#2337: The Mind of the Modern Mechanic

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Leisure, Automotive

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Kathy has called seeking wisdom of a sort from our two witless wonders. Her husband is a mechanic, and while he can work magic with engines he can't seem to keep a simple schedule or estimate how long a job will take or remember much of anything that Kathy tells him. Will Click and Clack stand up for a brother mechanic or admit to Kathy that they've already forgotten what her questions were? Check it out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Card Talk on National Public Radio with us. Click and collect the tap at brothers.
0:21.0	We're broadcasting this week from the Department of Calendar Studies.
0:25.0	The question is, we could use this as a puzzler. We would have used it and we might still use it if we have a find out the answer.
0:35.0	There's going to be a good reason for this. Why this February have 28 days?
0:40.0	Better yet. Why don't all the months have 28 days?
0:43.0	Well, I don't know that, but I mean, no, because they had to come up with 3-65 in a quarter days a year.
0:49.0	So you think they should steal one from another month and stick it into February?
0:54.0	Yeah, I mean, they could have taken one from January and from March and then all those months would have had 30 days.
0:59.0	30 days had September, all the rest I can't remember.
1:02.0	Right. Would that make more sense?
1:04.0	Yes.
1:05.0	Yeah. Anyway, we don't know the answer, but someone out there may know the answer and we'd like to know it.
1:10.0	No, serious? We really want to know.
1:11.0	No, I don't personally know.
1:13.0	Doug cares, but I personally don't care.
1:16.0	Well, he did, you know, he did express an interest in this.
1:21.0	I have to say, peak my curiosity.
1:23.0	Yeah, I can understand.
1:25.0	I'll be interested in this for at least 5-10 minutes, but I can see that you have a letter at the ready.
1:29.0	No, this is not a letter. This is just real quick.
1:33.0	After listening to your show, I felt I finally had the reason to write,
1:37.0	you were discussing the Chrysler Corporation and their new slogan, The Rules Have Changed.
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