TDW 1717 - Stuck In Center Of Alabama

0:02 welcome everyone Adam the woo here if

0:02 you listen closely you can hear the

0:03 soothing sounds of

0:11 sirens that's hot that's hot it's my

0:11 second channel daily Vlog channel it's

0:14 the

0:16 daily first stop of the day going to get

0:18 off the interstate and head towards a

0:20 little town by the name of besser

0:23 Alabama check that old Pepsi sign out

0:26 down these windy back roads is the

0:28 childhood home of a guy when I was

0:30 younger I really

0:33 idolized his name was Bo Jackson when he

0:37 won the Heisman Trophy in 1985 I was 11

0:39 years old and then I started following

0:42 his career into my early teenage years

0:44 and he was the closest thing to a real

0:47 life superhero that I think I had ever

0:49 seen at that point at the height of his

0:51 career probably in the late 80s 2020 did

0:54 a news special on him in his

0:56 neighborhood where he spent some time

0:58 between the baseball and football career

1:01 and I want to check it out to get there

1:03 you got to go down this steep embankment

1:05 and pass this junkyard to head into the

1:09 neighborhood I think we're almost

1:12 there the streets that he used to roam

1:15 around on as you can see the road itself

1:17 dead ends and just kind of drives off

1:20 into the woods there but the interview

1:24 you can find it on

1:25 YouTube the 2020

1:28 special I think it was Stone Phillips

1:31 who was walking with him down this very

1:34 Road past all these houses you can see a

1:37 lot of them now

1:40 demolished or burned

1:42 down or

1:45 abandoned but Bo's house where his

1:48 family lived was right there on the

1:52 corner of that Dead End Road right there

1:55 in fact if you watch that news clip you

1:56 can see this house in the background

1:58 where he's taking pictures pictures of

2:01 his family right here there was another

2:03 car parked in that spot not sure if his

2:06 family still lives in that house

2:08 but the stomping grounds of bow pretty

2:13 freaking cool pretty freaking cool he

2:17 was born Vincent Edward and he was given

2:19 the nickname B on that very road that

2:21 now Bears his name his friends and

2:24 family said he had the personality of a

2:26 wild boar here in Alabama they called a

2:30 wild bow the name stuck and the rest is

2:33 history now I don't follow sports like I

2:35 used to I don't have a favorite player

2:37 or a favorite team but when that TV

2:39 special came out I was pretty excited

2:41 about it and going there brought back a

2:43 lot of memories now that truck is

2:48 cool not only old school but it has the

2:51 sweet flames on the side heading into

2:54 montavo celebrating 200 years of

2:58 Distinction stopped off at a place

3:01 called American village and history in

3:05 Miniatures here in the courtyard they

3:07 have an exact

3:10 replica of the Liberty Bell including

3:14 the famous crack that goes about

3:18 3/4 up the

3:27 side now it's been a while since I've

3:28 been to Philadelphia I don't think you

3:29 can actually touch the one there this

3:32 exact fullscale replica was made for the

3:35 American village to commemorate the

3:37 250th anniversary of the Bell also on

3:41 the property is this which is known as

3:44 the colonial

4:08 I really like that eagle there

4:08 perched that metal Eagle perched on his

4:11 little

4:21 ledge in each of these glass cases are

4:21 different events that have happened

4:25 through time including pilgrims sail to

4:30 the new world and over here we have the

4:33 Declaration of

4:35 Independence and even a section

4:38 dedicated to Daniel Boone in the

4:41 American frontier he's just hacking away

4:43 at that tree this guy's not really being

4:45 much help though he's just kind of

4:47 holding a knife he's not really helping

4:49 cut the tree down too much and this is

4:51 George Washington just chilling by the

4:53 fire keeping warm as Betsy Ross sits in

4:57 her chair creating the American flag

5:00 Good Old Ben Franklin he wanted to prove

5:02 a point so he took a kite flew it into

5:05 the lightning bolt Dave Crockett the

5:07 King of the Wild Frontier hero of the

5:10 Alamo and did you know that he killed

5:14 105 Bears between 1822 and 1823 in one

5:19 year 105 Bears

5:22 that's that's a lot President Lincoln at

5:25 Ford

5:26 Theater and if you notice back behind

5:29 behind the curtain is the hand of John

5:32 wils Booth you don't actually see him

5:35 you only see his fingers holding the

5:38 weapon but he's back

5:40 there rest assured he's back there some

5:43 historic moments Henry Ford and the

5:46 automobile the Wright brothers and the

5:49 airplane as impressive as all these

5:52 displays are documenting history take a

5:57 look at this

6:01 holy

6:02 cow the presidents and First

6:07 Ladies of the United States of America

6:11 Reagans the

6:13 Obamas the Kennedy the

6:17 clintons The Carter George and Barbara

6:21 and next to them his son and

6:30 Laura impressive

6:30 most

6:32 impressive Got The Nixons near the

6:35 front but don't forget in the back we

6:38 got the

6:39 cooles just hanging out in the back and

6:43 let's not

6:45 forget James K pul he's got a look on

6:48 his face like he's doing a little

6:51 thinking wonder what's on his mind you

6:54 got to

7:10 got who admit that was pretty cool just

7:10 to give you a little perspective on the

7:13 size of the property

7:15 itself just take a look at how

7:19 big this place

7:21 is pretty

7:24 awesome very well-maintained and

7:27 beautiful um if if you got a moment do

7:30 you mind coming over here and and

7:32 setting me free I'm slightly

7:35 incapacitated at the mo for the time

7:37 being

7:39 please please this is very uncomfortable

7:43 and I do not like it this is inside the

7:46 Founders Hall and over in the corner is

7:50 a table with a pen and some letterhead I

7:55 don't know if that's the correct word is

7:56 it called letterhead when you have paper

7:59 that you're going to put a documentation

8:01 on it looks like someone has already

8:03 beaten me to it the paper underneath

8:05 says we the

8:19 ink fail this is what they call

8:19 Washington

8:21 Hall pretty

8:30 Majestic

8:30 according to this sign in this building

8:34 is a fullscale replica of the wh

8:38 house Oval Office

8:40 this could be

8:50 incredible

8:50 whoa holy

8:58 cow this is

8:58 amazing

9:03 I am

9:03 inside the Oval

9:09 Office

9:09 wow this is actually really cool what

9:12 makes it even more amazing is the fact

9:14 that I am the only one in here all by

9:38 across the field goes a couple of

9:38 colonial dressed

9:41 gentlemen enjoying the day and they're

9:44 also doing an event out here where

9:46 they've planted a lot of tulips they're

9:50 very

9:57 beautiful a plethora of tulips and the

9:57 ground is soaking wet my shoes and socks

10:01 going to be a little moist I really like

10:03 the purple ones off in the distance you

10:06 can see there's also some orange and

10:09 yellow ones as well very beautiful and

10:12 the reason I knew those weren't patunas

10:15 is because they gave me this

10:16 sticker when I entered the

10:19 premises spoiler alert here we go this

10:23 is very

10:24 creative The Cone Zone they look very

10:28 happy cruising down the road just a bit

10:31 because we are very close to the center

10:34 of Alabama and to prove this fact I have

10:38 to

10:39 drive down this

10:41 road my apologies to Large

10:45 Marge but we made it right next to the

10:49 cemetery documents the fact that we are

10:52 smacked dab in the middle of the state

10:56 erected by the Chamber of Commerce in

11:00 1955 1955 and Buford Buford Mad Dog

11:05 Tannon yeah I know part one and part two

11:08 they're they're all in the same series

11:09 but what is the coincidence here what

11:11 are the

11:13 odds Back to the

11:19 Future you're everywhere and this is

11:19 kind of interesting as well on the back

11:21 side of that marker is this rock

11:24 structure and on top of that is one

11:28 great grave and one grave

11:37 only just up top on all these rocks

11:38 Elizabeth seal and David Adams both

11:41 passed

11:42 away back at the end of the 1800s but

11:46 this is it the exact center of

11:50 Alabama how do they know that this is

11:54 the spot do they have it down to the

11:57 inch the foot

12:00 you got to wonder things like this are

12:03 always on my mind I'm always wondering I

12:06 love those old drugstore signs and here

12:09 in this downtown area look at these

12:11 apartments up here The Ledges kind of

12:15 unusual right there's a bunch of old

12:17 railroad

12:31 Dixie and another one over here in the

12:31 woods sitting all by its Lonesome good

12:34 old big the

12:36 foot sometimes I don't give this guy

12:38 enough credit for sticking by me all

12:41 these

12:42 years through thick and thin he's never

12:46 left my side then again I've never let

12:50 him leave so he doesn't really have a

12:53 choice you are currently looking at me

12:57 through my own glasses it's like I'm

12:59 looking at myself but it's not me

13:02 looking at me it's not like I'm looking

13:03 in a mirror it's

13:05 you looking at me which is really

13:10 bizarre even more bizarre than that is

13:15 fact that I

13:17 set the camera up and put my own glasses

13:21 there and I'm talking to you through the

13:25 glasses it's not like you did it on your

13:28 own accord

13:30 I did it and I think I'm losing my mind

13:34 seriously I'm losing my

13:37 mind you you should say it because

13:39 you're me right now say it come on

13:43 starts with a v and ends with an

TDW 1717 - Stuck In Center Of Alabama

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