#25103: Bryology Anyone?

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Leisure, Automotive

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Typically when arbiting marital car disputes, it helps to know what each spouse does for a living. Lawyers, for instance, are always right because lawyers can sue radio hosts. Physicists and other scientists are usually wrong because they’re know-it-alls. And then there are Bryologists -whatever they do. Click and Clack are just as clueless as the rest of us, so let’s all find out together on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ray Maliazzi here. You know, somehow we are almost to the end of 2025.
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1:45.1	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 Marriage Counseling Division here at Caratalk. Marion Haste's office. Yeah, her office is right around the corner, and she sent me this, as a matter of fact. She's our, what is she a wedding planner marriage counselor marriage counselor marian heyton oh marian hayst yeah marian hayst here's a letter
1:51.5	march in overa what's his name he didn't tell us his name uh here it is dear knuckleheads
1:58.2	i hope you're satisfied with yourself.
2:05.1	You're almost breaking up my marriage after 26 blissful years.
2:08.5	I didn't know I wasn't supposed to be driving a Toyota Corolla.
2:13.3	I didn't know that my karma was off, that I was a cheapskate, a wuss, and a snob.
2:15.5	And neither did my wife.
2:18.9	I recently took your caroscope test.
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