#2359: The Mechanic as Salesman
The Best of Car Talk
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4.7 • 16.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hello and welcome to Kotalk from National Public Radio with us clicking |
| 0:21.5 | collect the tap or brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the sleep |
| 0:24.7 | center here at Kotalk Plaza where my brother has been asleep for three |
| 0:28.7 | continuous days. Doctor is he alright? Should we have doctors here? Oh, how do you |
| 0:38.8 | talk to me? Oh, we should be on duty all the time to revive us in case we you |
| 0:43.3 | know laps into. Do you have any letters to read? You know the mail has been |
| 0:48.9 | it's I mean it's a desperate to all time low and all time and it's daydure and |
| 0:54.5 | you might say that and it's low point as well. This is interesting. I don't know if I |
| 1:01.6 | should even mention Vivian my goal is PhD's name. No, I don't think so. From Columbia |
| 1:06.7 | Maryland, it says, Dick Lincoln, I'm an old old woman. How about sending me an |
| 1:13.5 | extra extra large t-shirt to be buried in? It would mean a lot to me. My husband is 88 |
| 1:22.2 | and he says I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those damn full things. Some people |
| 1:27.5 | have no tank, no taste, thanks in advance. Vivian, what? It's on the way. It's on the way. |
| 1:35.6 | It's an interesting idea, isn't it? It is. I mean most people get buried in just like suits. |
| 1:41.5 | That's what you think. Well, I mean it isn't. No, no, no. I think that they undertake us |
| 1:47.8 | a stealing of suits. Well, give a goal. Who's clothing store in the back? Examine. That's why. |
| 1:53.2 | I mean they lay that baby. Johnson's funeral. What do you do? And second hand clothing. |
| 1:58.4 | Somebody dies. What do you do? You go and buy my new suit. He doesn't. He ain't gonna need a new suit. |
| 2:02.4 | I mean why can't Barry do a new suit? These undertakers must look at these new suits to say, |
| 2:06.4 | can you believe this Frank? They're gonna bury this guy in a 500 all a Brooks Brothers suit. No, |
| 2:11.5 | they're not. Oh no, they're not. Oh no, blue jeans and a sweatshirt. So that's the ideal |
| 2:15.9 | combination of business. It's not used. I mean hardly. Hardly used. Right. Right. |
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