An Off The Wall Day In Hollywood - Unplanned Scooter Tour / Melrose Trading Post - LA Pop Ups & More
Hollywood March 2023
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welcome everyone out of the woo here as
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a recording of this it is Sunday March
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5th 2023 I'm standing here at the fair
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flat Fairfax Farmers Market I am not
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waiting for the bus I'm just standing
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next to the bus stop but someone that
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also was not waiting for a bus is the
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one and only German in Venice welcome to
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beautiful Los Angeles on the rainy day
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we didn't expect the rain to happen
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today we came prepared but it actually
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looks nice right now the sun is coming
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out yeah Mike oh that was a little steam
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we'll see maybe we see some celebrities
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shopping here today I've seen you some
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I've seen some before so you never know
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you gotta always look out for
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celebrities that's true I'll keep an eye
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out German and Vanessa keep an eye out
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inviting you to join me in German and
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Venice
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shall you of course you shall I gotta be
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honest this is bringing back serious
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memories for me because when I moved to
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Hollywood I think it was 2017. a little
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in the boulevard for about two years
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before moving back down to Orange County
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I bought a lot of items right in here
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and I had I don't think I've been
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shopping through here really since then
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since I lived up in Hollywood over on
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the boulevard
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and fun fact the school right here a lot
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of famous notable people like you know
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rock stars like Slash from Guns and
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Roses
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went to school here Anthony Kiedis I
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think flee they met up and they started
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the Chili Peppers right over in here
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whenever I think of La bands Chili
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Peppers is always
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when it comes to mind
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when you think of La bands who do you
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think of
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course Guns and Roses all right and uh
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there's a mirror right here on the wall
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I might want to check out that mural if
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it's still there where slash is playing
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when he was 17 years old all right cool
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now I have a pretty light
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when it comes to traveling and whatnot
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so I probably will not be buying a whole
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heck of a lot of souvenirs but one thing
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I did not break was that bring was a
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heavier jacket so I mean I need to buy
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like a zip up hoodie for
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so that is on my agenda because I miss
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the snow it's snow well it hailed it
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hailed but it's still cold in Los
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Angeles last night it was cold yesterday
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it was cold so if you come to La bring a
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jacket not like him
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the one thing that's interesting about
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this flea market you have to pay a
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couple dollars you get to pay a couple
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dollars to get in also if you're not
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familiar with the giv German and Venice
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call yourself giv for short he matches
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up a lot of stuff right now he's
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matching up slash up against this wall
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so check out his channel for a lot of
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fun Hollywood stuff around town you know
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and in Santa Monica Venice Hollywood L.A
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all that kind of stuff show you the
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picture what do you think you gonna show
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me the photo yeah that will be the photo
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okay he's playing with this band
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so you think it was right here against
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this wall I think it was the wall right
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here and they had like a graffiti up
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here yeah this is bringing back a lot of
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memories through here all kind of
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vendors artwork clothing
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souvenirs just walking around here is
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taking me back
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you know it's like taking me back to
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like 2017 like 2017 vibes okay this is
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kind of cool my friend Dan Bell does a
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lot of Polaroid stuff like this and he
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was saying try to get want to buy like
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an actual vintage Polaroid versus like
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one of the kind of like the newer
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Polaroids they came out with one thing I
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was just kind of noticing so you're a
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big fan of like 80s movies and things
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like that right of course I've been
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growing up in that era so you see a lot
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of schools that look a lot like this one
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in Southern California where they have
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like little Courtyard and whatnot I
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don't know if anything technically was
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filmed here per se but it kind of has
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that 80s kind of vibe if you always feel
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like you and
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some kind of movie when you walk around
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here you're absolutely right it gets the
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vibe yeah check this out over here you
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got Bert and Ernie you also got Mickey
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Mouse so you got Steamboat Willie I'm
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not sure if it was here but there's part
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of me that thinks that years so I saw
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this in my interview I saw an article
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online years ago that Dave Grohl
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randomly showed up here with his
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barbecue grill and made like beef
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brisket and stuff for everyone here but
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I wasn't in town when that happened you
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ever never heard about it I never even
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knew that story you know yeah so because
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Dave girl will show up with his barbecue
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girls and just show up to places but I
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think he was here at the Fairfax flea
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market one time
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we both did pretty good also it's like
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the clouds are rolling in but we both
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did pretty good none of us bought
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anything you you uh are you pretty good
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at like not buying like a good Window
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Shopper or not buying stuff anything I
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just enjoy walking around I normally
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never buy anything unless it's really
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good I don't collect stuff you know it's
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just like I have so much stuff at home
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already
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I don't want to put more stuff in my
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apartment I want to be a minimalist yeah
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I'm trying to but I can't do it
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we did pretty good you didn't buy
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anything I didn't buy anything yeah I
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said I was gonna buy like a sweatshirt a
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zip up sweatshirt like kind of like the
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one you have on
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but it's warmed up it's starting to warm
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up out here but we haven't been on
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Melrose yet where they actually sell all
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the stuff so maybe we're gonna there's
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always cool stuff there so I'm gonna I'm
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gonna get something there fun fact I
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have the same high Boy Scooter I
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purchased it and I purchased it because
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of German and Venice a couple years ago
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I think it was probably two years ago
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right yep we went to Venice Beach you're
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like hey I have a scooter you want the
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scuba to ride the scooter or the bike
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you chose the bike well I chose a
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scooter you took the bike and then when
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I got home
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back to Florida I said what was what was
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the model of that so I had this same
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exact one all right as we're scootering
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along check out this Relic you got not
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only do you have the phone book down
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here it's all been spray painted over
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but you also have the phone itself and
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the skeleton around it and the pole
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these have the sign that would say
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Payphone on the side of it
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pretty dang cool this is a relic of the
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past what do you think is going on
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across the street over there I don't
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know I was here last week and I saw
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Paris Hilton yeah that that was their
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store last week so they completely
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changed it you saw Paris Hilton here
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yeah I mean I didn't see her I saw a car
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Bentley I didn't wait but she had like a
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bin
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changes the total now it's something
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totally different
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like a clothing shop that everyone's
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lining up for some stuff
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all right so he's standing in front of
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the Improv but you can kind of see the
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building behind him
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is that his wife that's with him that's
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his wife yeah
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here on the corner of the sign I just
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showed
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Kia Dry Kill Kia drive or kill key kill
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Keya Drive
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Michael Landon
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I bet Michael Landon would never I think
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Michael Lana might have passed on before
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the Whirlwind of Jake Paul arrived team
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10 down there out it's every day bro
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it's every day yeah that style of
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YouTube content is a hundred percent
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different 360 well not 360. yeah 180.
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from the style that I do and German and
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Venice does I like to do some crazy
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stuff sometimes like doing a wheelie
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right now on my bicycle but I can't do
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it so the team 10 was kind of like a
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bunch of people he kind of put together
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they all lived in this house I think
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this was the house
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Logan Paul used to live really close to
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where I lived this is it right here this
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is the house
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I think that's the team 10 house right
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there
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or was the team 10 house or maybe it was
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this one it could have been this one
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right here
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I gotta look it up
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might it might be this one it's one of
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these that is a selfie stick I was
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wondering what that was that is a very
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long selfie stick you know if you look
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thinner
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the higher you go up I fall away so I'm
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gonna put my 360 camera on here okay and
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then we're going to shoot you and me
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riding in front and in the bag okay
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that's pretty cool
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so I came by here
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five or six years ago I think when they
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all moved out of this house but just
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looking at this neighborhood it makes me
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think that all the neighbors probably
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did not like what was going on around
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here you know I was just thinking he had
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a kind of a song that got popular called
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it's everyday bro because he was doing
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like daily Vlogs I have far I I don't
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mean to toot my own horn but I far
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exceeded how many daily Vlogs that I've
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done and I don't even say it's every day
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bro
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well you might have to come up with your
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own song then you know should I write a
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song yeah
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yeah sure what would my song be called
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on the road again all right
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I think someone might have already done
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that I think someone already wrote that
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one
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yeah I think that's what they're right
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there isn't this on Venice Beach that's
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Venice yeah that's Venice
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always nice to see
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that I just learned something new so
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these over in Venice are old chimneys
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That's All That Remains What was the
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what was to be the old Pavilion that
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performed in there and they teared it
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down a few years ago but you can
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actually Barbecue on the bottom that
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like tables around picnic yeah
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I mean it's very iconic it's pretty
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close to the big metal V
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right over there
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if I never knew that they were chimneys
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now that I'm looking at it it does look
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like a chimney stack
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interesting one thing that's always cool
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about hanging out with you is I learned
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a lot of Michael Jackson HIStory this
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was one of Michael Jackson's favorite
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stores and he was videot it was he was
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videoed and there were photos of him
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going inside this place that's now
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called moist okay here is the photo of
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him he's kind of incognito he's got like
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the facial got the mask on there where
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he's trying not to be seen but there's a
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video of him parked his car over here
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that pole is still there also I was
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incorrect the place was is was called
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moist thin it's still called moist but
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why was that his favorite shop I don't
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know they had some really cool jackets
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back then with some like he used to like
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those
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uh what do you call those
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the Insignia kaipa jacket they had like
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the Insignia on the side one thing I'm
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noticing well I kind of already knew but
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I'm just gonna reiterate from when I was
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living here I always notice around here
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pop-ups are all the rage I pop up stores
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I also will say some of the worst
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sidewalks I've ever seen for like a
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highly populated busy thoroughfare
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people walking and shopping all the
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sidewalks are like this they're pushing
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him and the kids to actually
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oh really so this used to looks like
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it's like a car dealership now or maybe
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like something like a maintenance Bay
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for automobiles mechanic shop this would
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be a furniture store where Michael
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Jackson bought a bunch of stuff okay on
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live check it out type in Micah Jackson
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shopping on Melrose and that video pops
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up with the paparazzi pushing uh cameras
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and
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no kidding I think this is the Crypt
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Keeper right here in the thrift store
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and oh that is the Torso of ET holding
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the Crypt Keeper's head
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look at that
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that is wild okay that's pretty good
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Sinatra over here
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Frankie's on Melrose
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truly is what you want to do for a
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living wake up every day get to work
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I like that
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yeah look at some of the
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the tags and stuff and the wheat pasting
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that's on here we got Salvador Dali and
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I think that's is that Elizabeth Short
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right there that's a Black Dahlia yes it
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is that's the Black Dahlia
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is one of those Hollywood
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sightseeing tours
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oh wow speaking of pop-ups here was a
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blockbuster pop-up this couldn't have
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been an old Blockbuster from back in the
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day this has to have been a blockbuster
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pop-up but it looks like the pop-up has
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since closed but they have the old
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Blockbuster stuff on the side of it
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there the old Blockbuster sign
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take a look at that
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Hollywood
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we've now arrived on the corner of La
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Brea and Melrose so back when I lived
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here I would get my oil change for my
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car over at that Jiffy Lube and it would
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take like 45 minutes to an hour and then
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I would walk over to Pink's Hot Dogs and
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I would get myself a hot dog so I'm
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gonna do that now I love some pinks
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there's also a pinks at Universal
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Studios Hollywood but I like going to
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the the original pinks made special
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from pinks Pink's Hot Dog Hollywood
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Legends since 1939
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quite a few people out here even look at
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this there are some full on it's like a
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full-on tour here they got tour buses
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that have just emptied out at pinks we
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timed this incorrectly
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should we wait or to go somewhere else
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oh no that's when we go to take us a
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long time to eat here
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we've been talking amongst ourselves and
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what we're going to do is we're going to
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go back to the car put away the vehicles
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that we have these little mobile
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vehicles and if we drive back by maybe
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all the the people who are here because
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of the tour buses will have you know
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already gotten their food and we could
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just get it right in line and if we
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drive back by and it's the same line
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we'll go to somewhere you recommended
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somewhere
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I'm down for whatever I just figured we
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were in the neighborhood and put those
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people down now they want to see what a
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pink hot dogs look like I've eaten here
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before yeah but yeah I want to eat here
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again because I love Hot Dogs
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if you interviewed that dog over there
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yeah you interviewed them I speak dog
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it's pretty good that's a pretty good
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bark so right over by pinks is also this
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Ramen spot take a look at this this is
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like a it's like a delivery robot
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so the food goes in there and just
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automatically delivers it to where it
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needs to be it's crazy nobody else just
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that little car drives around and
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delivers the food
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remember when there was that
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announcement they were going to start
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having drones that would deliver
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packages
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I don't know if that ever happened yeah
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I wonder if I could order a pig's hot
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dog on there and skip that line over
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there maybe we should I could have a
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robot bring me a pink hot dog
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that is pretty dang cool
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so what's going to happen they're gonna
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they're gonna bring the food out of this
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Ramen Place put it in here and then
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they're just going to send it on its way
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yeah it's like in like a special area
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like a radius or I don't know a mile two
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miles okay we think the hours of this
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place are you think they're ever opened
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oh they're not open they're not open
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they're never open
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in fact I don't think this place is even
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opening hours the windows are shattered
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and stuff too but it's called the never
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open store around this back alley some
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really cool artwork through here and
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they definitely are letting everyone
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know do not park here says do not park
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here no parking this means you private
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property tenants only do not parking do
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not park not even for a second
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you will be towed
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classic Harley this little neighborhood
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just one block off Melrose another
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classic truck alert
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just taking the alleys now
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but Melrose is just right over there run
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a parallel
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going back back to the car and see what
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else we can get into that's Sid Nancy up
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and then that's I think that's Pete from
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the Disney cartoons there with the
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little hat on
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I really like this it's like the back
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side of the Hollywood Sign looking down
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upon Hollywood proper his Goodyear blimp
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up top and everything
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this is pretty cool this place called
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American Vintage has a lot of Hollywood
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royalty up there Judy Garland
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NBC field there's Elvis chaplain
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Maryland
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James Dean among other Sammy Davis Jr
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look up top there's Jim Carrey from Dumb
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and Dumber up there the Jim Carrey up
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there a couple other things that are
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kind of painted on the side here as well
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dream as though your life depends on it
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over here here's a couple of guys that
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have Rubik's Cube for heads but I think
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that's supposed to be Joe Rogan right
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there I think that's Rogan we were
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talking about Dave Grohl earlier there
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he is right there talk about his
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barbecue
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prowess of his barbecue it's all coming
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together now I was mentioning Polaroids
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earlier there's a polar right there
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Andy's got one
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Mr wilhel's got a Polaroid
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you can always tell the difference
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between the paint and then wheat pasting
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so wheat paste starts to kind of fall
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apart decompose
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come on
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he's standing in front of it we are
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celebrating but this building right here
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right here at eight four four seven
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this was the studio where Off the Wall
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was recorded and Thriller was recorded
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Thriller was recorded inside this this
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building wow it's the West Lakes West
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Lake Studios is it still a studio yeah
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it's still a studio you can still go in
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that Abdu tours and they have a lot of
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stuff inside from Michael Jackson
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so cool man
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there's a lot of people in here they get
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that go through this door right here
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this is the entrance right there
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that'll be their load their equipment in
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huh
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so was the Off The Wall album cover near
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here too yeah it's right around the
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corner
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so he would have recorded there and he
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probably goes oh I know this like wall
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up here we go get a photo at oh what it
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was that was another Studio down the way
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and they were inside and then
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the guy who designed his stuff actually
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said let's walk around the corner they
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actually did a photo shoot at the
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observatory first but they didn't like
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that picture
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so there was a
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another recording studio around the
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corner not the one where he recorded but
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there was he was meeting with a guy the
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photographer said hey come over here
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take a picture in front of this wall
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you can't really see the door however in
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the in the photo
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so it might have been kind of close up
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like that perhaps
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it's interesting though because the
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they must have put that door in maybe
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they put the door in there later on
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obviously it's been repainted and that
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door
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it's really tough to match up but
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there's the wall and they've also
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painted this here
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on the wall MJ
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and I guess people have people side
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stuff to Michael here
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or is this just regular
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no probably not
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oh yeah there we go we got a Michael
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Jackson there
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got MJ there
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wow that's cool nobody like puts her
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their name oh look at this Captain EO
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down here
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that's great
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and the studio that they were met up and
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then they walked down the the alley it
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was right here on the this corner here
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on the corner yeah
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pulled up the album cover here this is
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what the album cover looks like
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obviously it's been painted from its
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original red
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uh that's the album cover
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Off the Wall MJ
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so there's also this so you got this
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here but I'm looking at this
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and I'm thinking maybe there weren't
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electrical boxes could it have been here
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or has it been one thousand percent
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confirmed that it was right guy who knew
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Michael and he worked with him yeah I
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saw the video literally saw the video
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where he walked around the corner and
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walked right here he was staying right
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here and said this is the wall that's
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the spot okay maybe that wasn't the door
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back then I don't know ancestors were
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talking about album covers
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and we're in the same general area
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behind cantor's here
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is this little Alleyway where GNR stood
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right here it's also one of them eating
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at the booth inside there there's a
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famous photo of all them standing right
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here
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in front of this brick wall
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says the 419 on it oh yeah look at that
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it's cool
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that's really cool
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here's the photo as well you can see the
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wall still looks the same the door still
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looks the same bricks all look the same
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GNR
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right in the back alley in L.A
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Hollywood West Hollywood
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it's wild
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this is awesome I never realized this
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was anymore I never realized that inside
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the pretty here on beautiful Las Palmas
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Avenue that was a Seinfeld reference
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but they have the this is Richard Gere
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Julia Roberts we're on the the fire
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escape outside wow that this is inside
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this hotels now it's a hotel it's not
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apartments anymore
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man that is cool so it wasn't the top
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floor it was the second one down no she
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was on top floor I think it is top floor
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they just went so that we see it outside
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I'm not sure yeah it looks like the top
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ones up here so she must have been on
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the second one it's been a while since
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I've seen the movie but it's right out
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if you look right out here
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there is up top is the
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there it is right there
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I had been by here many many times
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walked by gone by showing in videos over
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the years never have I been inside there
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but we rang the bell they let us go
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through and
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asked to see the mural and were able to
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see the mural there it is right there
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well think about La you get
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helicopters going by up top you see a
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helicopter up there every occasionally
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gets a car honking but I think the car
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hockey is more of a New York thing you
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don't get it you got to do the famous
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line
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Welcome to Hollywood what is your dream
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you ever been up on the on the
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scaffolding no I wanted to that's why I
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wanted to rent this place and go there
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all right this is pretty wild the
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theater that used to be across the
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street the historic theater is gone now
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they're like they've torn it all out and
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kind of gutted it out of there very
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historic theater was over there just
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gone all right from this angle you can
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see that the grahmins Egyptian sign is
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still back in there but I guess like
23:06
they're redoing the roof over here on
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Hollywood and Highland looks like Buster
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is still celebrating Valentine's Day
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still on the Valentine's way past
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Valentine's Day but
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definitely up there with the bow and
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arrow and all that and a week from today
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the Academy Awards the austros will be
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taking place they're already starting to
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set up for it take a look at this they
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got the big tent set up over here and
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you can walk directly across cross
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traffic well not really because it's
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kind of all backed up but it sounds like
23:35
the X you can walk across either way to
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go across the street here which is kind
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of cool they are really starting to set
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up for this pretty early
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oh look at this this is where this is
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where all the magic is gonna happen
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I'm gonna go in the Souvenirs of
23:52
Hollywood and try to get a zip up hooded
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sweatshirt starting to get chilly again
23:56
walked over now in front of the Chinese
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Theater the Hollywood Walk of Fame and
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of course the hand prints that are
24:04
through here as well I got Star Wars
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yeah I believe you Harrison Ford down
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Clint Eastwood
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now I go to Hollywood Studios so much in
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Florida and I used to live here on
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Hollywood Boulevard and then one in
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Florida is an exact scale Recreation of
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this and everything exactly the two
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dimensions and everything we did a heck
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of a good job recreating this very
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historic one oh this is awesome check
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out Gloria Swanson here from Sunset
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Boulevard
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Norma Desmond herself that's great
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Morgan Freeman here Tom Cruise
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Gene Kelly Dick Van Dyke over here all
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kind of Hollywood Legends Mary Pickford
24:49
Douglas Fairbanks how did he do such
24:52
incredible stunts with such small feet
24:55
Clark Gable being Crosby Shirley Temple
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Gary Cooper I don't really watch the
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Academy Awards or the Oscars really I
25:05
see some of the highlights what not but
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it's gonna be happening at the Dolby
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Theater and in front of the Dolby
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Theater there's a staircase it's always
25:12
here you get photos on it but now it has
25:14
been adorned and is being dressed up
25:16
even though it's seven days early for
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the Academy Awards 2023 Oscars and
25:22
lining the sides of the staircase are
25:25
these curtains now the one gift shop I
25:26
pointed out did not have any zip up
25:28
hoodies so I'm still on the lookout for
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a hoodie and also we're going to go up
25:32
here to Johnny Rockets we opted out of
25:35
doing things we went back by pinks
25:36
earlier and the line was even longer
25:38
than it was the first time
25:40
so we're gonna go with little Johnny
25:41
Rockets a little little diner style food
25:44
here on the boulevard also right up here
25:46
they used to have the big elephants out
25:48
front they removed the elephants
25:51
all all versions of the elephants that
25:54
were up here have been removed that were
25:56
up on top of the area up top they were
25:59
like looking down on the Hollywood and
26:01
Highland Mall we are now stepping into
26:03
Johnny Rockets the original hamburger
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place which is kind of like an old
26:07
school Diner right in here we're gonna
26:09
get a bite to eat inside Johnny Rockets
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I always like the the vibe of this place
26:13
it's like a chain place but it has that
26:15
old Diner type of feel all right we
26:18
ended up being a pretty in a pretty
26:20
being a pretty good meal we ended up
26:22
getting both of us ended up well I got
26:23
the chili I decided to get a little big
26:25
bowl of chili with onions and what the
26:27
chili was okay it was kind of kind of
26:28
average but the salads that we got we
26:30
got chicken both trim events and I got
26:32
both chicken salads really dang good and
26:35
not only the salads themselves but they
26:36
brought me a little bit of ranch and he
26:37
got like a honey mustard and they
26:39
brought an entire vat of honey mustard
26:41
out I don't even think there's no way he
26:43
could even eat all that honey mustard
26:44
and now we're back down to the lower
26:45
level here where they have the tent up
26:47
for the Academy Awards that's coming up
26:49
as well here at the Highland Center we
26:51
put the Johnny Rockets is up there on
26:53
the second floor kind of right up there
26:55
but now we're just walking this way
26:56
everyone's waiting for the light to
26:58
change the only one brave enough to walk
26:59
out without waiting is has two snakes
27:01
one snake around his neck
27:04
it is good to see you drinking a piping
27:06
hot caffeinated
27:09
beverage I gotta give you the cheers
27:11
here I love it too man I love saying it
27:14
always laugh when I see your videos and
27:16
you say it I always have a smile on my
27:18
face
27:19
easy set it's like this makes me happy
27:22
you gotta say it you got to say it the
27:24
piping heart coffinated damage nice I
27:28
like that I still need to get I still
27:31
need to get a jacket though I still need
27:34
to get this zip up Hoodie they have like
27:36
a lot of the pull down hoodies and I
27:38
really want to get it I'm going to get
27:39
like a zip down I was gonna say do you
27:41
think this works or doesn't work but
27:43
looking at it it definitely does not
27:44
work because the handle has been ripped
27:47
completely off of there but I wanted to
27:49
kind of point out this mural here it
27:51
looks like WC Fields over there I can't
27:53
tell who the who the female is at WSU
27:56
fields and of course Chaplin wedged in
27:58
there as well painted over here next to
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the
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next to the
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were you trying to make a call well the
28:05
thing is I just looked it up on eBay and
28:07
they sell for three hundred dollars
28:09
really and I really want one like this
28:11
in my apartment all right just for like
28:14
you would say posterity posterity I just
28:18
like those but it doesn't have like 300
28:20
you can buy one on eBay
28:22
look at this concrete pylon this thing's
28:24
there this is like a big slab of
28:26
concrete there
28:32
you can just get rid of your cell phone
28:32
and we could just go back to the days
28:35
when it was
28:36
put a quarter in never kind of like
28:38
funny farm Chevy Chase movie funny farm
28:39
he had to like insert a quarter but he
28:42
didn't have to have a place to insert a
28:44
quarter so he fooled the operator by
28:46
putting a coin in a glass
28:50
it's a deep cut I know but yeah
28:53
not a lot of people saw funny farm oh
28:55
yeah I should also mention I did finally
28:57
get a zip up sweatshirt you should you
29:00
got this for your video too I should get
29:02
this too where you get over there in the
29:04
Hollywood sign
29:05
we don't have to hike up to the
29:06
Hollywood Sign we could just look at it
29:08
right here on the corner of Hollywood
29:10
Boulevard and what street is this
29:12
Hollywood and Cherokee
29:15
Hollywood and Cherokee I'm glad I got
29:17
this also I look a lot like
29:20
I definitely fit right in now because I
29:22
got the Holly on this side and the wood
29:24
on that side you think that neon still
29:27
works at night
29:28
that's a great Studio Hollywood studio
29:30
Cafe signage there
29:33
when I think of Hollywood I think of a
29:35
lot of things the sign Studios and
29:37
whatnot but I also think of those
29:39
wow I don't even know what that'd be
29:41
referred to as the thing that you say
29:43
you know take one or take two and then
29:45
you clamp down the clamper what is that
29:47
thing called
29:48
there's a name for it yeah I forgot
29:51
maybe I don't know I don't know what
29:53
it's called either way that's what I
29:54
think of Hollywood in movies I think of
29:56
those things
30:01
I do like as they left left the Las
30:01
Palmas Furniture Warehouse signage up
30:03
there too that classic neon as well look
30:05
at this neon the
30:07
I think it's called the beetle house now
30:08
Beetle house used to be on Hollywood
30:11
Boulevard but now it's moved over here
30:12
to Las Palmas so you can see the light
30:15
there the star and the arrow
30:18
and all that the more we thought about
30:20
it
30:21
we decided to go ahead and just come up
30:23
here to the Hollywood sign or at least
30:25
pretty close to the Hollywood sign
30:32
off in the distance there
30:32
downtown Los Angeles
30:41
getting into Hollywood down in this area
30:41
uh more or less down here
30:57
and those clouds Hollywood
30:57
or
31:02
how they woo
31:02
block out the day
31:05
pretty good view from up here I love it
31:09
it's only like 35 minutes walk up to the
31:12
sign from here
31:21
I love the view of downtown L.A
31:23
I think this is a good place to do the
31:24
outro
31:26
that's gonna do it for today from myself
31:29
German and Venice
31:31
who escorted me around
31:34
you drove I rode
31:36
we saw a few things always a good time
31:38
hanging out with you thank you so much I
31:39
had a blast hanging out with you it's
31:41
always fun so thanks a lot again yeah
31:45
you know what we should go right over
31:46
there to the edge you know that way
31:47
we're like as close as humanly possible
31:51
not too close though
31:57
you know now that I'm here I realized
31:57
like 10 years ago when I used to do the
31:59
unedited videos I've been to the spot
32:02
I've been to the dog park spot I've
32:04
hiked up to the top there
32:06
but like 10 years ago or so
32:08
I did a video where I walked right over
32:09
there and I believe there was a
32:11
recording that told me don't go any
32:13
farther
32:13
have you ever walked over that way never
32:16
walk that way yeah
32:18
all right I'll see you in the next video
32:19
for myself and German and Venice
32:22
subscribe to his channel oh I never say
32:25
that but you can say it for me please
32:27
subscribe to me and to him yeah no not
32:30
please just subscribe that's all yeah
32:32
see you guys later I'll see you in the
32:33
next video the Vlog is
32:36
over just saying
32:39
don't you always do that do it again
32:41
take two just sing
32:52
and the good thing is normally this
32:52
place is packed with people but it's
32:55
only him and me here right now how cool
32:57
is that we're all alone at the Hollywood
32:59
side
33:08
it's the Hollywood sign right there
33:09
amazing
33:10
I never get tired of looking at that
33:12
thing