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from the Victims of Success Division here at Car Talk Plaza.

Actually we are victims not of our own success.

Of course not. We're victims of NPR's success.

That's right. Without thinking about the potential ramifications, NPR has gone willy-nilly improving its other programs and in the process attracting bigger and bigger audiences, right?

Yeah, of course.

Did they think, however, about the effect it might have on lousy shows like ours.

And now, due to their insensitive improvements, more people are inadvertently listening to lousy

shows like ours and that I have to say is not

necessarily a good thing. As we learned a few weeks ago when Bob Let's the President of

Chrysler called us after listening to our show. The problem is we used to be able to say whatever the hell we wanted to say

because as a lousy show we could count on only like three or four people listening.

We lived in blissful anonymity.

Indeed.

The worst hate mail we ever got was from a 12 year old kid named Melissa,

who said, PS, my dog hates your show too.

That did hurt, I have to admit.

But it wasn't the end of the world.

But now that NPR has gone out and dramatically

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