#2476: Houston, We Have a Problem!

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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When John called us from '200 miles north of Hawaii'' it took Click and Clack a minute to realize he meant 200 miles 'straight up'. Boy, NASA budget cuts get must be bad if they're calling us for help. Houston definitely has a problem on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:35.5	click and collect the Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week we're
0:38.7	gonna get in trouble for the Department of Linguistics here at Kartalk Plaza.
0:43.8	Now we have actual...
0:45.6	We are going to get in trouble, but we're in trouble already.
0:48.2	Right, well this is, it's all in fun, right?
0:50.6	We have actual news this week. Beep beep beep beep.
0:53.0	The school board in Detroit, Michigan has declared mechanics English
0:57.0	and official second language.
0:59.0	Detroit is the nation's first school system to recognize mechanics English, also known as Greece
1:04.5	Bornex as the official language of the car repair industry and as a language separate
1:09.3	from standard English, the unique characteristics of which are as follows.
1:13.0	Here it is. Greece Bornex inserts a word I'll refer to as blank,
1:17.0	because I'm not allowed to say it on NPR or any place.
1:20.0	Or any place for that, maybe.
1:21.0	Especially at home, in front of each of a sentence's
1:24.4	verbs and nouns, regardless of the number of verbs and nouns in the sentence.
1:27.8	So for instance, you ready? Here's an example. I'll give you one. Okay, go you do it.
1:31.7	He's got a problem with his clutch becomes in
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