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🗓️ 4 August 2025
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Poor Tommy! It’s tough enough trying to properly diagnose car problems over the phone without suddenly finding yourself sitting at the wrong end of a long limb that your brother is in the process of sawing through. Lookout below on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. Get access to hundreds of episodes in the Car Talk archive when you sign up for Car Talk+ at plus.npr.org/cartalk
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| 0:54.4 | Thank you. 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 Media Studies Department here at Car Talk Plaza. And we have come to some startling conclusions. Scary. I mean, I think Paul Murky was involved in this research. He was not. No. Oh. No. No. Marge Inovera? No. No. Well, Matt McColt. |
| 1:00.1 | Actually, the report here is signed by someone named Marry Alex, and curiously he sent it to us by email. |
| 1:02.2 | So I guess he doesn't work in the office. |
| 1:02.5 | No. |
| 1:03.6 | Or in the lab. |
| 1:04.5 | But here it is. |
| 1:09.5 | Things you would never know if there weren't movies. |
| 1:28.0 | Now, this is interesting. I'm ready. Yeah. For example. For example, some of them are quite obvious. I mean, you would never know this. The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there, and you can travel to any other part of the building, and nobody will hear you. That's right. See, I didn't know that. |
| 1:28.9 | I learned that from... |
| 1:30.1 | Sneakers. |
| 1:31.1 | Sneakers and what was the other more recent movie? |
| 1:34.3 | Mission Impossible. |
| 1:35.6 | You're very likely to survive any battle in any war |
| 1:39.4 | unless you make the crucial mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home. There you go. You do that. Kiss of death. Boom. Bullet right through your head. Next minute. Now here's one. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris. Did you know that? Anywhere you are in Paris, you can see the Eiffel Tower. Well, you know, why? |
| 2:01.3 | Because it's not stationary. |
| 2:02.7 | It moves. |
| 2:06.8 | Let's see what else here. |
| 2:09.2 | I like this one. |
| 2:10.6 | If you're being chased through town, |
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