[0:00] are you ready to go ready or not it's
[0:02] time for another all-new unbelievable
[0:04] season
[0:05] of jaylon's garage this show much like
[0:08] this garbage truck is high-tech and this
[0:11] year we're not just reaching for the
[0:12] stars the source new technology in here
[0:14] there's a good chance the whole thing
[0:15] just blows up
[0:25] while driving incredibly all new car
[0:28] exclusive so you can fit her fridge in
[0:30] the back how do you feel you have to
[0:31] carry a fridge whenever you travel plus
[0:34] we get our hands on spectacular
[0:35] state-of-the-art technology I'm excited
[0:39] and terrified at the same time it's the
[0:41] world's first methane-powered tractor
[0:43] need more cow farts
[0:45] I just hope we all walk away in one
[0:48] piece I am quite a good driver
[0:51] but no promises
[0:53] is this where we make the smooth exit
[0:54] yeah
[0:57] [Music]
[1:03] what's going on everybody I'm DJ sixmith
[1:05] and Welcome to our Jay Leno's Garage
[1:07] YouTube live event we are here at the
[1:09] iconic garage the man himself Jay Leno
[1:11] Jay how are you man good very good
[1:13] thanks for coming we appreciate it
[1:14] thanks for having us out this place is
[1:16] unbelievable it's one thing to watch the
[1:18] show it's one thing to watch the Youtube
[1:19] Clips but it's even bigger in person so
[1:21] this is unbelievable thanks for having
[1:22] me well it's a lot of fun we just it's
[1:23] no real theme to this it's really more
[1:25] money than brains Club it just collect
[1:27] stuff that I like people go what's your
[1:29] overall theme it's not it's not like I
[1:32] have to have this model Ferrari or
[1:33] whatever it's just stuff I like you know
[1:35] and you've been doing this for a long
[1:37] time long time you keep buying the
[1:39] buildings you run out of space here man
[1:41] yeah I'm pre-social media that's so old
[1:43] it's almost hard to believe but yeah
[1:45] it's true well speaking of social media
[1:47] yeah Elon Musk is on the show tonight
[1:48] correct and you got to go to SpaceX and
[1:50] the people are loving the clips on
[1:52] social media whether it's YouTube or
[1:54] Instagram or Tick Tock and SpaceX is
[1:56] really fascinating and it's something a
[1:58] little bit different that you did on the
[1:59] show so what was the coolest part of
[2:00] that experience well it's fascinating
[2:02] because you realized two and a half
[2:03] years ago there was nothing there yeah I
[2:05] mean Cape Canaveral took years to build
[2:08] I mean this was done in two and a half
[2:10] years and he sent off dozens of rockets
[2:12] from there already
[2:14] um yeah it is fascinating because it's
[2:17] all well when you're my age everybody
[2:18] young but there's just a sense of it's
[2:21] almost like a big college or a high
[2:23] school you know and as you talk to Elon
[2:26] people come up and go you know excuse me
[2:28] um the trajectory here oh yeah yeah okay
[2:31] okay and you know he's carrying a lot of
[2:34] things in his head I don't think most
[2:36] people have ever met a genius we live in
[2:38] Hollywood you meet Geniuses on a daily
[2:40] basis but they're not successful
[2:41] Geniuses because something else has
[2:43] always kept them down or ruined their
[2:45] chances you know it's fun to meet a
[2:48] dreamer who is a practical dreamer you
[2:50] know Elon first came to my garage in
[2:52] 2007 with the Prototype uh electric
[2:55] sports car you know and I thought this
[2:57] is kind of interesting electric at that
[2:59] and that was an error when electric cars
[3:01] were golf carts they were slow and kind
[3:04] of cumbersome and yeah they got pretty
[3:07] good mileage accordingly but there
[3:09] weren't really something you know I
[3:10] remember him saying to me at the time uh
[3:13] what I want to do is put charging
[3:15] stations all up and down the coast so
[3:17] you could travel to San Francisco and
[3:18] I'm going yeah right that'll happen but
[3:20] you know something as he was building
[3:22] that prototype he was built getting the
[3:25] infrastructure and and putting it in
[3:27] because even the major manufacturers
[3:29] don't have
[3:30] infrastructure they go to somebody else
[3:32] and we're using Electrify America or
[3:34] whatever it might be but it's not there
[3:36] so that was the first sign that there
[3:39] was a genius here you know and
[3:42] unlike a lot I mean he lives on a
[3:44] trailer a little Airstream trailer not
[3:46] exactly a billionaire lifestyle no
[3:48] there's not there's no yacht and there's
[3:50] no huge gold finger looking thing and
[3:52] you know petting a cat or any of that
[3:54] nonsense you know I mean he's he's just
[3:57] uh
[3:58] well
[4:00] I mean I think he's a true genius I
[4:02] think it's safe to say because that's a
[4:04] term people throw around but there's
[4:07] really only been 4 000 in recorded
[4:09] history and he is and he's one of them
[4:11] but he seems like a regular guy and he
[4:14] talks like a regular guy and he gets
[4:17] upset and angry and frustrated like a
[4:19] regular guy but you realize
[4:22] and he also has the manufacturing
[4:24] knowledge you know when we talked
[4:26] he said something I never heard anyone
[4:28] say before he said it costs a billion
[4:30] dollars to put one gallon of water on
[4:33] Mars he wants to get that down to a
[4:35] hundred thousand dollars a gallon which
[4:36] still sounds ridiculous of course but
[4:38] it's not a billion it's a hundred
[4:40] thousand if it's a hundred thousand it
[4:42] go down to ten thousand it can go down
[4:43] to a thousand you know and he's got this
[4:46] plan to build a thousand Rockets which
[4:48] every three days will drop supplies
[4:51] three days every three days crazy a
[4:53] rocket will land on Mars and drop off
[4:55] supplies but you can only go every two
[4:57] years right to Mars
[4:59] well I'm not sure yeah I'm not sure
[5:01] exactly how it works but just the idea
[5:04] that you go okay and then you go to his
[5:06] facility and you see hundreds of these
[5:09] largest jet engines most powerful in the
[5:12] world ever made
[5:14] lined up and you go okay I guess he is
[5:16] going to build these so it it it's a
[5:19] fascinating experience
[5:21] just because you expect Geniuses to be
[5:25] I don't know just they would seem like a
[5:28] genius but he doesn't seem like he seems
[5:30] like a regular guy until you get into
[5:33] Math and Science and Manufacturing and
[5:35] every other thing yeah that's all Next
[5:37] Level stuff yeah and when you realize
[5:39] he's putting things on Mars while he's
[5:42] running SpaceX and now I guess Twitter
[5:45] you know so yeah it's hilarious to me
[5:48] it's very funny well let's take a look
[5:50] at this clip right now it's an all new
[5:51] episode tonight with Jay and Elon and
[5:54] we're going to look at the prototype for
[5:55] a rocket ship right now let's check out
[5:56] the clip here
[5:58] this is what goes all the way to orbit
[6:00] this sits on top of the booster right
[6:02] the ship is about 165 feet pole yeah I
[6:05] don't think anybody has any idea how big
[6:07] this is yeah it's a 30 foot in diameter
[6:10] on the inside yeah because when you see
[6:12] it on TV you're watching it from a half
[6:13] a mile away yeah I mean you're sending
[6:16] the Empire State Building into outer
[6:17] space basically here yeah it's a
[6:19] gigantic building it's in fact the the
[6:21] payload area has more volume than a 747.
[6:24] wow so but we can get closer if you want
[6:27] yes can we get a little closer
[6:31] so Jay I think you put it perfectly it's
[6:33] like the Empire State Building going up
[6:36] that's insane just the term rocket ship
[6:38] when you say it it sounds silly it
[6:40] sounds like you're in a Leslie Nielsen
[6:42] movie you know this is real life this is
[6:43] happening yeah and oh here's our rocket
[6:45] yeah okay and it is it's literally
[6:48] sending a building into space i i it's
[6:52] it really boggles the mind and when you
[6:54] go there it's all kids running around
[6:57] by kids I mean people in their 30 and
[7:00] below you know with computers and things
[7:02] and and just all this seems to be
[7:04] happening it doesn't seem to be any sort
[7:06] of you know Rhyme or Reason to it it's
[7:09] not you know in the old days you would
[7:11] have had guys from IBM with white shirts
[7:12] and a dark top it's a much different
[7:14] vibe yeah it's a much different vibe
[7:16] it's very laid back and
[7:19] I noticed anyone could approach Elon
[7:21] with the problem and say Elon excuse me
[7:24] I'm this whatever it is if you didn't
[7:27] know he might get upset but the fact
[7:30] that anybody could approach him and ask
[7:32] him how to solve a problem I I found
[7:34] fascinating as well he wasn't some
[7:37] isolated guy he's walking around in a
[7:38] t-shirt you wouldn't know which guy's
[7:40] the head guy you think oh that guy was a
[7:43] suit no it's not him he's just a regular
[7:45] guy yeah this was fascinating but he's
[7:48] always been ahead of the curve right you
[7:49] mentioned the fact that he was on the
[7:51] show with the beginnings of everything
[7:53] with Tesla Tesla as you mentioned on
[7:55] power launch yesterday is still the
[7:56] leader when it comes to like right right
[7:58] and the idea of being ahead of the Curve
[8:01] sometimes I think like I think out of
[8:03] the box but I don't because I remember
[8:04] saying to him so you think we'll have
[8:06] 200 mile an hour trains he goes no I'm
[8:08] building 800 miles I go 800 miles okay
[8:12] it never occurred to me to build an 800
[8:15] mile an hour it didn't even seem
[8:16] practical we have it in Japan we have it
[8:19] in parts of Europe okay maybe we could
[8:22] have that here no but he's talking 800
[8:24] underground in a tunnel you know like a
[8:27] vacuum tube and you go oh oh oh that was
[8:31] that wasn't even in my imagination
[8:34] so yeah it's fascinating well I'm sure
[8:36] another thing that wasn't your
[8:37] imagination is seeing old cars with the
[8:40] electrified situation now so Tony Hawk
[8:42] is on the show tonight right Tony
[8:44] Hawkins and he has his Corvette which
[8:45] has an electric motor I mean that must
[8:47] blow your mind to see how cars have
[8:48] expanded and grown all these years well
[8:50] it's you know it's all still hot running
[8:52] which is people get all upset about this
[8:54] but you know Corvettes are valuable but
[8:58] they're not rare and they're enough of
[9:00] them that are in bad shape that you
[9:02] could Electrify it and you could keep
[9:04] the if you ever wanted to go back to
[9:06] original again that's the smart thing
[9:07] about a lot of these like the people who
[9:09] do Porsches old Porsches and Electrify
[9:11] them they take the Porsche motor out
[9:13] they put it on the Shelf they put the
[9:15] electric motor in and they can go back
[9:17] at any time there's no cutting there's
[9:19] no you're not bastardizing the car in
[9:22] any way you know so it's just an
[9:24] interesting thing you know it's like rap
[9:26] and rock and roll they're both music you
[9:29] just might like one more than the other
[9:30] and to me I find with this
[9:32] electrification thing you have a lot of
[9:34] young people who don't really have an
[9:36] interest in the greasy parts of cars but
[9:39] like the artificial intelligence the
[9:42] electricity oh and that's their heart
[9:45] rotting okay and and there's plenty of
[9:47] room for both you know and I think it's
[9:50] just expanding the genre that's all well
[9:52] I think people are going to like this
[9:53] one let's check out the clip right now
[9:54] this is Tony Hawk on tonight's episode
[9:56] of Jay Leno's Garage let's watch it
[9:58] right now
[9:59] I'm gonna get this skateboarding
[10:00] nonsense out of his head and get a real
[10:03] job as an insurance salesman or
[10:04] something they were surprisingly
[10:05] supportive yeah yeah yeah my dad passed
[10:08] away in 95 that was right before I had
[10:10] my big waves of success right but my mom
[10:13] she used to literally stop strangers in
[10:16] the airport say my son is Tony Hawk
[10:18] that's funny it's nice when I'm not with
[10:19] her but when I was with her it's awkward
[10:21] yeah yeah what did your dad do uh he was
[10:24] in the Navy during World War II wow and
[10:27] then uh he retired in San Diego it was
[10:30] kind of a jack of all trades so he did a
[10:32] lot of handyman work he worked on cars
[10:34] he actually formed the national
[10:35] skateboard Association when there was no
[10:37] governing or sanctioning body for skate
[10:40] events oh is that right yeah so he was
[10:42] the biggest supporter oh that's pretty
[10:43] cool
[10:45] all right
[10:49] Jay one of the things I think you do the
[10:50] best is getting people to open up and
[10:52] just be conversational and Casual while
[10:54] on the road Tony's talking about his
[10:56] father and his mother how do you do that
[10:57] with folks when they come on well it's
[10:58] interesting because he's not a real car
[11:00] guy right his his thing was
[11:02] what would be practical and efficient
[11:06] without having to get greasy and dirty
[11:08] oh electrification so that's that's what
[11:11] it is you know it's like to a lot of
[11:13] people a car is a million Appliance like
[11:15] an refrigerator or something like that
[11:17] so if you could just plug it in and
[11:18] never have to worry about it that's the
[11:20] real selling point electric cars those
[11:22] of us enjoy working on them well you'll
[11:24] always have this stuff it'll be around
[11:25] for a few hundred years I mean people
[11:28] are still restoring cars from the turn
[11:30] to the last century right so so the fact
[11:32] that it's going to disappear I I don't
[11:34] think is is going to happen so one of
[11:36] the cool things about the fact they're
[11:37] in season seven is that you have people
[11:39] that are coming back on the show right
[11:40] Kelly Clarkson is one of those people
[11:42] what was it like to have her back on
[11:43] that's coming up in a few episodes I met
[11:45] Kelly when she won American Idol and she
[11:47] came on the tonight she goes that was
[11:48] part of the deal you win the show then
[11:50] you go on American Idol then you sing a
[11:52] song and then what usually happens is
[11:53] you disappear and you never heard of
[11:55] again but you know she actually became a
[11:57] huge star yeah you know it's people like
[11:59] her Jennifer Hudson you know whatever so
[12:01] and you know and she's a great kid she's
[12:03] pays her dues I like people like that
[12:05] she earned her each step of the way you
[12:08] know and here it is like 20 years more
[12:10] than 20 years later since she was with
[12:12] me on American Idol and we've been
[12:13] friends ever since so she's done the
[12:15] show a few times and you know she's game
[12:17] for everything she's a country girl you
[12:19] know she likes driving tractors and
[12:21] getting her hands dirty there's none of
[12:23] this oh I'm sorry it's it's my light on
[12:26] this side of me you don't get any of
[12:27] that nonsense like you do with a lot of
[12:29] people you know you have very very down
[12:30] home very down to earth well I think the
[12:32] people are going to like this episode
[12:33] let's check out a clip right now this
[12:35] guy and Kelly Clarkson with some hay and
[12:37] some tractors let's check it out right
[12:39] now
[12:40] that's right Jay I'm amazing
[12:43] [Music]
[12:48] what's that flower one here on a slow
[12:51] start y'all to slow start the physic
[12:53] getting the hay in the buckets is he
[12:55] going over the hay bales
[13:01] need more cow farts
[13:07] so that was Kelly Clarkson she's coming
[13:09] up in a few episodes and speaking of
[13:11] later on the season you got to hang out
[13:12] with President Biden and listen you've
[13:14] had some very cool people on the show
[13:15] but president of the United States
[13:16] Electric truck that must have been
[13:18] really special for you and you had the
[13:19] Secret Service to deal with as well so
[13:21] what was that like yeah well that was
[13:22] interesting you know what's so funny
[13:23] I've been doing this a long time so I
[13:24] knew Biden when he was just a politician
[13:26] running I had him on
[13:28] I remember teasing about his hair
[13:30] implants like 25 years ago you know so
[13:34] that he was a joke in the monologue you
[13:36] know so we've been friends for a long
[13:38] time and he's he's a car guy his dad was
[13:41] a big Chevy distributor had a dealership
[13:43] and uh when when he got married in 67
[13:46] his dad gave him a 67 Corvette which he
[13:49] still had a wedding gift yeah he still
[13:52] hasn't still because you know president
[13:53] is never allowed to drive you know that
[13:55] you you lose your license for life
[13:57] that's one reason why it's a terrible
[13:58] job I didn't know that until you said
[14:00] that yeah no that's true that's true but
[14:02] he can drive on private property same
[14:04] thing when we went down to see President
[14:05] Bush he's got like I don't know 400 acre
[14:08] ranch so he can drive he can drive
[14:10] around there but he can't go out in the
[14:11] public Street yeah but no it's fun it
[14:14] was it was fascinating to see the inner
[14:17] workings of I mean when a president
[14:19] moves first of all three helicopters
[14:21] come wow one of them has the president
[14:24] okay you don't know which one nobody
[14:26] does except Secret Service and so okay
[14:28] uh I'll walk towards the I'll just wait
[14:31] till I see him you know and whichever
[14:32] one he gets out of you know so just all
[14:34] those kind of things like that and the
[14:36] other thing is you know as you're
[14:38] talking you go this is really fast
[14:41] is that a sniper on the building you
[14:44] know it's a little different right oh
[14:46] there's a guy up there oh all right you
[14:48] know I'm not going to make any sudden
[14:49] moves yeah
[14:51] So speaking of Jay and President Biden
[14:53] let's take a look at this clip this is
[14:54] coming up later on in the season on Jay
[14:56] Leto's garage it's Jay and President
[14:58] Biden in the electric truck let's check
[14:59] it out right now electric car is a big
[15:02] part of your climate for lunch the
[15:03] gigantic part yeah also part of the what
[15:06] people don't realize is part of the
[15:08] infrastructure building you know
[15:09] building highways and the like because
[15:11] we're talking about putting 500 000
[15:13] charging stations and the money for
[15:15] those charging stations in that bill in
[15:17] addition to the charging stations
[15:18] individual companies are putting in so
[15:21] it's you know it's a game changer you
[15:22] got 40 percent of all pollution all the
[15:25] CO2 going up is from a tailpipe right
[15:28] and imagine if we just changed that
[15:33] that was Jay Leno and President Biden
[15:35] coming up later on this season again
[15:36] Elon Musk Tony Hawk tignataro tonight 10
[15:40] p.m Eastern on CNBC so Jay we got the
[15:42] people involved they love you on social
[15:45] media Love You on YouTube well thanks we
[15:46] got some questions here you ready to
[15:48] answer some of these all right okay so
[15:50] this one is from Instagram it's from go
[15:52] ahead Payne and he wants to know do you
[15:54] believe the future will only be electric
[15:56] or will there be a coexistence with fuel
[15:59] engines as well well I I think you'll be
[16:01] coexistent uh hydrogen is the
[16:05] sort of
[16:07] what's the the secret weapon here too
[16:09] you know hydrogen has had a problem
[16:10] because the word hydrogen people
[16:14] immediately conjure up the Hindenburg
[16:16] which did not blow up because of
[16:17] hydrogen but that's a separate thing uh
[16:20] but it just it seems to frighten people
[16:22] but hydrogen I drove a number of
[16:25] hydrogen cars it was very impressive
[16:26] they are also electric they just they
[16:29] turn the car basically into a battery a
[16:32] hydrogen is an interesting one synthetic
[16:34] fuels a portion Now is working on
[16:36] non-polluting synthetic fuels whether
[16:39] they're able to make it for
[16:42] a dollar to two dollars per gallon and
[16:45] what's it made from so anything could
[16:48] happen but you know when once you flood
[16:49] the market you know when beta came out
[16:52] and VHS came out beta was better right
[16:55] so but VHS was cheaper so VHS flooded
[16:59] the market with vhs's and VHS tapes and
[17:03] by that point everybody had a VHS okay
[17:05] that's what it is and that's where we
[17:07] are with electric if anything else is
[17:08] going to come along
[17:10] it's going to be tough to beat Electric
[17:12] you know I can remember as much as 20
[17:14] years ago people thought it would take
[17:16] 75 years to go to Electric but it hasn't
[17:19] I mean it took 75 years for every
[17:21] American to get a telephone it took five
[17:24] years for every American to have a
[17:25] computer and now this electric thing
[17:27] could happen within 10 years probably so
[17:30] well I think it's pretty interesting
[17:31] being here because with the collection
[17:33] you have you can see the history of cars
[17:35] I mean we're talking less than 100 years
[17:36] in terms of the Transformations well I
[17:38] have a 1909 electric car a 1914 electric
[17:41] car and I have steam cars steam steam
[17:44] ran everything from 1820 to about 1911.
[17:48] then internal combustion 1911 to just
[17:50] about now and starting in 2030 electric
[17:53] will become the next one so yeah it's
[17:57] just you know Mark Twain used to say I
[17:59] like progress It's change I don't like
[18:00] and that's where where people are they
[18:03] they're all suspicious I don't know this
[18:05] is a good idea well this is America you
[18:07] move forward you come up with new ideas
[18:08] if something is
[18:10] cheaper better more efficient it's going
[18:13] to win you know for new technologies
[18:16] exceed it can't be equal it's got to be
[18:17] superior and right now electricity the
[18:21] biggest drawback is range but now you're
[18:24] getting cars 300 400 Mercedes now 600
[18:28] mile range it's a game changer yeah more
[18:29] charging stations too on the right and
[18:31] more charging stations on the road
[18:32] correct so the great thing about your
[18:34] show is that you have the cars we have
[18:35] the stars as well so Tim Allen is coming
[18:37] up not tonight but next week right yeah
[18:39] and we have a question here how long
[18:41] have you and timeline been friends oh we
[18:44] go back to oh God the comedy club in the
[18:47] 70s you know uh I I imagine you met him
[18:50] out here or you met no I met him in
[18:51] Detroit at uh what was that uh the
[18:56] comedy club in uh in Detroit I think it
[18:59] just went out of my mind but yeah that's
[19:00] when we first met I was working he came
[19:02] in and did a guest set and we became
[19:04] friends yeah now there's a lot of folks
[19:06] that do the Jay Leno impersonation but
[19:07] is is Tim Allen at the top of your list
[19:09] in terms of the J impersonation because
[19:11] we'll see that on the show too uh it's a
[19:13] horrible I mean people go oh is it who
[19:17] was that I don't know who it was he has
[19:19] to tell him that it's me and then they
[19:21] go oh no that would be too cruel and
[19:22] then no it doesn't resemble me in any
[19:25] way is there anybody that that does uh
[19:27] me you there you go yeah I I'm classic
[19:30] they're pretty good I do it and people
[19:31] hey that sounds like change that sounds
[19:33] like you all right here's another
[19:34] question yes what is going to excite the
[19:36] next generation of car people
[19:39] the Next Generation Well that that's it
[19:41] that's the exciting point you know the
[19:42] future is very hard to predict uh when I
[19:44] was a kid they predicted flying cars and
[19:46] you wouldn't sit down to dinner you'd
[19:48] have a pill which would have everything
[19:50] you know and none of those things nobody
[19:51] ever predicted you walk around with all
[19:54] the information of the world in your
[19:55] hand you know when I was in the fourth
[19:58] grade A guy from Bell Telephone came to
[20:00] our grade school and said by the time we
[20:01] were grown-ups no American would be less
[20:04] than one mile from a telephone no matter
[20:06] where you were in the United States
[20:08] you only had to go a mile to find a
[20:10] phone even though it's death of the
[20:11] place there'd be a phone with the
[20:13] mileage that seemed like wow that's
[20:14] unbelievable imagine just walking a mile
[20:16] you know so uh it's almost impossible to
[20:20] predict you know I remember remember
[20:22] Hewlett Packard told Bill Gates
[20:24] Americans do not want computers in their
[20:27] homes believe me son nobody wants to
[20:30] have a computer that's for the scientist
[20:32] you know so it's very hard you never you
[20:35] never know what brings about the social
[20:36] change sometimes it's culture sometimes
[20:39] it's music you don't know what's so it's
[20:41] hard to predict the other thing that
[20:43] folks like to ask about is how you
[20:45] started collecting cars and I know that
[20:47] there's a jaguar in here that you go
[20:49] back all the way to your childhood that
[20:50] when you were nine years old you saw the
[20:52] Jaguar so yeah what got you into it and
[20:54] how have you expanded this place well I
[20:55] grew up in New England and when I was a
[20:57] kid boys are just expected to fix the
[21:00] lawnmower or the snowmobile or whatever
[21:03] it might be and it was just a hobby you
[21:06] know we had a big feel behind our house
[21:07] and you'd find an abandoned car and we
[21:10] were just driving around in circles my
[21:12] mother would watch from the kitchen
[21:13] window you know nowadays because they
[21:16] call Child Services and the parents
[21:17] would be taken away yeah but but back
[21:20] then you just go out 12 year olds having
[21:22] a car did not seem like a bad thing
[21:24] because he knew where you were and I met
[21:27] my mother watching us when and the car
[21:29] just rolled over you know with a bunch
[21:31] of us in it my mother comes running out
[21:33] you know yeah so yeah it was a different
[21:35] time a much different time different
[21:37] time
[21:37] so you have a lot of great cars here
[21:39] before we wrap up you have a Buick
[21:41] that's really special to you well that's
[21:42] my 50s I bought that when I came to
[21:44] California I bought it out of the
[21:46] Pennysaver
[21:47] you know I got out I got off the plane I
[21:49] said I gotta find a car I got the Penny
[21:52] Saver and I looked at a dresser and said
[21:53] Winchester said here's a Buick it's in
[21:56] how far is Winchester okay so that's
[21:57] about three miles from the airport oh so
[21:59] I got a cab I went to the uh I went to
[22:02] the place
[22:03] and then I realized well if I don't buy
[22:04] this car I have no way to get so I just
[22:07] bought it wow well thought out plan as
[22:10] you can see and I've had it ever since
[22:12] that's awesome and then you have a car
[22:14] that Johnny Carson was very yeah that
[22:16] was Johnny Carson's dad's car that's a
[22:17] 1939 Chrysler Johnny Carson's dad bought
[22:20] that new Johnny went to his prominent
[22:22] and if you watch a special called Johnny
[22:24] goes home or Johnny comes home back in
[22:27] 82 you'll see you know old old uh eight
[22:31] Miller footage of Johnny polishing it
[22:34] when he was 12 and then going to his
[22:36] prom when he was 18. and when Johnny
[22:38] died he left that in his will to me so
[22:40] that's amazing yeah that was yeah that
[22:42] was great I I cherished that car I
[22:44] learned you also have his Tonight Show
[22:45] desk here as well
[22:46] yeah well there were a bunch of those a
[22:49] bunch of those Tonight Show deaths so
[22:50] that was pretty special oh yeah yeah but
[22:52] not as special the car was the car yeah
[22:54] I mean the fact that he left that to you
[22:55] that must have been a surprise as well
[22:57] it was a huge surprise I mean the desk
[22:58] is a prop it's not even a real desk you
[23:01] know you could use it as a desk the car
[23:03] is different yeah the car is different
[23:05] you know because Johnny had a real
[23:06] connection with the car I gotcha all
[23:08] right a couple rapid fire personal
[23:09] questions
[23:10] we are out of here no yes yes no go
[23:14] ahead what is your favorite movie of all
[23:15] time
[23:17] oh
[23:18] well I I like The Godfather but I also
[23:21] like Miracle on 34th Street you know as
[23:23] a kid I liked it because
[23:25] you didn't really have to believe in
[23:27] Senate it wasn't you know I mean it had
[23:30] enough realistic stuff and I remember
[23:32] watches thinking how is this going to
[23:33] end and of course it ends with the post
[23:36] office declaring him Santa Claus because
[23:39] the mail got delivered to him and I
[23:41] thought I just thought that was so
[23:42] clever because it was a logical so many
[23:46] fantasy movies have a fantasy ending
[23:48] yeah that was realistic and that had a
[23:50] realistic well and of course the judge
[23:52] who's running for the election well if
[23:54] the United States government says you
[23:55] said he's Santa Claus they call him he's
[23:58] Santa Claus well by God he's Santa Claus
[24:00] you know and I I just oh I just I
[24:02] thought it was the most clever ending of
[24:03] any film yeah I love that movie what's
[24:04] your go-to meal what's your favorite
[24:06] food oh favorite well you have to
[24:08] understand food
[24:10] that's okay right now it's better than
[24:13] delicious food in an hour yeah I just
[24:15] want to eat right can I just get
[24:16] something I mean most of my meals are
[24:18] from people in paper hats I I can't say
[24:20] that you know having a gourmet oh you're
[24:22] not that guy no having you know it's
[24:24] it's something or other of something no
[24:26] but that being said probably something
[24:28] Italian yeah yeah okay what is the last
[24:31] book you read oh last book ever
[24:34] um ah you know Precision by Simon
[24:37] Winchester it's a book about the
[24:40] invention of precision and it starts
[24:42] with steam engines right up to what you
[24:44] have now you have something called Morse
[24:46] law which is that started the computer
[24:48] industry that every year he had the
[24:51] double capacity and half the size so
[24:54] consequently you get things like an
[24:56] Apple Watch and you have you have you
[24:59] know a little I can how many
[25:02] like radios like an iPhone doesn't have
[25:05] transistors right but it has the
[25:07] equivalent of something like a billion
[25:09] transistors some crazy thing like that
[25:11] you almost hard to believe but that's
[25:14] that that's Moore's Law taken to the
[25:16] extreme every year it gets smaller more
[25:18] compact you know if you ever watch old
[25:20] TV shows like manix to solve a crime he
[25:23] goes in the computer room which is big
[25:24] as this room with giant reel to reels
[25:26] and now you realize your iPhone has 10
[25:29] times that capacity it's in your pocket
[25:30] yeah I mean you carry more Computing
[25:33] than the Apollo 13.
[25:36] yeah so yeah so that's but that's a good
[25:39] book Simon Winchester if you like
[25:40] precision and how things are made and
[25:43] Manufacturing yeah it's great lastly
[25:45] what is the best part about doing Jay
[25:47] Leno's garage
[25:48] well the best part about it is I can
[25:51] deduct all this stuff because well this
[25:53] is my work so you can sort of write it
[25:56] off I mean I remember someone once
[25:58] saying that if you enjoy your work it's
[26:00] not really work
[26:01] and that's what I do you know you know I
[26:04] remember for like six months I went to
[26:06] Bentley School of accounting and finance
[26:07] I don't know why I'm dyslexic I don't
[26:09] know why I went there because it was
[26:11] near my house I guess and I just flunked
[26:13] out and I thought what am I going to do
[26:14] so I found why don't I find something
[26:16] I'm interested in and and do that and
[26:18] make you know make make your hobby your
[26:21] job well I'm glad you wound up as Jay
[26:23] Leno the comedian and then the car guy
[26:25] and not the accountant right yeah we
[26:27] wouldn't be here today no we'd all be in
[26:28] jail if I was the account all right
[26:30] there you have it folks tonight 10 p.m
[26:33] Eastern an all-new episode of Jay Leno's
[26:34] garage for Jay I'm DJ we'll see you next
[26:37] time here on YouTube DJ thank you thank
[26:39] you man
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[26:56] thank you