TDW 1664 - I'm Horrible At Space Travel
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Transcript
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Just a couple drops of rain coming
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down. No big deal. Wow, there's a fries
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here. I thought that was only a
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California thing. That astronaut up
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there, he's got him some fries. Some
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freshly cooked fries. He's just
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teetering there in the rain. I think if
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you wear a spaceuit, you are
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impervious to raindrops. Welcome
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everyone. Adam the Woo here. I went
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inside. And I got a coffee and my laptop
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was not dampened by the moisture because
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of this don't mess with Texas bag in the
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commute from Large Marge inside that
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mafe they call it when in reality it's
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just a Mickey De's with an astronaut
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holding some
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fries and that's just the right temp.
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Man, that was that was quite the
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delicious noise. Let me do that
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again. It's my second channel daily vlog
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channel. It's the daily. I've been
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wanting to go in here for a very long
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time, and today I am. Space Center,
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Houston. Hopefully, there's no problems.
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But I'm Holy cow, look at that. It's
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piggybacking that
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plane. This is going to be fun. For the
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dreamers and the explorers who look to
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distant horizons. For the celebration of
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discovery and newfound knowledge. For
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the children who will be the pathfinders
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of the high frontier. I got my guide map
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and wh I just dropped my ticket. As you
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enter in, they have a little wreath and
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memorial set up to Eugene Kernan, who
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was the last man to walk on the moon. He
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just passed
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away. They have the middle section roped
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off doing a little construction.
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This is a recreation of the Apollo
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rocket inside this
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building. And it looks as if I am able
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to get inside and launch this bad boy
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myself. I'm laying down with my feet
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crammed in here. The screen is at my
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crotch. What the heck am I supposed to
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do? Maybe I'll have a little more luck
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flying the space shuttle. Moving the
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stick forward.
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Oh, there it is. I got to land down
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thereelcome. We show you drifting around
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the nominal flight. I don't know what
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I'm
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Okay, it looks like a little trouble.
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Safe to say at this point, we're a long
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way from Earth. Pluto, Saturn, the black
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hole, Maximillion.
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to drive the Mars rover. It's directly
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below me and I'm controlling it with
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this stick here.
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That's me right there moving it back and
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forth, going in and out of frame.
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Oops. I smashed my rover into the NASA
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compound. Oops. Sorry. To simulate
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weightlessness, they have this miniature
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beach ball just floating here in the
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breeze.
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Docking in space can be recreated by
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this clever machine right here. Docking
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is the joining of two spacecrafts. Space
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vehicles docked to the International
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Space Station when a new crew arrives
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when food and equipment are delivered.
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Now, here's something I never knew
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existed before. A robot knot. This is
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designed to assist or replace an
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astronaut conducting a spacew walk. It
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looks like a less menacing Boba Fett.
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These are the constant wear garments
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once the astronaut is inside a
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pressurized cabin. They really do not
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need to wear a space suit. So, this is
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what they use when they are entering or
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exiting space. And this is what they
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wear when they're inside the
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compartment. They have to go through
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this airlock module. And once they do
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that, they're in their orbital workshop
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just like being on Earth with no
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gravity. Let's go in and check it out on
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what it's like
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inside. Whoa. Whoa. He's floating
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there. He is just doing some
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calisthenics in midair. Check this video
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out. There's three running
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around in a circle. It's almost like the
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wheel is turning, but it's not. They're
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turning. And from here everything gets
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really confusing. The bicycle is on its
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side. This guy's taking a
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shower perpendicular. It has to be an
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amazing feeling to be looking at the
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Earth from space. I'm just looking at
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basically a globe recreation of the
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planet we live on. But imagine being
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above it in real life.
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mind-blowing. Then the elevator going up
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to the top. It feels much taller when
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you're standing at the top of it. You
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really get the perspective of how many
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feet tall this thing really is.
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It's pretty neat how they have this set
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up where you can go inside a mockup of
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the shuttle itself equipped even with
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the
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controls. The mid deck area is where
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they spent most their time living and
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working. Right in this section here, you
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can see their lockers. You can see what
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it was like to not have gravity and
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things be just floating around. There is
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a door here to be very careful with that
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when you unlatch it. Restroom over here
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in the corner. And this would be the air
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lock container. And I can see myself in
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his helmet. And when sleeping in this
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section, they basically had to velcro or
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clamp themselves down to keep from
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floating around during slumber. We're
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now going to go down from the shuttle,
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which has not been used in space. It's
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just for example purposes, but we're
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going to go down a level into the
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airplane that was actually used to bring
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the shuttle home.
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Initially on this, you would have had
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air breathing engines. The proposal was
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and these are some of the original
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chairs and table that was in here when
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the plane was used. And yes, back then
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even NASA approved of having cigarette
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receptacles in the seats without adding
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weight to the front of the plane. It
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would fly like this. So, we have to add
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weight to get it to operate correctly
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and level itself
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out. Now, we have to remove a little
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weight. Remove a little weight. And now,
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we're flying straight as an arrow. I
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have to turn this wheel to make the
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plane move. See, I'm making the plane
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move towards the shuttle. There it goes.
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It's dropping down. It's dropping down
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on there. We have success. This is what
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is called the orbiter access arm. This
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is what the astronauts would have taken
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their final steps to get on the space
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shuttle before leaving Earth. And I'm
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going back inside because it is starting
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to rain again.
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Got to love this weather. That is the
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Apollo 17 command module. Float in 1972.
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Very, very tight quarters in there.
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That's for sure. On the last three
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Apollo missions, rovers were taken to
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the moon and left there each time. So,
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does that mean that there are three of
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these up in space on the
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moon? Is that what that means, guys?
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These are all different moon rocks,
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mostly found in
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1971. In 1972, this is what the original
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mission control consoles would have
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looked like years later. They were
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renovated and changed, but this is a
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piece of history right there. One thing
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that is really fascinating to me is
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right inside this theater tucked in the
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corner is the same podium that JFK used
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in 1961 when he gave that famous speech
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about going into space and going to the
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moon. A very historic occasion and they
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have that piece of history tucked away
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up towards the screen. That is pretty
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freaking cool. John F. Kennedy stood
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right there. That was pretty awesome.
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And the tram tour was not running due to
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weather, but for only $5 more, you could
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upgrade your daily ticket to an annual
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pass. And since I travel so much, and
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I'll probably be back in this area
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before 12 months is up, I went ahead and
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did that. And I got a t-shirt from Space
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Traders. And check out what I
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found. The tripod. Just as I left the
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space center in 1989, Soviet leader
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Boris Yelson also did. And right up here
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is a supermarket where some say he gave
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up on communism. Which makes it even
9:53
more ironic that there is a Statue of
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Liberty as I'm about to pull in the
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parking lot of the shopping center. And
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there it is, the historical food town.
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But it used to be a place called
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Randall. And as the story goes, he was
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leaving NASA on his way to the airport.
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He wanted to see how Americans shopped
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and how their consumerism was. He went
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inside here and by seeing all the
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selection, his mind was blown. He told
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his comrades, "If people back in my
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country knew how Americans shopped,
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there would be a revolution."
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Supposedly, the thing that excited him
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the most were the pudding pops. And his
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associates confirmed on the flight back
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home, he sat with his head in his hands,
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thinking. Two months later, the Berlin
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Wall came down. One year later, he
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denounced communism. And then a year or
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two after that, the Soviet Union was no
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more. And on a side note, this vending
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machine has awesome terror tattoos. This
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is ridiculous, I know, but I'm going to
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the frozen food section to see if they
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still carry the pudding pops. There are
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lots of popsicles and lots of different
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flavors like that, but I don't see
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anything called an actual pudding pop.
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There are fudge pops. Of course, in the
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last 25 years or so, brands change, but
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this is the area right here. All
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internet speculation, of course.
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It's time to answer some questions.
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If you could go back to any or forward
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to any of the Back to the Future
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timelines, which one would it be?
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Probably 1885, cuz I do need to learn a
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thing or two and become adept at shoeing
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horses and fixing wagons. Hey, Adam, I
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still have your hat. You can keep it.
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Please stay out of my dreams. As the
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father of a four-year-old and a
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six-year-old, that's me, not you. Um,
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who've never been to a Walt Disney World
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or Walt
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Disneyland, which one do you think is
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the right one to start with? That's a
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tough one because I don't have any kids,
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so I can't chime in on that side of it.
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It all depends on how long you're going
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to be there. If it's one or two days,
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Disneyland, a week, go to Walt Disney
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World. Um,
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the what
12:04
restaurant what restaurant? What's your
12:07
favorite restaurant in Disney World? I
12:10
don't know if this classifies it as my
12:11
favorite, but the one I eat at the most
12:13
almost every time I'm there are the
12:14
fajitas at POS Bills. So good. By the
12:17
way, your dog was like mowing on
12:20
something in the background there. Hey,
12:21
Adam, what's your favorite soccer and
12:23
football team? Actually, I don't really
12:25
have a favorite soccer team except for
12:26
the one I played when I was in
12:28
elementary school at Rocky Bayou
12:29
Christian School. So, I guess that's my
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favorite. Ask Adam the
12:35
Woo. Boo it. Keep wooing it. If the
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Travel Channel came up to you and said,
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"Hey, Adam the Woo, we love your videos.
12:41
We love your personality. You're
12:43
awesome. You're very photogenic. We
12:46
would love to offer you a TV show. Do
12:48
you think you would do it?" I come from
12:49
a very punk rock, DIY, do-it-yourself
12:52
mentality. And I can't see myself
12:55
signing a contract, being on a
12:57
television show. I just can't see myself
12:59
being constricted to that. Plus, I think
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YouTube is the new television. I think
13:04
TV old school mentality of television
13:08
has kind of gone with the wind. Do you
13:09
ever regret getting the tattoos? Not
13:11
really. Most of the time I just forget
13:12
they're even here. I get so used to
13:14
seeing them. They kind of don't exist in
13:16
my mind anymore. Have you
13:18
ever seen or heard of furries? I have.
13:22
I've never been to a convention of one,
13:23
but probably pretty entertaining to go
13:25
there and film. Maybe one day. Do you
13:27
like to eat ramen noodles? Absolutely. I
13:30
spent three or four maybe 5 years of my
13:32
life eating those on a daily basis. That
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and sandwich spread
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sandwiches. So good. I told you he'd
13:39
find us. It's
13:42
Adam. Oh, hey Adam. Didn't see you
13:55
there. It's question time. Who was
13:55
better filming buddy? Jacob the carpet
13:57
bagger or Justin Scar?
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Question over. That's a tough one
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because they're both really good friends
14:05
of mine. But I will say this, out of
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everyone I know, acquaintances and
14:09
friends, those two people are the guys
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that I know, no matter where we go,
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we're all going to have the same
14:15
interests of finding weird, wacky
14:18
roadside attractions and historical
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things. Interesting.
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Would
14:24
you do you have a tablet like me? Kind
14:29
of. I just got this iPad and I bought an
14:32
external keyboard, so problem solved
14:34
with the keyboard not working. Is Mini
14:36
Adam the Woo doing okay?
14:39
Safe travels, buddy. He's a great
14:40
companion. And were you just watching
14:42
Columbbo? What is your favorite
14:44
Disneyland ride? Mine is Dumbo. That's
14:46
always changing, but the three I will go
14:48
on nearly every time I'm in the park is
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Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Pirates of the
14:52
Caribbean, and The Haunted Mansion. In
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the 20-year period that you worked
14:56
retail, did you ever think that you
14:58
would actually be where you are now? Uh,
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say when you were 25 years old, did you
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ever think you were going to make a
15:04
life-changing decision to hit the road
15:06
and to live life to the fullest? I never
15:08
did. I always thought that that's what I
15:10
was meant to do or what I was going to
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do forever. And I am very grateful and
15:15
thankful that there is an audience who
15:18
is interested in what I'm doing every
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day. Okay. And because I had those jobs,
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because I had full-time jobs for so
15:24
long, and now my job is doing YouTube
15:28
videos, it is a little more simple for
15:31
me to get motivated each and every day
15:34
as if I was going out to punch a clock
15:37
to go to work. Instead of doing that, I
15:41
have a responsibility not only to myself
15:43
but to the viewers to go out and film
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things that people want to see and find
15:49
interesting. That that is my job. I look
15:52
at it as a job. Sometimes I think why
15:56
are you doing all this? Like what is the
15:58
point of this? But in my mind I revert
16:02
back to those times and that's my
16:06
mentality. I wake up early every day. I
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wake up around the same time as I did
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when I was going to work. I have not
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been to a quote unquote 9-to-five job
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punch clock in five and a half years.
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Yet, I never sleep past 8 a.m. I'm
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always inspired when I wake up and
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motivated to go do what I do on a daily
16:28
basis. And a lot of it is because of the
16:32
feedback and the support that everyone
16:34
gets me.
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that. I know I misspoke a little bit in
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there, messed up a couple words, but I'm
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not going to edit that part.