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The Best of Car Talk

#2463: Pardon the Interruption

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Sharon loves to settle into a comfy seat and read a book before and after a hard days work. That the seat in question is the driver's seat of her car as she travels to and from work -should that bother the rest of us? Click and Clack supply the outrage 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 Car Talk from National Public Radio with us

0:43.1

click and clack the Tapper Brothers and we're broadcasting this week

0:45.9

from the Center for Continued Daylight Savings here at Car Talk Plaza. Now

0:50.6

Indeed indeed! As you probably know we have now been saving daylight ever since like early April.

0:56.0

Where have we been putting all this extra daylight?

0:59.0

I don't know, maybe in those huge tanks next to the emergency oil reserves that we have.

1:03.2

Yeah, there are daylight tanks all over the country, don't you see them?

1:06.8

Well, I get, and even though reserves of daylight are very low, in a matter of days, based on

1:11.3

instructions from some unnamed genius, we will all set our clocks back one hour

1:17.0

and will immediately plunge ourselves into a deep national depression as we watch it get pitch black outside before we even leave work for the day.

1:25.8

Now my brother's case is pitch black before he leaves for work, but that's still going to be light when I leave work for the day.

1:32.6

I think.

1:33.6

Because I'm afraid to drive in the dark and that's why I leave so early in the winter.

1:38.0

How's that?

1:39.0

Right. I don't know.

1:40.0

I thought of that before.

1:42.0

Well, I think it's time to call for a boy car.

1:45.0

And I'm would you?

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