TDW 1858 - I Don't Belong On Rodeo Drive
Transcript
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here.
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Starting off the day with something I've
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never tried before. A skinny PB&J
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strawberry, blueberry. Think there's
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some banana in there. Of course, peanut
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butter and coconut milk.
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Oh, that's good. It's my second channel,
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Daily Vlog channel. It's
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the daily rule. That car is completely
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decked out.
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Check out that little teeny tiny
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minivanesque
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vehicle heading up to the observatory
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via the scenic route going right up
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there. If you don't feel like hiking,
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this is probably the best spot to get a
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view of the iconic sign. My friend is in
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town with his girlfriend one more day.
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They fly out tomorrow and they wanted to
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take a look at some famous Los Angeles
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spots.
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That's why we're here. There have been
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an incredible amount of movies, TV
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shows, and productions filmed right
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where I'm standing, and I will discuss
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those in great detail. We'll dive into
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those subject matters at a later date in
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a future vlog. Today, just hanging out.
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I probably take you inside and show you
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what's in there. But there's really no
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rhyme or reason. Just hanging out,
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enjoying the day. But to be honest, any
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excuse to come up here to the top of the
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mountain to this epic structure, I will
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completely embrace. and and take a
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slight throwback to what I did the other
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day, the wisdom tree. Take a look at the
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peak to the far left of the sign. Look
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very, very closely. You can see a single
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tree
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right there on the hill. That's where I
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hiked to.
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It's amazing, right? Just one single
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tree survived the wildfires of 2007.
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still remains even through the semi-
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dense smog. Get a pretty good view of
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not only downtown
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but all the encompassing other areas.
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Just look at I never can really fully
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wrap my head around the size.
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And then way over there,
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might be hard to see it, but there are a
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few tall buildings. And I believe, don't
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quote me on it, but I believe Nakatomi
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Plaza from Die Hard. It's tucked away
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over there. Which place has more smog,
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Shanghai or Los Angeles?
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Shanghai.
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How much more How much more smog in
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Shanghai versus Los Angeles?
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Three times.
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So, three times thicker.
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Yeah.
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So, this is nothing. This is just This
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is basically nothing when it comes to
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smog.
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Yes,
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you can breathe. You think you can
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breathe easy here.
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Yes.
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Yeah. A lot of people think this is a
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lot of smog, but she's confirming the
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fact that Shanghai
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beats this by a long shot. I can kind of
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understand the philosophy behind leaving
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your mark, like inscribing your name in
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a location of somewhere you visited for
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future people to see. But what I don't
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understand are certain things that are
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written on properties like your
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Instagram handle might not be the
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smartest idea. Social media
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contact information
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probably is not the wisest thing to do
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when you're desecrating the side of a
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historic building. Out front on the
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concrete they have a label of the sun.
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And if you back away just a little bit,
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you can see the orbit of Mercury and
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Venus. And then next Earth, which we are
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currently inhabiting, and then Mars. And
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then you'll notice there aren't any more
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orbits for quite a while. In fact, some
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of them go way over there. I decided
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it'd be easier just walk over and show
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you. All the way over here is the orbit
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of Uranus right there.
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not over where the inner four rings are.
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That that guy thought I was talking to
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him. And this chart shows in better
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detail of the property. You can see
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faintly the observatory layout drawn
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there. And look how far the rings go out
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way over past the observatory. I've
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never noticed this before. It's pretty
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fascinating. They have this light up
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display of the periodic table. Pretty
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interesting.
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There's carbon,
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nitrogen, arsenic,
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and you'll notice down here in the far
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corner,
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the plutonium,
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the plutonium is empty. Doc Brown was
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here.
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This particular coil has been here since
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1937. They only run it sporadically for
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very short bursts because when it was on
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the other side of the complex, it caught
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fire once.
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This is basically a bird's eyee view of
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a model of the Griffith Observatory that
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opened on May 14th, 1935. And you can
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see the lights illuminate some of the
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different telescopes that are here. It's
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quite a complex. This 240 lb steel ball
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keeps perfect time
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as the Earth turns.
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It continues to move in a very specific
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pattern, knocking down these little
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metal pieces that tell you exactly what
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time it is. And it's connected to a
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heavyduty
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metal rope and is connected up top to
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this very majestic, beautiful piece of
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art on the roof.
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A slightly more archaic way than just
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looking at your cell phone to see what
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time it is. But you know, this works
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also.
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Colonel Griffith J. Griffith. Yeah, he
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had a first and a last name that were
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the same. He got rich through mining and
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real estate. In return, he decided to
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give something back to his adopted
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hometown of LA. And there he is looking
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north to the Hollywood Hills in the
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1900s. And we have him to think now for
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the Griffith
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Observatory. Slightly uncommon for
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someone to have the first and last name
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that are the same. It's also uncommon
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for someone to build something this
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impressive. Most impressive. Normally
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what I do when I get a ride to the top
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of the observatory, I take the Uber and
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have it drop me off right up there. But
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instead of having the Uber driver up the
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side of the hill to pick me up, I just
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walk it. I go down to the bottom and
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wait down there. Saves the driver a
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little bit of a truck. And walking
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downhill is much easier than walking
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uphill. Look at the paint job on this
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van.
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Smoke something, I will. I have some bad
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news. If you're a fan of the filming
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locations from Back to the Future, right
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here is where the starting line was that
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Marty took the Delorean, banged his head
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against it to get it to crank. The tree,
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that iconic tree that was right here
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next to this pole, and the bench in that
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scene was over here. That tree has been
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uprooted, erased.
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from existence. If you look closely, you
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can see kind of sort of where it once
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was. I've done the locations many, many
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times. This is sad. This is
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That's sad. There was a time many, many
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years ago, I had a dream, a vision, a
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picture in my head to do a crosscountry
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bus trip before I ever thought I would
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arrive in California nor live here. This
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is back probably in the late 90s, maybe
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even before that. I wanted to see with
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my own eyes the filming locations of my
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favorite movie. Now I live here
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and one of those iconic staples of the
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movie itself, it's completely gone.
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Interesting how life works and memories
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flood back.
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arrive now at a location
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that I really honestly have no business
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ever being at. Rodeo Drive, Beverly
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Hills.
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That's where I want to be. the mecca of
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very expensive stores that I cannot
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afford. But you know, window shopping's
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fun. I've always wanted to walk down
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this road. What the heck? This is Rodeo
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Drive. You spelled Rodeo.
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This is I guess you could say this is my
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first rodeo. I think I blend in
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gracefully with my $12 checkerboarded
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backpack right underneath Giorgio
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Barmani. It's I fit in. I fit in. That
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large drink looks very refreshing as do
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these donuts here at the Hermes store.
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Look at the Hollywood City tours going
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by. Not just one, but it's been booked
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so many times they need two vehicles to
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make it happen. And if you look very
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closely, there's a pair of pants up in
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that window. A very large pair of pants.
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That is a very decorative building
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across the street. Some of these names
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I've only heard of in movies and
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television shows. Wow, look at the
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exterior of this place. Fancy. If you're
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in the mood for a new Rolex, this is the
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place to get it right here. The Gucci
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building looks like a water flowing
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plethora of gold. I see some spaceuits
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up there and flying saucers
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dangling from inside the window. Oh,
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that's that's probably under under $20,
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right? That's part of the discount rack,
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maybe. Hopefully. What do you think the
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car payment would be on that rolls? Not
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pretty. Am I going crazy or is she
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flirting with me? Are you flirting with
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me? Ah,
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either that or she has some sort of a
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nervous twitch, I think. You know what?
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I think it's just a nervous twitch. It's
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just a nervous twitch. Wandered around
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inside here for a little bit. One thing
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I noticed, there's no price tags on
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anything. And the majority of the
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employees and security were looking at
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me like, "What's he doing here?" This
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display is illuminated. But if you look
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closely in the boxes, there are little
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foamy items stretching upward. Kind of
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similar to the purse strap itself. I
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think that's supposed to represent what
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the purse looks like. She's just
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chilling. Just chilling in there. Saks
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Fifth Avenue. You might remember this
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from 2001. It made news because Winona
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Ryder tried to steal $4,700
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worth of merchandise by putting it in a
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bag. She was caught for shoplifting. And
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that was it right there. That's That's
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where it happened. I guess that's pretty
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much what it's known for now.
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I just ordered an Uber. I just thought,
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you know, I think that's him. I think
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that's our Uber, right? I think is that
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our Oh, wait. No. I thought for a second
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there I thought that was the Uber I
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ordered. I was just joking. This is This
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is my Uber. Actually, no. this. Okay,
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we're getting to the bottom of this.
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That That's my Uber. There's the famous
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sign. Not as iconic as the Hollywood
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sign, but pretty close. It's been said
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at some hours of the night, a young Axel
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Foley can be seen hanging out over
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there.
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I heard a rumor and it looks as if the
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rumor has been confirmed.
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Guess who's back? Back again. It's
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Argyle the pig. Except this time he's no
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longer coated in topiary goodness. has
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astroturf on him. Almost like something
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you would see on a miniature golf
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course, but it's him. You can't fool me.
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That's you, Argyle. I thought you were
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pignapped,
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but you weren't. You were just changing
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clothes.
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So good to see. And there's no there's
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no bottles of booze. Have you cleaned up
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your act? Look, there's no absolutely
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not one beer bottle or shot glass
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around.
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It's good to have you back, buddy. It's
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good to have Say it. You know you want
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to say it.
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Come on, say it. Cat got your tongue.
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All right, I'll say it. Hog
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over.