#2528: Mister Humidity

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Wendy's Honda fogs up every time she and her hubby are driving together. Do they need some 'alone time' in a more private space? Or is hubby a one-man-moisture-front? Meteoroligists Click and Clack make a few forecasts on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:15.3	Music. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Collect the Tappert Brothers,
0:36.9	and we're broadcasting this week from the post-Olympic village here at Car Talk Plaza.
0:42.3	Oh, the post at the Olympic Village.
0:44.5	Well, I don't want to complain or anything, but real talk show hosts get sent to these places to actually do a remote.
0:51.2	We're doing a broadcast this week from...
0:53.3	Yeah, from Lillihammer.
0:54.4	Lillah. One of those places.
0:55.4	Well, they did send us to Lillihammer, except the Olympics are in Nagano.
0:59.7	Well, I don't know. I think it's kind of, you know...
1:01.8	And worse than that, we have to go after the Olympics are over.
1:04.6	But you know why they don't send us? Because we wouldn't know how to elicit those heartwarming little vignettes.
1:10.0	Yes. how to elicit those heartwarming little vignettes about the lives of people who have just broken
1:13.1	their boat legs sliding down a mountain on their heads.
1:18.2	Well, anyway, after watching the Olympics for a few minutes the other day, I realized that now
1:25.0	they're allowing snowboarding, which means they've given up.
1:29.3	It's like wearing sweatpants, right?
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