Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers,

and we're broadcasting this week from the missing persons division here at Car Talk Plaza.

Yeah.

Does the name Arup Gupta mean anything to you?

Does it ever?

And here's an actual letter from him.

We fell in love with this name because this is a fellow that called us on the show a few

years ago. And for the first five minutes that we spoke to him, all we kept saying was, what a beautiful

name. Arrup Gupta. It's like a mantra. It just flows off the tongue. Arrup Gupta. And then he

went off the radar screen.

We don't know what happened to him.

We figured he got deported.

Right.

But we know now.

We know now.

And here's why.

Dear Tom and Ray, belated Merry Christmas and an early happy New Year.

I was trying to kill time during this prolonged holiday season by indulging on of the favorite pastimes of the times, surfing the internet.

I did a search on my name, and lo and behold, I came across letters written by your loyal listeners.

I read the letters with considerable interest and thought that I should come out of hiding and set the record straight for your sake as well as that of your local...

I knew it. He's in exile. He's in the witness protection program.

All right.

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