The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Jay Leno reads as The Guardian because preservation, not extraction, governs his relationship to cars, money, and people. He banks rather than spends, refuses to flip vehicles, and pays craftspeople fairly instead of bargaining them down. His collection is curated around the human histories embedded in machines, not market appreciation, and he frames himself explicitly as a temporary custodian.
“Well, yeah, yeah. Again, I don't like this new thing of comics criticizing other comics. It's just, we're comedians, okay? I believe in free speech. I shouldn't have to say any more than that. And I will defend it to the end. But, you know, and how about when he said this? Again, whatever, I don't have to agree with it.”
“Yeah, keep it moving. You know, when you watch Rodney, Rodney, I was a big fan of Rodney Dangerfield. And it was the economy of words. It's getting the funniest words you can in the shortest amount of time. You know, Rodney had jokes I loved. I walked back to stretch joint. It said, topless and bottomless. I went in.”
“Flow, yeah, now everything is sort of computer design. You have all these sort of weird angles and things like that. But the best looking cars have both masculine and feminine, like an XKE. I don't know any women that don't find jaguars attractive.”
“So that's what I enjoy. So, you're a little bicoastal, you're in LA, but you also have a place here in Newport. I do have a place, and I also have a house in Andover, Massachusetts, where I grew up in. Do you keep any cars out here as well? No, I don't because of the weather. So what do you drive when? I'm one of these people Really?”
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