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The Best of Car Talk

#2469: Right Down the Hatch

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Barbara's 'grandmamobile' is perfect except for one thing. Every time she leaves something on the dash it slides into the vents. And just the other day that vent swallowed up her car keys. Surgical extractions with Click and Clack 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

0:43.2

Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, and we're broadcasting this

0:45.7

week from the Center for Marketing Genius here at Car Talk Plaza.

0:49.8

Now, from the onion, the paper that we know and love, which comes, where does this come from out of Madison, Wisconsin?

0:55.6

Madison, Wisconsin, the best city in the country to live in.

0:58.8

According to Money magazine.

1:00.8

Right, right.

1:01.8

Here's the headline.

1:03.0

Top, top of the page.

1:05.0

General Motors introduces new instant win airbags.

1:09.0

I mean, this is the marketing coup of the century it says Detroit with third-quarter

1:15.8

sales sluggish and its share of the domestic market down 11% since 1993

1:20.3

General Motors unveiled a new instant win airbag contest.

1:24.0

The new airbags, which award fabulous prizes upon violent high speed impact

1:31.0

with another car or stationary object will come standard in all of the company's

1:36.0

1997 cars.

1:37.0

There's a picture adjacent to it with an inflated air bag and the driver's sitting behind

1:42.4

it and says,

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