#2373: Yooper Problems

The Best of Car Talk

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Automotive, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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What's a poor 'Yooper'(a Michigander from the upper peninsula) to do when his wife insists that he's wrecking her car by slamming it from reverse into drive every time he backs out of the driveway? Click and Clack try to let him down easy on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at plus.npr.org/cartalk or find the Car Talk channel in Apple Podcasts.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Card Talk, our National Public Radio with us, Click and Clack the
0:20.4	Tap at Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Post-Election Disappointment
0:24.8	Division.
0:25.8	Are you disappointed?
0:26.8	No, but I know you are.
0:28.9	Once again, Election Day is coming gone, and once again, my brother's writing campaign
0:33.4	has failed dismaly.
0:36.0	He was trying to get voters against to write him in for anything.
0:40.6	Yeah, I just want to be written in for something.
0:42.6	What do I care?
0:43.6	Just write me in.
0:45.4	That's just not what your campaign literature said.
0:47.2	Write me in.
0:48.2	He did.
0:49.2	He got 140 subscriptions of Time Magazine and 14 salad shooters.
0:53.2	You know what you're getting for Christmas?
0:55.3	Salad shooter.
0:58.0	The kids will have fun with that.
0:59.3	You have mail?
1:00.3	I got mail.
1:01.3	I mean, you may remember that several weeks ago, several weeks ago, not last week because
1:07.2	the twerp was here last week.
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