Awkward Tattoo Talk At Orange Circle & Visiting Huell Howser Archives At Chapman University
Orange California April 2025
With TomWilsonUSA
Transcript
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Today's adventure begins here in the
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echoey hotel room that I am checking out
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of currently Tuesday, April 22nd as the
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recording of this
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2025 here at Anaheim,
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California. And I'm moving along out of
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Anaheim, staying here at the Tropicana
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Inn and Suites. Place I like to stay on
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Harbor Boulevard, right across the
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street from Disneyland. One of my
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favorite hotels here in Orange County,
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California. I really do enjoy staying
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here. I just like how easy,
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mellow, not too
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fancy it is and easy access when going
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to to Disneyland. Just walk right across
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the street. In fact, it is closer to
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stay here than it would be even to stay
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at the Disneyland
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Hotel distance-wise. Just right walk
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right across
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harbor and into the
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park. Just an old motel that they have
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fixed up, made it nice in close
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proximity to Walt's original Magic
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Kingdom. I recommend I recommend staying
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on harbor. Makes it a lot easier than
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parking at the parking structure. Very
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clean,
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organized. Location, location,
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location. And I like the fact that it's
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only like two floors, so no elevator. I
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don't have to wait for an elevator. They
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have laundry here. I did laundry, which
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I needed to
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do. A little gift shop that you can get
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snacks and toiletries, accessories,
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anything you need. Hot tub, pool,
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etc. I've stayed here many times and
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we'll stay here again. Exiting the room.
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This is the view. There's the pool, hot
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tub, lobby over there, check-in desk,
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laundry. See people walking down
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Harbor. I stayed here on my birthday
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last year. D23 weekend. In fact, the
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parks panel was the same day as my
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birthday, which was August 10th of last
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year. 50 years old. Started that
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particular video in this hot tub. Very
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nice, cozy hot tub here. In the morning,
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most people are heading over to the
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parks. So, there's no one in the pool
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and the hot tub in the morning. So,
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little hack, if you want to pop in the
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hot tub early morning, there's usually
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no one in the hot tub in the morning
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time. All right, I got to get moving.
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Before heading out of Orange County, I'm
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going to swing by the Orange Circle,
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Chapman University, and check out the
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Hulehouser Archives at Chapman. Welcome
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everyone. Adam the Woo here. I'm
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inviting you, yes you, to join me. It's
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good to have you here. See where the day
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leads. Shall you? It's around $200 a
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night to stay here. I think it was about
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220 per night each night I was staying.
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But one thing that's nice is you have a
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guaranteed parking spot right here on
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Harbor. Love the proximity of
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it. Now, it' be
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$42 if you weren't staying here. be $42
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to park in there. So, you could just
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take that 42 bucks and apply it to the
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200 and that's only 150 a night. And you
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just walk across like everyone over
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there just walking right across.
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Beautiful. A neverending contingency on
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whether this is called the plaza or the
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circle.
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Hey, Adam. Oh, hey. How you doing, man?
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I am going to get a coffee here from the
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Starbucks of the former Orange Daily
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News building. wait on a friend of mine
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to show up and see if he wants one. And
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then we're going to take a little stroll
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over to Chapman. And I want to go by the
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fountain. One of the three fountains,
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I'm guessing. The other day I learned
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something I did not know before. So, I'm
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going to rectify that today. Oh, look.
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They have put these stansions in
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recently because so many cars will drive
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through here and plow into the fountain.
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It happens every couple years. And I
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guess now they have finally put these
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in. I did not notice these the other
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day. So, in the late 1800s, they put the
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fountain here. It's a group of ladies
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that
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organized an event to get some money
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together to put the original fountain
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in. And then that fountain was moved
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down that direction is an in front of
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city hall. I'd always heard that that
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was the original fountain, but I guess
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that's the second fountain down there.
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This is the third fountain if I'm
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hearing correctly. And obviously it's
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been replaced because of car damage. But
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the original fountain that I bought a
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t-shirt of over here at this orange
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store the other day right over there in
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that corner. I was wearing it the other
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day. It has like the the top portion of
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the fountain that is behind the library.
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The original fountain evidently is
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behind the library which is only like a
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block or two from here. So I'm going to
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walk over there and see if it's still
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there. Love the orange circle.
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So good. There's like a spot in
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Celebration that kind of has this vibe,
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too. Anyone that's been following my
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channel for a long time, especially like
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a decade ago, I had a lot of I do a lot
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of walking talks. I used to have a lot
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of sitting talks right here on this very
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bench. Told about when I was going to
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move out of California, life changes,
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plans, things like that would all
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transpire on this very bench right here.
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Also, to confirm, I'm not moving back to
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California. I do miss it here, but it's
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just a lot easier to have my place in
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Florida. Bought a house out there. And
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if I want to visit here, I just come out
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here, get a hotel for a few days. Plane
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travel is very easy. Can always come out
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here. Consider this a second
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home. Always fond memories. I always
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love it here in SoCal. Love it.
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Something's happening over
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here by the Blaze Pizza.
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Used to be a radio shack back when I
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lived here in
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2015. Got fire department pulling in.
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Very long fire
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truck.
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Ambulance. Police car. That is
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a a long fire
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truck. Another officer pulled up. One
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thing I do love about the Orange Circle
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is you always see classic cars driving
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through here. Look at this beauty.
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Serious classic car alert. All day,
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every day, classic cars just cruise
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around the
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plaza. All part of the vibe. Classic
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truck right here. Again, a cavalcade of
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classic cars rolling through
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here. The other day I was over in front
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of city hall and I made the statement
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which I made many times that this is the
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original fountain. And evidently it's
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not. In fact, I met a really nice lady
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that works at the city hall over by
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Starbucks. She was telling me that
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that's just a hose coming out of the
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ground. So it's a fake fountain. The
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real original fountain. It's over here
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in front of the Orange Public Library
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dating back to the late 1800s.
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There it is. The original. Oh, here you
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go. Right here. See, I should have read
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this. I should have walked over here and
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looked at this. The original fountain
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circa
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1870. Founders of
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Orange. Like a bird up there.
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neat. Little placard over here, too.
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Save the fountain committee to raise
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funds to properly restore the fountain
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back in 2002, dating back to 1887.
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original
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bird donated by Wayne Smith. Oh,
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you always notice the the small things.
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I'm a little tiny thing, so I'm down
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very low so I can notice all the things
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that are very close to the ground.
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Really? Yes.
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Interesting. I'm just You're taller than
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I am. What are you?
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6'4 63. I could take you, dude. You
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think I sweat you? I'm not I don't want
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to start any beef. I'm just saying that
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you're by walking to the fountain. And I
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noticed one thing, young Adam, I noticed
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one thing. Can I take your camera and
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show your little calf
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here? Oh, look at look at Adam's calf.
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Everybody, look at Adam's calf. You know
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who this is, right? Wrong character,
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buddy. You know who this is. We're Yeah.
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Oh, the Delorean. My sister says that's
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I have John Lithggo on my thumb. The
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radio. Well, maybe maybe a Harry and the
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Henderson's kind of thing. I have a good
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tattoo.
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I'm sorry. Tattoo. No. Would it be
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awkward if I had you on my leg?
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Don't
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even go there. Do you know how many
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dudes honestly are like, I got something
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to show you. And I'm Please, please
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don't. You know, and I'm like up here.
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Yeah. And they're like I go your upper
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thigh. They go, "Well, I have do I have
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a Delorean thing? I have Michael on my
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back." He's You realize I have a huge
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Back to the Future tattoo in your in
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your hoverboard. You do? Where is yours?
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Oh, I don't even want to know. It's my
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whole leg. I don't even This is not your
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whole leg. Here's Here's Room. Oh,
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there's
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room. There's room. Next time I see you.
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There was a dude that just said the
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tattoo guys send me this stuff going.
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Hey, look at this man. Could you share
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this on your Instagram? What? What? A
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tattoo of me guy's thigh? You don't find
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it flattering? I find it slightly
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troubling. I'll admit. No, it's Should I
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get mine removed? It's No, you shouldn't
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get it removed. What do you mean of
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Chris or John Liithk? Whoever that is.
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It's not Christopher Lloyd.
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That looks like sort of I don't know.
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That's one of the Breakfast Club people.
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I think that's Jud Jud Nelson in the
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Breakfast Club.
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It's too early to be getting heckled.
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Admit it. It started as Jud Nelson in
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the Breakfast. I did. I love that. I do
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love that movie. Right. Yeah.
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Going to be on tattoos because it was
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clear with my career that I was going to
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be on a lot of tattoos. That That was
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your whole goal, right? Yeah. Just
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Pac-Man. That was it. And uh maybe more
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handsome in the tattoo. You thought they
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would have used a different image than
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that one? Wearing a cape. I don't know.
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A cod piece. I maybe I'm a knight. I
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don't I don't know.
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Something I I'm just making up. But But
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I didn't do that.
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If I ever get a tattoo of you, I'll make
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sure there's a cod piece on it. I think
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me right now. Okay. Have the artist do
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this. Yes. And wear like a cod piece
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something. Okay. And
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uh I don't know. Yeah, I I don't know.
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Something in my hand.
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Not this. Um not a Starbucks cup. Promo
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tiein. Slurpie.
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A slurpee. I don't know. You talk to
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Where are you going with this? I'm not
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talking to the shop. I know. I'm trying
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to help you is what I'm trying to do.
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I'm trying to Thank you. Put me on the
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leg and people are going, "Whoa, nice
12:02
leg." That's going to happen. Yeah. Cuz
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now it's like, is that Lindsay Lohan
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from that? Is that Freaky Friday? I
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don't know who that
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is. I mean, this is 25. This is a
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25-year-old tattoo. I think it's in the
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early
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2000s. In fact, I even forgot I even had
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it till you called me out on
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it. Freshen it up and make him his
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character from Clue.
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So, you've been down here a lot. Do you
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call it the orange pl Oh, I think we
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just We're supposed to like wait for
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that car to go. No, they were just like
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one of those upset people in the little
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car. Do you call it the plaza or the
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circle? Taking a poll. The orange circle
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or the orange plaza? I'm okay. I call it
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the plural. But that's just me. Yes. The
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plural. The lady at the shop that sold
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me the shirt the other day said she was
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going to make t-shirts that says the
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plural. So you're the second person. You
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really did? Yes. She said she was going
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to make shirts calling it the plural.
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Yeah. The circaza is not as good as the
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plural. That would be a fail. I would
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not buy a shirt with the sircaza on it.
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There's a tattoo shop right here. A
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little more like it sounds Spanish.
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Sarcasa. You should get a tattoo.
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You know that there's a whole new breed
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of song.
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What? I should get one. I should get a
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You should get a tattoo of me.
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You don't have that kind of cash for
13:24
that sort of promo. Oh, Adam, what kind
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of cash? On my rear shoulder right here.
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And when I'm, you know, when I'm doing
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when I'm competing in bodybuilding and
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there's Adam and you know, watch him
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smile and then people are, "Oh, it's
13:39
Adam." And then have all your info, all
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the info, all the links. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. All the links. Has some actors
13:46
right here. There's a tattoo. Are they
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open?
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I've never ever Look, all my tattoos.
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Oh, it's called the tattoo parlor. Not
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even a tattoo shop. That's all. That
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sounds like old school.
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This this place used to be in the tattoo
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clerk here in
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Orange. They could never decide whether
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it's a plaza or a circle. Um but yeah,
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no, all my tattoos are internal. They're
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deep within and they're not going
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anywhere. All right. Over on Chapman
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University property now where the Hule
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Houser archives are. It's not really a
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museum per se. It's just kind of a one
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room little archive. Great film school
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here. You know that the Duffer brothers.
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You ever heard of Stranger Things? They
14:31
were the guys that created Stranger
14:33
Things. They they went here. Yeah. Yeah.
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I know that I don't know the show. But
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but I know everyone says you should be
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on Stranger Things. Hugely popular show.
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Very popular.
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And I'm always like, "You should get a
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better tattoo on your calf." Oh, it's
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going to happen. No. Leave it the way it
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is. Leave it how it is. I'm giving you a
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hard time because I love you. Thank you.
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There. I said it. Would you Would you
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still love me if I got a tattoo of you
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on my on my thigh?
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I got to admit a little less. How many
15:11
places do you think they have the Berlin
15:13
Wall? Everywhere you go there's I have a
15:14
little Somebody sent me a little chip of
15:16
the Berlin Wall. Really? But it's so of
15:19
that era. It's so incredibly symbolic.
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Absolutely. I mean that the
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people just spontaneously start taking
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sledgehammers to the thing and start
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breaking it up. Did they do that before
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Reagan's speech or the Reagan speech?
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After Reagan speech prompted that,
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right? After Reagan speech. Yeah. Yeah.
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It was it was so many things happened.
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um solidarity movement in
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Poland and all the I mean in in Romania
15:50
and all these countries that Reagan says
15:53
this speech, hey, tear down the wall.
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We're we're done with this, right? And
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then kind of spontaneous, not not that
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night, of course, but spontaneously
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movement started where people are, yeah,
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it's just wrong.
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The last time I was here, which was
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years and years ago, gosh, probably 10
16:10
years ago when I lived here in
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2015, I don't remember this Abe Lincoln
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sculpture right here, but this honest
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Abe right
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there. And the Hule archives are right
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over in that building right there next
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to the fountain. Otherbe libraries
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believe memory serves me correct. Of
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course, this is my 10-year-old memory.
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Well, my memory from 10 years ago ago,
16:36
2015. I think it's in the basement of
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the le of the
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leatherbe. I mean, I do have a
16:42
10-year-old memory. It's a nice campus.
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Cheaper campuses have the vinyl bee
16:47
library, which isn't quite as advanced.
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There it is. California's gold exhibit
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and huhouser archive in the basement.
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Oh, that's that's Richard
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Bay. It's not. It looks very much like
17:23
like a um like a relief in in
17:27
Westminster Abbey of General Sir Robert
17:30
Wilson that I I made a an etching of it
17:32
with oh with gold sort of a gold pen or
17:36
something where you where you etch it
17:37
from Westminster Abby and my dad loved
17:39
it cuz it was Wilson sauce. That's
17:42
amazing.
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It's a poster hanging on a wall.
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Lou, get a picture of this. I got to
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meet uh Louie once at Pink's Hot
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Dogs and I bought his book and he filmed
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me with my camera. He filmed the vlog
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for me. That's great. I met Hua. Well, I
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was, you know, I was on California's
18:04
Gold once.
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What? You know the episode name? I
18:09
don't, but I was at Tuba Christmas.
18:12
Every Christmas there's a thing called
18:14
Tuba Christmas where hundreds of tuba
18:16
players get together. Yeah. and play
18:18
Christmas carols uh in LA. It's at the
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Darthy Chandler Pavilion
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downtown, hundreds of tubal players and
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uh Hule Hower came and did a thing on at
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California's Gold where all these tubal
18:32
players played uh California Here I
18:34
Come. Okay. Which was a theme of the
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show where he would have people play it
18:40
and sing it. Okay. Um, so I played the
18:42
tuba, uh, California, Here I Come on the
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Tuba and appeared on California's Gold.
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You know, you know who would probably
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know what the name of the episode is?
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The people in the archives right here.
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Maybe they'll put it up on a big screen
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and we can watch it. Let's not do that.
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Uh, open 10 to 5 Monday through Friday.
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So, I think they should be open. Is this
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it?
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amazing. So for me, Charles Caralt and
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Hule
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Hower were I don't want to say
19:21
inspirations, but they were definitely
19:23
inspiring to kind of what I do. I
19:26
wouldn't say that I like do what they
19:28
do, but in a roundabout way,
19:32
but that was the era. Certainly Charles
19:33
Carlton on CBS, uh, Charles Osgood on
19:35
CBS, and Hugh put a human face on the
19:40
whole thing. And before that, it would
19:41
be very kind of stiff, you know. It
19:43
would be, uh, whatever. The orange
19:45
groves of California.
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Yeah. It gave it the human element.
19:49
Here's here's here's the camera that
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filmed 300 episodes of California Gold
19:54
right here. The digital beta cam
20:02
Sony. Imagine I should vlog with that.
20:02
carry that around. Well, that's well, we
20:04
talked about it, but that's the amazing
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thing is
20:08
um there were a lot of people that were
20:10
taking the big cameras and it just got
20:12
smaller and smaller into camcorders
20:16
um and turning it around, you know, and
20:18
starting to turn it around. You needed a
20:20
wide enough lens. That would be hard to
20:22
do a selfie with that for sure, right?
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Well, you needed to be light enough. I
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mean, I was doing it holding it up like
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that, wide lens, and just talking to the
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camera.
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So, usually, well, they used to have
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this open and they had every episode of
20:40
California Gold on digital and I think
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VHS format in here, but I don't know if
20:46
this is open at the moment. Yeah. See,
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it's all categorized in the archives.
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So, your episode is in
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there. Like, one of these right here
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probably has a tuba written name written
20:58
on it.
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Let that sink in.
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Listen, I've made history. Will history.
21:12
Looks maybe it's not VHS. Maybe it's
21:12
actually the
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It sounds weird, but you know, in the
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way that I was a fan of Humilhauser and
21:19
all that, uh, I'm really happy that I'm
21:22
on here in here somewhere, especially
21:25
playing the tuba. Yeah, there's the
21:28
timeline. Did he pass away in 2012? He
21:30
must
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have. There's him and Dolly Parton and
21:50
Loretta
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Lynn. Whan Jennings.
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This is positive and personal and
22:03
hopeful and talking to people. I mean
22:05
the lady who wants to, you know, grow
22:08
orchids at some orchid center and there
22:11
are a million of them and she wants to
22:12
talk about it and he's actually
22:14
interested. Well, how do you grow the
22:16
orchids? He was really interested. He
22:18
was interested. the avocado eating dog
22:21
and I mean 7 million comedians here in
22:24
California have done their Hugh Hower
22:26
impression making it but it was you know
22:28
so this is a hose huh look at this Louis
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water comes out of it or what whatever
22:34
whatever thing but that's he pointed out
22:36
the obvious but but that's fine but he
22:38
was just who I mean you do many people
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do I've always people always ask what I
22:43
do for a living I just say I point a
22:45
camera at things and point out the
22:46
obvious I just state the obvious that's
22:48
all I
22:55
I think it resonates with people. That's
22:55
what everybody does in their real life
22:56
anyway. But this is exactly this is what
22:58
you like to do. And you know, and lo and
23:03
behold, I mean, you're a person. I'm a
23:04
person. You're allowed to go around with
23:06
these cameras now that are so tiny and
23:09
just say this is uh stuff that I do.
23:15
What was the thing? The the pump rocker
23:15
in the van. What was the thing? Was it
23:18
that YouTube was out there or was it
23:20
that you have a hunger just to make
23:21
things? That was it. That was it. You
23:23
had a hunger to make things and you
23:24
thought, well, there's there's this
23:26
there's there's this video site now and
23:29
it's pretty new cuz I did my I didn't
23:30
know what YouTube was and then that uh
23:32
the question song, you know, the
23:34
question song thing. So, y'all you
23:36
should put it up on this uh this
23:38
platform. So, that was really before the
23:42
the word viral video even existed.
23:45
People were like, "A lot of people are
23:46
watching this video, Tom." Really? I
23:49
don't, you know, but it was that same
23:51
thing, just making stuff. Yeah. Just
23:54
making I just took what I did in the
23:55
band and just turned it into doing it
23:57
solo for myself, but to turned it into
23:59
like a video form. Right. Right. Cuz I
24:01
traveled in a van, slept in vans, did
24:03
the touring. You thought it was
24:04
interesting, right? And you thought
24:07
other people might think this is
24:08
interesting. That's exactly what I used
24:09
to say. And with my stuff being, you
24:11
know, I I don't I make fun of being a
24:14
famous guy. I think I've been honest and
24:17
like I'm not that famous, all that
24:18
stuff. But I thought I just I'm just a
24:22
guy from Pennsylvania who like drove out
24:24
here thinking I was pretty good at
24:26
acting and take a shot. So I thought
24:29
it's pretty interesting just to
24:30
experience this stuff. Just I don't
24:32
know, start shooting things because the
24:34
camera was right there. Just just shoot
24:36
stuff, put it up. It's not a big deal.
24:39
But uh but but it's interesting. It's
24:42
been an interesting uh journey, hasn't
24:45
it, for you? Absolutely. Never thought
24:48
it would be where it is now. I never
24:49
thought anybody would ever even watch my
24:52
videos. I used to call it kindred
24:54
spirits is what I used to say. I would
24:56
have kindred spirits that would be
24:58
interested and I always used to say so
24:59
many people will find this that are
25:01
interested in this. Also, isn't it
25:02
amazing for you that so many people are
25:05
kindred spirits? They really are. Right.
25:07
I mean because it's it's that um
25:10
you know early podcasting
25:12
that thing when uh Mark Maron who I've
25:15
known for you know decades but he said
25:18
such an unusual thing would happen at
25:20
shows that had never happened before
25:22
where people are bringing you muffins
25:24
you know somebody knitted you a sweater
25:27
because they don't feel like the show is
25:29
something I understand that you put on a
25:30
show whatever it is but I'm here sort of
25:32
as a meeting of community it's a
25:34
personal personal you know just to tell
25:35
you that that meant something to I mean,
25:37
I like hanging out with you. Here's a
25:38
sweater or whatever it is. And we see
25:40
it. We see people come to you. You know,
25:42
you're more famous than me. I don't I
25:45
mean it like just odd sociology, Matt.
25:48
YouTube has
25:50
has come into a position where a lot of
25:55
people recognize you, which is great.
25:58
You have all the challenges of that of
26:00
of staying a real guy, of not of being
26:03
nice to people, of trying to, you know,
26:06
give give them their moment to react to
26:09
you, right? I try. It's awkward for me,
26:12
but I make the best of it for everybody.
26:14
It's awkward. That's why that's why um,
26:16
you know, that's why this happens in
26:18
Hollywood. That's why this happens, you
26:20
know, like, "Hey, yeah, good to see you,
26:22
too. How's it going? How's, you know,
26:24
whatever." They say, "Uh, um, who was
26:27
it? Dean Martin called everybody Pali,
26:30
you know, cuz he didn't know anyone's
26:31
name, you know? So, a million people,
26:34
right? So, you get that very sure like,
26:36
"Hey, Pi, how's it going?" Good. How's
26:37
the family? Oh, good. And you get a
26:39
little eye contact as he's moving
26:41
through and he's gone. But, um, but you
26:45
try to to have some human contact. Sure.
26:50
And you can't stop and listen to the
26:52
whole thing, you know. Now, my
26:54
father built a railroad station in
26:58
Akran, Ohio, and maybe you could come
27:00
and do one of your little uh videos of
27:03
it because see, mom was all I mean, you
27:06
you know, you of course anyone would
27:08
like Thank you. Very nice to meet you. I
27:11
have to, you know, get back. Yeah. Like
27:13
you're doing with me right now. No, this
27:15
is fascinating. But I mean, I I I just
27:18
enjoy I always love hearing your
27:19
thoughts. I sort of enjoy the sociology
27:21
of it. We were talking about the
27:22
filmmakers that started filming their
27:26
life on film really with all the
27:30
equipment and and filming their life 30
27:34
years before YouTube existed. Yeah, we
27:36
have it easy now, right? So the
27:37
technology just as I said over the
27:39
camera's camera was this big on on Louis
27:42
shoulder and they got smaller and
27:43
smaller and smaller and the guys like me
27:45
and everybody, you know, you could you
27:47
just you could just turn this around.
27:48
Yeah. and just talk talk to whoever it
27:51
is. And I was talking to
27:53
whoever, you don't have to say all this,
27:55
but there was a show uh on PBS called
27:57
the
27:58
'9s. And it was like the the other side
28:02
of the Bob Saget, you know, Bob Saget
28:05
was like, watch this funny videos,
28:07
right? The '9s was the show of people
28:10
sort of taking this seriously and start
28:13
talking into the camera. It was called
28:14
the '9s. The '9s. Oh, okay. Early 90s.
28:17
And I and even being back then, I start
28:21
shooting things. Well, I'm just going to
28:23
I'll send it to the 90s and maybe, you
28:25
know, little You sent one in. I didn't I
28:27
never sent one in because they got
28:29
cancelled just as I took all this
28:30
footage doing this and that and and uh
28:33
being an actor and things about my life
28:36
and everything. And then the show got
28:38
cancelled. So, I was like, and then I
28:40
thought, I can make a film about it. But
28:41
it was at that time, you know, it was it
28:44
looked like camcorder footage. Yeah. So,
28:46
you really, you know, you really
28:48
couldn't use it anywhere. But, uh, but
28:51
anyway, my only point I went on for 40
28:53
minutes. My only point was I think it's
28:56
worthwhile and I think it's interesting
28:59
and I watch the stuff way more than I
29:02
watch some stupid cop show on TV. Yeah.
29:06
You know, it's interesting how it's in
29:08
the the subconscious of people now. It's
29:10
just part of modern day, you know,
29:12
viewing. Uh, again, I'm going to bore
29:15
you to death with this, but it's
29:17
fascinating to me just in my shooting
29:19
things and people in the 90s to now how
29:24
in the 90 when the way the camcorders
29:26
were getting new, people still had that
29:28
like a camera and they just sort of you
29:30
could see the back sort of stiffen up
29:31
and go what what hey and then that got
29:34
into oh cameras were everywhere and then
29:36
people started going camera and then
29:38
everyone was doing the peace sign thing
29:40
you know camera and then it changed.
29:43
changed to just being ubiquitous, man.
29:44
It's everywhere. Yeah. Cameras are
29:46
everywhere. They're just I mean, I've
29:47
been filming you this whole time and
29:48
you're just like talking to me. Camera's
29:50
like right here next to my face. And now
29:52
I'm sure you're finding out or I'm
29:54
finding out just having that camera.
29:56
People are tense about it. Sure. People
29:59
now it's it's gone like sort of full
30:01
circle. What are you What are you doing?
30:03
Right. Right. Right. What what's that?
30:05
All these rules about just you know just
30:07
shoot things. Not well not not with me
30:10
in it. You know, you do feel like it's
30:12
Have you heard 1984? We're being taped
30:14
right now with 27 different cameras.
30:16
There's cameras all in here. Oh, yeah.
30:17
All All over the place. Well, maybe
30:19
there are. You know, so there are
30:21
cameras everywhere, but we're not
30:23
allowed to participate in it. Right.
30:25
Right. Right. Anyway, I'll shut up.
30:27
Sorry about that. Speaking of Bob Saget,
30:29
I actually sent a video clip into
30:31
America's Funniest Film Videos when I
30:33
was very young. It was a There was a
30:36
clip of my sister on a merrygoround and
30:38
you follow Oklahoma and I would spin it
30:40
really fast and her and her friends
30:41
would grab onto it. They called it
30:43
flying. Yeah. And then they would grab
30:45
onto it and their legs would like swing
30:47
up in the air and they would it was
30:48
something would go wrong and they would
30:50
just go fly 10 15 feet in the air, land
30:53
on the ground. Sent that in who I
30:55
thought Bob Saget personally would see
30:57
it. Yeah. Sure. That's how it worked.
30:59
And uh it never made it to the air.
31:01
Sorry. And then I put it online. a
31:03
friend of Bob's. Can I apologize?
31:06
It's good. Let You're apologizing for
31:08
Bob. Yep. Let the healing begin. Sorry.
31:11
I still am really sad that Bob rejected
31:14
my video. And then the internet started.
31:16
I put it on YouTube. People stole the
31:19
video from me, uploaded on their sites.
31:21
The video went completely
31:23
viral. And this is a video that went
31:26
pretty viral on the internet. And it
31:29
never made it to America's Funniest Home
31:31
Videos. I was crushed stuff. called this
31:33
question song. It was like it was ripped
31:34
off. It was like got hacked and a
31:37
million people took it and re put it up
31:39
on the internet. Did Saget play that on
31:41
America's Funniest Home Videos? That was
31:42
afterwards.
31:44
You had to bring that up, didn't you?
31:51
All right. So, that's the archive. You
31:51
ever been in here before? I have not.
31:54
Who is this supposed to
31:56
be? I mean, that's Gorbachov there, but
31:59
who is this? That's supposed to be Walt
32:01
Disney. Um, Mark Twain. Mark Twain. Mark
32:05
Twain. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
32:08
I don't know. It doesn't say. Soviet
32:10
Union. Maybe. Uh, stop. If it's just
32:13
just from his trips to the Soviet Union.
32:15
Yeah. You didn't know Mark Twain was one
32:16
of the leaders of the Soviet Union, did
32:17
you? Um, I didn't realize that.
32:20
Big mustache. Stalin had a, you know,
32:23
darker mustache. It does kind of look
32:25
like Walt Disney. It does.
32:28
Doesn't say what it is.
32:41
All right, so that was it. That's the
32:41
Hulehouser
32:43
Archives. Really cool place. Open every
32:45
day, 10:00 to 5:00, weekdays. Check it
32:49
out if you're in the city of Orange.
32:50
Highly recommend. And if you've never
32:52
seen Hule Houser episodes, you can
32:54
search them on YouTube. And you can find
32:57
you on YouTube also. You can find me on
32:59
YouTube. Wilson USA. That's it. Yeah.
33:02
Check out Tom's stuff. It's It's really
33:04
It's really great. A lot of walk and
33:05
talk and uh thoughtful insights. I like
33:07
the new format. Thanks, buddy. One day
33:10
you're going to have an archive. I don't
33:11
think I don't think so. It'll be a much
33:13
smaller room then. It'll be Yeah. small
33:15
room. Big closet. Oh, look at that.
33:17
There's his tuba. And uh
33:21
All right. Made it back over to the
33:22
fountain. Not the original fountain by
33:24
the library.
33:26
And if I'd seen the one by the library,
33:28
there was another classic car going by.
33:30
Always classic cars going around here.
33:33
I see more classic cars going around the
33:35
circle here. But pretty much anywhere.
33:37
It's not even a car show. It just they
33:39
just like to cruise around the circle.
33:40
Orange County now that I I'm living down
33:42
this way. And boy, lot of car. That car
33:45
culture is huge.
33:47
You have a guy with a VW van with a
33:51
surfboard on top. But you know the van
33:53
is worth $120,000 or something. Yeah.
33:56
You know, it's it's really something.
33:58
And I greet the the wooies. Yeah. Yeah.
34:00
Wooies. You're always nice to me.
34:02
Everywhere I go, you come up and you
34:04
say, "Hey, we see you on Adam's video.
34:05
You're always so so mannerly, so
34:08
positive, and so nice, and I just
34:10
appreciate it very much." So, we'll see
34:11
you out there, huh? God bless you. All
34:13
every woozy. God bless all the little
34:15
woozies. They're
34:17
woozies. Leaf blower over there. That's
34:20
where I bought the the infamous bike
34:22
that went down the slide. Orange cycle.
34:25
You ever taken a bike down a slide? I'm
34:27
not that stupid. Yeah, that was pretty
34:29
It was pretty dumb. Wait a minute. You
34:30
took a bike down a slide? Yeah, right. A
34:32
few blocks away, there's a park. And
34:34
after I did that, the video got a pretty
34:37
good amount of views. They took the
34:38
slide down. I am to blame for the
34:41
removal of the slide. That must have
34:43
What? With photo ops and stuff. People I
34:45
think other people tried it. Yeah. Yeah.
34:47
Pushing three-year-olds aside. They're
34:49
like, I need a picture of the slide, I
34:50
guess. But I bought the bike right over
34:52
there. So that's a for me that's Did you
34:54
jack up the bike? Oh yeah. Ruin it. That
34:57
taco the tire. Yeah. Yeah. Don't ever
35:00
take a bike down a slide. Not a good Not
35:02
a good
35:20
call. And that's going to do it for
35:20
today. Thanks for watching. I'll see you
35:21
in the next video. The