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Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack the Tappertar Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from Oscar De LaRenthal's

office here at Car Talk Plaza.

This is from Dave Barry.

I mean, if you haven't read this, and I was just commenting to Dougie, I think I read

Dave Barry every week.

Somehow, I never read the ones that people send me.

The good ones you mean?

The good ones.

And I like, we are here in Oscar DeLarentel's office, but you wouldn't know that from

the opening.

Here's how he opens.

I believe that in general, women are saner than men.

For example, if you see people who have paid good money to stand in an outdoor stadium on a freezing December day,

wearing nothing on the upper halves of their bodies except paint, those people will be male.

That's true. Yeah. And if they weren't, more people will be male. That's true.

Yeah.

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