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The Best of Car Talk

#2464: No Mommy! Not the Wiggly Road!

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Every time Nancy drives little 3-yr-old Sam in either of the family cars he pukes. But it never happens when Dad is driving. Can Click and Clack help Nancy improve her driving technique before Sam ruins the upholstery? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0

Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.

0:07.0

If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.

0:12.0

I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American

0:16.0

I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American from Boise State Public

0:21.2

Radio, part of the NPR Network. Hello and welcome to Carot talk from National Public Radio with us

0:43.0

Click and Clack the Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the

0:46.1

Washboard Division here at Car Talk Plaza. Now a few weeks ago we put out a call

0:51.0

to all physics bubbers in our audience to help us figure out the best way to drive over a washboard road.

0:58.0

You know, the Washboard road is a dirt road that has ripples in it.

1:02.0

And we got a ton of responses. Literally a ton. Most of it via email at

1:07.0

1,300 pounds.

1:09.0

Notcom. Apparently most bubbles are now on the internet and of course now listen to NPR too.

1:15.0

Yeah, of course.

1:16.0

And I've been looking through all this mail and if you notice here I have separated it

1:20.0

segregated it. One, two, three, four, four five six categories

1:24.4

721 pieces of mail in each category

1:28.4

First of all there's a bunch of people who actually speak from experience.

1:33.0

Well, we wanted physicists, particularly.

1:36.0

We'll get to that.

1:37.0

I mean, a bunch of people who speak from experience saying that they have done this.

1:42.0

And high speed is the answer.

1:45.0

Well that was my position of course you remember.

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