TheDailyWoo - 688 (5/20/14) For Jason 66Hellride

0:03 Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here.

0:03 It's my second channel, daily blog

0:05 channel. It's the Daily

0:08 Woo. Normally I'm out and about filming

0:12 things, wonderful things around either

0:15 in the wilderness or the concrete jungle

0:17 of cities or just strange, bizarre,

0:20 unusual items. But today, I'm not going

0:23 to be doing that. I'm just going to stay

0:25 stationary here in my van. I'm going to

0:27 tell you some stories, spin some yarns,

0:30 and give you some memories about a

0:32 friend of mine that I met a couple years

0:35 ago through doing these videos that I

0:37 mentioned it was the daily woo. It's the

0:39 daily woo. And the reason I bring up

0:42 it's the daily woo, not only because

0:43 it's the video, but also because it has

0:46 a lot to do with the storyline of what

0:49 I'm going to tell you. When I started

0:51 doing these vlogs as well as my main

0:53 channel

0:54 videos, I started to build up a very

0:57 small core group of original followers

1:00 that eventually became friends, kindred

1:03 spirits, if you will, because in the

1:06 beginning, no one really watched my

1:07 videos. I had a very, very low amount of

1:11 people that even followed me or even

1:12 stumbled upon my videos. Over time, it

1:15 has grown to what it is now, which is

1:17 amazing. But in the past, there was

1:20 always one or two people, three or four

1:22 people that always contacted me, emailed

1:25 me, and said, "Hey, man, stick with it.

1:28 You're doing the right thing." Cuz even

1:30 when I would get depressed and think,

1:31 "What am I doing? Quitting my job,

1:33 traveling around, filming things. What?

1:36 That doesn't make any sense. Taking a

1:38 camera and filming something, no money,

1:41 just traveling around, living life, and

1:44 filming random things.

1:47 sounds like it would be awesome and fun

1:50 which it is but in the beginning very

1:53 very difficult especially when you don't

1:55 have a lot of support. So saying that

1:58 always those core group of people in the

2:00 beginning with any project that you've

2:02 done or I've done that always support

2:04 you. The great thing about the internet

2:06 is those supporters normally are people

2:10 that you don't know. They weren't your

2:12 friend back in the day. They're not your

2:13 family. They're just people you've never

2:15 met that latch on to you through the

2:18 email. They feel they know you. They

2:20 start emailing you and then you

2:21 eventually meet them and you become

2:23 friends with them. And this happened

2:25 with a certain YouTuber named 66

2:29 Hellride. His YouTube channel is 66

2:32 Hellride. He got a little bit of

2:34 notoriety because he actually was on

2:37 another YouTube channel, a bigger

2:38 YouTube channel that he was kind of the

2:40 announcer for. So, we got a little bit

2:42 of a boost on his YouTube channel and a

2:45 lot of people from that other channel

2:47 that he helped out with years ago

2:50 started to know 66 Hell Ride. His name

2:52 was Jason Craig. Jason eventually became

2:56 a very good friend of mine, very good

2:57 friend of mine. And the reason for that

2:59 because he had a very kind spirit, very

3:02 kind soul, one of the nicest guys I've

3:04 ever met on the road.

3:07 And I just want to let you guys know

3:08 that Jason 66 Hell Ride, I got the news

3:11 last night, has actually been taken from

3:13 us and has actually passed away. It's

3:16 very sad. It's one of those things where

3:18 you kind of see it coming, but even when

3:21 you hear the news, I got an email last

3:22 night from another friend of his just

3:24 like me that met him online, ended up

3:27 following his videos, talking to him.

3:30 They became friends, very close friends.

3:32 They would talk on the phone all the

3:34 time, became really good buddies. I

3:36 heard from him last night that he has

3:39 passed

3:40 away and it really it really definitely

3:42 hit me last night when I got the email

3:44 and I read it. I had been in contact

3:47 with this other friend of his recently

3:50 about the decline of his health of

3:52 Jason's health. He had ALS which I have

3:56 never been familiar with. It's also

3:58 known as Lou Garri's disease. And I

4:01 really did not realize how harsh this

4:04 particular disease was. Two years ago, I

4:08 went through Kansas City. Kansas City is

4:10 a good central point of the US. Since

4:13 I'm traveling, Kansas City is a good

4:15 centralized area. When Jason originally

4:18 hit me up two or three years ago, gosh,

4:21 probably I think it was November of

4:23 2012, so a year and a half, two years

4:24 ago, he said, "Hey man, I love your

4:26 videos." I've been talking to him online

4:28 for a while. I really want to take you

4:30 out to lunch, just talk about traveling,

4:33 talk about memories, talk about talk

4:35 about pop culture. So, I ended up

4:38 meeting up with Jason for the first time

4:40 on that day, November of 2012. He took

4:43 me out to lunch. We sat around,

4:45 exchanged stories. Jason was a big rock

4:48 and roll guy. Loved his rock and roll.

4:50 Kind of a metal head. He was a biker. He

4:53 loved Route 66, which is why he chose

4:56 the name for his YouTube channel, 66

4:58 Hell Ride. Loved all the roadside

5:01 attractions of Route 66, and also love

5:03 rat rods and old classic cars. He was an

5:06 old school

5:08 guy and just that's basically the gist

5:11 of his username.

5:19 So basically met up with him that day,

5:19 went out to lunch, told some stories,

5:22 told me one story about how when he was

5:25 younger and his son was a lot younger,

5:28 they actually got to meet Azie Osborne.

5:30 He told me the story a couple times and

5:31 like a good friend always over all the

5:33 multiple times I met up with him, he'd

5:35 always tell me the same story. The thing

5:37 that was great about friends always

5:39 listen to their other friends stories

5:40 even though they've heard them a couple

5:41 times and they always are excited about

5:44 the excitedness that the friend that's

5:46 telling me the story told me the story

5:48 about how he went to a concert his son

5:51 came up missing for a moment backstage

5:53 when he finally found his son. He was

5:55 sitting in Aussie Osborne's lap. One of

5:58 his idols, one of Jason's idols loved

6:00 rock and roll. So for him getting to see

6:03 his son sitting in Aussiey's lap and

6:04 Aussie talking to him and then getting

6:07 to meet Azie Osborne from Black Sabbath

6:09 was like a big deal for

6:11 him. So just some cool stories we got to

6:14 exchange. And then he lived outside of

6:16 Kansas City in an area called

6:18 Independence, Missouri, which is right

6:20 outside. It's where Harry S. Truman

6:23 lived, the president of the United

6:25 States, Harry S. Truman. And he showed

6:27 me all around the Harry S. Truman spots.

6:30 We went all around that little town

6:31 area. We went to a little centralized

6:33 area in that little region there that

6:37 had an old school soda fountain and I

6:38 expressed my interest. Man, I really

6:40 like old school cherry Cokes. I always

6:42 like the Cokes with the cherry flavor

6:45 dipped in. Not the traditional cherry

6:46 coke you see in a bottle now or out of a

6:49 fountain from like 7-Eleven, but the old

6:51 school like the grenardine stuff in

6:53 there. And Jason said, "Man, I know

6:55 where we can get one of those." So he

6:56 took me to this little secret spot that

6:58 he knew about that he used to visit back

6:59 in the day that Harry S. Truman actually

7:02 used to work at as a young lad. So this

7:04 place is old school. So we went the 6x

7:07 hellride and I went there had a little

7:11 beverage, little cherry coke. We both

7:12 had one each one of us together walking

7:14 around the town square in the footsteps

7:16 of Harry Truman. They had all these

7:18 little plaques up of Harry Truman did

7:20 this here and did this. So that was

7:22 interesting sharing some time with him

7:25 and having a good time. So basically

7:27 that was in the end of 2012. I left and

7:30 went on my travels, became really good

7:31 friends. We talk on the phone. We text,

7:33 a lot of texting, a lot of emails. And

7:36 then I went back through probably about

7:38 8 n months ago. This is four or five

7:41 months after the first time I had met

7:43 him. And we got lunch again. And he

7:45 showed up. Actually, we didn't meet at

7:48 first. We ended up meeting at Grand

7:50 Central Station and I did a vlog about

7:53 where Walt Disney took a shower, walked

7:56 from Laugh Studios down into the area

7:59 where he showered in the bathroom at uh

8:04 Union

8:05 Station. So Jason met me there and I

8:09 knew that something was wrong when I met

8:11 him that second time. He really wasn't

8:14 able to walk. He had a

8:16 cane and he definitely had

8:19 deteriorated quite a bit since the first

8:21 time I had seen him six months before

8:24 and I remember him kind of telling me

8:26 about the ALS in the beginning, the Lou

8:28 Gerri's disease. And I didn't really put

8:31 two and two together. I just figured,

8:32 oh, he's not feeling well. I didn't

8:34 realize how severe it really was until

8:36 that second time. So, we walked around.

8:39 We were walking through Union Station

8:41 and we were just talking. And I was

8:42 pointing things out and I turned around

8:44 and Jason had actually fallen on the

8:46 ground onto the hard not concrete but

8:49 like a concrete with whatever that slab

8:51 the slab of I don't know flamica or

8:54 whatever that is they put over the

8:55 concrete and he had actually fallen. His

8:57 cane had dropped his cane and had fallen

8:59 on the ground. So I turned around and

9:01 helped him up. Luckily he didn't break

9:03 anything. You could tell it hurt him a

9:05 little bit. I think it hurt his ego a

9:06 little bit and he just kept apologizing.

9:09 Hey, I I don't I don't really want to

9:10 slow you down from what you're doing.

9:12 And I was there to hang out with him.

9:13 So, it definitely did not slow me down

9:15 in any way. Said, "Hey, buddy. You're

9:17 doing good. Everything's fine. Let's

9:18 walk around, go at your pace." So, we

9:20 ended up filming the video. In fact, all

9:23 the videos that I was in of his videos

9:26 on his channel, I'm going to put all

9:28 those down below as well as the video he

9:31 was in my Daily Woo from that day. He

9:35 was actually wearing a Daily Woo shirt.

9:37 That's what I got to say about him. very

9:38 big supportive of my videos. Always

9:42 supported me. Every time we would hang

9:44 out, he would always say, "You're doing

9:46 the right thing. You're doing the right

9:47 thing. These videos, not only for me,

9:50 are are big because I can't go out and

9:52 go visit these places, but I have

9:54 visited these places in the past." So,

9:55 they're memories for me, but also

9:57 memories for other people. And there's

9:59 other people talking about himself.

10:01 There's other people like him that

10:03 couldn't go out and see and do things at

10:06 this point in their life. So it always

10:08 made me think I am definitely doing the

10:11 right thing. Kept me motivated. So I got

10:13 to say definitely a big motivation and

10:17 inspiration in my life that he was and

10:20 will continue to be. So basically we

10:23 finished that day, walked around, filmed

10:25 that little vlog, which I'm going to put

10:26 all those videos down below in honor of

10:29 Jason 66 Hell Ride. After that we went

10:32 and got lunch, ate some lunch again. He

10:35 told me the Aussie Osborne story again,

10:38 which kind of like a Wayne's World

10:39 moment where I had kind of heard it and

10:41 I was like, "Oh, that's cool." Which

10:42 still really awesome. So, he definitely

10:44 was pumped on that Aussie moment. The

10:46 thing that's really awesome about Jason,

10:48 not only was he a big metal head, big

10:50 old school car guy living in Missouri.

10:53 He was a big Walt Disney fan, Mickey

10:56 Mouse fan, big Walt fan. The thing about

10:59 Walt Disney fans, they're not only

11:01 normal people. A lot of them have a lot

11:03 of tattoos, big gnarly beards. Jason had

11:06 this huge gnarly, crazy biker beard. It

11:09 was awesome. Basically put this little

11:11 puny beard I have to shame. You never

11:14 know who's going to be into the Disney

11:16 stuff. And that really brought us

11:17 together. The kinship we had. Talking

11:20 about Walt Disney, a lot of history in

11:21 Kansas City. Since he was from right

11:24 outside Kansas City, just a just a few

11:27 miles. He knew a lot of history about

11:29 Walt Disney. He's the one that

11:31 originally told me where Laugh Studios

11:33 was. I went and visited that when I

11:35 visited

11:36 him. Talked about Walt Disney a lot.

11:39 Talked about my history at Disney World

11:42 and the Disneyland

11:44 stuff. So, just a big Walt Disney guy,

11:46 which you know, I am always close to

11:48 anybody Disney. So, that definitely

11:51 helped as well. is his kindness, his

11:53 friendship to me over the years and his

11:55 not only his inspiration to me because

11:58 when he started getting sick, he

12:00 continued these vlogs on his channel,

12:02 the 66 Hell Ride channel. Started to

12:04 wither away, became very skinny, skin

12:07 and bones, laying in bed, hasn't posted

12:10 a video for a couple months. Basically

12:12 hasn't even been able to text or call.

12:14 In fact, I got a text from him a couple

12:16 months ago and he even said, "Hey, I

12:19 really can't text anymore. having a hard

12:20 time utilizing my

12:23 fingers. So, very difficult, very sad.

12:26 This has kind of been my little tribute

12:29 to Jason 66 Hell Ride. I want to let you

12:32 guys know his family, his girlfriend,

12:35 longtime girlfriend, um, and his son,

12:38 his family have been trying to organize

12:40 some money. I'm going to put a link, the

12:42 very first link right down below and

12:45 I'll also post it on my Facebook page

12:47 under this video on my Facebook page

12:54 back/thedailywoo. Jason wanted to be

12:54 cremated. Family did not have a lot of

12:56 money based on doctor bills, a lot of

12:58 home care bills, a lot of in and out of

13:01 the hospital over this last 6 months to

13:03 a year. So, trying to get a little bit

13:05 of money. So, if you could do me a favor

13:07 for someone that supported me, anybody

13:10 else that supports me, at least go to

13:11 that page, donate a dollar or two, the

13:15 link will be down below. I can't

13:17 remember what it is off top of my head.

13:18 That's why I'm going to post the link

13:19 down below. So, go over there if you

13:21 would. Even if you don't donate

13:23 anything, at least on your social

13:25 networks, you know, uh, Twitter and

13:27 Facebook, take that link and repost it

13:30 for Jason, just like I'm going to repost

13:32 it to help his family out. They don't

13:35 really have a lot of money. This is the

13:37 least I can do. Honestly, this is the

13:40 absolute minimal least is to do like a

13:43 little 15minute homage. Me my memories

13:46 of 66 Hell Ride. A good friend of mine,

13:49 an inspiration. I'm never going to

13:50 forget this guy. Always had a smile on

13:53 his face. Always in a chipper mood,

13:55 always happy, always joking around, even

13:58 right to the very end. The last time I

14:00 talked to him on the phone was probably

14:02 three or four months

14:04 ago. He was very sad, but he was also

14:07 very excited because not only he knew he

14:10 was going to eventually be passing to

14:12 me. He said, "Man, I'm really excited

14:14 because I got to see my son go off to

14:17 military school and then eventually join

14:19 the military and I got to see the birth

14:22 of my grandchild and hold my

14:25 grandchild." So, he's very content even

14:27 to the very end. So, this one goes out

14:29 to you 66 Hell

14:33 Ride. I don't know what else to say. So,

14:36 I'm definitely very bummed out, but I'm

14:38 also very excited to have met a great

14:41 friend that I'm always going to

14:43 remember. And I'm going to continue

14:44 these videos for 66 Hell Ride and for

14:47 everyone else that can't go out and do

14:49 their own thing anymore. I love all you

14:52 guys. And Jason, I love you too,

14:55 man. Bye.

TheDailyWoo - 688 (5/20/14) For Jason 66Hellride

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