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The Best of Car Talk

#2394: That Giant Sucking Sound

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Marco's wife is harping about his shifting technique, Bill's bride wants him to get rid of his old Lincoln Town Car and Amy has alarm bells going off randomly in her Pontiac. You'd think that our hosts would need to stay pretty on point in order to give out good advice here, but you'd be wrong. Amazing feats of unfocused fancy 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

Lena Khan is one of the nation's top antitrust enforcers.

0:04.0

She goes after illegal monopolies and stops companies from getting too big.

0:07.0

When you were a kid, was Monopoly your favorite board game?

0:11.0

No, I think it was probably like snakes and ladders. Now as

0:15.8

chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lena Khan has launched some big lawsuits

0:20.0

against big tech. She explains those cases on the Planet Money Podcast from NPR.

0:24.6

Hey, it's Ray. I just want to make sure you've heard about NPR's new Car Talk Plus for an

0:30.0

insignificant little subscription fee. You'll get access to hundreds of previous

0:34.2

episodes whenever you want them and your subscription supports NPR. If you like

0:39.8

things the way they are, no worries, but if you're ready for an upgraded car talk experience,

0:44.7

and who wouldn't want that?

0:47.4

And you want to do your part to help NPR, you can go to the Car Talk Plus channel at

0:52.2

Apple or go to Plus. npr.org

0:55.7

slash car talk that's plus dot npr dot org slash car talk talk. Hello and

1:17.0

welcome to Car Talk on National Public Radio with us clicking Clack the Tappert Brothers.

1:21.0

We're broadcasting this week from the H&R engine block

1:23.6

center here for tax preparation at Garthag Plaza. Now I just found out that Paul

1:30.1

Mercky of Mercky research who hasn't done anything for like five years.

1:33.4

Yeah.

1:34.4

Is taking an aggressive stance against the IRS this year.

1:37.6

I'm with him.

1:38.6

I'm with him.

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