#2558: Ich Bin Ein Berliner

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Dana has a German friend who can't figure out how to get a big piece of history out of the trunk of his Dad's brand new BMW. Grab a jelly donut and check out this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:36.5	Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us,
1:10.9	Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the American Association of Body Shops and surgeons meeting here at Carat Talk Plaza. Both of these groups, by the way, have strongly strongly... Oh, these are two separate groups. Yes. Body Shops and Surgeons. Right, the American Association of Body Shops and the American Association of... It's meeting. Exactly. I got you. Yeah. Well, both of them have strongly endorsed this new product because of the potential business that evidently will result from it. And here it is. Go ahead. You know, Whistler makes... Radar detectors. Radar detectors, which, of course, we know should all be illegal. Yes, of course.
1:11.4	But they're not.
1:12.4	But Whistler, not happy to make just radar detectors.
1:16.4	They have a whole line of wonderful products.
1:19.8	And the one that's being endorsed by the Association of Body Shops and all the surgeons in America.
1:29.3	Get this. I mean, they have a list here of stuff. This is a news release. They got a stove, a compressor, you know, battery dust, stuff,
1:36.8	all kinds of interesting stuff. The most interesting of which is a portable blender. There you go.
1:44.1	Whip up a quick breakfast, milkshakes or eggnog on the go.
1:49.1	The Whistler Blender makes excellent frozen drinks and is ideal for camping, boating, and
1:53.9	tailgate parties and driving to work in the morning.
1:57.0	Well, before you know it, someone's going to have a shower that you can plug into your cigarette.
2:02.6	I mean, why waste time showering in the morning?
2:04.5	There will be late for work, shower in the car.
2:07.0	Shave in the car. People shave in the car.
2:10.0	Yeah, you might as well shower, though.
2:11.6	I mean, it's only a matter of time before someone makes a floor drain.
2:17.0	I mean, what are they thinking?
2:19.2	Who knows?
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