#2389: Of Course He's Wrong

The Best of Car Talk

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Automotive, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We could have titled this show, "Happenings on Goat Hollow Road", where Ruth and her husband have clearly run out of things to talk about because they are now arguing over the proper way to jumpstart a dead car battery. Will Click and Clack's advice make the front page of the 'Goat Hollow Gazette'? 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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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ray Mallorca here and before we start the show, I want to thank those of you
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0:26.8	Hello and welcome to Kartalk on National Public Radio with us, click and collect the tapet
0:50.8	brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Linguistic Studies here at
0:55.1	Kartalk Plus.
0:56.1	Yes, hot off the press for immediate release from the Hyundai news bureau, okay, why Hyundai
1:02.0	did this?
1:03.0	I don't know.
1:04.0	Fountain Valley, California, January 1995, residents of Georgia, the Carolinas and the
1:08.2	other southern states can bask in the knowledge that they have the most liked, most recognizable
1:13.7	and sexiest regional American accent in the United States.
1:19.2	New York was scored highest in two categories, you know what they are?
1:22.6	Yeah.
1:23.6	And intelligibility close, intelligibility, the most intimidating and the least liked American
1:32.2	accent.
1:33.2	Now get this.
1:34.6	And this is I'm sure we have a lot to do with the following.
1:38.2	I'm sure we may be solely responsible, Boston, Bostonians took on us for sounding the
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