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Well, how do you, folks, and good morning, afternoon or evening,
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wherever and whenever you may be listening. My name is Tim and welcome
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to one day in so cal.
Whether you've lived here your entire life or
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visiting from across the world, whether
you only have one day in so cal
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or one month, I want to
share some of the coolest, most fun
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and most unique things to do right
here in southern California, whether that's solo
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or with friends and family. So
join me on my next adventure and hopefully
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yours. Right now on one day
in so cal. Welcome to episode four
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of the one day in so cal
podcast. My name is Tim and it's
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Friday August and I'm recording from beautiful
Rightwood, California. Visit me on the
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web one day and socale dot com. One day in SOCAL DOT com for
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the latest episodes, travelog videos,
interactive map of where I've been, social
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media links and more. Hey folks, welcome now, when I started this
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podcast, I committed to doing one
show a month. That was on episode
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one when I said I was gonna
Pretty busy, but the truth was I
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just wasn't sure if this is gonna
be fun or it was gonna be a
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grind or you know, I'm here
to say that once a month is not
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going to work. I think at
minimum I'm going to commit to once a
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week. I wasn't sure how this
was gonna go and even now I'm still
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filling my way through this, but
the fact of the matter, above all
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else, is I'm having a lot
of fun exploring so cal and doing a
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podcast documenting, documenting and sharing my
personal experiences with you guys, so that
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you can hopefully plan out your own
adventures, either solo or with those that
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mean most to you, family and
friends. Now I'm still learning, though.
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Last week I made the mistake of
having a USB fan in the background
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while recording. A lot of you
guys probably heard that. Hum I do
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apologize for that Um and I also
kind of mixed up the sound clips out
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of order for the Hollywood bowl episode. That bugs bunny little clip scene was
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supposed to be right after the INTRO
and I ended up putting a second when
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I said, Hey, there's gonna
be a back to the future clip and
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then bugs bunny shows up. So
you know, I'm really I'm learning with
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each episode I've actually started investing in
this podcast however, Um, with equipment,
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websites, podcast production software, paid
podcast hosting and a higher quality microphone,
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a blue snowball MIC, which I'm
recording on now. So I'm committed
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to this for the long haul and, uh, I'm committed to a hundred
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episodes and more. So I hope
you stick with me and those of you
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that live here, maybe I'll you
know, maybe I'll do an episode on
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something new that you've never done before. Those of you coming for the first
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time, maybe I can give you
some tips and advice on how to,
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you know, how to make the
most out of your first visit to southern
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California. So, all that said, Um, on the flip side here,
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Um, I am committing to one, one episode a week, but
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some of my episodes might be shorter
longer than others. For example, a
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trip to Catalina Island, which I
am planning to do this month in addition
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to the trip I took last month, might need an hour to get through.
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There's just so much to do in
Catalina, just so many little things,
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so many things you gotta know.
But on the flip side, a
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visit to the world's first McDonald's might
only need ten minutes, though granted,
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I could probably spend an hour talking
safety and security on that episode if I
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wanted, considering where the first McDonald's
is located. I've also got some regional
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road trips planned. Are lined up
with striking distance, UH, within striking
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distance of southern California. A little
tongue twister there, um. So thanks
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for sticking with me and on that
theme, if you have any tips or
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suggestions for me and how to improve
drop me a line on my contact forum
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on the website one day. And
so cow DOT COM. Well, okay,
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we're gonna move on to you.
This week's trip. All right,
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so this week I took a trip
down to the Hollywood walk of fame in
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the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles,
California. While I was there, I
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also paid a visit for the first
time to Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. The
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walk of fame is definitely an area
you could spend a few hours if you
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are big on movies and celebrities and
want to do the tourist thing while you're
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in Los Angeles, which is there's
nothing wrong with that. I know people
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like to shy away from tourist locations
or you know, I don't like to
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be a tourist, but I mean
I do the tourist thing when I'm in
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New York or Tokyo, and with
this podcast I'm doing the tourist thing in
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Socal as well. Do the tourist
thing. There's nothing wrong with that,
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especially if you're a tourist. Um, the Hollywood walk of fame is at
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two point six, out and back
landmark located along Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.
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Hollywood is not actually a city,
but a neighborhood in L A.
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Sadly, the city of Los Angeles
scared away most of the movie studios,
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but Hollywood is still synonymous with movies, celebrities and the dreams of millions that
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come with that. Come here to
be rich and famous. Now, I
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remember a few years ago when I
first went to central casting to register as
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a background actor for a major Hollywood
production. While waiting outside the central casting
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offices, I was amongst a pretty
diverse group of people. We all,
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you know, we're all strangers.
We all stared at our shoes, sometimes
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we looked at our phones. Then
somebody broke the ice. So I'm just
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off the plane from Wisconsin. Where
are you guys from? There was a
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New Yorker, there was a Hawaiian
and Australian, a guy that lives around
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the corner and a bunch of other
folks, and there was me, mountain
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man, way up from the mountains. Such is the lure of Hollywood and
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Southern California in general. The American
dream is to own a home. The
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so call dream is to make it
big in Hollywood, and many people here
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have made it. The fact is, the fact that that fact is testified
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to the Toronto and brass stars embedded
in the sidewalk along fifteen blocks of Hollywood
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boulevard. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which oversees the Hollywood walk of Fame,
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Ustimates are about twenty four stars added
each year. So, however probable,
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it is possible. Now. We've
all had those dreams of being a,
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you know, a rich and famous
movie star, and my dream is
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somewhat similar, somewhat different. If
I ever managed to stake out a middle
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class lifestyle in Hollywood, you know
where I can still afford the mortgage and
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not be struggling, I'll be content. Otherwise, acting will continue to be
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a serious hot before me. While
I pursue my new career and information technology.
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The stars on the Hollywood walk of
fame are permanent public monuments to achievement
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in entertainment industry. Um in the
entertainment industry, bearing the names of a
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mix of actors, directors, producers, musicians and even theatrical music groups.
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You will be able to leisurely stroll
the sidewalk here and find your favorite celebrity
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just as much as you'll find people
you have never heard of before. But
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it's not just movies you'll find here. You'll find famous people involved in television,
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radio, music, stage. Uh. You'll find well known favorites like
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Walt Disney and Tom Cruise, US
presidents like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump,
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bands like the backstreet boys, announcing
legends like Vince Gully, game show hosts
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like Alex her Brett Trebec, celebrity
chefs like guy fiery, animals such as
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lassie and Ren Tin Tin, and
even fictional characters, believe it or not,
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such as Mickey Mouse, Big Bird, Godzilla, come with the frog.
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There's even a star for all the
muppet cast, just the muppets.
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Now. All that aside, I
think the coolest star on the walk of
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fame personally, for me isn't a
star at all, but a circular moon
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shaped monument in the sidewalk honoring Neil
Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins,
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for a Paul Levin, and when
you stop and think about it for a
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minute, it makes obvious ends these
incredibly brave men should be honored on the
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Hollywood walk of fame. As the
Hollywood or as the Apoll Leven moon landing
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remains one of the most watched TV
moments in history even today. Some stars
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are located in iconic locations, such
as Mike Meyers Star and from the International
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Love Boutique, you know, in
association with his Austin Powers Role. Roger
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Moore and Daniel Craigstar is located at
seven zero seven Hollywood Boulevard in recognition,
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recognition for their roles as James Bond
of Willo seven Ed O'Neil Starr is located
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outside a shoe store, referencing his
character's career as a shoe salesman and the
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hit Sitcom. Married with children.
The last star at the westernmost portion is
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for a group of young golden age
of Hollywood actors known as the dead end
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kids. There's also a star representing
the Hud two adults and twelve children who
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played the Munchkins in the nineteen thirty
nine classic wizard of Oz. Other stars
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have other symbolic location means. Jay
Leno, for example. He requested his
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star to be near Hollywood boulevard and
Hi Island Avenue, where he was picked
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up twice for vagrancy by police.
They'll never charged. Basically they mistook him
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for a bum Um. I don't
know what are we calling him now?
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The UN housed, the UNSHELTERED UM? But in any case, not long
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after he came to Hollywood, you
know he was he was getting get the
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police were kind of Hey, what
are you doing here? Um? Today,
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as I'm gonna explain later, that
doesn't happen at all. UH,
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there's not a police officer to be
seen, much less endless amounts of vagrants.
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And on the sidewalk back to it. George Carlin placed his star near
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the K Day radio station where he
first gained national recognition. Muhammad Ali is
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the only star not on the sidewalk. Rather, it's embedded in the wall
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at the dolby theater and it's near
the sidewalk and you can still visit it
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and take pictures in front of it. But Ali wants explaining. He didn't
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want people walking over him or his
name. Kind of interesting. Other unique
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stars include Tom Bradley, who was
mayor of Los Angeles, which feature is
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the seal of the city of Los
Angeles, as opposed to a TV camera.
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Like the rest of the actors,
The Los Angeles Police Department Star includes
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a replica of the Hollywood division badge, and corporate exceptions to the no corporation
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role for the Hollywood walk of fame
include Victoria's secret, the Los Angeles dodgers
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and Disneyland Inventors have a place on
the walk of fame too, including Thomas
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Edison for his role in inventing the
film projector George Eastman, who invented the
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role film, and leady forrest,
who invented triode vacuum tubes. Some of
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US said that right, trood triode
vacuum tubes, which is what makes time
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travel possible. Just kidding, which
is what makes radio and TV possible.
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Storry, I'm still humming the L
A phils rendition from back to the future
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from last week's project cast at the
Holly Bowl Um, the only person with
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five stars on the walk of fame, one for each category, is gene
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autry. When celebrities pass away,
their stars often often becomes a temporary memorial,
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as you'll see right now and as
of this your courting with dodger announcer
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legend, Vince coolly. As you
can see, just a ton of history
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and culture along this stretch of Boulevard. Um, it's just a whole culture
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placed in its UN so let's get
onto what the experience is like. What
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is it actually like to step out
of the subway tunnel? And there is
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a subway station right on the boulevard, by the way, for those of
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you commuting the politic transportation? Um
and UH. What's it like to just
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to walk out and and and be
there? Well, I've passed UH.
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About two or three months ago I
went down there and just just the other
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day I went back down there for
this podcast episode. So walking down the
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Hollywood walk of fame is a bucket
list thing for people to do all over
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the world. I have lived in
southern California my entire life and, as
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I stated, the first time I
went down there was a few months ago
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and I just went back again for
the for this podcast episode and and.
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But the thing is that when I
first went down there a couple of months
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ago, it was it was more
of just kind of I didn't go the
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whole way. I walked part way
down, just look some of the stars,
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see some of the shops. This
time I did the whole thing.
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I did a lot of shops.
I walked the whole thing up back,
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up and down and I started my
walk on the corner of Labrea and Hollywood
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Boulevard. I walked the one point
six miles east bound. Along the way
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I passed by a variety of shops, restaurants, interesting people on the street,
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to say the least. Um You
know, you get all the people
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that dress up and the costumes that
don't quite look right, but you get
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what they're trying to be. Those
kind of things. Um there, along
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this boulevard there's an endless amount of
souvenir stores, most of which sell generic
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Hollywood theme merchandise, from Fake Oscar
trophreeze trophies to l a or Hollywood t
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shirts, along with the endless supply
of key chains, magnets, toy snacks
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and drinks. There are some unique
stores on the Hollywood walk of fame,
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however, for Amiba music on the
corner of Hollywood boulevard and argyle Avenue brand
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itself as the world's largest independent record
store, and they're probably correct. This
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large store stocks a lot of music
movies in merchandise, from CDs to vinyl
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records, and they often have live
free shows in store. Check out their
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calendar for the shows. AMIBA DOT
COM, a m O E B A
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dot com. No, they're not
a sponsor those. Are you interested in
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joining a cult? In My oh
so humble and first amendment protected opinion,
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of course, sit down scientology lawyers. The Church of Scientology has a recruiting
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offices here as well. So if
you want to join scientology and get up
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trying to make your way up there
with Tom Cruise, it's here and they're
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standing outside of the store and they're
talking with people and, uh, you
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know, you might be just interested
just to here here they're side of the
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store. I don't know. Not
Me. I kept going. Perhaps the
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largest souvenir souvenir store on the walk
of fame is la La Land Um and
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has nothing to do with the movie, but interesting name, and a cool
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name at that. I have to
admit this is basically a half Walmart sized
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megastore with virtually any kind of Hollywood's
related souvenir you can think of. They
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have a mini grocery store in there
too, or you can pick up cold
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drinks and snacks right in the store. Lola land is on the corner of
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Orange and Hollywood if you want to
turn some middle class heads and be carrying
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those classier bags with more expensive merchandise
down the Hollywood boulevard. However, the
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Hollywood and highland shopping monits the dolby
theater across from the famous Roosevelt Hotel has
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you covered with store such as Sephora, forever, twenty one, Victoria's secret
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and the dodgers clubhouse, which isn't
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dodger store. Um. There's also
a ton of dining options here at the
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Hollywood and Vine Um, basically at
the mall. There's a Ben and Jerry's,
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a cold stone Chadow Tea Room,
David Busters Hard Rock Cafe, California
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Pizza Kitchen, Jina Roman Express.
There's even a bowling alley. Speaking of
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food, let's get onto some of
the more unique restaurants on the walk of
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fame, because there are some pretty
cool restaurants that you can spend some time
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at. Um, it's kind of
dinner and entertainment in some ways. All
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that work, all that walking down
is certainly gonna build up an APP have,
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you build up an appetite and you
won't struggle to find a place to
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meet your knees here. There are
traditional staples such as buffalo wild wings and
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McDonald's, independent ice cream stores,
mini bars, pizza shops, given a
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hooko lounge if that's your thing.
Um. Keep in mind, though,
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besides tourism, this is a major
locals hangout on Friday night, so the
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night scene is huge here. On
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and tours all mixed up, crowding
the sidewalks and there's probably be long waits.
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Reservations are a absolute must on the
Hollywood walk of fame. I know
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this because a few days before I
went down, I tried to get a
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reservation at a nice, five star
restaurant so I could talk about on the
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podcast, and it could not be
done. Let me tell you, Um,
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one of the more unique spots on
the Hollywood walk of fame as far
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as food and beverage goes, is
the scum and villain in Cantina. Do
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you see where I'm going with this? There's no need to head to Disneyland
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Star Wars land to spend some time
in a tattooing Katina. CANTINA. Scum
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and villain in Cantina is a true
recreation, as much as they can get
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away with legally anyways, of a
star wars themed Cantina right on the Hollywood
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walk of fame. There's no windows
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a Cantina and, best of all, it is a hundred percent free to
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visit. It's an absolute must,
even if you are even slightly a star
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wars fan. I'm not the biggest
star wars fan in the world, but
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this place is cool. Check it
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if you just need to you know, a stiff drink. People under twenty
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one can visit, so bring the
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least until eight PM, at which
point it turns into a proper bar.
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Besides alcohol and beverages, there are
fun bites such as fully loaded vader tots,
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marvel Mac and cheese, galactic wacamolion
chips and the Falcon Burger, among
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lots of other items. The SCUMM
and Villainy Villain and Cantina is open Monday
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through Saturday, five pm to two
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am, and it's located between Cohana
Boulevard and, I have our avenue on
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the Hollywood Boulevard. Um, so
it's hanging out with smugglers, geeks and
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those with death warrants on twelve systems
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not the kind of company you like
to keep. There's plenty of other fine
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dining options and even some Michelin rated
restaurants around the corner and Melrose and Librea,
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as you might expect in Hollywood.
To begin with, I expect to
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pay a little more here, no
matter what you choose, as this is
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not only Los Angeles where you're gonna
pay a lot more, but it's a
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major tourist area, so it's kind
of like a double am you know,
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we another restaurants called Beatle House,
which offers a Tim Burton themed dining experience
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near the corner of Lus La Palmas
and Hollywood there's then there's even a black
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rabbit rose magician themed restaurant, and
a lot of live magicians perform here.
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And don't worry, there's plenty of
coffee shops as well, including starbucks.
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Even a subway if you're trying to
slim down, you know, like like
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me. Um, let's see,
besides the restaurants and stores, there are
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still a few things to do here
besides shopping, eating and walking down the
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sidewalk. Of course, there's the
world famous TCL Chinese theater, formerly Grammin's
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Theater Um. They offer tours inside
for sixteen dollars, but if you come
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here on a weekday there will often
be tour guides standing by the entrance announcing
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tours for ten dollars. So if
you plan on coming down here on a
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weekday, I wouldn't buy them online
just yet. I would come down,
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check out some of the handprints in
the courtyard and see if they're offering attend
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all on discount. If not,
man, you know, no loss paid
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of sixteen bucks. But if you
want to do a tour Um side note,
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though, I don't recommend booking a
tour through trip advisor or Viatar for
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this location. I was. I
know this because I was gonna come here
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and report on it via the podcast
during this trip as well, but they
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canceled my tickets last minute. Um. So, instead of booking directly from
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the Chinese theater itself via their website, or should say instead book directly from
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the Chinese Theater itselfia their website,
you're gonna get guaranteed tickets that way,
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and reservations are definitely a bust for
this on weekends and holidays and, Um,
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especially in the summer as well.
Another thing to note about the TCL
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Chinese theater is that it's not just
the prop. It's not just a theater
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in name only. This is an
actual movie theater and they are showing movies
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during the week, both first run
blockbusters and classics. Some of the movies
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they are showing this week as of
this podcast recording our thor love and thunder,
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jaws, Dragon Ball, super superhero
e t the extraterrestrial and bullet train.
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So if you're in the area and
want to see a movie and want
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to do something unique with your movie, yeah, check out their schedule.
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Immediately outside the theater in a courtyard, is a free attraction of cement slabs
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with famous actors and celebrities, actual
feet and prints and writings from Judy Garland
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to Patrick Stewart. If your favorite, if your favorite actor is famous enough,
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you're gonna find their imprints here.
There's even an R two, D
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two and C three Po in print
here. Um. So it's pretty cool
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just to see some of those,
like, for example, Judy Garland,
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like I mentioned, just to see
her handprints and her message, it's like
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wow, she actually did that.
You know that that was her, her
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imprints. So it's pretty cool.
And you got like Roy Rogers, Tom
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Cruise, uh, the Harry Potter
actors. Um. It's just neat,
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Um, really cool and it's gonna
probably be crowded if you come around a
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weekday and Um, the dolbe theater
also offers tours as well and it should
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be reserved online. The dolby theater
is basically right next to the TC L
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Chinese theater. It's kind of really
a kind of an upgraded high tech theater
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where they hold the Academy Awards and
if you take the tour, actually get
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to go inside and see where the
awards ceremony takes place. Reviews are mixed.
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Though, so do your own personal
research on this one, as towards
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cost five bucks and that's that's a
bit of change for a short tour and
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mixed reviews. Um. But if
you never miss the OX screws every year
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and you're in l a come down
to visit and you have or you have
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one day in Socal, then yeah, come on down and do the tour.
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Why not? Um, there are
some museums and some are better than
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others. To get us, book
a World Records has a museum here and
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the entrance is between twenty nine dollars
and nine nine stands to thirty four night
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and nine for adults kids. The
one thing cool about the Guinness Book World
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Records Museum, though, is that
you get free admission to the Hollywood Wax
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Museum, a competitor to Madam Tussaud's, if you buy either ticket. So
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if you go to Guiness book a
world records, you get a free trip
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to the Hollywood Maxim Wax Museum across
the street. Um, if you vice
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first or you go to the Hollywood
aax museum, Hey, you're going to
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the Guinness Book World Director Records Museum, so that's kind of cool. rippleys
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believe it or not, has a
museum here in the entrance is for kids
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and adults, not to be outdone
by the Combo with ginnis world records in
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a hollow Wax Museum, though,
Ripley's has teamed up with Madam tussod's to
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offer a Combo ticket for ninety nine, and that will get you into both
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Ripley's and Madam Tussod's. Um.
There's also an optical illusion and three d
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exhibits and Um and interactive experience.
Is kind of museum perfect for taking photos.
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I believe it's called the optical illusions
museum and General Emission here are thirty
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bucks, twenty for children. Museum
of selfies. Yes, there's a museum
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of selfies. Mean, it was
gonna happen sooner or later, right.
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Is a multi exhibit museum featuring tons
of places that takes fun selfies, such
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as optical illusion, uh, illusions
inside paintings, even a game of Thrones
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Replica Throne Uh cost twenty five bucks
for adults, twenty kids and as uh.
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As stated at the beginning, I
went to Madam Tussau it on this
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particular trip, so let's have a
chat about that and find out what you
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can expect if you decide to go
to Madame tussads Hollywood. So Madam Tussad's
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of Hollywood has about a hundred,
um actually over a hundred, highly realistic
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wax sculptures featuring featuring some of the
most famous people on Earth. Now,
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what's cool about Madame tussads Wax Museum
is that they aren't behind glass or behind
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a rope. You can get up
close and personal with your favorite celebrity,
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either re enacting scenes with them or
just throwing your arms around their shoulder like
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you guys are best buds. The
Wax Museum isn't limited to today's generation of
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rich and famous either. They have
something for everybody here, and I mean
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everybody, and you know, let
me give you an example. If your
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teenage daughter wants to meet Ariod and
Grande or beyonce, they're here. If
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Dad wants to go toe to toe
with the Rock or Daniel Craig, they're
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here. If your someone wants to
join forces with Captain America Thor, they're
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here. If mom wants to gaze
into those John Travolta eyes or fall prey
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to the evil Dr Hannibal Lictor,
they're here. If uncle Joe wants to
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answer that age old question of WHO's
the better captain, picard or Kirk,
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they're here. Card. Excuse me
where that comes from. Funny off topic
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story on that. By the way, I once got a response from an
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angry William Shatner when I told him
that orbits was better than price line on
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twitter. Now, it started as
a reply backing up podcast legend Todd Cochrane,
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who was annoyed that Shatner was basically
defecating on the podcast community when he
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rudely and openly refused publicly to an
invite to come on a podcast as a
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guest. Uh So, as a
consequence he retweeted me and sticked his millions
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of fans on me, which of
course blew up my twitter account in box
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and I had to stay on twitter
for a few days. But I'll share
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that little funny piece in my trialogue
on the website one day and social dot
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com Um for this episode. Uh. Funny off topic story number two.
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I actually did some cold script reading
with his granddaughter at an Acting Class A
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few years after this at Kat she's
acting studio Ms. She is a former
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actor, now director that has done
such hits as rescued by Ruby on Netflix
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and Nancy drew in the hidden staircase. Of course, I didn't mention the
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twitter feud with her, but it
was still pretty cool to, you know,
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actually do a could script reading with
with William Shatner's granddaughter. That was
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pretty neat, by the way.
For those you don't know, could script
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reading is where you are given a
script and have very little or no prep
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time to study it and read it
live and attempt to act it out on
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the fly and basically figure out on
the go what the scene what the scene
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entails, kind of get to your
creative juice loan, so to speak.
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anyways, back to the PODCAST.
If GRANDPA wants to relive the good old
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days with Elvis or Clark Gable,
they're here. If your pet support dog
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wants to beat toto from wizard of
Oz he, or actually I should say
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she is here. Yes, folks, Toto was actually a female dog in
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real life, but you get the
theme here. There's really something for everybody
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here. Now we've all seen the
pictures and heard the stories, but how
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good are these wax models? I
mean really, and you know me,
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I'm gonna I'm gonna well, if
you don't know me, you're gonna know
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me. I I tell you the
truth. I want you to be well
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informed. Big about, you know, getting maximum value for your dollar.
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So was this place really up the
snuff? Basically, Um, now,
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these these models are fully formed,
fully dressed, highly realistic and if you
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look closely enough, obviously you can
tell their fake. The same goes for
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a room that's really highly lit up. The reflection off light, the reflection
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of light off cold wax, is
pretty obvious. But get the lighting right
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and it's really hard to tell the
difference, except for the fact they're not
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moving. Honestly, I was at
times. I was at time scared to
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walk past these sculptures sometimes or turn
my back on them, because I thought
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one of them would actually be the
real thing and try to scare me.
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We've seen some of that, such
as Um Arnold Schwarzenegger doing doing that in
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the Wax Museum and scaring the guests. UH, there's, there's, there's
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one little hallway where they were both
on there. You know, the models
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are on both sides and you're walking
down the hallway and I'm just like,
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I'm just like, it felt like, uh, remember that scene from Silent
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Hill where you know, what's her
name? She's she's trying to rescue her
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daughter and she's trying to walk past
all the deformed, you know, nurses
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holding knives. That's kind of what
it felt like. Sometimes I was like,
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Oh man, just kind of like
trying to slide by because I thought
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one of them, some of those
are really some of those wax models are
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incredibly realistic. Like, like I
said, you get the lighting right where
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it's not obviously, you know,
reflecting off the wax and I think like
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wow, could that be the real
thing? Um, it. Honestly,
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it kind of scared me a little
bit when I did that, but in
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any case, um that to this. Um, yes, some of these
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wax models are extremely realistic and unless
you get right up to them and close
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to them, you are you know, if you're if you're especially you're looking
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down at this is down the hallway, it looks like the real thing.
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of art. Um, and this whole
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museum is spread across three floors,
by the way. Um, these these
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wax sculptures are not behind glass or
rope. You can get right up to
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them and you really you know and
up close and personal with with your favorite
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actor, I guess, so to
speak. Um, a lot of the
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museum is set up from scenes from
films to you can re enact to me
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part of complete with props and background, like sitting with forrest Gump on a
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park bench, getting direction from Steven
Spielberg or, my personal favorite, negotiating
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with the Godfather himself, Marlon Brando, in his office. Now we've all,
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at one point or another, had
the dream of being famous, famous
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actor or just meeting your favorite celebrity, and let's year l this is about
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as close as the vast majority that's
all gonna get. So come and enjoy
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it. Um, you take this
out so when you come in, you
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take the ele of it up to
the third floor and eventually make your way
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back down by stairs to the first
floor. I was kind of trying to
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rush through it because I did have
it an engagement at the Hollywood bowl,
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but it still took me a good
forty five minutes to fifty minutes to get
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through Um. and the museum's divided
up into sections as well, such as
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modern music, modern Hollywood movie scenes, just modern Hollywood in general, Western's
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horror, Golden Globe or state,
golden age of Hollywood, Marvel Comic Universe,
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and even a museum on how they
create the sculptures. Even Madam Um
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is it by the way? Is
it Madam or Madam? Because it doesn't
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really depends. It doesn't matter here, but even Madam who thought herself,
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is here as an impeccable wax culture
so this begs the question some of you
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might be wondering, is your favorite
person here in the museum? Brace yourselves,
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because I'm going to read off every
single wax figure at Madame Tussaud's Hollywood,
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which will hopefully give you an idea
of how big this place is and
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help you decide if you want to
visit who. Okay, I'm ready for
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this. Are you ready? Ready, set go? George Lopez. By
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the way, I'm gonna undoubtably script
some of the names here. Let's start
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again. George Lopez, Simon Cal
Conan O'Brien, rihanna Elton, John Jennifer
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Lopez, Zoe Saldana, Jimmy Kimmel, Ryan Reynolds, Arianna Grande, Carrie
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Underwood, Jason Drulo, Lord Justin
Tipper Lake, the Rock, Morgan Freeman,
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Kylie Jenner, Daniel Craig, Brad
Pitt, Angels Bassett, Penelope Cruz,
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Jimmy Fallon again. Yes, there's
two of them. Barack Obama,
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Julia Roberts, Meryl Street, Jim
Carrey, Joan rivers, Johnny Grant,
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George Burns, Bob Hope, Betty
Davis, Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich,
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Vivian Ley Clark, Gable, Ingrid
Bergman, Fred astaire, Ginger Rogers,
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Howard Hughes, James Dean, Humphrey
Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, James Stewart,
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Alfred Hitchcock, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth
Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe,
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Fred O'Toole Chel, Welsh, Robert
Redford, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood,
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John Wayne, Anthony Hopkins, Boris
Karloff as the mummy, Bella logosie as
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Dracula, Boris Karloff again as Frankenstein, John Travolta as Danny Zuko, Tom
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Hanks as forrest, Dustin Hoffman,
Patrick Swayzey, Patrick Stewart as Captain Piccard,
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William Shatner's captain, Kirk Will Smith, Sylvester Stallone's rocky Balboa, Johnny
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Depp is Edward Scissor Hands, Jackie
Chan, Marlon Brando as the Godfather,
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Stephen Bilberg, Jack Nicholson, Uma
Thurman as the bride, Quentin Tarantino,
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Martin's Chris Scorsese. UH, Dennis, Dennis, Denzel Washington? Dennis Washington,
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no, Denzel Washington, Jennifer Lawrence
as the mocking Jay. That's correct
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right. Bruce Willis Johnny Depp et
the extra terrestrial, Madonna, Michael Jackson,
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beyonce, Shakira, Lady Gaga.
We're almost done, guys. Arnold
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Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, Whitney Houston, Tupac, Shakur Snoop Dog, Sarah
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Michelle Geller. Crushed on her as
a kid, by the way, especially
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and uh, well, let's get
on. Whoopi Goldberg, Britney Spears,
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Selena, yes, that's Selena,
pierce brows in as James Bond. Madame
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Murray, too, saw James Hensworth
as thor, Chris Evans Captain America,
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Robert Downey Jr as stark, Samuel
l Jackson as shield, director fury and,
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last but certainly not least, spider
man. I came away from Madam
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Tsad's pleasantly surprised. I will always
I've always kind of viewed madame two sods
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a sort of Gimmicky Um, I
was expecting maybe thirty wax models, but
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I genuinely had a lot of fun
here. You could certainly spend an hour
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or two here and I think it's
certainly worth thirty dollar entrance fee. Um.
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There is a few up cells here. They have like a marvel and
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four D movie. They have some
virtual reality stuff they do, but for
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me just walking through and taking a
tour was was enough for me. Um,
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for Um. There's one thing you
can do free here, though,
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without the up cell. Um.
There's actually a kind of a cool little
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Jimmy kibble interactive exhibit, Um,
and basically what you do is you come
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into this room, you sit down
and, Um, there's a green screen
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behind you. Jimmy Kimmel will actually
ask you questions on the screen in front
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of you and you'll answer in real
time, such as who is the most
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rated celebrity in Hollywood. After you're
done, you will walk around the corner
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and watch your interview, which is
done live on the streets of Hollywood,
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uh, the Hollywood walk of fame. Then you could save it and send
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your live interview right to your shock
friends or family members. Um, the
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Wax Museum was Pretty Cool, folks. I do recommend it. Um,
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I'll have to come back down try
the Hollywood Wax Museum. I Know Madam
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tussauds was pretty excellent. Um,
so I give it a thumbs up.
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Parking. If you come down here, there is some very, very limited
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parking along on the Hollywood walk of
fame, but if you want to be
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realistic and you are driving a car
here, you are going to have to
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find a parking lot or a garage. Most of the Hollywood walk of fame
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is either a red zone or a
white passenger loading zone. That basically most
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of the tour guides use. So
prices will vary depending on what events are
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occurring locally in the day of the
week, you know, as usual.
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But the parking lot I suggest to
you is the Mosaic Church on the corner
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of Libre and Hollywood Boulevard. During
the week when there is no church services,
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they open up their lot to the
public and when you arrive you can
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either scan a Qr code and pay
for a parking or you can pre purchase
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your parking pass on a phone map, the APP. I personally use a
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spot here. Again, not a
not a not a sponsor, but I'm
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just giving you the right info here. Um, it's just a nice or
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the best info. I know.
It's just a nice way to plan a
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trip. Really, you do it
at home, you arrive prepaid for,
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prepaid for parking already and forget about
it rather than struggle or stress about basically,
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you know when and where you're gonna
Park and if the lot even has
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space. Parking at the Mosaic Church
was only eleven dollars for twenty four hours
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on a Friday, which is virtually
unheard of anywhere, much less L A.
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and it's directly across the street from
the Hollywood walk of fame. So
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I'm not a member of this church, not, not a sponsor. A
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church is on a sponsor here either. But Um, eleven bucks for twenty
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four hours on a Friday, right
across from the Hollywood walk of fame.
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You know, it's an amazing deal, all right, safety and security.
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There is more than a few things
to note in this category that I want
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to go over here, um,
because I just want you guys to be
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aware and of your surroundings and be
aware of of what this place is really
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like, what this Hollywood walk of
fames like? Um, first and foremost,
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there are a decent number of vagrants
that will either be working or sleeping
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on the boulevard sidewalk. You will
see vagrants that are completely sprawled out and
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passed out over the sidewalk from drug
drug usage, next to famous stars like
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Susan Sarandon or Mel Gibson. I'll
actually include a few photos of that from
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my travelogue. Um, because,
folks, I'm not here to paint a
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pretty picture, you know, seeing
all around of what southern California is.
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I'm simply here to give you the
truth and let you decide for yourself.
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Um. So check the travelogue and
I'll post some of these tragic cases on
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there one day, and socil dot
com one day, and social dot com.
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Uh. Some of these vagrants are
gonna be asking for money, or
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will be or we'll be performing for
money. Some might be more aggressive about
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it than others. Um, there
have been incidents on the walk of fame.
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Um, I'll let you look up
those if you if you if you
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still waste too and but the fact
of the matter is my honest suggestion is
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to ignore them and keep moving.
Um. On my trip to the holiday
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walk of fame I also saw a
drug dealer. Now by drugs I mean
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marijuana, but nonetheless, the shady
character was hiding behind two pillars out of
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building and peddling marijuana illegally to anyone
that wanted to buy, while keeping a
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lookout for police. Um, they're
gonna find a lot of unofficial merchants here
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too, that is, those selling
street food without a health department license or
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inspection, those selling souvenirs and a
makeshift stand, or those offering tours in
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their private car. You know,
uh, one guy saw, which isn't
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a bad idea to be perfectly honest, was using a blank star that wasn't
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completed yet as a template to add
your name to it for a cool serving
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souvenir photo. He even painted gold
the the words and he could change the
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emblem and it was pretty neat.
Um. And I get these folks are
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really you know, they're trying to
survive. Los Angeles and California in general
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is a tough place to survive sometimes, you know, especially you're on the
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lower end of the the spectrum there. But my advice personally is don't stay
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away, don't partake, you know, as the bartender said, doc Browning,
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back to the future, part three, when doc asked for whiskey.
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Okay, I ain't your Papa.
I just don't want to say you do
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the wrong thing. Well, you
are, doc and I'm the bartender,
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bartender chester was his name. I
don't want to see you get defrauded or
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hurt anywhere in southern California and the
risk, however minor, is present and
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there are are a few things you
can do to stay safe, which includes,
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you know, going to eating at
restaurants that actually are licensed by the
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Health Department and, uh, you
know, not giving money to vagrance or
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engaging them. Um, there's a
whole army of people here that that helped
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they vagrancy and and try to do
what they can for them. You're on
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vacation, enjoy yourself. If you
do want to give money to these folks,
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you know, or food, by
all means, but my personal suggestion
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is move on Um. Regarding vagrance, don't make eye contact, don't talk
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to them. In my personal opinion, and L A P D has a
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very minded presence here, mostly observing
everything through cameras or undercover officers. So
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some individuals now feel pretty emboldened,
you know, those that are up to
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no good are out there acting on
the Hollywood walk of fame now. So,
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but you'll be safe. There is
police presence, is just around the
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corner and there's a ton of tourists
here. Um, you know, there's
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that safety and numbers kind of thing. You got, you'll you'll be fine
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here. There's there is vagrance,
but they mostly stick for themselves and unfortunately
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it is kind of sad to see, especially the one I saw the other
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day or, you know, just
basically like slumped up against the wall.
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You know, Um, I'll post
those photos on the website if you want
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to see him. Conclusion here.
Anyone coming to L A as a tourist
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should do the walk of fame at
least once. It's a pretty cool experience.
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We all have folks we admire and
entertainment to one degree or another,
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and it's it's really fun to go
around and search for their star Um,
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or find a name you didn't know
about and look them up on Google real
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quick. Um, there's enough to
do here where you could easily spend half
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a day or so over your trip. Things are usually less busy in the
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morning and pick up in the afternoon
evening, especially in the summer on the
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weekends. So, UM, definitely
worth a visit if you want to.
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If you're coming down to Hollywood doing
the Hollywood thing, you're in Hollywood,
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you know. Let's say you're coming
from England or Ireland or something. Yeah,
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come on down and and see it, see the place, you know,
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where where dreams are made sometimes.
Well, that's gonna do that for
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episode, for the one day in
Socal podcast. Um, I hope you
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tune in next week for my next
adventure. Small Hint. It's gonna be
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a regional trip, going out of
town, not too far striking distance.
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If you came to southern California,
this place would be somewhere you could go
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to even in a day if you
wanted. But nonetheless, Um, tune
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in for my next adventure and hopefully
yours, as we explore everything here there
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is to do here, right here
in southern California, one day at a
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time. Visit beyond the web one
day, and so call dot com one
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day and SOCAL DOT com. Thank
you so much for tuning you guys.
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Means a lot back the blue.
Thanks for listening, folks. Please visit
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the website one day in so cal
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consider subscribing. Feel free to leave
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