Why James Marsden Will NEVER Sell His Porsche 911
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Welcome to Spikes Car Radio, Johnny Liebrens here right now.
In a minute, James Marsden will be here to promote the next season of Your Friends and
Neighbors.
I can't wait.
Paradise on Hulu, I guess.
Oh, wow.
And half a dozen other projects that he is in.
It's going to be fun.
He's just going to be here a little later.
Top of the show here.
I'm with Johnny Liebrens.
Johnny just returned from Miami for what is called Moda Miami, the Moda Miami show,
M-O-D-A.
I guess, is that like Moda?
Is that like a Boston accent for Moda?
The Canadian, the people behind it, so no, it's just, they came up with the name.
What is, you know, there was, the internet or Instagram was flooded with images.
Moda was flooded.
Of Moda.
Yeah, I know, we'll get to that.
And the ice race and I want to go through all of this stuff because I had, you know,
I was having a hard time understanding all of it.
First, let's start with Moda.
Yeah.
Is Moda an event put on, is it a concor put on by R.M.
Sotheby's?
Yeah.
Is that what that is?
So is it like a, an auction thing?
There's an auction there as a, it's Miami show.
Right.
So it's got the Miami vibe.
If you want to get a good meal away from the hotel, you're in Miami.
Right, right.
It is beautiful.
You know, I'm trying to process it all through Instagram, which tell us what it was like.
What are the central events?
Okay.
Compare it to like a.
So Thursday night.
A drain, for instance.
So Thursday night, there was a couple different kickoff parties at various locations.
I went to the one, we were going to go do a thing with them.
It's called the Concourse Club.
Right.
Me and you were going to go.
Yeah, yeah, I remember.
And we should revisit that.
But they have a race track and they had a bunch of cool, they had a bunch of cars there
and, you know, great food and wine and whatever.
And then they had a bunch of Mercedes vintage classic center Mercedes and a race track.
So we drove on the racetrack.
That's right.
Yeah, I drove, you know, that red CLK black series that was there.
That's a great car.
They had an Evo two, two, I don't know what they called it, but it was like Zuckerman's
Evo two over there.
But the guy that owned it, then like modified to actually use it as a, as a, like a sub
DTM race car, like a gentleman race car.
So like, you know, Kevlar hood and trunk and stripped out some of the interiors.
Right.
They had two patent wagons, like the 1885 patent wagons.
And I got to drive one of those.
And that was like the greatest moment of my life.
Are some of these pictures up on your Instagram?
Yeah.
Can we throw those up?
Go to my Instagram.
All right.
See me on the three wheeler.
Is that the new Mercedes there?
That, that, that, that red Mercedes is the greatest.
That is.
I was talking about the wheelchair in the middle there.
Well, yeah, we pop up the, that's a video.
You can pop that.
And that's a, yeah, it's me and that's Nate Lander from the classic center.
Oh yeah.
And Nate helped us out with our 420 Mercedes.
That's right.
So that's a perfect guy.
0.68 horsepower.
That's fun.
You know, that's the first car ever.
So is this, Amelia was maybe the event for Florida, right?
The Concorde event for Florida.
And they're trying to steal their thunder by doing a bigger, more, this would be the
Florida Concorde or whatever that part of the United States is.
Kind of.
It just turns out that like, man, Florida car culture, even though they have nowhere
to drive is really strong because, you know, they had Kevelino the week before.
No, I saw that.
They're having this.
I'm going to Amelia on Thursday.
Like, yeah, yeah.
It's big.
It's good.
I have fond memories about Amelia.
We always have so much fun there.
Yeah, totally.
You know, getting smoking cigars with Jerry and David Gooding and, you know, getting thrown
out of the hotel for being too loud.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're like, oh, we're just talking and smoking cigars, not after 12 and Amelia, right?
Eating bad chicken.
And the food is not good, but but it's cool cars.
If you go, Cam, like that's slant nose, the white slant nose there.
Yeah.
So you can just kind of go through these, but the cars are fantastic.
They just have a great concor lawn.
Yes.
And yeah, it was it was just it was just super fun.
Now, of course, what it's going to be known for was the monsoon.
Yeah, that was another one here.
I pulled some clips to show we can start.
Watch this, ladies and gentlemen, just watch this.
Watch the tent fall down.
I was in that tent.
So wait a minute.
This is the day of the concor on Sunday.
Second day of the concor.
Second day. Yeah.
OK, so so the cars were placed.
Oh, yeah, look at this.
But tell me, tell me.
Oh, Jesus, tell me what happened where the cars placed
and there was no rain and then the rain and monsoon came.
Where the car was so hot.
It was one of those days where like at 9 30 in the morning,
you're just like, how can anyone live in Florida?
So it's just death.
Like you walk under a tree if you think you'll get cooler.
And I know my wife is from here.
Yeah. So it was it was not a cloud in the sky.
Oh, God.
And there's a giant tent from the auction on Friday still up.
So we all the 400 of us kind of duck under the tent.
Yep. And then all of a sudden they go, the tent's going to fall.
Get out of here.
So the storm just rolls in.
Show us some more clips.
I want to see this.
This is insane stuff.
It was a monsoon.
It was really bad.
Yeah. I mean, look at these beautiful cars out there sitting
in the rain and I know they're meant to be in the rain.
But if you own that car, you know what I'm feeling right now.
And a couple got flooded there in like giant puddles.
Here you go.
Take a look at this shot.
Speaking of that.
Yeah. Oh, this is devastating.
Yeah. Oh, that's sitting in in still water like this.
And that's that's a singer right there on the left.
Oh, yeah.
That's a Hennessy behind it.
And that's so they wouldn't let anybody move the cars.
It wasn't. You had no time.
It literally had started rain.
So everyone went into the tent and it rained the day before,
but it wasn't bad.
It was a normal little sprinkling.
So you just thought and then all of a sudden the rain's coming
in the tent sideways and they're like, leave the tent.
And so what were the, you know, these guys,
what was the attitude of the people showing cars?
Were they kind of whatever or?
Well, at that point, I was, as you might imagine,
I was literally soaking wet.
And so they had a VIP thing I was allowed into.
And I was like, ooh, glass of gin,
five different varieties of caviar.
And I just sat there and like didn't want to go back outside.
Yeah. I had to go to the airport.
So I don't know. I don't know.
No one's happy.
Yeah. Yeah.
It happens.
There's force majeure, as they say, in the insurance industry.
Were there any cars that were damaged for good and not?
The one I heard was there was a 67 Ford GT40 street car,
one of 31, that something fell on it,
like part of the tent fell on it.
And that's bad.
Who covers that?
I'm going to guess RM's insurance because that was a car
that didn't sell at the auction.
They didn't hit reserve.
But it wasn't all bad news.
There was a record selling car, a new level for Carrera GTs.
Look at this, $3,305,000 sold.
New record.
Forget about Enzo's now.
Look at Carrera GTs.
So this car, I'm so involved with this car
so that I remember that fractional ownership company,
Drift Capital, they were the ones who were selling it.
Is that still in business?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
So we did great.
We bought this.
So that still works.
Bought it for $1.9 million, sold it for $3.3 million.
So how much money do you get?
I get. I'll show you the formula.
You will get a commission?
Somethings, eventually.
You know, I don't want to bring it up,
but when you brought up while you were working on Bidbetter,
somebody wrote in, everybody's going to target on your back
and said, remember that ridiculous investment
fractional ownership thing?
Set a record.
Yeah. No, we're doing great.
And the F40 that sold, which would have been a record,
we've won for that in Meekums.
Yeah. That was Drift Capital.
So that worked out.
Look, this is the second big success for Johnny Lieberman.
And you who are writing me in DMing, you're wrong.
Look, follow Johnny, where Johnny goes, the money now follows.
But I got to go down and I made a video of these cars
in Miami the week before.
I got to drive them.
I put nine miles on this thing.
It was just absolutely. Oh, they're the best.
Yeah, they're the best. But as I understood it,
it was kind of just a normal spec Carrera GT.
It had 603 miles on it when I got in the car
and it had 612 on it when I got out of the car.
So yeah, brand new.
You know, Zuckerman had one of these.
And he sold it for 400, I think.
Yeah.
I remember my last drive in it and I just called him
and I go, there's just nothing like these things.
We hype them on the show all the time
and I can't help but think that we're partly responsible
for the rise and what is probably the greatest car
for your Porsche collection ever made by the factory.
This is what I do with drift capital.
They sort of help advise like what they should buy.
This is the first car we purchased.
I was like, what else can we hype next then?
How about clown shoe BMWs?
Those are worth three million.
Yeah, but the auction was fun.
Yeah, it looked like fun.
Congratulations to them.
Yeah, but I did get assaulted.
You got assaulted. Yeah, that's good.
What do you mean?
Party, a very drunk British gentleman.
Paint the picture. Where are you?
What's going on? What time of night is it?
It's 11 at night.
OK, I got a cigar in this hand.
I got a restaurant or a bar outside of the party.
OK, I got a cigar at the hotel.
So I got a drink in this hand.
There's there's dear Zuckerman.
Dear Zuckerman is one of our listeners,
watchers from Florida who does all of the cool stickers.
Yes, which we should start doing stickers again.
That's a different story. Absolutely.
I'm talking to him and then this guy, Steve,
it's just sort of like he's just talking too close to all the girls
and he's just really drunk.
And I say to him, like, hey, man, you fucking wasted,
like, tone it down, something like that.
And all of a sudden, with one of his already cup Johnny Lieberman.
Well, go ahead. It doesn't matter.
He's harassing my friends, basically. Oh, I see.
Yeah. All right. You're standing up for me, all friends.
I see. Yeah. Yes.
So then he puts me in a headlock with with one arm
and hits me in the stomach with the other arm.
But he's British, so it didn't hurt.
And so I grab, I grab his wrist, right?
Well, Conor McGregor is kind of from that area.
He's Irish. Yeah, I know.
Like that's different. Yeah, I get it.
This is English. Yeah.
Well, English soccer players, but go ahead.
You know, I don't want to get punched by anybody, British.
I'm just trying to defend the branch right now.
I grab his wrist and I pull the hand that hit me away
and then he unwraps my neck and he hits me twice more in the stomach.
And the second one hurt a little, but I kind of like,
like, you know, it's like fuck off or whatever.
You can ask your soccer man for the details.
But at that point, I was like, what just happened?
Plus, I got my hands full.
Yeah. And I don't want to like throw a glass on the ground, you know, whatever.
So I kind of walk away to my some friends.
I say you declined the fight.
He was so drunk.
It was so drunk. It was just wasn't even a thing.
But I walk over to my friends and I'm like, oh, my God, this guy just hit me.
And as I'm saying that, he starts walking back towards me like, oh, Jesus.
And I don't remember exactly what I said.
But my friend told me, she said that I said something to the effect of like.
Turn around, walk away.
I'm going to fucking drop you. Get the fuck out of here.
Fuck off. Something like that.
And like, but as one of those where as I'm saying that,
all I remember was like all the eyes turning and looking at me.
Yeah. So then I was like, I'm out of here.
I went to bed the next morning.
I saw the guy at R.M. Ethan.
I was going to apologize to him and I might have caused a scene.
And he's like, before you go any further,
he he he did something to
Freddie's girlfriend and Freddie like threw him out of the party.
So like he's like, I'm very sorry.
Like I'm really sorry it happened to you.
And I was like, yeah, because I was actually assaulted, like technically.
Yeah, I know you were. He laid hands on you. Yeah. Yeah.
So what was his grip strength like around your neck?
Drunk. He was maybe you have a picture of that guy.
I think we do. Let's go right here.
So this was sent to him.
That guy right there.
Yes, at four in the morning.
This is the guy with the raspberry socks in the hotel and the pink shirt.
Yeah. Yeah, that's that's the guy.
Did he remember fighting you?
I never saw him again. No. Yeah.
This guy, he's destined for rehab after this.
Well, I think maybe I think he wasn't rehab and he had a breakdown in Miami.
Oh, I get the effort.
A lot of stories, but I think he went off the wagon.
It's a weird pillow placement, too, that he would throw it up onto his chest.
I know he's not using it, but why put it right there?
This is apparently was four a.m.
in the lobby when everyone was finally going to bed. Yes, I see. Yeah.
And they look at the buttons on the shirt.
I mean, he's so carefully curated, the sneakers, the white pants and all the other crap.
Yeah. And then he's fighting with people.
You know where I've seen that jacket, I think.
It's a good jacket.
I'm not going to shitty, shitty bang bang with Dick Van Dyke.
I'm pretty sure that he wears that jacket or maybe it's the magic man or something like that.
Yeah. Yeah.
So anyways, we've got to help him with his fashion as well.
I just think we're ever going to see him again and he'll just be in England.
And it's fine. I asked Zuckerman to comment on this.
You did? Yeah.
Because dear Zuckerman, message Zuckerman said, did you hear Johnny got in a fight?
And Zuckerman had this response.
He couldn't be here today to be in the show. He's obviously working.
He said, I'm delighted at the thought of Lieberman being beaten
by a drunken Englishman on a rain soaked Florida golf course.
Hilarious, even though if injury was sustained.
No, there's no injury. There's no injury.
He's just entertained by all of it. Yeah.
Well, that's great. That's my attorney, ladies and gentlemen.
He's everyone's lawyer.
He's representing the British guy in the resulting case.
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And no one wants to hear anymore about that.
No. Trust me, not even my wife.
Poor Erica.
Poor Erica.
It's not the way it is.
Poor Spike.
Poor Spike.
Anyway, you said you had a story here about the different gangs,
phone book gangs, brick gangs, wood gangs, Berlin Wheel Thieves.
Yeah, explain.
So this friend of mine had to move to Germany and he got a spider RS,
Porsche GT4 Spider RS.
He's like, it's the worst car in the world.
This car, my 718.
And I go, what?
And he goes, it's horrible.
He goes, bye bye.
He goes, and in Germany, he's like, I got my wheel in Berlin.
I got my wheels stolen.
I go, what?
Interesting.
He goes, there's three competing center lock gangs in Berlin.
In Germany.
In Berlin, specifically.
And what it is, is it's because of the sanctions against Russia.
In Russia, they can't get center lock wheels from out of Germany.
So there's an Estonian gang.
I think the Estonians use wood.
There's.
Now, what do you mean they use wood?
They don't want to jack your car up.
They don't even do that.
They pre-measure, they slide the wood under and they deflate the tires.
And it's just enough.
And the problem he said is that, like on the phone books,
because there's a phone book gang that only uses phone books.
I couldn't see.
I was trying to understand what you meant by all of this.
Phone book, brick, and wood, OK.
Use different methods.
And that's how they know.
So they'll put bricks.
Right.
So they'll put bricks.
They'll put wood.
They'll put phone books.
And he says, the real, you don't want to get hit by the phone book gang
because eventually water and stuff, the car slides off and gets more damaged.
Oh, yeah.
And it's apparently it's plaguing it.
And like, and it's so bad that they won't even let the cars go to dealerships
because they don't want anyone to see like GT4 is missing the wheels.
And so they're taking them to these like third party places
and like Porsches is like kind of denying it's happening.
And he said he talked to the cops and they're like the cops are basically like,
oh, you're an American shut up.
But like it's this crazy thing.
But it's love the idea of like Estonian gangs, Russian gangs.
I forget the other gang.
And of course, the cops are blaming it on migrants.
But it's like it's not like Middle Eastern migrants.
It's actually like European gangs.
And it's kind of hard to take off a center lock wheel.
They have the tool, though.
They just need that one tool.
That's why those are disappearing from tire shop.
And ironically, remember the whole point of a center lock is it comes off
in two seconds racing thing.
So like there's no way to do a lock for a center lock.
I can't leave my car outside anymore.
Well, we can get center lock wheels in America.
Yeah, you know, but if I were one of these gang members,
let's say I was the phone book gang, I would start using brick.
Yeah, to get people off my trail.
You know what I mean?
Then switching it around.
But then they got to get the brick.
They already have the phone books, apparently.
But I was like, where are you getting phone books?
But yeah, that's true.
You know, Estonia, which is harder to get brick phone books or wood.
I guess it would be the easiest.
Wood's easiest for sure.
Brick phone book.
I don't know. Brick probably easier.
But he said it like it's like he said that they've seen like video of it.
Like it's like a pit crew.
Like two minutes, wheels are off.
They just they show up with a van.
Stuff goes under.
They just slash the tires and it's done.
Just boom, boom, boom.
Yeah, or they pull the pins on the tires.
Wow. Yeah.
So that was that made me really happy.
But you said that would be funny.
That wasn't that's not funny.
I think it's really funny.
Estonian gangs with phone books.
That's all right.
Yeah, come on.
Um, I won't.
We don't have to go all the way through the wacky Waymo bullshit.
There's more Waymo stuff, but we will comment on this.
Paramedics rushing to a mass shooting in Austin, Texas early Sunday
got blocked by a Waymo vehicle, preventing EMS from rapidly responding
to the crime scene to provide aid according to a new report.
Here it is right here.
Oh, those wacky Waymo's.
No, that's bad.
I just wrote I just wrote this morning in a Waymo.
I had to move some cars around.
It's it's it's really nice.
Waymo missed my turn.
It was signaling left and it couldn't get in the lane to go left.
And I was like, and then you realize you go, what are you doing?
This is the downside of not having a human there.
Right, I said out loud.
What are you doing?
And it, of course, did not respond.
Right.
And that was a little frustrating to me.
And here is the same situation.
The police are like, get out of the way.
Yeah.
And it just kind of sits there.
I guess it has some program where it's like if you see a flashing light
stop and then overrides everything else.
And it likes crime.
It's like it's a little like the rest of us.
It seems to be getting in the way of these shootings with police officers.
And it's which is just like what we do.
That we like to stop and look and see who's getting shot as well.
Yeah, now that that ambulance could push that Waymo right out of the way.
But then we wouldn't have a clip.
He was being conscious of that.
Good enough. Yeah.
And I don't want to stay on this too long either, but it's worth bringing up
these this doughnut lab, the solid state battery company
has released the results of their second independent test.
And it's so far so good.
And yet controversial at the same time, Johnny, as you know,
this time they they prove that the cell can discharge at extreme
high temperatures up to 100 degrees centigrade and actually gain capacity in the process.
The new report released just one week after the first test confirmed
from the cell's fast charging capability at 0 to 80 percent in 4.5 minutes.
Adds another data point in favor of doughnut labs claims,
but the most extraordinary specs remained unverified.
You know, it's a long way of saying, and I thought this was really funny
that someone commented and I'm just going to read their comment.
It's hard to imagine that a small outfit in Finland quietly cracked the solid
state nut when well financed giants have not been able to deliver anything
remotely close to these KPIs after billions spent on R&D.
That said, history is lousy with cases of small teams stumbling upon
game changing innovation.
So I'm going to cover both bases in the future.
I have a friend who is really, really smart.
OK, and hard to believe very involved with you.
But yes, very involved with the EV space.
OK. And he's not only called bullshit.
He's like, I'd like to buy these batteries because I have a need firm for my business.
So he thinks he believes this is fake.
Yeah, he knows it's fake.
He knows he's he's one of the original engineers on the Tesla Model S
and he has a new company and they use batteries.
Johnny, that's an exclusive.
That's a that's a revelatory statement you just made.
OK. Repeat it one more time because no one is writing that.
You are alleging.
Yeah. That you have a friend who knows for a fact.
Well, at this test, this doughnut labs is fake.
Well, he said, what's your time frame?
And they were like, he's like, because I want to order a lot
because I need them for my new company, which needs a lot of batteries.
And they were just like, and he's like, it's bullshit.
They would need. So that's more of a judgment based on delivery.
He said he was talking to the sales guys like I'd like to buy like, you know,
$30 million worth of batteries today. Yeah, right now at CES.
But they're not done with the testing.
Yeah, he's just like, it's just not.
But I think that's why it's controversial.
And that's why I want to keep covering it.
I mean, I'm rooting for them to do it
because this is a game changer, obviously, for electric cars.
Yeah, lighter, faster, charging, no heat, no liquid inside.
It's going to burn.
My one gives off gas when you heat it up.
I'm not understanding.
My understanding of solid state tech is like what they've done here.
I don't know about the 100 degree. That's boiling.
But I don't know about that.
But it all works in a lab.
They've had making it in a lab for a long time.
It's the manufacturing process.
There's some part of camera, the catalyst or something that just
there's no way no one knows how to manufacture it yet.
And it shatters upon trying to make it.
So that's the hold up.
That's what they think by 2028, 2029.
But yeah, you're 100 percent right.
I mean, like, you know, it takes about four minutes, five minutes
to fill up a gas tank. So you go from 0 to 80 percent.
Like it's all if it works and it's half the weight or half the size.
There you go. Yeah.
You brought a car with you, didn't you?
I did. Mercedes G63.
All right, here it is.
Now, this is a new G63.
What a new issue 2025.
So it's a press car.
What are you doing with it?
I'm going to film an episode of driving with Johnny with Johnny driving.
Very car. I'm driving a G63 2025. Yeah.
This one. So, you know, G63 means twin turbo V8,
577 horsepower, 627 pound feet of torque.
This one is Monza Gray Magno over
Bengal Red.
And do you want to guess at the price of this G wagon?
OK, I'm guessing because you asked me, yes, that it's going to be very high.
But how high for a G?
I'm going to go.
Can I say one thing before you guess?
Yes. Starting price of G wagon is now one hundred and eighty seven thousand.
Yeah, I was there. OK, yeah.
OK, but maybe now I'm guessing too low,
but I was going to go with two sixty three.
Oh, way less than that.
Way less than that. No, two twenty one, two twenty one.
Yeah. Yeah. OK.
So the wheels are some money.
Those are really cool wheels there.
OK. It's called it's called a tech gold.
So it's like this like weird golden twenty two inch wheel.
You know, if you ever like, you know, you go on to threads,
you go into Instagram and you see these people talking about why does everyone
have a G wagging and here's why there's a tax incentive that's only this car
because of the weight. Is any of that true? Is any of that real?
No, I mean, look, look, look, look, yes, the tax incentive applies to the G wagon,
but there's so many cars with a gross vehicle weight over eight thousand pounds.
So it's not just the G. It's not just the G.
I see. But people love the G's.
I love them. They're great. They're great.
This is this is two thousand twenty five was the best year for sales
in the history of the G class, which goes back to nineteen seventy nine.
Probably not for the electric.
Electric is not doing great.
Yeah, that's my favorite version.
It's kind of a great version.
It's the greatest. I know.
Yeah, people are idiots, but smart people are buying G's.
And yeah, it's just it's just it's just such an honest vehicle,
even though this one is tarted up with twenty two inch gold wheels.
And you have to see the red leather.
The leather's just go ahead and open it up, Cam. Go inside.
Let's have a look.
And there's so much leather.
It's like leather knee bolster.
But look at that. Wow.
Look at the lovely.
Yeah. And and of course, since it's a G sixty three,
if you open the back cam, there's a totally useless,
gigantic piece of quilted leather on the door,
which is the greatest thing in the world.
Like, oh, look at that.
Very nice. Why is it there?
Because you're rich, you know, whatever.
It's just that's what the cats scratch.
That's what the dog rips apart. Yeah. Oh, man.
Yeah. And it's just I just love G's and this thing is just killer.
Yeah, just like just so what will you do with this?
Where are you going to take it out?
I haven't decided yet because of these wheels.
I usually take G's and I off wrote them
because I go, ha, ha, nobody does this.
These wheels are nice and I will I don't want to scratch them up.
So I don't know.
I'm probably just driving around just talking about my love of G's
and how quick and torquey and nice it is.
And just, you know, what maybe you don't get about the G
and all that kind of thing. No, I get it.
And I think this one has the hydraulic suspension,
which is standard, I think, maybe not.
But it actually drives rather well, like for a G that's pretty,
you know, and all that torque and horsepower.
And yeah, I just love it. I love them.
You know, what's not to love when my bid better
cash starts flowing in a fleet of bizarre G wagons.
Is that what you're going to do?
Probably. I mean, it would be the first two cars you buy.
I buy an Indian screened deer, which is a G wagon.
That's great. Yeah.
Pretending a blue, would you get the pretend I would get I get hell red.
Hell red. Hell red or royal red.
Well, I was seeing pictures of an of an inios at Costco.
Are they selling them at Costco?
They are. And you get a discount.
They're eighty two thousand dollars at Costco. Yeah.
That's awesome. It's rad. I might do that.
That's a really cool idea.
It's kind of the way to do it. I didn't see that coming at Costco.
Inios at Costco. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
What how much of a discount is it?
I think it's like three thousand. Wow.
Which is what is it cost to join Costco?
Five hundred bucks a year, I think. That's it.
I think. Wow. So that's a deal.
I haven't joined in a while. That's it.
That's a win-win for everybody. Yeah.
That's a really interesting idea.
I was just at the Costco with the Carton arcs guy.
I got a lot of compliments on your performance.
And everyone's like, well, Spike is crazy.
I'm like, that's what I've been telling you for years.
Well, they just don't know that I always have done man in the street.
I used to write it. I used to do it.
I really enjoy it. But it was this one was dicey.
Yeah. They were a lot of when people get angry.
It's kind of like, they start walking at you like the guy,
the British guy who attacked you. That's right.
Yeah. Well, that's a lot of alcohol.
Start to run around a little bit.
I was just going to say, you know what? I think I would buy.
Remember that G.U. had by arcade?
Yeah. Yeah.
They had another version that's for the Singaporean military
that like it doesn't have B pillars or doors
and it's like no horsepower and it's a tiny little thing.
I think I might it maybe goes 55 miles an hour.
Maybe. Yeah. Kind of like the Ineos and what's the car going to be?
Well, I think I just get two off-roaders.
Two off-roaders. I think so.
I would do that. I even get a sports car.
Like if I'm rich, rich, rich, rich, rich, I think I would get like, I mean,
like, you know, Zuckerman money.
I get a Gullwing. I get like a 55, 56 Gullwing.
That's Seinfeld money. No, it's 1.5 million.
It's not crazy. Yeah. It's not crazy.
I guess. Yeah.
That's dreaming out loud, dreaming out loud here.
I heard a bit better.
Yeah, you can do that.
No, you're now reminding me of what I heard about the new hypercar cost.
And I heard another exclusive here, not just your exclusive.
I heard that this car is going to be a hybrid V8.
This is the Porsche. The Porsche.
OK, low car.
I hear that this car is going to be more like the 963
than the Mission X, that the design has left the Mission X.
This is from someone who's seen it.
Kind of based on that car we were talking about, that road car,
that one off 963, kind of.
And I don't know what that means, kind of.
And I also heard two other things about it.
How about this?
2.5 to 3 M is what it's going to cost.
And it will be announced before the GT2 RS announced before at Pebble.
I don't know. I'm not saying that at the quail.
That sounds good.
I would. That's a good place to announce it.
So there you go.
Here's an exclusive Porsche, friends.
Hey, but hybrid V8, like because the 918 was a hybrid V8, sort of.
By the way, I have this morning, just this morning,
someone confirmed that detail, sent me and someone was talking to someone.
Makes sense. Yeah. Yeah.
And and both of these sources are there.
They're good. So there you go.
There you go. Let's talk about Raycon.
And then James Marsden is going to come out and talk about your friends and
neighbors, my favorite show.
It's a good show. Paradise second favorite show.
Also a good show.
He's got a new movie with Vince Vaughn.
He's in The Avengers or something or other.
Apparently, he's got a massive role in The Avengers.
Like it's big. They're centering.
And he's going to bring us 9-11 that I've been working on.
As you know, I like to sort cars and occasionally that car is in my hangar.
And I got annoyed with looking at some problems with it.
So I said, we're fixing this and you're paying for it.
Excellent. And it'll be here.
Did he pay?
He did.
Well, Anthony from Exotic Car took it on, got it done in one day.
He hasn't seen it yet.
Track down the last windshield in the United States and drove to San Diego to pick it up.
That's exactly.
Anthony Exotic Car right down the street here.
And then Fred Astine is giving him a new set of tires.
How about that? Win win.
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I like the harmonized part.
Yeah, it's nice, Johnny.
Thank you for coming in and filling us in on everything from Moda.
None of us went to the ice race, but whatever looked OK.
I just what I haven't talked to anyone in person.
But yeah, I just saw a lot of posts that are like, yeah, the ice race was great.
But really, the best part was the friends.
And at the time you're at an event and you say the best part is the friends.
Yeah, something's off.
And I'm just I think you should rename it rich guys with cowboy hats and beers
in the snow. I just you know what I mean, though?
Like it's all about the people.
I couldn't figure it out because it was hard to process anything
now that we're at war with the trust me.
You know, it's kind of like, hey, we're on the ice getting around.
It's like, yeah, OK, well, we're all about to be blown up.
But no, I want for you.
I woke up early to like post some videos I'd taken the day before.
You know, and it's just like, yeah, like, what am I doing?
Well, you're like, who cares? Anyway, well, maybe James Marsden can cheer us up.
Here he is, ladies and gentlemen, James Marsden.
And we're go, James.
It's good to see you, my friend.
You see it too. We finally made it happen.
It's so good. And it's good to have you on video, right, Cameron?
I mean, generally what we have sitting in your position doesn't look like this.
I'm not sure about that.
But here we have actual movie star visage here, hot from a press tour.
And it goes without saying James Marsden,
I think could be the busiest actor in Hollywood right now.
It's been good, man. It's been good. Fantastic.
Complaining. We're going to be talking about three or four shows today,
which I'm excited about.
And we're going to be talking about James's 9 11,
which is behind us right there.
And you're going to see folks working on it.
That's Mark, who does detail work here.
Fantastic detail work here in the studio.
I'm very happy about that.
Let's let's start chugging through this stuff.
All right, let's start going through this.
The show, I'm sorry, I'm having to shove all this debt.
No, this is great. It's a lot.
It's a lot. It's a lot of kind of happening at the same time.
So it sounds like a lot more than it is. Fantastic.
Let's talk about Paradise.
You know, Paradise just season two premiered February 23rd
with three episodes, new episodes of Streaming Weekly on Hulu.
I love the series, but I especially love that you play the president.
Yeah, it's a yeah.
I'm usually the guy that everyone thinks about
when you think about it. Yeah, yeah. States, right?
I would imagine when I saw the show first announced
and I saw you playing the president, I went, of course,
that's a fantastic choice for a president.
And it's the second second time I've played the president.
I actually played Kennedy.
You did in the butler in the movie with the force Whitaker and Oprah.
Well, the very briefly I was in it for, you know, Paradise president.
OK, very different drinking, smoking, womanizing.
Yes, he's Cal Bradford.
Yeah, like you said, he's a smoker.
He's a womanizer.
How did you prepare for that role?
Because in unfrosted, you play Jack Lelaine and you would come up to me
and go, I've been studying this guy.
I do his voices. I've got his outfits.
How did you prepare for Cal Bradford?
I think Cal Bradford was more of a I liked how
unconventional of a choice of a president he was.
He was he didn't want the job.
I love that he did.
He was shoehorned into this position by his father and what his wishes were.
And and he was an English lit major did not want to did not want to be president.
But then, you know, he didn't he didn't have the balls to stand up to him.
So he became president and he actually ended up being pretty good at it.
Just being a man of the people.
And but did you look at any real presidents and go,
I'm going to take this or that from so and so a little bit.
I mean, we talked we talked about it like he's sort of a mix of of Kennedy
and Clinton and Obama and maybe even a little, you know, George W.
I think it's like, you know, the guy you want to have a beer with. Right. Right.
But but, you know, I'm I'm this season, you know, if you've seen the first season,
I don't want to ruin it for you, but I do.
I am lying in a pool of my own blood.
I know within seconds of the first episode.
So people are paying.
Why is he promoting the second season?
That's right.
Well, your corpse gets reanimated.
Yes. And you walk around season two.
We get real science.
That's where it turns into a zombie story.
Yeah. No, it's a very deep, fun premise paradise.
I really like the show.
I like anything that's new like this, but it's not what you expect.
Look, there's a picture of you up there.
Yeah. And it looks like Kristen Wiig is playing
also in the show on the right there. That's not Kristen Wiig.
Is it? Oh, that's the lovely Julianne Nicholson.
Julianne Nicholson.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, I did Ali McBeal with back in the day.
Wow. Yes.
Amazing.
Look at us now. Look at us now.
All right. You're also here promoting your friends and neighbors.
That's right. I'm one of my absolute favorite shows with Mr.
John Ham, another unfrosted alum.
That's right. That's right.
Yeah. There you are.
Yeah. This season, proper douche, like a proper douche.
And John plays his character on the first season.
He's, you know,
he loses his job and starts to panic.
And so he starts to steal from these wealthy people that he knows
because he knows these people own items that they will never know.
That's right.
Are missing.
So he's sort of that's his angle.
And this guy, that jackass,
comes into season two and stirs things up a bit.
He's sort of this larger than life,
Gatsby-esque character who creates a big splash when he comes to town
and he's always driving a 918 Spider.
Oh, he is drove a 918 in this.
I thought that was a McLaren.
I drive a McLaren as well.
Really? Yeah, yeah.
Did you have any influence, any input on these cars?
Well, yes.
My good friend, Owen, who works, works for Porsche,
would mention that he was coming out to visit and bring in the 918.
I said, well, we need to push this into as many scenes as possible,
if possible, if the car is available.
Which car was it?
You know, was it a press car that Porsche has 918?
Or is this a privately owned 918?
I'm not entirely sure, Thomas.
It's that liquid silver metal.
It's like a blue.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I know what that is.
Gorgeous car, drove it a bit.
So you brought that into the show.
You said to them, hey, why don't we use this too?
Well, I didn't know it was coming until he let me know.
And and Jonathan Tropper, the creator, said he goes,
you're going to be driving some flashy cars.
So, you know, so when he said flashy, you knew right away,
he doesn't understand cars.
You're going to drive in some sporty, flashy stuff.
Pull up the trailer.
Let's take a second here to pull up the trailer.
You can go to YouTube and see the trailer for season two.
And you'll see that shot of that McLaren you were driving.
There's Johnny, Johnny Ham.
Johnny Ham.
He's in everything.
Yeah, we're in a race.
Yeah, you were in a race.
Yeah, I have to say, oh, there it is.
There you come.
And there you make your big debut.
Wow, look at that.
Fantastic.
And he's not happy because he knows.
I may just have to give this show up to James Marsden next season
because I have to do a dog food commercial or some other.
I mean, John Ham is really in everything.
And then you go watch the Super Bowl and he's in the Super Bowl.
He's just dancing around.
He's in the halftime show.
He's he's the most popular meme out there.
This show just looks like is so much fun.
Do you get input on what you're going to wear?
I mean, obviously, you know, a lot about fashion and watches and stuff.
You know, and this is a character that uses stuff.
Yeah, right. Flashy stuff. Yes. Yes.
Flashy stuff. Do you get I would imagine you could be an expert
on what to kind of put in the show?
Well, I would never be one to say that I would I I would be good at
picking out my actual clothes, not something I'm great at.
So I do rely on our very, very talented costume designer to dress me.
But accessories, yes, accessories, watches, yes.
Um, what does that mean for you?
When you say like, what watch would you like to bring into this season
two or what watch did you bring in?
I think for the most of the show, I'm wearing a Rolex Tiffany dial
Daytona, I think today, you know, generally in production,
we need to for a shoot in case something goes wrong with one.
Were there two?
Yeah, I think we had about 15 of them because I don't know if it was a real one.
Oh, really?
Well, yeah, maybe they had one one real one for close up.
So they had, you know, the kind of knockoffs just in case
I fall into a pool or something.
What can you tell us about this season coming up?
So, yeah, so Ham is back on his his kick of breaking
and breaking in and stealing things.
And that's a good sell.
Right.
And I wonder if you keep wondering when you're watching,
like, where are all the cameras in these houses?
Yeah, yeah, shut them down.
I actually don't care.
That's where they are.
I don't care.
I want the show to continue and I want him to continue
crimeing.
Yeah, do you like the sequences where they actually don't, you know,
because when he goes in to steal something,
they'll say, this is a Cartier love bracelet.
This is and they do this whole like little
commercial for each for each item that he's stealing.
I do like it and it shows the frivolity of stuff.
You know what I mean?
But I get I do get anxious when he breaks into somebody's house.
Like, sometimes I have to fast forward through it because I was like,
oh, it's too much.
I have a weird reaction to it.
But so I come into town and this is kind of wealthy billionaire.
He's a shipping magnate and he's he's divorced or not divorced.
Sorry, he's widower and him and his daughter move into town
and he's just got this giant larger than life personality
and everybody's kind of like, who's this new guy in town?
He's already planned.
He already bought this gigantic house
and now he's planning a huge Gatsby party at the house.
Yeah.
What is he doing and what sort of nefarious things
are kind of happening behind the curtains?
And so, yeah, he kind of comes in and just makes a big splash
and very high energy.
The guy revs at a very high RPM, which is a fun character to play.
Tell me about this Gatsby party
because I totally understand it for the character,
but that's hard to shoot.
That's a lot of money on the screen.
Was that a big day for you?
Yeah, Apple really forked it, forked it out for the they did.
Yeah, it was 200, 250, 300 extras.
And OK, we had sort of Cirque du Soleil acts going on in the grass.
We had every nice car you could imagine
sitting out front of this giant man.
Oh, that's fantastic.
What episode do we have this 918 in?
Good question.
I think you might see it in episode three or four
from right off the top.
All right, take note.
One of the community.
But if that wasn't enough,
you also get a movie coming out this month.
We have no time to just chat.
We're just talking, talking projects.
What is Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice with Vince Vaughn,
the upcoming American buddy action comedy set in a criminal underworld?
Yeah, right.
It's a very, very unique movie, action,
very high octane kind of Edgar Wright style, energetic, frenetic action.
But the comedy as well.
And there's a time machine.
And Vince Vaughn plays
there it is right here himself, Nick and Future Nick.
Oh, wow.
So it's a very kind of kind of a tough one to comp.
Like it's a bullet train meets, you know, lock stock of two smoking barrels
slash, you know, hot tub time machine.
I guess. Wow.
And it's fun without being too winky.
Winky, you know, it's all very like, you know, that crazy train.
Vince and I train with the choreographers from the John Wick movies.
So they do these crazy like fight choreography.
Yeah. What is that like?
Intense. Yeah.
Yeah, intense.
I know the choreography is difficult when you go in, but so fun.
You know, I love being there.
Is it like that where you've just got this cheerleading squad
and they're helping you through fights? Yeah, yeah.
You know, they're getting you as close as you can get to doing it all yourself.
And I was so determined to make sure that I wasn't relying on a
a fight double to do my stuff.
So it's fun.
It's just like you get to go in and be a kid and tumble around on the mats.
So it's you and Vince Vaughn.
Who's getting on a handsome man.
He's a handsome man.
You go as am I getting on there.
So you don't look at there's an instructor and like, what do they say to you?
All right, we're going to start like, do they have an idea?
Who who choreographs the fight?
Is that the director? Is that you too?
Or is they hire these really, really talented
fight coordinators and then they videotape their guys doing it
and they send it to the director and go, OK, yeah, I like this.
I like this. Send it to Mars then.
And I'm like, oh, I can't do a triple Lindy black flip, blah, blah.
But I can do this.
But it was cool.
And then we had to learn gunplay as well.
It's a place.
I forget his name, Taren, I think, out in
in like Seamy Valley, where you go and you learn to sound right.
He's like automatic weapons.
Yeah, yeah. Things I just don't feel really give us a tip.
Give us a gun tip.
Gun tip, something you learn.
Gun tip is when you bring your gun up, press forward.
Don't don't swaying around like this.
And, you know, everyone's got in their mind that I want this to look cool.
So I'm going to do this big thing, you know, and you just go the more deliberate.
Yep. So you're almost like here. Press you want to be.
And if it's a pistol, you want to press into it. Oh, interesting.
Yeah, like a bayonet.
Instead of, you know, yeah, you kind of want to be pushing from here forward.
Anyway, unbelievable.
Can you believe this life that this guy has privately?
I've been saying about you around the set that you are the rich man's Walton
Goggins because I'd read before people always in the past had called you the
poor man's Tom Cruise.
And I say, no, it's the only thing I'm comfortable with.
He's the rich man's rich man's Walton Goggins.
I disagree with that.
Yeah. Oh, Walton.
I love the best. Worked with him as well. Good man.
Yes, of course. All right.
Of course, you do everything.
We got to keep running through this.
I got to get you out of here.
He's about to shoot another movie in 10 minutes.
We got to we got to keep a movie behind us.
We have your lovely Porsche 911 that Mark is detailing back there.
Thank you, Mark. He's even done.
I'm so excited.
And you're getting by the way, how long have you had this car?
This was a car I acquired from my father who had bought it.
Oh, no way. And it sat in his garage.
He didn't he didn't buy it new.
He bought it was like, I think it was like 12,000 miles on or something.
It's a 997. It's a it's a black edition 2012 997, you know,
base Carrera, but still so so much fun.
So it has a lot of personal meaning to you because it was your dad.
That was my dad's.
And I ended up buying it from him, sort of buying it from him.
And he's like, just do me a favor. Don't ever sell it.
Like, I won't. Oh, that's wild. I won't. Yeah.
So from time to time, you've been keeping it with me in Santa Monica.
Yeah, yeah. And I called and I'll keep it right close.
And I take my guys take good care of it.
And I started up every once in a while, but I called James and I said,
you know, this crack in the windshield is starting to get me down.
Yeah. And and James is like, what about the dense?
And I go, I didn't even see those.
And there were just little things here and there.
And I said, why don't we give it to Anthony Lainer at Exotic Car,
our friend who takes care of stuff.
And he goes, well, I want to drive it today when I come on the show.
I said, dude, this is going to take three hours.
I text Anthony, he comes and looks at it.
He goes, I'll have this done in 24 hours.
It is astonishing that you actually got this work done as fast as you did.
And I thank you for that.
I did not, but it was Anthony at Exotic Car.
You you I helped.
Well, as everybody here knows, I love to sort cars.
It's one of my favorite things to do.
I will remember that, especially when I'm not paying for them.
I just keep the heat on to make cars.
Guy. And then to this guy, you go, I got another guy over here with money.
He's going to pay you and this guy's going to do the work.
You know, Anthony found the last windshield in the United States in San Diego.
He drove down yesterday and picked it up himself.
And this morning, he delivered the car done, all the dense done.
And I have a surprise for you.
Brett Stein is giving you a new set of tires.
Even though your tires are great.
They've got little flat spots for sitting for a little while.
Our tire sponsor, Brett Stein Tires, his official tire sponsor,
Spikes Car Radio, they want to take care of you and put them on.
So those are coming in the next couple of weeks.
Well, isn't that nice?
You just keep hitting me with surprises.
That's very, very generous of them.
That's what you get for knowing a spike at Spikes Car Radio.
So I feel like a friend of the show.
You a lot more than you're giving to this relationship more than I am.
OK, before you go, we just have a couple of questions from listeners.
I promise that I would ask some questions.
I can't promise you that they are good questions.
But I like the bad ones.
You can make fun of them if you like.
And instead, who are we?
Oh, I know Mr.
And instead, he says, fantastic fella.
We knew that.
Please get some inside scoop on jury duty, too.
Yes. OK, that's what the that's what the listeners want.
Here's about another fucking project that he has to hop.
Yeah, jury duty, too, is I don't really have much to do with it
other than executive producing it.
But it's completely different setup, different backdrop.
It's a company retreat.
I see a young, young, very, very sweet young man, Anthony,
is, you know, the one person who's not an actor
and the rest of the cast are hired actors to fake this company retreat.
It's coming out soon, right?
Yeah, very soon.
I think it's a boy, I forget the date, but it's very soon.
They'll find it.
Shark Works, our friends at Shark Works want to know
why were there no Porsches in Paradise season one or two?
Well, two is not done yet.
Why were there no one?
Porsches. Yeah, good question.
You can't have a Porsche in everything, guys.
Really, I think Shark Works are right, though.
I think you you should and you can.
How about also, should I put a Shark Works exhaust on this baby?
Just going to say that.
Why isn't there a Shark Works exhaust?
James Mars, that'll happen now.
You got some free tires.
We're going to get some Shark Works exhaust.
Actually, I didn't I did entertain that for a minute.
What's that?
I took this car to Marco and asked him
about putting a Shark Works exhaust on it.
And what did he say?
He said, well, I'll show you what that sounds like,
because I actually have a customer who has one already
and he's outside and he put.
And I thought, do you do that?
I just I'm a stock guy.
I like things.
I love a good Shark Works exhaust on the right car.
I'm not sure this is that car.
OK, great, great.
All right, but it's nice that you're thinking of them.
But if you have a GT3 RS someday
and you want to do something super fun.
See, that car doesn't need it.
No, I don't need to find need.
Standard H wants to know, let's see.
I was just talking about him last night.
Of course you were.
I hated to see him leave the IWC brand.
Seems he's an Omega guy now.
Would love to know is any of that right?
Are what kind of watch guy are you right now?
Do you consider yourself a brand ambassador of any watch?
Not not not a brand ambassador specifically,
but I did work with IWC for for many years.
And then we that stopped, but you know, no drama there.
But now it's just sort of like, you know,
work with several different watch companies.
There's no contracts.
It's just sort of like what do you like to wear in your downtown?
This is an old means a 93 like Rolex Explorer.
Yeah, yeah, I'm very I'm not.
I didn't want to say basic because I love this watch.
But but it's, you know, simple.
It's like Mr.
Rogers classic neighborhood here.
Someone's knocking on the door quietly, but that's OK.
We're almost done.
We'll just keep going here.
C.S.
Manual 86.
I've gotten to know James's dad, Dr.
Martin, through my work in food safety.
He's a great guy.
Oh, wow.
Question for Jimmy.
Wait, it's his name again.
What's his name?
C.S.
Manual 86.
Who knows what his real name is?
Do you still have a Miata that you race with your son?
Great question.
No, I don't have it anymore.
We sold it, but we found we this is Jack.
Is this your son, Jack?
Jack, yeah.
Yeah.
How would you Jack?
He's 18.
Just turned 18.
God, I know we went carting.
Yeah, yeah.
And I remember when they both beat us, both Jacks dusted us.
Yeah, I'm my 13 year old.
It's a big time into carting.
We okay to answer the question.
No, we sold it, but we Jack and I took a high performance driving
class at Willow Springs and one of the mechanics said, Hey,
do you want to build one of these?
And there were a bunch of like spec Miata is running out on the race.
Let me know.
And we bought a, you know, for five thousand dollar old in B Miata.
And he helped us lower it for, you know, roll bar, got the, the mess
with the camber and the stance and the holding and kind of made it a track car.
Yeah.
And then we took it out, you know, several times, but ultimately it wasn't
something that we were going to keep forever.
But a lot of people don't know this about James Marsden.
He's always at a racetrack racing around.
He's legit, legit car guy.
I am, man.
I am if you I take your boy, if he's still in the drive into K one circuit
in Winchester.
Yeah, it's fun.
I do.
I agree with that.
It's fun.
They love it.
They once know electric cars.
These are like, with these like lithium, lithium ion batteries.
Yeah, that's right.
Smoke.
They're doing that up at Willow too.
They're doing that up at Willow.
Last question from Nick Earncat.
James, what are your guilty pleasures?
He really wants to know what guilty pleasures do you guilty pleasures?
Yeah.
Do you smoke a cigarette?
Do you do bong hits?
Do you eat pizza at late at night and you're underwear?
What do I have last night?
An ice cream sandwich.
What's the what's what humanizes you to the audience?
What are your guilty pleasures?
I do like a sweet.
I do like a back to like, like, but not like a fancy sweet.
Like what kind of sweet like like Nestle Nestle ice cream sandwich.
Oh, that's good.
You know, and some people like get the fancy chocolate with the peanut butter stuff.
I give me a thing of jiff peanut butter and a Hershey's bar.
Like these are these are just edible.
My wife gets so mad at me that I bought jiff the other day.
I'm the same way.
I go, I don't don't bring your fancy peanut butter around here.
Peanut butter.
By the way, it's twenty five dollars from that jar.
Look at this jiff.
Yeah. Six bucks.
Eating certain things.
If you're eating it, yeah, just get the crappy version.
Like if you're going to have French fries, just get McDonald's.
Yeah, I'm ready, man.
Well, James, again, thank you for coming on the show.
I've got a lot to read here, so hold on for one second.
Paradise Season Two premiered February 23rd with three episodes,
new episodes streaming right now weekly on Hulu.
Your friends and neighbors is set to return April 3rd, Friday on Apple TV
and Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice.
Premieres March 14th at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
Jury duty is a list goes on, ladies and gentlemen, the great James Marsden.
James, good to see you, my friend, and come back soon.
Thanks for having me and enjoy the car.
Are you going to drive it right now?
Thank you. Very kind of you.
I am. I'm going to drive it home.
There you go.
I've driven it in months.
Very, very happy to give it some exercise.
Let's go. Let's go.
Start it up.
Let's go give it a gander.
Bye, everybody.
About this episode
The conversation dives into the recent Moda Miami car event, highlighting its vibe, auctions, and the intense Florida weather that caused a dramatic monsoon during the show. Johnny Liebrens shares his experiences driving rare cars like the Mercedes CLK Black Series and discusses the rising value of Porsche Carrera GTs, including a record-breaking sale. The episode also touches on the challenges of Florida car culture, comparisons to Amelia Concours, and a humorous yet chaotic encounter involving a drunken altercation at a party. The mix of car culture insights and personal stories makes for an engaging listen.
Original notes
Jonny survives a monsoon, a drunk Brit, and influencer hell at ModaMiami, and then James Marsden stops by to talk playing the President, driving McLarens on screen, and why his 911 finally got a new windshield.
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This week, Spike and Jonny break down ModaMiami — the RM Sotheby's "spite show" born out of Florida automotive drama. Jonny recounts getting rained on while watching a GT40 take storm damage, and somehow ended up in a headlock from a drunk British attendee.
On the automotive news front: a Carrera GT sells BIG at auction, Estonian gangs are running a center-lock wheel theft operation in Berlin, a Waymo blocked paramedics in Austin, and Donut Labs to have cracked solid-state batteries for EVs.
Then actor James Marsden joins the crew to discuss his role as the President on Hulu's Paradise, Your Friends & Neighbors, and his upcoming project with Vince Vaughn. Plus, James' 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera Black Edition gets restored by Spike and crew.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - ModaMiami monsoon disaster
06:40 - Porsche Carrera GT sells for $3 MILLION
08:39- Jonny got attacked
16:52 - Center lock wheel gangs
20:06 - Waymo blocks police after Austin shooting
21:26 - This battery will REVOLUTIONIZE the EV market
24:43 - 2025 Mercedes-AMG G 63 G-Wagen
30:32 - Porsche's secret hypercar leaks
35:13 - FAT Ice Race
36:05 - Introducing James Marsden
37:11 - Playing the president
39:42 - The cars of Your Friends & Neighbors
45:39 - Learning stunts with Vince Vaughn
49:13 - James' 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera Black Edition
54:59 - Racing Miatas
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