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The Best of Car Talk

#2454: Shark Attack

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Scott from Scottsdale is an attorney suing a local mechanic who cracked the engine block on his client's car. The mechanic fessed up immediately and offered to fix it with epoxy. Will Click and Clack side with a lawyer preparing to pounce on a fellow mechanic? It's shark vs grease monkey on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0

Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.

0:07.0

If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.

0:12.0

I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American

0:16.0

I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American from Boise State Public

0:21.2

Radio, part of the NPR Network. Hello and welcome to Caratalk from National Public Radio with us

0:43.1

click and clack the Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week

0:45.8

from the Platform Committee room here at Car Talk Plaza. Now as you know, well if you

0:51.0

didn't you may know you're about to know.

0:53.0

My brother and I are running for president this year as right-in candidates.

0:57.0

And with all these conventions going on recently, we realized that we too needed to work on our platform.

1:02.0

In fact, we had a little platform fight

1:04.7

ourselves. It's like a food fight right? Oh I knocked my brother off the

1:07.8

platform. He hit his head. He called me a butt head. No actually we announced

1:11.9

earlier this year that the centerpiece of our platform is the 35 mile an hour speed limit.

1:17.0

Here me kind of twisted my arm a little bit anyway saves lives, saves gas and saves me from having to drive to visit my brother-in-law in

1:25.0

Unadilla, New York, because at 35 miles an hour it takes like five days to get

1:29.1

there and my wife wouldn't want to go.

1:30.5

Yeah, but after a lot of discussion we have decided to add one more

1:34.2

plank this week to our platform a tolerance plank. You may have heard of other

1:39.4

people discussing tolerance planks, but our tolerance plan is this. We call for tolerances of 9, 10,000th of an inch

1:49.3

on the reborring of cylinder walls throughout the United States. So when you decide to

1:54.9

rebore, so if you have boring cylinders, now that's tolerance. Oh, are you kidding

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