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Episode 423 - Brian Malow

Probably Science

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The Charlie Chaplin Hotel in West Hollywood

The hotel was closed is closed to the public. So it's just us with like four empty rooms between each of us because they even wanted to keep us distanced in our rooms. Charlie Chaplin owned it and at some point lost it in a bet to John Wayne for a dollar or something. There's a lot of properties around LA that have Charlie Chaplin connections. The Formosa cafe as well was used to be like everyone who was in his films would come over and drink in that cafe and bar the next straight off to the shoot. And he used to own them and this little community of little bungalows and storybook style houses.

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