The Daily Woo - Day 154 - 12/2/2012 - RIP Jim Varney

0:05 welcome everyone Adam the woo here it's

0:05 my second channel daily blog channel the

0:08 daily woo it's a dreary overcast morning

0:13 it was raining a little while ago here

0:15 in Lexington

0:17 Kentucky I'm in this Cemetery here very

0:20 somber area it's actually a pretty

0:22 fantastic Cemetery it's very large it

0:25 has some pretty

0:26 incredible monuments and gravestones

0:30 this is just a small

0:32 portion very small portion of the

0:34 cemetery it stretches way way out there

0:37 I don't know how many acres it is but

0:39 it's very large the main reason I'm here

0:42 is to pay my respects to one of my

0:44 childhood Idols his name was Jim vanney

0:48 he played the character that you

0:49 probably know as Earnest but he was also

0:52 much more than that he was also a

0:54 Shakespearean actor and played a lot of

0:57 other different roles and to me as a

0:58 child it was definitely an influence on

1:01 what I thought was

1:03 funny and helped mold what I considered

1:06 entertainment into my adult

1:08 life so I'm going to try to find his

1:10 grave and pay my respects to the late

1:13 great Jim

1:22 Barney you'll see there's a bridge over

1:22 here this covered White

1:25 Bridge with the green tarp over the top

1:27 of

1:28 it not really a tarp so much as it is

1:31 just uh like astro turf type

1:34 Greenery if you cross over that

1:36 supposedly Jem Barney's grave it's going

1:39 to be on the other side of

1:50 it I remember when I was a child uh 1983

1:50 84 Jim Varney started doing the earnest

1:53 commercials and I used to watch every

1:55 one of them remember we would rent

1:56 videos from the video store and they

1:58 would have all his commercial was on

2:00 there hundreds of them and we would

2:01 watch them I wore those tapes

2:08 out this place whereon thou now standeth

2:08 as Holy Ground try to act reverently

2:11 you're on God's

2:13 acre I can't imagine anyone coming out

2:15 here and not show

2:18 all every person has a

2:20 memory and that hold what their life

2:23 stood for very deeply and all these

2:26 people are very important but for me

2:28 right now definitely want to see Jim

2:31 Barney's grave so let's find

2:40 it this looks like this is more of the

2:40 newer area of the cemetery a lot of the

2:43 older old school graves are way back

2:45 over

2:56 everyone Yep this is

2:56 it I believe his family are all buried

2:59 right in here

3:00 this was his father's grave his dad was

3:04 also named James vanney of course he

3:06 took on the name Jim but his father was

3:09 James Jim vanney was also James but for

3:12 entertainment purposes for the credits

3:13 and whatnot he always called himself Jim

3:16 vanney but that's his dad's grave right

3:18 there he died in 1985 he only had one

3:21 son and that son was this guy right here

3:24 Mr Jim

3:30 vanney oh always wanted to meet him when

3:30 I was a kid unfortunately he passed away

3:33 in the year 2000 at the age of 50 he was

3:35 50 years old when he died of lung cancer

3:40 he was diagnosed with lung cancer and he

3:42 actually put a video an Earnest video

3:44 you can probably find it on YouTube of

3:46 him critiquing and criticizing Vern the

3:49 character of Vern that everyone knew and

3:51 loved for smoking and how he shouldn't

3:53 smoke he was doing that trying to get

3:56 people kids and adults that watch his

3:57 videos not to smoke to follow in his

4:00 path but it was a little too late and he

4:02 passed away shortly after that in the

4:05 year

4:11 2000 so that's my childhood Idol right

4:11 there how ironic is there's cigarettes

4:15 on the ground

4:18 here I'm not sure if that was an

4:21 homage or what that exactly was but it's

4:25 kind of heartbreaking to be standing

4:27 here but even though his body is down

4:29 below his Spirit definitely lives on

4:31 through me and probably thousands if not

4:33 hundreds of thousands of other people a

4:35 lot of people saw him as a goofy corny

4:37 guy but I really kind of took it to

4:39 heart he's a very humble man if you

4:40 watch interviews of him I think there's

4:42 a an interview of him on Good Morning

4:44 America and uh one of the Good Morning

4:46 America cast is uh interviewing him he's

4:49 a very humble guy one thing I really

4:51 respected about him when he started his

4:53 career is that he they pretty much never

4:56 marketed themselves to large cities it

4:58 was always small cities so all the

5:01 earnest commercials hundreds and

5:03 hundreds I think there was eight or n

5:04 hundred of them if I'm right I might be

5:05 wrong maybe you could look that up for

5:07 me but out of all those hundreds of

5:09 commercials none of them were in major

5:10 markets no big cities it was a

5:12 Grassroots thing he just kind of blew up

5:14 because basically he was hilarious

5:16 people related to him and I related to

5:18 him let's take a closer look at his

5:20 gravestone here people put coins pennies

5:24 and dimes and nickels right there are

5:27 paying their respects I'm not really

5:28 sure what that means but I've actually

5:30 created my own respect here I've

5:33 actually written this note for him and

5:35 you'll see there's a penny right on the

5:37 bottom just like everybody else has left

5:39 their Penny and I'm going to pay my

5:41 respects here I'm just going to perch it

5:43 in this flower hopefully it'll stay that

5:46 might not work maybe I'll put it here in

5:49 this

5:50 flower hopefully you guys can beat it

6:16 definitely not the usual daily Vlog blog

6:16 I do but this has a big influence on my

6:18 life and probably part of the reason I'm

6:20 doing these Vlogs and creating the

6:21 YouTube channel and all that in some way

6:23 shape or form stemmed from that guy

6:26 right

6:27 there so rest rest in peace Jim AR I'm a

6:31 little emotional right now so I'm going

6:32 to let you go and remember if you

6:33 subscribed up here I'm definitely going

6:34 to see you

6:37 tomorrow so make sure you subscribe up

6:39 here and go on YouTube and watch some

6:41 Jim Varney Clips especially the old

6:43 erest stuff the mid 80s stuff it's

6:45 classic the guy was a

The Daily Woo - Day 154 - 12/2/2012 - RIP Jim Varney

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