#2482: How Not to Run a Radio Show

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Apparently, erstwhile producer Doug Berman does more than nap at his desk all day. The evidence: What happens when he heads out of town for a while leaving the rest of us to figure out how this radio stuff works. Enjoy the mutiny on this week's episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:45.4	from the division of, well duh, here at Car Talk Plaza.
0:50.2	I mean, is it a well-da or what they have discovered they have discovered it's always
0:55.8	day who are they well in this case it's interestingly doctors who are they
1:01.1	who are they from I don't know where they're from.
1:04.4	It was the New England Journal of Medicine that they have discovered that there is a close
1:10.8	correlation between talking on a cellophon, the cellophone, the cell phone, talking
1:18.1	on the cellophone and having an accident.
1:21.0	They had to do research to figure this out. I mean you were ranting and raving here just weeks ago about someone reading the newspaper while she was driving and talking on the phone is just as bad.
1:32.0	It was the speed is just as bad. It was.
1:35.0	It was.
1:36.0	Maybe. Oh, and she was ordering stuff on the silent phone.
1:39.0	Yeah, I mean, I don't understand it. I don't understand it. Why do we allow it to happen?
1:45.0	Why? We? Who's we? If we don't know who they are, how are we going to know who we are?
1:50.0	Well, I don't count myself along with we.
1:53.2	You don't?
1:53.9	No, we, well, it's we that use the phones that have allowed.
1:58.2	The majority rules, the majority of people.
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