Warner Bros Studio Tour Hollywood- Walking The Backlot & Inside Filming Locations / Friends Fountain
Warner Bros Studio Tour Dec 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Monday
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December 4th 2023 and I am wearing an
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appropriate sweatshirt because I am
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doing the Warner Brothers tour today
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here in Burbank it's going to be a
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Burbank day and I learned a little trick
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my friend German Venice when you do the
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tour here you can park in the structure
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but there are like six levels I am on no
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Seven Levels so I am in section P6 of
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level seven you go up to the top you get
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kind of a bird's eyye perspective of one
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of the most famous back Lots in the
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greater Hollywood area in fact there's
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another one right over there Universal
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Studios Hollywood is just over the cusp
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of Warner here in the valley but Warner
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Brothers proper is right behind me also
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later today going to meet up with a
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couple friends going to head over to the
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Warner Ranch which has been demolished
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bulldozed and they have started putting
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up new sound stages for a different
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Corporation not really sure exactly
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what's going on with that but I'm going
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to go over there and check that out as
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well so we'll do Warner and then Warner
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Ranch was about which is about was about
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a mile from here I'm inviting you to
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join me it's good to have you here shall
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you that's Griffith Park right there you
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can get a little view of the fictional
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Walton Mountain where they filmed some
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of The Waltons here in Warner and as
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stated you got Universal Studios
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Hollywood over there in the distance let
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me zoom in just a little bit on
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that
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you see the Wizarding World castle there
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also see the minions
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area and of course the very famous
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Warner Brothers water tower where the
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Animaniacs live for a little
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while right here tucked away in a
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residential
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neighborhood in fact there's some condos
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and apartments and living quarters over
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there just
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outside some of your favorite favorite
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TV shows films
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commercials have all been
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filmed including the Annie staircase
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which is right here it's also where
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Prince took the photo for purple
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rain hard knock
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life so I'm going to be getting on one
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of those little golf carts
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there I was using gem Gremlins at the
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very beginning well actually the when he
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goes in into the basement there but was
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also recently watching Karate Kid Part
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Two And there's a scene where they walk
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past that in Karate Kid Part Two it was
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also Madam rubies peewee's big adventure
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where he goes in and gets his fortune
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told that window is using a lot of
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different stuff a little side angle
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looking down into the the alley down
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there as well it's just so dang cool now
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sometimes they'll let you film sometimes
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they won't if they do I will if they
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don't I won't but I got a full day of a
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different things too
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so see where the see where the wind
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blows but hopefully hopefully see some
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cool stuff down in here today you just
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never know with a lot of a lot of Tours
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I think a lot of it just depends on the
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guide there are several different tours
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you can do I've done a lot of them I've
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done the classic I've done the VIP today
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I'm just doing the regular one which is
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a cost of $70 I believe it is a two
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maybe a three-hour tour that a 3-hour
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tour does not end well for anyone in
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Gilligan Island but hopefully it'll end
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well for me starting off on P6 level
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7 going down I think technically it's
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there's like I'm the only car parked up
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here too see everybody else is on the
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other levels but anybody can park up
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here I can grab my favorite and bring it
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along for the tour look at that I might
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have to get a I'm going to get a couple
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coffees today I'm also going to I'm
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going to get a few coffees today got be
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coffee D give me some Caffe made it over
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to ground level so this is what it looks
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like from ground level now I've done
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this tour this is probably my fourth or
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fifth time doing this tour it's always
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fun you always see something different
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something new I just love doing all
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these greater La tours the first time I
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did it if I recall correctly the first
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time tour entry was over
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here they've since moved it I believe
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there even was a Bugs Bunny statue at
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this spot at one point in fact there's a
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sign up there that says tour entry now
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across the street it used to be located
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right here look at the sun glistening
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and there is little uh DC Action over
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here in front a little sculpt a lot of
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DC inside the
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WB in fact take a look up here there's
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Batman Superman Wonder Woman love it now
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when you go inside there is a Starbucks
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so they obviously there's going to be a
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lot of Harry Potter Wizarding World type
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stuff you know the Harry Potter
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franchise with WB so you got in there
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too so I'm going get my first coffee at
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the Starbucks that is steamed around
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Harry Potter but they're also showing
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the prequel the direct prequel which I
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asked one of the the team members in
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here people who work here it was around
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the Wonka thing I guess going to be a
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direct prequel to The Jean Wilder
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version not the Tim Burton version which
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I really love the Jean Wilder version
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that's going to be pretty awesome and
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they have like a whole section over here
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with the the characters and all that you
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got some little sculptures and then they
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also have the the history of the lot and
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all that before going back in but
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decided to pop back up to the roof to
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enjoy my piping hot Caffe beverage up on
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the top of the roof but I wanted to show
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the first Lobby and all the Wonka stuff
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and all that first firstand Che Warner
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Brothers also the Spider-Man kiss took
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place in the in the Annie alley right
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there too and also speaking of Tim
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Burton in that alley was also where he's
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like we don't take kindly to strangers
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come around here P's big adventure that
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was Tim Burton that when peew is Walking
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Through the Alley also look over there I
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see
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Daffy and it looks like that was Bugs
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Bunny over there too yeah bugs is behind
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the pole there the far right and then
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there's Daffy waving up there I I think
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that area I don't think we can get down
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into there or maybe though so that tour
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doesn't look like they get out looks
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like they just drive by the alley but
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this
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corner has been used in so many
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different things I was watching
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something else to kind of like drawing a
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blank on what it was that used this
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corner right over here recently as well
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just like every time you're watching
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anything especially from like the ' 80s
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and early '90s even modern day you'll
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see like this little corner right down
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here using countless things so up here
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on the top of the structure Shay is here
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cheers you got a Bill Murray shirt on
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yeah Merry Christmas Merry Christmas
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nice you see what's over on the horizon
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over there Universal
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Studios it's got It's a little more
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elevated up here in the valley on the
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side of that Hill yeah you don't realize
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how big that Hill really is until you
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like look at it and see everything up
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high yeah that the hill behind it
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there's an Overlook up there when you're
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up there you're way up but from here it
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doesn't doesn't really seem like it's
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that much you're up
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there it's crazy I love driving when
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seeing like all the Pyro and water ring
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stuff going
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on you can probably even see it from
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here yeah yeah I've hiked up there once
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before a few times actually okay so on
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the back side we're on the valley side
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Burbank side but on the other side of
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that right there is the Hollywood
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sign and the wisdom tree right up
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here it's quite a hike it's a fun hike
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good view from up there
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everywhere pretty much in North
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Hollywood burback area you can just look
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up and always see that tree sometimes
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Justin Bieber hikes up
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there I'm a
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Believer you're a Believer yeah you girl
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you are you sure no kill my girlfriend
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oh thank God why I hate that
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show to say that oh
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yeah I hated The Flash movie fight me I
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give be be honest I can be
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honest yeah so right now we're in our
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Hennessy era from our studio right here
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on the right this was used as at the
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front of a casino in Ocean 13 that's
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part of the production designers to turn
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in running chasing Kathy all the way at
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the end of the street this us multiple
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times is over
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here also for like like mov
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left
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right over here this is Annie's orphanet
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in the 1982 version of Annie the movie
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The Mask with Carri back in the '90s
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right over
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here's apartment building this is a
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facade for Abbot Elementary he
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said big adventure right here in the
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corner big adventure was throughout the
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host L when B jumping on the bike
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through a jungle and through a lake
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that's what the jungle we going to to
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monkey and here is the Grim Oh look The
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Do's open the
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GM see Rachel and Monica in the same
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episode debating who's going to ask J
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club and
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down in the movie Gremlins back in 1984
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that was a little little store when
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little Gizmo was there in 1984 so here's
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the uh fortune teller scene from pe's
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Big Adventure also in Karate Kid
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2
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here oh there's the parking structure
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right up there where I was
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standing also the dojo from Karate 2
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there oh miss see you know that this was
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the outside down kid between tomu and
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Kristen D is the first Spider-Man film
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right here in this Alleyway yeah they
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film
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that so our guide is awesome he just uh
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don't film the entire chore just do
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little Snippets so that's what I'm doing
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that is the only jungle set available in
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all the Hollywood studio system not even
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Disney has one of these all of these
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trees are completely and this big cabin
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over here this is Merlo's bar in the TV
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show True Blood was also using the TV
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show the movie Looney took back in
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action we see Brandon Fraser with buck
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money and Duffy Duck and jna El they
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stumble into an elephant with twey 30
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years ago for a scene for Jurassic Park
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this is where they film the scene where
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we see the t- chasing the this was part
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of Japan for that film but also in that
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little cabin over there that Spencer's D
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cabin in the TV show All American this
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is what we call a facade a facade is
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only used for exteral filming the just
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are going to walk in and walk out there
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is no rooms in this house this white
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they're so
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good but also that Lake over there was
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also used for the movie nope on North
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America that's day 16 it's over 98 ft
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tall and 67 ft wide I know that this is
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not a universal that they have those
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guard rail for people not to jump out
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but please don't not jump out of the car
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they will they will say something mean
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stuff to me if you say you do that okay
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I know if you see Jason Mamoa I'm going
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to jump first
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not all 12 seasons of The Big B Theory
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right over there in stage
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25 not only the TV
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shows right here in this Courthouse to
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the right was used for the original
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Batman show with Adam West back in the
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1960 in this blue Corner over here to
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the left in the movie La La Land This
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one we see Emma Stone working as a
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barista at Warner Brothers in la la land
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but in that same blue Corner that's also
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L Queen spy shop in you font from
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friends right over here to the left
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later on your tour there's going to be a
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tour car that is going to take you over
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here to take some photos that's look
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Diner from Gilmore Girls right over here
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in this blue Corner that's look Diner
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from Gilmore Girls man you can say
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you're a fan right oh you're just like
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the corner literally duk a hazard I said
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that was from you
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too I miss that one that's look ner from
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making sure you're not a
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fan also I want to see no yeah didn't
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see it is a homer movie the last seven
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seasons I thought that was was no l Cafe
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the other blue
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corner there just give me one moment let
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me park over here but all of this little
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town over here this is the town of star
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T and Gore girls but this is also the
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town of also Rosewood Pennsylvania from
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PR o liar this is Rose
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Pennsylvania give me one second let me
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find a parking spot I've been rewatching
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a lot of Dukes of Hazard seasons 2 3 4
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and 5 all back in here this was like I
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think this might have been the bank
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right here they filmed Interiors in
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there they filmed Interiors in there and
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of course you got the Fuller house
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Recreation over here the sver house from
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growing pain more girl this is the the
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Church of Stars Hollow but on the inside
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is also the church but also but also
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this house over here was also Mrs Kim
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anti shoping Gilmore Girls and it was
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also Emily's house in 3 old Liars but on
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the inside in a room they only used
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young sh
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Grand's oh Demons by do Jack cat they
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were filming a lot of music videos here
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at the studio lot and also commercials
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because there was outside of the union
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for the microphones and lights or that
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the movie or show will need and also
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when it's hot outside they will put up
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one house right over here and right here
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in the back B
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from and I hav't ask you the be fan what
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do you do you have a face that you work
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at being the sh person you'll notice
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there's no second floor this just kind
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of goes up
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to this here these front facades green
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house over here is also blue car's house
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in the BL Cary show is also sack e
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fraternity moving neighbors who saidan
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and that house over there
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from y That's the Sever's house also the
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G Miss deagles in grin's house where she
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gets launched out of the side
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there reubel without a cause the police
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station was right over
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there there's a whole scene in Dukes of
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Hazard I think it was season 2 or three
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I can't remember which one where Boss
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Hog and Rosco get stuck in the cement
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which is like over in that corner they
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use that corner side door there a
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lot Dukes of Hazard love that show
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speaking of Dukes of Hazard now they've
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changed the facade of this gazebo but
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there's a great photo of the whole cast
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standing right here there it
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is
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dues the a some friends we also have
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used to be you get dropped off and then
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you would go into the Central Perk area
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and you go into like the little Museum
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mum area and all that then we take it to
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the ending part they've kind of
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rearranged it so you go through this
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little section with some of the props
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and whatnot and the friend set that's
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like set up to get photos at some of the
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costumes and then you end up get back on
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a
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car yes this is the friends lake shop
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but action magic once you exit to the
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studio store that'll have more of the
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superhero stuff yeah all righty folks
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welcome aboard my name is Becky I am
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your shuttle driver to the Friends
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fountain
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now the fountain is the actual made
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iconic by theual friends it's 100 years
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old right it's been seen on a lot of
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things things like er who could Pocus
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scarecrow the name of you friends just
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made it iconic okay but it is 100 years
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old so we asked that you don't sit on
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the fountain you don't play in the
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fountain and then uh the couch out front
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is made of
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fiberglass so I don't recommend you pop
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on that expecting it to be stoft you're
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in for a bit of a rude away I get the
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police station so Dukes police station
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here from Without a
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Cause but you can't sit on the couch
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just don't feet on the couch don't sit
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on the armest or the back of the
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couch
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of the La La Land coffee
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shop
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boy the r Fuller house exterior can you
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folks watch uh the right hand side of
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the cart for me just make sure that I'm
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clear on that side that thank you I
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really don't want to fill out an
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accident La L where Emma walking right
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there Windows folks if you choose to
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disembark this is there was a scene in
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la la land too where Gosling and Emma
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are walking right here and they're like
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filming something it was like a almost
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like a barn of some sort it's been taken
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should also mention Kurt from 8's life
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has been with us as well I have what
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have you thought what are you thinking
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about the tour it was great it was one
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of the best I've done the tour a lot
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this is one of the best Warner Brothers
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tours I've done the guide was great he
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was amazing yeah we just got a we all
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three of us just got a a photo on the on
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the on the friend's couch well not the
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real one but we got with fiberglass but
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it was Prett the one it used to be on
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Warner Ranch and they moved it over here
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100y old Fountain yeah look at this
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there's a little for posterity
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here and you got the little town square
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back there from Dukes of Hazard and
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Monster Squad and all that behind us too
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that's a pretty good
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photo look like they got the holiday
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what they poinsettias is that what those
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flowers
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are you know how to spell
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poinsettia po y n t s e t TI I a I think
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I didn't know there was going to be a
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spelling test about
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but this is the side of the La La Land
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the La La
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Land shop that was where she worked as
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the
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Barista so
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basically and then there's a scene too
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where she's Parks over there and walks
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up now when I did my video for pe's big
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adventure 12 years ago I was incorrect
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so I was so Rush being back here that I
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thought that was the pet store I got
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that one wrong but that's not the pet
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store pet stor is on another another
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street but that's been like I don't know
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12 years ago 13 years ago we're waiting
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here for the next little tram oh we're
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back on one of these trams getting ready
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to head back over but I'm noticing right
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there so there's another scene here from
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I keep we keep bringing La Land up
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that's where 's like walk in and she was
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like really happy she like walk it along
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here does like a little spin around and
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I guess like in the movie They said that
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Casablanca was filling those two windows
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up there but they talking to some of the
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guides here they said that that is not
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factual
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I know some of kasaan was filmed here
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but I don't think the quote from La Land
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correct I was so worried that nobody got
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social media content they were what
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would we
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do how's the tour everybody having a
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good time
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yeah not everybody
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likes we are going off to the Last Stop
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on the tour right now everybody it's
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another self-guided exhibit back in that
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building where you started the tour in
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today it's called action and magic and
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over at action and Magic you've got
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Harry Potter fantastic Beast DC
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superheroes and Game of Thrones and the
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whole uh tour gift CH so lots and lots
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of fun stuff and if you take a look up
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at your monitor I'll show you a little
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bit more about where we at just walking
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around the perimeter of Warner
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now for a while they would have like
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Brothers posters on the side of this
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building but hearing a rumor that they
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have they no longer own this building
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here on this this
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corner kind of outside the
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main outside the main Studio
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area used to have a big poster over
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there all right we're back up on the
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roof now I'm kind of zoomed in on the
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sver house also the deagle house from
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Gremlins you can see the courthouse
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there on the right from Dukes you got
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see the top portion of the
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Gazebo and you can look over this way
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see the drop off point they're dropping
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off for the friend Fountain kind of neat
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to see it from a different perspective
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up here and then down there is the spot
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P's big adventure down there earlier
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also the spot where The Griswalds get
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their Hub Cap stolen but if you zoom out
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you can kind of see how these are
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facades
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so that's the backside of it there you
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see there's like little staircases and
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stuff going down the the
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Road movie Magic all right we' now made
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it over here on the corner of pass and
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Oak Street pass hav and Oak Street where
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this was the back side of Warner Ranch
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there's only a couple buildings left
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we're going to see what what remains
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over here and I got another coffee I
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said I was going to drink more than one
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coffee I got another
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this is interesting there's a lot of
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these coyotes and area signs around here
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go big get big get loud and Shout go
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away coyote if you see a
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coyote right over there was where Warner
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Ranch
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was there's a little that's an old
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Warner sign there left says gate closes
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after every vehicle all right just to
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give a little perspective right here was
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the Lethal Weapon house the back side of
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it
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right there was the W division house and
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the Griswald house from Christmas
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Vacation there was a bunch of other a
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bunch of other items too but those are
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the two key on so Griswald house was
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there and the lethal weapon that even in
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the Interiors filmed in there again more
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of these coyote signs so I was able to
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get in here a couple times and document
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it Kurt also got in here but you walked
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a perimeter I should I didn't get in I
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walked around I tried to film through
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the fence yeah we got a little bit of
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footage from above yeah um yeah but you
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did a really good VI so check out Kurt's
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Channel 80s life80s life and you can see
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some a really good kind of a last little
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homage for Warner Ranch I got it just a
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couple of days before couple days before
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they started bulldozing
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it there's plenty of footage on there
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this will probably be the well I don't
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know maybe next time I'm in town I'll
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show when they start building the sound
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stages but I'm going to show the last
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remaining
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buildings and that when did you do your
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video like less than a month ago
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that was well didn't they start
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bulldozing it October like October 13th
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so yeah not too far yeah and they've
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already made a lot of
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progress no longer owned by Warner but
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I'm always going to refer to this as the
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Warner Ranch even though before that it
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was the Columbia ranch right Columbia
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Ranch yep all the three sto just stuff
23:48
that old camera system up there look at
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up all right that's sad right
24:09
there so that was the those were those
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big buildings that were seen behind the
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friends fountain in Hocus
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Pocus and Omega
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man that's the rubble that's left of
24:22
Charlton Hon's
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Place wow yeah that's funny the little
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guard Sha still in
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there that's wild all right this appears
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to be the last Sound Stage on property
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over here you still see the Big Bay
24:45
elephant door off in the
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distance look at that thing that's the
24:50
last one that's where the big WB sign
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was that one the big metal one they had
24:56
the Relic that was over tucked away in
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the back that's where it was yeah that
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was the one from all the commercials
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right the one from the commercials right
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amazing all right while we're walking
25:04
around looks like a couple city workers
25:06
showed up they have busted a water man
25:14
inside yeah there's like a little bit of
25:14
a river going here so that's a couple
25:16
Vehicles pulled up busted water
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man so more or less this is the LA one
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of the last two buildings the big Sound
25:29
Stage on the other side of this and then
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right here along this road is the last
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building and then that's it besides a
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little guard shack which is still
25:37
standing and there's just residential
25:39
houses right here all right just kind of
25:41
peeking through here through the fence
25:42
see the heavy equipment over there part
25:44
of the Sound Stage
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Rubble right there so I'm kind of
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noticing the CVS that's over there maybe
25:51
it's a walgre is one of those where we
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started
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at you can see how it's painted that
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greenish hue
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it's almost like it was painted even
25:59
though it wasn't technically on the
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former Warner Ranch but it was painted
26:03
there in case the camera just catches a
26:04
little bit of it but it doesn't look
26:06
like a normal building so that'll
26:08
probably be painted over
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too all right there's a worker has a US
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flag on a golf