#2530: The Pit of Despair

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Kerry has a pothole in the alley behind her house that is so big the locals have named it, "The Pit of Despair". When the weather has been dry, her Honda CRX can climb down into, across and back out of it ok, but after a few days of heavy rain it can be rough seas in the ol' Pit. We're gonna need a bigger boat on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0	This is Eric Glass.
0:01.8	In Lily's family, there's a story everybody knows by heart.
0:05.2	If this story had never happened...
0:06.8	All of us wouldn't be here right now.
0:08.6	Sammy wouldn't be here?
0:09.7	Annie wouldn't be here.
0:10.8	Wally wouldn't be here.
0:12.3	Anyone that we know wouldn't be here.
0:14.9	So what happens when Lily's mom tells her, this story is not true?
0:20.0	This American life, surprising stories every week.
0:23.6	Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us,
0:43.2	Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers,
0:44.7	and we're broadcasting this week from the Tribute Center here at Car Talk Plaza.
0:49.1	You know, sometimes you just have to tip your hat to somebody.
0:52.0	A few weeks ago, I was sitting at a diner having breakfast one morning, and I happened to be reading, I don't know why, the obituaries.
1:00.8	And I started reading this obituary, and I immediately called my brother and said, grab the Boston Globe and read this obituary in the right hand corner. Well, it turns out to be on page B5 of the Boston Globe and read this obituary in the right-hand corner.
1:11.4	Well, it turns out to be on page B-5 of the Boston Globe of February 21st, 1998.
1:18.1	Theodore Teddy Green dies at 82.
1:22.7	Theodore Teddy Green, Boston's most notorious bank robber, died Wednesday at his home in Stoughton. He was 82.
1:30.3	From the 1940s to the 1960s, Mr. Green was Boston's most flamboyant felon. In 1953, he escaped
1:37.6	from Charlestown State Prison by hiding in a sealed crate filled with rags. He was captured
1:42.6	five days later in Hackensack, New Jersey.
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