#2622: Starting from Stupid

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Leisure, Automotive

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Tony has a Saab story for us that involves losing coolant -and, possibly, brain cells, too. The fact that he called Click and Clack should indicate how far gone Tony is already, but find out for yourself 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, the Tappert
0:20.8	Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from Action News Bureau here at Car Talk Plaza.
0:26.1	You're going to love this.
0:27.6	Oh, you are.
0:28.2	You know, we have often spoken about the dangers of using a cell phone while driving.
0:32.5	Well, get this.
0:33.2	A guy named Jack E. not Jackie, but Jack E. Robinson, announces a few weeks ago that he's going
0:39.5	to run for Senate from Massachusetts against none other than Ted Kennedy. Not the world's
0:45.0	greatest driver either, by the way, but that's another story. So anyway, this fellow Robinson
0:48.6	is doing an interview with WBUR here boston speaking from his cell phone
0:55.5	while he's driving
0:57.0	and his nothing could be better than just going to the tape
1:00.1	do what you have of the republican governor abdicating united states senate
1:03.6	campaign
1:04.8	to uh... senator kennedy
1:06.4	just because the governor doesn't think that there could be.
1:12.3	I just got an accident.
1:16.1	Could you jerk? You deserve it.
1:19.8	Do it again. I missed a clunk there. What you have as a Republican governor abdicating the United States Senate campaign to Senator Kennedy
1:25.7	just because the governor doesn't think that there could be.
1:30.3	I just got to act.
1:32.3	See, we told you.
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