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Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers,

and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Interspecies Communications here at Cat's Hot Plaza.

I like it.

Interspecies.

Oh.

Yeah.

Here's an interesting article that appeared a couple of weeks ago in Newsweek, I think.

It's a blurb about a book called Spoken Cat, where author and Wackle, apparently.

Alexandra Sellers claims to have interpreted cat language.

She's nuts.

Well, in her book, she tells you how to speak cat.

For instance, ma'a means cut that out and bring me some cream.

And I happen to know from my own experience that ma'a means, oh no, not down the laundry shoot again.

Can't I take the stairs?

Anyway, this is obviously silliness, but it got me thinking that if interspecies communication is possible between humans and felines,

why not between humans and automobile mechanics? Yeah. Why not between humans and automobile mechanics?

Yeah.

So, I like it.

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