Hi, I'm Zach Mack.

You might have heard my series

Alternate Realities on Embedded.

In it, my dad bet me $10,000 on 10 conspiracy theories.

He lost.

But it turns out he wasn't done trying.

I can't believe you want to do this again.

Hey.

I got to win my money back, right?

This time, things went very differently.

Listen to alternate realities on the Embedded podcast from NPR. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack the Tapper Brothers.

And we're broadcasting this week from the Career Development Center here at Carat Talk Plaza.

Now, we always figured that someday NPR is going to wise up and throw us off the air. I mean, it's got to happen, right? Any day, no. I mean, they're in Washington, so it might take them another 30 years, but eventually they'll catch on to us and tell us to get lost. And when that happens, I guess it happens. I mean, we're not worried really about ourselves. After all, we're all guys. We can always go back to the garage or our jobs at the 7-Eleven. You haven't given up your job. I still keep a hand in, so to speak, in the register. They caught me twice. They're tough of them to close the draw. But we have been concerned about Dougie because... What is he going to do? What is Dougie going to do? I mean, if he lost his job with us, he'd be a bum. Who would hire him? But there comes across the wire, as luck would have it. I have it right here. A little article that gives us hope. A glimmer. A glimmer of hope for Berman.

Monroe, Michigan.

Mike Pixley can work up a sweat just by sitting down on the job.

You might say he's the lazy boy of the lazy boy chair company.

A senior studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan,

Pixley is paid $6 an hour to test a variety of lazy boy chairs.

It's a buck more an hour than Berman's making.

In other words, he comes to work, sits down, leans back, and then relaxes forward all day.

Really?

That's what he does.

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