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The Best of Car Talk

#2340: Uniquely Disqualified

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

If you have a car that's unreliable, in need of regular repairs and just sitting in your driveway, rusting, you need a mechanic to help you figure out if it's time to cut your losses. Or you can sell it to the first guy that offers you $50 for it. Best of Car Talk callers enjoy both options.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Car Talk on National Public Radio with us clicking

0:19.2

back the Tapper Brothers and this week we're broadcasting from Car Talk

0:22.6

Plaza. You know every week you come up with some funny place that we're

0:26.3

broadcasting from. No, no, I mean usually I mean this time of year we usually

0:29.8

go away in our spring winter vacation but I get the feeling that listeners

0:34.1

were getting a little disturbed that we were getting all these vacation so.

0:36.9

You mean they believe us when we say we were like broadcasting like from

0:40.1

like like beach you know so I decided we should stay home because our listeners

0:44.4

might think that you know I don't know this we're living it we're living it up like

0:48.3

Wayne Moon Tower Boy. Oh I'm sorry I just looked at it and make you say that.

0:53.4

Well it is true actually one day someone sent to me oh you're back already

0:58.2

huh I said back from where. She said I heard you on their radio the other day

1:04.1

broadcasting from Waikiki Beach. Anyway could you rub some sun tan lotion on my

1:08.9

shirt? I know you don't have any good mind for me. I have a scientific stuff here

1:13.6

which is right up your alley as a matter of fact. Is it? Well here's a letter from

1:17.8

this is I mean I can't believe sometimes what exists in the world and it's

1:23.7

just all you know when they look for signals from other other solar systems

1:28.1

they can give up because everything you could possibly ever think about is right

1:33.3

here on earth is right here maybe we're even in our fair city. Now a few weeks ago

1:37.9

you expounded on a wackle roof snow theory right? I didn't expound I just gave

1:44.4

a little I just gave a very brief overview. Well you got a letter from what's his name?

1:52.0

Deep personally? Dear Ray? Well it's no. It's it's it's to both of us. I never

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