Hollywood is Empty - Walking Tour of Closed Attractions & Landmarks / Goodbye To Amoeba Records
A visit to Hollywood Blvd early May 2020 to see what it’s like due to current temporary closures .
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welcome everyone adam the woo
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here today's adventure begins at a
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familiar spot where a topiary
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pig by the name of argyle used to reside
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now there's just a heaping amount of
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trash i used to live in this area
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in fact it's been about almost a year
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about a month shy of a year
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when i moved out of off of hollywood
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boulevard
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i used to hang out with this guy a lot
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and i'm we're bringing him
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who is this masked man it's the green
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sunglasses
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days with jordan the lion i'm just here
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following dreams guys
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i thought if i'm gonna do an old school
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walking around
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my neck of the woods where i used to
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jordan the lion should should tag along
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and we're appropriately
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we're appropriate i'm not going to wear
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this the whole time but we'll wear it
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quite a bit
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just going to see what is open what is
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the vibe like
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what else should we do on hollywood
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boulevard just play it by ear
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get discovered it's time to be a star
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adam
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is it that time join me shall you
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now the next block over on sunset amoeba
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records the old school
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building is closing but the new one will
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be in this spot this fall
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coming soon no no exact word on
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today any idea when that's going to
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happen i don't think anybody knows
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anything normally but
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especially not now do not push
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don't touch these buttons you just have
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to wait patiently
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no touching of the buttons dunkin donuts
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is open you can go in you can't sit
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around inside but you can go in and get
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takeout
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only intermission at the pantages
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but across the way they are the
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escalators leading down to the subway
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and the subway itself are operational
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starbucks as well check it out starbucks
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is also doing takeout
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a nice little view there of capitol
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records
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now being obscured part way by a truck
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thank you truck
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nailed it first glimpse for now of that
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iconic sign up there
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on the side of the hill we had a couple
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more peaks out of it this is the first
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glimpse
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now normally when you wander around in
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the early morning hours
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you see a lot of these these gates these
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shutters close down
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but this is mid-day and most of them
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probably
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30 are you going to put it up or put it
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down just readjust it i got to look good
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you know you almost look like you're
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going to try to go after a train
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that's exactly why i don't mind wearing
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it actually
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old hollywood look like an old look at
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old western stage coach
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i always love all the the history here
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these old buildings the pacific theater
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and this is i'm guessing a wig shop
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based on the shutters that are pulled
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down
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i never noticed that et was up there oh
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yeah he's he's phoning home
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up at the very top corner of all these
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famous faces
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no he's not that's not a cell phone
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that's e.t right there
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e.t stay home i mean phone home
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you do have the right idea you're
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modeling yourself after the duke
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all right i see what you i see what's
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going on here right pilgrim
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i'm just noticing i'm seeing more police
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presence out here
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probably in the last five minutes than i
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did the entire two years that i lived
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on the boulevard this tree a while back
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had a huge
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bees nest in it but the bees nest is
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gone and down there
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if you're familiar with hollywood
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studios at disney in florida
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that building there on the right in the
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middle of the screen is at the front
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of hollywood boulevard when you're
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walking into the disney park on the left
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they model it after
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that building so if you're looking
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straight ahead that would be like
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walking towards
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orlando's chinese theater right here
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across from the hollywood
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toys and costumes which is also
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gated up as well dang see that's that
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right there would be
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that would be some appropriate headwear
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that whole suit i'm attempting to walk
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in the shade that's why i'm taking this
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side of the road
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instead of the other the way the sun is
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perched above
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i'm in the shade here which is a little
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bit better than walking out directly in
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the sun
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across the way there are the characters
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from star trek you got kirk
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you got spock and there's a gentleman
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crawling out of
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the sewers okay ninja turtle
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okay that was i was not expecting that
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he just came out of this
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interesting you can see the tippy top of
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the supply sergeant neon this this is a
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classic
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establishment they are only kind of half
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open
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and i think they just want people to
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realize that they do not have any that
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are compliant no cdc compliant
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what about that one
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yeah that would work traffic is very
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light
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although it seems as if a few things are
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starting to
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reopen the 7-eleven is available for
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entry and exit
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the aerosmith star down here they never
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finished it
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has nothing to do with the current
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situation this was months before
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there was a rainstorm this is actually
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probably probably close to a year ago
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when i lived down here
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i walked down to see if i could watch
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aerosmith get their star they never
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this is an uncompleted star look at the
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difference between this
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and the polished up jack douglas
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and jerry goldsmith
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heading up to the corner of highland now
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what normally is one of the most busiest
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intersections anywhere in the u.s
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not so much at the moment that's right
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it's annie here
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it's ani what were you saying about the
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mcdonald's i said it's really sad for
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the neighborhood this mcdonald's closed
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because it's really like a bus station
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like terminal for people like
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everybody in town pretty much ends up
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living there at one point or another
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have you ever lived there not yet there
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we go
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buster the dinosaur i gave him that name
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because he busts out the top of ripley's
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he is wearing the appropriate
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headwear buster doing a little
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distancing
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looks like a diaper it does kind of look
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well
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everyone just has to use what they have
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at their disposal of course you can't
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give much more distance to the top of a
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roof
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so he's probably safer than most i'd
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kind of hope
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that giardelli the chocolate shop would
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be doing takeout but they are not
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next to the el capitan disney theater in
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fact there are some
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some characters who have gotten their
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own stars we got donald here
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we got winnie the pooh
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of course tinkerbell and the land itself
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right there the mall across the way
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another officer
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it seems like only yesterday i stood
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right out here
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and watched minnie mouse
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get her star i believe this building
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where jimmy kimmel
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normally does his live show was used in
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a
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rap video you know what rap video was
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used in back in the day
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are you talking about rat is in like i
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don't know raven piercy or r-a-p
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a rap music video okay i'm going to use
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this facade
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if you know it don't say it just
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mind-meld
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you don't know you don't know and i'm
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only analyzed
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no the only reason i'm asking
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he's the only rapper you know he's the
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only rapper there is fair enough
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straight ahead there on the right the
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chinese theater
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and the dolby where now they have the
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oscars
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this is a look down the thoroughfare
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that is a
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sight rarely seen that to say the least
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look at how empty that is over on top of
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madame tussauds it looks like iron man
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is out up there hanging out on the
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balcony
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he's just kind of looking over the whole
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whole scenario he's got
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almost like a bird's eye perspective a
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bird's eye view
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of all of this this is normally a
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complete
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beehive of activity the five dollar shot
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it says everything's ten dollars but
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normally five dollars tucked away over
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there in the corner
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in the shadow underneath the stairwell
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which i'm surprised is not
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roped off you can walk up those stairs
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if you really wanted to just look at all
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this elbow room
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in a matter of months one day we're
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going to look back on this and think
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wow that was different there are still a
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few people pulling up parking their car
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jumping out to get a photo of and look
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at the hand prints makeshift
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they're using everything at their
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disposal they're having a bike lock to
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to lock in the barricades in front of
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this
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historic building and all those
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handprints right there just waiting to
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be touched don't touch them
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no matter how much you're tempted do not
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touch the handprints
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not only has all cash but all alcohol
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has also
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been removed from the hard rock cafes
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property
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when i shifted my feet and started to
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walk away my shoes stuck to the ground
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back at them oh they hear that they were
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stuck to the ground they're sticking to
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the crap
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as it goes for almost all late night
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talk show
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hosts they are doing their episodes from
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home right now including jimmy kimmel
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for now you looking at the time capsule
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yeah i never saw that before yeah i've
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always wondered what's inside
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the entertainment tonight time capsule
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john tesh's piano i bet
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maybe all right this is where it kind of
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really sinks in look how
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bearing this landscape is in comparison
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to how it normally is
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wow absolutely no street performers no
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buskers there's just no one
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it just doesn't seem like hollywood
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without four different batman's out here
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it kind of doesn't
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you're right you know what that's the
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best way to describe it
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kind of doesn't for batman's or nothing
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in time maybe maybe when they come back
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they'll be eight
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let's step it up a notch there won't be
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four batman there'll be eight
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and seventeen spider-man ben affleck may
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be out here by the time we reopen
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he may have to you would have never
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expected all this to be
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taking place
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what it is i have kind of zoomed in just
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a little bit on the sign there
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another view of that iconic sign
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normally there's a couple dozen folks up
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there on that
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that ledge that balcony looking over not
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today
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now i'm getting a little bit better
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perspective here
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of buster rorsch your hands
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i like that make sure you don't wash
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your hands but
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rorsch your hands
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she doesn't have her camera right now
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selfie fail she's got her hand in the
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position to take a selfie but the
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i think maybe someone has do you see
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what i see
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no oh dawn of the dead must have
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happened because she's missing half a
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leg since this all started
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oh you're right i didn't even notice
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that
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the store is open they have hand
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sanitizer hand soap
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bath tissue and paper towels that's good
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news i got everything in here milk eggs
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soft drinks yeah he's gonna know this is
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uh this is a
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hot commodity right here how much are
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the purell
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okay i'll take both of those some latex
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gloves here you want one of these jordan
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yeah okay i'll take one one for me one
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for jordan
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here's a look from across the way of the
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supply sergeant
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that historic that thing's been that
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billboard's been there for a long time
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they're not taking any chances
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got the wood up i never noticed this
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mural back here
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it's a good one there it is the hanga
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building
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very noticeable this painting here next
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to the atm
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cash rules that's a happy fellow right
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there
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i think he got the cash legally out of
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that hard to say
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atm here down there
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getting some take out here at trejo's
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tacos
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glad that they are they're serving cause
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there i'm gonna get a burrito
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their burritos are good and before
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entering you have to
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follow the rules and regulations posted
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on the window all right
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not gonna dive in quite yet want to go
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by where amoeba currently sets even
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though
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they're not reopening that spot at least
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want to show
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show where amoeba used to be
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they're not granting access but can at
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least go say goodbye from a distance
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and then we'll then we'll chow down
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on these i'm gonna be really surprised
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if the jack and
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jack in the box that sits right here is
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being torn down or maybe they just
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now they probably just put this up to
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keep people from congregating this is
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also a mcdonald's situation where a lot
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of people kind of live here
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a lot of people hang out and live that's
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the only place in the area that you can
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use a public bathroom for free
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so it's kind of a transient because for
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those who don't know people from that
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around hollywood there's not a lot of
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restaurant public restrooms yeah this is
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one of the few
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absolutely so that's probably why they
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put this up just to keep the
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just to keep the crowds out and then
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amoeba just is right over there
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you just see the tippy top of the
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building oh wait
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no i think it is changing over it's not
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going to be a jack in the box anymore
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that's the
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that was the old signage right there a
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lot of memories in that place
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bought a lot of products saw a couple
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concerts and
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yeah i'm gonna miss this location
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that kind of states it right there see
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you up the street
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now gonna be at 6200 hollywood boulevard
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this fall
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thanks for all the support love you la
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stay safe
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see you later no movies taking place
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inside theaters at least in this state
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which means the cinerama dome is just
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sitting there
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and this is what we're dealing with we
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actually got the same
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we've got precisely the same thing the
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steak asada
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there's yours thank you for you
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and this is mine and there's some sauces
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oh yeah made in la this
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is what's up at one point across the way
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there on the sunset
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that used to be nickelodeon on sunset
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and to the right is a new a new
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apartment complex is popping up
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got a nice little spot here against this
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little i guess you could call this a
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stoop
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oh you're already diving in all right
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well that's going to do it for today
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