[0:00] Welcome to a very special edition of
[0:02] JLo's Garage. The car we're featuring
[0:04] today 1967
[0:06] Corvette. This is a one-owner car. The
[0:08] original owner is here today. We're
[0:10] going to meet him. The car is famous be
[0:13] well because it's original and also
[0:15] because the owner was the 46th president
[0:17] of the United States. Please welcome Joe
[0:20] Biden.
[0:20] >> How are you, sir?
[0:21] >> Doing well. She's looking beautiful.
[0:24] >> We're going to take it out today with
[0:25] your permission and uh
[0:27] >> absolutely. Hopefully, you'll drive with
[0:28] me and uh we'll see what she does. You
[0:32] get a chance to play with us a little
[0:33] bit now?
[0:34] >> Well, a little bit, but I still have
[0:35] Secret Service with me, so when I drive,
[0:37] they got to be in the car. Yeah.
[0:38] >> Although, they all draw straws who
[0:40] doesn't have to get in the car with me.
[0:43] >> So, tell us a story on this car. You're
[0:45] the original owner.
[0:46] >> My dad used to run an automobile
[0:48] dealership and uh my deceased wife, she
[0:50] was from Skinny Atlas, New York. And uh
[0:53] my dad wanted to get something special
[0:54] for the wedding. And so she had a
[0:57] Tempest and I had an old Chevy. He said,
[0:59] "Bring them over to the dealership and
[1:01] we'll fix them up for you." And so a
[1:03] week before the wedding when she was
[1:05] down was up in Scandal in New York where
[1:07] we got married. And we went over to get
[1:09] it and all of a sudden the whole the
[1:11] whole staff from the the entire
[1:14] organization pulled aside and this was
[1:16] sitting there and he said, "This your
[1:18] wedding gift."
[1:19] >> Wow. And so, and my dad didn't have the
[1:22] money to buy this, but he could make the
[1:24] monthly payments,
[1:25] >> right?
[1:25] >> And so, this was my wedding gift. I've
[1:27] had it since then. It's been
[1:29] >> There's still only two payments left,
[1:30] right?
[1:31] >> Only three. Three. What were the
[1:34] payments? What was it? Probably like $35
[1:36] a month.
[1:36] >> Well, I don't know what it was, but I
[1:38] still have the the sticker price, you
[1:39] know, on the window and
[1:42] >> was 5,700 bucks.
[1:43] >> That was a lot of money.
[1:45] >> Yeah. No, for us it was.
[1:47] >> Yeah, it certainly was. Yeah. That's And
[1:49] you've had it all these years. I mean,
[1:51] >> all these years
[1:52] >> now. We last drove this car about 10
[1:55] years ago.
[1:56] >> I owe you big. You realize it's only the
[1:58] third time I'm getting to drive this in
[2:00] seven years.
[2:00] >> Is that right? Only
[2:01] >> That's right. Third time.
[2:07] >> Sounds good.
[2:13] >> Try your brakes.
[2:14] >> They're good.
[2:25] when you were vice president and Colon
[2:27] Powell showed up in his Corvette,
[2:29] remember you got
[2:30] >> he had a new Corvette with about 50 more
[2:32] horsepower.
[2:33] >> Right. Right.
[2:36] >> Wonder who that cowboy is.
[2:40] It's a good looking car.
[2:42] The only bad thing about driving an
[2:44] older Corvette, there's always some show
[2:46] off and a new Corvette trying to blow
[2:49] your doors up. But the question is, can
[2:50] you drive?
[3:02] >> Remember, he's got better brakes than
[3:03] you.
[3:03] >> I know. You got He got better everything
[3:05] than I do.
[3:11] Look who it is.
[3:12] >> Where were you? I kept looking in the
[3:14] mirror. I JUST WONDER WHO THE HELL THAT
[3:15] COWBOY WAS IN FRONT of me.
[3:17] >> Show up.
[3:17] >> And that was kind of fun. We We had a
[3:19] good time. He was quite a guy, wasn't
[3:21] he?
[3:21] >> He was a good man.
[3:22] >> He was a good guy.
[3:22] >> Really decent guy. I remember you
[3:23] standing out there in that runway with
[3:25] that old runway where the Secret Service
[3:27] uses practice with your flag. And I got
[3:30] out of the hole and I was tail fish
[3:32] tailing. Yeah. And he he went, "Whoa.
[3:42] He didn't want to screw around.
[3:44] >> I was in the car with you and well he
[3:46] was burned the rubber and fist the
[3:47] secret services. I mean it looked like
[3:49] one OF THOSE KEYSTONE GO LIKE THAT JUMP
[3:52] and you know like one of the go catch
[3:55] him go and they sent somebody out there.
[3:57] It was it was so much fun. We were down
[3:59] at the uh I guess the proving grounds.
[4:01] >> That's right. It was a secret service
[4:03] practice area.
[4:04] >> Yeah. the old runway.
[4:06] >> Yeah, the old runway. And you you're
[4:07] burning rubber and speed shift and it
[4:09] was it was a lot of fun. And uh but
[4:12] they'll probably chase us again today,
[4:13] but that that's okay. That's okay. So,
[4:15] >> but you asked me then, could you drive
[4:17] it? You're going to get to drive it?
[4:18] >> Yeah. Yeah, I want to drive it. I think
[4:20] it'd be great fun. So, tell me. Okay.
[4:22] You become senator, all the things.
[4:25] Obviously, you put it away for a few
[4:26] years correct?
[4:28] >> Well, I kind of had to put it in my
[4:29] garage. Yeah.
[4:30] >> Right. Okay. But but you just you always
[4:32] wanted to keep it, right? You didn't
[4:34] >> Oh, yeah. I'm not I didn't want to sell
[4:35] it. And uh I I live out semi country and
[4:38] I have a long driveway
[4:40] >> and every once in a while I get so
[4:42] frustrated the secret service not crazy
[4:44] about it. I'll pull it out of the
[4:45] garage, get the bottom of the drive.
[4:46] It's about a quarter mile drive and I
[4:48] crank it up and lay rubber
[4:51] just to get the feel of again
[4:52] >> of officer just to get the feel of it.
[4:55] Of course that's that's great. And you
[4:57] got the proper gearbox. You got the
[4:59] four-speed, which I love cuz a lot of
[5:01] guys might have gotten the automatic cuz
[5:03] it's, you know, I don't know why, but I
[5:05] don't know why you would. But
[5:07] >> yeah, and to me, this is still the best
[5:10] looking Corvette this year, 67, cuz the
[5:13] last of the the C2 bodies have changed
[5:16] in ' 68. Y
[5:17] >> Yeah. I I really thought this was a good
[5:19] looking car.
[5:20] >> I did too. I still do. I has so many
[5:23] memories. So many memories. Well, we're
[5:25] going to take her for a spin and and see
[5:28] how she goes.
[5:29] >> All right. You You going to drive it?
[5:30] >> I'm going to drive. You ready to go?
[5:32] >> I'm ready to go.
[5:37] >> Man, looking good inside, too, man.
[5:38] >> It does. It does. Two old guys getting
[5:41] in a Corvette.
[5:44] >> Whoa. Sounds healthy. Whoa.
[5:56] I was so excited when I got this thing.
[5:59] That was great. I had no idea it was
[6:02] coming.
[6:18] >> Yeah.
[6:20] See what tuneup do does wonders for this
[6:23] thing. Whenever I drive an American car,
[6:25] I have my Americanmade watch. I was
[6:28] going to say it's amazing.
[6:29] >> Oh, look at that. Now, see you have the
[6:30] Jay Leno watch. That's that's a great
[6:33] watch, too. As a watch maker in Mount
[6:35] Joy, Pennsylvania, Lancaster, and he he
[6:38] handmakes all these watches. And you
[6:41] know, America at one point was the
[6:42] watchmaking capital of the world. Wall
[6:44] fam, all of them. And they were the best
[6:46] watches in the world because they were
[6:49] the railroad watches. You know, when
[6:51] there was an accident like 1890 where
[6:54] two trains hit head-on and they realized
[6:56] there was no way for a conductor in say
[7:00] Cincinnati to have the same time as a
[7:02] conductor in Cleveland because the sun
[7:04] would be in. So they got 12 noon at
[7:06] different times in each watches. So the
[7:08] government mandated that all watches had
[7:11] to be to a railroad standard and
[7:13] consequently American watches became the
[7:15] best of the world and the Swiss copied
[7:18] the Americans.
[7:19] >> I I did not know that.
[7:20] >> Oh yeah. And then eventually just
[7:23] through lobbying a lot of other things,
[7:24] the Swiss managed to kind of overtake
[7:27] the whole industry.
[7:28] >> By the way, I'm a civilian ridden the
[7:30] railroad more than any paid railroad.
[7:33] I've ridden over a total of
[7:38] 1,800,000 miles on that track.
[7:40] >> Really?
[7:41] >> Wow.
[7:41] >> Secret service understand doesn't like
[7:43] you riding a train.
[7:44] >> Right. Right.
[7:45] >> And uh so what happened was I'm down in
[7:48] a station in Washington. Right. About to
[7:52] go home and see my mom who was very sick
[7:54] at my home in Delaware
[7:57] and I have about uh I don't know there
[7:59] must be total of 30 agents standing
[8:02] around me and a conductor walks up in
[8:04] the middle of grabs my cheek. I thought
[8:07] they were going to shoot him. He said,
[8:08] "Joey." He said, "What the all this
[8:11] about you riding a, 100,000 miles on Air
[8:15] Force planes? Do you realize how many
[8:17] miles you've written on Amtrak?" They
[8:19] said, "We calculated it." You as a
[8:21] senator for 36 years for you was a total
[8:25] of 298 miles a day. You averaged 22
[8:30] trips a year. 36 years times that. And
[8:34] that's not counting VP. You've traveled
[8:36] 1,200,000 miles already. I don't hear
[8:38] any more of this about Air Force 2.
[8:41] >> I'm serious.
[8:44] >> My father never let me get a motorcycle.
[8:46] >> Now you know what president had a
[8:48] motorcycle was Reagan.
[8:50] >> Yeah. You go, Jay. Jay, I had an Indian.
[8:53] Did you ever have an Indian J? I Yes,
[8:55] Mr. President. I did. We talked about
[8:57] that. He had one of the greatest lines.
[9:00] He said to me, Jay, were you a good
[9:01] student? I said, no, Mr. President, I'm
[9:03] lic. He goes shows
[9:06] you know and every day I kick myself
[9:09] thinking how much further I could have
[9:11] gone if I just applied myself and I just
[9:14] thought that was the greatest line ever.
[9:15] I mean you're president of the United
[9:17] States. Where do you want to go? Killed
[9:20] me.
[9:23] I wish you got to know my son Bo. I
[9:26] >> Yeah, I would have liked that. I would
[9:28] have liked
[9:28] >> you know he uh he called me one day.
[9:33] He said, "Dad, where are you Friday
[9:34] afternoon?" He said, "Where do you want
[9:36] me to be?" He said, "I want you to pin
[9:37] my bars on." Said, "Pin your bars on."
[9:40] Said, "Bo, you're a sitting attorney
[9:41] general of the state of Delaware. I want
[9:44] you to run for the governor and you and
[9:48] you join the National Guard." He said,
[9:51] "Yeah, Dad." I said, "You know, Bo,
[9:53] you're either federal property or state
[9:54] property."
[9:56] Look, Dad. He said, "85% of everyone in
[10:00] Iraq is National Guard and they're
[10:04] mostly Delawareians. How can I be home?
[10:05] I'm 41 years old."
[10:07] >> Yeah.
[10:07] >> How can I be home? And uh
[10:11] and he uh
[10:14] won the Bronze Star, the conspicuous
[10:16] service medal.
[10:19] A major in the United States military.
[10:22] We
[10:22] >> were going home one night. It's toward
[10:24] the end. We knew we had no chance of him
[10:26] living. He's
[10:28] getting toward the very end and he could
[10:31] still walk. He was home
[10:35] and Jill and I wanted from Washington.
[10:37] We
[10:39] the Friday train
[10:42] and went to Bo's house. So after dinner,
[10:44] Jill said, "I'm going to go home and
[10:45] change."
[10:47] And Bo said, "Can you stick them out of
[10:49] the house?" I said, "Sure."
[10:51] He turned to his wife and said, "Can you
[10:54] take the kids outside for the pool?" He
[10:56] said, he said, "Dad," he said, "I know
[11:00] what you're going to do."
[11:02] Dad, I'm not afraid of dying. I'm going
[11:04] to be okay. I know I'm going to die. I'm
[11:06] all right. He said, "But Dad, I know
[11:09] what you're going to do. You're going to
[11:11] quit when I die." I said, "Bo," he said,
[11:14] "Dad, look at me." And his bice
[11:18] like, "Look at me, Dad.
[11:21] So I'm looking said, "God damn it, don't
[11:23] look at me, Dad." I said, "Give me your
[11:26] word as abiding. You will not quit when
[11:29] I die. Give me your word." I said,
[11:32] "Boy," he said, "dad, give me your word.
[11:34] Godamn it."
[11:36] So, I give you my word, boy. I will not
[11:38] quit cuz I planned on quitting when he
[11:40] died. And uh so that's why I wrote that
[11:44] book, Promised Me, Dad, right? Cuz I
[11:47] wanted his kids and his grandkids.
[11:49] >> Well, I remember. Do you remember you
[11:51] came out to see me?
[11:52] >> Yep.
[11:53] >> Right before you ran and we talked about
[11:56] I think you were afraid that people
[11:59] would try to use boats debt.
[12:01] >> Yep.
[12:02] >> Uh as accuse you of being a you know
[12:07] capitalizing for votes and that
[12:09] nonsense.
[12:11] >> I remember telling you how ridiculous I
[12:13] thought that was because I remember
[12:14] saying I don't know anybody that
[12:17] capitalized on something like that.
[12:20] But
[12:22] >> I I just thought it was a interesting
[12:24] moment and I'm glad you did the right
[12:27] thing.
[12:30] >> Yeah. You know, to me, I was always a
[12:32] car guy and I was always the designated
[12:35] driver.
[12:36] >> So I knew so I couldn't drink. So but
[12:39] you know, it never had any interest in
[12:40] me. I never got the whole thing. I could
[12:43] be a jerk without drinking. So I didn't
[12:45] really need to drink. Knew me both. I
[12:48] had the bad reputation
[12:51] when I was in grade school, high school,
[12:53] and college of being a daredevil.
[12:55] >> Yeah.
[12:57] And uh I look back on it, thank God I
[13:00] didn't drink some of the stuff I did.
[13:02] >> Yeah. What kind of daredevil stops you?
[13:04] >> Well, as a kid, for example, we lived up
[13:07] in Scranton and there was a Merrywood
[13:08] College.
[13:10] There was a 15t stone wall that went
[13:13] around Marywood
[13:14] and I was one of the only guys that
[13:16] climbed the wall, run the wall and then
[13:19] go up over the steel over the entrance.
[13:21] You know,
[13:22] >> that kind of stuff on your life, you
[13:24] know. I went to one of those old schools
[13:26] that were three stories
[13:28] >> and they had they had the big window had
[13:30] open with the rod and they slid out so
[13:32] you had you had a huge opening.
[13:33] >> Yeah. So, we're always on the third
[13:35] floor and whenever we have a substitute,
[13:39] I would get my friend's boots
[13:41] and and when I heard the teacher coming,
[13:43] I would hold them out the window and
[13:45] then I go, I'm I'm trying TO HOLD ON
[13:47] LIKE I'd let go of the boots and then
[13:49] she and my friend would already be lying
[13:51] on the ground, you know, outside the
[13:53] window and SHE GO, "OH MY GOD, OH MY
[13:56] GOD." AND THEN RUN down and get the
[13:57] principal. Then the princip would come
[13:59] up and my friend would be sitting in the
[14:00] seat and we'd all be sitting there and
[14:02] she'd realize that, you know, we played
[14:03] a trick on you. You're stupid.
[14:07] Look at this. Isn't this crazy? It's
[14:08] just amazing.
[14:11] I mean, you're in the middle of LA.
[14:14] >> Well, see, you come from that era where
[14:17] if a politician drove a foreign car,
[14:20] what's the matter with you?
[14:21] >> Oh, by the way, not a shot.
[14:23] >> No. Yeah.
[14:24] >> Not a shot at driving a foreign car.
[14:26] Period. zero. None. I
[14:29] >> think another one of the great things
[14:30] about you being president was this area
[14:33] right here.
[14:34] >> Yep.
[14:35] >> If you hadn't been elected, this would
[14:36] probably all be construction and mini
[14:39] marts and all kinds of stuff. But it's
[14:41] now national land. So people in
[14:43] California, the most dense, one of the
[14:46] most dense states in the union, there's
[14:49] this open area where people can travel
[14:51] and just enjoy the fresh air. But you
[14:53] know, you another two miles, you can't
[14:56] even see a house or a building. You're
[14:58] in the middle of the wilderness in the
[15:00] busiest one of the busiest cities in the
[15:02] United States.
[15:03] >> And how many acres did you guys actually
[15:05] save? Land and water 674 million acres.
[15:10] >> Wow.
[15:10] >> And uh this entire
[15:13] this entire area we're going through
[15:15] here that can't be developed.
[15:17] >> Yeah. I think that's great. And uh it
[15:19] was you got to say something for future
[15:22] generations. I went down to Colorado
[15:24] River. I went down to Snake River. Went
[15:26] out I took my family there. I wanted
[15:28] them to see it. We went down on six day
[15:31] rides down to Colorado. We when I I'll
[15:33] never forget the first time I stood with
[15:35] my family, my kids, the Grand Canyon. I
[15:38] looked out, I said, "This is God's
[15:40] cathedral. It's a cathedral."
[15:43] >> Yeah.
[15:44] >> It's incredible.
[15:46] the idea
[15:48] that we wouldn't preserve this for our
[15:50] children to have the same opportunity
[15:53] we have.
[15:54] >> Well, I'm glad you did. Well, the other
[15:57] thing I was able to do, I I made sure
[15:59] there could be no oil drilling off the
[16:03] east coast, the west coast, and the 150
[16:05] mi off the Gulf of Mexico. He's doing it
[16:08] with all that protection, too. No more
[16:11] windmills.
[16:13] >> Yeah, that that
[16:14] >> because they kill birds. Yeah, I had a
[16:16] >> give me a sign. You know when I did then
[16:19] when I wrote I worked like hell to get
[16:21] the infrastructure bill and no one
[16:23] thought I could get past over a trillion
[16:26] dollars. How can we need the world to
[16:28] renewable the leading infrastructure in
[16:30] the world
[16:31] >> ports, bridges, roads and end that for
[16:35] billions of dollars for renewable
[16:38] energy.
[16:40] It has billions of dollars in there to
[16:43] make sure that there's enough electric
[16:45] stations all along every new highway
[16:48] built. But he's getting rid of all that,
[16:50] too. You know, the single biggest
[16:53] producer of energy in Texas,
[16:56] wind. Yeah,
[16:57] >> wind. He's trying to get rid of that,
[16:59] too.
[17:02] Almighty.
[17:04] Oh, it's incredible out here.
[17:06] Incredible.
[17:09] You're still in Los Angeles. Look at
[17:10] this.
[17:11] >> Yeah.
[17:11] >> Isn't that amazing?
[17:12] >> It is amazing. Advantage of future
[17:14] generations not having access to this.
[17:16] Look at all this. Right in the middle of
[17:18] LA.
[17:20] >> Incredible.
[17:22] Incredible.
[17:25] I know you're a big ice cream guy,
[17:26] right?
[17:27] >> I am, man.
[17:28] >> We got an ice cream shop at the end of
[17:30] this. So, what flavor you like?
[17:33] >> Chocolate chip.
[17:34] >> Chocolate chip.
[17:36] Get your chocolate chip.
[17:40] Have you guys ever met a president of
[17:42] the United States?
[17:43] >> No.
[17:43] >> Well, this is Joe Biden.
[17:45] >> Well, come on. Let's go get something to
[17:46] eat.
[17:47] >> It's got to be the longest ride you've
[17:49] had in that thing in years.
[17:50] >> Yeah, a long time.
[17:50] >> Joe, can I shake your hand?
[17:52] >> Sure, you can shake my hand. What's your
[17:53] name?
[17:53] >> Jacob.
[17:54] >> Hey, Jacob. My name's Joe.
[17:55] >> What's up, Joe?
[17:56] >> Nice to see you. Hi, everybody. How are
[17:58] you?
[17:58] >> Joe.
[18:03] >> You want chocolate chip?
[18:04] >> Wait, can I get a photo?
[18:06] >> Sure.
[18:09] I can't believe.
[18:10] >> Come on, let's go get some. Let the
[18:12] president get his ice cream.
[18:13] >> You're my favorite president, Joe.
[18:15] >> What's your name?
[18:16] >> Matthew.
[18:16] >> Good to see you, man. How old are you?
[18:18] >> I'm 12.
[18:19] >> Got to make me a promise.
[18:21] >> When you're president, remember me.
[18:24] >> Thank you.
[18:24] >> Okay.
[18:27] >> Chocolate chip.
[18:28] >> Chocolate chip.
[18:30] >> Sugar cone.
[18:30] >> A hand sugar cone for you, sir.
[18:33] >> How's that ice cream, Mr. President?
[18:35] >> Good, man. You guys getting ice cream?
[18:37] What kind of ice cream you want? What
[18:38] kind?
[18:39] >> Uh, monkey business.
[18:40] >> Monkey business.
[18:44] >> Come here.
[18:47] >> Boy, this is a nice driving car.
[18:50] >> I think it is.
[18:52] >> So, what was your very first car?
[18:55] >> My dad didn't want me to have a car
[18:57] before I was 18 years old.
[18:59] >> All right. I went to a school that was
[19:02] when we moved the school I went to was
[19:05] and the school bus a half hour drive.
[19:08] >> All right. And my dad said okay. And he
[19:12] got me a used I think it was a 54
[19:16] Studebaker. Ugly as hell.
[19:18] >> Oh yeah. Yeah.
[19:19] >> But had a big engine in it.
[19:21] >> Well, that's right. That would have had
[19:22] a 289 overhead valve. Yeah.
[19:25] >> And uh
[19:26] >> and so it was ugly as hell. But I used
[19:28] to be able to take a lot of guys in fast
[19:30] cars. They pull off a gun. I start want
[19:33] to go go, you know. Anyway, that was the
[19:36] first car I had. But the first car I had
[19:38] that I really liked was a a 19 54
[19:45] Chevy convertible. A 54. That would have
[19:48] been the six-cylinder, right?
[19:50] >> Yes.
[19:51] >> Yeah. But you missed the good the 265 V8
[19:54] came out the next year.
[19:56] >> Yeah. You just missed the boat by then.
[20:00] >> You drive another half hour, you're up
[20:02] to your butt in snow here.
[20:04] >> Boy, this engine sounds strong.
[20:06] >> Yeah, it does.
[20:07] >> Looks more like a painting than reality.
[20:10] Yeah. Yeah.
[20:13] And all the rain we've had lately, it's
[20:15] nice and green.
[20:16] >> Yep.
[20:17] >> I think that this is all WPA. Too bad we
[20:20] don't have a program like that anymore.
[20:22] That
[20:23] >> Yeah, I know. He's he's cutting back on
[20:26] all the programs that have
[20:28] apprenticeships assigned to or jobs.
[20:31] >> Yeah.
[20:32] >> You don't see another car coming.
[20:35] >> I know.
[20:35] >> It's the only place in LA where there's
[20:37] no traffic
[20:38] >> besides Massachusetts.
[20:40] >> Yeah.
[20:41] >> Is there any other state you're spending
[20:43] real time in?
[20:44] >> Well, I got a place in Rhode Island.
[20:46] Rhode Island's very pretty. Yeah, it is
[20:48] nice. I like New England.
[20:51] It's a funny place to be from. You know,
[20:54] when I lived in Massachusetts, I was the
[20:56] laziest guy anybody knew. When I moved
[20:58] to California, I was the hardest
[21:00] working. I hadn't changed. So,
[21:02] obviously, it's just the way people do
[21:04] things, you know?
[21:05] >> That's true. And when you live in what?
[21:07] You got a swimming pool? Yeah. You got
[21:09] nothing to do but sit in a pool all day.
[21:11] Don't you got a yard work to do? Don't
[21:12] you have to fix this? Like, it's like
[21:15] the funniest place to be from.
[21:17] I know you're a big union guy, as am I.
[21:21] And you were the first president to walk
[21:22] a union picket line, weren't you?
[21:24] >> I was. Look, one of the things is simple
[21:26] to me. The middle class built America,
[21:29] >> right? And unions built the middle
[21:32] class,
[21:32] >> right?
[21:33] >> Well, that's why I love Corvette. They
[21:35] build Yep.
[21:37] >> This car, not this particular one, but
[21:39] mine. They build it in Kentucky, paying
[21:42] a union wage,
[21:44] and it's cheaper, faster
[21:48] than the European Exotics. at literally
[21:50] 10 times the price.
[21:52] >> Yep.
[21:53] >> And you know, it's it's a real credit.
[21:55] Uh you go there, workers can afford to
[21:59] live in the town they're working in,
[22:01] >> and it's it's a real successful
[22:03] operation.
[22:04] >> And they can look at themselves in the
[22:05] mirror.
[22:06] >> Look, I said, my dad used to say, you
[22:09] know, it's a hell of a thing to work 40,
[22:12] 50, 60 hours a week,
[22:14] >> right? And come home and not be able to
[22:16] find buy the essentials.
[22:17] >> Yeah. It's all about affordability.
[22:20] >> You know what's interesting? About 15
[22:23] years ago when Detroit declared
[22:24] bankruptcy.
[22:25] >> Yep.
[22:27] >> I I I I called the city and I said,
[22:30] "Hey, I want to do a I want to do some
[22:32] free shows in the city. All you have to
[22:35] do is prove you're out of work and you
[22:37] want to take your wife or your husband
[22:39] out for a night out of town. We'll give
[22:42] them a bag of Doritos, a bottle of
[22:44] Pepsi, and they can watch the show." I
[22:47] think it was a silver dome at the time.
[22:49] They tore it down. Sat like 20,000
[22:51] people and all we could afford were
[22:54] eight security guards
[22:56] >> and now and and and people said, "Oh,
[22:58] it's going to be bedlin." And not one
[23:00] person misbehaved. They came, they
[23:02] watched the show, they thanked me for
[23:04] coming to Detroit. And you realize,
[23:07] >> you know, all people want to just give
[23:08] them a break and they'll exactly do the
[23:11] right thing.
[23:12] >> Even shot.
[23:13] >> Yeah. Just give people shot. That's all.
[23:16] But that's real. I mean, people we we
[23:18] you and I say things like that. People
[23:20] look at us like we're nuts. It's true. I
[23:22] know.
[23:23] >> Well, see, that's what I like. You come
[23:24] from that era when politicians use
[23:26] public transportation. A friend of mine
[23:28] said he saw you on a commercial flight
[23:30] one day and he goes, "Why are we on a
[23:31] commercial flight?" Well, you don't own
[23:33] a jet, correct? That's right. That's
[23:35] right. So, yeah. There you go. The whole
[23:38] public service thing you take take
[23:40] seriously. Well, I did. I mean, I I you
[23:43] know, it's their money and uh I don't
[23:47] you know, I wouldn't buy a first class
[23:49] ticket and that kind of thing. Anyway,
[23:52] it uh I just think it's
[23:56] most Americans think that way. It's
[23:58] basic
[23:59] fairness. And I think what you have is
[24:02] you have somewhere between
[24:06] 30 and 35 37%
[24:10] of the elected officials trying to take
[24:14] advantage of
[24:15] >> Yeah.
[24:15] >> America when it was founded.
[24:18] Got pretty lucky.
[24:20] For the first couple hundred years we
[24:22] were between
[24:24] a place called Mexico that wasn't much
[24:25] of a threat
[24:27] and a place called Canada which a great
[24:29] ally. I used to always joke and say, "If
[24:31] I leave, I'm going to Canada."
[24:32] >> Right?
[24:33] >> Atlantic Ocean on one side and the
[24:34] Pacific coast on the other. I remember
[24:37] being with Xi Jinping
[24:40] and I spent a lot of time with him
[24:42] breaking down that relationship and we
[24:45] were meeting. He said, "Why do you call
[24:46] yourself Pacific Power?" I said, "We are
[24:49] Pacific Power." And this is a true
[24:51] story. I said, "Look,
[24:55] what do you think China would be now if
[24:56] it weren't for the United States being a
[24:58] Pacific power? think you'd be where you
[24:59] are now? He looked at me. I said, "No."
[25:04] Yeah. I said, "We are more in the
[25:05] Pacific Ocean than all of China
[25:08] combined. We are a Pacific power, right?
[25:11] Period." And we are. I mean, think
[25:14] about, you know, all the way up to Oh,
[25:16] yeah. I think about it. Like, I remember
[25:18] when after World War II, all the Germans
[25:20] wanted to surrender to Americans, not
[25:22] Russians, because they knew in America
[25:24] they'd get a fair shot.
[25:25] >> Bingo. Bingo. Bingo. I remember reading
[25:27] a book about some Japanese prisoners
[25:30] that came that were captured and came to
[25:32] America and the first day at the meal
[25:35] they were given meat and they thought oh
[25:37] this is a trick it's poison meat don't
[25:38] eat it you know then they saw everybody
[25:40] eating it and they realized oh well
[25:42] maybe it's not poison you know and then
[25:44] they were drinking Coca-Cola and eating
[25:45] hamburgers and one of the one of the
[25:47] Japanese who spoke English asked the
[25:49] prison guard why do you treat us so well
[25:52] and the prison guard said cuz someday
[25:54] we're going to be friends and you know I
[25:56] like that kind of
[25:57] >> by the way. Absolutely
[25:59] >> like that kind of thinking.
[26:00] >> Oh, you know I uh
[26:03] everybody thought I was crazy when I was
[26:05] president.
[26:06] You have this horrible situation that
[26:08] lasted for decades where the South
[26:11] Koreans
[26:13] are allies of the Japanese that hated
[26:15] each other and ended up getting the
[26:17] South Koreans and the Japanese to bury
[26:21] the hatchet at Camp David 60 years
[26:24] later.
[26:24] >> Yeah. And that made us a hell of a lot
[26:27] more secure, strong.
[26:28] >> Yeah.
[26:30] >> Look, the one thing that really bothers
[26:32] me about where
[26:35] many of my Republican friends are, even
[26:36] the ones that aren't crazy,
[26:39] is they really underestimate the value
[26:41] of alliances.
[26:42] >> Right.
[26:43] >> The reason why we're so secure is
[26:45] because of NATO, for God's sake.
[26:47] >> Yeah.
[26:48] >> Attack on one's attack on all. What
[26:50] happened on 9/11? Who's the first guys
[26:51] that came to our NATO?
[26:53] >> Right.
[26:55] Well, Mr. President, thanks for letting
[26:57] me drive your Corvette. I really
[26:58] appreciate it.
[26:59] >> Well, I tell you, you're a good driver,
[27:00] man. I don't think I'd let anybody drive
[27:01] his D.
[27:02] >> There you go.
[27:03] >> And uh besides, when we get back to the
[27:06] garage, maybe I can drive your Corvette.
[27:08] >> You want You want to drive mine?
[27:10] >> Yeah. Will Secret Service allow them?
[27:13] >> You have to warn you. I might be tempted
[27:15] to jump on and get off the property.
[27:17] Well,
[27:18] >> all right. Well, let's
[27:21] let's see what happens when we get back.
[27:23] Okay.
[27:24] Well, I got to enjoy driving your
[27:25] Corvette. It was a lot of fun, Mr.
[27:27] President.
[27:27] >> You get to drive yours.
[27:29] >> You want to drive this one?
[27:30] >> I'd like to drive that one. I'm a good
[27:32] driver.
[27:33] >> Um, all right. Yeah. Here you go. You
[27:38] want me to go with you?
[27:39] >> I'd rather go by myself.
[27:41] >> Well, here. Go ahead.
[27:43] >> All right. It's got,250 horsepower.
[27:45] >> Is that all?
[27:47] >> That's not my search. I don't want all
[27:48] my hair to blow away. You know what I
[27:49] mean?
[27:50] >> All right, man. You see you in a couple
[27:52] days.
[27:53] couple of days.
[28:03] It's a secret servant. See y'all.