TDW 1514 - The Birthplace Of Mountain Dew !

0:11 welcome everyone Adam the woo here

0:11 stopped off for a little caffeine

0:13 heading to Knoxville Tennessee you all

0:16 of you me and of course

0:19 raham Lincoln is tagging along as

0:24 well don't look at me that way whoa

0:27 check those

0:28 out are

0:31 awesome and the driver of that

0:34 one is smoking a

0:36 stogy that's right that's right

0:40 here oh you guys are hugging that's so

0:43 cute

0:52 W what the heck am I doing it's my

0:52 second channel daily Vlog channel it's

0:55 the daily

1:03 it's interesting here in this strip mall

1:03 parking lot you know just a couple shops

1:06 over in the corner there is one of those

1:09 police security Towers like you see in

1:13 huge mall or Theme Park parking lots

1:16 there's one in this little teeny tiny

1:18 strip

1:20 mall why probably a good idea that I

1:23 locked my

1:25 doors

1:26 yeah got some new cruising tunes

1:34 you ever look at rock band photos and

1:34 just laugh sometimes for example what do

1:37 Steven Tyler doing here is he like

1:40 passing gas or something this one's even

1:42 better look at this

1:48 one that is

1:48 classic wow look at that

1:50 church architecture of that is awesome

1:53 old school there it is Straight Ahead

1:56 the Suns

1:58 spere look at that I think the World's

2:01 Fair Park City of

2:04 Knoxville let take us back in time to

2:08 1982 this little micro SD card is lodged

2:12 halfway in the compartment of where it

2:15 normally sticks in I can't get it out I

2:18 don't want to break it off come out of

2:20 there SD card that

2:23 is really irritating well that stinks it

2:27 just snapped off look at that it's bent

2:31 sideways so that footage is done I guess

2:35 I have to throw another card in get some

2:39 tweezers and pull that out because

2:42 whatever was on there is now history

2:44 completely snapped off and lodged inside

2:47 the port how am I going to get that out

2:49 of

3:01 there come out of there come on man

3:01 I really need some tweezers or

3:16 something it is wedged in there so

3:16 far I don't want to cause permanent

3:18 damage to this thing either I really

3:20 hope they sell tweezers here two

3:23 different kinds we have square tip and

3:26 slant

3:27 tip they're only a dollar each

3:30 I'll get both of

3:39 them come on shoved it up in there far

3:39 oh I shoved it up in there farther

3:48 now I'm out of there man the farther I

3:48 would stick the tweezers in the deeper

3:50 the card would go I just about gave up

3:53 until this happened I got you you little

3:56 son of

3:57 a I want to curse so bad right now where

4:01 I am now parked in 1982 was a massive

4:04 beehive of activity starting on May 1st

4:06 of that year this 70 acre plot of land

4:11 was home to over 11 million visitors and

4:16 the Suns feere Still Remains as a

4:19 remnant of those times the future was at

4:22 hand and that is what the World's Fair

4:25 was all about presidents were here

4:29 dignitaries were here famous people were

4:31 here normal folk just like you and I

4:34 were here to experience what the future

4:38 had in store for

4:40 us super cool I wish I could have been

4:44 here I wasn't but now I am in the future

4:48 of the past of things talking about the

4:52 future so kind of in some weird way my

4:55 mind is blown right now I'm like a real

4:58 life Marty mccla

5:14 hi and check out this

5:14 graffiti someone has the same opinion as

5:17 I

5:18 do I believe this little Amphitheater

5:21 was also here in 1982

5:46 awesome all right I made it to the top

5:46 the top of the sun sphere look down

5:50 there that's that Fountain I was just

5:51 standing by this is definitely pretty

5:54 cool the fact that you're looking out

5:55 the windows that you can't see in from

5:57 the outside but you can see out they

6:00 kind of like one way maybe the glare of

6:02 the Sun from outside distracts you from

6:05 seeing in there's President Reagan right

6:07 here opening day President Reagan was

6:09 here a construction photo of the sun

6:11 sphere being built look at that you can

6:14 see inside back

6:16 then it's like a

6:30 skeleton as far as I can tell there are

6:30 only three things remaining from back

6:32 then the sun sphere the amphitheater and

6:35 something that lies inside these doors

6:39 and there it is a gigantic Rubik's

6:44 Cube look at the size of that thing this

6:47 oversized model of the popular toy was

6:49 designed by Hungarian architect

6:52 professor nno rubic and don't quote me

6:54 on this but I think he was here in 1982

6:57 as well to give this to the city I was

6:58 always the worst at solving these things

7:00 even the little small ones I just

7:02 noticed the best sign ever is right

7:06 here no persons with diarrhea permitted

7:10 in that you know what honey I just had

7:13 some of this leftover not good Salsberry

7:16 steak let's go down to the World's Fair

7:18 area and play in the fountain right

7:21 across the street here is an old

7:23 Cemetery with a lot of history

7:25 established in 1850 this is the old gray

7:29 Cemetery this is something I've never

7:31 seen a tombstone saying private property

7:34 no trespassing Knox County

7:37 Cemetery that's weird I've been to a lot

7:40 of cemeteries in my travels and very

7:43 rarely do you see ones that are not

7:45 mowed like

7:47 this kind of bizarre I'm also just now

7:50 realizing there are a lot of homeless

7:52 people in this Cemetery just hanging out

7:54 this place is pretty creepy

7:57 even in the daytime

8:19 this place is seriously like something

8:19 out of a creepy movie especially when

8:21 you add in the fact there's two guys

8:24 back there in a truck that have been

8:25 following me around not even kidding

8:37 check out that old abandoned

8:38 School Knoxville

8:40 High I want to share a moment with you

8:43 that begins by going in the store now

8:46 it's not the store itself that is

8:48 important it is what I'm going inside to

8:50 purchase something you might own and

8:52 have in your refrigerator right now if

8:54 not you could go to pretty much any

8:55 vending machine anywhere and they will

8:57 have it in there or any convenience

8:59 store will have it on their shelves or

9:02 in their cooler and I first discovered

9:04 this tasty beverage in 1985 a moments I

9:08 will never

9:09 forget I was over at my friend's house

9:11 and he said come into my kitchen I have

9:13 something you have to try we went into

9:15 this closet area and he gave me one of

9:18 these the nectar of the

9:21 heavens Mountain Doom now the formula

9:25 has changed very slightly since its

9:27 Incarnation now it's fructose corn syrup

9:30 instead of sugar guess where right here

9:33 in

9:33 Knoxville about a half a mile down the

9:36 road I've got to pay my respects back in

9:39 the day there were two brothers who

9:40 started a beverage company here in

9:42 Knoxville the Hartman beverage company

9:45 and the funny thing is they started the

9:47 flavor of Mountain Dew as a joke just

9:49 kind of a Gest Between Brothers but as

9:51 its popularity grew in

9:54 1948 they patented this bad boy and in

9:57 1966 a little company called Pepsi

10:01 bought the rights to the drink and the

10:03 rest is history but right there is where

10:06 it all started the Hartman beverage

10:09 company and it looks very similar as it

10:12 did back in the

10:15 day there is nothing on the building

10:18 signifying the

10:20 history of Mountain Dew there but that's

10:24 where it

10:25 began that's the spot it's crazy to

10:28 think that one of the Great latest sodas

10:30 of all time started right in that

10:44 building this goes out to you Mountain

10:45 Dew drinking a Mountain Dew where it was

10:47 first

11:03 achieved those

11:03 guys think I'm insane and I probably am

11:06 a little bit I like Mountain Dew what

11:08 can I

11:14 say when you hear the name Knoxville

11:14 Tennessee you might think to yourself in

11:16 some clever funny way what do Johnny

11:18 Knoxville live there you're not too far

11:21 off because he did Johnny's real name

11:24 was Philip clap Jr and his father owned

11:27 this tire store right here and as The

11:29 Story Goes his father would play

11:31 practical jokes on him which kind of

11:33 gave him the love of pulling pranks so

11:36 when he decided to throw his hat in the

11:37 show business ring he changed his name

11:39 to Johnny Knoxville I got to

11:42 say that

11:45 Sunset that's going through the clouds

11:48 there amazing when you see a little

11:51 place at the side of the road it's the

11:54 love shack Love Shack baby whoa look at

11:58 this

12:00 there's an airplane business right here

12:02 how cool is this it's a barber shop in

12:05 the shape of an airplane and look

12:08 there's an airplane way up there that

12:11 resembles this one and from what I could

12:13 tell it used to be a gas station cuz you

12:16 can see where the gas pumps used to be

12:18 that's awesome

TDW 1514 - The Birthplace Of Mountain Dew !

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