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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 888-522-5478.

That's 888-5-2-2-5478.

Now, here's the show.

Thank you. Hello. Hello, and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack the Tappit Brothers,

and we're broadcasting this week from the center, the new center for accident creation

here at Car Talk Plaza. Now, we see accident creation as a growth industry. So we thought

we'd start a wholly owned subsidiary to promote and encourage accidents. Might as well be ahead of

the curve, right?

I mean, what the heck?

Yeah, we're going to come out in full support of the Microsoft Corporation because I have here an article from, I believe, is this the New York Times?

New York Times.

Microsoft wants information to travel the real highway.

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