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ALEX ROY: JF had--
I wouldn't say it's the first time, maybe the second time--
a great idea.
We're in San Francisco, again, a city that Jeff has found a
whole lot of good reasons to find glorious.
Enough jokes.
650 BMW Convertible, the Pacific Coast Highway.
Of course I said yes.
I also made a mean joke.
I said I didn't want to do it with JF.
But in going with the joke, I went on Facebook and posted
this status update.
This is not a joke.
Wanna co-host LIVE AND LET DRIVE with Alex Roy?
All you have to do is convince me you're funny and give me a
road trip idea I haven't thought of.
And meet me in an In-N-Out Burger between 11:30 and 1:00
PM the following day.
That was about 14 hours for people to read the update and
show up with some ideas.
JF: A Slovenian.
ALEX ROY: So far, a stranger I haven't met yet
ranks higher than JF.
And a stranger that has yet to email me I know nothing about,
but I hope will, ranks higher than JF.
So far the waiter here ranks higher than JF.
But before the casting, there was one more
thing I wanted to do.
This was my idea.
It wasn't a good one.
It was a great one.
See if we could talk our way into meeting with the highest
level executive at YouTube we could talk
our way into meeting.
I heard a rumor they like Drive.
One jacket and one fake police badge away from the entrance,
and we got in.
Call the lobby.
That's what the sign says.
And we met someone pretty high up.
I can't give you his name.
In fact, I can't tell you what happened, but I can prove it.
[WHISPERING]
We talked to him, too.
Soon enough I followed JF's suggestion in
saying exactly this.
We went to In-N-Out Burger for the casting
because I'm late as usual.
JF was right.
I'm very slow getting from A to B. At 11:30, upon arrival,
no one was there.
I ate a burger and waited.
11:50, the first person arrived.
Russell, a self-described housewife, in his own words,
from San Francisco.
RUSSELL: I'm literally a housewife.
ALEX ROY: What was your previous career?
RUSSELL: Office manager.
ALEX ROY: With some time off, a great love of Alfas and
Fiats, a former Corvette driver, and a fan of
LIVE AND LET DRIVE.
What cars have you owned or driven in your life that you
liked or didn't like?
RUSSELL: I loved my little Fiat Spider.
ALEX ROY: Nice.
RUSSELL: I had a little 1800 Spider, top-down, it flew.
And rack and pinion.
it was just a beautiful car.
Boyfriend wrecked it.
ALEX ROY: Now what punishment did that result in, because
clearly that's very rude.
RUSSELL: Yeah, it was kind of rude.
ALEX ROY: Did you fight about it?
RUSSELL: Yeah.
Let's see, there was the time--
yeah, we did.
20 plus years ago.
ALEX ROY: Was that a relationship breaker?
RUSSELL: Yeah.
ALEX ROY: Now, I, like most people with real friends on
Facebook, don't actually check Facebook to know
what they're doing.
I don't have to.
Real friends call each other.
So it was a pretty big surprise when the second guy
to show up was this guy who looked familiar to me.
Are you sure your name is Keith?
KEITH BASKETT: Keith Baskett.
You know me.
JF: Alex, you know him.
ALEX ROY: You look familiar to me.
And I couldn't quite place him because I'm
not that good a friend.
Keith--
the Captain--
Baskett.
A literal, actual, real-life airline pilot.
Wait, are you really the captain?
KEITH BASKETT: I am.
ALEX ROY: The original?
KEITH BASKETT: The one and only.
ALEX ROY: That I haven't seen in like five years.
KEITH BASKETT: It's been a while.
ALEX ROY: Hey.
It's nice to see you.
What a surprise.
The pilot, with Paul Weissman, my best friend, of the spotter
plane who flew overhead when David Maher and I drove
cross-country in 2006 to break the Cannonball record.
Captain, I owe you more than one phone call.
How's your wife?
KEITH BASKETT: She's great.
ALEX ROY: Say hello to your mother for me.
You really came all the way--
I mean, you know this is kind of unfair for you to come down
here since I know you as an old friend.
I haven't seen you in years, and years, I owe you
more than one meal.
KEITH BASKETT: So I'm here to collect.
I figured a Double Double Animal-Style would be
appropriate.
ALEX ROY: You're really collecting, not just from me,
but from these other fine people who came up here to
audition from whom an opportunity
is now being taken.
KEITH BASKETT: I just came for a meal.
ALEX ROY: Needless to say, the captain had an unfair
advantage over Russell.
He's an airline pilot, which is really cool.
And then another guy arrived--
Jordan.
Jordan, 18, 19 years old, USD student, electrical
engineering major, interviewing with Apple a
couple of days later for a job in engineering.
And his apparent girlfriend, Natalie.
Who knows what she studied.
I wasn't paying attention because Jordan was so
interesting.
Kidding, she was adorable.
And after a few minutes of talking, he said something
really interesting.
All right, so what compelled you to come here today.
You think you'd be an excellent road trip partner?
JORDAN JADALLAH: I think I have something unique.
ALEX ROY: Tell us about it.
My road trip idea, Alex, is--
and he pulls out a battery pack--
is to get you to some distant location and bring you back
before these batteries run out.
I'm like, why is that cool?
He said because I'm deaf, and these are the batteries to my
hearing aid.
And he turned his head and showed me the mics.
JORDAN JADALLAH: And I tell a lot of deaf jokes.
And you will keep laughing.
ALEX ROY: That's so cool.
No, are you serious?
So you're a full-on lip reader.
JORDAN JADALLAH: No, I have hearing aids.
ALEX ROY: Hearing aids.
JORDAN JADALLAH: It's cochlear implants, but it's very
high-powered hearing aids.
ALEX ROY: I see.
So you don't listen to a lot of music.
So I said, that's it.
You're coming along with the captain.
Russell, we're going to have to call you next week.
I can't believe we're taking these kids with us.
This is so fantastic.
Dude, I mean, how nuts is this.
This is flawless.
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ALEX ROY: After El Salvador, I didn't think much could happen
that would shock me into feeling I might have to run to
the bathroom quickly until Jordan announced that he was
three-time Northern California National Karting Champion.
Rare in someone who has raced to show any humility.
I'm amazed that you did not tell me before that you raced
the National Karting series.
That's amazing.
How old were you when you started doing that?
JORDAN JADALLAH: Nationally?
Probably 15, 16.
ALEX ROY: And how long did you do that for?
JORDAN JADALLAH: I'm still technically doing it now.
But I stopped doing it very seriously last
year because of college.
ALEX ROY: What year are you in school?
JORDAN JADALLAH: I'm a sophomore.
ALEX ROY: All right.
Mechanical engineering major.
JORDAN JADALLAH: Yeah.
ALEX ROY: And so did you work on your own kart?
What's your experience working on cars?
JORDAN JADALLAH: On cars.
Well, actually I have a coach slash
mechanic coaching my go-kart.
And he also coached me in my driving.
He used to be a national champion as well.
So I would help him work on the kart, because we have to
work together on that.
ALEX ROY: And what about--
have you worked on any street cars?
JORDAN JADALLAH: Cars?
Yeah.
I worked on my dad's Porsche.
ALEX ROY: '89 Carrera?
You worked on that car?
JORDAN JADALLAH: That was my senior project.
ALEX ROY: An awesome story.
You've got a kid born deaf, who doesn't learn sign
language, whose dad insists he learn to speak, who also loves
cars, who also is into engineering, who has restored
his father's Porsche with him, actually taught his dad how to
do it, who's also a national go-karting champion?
That's kind of awesome.
Is it easier or harder for you to race a kart?
JORDAN JADALLAH: It's much harder.
ALEX ROY: You wear the hearing aid in the helmet, in car.
JORDAN JADALLAH: In the helmet but the thing is, my
microphone's like right here so the padding of helmet
actually covers it.
So I can barely hear, I won't hear go-karts behind me.
My competitors, they can hear each other.
So what I have to do is, I don't have a mirror, so I have
to look behind me to see if someone's behind me.
I can't tune the engine because I can't hear if the
engine's in tune.
So I'm at a disadvantage for that, so I
have to drive faster.
ALEX ROY: Of course.
But Jordan also sealed his fate because as soon as he
said that, there was no way we were going to Monterrey.
We were going straight go-karting.
So let's talk about this BMW.
So you have, you said, a lot of experience working on cars.
You've worked on restoring this--
JORDAN JADALLAH: Much more at driving.
ALEX ROY: --Porsche with your father.
This car, as we said before, same price as a brand new 991
Porsche Cabriolet.
And granted, I accept your position that that's probably
a better handling car, probably a little lighter.
But do you not have any appreciation for the level of
engineering and electronic aids required to make this car
as comfortable as it is?
JORDAN JADALLAH: It's pretty amazing.
But, you know, they put a lot of time into engineering
airflow over of the car because we're having a
conversation right now.
ALEX ROY: So would you ever want to own a car like this?
JORDAN JADALLAH: Yeah, it's comfortable.
ALEX ROY: Come on.
Don't give me that.
JORDAN JADALLAH: No.
ALEX ROY: The go-karting facility we went to, although
I had been there before on my book tour and karted there a
little bit, was also Jordan Jadallah's home track, which
he didn't mention when we decided to go
karting head to head.
But everybody there reminded us of it up until the moment
the flag was dropped.
JF was a pretty damn good driver.
Josh Vietze, who's an amazing driver, and everyone on our
team were completely annihilated by Jordan
Jadallah, three-time deaf national go-karting champion.
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SPEAKER 1: So how fast is that kid?
ALEX ROY: That kid's fast.
He's exactly 80 pounds faster than me.
There's a pound meter on the--
SPEAKER 1: Stop making excuses.
ALEX ROY: It's not an excuse.
It's an explanation.
SPEAKER 2: He had ribs.
It was that extra serving of ribs.
SPEAKER 1: Do you mind telling us how many
pounds of ribs you ate?
ALEX ROY: I had like a pound and a half of ribs.
I don't really believe in divine providence or destiny
or luck, not after McNish said something very interesting to
me at Infineon.
He said he doesn't believe in luck.
He says statistically, you go out, you practice, you develop
your skills, you do your best, you go out, you
go out, you go out.
Statistically over time, sooner or later, doing
whatever it is you do every day, something will go wrong.
If you race cars, an accident is part of the game.
So before leaving the karting track, it was really wonderful
for Jordan's family to show up and pick him and his
girlfriend up.
And before we left, I told Jordan that we had been up at
Infineon and that I'd met Alan McNish.
And Jordan's like, oh yeah, and by the way, I was part of
his driver's search program last year.
It's a small world, not in a physical sense, but in the
sense that people who have similar passions will find
each other, if not inevitably, then certainly inevitably.
It's a good thing.
Small world.
We eat too quickly.
JF: What was the--
what did he say?
ALEX ROY: Wait.
It's good.
Are you taping?
Are we recording now?
All right, number one choice so far is a guy named, and I
quote, "Rock Melon." So check out the
entertaining things he sends.
What we achieved in an M5 in one day, Jure Robic did on a
bicycle in a week.
I'm already entertained--
SPEAKER 3: Are you done with your check?
JF: Yes, I'm done with it.
ALEX ROY: Not with something else now.
So, unfortunately, Jure Robic died on Friday.
He's a big fan of endurance sports.
And--
WAITER: Can I ask if--
ALEX ROY: We're busy right now.
We're recording.
WAITER: But I need your name with--
JF: Oh, sorry.
ALEX ROY: It can wait a second.
I guess it couldn't wait.
for the staff of the Hilton.
We won't be returning here.
That was the example of the guy who normally brings his
own member into frame in the gang bang before he's next.
He actually crosses the vector of action,
the vector of action.
JF: That was really rude.
ALEX ROY: That was really rude.
JF: By the way--
ALEX ROY: No.
I'm talking.
So Rock Melon says that there will be at a talk about Jure
Robic in Slovenia this week because he died.
And it'd be a great idea if we sent Rock a Team Polizei
jacket to wear to the funeral and also suggests that we put
a Jure Robic ram--
what is that?
Why ram?
It must mean something in Slovenian--
patch on it, because everyone will wonder what it means and
ask him what it means.
JF: What's this have to do with someone coming to meet us
at In-N-Out?
Can we please--
ALEX ROY: He said he that he can make us lunch.
JF: He can make us lunch.
ALEX ROY: Yes.
JF: I don't care about someone who can make us lunch.
We need someone who can go on a road trip with you.
ALEX ROY: You can't say this guy didn't spend the
time to write us.