#2637: Meet the Staff
The Best of Car Talk
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🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to car talk from National Public Radio with us |
| 0:19.4 | Click and Collect the Tappert Brothers. |
| 0:20.9 | And we're broadcasting this week from you, Lewis Dewey's office here at Dewey Cheatheman Howe, and I assume there's some legal news to report, huh? You figure? Otherwise, why would be handcuffed to the deposition table? Oh, you think it's bad to be a handcuffed to the deposition table? Where do I tell you? Here's the story. |
| 0:38.4 | We both, perhaps, but maybe more I than you, have been troubled, let's say, by the deplorable |
| 0:46.2 | condition on the roads, the behavior of people on the road. |
| 0:50.9 | Yes, it has to do with the potholes and mostly. |
| 0:54.7 | It has to do with the way people drive. |
| 0:58.9 | And I don't know how it is in other cities, but here in Boston, it's absolutely, it's |
| 1:04.0 | really unacceptable. |
| 1:05.8 | I mean, have you ever driven on Route 128 during rush hour? |
| 1:11.6 | There isn't a single vehicle that's going under 65, |
| 1:15.6 | and the speed limit is 55 for most of Route 128. |
| 1:19.6 | There isn't a single person in the car who is not violating the tailgating law. |
| 1:25.6 | I mean, the other day, for example, I was driving down 128, and there was a truck right on my tail. |
| 1:33.0 | I was in the slowest lane, and I was-da. |
| 1:36.9 | No, I mean, the speed limit was 55. |
| 1:39.9 | I was doing 60. |
| 1:42.2 | And this guy right on my tail for miles and miles. |
| 1:46.5 | He could have passed me if he wanted to. |
| 1:48.9 | Not only was he on my tail, he's blowing the horn at me. |
| 1:52.2 | Now there's a car in front of me. |
| 1:54.0 | Because your car was on fire probably. |
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