Conductor Robert Fron says a good melody captures our attention.

And then it moves you through time.

Music is architecture in time.

If you engage in the moment with what you're listening to,

you do lose a sense of the time around you.

How we experience time.

That's on the TED Radio Hour from NPR.

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 Snubbed Again division here at Car Talk Plaza.

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.

Some of you may remember last year at just about this time, our alma mater, MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Transmissions, passed us over when selecting a commencement speaker.

Yeah, who did they get that?

What's his name?

Well, it was a snub, especially because they chose this.

Nobody had ever heard of this guy.

I remember when we heard who he was.

I said, who?

Of course, now everyone knows his name because heverted World War III.

They picked Kofi Annan to be the speaker.

Oh, that's his name.

And so we, what?

We complained.

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