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The Best of Car Talk

#2443: Like a Boil on His Neck

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Beth is pretty sure that her husband is wearing out the clutch on their Honda. If Click and Clack agree that she's right, how much fun is she allowed to have reminding him of this for the rest of their marriage? Click and Clack explore automotive 'love languages' on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0

Former President Trump is in serious legal trouble.

0:02.8

And at the same time, he wants his old job back.

0:05.2

It's a really big story, but with different trials in multiple states,

0:09.1

plea deals, testimony, gag orders, it's also really hard to follow. So we created Trump's trials, a new NPR

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0:19.2

for democracy in weekly episodes. I'm Scott Detro. Check out Trump's trials from NPR. Hello and welcome to Caratore from National Public Radio with us

0:43.5

clicking clock the Tabert Brothers and we're broadcasting this week from

0:46.4

the Futurism Department here at Kartik Plaza. A couple of months ago we

0:51.1

quoted someone I think from Chevrolet as saying that the

0:53.5

Coppholder War was over. Months ago that was like yesterday. Time does fly.

0:59.1

But the new Chevy Venture Van had 17 or 18 cup holders and Chevy was saying to Chrysler, give it up guys.

1:06.7

We won.

1:07.7

Let's call a truce and go all our lives, but of course that was not to be. And it turns out there was just a lull in the action before an entire new front opened up.

1:17.0

Get this, according to automotive news,

1:20.0

the cup holder war is turning from quantity to quality.

1:24.3

Thank God.

1:25.3

As it should, it's sort of the left brain, right brain thing.

1:27.8

Exactly.

1:28.8

Now future cup holders will be judged not merely on their plenteousness, but also on their ergonomics and

1:34.8

excuse me plenteousness

1:37.0

plenty as much plenty as in like how many there are I I looked it up in my funck and

1:43.2

Burman dictionary and it said it said it was a real word.

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