TheDailyWoo - 722 (6/23/14) Searched At U.S. Border

0:05 Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here.

0:05 Thanks for honking. It's my second

0:07 channel, daily blog channel. It's the

0:09 daily van that is not my van that

0:14 resembles my van, except this van is

0:16 actually raised up and has this really

0:18 cool

0:20 rack on it and a frontal area here.

0:25 It's the daily. Woo. This is the van

0:28 we've been touring in right there. Our

0:31 buddy Garrett, who lives in Jacksonville

0:33 Beach, actually has been on the tour,

0:35 the Guttermouth tour that I'm playing

0:37 bass guitar for for the last week and a

0:40 half to 10 days. He actually had to fly

0:42 home from Canada yesterday. And he's

0:45 letting us use his van the rest of the

0:48 entire tour, seven or eight more days.

0:50 The tour ends on the 31st. There's an

0:52 airplane. There's an airplane right up

0:54 there. There's an airplane.

1:02 So anyway, we're using this van right

1:02 here. I got distracted by that airplane.

1:04 As you would of two, sir, ma'am, or

1:09 maybe children would like to be

1:12 distracted by the birds flying around

1:15 and chirping. You kind of hear the birds

1:16 chirping and you can hear the birds

1:19 flying through the air. The metal birds

1:21 of the airport. I'm in Detroit. The

1:24 Detroit airport is right over there is

1:28 the Detroit airport. This is the hotel

1:29 we stayed at for a few hours. Got some

1:31 sleep last night. So you have metal

1:33 birds careening through the air carrying

1:36 passengers. And you have regular birds.

1:38 There goes a regular bird. Whoa. Hope

1:41 that regular bird, a normal bird

1:43 flapping its wings doesn't collide with

1:45 a metal bird full of passengers. Back to

1:48 the van which also carries passengers.

1:51 Our buddy Garrett from Jacksonville

1:54 Beach was kind enough to drive us around

1:56 and also kind enough to let us continue

1:58 to borrow the van. Basically, we're

2:00 driving this van around till the 31st of

2:02 this month. The last show is in Virginia

2:05 Beach and then I will be driving back

2:07 down from Virginia Beach to drop up a

2:09 couple of the other guys from

2:10 Guttermouth to fly back to California

2:13 from Orlando International. So,

2:15 basically, it's a whole rigomearo of

2:18 flying places and members flying in and

2:20 out. There goes another one. There goes

2:22 another one. You can hear that other

2:25 plane flying over. So, a lot of airports

2:27 and a lot of countries involved in this

2:30 tour. And by a lot of countries, I mean

2:32 two USA, which I am back on US soil and

2:38 Canadian soil, which we were at

2:41 yesterday. In the last three days, we

2:42 played that big festival in Montabelloo.

2:45 And here's a fire hydrant. Look at that

2:46 fire hydrant. It's a little bit wacky

2:48 and different than a normal fire

2:50 hydrant. It's actually a little bit

2:51 different facade area. And here's a

2:55 rusted out metal box full of electrical

2:58 goodness. So, basically, we are back in

3:01 the US of A. And I am back. And you're

3:03 back vicariously with me. Look at that

3:05 right there. That's an American flag.

3:08 The good old US of A. But I want to give

3:10 a little bit of a story, a rant if you

3:14 will, about our border crossing

3:16 yesterday. Back over into Detroit. I

3:19 should just sit right here.

3:22 I should just sit right here on the Look

3:23 at this. Look. Detroit Edison. See, this

3:27 cabinet must be open for periodic

3:30 maintenance in Detroit.

3:33 So, basically back in the US watching

3:36 these planes fly by. Yesterday, going

3:38 through customs was definitely not a fun

3:41 experience. I'm going to put that on my

3:43 lesser fun experience chart list or some

3:48 sort of diary. I guess this is

3:50 technically a diary in some sort of

3:53 fashion. So, basically, I'm going to jot

3:55 this down now, not with a pen, but with

3:57 words about what happened yesterday in

4:01 this, my US customs

4:04 diary.

4:12 Wonder if that guy riding the bike right

4:12 there, see him? Wonder if he's ever been

4:14 through US customs. I wonder if anybody

4:16 here in Detroit ever crosses the border

4:18 often just to go into Canada and say,

4:19 "Heck it, I'm going to go visit around

4:22 Canadian areas and see Canadian things."

4:26 Getting into Canada has a little bit of

4:29 a I used the word rigomearo twice

4:31 already, but I'm going to use that

4:32 again. A little bit of a rigomearo.

4:34 Rigomearo. Rigomearo. Rigomearo. What if

4:36 rigomearo is anything like Beetlejuice?

4:38 If you say it three times, some crazy

4:40 guy named Rigamaro. Man, what would a

4:43 rigomearo look like? If there was some

4:45 character, an imaginary character named

4:47 Rigomearo.

4:49 I think I might start drawing a cartoon

4:51 character. Maybe I'll start jotting down

4:53 some sketches even though I can't draw

4:55 of a character named Rigamaro. Hello,

4:58 I'm Rigamaro. I'm Mr. Rigamaro. So, a

5:01 lot of Rigamaro. Look at these airplanes

5:04 flying in from Canada to the US of A.

5:09 We drove in to the US of A from Canada

5:13 after playing these festivals. And there

5:16 is a new terminology which I think

5:18 you've probably heard innocent until

5:21 proven guilty. You've always heard that

5:23 term. Yesterday I did not feel that way

5:26 and the rest of my guys in my band on

5:29 tour playing bass for the band

5:30 Guttermouth did not feel that way as

5:32 well. going through customs was

5:34 definitely pretty annoying and

5:37 definitely kind of uncalled for in my

5:39 opinion. I am not an expert on homeland

5:42 security. So, I don't really know what

5:43 they're looking for, but basically when

5:44 you're driving a big van like that and

5:46 you have six or seven guys crammed in a

5:49 little vehicle or a big vehicle that's

5:51 raised up like that, usually they're

5:54 going to pull you over, pull you to the

5:56 side and say, "Come on in. We need to

5:59 check your passports." All the passports

6:01 were in order. We went in this little

6:03 teeny tiny room that smelled of sulfur.

6:07 I don't know why the sulfur smell was so

6:09 intense in there. We were crammed in

6:11 there with all these people trying to

6:13 cross the border back over from Canada

6:15 to the US. A lot of times they just

6:17 waved them on through after checking

6:19 your passport. They checked our

6:21 passports and they said, "You guys need

6:22 to come with us. Come into this room."

6:25 So we sat in this room for two hours.

6:27 There's another plane.

6:31 We sat in this room for 2 hours.

6:33 Basically, after sitting there for 2

6:35 hours, they kind of like started to like

6:37 not really interrogate us, but they

6:39 brought us into this room and they

6:40 started to search us and ask all these

6:42 questions saying that the dog found

6:45 something. They had some random dog

6:47 snooping around the van and they said

6:49 the dog picked up a scent. And that gave

6:53 thee the incentive. See what I did

6:55 there? The dog picked up a scent which

6:58 translated over to an incent

7:01 of a dog and an incentive for them to

7:04 start rooting around in the van. So

7:06 basically they tossed the van inside the

7:09 vans. They pulled everything up, pulled

7:11 up the floor mats, took all our stuff,

7:14 opened our bags, made us leave our cell

7:16 phones in the vehicle, rooted around

7:18 inside the car that entire 2hour period

7:22 while we were inside that sulfur

7:24 smelling teenytiny room. And the people

7:27 that work there, not exactly the kindest

7:30 customer service people that you've ever

7:33 experienced. Normally when you go into a

7:35 retail store, everyone greets you.

7:37 Hello, welcome to this. Hello, welcome

7:38 to this. you guys having a good day?

7:40 Welcome to the US of A or any other

7:42 country that you're going into. That is

7:45 not the way it works. Basically, at the

7:48 custom area crossover from Detroit,

7:50 where these planes are going into

7:54 Detroit, that particular station, I'm

7:56 not sure how it is at other stations,

7:58 cross the border a number of times. It's

8:00 never been this difficult or this rude

8:04 in my opinion. And the people there

8:06 definitely were not very kind-hearted to

8:08 us. They ended up searching us. They

8:11 took us into a room one by run one by

8:13 one. One by one. And of course, what

8:16 they try to do is they try to say, "Oh,

8:18 we found something in the van. What do

8:20 you know about it?" I don't know about

8:21 anything in the van other than my stuff.

8:23 We're just trying to cross the border,

8:25 get to the next show. We have jobs to

8:27 do. Trying to play shows. Trying to move

8:30 the tour along instead of being delayed,

8:32 which I do understand. trying to protect

8:35 each country is trying to protect their

8:37 borders and I definitely can appreciate

8:39 that. But where should the line be drawn

8:42 basically as far as people being rude

8:45 and you haven't done anything and just

8:47 because you fit a quote unquote

8:49 description

8:51 should you be detained for that long

8:53 when there is no proof of any any

8:55 wrongdoing.

8:57 I don't really know. I'm definitely very

8:59 flustered, very confused, and bewildered

9:02 because I had my nether regions,

9:05 searched by a grown man. I don't even

9:09 know if he was even wearing gloves when

9:11 this happened. Luckily, the clothes were

9:13 left on, my clothes were left on. I had

9:16 to take my shoes off, my belt off, empty

9:18 my pockets out, flip them inside and

9:19 out, get up against the wall. That was

9:21 the first time I ever put my hands up

9:22 against the wall and it my body has been

9:25 desecrated by the hands of another male

9:30 older than me. That's very a very

9:32 awkward situation whether you're

9:34 welcomed into your home country, the US

9:36 of A by being touched and fondled in

9:40 areas the nether regions. I always use

9:43 that word nether regions. Well, this

9:44 time the nether regions were definitely

9:47 explored. I'm definitely an explorer. I

9:50 can appreciate exploring, but they found

9:52 nothing that they were looking for in my

9:56 nether regions. Stay away from my nether

9:58 regions unless there needs to be a

10:01 nether regions search. That's all I have

10:04 to say. So, very confusing, very

10:06 bewildering experience. We were all

10:08 searched in that fashion. Then we had to

10:10 go back in the room. It was very

10:13 interesting. Long story short,

10:15 everything was cool. two hours sitting

10:18 there, the rudest people of all time.

10:21 When you're walking in, even the people

10:23 that were just walking in, like there

10:24 were older ladies that were pulled over

10:26 or families with their kids when they

10:28 would walk in, the person that was

10:30 greeting them when they would walk in

10:32 was just so rude, right? When they walk

10:34 in the door, what's your name? Come over

10:36 here. Give me a bad boy. All right,

10:38 then. Well, that was an interesting

10:40 experience that we had to deal with

10:42 yesterday. I know I'm not making a lot

10:44 of sense.

10:46 Technically, I'm very confused right

10:48 now. I do not know if I was assaulted

10:53 or if I was enjoying it.

TheDailyWoo - 722 (6/23/14) Searched At U.S. Border

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