#2309: Circumferentially-Challenged

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Leisure, Automotive

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

From the Daniel Pinkwater files comes a tale of unexpected advice buried deep inside a BMW owner's manual. The boys also contemplate why men never pay for anything with coins, helmets for drivers and, oh yeah- some actual car problems! All on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Kair Talk on National Public Radio with us clicking
0:19.4	clack to Tappet Brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for
0:23.5	Gender Numerous Maddocks here at Kair Talk Plaza.
0:26.4	Yes, I mean, actually we were just discussing whose theory this was.
0:30.9	I don't remember frankly, I thought it was my theory.
0:34.0	Maybe it was yours.
0:35.2	It could have been, I mean, we're joined at the brain.
0:37.8	Here's the theory.
0:40.2	We were pondering a few weeks ago right here on NPR.
0:44.4	Why men never pay for anything with the change?
0:47.9	I mean, they could have $10 worth of change in their pockets and they would still pull
0:52.4	out a dollar bill to pay for a candy box.
0:54.9	Absolutely.
0:55.9	Women on the other hand, they say, wait a minute, I think I have that $14,000, $672.59
1:03.2	in change to pay for that car and they go looking through their pocketbooks and they
1:07.8	come up with exactly the right change.
1:10.4	Amazing, isn't it?
1:11.4	We wanted to know, is this true?
1:14.0	Number one, that's number one, is it true?
1:16.8	Right.
1:17.8	And if it's true, B, two, B, why is it true?
1:22.2	And we received quite a bit of mail.
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