00:00we joke around a lot that my dad looks a little bit like rod stewart yes he gets that sometimes
00:08when he's out people stopped him in vegas wanting to take pictures with him um but this is a reason
00:13where you'll want to hang out with the real rod stewart chuck okay believe it or not for 23 years
00:20rod stewart has been building a model railway and he finally finished yes oh my god 23 years look
00:26look at how happy he is look he spent 23 years creating an imaginary city in the attic of his
00:32los angeles mansion complete with intricate details and 100 feet of railroad tracks no one knew he was
00:38up to this he revealed his secret passion interview uh in a with an interview with the railway modeler
00:46magazine oh yeah subscribes to i have it he said 100 feet rod at times he'd even take this on tour
00:53with him just bits of it he'd work on skyscrapers and other scenery parts i have three while he
00:58was on tour look at the city the building it's amazing the detail in this they it really this
01:06whole nerdy train thing there's a lot of nerdy things i'm into those little figurines that's
01:11what this is yeah it looks like it's new it took me a second i'm like is that a real picture of new
01:16york and then i went oh my god create a city and all those little people they're like lead
01:21how does he resist not playing godzilla and going in and smashing it because he spent 23 years
01:27building it oh look how nice it looks i mean it looks like a hollywood set it absolutely does they
01:32could use it for a miniature scale i have a friend that has one like this like i know a guy who has
01:38one like this and i'm like wow wow so rod this whole basement rod stewart city is so intricate it's
01:44up at daveandchuckthefreak.com by the way if you want to see the pictures of this but it's so intricate
01:48that he made sure every pavement stone in town is a slightly different color he used black chalk
01:53to create cracks and even put fake garbage in the gutters as for the roots and how this all started
01:58he recalls seeing a model railway in a window display when he was growing up in england and he
02:03wondered how he could get paid to build one patience 23 years making this whole town and he's very
02:08impressed by rod that's just so bizarre the guy used to be like one of those like sexual deviance of
02:16the 70s and yeah that's how you know that you're real sexual his 23-year passion he's like
02:2123 years millions of dollars this guy had he's banged everybody in that show
02:29just shows you what life's all about it's gonna stop all that poon means nothing you know what
02:41means something that train that you walk by when you're eight years old none of those supermodels
02:48yeah i'm trying to see how many trains he has so he's got one two three four
03:09i know i've got about i've got six of them so i don't know rod you should be an inspiration to
03:16model train enthusiasts come on rod i've got six i mean you only got 100 feet i've got probably at
03:22least 300 feet of track i i've got at least 300 feet
03:29this guy so he finished singing if you want my body this whole time he's dancing he's actually
03:39thinking about trains
03:40he's actually this whole thing is he's singing to a train oh my god he couldn't have been into
03:52trains at that moment he was into trains look at him he said he's from eight years old
03:56the amount of times my dad is saying this to my mother oh i'll say this you guys have no idea
04:04what i'm gonna do by the time i'm as old as rod stewart do you know you don't think i'm gonna build
04:09some kind of my own city please you can stay committed to it that long oh i'll be old at that
04:15point i won't be able to do all the other stuff yeah it's true well if you want to read more about
04:20it pick up the current edition of railway modeler magazine okay here's the truth though do you really
04:25think that rod did any of this you think you just paid somebody for oh i think so i think he paid
04:32people 23 years duty then that he has the worst workers ever i think that's his passion is to build
04:37it he said he would take he would build the skyscrapers on tour and then add the man when
04:41he got back that's incredible it's so hard like i have many many pieces to make my own city already but
04:49i do i have a tremendous amount many pieces to make my own city i have half a city we have to
04:57understand i in basically inherited someone else's city yeah from the 50s so you're building
05:05so i could it's in boxes it's in boxes and i don't even know if all of it works still i
05:12everything i've tested still works but i it takes a lot it takes 23 years and you have to have
05:20leather pants so and you got both so you're good to go crazy yeah see he's like there he is yeah
05:26that's like that was trains i can't wait yeah he had like two different kinds of trains he would
05:32have supermodel trains oh yeah and then yeah he's in all the trains oh wow well there you go chuck
05:40the freak's future we're looking at it right here from this show to a model train village
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