#2574: Oh Shut Up!

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Courtesy of Tommy’s wife, JoAnne: a simple phrase to deal with a spouse, a mechanic -or both, in JoAnne’s case, who’s laying it on a bit too thick. Hear about all the applications on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers,
0:36.0	and we're broadcasting this week once again from the Center for New Luddite Studies here in Carthoc.
0:41.7	Getting for me, I have it.
0:43.3	Well, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
0:45.3	Get this.
0:46.5	Talk about a curious accident, all because of technology.
0:51.9	Man, this happened someplace in Russia, didn't it?
0:55.3	I think so.
0:55.7	Actually, I heard this the other day on, wait, wait, don't tell me.
0:58.9	You know, they read three news stories and you have to guess which one is complete baloney
1:04.2	and which one is real.
1:06.0	Right.
1:06.3	Which two are complete baloney.
1:07.7	Which one is real.
1:09.5	Man crashes car as 50 pagers ring at once.
1:14.6	Kiev.
1:15.6	It was Russia.
1:16.6	A Ukraine businessman who bought a pager for each member of his staff as a New Year's gift
1:22.6	was so alarmed when all 50 of them went off at the same time that he drove his car into a lamppost.
1:29.4	The unnamed businessman was returning from the pages shop when the accident happened.
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