#2635: Knock, Knock...

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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…”Who’s there?” Debra with her impossible knocking noise, that’s who. All we know is that it isn’t coming from the engine compartment. Wild guessing ensues 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,
0:19.1	Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Can't Be Too Careful department here at Car Talk Blasso. Go ahead. Well, I mean, this is a series of warning labels. This was sent to me, I think, by my old pal Johnny Mellum, who has got what? Squat to do. Squat to do. So all he does is send me stuff.
0:39.5	This is warning labels, and it seems as though it came from England
0:43.4	because there are some British brand names.
0:46.7	But here's some of the warning labels that appear on actual products.
0:52.4	On Tiramisu dessert, printed on the bottom of the box, it says, do not turn upside
0:59.8	down.
1:02.1	Whoops.
1:04.0	This is a good one.
1:05.2	On a Korean-made kitchen knife.
1:07.5	Warning, keep out of children.
1:12.2	On a string of Christmas lights for indoor or outdoor use only.
1:19.5	I like, my personal favorite was on a bag of fritos.
1:25.1	You could be a winner. No purchase necessary.
1:29.4	Details inside.
1:34.0	Okay.
1:35.2	That's referred to as the shoplifter special.
1:38.3	No purchase necessary.
1:40.8	Well, in the event that you find a bag that's half eaten, I suppose you wouldn't avail yourself of that opportunity. Yeah. Well, if you want to alert us to some unforeseen hazard regarding your car. Yeah. Or anything else for that matter, the number is 888 Car Talk. That's 888-2255. A lawyer on Car Talk. Yeah, this is Jeff from Washington, D.C.
2:02.1	How you doing today?
2:02.8	Hey, how you doing?
2:03.5	Are you a lawyer or a politician?
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