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The Best of Car Talk

#2444: The Breath of God

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Althea's car stalled on a highway up thar in Maine. Then a kindly old priest happens by and offers to 'breathe into her gas tank'. Lo and behold, the car starts again! Click and Clack sermonize on this miracle and other automotive lessons from the good book of the Best of Car Talk.
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episodes wherever you get your podcasts. You're going to be. Hello and we're broadcasting this week from the dubious

0:44.2

denominations to division here at Card Talk Plaza.

0:47.4

Now for those of you who may have missed it a while back we received a call from a

0:51.7

Linda of our fair city of I remember it

0:53.8

Cambridge Mass yeah Linda had a 34 year old New Yorker and she wanted to know if she

0:58.7

should keep it or get rid of it now of course my brother being the demented fool of me has tried to convince

1:04.7

it that it was probably worth fixing up. And you told her that this 34 year old

1:08.7

Chrysler New Yorker was probably a piece of junk, get rid of it you told her?

1:12.3

Well then Linda explained that the

1:13.8

34 year old New Yorker wasn't a Chrysler in fact it wasn't even a car it was our

1:19.2

producer Dougie Berman and I saw the era of my ways. I apologize you were right. He's no good

1:25.2

I told it at dumping. Well we gave her the thumbs up anyway and recently Doug and Sip as Linda is known to most of her friends and

1:36.4

family were married. Oh isn't that sweet? Were they really?

1:40.3

California and with yours truly, Muah and Stupi, not only in attendance, but officiating at the ceremony.

1:50.4

Yes, the right Reverend. Yes, and I remember I was the first official of Boissel. I called Dougie for Tripping,

1:55.8

a two minutes into the ceremony. That's good. And he went to the penalty box. It was a stand in anyway.

2:01.0

Gila Fleur, I think. I thought it was a very sweet no no thanks to us of course it was a very sweet

2:09.0

ceremony tastefully done very tastefully done with a minimum of bungling very minimum yeah yeah very good kept our

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