#2387: Unencumbered by the Thought Process

The Best of Car Talk

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Automotive, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Many great institutions are known for their mottos: Harvard has 'Veritas'(Truth). And MIT has 'Mens et Manus'(Mind and Hand). But Car Talk has them both bested with 'Non Impediti Ratione Cogitationis'(Unencumbered by the Thought Process). Listen to our boys live and die by these powerful words on this(and every) 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	Hey, it's Ray Maljacchi here and before we start the show, I want to thank those of you
0:04.2	who have already signed up for Kartalk Plus.
0:07.0	Now for the rest of you who haven't, what are you nuts for just a few bucks a month,
0:12.2	you can listen to our entire archive of shows anytime you want and support all the good
0:17.2	shows on NPR at the same time.
0:20.5	Go to the Kartalk channel at Apple Podcasts or go to plus dot NPR dot org slash Kartalk.
0:26.8	Hello and welcome to Kartalk on National Public Radio with us, click and collect the tapet
0:50.5	brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the center floor, familial reconciliation
0:55.1	here at Kartalk Plus.
0:58.1	The Atom and Ray, this is going to be quick and you will love it and Dougie will love it.
1:02.9	I'm ready and I'm throwing myself on the sword here but I don't care.
1:07.0	What do I care?
1:08.0	The Atom and Ray, first of all, this is from Kevin Crane who lives in North Hampton, Massachusetts.
1:16.2	That's like right up the street a couple hours.
1:18.5	I'm writing to thank you for bringing my father and me closer together after years of
1:22.8	disagreement.
1:24.3	It started 10 years ago when I said, by the way, he said my father and me instead of my
1:27.4	father and I.
1:28.4	Yeah.
1:29.4	I probably a professor at Smith College, probably, whatever, what colleges are there?
1:34.6	Yeah.
1:35.6	There are colleges.
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