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The Best of Car Talk

#2336: The Clutchkiller Family

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mrs. Clutchkiller is blaming her husband Ron Clutchkiller for her car's prematurely failing clutch. But could the real culprit be their teenage son, little Jimmy Clutchkiller? Click and Clack make like Lieutenant Frank Columbo on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0

I

0:15.4

Hello and welcome to card talk on national public radio with us clicking clack to tap it, but you know

0:19.8

I just I loved when we did it at time. We didn't Spanish. Can we do it in Spanish from now on?

0:24.4

We should do it in Latin next week Latin. I'll get my son to work on that. Yes

0:29.4

There we go. Hello and welcome to Carton right wany witty wicky. No, I'll be I'll be awkward

0:38.6

Anyway, we're broadcasting this week from the divisional folklore here at Carton applause. Yeah, motivated by this letter from chip Pearson

0:47.2

Dear Ray and Tom notice that Ray and Tom

0:51.0

On your show today you've been explaining some of the more obscure references and inside jokes

0:58.5

Oh, that was weeks ago. Well, weeks ago. Yeah, pretty current for us to be reading a piece of mail that have appeared

1:05.8

parentheses as much as anything can appear on radio on your show over the years

1:10.3

I've been a loyal listener for many years now and I do get most of the inside jokes and seemingly meaningless comments

1:17.5

But please tell

1:19.3

What is the roof snow theory? I'm sure that it has all the gravitas of other

1:25.9

Carton conjectures such as the awe inspiring choke pull off hypothesis and the nearly divine

1:32.6

It's the stingy man who pays the most maximum. I await your response

1:41.4

Well, we have eluded I will say to the roof snow theory many times and in my opinion

1:48.6

It's gonna be one of the most cock-a-mama theories. No, I've ever heard

1:56.9

I'll have to explain it since it's my theory. Yes, it is your theory. I wouldn't I don't want to lay claim

2:02.2

I remember many years ago going out to shovel snow from my driveway and being dismayed that the amount of snow in my driveway

2:09.6

Was always considerably more than they said that falling on the weather forecast

2:14.0

So we got eight to twelve inches of snow. I'm using this made in the sense of surprised

2:18.5

I'll just made in the sense of disappointed. There are two meanings. They're quite different actually

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