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The Best of Car Talk

#2404: Ted's Custom Exhaust

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Automotive, Leisure, Comedy

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The back door on Ted's old Plymouth van is so rusty that exhaust fumes are seeping in and killing off brain cells to the point that the poor guy is calling Car Talk for advice. Can Click and Clack save Ted's remaining brain cells? Or at least the van? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:35.9

click and clack the Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week from

0:39.1

the Center for Emerging Technologies here at Kartok Plaza.

0:42.6

Yeah, it's a science.

0:43.2

It's nice to be a man of science.

0:45.0

Now you probably heard all about Congress's new telecommunications bill,

0:50.7

a section of which mandates something called the V-chip.

0:54.0

Now the V-chip is a computer chip, I guess, that would be built into future television

0:58.8

sets and when activated, would prevent the viewing of programs with violent, violent,

1:04.0

violent, v., violent content.

1:07.0

Anyway, Dougie has been in the lab with Mercky

1:10.0

all this week, and they have finally perfected their own device which they plan to implant

1:18.1

my brother it's called the R&R chip which been activated will prevent ranting and raving.

1:24.0

Yeah sure what about the W.T.

1:26.6

chip that they got to work on for you?

1:29.1

The WACO theory chip.

1:31.3

As soon as you say the's roof snow everything goes blank.

1:35.0

I, well we'll discuss that later.

1:39.0

Anyway, if you have a question about your chip...

1:41.0

Wait a minute, I have things to read.

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