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Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack for Tapp Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Department of Gender Studies here at Caratalk Plaza. Now, as you know, this is an ongoing field of study for us, and this week

we present yet another contribution to the scholarly literature. This came to us from Tony Martino via email, and we don't know where he got it from.

Well, actually, we do, because if you read it carefully, it came from the guy who created the symptoms

Matt, whose last name, no one understands. Graining. Graining, groaning, greening, grounding.

The graining of America. I read that book.

Okay, here it is.

Women speak in estrogen and men listen in testosterone.

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