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The Best of Car Talk

#2440: Mom is Sprung from the Slammer

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Automotive, Leisure, Comedy

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Were Click and Clack part of some horrible experiment in child-rearing or were they just born that way? Their mother, Elizabeth, joins them on Mother's Day to ponder where she went so terribly wrong with these two on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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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 car talk on National Public Radio with my boys click and

0:38.3

clack the Tappett Brothers. Hello boys. Boy you're getting professional at this!

0:43.0

Hi, Mother!

0:46.0

That, if you haven't recognized her wonderful voice so far, is my mother, not his mother, my mother, Elizabeth, what's your middle name?

0:57.0

Jones, Maria? Maria?

1:00.0

I never knew that.

1:02.0

She changes it all the time.

1:04.0

Elizabeth, my father is in the end of this video

1:08.0

he says you never heard it either.

1:10.0

She's full of surprises.

1:12.0

She just made it up.

1:14.0

That's where you got it from.

1:15.0

She makes up everything.

1:17.0

Don't let me laugh.

1:19.0

My mother is here to help us all celebrate Mother's Day. So here we are ready to, we're willing to accept

1:27.4

calls for us about cars or about relationships or calls to my mother and my brother's mother that's four people in this

1:34.7

for any questions you may have about mothering or whatever I don't know what it

1:41.2

right and your field of expertise expertise is how to avoid the mistakes

1:45.0

that you might make in mothering because God knows you made them all.

1:48.0

Well, Doug said we may get some calls about,

1:52.0

he was prepping my mother in the green room.

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