#2489: The Burper

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Calls about smells, burping and an incident at a topless bar on this all-too-typical edition of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:44.0	Hello and welcome to Caratalk from National Public Radio with us, Click and Clack to Tapper Brothers.
0:48.3	And we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Strategic International.
0:51.9	He's supposed to open your soda before the show, Saks.
0:54.0	Not during the intro to the show. But you noticed that at least I didn't do it right in front of the microphone.
0:58.1	I did move...
0:58.7	Like you usually do.
0:59.7	I didn't turn around.
1:01.2	But I'm sure all of America heard it.
1:05.3	Anyway, we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Strategic International Marketing here at Car Talk Plaza.
1:12.7	Well, here's what it is.
1:14.9	Go ahead. Fill me in.
1:16.5	As you know, China has like a billion and a half people in it.
1:21.0	Something like that.
1:21.8	They're coming into the West a little bit.
1:24.4	So General Motors is planning to build and sell cars in China. Sure, as I'm sure
1:32.7	Ford and Chrysler are. Everybody wants to do it, but General Motors was an announcement the
1:38.1	other day in, and I think it was automotive news. What car? I mean, if you're going to build a car, your General Motors, right?
1:47.0	I'm going to put myself in the place.
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