This might go into the "How did he choose this for the thumbnail Hall of Fame"
Doesn't the scowl make everyone want to watch? Is he the Flatwoods Monster? All the usual preening and posing he does for thumbnails (and this is a 36 min vlog!) and he ends up with this.
Adam begins at a rest area in West Virginia with one of his famous comedy "bits". He pretends a bee lands on the hand he's holding the camera with, and he "freaks out" and then says there's a bunch of bees "over there" and (you know what's coming) "it's a real beehive of activity". He then begins his usual intro but can hardly get it out because he's cracked himself up so much.
As usual, Adam has no idea what he's doing (supposedly) other than heading "southward" and "southwardly" on his way home. He slips in yet another promise of abundant international travel in 2025. He tries to show the bees flying around that he stood near on purpose so he could do his "bit". He then makes his way into Morgantown, WV and finds a car show.
Remember he has no plans, but he somehow finds himself in Don Knotts home town with a statue and sidewalk tribute (of course he's been here before, but he has absolutely no plans at all)
Adam gets annoyed that his filming is impacted in any small way by other people, out in public, having conversation with each other. How dare they! (A man in a KISS - the band - t-shirt is excitedly talking with another person about Ace Frehley near the Don Knotts statue and plaque, so Adam is upset)
Somehow Morgantown is having a car show and parade of cars down Main Street on a Monday afternoon, but again Adam just happened to end up here. But maybe he did just stumble upon it, because he certainly doesn't stay long. He moves on to get some coffee at Dunkin. Enjoy this view of his thumbnail. Perhaps compare it to the one I posted the day he left for this trip. I guess he really doesn't travel with a nail file or clippers or anything. Lovely!
He stumbles upon a tiny church. I wonder how he was able to just "stumble" upon it in the middle of nowhere in West Virginia? Hmm, perhaps he had help? https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/26337
Roadside America is the likely source for many of the things Adam happens to "stumble" upon. It's perhaps the only "research" he does. In fact, what does Adam do next? He stops here:
Coincidentally (I'm sure):
He goes over the story of the green monster of Flatwoods, but it all quickly turns to him searching for merch of the green monster, naturally. He finally finds a shop in the next town that seems to have a bunch of stuff in the window, so he goes inside. He just starts filming, he doesn't even ask if it's ok, the store owner greets him with , "Hi, how are you?" and Adam says, "Hello, I'm good, I'm good." Doesn't even reciprocate and ask them how they are doing
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Adam ends up with a t-shirt, stickers, post cards and a poster of the green monster from the Flatwoods Monster Museum in Sutton, WV. Here's another website Adam uses to "research" the places he ends up stopping, but he wants to make it seem like he just magically found these places of his own accord with no help at all: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/flatwoods-monster-museum
His next stop is yet another town he's been through before, Oak Hill, because it's the town Hank Williams Sr. died in. Reading the Wikipedia entry, it seems that it was only in Oak Hill that the people driving Hank noticed he was dead in the back seat of the car, and he'd been dead for some time because rigor mortis had already set in. So he really didn't die Oak Hill, technically. But, a small town takes what they can get so they put up a plaque.
Moving on, Adam crosses into Virginia and reads this plaque at a rest stop. Mr. Magoo says the town this man is from is "Wytherville"
The vlog is past the 30 minute mark, so Adam sees this as a PERFECT time to review this random rest area in Virginia, certainly the type of content viewers don't mind at the 33 minute mark of a tedious and already much too long video. In fact, at this one he resurrects his old "I always like to see if anyone is picnicking" routine that he's done in the past at rest stops. He thinks this is funny because no one is ever picnicking at rest stops even though many rest stops provide tables and even charcoal grills in some cases. I guess it's another patented ATW "bit".
If that wasn't enough, he reviews the North Carolina Welcome Center/Rest Stop (I assume on I-77) at 8:30pm, saying that he has a hotel about an hour south. The vlog is over. As he's halfway thru NC, it seems like he's just mostly beelining it back to Florida. Of course he still has opportunities to branch off, but with only about 600 miles to go, he could easily be home tonight if he wanted to, certainly be the end of the day tomorrow.
Doesn't the scowl make everyone want to watch? Is he the Flatwoods Monster? All the usual preening and posing he does for thumbnails (and this is a 36 min vlog!) and he ends up with this.
Adam begins at a rest area in West Virginia with one of his famous comedy "bits". He pretends a bee lands on the hand he's holding the camera with, and he "freaks out" and then says there's a bunch of bees "over there" and (you know what's coming) "it's a real beehive of activity". He then begins his usual intro but can hardly get it out because he's cracked himself up so much.
As usual, Adam has no idea what he's doing (supposedly) other than heading "southward" and "southwardly" on his way home. He slips in yet another promise of abundant international travel in 2025. He tries to show the bees flying around that he stood near on purpose so he could do his "bit". He then makes his way into Morgantown, WV and finds a car show.
Remember he has no plans, but he somehow finds himself in Don Knotts home town with a statue and sidewalk tribute (of course he's been here before, but he has absolutely no plans at all)
Adam gets annoyed that his filming is impacted in any small way by other people, out in public, having conversation with each other. How dare they! (A man in a KISS - the band - t-shirt is excitedly talking with another person about Ace Frehley near the Don Knotts statue and plaque, so Adam is upset)
Somehow Morgantown is having a car show and parade of cars down Main Street on a Monday afternoon, but again Adam just happened to end up here. But maybe he did just stumble upon it, because he certainly doesn't stay long. He moves on to get some coffee at Dunkin. Enjoy this view of his thumbnail. Perhaps compare it to the one I posted the day he left for this trip. I guess he really doesn't travel with a nail file or clippers or anything. Lovely!
He stumbles upon a tiny church. I wonder how he was able to just "stumble" upon it in the middle of nowhere in West Virginia? Hmm, perhaps he had help? https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/26337
Roadside America is the likely source for many of the things Adam happens to "stumble" upon. It's perhaps the only "research" he does. In fact, what does Adam do next? He stops here:
Coincidentally (I'm sure):
He goes over the story of the green monster of Flatwoods, but it all quickly turns to him searching for merch of the green monster, naturally. He finally finds a shop in the next town that seems to have a bunch of stuff in the window, so he goes inside. He just starts filming, he doesn't even ask if it's ok, the store owner greets him with , "Hi, how are you?" and Adam says, "Hello, I'm good, I'm good." Doesn't even reciprocate and ask them how they are doing
.Adam ends up with a t-shirt, stickers, post cards and a poster of the green monster from the Flatwoods Monster Museum in Sutton, WV. Here's another website Adam uses to "research" the places he ends up stopping, but he wants to make it seem like he just magically found these places of his own accord with no help at all: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/flatwoods-monster-museum
His next stop is yet another town he's been through before, Oak Hill, because it's the town Hank Williams Sr. died in. Reading the Wikipedia entry, it seems that it was only in Oak Hill that the people driving Hank noticed he was dead in the back seat of the car, and he'd been dead for some time because rigor mortis had already set in. So he really didn't die Oak Hill, technically. But, a small town takes what they can get so they put up a plaque.
Moving on, Adam crosses into Virginia and reads this plaque at a rest stop. Mr. Magoo says the town this man is from is "Wytherville"
The vlog is past the 30 minute mark, so Adam sees this as a PERFECT time to review this random rest area in Virginia, certainly the type of content viewers don't mind at the 33 minute mark of a tedious and already much too long video. In fact, at this one he resurrects his old "I always like to see if anyone is picnicking" routine that he's done in the past at rest stops. He thinks this is funny because no one is ever picnicking at rest stops even though many rest stops provide tables and even charcoal grills in some cases. I guess it's another patented ATW "bit".
If that wasn't enough, he reviews the North Carolina Welcome Center/Rest Stop (I assume on I-77) at 8:30pm, saying that he has a hotel about an hour south. The vlog is over. As he's halfway thru NC, it seems like he's just mostly beelining it back to Florida. Of course he still has opportunities to branch off, but with only about 600 miles to go, he could easily be home tonight if he wanted to, certainly be the end of the day tomorrow.
