The VIP Experience Walking Backlot Tour At Universal Studios Hollywood - Movie Sets & Soundstages
VIP Experience Tour Universal Hollywood
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Tuesday June the
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4th
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2024 nerd locations also on site in the
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house or should I say in the parking
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structure we are at the Hilton Universal
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Hotel I am wearing an appropriate
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t-shirt because we are about to walk in
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to the stairwell for Back to the Future
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too do you like the film Back to the
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Future in the franchise absolutely I'm
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Back to the Future nerd last night I
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spent the night at the mall and P to
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Hills you slept there
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maybe so a year ago we were in town at
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the same time we checked out the
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staircase and we did the VIP tour over
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at
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Universal and sad trombone we did not
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get to see Hill Valley I would say out
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of every time I've done the tram tour or
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the VIP tour nine times out of 10 you
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don't go back there but I think today is
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our day today I feel it today feel it
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it's magic is happening Hill Valley and
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we're going to put Good Vibes into the
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universe by going into the stairwell and
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then going over to the VIP tour I'm
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inviting you to join me and nerd
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locations shall you this is up on level
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P3 if you start up here you can get the
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same angle as where alternate 85 Biff
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walks in to the door here I think this
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is the right one I usually I'm parked on
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P2 but we walked up to
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P3 I am wrong whoa I'm wrong this isn't
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it
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p through we got to go up one I think
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so oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah okay
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so yeah this is the
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angle there it is there it
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is this is starting to look a little
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familiar he walks out of there Biff's
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gang is chasing Marty up and down
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Michael J fox runs down here JS back
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over here and then runs back
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up and that's where he goes out the door
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he goes out the door right up there to
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the top of this Palace right that's it
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the thing that's cool about this is all
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the way at the top this is where he
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hopped over you can still faintly see
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the arrow up here where it had the the
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arrow leading to the roof access but it
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really isn't the roof it's just out of
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door not to this roof
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pretty cool yeah it's only about 9:45
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right now our tour is at 11:45 however
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as you're going in there is once you
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check in there is a little room upstairs
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that has coffee and juices and little
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breakfast snacks and things like that
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that you can go up in and and sit and
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wait for your tour
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time and kind of what I'm hoping is that
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we can see Hill Valley and possibly
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Colonial Street the Western set I've
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seen many many many times and it seems
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like when a lot of things are filming in
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other areas they just take you to the
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Western sets which is cool but I'd
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really like to spend some time in Hill
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Valley so again we're just putting that
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into the universe all right change of
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plans we're actually not doing the 11:45
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we're going to do the 10 a.m.
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tour also there's some ET stuff here
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first coffee not just regular coffee
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very
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important coffee I'm trying to think of
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something that would be with pee with
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coffee but very important pip and hot oh
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very important pip I you know what I
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draw I drew a it's too early I got to
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get some so that's going to work out
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good we're going to grab our coffee
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we're going to do the 10: a.m. tour
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because we requested to do the Backlot
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first instead of the ride so they said
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we'll put you on the 10 they also have
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some items here I think I'm going to
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hold off for the lunch a little bit
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later but they do have some little
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snacks and things up here they also have
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ice water this is going to be my
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breakfast I don't usually eat breakfast
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too often I usually wait till a little
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later in the day and grab gra a meal for
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late afternoon early dinner time but
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they do have egg sandwiches and thing we
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just talked to our guy and he said it's
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a slim chance that we're going to be
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going back to Hill Valley so I I a year
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ago I did it and I was really really
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really disappointed and bummed out we
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didn't go so I kind of knew that was
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going to happen so I'm not as bummed
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this time but if it works out it works
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out again you're kind of taking a chance
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with what they're able to show you
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because of the the production schedule
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this is like deja vu man from last last
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year but you know what at least we kind
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of know what's to be expected and if it
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happens it
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happens if it doesn't it doesn't either
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way we're going to have a good day just
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getting a little Peak down into the back
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lot which you know he did say a guide
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very accommodating so that we probably
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won't be going back there but he said
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there is a slight chance he's just going
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to be radio throughout the course of the
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morning so kind of hope that it'll
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happen to go down there CU here also I
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should mention this the the
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60th of the trams started about a month
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ago so they're celebrating the 60th of
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the glamour
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tra now these are the glamour trams
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these are the regular trams and I was
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out here a month ago for the opening
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opening week of the glamour trams and
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even with that they for some reason they
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didn't take us back to to meet Doc and
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DeLorean and all
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that this will be what we're riding on
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right here the VIP
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mobile I'll share some with you um when
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Patrick gets here with his team I'm
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going to let Patrick kind of open up the
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tour and start the thing this whole
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crazy dream of a city dedicated making
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movies all started with our founder Carl
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lley I've done this tour probably five
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or six times I've done the regular tra
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tour probably 100 times and out of all
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those times I have never been inside
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this
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building kind of cool lowest and low
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all I want you guys to take a list also
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kind of night neat these are the
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Bungalows people live there worked in
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there so Hitchcock is was over on the
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other side over there again I've never
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gotten off at this spot they're turning
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this around and we're going to head it
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here's our guide Al hello Al good to see
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you some of these here were originally
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in another part of the studio oh these
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were and we move them over here because
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so many famous people use these over the
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decades Tony Curtis uh Doris Day Carri
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Grant Audrey heer and they all had these
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little Bungalows so these are part of
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the Bungalow that they were around where
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hitchcox Bungalow was but back in the
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when early '90s when we were building uh
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the studio Center area for all the rides
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like uh Revenge moment the ride uh
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Transformers so we move those over this
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part of the lot yeah cuz there so much
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his I never knew that that's very
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interesting yeah this used to be a
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parking lot and part of the lighting
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department would be so Hitchcock has
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always been there and then these were
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moved around hitch Cox was brought over
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as well oh okay all right I learned
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something new yeah yeah thanks h moved
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in the early 90s let's go on Insight
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let's do it yeah all right we're
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learning
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facts this is cool yeah this is behind
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the scenes of Lopez versus
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thanks lope Lope owns a moving company
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and has invested so much money into the
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business he accidentally loses his house
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like one iota it's not just for shows
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like Lopez versus Lopez it's also for
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shows like Family Feud the voice and
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many many others in fact you fans of uh
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The Voice you don't have to raise your
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hand you don't have to raise your hand
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but you know those segments where
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they're uh outside the contestant's
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childhood home they're like hi everybody
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I'm here in Houston Tex this is where I
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grew up guess what
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everybody it's not Houston Texas at all
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it's right here on the studio lot yes we
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actually have houses that we POS and
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just painted different colors like oh
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it's Houston Texas cool and whenever and
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if we ever need to go inside spoiler
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alert someone's house it's right here
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guys set up just like this the reason is
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because we can control every never ever
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see the ceiling because this is where we
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keep everything yeah these
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wild walls we can just lift up out of
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the way and get the best angles possible
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all right right this way
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there right
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here just fly that wall up and out of
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the way to get the best possible
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yeah and we also just wheel it in front
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of the audience and one of the reasons
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we also have an audience is not only do
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we get a better performance out of the
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actors we can also test our jokes out on
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you guys let's say you're watching Lopez
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vs Lopez they're doing a skit inside the
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moving truck off fence for nosy
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neighbors It's a Mario
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pinata now guys the reason for the sound
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is all right we're getting the all clear
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till next time thank
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you that b Stone Rolling
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after they're just the false friends and
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signs of buildings if you look at your
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screen right now I'll show you what I
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mean they look like they're made out of
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bricks Stone and PK concrete but if you
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were to walk through the door of one of
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these sets the back side of it would
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look like what you see on the screen
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right now just sheets of plywood held up
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by 2x4s and telephone poles or in this
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case to your left Cory and Sheet Metal
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held up by Steel beans so we mostly use
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these exterior sets for the exterior
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scene and when the actor walks through
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the doorway that's when the directory Ys
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cut and then we're going to build what
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we think the inside of these buildings
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should look like inside of a sound stage
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where we
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if you look to your a of New York Street
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these our Metropolitan City street set
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so close so close about 4 and 1/2 acres
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of settings that look like major city
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streets could be New York could be
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Chicago could be Los Angeles this area
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up to your right hand side where the
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pergola is and you see this little Park
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this is an area being used right now for
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a new NBC television series called a
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classic spy starring Ted danc produced
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by a guy named Michael Shore he's the
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same guy that brought you bend 99
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Community shows like that and the good
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place so they're going to be using this
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area for that thank you sir for for that
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cuz if you take a look off to your right
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Eric is giving us a chance to take a
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look at Brownstone series if you look
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off to your right you see those those uh
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not the squirrel everybody sees the
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squirrel I did squirrel and I saw you I
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saw all your eyes shift I was like it's
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a squirrel we got them uh but in the
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background where you see those
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Brownstone Apartments uh we call it
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Brownstone Street uh here in Los Angeles
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we don't typically have neighborhoods
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that look like that that you would find
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in Chicago or Boston or Philadelphia or
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New York so if you take a look at your
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screen right now I think you'll
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recognize the guy that's on us but take
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a look at your screen I'll let you
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finish that scene out and I'll have you
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know that those Brownstone Apartments
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you were just looking at were also used
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by 20th century FL do you guys know the
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movie with M cin called Home Alone 2 New
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York when he goes to his uncle's house
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and he goes up on the roof and flows
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bricks off the top and hits the bad guys
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in the face that wasn't New York that
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was on the same street where Jim car
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Almighty if you look up to your right
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you're looking at are used by Britney
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Spears in videos it's used by Taylor
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Swift in her video for the song Wildest
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Dream Lady Gaga fil out here set on the
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back lot of the studio get a picture of
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this now it's not fully decorated right
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now but it's a little decorated this is
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where scenes for uh
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Rula Batman and Robin Spider-Man 2 all
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film sequences in this little corner
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pocket yeah now as we drive forward um
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when we wanted to bring our biggest
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movie star back to the Silver
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Screen the smoke going off the old train
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the old train right there this used to
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be in a different spot and there's a
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video clip of Hitchcock in front of this
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jumping over it brought to you by this
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director right here you guys are very
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familiar with all the different Techni
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for movies and T you know use a lot of
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CGI like compter generated imagery
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things like that but I don't know if
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you're really aware that we still use a
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lot of the old school techniques and
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still work just as good as uh as the new
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stuff now and I might be hitting the
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wrong we're going to call Action on the
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background background action are you
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guys ready for your scene okay camer
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rolling and
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ACO and up on this area uh we're going
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to be going by an area that looks like a
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lake a little pond on our way there if
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you look off to your left first thing
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you'll see is the Sound Stage where they
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work on the TV show the Roy the
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competition singing show films these set
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of sound stages and then there's a body
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of water this body of water is called
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the the Hollywood ocean moners that goes
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all the way back to our earliest G and
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later on today we're going to be able to
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walk around some of the sets off to your
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right where the classic
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made
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Drac we we'll walk through this area but
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before we do we'd like to share with you
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something that I kind of referenced
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earlier when we were D driving around
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those Metropolitan sets and I talked
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about things like parking meters and
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mailboxes street light or crops that
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decorate the sets a lot of that stuff is
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missing on what you're seeing today and
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that is because we bring those things in
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depending on the dude there's a coyote
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right there it's a freaking coyote it
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back in old times and the woman who runs
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this her name is Beverly she's asked us
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just one small favor as we go please no
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photographs or video while we were in
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the building and please don't touch him
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of course um it's because this is one of
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the biggest and busiest prop warehouses
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in the business and you'll notice and
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Patrick will explain as you go through
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uh What uh why we can't take pictures of
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the building we just know that this is
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the only part of the T that you Cann not
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however take your cameras with you or
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your cell phones with you because we're
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going to walk from this building over
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the European set now all no filming in
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the costume Department the only part
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you're not allowed to film on at the
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universal
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VI head building and that way we don't
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have to clog all the aisles with with us
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team mustache just stay behind for a
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second mustach want to call on so when
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they come in to get things for their
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show they're not taking the stuff you
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were hoping to get right so the honor
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System but those whole T out a lot of
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information name of the production um
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phone numbers emails uh directions of
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where the items were to go and people
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are innocently going into the prop
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whereare I saying hey at the universal
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tour I'm taking pictures of stuff and
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they post it on their social media and
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then somebody else would see it and post
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it on theirs and suddenly it's going on
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Reddit and it's all over the world and
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now everybody knows spiel's working on
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their production and where so they were
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getting hounded at the production office
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the people showing up on the set looking
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for for prop shots so they just closed
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off the warehouse to everybody for the
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year
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um but F's been pretty cold and we've
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been pretty persistent uh she says okay
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you can go in but no pictures uh no
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video and don't touch anything obviously
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great Stu uh so if you can be cool with
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that this is the only part of the tour
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I'll ask you to turn off your video your
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cameras cck the pink and we'll come back
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out we'll get some more you can take a
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quick picture outside though we're going
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in so leave your uh glasses behind but
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bring your cameras just keep on whole
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parking lot area which just our
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transportation department and you're
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looking at some of the and you can now
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take pictures of anything you want uh
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Roll video all you want uh but these are
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some of the newest sound stages there
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eight brand new sound stages up there
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giving an idea how hungry Hollywood is
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for production fa while we were laying
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the
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foundation all eight sound stages were
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booked up to 5 years out yeah the the
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business is busier now than it's ever
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been back in the '90s you could shoot a
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cannon across the property and not hit
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anybody and now 36 sound stages and
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every one of them is booked with a movie
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TV show commercial and in 2028 when you
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see the Olympics in Los
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Angeles all the TV Crews from all over
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the world will be setting up camp inside
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of those sound stages so once they do
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the uh uh the event somewhere in Los
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Angeles they'll go to be interviewed by
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the respective news crews from around
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the world they'll be doing it from these
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sound stages here because all of West
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Coast operations for NBC television is
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based here and Tunda based here at the
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studio so those satellite diss you saw
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those are the satellite diss that push
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the SE the left sat celebrities uh right
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through this
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Archway first restroom wall black marble
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it's just gor if you believe that yeah
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you're about to find out the restroom of
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the Stars only fancy uh on red another
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group over in here as well back up the
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other group so if I remember correctly
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there was a something right here that
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was used in the wizard with Fred Savage
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obviously they filmed the King Kong
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animatronic that all burned down have
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you ever seen the Nintendo movie with
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Fred Savage
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kind of like right in here I actually
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learned something from Sean Clark from
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hores how grounds he was telling me we
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did this tour a couple years ago and
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right here on this corner Vic marrow
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could be seen in the Twilight Zone movie
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right on this corner this is one little
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quick shot was right here of course the
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tragedy of Vic marrow on the movie that
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was filmed before he passed on right
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here on this corner facing the other
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way if you take a good look at this area
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just pan through you will see this in
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the invisible men uh with the cloud re
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blur really yeah that that's one that
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that shows it off a lot you have to
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remember like a lot of our sets they
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were more extensive over a period of
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time uh we had 4 and a half acres of of
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European OB be in the Sun for a little
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bit so if you don't want to be in the
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sun we'll duck into that alley and get
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in that shade right there uh but if you
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want to movies you might want to come
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over this way cuz I don't y we're going
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to go for a
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while I'm looking at the I'm I'm going
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for the average age range on this I'm
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going to I'm going to take a risk here
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uh how many you ever heard of a movie
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called City Slicker the ring a bell
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Billy Crystal Bruno Kirby Daniel Stern
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if you haven't heard of the movie you
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can stream it it's it's actually very
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funny movie but the opening scen of the
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movie opened in Pamplona Spain during
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the running of the
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bull I'm going to give you the biggest
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secret in movie his in movie business
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right movie technique right now you you
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can keep it to yourself or share it if
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you want but we've been making movies
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here for 110 years right 10 109 years
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sing how you slice it we've made over
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8,000 movies we've made hundreds of
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thousands of hours of television shows
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commercials music videos you've seen
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this a lot how come you don't recognize
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it every time we show it to you it
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should stand out right we've been doing
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a lot here's why the biggest trick in
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Hol is called the establishing shot we
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show you a film clip or a photograph of
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some place we want you to believe the
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visitors and then we cut the scenes
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filmed here you make that mental
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connection does that make sense so for
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the running of the bulls scene they had
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some stock footage of the actual running
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of the bulls and then they cut the of R
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Kirby Daniel Stern and Billy C running
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right the stre right across here to the
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right the open shot we had a lot of
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actors wearing white clothes with red
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bandanas all cheering and you made that
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metal connection he very Apothecary so
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Apothecary AP I'm looking for a pack of
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Trojans he says I'm sorry I just sold my
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last one that was all filmed right there
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on that corner really bad joke uh but
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yeah uh uh now you'll notice it says
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yogurt yogurt yogurt there uh and some
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of you already know that this is where
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we film the TV show of the good place
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all four seasons of the good place which
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are now on Netflix all four seasons were
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fil happened down here stand on the
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stage tell you all about uh one of the
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episodes you know the show uh one
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episode there's a big hole that opens up
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in the ground and everything gets sucked
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into it it was digitally uh placed right
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here where this gentleman is standing
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right now um you guys know well Julie
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Andrews kind of an important American
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English but American movie star uh she
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did a movie called Princess G you guys
20:57
know those oh yeah so they did a movie
20:59
called Princess Diary 2 yeah uh there's
21:02
a parade scene in that movie where Julie
21:04
Andrew comes right had that big to
21:08
heart suppos
21:11
to how do we
21:36
well most people know uh so just a quick
21:36
idea um oh by the way you're do you guys
21:39
know who Pedro Pascal is oh yeah yeah
21:41
you're standing where he stood in his
21:42
last commercial uh there's a Corona beer
21:44
we'll talk about that in a minute but
21:46
there's a Corona beer commercial uh
21:47
Pedro Pascal is a new spokesman for
21:50
Corona beer lav Masina is the a tagline
21:53
uh well the very first commercial is
21:55
about a minute long and Pedro's in
21:56
Mexico drinking a Corona and a a little
22:13
bar so when you see
22:13
Johnny
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IDE Alleyway a
22:22
few no longer here but yeah you can kind
22:26
of see oh
22:28
we were standing a moment ago and he
22:30
dips into this building Johnny look at
22:33
the black look how big it
22:37
is there ain't no room in there for so
22:40
you just saw Hawaii the backl universal
22:43
and it sounds all in 13 second sequence
22:47
that's how important editing is that
22:48
little wow we still get that mov work on
22:51
the movie okay so you're standing with
22:52
Johnny de if you want a picture of you
22:54
can stand on the steps but I wouldn't
22:55
recommend go up any further cuz some of
22:57
these are they look like they're made of
23:00
stone and concrete they're actually made
23:01
out of plaster and Pate so yeah but feel
23:04
free to get a shot here and then uh oh
23:07
right there where Patrick stand and
23:09
you'll notice how skinny the road is
23:11
where he is it's pretty skinny and it
23:12
gets wider as it goes down Force
23:14
perspective another rock to illusion you
23:16
got two eyes you have death perception
23:18
you can tell how far away things are
23:20
camera's got one eye no death per Wolf
23:23
Man The Invisible Man all filmed on the
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streets that you're walking right now
23:29
everywhere around here you watch those
23:30
movies and you even if you've never seen
23:32
the movies you've all seen scenes where
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the villagers are gathering in the
23:36
courtyards getting the pitchforks and
23:38
the Torches it's the area that we're
23:40
walking through next court of
23:50
Miracles I just want a nice piping hot
23:50
caffeinated beverage right here so this
23:52
is part of the area that got a faft for
23:54
the 60th anniversary of the tour but
23:56
this is the yogurt shop that you'll see
23:58
in almost every episode of the good
23:59
place on
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Netflix originally aired for Four
24:04
Seasons on NBC and then we moved it over
24:07
Netflix but yeah you're walking through
24:10
these same speaking of monsters even
24:12
Lady Gaga her video for the song Judith
24:15
there's a huge scene in the in the video
24:17
where her and her team are dancing
24:19
around in a courtyard this is it well
24:21
the camera was way back that way looking
24:23
this way and you'll see the archway and
24:25
the yogurt shop in the background if you
24:27
watch the video
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yeah so we'll just take a quick look so
24:32
these are part of the areas that were
24:34
haunted by Dracula Frankenstein the
24:36
Bride of Frankenstein The Wolf Man and
24:38
later The Mummy in the 1940s and we're
24:41
going under an archway just like the cre
24:43
you guys know who quagi Moto is right oh
24:45
yeah the original Hunchback of Notre
24:47
played by L Cheney senior and uh and he
24:50
also did The Phantom of the Opera which
24:51
is part of the uh sets out here let's go
24:54
underneath the archway just like Franken
24:56
done this is called the Court of
24:59
Miracles got its name because in the
25:01
movie The Hunchback of
25:03
notam there was an area in Paris where
25:06
all the Scoundrels and the and the con
25:08
artists would go at the end of the day
25:11
so they're in the city acting like
25:13
they're blind and like they can't walk
25:15
and they were begging for money but when
25:17
they all came back to this familiar part
25:18
of town suddenly they could see and they
25:21
could walk normal it was like a miracle
25:23
it all this is the safe area in Paris
25:25
where all these scel can hang out so
25:27
that's why this is called the
25:29
Miracle yeah drag wolf invisible all of
25:33
them right here so get some shots there
25:35
are scenes where the villagers are
25:37
gathering around in
25:38
here not a monster movie but I'll just
25:41
give a tip of the hat to another movie
25:42
that's really a good movie to watch if
25:44
you've never seen it you can even see it
25:46
for free on YouTube right now it's
25:48
called All Quiet on the Western Front
25:51
it's a war film that we made in 1931 and
25:54
it brought Universal's very first best
25:55
picture Academy Award but it is a great
25:58
movie great story and all of this area
26:01
was used as France and Germany oh yeah
26:06
veryan Frankenstein like a bunch of
26:08
these archways you see Forest carof is
26:10
Frankenstein's monster walking through
26:12
all these different archways and he's
26:13
just chasing all those villagers in fact
26:16
that's one of my favorite stories I'll
26:18
tell you more once we get back on the
26:19
trolley anyone need help with last
26:20
minute
26:21
pictures anyone welcome can also see
26:24
where the either the well was or there
26:26
was like a circular spot down here
26:33
cathedal where earthquake is don't
26:33
realize we only built the first FL of
26:35
cathedal the top FL in the towers was a
26:37
course perspective
26:39
Minature the main cast they actually
26:42
have frozen yogurt we can save time and
26:45
money because obviously it's a nice
26:47
bright sunny day and frozen yogurt you
26:48
melt in the sun all the frozen yogurts
26:51
you see with the background actors it's
26:53
dyed mashed potatoes that's some world
26:56
class acting right there taking have SP
27:13
oh W I take it
27:44
awesome let me go back to my monster
27:44
movies so after the success of Dracula
27:48
we didn't realize how big it was going
27:49
to be in fact uh we marketed Dracula as
27:53
a dark romantic Thriller cuz we didn't
27:56
have like a horror genre and we released
27:58
it Valentine's Day 1931 and after the
28:01
success of Dracula we had to film
28:03
Franken s in fact we found Boris car off
28:06
right out here in our Western sets he
28:07
was the tallest man in the west and
28:10
without o sorry Boris Carlos we wouldn't
28:14
have our other horror movies like The
28:16
Terror of Amity island or serious oh
28:21
wow
28:23
warm
28:29
to wait a minute where's the shark right
28:29
here he's right there wait we're backing
28:33
up oh
28:41
Bruce oh my it's following
28:41
me oh stay back for me
28:44
Bruce goodness gracious
28:47
and we did it that was just has been
28:50
with the tour since
28:51
1976 everyone say hi to Bruce a close
28:54
encounter America
28:56
that punt
29:07
white doorway here and we're not just to
29:07
that side p and as we roll out of Old
29:11
Mexico we're hitting up the old west
29:14
welcome everybody to six points the home
29:16
of the Classic Hollywood Western ever
29:19
since 19 we opened up the studio to the
29:22
public cuz they really want to see all
29:24
our classic Western being filed for only
29:26
25 cents you can give a box lunch and a
29:29
hard leg right from our chicken ranch
29:31
and be S on fure just outside camera
29:33
view where you can cheer on the good
29:35
guys and who the bad guys as because
29:39
from 1914 up until about
29:41
1927 we weren't recording sound all the
29:45
to all the shooting all the
29:47
explosions on six separate streets where
29:50
we had six separate towns to make six
29:53
separate westerns at the exact same time
29:57
these we filmed over 200 westers in our
30:01
first again tering a glamour tra but if
30:05
you look at that boat house right here
30:07
this wasn't Andy Island this is also
30:10
cabin coat name from Murder She wrot I'm
30:14
going to have to pop up pip looks like
30:15
there is AC on down
30:18
here I guess it's B
30:50
here oh yeah that prodction right there
30:50
right down with Sy Lane
30:52
BC now these actually aren't the
30:55
original y estate signs they were
30:57
actually Resto donated to us by the back
30:59
of the future fan club for the film's
31:01
30th Anniversary F we're about to drive
31:04
into one of the biggest practical sets
31:06
ever Dev buise for any movie We're
31:09
actually in the plane crash set for
31:12
Steven Spielberg's War of the World
31:14
Universal T that is not prent painted
31:16
plywood PVC pipe for a plastic shark
31:20
that is a real
31:22
747 yes Steven steelberg and his team
31:25
over Paramount found it decommission in
31:28
an airplane graveyard in Mojave Desert
31:30
and bought it at a steal for only
31:33
$60,000 but at the time back in 2004
31:35
2005 when they were shooting the
31:37
movie the entire project was under NBA
31:41
non-disclosure agreement they wanted as
31:43
much kept secret as they could possibly
31:46
do so to get it here in to get this
31:49
plane here in secret they actually have
31:51
to chop it up into those big chunks you
31:53
see right there stick those chunks on
31:54
the massive flatbed trucks and then
31:56
remove the rooms so they could fit under
31:58
all the California overpasses and they
32:00
had to do this all in the dead of night
32:03
that whole process cost almost a quarter
32:05
of a million and it just goes to show
32:07
you even even if you are Steven
32:09
Spielberg they will always get you on
32:12
the shipping every single
32:19
time now stepen is quoted as being
32:19
inspired by Alfred Hitchcock one of the
32:21
reasons that this set is right here is
32:23
because it's next to one of the most
32:25
iconic houses in all of film making this
32:27
is the the original Psycho house from
32:30
Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic psycho
32:33
and as you round the corner you look in
32:35
the very very top left window you should
32:38
see mother rocking back and forth still
32:41
need of a lot of moisturizing not seeing
32:44
but if you look down to your left you're
32:47
getting a little previe of the whole
32:50
Propet the mass Jaws King Kong bab
32:53
monkey F
32:55
ando's iconic charger right next to the
32:59
Nissan Skyline now I know a couple of
33:01
you are also from out of town and I'm
33:03
like where's the Hollywood Sign well
33:05
it's actually in front of Mount Lee on
33:08
the other side near Hollywood however
33:10
some good
33:11
news all right guys we're about to drive
33:15
down like I said we'll give you guys
33:17
about 15 minutes to take a picture with
33:20
all our stuff we even have our giant
33:22
shark that you can take a picture with
33:24
from Jaws yeah so you uh T veterans will
33:28
remember
33:29
that now two things I want to point out
33:32
right here that glamour tram right there
33:34
the candy cane red white ones those were
33:37
designed by a guy the name of Harper
33:39
goof those of you who don't know Harper
33:41
golf was the original set designer and
33:43
art director for the 1970s version of
33:46
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
33:48
with Jean Wilder yeah this is one of his
33:50
first projects and that giant shopping
33:52
cart yeah Al we don't have any little
33:53
kids on the tour right if I can say this
33:56
they're all above 18 right yeah all
33:58
right that shopping cart was be
34:00
Incredible Shrinking Woman but many of
34:02
you will recognize it from Jackass the
34:04
movie
34:06
one and you'll see the set of Jordan
34:10
field movie this is where the climactic
34:13
end of the movie film and this
34:16
is on the scen and the big balloon
34:20
up as cim we're going to be heading into
34:23
an area where universe will have one of
34:25
its classic attractions back in the the
34:27
old days now we called it the Doom the
34:31
glacier Expedition but if you were on
34:33
the tour you just called it the ice
34:35
tunnel UH 60 years I'll tell you it's a
34:38
weird day when you look at the ha you go
34:39
wow I'm older the studio tour wow how
34:44
that happen I remember being here when I
34:45
was 7 years old my family so thank you
34:48
very much for letting us take you
34:49
through that uh Patrick thankfully make
34:51
a little bit like your your group would
34:53
you all join me giving Eric a huge round
34:55
of applause for keeping us safe
34:57
throughout that
34:59
just Dr the LA River we didn't drop a
35:00
tire okay this guy did and that'll bring
35:03
us to the end of the tour so uh we're
35:05
going to split back up into our separate
35:06
group if you have S glasses please place
35:09
them on the chair where P all right now
35:11
getting off of the VIP
35:14
experience trolley cart whatever you
35:17
want to refer to it as I think we're
35:19
going to ride a ride or two and then
35:20
we're going to go get lunch yeah so far
35:23
so good right now we obviously didn't go
35:26
to Hill Valley which we were looking
35:27
forward to but I say they have kind of
35:29
gone above and beyond with everything
35:31
else it's printed a pretty good tour so
35:33
far as far as the back lot section and I
35:35
know the food's going to be good I'm
35:37
ready for the food let's get it do the
35:39
reason I can bring you in here is
35:41
because I'm A M I am not Enchanted all
35:44
right are you a wizard which you're a
35:47
wizard Harry yeah what everybody
35:49
everybody who says that they're an
35:50
huffle PFF I know it's really a
35:51
Slytherin in the sky uh but but for the
35:55
first time in history
35:56
m that's why we're here today now
35:59
there's two rides here one is called
36:00
Flight of the hippocrip and the other
36:02
one is called the Forbidden Journey now
36:04
Flight of the hippogriff we'll do that
36:05
first it's on the other side of the
36:07
forest there it's a um a hipogriff is
36:10
the head of it is an eagle and the tail
36:12
of it is a is a horse they're very big
36:14
very dangerous and Hagrid wants to teach
36:16
you how to all right we just rode white
36:19
of
36:20
the hippogryph I don't want you filming
36:23
on it so I didn't film on it
36:31
always a cute little ride Jerry whatever
36:31
his name is Harry Potter that guy Harry
36:33
all the Harry all those Potter kids nuts
36:36
uh they will steal you out of class and
36:38
you're going to ride Enchanted benches
36:39
all around the castle you're going to
36:41
fly right through a quidditch match uh
36:43
and you're going to go by The Forbidden
36:44
Forest it's forbidden go in there she's
36:47
totally going in there you're going to
36:48
have to help her keep her safe all right
36:50
so I will be honest with you this is on
36:53
our scale of 1 to 10 this is uh 10 10
36:55
and A2 it's a lot cuz it's going to
36:57
shake you up and down side to side and
36:59
sideways like this while you're looking
37:01
at 3D screen and live things are coming
37:03
at you if you're prone to Mo i' love you
37:05
get to walk through the Hall of forits
37:08
through here and up the stairs the
37:10
talking C and even more up here walk my
37:14
dumble do office over here too all right
37:16
we are now heading over to the Mulan
37:18
Rouge which is evidently it was under
37:21
construction for a while and they
37:22
weren't having the the chores the
37:24
lunches and things in there they had
37:25
them at a different Loc I never did a
37:28
chore when it was at the other spot but
37:30
it's back at the Mulan Rouge so we're
37:32
going to head over there get ourselves a
37:34
little very
37:36
important something meal not piping hot
37:39
well there probably some hot items on
37:41
the buffet
37:42
but way you call it very important
37:46
what's something that food related that
37:48
starts with a P very
37:56
important pampering of the belly very
37:56
important
37:58
I got some little grilled potatoes right
38:00
here sliced meat some asparagus Little
38:04
Mac and chei and some rice Dracula what
38:08
you go around here looking like The Wolf
38:10
Man and you called me I look like the
38:13
wolf man yeah look how hairy you
38:15
are have you ever looked at
38:22
yourself yes I guess I kind of do like
38:22
this is Wolf if you've ever seen it look
38:24
at the hairy it's not full moon yet he's
38:26
just starting
38:28
jange what does he look like who's he
38:30
look like well wolves always travel in a
38:32
pth that's true that's a good point yes
38:35
I noticed yes this is interesting here
38:39
is it red he just put suntan lotion on
38:42
he did it did well that's why you're not
38:44
the vire you putting more and more and
38:46
more on how do you know
38:49
this TR together oh they see W family I
38:54
mean your Cy wolf family and
38:56
wolf be good to you or you want to kill
38:58
him
39:04
I not very nice moment to think about
39:04
eat up enjoy
39:07
your thank
39:15
you we' decided to stay with our
39:25
group P Fu Panda where that car is
39:25
driving right now off to right yeah
39:28
those Bungalows have been here yeah
39:30
right there and to the right those have
39:32
all been there since the 40s definitely
39:34
in 2026 so it'll start right up there go
39:37
up in the air and it's going to shoot
39:39
200 ft down the hill and there's a
39:41
little neighborhood on the top edge of
39:43
the golf from the right all the way over
39:45
to the left where you cannot see that
39:48
little neighborhood is called TCA Lake
39:50
it was Beverly Hills before there was a
39:51
Beverly Hill so if you recognize names
39:54
like um May uh West WC Fields Charlie
39:59
Chaplain Boris Carla Frank Sinatra Bing
40:02
Crosby Bob Hope Betty Davis they've all
40:05
had homes out here we're heading down to
40:07
the lower Lots so our guy is very
40:09
informative Al and he was saying the
40:12
Bungalows he was talking about the sound
40:13
stages over there but the Bungalows that
40:15
are over kind of near where we got out
40:18
and went in that one Sound Stage the
40:20
earlier the tour where near Hitchcock
40:22
and all that is used to be down here
40:24
like at a college University so if you
40:27
were a celebrity you wanted to see
40:28
another celebrity or you work with
40:29
somebody you probably bump into them
40:31
here cuz if you had to go from your
40:32
offices to the back lot sound stages to
40:35
the mill or the lighting department uh
40:37
it was all cutting through this area
40:39
Crossroads of the Stars the tram tour in
40:42
the early days used to stop here for a
40:43
brief visit we take you into a building
40:46
to show you special effects but also
40:48
while you stop down here we take you
40:50
into comedy Legend Lucio Ball's dressing
40:52
room and Academy award-winning costume
40:55
designer Edith's head office you can
40:57
walk in and see that Lucille Ball's
41:00
office used to be right there where the
41:01
sign says Dino
41:03
play WoW Edith Head was next door to
41:06
that behind the Jurassic Cafe is where
41:10
Alfred hc's office was for decades uh
41:13
and behind that you had Carri Grant
41:15
across the street from alred nitka you
41:17
had Carrie Grant Doris Day Tony Curtis
41:20
Rock Hudson all had F of those that they
41:22
stayed here for a long time when they
41:23
were working with and Lucille Ball's
41:25
last show called here's
41:27
filmed at our sound stages so that's why
41:29
her dressing when was here in this area
41:31
was close by so a lot of history if you
41:33
remember shows like ironide
41:36
Columbo Ro emergency all those shows in
41:40
the 7s 607s and ' 80s all filmed are in
41:44
this area and the sound stages that were
41:46
around here that Sound Stage that says
41:48
Transformers used to be where they did
41:50
episodes of iron side and Columbo back
41:52
in the old and M tour took it over for
41:55
special effects we did a backdraft ear
41:57
there back in the '90s and then now home
42:01
trans I'm really getting at
42:03
is this is H ground for the movie
42:06
business here on the lot and most people
42:08
have no
42:13
idea I think she's already thankful bro
42:13
that's good doc you got time for a photo
42:16
of these three gentlemen over here big
42:18
big fans on my calculations yes all
42:20
right we we get a photo with Doc guys
42:22
let's get a photo he's got the time he's
42:24
got the time
42:50
and that's going to do it for
42:50
today from Universal
42:54
Studios Hollywood VIP tour was aw
42:57
awesome went really well granted did not
42:59
do did not get down to Hill Valley where
43:02
we wanted to go but other than that was
43:05
pretty dang awesome one of the best VIP
43:09
tours I think I've ever
43:11
done would have been the icing on the
43:13
cake to seahill Valley but you know what
43:16
not that big of a deal there'll be
43:17
another time it'll happen it'll
43:21
happen
43:23
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