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The Best of Car Talk

#2388: Don't Forget to Floss

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Dierdre's Volvo has some broken teeth on it's flywheel. Instead of just replacing it, her mechanic wants to fabricate and weld individual replacement teeth onto the damaged flywheel. Will this work, or is Dierdre's mechanic just a wannabe dentist masquerading as a mechanic? Pass the laughing gas and 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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Hey, it's Ray Maljacchi here and before we start the show, I want to thank those of you

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who have already signed up for Kartalk Plus.

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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 to click and collect the

0:50.0

tap at brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Television Spinoffs

0:54.7

here at Kartalk Plus.

0:56.7

Yeah, soon to be appearing on televisions everywhere, yeah, is a sitcom inspired, believe

1:03.7

it or not, by Kartalk.

1:05.6

Yeah, we're very inspiring, some job with kind of trouble Aaron.

1:09.8

It'll be debuting, debuting, debuting on CBS, CBS, isn't that like NBC, ABC, yeah, small

1:21.4

really watch network, actually, they originally wanted us to do the sitcom, you know, we

1:26.3

actually star in it, but then they met us.

1:29.0

So how ugly we were.

1:31.3

So they decided to fictionalize the whole thing and get actors to do it and just to give

1:35.1

you an idea of how bad looking we must be.

1:37.5

I mean, just think about this.

1:38.5

Oh, yeah, no, they saw.

1:39.5

They just really hit home when they saw us and they said, you guys are too ugly.

1:43.1

We're going to get get this George went to George when he was normed, right?

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