Lotus and Corvette on 2,000 mile Adventure! - Rushmore, Rockets, and Roads | Everyday Driver

foreign trips discovering new places in Great Cars is one of the very best parts of what we do and speaking of Great Cars we're taking two mid-engine cars that we love on a uniquely American road tour yeah these these quite different machines are headed off to actual Western towns where Cowboys lived and died huge Rock monoliths that look like people for reasons I don't entirely understand and while we're at it we expect to find some incredible roads for these great cars that are worthy of what they can actually do you know it's kind of a rock and roll road trip you're welcome well hey there welcome back to another road trip this is what we do I am so excited to do this again and we were discussing what cars should we take and we thought of the ca Corvette but then he was wondering well what mid-engine car do I take is a lease there it is in his little Elise it's so tiny which I'm gonna measure I am uh that's my nose there let's see I'm one and a half times as long as you are to be honest I'm I'm electric I'm electric that I'm taking this car on this road trip the only downside is sheer Comfort because the changes if you think about it in technology between an 06 car and the 2021 that Paul is driving are profound Paul has heated and cooled seats Apple carplay tons of room even though I honestly I I don't really have much more driver room in that car than I do in this one I have more room in this little tiny Lotus Elise that a lot of sports cars we've driven I'm six foot three I've got a fairly long torso a lot of sports cars are not right for me and I can fit in here I've got 76 almost 77 000 miles on this car I'll be close to 80 by the time we get home and you knew it was coming gold wheels I think it looks spectacular I've never liked black wheels look at this thing that C8 looks great with those gold wheels on it that's become Paul's official spec apparently you must have a blue car with gold wheels so those are actually just the stock wheels in gold with the brand new reddish nine tires on it that looks phenomenal I like it for this road trip our friends at redistein have provided tires I'm rolling on their Max performance summer Tires thank you redistein they go back to 1909 which I didn't know that makes them one of the world's oldest and most respected tire companies they focus on performance and design and Innovation but it was the design part that really caught my eye because they have partnered with georgettosaro who as of this road trip is 84 years old fredestine is the only Tire company that jujaro has designed for and you know him because of all his very famous designs like the de tomasa Mangusta and the Maserati Ghibli and the Lotus Esprit the first one oh and the DeLorean and let's see the first generation Volkswagen Golf and I love talking about design and that speaks to me I mean look at the design of these tires look at the sidewall it's why it looks so great and it says jujaro on the sidewall brilliant we decided to do this road trip on one of the hottest weeks on record yeah I mean that seems like a great idea for a car with marginal air conditioning sure why not I know he's suffering though already it's hot the air conditioner just kind of blows through a straw but I know he's loving it too so the general rule for me is whatever the outside temperature is I can be 10 to 15 degrees cooler in here than it is outside now over time the car heats up all the coolant lines all of the hot water of the car is running through these high door Sills they will get hot to the touch like painfully hot to the touch that will extra heat the cabin which is fun if you saw our last four road trips the Nissan Z he was luxuriating at first I didn't have air conditioning and I was in an almost 40 year old car this is going to be the payoff I haven't even broke it out the cooled seats yet and I'm in tour mode with the tour suspension this thing is so great for road trips just gonna sweat through my clothes honestly the only thing I really would wish for in this car is cruise control it's on a trip like this I'm probably gonna wish I had it but at 80 miles an hour in sixth gear you stop hearing the engine and the exhaust with the stock exhaust on most of your noise is created by just wind noise the state wind noisy cabin there's not a lot of sound deadening in this car these are all realities of why it only weighs 19.50 that's right less than 2 000 pounds before I climb into it but I'm in a Lotus Elise that's mine that I love headed for roads I've never seen before I'm really really excited this is what c8s are built for to go search for roads because you can change I can go to sport I can go all the way to track I've gotten my mode I can select individual preferences you cannot say this isn't a Supercar recipe because it very much is mid-engine V8 with Magnetic Ride and a view like this the Lotus is so tiny it doesn't block my view of the scenery anymore some of you are saying Lotus lots of trouble usually serious I've heard the old jokes I understand I know about that but here's the thing you have to realize in in six years I've gone multiple sets of tires one set of brakes I have brand new brake pads on here brand new brakes from Power stop our friends over there sent me their really cool track pads which has improved the braking feel of this immensely this car just runs oil changes every year no matter what I have done anything that it's needed it had one place where an injector failed and I had to get that redone that's the one thing that surprised me otherwise started driving run it somewhere everything works oh look and I'm already getting good fuel economy I'm already at 25.7 miles to the gallon that's because this has four cylinder shut off we're starting off great this is awesome love road trips I feel like this is a lot of payoff for suffering I mean driving the 928 all over the country I love that car don't worry it's not going anywhere but this is the right car for road trips well we've also discovered I'm running my gauge says I'm running about five miles per hour faster than I really am both the support car and the C8 are running exactly in sync with each other and I'm not right I know what that feels like this is not me anymore this is uh this the fair are always unknowns we don't travel with some big support group it's three of us it's three cars Paul to the C8 be in the Lotus and chance following us to support vehicle it's also a camera car there's no big production here there's no helicopter to call there's no we have a crew of 50 and somebody's a fixer none of that stuff you've seen on TV shows it's existing here leaving my family's heart leaving my dogs is hard but at the same time I'm just I'm always thrilled that we actually get out at its new world in front of us and it's just Road then I get really excited again then I become a kid again and I think I'm so glad we get to do this [Music] I'm not gonna lie to you Central Wyoming is uh pretty bleak there's not a lot out here the last time we came up through Wyoming we came up by Tetons and Jackson and it was absolutely beautiful you've got some scenery here there's a little bit but I am just cool and very comfortable and it's excellent and I really like this car so yes the the Lotus requires a level of sacrifice noise canceling headphones are an absolute godsend in this car having gone back to the original stock exhaust it's actually brought the in-cabin noise down believe it or not but it's still quite loud and I notice it like crazy every time I take those headphones off now there's frankly a lot of cars where noise canceling headphones will help you but on this car it feels like a new requirement right now I'm actually really happy we're getting some new desolate scenery from Wyoming we're bombing down a back road as a group pretty great day to be out here it feels pretty good to drive one of America's best sports cars they've ever built through the American Heartland so far I've had two daily triples it's it's really easy and and that's part of passing I need to pass a Dodge Ram Wyoming license tag everybody's wearing cowboy hats now the other thing I've noticed is that when Paul has room in front of him now he uses it the C8 has plenty of power to uh to vanish from my vision I am always marveling at how lightweight this car feels and when you take weight out of a car it gives you back Sensation that is the trade-off and as cars get heavier and heavier because of all the stuff we insist they have so they could be I don't know quiet have cooled seats and all the stuff I don't have in here including cruise control as they get heavier they get more distant they get more like an airliner and less like a small Cessna if you follow what I mean three tunnels ahead maybe Icy not in 96 degree whether it isn't check this out this is cool unbelievable chiseled right through the Rock I just can't get over how much work that is this is beautiful and love it running along the bottom of this Canyon it's just seeing new stuff that excites me see new and different Corners in new and different scenerys it always excites me I could be half asleep at the wheel and get into a can and be like wait what are we doing this is awesome [Music] thank you [Music] we are also just about to Thermopolis coming out of the canyon here we've got what five miles to go or so and that has big horn state park it is a Hot Springs the hot springs became Wyoming's First State Park in 1897. I just hope they have a great gift shop and there would be the star plunge hot mineral pools okay would have never come here for any other reason but that's the great thing about road trips this is a town of 2500 people so tiny and you turn a corner and we're at the Thermopolis pools the hot springs which as you can see has got like infrastructure and pools and water slides and it's a big thing that's actually been used for more than a century this has been used for a long time so Thermopolis uh if you're bi here stop here I guess you can see dinosaurs see stegosaurus I told you Dinosaurs the other thing I can't get across though and it almost needs to be smell-o-vision because you get out here and it's exactly like any time you've ever been to Yellowstone or any hot spring or whatever it's that that permeated smell of sulfur is very prevalent here that's not a slight that's all of these natural hot springs and yeah so it's dinosaurs and a sulfur smell and a water slide so it's got everything okay here we go this is worth it was it was it really look water's coming out of the rock what's your measurement scale for worth it what what is that I get to stretch my legs okay excellent you're looking for is unique it's Unique yes there you go see that that's cleansing it's Unique it just also you could also say interesting because that covers a diameter oh this is interesting it's interesting yes [Music] this or Yellowstone this or Yellowstone I mean I know it's all kind of the same right no it's not this is uh this is different it's interesting they actually may have a gift shop for you unique I'm looking for the gift shop I'm telling you some place that can take my money oh it's funnel cakes I had high hopes for some kind of tchotchke or something but over my shoulder is the food stand and it's just corn dogs and chicken strips and hot dogs and Oreos and a Cornerstone of your diet is represented I'm looking for some kind of cool something and I didn't find it do they sell like a little vial of hot spring water you could open it up like sulfur [Laughter] come on who's the person bottling that look Korean there's probably an enormous amount of families who took a trip to Thermopolis every year there's probably been honeymoons and all kinds of experiences and Thermopolis that are burned into people's memories as some of the best times of their life and I've never heard of it until today if you only see it when you take a back road and you wind up in one of these little towns and go wait what is this now and that's what this was about today and I'm thrilled that we did it and it's only the beginning we got about an hour to Cody Wyoming that's going to be our stop for the night we came through Cody last year on our North trip we went all the way up to Glacier National Park with our cars of the past by 300ZX and Paul's 928. so we'll stop there tonight and then we'll use that as our turning point to go across the top of Wyoming I'm actually really excited this is why we do this as weird as it is to say Thermopolis is why we do this it's the kind of thing where we wind up going down an amazing road to see something we never would have seen I would have missed both those opportunities today if I wasn't in this car driving along for fun sharing it with you love it in spite of the fact that England is a country that gets quite a bit of rain the top is not actually very waterproof so what we're going to do is we're going to pressure wash this so we're going to keep the water kind of below the belt line of the top that might be a problem that might that might be an issue it may have some soapy hair when I get in we'll see absolutely pissing rain you have to uh you have to probably have to go inside number always starts from the top down always the ionized water spot free action all right so you need to drive properly that is with the grain of the car the airflow up over the top of the car you always want to start at the top of the windshield header and go all the way to the back I don't go with the grain of the car I just dry Brio's garage has this really cool thing I'm missing right now which is their like edgeless super thirsty ridiculous towel that's like carrying a sponge around and I'm really missing it about now I mean these are still decent Brio's cloths but that I forget how awesome it is until I don't have it and then I think yeah that kind of sucks you're getting one of those towels they're the best day number two of our road trip we're leaving Cody Wyoming and we're headed straight East and I am back to my original thesis that I want to share this car with people on the trip people keep walking up to the Corvette C8 and asking Paul what it is they've never seen one and they have no idea and if it doesn't say on it they're utterly baffled case in point I'm at the gas station we've washed the cars and this morning a lady came up and knocked on my window on the glass right here and she leaned in and said I just want to see your car it's a great and then I thought I wonder if she knows so I asked her do you know what this is and she said no I I just think it's fancy and I just wanted to look inside I said well this is a Corvette and I think brain matter dripped out of her ears and she couldn't get over Corvette plus the way this looks I said for the first time ever it's a mid-engine car with a 500 horsepower v8 behind you I said it's fast and almost seductively she said shall we go find out yikes he's had multiple conversations like that far more than I ever thought was even possible but it's amazing how depending upon where you are in the country and your life experience some of these cars that we talk about all the time may never even cross your mind let alone your path ah passing is just so easy it really is fun it's very interesting to drive it and it's a Corvette it is a third to a quarter of the price of many other Exotics and those Exotics you would be a rich snob you wouldn't be worth the time of day they wouldn't want to talk to you the Corvette it's friendly love it oh and I'm about to turn 14 000 miles well hello if you've ever wondered where all the stuff in America goes all the unwanted stuff like all The Unwanted cars and airplanes it's out here the Museum of Flight and aerial firefighting now I don't want to oversell it when I use the word Museum it is a place you can come to look at old stuff it's aircraft parked outside rotting away in the weather and information in a little Hut we're fascinated with airplanes pretty much anything that has an engine and we've determined that none of these are air worthy but they are for you know a few seconds that they're falling from the sky all I see when I walk a bone yard like this is cool furniture I just want to make a desk out of that Wing don't you think no I've never I just I want to once I want to make coffee table out of the cowling and I've seen people do this and I I know it's out there it's actually quite expensive and kind of cool it just has that man cave Vibe so old airplanes I just want to hack it up and build furniture I believe it's called Restoration Hardware I also shot there like a big pistachio we call this the pistachio the pistachio plant we're so smart we're gonna store each side get this whole thing clams right off this scene [Music] there's not a lot to see it's just a few planes but you really get to see the insides of World War II era aircraft in a way that I haven't seen a lot of places you've been literally seeing the cables running from the flight controls to the flight control surfaces in the insides of these planes and then you think about at least I think about guys in World War II barely out of high school flying in one of those and Paul mentioned that the guy in charge was in his early 20s I'm enough of a plain geek it was worth the stop however it's not worth the destination in the bustling town of grebel Wyoming I know it's pretty hot out there but I had to turn the air conditioning down it is chilly in here earlier it got so hot in the cabin because I was parked outside under no shade at all just parked outside of the Flight Museum it was so hot in here that five minutes in the cabin and my phone shut off from overheating on one of our podcasts a while back Todd having grown up in Texas identified that American air conditioners are among the world's best because Texas and I didn't really believe him until now we're at North Central Wyoming now headed for the distant mountains in front of us as we work our way toward Devil's Tower and we've done one of those discoveries again where this road has been amazing really well planned passing zone so if you get stuck behind a RV or an 18-wheeler you've got plenty of room to pass them it's very high speed big sweepers it's listed at 70 miles an hour and it's none of us are doing 70 and I'm including the semi trucks and now suddenly we're in a canyon the landscape changes so quickly this makes it worth it not being on the highway this kind of discovery [Music] and then suddenly we get a piece of road like this and the Lotus starts winning again dang it brilliant although the Corvette is still really excellent [Music] X look at the switchbacks this seems very undiscovered for sports cars because sports cars tend to stay close to home you don't want to venture out too far you don't have a road trip in your sports car but if you do the payoff is this [Music] I'm waiting in a construction zone in a forest area of Wyoming and nothing sends chills down my spine like the sign I just passed before we stopped that said pavement ends ahead I bring this up now while I'm stopped because the previous owners went with nitron coilovers that actually dropped the ride height a little bit now is when I'm starting to get a little worried bump which in Lotus parlons translates to chasm holy okay all right okay yeah easy easy fellas easy we're okay we're okay good news I put the C8 into tour mode and the suspension is great and the tires are great for repaving roads and we're already out of it no problem chalk up another win for the C8 sure yeah yeah I off-road my Elise don't you not the perfect choice for this right here haven't scraped yet but not the best don't go that way falls off about 18 inches oh yeah unexpected Canyon has been very fruitful this is brilliant bit of construction but this is what we love about sweepers what's interesting to me about the interstates in Wyoming is they're like this desolate High Plains a little bit of elevation now and then it all blurs into a sea of sameness but the rest of Wyoming when you get off of the interstates and you go down these back roads it's amazing how many times it just becomes a canyon you can carry some serious speed through here because frankly why not and who's going to stop you it's posted at 80. we're all doing more this reminds me a little bit of the stretches in the middle of Nebraska that we did for our East Coast trip but that wasn't interstate and this is empty I mean this is this is the middle of the summer Prime Time go somewhere weather it's just us a couple of duallys oh look there's a camper that's it it's not complaining I'm just amazed that it's all this quiet oh here we go exiting for Gillette Wyoming we're gonna see the rock paper scissors statue I hope it's not lame I hope it's really creative and interesting and cool and I hope people show up for this thing if not I'm going to be very disappointed it's right there it's right on the street corner it looked okay but it's not very big good well there it is it's a statue to the best deciding game ever this is actually pretty cool I like this it's in a really weird just random street corner in the middle of Gillette Wyoming of all places but where's all the people where's all the people they're supposed to be the shrine making a pilgrimage to this supposed to be a shrine they're supposed to be rings of monks in roads yes all saying choose choose choose choose choose speaking of choosing you know what we need to decide something that you and I've been debating I want to be in the C8 for a while yeah I knew that was coming so hot today you don't want to be out of the city I don't want to be out of the C8 so what do we need to do the cooled seats are amazing these don't exist the entire interior is like a fridge I had to turn it down I've resisted cracking jokes because it's so nice well you do deserve you do deserve that Comfort I put my time in yes you have however I want to drive to see it I want to talk about the comparison of these cars you need to drive my car but I guess I don't want to decide this it's kind of obvious rock paper scissors that's two out of three yes all right here we go ready yep one two three one two three dang it all right here we go one two three oh one two three all right here we go one more time oh my gosh the steering wheel is so tiny I'm driving a fly I know why Todd likes this you can feel everything you look at a bump and you feel the quality of the pothole okay I'm finally convinced Paul to get out of the vet for just a little while so we could talk about the difference in these two cars and chance pointed out we have completely swapped roles anytime I get into Paul's car in the last round of road trips he had to give me a talking to about all the procedures you're probably gonna find that anything above about 5000 RPM it doesn't blow quite as cold so but you'll be fine I mean you'll be up below 5000 RPM at 80 90 miles an hour so it won't matter I'm just letting it okay so anyway and then it does what it can so there's drain Holes in the Floor so you can you know release the sweats I guess that pools on the bottom exactly right yep exactly right awesome okay see he's got AC air actually works good wow it's really loud in here that Lotus looks so cool though I really love the way it looks what a tiny ridiculous little car I love it so much anyway sorry this is about the C8 it is an ice box in here right right away it is an ice box my legs are actually cold already and we've barely started moving and the other thing about it is this C8 gives you a ride that is like an executive super sedan than it is a sports car now of course I can change the mode here and I can go into something that is Hardcore for a back road and you should but since we're just driving along on the freeway or on I-90 for I don't know about an hour yet why not have it in touring now it makes the back half of the car pretty loose but it soaks up bumps in such an amazing way and this car costs far less than most luxury Vehicles it is absolutely so visceral I'm sitting on a wood plank in comparison to the seats in the C8 I'm sitting on firewood it's like you're sitting on a log around a campfire that's what the seats and the Lotus are like but you know what it should be like a log around a campfire because you can't feel anything and I do actually like a seat with good support so the wood planks are feeling just fine I know you don't want to believe me but I have more Headroom in the Lotus than I do in the C8 I have more leg room here I have more leg room in the ca I have more shoulder room in the ca but I have more Headroom in the tiny little Lotus Elise and the truth is that this is a much more bolstered modern adjustable seat and yet it's really not any more comfortable than the seats and Lotus now it's a ventilated seat so that makes it really nice but sheer Comfort level I don't understand how those Pro back seats Lotus just nailed the seats in that car The Cabin in the C8 is quieter than the cabin and the Lotus with noise canceling headphones on Paul is probably currently complaining about noise level by comparison okay it's loud but not as loud as I thought there's a lot of wind noise right here at speed but you know the top is as thin as your shirt so you can't expect punch and you know I wouldn't want this for more than an hour or so but still this is just a gnat oh hey General Lee these are both mid-engine sports cars with low noses and yet I feel like I'm six inches to a foot higher off the freeway than I am in the Lotus I'm exaggerating but it almost feels like this is an SUV it has that kind of commanding ride height and I'm looking around very well aware of the world I'm looking down on all of you it feels that way in comparison to being in the lotus every bit of Road information is transmitted into your hands and that's what Lotus does so well that's why the Elise is so special and on the curvy roads that we're going to find that we've already discovered a little bit there's really nothing like an Elise we're above 4000 RPM at 80 miles an hour that could get old that could get old has this gone too far the other way I'm wondering if we're just spoiling Paul now Paul doesn't deserve things this nice that's not actually true all of the technology and latest and greatest you could want in any modern sedan or SUV is available here and I bet you this rides better than 90 of them and then when you want to go fast and you want to like dial it down and make it hardcore and get on a back road this is going to run away from most things Todd has also talked about the suspension the compliant suspension and you know he's right this is not a car that beats you up even though it's got a very short wheelbase it's actually fairly compliant oh but see bumps are painful like Bridge thresholds like that are painful it's like driving a circus it's as brightly colored as a circus everybody doesn't know what it is and so everybody stares and it's freaking hilarious oh I could be using cruise control I haven't even thought about it I'm so conditioned to not using cruise control I didn't even think about it maybe I should turn that on yeah oh hey look oh that's the first time I've retracted my right leg in days I've got cooled seats I kind of want to take my shoes off now there is so little information transmitting to the driver in this car compared to the Elise the steering feels utterly artificial it's got weight but it doesn't really feel like I have any awareness of the grip of the tires I know that I'm moving them but it we've jumped to the other end of the spectrum here for sure he's probably marveling up the steering and all we've done is go straight that's probably what's happening he's can't believe how much steering feel he has and we haven't even really had to steer you know what even when the road's straight like this you can choose the part of the lane you want to be in you can feel that you can feel that look how Nimble this thing is it's so good the steering wheel is Tiny the instrument panel is Tiny it's like a couch and a half it's like as white as a love seat in here the C8 is pretty good and I do love the power but this is so light that it doesn't need a lot of power so sport cancel cruise control that was an easy triple I mean like a not trying triple and I'm I'm truly I keep overstating it I'm truly astonished by the ride quality those big old renishtein performance tires they're designed for great performance and we're out here with those tires and the suspension and it's it's a luxury item fantastic here comes the C8 oh look at her I'm looking at him he's looking at me look at that thing that just looks like it commands the road that's crazy you can't see around the C8 only when you're in a lease this is a very strange feeling I'm driving the Elise I've got this visceral reaction lots of noise lots of wind noise I feel everything I my heart rate is increased I'm I'm just on right now and I'm staring at the C8 going that's a freaking awesome car I wouldn't mind being in that I guess that's my big conclusion is the C8 does things that remind you of other cars luxury cars performance cars SUVs things that you may own or buy or already have experience with the C8 has links to those the Lotus has none of that other than the fact that it technically is a car it doesn't feel related to any of those modern vehicles at all I'm always so mixed on this and Todd's reaction is always flat out he will take his load as he just wants it and I admire that the only reason I'm so excited by this drive is because I haven't been in it up to now it's great it's great I don't know that I could do what Todd does and last an entire giant road trip in this thing that's what we want for you find your release find your C8 find your Porsche find the thing that fits you and that you would choose over any other car even on a road trip and you'd Overlook the shortcomings just to get to your favorite road find that car well hello again little one so weird to watch Paul drive this car and realize I've rarely ever seen it driving when I'm not in it whoa we're back on our own cars this feels like the automotive equivalent of laughing gas I mean the whole thing is numb in comparison to that Lotus the sensations are so fun in that car everything is just fun where there is compromise here and comfort is very high on the list I'm instantly missing the cooled seats I'm instantly missing just the the luxury a parent in that car but what's interesting is not having that big center console here makes this feel pretty open I can reach both doors yeah I'm touching the right window right now yeah so so it's a lot smaller but since there's no center console here it doesn't certainly without a passenger it doesn't feel cramped at all and I add a passenger in here it starts to feel cramped for sure but I do miss a lot of that car even on a straight road I miss that buzz that rock star sensation yeah I do feel like I'm sitting way up high and when I was in the Lotus I couldn't see around this thing and the Corvette is not a tall car looking down on the low on the Lotus I still love the seating position though I love this huge wide expanse the hood I love the fender flares I love the tops of the fenders we're almost to our big destination of this part of the road trip Devil's Tower which I've never ever seen I've only ever seen it in photos or on film would you look at this the road to Devil's Tower is really good it's great look at these sweepers it's green and Lush I never expected this the impression I had was just planes like come in like Monument valleys straight as an arrow and then monolith clearly that's not what's going on this is why we do this so we can learn so we can pass on to you this is really cool this is beautiful some fun corners I did not expect this in the run-up to the tower I really didn't I can't imagine living out here or having a ranch of any kind what do you do out here I mean the road is almost worth coming back just for this I don't care about the monument the road is just great it's a huge monolith how does it hide how is that possible where does it go does it shrink back is it like Pinocchio's nose think it's just over this raw eyes look at that thing whoa that is just weird I'm surprised to see the Devil's Tower is the beginning of a series of Peaks other outcroppings not that far away from it on the same kind of geological line I didn't know that was even a thing out here I thought it was just all by itself but there's others I can be taught it's impressive I had this impression it was just flat ground and this thing rising up out of it but it's actually part of a landscape that is beautiful out there wow I have driven my Lotus Elise just over a thousand miles from home Devils Tower Nashville Monument because I can some of my favorite stuff is sentences like that hello Porsha hello that was a 911. I'm really happy being here this is so good look at that what there's a ton of people here so back there at the entrance is the Devils Tower KOA campsite I only bring it up because every night in the summer they play Close Encounters of the Third Kind and you're sitting in the campsite watching the movie in front of the tower that's pretty cool we found all the people yeah it's there it's the prairie dog town or whatever that a lot of people stop for all I can think of is that whack-a-mole game they're all sticking their heads up and I just want to take the hammer whack-a-ball national park that's that's gonna go over well that'll get good funding that'll be great now I feel like a tourist we're in tourist traffic we're working our way to the visitor center it's okay Devil's Tower is one of those weird cool places There's real presence here at Devil's Tower there's there it has it has weight foreign [Music] that's 1200 feet from where we're standing here at about 850 from the top of the Boulder Field this was the first national monument 1906 that means this location as National Monument is more than 100 years old more than a few million years like 50 okay but there's a National Monument I mean it's really really it's really old yeah this is cooler than I thought though I I kind of dig this it's just so different and strange it's so imposing I kind of expected like Monument Valley you to be able to see it forever but it's amazing how even when you get close some of the roads really close coming in here you don't even know where the tower is and yet it's so huge so it's like it divides and then it pops up all of a sudden and this is the destination you have to make effort to come yes it's not just nearby something on your way can you imagine Teddy Roosevelt in 1906 coming out here no I can't There's No Air Force One I'm bringing one getting a horse we'll see ya foreign said in Close Encounters the Third Kind this means something this is important of course he was talking about aliens but Devil's Tower itself has that kind of Gravitas it's very cool I'm thrilled that we got here late in the evening there wasn't much traffic we were able to find parking I can't imagine how frustrating it would be to sit on this road Bumper to Bumper try to get up there to see the monolith I still emboggled at the thought of Teddy Roosevelt riding out here almost 120 years ago to go yep let's protect that I mean I'm glad he did but I just can't imagine that ride I can't imagine that Journey I say that because I've been blessed to have traveled quite a bit I mean we're traveling now I've lived overseas we're traveling around the nation because we want to see new things but before the invention of the car honestly the average person never traveled more than about a hundred miles from where they were born the car and the Train the train first of course facilitated long distance travel Devil's Towers behind us we're headed to dinner and we've discovered these roads that are suddenly perfect there's nobody out here it's just us oh and counts this is this is a moment this is why we do these road trips it's these unexpected moments of great driving Nirvana I mean I don't know the way to put it it's this is a pretty perfect moment I had no idea these roads are here I had no idea this was here Bleak in the winter but right now just before the sun goes down we've discovered something many of you have told us that these road trips have inspired you and I hope so because there really is something magical about being able to go down on a basic Road in a great car I feel incredibly blessed that we get to do this for a living you guys watch it and sharing it with friends and having those moments when you stop your life to get away with us on these trips and what we do can bring you a little bit of Joy that's Beyond any success we could imagine yes it's a car show but it's also a lot more than that I say that because you guys tell us that and that's incredibly flattering getting all philosophical in the late daylight the magic hour but I'm I'm just thinking of the fact that life offers very few perfect moments it offers very few moments when everything about it you just think there's nothing I'd change and this is one of those for me okay just before we get to South Dakota we've discovered more good roads this is cool okay that amazing road is done and we're on I-90 second Camp coming up wait for it there it is stop ahead stop ahead who puts a stop on a freeway on-ramp nothing stays perfect for too long there's there's road to do and now it's construction I can weave through the cones for fun but I probably shouldn't Sundance Wyoming is pretty really pretty I mean granted magic our life makes everything pretty but still it's pretty foreign from Spearfish South Dakota if you told me honestly even a year ago you're going to go to South Dakota I would have said why why but here I am and I'm actually quite excited about it it's the morning of day three day three it's been a long time on the road and I was here as a kid I came to Mount Rushmore I came to Crazy Horse I explored this area with my family and all I can remember is being Sullen and angry and wishing I weren't here in the Heat and not wanting to be with my family on a family road trip and all of those things you feel is an angsty teenager I didn't want to be here so I don't remember much about it and I wish I had found it but we're gonna do look look at that shirt and we're going to end our day at Mount Rushmore it's a tourist day so last night we were pulling into the hotel and a group of teenage boys spotted Todd's Lotus and were very excited and came up to him and they're talking to him about it and I came over just a bit later but they were still more interested in the Lotus because that is far more exotic even though this looks exotic that is exotic so I asked him which of these two cars do you think is faster and they all pointed to the Lotus and so we had a very lovely power to weight discussion what was funny though is as we were leaving signing off one of the boys you could tell was really trying to be an adult so you know take care good meat and yeah great conversation you know take care of yourself now like adults do to each other and I'm thinking to myself Todd and I are trying to be kids by driving these cars and driving around and just doing this we're trying to be kids again what we were talking about coming there's a lot of kind of kind of things to see to see but one of them happens to be Deadwood one of the most famous old west towns Wild Bill Hickok one of the more famous gunfighter lawmen did everything old west Heroes he killed in Deadwood as a matter of fact the town of Deadwood replays that every day in the summer they reenact it it's so important there's so much history deadwood's Wild West that must be that's probably where they reenact the show Wild Bill Hickok where he died or how he died and then the capture of his killer I'm also fascinated with how young people were Wild Bill Hickok was only 39 years old when he was killed and he was the old guy and his killer only 24 years old tragic covered wagon that does not look comfortable all right so behind me is the Bullock hotel now you may remember that if you ever watched the show Deadwood Seth Bullock was the law man that was made famous in that show he was an actual guy he built an actual Hotel there it is [Music] the Bullocks was really cool and you could kind of walk around and get a sense of the architecture and how it must have been used but I do admit that the neon casino machines below the Mystique just a bit but otherwise it was really cool being in there and actually seeing the connection to him and Wild Bill Hickok and the whole town [Music] I have discovered my tchotchke I didn't realize that this is what I needed it didn't come to mind but this is perfect of course the United States Deputy Marshall badge this is going in the collection so leaving Deadwood which is a really mixed bag as a western fan as a history fan you you see the bones of it you see what it was you get a sense of it you can kind of look back but of course it's also been turned into a tourist Mecca so you know there's neon glowing slot machines in the Bullock Hotel there's schlocky stupid t-shirts in every store you can imagine I mean it's so it's that mixed bag but it's cool to be there down to Crazy Horse monument and then we'll work our way back up to Mount Rushmore because that's what this area is known for this whole Black Hills area is steeped in things for tourists to do but what I keep being Amazed by is just how pretty it is as we're driving a Crazy Horse I am thinking about monuments and giant Odes to yourself or to something you know all over Europe there's many churches there's many buildings there's many projects Whom The Architects and the people building them started and worked on their whole lives and died before completion but up until these two sculptures Crazy Horse and Mount Rushmore I don't know that the US really had Legacy kinds of projects like that because both of them are still unfinished there are people who have worked on this their whole lives and they'll die before they ever see it completed I suppose that really makes it the definition of a monument right [Music] oh there it is oh it's right there I don't recall any of this it was just forced family fun you know [Music] we are leaving Crazy Horse monument I can actually see it out my back window right now I'm not sure I've ever felt so mixed about any tourist attraction I've ever been to this is not an official national park or National Monument they charge fifteen dollars per person to get in but once you get in and you look around you realize a few things first off this started 75 years ago and it started kind of noble let's take the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota that are sacred to the Native Americans of the area let's carve something that celebrates the Native American history of this place versus Mount Rushmore which does not sounds great but now we're 75 years later and it's still unfinished and when you visit the huge complex at the base of the Crazy Horse monument the more you walk around and read things and go through the rooms it becomes a monument to the white sculptor very talented and now it's his obsession and he has since died and passed that Obsession on to his kids and even his grandkids who have been born into his obsession they're making progress but there's also this sense of Legacy that the sculptor has created korzak zilkowski he has created this entire Legacy not just with his family lineage but people that want to work on it and expand it and the amount of growth is really impressive You could argue that it's a celebration of Native American culture but you could also easily argue that it's just a monument to one man's undying obsession and I feel quite mixed about having been I can't imagine if it ever gets done in my lifetime and there's a quote on there from the Sculptor very strange place [Music] which is very different from the one we're going to which is the president's before we get to Mount Rushmore though we've got Needles Highway that is almost directly between Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse and what's great about it is this look at these switchbacks we are doing something right we got a thumbs up from the biker gang pointed at Todd and gave me a thumbs up I love it I mean we're having fun nobody else is and of course at some point I'm going to catch traffic I've been pretty clean so far when the sign says 10 miles an hour you know it got sharp oh country now this is very different this kind of granite rock outcropping kind of stuff so far we've been traveling so slowly on this road that my temperature on the car has gotten up above 200 because the air conditioner is running and there's no airflow so I have rolled the windows down so now my hair can be crazy and we can do this problem solving there we go it's all blind Corners it's all narrow blind Corners which are actually kind of my favorite that's good news okay A bit of a line a touch of a line here it's cool though look at these spiers guess we have to take turns right I love that somebody looked at this and decided you know what we're not just going to carve a path through here we're gonna pave it I wonder if I'm gonna fit I'm gonna fit I'm gonna fit just fine Paul on the other hand might scrape his mirrors Corvette is a wide girl all right taking turns people are waiting let's get out of here this is interesting this is very low speed but look perfect pavement through the wilderness it's kind of like a lane and a half you know no Center stripe everybody has to navigate and be cool to each other and sometimes people aren't granted I have the best possible car for this road because I'm tiny so I take up only about 60 percent of what anybody else takes up which is very nice and I have great handling so that's good too I've decided some of these roads at low speed it's it's like skiing a Green Hill fast it's like a green you know Green ski runs it's like doing one of those really fast still very enjoyable very easy we've come up to another one lane tunnel it's making me laugh about all of these in South Dakota is that there's no there's no one here there's no light there's no timer it's all self-policed just you pick your moment and go see Lotus no problem Corvette no problem yeah this one feels a little wider all right we're good self-policed one-way tunnels so what that means is that the state of South Dakota has decided everyone driving is an adult and can be mature enough to take turns that is a bold prediction on the part of South Dakota I mean I appreciate it I'm very glad to have that thinking but I I think that is that is planning for the best of humanity so in terms of humanity this is where we're at now with a sign that says Buffalo are dangerous do not approach them we need Signs Now to instruct us and remind us that wild animals are dangerous we should all rise to the challenge that South Dakota has set out be mature take turns one-way tunnels I like it I'm going to run for office I'm not but my campaign slogan apparently would be one-way tunnels figure it out oh wow it opens up look at this gorgeous see this is my kind of exploring in a sports car air conditioning paved Road yeah that's right we are Hardy hardcore explorers in our sports cars we're about to be on a road that takes us to Keystone which is the town closest to Mount Rushmore and it has a couple of tunnel views where you go through a tunnel on a winding road and you can see Mount Rushmore through the tunnel I'm actually kind of excited about that I know that it exists I've never seen it for myself I haven't even been to this area since I was about 10. that was a long time ago the sun is filtering through the Pines the road was smooth the curves were challenging this reminds me of our first trip the Pacific Northwest trip oh hello Scoville Johnson tunnel sting oh and see off in the distance they are right there there they are that is cool it's beautiful I love the light right now and I can tell by people's response to see me coming the other way that they were not expected to see a sports car coming the other way and there's a little bit of Bobble in the lane at the yellow sports car to rub it in or anything but I see people in minivans look at us go by and I can see the pain in their eyes I'm right there with you it's why I brought a sports car this is the road that bores your kids dad it's just more trees let me go faster are we there yet I was a driver on a good road I am I'm happy about all of those things I'm happy that it's just another Corner in the trees and we aren't there yet but it should just be called that board kid Road Guy this is reminding me of Boy Scout camp a lot of memories with scenery like this sections like this the Lotus is winning again the tight twisty stuff Todd must be loving this 15 mile an hour corner well that seems like good news oh hello hello I loved that what a brilliant Road oh wow split the lanes and now it is a one lane road through the forest in each Direction it's like it's a it's a high-speed Campground road I'm loving it don't have enough there look at this and here's where they merge that's cool never expected that that was great I would not want to crawl down this road in traffic in an RV that would suck the way we're doing it right now it's pretty great look at that that was a full 180 under the road it went underneath itself that's really cool oh wow I was wondering how that was going to work on the map just like that I guess oh another split this who designed this road I like you so much more split Lanes here splitting the road great idea this is interesting ah that might be my new favorite road feature I didn't know they could do that this is one of my new favorite things one lane road from the forest and we re-emerge wow that's fun we're at the dough ain't Robinson tunnel we're working our way through but look at that up ahead oh the heads are in the distance look at that look at that uh huh it's technical it's slow it's enjoyable it's fast it's smooth it's creative all right this is called the pigtail the road's gonna go all the way around underneath itself who designed this road who designed this road they need Awards and accolades Maybe songs written about them because that's really cool I'm absolutely blown away at this road [Music] there they are it's an impression doesn't it wow [Music] when I was here as a kid I never thought I'd come back and appreciate museums but there's so many kids running around and this is perfect for them to come learn especially on summer vacation and then come back as an adult because I'm actually interested in learning more and you could spend all day here learning about the story and really it's a different experience than Crazy Horse I like coming here I'm really appreciative to come back as an adult never really expected to be in South Dakota why is this in South Dakota well it's here because it was designed as a tourist attraction it was not originally intended to have presidents but I'm glad that it does but I kept thinking about who would pick these presidents if we did it now can you imagine an online poll to pick the presidency with president or something at the artist decided he picked Washington because the birth of the nation Jefferson for the growth of the nation Louisiana Purchase and more he picked Teddy Roosevelt because of how he expanded the nation creating trust busting creating national parks and national monuments by the way and also helping the common man and then of course Lincoln for preserving the union this is the reason he chose the board he did it himself which I think is probably the way to go it's incredible I just can't believe it's here South Dakota and not anywhere near where any of these guys were a small detail but something that left a huge impression on me as a kid was the pupils of each president if you come here you'll learn that they are a square post that sticks out it stands proud of the eye quite a ways but from far away it puts light in their eyes and it really brings the sculptures to life it actually gives them personality really ingenious to me [Music] there is a lot of junk in gift shops I know you know that already and there's a lot of stuff in the Mount Rushmore gift shop but nothing says I've been to this place Mount Rushmore without their heads on the end of a keychain that's right I'm back to keychains but you know what it's appropriate you know remind me of uh of the time that we were here [Music] we are leaving Mount Rushmore and I am struck by the fact that it worked the entire reason the whole point of this Monument originally was tourism to bring people to this area I'm glad that some of the characters that were originally slated to be carved into the granite weren't imagine Buffalo Bill Cody being carved into Granite with that beard and the long hair and the overhanging hat I mean do you really want to carve the giant brim of a hat but I like that it's here it's brought us to a different area of the country the roads are great the scenery is really interesting and very different but I'm still struck by the whole point originally was tourism but we're not done going east we're going to see some stuff that is reminiscent of the Cold War that exists in South Dakota as well and also an area of the country that I have never seen except for in photos and that's called Badlands National Park we've realized as we're traveling out here that there is another attraction that you can't see initially and those are the Minuteman missile silos the Cold War relics and did you know there's a thousand of these missile silos scattered around the country when you bring a sports car to Middle to Nowhere what you really want to do is wind up on an unpaved Road well you've done a good job of avoiding that so far this trip except for that one bit of construction in Wyoming until now and uh we were not aware until we turned off that it is a dirt road you might think why would you stop at an abandoned missile silo but these random sites hidden out here played a big part in Cold War history from the 60s to the 90s for 30 years silos like this housed the Minuteman 2 Rockets missiles with a 1.2 Megaton nuclear attach hatchman I just I'm sorry I'm having trouble with the scale of this 12 feet wide 80 feet deep it's a hole in the ground with a world killing missile in it and there were lots of them there were 150 of them in South Dakota I guess this is where you put that but I standing here has gravitas because it's a bit scary that's just a model it's only a model that's just a model now but it was a real thing right here and all over the place it didn't really hit home until we're here I'm standing in front of the antenna which you're not supposed to stand in front of of course when it's operating but still this is scary and creepy and you know what it's still drawing people out here in the middle of nowhere but this really hits home after growing up with the news articles and the the leadership we had on the planet it's very strange and kind of cool to see it later in life it's very crazy to think of the ramifications and how different the world would be if any of these Minuteman missile silos had been used I think it's the gravitas of that situation that makes people want to come see what almost was and very thankful that it wasn't look at this land you'd never know and they're dotted around here all these silos just a little bit further up the road is the museum the visitor site it's a serious subject and it gets more serious the deeper you dig and half of me wants to know all about it and the other half of me doesn't just because it's so serious but the biggest thing I'm thinking about are all the men and women who worked on constructing these sites and designing the entire system I mean there isn't a fun day on your job what a time in the history of the world and the museum here is fascinating and horrifying all at the same time quite a summer note but get under your desks really got a little deep because that was sobering so many of my formative years were in the 80s and there was there were smart world leaders who ultimately the decision was well I can kill you just as much as you can kill me how is this Victory well at least they're dead too I okay I'm confused and then there's crazy stories that come out of that time because the big concern was that somebody would fire one on one side accidentally and the other side would think it was deliberate and literally the world would be wiped out how is that a thing that can happen there was one Russian missile Commander whose last name was Petrov and in 1983 I was 10 years old he got indications that the U.S had launched missiles his way he had the authority and the job of retaliating and he suspected it was a false alarm didn't know suspected it was a false alarm didn't launch but should have he ended up being correct it was a false alarm but all of his indicators were otherwise one guy I was 10. I am I am thoughtful about that I mean this is a fun little road trip we're enjoying ourselves we're goofing around but it's amazing how much thinking about that infrastructure is really it's dark it's dark and sobering meanwhile stop and feed the prairie dogs prairie dog land that's the other end of the spectrum yeah nuclear destruction furry rodents South Dakota we're heading into an area I've never seen before but I've always wanted to Badlands has been on my mind as a place to visit for a few decades and there were two major things that influenced that one was an old Val Kilmer movie called Thunderheart and the other was a video game Need for Speed had probably my favorite game in the Need for Speed series called the run that was about a cross-country illegal high-speed race and one of the sections you went across the Badlands and of course it was all made up but the geography was there and I thought what an amazing place to drive well we knew we were coming this far east and into the edge of South Dakota I was like wait a minute we can get all the way to the Badlands it's only like another hour from Mount Rushmore so here we are headed into a national park that again would I have driven just to Badlands probably not but as we start building these trips and trying to find fun new things to see I thought I could actually drive through the Badlands for real so just rolled over a pretty cool Milestone here I just rolled over 78 000 miles of my Lotus Elise that means I've put more than 25 000 miles on this car in the time I've owned it I would love for that to be an even bigger number yes I've been warm on this trip yes I would love to have a cruise control I don't really care honestly in the grand scheme it's so great to be out in it at any of these special cars you have to drive them they can't be so special you don't drive them I think of the quote from that old movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off about Cameron's dad who had the Priceless Ferrari he never drives it just rubs it with a diaper don't be that guy yeah you might get some scratches and dings get your cars out here and drive them because if you don't they own you what good is having it if you can't show it off and find the fun roads that every other look at this SUV not a single car everybody else will wonder hmm there's somebody special they're interesting and what are you doing out here with a sports car Cohen have you seen the roads it's an entirely different headspace meanwhile I'm creating like Battle of the weather systems in the side of the Lotus Elise because everything from my waistline down is hot to the touch all the surfaces of the car I can feel heat radiating up through the floorboard into my shoes making my heels hot but from about sternum up air conditioning's blowing really well pretty cool doing a good job car's not overheating so there's there's this compare and contrast at the same time I'm not sure if it's going to start raining in here in a minute but it's it's quite a mixed bag we're having quite a day it is roasting hot out here we're talking about death and destruction from the Cold War era and then coming across the Badlands it looks like sand that could crumble away at any moment that is amazing this combination of built up rocks followed by years and years of erosion have created something incredibly bizarre and very unique it almost looks like the Egyptian pyramids that have been blown over with a bunch of drift much smaller of course I understand the Badlands millions and millions of years ago this was a great saltwater sea and then volcanic activity pushed the sea floor up and then this is what's left amazing there's a lot of fossils here because animals would just die and their carcasses would just remain amazing I mean it's starkly interesting beautiful is too strong a word for me besides being crazy hot out here look at this place this is the Badlands and that's not just a goofy little name the actual Native American name for the area directly translated is Badlands and when French Trappers came through here they described this as a bad land 2bm Badlands National Park and it is so blisteringly hot I'm gonna go get back in the Lotus and sweat some more pretty it's not pretty it's it's Stark and hot interesting and it's here and it's prehistoric and it's Prairie like and it's [Music] foreign [Music] Badlands we are headed to kind of the wrap up of this whole thing and that is the last time we did a road trip we stopped at a place in Texas called Bucky's which is a gas station that's become a destination but they didn't invent that concept I would suggest that the people that elevated the road stop service place first is actually Wall Drug started by Ted and Dorothy Houston in 1931 connected back to the car because they drove their Model T across country to this Tiny Town of wall where they bought the local pharmacy in 1931. and I admit I've never heard of Wall Drug as a kid I'd never heard of it and then I discovered Bucky's and then I discovered that this is sort of like the original recipe by the summer of 1936 they were almost done and then Dorothy had the genius idea to give something to the people that were driving by and they offered free ice water well think about it it's the late 1930s you're trying to get to Mount Rushmore or wherever car that is blazing hot people definitely stop for free ice water in the middle of summer like this yeah free ice water will pull you in what a fantastic idea but while they're there there's lots of other stuff that was the beginning and now I mean look at the sign in the distance Coffee five cents at Wall Drug most of these Billboards are Wall Drug most of them are different that started from their original Billboards down the side of what became interstate 90. for states away in either direction on Interstate 90 you can see Wall Drug signs and growing up in Texas on a few road trips but I remember seeing a bumper sticker that said where the hell is Wall Drug I remember asking my parents what's ball drug they didn't really know breakfast rolls Donuts fudge and Pie I've been seeing signs the whole way I'm just looking forward to buying something I don't know what that's going to be but I've got to come away with something interesting right uh the parking lot's huge there's busloads of people coming here look at this giant sign [Music] you see how sweaty I am the Lotus is hot it's 105 out there which means the Lotus can't keep up it's pretty Ice Water Wall three ice water the reason that I saw bumper stickers in Texas growing up I have no idea this is awesome I've also noticed they have a place to sit Bucky's does not have they've got an actual Cafe with tables and chairs Bucky's needs to upgrade [Music] [Music] I had a 79 and an 86. did you really nice I understand the 86 I loved my 79 [Music] it says suburban sprawl on it [Music] sea salt this is not the first time Corvettes have been here Automobile Magazine November 1990 issue one of my other favorite Corvettes the ZR1 it's been here already to wall drums this I was not expecting [Music] I was trying to figure out all the dragon stuff that was available at Wall Drug who's in Wall Drug buying dragons and then I find them in the parking lot right here look they've got it on the hood they've got it on the mirrors on the side there came the Wall Drug for Dragon paraphernalia they're inside buying dragons the dragon wagon leaving Wall Drug now headed back toward Rapid City South Dakota I'm in South Dakota I never honestly thought that was going to be a thing but we just got inspired by Mount Rushmore and this trip has been another one of those that has just surprised me as we do it but while drug is an interesting place because it aligns with so much of the thinking of the places we've been so far Crazy Horse Mount Rushmore Wall Drug all of them were kind of pushed into existence by people who refuse to let them die and here I am saying why am I in South Dakota it's because of those things so that worked clearly you know we've looked for lots of tchotchkes lots of things keychains and magnets and all that stuff and we found it but don't you want photos of your sports car in front of monuments and great places and great roads that's the best thing to come out of this trip all the great photos and the thought that we've taken these cars out but there has been at least one road every day of this trip where I have just marveled that I'm on the road at all and then I'm in the number one car I would choose for a fun Road the C8 couldn't have been better this is ideal for doing an American road trip this is ideal for doing any road trip but whatever it is that you could drive as the most fun car you would ever take on a road trip please go do it please go do that we've done all of this stuff we've gone to all these places and discovered great roads it's the whole point if you don't get pictures of your sports car in front of interesting places and cool destinations why do you have it being in the presence of all of these things has Merit and brings Joy it reminds me why I love road trips we work hard on these road trips to bring something fun to show you new things to bring you along for the fun we're having I hope that works I hope you enjoy it thank you for watching thanks for encouraging what we do listen to the podcast watching our films we love doing it we love having you with us I love driving this car I'm ready for the next and this one's coming to the end this is what we do this is what we do here it's kind of it's kind of a rock and roll road trip [Music] it's really just making you uncomfortable that's really what I'm liking about it that's really fun the Corvette is dragging its Knuckles it's like a drooling monster parked next to the Lotus the Lotus is like high normal sports car size and the Corvette is just sort of like me sports car this random panel which is an access panel but is plastic and quite old and that means that it has been opened and now the tabs are broken I'm going to show you the very official way but I'm going to fix this me getting in now is always a comedy routine this is the fix I'm applying because I got black Gaff tape that means it will be less noticeable than it is to me when it is just flapping in my peripheral vision so again a Lotus reliable and what you need to fix tape look it's Johnny Carson Jimmy Kimmel James Corden and Jay Leno with a goatee like a really bushy goatee why is this here yeah we all be dead no more Rhymes now I mean it anybody want to beat it I make myself laugh anyway tiniest of detail is what I notice as a kid and then I looked for it coming back really fun no that's not that's fun when I think of fun that's not it your love may vary but it's very interesting [Laughter]

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