#2582: Dr. Kenny and Dr. Z
The Best of Car Talk
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4.8 • 16.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Dr. Kenny has a problem with the brakes on his Honda and Dr. Z has a beef with an answer we gave on a past show, so they decided to ring us up -while they were performing surgery! Scrub in and grab your favorite scalpel for this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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| 0:44.4 | Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers, |
| 0:47.6 | and we're broadcasting this week from the Dart History. |
| 0:48.3 | Art History? |
| 0:51.9 | The Dart, Dart History Department here at Carat Talk Plaza. |
| 0:55.0 | Or maybe we should say DART is history department. |
| 1:01.1 | The DART is history and we evidently have gotten more email and maybe snail mail on this topic than we have ever gotten on any topic ever in the history of Car Talk. |
| 1:07.6 | I mean, everybody has an idea about what we should do with the dart, which if you haven't |
| 1:15.5 | tuned in for a week, the dart is dead. |
| 1:18.4 | The dart is gone. |
| 1:20.8 | It was totaled by a snowplow, the worst possible kind of... |
| 1:24.7 | In the words of your wife, ding, dong, the dart is dead, |
| 1:28.8 | the dart is dead. |
| 1:30.9 | Ding dong, the ugly dart is dead. |
| 1:34.1 | Yeah, that's what she did sing a lot. |
| 1:36.1 | She was very happy, |
| 1:37.3 | but that's not nice. |
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