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The Best of Car Talk

#2518: You Guys are GOOD!

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Click and Clack are so practiced at repairing marital relations damaged by spousal stupidity that they sometimes know things before they know 'em, if you know what we mean. If you don't, then check out this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0

Hey, it's Scott Detcher, the host of Trump's Terms, a podcast where we bring you short, focused episodes about the 47th president and the biggest changes he is trying to make.

0:09.8

A lot of those changes will be front and center during his address to a joint session of Congress on March 4th.

0:14.8

In the days after, we will bring you stories not just about what he said, but about what is actually happening and what isn't

0:21.1

happening. Listen to Trump's terms from NPR.

0:43.2

Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us,

0:47.2

Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the center for revised predictions here at Carat Talk Plaza.

0:50.9

Well, I mean, people, some people may remember that many years ago, maybe five,

0:56.7

I predicted that General Motors would be the car company of the 90s.

1:01.8

Remember that?

1:02.3

Well, I can remember further back than that.

1:04.8

I remember that you predicted that AMC, A, M, I don't even remember what it stands for now,

1:10.5

would be the car company of the 80s. You're still sticking with that one?

1:14.1

Yeah, I'm sticking with the AMC one, but I'm revising the GM one.

1:18.8

Really? Yeah. Because I'm going to now have to push off the GM thing. I don't think they're

1:25.6

going to be the car company of the 90s. I think they're going to be the car company of the 90s. I think they're

1:28.0

going to be the car company of the 20s. The 2020s. They were the car company in the 20s. And they're

1:33.8

going to come back. A hundred years later, they will be the car company of the 20s. And the problem

1:38.7

is that everyone who currently is alive hates General Motors.

1:45.7

I mean, it's basically that.

1:47.8

And the only hope they have, even they, I mean, Generation X, that was their hope.

1:53.7

Because all the people who love General Motors are either dead or wish they were dead,

2:00.0

as Don Chalk would say.

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