51 about that for a

1:57 second hello

1:57 there hey

2:00 just wanted to say

2:31 hi what's up

2:31 buddy what's up

2:34 buddy I'm in a town by the name of

2:37 Fannon

2:39 Texas not a lot going on this is the

2:42 little post office it's where you go get

2:44 your mail these were probably some sort

2:46 of convenience store gas stations at one

2:49 point that's the fire department

2:51 building although by the looks of it I

2:54 don't know if it's operational anymore

2:55 this iron cotton mill screw was placed

2:58 here in 1894

3:00 to help remember and signify a battle

3:03 that took place on this exact spot and

3:05 where I'm standing right now is where

3:07 it's located and all around that Central

3:10 Point is where the coleta creek battle

3:13 took place in 1913 this picture was

3:15 taken of a few gentlemen taking a photo

3:17 op around and some on the screw itself

3:21 one thing I have noticed here in Texas

3:24 is every time there's an American flag

3:26 there is the state flag directly below

3:30 it you don't see that in every state but

3:32 you definitely see it here in Texas the

3:34 Battle of Coletta and golad Massacre

3:37 after the fall of the Alamo Colonel

3:39 Fannon which is the name of the town now

3:41 and 400 soldiers marched out this way

3:44 and they ended up surrendering thinking

3:47 that they would be treated as prisoners

3:49 of War of a Civilized Nation however

3:53 they were massacred and their final

3:56 cries were Remember the Alamo remember

3:59 gold

4:00 and the spot of their surrender now

4:01 honored ground in the history of Texas

4:04 there's a

4:05 car flipped over on his top right

4:10 there just left her rot with the weeds

4:13 growing around

4:14 it car crash just

4:18 left just left there this Park train has

4:21 been split in

4:24 two that way we are able to drive

4:28 through this intersection

4:34 I don't think that Train's moved in

4:34 quite a

4:40 while I am now in the town of

4:40 goad and you can look at the date stamps

4:43 on the building

4:46 1896 and right here in front of this

4:49 very impressive courthouse is something

4:51 they

4:52 call the Hanging Tree the name of the

4:56 restaurant right across the road keeps

4:58 the memory of those days

5:00 alive it has been said that close to 70

5:04 men were put to death right here after

5:07 sentencing right inside these doors they

5:11 will be brought out almost

5:17 immediately and put to death I can

5:17 definitely see why they chose this

5:20 particular tree because the branches are

5:22 so thick no matter how much someone

5:23 weighs it's not going to snap the

5:26 justice system these

5:27 days a little bit different there's even

5:30 an antique store signifying those events

5:33 I have decided to eat at The Hanging

5:35 Tree Restaurant and they have a lot of

5:38 animals on the walls in here so this is

5:41 the menu the Hanging Tree Restaurant

5:43 menu and I'm going to go with the

5:46 chicken fried

5:48 steak all right here you

5:51 goch you

5:59 sure

6:01 got filming you filming filming me it's

6:04 the trifecta of cameras that's right we

6:08 reach total meta when one thinks of

6:11 trees at least I do I think of pastoral

6:14 Summers and apples and

6:18 frolicking no that's not what this tree

6:20 represents this is the Hanging Tree in

6:22 gallan Texas where a reputed 70 people

6:27 were hung most like from this Branch

6:30 best I can tell by random coincidence I

6:34 ended up meeting up with Billy Corgan

6:36 who you might know from the band The

6:37 Smashing Pumpkins and I had lunch with

6:40 him and the two guys who are traveling

6:42 with him they're going across the

6:44 country in an RV like I am how bizarre

6:48 how unusual how totally

6:50 unplanned and now I'm hanging out very

6:53 cool guys it's kind of interesting that

6:55 you're standing under the Hanging Tree

6:56 and there's like a ray of light like

6:59 yeah there's

7:00 down from you like he's not alone I

7:02 don't know if that's planned that way

7:03 from the heavens or what it is but so

7:05 how many days are you guys out on the

7:07 road for 30 days and how far into the

7:10 travels are you today is actually our

7:11 equidistant

7:13 midpoint so where did you start exactly

7:16 in Chicago so you started in Chicago

7:18 You're ending in La which is the route

7:20 of Route 66 but you're not taking the

7:22 Route 66 route you're just yeah well I

7:24 did Route 66 at the beginning of last

7:26 year and uh really enjoyed it um but as

7:29 you know from your travels Route 66 is

7:32 often more myth than reality very true

7:35 I've actually mentioned that lately and

7:37 interesting because yesterday we ended

7:38 up at the same awesome historic theater

7:41 in Edna at the same time but we missed

7:44 each other by like an hour oh that's

7:45 pretty cool it's really cool old school

7:48 and now we're at the Hanging Tree right

7:49 and we just had lunch thank you for

7:51 lunch by the way at the Hang you're

7:52 welcome at the Hanging Tree Restaurant

7:54 the Hanging Tree Restaurant you what did

7:56 you have for lunch I had the chicken

7:57 fried steak which means I'm going to

7:58 have probably a heart palpitation

7:59 probably in the next 20 30 minutes yeah

8:01 I had the swinging in the wind salad you

8:03 ate better you ate better than the rest

8:04 of us 5050 burger for both of

8:07 us it was very good now I can say that

8:11 Billy Corgan has bought my lunch and you

8:13 have you have contributed to my morbid

8:15 obesity that I am working on oh my

8:27 goodness you think they tore down the

8:27 limb where the hangings used to jump off

8:30 no I

8:31 doubt would be bad for tourism that's

8:33 true because the restaurant's named The

8:35 Hanging Tree it was a good meeting you

8:37 safe travels take care man wait a second

8:40 that's not your RV that's mine wait you

8:43 live in this thing yeah that's Large

8:44 Marge oh look over here by the way look

8:47 I have I have the name plate on the

8:49 front Large Marge were you about to take

8:52 my RV listen I don't live in an RV five

8:55 star hotels only ah I'm not a king of

8:58 the road like you

9:00 man

9:27 shunned how strangely

9:27 bizarre that out of all the towns in

9:31 Texas I happened to run into him in the

9:35 town I was

9:36 in when I first started hitting the road

9:38 in the RV a couple people left comments

9:40 saying hey you know the guy from

9:41 Smashing Pumpkins is doing the same

9:44 thing you're doing traveling through

9:46 smaller Americana type towns and filming

9:50 videos you should meet up with him of

9:52 course I had no idea how to get in touch

9:54 with

9:55 him and here I am in this little town

10:00 filming the tree and he comes walking

10:03 across out of the antique store so I

10:05 introduced myself started talking about

10:08 my videos and some of the places I've

10:11 been and then he asked me to go to lunch

10:15 and at lunch we were talking about

10:16 Disney he loves Disneyland he has a huge

10:18 collection of Disney

10:20 paraphernalia knows a lot about Disney

10:23 history super cool very cool guy totally

10:28 random and

10:30 awesome very

10:33 unexpected very

10:46 store gas pumps used to be here too at

10:46 one time what sort of creatures lived up

10:49 there definitely bigger than wasps or

10:54 bees bats

10:56 perhaps all along the rim of the roof

11:00 what kind of nests are

11:14 those this is a familiar

11:14 site here in Texas

11:18 windmills open

11:21 Plains turning in the

11:24 breeze sums it up pretty well

11:41 Texas just waiting here for the

11:41 automatic Flagger to

11:43 open little road

11:45 construction with a makeshift traffic

11:50 light and a little pull down railroad S

11:54 Type flag I've been given the go-ahead

11:58 but I have to follow follow this pilot

12:00 car it's like a pace car

12:03 almost directing me on which way to

12:07 go the name of this place is

12:14 Kennedy has a very Main Street USA kind

12:14 of feel to it as well the Rialto

12:17 Theater there's a number of Rialto

12:20 theaters around the

12:21 US this one the whole inside is torn out

12:25 and boarded up you can kind of see some

12:28 remnants of the state back

12:30 there not much left in there it's all

12:32 gutted out thing I like about this old

12:35 gas station the sign says closed down on

12:38 the front window there check out the

12:42 tiling around the

12:48 side very cool at one point there used

12:48 to be a video store right here in this

12:51 building 2,000 plus video looks like all

12:54 that's in there now is some old

12:56 equipment and some band stuff on the

12:58 wall like there's some snare drums and

13:00 whatnot in fact right next door used to

13:02 be a music store all the different

13:04 stickers left on the door from different

13:06 string

13:07 companies check all these out it was

13:10 called te's music house up top in the

13:13 window someone is someone is spying on

13:16 me looking down

13:26 todville this alley must be designated

13:26 todville that airplane is promoting that

13:28 restaurant

13:30 what if it landed there and they just

13:31 left it like randomly just left it there

TDW 1671 - Today Was Very Unexpected !

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