Jamie Skeets

Oh, yeah.

Up north.

Tyler Myers.

Tyler Myers.

All right, that's the Uptown Report.

Let's hear from you guys in the stream team and you podcast listeners up or down, especially on that last one.

Do you have strong opinions about Benny the Bull changing his uniform number to 99?

We're going to take a break, and when we come back, we're going to draft the Rising Stars teams.

If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have?

The Volkswagen Beetle started out as Hitler's dream car.

It wound up as a beloved hippie icon and the best-selling car of all time.

How did that happen?

I'm Jacob Goldstein.

And the story of the Beetle is truly surprising.

It has so much in it.

It has Nazis.

It has the German economic miracle.

And it features one of the most famous ads of all time.

The calculation was that there was some number of Americans who were ready for something different, who were ready for something that was counter to the culture, if you will.

Perfect timing.