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The Best of Car Talk

#2593: Driving Blind

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Lori’s man is acquiring old vehicles at an alarming rate. He loves working on them but, since he’s blind, he can’t drive them. Should Lori be putting the brakes on this hobby or practice kickstarting the Harley instead? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:38.7

and we're broadcasting this week from the Department of Philosophy here at Car Talk Plaza.

0:43.4

Yes. Words to live by.

0:46.0

I can't wait.

0:47.3

These sound very much like Stephen Wright.

0:50.2

Uh-huh. But you might be wrong.

0:52.0

But I might be wrong, but they came to me from various roots from Corinna Sherman.

0:57.9

Okay. Give us the gems.

1:00.4

To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around.

1:06.1

That way, if somebody says, hey, can you give me a hand, you're saying, sorry, I got these sacks.

1:12.3

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again,

1:17.6

I sat there thinking about life.

1:20.4

Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling?

1:23.7

Sometimes it seemed that way.

1:27.1

That's me.

1:28.7

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.

1:33.5

And I can picture us attacking that world because they would never expect it.

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