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Hey, before we get to this week's show, we're working on something new for NPR

plus supporters. They're pulling me out of mothballs to answer some of your car questions. So if you

have a car question, you'd like to ask me, I'll give you a number and you can call in a moment.

And just like the old days, our extremely lazy producers will eventually listen to the messages,

pick a few callers for me, we'll set up a time to talk, and I'll screw up the answers, just like

the old days. NPR Plus supporters will find these occasional, and I do me in occasional episodes

in their NPR Plus car talk feed. So if you have a car question, here's the number. It's

888-522. That's 888-5-2-2-4-78. Now here's the show. 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 center for the study of the mind of the mechanic here at Carthoc Plaza.

No, it's not just a mechanic.

We have new insights, and this is actually a study that took place in Italy, but since we are both

Italian-Americans and auto-mechanics, I feel confident in applying the results, willy-nilly,

whoever willy-nilly is. To auto mechanics everywhere.

Now, this was published in the Italian psychology review, Risa Psychosomartica.

And here's the news.

You ready for this?

Yeah.

70% of Italian men and women interviewed confessed the telling between five and ten lies every day.

With the most common of all lies being, you ready for this?

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