How Monsters Are Made at VGP Effects & Design Studios
A special tour of the inside of VGP Effects and Design Studios with owner and operator Vincent Guastini . Located in Burbank California
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welcome everyone Adam is a whoo Here I
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am wearing the headgear of the one and
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only Jacob the carpetbagger who's in the
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driver's seat I'm inside the carpet
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mobile we're going somewhere pretty
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amazing I'm not gonna wear this the
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whole day I will see you there shortly
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today I will be paying a visit to vgp
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effects and design studios I wonder if
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he's here oh you're knocking back to see
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you oh my god come on in guys these are
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all the molds and we cast plastic at
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knees and sort of the idea of the
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finished product is gonna be sort of
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like I'm sort of doing like in the
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makeup industry everybody kind of
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collects famous faces yeah so you sort
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of like get light cast of different
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people like I work with madeleine stowe
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and listen what he can so I got that
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James Cagney I never worked with so
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technically you can make a death match
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without the person's being passed away
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and there's copies made and copies me so
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is it you know relations it's so they
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only have to do it once with the big
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mess sort of yeah ship it out we need a
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mass for I mean that's an original James
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Cagney from when he was like you know in
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the 40s so I mean that was passed down a
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few times I'm gonna guess that that's
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Jack Nicholson wait'll they get a load
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of me this is the conference room how do
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you well I guess it kind of you know the
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aura of the environment kind of like yo
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yields the product yeah if you were if
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you were an accountant in here you
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probably wouldn't be able to think but
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if you're creating monsters like this
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you're in the you're in the right place
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at the top of the stand these wings were
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used in the film dogma and Ben Affleck
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and Alan Rickman would have been
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standing right there made to have wings
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and there's another piece of dogma up
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here look at this guy up here to keep it
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family-friendly let's call him the crap
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monster
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rapmonster up there this is amazing this
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is the actress that played the mother in
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The Exorcist when she got older she was
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in a movie called requiem for a dream
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and these are the facial mass from that
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Jared Leto movie that is these are the
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different stages of her weight gain it's
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a very very she just want she just
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wanted to be on the television that's it
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she wanted to wear a dress she want
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that's a very sad movie it's fair
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it ranks as one of the movies that
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people would never watch more than nuts
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this is ringing a bell I seen this
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somewhere but I'm not placing it well
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the spider coming out of the woman thing
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that's what it is the thing the John
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Carpenter movie that is imagine imagine
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waking up and seeing that on your roof
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dangling down like remote from a web and
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this her like her tongue is like
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grotesque and bulbous oh I was do I was
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actually I did some concept work for the
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movie doom what on sports a [\h__\h] was
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attached to that and then it was it got
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closed down after that Columbine thing
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happened and it was like that whole
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thing with violence a movie so Arnold he
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did that's right come on come on kill me
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back so this wasn't from Planet of the
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Apes oh it was from Jay and the monkey
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from Wizard of Oz yeah right up there
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and what's this guy here with the the
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odd-shaped down a racer head first pilot
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dead alien like cheers meet Star Wars
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Cantina bars here if I was to pull this
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down with it is it is this active or is
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it are these props something would blow
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up that's not good so these are just
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props these were here and so that's not
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good to incorporate
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radioactive biohazard signs were here
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when you moved in how long have you been
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in the spot and how long you've been in
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the industry I've been in 30 years 30
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years doing this making all these cool
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horrific masks and cool effects look at
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this creature it's like behind this like
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cylinder piece of glass man look at this
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thing it's like it's like a possessed
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ant this guy's just chilling he's on his
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he's on his break don't don't bother him
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he's just just hanging around just
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sitting on that stool whoo up here
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there's an ant there's a giant ant the
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insects they're taking they're taking
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over there are these made to be worn or
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is that good they're made to be worn so
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underneath there's like a slit you could
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put your head so this is like yes a mask
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you just stuff it with that cotton just
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to keep it cheap is the majority of
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stuff you make wearable or a lot of it
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just props adjusters are glued or we do
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animatronics we do makeup effects we do
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aging we do gore we do we pretty much do
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anything that's practical so basically
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if someone comes to you and says I want
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a demon head with with horns coming out
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did you use your imagination just come
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up with it well the script kind
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describes it and then you do concepts
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you try to come as close to the
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director's vision as possible and this
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is dis compromises and changes and so he
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wanted these mummy type demons that come
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to life for the relic what if Shatner
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was actually producing this movie listen
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let me call the relic the relic we found
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the missing link that's the Sasquatch
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except he's been beheaded
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well heaven knew his hat we're making a
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werewolf oh it's a werewolf yes so to
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punch the hares in on that suit we have
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to use like a soft form to put it on
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okay so an actual person gets inside of
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that yeah and it actually looks a little
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dinner he says form-fitting it was like
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nylon yeah it sounds freeze so the only
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thing it's rubbers the chest on that
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everything else is like hey it was like
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pantyhose material with hair on it so
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that the musculature will come through
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it actually looks pretty authentic
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in the middle of the night you ever just
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throw that on and run around the
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neighborhood and just wiped out the tent
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so you got a chance to kind of
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reconstitute that so the molds are all
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left outside in the elements yeah whoa
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you can see everything is organized
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according to different parts of the body
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and labeled with sharpie that says back
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cast tiny monster up there so I'm
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guessing that's some sort of monstrous
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creature of the small persuasion severed
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head decapitated head scorpion hair ooh
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look at these up here he's kind of
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remind me like this one reminds me
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remember the movies zombie I think it
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originally was called zombie - so is all
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this made out of these made a phone and
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at the start temperature there's seven
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cert chemical it gels and once you know
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you you know you'd have a good run if it
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doesn't gel it it collapses and you have
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to do it all over there so it's like
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baking a cake okay all right making a
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weird cake and then when you pull the
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piece out you get these foam rubber
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pieces and this is like an eye and an
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eye bag and then you can glue these and
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under like masks and under people's eyes
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so that would go directly on the on the
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city these get these are like the
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flashing and then what you do is you
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pull it off to get the thin edge so you
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can see through it and so that would be
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glued on we're done do on right under
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the eye yeah it's just an eye bag so all
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of this is just for an hour back this
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looks like a be some sort of bearded
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creature that's actually one of the
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relics gelatin monster that you saw
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inside oh okay one of the scouts from
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this side it looks like a beard negative
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image in front of you but on camera
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it'll be positive you to put that
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directly in front of the camera okay
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this is called a drone one relic you
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created the the Will Ferrell makeup for
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the cowbell see yes I did yes so then he
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made history when his shark came up in
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the show his belt in general purpose I
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only did it more and more
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see you see you worked on the famous
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sketch on Saturday Night Live more cat
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yeah Wow yeah
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how close be away that's that's
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impressive and here's some photo some
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photo documentation as some more of his
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work yes yeah yes there's a Connery oh
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yeah look at the norm ik Donald there oh
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this is awesome
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Chris Kattan right now saying Bruce
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Willis's makeup chair yeah you know
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Jacob has never seen die hard Jacob has
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never sees that you know you do not you
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don't have the right to be sitting in
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Bruce Willis's chair and here's another
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one he's never seen lethal weapon this
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guy has never seen lethal weapon all
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right look look at the look on his face
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like a discipline sheer disappointment
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you're no longer invited leave even
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inside the restroom is all adorned with
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a lot of stuff that he has either worked
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on or is a fan of and here's a close-up
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of that of that dung monster the mask I
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showed a little bit ago
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Oh alien though Haddonfield Michael
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Myers up there the thing Planet of the
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Apes this place is pretty cool I should
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also point out if you want to exit out
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the back door you have to brave going
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underneath that shark but there is just
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there's like it's almost like sensory
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overload in here of all of this stuff
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that's being it's being created and
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these are the these are the tools of the
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trade do not confuse this with something
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to heat up your pot pie or ramen because
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this is not for food this is for cooking
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chemicals look at this vat of goodness
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this no telling what this thing
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concocted that has been seen in your
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favorite TV show and/or film this kind
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of reminds me of the demagogue in from
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stranger things right here this dislike
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pod looking looks like it's I think it's
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a hand but looks like the Dimmick organs
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the red flower so these these red plants
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and they spew this seeds on these people
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once it's painted red to call the red
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flowers and his leaves all over them and
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everything don't get too close it's
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gonna spew on you and no proper effects
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place would be complete without some
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Fangoria magazines and look over here we
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got a Creature from the Black Lagoon
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just hanging around a few knickknacks
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here we got gizmo
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there's gizmo oh look Evel Evel Knievel
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who would Jack Torrance here oh man
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that's uh this guy looks like to be in a
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lot of pain perfect that's pretty good
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you're you're very angelic right now and
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of course I'm gonna give a little sport
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I'm gonna give a little - swings right
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here that's right you have become you
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become Ben Affleck you're you're now
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like the pre Batman and but spoiler
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alert you're standing on a style rule
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you're standing on a stool spoiler alert
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movie magic has been ruined I'm noticing
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at the base of this Banshee is like a
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very cute look is a [\h__\h] is he safe to
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touch so it what always written he's
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radio-controlled
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and what's what was he is for that was
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for that space show he was called a
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cosmos bar that Stephen first directed
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cosmos bar looks like something out of
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like Captain EO I'll mark a Captain EO
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care do not want to invite this guy to a
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buffet because he will he will out Xiao
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Yi's got three mouths now noticing
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through this window I didn't see it at
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first but there's like a just like a
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zombie just like hanging out by the pole
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I didn't see him when I was over there I
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saw it through the window
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yeah there is a dead oh that's that's
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the proper name dead he was a priest the
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dead old it's a murder mystery so he was
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used in a production yeah these are all
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dangerous chemical homes and rubbers and
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all kinds of stuff yeah this is a
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glycerine glycerine yes look wait wet oh
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that's what that's what that's used for
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you will put the mix it with water and
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you put in a spray bottle you spray
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things you make it look you make people
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look sweaty or props look sweaty make a
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fake body part look sweaty so they could
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look real and these are for silicone
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prosthetics so some prospects may have
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silicone some aminute foam rubber and
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these are kind of rubber sensitive so
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real rubber would actually damage these
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these are different types of silicones
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that are kind of sensitive to certain
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rubber masks orchard the orchard yes is
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something going to come out of his mouth
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so this is going to be the finished
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project and we're gonna have them long
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still you're gonna have fangs like that
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yeah yeah who's gonna be on stilts - as
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a Rubbermaid tote full of faces made of
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foam just a bucket of faces are you
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massaging the face yeah how you try you
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little cylinders here in the middle are
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contact contact cements yes and I know
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we're going not hoping yeah so you don't
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have this okay so you would use it on
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this somewhere we do this this the glue
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Ashley is - you would take put a little
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bit of glue and then that would be a
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contact cement for rubber so you could
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put it back together I have a question
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for you all right is there any mask here
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on site that I can have to go to full
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mass warmer I knew you're a master I
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knew you were thinking that which one
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are you choosing for me big man big big
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man yeah oh no oh I think it's big
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enough that your head will fit in there
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so I'm gonna I must take the old noggin
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down in there can we powder it first so
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you just toss a little baking soda or
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baby powder down in there baby powder
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hood that smells smells like a baby's
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bottom it's the baby bottom stuff spring
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over there
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ready for my close-up mr. DeMille Oh
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man Adam the Pigman big name now
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the pig man choking on the baby palate
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that's how cool your mouth is moving is
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it yeah half a million yeah Oh my mouth
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if we glued it down right now he farted
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let's slow it down just inhale baby
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power and now the table and then one
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with the pin it needs a good default
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picture this is good
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ROM the pig man inhaling baby powder so
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I just pull it off yeah you don't want
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to be the pig man no agreed right boy
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pull it there you go
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it's a vgp effects and design studio and
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you can see all the movies we worked on
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and all the photos and and also you can
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find my real just Google just my name
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and my real come right up on VMO I'd
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like to thank Vincent from vgp for
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letting us goof around and it's the
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amazing creations in his shop let people
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know where they can get in touch with
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you they can get in touch with me
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through Facebook Vincent was teeny or
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vgp effects and design studio or on
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Twitter and we're here in Burbank right
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behind the Burbank Airport and we do
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makeup effects animatronics and
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creatures and and we're here in
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Hollywood
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oh whoa whoa you're taking that home yes
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I gonna write in the carpet movie oh
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yeah but what's this from this is the
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cantina yeah look at the beach you drop
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some you drop a little cotton down this
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is uh you first trip to Hollywood you
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can't can't leave without over yeah
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awesome rad head
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that's better than a magnet or a
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postcard you got the you got the full
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full kit and kaboodle if you quit you to
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quit vlogging
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that I check out I'm now the proud owner
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of a vgp effects and design studio cap
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in the break room there's a box of
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crusty OHS and I like that I like the
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magnets on the fridge but do not be
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deceived
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cuz Soylent Green is people or nomicon
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yeah I got the Book of the Dead here in
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magnet form I mean I gotta get me a give
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me one of this and that's gonna do it
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for today's adventure at bgp pretty cool
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vincent wasps teeny is the owner and he
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has quite a few people working for him
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and he sent them on an extended lunch
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break
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not only to show me around but also the
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carpetbagger who was also filming and he
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will do a video over on the carpetbagger
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channel i will see you guys later in the
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