#2343: Another Clutch Killer

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Has Diana from Austin, Texas figured out a perfectly-good way to avoid the problem of stalling her Mazda when starting it from a stop? Or is she another potential serial clutch murderer? Officers Click and Clack attempt to crack the case on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Carttalk, our National Public Radio.
0:19.1	With us, click and collect the TAPIT brothers.
0:21.1	We are broadcasting this week from the Center for Miscellaneous Deductions here at Carttalk
0:26.2	Plaza.
0:27.2	H&R TAPIT?
0:28.2	Look at this stuff from this class.
0:30.2	Gigi, Mr. Gigi, he's deducting an oxyacetylene torch, which he says he uses on your
0:35.5	hair when it gets angry.
0:38.0	My son, my 13-year-old son, he's a wonderful guy.
0:41.4	One day I decided to spruce up a little bit.
0:43.9	I take out a brush and I start to brush my hair and he says, don't do that dad, you're just
0:49.1	making it angry.
0:50.4	That's good.
0:53.4	Here's a deduction, Mark Paul Mercky research, three cases of whiteout.
0:58.8	Again, he's done this before.
1:02.0	He's writing off all the commutes, computer monitors also.
1:05.8	What's this?
1:06.8	Oh yeah, it says, the monitors were ruined when my assistant used the whiteout to change
1:11.9	the data that was on the screen.
1:13.7	Don't they understand that you don't...
1:15.7	Mercky, you're going to come into the 20th century here.
1:18.5	No, Mercky's back in the stony age.
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