Mario Lopez talks about getting to take his dad to Jay Leno's garage and how amazing Jay's car collection is! The Mario is joined by Jay to talk about his CNBC show "Jay Leno's Garage", guest judging America's got talent, doing stand up and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Mario Lopez here alone my producers Fraser and Nichols.
Another episode of listening to Mario gonna be talking with
the very funny Jay Leno in a bit. He is
popping up as a guest judge on America's Got Talent,
still doing stand up comedy, and he's about to premiere
a new season of Jay Leno's Garage over on c NBC.
But before j joins us, I thought i'd tell you
(00:22):
about the first time I met Ja, which was nineteen
ninety one, my senior year of high school. He was
filling in for Johnny Carson every Monday night. At that point,
he used to be a um guest host whenever Johnny
was sick or out of town, but he feeled he
got to the point where he was every Monday. It
(00:44):
was consistent. And the cool thing about Jay is a
kid that I that was so fascinating is hit the
Tonight Show used to be right next door to say
by the belt. Literally, I would see Johnny Carson and
his underwear changing all the time I met him in
his underwear just as Yeah, that's a super cool. Another
story for a day, but another day. Anyway, we're right
next to each other Stage nine, and I used to
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look forward to see what car J would pull up in.
So even then he was he showed up in a
different car every week, and I'm talking a different car,
so it was kind of cool to see what car
he pulled up in. Interesting, and they were always like
I mean, he one time showed up in a fire engine.
I'm not lying. It was like the one It was
the first fire engine truck ever, but back in the day,
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the fire engine trucks were not much bigger than SUVs,
so but it was. It was a fire engine truck
and he had it from nineteen whatever. And he showed
up and then all these old cool um Mustang Cobras
and and Bugatti's and all these exotic cars. So he's
been passionate about cars for years. And he also because
I remember asking Wow, Jay, and he was making and
(01:52):
this was public knowledge. But I remember as guest host
every Monday night back in early nineties, a hundred thousand
every Monday, Wow one day week. Okay, that was the
top show. I remember Jon And and uh, he doesn't
have any kids. In all his disposable income, he would
pretty much invest in cars. Well that's what I was
going to ask, is like, one, you know, I know
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he was doing stand up and stuff, but he wasn't
really on TV other than that on a regular basis
a week. No, I know, but that's what I was
saying that It kind of answered the question was like
where did the money come from to buy all these
cars that he was getting? But but he was a
pretty successful comic already, and as we know this successful
stand up comedians make pretty good money, make really good money.
Wasn't he also? And he was in a movie where
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he played like a cop. It was like a buddy
cop movie that at Marita that was back in the day. Yes, yes, yes,
I didn't catch that collision coursel it wow with Pat Marina.
He was always very cool, very very nice, and he
always wore a denim shirt with denim pants. He still
(02:54):
pretty much does that Canadian tuxedo, which became sort of
his uniform, and he still does that. It's very easy
every day, one less thing to to think about. But anyway,
he's always had a passion for cars, and I've always
liked cars because my dad uh is obsessed with cars.
It's his side hobby. He's There was never not a
time when there was a car in our yard that
he wasn't working on or fixing. And by the way
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that he still to this day. He's selling this old
pickup that he got. But he was always into my
dad's Chevy's and Mustangs, all the muscle cars, and he
enjoyed doing all the work on them, install of doing
My first car was sixty six mustand that cost bucks
and my dad tricked it out. It was great and
had four Mustangs in row. I wrecked the second one
and trying to beat curfew and hit the wall. Yeah,
(03:37):
the second I remember, cost was more expensive, but it
was a convertible. Can imagine, you know, and he uh,
and they're fixing everything because those those cars are much
easier to work on too. Well, now everything's got computers
and it's more electronic and and back then, like even
I remember growing up and my dad would do everything
to fix the car, like you know, instead of taking
the car to get a service somewhere, he did everything himself. Yeah,
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now you have to take it. You can't have no
idea what you're doing if you if you have a
modern car. And Jay was always cool, always had a
passion for cars. My dad a huge car guy, and
I had the opportunity to take him to Jay's garage.
Now they call it a garage, but he literally has
an airport hangar at the Burbank Airport, two hangars. As
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a matter of fact, cut to Jay hosted the Tonight
Show for many many years, obviously made millions and millions
of dollars, continue to invest his disposable income in these cars,
and he has pretty much every car you can think
of of any sort of value. We're talking the first
model T that was ever made. I think I've seen
him driving that around l A. Yeah, if you if
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you live or ever around the Burbank area. Uh, he
cruises all those cars around. He's not going to everybody,
he's he's really cool. So those are his babies. But
it is so incredibly impressive. And I've always appreciated I
like cars, but not like my dad. He's passionate and
nut about it. So it was so cool to take him.
And Jay was there and showed us around, gave us
a tour, and man, he has such a vast knowledge
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of just automobiles in the history and and every car
has a story. And he's got the first batmobile that
Adam West drove. Please tell me he drives that around.
Oh my god, I haven't seen him, but I hope
he does. I hope he does. But a lot of
first the first day is the first that he's got
the first million dollar car, the Bugatti. That he's literally
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got a car that's a million dollars. He's got a
bunch of cars that are a million dollars in the
whole garage. So it's so he's obviously got security. Seven.
I can't even imagine what the value is in this anger.
I would guess they're also not just parked next to
each other. They're probably set up in like really cool situations.
And this is cool. I buried the headline. So when
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I went there, Um who was showing up as we
were getting ready to leave. Mario Andretti, Yeah, rolling through
in a Ferrari. And he happened to have the Ferrari,
so his buddy is with all these cars, people are
people and rolling through in the in the Ferrari, and
so it was really neat, uh to go and get
and to hang out there. How much time did you
actually spend there, because I would imagine your dad probably
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didn't want to leave. No, we were there a few
hours since I had to drag him. But but it
was cool. I I really enjoyed him. Was what were
the cars that your dad kind of freaked out over.
He's a big muscle car guy, so all the muscle cars.
I appreciate the other ones, but he loved all the
muscle Jay let him drive anything? No, no, no no, Jay,
let me drive the Ferrari. You have to go around
the block pretty too much power. It's like, I don't
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even want that responsibility. So, because you mentioned he doesn't
actually have kids, what's gonna happen to all these cars
when he's gone. I think it's gonna be a museum.
So I think it is going to be a museum.
I think it is going to be a museum, and
he's donating it to the city, um from what I hear. Uh,
And it's the city's game because it's again so cool
and there's so much history. Aari dot com to see
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picks of our visit to Jay's garage. And let's get
to the man himself, Mr Jay Leno Mai al right
on the phone. Let's welcome Jay Leno to the podcast.
Mar Jay Mario, what's going on? Nice to talk to you.
Nice to talk to you. To my dad, I gotta
tell you right off the bat, the highlight of his
life was going to your garage. When we went there
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and had well, it's basically a museum. It's so so cool.
He always brings it up, always wants to know when
we're gonna go back. But not so funny for most
guys the birth of their son. But I just like
the fact that I just like to back up my
garage anything you've ever I think I rank a strong second.
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But he's a huge car guy, shares the same passion.
So thank you again for allowing us. I was a
lot of fun. That was fun. It was great fun.
It was in fact, he said he loved Jay's garage,
but he's never told you that he loves you. Yeah,
that's true. That's true. So we're getting deep now. Um,
so your guest judge on Americans Got Talent this week?
(07:55):
You having fun sitting at that table. You know, I
really liked it. It was pretty cool. Um and the
fun part. You know, my biggest fear wasn't oh, I
don't want to have to trash them. Act is not
very good. But I was in the champions theories, so
everybody was really good. And the really cool part was
with the really young performers because see what I did
(08:17):
the tonight, Joe. I saw everybody when they were polished,
they had the handlers, they had the parents, the stage parents,
they were dressed perfectly, they had pr People kind of
want to say, these are kids literally just off the
streets to come to the studio and the audition, and
you just see the raw talent, and that's what that's
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what we're really fascinating to me just to see them
acting like kids, but they had an incredible talent. You know,
a lot of times you get these kids that are
they're just like miniature adults. You know, they've been sort
of uh you know, like when you watched those uh,
those beauty contestant shows that the little kids, you know,
how creepy they are. That's but that's not the case here.
(08:58):
These are just you know, their mom dad have regular
jobs at teachers or whatever, secretaries or whatever, and they
bring their kids in. The kid does the thing, Oh
my god, look at that. Our kids could be a
star someday. You know. So that's that was really fascinating
part that, Yeah, I gotta imagine that's super cool. And
did you find yourself judging the comics harder because of
your background? No, actually, I find myself it's completely the opposite.
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It was the one area where I felt I had
a little bit of expertise. I mean, I'm not a
music guy. I'm not a performer, so I'm not sure
what all the tricks and music are when you're a comic.
You know the tricks, you know, you know, comics waste time. Hey,
how's everybody doing? Really cool? You know? Okay, okay, you're
just wasting time. Get to the joke for you, you know.
(09:42):
So so No, it was actually the exact opposite. Very cool,
very cool, And and um, who's the toughest judge on
the panel? Would you say? Who is the you know,
everybody was, you know, they were all sort of seasoned veterans.
I was the first time doing it. I mean, obviously
i'man he sort of the elite guy, although he seems
(10:03):
to have mellowed in recent years, and I think since
the sin he became a dad all of a sudden. Others,
you know, it's just very funny for some compassion. Yeah, yeah,
a little bit. Yeah, I don't want to go local boards,
but yeah, enough to enough to qualify as human. Yeah.
So Jay, we were talking about your garage earlier and
they can't believe it's already season five of Jay Lenos Garage,
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which is premiering that doing well, that's where on And
we've got a lot of big stars and got Martha Stewart, Travolta,
Billy Joel, Keith, Keith Urban, just a lot of people.
So and the fun part is that it's kind of
like stars call they go, hey, can I be on
a garage show? Sometimes? Yeah, that'd be fun because they
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know we're just seeing to talk about cars and their
influence and what you like and we and so consequently
the stars come with no pr people, they come by themselves.
You know, we just didn't seal he was fabulous. Uh,
it was really fun talking with him. Um, yeah, it's great.
I have a lot of fun. And are you always
looking to pick up something new? Because I know you
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have over three something cars? Are you still shopping or
it's just if you happen to come across it now
you just have in the come across. I mean it's
it's I buy the story as much as I buy
the car. You know, a car with a good story
is is is one of those deals you know that
that you know, like a car, it's been in the
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family of the whole life. You know. We did an
episode of the Car my Father Drove, and people just
came on and talked about the car the father drove.
And like Paul Allen, who just sadly passed away, the
Microsoft multi multi billionaire, well he bought a seventy three
Buick electro because that's what his dad had when he
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was a kid. And he gets he got such joy
for this thing. It's kind of like like um Rosebud,
you know from the Citizen Kane movie. He's sled. You know,
he's got everything in the world, but he wants and
and that's what's kind of fun. You know, you're talking
to your celebrities and oh it's the car they went
and they got ice cream with their dad when they
were a kid. And you know, especially uh celebrities from
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my generation where even going for some Sunday drive was
a huge deal, you know, like that was anybody will
go for a drive. Hello, we get the ride in
a car that's unbelievable. You know, now in l A
you're just so sick of riding a card and you
go crazy. But when I was think, kid was like
a huge deal. The pilot car and go right to
name or whatever it might be, you know, and then
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so that that's the fun part. Martha Stu was great.
She had at et Fel station wagon and she was hilarious.
She was like a teenage girl. That's great. What was
the very first car you bought on your own? My
first car was a thirty four Ford pickup truck. I
bought it from a gas station and we dragged it home.
And I was fourteen, and my dad says, you got
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two years to get it running before you get your license.
Good luck, you know. And that's you worked on it
every day, you know. So it was that's what people
did before Netflix, you know, exactly. So that's my dad,
That's what my d I grew up. There was always
a car in the year. He was fixing on it
all class. My first car was sixties six must My
first three cars were Mustangs, doesn't matter. All my dad
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put together about it for bucks, put it together and
to fix it up and looked awesome afterwards. And he
had then I remembers I had We actually had a convertible,
but it was thrash, fixed it up, cherried it out
and look great, I'll give right now. And Jay, I
love that you're still doing a lot of stand up
and your constant on the road, which is awesome. What
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do you like talking about on stage currently? In in
do you find yourself having to to censor yourself because
of the way things are now? No, you don't have
to set to yourself the waste things are you just right?
You write to your audience, you know, I mean, comedy
constantly evolves. Whatever topics were popular, it's twenty years ago.
I'm not popular now. It's really just adapting to the
(14:00):
social situation. I mean, that's what comedy is. You either
involved or you die. You know, you go out there
and you know, if you're still talking about Reagan's trip
to Pittsburgh, okay, that's not politics anymore. Somebody knows you
talking about you know, it's just just it's just a
matter of updating whatever it might be, which I think
(14:20):
is progress. Yeah. And then, uh, do you keep up
with any of the late shows? Still there? Oh? Sure? Yeah? Yeah,
I'm not dead and I still love a TV. I'm
not your grandfather. You ever watch the most late night? Oh? No?
Grow I'm in bed by. You can't imagine. Well I have.
That's why I have. No. I mean, I watch them all.
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I think they're all great. I mean, it's it's hard
when I mean, we live in an hour row ever,
where all the jokes now are about the same subject,
you know, and that makes it a little tricky. But hey,
that's that's what the news is. That's that's what makes
fun of exactly. Do you ever watch and think I
could have done that better? No, I don't think that.
(15:07):
I don't think that. Um, although I were watching though,
Oh here's a funny tag for that, or oh yeah,
I think you know. I mean, when you hear a
joke and inspires you to write a joke, when you
hear something funny, Mike, when Simesfeld and I talked on
the phone, we each come away with something we can
use because you work as amused to one another, you know,
(15:28):
you're both comics. That you're talking and Jerry's telling me
a funny story and then you throw something in and
he laughed and can I have that? Oh yeah, yeah,
put that in if you know that, and then he'll
I'll do I'll Jerry, you just said, can I use
that okay, and and and that's that's kind of how
you write. You know, people think comedians sit down and
write with a pencil and paper. You don't. I'm dyslexics.
I don't write at all. It usually comes from just
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talking with people and and and material comes out of that.
You know, So cool, so cool, that's fascinating. Um, Jay,
thank you so much for taking the time to call.
Really enjoyed catching up with you and everyone. Please watch
a g T Tuesday on NBC. You tell your dad
thanks a liking me more than I will. I will
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definitely tell them that. Don't forget to follow Jay on
Instagram at NBC j Leno, thank you so much again
for calling in. Hey, take care bye bye, take care.
So don't forget a new episodes and listen to Mario
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(16:32):
Apple Podcasts or wherever you get podcasts. More fun next week.
Thank you so much for listening
All right, Mario Lopez here alone my producers Fraser and Nichols.
Another episode of listening to Mario gonna be talking with
the very funny Jay Leno in a bit. He is
popping up as a guest judge on America's Got Talent,
still doing stand up comedy, and he's about to premiere
a new season of Jay Leno's Garage over on c NBC.
But before j joins us, I thought i'd tell you
(00:22):
about the first time I met Ja, which was nineteen
ninety one, my senior year of high school. He was
filling in for Johnny Carson every Monday night. At that point,
he used to be a um guest host whenever Johnny
was sick or out of town, but he feeled he
got to the point where he was every Monday. It
(00:44):
was consistent. And the cool thing about Jay is a
kid that I that was so fascinating is hit the
Tonight Show used to be right next door to say
by the belt. Literally, I would see Johnny Carson and
his underwear changing all the time I met him in
his underwear just as Yeah, that's a super cool. Another
story for a day, but another day. Anyway, we're right
next to each other Stage nine, and I used to
(01:05):
look forward to see what car J would pull up in.
So even then he was he showed up in a
different car every week, and I'm talking a different car,
so it was kind of cool to see what car
he pulled up in. Interesting, and they were always like
I mean, he one time showed up in a fire engine.
I'm not lying. It was like the one It was
the first fire engine truck ever, but back in the day,
(01:30):
the fire engine trucks were not much bigger than SUVs,
so but it was. It was a fire engine truck
and he had it from nineteen whatever. And he showed
up and then all these old cool um Mustang Cobras
and and Bugatti's and all these exotic cars. So he's
been passionate about cars for years. And he also because
I remember asking Wow, Jay, and he was making and
(01:52):
this was public knowledge. But I remember as guest host
every Monday night back in early nineties, a hundred thousand
every Monday, Wow one day week. Okay, that was the
top show. I remember Jon And and uh, he doesn't
have any kids. In all his disposable income, he would
pretty much invest in cars. Well that's what I was
going to ask, is like, one, you know, I know
(02:12):
he was doing stand up and stuff, but he wasn't
really on TV other than that on a regular basis
a week. No, I know, but that's what I was
saying that It kind of answered the question was like
where did the money come from to buy all these
cars that he was getting? But but he was a
pretty successful comic already, and as we know this successful
stand up comedians make pretty good money, make really good money.
Wasn't he also? And he was in a movie where
(02:33):
he played like a cop. It was like a buddy
cop movie that at Marita that was back in the day. Yes, yes, yes,
I didn't catch that collision coursel it wow with Pat Marina.
He was always very cool, very very nice, and he
always wore a denim shirt with denim pants. He still
(02:54):
pretty much does that Canadian tuxedo, which became sort of
his uniform, and he still does that. It's very easy
every day, one less thing to to think about. But anyway,
he's always had a passion for cars, and I've always
liked cars because my dad uh is obsessed with cars.
It's his side hobby. He's There was never not a
time when there was a car in our yard that
he wasn't working on or fixing. And by the way
(03:16):
that he still to this day. He's selling this old
pickup that he got. But he was always into my
dad's Chevy's and Mustangs, all the muscle cars, and he
enjoyed doing all the work on them, install of doing
My first car was sixty six mustand that cost bucks
and my dad tricked it out. It was great and
had four Mustangs in row. I wrecked the second one
and trying to beat curfew and hit the wall. Yeah,
(03:37):
the second I remember, cost was more expensive, but it
was a convertible. Can imagine, you know, and he uh,
and they're fixing everything because those those cars are much
easier to work on too. Well, now everything's got computers
and it's more electronic and and back then, like even
I remember growing up and my dad would do everything
to fix the car, like you know, instead of taking
the car to get a service somewhere, he did everything himself. Yeah,
(03:59):
now you have to take it. You can't have no
idea what you're doing if you if you have a
modern car. And Jay was always cool, always had a
passion for cars. My dad a huge car guy, and
I had the opportunity to take him to Jay's garage.
Now they call it a garage, but he literally has
an airport hangar at the Burbank Airport, two hangars. As
(04:21):
a matter of fact, cut to Jay hosted the Tonight
Show for many many years, obviously made millions and millions
of dollars, continue to invest his disposable income in these cars,
and he has pretty much every car you can think
of of any sort of value. We're talking the first
model T that was ever made. I think I've seen
him driving that around l A. Yeah, if you if
(04:42):
you live or ever around the Burbank area. Uh, he
cruises all those cars around. He's not going to everybody,
he's he's really cool. So those are his babies. But
it is so incredibly impressive. And I've always appreciated I
like cars, but not like my dad. He's passionate and
nut about it. So it was so cool to take him.
And Jay was there and showed us around, gave us
a tour, and man, he has such a vast knowledge
(05:05):
of just automobiles in the history and and every car
has a story. And he's got the first batmobile that
Adam West drove. Please tell me he drives that around.
Oh my god, I haven't seen him, but I hope
he does. I hope he does. But a lot of
first the first day is the first that he's got
the first million dollar car, the Bugatti. That he's literally
(05:27):
got a car that's a million dollars. He's got a
bunch of cars that are a million dollars in the
whole garage. So it's so he's obviously got security. Seven.
I can't even imagine what the value is in this anger.
I would guess they're also not just parked next to
each other. They're probably set up in like really cool situations.
And this is cool. I buried the headline. So when
(05:47):
I went there, Um who was showing up as we
were getting ready to leave. Mario Andretti, Yeah, rolling through
in a Ferrari. And he happened to have the Ferrari,
so his buddy is with all these cars, people are
people and rolling through in the in the Ferrari, and
so it was really neat, uh to go and get
and to hang out there. How much time did you
actually spend there, because I would imagine your dad probably
(06:08):
didn't want to leave. No, we were there a few
hours since I had to drag him. But but it
was cool. I I really enjoyed him. Was what were
the cars that your dad kind of freaked out over.
He's a big muscle car guy, so all the muscle cars.
I appreciate the other ones, but he loved all the
muscle Jay let him drive anything? No, no, no no, Jay,
let me drive the Ferrari. You have to go around
the block pretty too much power. It's like, I don't
(06:31):
even want that responsibility. So, because you mentioned he doesn't
actually have kids, what's gonna happen to all these cars
when he's gone. I think it's gonna be a museum.
So I think it is going to be a museum.
I think it is going to be a museum, and
he's donating it to the city, um from what I hear. Uh,
And it's the city's game because it's again so cool
and there's so much history. Aari dot com to see
(06:53):
picks of our visit to Jay's garage. And let's get
to the man himself, Mr Jay Leno Mai al right
on the phone. Let's welcome Jay Leno to the podcast.
Mar Jay Mario, what's going on? Nice to talk to you.
Nice to talk to you. To my dad, I gotta
tell you right off the bat, the highlight of his
life was going to your garage. When we went there
(07:14):
and had well, it's basically a museum. It's so so cool.
He always brings it up, always wants to know when
we're gonna go back. But not so funny for most
guys the birth of their son. But I just like
the fact that I just like to back up my
garage anything you've ever I think I rank a strong second.
(07:35):
But he's a huge car guy, shares the same passion.
So thank you again for allowing us. I was a
lot of fun. That was fun. It was great fun.
It was in fact, he said he loved Jay's garage,
but he's never told you that he loves you. Yeah,
that's true. That's true. So we're getting deep now. Um,
so your guest judge on Americans Got Talent this week?
(07:55):
You having fun sitting at that table. You know, I
really liked it. It was pretty cool. Um and the
fun part. You know, my biggest fear wasn't oh, I
don't want to have to trash them. Act is not
very good. But I was in the champions theories, so
everybody was really good. And the really cool part was
with the really young performers because see what I did
(08:17):
the tonight, Joe. I saw everybody when they were polished,
they had the handlers, they had the parents, the stage parents,
they were dressed perfectly, they had pr People kind of
want to say, these are kids literally just off the
streets to come to the studio and the audition, and
you just see the raw talent, and that's what that's
(08:37):
what we're really fascinating to me just to see them
acting like kids, but they had an incredible talent. You know,
a lot of times you get these kids that are
they're just like miniature adults. You know, they've been sort
of uh you know, like when you watched those uh,
those beauty contestant shows that the little kids, you know,
how creepy they are. That's but that's not the case here.
(08:58):
These are just you know, their mom dad have regular
jobs at teachers or whatever, secretaries or whatever, and they
bring their kids in. The kid does the thing, Oh
my god, look at that. Our kids could be a
star someday. You know. So that's that was really fascinating
part that, Yeah, I gotta imagine that's super cool. And
did you find yourself judging the comics harder because of
your background? No, actually, I find myself it's completely the opposite.
(09:20):
It was the one area where I felt I had
a little bit of expertise. I mean, I'm not a
music guy. I'm not a performer, so I'm not sure
what all the tricks and music are when you're a comic.
You know the tricks, you know, you know, comics waste time. Hey,
how's everybody doing? Really cool? You know? Okay, okay, you're
just wasting time. Get to the joke for you, you know.
(09:42):
So so No, it was actually the exact opposite. Very cool,
very cool, And and um, who's the toughest judge on
the panel? Would you say? Who is the you know,
everybody was, you know, they were all sort of seasoned veterans.
I was the first time doing it. I mean, obviously
i'man he sort of the elite guy, although he seems
(10:03):
to have mellowed in recent years, and I think since
the sin he became a dad all of a sudden. Others,
you know, it's just very funny for some compassion. Yeah, yeah,
a little bit. Yeah, I don't want to go local boards,
but yeah, enough to enough to qualify as human. Yeah.
So Jay, we were talking about your garage earlier and
they can't believe it's already season five of Jay Lenos Garage,
(10:26):
which is premiering that doing well, that's where on And
we've got a lot of big stars and got Martha Stewart, Travolta,
Billy Joel, Keith, Keith Urban, just a lot of people.
So and the fun part is that it's kind of
like stars call they go, hey, can I be on
a garage show? Sometimes? Yeah, that'd be fun because they
(10:46):
know we're just seeing to talk about cars and their
influence and what you like and we and so consequently
the stars come with no pr people, they come by themselves.
You know, we just didn't seal he was fabulous. Uh,
it was really fun talking with him. Um, yeah, it's great.
I have a lot of fun. And are you always
looking to pick up something new? Because I know you
(11:08):
have over three something cars? Are you still shopping or
it's just if you happen to come across it now
you just have in the come across. I mean it's
it's I buy the story as much as I buy
the car. You know, a car with a good story
is is is one of those deals you know that
that you know, like a car, it's been in the
(11:28):
family of the whole life. You know. We did an
episode of the Car my Father Drove, and people just
came on and talked about the car the father drove.
And like Paul Allen, who just sadly passed away, the
Microsoft multi multi billionaire, well he bought a seventy three
Buick electro because that's what his dad had when he
(11:48):
was a kid. And he gets he got such joy
for this thing. It's kind of like like um Rosebud,
you know from the Citizen Kane movie. He's sled. You know,
he's got everything in the world, but he wants and
and that's what's kind of fun. You know, you're talking
to your celebrities and oh it's the car they went
and they got ice cream with their dad when they
were a kid. And you know, especially uh celebrities from
(12:11):
my generation where even going for some Sunday drive was
a huge deal, you know, like that was anybody will
go for a drive. Hello, we get the ride in
a car that's unbelievable. You know, now in l A
you're just so sick of riding a card and you
go crazy. But when I was think, kid was like
a huge deal. The pilot car and go right to
name or whatever it might be, you know, and then
(12:31):
so that that's the fun part. Martha Stu was great.
She had at et Fel station wagon and she was hilarious.
She was like a teenage girl. That's great. What was
the very first car you bought on your own? My
first car was a thirty four Ford pickup truck. I
bought it from a gas station and we dragged it home.
And I was fourteen, and my dad says, you got
(12:53):
two years to get it running before you get your license.
Good luck, you know. And that's you worked on it
every day, you know. So it was that's what people
did before Netflix, you know, exactly. So that's my dad,
That's what my d I grew up. There was always
a car in the year. He was fixing on it
all class. My first car was sixties six must My
first three cars were Mustangs, doesn't matter. All my dad
(13:15):
put together about it for bucks, put it together and
to fix it up and looked awesome afterwards. And he
had then I remembers I had We actually had a convertible,
but it was thrash, fixed it up, cherried it out
and look great, I'll give right now. And Jay, I
love that you're still doing a lot of stand up
and your constant on the road, which is awesome. What
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do you like talking about on stage currently? In in
do you find yourself having to to censor yourself because
of the way things are now? No, you don't have
to set to yourself the waste things are you just right?
You write to your audience, you know, I mean, comedy
constantly evolves. Whatever topics were popular, it's twenty years ago.
I'm not popular now. It's really just adapting to the
(14:00):
social situation. I mean, that's what comedy is. You either
involved or you die. You know, you go out there
and you know, if you're still talking about Reagan's trip
to Pittsburgh, okay, that's not politics anymore. Somebody knows you
talking about you know, it's just just it's just a
matter of updating whatever it might be, which I think
(14:20):
is progress. Yeah. And then, uh, do you keep up
with any of the late shows? Still there? Oh? Sure? Yeah? Yeah,
I'm not dead and I still love a TV. I'm
not your grandfather. You ever watch the most late night? Oh? No?
Grow I'm in bed by. You can't imagine. Well I have.
That's why I have. No. I mean, I watch them all.
(14:45):
I think they're all great. I mean, it's it's hard
when I mean, we live in an hour row ever,
where all the jokes now are about the same subject,
you know, and that makes it a little tricky. But hey,
that's that's what the news is. That's that's what makes
fun of exactly. Do you ever watch and think I
could have done that better? No, I don't think that.
(15:07):
I don't think that. Um, although I were watching though,
Oh here's a funny tag for that, or oh yeah,
I think you know. I mean, when you hear a
joke and inspires you to write a joke, when you
hear something funny, Mike, when Simesfeld and I talked on
the phone, we each come away with something we can
use because you work as amused to one another, you know,
(15:28):
you're both comics. That you're talking and Jerry's telling me
a funny story and then you throw something in and
he laughed and can I have that? Oh yeah, yeah,
put that in if you know that, and then he'll
I'll do I'll Jerry, you just said, can I use
that okay, and and and that's that's kind of how
you write. You know, people think comedians sit down and
write with a pencil and paper. You don't. I'm dyslexics.
I don't write at all. It usually comes from just
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talking with people and and and material comes out of that.
You know, So cool, so cool, that's fascinating. Um, Jay,
thank you so much for taking the time to call.
Really enjoyed catching up with you and everyone. Please watch
a g T Tuesday on NBC. You tell your dad
thanks a liking me more than I will. I will
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definitely tell them that. Don't forget to follow Jay on
Instagram at NBC j Leno, thank you so much again
for calling in. Hey, take care bye bye, take care.
So don't forget a new episodes and listen to Mario
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