#2374: Alison's Stinkin' Volvo
The Best of Car Talk
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4.7 • 16.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Car Talk, our national public radio with us click and collect the |
| 0:19.7 | topic brothers. |
| 0:20.7 | And we're broadcasting this week from the awards division here at Car Talk Plaza. |
| 0:25.2 | Now my brother is chomping at the bit. |
| 0:27.2 | No I mean as one of our two of our listeners may know we've been asking for entries into |
| 0:34.0 | a contest for prizes that we could give similar to the Nobel Prize since we didn't get |
| 0:39.5 | a Nobel Prize but we could give other prizes and people have in fact been sending us prizes |
| 0:44.3 | for example and the example we use is the prize for Smokin Mirrors went to Leia Cokka. |
| 0:49.8 | The prizes aren't for us they're for other people. |
| 0:52.0 | Other people. |
| 0:53.0 | These are nominations. |
| 0:54.0 | If you can suggest the prize and who the winner ought to be and we gave it to Leia Cokka |
| 0:59.0 | when for 10 years he allowed he was able to make one car when he was ahead of Chrysler |
| 1:04.3 | and make the entire American public believe that he was making 15 cars. |
| 1:09.4 | And if that doesn't qualify for the Smokin Mirrors prize I don't know what it is. |
| 1:13.6 | Now here's an interesting little letter which doesn't isn't quite that but it's interesting |
| 1:18.3 | nonetheless. |
| 1:19.3 | Go ahead I'm ready. |
| 1:21.3 | Leia Cokka heard your show last week and your opening comments about Nobel prizes and |
| 1:26.6 | such can't help you with why you were passed over this year but if you open a category |
| 1:32.0 | for car problems of Nobel Prize winners I'm a shoe in I think. |
| 1:38.3 | By the way this is being written by Judy Laffler the she carefully used her name from |
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