GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA: “A California beach town is banning residents from smoking inside their own homes, saying the health benefits outweigh concerns over government overreach.”
UPDATE: Smoking outside is apparently still permitted in California:
This is what Kamal would do to America https://t.co/LT1hfDEaEG
— Daniel Greenfield – "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) August 27, 2024
MULTIPLE FORMER HITLERS EMERGE FROM BUNKER, REHABILITATED, GIVEN SHINY NEW SUITS:
I already want Trump to win. You don’t have to sell me on it. https://t.co/JbQftE4WmC pic.twitter.com/RQ4mzy7Jq6
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 27, 2024
OLD AND BUSTED: Trump Will Destroy Democracy!
The New Hotness? We’ll do the job ourselves: Human Rights Campaign president says we must “reimagine” democracy to be “more revolutionary” than the “little piece of paper“ our founders drafted.
They're Communists. https://t.co/OsSwxG7zWi
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) August 26, 2024
Flashback: Kamala Harris Dismisses Kavanaugh’s Pocket Constitution: ‘That Book You Carry.’
Piers Morgan could not be reached for comment: Piers Morgan gets owned by Ben Shapiro, refers to Constitution as “your little book.”
TO BE FAIR, BUGOUTS ARE WHAT KAMALA AND JOE DO BEST:
BREAKING: Kamala Harris and Joe Biden skip Arlington Memorial Ceremony for the 13 troopers who died in Afghanistan on the 3rd anniversary
Only 1 former president showed up
His name is Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/x1msiHjWjO
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 26, 2024
Such moments are no laughing matter — unless you’re the vice president, alas:
FLASHBACK: This was Kamala Harris' first reaction to the reports that Americans were trapped and possibly dead in Afghanistan three years ago.
"Slow down" followed by a maniacal cackle.pic.twitter.com/O65GtPQdoM
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 26, 2024
OLD AND BUSTED: “Queers for Palestine.”
The New Hotness? Islamists Are Reenacting the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and the Green Crowd Couldn’t Care Less.
Do America’s environmentalists oppose the Houthis’ blowing up oil tankers because it results in massive spills and a “severe ecological disaster,” or quietly support them because they represent attacks on the fossil-fuel industry?
It’s easy to wonder about the latter, as life stateside is full of people who will give you grief about your Big Mac, your SUV, your gas stove, and now your air conditioning. Meanwhile, these kidnapping, humanitarian-aid-obstructing, cholera-exacerbating Islamists who carried out a “partial and limited reintroduction of slavery” are reenacting the Exxon Valdez spill, and you barely hear a peep from the green crowd. It’s easy to conclude their movement is primarily focused upon hassling you, not about protecting the Earth.
The current president of the United States — that’s Joe Biden if you’ve forgotten. I know it’s easy to forget when he only does one public event per week — has not made any substantive remarks about the threat from the Houthis since January. The Biden administration would probably prefer if you forgot that one of its first actions was to remove the Iranian-backed Houthis from the U.S. list of global terrorist organizations.
As with those who attack Christianity but steer very far away from attacking Islam, now we know the limits of the crowd that glues themselves to the floor and throws paint at priceless artwork.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF WEIMAR AMERICA AND THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: I quit my stressful job as an NYC teacher — now I make $1K in two days as a Hooters girl.
DISPATCHES FROM THE PARTY OF TOLERANCE FOR DIVERSITY: How a beloved comedy actress became liberal Hollywood’s public enemy number one.
Describing Kennedy Jr’s decision to run on the principle of “unity”, [RFK Jr’s wife Cheryl Hines] concluded that “It’s been my experience that the vast majority of all parties are truly good people who want the best for our country and for each other.”
Unfortunately for Hines, many of these “truly good” people are deeply opposed to her. The actor Bradley Whitford, who starred in The West Wing and is well-known for his liberal and progressive politics, tore into her publicly, writing “Hey, @CherylHines, way to stay silent while your lunatic husband throws his support behind the adjudicated rapist who brags about stripping women of their fundamental rights. Gutsy. Great example for the kids.” He sardonically referred to Kennedy Jr’s uncle JFK’s famous 1956 book about the courageous actors of American senators in his tweet, concluding “Profile in courage.”
Hey @CherylHines, way to stay silent while your lunatic husband throws his support behind the adjudicated rapist who brags about stripping women of their fundamental rights. Gutsy. Great example for the kids. Profile in courage. https://t.co/DrhXY3npcF
— Bradley Whitford (@BradleyWhitford) August 24, 2024
And although most actors have remained silent about the matter, Hines has now become a public laughing-stock both because of her marriage to RFK Jr and her recent statement. One wit, mocking her use of the word ‘presidency’, wrote “I didn’t realize he was president. Or in your worm eaten brains, maybe he already was.”
Other social media users have been quick to pillory Hines. One complained that “You suck. I can’t even enjoy the episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm with you in them anymore”, while another, either deliberately blending fact and fiction or acting out of confusion, declared that “It’s no wonder Larry divorced you.” There have, admittedly, been many statements of support for Hines, but these have come almost exclusively from Trump supporters.
If only someone had warned that for a company town that allegedly hates blacklisting, it doesn’t take much at all to blacklist yourself there.
20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE: Apple’s iPhone 16 launch event is set for September 9th.
Related: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max — seven biggest rumors you need to know.
WOEING:
Wilmore stressed this is a test flight meant to uncover anything amiss.
“Do we expect it to go perfectly? This is the first human flight of the spacecraft,” he told reporters. “I’m sure we’ll find things out. That’s why we do this.”
—AP, April 25th, 2024.
Chaser: Boeing Starliner astronauts will return home on a SpaceX Dragon in 2025, NASA confirms:
On Saturday (Aug. 24), NASA announced its final decision regarding the fates of the two astronauts aboard the International Space Station whose original eight-day space jaunt had turned into a nebulous multi-month excursion. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who launched to the ISS aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule on June 5, will return home no earlier than February of 2025.
Furthermore, NASA and Boeing jointly decided that Williams and Wilmore will not head back to Earth aboard the same Starliner capsule that brought them to the ISS. Rather, they will climb aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule for their descent to our planet, a vessel dedicated to the Crew-9 mission set to launch in September that will be modified to accommodate the Starliner astronauts. That capsule will only launch with two crewmembers in order to create space for Wilmore and Williams when the time comes to return to Earth, and it will also be reconfigured to carry more cargo, personal items and Dragon-specific spacesuits for the Starliner duo.
Meanwhile, NASA and Boeing are going to work on bringing the Starliner capsule back to Earth, crewless, to land in White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico, sometime in September.
—Space.com, yesterday.
Hangover: The lack of questions Vice President Harris will receive, despite:
The DTs: Vice President Kamala Harris Asks NASA if It Can Track Trees by Race for ‘Environmental Justice.’
Vice President Kamala Harris asked NASA if it could use its satellites to track trees “by race” in various neighborhoods as part of “environmental justice” during a recent display on climate change, leading many to ridicule the vice president online and even giving rise to a “Black Trees Matter” hashtag.
—Breitbart.com, November 7th, 2021.
MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT: San Francisco officials weigh in on departure of Elon Musk’s X headquarters: ‘Good riddance.’
How many more businesses whose departures will be met by San Fran officials responding with some variation of “good riddance” before voters decide enough is enough? Or as America’s Newspaper of Record reports: Robbers Announce They Will Have To Leave San Francisco Because Everything’s Been Robbed.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Swedish battery maker Northvolt lays off almost 200 in Bay Area as it shuts down subsidiary.
JUST THINK OF ABC’S JONATHAN KARL AS A DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVE WITH A BYLINE, AND HIS DEFENSE OF VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS MAKES PERFECT SENSE: Tom Cotton Demolishes Jonathan Karl After the ‘Journalist’ Gaslights About Kamala Harris.
this is an incredible exchange. Karl has no idea what Cotton is talking about. Once Cotton tells him, he says she disavows. Cotton says she has never disavowed anything, only for Karl to pivot to some point about how the vibes at the convention suggest she's not that left wing https://t.co/asgGQwNuxi
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) August 25, 2024
Flashback: “Why would you trust a campaign?”
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA:
This is one of THE BEST videos someone made of the DNC…
Mocking Michelle Obama's BS. pic.twitter.com/DRRVX2gxvs
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) August 24, 2024
Flashback: “In a famous Soviet joke, then-leader Leonid Brezhnev shows his mother his luxury apartment, his limousine, his fancy country house and his helicopter only to have her object: ‘But what if the communists come back?’”
TOLERANCE FOR DIVERSITY REACHES TERMINATION POINT:
Once again, proven the theory that you can be an insane bat shit anti-VAX liberal invited on CNN and the daily show and have the best friends in Hollywood but the second you become or endorse to Republican you become unacceptable https://t.co/ttQL04V9tH
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 24, 2024
As Glenn noted in the very early days of Instapundit, “As the old saying has it, the left looks for heretics and the right looks for converts, and both find what they’re looking for. The effect is no doubt subliminal, but people who treat you like crap are, over time, less persuasive than people who don’t. If people on the Left are so unhappy about how many former allies are changing their views, perhaps they should examine how those allies are treated.”
ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: “At least nine people stabbed, several dead, by what appears to be a lone perp, around an hour ago, at a ‘diversity festival’, in…Solingen, Germany. Perp on the run, perp & reasons unknown, massive manhunt underway.”
KIRA DAVIS: The Beyoncé Campaign.
The DNC is well known for their high profile celebrity guest roster. This year the heaviest hitters showed up to take the stage — the Obamas and Oprah Winfrey.
So, it was a bit surprising when rumors of a REALLY BIG guest to close out the convention began swirling. Who could be bigger than Oprah? TMZ appeared to be the main source of this massive “stunning-if-true” surprise. They claimed the surprise guest would be Beyoncé Knowles herself. The mainstream media, never a group to let themselves be distracted by actual journalism, spent the entire day chattering about the rumor and speculating about the impact of such an appearance. Not a single word had been uttered by the Beyoncé camp, the Harris/Walz campaign or any credible news source about her possible appearance but Beyoncé’s celebrity cloud of glitter and awe descended upon the United Center anyway, and its occupants were helpless to resist the gravity.
I felt it had to be Taylor Swift, even though that would be a blow to her fiancé’s fanbase and could possibly cause a negative media storm for his upcoming football season. I felt it could be Beyoncé — she’s certainly a big get — but she has performed at inaugurations and other political events in the past. It wouldn’t be a huge “surprise” to see her on that stage, although it would certainly be exciting for the audience.
As we all know by now, it turns out the big “surprise” was Kamala Harris.
No wonder the DNC-MSM felt the strong urge to goose the ratings: How Much of This Harris Speech Viewership was Fueled by Media Hyping DNC ‘Special Guest’ Rumors?
It was all a ploy to get them to stay to the end. Shameful.
— Burt Macklin (@BurtMaclin_FBI) August 23, 2024
UPDATE:
Disappointment As Special DNC Guest Turns Out To Be Carrot Top https://t.co/bljq63tmES pic.twitter.com/MP8CTbWhix
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 23, 2024
WRISTS SLAPPED: Secret Service Employees Placed on Administrative Leave after Trump Assassination Attempt.
Multiple Secret Service employees are being placed on administrative leave after the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump during a campaign rally last month, according to multiple reports.
A member of Trump’s security detail and personnel from the Secret Service’s Pittsburgh field office who helped coordinate the security at Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pa. have been told to work on administrative duties from home, CNN and Fox News reported.
The security failures leading up to the attempt on Trump’s life are one of the most significant law-enforcement failures in American history and remain the subject of multiple ongoing investigations. Acting Secret Service chief Ron Rowe admitted the assassination attempt was an indefensible failure when he testified before the Senate two weeks after the incident took place.
Gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pa., managed to climb up a nearby rooftop and fire eight shots at Trump and his supporters at the campaign rally, wounding Trump’s right ear and killing former fire chief Corey Comperatore. Two other victims, Marine veteran David Dutch and retiree James Copenhaver were also wounded by Crooks’s gun shots.
“The U.S. Secret Service is committed to investigating the decisions and actions of personnel related to the event in Butler, Pennsylvania and the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump,” Secret Service communications chief Anthony Guglielmi told National Review in a statement. “The U.S. Secret Service’s mission assurance review is progressing, and we are examining the processes, procedures and factors that led to this operational failure.”
Well, one way or another, it was a failure. Or as America’s Newspaper of Record reported last month: Secret Service Director Resigns In Disgrace For Failing To Assassinate Trump.
JOHN KASS: Kamala’s Soviet Nightmare.
In the almost 40 years when I was a reporter, columnist, and editorial board member at a faded (but once great) Chicago metropolitan newspaper, I’d periodically conduct an unpopular experiment on colleagues:
I’d ask them if they’d ever made a payroll while dealing with other bills for electricity, taxes and other operating costs.
In other words: Had they ever run a business?
It seemed reasonable to ask, since journalists were so eager and willing to weigh in on economic matters, from unaffordable teacher contracts to property tax “swaps” and waxing on profoundly about the importance of “community investment.” Sometimes I’d ask for a show of hands when I’d run the experiment.
“Have you ever run a business?”
But nobody ever raised their hands.
Nobody.
* * * * * * * *
Kamala Harris, now the Democrat presidential candidate desperate to distance herself from the disaster of Joe Biden, has feelings.
She is desperate to win. Which is why she called Joe Biden a racist, before eventually sucking up to him and joining his administration.
To separate herself from old Joe, she recently announced a drastic plan: If elected she would use her powers to order the federal authority to control rising inflationary costs.
In other words, government price controls just like the Stalin era, before farmers gave up and famine swept Ukraine. Stalin argued that to make an omelet you had to break some eggs. And his de facto but unofficial publicity agent, the Pulitzer Prize winning Walter Duranty of the New York Times agreed. Some eggs had to be broken, and if millions died of starvation…well, you can’t cry over broken eggs, can you?
“On Day One,” she promised, perhaps forgetting she had been at the top of the Biden administration for more than a thousand days, “I will take on price gouging and bring down costs. We will ban more of those hidden fees and surprise late charges that banks and other companies use to pad their profits.
“We will take on corporate landlords and cap unfair rent increases,” she continued. “And we will take on Big Pharma to cap prescription drug costs for all Americans. Our plan will lower costs and save many middle-class families thousands of dollars a year.”
She’s talking about price controls.
Yes.
Price controls didn’t work for the Soviet Union and Stalin, and the Soviets, like today’s Democrats, had the media eating out of their hands. And then came the famine.
Most of America’s inflation since 2020 has resulted from Kamala Harris, as Vice President, twice breaking Senate ties to approve the American Rescue Plan of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. These didn’t reduce inflation; they caused it, they were the match to the dumpster fire. Dumping trillions of dollars in cash on the the economy and the inevitable happened, and every American who took basic economics knew what would come:
Too much cash chasing too few goods happened. Gas was under $2 a gallon. And then everything started to rise as the inflation tax of too much government spending took hold, and milk and eggs and coffee, beef and bread, everything rising and many Americans were forced to make choices.
There were moms and dads who skipped meals so their kids could eat. We never thought this would happen again in America, but it did. And some senior citizens had to select from medicine or food. It was the Democrats and their selling their “feelings” that got us here.
Not all of the corrupt corporate media was in support of Kamala Harris’ Soviet-style plan. The leftist Washington Post condemned it, as did the much more rational Wall Street Journal.
The Washington Post editorial board condemned the Harris idea as “gimmicks.” They were too kind.
Speaking of Kass’s question to his fellow journalists, back in the early 1990s, far left Democrat George McGovern wrote in the Wall Street Journal:
I also wish that during the years I was in public office, I had had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day. That knowledge would have made me a better U.S. senator and a more understanding presidential contender…
[M]y business associates and I also lived with federal, state and local rules that were all passed with the objective of helping employees, protecting the environment, raising tax dollars for schools, protecting our customers from fire hazards, etc. While I never have doubted the worthiness of any of these goals, the concept that most often eludes legislators is: “Can we make consumers pay the higher prices for the increased operating costs that accompany public regulation and government reporting requirements with reams of red tape.” It is a simple concern that is nonetheless often ignored by legislators.
As Steve Hayward added earlier this month, “Well, just how much private sector experience do Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have between them? Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Not even with a non-profit organization (which maybe doesn’t count).”
No wonder the DNC’s operatives with bylines profess so much love and devotion.
DEMOCRATS’ CONVENTION OVER, ANGRY GAPING ORANGE MAW ROARS BACK INTO ACTION! Orange Glow Dominates Landscape as Icelandic Volcano Erupts.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: ‘Jews have to meet in secret at DNC,’ says Holocaust survivor, ex-ADL head Foxman.
Holocaust survivor and former Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman expressed concern on Wednesday that the situation for Jews in the US had deteriorated to the point that they had to meet in secret at events like the Democratic Party National Convention.
Foxman’s concern came after a Tuesday Agudath Israel of America DNC event on rising antisemitism against Orthodox Jews was disrupted by anti-Israel activists.
“Brick by brick, wall by wall, Zionism will fall,” the activists chanted in a video published by Agudath Israel.
Foxman, who survived the Holocaust by being hidden and raised by his Catholic Polish nanny, said on X that he knew in his heart that “in the future it will be better, for Jews in America then it is today. But I fear it will never be the same. After 50 years fighting antisemitism in America, I could not have imagined a time Jews would have to meet in secret locations in Chicago at DNC.”
The ADL noted that the event was not about Zionism, and that Agudath Israel had been targeted for being “visibly Jewish.”
Foxman, who survived the Holocaust by being hidden and raised by his Catholic Polish nanny, said on X that he knew in his heart that “in the future it will be better, for Jews in America then it is today. But I fear it will never be the same. After 50 years fighting antisemitism in America, I could not have imagined a time Jews would have to meet in secret locations in Chicago at DNC.”
The ADL noted that the event was not about Zionism, and that Agudath Israel had been targeted for being “visibly Jewish.”
Foxman may claim that he “could not have imagined a time Jews would have to meet in secret locations in Chicago at DNC,” but America’s Newspaper of Record sure could:
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Is Kamala setting herself up for a Dewey-versus-Truman defeat?
The hazy elusiveness that has characterized the first weeks of Harris’s campaign has prompted impatience and criticism from across the political landscape.
While noting the distance Harris has kept from the news media — she has neither granted an interview nor convened a news conference since emerging as the Democrats’ nominee — the New York Times nonetheless reported recently: “Some political strategists say Ms. Harris is doing exactly what she should be doing.”
Perhaps it’s not “exactly what she should be doing,” though — not when recalling campaign history and the case of Dewey, who served three terms as Republican governor of New York but twice lost the presidency as his party’s nominee.
Dewey in 1948 embraced a distant, glide-path strategy against President Harry Truman (D), sidestepping controversy and offering tame platitudes such as the importance of national “unity.”
“When you’re leading, don’t talk,” Dewey told a supporter, according to his biographer.
He specifically rejected suggestions by Republican leaders to undertake a vigorous, hard-hitting effort against Truman, who had become president in 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
“I will not get down into the gutter with that fellow,” Dewey said of Truman.
Instead, Truman used the MSM to define Dewey, his fellow liberal, to devastating results:
As I asked last week, why is it okay to compare Trump — and indeed every GOP presidential candidate over the last 75 years — to a leading National Socialist, but it’s not okay to point out Kamala’s predilection for International Socialism, especially when:
UPDATE: Speaking of International Socialism:
During the 2008 election, my Romanian cousin visited me in DC. When he saw the paintings of Obama’s face all over town, he told me, “you Americans do everything bigger—including cult of personality.” I think about that a lot. https://t.co/YuE5xH9Ra5
— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) August 23, 2024
OLD AND BUSTED: Pelosi: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
The New Hotness? We have to elect the candidate so you can find out what her policies are:
They're now openly begging Kamala not to tell anyone what her platform is. I know it's an election year, but damn.
Journalists aren't people. https://t.co/Gt39uJ7KPC— Bill D'Agostino (@Banned_Bill) August 23, 2024
UPDATE:
Did I miss the part where she "laid out her vision"? pic.twitter.com/OQaFnnrwVV
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) August 23, 2024
I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THE LEFT EXCORIATED CULTURAL APPROPRIATION:
Democrats are attempting to culturally appropriate conservatism. They think you'll let your country be destroyed as long as the means of destruction wears camo hats, flannel shirts, and talks about hunting.
Could you broadcast "we are losing with men" any louder?
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 22, 2024
MAGGOTS FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME: FBI probes possible maggot attack on food at Ohio delegation hotel at Democratic convention.
Chicago Police and the FBI are investigating if saboteurs placed maggots in the hotel breakfast being served to delegates at the Democratic National Conventionon Wednesday, local media reported.
The incident took place at Fairmont hotel, where delegates from Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri and South Dakota are staying.
“Multiple unknown female offenders are alleged to have entered a building…and began placing unknown objects onto tables containing food,” the convention’s information center said in a statement cited by WGN. “The offenders are believed to have then left the area. One victim was treated and released on-scene. Along with CPD, FBI-Chicago is assisting in the investigation. No further information is available at this time.”
“Saboteurs?” Update your Newspeak Dictionary; you spelled environmentally conscious people on the cutting edge of doubleplusgood sustainable resources incorrectly, comrade! Maggots, other insects could become U.S. food staple as consumers seek out sustainability.
“ONE FOR THE ROAD:” The Grand Tour Reveals First-Look Image, Release Date for Final Episode: Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May Head to Zimbabwe for Last Ever Road Trip.
The final ever episode of “The Grand Tour” is almost here and Prime Video is giving fans a sneak peak of what to expect — and when.
“The Grand Tour: One for the Road,” a one-off special representing the conclusion of the long-running series, is set to launch on Sept. 13 on the streamer in over 240 countries. Producer Andy Wilman unveiled a first-look image (see above) and release date at the Edinburgh TV Festival, where he is appearing on a panel.
It will see Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May reunite on a final road trip.
“In their last adventure, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May ignore the instructions of Mr Wilman and head to Zimbabwe in three cars they’ve always wanted to own, a Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri 3-litre, and a Triumph Stag*, for a stunning road trip through beautiful and sometimes challenging landscapes leading to an emotional ending on a strangely familiar island,” reads the synopsis.
More details at the Daily Mail: First look at The Grand Tour’s ‘weepy’ final episode as Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May unite for last time in ‘One For The Road’ special — and it’s just weeks away from hitting screens.
Long-time producer Andy Wilman told the Edinburgh TV Festival that filming the episode was ‘quite weepy’ and ‘quite heart-stringy’.
Asked why the trio had decided to bring to a close the global phenomenon, Wilman said: ‘We are getting to the point where enough is enough. On top of that, there is the sense that we want to end things on our own terms. It had to come to an end and we wanted to be the ones who called it.’
They shot the last episode in September last year. It will see the hosts return to Kubu Island, Botswana, which was the location of their first ever special. Wilman described the episode as “deliberately gentle” as the three stars wanted to go back to basics.
He said: ‘They wanted to go “unplugged”. We wanted to go back to 2005, leave the dynamite at home, we will go with s*** old cars. They give you more TV than modern new cars, they give you more stories, more laughs. So they wanted evocative cars that they adore and they wanted to be in Africa. It is the favourite continent we ever filmed in.’
The producer added: ‘Their comradery is next level. I think that you can see that they know this is the last time they will do this.’
Here’s the trailer:
* Officially pronounced Triumph “Staaaaaag,” as it was Clarkson’s ‘90s inspiration for the boys’ long-running Jaaaaaaag riff:
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