#2458: Who Gets the Mechanic in the Divorce?

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Sarah Volvo and Mr. Mercedes shared everything -including a wonderful car mechanic- until Mr. Mercedes was caught looking under someone else's hood. Now that she and Mercedes are kaput, Sarah wants to know who gets to keep the mechanic? Oye, oye, Divorce court is now in session with the honorable Click and Clack presiding on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0	The Republican National Convention is happening this week and the NPR Politics Podcast takes you there.
0:05.8	We're on the ground in Milwaukee with analysis, recaps, and coverage of what happens every night of the RNC.
0:11.8	Listen to the NPR Politics Podcast. You're going to be. Hello and welcome to Carat Talk from National Public Radio with us click and clack
0:42.2	the Tappert Brothers, and we're
0:43.2	broadcasting this week from the Department of Revealing information here at
0:47.0	Car Talk Plaza. Now I have in my hand the results of the fourth annual
0:50.9	mechanics poll. This is this is
0:52.8	legit this is conducted by Valvoline in conjunction with ASE
0:56.8	automotive service excellent organization
0:58.8	excellence organization. Yeah yeah. Well here's here's the news
1:02.2	200 mechanics were surveyed and asked the following question,
1:05.0	while working on your customer's cars, what items are you most likely to find?
1:10.0	Here are the results.
1:12.0	Yeah, I'll look at one here.
1:15.0	98% of mechanics mentioned dirty clothes.
1:19.0	Well, I don't understand that.
1:21.0	Tied with partially eaten food.
1:23.4	95% found money,
1:26.9	91% found personal letters,
1:30.1	88% found personal hygiene items, What the heck would that be?
1:34.4	67% found a dead animal and 55% found a live animal.
1:41.4	Well, quite honestly, I was kind of disappointed that they didn't kind of follow up and go more in depth, you know.
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