#2512: Click and Clack Get Schooled

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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George is a teacher calling from Berkeley, California with two problems. His Honda is acting up and so are the first graders in his classroom. Click and Clack meet their intellectual matches on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0	Technologist Powell Garcia is using AI to create photos of people's most precious memories.
0:08.0	How her mother was dressed, the haircut that she remembered.
0:12.2	We generated tens of images, and then she saw two images that was like, that was it.
0:18.2	Ideas about the future of memory.
0:20.6	That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR.
0:44.5	Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack to Tapit Brothers.
0:49.6	And we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Government Ingenuity here at Car Talk Plaza.
0:55.8	Now, I thought we should congratulate the White House, the White House, on its latest technological innovation.
0:58.2	I don't have all the details yet, and you know me.
1:01.0	I'll just plunge right in because I don't need all the details.
1:05.2	Apparently, someone in the White House has come up with a new design for clutches.
1:09.1	I mean, we've been using asbestos clutches for years, and before that, what?
1:16.7	I was like wood or something. What I think so. And now it appears that a new type of apparently biodegradable,
1:23.5	eco-friendly clutch material has been developed right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
1:28.3	Get out! Well, I don't know, like I said, I don't know all the details, but I keep hearing all these references to it.
1:29.8	They keep talking about the White House coffee clutches.
1:33.7	That!
1:36.3	Clatches!
1:36.9	Clatches! Coffee clatches!
1:38.5	I just thought they were mispronouncing it.
1:41.3	That's bad.
1:43.4	Come on.
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