#2519: Click and Clack's Wild Kingdom

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Patricia lives 3 hours from civilization in Montana and a local Buffalo has taken to hanging around her Subaru. If she can make it past Bill the Buffalo, the car also has a lousy habit of not starting. Should she throw a saddle on Bill the Buffalo instead? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us,
0:19.3	Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Employee Review Center here at Caratalk Plaza.
0:25.2	One of my favorite times a year, man.
0:27.2	Oh, mine too.
0:28.3	Well, this being the end of the calendar, the year, we, of course, are charged with giving feedback
0:32.3	to our employees.
0:34.2	And as we were working on our evaluations this week, we got some help from, well, I shouldn't mention his, it'd be embarrassing.
0:41.5	Oh, Neil Jackson's name?
0:43.1	Yeah.
0:46.5	Hey, he sent it to us. He deserves to get credit.
0:50.0	He's the general counsel at NPR and a lawyer.
0:53.5	Yeah, well, he was between lawsuits.
0:55.1	Yeah.
0:55.4	His lawsuit was at the cleaners.
0:58.1	Anyway, he said there's some suggested phrasing for some of these evaluations,
1:02.5	which we were able to put to use, and I guess we'll...
1:05.5	Yeah, no, I actually used some of them.
1:07.5	I was doing Ken Rogers' evaluation just Uh-huh. Just this warning. And I used one of, uh, one of Neil's phrases. Ken works well, went under
1:17.9	constant supervision and cornered like a rat.
1:22.6	About our beloved production engineer, Jonathan Marston. We wrote, this employee should go
1:27.3	far. And the
1:28.7	sooner he starts, the better. I wrote one for Catherine, our assistant producer, Catherine Ray.
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