#2320: Work, Work, Work

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

To the casual observer, the life of an NPR 'star' may seem to be fun and games and a pretty cushy gig. Not so! On this week's Best of Car Talk we take you behind the scenes for a glimpse of two hard-working network hosts hardly working on their weekly newspaper column.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Car Talk on National Public Radio with us clicking plaque to tap
0:19.9	it brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Signs of Intelligent
0:24.0	Life on Earth here at Car Talk Plaza.
0:26.6	A few weeks ago Kyle Sagan, everyone knows Kyle Sagan.
0:30.3	Yes, yes, billions of people know Kyle Sagan, billions and billions.
0:34.9	Yes, in the British journal nature.
0:36.7	You must be very smart.
0:39.0	Oh yes, yes.
0:40.7	He better.
0:41.7	That's why he refused to come onto our show.
0:43.1	Anyway, in the British journal Nature, he reported a few weeks ago that the space probe Galileo
0:47.4	has been studying the Earth, looking to see if signs of life could be detected from
0:52.1	space, presumably by intergalactic visitors.
0:55.6	Yeah, I mean, if they were looking around to find us a planet that had life on it, he
1:00.4	wanted to know could they do it?
1:02.2	Right, it's just like we tried to do that.
1:04.3	We tried to fly by Venus and Mars at all those places and we didn't detect any life.
1:09.2	No, I say we, I mean, I didn't personally do it, but Vigia did it.
1:14.0	Yes, and the only thing, you know, the only thing, the one single thing that indicated
1:19.1	that there was life, intelligent life on Earth.
1:22.0	What?
1:23.0	Radio.
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