#2597: We're Part of the Solution
The Best of Car Talk
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4.7 • 16.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Ivan was enduring an attempt to upsell him on a special oil treatment when he heard this doozy from the mechanic-turned-salesman: “We’re not the problem. We’re part of the solution.” We agree, if the solution he’s referring to is a sleazy soup of grease and jargon. Click and Clack wade through this and other messes 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, |
| 0:56.0 | and we're broadcasting this week from the male division here at Caratalk Plaza. My brother has a new philosophy that we shouldn't prepare anything for the show anymore. Well, I mean, we usually do prepare by saying where we're going to broadcast from and then we have a little thing. A little ditty. Yeah, and we didn't have any ideas for today. Yeah, well, yeah, well, it happens. But we did have a pile of mail, and I have here in front of me, this is the opening of the show, so I'm going to open a priority mail package, and I have no idea what's in it, and whatever it is is we'll discuss it. There's a letter? Ah. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh, geez. |
| 0:59.0 | Aromatherapy. |
| 1:00.0 | Really? |
| 1:01.0 | The Aeron Drive, it's not a letter. |
| 1:04.0 | What the heck is... |
| 1:06.0 | Oh, I love it already. |
| 1:08.0 | Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, look at all this stuff. |
| 1:12.1 | Little bottles of things and things that take |
| 1:12.9 | double A batteries. |
| 1:13.8 | Anything that takes a double A battery. It's okay. It's all right in my book. Well, I'll just read it here. Just plug it in, it says. Place the power of electronic aroma diffusion at your fingertips. reduces stress and road fatigue, eliminate cigarette smells and unwanted odors. |
| 1:29.6 | Oh, that'll come in handy in your car. |
| 1:31.2 | Easily used. At your fingertips reduces stress and road fatigue. Eliminate cigarette smells and unwanted odors. |
| 1:29.6 | Oh, that'll come in handy in your car. |
| 1:31.2 | Easily change scents or aroma intensity and it's got a thing. |
| 1:36.2 | No, it is not a double A battery. |
| 1:38.6 | It pours into your cigarette lighter. |
| 1:40.2 | Well, I have been a big advocate of aromatherapy for a long time because have you ever been |
| 1:45.5 | someplace where you smell something? |
| 1:47.4 | And you say, boy, that brings me back. |
| 1:49.2 | Brings me back. |
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