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The Best of Car Talk

#23100: Mechanics vs Lawyers

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Automotive

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Best of Car Talk, Dorothea wants to sue her mechanic. Now you might expect Click and Clack to stand up for a fellow professional, but instead they take a few swings at a profession even lower on the 'trustworthiness scale' than car mechanics: lawyers. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at plus.npr.org/cartalk or find the Car Talk channel in Apple Podcasts.

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0:14.7

slash NPR. Hey it's Ray Marjolzia here and before we start the show I want to thank those

0:20.4

of you who have already signed up for Car Talk Plus.

0:23.4

Now for the rest of you who haven't, what are you nuts?

0:26.8

For just a few bucks a month, you can listen to our entire archive of shows

0:31.1

anytime you want and support all the good shows on NPR at the same time.

0:37.0

Go to the Car Talk channel at Apple Podcasts or go to Plus.nPR.org

0:42.0

slash Car Talk. That's Plus. NPR.org. car talk. That's Plus.

0:44.0

NPR.org.

0:46.0

car talk. Hello and welcome to K Talk on National Public Radio with us

1:05.6

click and clack the Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week from

1:08.6

the Personnel Department here at Car Talk Plaza. I mean since we have just made a

1:12.1

very important new hire here at Car Talk Plaza. I mean, since we have just made a very important new hire here at Car Talk Plaza, we thought

1:15.2

we'd let you know and we'd let the entire staff and the listening audience know all about it.

1:20.5

I mean, we have yet this.

1:22.2

We have hired our very own attorney general to

1:25.3

look into the widespread as we know fraud and deception which is practiced every

1:30.4

day in the automotive industry and I think her first target is going to be you and me.

1:35.7

Well don't leave us in suspense who is she? I am pleased to announce that Kottok's new attorney general is

1:40.9

Janet Torino.

1:43.0

Oh yeah, what is she part of the Ford administration?

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