#2363: That Little Twerp, Melissa

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Sherlock Holmes matched wits with Moriarty and Captain Ahab battled his great white whale. Who challenged Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers the most during their over 40 years doing Car Talk, you ask? Not Chrysler's legal team, nor the FCC. No, it was a 13-year-old twerp from Seattle named Melissa. Her first appearance here 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
0:19.4	Clack the Tapet Brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for
0:23.7	Labor Studies here at Card Talk, closing out. Well this being the week in which
0:30.5	we celebrate Labor Day, we thought we would explain to you why we have a
0:34.3	Center for Labor Studies here at Card Talk. Well the answer is quite simple
0:39.3	since my brother, when I've anything to do with labor itself, we've settled for
0:44.1	Labor Studies Center he observes a lot. Yeah actually that's good you know I'd
0:48.7	love to study anything. Yes we notice. Studying labor I could handle that.
0:52.3	Would that constitute as labor, would it constitute labor though to be
0:56.2	studying labor? No. Is it premature to say that you are among the self-unemployed?
1:00.9	It is premature to say that. Yes. But you are considering becoming. I am close to
1:06.8	being self-unemployed. Yes. All right I got a couple of great great pieces of
1:12.2	mail here. The first one is as a quickie I'll just dash it off and then I'll
1:16.1	bring you the real letter. Okay. This one says. Melissa. Melissa.
1:23.4	Melissa. Melissa. That's it.
1:33.3	Okay darling. Here's the real letter. Well I hope you're happy. I'm gonna be a
1:41.0	spinster for the rest of my life all because of you and your lousy show.
1:45.2	We get his hate mail. For years I've been dating a wonderful man with whom I
1:51.7	had the perfect relationship. I think she means I had been dating. There was
1:56.4	only one note of discord between us and that discord note was not other than
1:59.9	car talk and click and click. It's difficult to believe that he could not love
2:03.7	car talk because he comes from an illiterate family and all of his cousins are
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