#2506: A Friend Indeed

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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James, great friend that he is, has offered to drive his buddy's Lexus for him for a few years until his friend returns from Amsterdam. What a guy! But is this the best thing for the Lexus? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0	What's in store for the music, TV, and film industries for 2025?
0:04.9	We don't know, but we're making some fun, bold predictions for the new year.
0:09.4	Listen now to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us,
0:33.3	Click and Clack to Tappert Brothers,
0:34.6	and we're broadcasting this week from the Disposal division here at Kartok Plaza. I had an idea for you. I was, you, I mean, my dear brother,
0:44.0	I was reading last week that the Russians are planning to scuttle the mere space station in early
0:49.6	1999. What they're waiting for? By sending it crashing down, it may do it by itself,
0:56.7	crashing down into the Pacific Ocean.
1:00.6	And I realize that the mere station is the Dodge Dart of the Space Age.
1:03.1	And it further returns to me.
1:08.0	This leaves the entire Atlantic available for the dart.
1:10.4	Can it make it that far?
1:13.2	I go right by the Atlantic Ocean almost every day. Does it beckon? It veers to the right. I mean, every time I go near, I have to pull our wheel back.
1:20.6	Maybe it's like whales beaching themselves. It is. You think the dart is trying to...
1:25.2	Yes. It's trying to euthanize itself.
1:27.7	Itself.
1:28.3	Yeah.
1:29.0	It knows.
1:30.3	How is the dart?
1:31.1	I haven't seen it.
1:32.3	The dart is great.
1:34.2	It's alive.
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