#2609: Rum Runner Jim
The Best of Car Talk
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4.7 • 16.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Jim is a rum distributor in Florida who’s having trouble with his boat engine. Probably needs to squeeze a few more horsepower out of it in order to evade the Coast Guard! Click and Clack the bootleggers try to help on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack to Tappert Brothers, |
| 0:20.8 | and we're broadcasting this week from the new Millennium Division here at Carat Plaza. Well, here we are. We made it into the next millennium without getting canceled. Well, I don't see, I don't think the next millennium is star. I think it's next year. Well, everyone knows that. But 21001 is such a... Doesn't have a ring to it. It doesn't have a, |
| 0:39.2 | and doesn't have anything to it. Right. 2.000, whether it's the millennium or not, |
| 0:45.6 | is a nice round number. No one can deny that. Oh, it was like that movie. And if we're going to |
| 0:50.3 | celebrate all those zeros. 2000, Space Odyssey, right? |
| 0:56.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.6 | Well, today on this occasion, we're going to be looking both forward, obviously, and backward, careful. |
| 1:02.8 | Well, don't hurt his neck when you do that. |
| 1:04.2 | You know who that is? |
| 1:06.0 | The Roman god? |
| 1:07.5 | Yes, Janus. |
| 1:08.4 | Janus. |
| 1:09.6 | Janus. |
| 1:10.6 | Yeah. Yeah. No, Janus is Janus. Janus. Yeah. |
| 1:11.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.7 | No, Janus is the... |
| 1:13.7 | Janus is the Swedish skier. |
| 1:18.6 | Anyway, we're going to start off looking at a little prediction that my brother made about a decade |
| 1:24.0 | ago. |
| 1:24.6 | In early 1990, my brother made what I consider a rather bold statement. He was |
| 1:29.5 | fresh off his successful prediction that Ford Motor Company would be the car company of the 80s. |
| 1:34.7 | I said that, too. Yes. And flush with success, he said, and I quote, General Motors will be |
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