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The Best of Car Talk

#2368: Fun with the Bubonic Plague

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Automotive, Leisure, Comedy

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

For a bit of mid-show fun, Ray comes up with a 'Puzzler' for listeners to solve that Tommy grades on a scale of 'historic', 'folkloric', 'challenging', 'interesting' and 'fun'. 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Car Talk, our national public radio with us, click and collect the

0:19.8

tap and brothers.

0:20.8

We're broadcasting this week from the green room, but this isn't bad taste.

0:28.4

We have gone last week from green room to new depths, and I'm going to say it, our defense.

0:35.8

We didn't start it.

0:36.8

We were just innocently sitting here waiting for another phone call on throttle body fuel

0:41.8

injection or something.

0:42.8

Exactly.

0:43.8

I was hoping to answer something about a mass flow meter.

0:46.8

I was ready.

0:47.8

Or maybe an oxygen sensor.

0:51.1

I was ready for something like that.

0:53.1

We got a call about picking noses.

0:55.3

Oh, did we get mail on this one?

0:59.0

We did get some letters from a few long time listeners who said that if we didn't clean

1:03.2

up our act, we're not going to listen anymore.

1:06.5

So we hope that if you are a long time listener, at least you'll turn down your radio for

1:10.1

the next few minutes so you won't have to listen to this.

1:12.7

But most of the mail was from people hoping to shed light on this understudy yet over-observed

1:17.9

subject.

1:18.9

So it is understudied and over-observed, but it clearly is something which many, many

1:24.4

people have opinions about every piece of mail we got for the whole week, both pieces

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