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The Best of Car Talk

#2548: Correlation Run Amok

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Teddi and Gloria both have stumbled onto personal rituals to deal with their unreliable cars. In Teddi's case she's struggling to start her car in the driveway, but Gloria is convinced that turning her car off and back on while flying down the highway is 'the cure'. Can Click and Clack get Teddi going and stop Gloria before she crashes at high speed? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to car talk from National Public Radio with us click and collect the Tapper Brothers.

0:21.5

Oh, robust, wouldn't you say? Collect the Tappert Brothers. Hello.

0:22.1

Robust, wouldn't you say?

0:23.3

Robust?

0:23.6

More than robust.

0:24.9

Alert.

0:25.2

Oh, wait.

0:26.9

Anyway, we're broadcasting this week from the Vacation Planning Center here at Caratalk Plaza.

0:31.6

Now, we want you to know that there's still plenty of space available for all sessions of Mechanics Fantasy Camp here in Car Talk.

0:40.5

I like this idea.

0:41.4

Well, it's just like those baseball fantasy camps where you pay about $4,000 to get tips

0:45.6

on how to hit, catch, throw, and scratch from some retired Hall of Fame who's really in deep

0:50.2

to the IRS.

0:51.0

Sure, you get old Krusty to run the fantasy camp.

0:53.6

Is he running it now? Is he in charge? Well, not yet. No, you get old Krusty to run the fantasy camp. Is he running it now?

0:55.0

Is he in charge?

0:56.0

Well, not yet.

0:56.8

No, we haven't revived it.

0:58.1

It's a brilliant idea.

0:59.0

Well, at Fantasy Camp, Mechanics Fantasy Camp, my brother and I, and Krusty, will teach you

1:03.4

how to hit, catch, throw, and scratch mechanic style.

1:07.7

Yeah, like hit your knuckles as you're, as you're taking off nuts and bolts.

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