06x05 - True Grit

[bunniefuu]

[motor humming]

you look like my
old mechanic in my car.

[jay]
that's right.

I am an old mechanic
in your car.

[laughing]

oh, you look like phil,
my old mechanic.

I gotta check on him.

[motors revving]

[jay]
tonight on jay leno's garage...

Hey!

Some punk in a green porsche!

...We find out the true meaning
of true grit!

-Jay, come on.
-I'm trying!

We'll meet some
problem solvers...

[tiffany]
the water tank had busted,

but then I had got a milk jug,

and I had filled
that up with water.

[jay]
...And get to know
some go-getters.

But, you did it all, waiter.

Shoe salesman.

People would
bring up the left shoe,

and I'd have to go to the back
and get the right shoe.

[jay]
we'll learn to make
a few sacrifices...

-Yeah, welcome.
-And there's no bathroom

-in yours, right?
-Well, I got a bottle.

Oh, you got the bottle.

[alex]
it's a very simple bathroom

and no cleanup required.

[bert]
oh, my god.

[jay]
...And always take
the high road...

To be doing a bong hit

when rolling stone magazine
called my apartment,

and the journalist go,

"so, I think I found
the right kid."

[jay]
...To wish your
loved ones well.



Grandma, I'd like
to talk to you,

but I gotta drive right now.

It's gonna take
everything we've got!

-Let's go!
-This is so exciting.

I feel like I'm a stunt driver.

-Get your bearings straight...
-I feel like I'm getting

high off the fumes.

[jay]
...And get ready
for one heck of a ride!

[laughing]

[motors humming]

[birds chirping]

[jay]
welcome to the episode
of this is your automotive life.

Today we're featuring

emmy award-winning comedy star,
tiffany haddish.

-Hey, welcome, welcome!
-Hey!

[jay]
and fellow stand-up!

Yes, yes!

[jay]
if having true grit
means toughing it out,

then tiffany haddish
definitely has the goods.

Tiffany actually
lived out of her car

before winning a grammy
for her comedy album,

black mitzvah,

and an emmy for hosting
Saturday night live.

We have three vehicles here,

and we wanna see if
you can identify them.

Each one of these

has played, or could play,
or will play

a part in your automotive life.

Tiffany haddish,
this is your automotive life.

[theatrical music]

[tiffany]
so, is this like a version
of this is your life?

But this is your

-automotive life.
-Exa--boy, you catch on

so quickly, that is right, yeah.

How you were able
to put that together.

[tiffany]
because I used to watch tv
back in the 1900s.

Right, back in the 1900s,

when there wasn't tv.

So that's good.
All right, okay.

Are you ready to play?

-Ready, yes!
-All right,

now first we're gonna
beep the horn.

That'll give you a clue.

And then start the car

and see if it brings
back any memories, okay?

Can we beep the horn, please?

[horn beeping]

that's a geo metro.

-You think so?
-I know that horn an--

-that's a geo metro horn.
-All right, let's start it up,

and see, let's just,
go ahead, start the car.

[tiffany]
it even starts up
like a geo metro.

So you're sayin' geo metro?

Yeah, it sound like
a lawn mower a little bit.

[jay]
all right, let's
take a look and see.

[garage door raising]

door's a little slow.

It's all good.

[drum rolling]

yup!

Two-door, hatchback,
geo metro!

[jay]
the two-door geo metro hatchback
might not look glamorous,

but it has everything you need
to get from point a

to point b
and nothing more.

Don't blink,
or you'll miss its tiny,

but, oh, terrific,

one-liter, three-cylinder engine

that gives even modern hybrids
a run for their money,

with approximately


[tiffany]
this car,

I put, I think,
over a million miles on it.

-Over a million, really?
-I feel like...

-A million miles?
-...It went back.

The odometer went to 0,000,000,

-all zeros.
-Right, okay.

[tiffany]
and I still kept
driving it, so,

um, it got me to
all my comedy gigs.

I drove it all
the way to vegas, tahoe,

-all up and down california.
-Wow, so you didn't buy it new.

-You bought it used, obviously.
-I bought it used.

I slept in it.

-I lived in this car.
-Wow!

It doesn't look like there's
enough room to sleep in it.

[tiffany]
oh, no, you lay this seat back,

and then you put blankets

-up on the visors here, right.
-Right.

[tiffany]
and then you tuck
a blanket here,

roll it up.

And then, you just lay it down.

-Okay, all right.
-Now, you gonna be

-a little uncomfortable.
-Yeah.

Now, I remember

kevin hart one time,
we were talkin' about you.

Did he help you out
with this car?

[tiffany]
yes, I was livin'
in this car...

-Right.
-...And he gave me $300,

and told me to get
a hotel room for a week,

and then write out
a list of goals

and start tackling those goals.

Do something every single day
towards those goals.

I think that's great,
and that shows what a great guy

-kevin is too.
-Yeah, really great guy.

I also became an excellent
mechanic because of this car.

Like, the water tank
had busted on it,

so then I had got a milk jug,

right, and I had
filled that up with water.

And then I had attached
that to the radiator.

I'll tell you,
any mechanic will tell ya,

the milk jug is the way
to fix the geo metro.

-It worked!
-All right.

Well, you ready to move
on to car number two?

-Yeah, sure.
-All right, come on.

-Let's go to car number two.
-Let's go!

[upbeat music]

[jay]
true grit comes in
all shapes and sizes,

just like my next guest.

Please welcome grammy winner,

seal!

Just kidding.

[jo]
there's, over there.

-See it right there?
-Oh, yeah!

Actually, I'm down
in marina del ray

to meet up with this guy.

Jo koy has come a long way

from working odd jobs to
appearing on the tonight show

and staring in
a netflix special!

Jo koy has become
so popular in hawaii,

honolulu proclaimed
November 24th

as jo koy day!

You know, when you
start out as a comic,

you have all kinds
of stupid jobs.

You know, I was a detail guy,

and I worked at car dealerships.

But you did it all, waiter,

you worked in
a book store,

-right?
-Yup, yup.

-Shoe salesman, mm-hmm.
-Shoe salesman.

-Now how was that?
-It wasn't even like a--

it was like,
it's called nordstrom rack.

-Right.
-So, basically, it's just like

they'll put all
the left shoes on the floor,

and then people would
bring up the left shoe,

and I'd have to go to the back
and get the right shoe.

When I did your show,

the very next day
I was at nordstrom rack,

and literally every other
person coming up to me going,

"can I get this
in a size eight?"

and then they're like,

"oh, my god, you were
on the tonight show."

[jay]
you were good,
you were good on the show!

I thought it was terrific.

[jo]
I always tell people this,

so I'm so happy I get to

finally tell you in person,

but the tonight show
changed my life.

-Oh.
-Like, it literally,

it was overnight for me.

-And that was 2005.
-2005.

[jay]
it took you 16 years
to thank me,

which I--

like, you must have thought,
"nah, it's still too early.

Let me get a porsche first,
let me get a--

and if that comes through,
then I'll wait 16 years,

and then I'll thank him."

that's the reason
I invited you here

-just to get you--
-just so I can

-thank you?
-No, well, let me ask you

about another job.

Were you a dolphin communicator,

or a trainer,
or a dolphin whisperer?

-What were you?
-Just a tour guide.

I mean, you know, I could--

I told people
that I could speak to the--

-to the dolphins.
-You can speak to the dolphins?

Well, it's just
like you see them,

and then you just, you got
a sense of what they're--

-how they feel.
-Yeah, yeah.

Oh, look, there's
a couple of dolphins now.

Can you understand
what they're saying?

[dolphins chirping]

-yes.
-What'd they just say?

[jo]
uh...

[dolphins chirping]

[mischievous music]

they appreciate you.

That's what it
looks like right now.

That's what they're sayin',
they really,

really appreciate you.

[jay]
they know who I am?

[dolphins chirping]

[jo]
yeah, they're big fans.

-Well, that's fascinating.
-Yeah, they're--

they're really big fans, jay.

[jay]
well, let's talk about
why you're here

'cause I know you're
a car guy too.

What was your first car,
first car ever?

It was a volkswagen rabbit.

I can't remember what year,
like '89 rabbit, or something?

-I hit a cop.
-You hit a cop?

[jo]
yeah, in pursuit.

You know what...

-Let's forget the rest.
-...Forget the rest.

You know something?

I got a couple of cool cars

-I think you'd like to drive.
-Oh.

-Come on, follow me.
-Let's go look.

[jay]
I can't believe you hit a cop!

I'm gonna pretend
I didn't hear that,

especially when he's about
to sit behind the wheel

of one of these babies.

[jay]
well, I got a couple
of porsches here,

but I got something
kinda special.

I know you were born

-in '71, right?
-Yup.

So that's what I have here,
this is my 1971 911t.

[jo]
okay, here's the thing,
my dream car

is the 1971 porsche 911,
I swear.

Right here in front of me,
what you own

is something I've
always wanted to buy.

-Yeah.
-Please let me buy this?

-Keep dreamin', um, yeah.
-Okay, that's what I thought.

[jay]
and he'll have
plenty to dream about,

whether it's the customized


or its 225 horsepower,

you'll be wishing
you never wake up.

And its younger
brother over here's

been takin' its vitamins too!

With 640 horsepower
and zero to sixty time

of 2.6 seconds,

it's a modern version
of the classic 911.

[jo]
the reason why I'm so in love
with, like, the porsche,

one, the design,

but the colors
that they also used

were, like, amazing.

[jay]
every car now is

-gray, white, or black.
-Yeah, black, yeah.

[jay]
and so to have
these sort of colors,

much like the green one

-right there.
-Yes!

[jay]
it's good to see
these colors comin' back.

-So I just bought this one.
-Right.

But you're gonna be mad at me

'cause it's matte black.

-I rest my case.
-Yeah, it's exactly.

[jay]
see, that's why you want mine.

-Yeah.
-Yeah.

In its heyday,
was this considered, like,

an extremely fast sports car?

-Or what it just more like--
-no, the 911t was the low end

of the porsche scale,
that was sort of the base--

like when you bought a corvette
with the base engine...

-Yeah.
-...It was fast,

but it wasn't the fastest.

That thing, as you know,

-640 horsepower.
-Yeah.

-You know how fast it is.
-Oh, yeah.

But I didn't know it had,

like, whatever it is
that you just said.

It has 640 horsepower, yeah.

I have no idea what that means.

Just numbers to me,
but, like, to you,

it's like a math problem
that you've solved.

To me, just, where's the key?

And where's the accelerator?

[jay]
yeah, the porsche peop--
they're comin' to take

-the car away from him?
-They're comin' to get the car,

-yeah, yeah. I'm done.
-Yeah.

The porsche people
are taking the car back.

They're gonna give you
another rabbit, okay?

-A rabbit.
-Yeah, yeah.

[jay]
well, listen, um,

why don't we go for a ride,
we'll talk,

and, uh, we can
talk car to car.

[jo]
I'm drivin' this one.

[jay]
not gonna happen, I'm sorry.

[energetic music]

[engines revving]

[laughs]

you know we have a lot in common

in a lot of our
comedy comes from

immigrant experience.

My mother was from scotland,

and my dad was italian.

And your mom was from where,
the philippines?

My mom was from the philippines,

and my dad was from
buffalo, new york.

Well, who has more
in common than people

in buffalo, new york,
and the philippines?

How did they meet?

[jo]
thank god for the armed
forces 'cause they--

the soldiers made mixed babies,
and that's what I am.

I'm a product
of the, uh, of the military.

[jay]
what did your mom think
of you talking about her

in the act all the time?

Was that a big thing
of discussion in your house?

[jo]
yeah, she loves it.

A lot of filipinos
really identify, relate to it,

and they love it.

[jay]
what do you see for yourself?

Are you a sitcom guy?

Do you wanna be in movies?

You just like doin' stand-up,
what do you want?

I actually have a deal
with spielberg right now.

And what are you
gonna do with spielberg?

Are you gonna be
in another e.T.?

I'm gonna be e.T.

-Wow.
-It's e.T. Two: E.T. Comes home.

E.T. From the philippines, wow!

[laughing]

[engines revving]

hey!

Some punk in a green porsche.

[laughing]

[jay]
you know, jo,
you say you got lucky,

but, you know, I also
believe there is no luck.

You make your own luck.

I mean, you work hard,

and, you know, that's
kinda the cool thing about

when you have immigrant parents.

They just have
this need to kinda

work harder and over-excel,
you know.

[jo]
yeah, that's very true.

And, uh, you know,
I saw my mom

hustle and grind so hard,

and, you know, that inspired me.

Hey, jo, congratulations
on all your success.

It's really great
seeing comedians make it.

Remember how you said,

you know, you wanted
to buy my car?

Yeah.

I was thinkin' about it.

Never gonna happen!

[laughing]

friendship only goes
so far, my friend.

[laughing]

[engines revving]

[jay]
comin' up...

[bert]
oh, my god.

[jay]
comedian bert kreischer

wasn't always
a shirtless success.

[bert]
I worked at barnes and noble,

and I got fired for working out

in my underwear
in the basement.

At least that
workin' out thing paid off.

[laughing]

[laidback music]

[beeps horn]

how ya doin'?

[chuckling]

I'm on my way right now
to do something I haven't done

since I was a kid,

that's go to a drive-in
movie theatre.

Not to see a movie,

but to see a couple
of comedians.

These guys came up
with a great idea.

Why not do live shows
at drive-in movie theatres

where people can watch the show

from inside their car

and see the comedians
on the big screen?

Why am I driving a 1976
cadillac convertible?

Well, one of the comedians,
his name is bert kreischer,

this happens to be
his favorite kind of car.

This 1976 cadillac
eldorado is a classic

luxury land yacht,

and there's a lot to showboat,
a huge v8 engine,

and top-of-the-line
leather bench seats.

And with the top down,
it can cram in up to ten people

for maximum savings

on your admission
to the drive-in.

I remember readin' an article
in rolling stone magazine



about the number one
party school in the country.

It was florida state.

And they tracked down
a guy who was voted

the number one partier
in the country.

This guy went to a party
every day, drinking,

just craziness
every single day.

And I go, "what does a guy
like that do when he graduates?

Where does he go?"

you know where he went?

In the trunk of my car.

How you doin' back there, bert?

Hey, jay, this is
super spacious, buddy.

This is exactly
what I was thinkin' of.

Nice and comfy.

[jay]
and it's nice and comfy
with its 13.6 cubic feet,

which means all six feet
of my friend bert

can cram in there
with room to spare.

But that was in 1976.

Now, almost 45 years later,

two berts can fit in
the 22.5 cubic foot trunk

of tiffany's much smaller

'92 geo metro hatchback.

Now you gonna be
a little uncomfortable.

[jay]
he's in the trunk of this car

because this is
how we used to get

into drive-in movie theatres
when I was a kid,

and he's one of the performers.

So that's what
we're gonna do now.

You know, assuming
I let him outta the trunk.

[bert]
all right, guys,
let's do this!

[intrigue music]

[jay]
I am excited to check this out.

Comedy and cars,
my favorite things.

Why didn't I think of this?

[bert]
oh, my god.

[jay]
you all right?

[bert]
that is hot.

That is hot in there.

I'm not gonna lie to ya.

[rock music]

[jay]
some might say that
bert kreischer

should be committed,

but his commitment
to livin' it up

has landed him
a k*ller comedy career.

Today, this party god
is about to receive

the royal treatment.

All right, well, maybe not.

Comin' outta palm springs,
we hit that traffic,

so I'm sorry we were
stuck there for

about 45 minutes,
I apologize.

How you been,
everything all right?

Oh, I'm doin' great,
jay, I'm doin' great.

I gotta ask you about
that rolling stone article.

Was that like the greatest
thing that ever happened

when it came out?

-Oh, it was a game changer.
-Yeah.

That stroke of luck,
to be doing a bong hit,

when rolling stone magazine
called my apartment

and be exhaling
and the journalist go,

"so, I think
I found the right kid."

[jay]
now, the school,
they couldn't have been--

were they happy
with the article?

-Oh, they were really unhappy.
-Yeah, I can imagine.

[bert]
but I don't care,
I graduated.

[jay]
did you ever have a regular job?

[bert]
yeah, jay, I worked
at barnes and noble,

and I got fired
for working out

in my underwear
in the basement.

-Really?
-I found that if you took

the freight elevator
down to the basement,

you had the whole
basement to yourself.

-Right.
-So, I was like young,

I'm gonna get in shape,
so I'm doin' pushups,

but I'm sweatin',
so I take all my clothes off.

Now I'm all but naked.

Doin' pushups, workin' out.

Put my clothes on,
go up, shelve some books.

My manager duane
pulls me aside, he's like,

"you're spendin' a lot
of time in the basement."

I said, "well, you know, a lot
of the books are down there."

and he's like,

"you know we
have cameras, right?"

-oh, yeah, oh.
-And he's like, "you're fired."

and I was like...

Well, at least that
workin' out thing paid off, huh?

-By the way--
-and you can see

the hours you put in.

[bert]
this is skinny for me.

No, that's skinny for me.

Well, look, your parents have
gotten to see you be successful,

-correct?
-Yeah, they were.

My dad, when I was younger,

he just wanted me
to make a living.

-Yeah.
-His motto was,

"eat [bleep], cash checks."

they need you to wear a suit?

Eat [bleep], cash--
that's my dad's motto.

-Do what you gotta do.
-Do what you gotta do.

So I do this 19 years,

ignoring stand-up
for the most part

and focusing on
whatever made money.

And one day, I'm having
a cigar and a glass of wine

with my dad down in florida,

and he says,
"so what's your plan?"

and I said,
"well, you know, dad."

like just repeating,
parroting what he said to me

my whole life,
"eat [bleep], cash checks,"

and he starts crying.

-Why was he cryin'?
-He was like,

"I messed you up,
I messed you up!

I'm eat [bleep], cash checks,

you're not eat [bleep],
cash checks, you have talent!

Oh, god, oh, god,

if you don't take a chance now,

it's never gonna happen for you.

Gamble, throw out
everything now, now!"

I'm, like, sobbing,
and I went,

-"oh, my god!"
-oh, wow!

[rock music]

how many of these have you done?

[bert]
about 80 shows,
over 40 cities.

-I mean, it's a brilliant idea!
-Oh, yeah, well, thank you.

Stay at home orders
started March 15th,

and all my tour got cancelled,
and I just was like,

"there's gotta be
a workaround."

-I love the workaround.
-Right.

[bert]
and so, I called my agent,
and I said,

"get me drive-in
movie theatres."

I know we got a big screen,
get a camera, put a stage.

I didn't think it would
turn into this.

And I showed up,
and I saw there was people

happy to get out
of their houses.

That's what I wanted.

And they were all
camped out in lawn chairs.

They had blankets over 'em.

One guy had filled up
the back of his truck with water

and had, like,
a pool back there.

And I thought, "this is
exactly what I wanna do."

well, this'll be great!

-Let's go do it!
-Come on, let's go!

[rock music]

[cheering]

[tom]
it is time

to bring out
the king of these.

He has been touring
all over the country,

and he deserves all
the credit in the world

for building this
into a big thing.

Put your hands together
for my bestie,

the machine, bert kreischer.

Let him hear it, everybody!

[cheering, applause]

[jay]
sometimes, true grit
needs to be rough,

and that's why there's very
little of bert's stand-up

we can show you on this
family-friendly network.

[bert]
I walk over to my wife,
I said, "we have a problem."

she's like, "what is it?"

and I turn around
to show her, I go...

[bleeping]

[audience laughing]

my wife's like, "uh,
I'd rather [bleep]

hamster than [bleep]."

ha! Ha!

[cheering]

comin' up...

Can we start it up?

Tiffany haddish
will stop at nothing

to get what she wants.

[tiffany]
it's quiet,
perfect for stalking.

[jay]
stalking, yeah.

But see, you're not quiet,

so you can't stalk anybody.

It's now time for of
this is your automotive life!

All right, tiffany
guessed the first,

and with uncanny speed.

Now we'll move on
to the second one.

This might be a little tougher.

Let's blow the horn.

[horn beeping]

kinda generic-sounding
horn, isn't it?

-Yeah.
-Let's start it up.

Can we start it up?

[crickets chirping]

-I know what car that is.
-Now that should be a clue.

I know what car that is.

First of all, didn't hear no...

[mimics engine turning on]

-right, right.
-So it's definitely not

the corvette I used to have

-or the volkswagen...
-Right.

[tiffany]
...Or, you know, I used
to have a dodge charger.

You hear that...

You can hear that start up.

Like, it make your
whole body vibrate

-when those start up.
-So we now know what it isn't.

So what I'm a say that it is...

[jay]
go ahead.

[tiffany]
...Is a tesla.

-A tesla?
-Model x.

-All right, let's open the door.
-'cause it's quiet,

it's perfect for stalking.

-For stalking? Yes.
-Yeah, stalkin',

-private investigating.
-Yeah, but see, you're not quiet

so you can't stalk anybody.

They would hear you comin'.

"some--who's talkin'?"

[tiffany]
oh, you gotta be quiet.

-But there's--
-wow, very good!

[tiffany]
yes, there's the tesla, baby!

[jay]
yeah, "baby" is right!

The 2018 tesla model x 100d
can go for 295 miles

without gettin' hungry.

And you'll wanna skip naptime

when its 503 horsepower
takes you from zero to sixty

in 4.4 seconds!

This is a big jump
from the geo metro.

[tiffany]
well, yeah, so

this is a car I always,
like, wanted,

-like, an electric car.
-Right.

I love nikola tesla,
I know a lot about him,

did a lot of research
on him when I was younger.

And so, when teslas came out,
I was like, "oh, I want that,"

but it was so expensive.

And I was just,
I was startin' to make money,

but I'm like, "I wanna make
sure all my bills are paid."

and I did this movie with
tyler perry, and he goes,

"if you could buy
yourself anything,

what would you buy yourself?"

and I said I would
buy myself a tesla

and some diamonds.

And he called me one day,
he was like, "hey, tiffany,

come by the house.

I got somethin' for you."

and he sent me a picture of
this car with a big bow on it.

And I was like, "what? What?"

like, "what do you
want me to do?"

he was like, "you did
a great job in the movie.

You're a great person,
and you deserve

to have a nice car."

[jay]
and this is the actual car,
isn't it?

[tiffany]
this is the actual car,

and I've had it for,
since 2018.

[jay]
well, I gotta hang out
more with tyler perry.

-All right, cool.
-Yeah.

[jay]
we have one more.

The third one,
I think'll be hard.

Very rarely do people
get all three.

-You got two...
-Uh-huh.

[jay]
...But I don't know if you're
gonna get the third one.

-Let's see.
-I might!

[jay]
buckle up, folks,
it's time to assess

and caress

with donald osborne.

[ding]

once again, we have three cars

from the audrain
automotive museum

in newport, rhode island.

This episode is about true grit,

cars that came about
through sheer force

of personality.

And who knows more
about true grit

than our own donald osborne,

once forced to eat
his crème brûlée

with a dessert fork

because a spoon
was not available

at the concours dinner.

Do you remember that?

You soldiered on?

I thought you'd never
mention that again, jay.

[jay]
I'm sorry, I didn't
mean to embarrass you.

But tell us what we have

-here today, donald.
-All right, jay.

We've got a 1953 allard j2x,

a 1953 ferrari 250 europa,

and a 1972 de tomaso pantera.

-Let's start with the allard.
-Okay.

The allard is a car that not
a lot of people know about

unless you're really into
the racing scene

of the 1940s and 1950s.

Sydney allard
was a fellow who was

a very successful racer
before world w*r ii.

He actually started racing
morgan 3 wheelers,

and he built his own car,
the allard special,

which is a four-wheeled version
of the three-wheeled morgan.

And with this chassis,

he decided to use
a variety of engines.

Most of them had cadillac power,
which was very, very popular.

This one is a very rare example

that was originally fitted
with a chrysler hemi.

-That'd be the 331 hemi.
-Exactly.

You have to mean what you say
when you press that throttle,

-'cause this car just goes.
-Yeah, it's fast.

[donald]
next, we're gonna go
to the ferrari,

this 1953 europa.

The company was still quite new.

Founded in 1947,

and enzo ferrari, of course,

is the man totally focused
on racing.

-Right.
-He had absolutely no interest

in building road cars at all.

However,
he very quickly realized

he had to build road cars
for the wealthy customers

that could support
his racing cars.

[jay]
you can tell it was built
for the american market

'cause it has the big firestone
whitewall tires on it,

which europeans, whitewalls,
what?

-What is that?
-They wanted to get

that very wealthy sportsman
that lived in the u.S.

That could afford a car
like this.

That's interesting, cool.

[donald]
our last car
is the de tomaso pantera.

This is a story of an amazingly
charismatic and powerful figure,

alejandro de tomaso,
an argentinean

who was also a race driver,

and he married
a great heiress,

-isabelle haskell.
-Right.

With her support, he was able
to not only continue his racing,

but he wanted to start
his own car company.

So he started by building
a mid-engine car

with ford power, the vallelunga,

-which then led to the mangusta.
-Right.

[donald]
and that caught the attention
of the ford motor company

and said, "hm, this is
sort of interesting."

they're looking for something
to compete with a corvette,

and so they worked with him
to develop the pantera.

Powered by the ford


[jay]
if the quality control
had been a little bit better,

I think it would've been
a huge hit.

It's just that everything
was rushed in Italy.

It's probably the only car where
you go, "it's 100% original."

"ohh," you know what I mean?

All right, which has gone up
most in the last five years?

-Mhm.
-Well, ferrari has become

such an object of art.

-How do you say it?
-Un oggetti d'arte.

-Un oggetti d'arte.
-Bravo.

Bravo, [unintelligible].

Um, so I'd probably go
with this one first.

I'll go one, two, three,

but this might be second.

Well, jay, five years ago,

the ferrari 250 europa would've
been about $3.3 million.

Today it'd be
about $3.6 million.

This 1953 allard j2x
might've cost you $450,000.

Today you could probably
get one for about $425,000.

-Oh, they've come down.
-A bit of softening in it.

It takes a special person to be
able to drive this and enjoy it.

The de tomaso pantera
would've cost you $88,500.

Today it costs you
about $117,000.

So the winner of our
appreciation sweepstakes

-is the pantera.
-Hm, you know,

I bought mine for $50,000
and it was in this condition.

You got an excellent deal,
but then again,

you're jay leno.

It's still $50,000.

[laughing]

coming up...

-Home sweet home.
-Free solo rock climber,

-alex honnold...
-Welcome.

[jay]
...Shows us how to savor life
in a van.

I could just see my mother
yelling at you,

'cause in the movie,
you're using the spatula

to eat out of the pot.

You have a limited amount
of water.

It is the most efficient way.

[jay]
you can explain that
to my mother, okay?

-I'll explain to your mother.
-Let me know how that works out.

[suspenseful music]

solid rock.

That's nature's true grit.

And today,

it's gonna take everything
I've got.

[alex]
jay, come on.

Stand up on those feet.

[groaning]

I'm trying.

On a climb like this...

Keep pulling, keep pulling,
come on.

[jay]
...You really find out
who you are.

[groaning]

[birds chirping]

hey, alex, let's take a look
at your van.

There should be some more donuts
in there, right?

Perfect, let's go.

[jay]
talk about true grit.

Alex spends almost
every waking moment

living on the edge,

climbing the steepest,
most treacherous mountains.

This superstar not only has
a podcast called climbing gold,

but his incredible
record-setting climb

of california's legendary
el capitan

was featured in the academy
award-winning documentary,

free solo.

Ah, I saw this in the movie.

[alex]
yeah, home sweet home.

-You know, welcome.
-Very nice.

Now, did you do all this
conversion yourself?

[alex]
no, no, I had a friend do it.

[jay]
you lived in it, you didn't
take this out on weekends.

-This was your house.
-Yeah, I lived in it full-time.

[jay]
now, how does that work?

When your van goes in for
an oil change or service,

are you just on the lift
for two days in the garage?

I mean, it's your house,
it's all your stuff.

[alex]
yeah, no, honestly,
it is a bummer.

If the van needs service,
it's like a big problem.

And have you ever gotten
a ticket in your house?

Yeah.

[jay]
alex's house is a customized


and every design choice
is strategic,

from solar panels
to sleeping quarters

to even extra head room.

You started at age, what, five?

[alex]
no, I started climbing at 10.

I mean, I'd always loved
climbing things, you know,

climbing trees,
and then I was lucky enough

that a climbing gym opened
in my hometown when I was 10.

[jay]
did you know, well, "this is it,

this is what I wanna do."

I knew that I wanted to climb
all the time,

but I didn't think that
that would be like a life path.

-Right.
-But then I dropped out

of university and just kept
climbing all the time,

and it sort of became a path.

[jay]
well, here, show me some
of the things you've added.

I want to know more about it,
give me a tour of the van.

-You got all kinds of room.
-Yeah, it's comfy.

You can train, you got a gym.

[jay]
I saw you doing pull-ups
in this in the movie.

How does--is this actually
a climbing tool?

[alex]
yeah, so this is
a pretty standard--

it's called a hangboard,
it's a standard training tool.

You hang off
different sized edges

and for different amounts
of time,

doing pull-ups,
things like that.

[jay]
I saw you cooking.

I can't say I was envious
of what you were eating.

-It didn't look that good.
-You were unimpressed

-by my cooking?
-No,

the cooking didn't do much
for me.

I could just see my mother
yelling at you,

'cause in the movie,
you're using the spatula

to eat out of the pot.

-My mother--that would be it.
-So, people make fun of that,

but honestly, if you live
in a van and you have

limited amount of water,
it is the most efficient way.

[jay]
you can explain that
to my mother, okay?

-I'll explain to your mother.
-Let me know how that works out.

Let's go around
and see the garage.

[alex]
yeah, let's check out
the garage.

Here we go.

So, pretty straightforward,
but--

-okay.
-So I've got bouldering pads.

You know, you can sort of--yeah,
utility cargo space on top,

but the main thing
is these big pull drawers

which are kind of sweet,
so this is, like,

all the climbing equipment you
would need for an expedition.

I basically always have
a climbing bag packed

-and then a bunch of equipment.
-Very cool.

-Well, let me show you this one.
-Cool.

This is a winnebago revel.

And if I were gonna start
living in a van,

which I'm not saying I would,

this 2021 winnebago revel

ultimate luxury camping van
would be my ticket.

My ticket to
the four seasons hotel.

With an electric power bed,

kitchen, entertainment center,

and of course,
the absolute must, a toilet!

There's no bathroom in yours,
right?

[alex]
well, I've got a tubular bottle.

-Oh, you got the bottle.
-Yeah, I got a bottle.

So a very simple bathroom
and no clean-up required.

-Yeah, no clean-up required.
-Just pour it out.

[jay]
just don't wanna mistake it
for the orange juice.

Well, you ready
to go for a ride?

-Yeah.
-Come on, you hop in yours

and we'll take this,
and we'll go.

[alex]
perfect.

[mellow music]

this is so exciting,
I feel like I'm a stunt driver.

[jay]
is there a better time of day
to climb?

Is it the early morning?

[alex]
climbing really is dictated
by conditions and by weather.

So, you generally wanna climb
in the shade.

So you just have to choose
when the wall

that you're trying to climb
is shaded.

You want cool conditions,

so you choose
the correct time of year.

And really, that's why
I live in a van most of the time

is because if you're trying to
nail conditions all the time,

you have to be pretty mobile.

And as a climber--
this may be a silly question--

can you learn anything from
those mountain goats that climb?

They literally almost look like
they're climbing

el capitan at some points.

Mountain goats
are pretty incredible though.

Actually, fun story.

A friend and I were once
approaching a challenging wall

in baja california,
and we looked over

and we were like, "oh,
look at those mountain goats.

They're moving so gracefully.

Like, they make it look
so easy."

and then we saw one
of the mountain goats slip

and basically tumble down
the rocks, but we were like--

it got back up and it was okay.

You know, like basically if
the terrain is hard enough,

occasionally,
even animals fall down.

[jay]
how surprised were you
to win the academy award?

The whole thing
is pretty surreal.

I mean, just to have a movie
in theaters,

and especially
for a rock climber.

I just really had no idea
what to expect or,

you know, what might happen.

[jay]
well, alex, I wanna thank you.

I found the film fascinating
and I love your commitment.

You know, I like people that
are committed to something.

It was my pleasure,
thanks for having me on.

-See ya on the rock face.
-Yeah, I can't wait.

You may be waiting a while.

coming up...

[engine roaring]

ford ceo jim farley
has a big surprise.

[jim]
we've got a mustang mach-e
which I can't wait to show you.

[jay]
oh, is that what you have
back in my garage?

Oh, I blew it, yup.

You're terrible
at keeping a secret.

[laughs]

for more cool cars,
go to jaylenosgarage.Cnbc.Com.

[engine rumbling]

true grit is when
you start at the bottom

and work your way to the top.

-Jay leno!
-Hey, jim, how ya doing?

-Great, I love your car.
-Good to see ya.

[jay]
just like jim farley,
he's not your typical ceo.

His passion for cars was ignited

when he started sweeping floors
in an automotive repair shop,

and now, 40 years later,

he's cleaning up as the ceo
of ford motor company.

Well, the part I hate about l.A.

Is when you show up at a party,
you got the same dress on

as the girl that's already here.

[jim]
yup, well,
this is a special car for us,

because we designed it
to win le mans.

Winning le mans,


almost to the day.

You know, it kind of was just--

the world is right sometimes
in the car business.

Well, let's take it for a drive.

People can hear
what it sounds like.

I'm ready to go but I have
something really special

I wanna show you, jay.

-Back at the shop.
-Oh, back at my--

-yes.
-Oh, I see, while we're

doing this, somebody's doing
something there.

-Yes, that's right.
-Works for me.

[jim]
okay.

[engines roaring]

[laughing]

[engines humming]

so were you always a car kid?

My nickname as a kid
was jimmy car car.

It seemed like I always had
a little mustang toy in my hand.

[jay]
but you were a smart kid,

you went to college,
you graduated.

-What do you have a degree in?
-Computer science and economics.

I went to georgetown and I went
to graduate school here in ucla

and, you know,
then I got my big break.

I was a janitor at phil hill's
restoration shop.

When was that?

I used to go to phil hill's shop
all the time!

You were a very popular client

and I was,
I was a janitor there,

and then I got upgraded to work
in the interior department,

and I put myself through
graduate school there.

So that, to me, is where I got
my phd in the car business.

[jay]
pretty cool.

So then you went to work
for ford.

[jim]
no, I worked at toyota
for 20 years

and then alan mulally called me,

and my wife and I decided
to pack it up

and we moved to detroit
with our three new kids,

and it was
a very exciting time, jay.

[jay]
so where do you see
the company going?

What sort of visions?

We're electrifying
our most iconic vehicles.

The f-150 electric,
the mustang mach-e

which I can't wait to show you.

Oh, is that what you have
back in my garage?

Oh, I blew it, yup.

You're terrible
at keeping a secret.

[laughing]

[engines roaring]

[techno music]

jim ended up surprising me
with not one,

but two cutting edge vehicles.

These are the latest from ford.

The electric mustang mach-e 4x

and its race car prototype,
the electric mach-e 1400,

which stands for


Oh, wow.

Two really exciting cars.

Tell us what we have here.

[jim]
so this is a mustang mach-e.

The first
all brand-new bottom-up

electric car from ford.

We wanted to put emotion
into electric vehicles,

and that's why we started
with a mustang.

And when they first came out
with it,

"mustang, hey, a mustang
is supposed to be--"

you know, like the corvette guys

when they got rid of
the round taillights.

"hey, what are you doing
with the round tail--"

you know, you become a sl*ve
to tradition,

and I kind of like now
that it's a mustang,

because now I know it's got
a performance background.

So this comes in two-wheel drive
and four-wheel drive.

-Correct.
-Okay, now I'm told

-this is my key here?
-Correct, yup.

-Okay.
-So now you can have

a regular key fob or you can use
your phone, which is great.

You can unlock and lock.

You can set everything
you want on your phone.

So you got, "grandma,
I'd like to talk to you,

but I gotta drive right now."

[laughs]

-I'm interested in this thing.
-All right.

-Let's take a look at it.
-Let's see what we got here.

This is the mach-e 1400
horsepower.

[jim]
our idea was when
we were gonna come out

with the mustang mach-e,
we knew we wanted to kind of

change the perception
of electric cars.

So we went to vaughn gittin jr.,
who's our drift champion,

and he built this car.

It can be nascar,
it could be a drift car.

Seven motors,





I'm trying to figure out
seven motors, how that works.

You have four wheels.

You have a motor also driving
another motor.

Yes, yeah,
they're all connected.

So one motor helps the other
motor, helps the other motor.

-Correct.
-The mach-e 1400

seven-motor setup has
three motors in the front

and four motors in the rear
arranged vertically

but stacked like books
on a shelf.

It keeps most of its propulsion
in the rear,

similar to that of
an all-wheel drive rally car.

Believe me,
if there are any myths

about electric cars being slow,

this will vanquish them
fairly quickly.

We're having a lot of fun
at ford, jay.

I'm really proud of our team.

[jay]
see, and now that you're
the president and everything,

now you gotta do all that.

"jim, look at these reports,
would you please?"

see, I just get to play car.

I don't have to do
the report part.

There are a lot of meetings,
lot of meetings.

[jay]
coming up...

The big time is extra sweet
for tiffany haddish.

Arsenio hall show came back
and I got to stand up on there,

and I licked his face
to make sure this was real,

and he tasted like ovaltine,
and I was like, "I made it."

[jay]
welcome back to
this is your automotive life.

[majestic music]

ready to move on
to our third and final car,

but before we get there, like,

who were some of your comedic
influences growing up?

-Who did you like?
-Um, I liked lenny bruce.

-I liked moms mabley.
-Moms mabley!

[tiffany]
yes, I liked richard pryor.

[jay]
did you ever see
richard pryor live?

[tiffany]
I met him in person
when he was in his wheelchair.

He came to
the laugh factory comedy camp,

but I never got to see him
actually perform,

but he gave me
some really great advice.

What did he give--
what was the advice?

[tiffany]
he stopped me in the middle
of my stand-up set

and he said,
"what are you doing?"

I said, "I'm telling a joke,"
he said, "no, you're not."

I said, "yes, I am,"
he goes, "no, you're not."

I said, "yes, I am,"
he goes, "no, you're not."

I said, "well, what do you
think I'm doing?"

and he said,
"you're getting on my nerves,

that's what you're doing.

You need to be having fun
when you're on stage.

It doesn't matter
what you're talking about.

You need to be having fun.

If you're having fun,
the audience is having fun."

and I didn't understand that
'cause I thought

-I was having fun.
-Right.

[tiffany]
but as I got older and started
doing stand-up more,

I'm like, "oh, I get it."

like, you need to be present.

And I started taking that
with me

in everything that I do in life.

You know, I used to follow
richie every night

at the comedy store,
and it was the best way to learn

'cause a lot of people
didn't wanna follow him

because richie was so good,
but it was the only way

to find out if something
was funny.

I realized at the time,
I didn't have an hour,

-I had about 20 minutes.
-Right.

[jay]
because after following richie,
I would just throw out

everything that didn't get
a big laugh.

-Right, right.
-But come on,

are you ready to guess
car number three?

-Let's go.
-All right, let's see.

Can we blow the horn
on car number three?

[horn honking]

-oh, it's a hard one.
-It's the cartoon car

from who framed roger rabbit.

-No, no, no.
-It's the taxi.

Let's start it up.

[engine rumbling]

I'mma go with oldsmobile.

[jay]
oldsmobile is your choice?

-Station wagon.
-Oldsmobile station wagon.

[tiffany]
I never had one
but my granny did.

You have a connection
with this car.

I have a connection
with the car?

[jay]
yes, you don't know
what it is yet.

All right, let's open the door
and take a look.

[tiffany]
it's a truck.

[dramatic music]

a mercedes?

[jay]
yup.

In 1981,
this mercedes-benz 280 ce

rolled off the factory
assembly line

and straight into the arms
of its superstar owner.

With its 6-cylinder engine
enough to power it

up to 124 miles an hour,

the benz emblem
proudly reminds everyone

this luxury automobile
is a true icon,

just like its prior owner.

This car means a lot to you
because...

-This is richard pryor's car.
-Shut up, this--

this the one he got pulled over
by the police in three times?

[jay]
this is richard's car.

We tracked it down
and we thought you might

wanna drive it just to get
some of the essence

or maybe something will rub off.

I love it, okay.

-Let's go!
-I'll tell you what,

I'll talk the geo metro
and we'll talk via intercom.

You gotta drive
richard pryor's car.

-Okay, I'll drive it.
-Okay.

[upbeat music]

all right.

So, tiffany, you getting
any vibes off the car?

You getting any richard pryor
coming through?

[tiffany]
I feel like I should have
a cigarette or something,

or a joint.

[jay chuckles]

it does kind of smell like
jheri curl juice in here,

like activated.

[jay chuckles]

did you ever hear any stories
about that car?

[tiffany]
definitely, I heard this story

about how when he first
got this car,

he pulled up
to the laugh factory.

Paul mooney's like,
"you can't drive that car.

That's a white man's car.

You not gonna be able
to drive that car.

The police gonna pull you over
everywhere you go

if you drive that car.

That is a white man's car."

and richard's like,
"nah, man,

I got the most expensive
mercedes.

This is my car
and I'mma drive it

and you don't know
what you're talking about."

he's like, "man, let's go
for a ride right now."

richard jumps in the front seat,
they driving.

They get pulled over three times
within a two-hour period.

They pulled richard pryor
out the car and they're like,

"oh my god, it's richard pryor.

He's the god of comedy,
king of comedy.

Like, this is amazing!"

and they let everybody go,
and he was like,

"yeah, I guess
you're right, paul,"

but he's still gonna keep
driving his car.

[laughing]

[mellow music]

[jay]
so did you always want to be
in show business?

[tiffany]
I always wanted people
to laugh around me.

I always wanted people
to be happy around me.

-Right.
-So, I didn't know

how I was gonna do that,
'cause so many people,

when I was growing up,
was always so angry.

My mom was always so angry,
grandma so angry,

but when they would laugh,
you know,

it was like everything
was wonderful.

So I was like,
"how can I get that

out of everybody
all the time?"

I saw who framed roger rabbit

and there's a scene
in that movie

where the detective
asked the rabbit,

"why are people doing
all these nice things for you?"

and he says, "because I make
them laugh, eddie.

If you make people laugh,
they'll do anything for you."

and I'm like,
"that's the ticket.

That's what I'll do,
I'll make people laugh."

and I love to hear it anyway.

So when did you realize
you had made it?

Well, I knew I was on the road
to making it

when I did your show.

When I got to be on your show
as like a panelist,

I was like, okay.

And then,
like shortly thereafter,

arsenio hall show came back
and I got to stand up on there,

and he picked me up,
swept me up off my feet,

and I licked his face
to make sure this was real,

and he tasted like ovaltine,

and I was like, "I made it."

[jay]
that's hilarious.

[engine buzzing]

[tiffany]
this car feels so heavy.

It feels like richard pryor.

Right, it's got a lot of issues.

But it's moving though.

Boy, I feel like I'm getting
high off the fumes.

[jay]
you're in richard's car,

so getting high
is a part of driving his car.

Uh, well, the battery's dead
or something.

It's not going.

[engine rumbling]

-broke down.
-Yeah, man.

I don't know
what's going on with it.

I don't know if it's the brakes
or the fuel pump,

but it just shut off.

Yeah, I think
it's the fuel pump.

It just sounds like
it's not getting gas.

Well, I'll tell you what,
why don't you,

why don't you--
since you have some experience,

why don't you take
the geo metro

and I'll wait here
for the tow truck.

-Really?
-That's show business, baby.

-That's the way it works.
-That ain't cool, man.

I mean, I worked all these years

not to be in the geo metro
no more.

[jay]
well, that's--
one day you're on top...

[tiffany]
oh, man!

What's up, betsy?

I'm back, boo!

Hey, bets!

[playful music]

I guess god always like to
remind you where you came from!