#2417: What's the Matter with Montana?

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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More than a few years ago, Montana reacted to the repeal of the federal 55mph speed limit by declaring there to be no speed limit on vast stretches of highway. That -and testosterone-poisoned truckers- has Tommy ranting and raving on this episode of the best of Car Talk. Get access to hundreds of episodes in the Car Talk archive when you sign up for Car Talk+ at plus.npr.org/cartalk

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0:33.0	welcome to Car Talk on National Public Radio with us
0:36.0	click and collect the Tappert brothers
0:38.0	and we're broadcasting this week from the John Calhoun division here
0:41.0	at Car Talk Plaza.
0:42.0	Now, John Calhoun is all of you 11th graders know.
0:45.0	Oh, that's why I didn't know.
0:47.0	Was the eloquent South Carolinian who argued vociferously for the concept of states' rights in like the 1830s and 40s I I before I
0:57.4	don't know the 11th graders I guess getting that degree in humanities from MIT has
1:02.0	worked well for you.
1:03.2	Yes it has.
1:04.2	It certainly well.
1:05.2	Anyway, he did this arguing when he felt that the federal government was usurping too much
1:10.2	power and imposing tariffs and laws and all kinds of things.
1:13.2	I'm with him boy on the state and the reason we're broadcasting this week from the
1:16.5	John Calhoun division is because my brother is having a minor hemorrhodal flare up
1:22.4	around the issue of states' rights this week, particularly as they
1:25.2	pertain to speed limits.
1:27.9	So without further ado, I mean, I know, I know you're, I can just see the veins bulging in your head well as you know it's a it's a
1:36.4	subject near and dear to my heart on which I have strong opinions go ahead this is a little article that was in USA Today, not today.
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