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The Best of Car Talk

#2338: The Vomit Comet

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Mercury Comet was a fun little car. NASA's zero-gravity and weightlessness test plane, nicknamed 'The Vomit Comet', is something else entirely but is an oddly appropriate subject for Car Talk we think. Check it out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Card Talk, our National Public Radio with us clicking

0:19.2

collect the Tappard Brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the Department of

0:23.8

Alamo Mobility Research. Back again. It's back again. Nobody will drop this issue. Here

0:31.0

is a clipping from some newspaper. Let me get this facts right here. Well, while he's

0:39.2

while he's perusing that this is what you just this stuff you should be doing

0:42.2

before the show. I mean I don't I don't far be it for me to tell you how to

0:48.0

how to write. I've been in this business. How to run you a 20% of the show. You

0:54.2

mean I should like look for the source and stuff before the show starts then I

0:58.6

would have it at the tip of my tongue. I say here I have an article here from the

1:01.9

San Antonio Express News. Right. Let me bring people up the speed on the

1:06.5

Alamo thing. So many months ago. Yes. Some woman called from San Antonio, Texas

1:12.6

and I and I was bemoaning the fact that it's unfortunate that she had to live

1:17.1

in the city where they had the such an historic monument to the Alamo, but they

1:21.0

had succumbed to moving it because it wasn't in a good place for tourism. It wasn't

1:26.0

touristically desired. Right. Exactly. And she said, huh? And I said, well, of course

1:30.9

they moved it. It wasn't always downtown San Antonio next to Joskies of Texas. They

1:37.2

moved it from way out in the stick someplace and they moved it downtown, stone by stone,

1:42.2

brick by brick. And they reassembled it there. And there it stands. And now it's a

1:46.8

great tourist attraction. You can do your shopping at Joskies and she said, I didn't know

1:51.6

they had moved it. She sounded incredulous. But by the end of the call, I had a

1:55.2

convinced. And that opened the flood gates. Everyone in his grandmother wrote to us.

1:59.8

Yeah. And everyone claim most people, however, claiming that it was not true. Of course

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