We had some available time yesterday and it was decided by members of the “Florida Mafia” (the term given to a group of guys from Florida attending the Pepperdine lectures) to try and catch a Jay Leno taping.
Since there were no available free tickets the Mafia decided to take the NBC studio tour instead. Not wanting to wake up with a horse head I decided to go along with the wishes of the Mafia. Let me say this, horse heads or not, some things are just not worth the price of admission.
The tour consisted of walking around “the studio” (a glorified warehouse) with ‚Äútour guide Barbie‚Äù explaining how we couldn’t go in this room or that room, how we could not see this set or that set for safety and copyright issues.
The hook for the tour was something like “now as we set out on this tour and we happen to see Jay Leno or some soap opera star please remain calm, cool, and collected.‚Äù As one of the senior Mafia members expressed following our “walk-by-faith-not-by-sight” tour, for $7 bucks Leno should have come out and given us a sandwich!
I am not making this up or exaggerating. 85% of the tour was walking down the hallway and looking at 40-year-old sets on utility carts, pictures on the wall and studios we could not enter. The interesting 15% (Beth will be so proud with my advanced math skills) of the tour was five minutes in the Leno bleachers and 5 minutes drooling over Jay Leno’s car.
That’s right, we paid $7 dollars to look at a Dodge Viper and sit in a stadium bleacher and stare at Leno’s desk (which was wrapped and covered up). I’m thinking the CIA tour in Langley shows you more than the NBC tour in Burbank.
Tell you what. Come see me in DC and for $5 dollars I’ll drive you around and show you all the things I can’t let you see or get you inside to see. I’ll let you sit in my car, sit in the auditorium, stare at my desk and feed you lunch. Anyone interested?
Yes, some things are truly not worth the price of admission.
