TheDailyWoo - 920 (1/7/15) The Watts Towers
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here
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coming to you from Watts California you
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might recognize that name because Watts
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was one of the locations of the worst
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riots in Los Angeles history it's not
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exactly the best neighborhood and the
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best area in Los Angeles it was then
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overshadowed their riots were
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overshadowed by the Los Angeles riots in
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the 9s but rest assured this area is not
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not exactly an area you want to be
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wandering around at night luckily this
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is the daily woo and it's daytime so
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it's not as bad but it's still not an
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area that you want to be hanging out
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with an iPhone 5 in front of
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sh on the National Registry of
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historical places Watts
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Towers built by a man named Simon rodo
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what is his name I cannot remember his
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name I mind is actually drawn a blank
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because I'm a little sketched out
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walking around here I came out here a
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couple years ago and I posted a picture
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up on Facebook that was before I think
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it was before I was doing the daily
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Vlogs or maybe had already done a daily
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Vlog that day I posted a picture on
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Facebook and put the location of where I
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was and a few people chimed in and said
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you do not need to be in that
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neighborhood you do not be need to be in
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that neck of the woods walking around
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one person even said you have no
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business being on that side of town well
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let me correct you sir I do have a
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business and my business is vlogging
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vlogging is my business and business is
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good man can you see that the sun is
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very very very bright trying to get a
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good shot of that right there look at
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those the Watts Towers took over 30
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years to create the guy built them out
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of junk
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pieces of things that people in the
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neighborhood donated and now there they
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are are massive sculptures to the
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heavens very very
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awesome so I just wanted to stop by here
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real quick not going to spend a lot of
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time in this area just wanted to show
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you the Fantastic Watts Towers do some
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research go on Google look up this place
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you can see some of the Fantastic
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history the reason they were built and
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the Fantastic Creator the man the myth
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and the legend Behind these fantastic
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sculptures
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right here in
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Watts ah I I was pretty close Simon Ria
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and that's him right there
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you can see theyve actually put some
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bars up they put some protective fence
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up that way people cannot go in and
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steal graffiti tag up spray paint or
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vandalize this exact place these were
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actually almost torn down after the guy
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passed away the city wanted to get rid
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of them and there was a petition that
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actually went up and they decided to
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keep them and the way they decided to
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keep them they had to be structurally
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safe so what they did is they tested the
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structural ability of these towers by
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actually taking wires and pulling on
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them they had to have an exact amount of
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pressure per pound to keep these
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actually in the air and if they were not
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structurally sound enough they would
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bulldoze them and get rid of them
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luckily Simon built them
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to to be very very strong and very very
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solid and now here they sit and then
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they became a national
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landmark right here in the oddest most
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unusual place that you can think of in
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California you would never think that
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these would be here in this neighborhood
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which is actually very very cool you got
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to wonder if the locals and the
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residents appreciate this as much as
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those of us that are watching this Vlog
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are
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all right so that's about it I'm going
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to keep this Vlog very short and very
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sweet if you're ever in this area and
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you decide to stop by here I would like
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to know that you actually came by here I
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could hide some stickers here but I
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don't know how many people would
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actually show up to get them it's really
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not that bad out here right now I can
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imagine at nightfall this would not be a
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neck of the woods that you would want to
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be gallivanting around
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especially holding this phone like I was
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saying I did a vlog a long time ago with
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my buddy Byron sin a couple years ago
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year and a half ago and we went to the
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corner of where the LA riots were where
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Reginal Denny the beating of the truck
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driver was and let me tell you that is
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not exactly the nicest area either
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we did it very quickly filmed the video
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once we got back in the car even my
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buddy Byron was a little sketched out he
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even said we probably should not be out
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here especially holding an expensive
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cell phone because anybody could mug us
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at any time or take your cell phone so
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I'm going to say Ad do I'm going to say
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goodbye and she this right here is also
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going to say
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goodbye all right see you guys later
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have a great day bye