#2369: To the Moon in a Ford Escort
The Best of Car Talk
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4.7 • 16.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Card Talk, a national public radio with us clicking |
| 0:19.7 | collect the Tappet Brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the Center |
| 0:23.1 | for Pest Control here at Card Talk Plaza. Now as we speak, murky research |
| 0:28.1 | scientists are working assiduously to develop a spray lotion or call or |
| 0:33.4 | anything to protect my brother and me from the dreaded bite of Melissa Peterson. |
| 0:37.8 | She won't give up that little twerp. She sent us another letter, get this. For |
| 0:43.8 | the photos of you that don't remember Melissa Peterson is the |
| 0:46.9 | precocious young lady who's written to us. Now I guess twice now because I see |
| 0:51.5 | another letter quite nasty. Right and it's trying radically to turn the entire |
| 0:56.2 | canine population of the world against us. She has to show her dog hates us. My brother has to tie a |
| 1:01.6 | pork chop around his neck to get his dog to play with him as it is. Well she wrote to us again. |
| 1:06.6 | A little twerp. Here it is. I'm writing a response to a letter that you got from that jerk named Jim. |
| 1:12.8 | I mean a couple of weeks ago some interesting intelligent perspicacious listener |
| 1:18.0 | defended us to some extent trying to explain away Melissa's craziness. Yeah. The |
| 1:24.8 | maliciousness of Melissa. Right. So right away she refers to me as a jerk. That jerk named Jim. I do not suffer from driving jealousy. |
| 1:31.6 | Mostly because I wouldn't be able to pay for all the speeding tickets. I wouldn't be getting if I could drive. |
| 1:36.0 | I actually feel sorry for all those people they could pull over by the police every year. |
| 1:40.2 | I still hate your show and I'm thinking of suing my father for making me listen to you. |
| 1:46.0 | I might do the same to you so watch out. She's like a little kid just young lass. |
| 1:52.4 | All of my friends absolutely agree with me about how awful you are. |
| 1:56.4 | And we're thinking about starting an anti-car talk foundation which would be |
| 2:00.6 | which would be dedicated to destroying your program. |
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