#2445: The Cheapskate Sweepstakes

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Brian wants to spend only a few bucks to make his antique pickup truck handle like a sportscar. Candace's hubby thinks she can save a few pennies on gas by coasting whenever possible. And Keller has purloined a street sign to use as a floorboard in his VW Bug. Who will win 'The Cheapskate Sweepstakes' on this episode of the Best of Car Talk?
Get access to hundreds of episodes in the Car Talk archive when you sign up for Car Talk+ at plus.npr.org/cartalk

Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NPR Privacy Policy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	In this country, some truths aren't self-evident. In NPR's Black Stories, Black Truths,
0:07.2	a collection of stories as wide-ranging and real as the people who tell them,
0:12.0	we celebrate the Black experience for all its soul and
0:16.1	richness. Search NPR, Black Stories, Black Truths, wherever you get podcasts. Hello and welcome to Cara Talk from National Public Radio with us click and Clack to Tappert Brothers, and we're
0:43.8	broadcasting this week from the permanent vacation pavilion here at Car Talk Plaza.
0:48.8	Now, it's with a touch of sadness that I must announce the imminent departure of one of Car Talk's most
0:54.0	reliable staff members. Right away you know I'm not talking about Berman.
0:58.0	I do that.
0:59.0	No, no. Our constantly vacationing assistant producer and former
1:03.7	Wisconsin Jennifer Jiffy, Conifer, Gonnafer,
1:07.8	Traveling Leisure, Bikini Wax, I'm having a telephone surgically
1:11.2	implanted in my ear, Lobe is leaving us.
1:15.0	Wait a minute, are you sure she's leaving us?
1:16.5	I mean, she's always leaving us to go on vacation?
1:18.8	No, no, this is it, this is the real deal.
1:21.2	Wow.
1:21.8	Yep, she did put her notice in.
1:24.0	This is no baloney.
1:25.0	In fact, I overheard her consoling several Boston area travel agents on the phone.
1:29.4	You know, it seems like just yesterday that someone left her on our doorstep.
1:36.7	Remember we opened the back door and there was a little basket and in it was Jennifer Jiffelobe swaddled in blankets and clothing.
1:49.0	Travel brochures.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.