I Don't Know About That - Motorcycles feat. Jay Leno

Episode Date: September 10, 2024

Jay Leno : Stand-up comedian, host of The Tonight Show; Jay Leno’s Garage on CNBC. IG and YT : @jaylenosgarage Kelly Blackheart also joins us! Check out her and DJ Quall's podcast "Locked and Probab...ly Loaded": http://www.loadedpod.com ADS: SHOPIFY: Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at http://www.shopify.com/idk BETTERHELP: Visit http://www.BetterHelp.com/IDK today to get 10% off your first month.

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Starting point is 00:01:03 Visit betterhelp.com slash IDK today and get 10% off your first month. That's betterhelp.help.com slash IDK. Boxes. Boxes. Which one's made of cardboard and which ones punch in the face? Only I know because I was thinking of one when I said the first word in the second one The first one was a boxer is actual boxer. Okay The other one was just a box just normal box. Yes, the normal box ladies and gentlemen are we fine pleasure Young Kelly's here Kelly bear. We we miss you. Kelly Bear's back. Kelly Bear's back. I miss you guys too. Young Kelly. Young Kelly. Kelly.
Starting point is 00:01:50 I'll be 38 on Sunday. Kelly. Kelly. Kelly's here to announce she's going to stay with us for the rest of the podcast. Because sad news, sad news. We're going on a hiatus When I say hiatus, we don't know if we're gonna come back. We might come back We might not but I have to go on a couple of months Work in Australia when I get back forest is on a couple of months as well And so we couldn't fit the podcast in and I feel like we've run our course a little bit We've done it. We've done an over 200 episodes. How many episodes have we done?
Starting point is 00:02:25 We've done over 200. I think it might be 206. 206 topics with two of them. Plus four that we never aired. And six experts. And it's a lot. And so, you know, I'd like to do another podcast maybe, or I don't know.
Starting point is 00:02:44 I'm not saying the podcast is over forever, but in the foreseeable future, we're not gonna be doing the podcast anymore. And we wanna do it while we're all friends, while we all still like each other. Yeah. We still have one more after this. Oh yeah, you could all go tits up before then.
Starting point is 00:03:00 Sure. You could all. Yeah. Everyone keep your cool. And I'll tell you what I'm gonna miss the most is those live podcasts. I became very fond of doing, I would do those live podcasts.
Starting point is 00:03:11 We did one last night. Without even recording them. Yeah. Just do them. Just that's my new standup show would just be talking about a topic I've never heard of. We did one last night and maybe this will date when we're doing this podcast.
Starting point is 00:03:26 This would have come out the week before, two weeks before today. Yeah, that girl, I'm glad I didn't say that. That would have been mean. Cause we talked to her at the end. What happened? She looked like the woman that's gone viral, the Hawk Tooie.
Starting point is 00:03:37 Hawk Tooie girl? Hawk Tooie. Yeah, you talked to her eventually. She had the same name as your, I don't know. Did you know that she just got signed to UTA? Did she yeah the Hawk to it? Yeah She lost her job as a teacher and UTA signed her well who the fuck I think that I think I was incorrect It's her yeah, are you sure yeah? I just I just got sent an article like two minutes
Starting point is 00:04:02 Hot to her she's she's planning on taking action against the school district or whatever. But now update, a couple hours, she does not have a deal with UTA. Maybe they reached out to her and she's telling people that she's on time. Because how do you take that show on the road? It was very confusing. The bar is very low but also very high. I don't understand. She has a preschool so she was a preschool teacher. Yeah, preschool teachers... They don't understand. She has a preschool, so she was a preschool teacher. Yeah, preschool teachers. They don't understand what hawktaw is.
Starting point is 00:04:27 Okay, so someone who works from eight till three and they have 16 weeks of holidays and you're expecting them not to get down? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're expecting their sex life to be mundane? Get the fuck out of here. Was it Broadway in Nashville? Like that's just party time, like, that wasn't fun.
Starting point is 00:04:42 Where do they think preschoolers come from? All she's saying is the way to make- It's not the hawktaw. No she's saying is the way to make guys crazy is to spit on their cock. Lube them up. See, I'm gonna miss these conversations. As we leave. What gigs have we got coming up?
Starting point is 00:04:56 We're just trying to plug everything to the end of time. I've just, okay, it's cause we haven't got any more episodes. I've just signed a deal. I will be doing the UK and Europe in 2025. So look out for that. Yep. That's a ways off, but.
Starting point is 00:05:13 I know, but I can't advertise it. I've lost me avenue to advertising strain. Bro, you just finished your Australia tour, I believe probably. I have, it went brilliantly. This is September 10th. Ooh. Jerry Seinfeld came in and heckled me
Starting point is 00:05:27 about the Aboriginals. This week, you have shows with Mark Norman and Dan Soder. One on September 13th in St. Louis, and another one in Atlanta, Georgia on September 14th. Triple headlining, man. Both with Mark Norman and Dan Soder. I'm really excited. We're all gonna be doing like an hour each.
Starting point is 00:05:42 Like, it's gonna be epic, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is like world gonna be epic man. Yeah, it's like World class comedians. Yeah, not that I don't normally work with world-class comedians fuck it up Well, I mean very well-known comedians very well-known last comedians that's better And then September 27th, you're in Detroit, Michigan, September 28th, Milwaukee, October 11th, Kalamazoo, October 12th, Minneapolis, all sorts of dates on JimDreferees.com, obviously December 14th in the Ace Theater, now known as the United Theater on Broadway in LA, come out to that show.
Starting point is 00:06:19 Bunches of other shows on JimDreferees.com. We've already done the Jimmy Kaz, have I? Yeah, yeah, no, you got some more coming up. You're like right in the middle of the two runs. Yeah, we got like seven or eight of them. Split up. I believe you still have Calgary, Kelowna, Vancouver, and Victoria, British Columbia. I love when people, like, so we're only doing it across Canada and people write, the comment
Starting point is 00:06:40 underneath is always like this, why no Italy? Yeah. Because I've only ever done one gig in Italy in my whole life. the comment underneath is always like this, why no Italy? Yeah. Cause I've only ever done one gig in Italy in my whole life. Thank God I just got a text message. Yeah, what was that? What was that?
Starting point is 00:06:51 Podcast is canceled anyway. Oh no. So me personally, this is coming. We jumped. I'm personally about to start a big chunk run in Florida. I'm going to be in Key West, Florida. I'm going to be in Boca Raton, Florida. I'm going to be in Tampa, Florida.
Starting point is 00:07:11 Sounds like a fucking three-way. I don't know. I'm going to blow chunks in Florida. Big chunk run. Yeah. That should be your tour day. That sounds great. Big chunk lumbering through.
Starting point is 00:07:21 It's a porno. One guy, one bucket. So, if you're in Key West, Boca Raton, Tampa, Miami, Dania, anywhere in Florida, I'm probably Orlando, I'm gonna be in Florida in September and October. All my dates are on Forrestal.net. You can see
Starting point is 00:07:38 them on there. So go check that out. And then, also, the Doohickeys. Follow us. I think, and then also the Doohickeys. Follow us. I think, I wish my truck was bigger is out. Go stream it. And coming up is This Town Sucks. The new album. That's my favorite Doohickey song.
Starting point is 00:07:57 This town sucks. This town blows. October 4th. The new version of This Town Sucks comes out October 4th. What do you mean the new version? What are you fucking George Lucas? Just fucking sit back and fucking you've done it now move on. If I could go going I'm redoing Alcoholicost everyone. It's Taylor's version. Yeah it's Taylor's version. We went into a proper studio and recorded it properly. Yeah I was drunk during Alcoholicost. I'd like to do that show sober and see how it turns out.
Starting point is 00:08:24 You can. You can do Alcoholicast, new version. I can be like, Liam Gallagher's touring definitely maybe now because it's been 30 years since the first Oasis album. He's just doing it without his brother. Like, let's just do the whole fucking album, man. Why not? Kelly has a podcast. I do. Yeah. It's called Locked and Probably Loaded with DJ and Kelly with DJ Qualls. And we just recorded yesterday and he was talking at length about Legit and how it was just one of his favorite projects.
Starting point is 00:08:47 And it's the only thing that he can actually watch himself in because it was so well done. Nice. Well, it's because he's acting is just from the neck up. And he got to sit the whole time. My favorite story about DJ is in that pilot, like I had to lay him down so that Kate could have sex with him in the scene,
Starting point is 00:09:05 right, the prostitute, right, so I, I, I, he was in the chair and I'd have to take a shoe off and take a shoe off and then me and Steve helped lift him and then we brought him to do the thing and then they go, cut, let's go again and then I'd lift him up, put him back and put his fucking shoes on and he would just let me. He texts me all the time, I need to shower, can you carry me? I'm not coming over. You caused this. Why did you do it though?
Starting point is 00:09:34 Because I forgot he wasn't disabled. Jim was acting, he's in the moment. He's a really good actor. I was like, I've got to help this bloke's disabled. And then I was putting his shoes back on. And then I was like, I've got one shoe on. I was like, put your own fucking shoes on. He's going to lift? Doesn't seem heavy.
Starting point is 00:09:51 Yeah, he's got like hollow bones. He's as light as a feather. He's like, he's filled with helium. So those are the guests. Do you guys have guests on your vlog, I guess? So, listen to their podcast. Do you guys have guests on your podcast? Not right now, but we're definitely considering eventually going that route, or just every once in a while having guests.
Starting point is 00:10:15 But you two can talk underwater, so you don't need them. Yeah, it's been very fun. I think he's never really guested on podcasts before, so he was nervous getting into it, but I think he's never really guested on podcasts before, so he was nervous getting into it, but I think he feels really free and able to talk about shit that he's never talked about before. And we're having a great time. Right, what shit is he talking about?
Starting point is 00:10:35 The homosexuality? I mean, yeah, some of that. He was just recently talking about how he was afraid to come out because Ivan Reitman said he wouldn't He didn't want to hire a Sean William Scott because he thought he might be a faggot And so that's like that was why he didn't come out for such a long time Whoa, so when he saw many got a stifler Is Shawn Michaels is he okay? Yeah, I didn't think he was gay.
Starting point is 00:11:05 So yeah, DJ was just, he over, like it was a press junkie. Ivan Reitman doesn't like gays. I mean, at the time he would. He's dead now, isn't he? Yeah, he's dead. But at the time he wasn't interested in hiring gay people, so. Whoa. Really?
Starting point is 00:11:18 And he had a character called Stay Puff the Marshmallow Man. If there isn't a more homosexual name, I've never heard. Okay. What's your name? My name's Stay Puff the Marshmallow Man. Yeah, he did die, so we can talk shit. This guy scored slimer, why? You'll see.
Starting point is 00:11:38 The, what's that? Ivan Reitman, did he do it? Yeah, he did it. Ivan Reitman, Ivan Reitman is a genius. Ivan Reitman between kindergarten, cough it? Yeah. Ivan Reit me like Ivan Reitman less. Good. Really thought you were going more on that for some reason. The way you set up that sentence.
Starting point is 00:12:11 Makes me respect Ivan Reitman. Yeah, I didn't mean more, I meant more. Yeah, sorry, yeah, sorry guys. Less. Or less, more or less. Makes me like a more or less, you know. Geez, the podcast would have gone forever if we kept Kelly. I won't tell you, like-
Starting point is 00:12:28 This rapport is wonderful, yeah. It is better, we did miss having a female perspective on the show for sure. There was times where you're like- Jack wasn't cutting it. I tried! Let's just put it this way, I've been right and wouldn't cast him. Because he thinks I might be. No, no, you're just a terrible actor.
Starting point is 00:12:49 Oh right, that reason. Like re-recording your goddamn songs. I would like to mention that it's a coincidence that I'm here right now. I did not cause the cancellation. I was at the show last night and you guys told me to come. I'm not the harbinger of death. No, it just came down. It just came down to we've been doing a lot.
Starting point is 00:13:11 Kelly showed up and said, can we run the podcast? Guess we're canceling. No, there's no, good idea. There's no problems with any of us or anything. No, it's just that we've done enough topics. And if we were a TV show and we got to 206 episodes, you go, you've had a good run. And if we were a TV show and we got to 206 episodes,
Starting point is 00:13:27 you'd go, you've had a good run. That would be 10 seasons of telly. It is underestimated how much work it is to put this show together. Like, and I totally understand. The topics are harder to pick as time goes on, but finding experts that you think are gonna be engaging and that are willing to have their name on on a comedy podcast that's pulled out. If six months a year, two years we want to get back to it, it's sitting there ready to go.
Starting point is 00:13:52 I think we'll have the merch ready by then. We have the logo. The merch is almost ready guys. New merch is coming any day. Just hold on. So the show's canceled. Please give to our Patreon. We're going to release a Patreon.
Starting point is 00:14:11 I'll release those. Yeah, people have requested that now that it's been a while. I think we didn't do it right away. That's smart. Yeah, we can release those. No, I think, yeah, we had talked about it, Jack. And we didn't do it right away because then it would have been like, thanks for paying for that, everybody.
Starting point is 00:14:24 All right, now also write to me if you have any ideas for pod podcast concepts Jim talking for our open to an idea. Yeah deforestation. That'll be the first one. That's that's the first No, that was the answer to the you don't remember that yeah, it's a rainforest episode Yeah, what's the first and that could be the title of the new podcast that yeah, it's a rainforest episode. Yeah, what's the first? I'm not gonna be the title of the new podcast. You're not gonna be on it. Yeah Yeah, well yes true. Yeah, I won't be on it. I'm Have some ideas for a podcast. I'm gonna do so what's what's what's what? I'm actually you do a rom-com one. I thought you were going I did though. I did that kind of short
Starting point is 00:15:03 Oh my bad. I didn't listen. I know on Instagram. I put like the critic videos up those did a pretty good, but I could do that I about something on dance addiction As we maybe do an addiction one I've been talking and then I'm gonna do a brief one with Michael yo about Miami Hurricanes College football so it's gonna be only during the season we're gonna do like one before the game one So it's gonna be only during the season. We're gonna do like one before the game, one after, it's gonna be pretty short. But we're gonna do that starting in August or September.
Starting point is 00:15:30 So if you know Michael Yeo, and you're a fan of his. Are you gonna be in Vegas when you record this? No, no, we're gonna do everything on computer. So we don't have to be near each other. Nice, fancy. And to all the people who have subscribed, just leave the channel open.
Starting point is 00:15:43 We might put up old episodes and things like that, so you never know. Because that way we, you know. Might put a picture of your shit up, you know? Yeah, these things, just leave the subscription thing, we might put things up. I was actually gagging last night when you showed it. At the show.
Starting point is 00:15:59 It was as bad as I remember. It wasn't high res on the TV, it got blown out, no one could see the majestic chip. It was already halfway as I remember. It wasn't high res on the TV. It got blown out. No one could see the majestic chip. It was already halfway burned into my brain from all the other times I've seen it. So I was thinking. There was someone who went, my blood. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:14 My blood. You've lived a blessed life, sir. You must eat lots of salads. We got a very special guest today. He was on one of the first sort of 20-30 episodes. Maybe our most watched episode at that stage. I don't know if it is at this stage, but at that stage. And we're going to meet him in a minute. And now Kelly's going to become Jay Leto.
Starting point is 00:16:38 So unless it's Denim or The Tonight Show, your other category's got to be motorcycles. Am I correct? Oh, comedy, whatever you want. Yeah. Well, we've done. I, you do know about comedy. Yeah. It's a good point.
Starting point is 00:16:52 We didn't stand up comedy. We've already done stand up comedy. You know, Wayne Fetterman? Yeah. Yeah. We had him on. He wrote a book on stand up comedy. So how was the book?
Starting point is 00:16:59 Have you got it? Uh, we didn't read it. We didn't read it. He rest my case, ladies and gentlemen. He told us what was in it. His abridged version was good in person Yeah motorcycles, all right, please welcome our guest Jay Leno. Thank you. Thank you We don't need to play the song Jack. We already know. I'm not gonna play it All right. Great. Okay, first is gonna ask you some questions. Go ahead son. First of all
Starting point is 00:17:24 Everybody everybody knows Jay Leno from tonight's show Jay Leno's garage But if you want to follow him on Instagram or YouTube Jay Leno's garage has got all sorts of Last time I saw Jay. I was playing Soccer with a big propane tank in two cars. It was for TV. Yeah, that's what we went We were just doing it for a laugh. We actually did it. Yeah. Was it filled with propane? No Exploded you're bashing cars in it. Yeah. Yeah. I would have tried. Okay, I'm doing that Yeah, but it was I it was fun and we were doing it with manuals as well We're doing with automatics and I was like Jesus is the first time me driving a manual for about a decade and here I am trying to bash a propane tank around. Well today we're talking about motorcycles.
Starting point is 00:18:05 Last time Jay was here we did cars. And I famously remember us, Kelly and I asking a question and telling you you had the wrong answer because we looked up on the internet and turns out we were wrong. The internet was wrong so go figure. What was the question? It was about windshield wipers.
Starting point is 00:18:19 And when they were invent, intermittent windshield wipers when they were invented. And then we said, oh no it says here on this year, whatever the year was and you said, do you mean when they were invented or And then we said, oh no, it says here on this year, whatever the year it was, and you said, do you mean when they were invented or when they were mass produced and put on cars? And we're like, we don't know. And then we were, turns out we were wrong.
Starting point is 00:18:31 Well, it sounds like a fascinating show. I mean, wherever you go people, the windshield wipers, I mean, you hear, over here, conversations, the rest of them, when, Bob, I don't know, Susan, you have any idea on the windshield? I don't know, so. We were gonna do a podcast just on windshield wipers. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:46 But then we decided to change it to motorcycles. All right, Jim, here's the first question. Yeah. This is for Jim first here. What year was the first motorcycle invented and who is credited with its creation? First motorcycle. Yeah. Fuckin' hell.
Starting point is 00:19:02 First motorcycle. It's gonna be a year first. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah I'm gonna go I might be wrong with this first bit 19 mm-hmm no 1863 Sylvester Roper this is Gottlieb Damler and Maybach. Is Gottlieb, Damler, and Maybach. Is Gottlieb the same company that makes the pinball machines? Well that was a three wheeler. Oh really? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:32 Okay. But not many people are riding those. I think people ride more contemporary bikes now. But go ahead. No, no, but so that was a three wheeler then? Is it Damler and Maybach? I think that's the one. So the two wheeleler was when then?
Starting point is 00:19:45 Well, there's a couple of people. The guy named Oliver Evans, and I mean, there's a lot of 1812, I mean, everybody kinda came up with, Cougarnaut in 1769 had the first steam sort of vehicle, and that was, could've been a motorcycle. But yeah, so, but that's neither here nor there. How do you run a steam motorcycle?
Starting point is 00:20:03 Yeah, and you always run one. I've got a steam motorcycle. Yeah, but what do you? He does, he has one, you put coal in it as you're going along. We don't put coal in it actually. Ah! Put water in it.
Starting point is 00:20:13 Let's move up a decade. Okay, all right, cool. Well, let me, okay. Yeah. How about, this is an easy one for you, Jim. Name some motorcycle brands, not Yamaha, Honda, or Suzuki. Indian? Correct.
Starting point is 00:20:30 They don't call them that. Not like Piccardi, but not Piccardi, it's that sort of D. Piccardi? No. Ducati. Ducati. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:39 Ducati. Harley Davidson. Harley Davidson, Motobuzy, Benelli. Benelli. Escovanna. Escovanna. You can't point at me after J.S. Harley Davidson. Harley Davidson, Motor Guzzi, Benelli. Benelli. Escovana. Escovana. You can't point at me after Jay answers that.
Starting point is 00:20:49 There's a million of them. Yeah. BMW. And when did Harley Davidson motorcycles begin production? 1903. No, not yet. You've got to answer first, Jay. Okay, so this is the thing is I should have noted
Starting point is 00:21:02 because I've actually watched the brands that built America and there is a Harley and Davidson. Why did they become so popular? How about that? Ah, bikers? It was the brr brr brr brr brr noise, probably. I don't know. Big handlebars?
Starting point is 00:21:15 Lots of different things. Well, they didn't have that till later. It was transportation. There would have been a war involved. Did they make them for the war? They did make them during World War I. Yeah, there you go, the war. Oh, they did, so Harley's were in the war?
Starting point is 00:21:29 BMW makes motorcycles. Yeah, BMW. Yeah, okay. All right, here's one. I wanna speak about Yamaha. He's gotta answer it wrong, and then you gotta correct him, Derek. You know my opinions on Yamaha, right?
Starting point is 00:21:40 The greatest company on Earth. Greatest company on Earth. There's no other company that makes the finest piano, the finest amplifier and the finest violin and the finest motorcycle. And the finest motorcycle. Very, very good stuff. Outboard motors, their brand is all over the fucking place. Engine for cars. Yeah. Recorders. Yamaha will have a go at any product. They'll just have a go.
Starting point is 00:22:07 What's your question? Okay next question. Let Jim get this wrong first and then you can answer. What is the difference between a two-stroke and a four-stroke motorcycle engine? One has twice as many strokes. The four stroke you come. I don't know. Like, is that the brrr when you do that pedal where you go like that? No, but what's that pedal called? You know that thing where you go like that? Kickstarter. Kickstarter, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:34 Well, I could just see motorcycle enthusiasts flocking to this road. Just to get the inside track. And so much of what's happening. I believe if they- That's why you're here, for us to learn. If they invented the motorcycle today today it would not get through health and safety. It would never be a product that would be approved. Right? Because, okay, so you take your
Starting point is 00:22:52 car over the pits and they go like this. They go, oh there's a bit of rust here and there's a bit of thing and this seatbelt's a bit frayed and all that sort of stuff. And if you go, all right, how about I just sit on the engine and get rid of two wheels and have no seat belt you pass right so like even the The least safe car is safer than the safest motorcycle I might be completely wrong in saying that but that feels like the way but I think motorcycle I guess say you know for example having sex with a blow-up doll It's safer than having sex an actual woman because you're not going to get a disease true or possibly and that's why I do it. She'll get jealous and stab you. That's why you have sex with a blow up doll and I have sex with a real one.
Starting point is 00:23:29 That's a good analogy actually. I still think I'm. I'm just saying if they tried to make it now, if it was a new invention, they went on Shark Tank and they go, you know the car? I've invented half a car without a seatbelt. People will be like, I'm not gonna invest, there'll be issues.
Starting point is 00:23:47 Okay, here's another one. What does the term CC stand for in motorcycle engines? Oh wait, did we even say it? The answer is two stroke. Yeah, the four stroke, two stroke. What's the difference between a two stroke and a four stroke? Well, the four stroke is the auto cycle.
Starting point is 00:24:03 One, two, three, four, bang, one, two, three, four, bang. Two strokes don't have any valves, they mix the is the auto cycle. One two three four bang, one two three four bang. Two strokes don't have any valves. They mix the gas with the oil. It's a compression engine versus an auto cycle engine. I knew that from outboard boat engines. Right, those are two strokes. And so all motors. Oh, I thought it was because you went like this.
Starting point is 00:24:22 Boom, boom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that was your two-stroke determined that was wrong You had to do four times to start it and make some motorcycles can be two or four. That's right Yeah, go for a stroke. Yeah. All right. So then what does the CC stand for in motorcycles carbon? Collect collection carbon you're not gonna get any. Oh, he's got a carbon collection of cars Big centimeters See they do the metric system Oh, he's got a carbon collection of cars. Two big centimeters. How big do you think it is? Two big centimeters.
Starting point is 00:24:46 See, they're dealing with the metric system. 650cc, 700cc. Yeah, you know the metric system's better. The CC. Okay, so what is a motorcycle's engine's displacement and why does it matter then, Jim? That's a follow up to it. I don't know what displacement means.
Starting point is 00:25:02 It means the size of the engine. The size of the engine. The size of the engine. A thousand cc is bigger than 500 cc. Oh, yeah, in 2000 cc is even bigger, double. Well, there you go, boy. Nothing gets past Mr. Jeopardy. That's why I thought we were talking to Alex Trebek for a minute. Wow.
Starting point is 00:25:20 You got all the questions. It's the mustache, it throws you. I'm Trebeked up. But don't they use CCs for cars too or no? Yeah, they do. Yeah, so you have a powerful car, Jim. Yeah. What kind of displacement?
Starting point is 00:25:34 It's a VA, it's something, I know how much horsepower it is, and it's a very fast car. Probably 392 cubic inch, something like that. Yes, I mean maybe 396. You know the car he has? Yeah, he knows the car. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:50 Okay, here we go. Why do motorcycles have louder exhaust sounds compared to most cars? Is it just for show? I believe there's an element of safety involved. You want to hear the car coming so that you don't whip back. Well, I believe that, okay, are motorcycles allowed to do that bit where they drive in between the traffic? What's that called?
Starting point is 00:26:11 You can in California. You can't go lane splitting. It's not legal in almost any other state, only California. Right. Why is it legal in California? Just one of those where at some states you need a helmet, some states you don't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one, I always feel like, I always worry that I'm gonna hit a motorcyclist.
Starting point is 00:26:27 More than a car, because if I hit a motorcyclist, I might kill him. Yeah, well, don't do it. No, I'm trying not to. That's the worry's good, it keeps me cautious. So you think that the loud sound is a safety issue. I think, I believe it plays into that. I believe that the Harley Davidson
Starting point is 00:26:42 and all that big loud noise, actually, and it's also to annoy neighbors and whatnot when you're getting ready. Well, there is a certain hooligan element to it, you know. Oh, really? So there's no real reason other than is it not a safety issue or? No, people say it is, and I suppose you hear it coming and that technically it might work, but motorcycles now are almost as quiet as cars. Have we got electric bikes?
Starting point is 00:27:06 Yeah, I've got an electric bike. What did you ride here today? I drove a Triumph Triple 2.3 liter three cylinder. Does that mean anything to you Jim? Triumph. Triumph, where are they from? They're from England. Woo! Alright. I know the English guys. I think you got it.
Starting point is 00:27:29 What's the joke? Why have the English never made TVs? I don't know. They can't make them leak oil. I don't know. That was a joke I got told. Something like that, yeah. Yeah, something like that.
Starting point is 00:27:38 Why? British cars are not known for being good cars? No, the British workers aren't known for being great at their jobs. If you spend enough time in England, you understand that they all knock off very early. Well, do English make one of anything great? I mean, you'll make me believe,
Starting point is 00:27:53 oh, it's perfect, I need two more. Fuck! Like Aston Martins are British, and they're a banger of a car. Jaguars, but I don't think Jaguars are good. I think Aston Martins are the sexiest of all the sports cars. Well Well they use a Mercedes engine now. Because they're engines from Mercedes. The war is over.
Starting point is 00:28:13 What? The Morris Minor that was... My grandfather used to collect those Morris Miners. He didn't have a lot of space I guess. No he collected real Miners. Weren't Delorians built in England as well? They were built in Belfast. Belfast, yeah. The Irish hadn't built anything since, well, that's the United Kingdom, Belfast. But the Irish hadn't built anything since the Titanic,
Starting point is 00:28:39 and then they gave the Delorean a go. Like the Northern Irish. The Northern Irish hadn't manufactured anything for a very long time. And they were all fighting with each other in the factories. Like on the weekends, the Protestants and all that would have a go at each other. And then they'd meet back Monday.
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Starting point is 00:31:20 H-E-L-P dot com slash IDK. Here you go Jim, here's another question. How and why are motorcycle tires different from car tires? Well, they're thinner and they're rounded and it's so you can turn corners so you can pivot and lean and all that type of stuff. You want to have more of an access on the tire, I believe. Sounds like you think you're right, I don't know. Close enough. Yeah, close enough, yeah. There you go. You couldn't turn on it, like if you put it sounds like you think you're right. I don't know. I think yeah close enough
Starting point is 00:31:45 Yeah, there you go. You couldn't if you're on it. You couldn't turn on it. Like if you just had a big thick tire Yeah, yeah now I get that I didn't think about the rounded for them Yeah, because the motorcycle leans the car doesn't lean. Yeah. Yeah. I always think that I reckon motorcycle Racing is the most dangerous of all the sports more than Formula One We used to have a guy called Wayne Gardner who won all the motorcycle races from Australia. And his hands were broken so much that they used to have, they just set him in that way and he used to set them on the handles like that. But when you go down on a motorcycle, you're literally thrown clear.
Starting point is 00:32:21 When you're in a car and that bursts into flames, getting out of that car quickly is tricky, especially in farming, because you've got 50 gallons of gas and 25 gallons on each side and you're surrounded with fuel whereas with motorcycles, I mean, it's harder, but I think, I'm not sure if more car motorcycles – Which is when they're leaning and their knee is that close to the ground I think isn't it? You know, I mean it like like and they're leaning over. Yeah, but when you go down You've got safety padding and you slide you see guys slide across the track and they get up and walk away When your car and you slam into that garbage thing burst into flames. Oh my god
Starting point is 00:33:02 You go end over end or any that well when we were playing soccer with a propane tank, Jay, I said to you, I said, what happens if my car catches on fire? And you went, cars don't catch on fire, Jim. Yeah. That's right. Well, I just said that to make you feel better. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:17 And I was like, oh right, okay, cars don't catch on fire. Because I was driving around on three wheels. At one stage, one of my wheels came off. And I just had the metal just, eee, it's the cogry sparks coming up, smoke coming into me car. All with the knowledge that cars don't catch on fire. Here's one.
Starting point is 00:33:40 What are ape hangers? Ape hangers? Yeah. They're the people from Scullthorpe in England. What? What hangers? Ape hangers? They're the people from Scolthorpe in England. What? What's that? I've told you this. Next to Hartlepool. No, Hartlepool. Hartlepool. The monkey hangers.
Starting point is 00:33:54 Oh yeah, yeah. Those are the high nobody really has them anymore. Those were popular in the 60s and 70s. You saw them on the kids' bikes. Those big wheelbikes. They had the big handlebars up here. They called them ape hangers, yeah. Okay, so the Hartlepool, I'll tell you this story, Jason. Hartlepool, a town in England, right?
Starting point is 00:34:11 Couple of hundred years ago, maybe a bit more, right? They're known as monkey hangers, right? Because what happened was there was a French military ship and they had a monkey who was like a mascot of the boat and they dressed him up in a little French like like French outfit You know little soldiers outfit he used to entertain the troops on the boat anyway, the boat comes down and the monkey comes on shore in this northern town in England and
Starting point is 00:34:39 These people weren't well traveled and they thought that's what a Frenchman looked like It's a true story. They thought that's what a Frenchman looked like and they fucking hung it. Even though it was already dead. They tried to question it because they thought it was a spy. Yeah, they thought it was a spy. They're not even denying it, right? But it's so funny to watch people in Britain go, you don't want to go up there, fucking
Starting point is 00:35:04 monkey hungers. You know what I mean? Yeah don't wanna go up there, fucking monkey hangers. You know what I mean? Yeah, Hartley Poole, the monkey hangers. I remember that now. I bet you said something else, I forgot the word that I didn't understand. What's the purpose of a motorcycle fairing? Motorcycle fairing?
Starting point is 00:35:20 Yeah. I'm gonna take a wild guess here. That's how you balance a motorcycle? I'm going to take a wild guess here. That's how you balance a motorcycle? No, it's a streamline effect. So the air goes around you. You've seen them on motorcycles. Sometimes the wheel is covered and the windshield comes along the side this way.
Starting point is 00:35:38 It protects you from the wind. That's all it is. It makes it more aerodynamic. All right. I'm going to tell a very quick motorcycle story. Alright. This is my little tiny motorcycle story. So many years ago when I first got to America, I had to, I was doing general meetings and
Starting point is 00:35:56 I got a general meeting at DreamWorks of all places down at Universal Studios and you go through like the big gates and then you go in there and there's like there's like ET models and stuff like that and I went down it was just me and I was meant to be meeting with the casting person it was just me and the lady at reception I was just sitting there and I was sitting there they kept on going oh I'm sorry sorry for the delay we won't be a minute about 30 minutes 40 minutes I'm still sitting there behind the desk there was a poster of the crystal skull right, right? Indiana Jones movie. Right.
Starting point is 00:36:27 And it hasn't come out yet. Now I'm a big Indiana Jones guy. I'd seen the trailer a thousand times and I went to the girl on the counter and behind her is like the Schindler's List Oscar and all this stuff. It's all DreamWorks stuff. And I said, I said, I know what happens in that movie. And she said, no one knows what happens in that movie. Only Stephen has seen the final cut. Right. And I said, you can tell from the poster you see, right. He's got the word mud on him.
Starting point is 00:36:53 Shia LaBeouf's got mud and that's an homage to Indiana Jones being named after the dog. I'm going to guess that that's his son. And then the crystal skull. Anytime white people see brown people do something and we can't explain what it is, we go, aliens. Wow. So it's going to be about aliens. You find those crystal skulls primarily in South America, right? And I've got her laughing now and I keep going, keep going, keep going. And then she just stops laughing and I've nailed the whole film.
Starting point is 00:37:21 I've gotten every scene just from the trailer. I go, it's gonna start in area 51, and there's gonna be Russians instead of Nazis, and all that type of stuff. And then I went, and that's, and she stopped laughing, and that's the movie. And then, and then I hear, is that the movie? Is that, turn around and Steven Spielberg,
Starting point is 00:37:37 and he's all dressed up in leathers, and he's got a motorcycle helmet underneath him. And he drives like a fast motorcycle. So every time I see like a little fella on a fast motorcycle, by me I'm like Steven Spielberg, right? Anyway it turns out I guess the whole film and then he walks past me and goes into the office. I turned to the lady like she's surprised that she sees Steven Spielberg. She works there, right? But I turned to her and went oh my god that's Steven Spielberg! I didn't know Spielberg had a motorcyle.
Starting point is 00:38:08 Well, he did that day. He had a motorcycle helmet under his arm. And look, I haven't told it sorry for years because I was hoping to get cast in one of his films and it just hasn't happened. I think it's good to let it go now. So anytime you see a motorcycle rider, it could be Spielberg.
Starting point is 00:38:21 It could be Spielberg. It could be Spielberg. Keep that in mind. Well, I just think, cause it's so, cause they're so open. Could be Spielberg. Could be Spielberg. Keep that in mind. Well, I just think cause it's so, cause they're so open, but with the helmet. Right. Like you ride motorcycles, no one knows it's you. Right, right.
Starting point is 00:38:32 I drove past you the other day and I was in my car and you were driving in like, what looked like a T-Model Ford, like a real old car. Right, right. And I was honking and you just waved at me because I assume you get lots of him in the face. So you go. I was like, I was with my wife, I was honking and you just waved at me because I assume you get lots of him
Starting point is 00:38:53 I was with my wife. I was like, that's Jay Leno and she goes, how do you know I got this Jay Leno? He's an open carriage in an old vehicle. Who else do you think it was? And we were going to the JSX Airport in Burbank, which is not far from your garage, right? And I'm like, yeah, he's just he's digging around his car today That's what he's doing Yeah, I think last time around the podcast we asked you if you drive a different one each day Right or did you I got 168 motorcycles, so I do drive a different one 168 motorcycles and then 200 something cars Right or 208 what's the greatest motorcycle ever made brand or model? Oh, well Vincent Black's shadow or perhaps the Brough Superior SS100. Bikes from the
Starting point is 00:39:30 20s and the 50s, those are considered two of the greatest. What's the most expensive one? Well, a lot of one-off motorcycles people build for crazy money, you know, and you can charge whatever you want. Most production motorcycles, there's a new version of the Brough Superior, that's crazy money you know you can charge whatever you want most production motorcycle there's a new version of the brush superior that's about 80 90 thousand dollars there's like some exotic Italian bikes they go for a lot of money but generally motorcycles tend to run in the 20 to 40 thousand dollar range for top-end bikes now yeah If you had to have just one bike for
Starting point is 00:40:05 practicality and just day to day. Well that's a great thing we're not living in communist China. Yeah but our listeners can only get one. Oh. You mean those near the show they don't have the economic means to have two. Definitely not a hundred and sixty something. I don't know, I mean any sort of standard motorcycle I guess. Yeah, but like, well I didn't even ask Jim, there's different types Jim, there's, do you know any different types? There's the speed one, the ones that you sit on like the Yamaha where you wrap yourself around it.
Starting point is 00:40:43 You mean like Cafe Racer? Like where you keep your head down like Speed Racer type of one. Yeah Cafe Racers they're called. Yeah those ones. Then you got your Harley's where you sit back a little bit. Yeah they got touring, you got adventure bikes, you got all that. Touring? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:55 The touring ones I think were the ones you would get if you just had one. Right? Just to, because it's... Yeah. Yeah if you wanted to go touring you would have that one. I think the sexiest ones are those old sort of looking like World War II ones with just like that big headlight on the front and that one. They sort of look the coolest.
Starting point is 00:41:12 I don't know what model they are, but maybe they're BMW or something, but they were pretty cool. So the Cafe Racer, are those also the crotch rockets they call them? Yeah, well that could be crotch rocket too. Those tend to be Japanese motorcycles, yeah. Yeah, crotch rocket seems, sounds like an STD or something, but. All right. But the,
Starting point is 00:41:31 the, the, the, the Cafe Racer. Jason's been married for a long time. These references aren't, you know, not like a single bloke like you getting STDs all over the place.
Starting point is 00:41:40 I don't know. I don't know what the STDs are. What are you talking about? Pfft. I don't, I don't ask. Why are you making that sound? Don't ask, I'm just trying to tell you. I'm just trying to tell you. Yeah, don't ask, don't have any STDs. What are you talking about? Pffft sounds... My son's heels are having problems meshing together, the bones. You know what they call it? Like, it's just growing pains, right?
Starting point is 00:42:11 But so we enter the doctor and the doctor comes in, they go, He has Sevres disease. How long has he got? Yeah. That means his bones and his heels haven't meshed. Can we not call that a disease? Maybe call it a condition? Can I call it a disease? Especially Sev it a condition. Can I call it disease?
Starting point is 00:42:25 It actually severs. Severs disease. Yikes. Fuck, it's awesome. You know, in LA, for example, when you have weather like this, they would just call it summer. Now, a heat dome has surrounded Los Angeles. A heat dome is moving at a hellacious speed.
Starting point is 00:42:42 No, it's just warm. It's summer. It's going to be hotter than it is in the winter. But everything is dramatic now. When I lived in London, whenever they got over 30 degrees Celsius and it happened for three days a year, the people were dying in the street in Britain. They were talking about the heat wave
Starting point is 00:43:00 and they were literally like wetting like little hand cloths underneath and putting them on top of their heads and sitting in the park Oh fuck it, L England. Come on So that what what was the transit? How did it transition from the the older bikes to like the real fast? Was it just in Asia they're making those or the you're saying there Jeff? No, the the British had the motorcycle industry. It's a pretty conservative industry. And the Japanese came out with electric start and made them leak proof. The English just thought of the motorcycles, oh, I remember the head of the English Motorcycle
Starting point is 00:43:37 Association, one of the big companies, said Englishmen love nothing more than taking their head off the motorcycle and decoking it on a Saturday morning. I mean taking the whole engine apart and cleaning it. No they know they want to go riding it. And the Japanese knew that wasn't true so they made oil tank motorcycles that had electric starts and were pretty foolproof and that's why they dominated the industry. Now is a Vespa considered a motorcycle? No it's a motorbike. Scooters are the most dangerous because the wheels are small. Youpa considered a motorcycle? No, it's a motorbike. Scooters are the most dangerous, because the wheels are small. You know, with a motorcycle, you've
Starting point is 00:44:07 got a big wheel like this. So it acts as a gyroscope. The faster you go, theoretically, the more stable it becomes, because it's spinning. So you can do this. Like when you throw it into a turn, you don't go down, because the gyroscopic effect from that wheel.
Starting point is 00:44:22 Well, with a scooter, you have a little wheel. I mean, wheels like that big. Yeah, yeah. So when you hit a pothole, you actually go in the pothole. Mm-hmm. A motorcycle, whoa, it's as big as a car tire, so you'll bounce through the hole. You might get a jolt, but you don't go,
Starting point is 00:44:36 whereas the scooter, boom, you know, it'll just stop you right in your tracks. You go right in the hole, yeah. I very much enjoyed riding a Vespa, though. It is a fun... Well, usually you're riding them some, I rode one in Bali. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:49 And that was quite dangerous, I believe. Cause people are going in every direction. There's no... You must look like a circus bear right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:01 I mean, I... Yeah. Like a circus band. People are going, take a look mate, look at that. People did point a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's in Indonesia, they were going, American. I'll tell you what, when you're in Indonesia, in Bali,
Starting point is 00:45:21 and you go by every single scooter place you go by, there's, I'm assuming so many Australians on a crutches like it's just like you were saying there Not only is the direct the car directions of traffic going everywhere, but you know scooters are more dangerous There's always a guy returning a scooter on crutches or with like a arm sling on or something because it's They reckon in Florence there Four or five people are day on those things. And then the other scooter, the scooter scooters, the little ones you rent, you know the lime scooters whatever, those are.
Starting point is 00:45:53 Yeah those are more dangerous. People just come out in the traffic. Oh yeah, those ones where you stand up, that's the most dangerous thing on earth to do. We have a friend who that's his entire transport that he does. He drives up to Dodger Stadium on one of those stand up scooters. Like it's a deal. Oh yeah, it's a thing. It's not good.
Starting point is 00:46:10 No. What, Jim, what are the- He's trying to date women as well. He shows up on the scooter. He's Canadian. What are the primary differences between a chopper and a bobber motorcycle a chopper is your big? That's you. What about a bobber a bob is the one where you sit on it?
Starting point is 00:46:31 What's this? It's where you get in on the handlebars you get little handlebars that choppers like big up like that I have no clue is that right? Well Bob is another style a bobber could be a chopper I mean, it's just a different style of motorcycle. Those those are popular after World War two You've got a big Harley and took off all the heavy stuff You didn't need the big fender in the front and the cover over the light and all that kind of thing and you put a big Spring in the front end. Yeah, so that that's more is that what they call the chopper because you chop it You take it. Yeah
Starting point is 00:47:00 Okay, I Reckon Harley sales in it because in Australia bikers are the they're the main gangs, right? You see like I see a lot more Harley's in Australia than I do in America I don't I don't know why I wanted to say that but it's it's a point What is counter steering why is it important on motorcycle riding? counter steering is The leaning to steer not the doing that to steer well if you steer left you go right you steer right you go left and when you're on a motorcycle if
Starting point is 00:47:33 you push down this handlebar yeah but I think that's doing left I think that's the steering you're saying that's the steering it's the opposite you know get on a bicycle and try it go down the road and push one side and see which direction you go. Yeah, that's what it is. That's pushing. That's when you're leaning and steering. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:52 Okay. Cause like if you're leaning over in the motorcycle, you would steer the opposite way to keep the bike up. The only time I've ever driven a motorcycle is on a farm. And it's where you really let it rip across a paddock. Okay. What is the rider triangle and why is it important? The what?
Starting point is 00:48:07 The rider triangle. The rider triangle? Yeah. I don't know. If he doesn't know, I definitely don't know. You mean some of these are broken down, one of the things you put in. No, it says this refers to the positioning
Starting point is 00:48:16 of the rider's feet, hands, and seat. Oh, okay. I guess you want to read that little handbook and you drive it 10 minutes to two. Yeah, I'm just gonna tell you. So how do you take your bike test? Does someone ride behind you? handbook and you drive it 10 minutes to two. So how do you take your bike test? Does someone ride behind you or do they sit on the back and hold on to you? No, they watch you.
Starting point is 00:48:32 You go in the parking lot and they say you go down and turn around and go between the cones and do it without putting your feet down. And it seems like you can have your L plates, which, do they have L plates? No, they don't have L plates. Oh, okay. Okay, L plates, which, do they have L plates? No, I don't have L plates. Oh, okay. Okay, L plates is your learner plate. So in Australia you have a learner plate
Starting point is 00:48:48 and then you have a P plate for provisional plate. And that P plate lasts you for a year and you have a limited amount of points you can, we deduct points, we get points here, you know? You have a limited amount of points that you can have deduct. But then what happens is all the postmates people are all just on their learners. So it's just like they've just a whole lot of people without
Starting point is 00:49:09 their license thrown out there because you're allowed to have a go if you had the plate on. Oh yeah. I think the only time I've written one is on a farm too. It was on the, I was in, it was in the back country and I was like, this is safe. There's no cars for me learning. And then a deer jumped out and I almost hit that. And uh. The deer was more scared. This bear on a bike attacked me.
Starting point is 00:49:32 The Isle of Man race, do you know anything about that? I do, yeah, that's the TT races in the Isle of Man. That's the most dangerous motorcycle, that's the most dangerous race in the world. The reason that's on the Isle of Man is because it was banned in England. And the Isle of Man said you come race here, you can do whatever you want. And that's what it did. Why is it so dangerous, huh?
Starting point is 00:49:51 Because you're going 200 miles an hour, literally over 200 miles an hour, on a country road through the center of town. Oh, it's just on roads, just regular? Yeah, imagine Burbank and you closed all the streets and that became a race course. So you don't have safety barriers, you don't have any of the things you have. You should Google it, because you see people go by, you see a guy standing at his front door and a guy goes by at 200, it's like, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. I mean, you couldn't even see what kind of bike it was or who it was.
Starting point is 00:50:23 Is it like they have to do the loop a certain amount of time? No, there's no loop. It's one time. What is it? 27 miles. Each lap is 28 miles, I think. So the island man's in between Ireland and Britain. Jersey Goosy Island.
Starting point is 00:50:38 37 miles, yeah. Yeah, 37 miles. Not 23. You go up into the hills and it could be raining or snowing and then it's sunny on the other side. I mean, it is the most dangerous. Guys get killed all the time. I have a friend who's from the Isle of Man and he was always trying to make me go to the Isle of Man
Starting point is 00:50:53 with him for the race. He goes, I've gotta go home, the TT race is on. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's a big deal. And so people must die in this then. Sounds cool. Yeah, yeah. People die all the time, yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:02 Yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta go somehow, right? You can't live forever. Might as well do it on the Isle of Man. Yeah. Might as well. Why is it called TT? I'm trying to look that up.
Starting point is 00:51:13 Tourist Trophy. Tourist Trophy. That's the name of the tour. Yeah, yeah, first. Well, maybe I'm an idiot. I'm learning, I don't know anything about it. It's good you've done your research on all of this. I don't do any research.
Starting point is 00:51:23 I just look up the questions. You're supposed to know everything, except for the writer triangle. I knew it was called TT, but I didn't know anything about it. It's good you've done your research on all of this. I don't do any research. I just look up the questions. You're supposed to know everything, except for the rider triangle. I knew it was called TT, but I didn't know what that meant. He said it, and I was like, yeah. And wait, so that's, is there, there's a whole series of TT races, or the?
Starting point is 00:51:35 No, it's just one of the Isle of Man. Got it, okay. What, let me see where I was here. Oh, how do they, Jim, why do, how do motorcycles achieve such high speeds with relatively small engines compared to cars? Well, it's weight distribution. Is it?
Starting point is 00:51:51 Yeah, it's weight distribution. I just think it was some sort of compression. And it's also that you've got, yeah, weight distribution. I'm sticking with that answer. Well, actually, that is true. I mean, something here, Hellcat is probably eight pounds per horsepower. So you have 700 horsepower, okay. Where on a motorcycle, your average racing motorcycle
Starting point is 00:52:16 is under 500 pounds. So if it has 300 horsepower, it's an amazing power to weight ratio. It's power to weight. The less weight you have to move, the faster you can go, the more powerful you can go. It's like a 2,000 pound car with 200 horsepower is faster than a 4,000 pound car with 400 horsepower, probably. You know, it's all. I look, okay, once I was at the fair and I saw them, now they do such amazing stunts on
Starting point is 00:52:49 motorcycles. They jump up, they're doing the Superman, they're flipping them and all that type of stuff and they're landing and all that sort of stuff. And then, and then, and so now we can't really have evil can evil again, can we? Because the danger, not that the danger's gone, but landing those things is substantially easier, you know, they can never. No, not really. danger's gone, but landing those things is substantially easier. You know, they can never. No, not really.
Starting point is 00:53:07 It's still hard. Travis Pastrana, you know him, that guy is unbelievable. It's just people don't really have an interest for that kind of thing much anymore. It's just not, you know, with special effects, you watch movies now, people do things that can't even be done, and then you take a stunt that's really hard, oh, it doesn't look like anything compared to the special effects stunt. You know, when you watch-
Starting point is 00:53:30 But man, Max is still keeping it real. I haven't seen the new one, but they're all legit stunts, aren't they? Yeah, those are all legit stunts, but they're not outrageous. You know, when you watch some of these, like The Fast and the Furious, any movie where a guy's driving,
Starting point is 00:53:43 and I go, whoa! Okay, well first of all, you don't do it. We did it on my show. We watched some Fast and the Furious movies. And they do these crazy. We took just a regular Ford, two-door sedan, and we went off a ramp
Starting point is 00:54:00 at like five feet. Not even five feet. It went up, it went this high, it came down, the suspension, everything collapsed. It just broke. The idea that you could go off a bridge and, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, and then they keep driving. No.
Starting point is 00:54:16 But the Dukes are hazard. No, it's ridiculous. But they were real stunts though, the Dukes are hazard. The cars broke after every time. Every stunt the car broke. Right, but there was someone in there that had to land that, right? Not all the time. Sometimes they would shoot it. Well, that James Bond one where the car does the spiral.
Starting point is 00:54:33 That's the best stunt of them all. That's the good one. What, a car? Yeah, there's a ramp that goes like this and the car goes... and then it spirals and then it lands on the other side. Just one twist. You know, there was a very famous guy named Rue de Julian, the French guy. When you see the Italian job of those movies, or even the Bourne Identity, the stunts are real because somebody practices and does the stunt. So you really, when it comes down the stairs
Starting point is 00:54:59 of the Vatican, you're like, it's really coming down. I mean, the car has been specially prepared and heavy duty shocks and all that, you know, a regular car couldn't do it. But that's okay because the car is doing it. When you watch the Fast and the Furious, they're just so stupid. It comes out of a rocket in space and whatever. You catch someone on the hood of their car in the Totalify. Yeah, yeah, all of that, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:19 They open the door and they spin and then the person sits in the car. Yeah, yeah. Like that one there standing thing and they've gotten into the car. And at nine they go to space in a car. In One of the Mad Maxes there was a stunt man who became a quadriplegic from one of the stunts, right? And that stunt is still in the movie. And at his request he's like, I didn't become a quadriplegic for it not to be in the movie.
Starting point is 00:55:41 Yeah. Right. That's a good point. Please don't cut it out. I went to a lot the movie. Yeah. Right. That's a good point. Well, we should be. Please don't cut it out. I went to a lot of effort. Exactly. That's standing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:50 Do you know anything about the helmets, Jim? Yeah, you've got to wear those. No, no. Well, not everywhere. Don't have to. Not in every state. Not in every state. I think there's a couple states you don't have to wear.
Starting point is 00:56:01 In Australia, you have to wear them. A lot of the bikers were, the bikies were saying they didn't have to wear them anymore. It looks like Iowa, Illinois. Oh in Australia, putting a $300 helmet on a 10 cent head, that doesn't make a lot of sense. Iowa, Illinois and New Hampshire, you don't have to wear helmets. Rhode Island, you don't have to wear a helmet. Oh Ross, so maybe there's more, yeah, then just.
Starting point is 00:56:21 No, but what's your, do you think that's a freedom we should have, not to wear it? Well, I mean, it's like a seatbelt. I mean, it's become so second nature. It seems stupid not to. I mean, motorcycles now are so fast. I mean, you ride 80, 90, 100, 110, 120 on a motorcycle all the time now, so without a helmet,
Starting point is 00:56:44 you're like, jeez, I mean, you know, you can't see, you're squinting, you know. When you got a full face helmet on, it's like it makes the high speeds more practical and more comfortable. But there are some people that don't like to wear one. But if you ever need an organ donation, you wanna live in a state that doesn't have a helmet on
Starting point is 00:57:01 because you can get organs pretty cheaply. Well you can, you can. I mean, the number of people, the number of people fall off and are brain dead but are intact everywhere else. Yeah, organs are still good. Yeah, I mean yeah. When you're in the first race to fail you gotta move to like Rhode Island. If you are in a motorcycle accident, you get hit, what's the best thing to do? Go limp?
Starting point is 00:57:22 Or to brace yourself? It happens so quick, I don't know what. My last motorcycle accident, I was on Van Owen, and I went to turn around, and the guy had a wire across the parking lot. You got clothes? Yeah, and it go, and it tore my face right across here. And I had, it was my second face.
Starting point is 00:57:41 Remember, first face burned up in the fire. So they put on a new face there. Yeah. And then like two months later, I think, tore my face from here to here. I had to call my face guy. I need another face. So I went in. Thank you. He gave me another face. What was the wire across for? What was...
Starting point is 00:57:57 He didn't want people turning around in his parking lot. Holy shit. Oh, yeah. He proved his point. Yeah, I mean... Yeah, but luckily, I was only going about 15 miles an hour. If I had been doing 30 or 40, he probably would have been decapitated. I like that accident where the guy hits the car and he flips off and then he stands on the roof. Yeah. You ever seen that? Yeah. That one, every time I watch it, I'm like, it's not CGI, it's a real thing. It's like standing on the
Starting point is 00:58:22 roof is like going, what the fuck do I do now? Because now he's got the danger of his. Think about that we talked about motorcycle accidents versus a car accident. If you're in a car and that happened you go through a windshield you have glass in your face. Yeah, yeah. At least the motorcycle you're thrown clear unless you hit something. The worst happens is you slide along the road and you get some road rash. How many motorcycle accidents have you had? Probably three bad ones.
Starting point is 00:58:47 Probably three. I think I got- I remember all three of them. I got one crash left maybe and then that's it. I thought my last crash was the last one. I thought one I recovered so I'm okay. I was looking up some stuff today and I came across one of your tweets about an accident
Starting point is 00:59:02 but it was a joke. What was the joke? I think it was, I don't remember exactly, you said I was motorcycling near Tahoe, and I ran into Jeremy Renner's snow plow. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. So I looked at you. That's what I thought.
Starting point is 00:59:13 Oh, that was last year. Yeah, yeah, I was like, oh no, oh, okay. He's alright, Jeremy Renner, he's fine. You know, people ask me, I had my motorcycle accident, I came around the corner, I ran into the Germans. Yeah, yeah, that was it. That's right, yeah. People ask me how I had my motorcycle accident camera in the corner and ran to the drummers. Yeah. Yeah What was unique about the Harley Davidson's first motorcycle built it was just for women But the first one yeah, it says the first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1930 used it was called Harley. Says it used a tomato soup can for a carburetor.
Starting point is 00:59:48 Well, they always say things like that, but it might have been a piece of metal modified to a carburetor. Ah, I thought that was fun. That is fun. Maybe they just put the label on it. Yeah. The fastest a motorcycle has ever been driven,
Starting point is 00:59:59 do you know, Jay? 409? Yeah, this says, well this says the fastest one is the Dodge Tomahawk, 350 miles an hour, but maybe there was, yeah. I've seen the movie The Fastest Indian. Yeah. Does that count?
Starting point is 01:00:15 I don't know what that is. That's Burt Monroe, yeah. It was, what's his name, the guy, Anthony Hopkins. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fastest Indian. He played Burt Monroe, who was an Australian. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, he was interesting. I thought he was a New Zealander, was he? No, he was a New Zealander, yeah, yeah fastest Indian. He played Burt Monroe who was an Australian. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I think he was in New Zealand. It was New Zealand
Starting point is 01:00:27 Yeah, Burt Monroe My friends got his bike he took it I had 1922 Harley or 24 Harley and he's one of those just kind of genius guys and He made his own pistons He made his own pieces for this and he went to Bonneville with it and he wanted to race and first of all he was too old, he was in his 60s and they thought, look, let the old guy run his motorcycle,
Starting point is 01:00:56 he came all this way, they were kinda laughing at him and he broke all the records with his homemade motorcycle with pistons he made himself in his garage. Yeah, I it's a great it's a true story it's a fascinating story and yeah. There's nothing more to do in New Zealand he would have had plenty of time on his hands to make that I reckon. Back then. Yeah. He made a jet ski there too that's what they go up the rivers with in New Zealand you know it's so shallow. Well the jet ski engine I look if there's any if there's if there's any Extreme sport to be had the New Zealanders have figured it out. Yeah, these are the people
Starting point is 01:01:31 These are the people who invented bungee jumping now I wonder why that is gonna jump off this bridge because they've only got two TV channels. Yeah But why extreme and one of those channels is just showing sheep dogs. I'm serious, they round up cattle and they're all watching on TV. Like it's a real bloody thing. To this day, they're right into it. That's funny.
Starting point is 01:01:56 I, would you suggest, okay, if you're gonna take up riding a motorcycle. He already is, he's already into it. Not you, me, like if I was gonna do it. We've already said the thing about the gorilla thing. No, that was a bear. In America, in America. No, but that was a scooter.
Starting point is 01:02:12 I'm talking about motorcycle. And what is your question? I don't know, I've always wanted to, Forrest wants to be a motorcycle rider. I felt like it was gonna be too dangerous for me and I was worried, so I would have to. It would be. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:24 It's one of those things, you either think it's worth the risk or not. I mean, if you have an innate mechanical sense and you like those type of things, then it's fun. If you just say, I just want to do it to... No, that's probably not a good idea. I want to see you in a full leather outfit, top to bottom, just covered in a helmet under your arm. You know, I remember the comedian. I beat the traffic.
Starting point is 01:02:45 The great comedian. He actually passed away. He committed suicide. From New York. A rich Jenny. Rich and Jenny. Rich and Jenny. Great comic. But he called me once and he said, Jay, Jay, can I ask you about cars? Can I ask you about cars? I said, what's the best car to get girls? I said, I've had the same girl for 26 years. So Mine was a 55 Buick, but I don't recommend that. No, no, the girls like Corvettes. I
Starting point is 01:03:13 What do you like you? I want to know girls. I well, I don't know I I mean, I don't know Why don't you get what you like and maybe you find a woman that likes that as well. We had the most ridiculous conversation Yeah. Yeah, I think the girls who do like Corvettes are good to go. Girls like motorcycles. I'll tell you that. Yeah, but those kind of girls go, hit him again, Billy.
Starting point is 01:03:31 You know, those kind of girls. You know, you get those kind of girls. They want to see you fight the guy, you know. Hit him again, Billy. Oh, good. We've all missed you. The Beatles have missed you. I was in Las Vegas like three days ago,
Starting point is 01:03:44 and I was outside just sitting on a bench my friend outside this bar and these guys test had motorcycles and girls We just they came up it was like a talking point for him like oh start up your motorcycle And they sat on it and they like revved it for him and stuff They didn't go home is there a world where if you line up enough motorcycles in front of a place if someone's Escaping the bar and they tip over one motorcycle can they all fall like dominoes? I've seen that enough films is that factual? Yeah probably factual. Actually I've seen that happen at the rock store yeah. I'm at the rock store yeah. Yeah this says by the way just to clear that up the fastest motorcycle land speed record is 376.36 miles per hour by the ACOTEC
Starting point is 01:04:26 ACOTEC team over that is I don't know as a team I'm still focused on what okay, Kelly you're a girl. What car do you like? Well, let me ask you this I find most women find Jaguars attractive like the XKE Jaguar XK Well, actually I feel like my cars a douchey I got like a hellcat before that I had the Maserati I feel like I'm not getting well I've got a wife well to me the most the cars that have the biggest appeal, the ones that have both the masculine and the feminine side to them, the front will be curvaceous, and the rear will have haunches over the rear.
Starting point is 01:05:12 Almost like a muscular thing, like a shoulder. So that has a masculine rear end and a female front end. Like an XKE Jaguar, you've seen what they look like. Enzo Ferrari called that the most beautiful car in the world. And it was. And I've never met a woman that didn't go, oh, I like that, it'sKE Jaguar, you've seen what they look like. Enzo Ferrari called that the most beautiful car in the world. And it was, and I've never met a woman that didn't go, oh, I like that, that's a Jaguar. Even if they know nothing about cars
Starting point is 01:05:31 and care nothing about cars, there's something aesthetically pleasing about the feminine and masculine shape that it has. My experience has been with women that they like to drive SUVs. They like to drive four wheel drives because they like to sit high or something like that. Well, I think you feel protected in a car.
Starting point is 01:05:53 I mean, there's an illusion. All cars have a crash standard they have to meet. And to me, a smaller car is safer because you can stop shorter and you're less likely to hit something. If you have a big long car, well what you would miss in a small car your front end is sticking into the intersection now and you get hit, you know what I mean? So it's six one half of the other. You ever been on the back of a motorcycle Kelly? No. Oh you never done it?
Starting point is 01:06:21 Both my brothers and my dad ride but I'm terrified of motorcycles. Right, right. Because I always wonder whether... I'd have no issue if there was a girl riding a motorcycle and me getting on the back, but I know that there's still a sticking point for some men that they would have a problem with. Well, that's a problem. They're sticking their point in the back. That's right. I'd just get on the back and hug and hold on for dear life.
Starting point is 01:06:42 Alright, so... I don't like those motorcycles with two seats. That's a... That's a sidecar? No, the sidecar. I don't like those motorcycles with two seats. That's a... Is that a sidecar? No, the sidecar. I love the sidecar. Two fat ladies. Remember those two fat ladies that used to do... Oh, the cooking show, yeah. The cooking show. Those two fat...
Starting point is 01:06:53 Butter. Oh, the English girls. The two English ladies. Mad butter. Yeah, yeah. You wrap it in bacon. And they used to go in a sidecar. And I always liked the appeal.
Starting point is 01:07:03 And Indiana Jones had a sidecar in one of the movies where his father sat in there. I always liked the sidecar. The one that has the big seat at the front and then there's another padded seat at the back with a back on it. I feel like that's a motorcycle where a guy's really had to convince his wife that he's buying a motorcycle.
Starting point is 01:07:21 We can both use it. Yeah. When did the second start? It's for all of it. Yeah. When did that start? When did the sidecar start? Yeah, I like the fact that in that movie with Sean Conner, who was only eight years older than his son, Harrison Ford. Yeah. I had a sitcom that never saw the light of day, but Anthony La Paglia was going to play my dad, and he's only 10 years older. I was very happy with that. When did sidec cars come about?
Starting point is 01:07:45 Were those like right, was that part of the war? No, those came out of England. See in England, anything with less than four wheels did not have to pay the car tax. And the car tax was very expensive in England. So a motorcycle or a cycle car, which was popular, which would be a three wheel car like a Morgan, it wasn't a car, it wasn't a motorcycle,
Starting point is 01:08:05 it was a cycle car, but it didn't have to pay the road tax. Oh, that's the one that Mr. Bean always used to push out of the way. Right, right, right. And they used to tip over all the time. They'd lose their access every now and again. The three-wheeled car. And they have the other ones that you always see guys
Starting point is 01:08:20 driving in like Myrtle Beach. Oh, I didn't know that was. Two wheels in the front and one in the back, and they're always blasting music. I didn't know that was for a tax reason. The British in their taxes though, you know about the TV license. Yeah, it's so stupid.
Starting point is 01:08:34 You have to have a license to have a TV in Britain and everyone has to pay it. And there's these trucks that drive around the neighborhoods that had radars on them and they come up to your door and they're like you got a TV and you don't have a license right and so the TV license is like it's like a hundred quid or something and every that's what pays for the BBC right so you have so you get like two TV channels about eight radio channels and you get pretty good value for money but you have to pay it right can't opt out of this it would be
Starting point is 01:09:03 like stealing cable here Yeah, same thing when cable came in you paid 12 bucks a month or something But it is for regular channels and they come and also like how many TVs you have they they might try to charge you more We sense that there's many TVs in here. They're like vampires unless you invite them in they can't quite get you right You've got to keep them at a sort of a distance, but I've hid from the TV license people. Nice. Yeah, fuckin' hey.
Starting point is 01:09:28 I fuckin' seen him knock on the door, and I can see you, and I'm behind a couch. So I'm not getting a motorcycle, is what I've determined, I guess, is what you're talking about. You can get one of those three-wheeled ones. I was thinking of getting a Jayton, but I can't get it, though.
Starting point is 01:09:41 Did you ever see, did you ever see, did you ever see, like, Billy Connolly, right? Billy Connolly did a whole documentary where he toured Australia in a three wheeled motorcycle. Yeah. And he looked pretty cool in that one. In a three wheeled one? You always look cool in a motorcycle.
Starting point is 01:09:52 No, a three wheeled one though. That's a, it's an old man bike right there. Sidecar, put your dog in the sidecar. Put your dog in it? There's a car that'll get your pussy forest. Put your cute dog. I know, but if, yeah. But now imagine a circus
Starting point is 01:10:05 bear with a dog yeah you don't have to ring up Jay after the podcast and we which bikes best for girls right yeah so you put you put your cute dog goggles get them goggles yeah yeah yeah cute dog and then go is the bear and the dog why why would he have to go to the
Starting point is 01:10:23 doctor checkups I'll check up no this lot. Why would he have to go to the doctor? Because he's going to fall off the bike. Oh checkups. No this is the emergency room. You don't go to... Fine. Fed in the Fed-el. That's not... You don't go to your general practitioner. It does hurt when you fall. A little checkup at the ER. In my age it does hurt when you fall off.
Starting point is 01:10:38 My last credit, a broken collarbone, two broken ribs, two cracked kneecaps. Yeah, yeah. Okay. And then how long was the recovery? It's still going on. Yeah, it's still going on. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you don't want that forest.
Starting point is 01:10:51 Yeah, I can't wear this wire. You start with the motorcycle. Although I do want to see the outfit. I don't know, I don't know. I get the outfit. You get one of those leather ones that like strap up to your shoulder like that. It's pretty hot out right now.
Starting point is 01:11:05 It's the winner for that. Um, all right. Top motorcycle movies. I always find it weird when you see a motorcycle and they got the radio in there. How effective is that? That's got to be actually works pretty good. Actually. It doesn't just fly or the sound doesn't just go in.
Starting point is 01:11:16 No, because you got speakers here and they have speakers in the back and with the fairing, which is the big windshield and the speed. So there's a dead zone here. I mean you see people smoking cigarettes on motorcycles with a windshield because you have an area right here where there's no wind blowing. Best motorcycle movies? Yeah. Easy Rider? I also thought Easy Rider was a stupid movie. Oh yeah, I hated it too.
Starting point is 01:11:42 I didn't like it. The Wild Ones, Mylon Brando 1964. Well you know this one, there's an English one with Rita Tushingham, is that her name? Called the Leather Boys. And it takes place in the 50s when they had, you know, when everybody's in that rockabilly thing, you know. And I remember seeing it and not getting it, because two of the guys were gay, which you just didn't see in movies in the 50s except from England. You know, so I was like, what? Why these two guys hanging out?
Starting point is 01:12:14 I don't get it, I didn't understand what was going on. Because I was a kid, I was like, what, what? Made me laugh. Well there's a new one out too, the bike riders. Chips. I haven't seen bike riders. Chips brand now. Chips. I know the bike rider riders. Chips. That's brand new. Chips.
Starting point is 01:12:25 I know the bike rider is Elvis, isn't it, right? Yeah, Butler. Austin Butler, Tom Hardy. I haven't heard about it. I'm curious to see. I want to see what it looks like. Tom Hardy, he's a good actor. Elvis is all right.
Starting point is 01:12:39 He's handsome. You mentioned chips. What's the one thing they never did in the whole, what, seven, eight seasons of Chips? Mentioned that Eric Estrada was Latino. No, no. Did they jump anything? Never once fired their weapons.
Starting point is 01:12:54 Wow. And that's rare for an LA cop. I know, it's not funny. Well, they're higher patrol. But they never fired their guns in Chips. I played golf with the stump guy from chips. He was in rough shape. He was drinking at 6.30 in the morning out of a flask at Shoal Canyon, which is already a crappy golf course.
Starting point is 01:13:14 And he would just limp up there, and he had a weird swing. And he could say it OK. And then I found out, like halfway through the round, because we paired us up together, that he used to lay the bikes down on chips and they used to do it I guess on 170 when it was being built yeah that's right yeah that's what he said and he looked like a stunt guy from shift I was like I love your work I know all of your fault. Stunt people are in it whenever you're on set there's a stunt person it's
Starting point is 01:13:38 they literally fall into the job right and it's always weird because they've always got a relative my dad was a stunt man as well and my sister was a stunt woman and they always got a stunt family yeah stunt families yeah because there's no stunts I'm sure there there is some school but I don't know yeah there's a piece of trivia Bill Cosby starred the first black stunt men's association. He did a show called I Spy in the States with what was the name? Oh, Robert Culp. Robert Culp, Robert Culp.
Starting point is 01:14:11 And he played a tennis pro and he was his trainer. And they would take a white guy and put black face on him to do the stunts. And Cosby, the show was hugely popular. So he had the power to go, no, we're not doing that anymore, you're not dressing up a white guy. You have to hire a black guy to be a stuntman.
Starting point is 01:14:29 So, and then when Sydney Partier came along, he did it, and then that started the Black Stuntman Association. For all the things Cosby did bad, that's one of the good things he did. This is made up for all of it. Well, no, that's true. You can tell me what you want for the stuntman.
Starting point is 01:14:47 Yeah. And then the... Oh, you just said something and I forgot. Oh, the longest jump motorcycle. That would be Evel Knievel and that would be over a whole lot of buses in the Caesar's Palace car park. I don't know if he's the longest one. I don't know, but that was a good one.
Starting point is 01:15:04 That's what I'm saying because you've got the ones without the suspension with Evel Knievel. Well, there's a dirt bike he's the longest one. I don't know but that was a good I'll get them because that's what I'm saying cuz you got this the the ones without the suspension with evil Well, there's a dirt bike. There's the now these are the these are the ones now have a lot more spring to right right Alex Harville it says now holds the longest motorcycle ramp to dirt jump Who's the heavyweight champ of the world? Nobody cares anymore? I don't know I don't know the heavy to. It was Tyson Fury until the other day when he got beaten, who beat him? Did you ever interview Evil Knievel? I think I did, yeah.
Starting point is 01:15:33 I didn't care for him. No? Well, you know what it was, it just, he was a huge success. Yeah. He came out with that Evil Knievel stunt cycle toy. The toy, yeah, yeah. And I think he got a dollar for each one Yeah, and they sold like 15 or 20 million of them which was a lot of money in the 60s a lot of money
Starting point is 01:15:53 And then some guy wrote something nasty about him And he beat the crap out of them with a baseball bat and it cost and it cost him It was it was so objectively cruel and over the top that the judge just gave him everything Evil King Evil had. So you wind up, just stupid, you wind up broke. Really? I mean it's just. And in court he said, I did it and I'd do it again.
Starting point is 01:16:20 Did he? Yeah, he wasn't remorseful already. What? Oh my god. I guess so, I guess so. He sold over $125 million of the toy, even more. So it cost him, I think he had to give the rights to this guy. I mean, I'd get a guy, okay, you punch a guy in the face. Okay, really? You gotta cripple a guy?
Starting point is 01:16:38 Yeah. I mean, because he wrote something nasty about you? Please. Yeah, that would take up all me day He never if I look to the internet for every nasty thing written about me. I've got a kind of club another person to death My calendar is stacked. You wouldn't be here be out clubbing All day clubbing He's out clubbing. Oh, he likes music doesn't know clubbing Jack clears calendar for July. And it says he never, he never jumped the fountains of Caesar Palace.
Starting point is 01:17:10 No. Or the Grand Canyon. He's never going to jump the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon, he was strapped to a rocket. He was going to jump it. He was going to jump Snake River Canyon, I think. Oh, yeah. Snake River Canyon. Strapped to a rocket that went up and went boom, and then he parachuted down.
Starting point is 01:17:24 Yeah, yeah, it was not, uh. Yeah, you're right. Snake River Canyon and I had using a rocket powered cycle called the Sky Cycle X2. There's no cycle involved. He was just strapped to a rocket. Jump failed due to a parachute malfunction, but Knievel survived with minor injuries.
Starting point is 01:17:40 All right, I think I've asked all the questions on motorcycles for today. Well, the work you have done for us, it is unbelievable how much research... I don't feel it. I have learned so much this week about... You weren't supposed to learn anything. We weren't supposed to learn. No, I learned lots.
Starting point is 01:17:53 Do you remember the two stroke and the four stroke? Two stroke, four stroke? Yeah. What's the benefit of one over the other? Four stroke gets more, it's faster. Okay. Don't know. Well, no, two strokes are extremely fast and light, but they were just emissions, non-compliant.
Starting point is 01:18:13 I mean, there's no way you could. There's oils mixed with the gas. Two stroke is what my grandmother had. Okay. She did have two strokes. Oh, I see. No. She's been dead for a long time.
Starting point is 01:18:26 That's fine. She lived into her 90s. That's pretty good. Well, thanks for being here, Jay. Well, thanks, you guys. I know I have learned a lot. I thought I knew about motorcycles. Well, I have learned so many things here today.
Starting point is 01:18:41 I can imagine aficionados all over the world tuning in. We didn't promise you you're gonna learn anything. I can imagine aficionados all over the world tuning in to The amount of research and effort that you put into this is amazing Well, please don't we have like the curtain anymore. We have to do one of these a week We've run out of topics we're up to 200 and something topics, but this is a good one motorcycles. I learned about it, I didn't know any of this stuff. You are, I'm being honest we've had, okay people have doubled up, so we've had at least 150 experts, at least. Yeah. And you're the most knowledgeable out of any of them.
Starting point is 01:19:16 Oh, was I? I'm not saying that to suck up to you, I've known you for a while, but you know more. We've had doctors talking about medicine and they know less about medicine than you know about engines and stuff. And here's something you don't know. Well, maybe you know, but usually I do a pre-interview or when Kelly was in the back,
Starting point is 01:19:34 she would do the pre-interview and we go over the questions with the experts. Right. And at both times when I've said it, you're like, I don't wanna see him. So you never look at us. That's what I'm like. So you know the answers are looking.
Starting point is 01:19:44 We get the- We make it easier for you. I know, I mean, we give the So you never look at us. That's what I'm like. So you know the answers are looking that we get. What make it easier for you? No, I mean, we give the questions ahead of time to him. Just today, I was in the doctor's office and I was talking about something and and he was talking about his old phone. He goes, I had a motorola back in the day. This doctor was talking to me and I said, they've done to the car stereo motor roller. I was recalling stuff.
Starting point is 01:20:03 Oh, yeah. Oh, that's the Victrola. It was a motor Victrola, they call it motor roller. Yeah, because I was watching a documentary and the guy who invented the phone, he was the bloke, he made the, he went to ring AT&T for the first mobile phone call to say, from Motorola, to go, I've invented it, I'm talking on the street, right? He went to ring him and it was the wrong number.
Starting point is 01:20:25 So the first cell phone call was the wrong number where someone's like, who is this? Why, what? Well, we have a thing on this podcast too there. Yes. They call it dinner party facts, but and- Dinner party facts. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:20:39 And it's, we usually ask our expert to give some fact that's obscure, interesting about the topic so that if it came up like at a dinner party. All right, what's the topic? Motorcycles. Yeah, yeah. If you have anything that we haven't covered that would be like a weird, quirky fact or something like that.
Starting point is 01:20:56 Well, I find that people know nothing about motorcycles. Feel free to come up and give your advice. Like I was in a store one day, had my helmet. Guys, you got a motorcycle? Said, yeah Yeah, my brother-in-law thinks. Got his face sheared off. Drove head on into a threshing machine. Oh well thanks, appreciate it, thank you very much. Why the guy tell me that? I don't know. Also, you've got a motorcycle helmet, the implication is you got a motorcycle, right? You got a motorcycle, now I'm just robbing the place.
Starting point is 01:21:26 Exactly. Yeah. All right. Cool. I think that's it. Well, gentlemen, please. Thank you. Thank you. Is it at Jay Leno's garage on Instagram and YouTube? You can watch videos of Jay Leno's garage and there's always updates coming on Instagram. Sure. I'm on two episodes. You can check out.
Starting point is 01:21:46 Yeah, that's right. I almost had a car accident with Jay in the car. That's right. We were driving the most expensive Corvette ever made. It was a fully electric Corvette and they were just like turn here, turn there. And you know when you're in movie sets, this is like a little speaker in the car going, all right, boys, we're just behind you. Come and do this. Come and do that. There was like a follow car that was filming us and I forgot that we were on regular roads. They go, do a U-turn and I just swished around and we almost got T-boned, completely my fault. Oh man, I would have been in so much trouble.
Starting point is 01:22:14 I would have been known for that more than cutting control. I'll tell you that much. Also go and see Jay Leno live. You're gonna be, let me see who's coming up here. Scottsdale, Arizona, the Talking Stick Resort. Coming so high, you don't know where you're going? Wherever I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:22:32 You still logging in 300 shows a year? No, not 300. You do a lot of stuff around LA too, but there's a lot of stuff on the road as well. Go check out Jay live. I decided the other night at Flappers. What's Larry's. Yeah, just go check them out. Thanks a lot Well, mr. Leno, what a pleasure to have you. Thank you gentlemen. Thank you. Thank you Kelly. Appreciate it We'll give Kelly her first ride on bike
Starting point is 01:22:57 Yeah, come on first ride on a bike come on you got an offer from Jay Leno, he's still scared Your brother's a cop who rides a motorcycle, so he should be pretty good. He's a sheriff in West Hollywood. He's a reserve. Oh, okay. Ladies and gentlemen, if you ever find yourself at a party and someone walks up to you and goes, I've got a six-stroke motorcycle, go, well, I don't know about that, and walk away. Goodnight Australia.

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