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Speaker 1: Good people of Hollywood Land. I welcome you to another

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Speaker 1: dip into our archive of Hollywood and true crime stories.

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Speaker 1: This week we're talking about one of the coolest to

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Speaker 1: there's Harrison Ford Cool. There's something about this guy, some

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Speaker 1: sort of brilliant, understated badass that is hard to articulate

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Speaker 1: and impossible to miss. Maybe mister han Solo here picked

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Speaker 1: it up from his time around some of the coolest

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Speaker 1: rock stars on the planet. Wait what's that now, you ask, Well,

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Speaker 1: you're about to find out, So sit back, maybe indulge

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Speaker 1: a bit in a way nineteen sixties Harrison Ford would

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Speaker 1: approve of and enjoy this episode of Hollywood Land. Hollywood

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Speaker 1: Land is a production of Double Elvis. I'm all right,

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Speaker 1: Am I right, I'm I'm alright, I'm alright, I'm The

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Speaker 1: stories about Harrison Ford are insane. He was a touring

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Speaker 1: cameraman for Jim Morrison in the Doors. He was a

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Speaker 1: carpenter who fixed up the houses of James Kahn and

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Speaker 1: Joan Didion. He dealt weed to Michelle Phillips of the

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Speaker 1: Mamas and the Papas, partied with the Rolling Stones romance

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Speaker 1: Hollywood Royalty. He even told one of the greatest directors

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Speaker 1: great film, just like many of the films Harrison Ford

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Speaker 1: has appeared in over the years. And unlike that clip

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Speaker 1: that wasn't from a great film. That was a fair

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Speaker 1: youse sample from the Library of Congress of an unidentified

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Speaker 1: group of convicts performing hammer Song in nineteen thirty nine.

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Speaker 1: I played you that clip because I can't afford the

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Speaker 1: rights to a clip from Francis Ford Coppolas The Godfather.

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Speaker 1: And why would I play you that specific slice of

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Speaker 1: Don't ask Me about my business Cheese? Could I afford it?

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Speaker 1: Because that was the number one movie in America on

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Speaker 1: June twenty sixth, nineteen seventy two, And that was the

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Speaker 1: day that filming began on a chaotic production that would

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Speaker 1: set the course for Harrison Ford's rise from Hollywood handyman

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Speaker 1: to certified megastar. On this episode, keeping up at the Doors,

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Speaker 1: is Hollywood Land, San Jose California, nineteen sixty eight. Jim

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Speaker 1: Morrison was writhing around on the stage floor, screaming into

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Speaker 1: the wings. Harrison forward checked his grip. He tried desperately

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Speaker 1: But nothing was right in the song in this performance,

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Speaker 1: the lizard king he was, while his band The Doors

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Speaker 1: Harrison pulled focus. Jim was there right in Harrison's sights

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Speaker 1: in the flesh, mister Mojo rising. Harrison pressed the shutter

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Speaker 1: had to admit it wasn't ideal. He hoped this was

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Speaker 1: the unpredictable Jim Morrison. But a guy's got to do

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Speaker 1: a thing, Harrison Ford took the work that he could get,

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Speaker 1: years prior in nineteen sixty four. Of course, he didn't

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Speaker 1: The dirt show was more like it. Twenty eight thousand

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Speaker 1: But Harrison Ford wasn't getting in on any of the

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Speaker 1: caught him loose. Harrison Ford went getting paid little to

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Speaker 1: have skills. A crash course in carpentry led him to

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Speaker 1: Joan Didion connected him to other skills and other gigs,

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Speaker 1: all accounts, Harrison Ford didn't just have good shit. He

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Speaker 1: The role was all attitude, a drag racing degenerate named Bob,

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Speaker 1: whoever set George Lucas's hotel room on fire? A disgruntled actor, perhaps,

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Speaker 1: who never looked like he gave a shit, Harrison Ford

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Speaker 1: and that all provided the perfect backdrop for a good

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Speaker 1: then Harrison Ford was the host. Nineteen seventy, two years

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Speaker 1: him alive. Yea hated snakes. But all that was nothing

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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty degree day, the kind of day

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Speaker 1: you spent continuously fanning your face just to keep out

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't just a heat. Something was off in Tunisia,

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Speaker 1: and this time it wasn't because of the rolling stones,

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Speaker 1: as custom made cocktails. Whatever Harrison had been eating over

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Speaker 1: the last few months is beginning to destroy him from

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Speaker 1: the inside out. His guts were a mangled mess. With

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Speaker 1: His stomach also turned at the thought of the two

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Speaker 1: a villain played by a weapons expert who is going

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Speaker 1: to be whipping around a giant's sword three and a

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Speaker 1: going toe to toe with some hercules with a cutlass

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Speaker 1: this was it, the final scene. Do this, then get

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Speaker 1: back on a plane, back to England, back to Bland, food,

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Speaker 1: wasn't his call. It was Steven Spielberg's call. Harrison racked

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Speaker 1: He couldn't get comfortable. He leaned back and closed his eyes.

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Speaker 1: There had to be another way. Screw it. Didn't matter

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Speaker 1: that this is one of the most anticipated new films

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Speaker 1: going to do what he always did, build it from scratch,

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Speaker 1: giving his actors the freedom to add lib lines. Harrison

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Speaker 1: Jones had been carrying this gun throughout the whole movie.

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Speaker 1: Thing was, he hadn't pulled it out, not once. Why

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Speaker 1: not now? Why not subvert the audience's expectations. This big

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Speaker 1: muscle guy gets out his sword, throws it around this

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Speaker 1: let's just shoot the fucker. Spielberg went with it, and

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Speaker 1: the result was one of the most iconic actions by

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Speaker 1: most iconic movies of all time, All because Harrison Ford

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Speaker 1: had a debilitating case of the shits and wanted to

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Speaker 1: go home. All because Harrison Ford called an audible just

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Speaker 1: like he had been calling them for years. The right

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Speaker 1: angle to pull, focus on an elusive Jim Morrison, the

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Speaker 1: right hammer to frame out of door, the right strain

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Speaker 1: of brutal weed to sling to Hollywood's elite, steering his

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Speaker 1: ship in the direction that moved him the most. No

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Speaker 1: need to calculate exactly how to navigate the asteroid, feel

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Speaker 1: between here and there. Just drive like you're one of

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Speaker 1: those old cheves tearing ass through Petalumo up George Lucas

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Speaker 1: makes you wait some more. It's not always easy. You'll

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Speaker 1: get dinged, and there are injuries on set, plane crashes too.

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Speaker 1: In fact, Harrison Ford went through the Ringer just like

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Speaker 1: his beloved stones, divorced, fired, chewed up, spit out, push

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Speaker 1: to the edge, physically mentally and professionally more times than

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Speaker 1: you care to remember, But never tell him the odds.

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Speaker 1: The greater the odds, the greater the story, the story

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Speaker 1: that ought to be pictures.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jake Brennan and this is hollywood Land.

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Speaker 1: Hollywood Land was created by Years Truly and is produced

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