Bill Murray Reveals How He Wishes He Spent His First Big Paycheck
Comedy legend Bill Murray landed on The Joe Rogan Experience this weekend, sitting down for a wide-ranging interview that touched on everything from his former SNL castmate John Belushi and his favorite Western TV shows to his experiences playing Hunter S. Thompson and feelings about former president Richard Nixon. Over the course of the discussion, Murray also revealed what he wished he spent his first major paycheck on: a Shelby Mustang.
In the course of his conversation with Rogan, talk turned to cars — more specifically, how modern-day cars are often lacking when it comes to design. “Let’s all agree that the cars don’t look as good as they used to,” Murray declared at the end of a conversation about the cultural changes of the ’60s. “It used to be that every single year, every single car looked different than it looked the year before. And that’s mind boggling nowadays to think about that.”
And Murray doesn’t just have beef with how modern cars look — he observed that “now the cars are made of, I don’t know, plastic? … They’re made of nothing. They’re not made of steel. They did it with steel back then. And now they’re made with some carbon something or other.”
Murray, a self-described “’62 Corvette guy,” admits that the sound systems on modern cars are better and passed on a rumor that the winds of modern car design were perhaps about to change: “I heard that Buick is going to make a car, and — this could be wrong — but I heard they’re going to make a car next year that’s not going to look like any car ever. It’s going to be like a brand new, whatever the hell, ’25 or ’26 Buick, and it’s not going to look like the ’24 or [’25]. It’s going to look like its own individual thing. They’re going to try to recommence the idea of making a new car every year.”
Looking at images of a 2024 Shelby Mustang Super Snake led Murray to reflect back on not just cars of the past, but his own past, saying, “I wish I’d bought a Shelby back when I first had a paycheck, because they’re such beautiful cars … I think the original one is like the super coolest car.”
Check out the full video below; the car discussion begins at 31:58.
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