#2451: From the Shores of Lake Titicaca

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Dr. Christine scored herself a plum gig in South America digging up ancient ruins, but unless her stalling Landcruiser gets fixed she might just bury it for a future Indiana Jones to dig up. Can Click and Clack help her explain to Titicaca Toyota's service manager what it needs? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0	Numbers that explain the economy. We love them at the indicator from planet money and on Fridays we discuss indicators in the news like job number spending the cost of food sometimes all three.
0:10.8	So my indicator is about why you might need to bring home more bacon to
0:14.7	afford your eggs. I'll be here all week. Wrap up your week and listen to the
0:19.2	indicator podcast from NPR. Hello and we're broadcasting this week from the
0:43.7	legal claims division here at Car Talk Plaza.
0:46.5	No I read the other day that some woman in LA is she's I think the legal term is seeking some sort of redress of grievance or something
0:56.3	from Disney. You know Walt Disney Mickey Mouse and a cute little company
1:00.8	She claims that the animated character Pocahontas is
1:04.9	patterned modeled after her yeah yeah every
1:08.9	she modeled for somebody I don't know a couple of years ago.
1:12.6	They paid a 200 bucks and now she wants more because she figures hey they're making a
1:18.1	zillion dollars.
1:19.3	Oh she modeled for Disney for some other something and they used it and they made Pocahontas out of her and now she wants more money.
1:27.0	Sounds like the American way to me.
1:30.0	I realize that this is my ticket out of this dump.
1:33.0	Oh yeah?
1:34.0	Yeah, how? I'm suing MTV.
1:36.0	Oh, what grounds?
1:38.0	They patterned the character after me and they never paid me for it.
1:41.0	Which one?
1:42.0	Not Beavis, the other guy. Open and shut case. He looks just like
1:49.2	me, doesn't he? He looks, acts, sounds, everything. It is an open and shut case.
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