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What a start! Yesterday was day 1 of our Road to Oprah tour. Our plan: to drive around LA and raise some money for the road, visiting Hollywood, etc, ending up at Venice for a nice sunset on the beach. First, we visited the set of a Philip K. Dick novel being produced by our producer, Stephen Nemeth. We met a ton of cool folks who were really supportive; we raised about $170 with the help of dozens. Then we rolled to Hollywood; we pulled up outside Mann's Chinese Theater around 3pm and Darth Vader jumped on to our bus. Everyone was laughing as Darth Vader gave us words of advice. Then Levi spotted some smoke coming out of the wall of our bus, and yelled "fire". The mood changed instantly. Levi tried to pull the bus over safely, I looked out the widow expecting to see flames. I saw a bunch of smoke billowing from our fuse box, grabbed our fire extinguisher and Darth Vader and I jumped out, ran around to the fuse box and extinguished the electrical fire. It was pretty unreal. Turna out Darth Vader is an electrician, and a bit of an auto mechanic...