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The Best of Car Talk

#2472: Rover and Over

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Veronica's hubby wants to buy an old Land Rover for riding through the jungles of... greater Boston. Click and Clack explain that, while on the surface this idea seems illogical, ill-conceived and expensive, it's actually much worse than that. Join our safari for this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0

On this episode of Wild Card, actor Jeff Goldblum sings his way through our conversation.

0:07.0

One, two, three.

0:08.0

One is the loneliest number.

0:10.0

Two, oh just the two of us. We can make it three. Oh, we three, we're not alone.

0:17.0

I'm Rachel Martin. Join us for NPR's Wild Card Podcast,

0:21.0

the game where cards control the conversation. Hello and welcome to Carra Talk from National Public Radio with us

0:43.1

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

0:46.0

from the center for Anglo-Kartaki and alienation here at Car Talk

0:52.1

Plus. Well I mean we got this big basket here, we drag it over to the microphone, this big basket of food

0:58.8

from a place called A Taste of Britain by Post. Dear car guys, we at a taste of Britain by post was saddened to hear your condemnation

1:10.2

of our national culinary prowess.

1:13.0

I don't think it was an out condemnation.

1:16.0

Oh, I think so. I mean, I think it was something like...

1:19.0

Yeah! Oh, maybe.

1:21.0

Something like that.

1:22.0

Yeah. About English food.

1:23.2

Apart from the gross injustice of your comments, I don't think so.

1:28.6

We feel that since you have already alienated any French listeners you might have, it would be unwise

1:35.1

to pursue a course of systematically lambasting European nations.

1:39.5

I love it.

1:42.2

I didn't realize we were doing that. I think we ought to go out to Dane's next. They're pretty vulnerable.

1:47.0

As I'm sure you know, we Brits are all highly educated, discerning, witty, sophisticated, and cultured.

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