#2467: Fred Not!

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Fred called us from Hartford... except his name isn't Fred... and he isn't from Hartford... What could be so bad that would make a guy desperate enough to call our lousy show on the Q.T? Find out 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 we're we're going to
0:34.0	and
0:38.0	Hello and welcome to car talk from National Public Radio with us
0:43.0	Click and Clack the Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the
0:46.3	Center for French Infinite Wisdom here at Car Talk Plaza. Now we've been rather
0:51.2	critical of our pals the French recently and we admit we've been trying to
0:54.5	differentiateify our language by replacing...
0:57.4	What you say about French fries?
0:59.6	By replacing Croissant with Creason and Matredee with Sneeer merchants.
1:04.8	And we got a bunch of letters from Franklefiles selling us to knock it off guys.
1:09.1	We actually started to feel a little bad I guess and we started to wonder if we were being a little bit hard
1:14.8	on our bijo-loving brethren.
1:17.6	And then...
1:18.6	And then...
1:19.6	We get this letter actually from Dawn Finnessy. I found the following article on the internet.
1:25.4	It comes from some newspaper which is French so I can't say it. Here's what it says.
1:34.0	La France repasse
1:35.0	the weekend.
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