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Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers,

and we're broadcasting this week from the Department of Freudian Slips here at Car Talk Plaza.

I bought my wife a Freudian slip from now at the time today.

I'm sure that one on me.

But the magic, never mind.

No.

Well, listen, I had to mention this because this was a bona fide Freudian slip on the part of my brother.

Yeah.

Just a few days ago, I was reading my umpteenth piece of hate mail about the puzzler and its various inadequacies.

Yeah.

You know, people were berating just the lack of creativity and imagination.

And there I was feeling kind of morose and sad and ready to give up the puzzle.

And I'd express this to my brother that I was really depressed and I really wasn't doing the job with the puzzle anymore.

And he says to me, you know, you don't remember this.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Well, this is an ultimate Freudian sleep. He says to me, keep your chins up. I say, now I know I've had a few too many kilbasa bombs off the coffee truck. But keep your chins up? Chins? Where did this conversation? You see, you forgot it already. It's a true Freudian slip. You said it and you forgot it. I did. Keep your chins up. All right. All right. I said that. You did. You did. Yeah. It's all right. It's all right. Really? Yeah. Where were we in this conversation?

I don't remember it at all, huh?

I have no recollection.

We were in the green room, preparing for the show.

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