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Back from Furlow Center here at Car Talk Plaza.

I just thought I will listen to this would want to know that we are back on the job in fact all the federal employees here at Car Talk Plaza are back at work.

Oh wait a minute what are you talking about we were at furlow there are no federal employees here?

There aren't?

No.

I heard an announcement on the radio a few weeks ago that said only essential employees should report for work.

So of course, I've been home ever since then.

Actually, we have a slightly different employee grading system here at Kartarck Plaza.

There's the essential category.

Yeah, we don't have any of that.

No, we don't have that.

Nobody here is essential, obviously. Then there's the non-essential category. We don't have many of those either. Maybe just Rogers.

Then there's the category that Dougie falls into. That's one category below non-essential called

Totally useless. And we are one category below that. We're categorized as in the way.

There's one more category below that for Jennifer Jiffy Lobe that's called who?

Anyway, we're back if you'd like to call us with a question about your car or anything else

Our phone number is 1,800,

3,32, 9, 287. Hello, you're on car talk.

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