#2434: Car Talk's Family Vacation
The Best of Car Talk
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4.7 • 16.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from NPR's sponsor, Organic Valley, the farmer-owned cooperative dedicated to providing ethically sourced food from small organic family farms. |
| 0:09.5 | Discover how you can support local organic farmers at o v. coop slash ethically sourced. Hello and welcome to K Car Talk on National Public Radio with us |
| 0:35.4 | click and clack the Tappin brothers and we're broadcasting this week from |
| 0:38.8 | believe it or not the Lost in cyberspace division here at Car Talk Plaza. Now, you remember like many moons ago, we asked |
| 0:45.8 | our listeners to help us create the next Car Talk T-shirt. |
| 0:48.9 | It was all four years ago, I think. And we got literally thousands of suggestions. It was unbelievable. And we were so overwhelmed with the response that we got that we did what? |
| 0:59.0 | Nothing. |
| 1:00.0 | A long time. |
| 1:02.0 | But we did pile them up in the office. |
| 1:04.0 | That's what most people do when they're overwhelmed. |
| 1:06.0 | They just do nothing. |
| 1:07.0 | In fact, the other day, my son was in the office and he said something about, |
| 1:10.0 | gee, you guys ought to throw out the trash. |
| 1:12.0 | Doug says that's not trash, that's mail. Incoming. gee you guys ought to throw out the trash. |
| 1:12.5 | Doug says that's not trash, that's mail. |
| 1:14.5 | Incoming. |
| 1:15.1 | Anyway. |
| 1:17.3 | stores it in barrels. |
| 1:20.3 | Just in case it becomes trash, you're ready to throw it out. |
| 1:23.0 | It finally occurred to us that we're such Yahoo's that we couldn't possibly make an artistic decision as important as what the next car talk t-shirt should look like. |
| 1:32.0 | After all, I mean, 10 or 15 people are going to be wearing this next fall. |
| 1:36.0 | So we tried to figure out how can we get people with better taste than us involved in picking a winner, |
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