#2594: Having Fun with a US Census Agent

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Paula from Virginia mostly wanted help with her Toyota Camry but, as a US Census agent she couldn’t resist wagging her finger to remind all of us to cooperate with the upcoming census collection. Fun ensues on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us, Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers,
0:20.4	and we're broadcasting this week from the La Toyota Jackson sent to hear at Car Talk from National Public Radio with us, Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the La Toyota Jackson Center here at Car Talk Plaza.
0:25.7	Sheesh.
0:26.8	I mean, this is one of the most exciting days at Car Talk Plaza.
0:30.7	Oh, it is.
0:31.2	Because we've got the flags flying, the bands playing.
0:33.9	Oh, man, the outcome of 10 years of effort is finally coming to fruition.
0:40.8	I don't think I divulced it.
0:42.3	I don't think I'd divulse it when this took you 10 years.
0:45.8	Here's the deal.
0:47.1	We are introducing today on the car talk section of cars.com.
0:52.6	Caroscope.
0:54.9	Caroscope. It's like a horoscope. A horror. Hor, caroscope. The caroscope.
0:56.2	It's like a horoscope.
0:57.2	A horror.
0:58.4	Horoscope is polite. And here's what it is.
0:59.5	You go to caroscope and you tell it what car you drive and then you answer just a couple of innocuous little questions.
1:09.8	A name.
1:13.1	It might be called. name might be called.
1:15.9	And it will tell you two things.
1:19.8	A, are you compatible with the car that you're driving?
1:21.7	That's pretty heavy-duty information.
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