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The Best of Car Talk

#2437: Gail the Tollbooth Fugitive

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Automotive, Leisure, Comedy

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Billy the Kid, John Dillinger, Al Capone and now... 'Gail the Tollbooth Fugitive' takes her rightful place among America's most notorious criminals. Find out how wrong your life can go when you don't have exact change on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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and we're broadcasting this week

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from the rolling nomenclature division

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here at Car Talk Plaza.

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Yeah, you know, suggested by Ken somebody

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who's named Ken Lindsay from Mount View, California, when I heard that you were extending the

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puzzler into uncharted realms of potential lousiness, my beat skipped a heart. I was so excited I could hardly count. When I heard

1:07.1

the philosophy regarding opening up the mode of inquiry to include the right brain, I was even

1:11.7

more excited. Imagine you guys going from a no-brainer to a

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partial brainer but other the other the d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d'dd d'ddddd b which leads into more

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practical questions.

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What's going to happen when the people who give names to cars run out of inspiration?

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Maybe it's already happened.

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Things like the Mercury Mistake or the Starion? So as a public service and to help fill up your hour and to

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provide weeks of potential amusement, why not open up the new puzzler to name that car competition? Each week could have a theme. Historical figures one week, for

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example like the Renault Robespierre, and major diseases the next, like the Dodge Diiphtheria the Plymouth polio obviously this

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concept could be milked longer than an artificial cow sound effect on Garris and

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Keele's show and that's it That's it, that's it. That's it.

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Ducky came up with a couple like he wanted a dental theme. A dental theme, like the

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