Termite TV - Life Stories

My name is Tyler R. I was born at an Indian hospital in Claymore, Oklahoma. An Indian hospital is where all the Indians go because it's free, but the service there's not very good so you're really stuck in the waiting room for hours and hours if you ever go. there's an old joke that goes around that says like you're in the indian hospital so long you'll get well just in the waiting room. but I grew up in Tulsa. I lived on the east side of tulsa which is not the best side of town. i went to school at Reed Elementary which is now closed, for good reasons. We moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma when I was in sixth grade, I believe which was kind of hard 'cause I grew up with all my friends and then I moved probably at one of the most important times of your life where you kind of go on to junior high. So it was kind of hard adjusting and I wasn't the nicest of people, and I was kind of different, I guess. I wasn't outgoing, as outgoing as I have been in the past couple years so I didn't have a lot of friends and that was fine. And then I met a guy named Doc Beamon and we became real good friends. and I went to high school at union, graduated there just barely. We're still trying to figure out how I actually did it. And then I went to TJC, Tulsa Community College now in Tulsa. I didn't wanna go to college. It just wasn't for me 'cause I hated high school. I absolutely hated it. And it took every ounce of my being just to get up and go in the mornings. I hated it, I hated the teachers, I hated just the people. I just didn't like it at all. I wanted to be a garbage man my whole life, growing up being a kid. It's what I always wanted to do. So I thought I had my whole life planned out, I thought I wanted to be a garbage man when i graduated high school. So the time came around to enroll in college and I hadn't done it. My mom begged me and begged me. She was like just go, just go just take three hours and if you don't like it and then you can quit. I was like, well she'll wanna work. So I said okay. When your mom kind of begs you, you end up doin' it no matter what it is, even if you don't want to. So I enrolled in 3 hours, er 6 hours at school of college and ended up liking it a whole lot. So I went my first year at Tulsa Community College. I ended up in norman quite by accident. I think I did the dumbest thing anybody could ever do, and I followed a girl here which was all paradise until, I guess the first three months and then it was over. So there went that. I originally planned to come to O.U. Got my acceptance letter and everything, got ready to go enroll. An then they told me then, after I already moved here, that i didn't have enough transfer hours. So I couldn't go to O.U. anymore. Well then I was like well what do I do now? So ended up goin' out to community college, O triple C for a year before I transferred here. And I'm currently a senior at O.U., studying filmmaking. I hope to land some sort of job in it, I'm not looking to make it big I'm not looking to make a lot of money I'm just looking to make low budget films. I'm not one to... I mean I like the films of, some of the more well-known films, the classics if you will. But it's not really my speed. I like the low, independent films. I like blaxploitation. Kung fu films, and that sort of thing. Maybe lookin' to find a line of work. I need to find work pretty fast. I haven't told anybody 'til right now, but in the summer I'm gonna, my girlfriend and I, we're gonna have a baby. So I gotta become a dad in, um, June. And it's about time I graduate too. So I gotta find somethin' cause I work at Toys R Us now. And it's really just not cutting it anymore. I've been building bikes, assembling bikes at Toys R Us for three years goin' on four years now. I work at the school, too so I have two jobs. I kind of landed a gig at CD World setting up shows, concerts. So I have like three jobs and so hopefully something will come along. I guess that's it...