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The Best of Car Talk

#2569: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Sean from Montreal is hearing otherworldly noises from his Dodge Caravan and Mark from New York wants to transplant the heart and lungs of his Chevy Suburban into a fresh corpse. Click and Clack are stuck in a 1950s B-Movie on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0

Support for NPR and the following message come from Yarl and with us Click and Clack to Tapert Brothers,

0:30.4

and we're broadcasting this week from the Athletic Support Center here at Car Talk Plaza.

0:35.9

If you can't be an athlete, then you should at least become an athletic support.

0:39.9

Absolutely.

0:41.0

These are sent to us by Neil Jackson NPR's Legal Beagle.

0:46.4

Oh.

0:46.8

Yes.

0:47.6

Legal Beagle.

0:49.3

Sissy, this is what he does when he's not defending us from Daimler-Christless lawyers.

0:55.2

These are more allegedly true statements that made by people involved in the sports industry, so to speak.

1:02.4

Sure. Go ahead.

1:04.0

Here's one out. It's pages and pages. I picked out a few of my favorites.

1:07.5

Are you going to identify the people who say anything?

1:09.6

Yeah, well, I mean, as it's here.

1:11.5

This one is not identified simply as a senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh who said,

1:16.8

I'm going to graduate on time no matter how long it takes me. And Bill Peterson, Florida State

1:25.4

football coach, you guys line up alphabetically by height.

1:30.0

I like that.

1:32.7

Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks' left wing,

1:36.0

explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker.

1:40.9

That's so when I forget how to spell my name,

1:42.9

I can still find my clothes.

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