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The Best of Car Talk

#2508: Hungry Water Anyone?

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Ray has theories. None of them are sound, but they all sound good. Find out all about Ray's 'Hungry Water' fallacy on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0

President Trump is back in Washington, pursuing major policy changes on his own terms.

0:06.4

We know from the past that means challenging precedent, busting norms, and pushing against the status quo.

0:12.1

NPR is covering it all with Trump's terms, a podcast where we curate stories about the 47th president with the focus on how he is upending the way Washington works.

0:21.5

Listen to Trump's terms from NPR.

0:44.0

Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us, Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Bunker Hill Department here at Carat

0:49.0

Plaza. Now, for those of you that don't remember...

0:51.6

And didn't learn this in your history class. And weren't there like my brother was.

0:55.7

Bunker Hill here in Boston was the site of one of the first major battles of the Revolutionary War.

1:01.6

And it was there in the first two waves of that battle that the Americans beat back the British and forced them to capitulate.

1:11.5

And give up.

1:12.5

And retreat.

1:14.2

Which is what our listeners apparently did this week to Mike Dale of Jaguar.

1:19.3

Yeah.

1:19.7

I leave out the fact that in the third wave, the British kicked our butts and burned the whole town to the crown.

1:26.1

But that's a story for another time.

1:28.2

Yeah.

1:28.8

I mean, last week you may remember, I mentioned that these guys at Jaguar, they've been

1:32.7

promising me an XK8 convertible, parenthesis, dark blue, which is the replacement to the

1:39.0

XJS convertible Jaguar.

1:41.4

They've been promising me this since, who knows? I can't remember when it was.

1:45.7

All summer, I expected it every, any minute, to appear in my driveway, and it never did.

1:51.3

So I suggested that our listeners might want to remind Jaguar that they had been promising

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