#2537: The Bro

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Nancy's hubby has finally gone too far with his car gadget hobby. He's constantly taking an oversized undergarment on and off the front of his Acura. Click and Clack attempt to lift and separate the various underlying issues on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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1:17.5	Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack to Tapit Brothers,
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1:28.6	Now, this is the time of year when we begin to see tourists here in our fair city. And even though we move the garage like every two weeks to avoid the Internal Revenue Service, people find
1:33.5	us nevertheless. And they always come into the garage. And I know who they are. They have the
1:38.2	cameras around their necks. And I go over and greet them. They don't have a car. They're not driving you either. And I go to meet them and I introduce myself, hi, I'm Ray, you know, welcome to the garage
1:48.1	and our fair city.
1:49.7	And after noticing the look of disappointment on their faces, they inevitably ask for Tom
1:56.8	because they figure, geez, he's got to look better than this guy.
1:59.9	Yeah, that's true. And because my brother's never there to look better than this guy. Yeah. And that's true.
2:01.5	And because my brother's never there, I feel compelled to make up some excuse.
2:06.3	So I would say something like, he's just gone out for coffee.
2:09.8	You missed him.
2:10.5	Just missed him.
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