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The Best of Car Talk

#2419: So Much for Brotherly Love

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Kieran from Louisiana has to leave his car for a long time. The last time he stored it the brakes rusted so bad they had to be replaced. Should he instead leave the car with his brother? Find out how many ways there are to say, "Absolutely Not!" from the Tappet Brothers 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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Learn more at concur.com. Hello and welcome to Car Talk on National Public Radio with us

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click and collect the Tappock brothers and we're broadcasting this week

0:38.6

from the Car Talk Center for the Study of the Electric here at Kartar Plaza. Now we received a

0:44.2

videotape a couple of weeks ago from a guy named Peter Defazio from Oregon and

0:48.8

this guy happens to be a member of Congress I guess and he was running in the

0:52.2

Democratic primary to try to

0:54.3

succeed Bob Packard in the US Senate. I remember him he was chairman of the

0:58.5

Senate subcommittee on like Fisheries Wildlife and Gropping.

1:01.1

Yeah right. anyway the reason Defazio sent us this video tape is because on it are his campaign

1:08.9

commercials to Fazio for US Senate

1:12.0

Yeah, and these commercials apparently show him

1:14.6

driving all over Oregon.

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In what?

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Oregon?

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Oregon.

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Oregon. Oregon.

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In what?

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His 63 Dodge died. Of course, I mean he was trying to demonstrate to his fellow Oregononians that he was a practical fellow,

1:30.0

that he had a sense of economy trying to show his perspicacity and of course most of all his what his exquisite taste

1:37.0

Well needless to say he lost I didn't lose by much but the pitches of him in that dart probably put him over the edge so

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