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clicking clack to Tappett Brothers and we're broadcasting this week from

the Turkey division here at Car Talk Plaza.

Quite appropriately I might add.

Well, every year around Thanksgiving time,

we give out a Turkey award for the person we deem

to be the biggest turkey of the year.

How many years in a row, you get it.

I was all alone for about 12 years. Now in years past has gone

to such luminaries as Roger Smith. Actually he swept it from 83 to 89 for single

handedly dropping GM's market share like 15 points over that period of time.

Yeah and for which he's only getting like 10 million dollars a year for a retirement.

Retirement severance or whatever.

Our buddy Li A Coker picked up a turkey a few years back

for having an entire car company that only sold one car.

Well disguised, but they still had only one car.

That's right.

And this year we had a tough choice to make.

Ayakoca was up for it again after attempting a hostile takeover of his old company,

not realizing that the door-knove hit him pretty hard in the butt the first time.

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