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Music from Cincinnati Public Radio and the NPR Network. 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 center.

I mean, we've got groundbreaking news here today.

Yeah, this could be.

This is exciting stuff.

We're broadcasting from the Center for the Study of North American Sub-orsal Augmentation here at Carthor Plaza.

Now, we always joke about the wacky things that academics study, right?

But here's something they're trying to study without much success, I might add, the size of American butts.

Yeah.

Now, back in the 50s, a Harvard University study concluded that 18-inch seats would comfortably accommodate the American rump.

You go to a sports arena and there's an 18-inch seat.

I mean, for example, if you go to Fenway Park, they have 12-inch seats.

Yeah.

Because the study had not been done by the world's greatest university.

Exactly.

But now that it has, for the last 40 years, 18 inches has been the standard by which all buts will be measured.

But!

But!

But!

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