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Jay Kirshner. We have Jennifer Horn with us. Hello. Always makes it
a very good day. It's always fun to be with you too. I
have to ask before we go into anything. Can I ask you about jury
duty? Yes, which is why my voice is still scratch you weeks later?
I think, Yeah. So I was on jury duty this week,
which was like super enlightening, and I am now officially off jury duty,
so I can freely talk about what was going on in my question. I
would love to know. We should put it up on Facebook if people have
had good experiences, bad experiences, like how do people handle jury duty?
Because it is our civic right, right, it is our duty to do
this. But what I found, Jay, is that there's just a really
big disregard for people's time. And so I got called for the week of
I think it was May eighth, and there might have been something going there
was something going on for me to think that that wasn't the right week.
So I rescheduled it only a few weeks ahead, and I thought, all
right, thinking I'm trying to be crafty, I'll pick Memorial Day because it's
only going to be a four day week and what are the chances. Now.
Keep in mind, I was not in our huge downtown LA courthouse.
I was in one of the suburb courthouses. So Tuesday morning, you're supposed
to be there at nine thirty, and you park your car and then you
walk into the courthouse and when you get there, you hand over your jury
summons and the woman goes, oh, you didn't fill out the back and
I said, well, oh, well, I filled online because that's what
it told me to do when I was registering. She goes, you need
to do it in person too, So meanwhile everybody has filled it out online,
So everybody is now taking the extra step to fill out the same broken
thing online that they did online. In person, you hand in your summons
and then she goes, oh, take a blue card off of the table.
You need to go back to the parking structure and put that in your
vehicle. So then you go walk and trudging back to the parking structure where
you think you could just have someone or like jury park. I don't know.
So then you come back and you wait. And the one nice thing
I will tell you about that courthouse is they actually had tables and chairs instead
of just the couches that people have died on obviously in the past. So
I was actually able to do about an hour's worth of work and do some
emails and that kind of stuff, which was great. So about ten thirties,
so now we're like an hour d they say, okay, everybody here
is going to go to a pool in front of this court, in front
of the room like department two or whatever. So everybody goes down the stairs
and then we stand and we wait, and there's no place to sit.
And this is the other thing, not to get nitpicky here, but like
I can stand. Is it fun to stand for an hour for anybody unless
you're at Disneyland. No, But there are people who were like like canes
who are older people like no place to sit for them. So that's a
long time to stand around for, you know, waiting around. So then
they come out and they say, okay, everybody's going to get a number
now and tell me if I'm boring you, but I can't win the lottery.
But I got number two with your ranting out numbers, and I thought,
oh no, this can only mean trouble. If I'm number two,
that means I'm sure number two right now, and sure enough, so then
we stood around some more. We waited. By the time we got into
the courtroom, I want to say, it was about eleven forty and the
judge says, oh, thank you all for your time, so important,
your civic duty, new worlds and COVID blah blah blah. Oh look at
that, it's time for lunch. So then they break for lunch and then
you don't come back till one thirty. And then at one thirty they they
start asking questions like a list basically of the judges of twenty eight questions about
potential bias and that kind of stuff. Long list, so everybody in the
jury box had to answer those questions with the judge. And there are eighteen
of us because they've got twelve of the jurors and six perspective alternates. So
they go through that list and I think, okay, well, I've got
to be honest, I'm in conservative talk radio. I have conservative stink.
I mean they should know this wink wink, because you know who wants that
in their jury pool. So we go through talk about your biases. Okay,
people are clearly trying to get off jury duty. You've got all kinds
of people making up all kinds of stories. You've got people crying. I
mean, everybody's trying to get out of jury duty. Huh. What was
the most absurd kind of excuse or reason that somebody gave that they're they're biased
to get out? Okay, So we had this one guy, and you
have to identify your occupation. He said he was a theme park actor.
The guy is as white as a napkin. But he gets up there and
he goes, well, you know, as a member of gen Z,
a card carrying member, I am aware of the systemic racism and bias that
happens in the legal system. And he went on to talk about how he
was quoting from the Black Lives Matter manifesto, and then he went on to
say that he had altercations with police and and gave some examples about how he
had called the police in his life and it took them fifteen minutes to get
there. That was his big story of bias. So um, it was
interesting, to say the least, a very eclectic crowd. I now have
a television show idea where like called the Pool, where all the people in
the jury that are massed together, because you think about it, you become
like friends with these people from all walks of life. So it is kind
of interesting. I think it would make the most fantastic of television shows.
And and so then that that afternoon they brought us back in. We're supposed
to come back from lunch at one thirty. We don't get called back in
until like two oh five, I think. And then the break is at
three o'clock. We're getting questioned by the attorney or no, the judge is
finishing the questions. The next morning they break us early. Then you have
to come back, and everybody comes back, even the people who haven't been
chosen to be in the box have to come back. So day two we
start and we get questioned by the lawyers, the defense and the prosecution about
you know, different things that we had said during the judge's questioning. We
get a two hour lunch, so she lets let's us go at noon.
So keep in mind we've been in there about an hour and they go to
lunch. We come back at two o'clock, a two hour lunch, and
she goes, oh, for unforeseen reasons, we have to let you go
now. So we alload to leave it too. Then yesterday, then Thursday,
day three, we come in and questions continue from the lawyers they have
to fill in. They dismissed a few people and I thought, oh,
I'm getting to dismissed. They did not dismiss me, and so they filled
in some holes. And then we came back from lunch and they had to
reinterview those people. Judges questions, lawyer's questions, and at the very last
minute they let a few more people go, and I thought, that's it.
And then they said, okay, well we're going to start with the
precursory stuff and something. You finally we're getting somewhere. Three days of jury
selection for a dui case just seems absolutely crazy, right, Yeah, So
at the very last minute, they all came out, they released the people
they wanted to release together, and then precursory information. I'm like, okay,
I guess we're going to opening statements here. I said Juror number two,
and the prosecution let go the person I had been talking to the most.
And then the defense comes up and says, Juror number two, thank
you for your service, and kind of gave me this rise smile because I
said I was in talk radio and made the courtroom laugh a few times some
of my responses like whether or not I enjoyed my jury service, and I
said, I pleaded the fifth year honor, and so I would kind of
let out it. Oh, I let it oh, And she said that
she was letting me go. As the judge laughed again, she goes,
I've never heard anybody with that reaction before, and I said, well,
I said, your honor. I wish everybody good luck, and don't forget
to listen to my radio show tomorrow morning when I has the longest plug for
your show of your life. But it was just, you know, I've
come to this conclusion. It is interesting to watch the process. It's something
that I think we all need to do because we can understand the system and
so don't throw away your jury summons, which I know a lot of people
do. But what the court needs to be able to do is be cognizant
that so many people work for themselves or have jobs that they have to go
to that they're not getting paid time off. I wouldn't mind doing it if
they actually utilized your time. But truly, we spend about two hours total
in the courtroom and the rest of the time milling around in the hallway on
lunch breaks. I mean, it's just to me, it becomes a tremendous
waste of time. And why was there even a jury called for a dui
case? Isn't that kind of cut and dry. This is kind of interesting,
and so I don't know because I was not privy to the information,
but what I glean from the questions they were asking is that he wasn't even
going to testify in his own defense because the prosecution, or excuse me,
the defense, was asking a lot of questions like would it impact your decision
if you don't hear from the defendant? And then the prosecution only had two
police officers, And it seems like maybe circumstantial evidence, like maybe like a
breathalyzer or something like that, But I think there must be priors. That's
the only thing I can think of, because in LA, knowing the system,
like I do. They don't prosecute anybody, so I would say,
there's got to be more. There's got to be some history, something to
bring him into that situation. Oh my goodness. Interesting. Yeah, but
we're not allowed to consider that because you're not supposed to research or do anything.
And they're very very specific about that. No TikTok, no Instagram like
you can't. So this is the first time I've actually been really able to
give the details publicly. So it's it's our scoop. And I'm sorry if
it's boring, but I think it's. No, it's not, it's it's
fascinating. It's absolutely fascinating. And then you were talking about there should be
some kind of reality show about everybody getting together. There is a somewhat real
reality ish show, Jury Duty, on Amazon, but it's one of those
like Truman shows. Have you heard about this, where everything is fake,
the trial is fake, the judge is fake. The rest of the jurors
are comedic actors. James Marsden, who the alist actor who plays a version
of himself in this. And there is one guy, a civilian who thinks
he is on a real jury. He and that there's some kind of documentary
that they're doing about it. He thinks all that is real, And yeah,
I was thinking like almost a drama caught like a drama, ye,
where you like follow everybody's relationships with each other and maybe each each jury's like
ten episodes and then you have the interaction with the with the defendant, the
story of that going on, but also like the relations of the people in
the dry pool, because you are slapped into a situation where you befriend each
other quickly. Well, yes, and I feel like it's a lot of
time circumstantial friends. Anyway, you see that in the workplace, and then
when you leave a workplace you realize, oh, you were just friends with
that seat or that position, not yeah, because it's a revolving door.
And once that person leaves, then the next person comes and it's like,
okay, well I guess I'm friends with you now. It's and it's a
wild crowd. I mean, you've got everybody with your backgrounds coming together,
you know, like a mall Santa and a police officer or something. I
mean, it's just it's funny. It's a funny set of circumstances. Yes,
and I would love the like single camera interviews for the biases of like,
here's what my bias is going to be? Women crying. I mean
it was great. Oh my goodness, well, thank you so much for
sharing that, because that really was interesting, good, so fascinating. I've
never been called for jury duty, and now I kind of relyved too.
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Doug will be back before we know it, and also back apparently Dwayne Johnson
into the Fast and Furious world. Did you see that he is cooking?
He really will always be the Rock. Yeah, of course he's always the
Rock, Wayne, the Rock Johnson. Well, there was a whole bixtink
with Fast and Furious, and apparently he will not Apparently he did. He
went off and had a spinoff with the Hobson Shaw. He's been with the
Fast and Furious stuff since twenty eleven with Fast five. Okay, then he
does twenty nineteen spinoff Hobson Shaw. Then it's this whole stink and some kind
of issue with Vin Diesel or Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel whatever. And they
were getting along, is what they said, right, Yes, Well,
and apparently the Rock did this without Vin Diesel's approval or something. I don't
know. It's all the like hearsay, he said, she said, They
said all that stuff. So Dwayne Johnson's like, I'm never returning. He's
not going to have any part in Fast ten. Well, spoiler alert if
you haven't seen it, a mid credit scene has Dwayne Johnson. He has
a cameo in it that shows he is going to be in another installment of
the franchise. Well, he is going to be in his own solo spinoff
movie. Now, Oh, so we'll see together. Yet in the Rock?
Are they back together? I have no idea, So this is this
is if he's going to be in his own solo spinoff movie. I don't
know. I don't know. If they's old people. I can actually another
thing, whether studios like, hey, we want the money, Like you
guys, just do what you're supposed to do your jobs. I can make
it better. There should just be no more Fast and Furious. How many
are there, like twenty five? I haven't even seen one of them.
Well, and then you have the various spinoffs and all the things, and
I think, what is it the third one in the installment? People are
like, don't even watch it, just pretend it doesn't exist the first ones
for see. I just think I think about Paul Walker, who was in
it when it first started, and he's been dead such a long time.
He's been gone so long, Like it's insane how long that franchise has gone.
But hey, good for them, celebrate it, right well, and
then success, this is something else to celebrate. I'm sure you have seen
this that Kim Cattrell has been confirmed as a cameo in the season finale,
the upcoming season season two have and just like that, and she had come
out saying that she was never actually asked to be in and just like that,
now you got to fill me in because and just like that, I
know it's a spinoff of Sex in the City, but are all the cast
members in it the original the other original ones? Nixon, Kristen Davis,
U, Saragis Parker. Yes, so they're all in it. And there
was this whole big thing about Sam's not in it, Samantha Jones, Kim
Catrell's character and why, but also they didn't kill her character off and there
was one because she was also not in some of the movies, right,
No, she wasn't the movie she was, Oh she did, Okay,
they weren't. Yeah, they were in two movies and apparently they're supposed to
be a third movie that didn't get made. And then had said that and
just like that, is pretty much the third movie. But she had made
it so known that she wanted to know part of any of it anymore.
So she wasn't asked to come back. And it wasn't to slight her or
anything. It was just to respect her space, apparently, and that while
she doesn't Kim I think Kim Cantrella said this that while she doesn't get along
with them, she is open to revisiting it. She just wasn't invited,
and so now they're like, oh my gosh, come back. We were
trying to respect your space. I don't know. It's one of those like
again they said, you said, I said, blah blah blah. And
believe me, everybody wants to be asked. Everybody wants to at least have
the ability to say no, yes, yes, and people change their minds.
So even though somebody said said no to something in the past doesn't mean
they'll say no again. But that does bring up a good point. Is
it being disrespectful if somebody has made it clear they didn't want to do something
and you ask one more time. No. I'm an asker because I like
to give people. Even if people have to tell me no, at least
I feel like I've extended myself, you know, because people's egos. If
you if you say, oh, well, I just thought you wouldn't want
to come, but maybe your feelings are hurt because you would have. Yeah,
that's true. He feel feels slighted, neglected about to be out Billy
Joel. Can you believe after ten years he is done Zoe with Madison Square
Garden. No, it doesn't seem possible. It seems like that's not allowed.
Just unless you're going to retire fully, you should still keep doing Madison
Square Garden. Why does Why would anybody give up a residency? Did they
ask him too? Were people not coming anymore? Or what happened? Now?
He's just he's just done. It just comes it's coming to an end.
And he says that his team tells him that he could continue to sell
tickets for another ten years, but he's he's, you know, I'm hanging
up the hat. There. Shoe schools A thought like the first is that
especially like artists, artist right think probably that their creative juices get stifled.
I'd imagine if there was, if they're doing the same thing every single night.
But then you also have the artists who are smart enough to realize,
wait a second, if I don't do this every single night, I actually
have to travel, am I going to make the same amount of money?
Like there's so many there's so many things like, yes, you're doing the
same thing every single night in the same place. That may be a little
soul crushing, but you're also making money. It's a steady paycheck and you
don't have to travel around. Especially at his age, he might like that,
right. And that's the thing with these residencies. It's not even every
single night, so it's like a show here, a show there. He
has last ten shows will kick off October twentieth, and then he'll play the
last one in July of next year. It's like, yeah, exactly.
And you can look at the stuff in Vegas, not the Vegas shows that
are going on every night, but like these will Selin Dion's about it example,
because she's she's out right now. But like when Adela was doing it
or Britney Spears was doing it, it wasn't necessarily every single night. It's
exhausting, nonetheless, but I would think would be less exhausting to to stay.
Yeah, it's because the traveling part would take it out more than anything
that I would probably like about it as a performer, not that I'm saying
I'm a performer, but as a as a stinger, I would or I'd
probably like knowing that I could do a bigger show with more fun effects and
more stuff and it would consistently be good too, because every time they have
to rebuild a stage and rebuild your show, you have to be able to
travel with it. In Vegas, they do some incredible things with what whether
it's pyrotechnics or the screens or the dancers, because it's the same show every
single night, Yes, and you don't have to worry about the teardown and
the setup again in a new city. No quality that initiating architecture of the
whole stage presence exactly, and a lot of them too. I feel like
when they have the residencies, their home is also in that same hotel,
oh yeah, like and they have that what is it like a whole floor
almost that's a suite to themselves, and they have their own private elevator that
takes them straight down to the backstage area. That just sounds wonderful, doesn't
it though? I think it would be fun, especially as you mentioned I
was, I'm kind of like getting into the mindset it's like six months,
if forever. But they're really doing like long weekends usually like Wednesday through Sunday,
maybe for like two three, four weeks, and then they're off for
a very long time exactly like they get their own summer vacation stuff. And
I am seeing like we're seeing a lot of this, two of these micro
residencies, many residencies where some people are making a stop in one location for
maybe six shows over a one month period, and that just seems like such
a better idea than having to travel, travel, travel, And I don't
know, maybe it's different because you're in LA and everybody is going to go
to LA and perform or even just at like a local coffee shops start performing.
Nobody comes to Cleveland. I bet New York it's not always like this,
Yeah, And I bet New York is sad because that's an opportunity for
tourism, right, If you come in to see Billy Joel, you're going
to stay in New York for the weekend. If you are in Cleveland.
Maybe it's if it's a dream of yours to see him, Well, that's
true. New York has so many other things that'll bring tourison. I don't
think they'll hurt too much, but think Okay, So I guess what I'm
thinking about is the Taylor Swift economy. Have you heard about the Swift Academy?
But she's basically it's like the super Bowl in every city she stopped.
Yeah, like everybody loves when she's coming to town because of the hotels and
the food and the other stuff you're doing around the concert. Like, it's
been really good for cities to have her come through. It has been,
Yes, no doubt about that. She has. If you could see any
residency in Las Vegas, they have a ton of them. Yeah, is
there one that you would want to be like, oh my god, I'd
like to see that person in the in the best show that they could do.
Like, for instance, Adele has her residency. You know, you
probably won't see a better show with a Dell than you'll see in Las Vegas.
So is there a show? Is there a residency you'd like to see
there? It was um Britney Spears, and I did. I was fortunate
enough to see hers, And it was then when she was going to do
what was the second one called Dominatrix. No, what was Dominion? I
forget No, that was the voting machine. Yeah, don't say their name
she was supposed to, Yeah, don't evoke them. There is. There's
supposed to be a second another residency that she was doing. Then that's when
she like pretty much canceled it, refused to perform. Good for her,
But then the conservatorship that was already in place kind of took more hold and
everything. So I was looking forward to the second version, but um,
yeah, really that's the only one I could think of. I think it
would have been amazing to see share back in the day, once upon a
time. Yeah, if I could jump in a time machine, I think
that would have been absolutely astounding. The well of the residences. I saw
Brittany in Vegas, and I saw the Backstreet Boys residency as well, and
that one was a phenomenal, way better than Brittany. When I saw Brittany,
it was like she was phoning it in, and we know she was
phoning it in. She was not really wanting to be there, and it
was all amazing. It was amazing and fun and the dance and all of
that stuff. I'm not downplaying it, but there were definitely a few moments
where you're like, you know the back, she voice, constant energy all
the way through. Um, I would like to see cash is a residency.
I would love it. I'd probably love to see Adele just because I
think her voice is incredible. Oh. I've seen Elton John's residency. That
was oh legendary. He was phenomenal. That was his million dollar piano tour
where I mean it was just such an incredible show. I am a Miranda
Lambert fan, so I would probably like to see her residency at this point,
just to see all of her costumes and stuff. Oh I forgot she
had a residency. Yeah yeah, so maybe right now, maybe hers would
be the one. Yes, Okay, I agree with that. I guess
we should talk about some topics in the news, um what well some of
them, and there are quite a few viral videos trending right now. Um,
of course, there did you see the one where this car basically went
all dukes of hazard? Um, there was I think a car accident or
something, and there was the not the chew truck, but it had that
those trucks with a ramp thingy and a car was not paying attention driving down
the road, basically goes up the ramp of this truck and just flies into
this crash. Oh my gosh, No, I didn't know. The driver
fortunately somehow survived, which is amazing. But it was caught on a police
a dashcam, body cam footage. It was just I mean, this video
is everywhere. And then there's the President Biden falling, which that video is
everywhere, and I do have to ask. So he he was on stage,
he did the commencements, the commencement and Colorado springs, yes, So
he shakes hands with one of the debts and then goes to take a step,
trips over a sandbag that was on stage holding the one of the monitors
there, and he falls. Is this We've all fallen? Come on,
let's be real, like I've tripped over the floor itself. But it's this
bad because it's the President of the United States? Is it bad because it's
President Biden who's already under a microscope and people are kind of addressing the issue
of his age. Why is this specific? One? Have so many people
chiming in on social media because of this viral video for this. I think
there's a couple of things going on. Number One, watching that video just
and this has nothing to do with politics. This is about heart. This
is not about me trying to make fun of him because I don't agree with
his politics. I don't agree with his politics. But when you see him
walking off the stage, he looks like he's shuffling and then he falls,
and I think anybody who's seen that reminds us of that older person who is
having trouble. And the fact that fell hard he felt. I mean,
I was like, because I was telling you I was serving jury du do
this week, so I didn't get to see it, And as soon as
I turned my phone on, it was like bling, bling, bling,
I mean, all these different alis. Joe Biden takes a fall, and
so you look at it and you go, oh my god, I can
imagine. I mean, I felt terrible for him. It looked like he
was probably bleeding. He probably you know, three people picking him up and
putting him in the crowd. There was a woman who's smiling back there.
I don't know what that was all about. And it was so that was
that was hard. And you're already seeing that he trips a lot, You're
already having the evidence that he's not quite the same robust man that he was
before. And so I think there is there are people who are going to
say this is evidence that he's not equipped to do this job. And of
course everybody falls, it's just the way that he fell I think was very
indicative. He looked like he was well. It really is. And again
this is not like you said, it's not about his politics or anything.
But he fell so hard it looked like he could have broken a hip.
And I don't mean that's not ages he is a but even just regardless of
age, like if I fell that hard sideways, I probably would have broken
my hip or at least you're very it was very hard fall. It was
just it was not good. And of course, and it makes me sad
because as much as again I think that Biden's family is corrupt, I think
that he himself is corrupt, and I think that he is not a good
president. Probably the worst of my lifetime, and I was a baby during
the Carter administration. I will say all of those things about Joe Biden,
but I don't think it does well for America. I don't think it does
well for him to be in a position, you know, where he's hurting
himself. And I don't know if that continues. I don't know, you
know, I guess it'll be up to the people, the voters, perhaps
to see if that's appropriate. It's just it is hard to watch. And
you watch that, and I think you couple that with Diane Einstein, who's
a senator from my home state of California, who was out of Congress for
three months because she had complications of shingle shit the lightest and when she returned
to Congress, she looked she was presenting symptoms of a stroke like her I
was shut, she had a drooping face. She had a reporter ask her,
you know how she was feeling after being gone for so long, and
she said, I haven't been gone. I mean, she's not even aware
of where she is at this point. And so at what point do we
start talking about humanity and not politics? And actually, yes, exactly looking
at all the well, a little bit of humanity. How about a good
news story. There is a sherpa who was taking a client up Everest to
Summit Everest and pretty much ends up calling off the summit to save a life.
They came across another climber who was in the quote unquote death zone and
just clinging to rope and shivering. And it's one of those things that when
people get to a certain point of everest, if something happens, they are
not going to be rescued. There's just there's it's just very unlikely for it
to happen. There are temperatures of eighty six degrees but negative eighty six degrees
fahrenheit, the altitude level, the oxygen levels that are there, the steepness,
all of that. It's and that's why they call it the death stone,
where if something happens to you during this period of time, you are
probably not going to make it. Yeah, in this climber thought that they
were not going to make it, and so the serpa comes across them while
navigating their client, and it convinces the client to give up the summon attempt
so that they can rescue this person. And the client is like, yes,
absolutely, we need to save the life. Well, for six hours,
this sherpa hauled the climber about nineteen hundred feet in a sleeping mat before
another guid who was able to join the rescue efforts, and then the two
of them took turns carrying the man on their backs the rest of the way
down, well not even the rest of the way down. They only made
it to camp number three and then the climber was airlifted to base camp.
Wow, like that's incredible, so scary. If it's such a good news
story that this climber is absolutely able to make it. I love that people
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dot com joining me now our auto expert, Nick Miles are autoexpert dot com
is where you can get more information. Welcome Nick, Good morning. I
don't get to talk to you very often. I'm so excited for this.
I know it runs us out. I think Doug keeps us apart on purpose.
I know probably. So you are in Huntington Beach, California at the
moment, and it is for a big reveal. Huh. Yes, absolutely.
We've been hearing about this since two thousand and sixteen, and finally VW
is unveiling the American version of the VW Buzz Buzz, which is the new
bus, the new microbus, the new the original minivan, the van that
everybody jumped in in the seventies and disappeared off to the coast with. It's
in so many movies, but the new version is back. It's all electric
and it's actually really cool. I got to see it night for the first
time. Oh, that's exciting. No, I do have to ask something
I think Doug would ask. Will it be equipped with AM radio? Yes,
as far as I know, VW have no plans to extinguish AM radio
whatsoever. They're keeping the AM radio bands alive and well. But it will
be equipped with a lot more as well. We don't know much about the
mechanicals of it. And they're the boring parts, right. We used to
call them the oily parts before things became electric, but they're they're the boring
parts. We do know that it will have three rows. The third row
is removable, and I got to sit in those rows yesterday and sort of
tool around a little bit. They're actually very cool because they slide eight inches
forward and back, which is great for somebody that has a car seat or
somebody that wants, you know, a kid with extrallent length legs to sit
in the back. And they've all got like USB ports, and there's there's
the option of having this panoramic sun river of you, so you can lie
on your back and watch the palm trees go by as mom and dad drive
you to the beach. All the cool things that we know that the bus
should have. Oh that's awesome, that's so cool. I remember being younger.
Of course it's illegal now, but if you were writing in the back
seat of the van and the seats behind seats could fold backwards and you could
just lay there and hang out and look out the back window. And of
course the se bult wasn't on because the sepult didn't work that way. Again,
it's illegal now, but with that panoramic ceiling, that that roof that
can come down, all that just brings it all back. Yeah, it's
kind of fun too. And one of the things that VW have done Jay
which I think is really cool, as they put lots of little Easter eggs
in the vehicle, so lots of cool things that it does that you can
can do. So in the center there's a center console between the driver and
the passenger, and that actually is removable. It's two like switches. You
can pick it up and actually take it out so it comes out, which
means then you can have a walk through there, which I love about those
old buses. You'll be able to walk from the back seat and then get
in the front seat without having to climb over anything. That was always super
cool. And then they also have like these little removable pieces in it,
so one of them removes and becomes an ice scraper in case your windshield freezes
op over, and the other one removes in is a bottle opener. Not
that you'd be drinking beer while you're in this thing, but you know,
it's kind of cool. Those glass bottle cokes. Yeah, those are bottle
opener. Yeah. And there's lots of little things like that in the vehicle.
It has sliding doors on the side like your minivan may have had in
the day. And it also has sort of very very cool little logos of
VW's hidden throughout the vehicle, so they're either etched on the windshield or molded
into their plastic. And the colors that they've chosen, I'm glad to say
that these are Germans obviously who invented this, that designed it. But there
are not fifty shades of gray. They actually only have one black, white
and gray palette. The rest are all super bright colors, like a blue
and a green and a yellow and a red, which really excites me because
that means that people are going to enjoy themselves and have fun in these vehicles.
Now does it have the VW, the little flower base that the bugs
have. No, no, not quite. It does have the big old
logo that you used to have on the front, which is the size of
a dinner plate, which is kind of cool, but for twenty twenty four,
which is when this vehicle will be coming out, that does actually light
up. And then there's things like interior lighting. There's a great sound system,
which I think those old ones you were lucky if you know, you
actually had speakers that worked, because something had always gone wrong with them in
the front door. It will be a little more technically advanced. I kind
of worked out the numbers. It'll do somewhere around two hundred and fifty two
hundred and sixty miles on a single charge, which is kind of fun.
But the price is the part that really worries me. I'm thinking that the
original was about two thousand, two hundred dollars in nineteen fifty one. This
one's probably going to be about thirty times more than that. We're looking at
probably somewhere around sixty k oh wow. Well, but I mean it sounds
like it might be worth the price tag, So that's awesome, absolutely,
Nick, Thank you so much again. You can get more from Nick Miles,
our Autoexpert, at our autoexpert dot com. The Nex Stephen good Day
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