#2522: Lovable Loser

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A year ago Steve jumped in his Acura and moved to Chicago, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed with a new girl and a new career. He called us too late for help with the girl and the career, but can Click and Clack help him hold onto the car at least? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Morgan Sung, host of Close All Tabs from KQED, part of the NPR network, where every week we reveal how the online world collides with everyday life.
0:09.0	You don't know what's true or not, because you don't know if AI was involved in it.
0:14.0	And I think we will see it to a streamer president, maybe within our lifetimes.
0:18.1	You can find Close All Tabs wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:41.5	No, No, No. maybe within our lifetimes. You can find close all tabs wherever you listen to podcasts. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us,
0:44.3	Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week.
0:45.4	Boy, do we move around.
0:49.3	So they can't triangulate on us.
0:50.6	I know. We're broadcasting from the Oxymoronic Titles Division here at Car Talk Plaza. Now, we just thought this was interesting. We saw a fix. We're broadcasting from the oxymoronic titles division here at Kartalk Plaza.
0:55.8	Now, we just thought this was interesting.
0:57.7	We saw a reference this week to Michael E. Dobel, whose title is, you ready for this?
1:03.4	Yeah.
1:03.8	Advanced Technology Manager for Buick.
1:08.3	So anyway, our crack staff did a little snooping, and it turns up what, I guess, in their opinion,
1:13.7	is the actual organization chart at Buick.
1:16.5	They did this?
1:17.3	I mean, they actually...
1:18.5	Merky.
1:19.4	They sent someone out a spy.
1:21.8	Merkey.
1:22.4	Merkey.
1:23.3	Merkey.
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