#23102: Electric Brakes for Dummies

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Leisure, Automotive

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Paul needs help with the electric brakes on his cattle trailer. Click and Clack have lots of ideas but only one question for Paul: "How do electric brakes work, exactly?" Enlightenment ensues on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at plus.npr.org/cartalk or find the Car Talk channel in Apple Podcasts.

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0:00.0	Hey, I just want to make sure you've heard about NPR's new Car Talk Plus, for an insignificant little
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0:27.8	apple or go to plus dot npr dot org slash car talk that's plus dot n-pr dot-org
0:35.0	slash car talk Hello and welcome to Car Talk on National Public Radio with us
0:55.0	click and clack to Tappock Brothers and we're broadcasting this week from
0:57.8	the Antiquities Division here at Car Talk Plaza. Now I'm sure you've heard
1:01.6	about the ancient tomb uncovered in Egypt recently.
1:04.0	I did hear it, isn't it?
1:06.0	It was apparently the tour of Ramsey's II, or the second.
1:10.0	Ramsey's the second, yeah.
1:11.0	Yeah. Yeah.
1:12.0	And his 50 sons.
1:13.2	Did you know that archaeologists discovered
1:15.6	that several of his sons evidently were auto mechanics?
1:18.8	Ramsey's the second sons were auto mechanics?
1:22.2	How can they tell that they
1:23.6	will grease under their fingernails no they were mummified in the shrug
1:26.2	position no no no really come on they have their shoulders up by the ears and the and the hands pointing up
1:34.7	toward the sky maybe some ancient form of worship I don't know.
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