#2505: You.Are.A.Cheapskate.

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Sandra the cheapskate, Ron the classmate, Holly Golightly and the Durango Kid(and more) all take turns trying to stump our chumps on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:47.8	Plaza.
0:48.4	Indeed.
0:49.1	I think it was just like last week on this very show that we were discussing the issue of
0:53.2	whether or not 16-year-olds
0:55.3	should have their own cars.
0:57.1	No.
0:57.4	Not that there's really anything to discuss, but we were discussing it anyway.
1:00.7	I mean, we were talking to a caller.
1:02.1	The caller had a 16-year-old son, I believe, and we got my 16-year-old son, Alexander,
1:07.7	on the phone, to render an opinion, at which time I once again invoked a parental
1:13.3	bite me clause and told him it was going to be a cold day in you know where before he got his
1:18.9	own car.
1:22.1	Well, what do I find plastered all over my house the very next day?
1:26.0	This little document, here it is. It's known around
1:29.3	the house now as the Alex Manifesto. Here it is. This is the agenda, I guess, or the intro for a
1:37.1	meeting which he wants to have of the family. Here it is. I will read it to you. Alexander Thomas Maliati, that's his name, parking slash driving proposal, colon, 1997-98 school year.
1:52.9	As some of you are already aware, some of you, he's talking to me.
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