The Academy Awards 2019 - What's It Like Outside The Oscars / Police Crowd Control / Walking Tour
A visit to the 91st Academy Awards in Hollywood California . Full waking tour around every street circling the event . What's it like the night of The Oscars ? Here is a guide of sorts .
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road closures in full effect that's
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because this evening the Academy Awards
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are taking place just a couple blocks in
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that direction the only cars that are
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being allowed through are those with
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special permission that are attending
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notice the police presence is starting
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to become prevalent hanging out there in
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the shade out of the Sun a checkpoint of
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sorts has been set up I don't think that
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vehicle is attending the event but I
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think they're I think they're I think
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they might be on the job certainly a
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rare occasion to see the streets this
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completely empty in both directions and
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I'm heading all the way down there to
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the Dolby and Chinese Theater area
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corner of Hollywood Boulevard and
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Highland dude I follow your YouTube
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channel Batman follows my YouTube
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channel yeah of course what about you
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what about Spiderman of course I do
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follow your YouTube channel dude you
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have like one of the best YouTube
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channels around I appreciate call it a
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sign of the times if you will but not
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everyone arrives by limousine like the
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olden days now with ride sharing like
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uber and lift and assortment you'll
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notice the officers are going around the
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bottom of the car with mirrors just to
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make sure there's no no horse play going
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on nothing's being brought in that
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doesn't belong in that area welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here I have to say
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I'm dressed
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moderately accordingly join me sh this
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is interesting for the a automobiles to
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make their way in this direction they
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have to go by these barricades that are
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in an S shape an obstacle course of
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sorts before reaching this
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particular spot and then must drive over
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what is stated on the side of this
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contraption called an incident command
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post almost looks like a weight scale
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Spike Lee is going to win everything he
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and his movie were nominated it's going
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to win so big it's going to be [\h__\h] le
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[\h__\h] le [\h__\h] le okay you'll see all
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right that's it place your bets it's
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done Mel Rose Larry Green stated it
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what's going on what's going on over
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here with this like mus this is like an
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insane this is like a riot Squad well I
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like that vehicle over here if something
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goes down are you going to jump in and
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help or you just going to like stand no
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I'm going to run home and watch Fox News
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and your YouTube station all right
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sounds good good to see you thanks man
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see you Larry have a good night in all
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seriousness though look at the sheer
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stamina of that right across the street
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they are not playing around not playing
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around at
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all see there's quite a Congregation of
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people
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here here at the entry point it's like
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people are just crammed over there
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against the fence it is very difficult
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to get too close they've done a good job
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at staning everything off if you don't
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long over there to be honest that's the
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view right there that is necessary it's
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not every day the Goodyear blimp rears
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its head in this area it's got a great
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spot looking down on the activities I
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shifted my position I'm now standing
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over by the Hollywood High School and
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from this position can't go any further
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towards where the camera is pointed so I
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must turn the opposite direction and
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walk back up
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towards the boulevard which has a few
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people but considerably less than on the
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opposite corner oh yeah I could probably
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get a little better view from the
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spot here we have a a great view chain
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link
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fence just pretend it's not there chain
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link that's just imagine it doesn't
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exist you guys have any predictions for
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who's going to win best picture I have
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no idea sir you know you're you're just
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the Run you're just not tell you're just
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not telling us no spoilers
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right another shot of the blimp up there
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from this angle you can fully read all
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the words across its torso Good Year
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holy cow didn't even notice us at first
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but up on top of the old Max Factor
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building roof are like some snipers up
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there holy
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cow I guess it does make
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sense better safe than
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sorry no bright ideas from from my end
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to get on top of the roof by climbing
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that scaffolding because
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there are officers everywhere even in
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the sky I wouldn't be surprised if they
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put this guy to work although he's not
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holding a weapon he's acting like he's
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holding one but it's like an invisible
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weapon this caution tape might be
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haunted it's just like floating around
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on its
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own what's up with that the haunted Los
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Angeles Police
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Department caution or that's maybe
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that's why the caution tape's
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here actually you know what it's just I
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think it's just the wind it's just the
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wind no joke there are probably well
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there's two in frame but there's
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probably about 10 to maybe even a
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dozen aircraft in the air helicopters
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both sides of the road are roped off
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what would happen if I just mosied
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directly down the center what would
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happen I'm not going to do it I'm just
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throwing a hypothetical out there like
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if I was to like Marty McFly it grab a
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skateboard and mount myself on the back
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of that that car that just went by I
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think they noticed it would be nearly
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impossible to drive through this
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concrete barricade not really sure why
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they have
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the the police line because that's not
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stopping anyone but if you hit this this
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pile of
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concrete it's a bad day is it just me or
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does goodier keep getting closer by the
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moment it was a ways off now it's like
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almost directly over my head
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just to give a little perspective of
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where I am took me some rerouting but I
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crossed to the other side of the
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Boulevard and now I'm on a side street
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kind of go up here to another barricade
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and kind of shimmy around how many years
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have you been have you been doing this
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10 years 10 years 10 years so you're
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here for the 91st you just Chang change
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the number yeah I do you have the
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Academy Award there on the front of your
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front of your shirt yeah this is from
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the curtain from the Oscars they only
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made 15 of these oh no kidding yeah and
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you have any predictions on who's going
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to win any categories I want it to be
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Bohemian rap city okay Ramy Malik nice
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I'm hoping in the
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back excellent and I did my shoes this
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year oh yeah nice they look good oh yeah
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they have like they have like little
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Academy Awards on the side of them cies
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all over very cool and you got like the
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star there the walk F star my pants and
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all these different patches yeah those
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are from the different hat wow 76 75 I'm
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like a walking Museum you really are all
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right thanks for talking to me I
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appreciate it I'm met Oscars superfan on
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Instagram Oscars super fan on social
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media on Instagram this seems to be a
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better Lookout spot than the other
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Corners was previously on these are
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where the cars are departing after the
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drop off point
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kind of zoom in a little bit better I'm
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going to walk up a little closer but as
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you can tell the crowd is considerably
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less thick over in this
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region I'm also standing up on top of a
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barricade so I have a little elevated
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take a look as well behind the fence on
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the opposite side everyone is in there
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their best dressed outfits looks like a
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new mural is being painted here whatever
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figure is going to be on the far right's
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not even completed yet and the far left
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the heads are not completely done but
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this is brand new
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this is the heavy machinery that puts
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those concrete barricades in place
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you'll see people going through an
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entrance there you have to have a ticket
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to get in though you have to have
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credentials which I I don't
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have haven't seen you since last year
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how you been oh I'm fine I can't see you
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much at all vision is really bad oh okay
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I got to get my uh cataract work you
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doing any songs tonight
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ohing
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again ah ah ah because traffic is
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blocked off on the
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boulevard running parallel in the next
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Road over this is what
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traffic is what we're dealing with
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Bumper to Bumper moving about half a
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mile an hour if you're lucky the sign
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back there said media and staff this way
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I'm holding a camera so I'm just kind of
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vicariously I'm kind of media
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right this really is quite the operation
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they have back
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here also currently closed for the
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moment is the Highland Center which is
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basically this huge
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mall all the shops are closed for the
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day well that pretty much accomplish
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nothing just because you're holding a
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halfway decent camera does not deem you
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media by the Oscars staff from this
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angle you can see how the wax museum is
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closed doors are
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shut and very few people on this end
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including the normal cast of characters
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you see dressed up as superheroes
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throughout every other day of the year
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$5 store also not operational my next
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destination is over there on that side
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but to make that happen I have to go all
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the way down
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this chain link fence line it's good
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though I could use definitely use the
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exercise and by doing so a
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Hitchcock would be
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proud don't even think about jumping the
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fence don't even think about
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it I mean you could think about it but
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just just don't do it seems as if
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there's more police presence on this end
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than the other angles I've been to now
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see this is what I'm lacking says
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credentials
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required I don't have any credentials
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how do I go about getting credentials
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blocked it off I've heard they blocked
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off
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high but Hollywood Boulevard they may
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not have blocked off you may be able
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to head up with a
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couple here's a view looking down at the
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elcapitan Disney Theater which is across
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from the Dolby so basically to the left
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of where I'm stand standing is where all
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the action is all blocked off by this
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very discreet fence
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line now that's a limo right there they
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oh wait never mind they're not they're
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going the opposite way I got got
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confused for a moment this cardboard
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cutout and the back of the goth cart who
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is that supposed to oh my gosh is that
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Pennywise never mind the cardboard
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cutout there is Pennywise the Clown
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I like how he just basically interrupted
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that guy's selfie he was taken of
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himself that's how Pennywise rolls he's
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got that balloon now watch out watch out
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fellas that's
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it signs signs everywhere
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signs can't go that
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way on the back side of Hollywood
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High notice this tour van right here in
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the
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middle of the intersection looking Downs
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this is basically
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where all the vehicles were going up to
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drop off the celebrities I thought maybe
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I could come down to the this corner and
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then walk up and now I'm noticing this a
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sign if you could read it faintly
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written in Sharpie says sidewalk not
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open to the
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public hello
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doggy this is kind of this is the
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perspective looking straight
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up
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Highland you can hear that helicopter
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above head obviously you can even see
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that billboard spelling out
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Oscars it's very tall probably like 30
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40 ft tall the top of the Highland
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Center impressive shim be up the way
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just a bit now I probably could easily
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go around this
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particular this particular
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spot I think I'm going to go one more
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block up
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because it does say sidewalk close plus
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there's two officers off there in the
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distance that would not take kindly to
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that disobedience
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you can see most of the hubub has kind
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of died down looks like everyone's been
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dropped off the award ceremony has
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gotten underway so the streets are
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rather slow
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now it's been officially kicked off
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indoors over here however people are not
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dissipating they're waiting to the last
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possible minute just in case there is a
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late arrive rival crammed in over there
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like
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sardines more or less no Elbow
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Room oh my God it's Brad
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Pit Julia
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Roberts it is certainly interesting that
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the red carpet goes directly down the
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middle of the road not on the sidewalk
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the middle of the road of course there
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are some workers just about to take it
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up though
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the red carpet is about to be
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erased from existence now
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baloney now more
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baloney no more baloney no more baloney
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no more baloney no more baloney no more
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baloney
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baloney no more
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we over
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I'm Alfred I'm on YouTube on a t on a
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another one called uh President Obama is
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serated by Alfred here let me give you a
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little something okay do it
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all right I got to run
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buddy nice
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talking at work I'm working I'm working
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mom all right I'm waiting for esal
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Johansson to give the massage all right
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let you're letting your mom know you're
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staying busy I appreciate it your
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handsome black widow all
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up to date on future oh I get out of the
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road there's a car
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coming I realized the road was blocked
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off but there's still some people
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driving
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down if you enjoy this particular
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episode please give it a big big thumbs
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up it lets me know you care we checked
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out the ins and outs the road closures
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and what you can expect by visiting
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Hollywood the day of the Academy Awards
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so if you come down here you can use
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this as a guide if you willwood I'll see
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you in the next video the
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Vlog is over I don't know why we need a
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big ceremony you can just come to one of
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these gift shops and purchase one for
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like n bucks