#23105: The Andy Letter

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Automotive

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Do two people who don't know what they are talking about know more or less than one person who doesn't know what he's talking about? Listener Andy posits and Click and Clack provide the proof 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, it's Linda Holmes from NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour Podcast. I'm one of
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0:20.9	Hey it's Roy Mal yawtze.
0:23.0	Tis the season for giving once again and here at Car Talk we're giving out holiday
0:27.5	helpings of questionable car advice.
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0:51.2	dot org slash car talk and thanks. Hello and welcome to Cara Talk on National Public Radio with us click and clack the Tappett Brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Genius Grants here at Car Talk Plaza.
1:19.0	Now as you probably know once again the MacArthur Foundation handed out the genius
1:23.8	grants I read about it just the other once again we got what squat yeah jack
1:30.5	nada so I've got two suggestions for the MacArthur Foundation on how to improve these awards that they give out.
1:37.0	Yeah, like what?
1:38.0	Well, one would be, to institute a new kind of grant, a moron grant.
1:42.0	Well, shuins.
1:44.0	Now it's obvious that if you're a genius, you can figure out how to get money one way or another, but if you're
1:48.7	like us...
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