The Daily Woo - Day 136 - 11/14/2012 - Eufaula !
Check out the video from this spot in 1990 - http://youtu.be/SHpY_gvDZ28
Transcript
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here.
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It's my second channel, daily blog
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channel, the Daily
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Woo. It's kind of a somber moment for
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me. I'm in Eupalla Oklahoma. And you
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don't know what you follow Oklahoma is,
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but I sure do. This is where I grew up
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in my teenage years. I lived here from
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1989, 1990, and 1991.
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This little small town of Eupfalla,
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Oklahoma was my stomping grounds. A lot
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of memories right in here. This was the
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area the Easter egg hunt happened that
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my sister was in. My sister's eight
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years younger than I. She competed in an
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Easter egg hunt right here. Didn't get
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any Easter eggs and she was very sad.
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She went crying down that road. I
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remember felt so sorry for
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her. Definitely a lot of memories in
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this area. I was homeschooled when I
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lived here. So I didn't actually go to
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the high school or the public schools or
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anything like that. So basically all the
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friends I knew. Also, this place is
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pretty much a retirement community. Most
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people that live here are fishermen that
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fish on Lake Eupfala, which is I think
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it is the world's biggest man-made lake.
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These right here used to fill with water
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during the rainy seasons. We used to
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slosh around here in sewers. That's
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pretty much what you do in Oklahoma.
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Nothing else to do. This is before video
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games. Well, I guess Nintendo was out,
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but this is pretty much before the
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computer and the internet. So, what do
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you do? You slosh around underneath
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here. We used to climb underneath all
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these underneath there. They used to
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crawl up underneath all that stuff
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there. Pretty
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wild. Here it is. The Eupfalla Kowanas
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Park,
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1984. Why is this significant? Because I
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spent almost every day here. Me, my
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sister, my sister's friends used to come
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out here to the park every single day
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for three years. Seriously, I'm not even
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kidding. Every day we spent in this
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park. Check this out. This here is where
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the teeter totters were still
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here. A little memory there, which is no
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longer
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existent. Pretty wild. And everybody
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from their childhood usually has one or
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two key things which always stick in
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their head that they remember, right?
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Well, the one thing that I remember kind
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of makes me sad. In fact, I've been out
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here a few minutes. Shed a little tear
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because one of the biggest parts of my
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childhood is still left out here.
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They're 22, 23 years later. That's
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right. It's the merrygoround right
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there. You have no idea how important
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this thing was to me. I'd come out here
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every day with my sister and we play on
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this merrygoround. I'd spin it around.
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In fact, there's a video on YouTube that
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went semiviral. I actually uploaded it
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on my channel a long time ago. Someone
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stole it from me and uploaded on
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break.com and it got like hundreds of
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thousands of hits. But it was me right
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over there, skinny me wearing all white
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spinning that thing around a million
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miles an hour and my sister's friend
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jumped on it, flew off like Superman,
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embedded herself into the ground. It was
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a pretty popular video. People getting
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hurt, children getting hurt. That's what
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we used to do back then. We used to get
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hurt and run through the sewers. But
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right there, that's the spot. Basically,
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what I would do is I'd come over here
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because I was I was the oldest. We'd
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spin this thing around like
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this. Just like that. Let me recreate it
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for you. The video, if you want to see
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it, is called Girl Gets Flung from
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Merrygoround. You can look it up on
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YouTube and I'll also post it down
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below. Check this
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out. Going to do a little recreation.
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Man, I think I still got it. I still
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think I got it in me. The power of
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Adam's arm. So, check it out. The video.
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It's called Girl Gets Flung for
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Marryground. Like I said, I'm put the
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link below it. Man, I'm getting winded.
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I was so skinny in the video before.