#2484: Blame the Car, Not the Driver
The Best of Car Talk
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4.8 • 16.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, if you enjoy the best of Kartar podcast, you should try out NPR Plus. |
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| 0:16.4 | Visit plus dot nPR.org. You're going to be. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us click and Clack the Tappert brothers, and we're |
| 0:44.1 | broadcasting this week from the Center for Grant Money here at Car Talk Plaza. |
| 0:48.4 | We have a new plan, a new approach for funding. |
| 0:51.6 | Get this. We're applying for Grant from the National Institutes of Health, the NIH. |
| 0:57.0 | Now, not invented here. Otherwise, not as not invented here. |
| 1:00.0 | Not invented here. |
| 1:01.0 | As everyone knows, we've been utterly unsuccessful in trying to raise money from outside sources to do this show. |
| 1:07.0 | Why? Well, we can't get money from anyone remotely connected with the automotive industry. |
| 1:11.0 | I don't understand why that is because we've |
| 1:13.0 | ticked them all off and they won't touch us with a 10 foot crankshack. |
| 1:16.4 | Who needs them? Who needs them? We've ticked off educators. Yeah. They're out. |
| 1:21.9 | Yeah. Lawyers, it goes on and they're out. Lawyers, it goes after all those jokes on the website. |
| 1:25.0 | Politicians, hopeless. |
| 1:27.0 | Hollywood, they hate us. |
| 1:28.0 | Cellular phone makers. |
| 1:30.0 | Consumer goods. |
| 1:32.0 | Insurance companies. Oh, the judicial system, no good. |
| 1:36.7 | Law enforcement, no, no. |
| 1:38.8 | The entire country of France, there's nobody left, So we're applying... |
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