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The Best of Car Talk

#23108: Don't Dew It!

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Automotive, Leisure, Comedy

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Darlene's Daughter Has an old Volvo that's overheating. On a recent trip she pulled over when the dash light came on and, lacking any water, added a few bottles of her favorite carbonated beverage. Will the Volvo be refreshed or ruined? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. 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.

Transcript

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Hey it's Ray Marliorzi from Car Talk here with a holiday reminder to please support

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dot npr. Or slash car talk.

0:21.2

And thanks. Hello and we're broadcasting this week from the car talk.

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

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click and clack the Tappert brothers and we're

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broadcasting this week from the Kartalk Plaza Summer Retreat here in downtown

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for this downtown Miami Florida. I don't want to complain. I like sites and I like traveling as much as the next person

0:55.2

but isn't it like a little warm to be in Miami in the middle of July? Well Dougie booked a whole trip for. I could get some kind of a deal.

1:03.0

I don't...

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I mean, what kind of a deal could he have gotten that would get us to Miami in July?

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Well, I think when he booked us for the trip,

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he got a free cabin in Maine for a week.

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It's not nice.

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No, no nice and cool cool nice.

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On the other hand no one ever blamed him

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accused him of being nice.

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No, he's not nice.

1:23.2

Certainly not.

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