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The Best of Car Talk

#2371: Locating the Chee on Jody's Honda

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Automotive, Leisure, Comedy

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Jody's mechanics can't seem to fix her car and since she's a practitioner of Eastern Medicine she's considering plying her acupuncture talents in the hopes of helping her Honda. Tom and Ray try to help her locate the Chee on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. 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.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Card Talk on National Public Radio with us clicking

0:19.6

Clack the Tap at Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Post Prize

0:23.2

Depression Division here in Card Talk Plaza. Well by now you've all heard that

0:27.2

the Nobel Prizes have all been given out. Once again my brother would passed over. I

0:33.6

think the problem basically is that they don't have the right price for you. I think

0:37.4

you're right. You know, physics, chemistry, economics. I mean if they had a Nobel

0:42.0

Prize would be in a cheap skate. You'd be a lot, man. I would. You would. Well I

0:48.0

don't think you've won. I won a prize for something. Well you're not going to get

0:52.0

me prizes. You don't always say that to me. You're a real prize, you know that?

0:55.4

Well obviously you mean by that. We do need an award of our own to give out.

0:59.6

You know what you think? That's right. I mean if we're not going to get a Nobel,

1:02.9

we'll go and business for ourselves. We can give out prizes to other people so we

1:07.6

can get the joy of giving them. We'll become the Nobel of something. Well we're

1:12.2

going to ask our listeners to nominate people and then we'll pick the winners.

1:15.8

Do you remember a few years ago? Didn't we give the prize to Smoke and Mirrors Award

1:22.0

to Leia Cokas? Yes. Because the guy had managed for 15 years to run a company

1:26.4

that made one car and convinced the whole world and he made 10. Pretty good,

1:30.8

huh? I think that's what we need. Smoke and Mirrors Award. Well, among others.

1:34.3

Among others. So you can even pick the award. You can pick what you want the

1:37.8

category to be. You're asking our listeners? Yes, our listeners. Both of them.

1:41.2

Yes. To send an idea. That's the idea for an award and a potential

1:45.8

recipient of the award. And you would say. So you would say I think the Smoke and Mirrors

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