#2634: Bug Bomb
The Best of Car Talk
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to car talk from National Public Radio with us click and clack the Tappert Brothers, |
| 0:20.7 | and we're broadcasting this week from the Return to Send a department here at Car Talk Plaza. |
| 0:25.8 | This is an interesting little story, man. |
| 0:28.4 | One day, God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the evil that was going on, and we know all about that. |
| 0:35.9 | Much of that, indeed. |
| 0:36.9 | He decided to send an |
| 0:38.1 | angel down to earth to check it out. He called one of his best angels, Mario, and sent St. Mario |
| 0:44.4 | to the earth for a little while. When Mario returned, she told God, yes, it is bad on Earth. |
| 0:52.7 | 95% of it is bad, and about 5% of it is good. |
| 0:57.3 | Well, he thought for a moment and thought maybe he'd better send down a second angel to get another point of view. |
| 1:03.0 | God called another angel and sent him to Earth for a time. |
| 1:06.0 | The angel went back to God, and he said, yes, the earth is in decline. |
| 1:10.0 | 95% is bad, and 5% is good. |
| 1:14.0 | God said, this is not good. |
| 1:16.6 | So he decides to send an email to the 5% who were good. |
| 1:22.7 | He wanted to encourage them to give them a little something to help them keep going. |
| 1:27.1 | Oh, yeah? |
| 1:27.8 | And do you know what the email said? |
| 1:29.9 | Well, no, no. |
| 1:31.2 | Oh, you didn't get one either, huh? |
| 1:37.6 | That was a dirty trick. |
| 1:44.8 | Well, if your car was one of the 95% that ain't good. |
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