TDW 1466 - Let's Get Personal - TheDailyWoo Archive

0:16 at just a little warning today's Vlog is

0:16 going to get really

0:26 personal I was born in Tupelo

0:26 Mississippi in

0:28 1974 and as a very small child even

0:31 before I can remember my parents moved

0:33 around a lot my dad was a minister which

0:35 is kind of like being in a military

0:37 family you move constantly or at least

0:40 my family did we moved to Oklahoma and I

0:44 lived in a teeny tiny Oklahoma town from

0:48 1989 1990 and 1991 by the name of the

0:53 eupa now this town does not have a

0:56 Walmart it only has two traffic lights

0:59 in you can pretty much walk or ride a

1:01 bikee anywhere around the entire town

1:06 and for me I know I have a few places

1:10 that I consider my

1:12 hometowns but for me eala holds a very

1:15 special place in my heart and I'm about

1:19 to revisit

1:20 it with you it's my second channel daily

1:23 Vlog channel

1:41 now before this place was called The

1:41 Legacy this brick building was known as

1:44 the First Christian Church and my dad

1:48 was the preacher here even though I

1:50 can't get inside thankfully the drapes

1:51 are open and I can look in the window

1:53 you can see by peeking in the window

1:55 that the church pews have been removed

1:57 and that stage to the left is where my

2:00 dad's Podium was where he would preach

2:02 his sermons from in the very back of the

2:04 church was my dad's office it looks a

2:06 lot different than it did then but we

2:08 had many Fellowship meals which people

2:10 from the church would bring food and we

2:12 would all hang out and eat and also my

2:14 dad and I would play pingpong In This

2:16 Very Room for hours on end it really

2:18 brings back a lot of memories to be

2:20 standing here in fact this sign used to

2:22 be the church sign and most the people

2:24 who went to the church were elderly eala

2:27 was and probably still is mostly a

2:30 retirement town and it's kind of sad to

2:33 think that probably 99% of the entire

2:36 congregation has passed on but the

2:39 memory Still Remains and my Sunday

2:41 school class was right there in that

2:44 window you can still see the metal cross

2:46 that's embedded in the bricks up

3:00 top look what I found at the library

3:00 this is around the years that I lived

3:03 here check out this old photo of a

3:06 parade and it looks like the same era

3:09 just based on the way people are

3:12 dressed I might have been at this very

3:15 parade they do this event here called

3:18 Whole Hog Day where everyone in town

3:21 dresses up like a pig I know it sounds

3:24 ridiculous but I partook in this

3:28 tradition

3:30 back in the day this book is blowing my

3:32 mind right now this was my favorite

3:34 place to eat and my family's goto lunch

3:38 spot and check this out there's Mickey

3:42 right there on a banner on the pole wow

3:46 they tore it

3:47 down I can't believe they tore it down

3:50 that was the original location of Sonic

3:52 Drive-In I can remember anyone that was

3:54 able to drive I did not have a car or my

3:56 license then would cruise up and down

3:59 Main Street put a couple dollars of gas

4:01 in their car they were the cool kids and

4:04 they would go to

4:05 Sonic and now it's

4:08 gone spent a little time talking to the

4:10 nice ladies at the tourist info center

4:12 they were genuinely excited about my

4:15 passion for youup Falla I doubt they get

4:17 that that much just look at this town

4:19 this is like a real life Disneyland Main

4:22 Street USA you got to wonder if this

4:25 place had a lot to do with my love for

4:27 Disney just because it looks like Main

4:29 Street I have a lot of memories on this

4:30 road including one that happened right

4:33 here you will notice the date 1989 this

4:37 building replaced the building that was

4:39 once there that was a video store that

4:41 burned down the same year the first year

4:45 I lived here and I was inside the video

4:48 store when the roof caught fire stuff

4:50 like that you never

4:56 forget I was riding my bike down the

4:56 sidewalk one time and I wrecked right in

4:58 front of the post office and in front of

5:00 a few young ladies that I was trying to

5:02 show off for by jumping off my bike very

5:04 eloquently my foot got caught in the

5:06 spokes and in the wheel and I tumbled to

5:09 the ground it's crazy that after all

5:11 this time I still remembered what the

5:13 zip Cod is oh man I remember this place

5:16 what obviously used to be a gas station

5:18 way back in the day when I lived here

5:20 was an arcade and my dad would not let

5:22 me go inside there because a lot of the

5:25 Town youngsters the Riff raft the bad

5:28 kids in the neighborhood Hood hung out

5:30 in there which looking back on it I

5:33 guess kind of made sense but in all

5:34 honesty there was only like seven kids

5:36 in the entire town now I'm very excited

5:38 about my next stop I mentioned it a

5:39 minute ago and now I'm

5:59 youth this place is about as old old

5:59 school Diner as you can get I love it

6:02 and here's my lunch burger and fries

6:05 from

6:06 jm's I'm so excited can't go wrong with

6:08 a Coca-Cola mural on the side of a brick

6:11 wall That's Americana right there there

6:13 used to be a shop I used to frequent

6:14 right down there and they have moved it

6:16 currently to here say hello to boy howdy

6:20 whereas my grandfather called it when he

6:22 would come to visit howdy duties I

6:24 always love the toy section here at boy

6:26 howdy

6:42 $1 a very exciting and pivotal moment

6:42 for me happened right underneath that

6:45 bank of you Falla sign I was always very

6:47 fascinated with the way movies were made

6:49 and television shows were produced and

6:51 created and filmed and even that

6:53 translated into like newscasts well

6:56 right here there was a newscaster I

6:58 think from Tulsa filming something and I

7:01 stood behind him and did a video bomb

7:04 right there it was the first time I was

7:06 ever on TV in any

7:08 facet it blew my

7:16 mind just picture a younger Adam the woo

7:16 riding his bike right on this very

7:19 Street hello my baby hello my darling

7:22 hello my rag time

7:29 yeah the current population of you

7:29 follow is around 3,000 people and most

7:31 of the people that live here are here

7:33 for one reason because of

7:37 this no not those geese the lake lake

7:41 you follow just look at the sheer

7:43 magnitude of this body of water now I do

7:46 not know if this is true or not but as a

7:49 kid I used to always tell people that

7:51 Lake you follow was the bigest man-made

7:54 lake in the world I don't know if that's

7:57 100% true but I'm pretty sure it's

8:00 probably on the top 10 list look at the

8:03 size of this thing it's gargantuan I got

8:05 a little scared there for a second

8:07 because that is the first time I flown

8:08 The Majestic that far over a body of

8:11 water it was way out there and in my

8:13 mind I was thinking what happens if this

8:15 thing falls into the water then Lake

8:19 yala would really have a piece of

8:23 me but Lakey followa was kind and the

8:26 Drone came back I got a funny story that

8:28 happened right here at this baseball

8:30 field the day we moved here I was taking

8:31 a walk in this area and a group of dogs

8:35 chased me and I ran from them to this

8:39 baseball field and there used to be a

8:41 gate right there and I closed the gate

8:44 just in time before a pack of insane no

8:48 leash

8:50 dogs started biting my ankles of course

8:52 that's how I remember it I don't know if

8:54 that's really how it happened it

8:55 probably was just one dog licking me but

8:57 I remember it as a full-fledged attack

8:59 attack oh so now you Falla has a leash

9:02 law my dad and I used to come out here

9:04 occasionally and play tennis right here

9:06 on these tennis

9:08 courts and there was one time

9:10 specifically in particular that my

9:12 sister was out here as well and I

9:14 remember it because we had a home video

9:16 of it whatever happened to that home

9:18 video of us playing tennis right here

9:21 who knows we played basketball out here

9:23 a few times also I remember one occasion

9:25 my dad saw some kids shooting hoops and

9:28 he said come on guys this is for

9:31 posterity and I always still use that

9:33 terminology to this day try going to the

9:35 Los Angeles Police Department and asking

9:38 for a

9:39 basketball they'd lock you up and throw

9:41 away the key the difference between a

9:43 big city and small town

9:47 life I can't take this anymore it's so

9:50 hot I got to do something about this

9:53 it's time it's time the barber shop only

9:56 took cash so I had to walk down to this

9:58 ATM small town life no credit cards

10:01 accepted this feels like deja vu but

10:03 it's time it's time are you ready for

10:06 this

10:13 shun I look like a totally different guy

10:13 that salonbarber shop the girl that did

10:16 my hair she only charged me 10 bucks I

10:18 said are you kidding me it's worth way

10:20 more than that so I gave her $20 which I

10:23 still think is a pretty good deal man

10:26 prices in small towns are insane ly

10:29 cheap compared to other areas 10 bucks

10:32 for this trimming the beard and a

10:35 haircut that's not enough this Mexican

10:38 restaurant used to be a steakhouse and

10:40 on October 17th 1989 I was eating there

10:44 with my family and the reason I remember

10:46 that is because there was a television

10:48 on in there and the World Series was

10:50 happening in San Francisco and it was

10:52 televised while the earthquake happened

10:55 and I was here in eala inside that

10:57 Steakhouse

11:03 remember how I was telling you about the

11:03 video store that burned down this is the

11:05 other video store in town and it was a

11:07 video store back in 1989 and it still is

11:11 they still have the crazy robot looking

11:13 videotape return Gizmo I just talked to

11:17 the lady inside there that owns the

11:19 video store she opened in 1988 she is

11:22 still in business and has VHS copies for

11:27 sale and for rent inside there and the

11:30 wild thing is you see these little

11:32 coming preview boxes right here on the

11:34 wall these wooden ones I remember these

11:37 from 1989 she reassured me those are the

11:40 same

11:41 Boxes 2 and 1 half decades later still

11:51 here I just spent about an hour and a

11:51 half in the eala paper digging through

11:53 old newspapers and I found some amazing

11:56 stuff including photos of my my father

12:00 when he was starting his first day

12:02 preaching at the Christian Church also

12:05 photos of the fire that happened at the

12:08 video store lots of photos of the fire

12:12 amazing what you find from the past that

12:16 rekindles your thought process and

12:19 things that you have forgotten about you

12:21 remember so easily when seeing them

12:24 written in paper or seeing photos of the

12:27 events it comes back to you like it was

12:29 just yesterday hey doggies see they're

12:32 not on leashes look at the name of this

12:34 road the Sunset

12:37 Strip it's amazing to come from

12:39 Hollywood Los

12:41 Angeles what everyone knows is a Sunset

12:44 Strip but there is one here in eala as

12:47 well and right here on this empty plot

12:49 of land used to sit a house and the

12:52 woman who lived here used to pay me

12:55 weekly to mow her yard and one of my

12:58 first employ employment opportunity

13:00 self-employment

13:01 opportunities was right here mowing her

13:04 yard and the house is

13:07 gone nothing but a memory the baseball

13:10 Field's all locked up and fenced off you

13:12 may have noticed in the past that on the

13:14 front of my van is the Major League

13:16 Baseball logo that is because when I was

13:18 very young I wanted to be a professional

13:21 baseball player and my time Spen andala

13:24 right down on that baseball field did

13:27 not help that come to fruition because

13:30 we all know I never have played

13:32 professional baseball but that did not

13:34 stop me from spending hours and hours

13:37 down on that field playing baseball that

13:40 was so long

13:48 ago there is a for sale or a for Le sign

13:48 and a number for this which at one time

13:51 was the old high school and then became

13:52 the junior high school and now it's

13:56 abandoned now they did move the high

13:57 school to a different location but the

13:59 old school still exists in its own

14:02 abandoned form I never went to school

14:04 here I was homeschooled so I never set

14:07 foot in a Schoolhouse in E Falla it

14:10 looks like they use it now for a bus

14:12 Corral for the new high school we're

14:14 getting close to some serious Adam

14:16 stomping grounds this house here that

14:18 looks like it's also abandoned a friend

14:21 of mine lived here I played catch in his

14:24 yard his front yard many many times and

14:27 right up in one of those trees his dad

14:30 built us a treehouse that we used to

14:32 hang out

14:34 in right there and right behind me this

14:38 empty field there used to be an

14:40 elementary school and there was a

14:41 gentleman that my dad or my mom was

14:43 friends with who was the janitor there

14:46 and he hired me on under the table to

14:49 help him

14:50 clean the school so on top of mowing

14:54 yards I also had my little side job if

14:57 you want to call it that it was maybe a

14:59 couple days a week for an hour a night

15:01 helping him clean the school they have

15:03 torn the school down many many years ago

15:06 but I found a picture today at the paper

15:09 of my sister with her Girl Scout group

15:12 in the hallway of the school and that

15:14 picture was taken right here was that

15:17 hallway and there's a cat there now no

15:20 more Girl Scouts just cats this next

15:23 place is a very emotional one for me

15:26 because right here on this merrygoround

15:29 I spent probably half of the time in

15:33 eala on this hanging out with my

15:37 sister having a good time spinning

15:39 around enjoying the Oklahoma air I would

15:43 spin it around really fast and my sister

15:46 and her friends would run around the

15:48 perimeter of it grab their hands on the

15:51 bars they would call it

15:53 flying sometimes they would be safe

15:55 other times they would go flying off

15:58 onto the

15:59 ground so many memories here in this

16:01 park countless hours every single day on

16:05 this it's weird how an inanimate

16:09 object can make you emotional and this

16:11 is definitely one of those moments that

16:13 I wish my sister could be here to share

16:15 with me because I don't think anyone

16:18 else really

16:20 understands the beauty behind this a

16:23 simple playground

16:25 toy and what it

16:27 means but it means mean something to

16:30 me the good old

16:37 days I drove by the house that my family

16:37 lived in for 3 years here in town and as

16:39 I was driving by the family that lives

16:41 there now they were outside they were

16:44 kind of giving me like weird looks as I

16:45 cruised around they didn't really seem

16:48 too

16:49 inviting to get out and say hey I used

16:51 to live here I just want to take some

16:52 pictures or videos so I'm going to use

16:54 this opportunity to fly the Drone up

16:57 it's over on the back side of that bapti

16:59 Church get some aerial shots of the

17:02 house it looks totally different color

17:04 scheme wise and the things that are in

17:06 the yard and the fence around the yard

17:08 than it did when my family was here keep

17:12 that in mind but this is the home that I

17:15 lived in there's this guy and girl that

17:17 have been in this weird little cave here

17:19 in the park just making out for like an

17:22 hour they're just in there like making

17:24 out having a good time I think he's

17:26 looking at me thinking I'm filming him

17:28 busted cue the Madonna song This Used to

17:31 Be My

17:32 Playground this used to be my childhood

17:36 dream oh wow look at this the old road

17:38 that used to lead down to Main Street

17:40 from the park is blocked off

17:43 now W look at this

17:46 place man oh see better people still

17:50 shooting fireworks off

17:53 or maybe that's something else it's been

17:57 nice driving around reminiscing

17:59 remembering the

18:02 past no matter where you go no matter

18:04 how far you progress in life no matter

18:06 what Journeys you take what route what

18:10 fork in the road leads you which

18:11 direction if you advance in life if you

18:14 do not advance in life whatever you

18:17 do do not forget your roots do not

18:19 forget where you came

18:23 from I have one more

18:25 stop what the heck that's like the cool

18:28 coolest thing

18:35 ever the Sun is setting and what better

18:35 way to close out the evening than a trip

18:39 to Broms now if you're not familiar with

18:42 Broms Broms is an ice cream and a

18:44 hamburger chain more in the Midwest and

18:47 I love it basically because it was

18:49 promoted by one of my favorite people

18:51 ever Jim Barney playing the character of

18:54 Ernest before he made big feature films

18:56 like Ernest Goes to Camp and Ernest

18:57 Saves Christmas he did commercials for a

19:00 lot of mom and pop Midwestern places as

19:03 well as Toyota and

19:06 Broms cheers

19:08 eala good seeing you

19:11 again Vlog

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TDW 1466 - Let's Get Personal

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