#2629: The Babysitter Tells All
The Best of Car Talk
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🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Collect the Tappert Brothers, |
| 0:21.2 | and we're broadcasting this week from the Department of Rationale Rationing here at Car Talk Plaza. |
| 0:27.5 | Now, this is an interesting announcement. |
| 0:28.9 | This is. |
| 0:29.5 | From Ford Motor Company. |
| 0:31.3 | This is brilliant. |
| 0:32.7 | Here's what Ford Motor Company publicly announced. |
| 0:37.0 | And I'll paraphrase, because I don't really remember the exact words, but it was pretty |
| 0:40.8 | much this. |
| 0:41.7 | They said, we know that SUVs are really bad. |
| 0:45.6 | We know that they pollute the atmosphere. |
| 0:47.9 | We know they kill people in other cars. |
| 0:49.8 | They kill people in the SUVs themselves. |
| 0:52.6 | We know all that. |
| 0:53.9 | It's a horrible thing in SUV. You're just paraphrasing. You're actually inventing here. I mean, they might not have said any of those words. They may not have said any of those words. But that was the gist of it, in your opinion. In my opinion, the gist was, they're terrible things. They get 10 miles to the gallon. They pollute. They're awful. |
| 1:11.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.2 | Basically, that's what they said. |
| 1:13.7 | That's what they said. |
| 1:14.4 | Then, get this. |
| 1:15.6 | Now, this is, I don't get it. |
| 1:16.9 | This is brilliant, though. |
| 1:18.3 | They said, we know all this is true. |
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