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The Best of Car Talk

#2531: Practical Jokes Will Save Us

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

When all hope seems to be lost for humanity we can still rely on practical jokes to keep us going. Feel the Schadenfreude on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0

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0:21.9

this podcast from NPR.

0:42.6

Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us,

0:43.9

Click and Clack the Tapit Brothers,

0:48.8

and we're broadcasting this week from the Crash Test Support Division here at Caratalk Plaza.

0:53.7

Now, the folks at NHTSA, everyone knows NHTSA. You mean the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration?

0:57.1

Yes, those are the guys that crash the cars in order to determine which ones are safe and which ones have to be sold with the funeral wreath mounted right on the grill.

1:06.6

Anyway, they're rethinking the crash test dummy phenomenon, whatever you want to call it.

1:12.1

Well, I read that.

1:12.8

There was an article in automotive news.

1:17.6

Yes.

1:18.1

Everywhere in the world, there was an article, yeah.

1:20.3

And anyway, Nisa has been using one kind of crash test dummy for years, and it apparently

1:24.5

just dawned on them that using only one body type is ridiculous

1:28.9

because drivers come in a different variety of body types, right?

1:31.9

You ain't kidding.

1:33.2

So now they're building...

1:33.8

I've been married to most of them personally.

1:36.3

Oh, sh...

1:37.3

Oh, not all of them.

1:43.3

Dig yourself right in, man.

1:44.7

Half of them.

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