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The Best of Car Talk

#2385: Beyond Seat Warmers

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Automotive, Leisure, Comedy

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Even though the first automotive seat warmer was patented back in 1951, Tommy assures us that his 'hibachi method' predates that. Gene from Pennsylvania has updated Tommy's idea, slightly, but will it pass Click and Clack's rigorous safety standards? Find out 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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0:50.2

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1:07.3

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

1:10.5

Clack the Tap and Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Strategic

1:14.9

Movements here at Card Talk Plaza. Strategic Movements. Yes, yes. What pretell does that mean?

1:21.1

Well, I mean, I didn't really want to talk about this, but Doug insisted. Yeah, I thought it was

1:26.7

important that I, uh, talk about what? I beat the chess master. Holy cow, you beat the chess master.

1:34.9

My brother, well, first of all, he's got this rotten Apple computer, but don't get me

1:40.2

stuck on that. That's right. And Alex, his son actually uses it more than anybody, but he bought

1:47.6

this chess program and the chess program has been beaten his butt a whole weeks. Everything he does,

1:55.2

it says, you want to resign now? Is that it? No, it's worse than that. You want to resign now?

2:00.6

Stupid. I mean, it is humiliated to get beaten. It is humiliated. One game after another,

2:06.6

after another, after another. I only played one game. I lost. You don't know that you lost,

2:11.7

you lose. You were what? What? You humiliated. I was humiliated in front of everybody, I might have

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