#2605: The Family That Parks Together
The Best of Car Talk
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4.7 • 16.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Al and his brother are about to come to blows… over parking. He wants to know if it’s possible to navigate into a parking space that you can’t back out of, and Click and Clack want to use this opportunity to settle an old score 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, |
| 0:20.7 | and we're broadcasting this week from the etymology lab here at Car Talk from National Public Radio with us, Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, |
| 0:24.3 | and we're broadcasting this week from the etymology lab here at Car Talk. We're going to talk about bugs? |
| 0:26.0 | No. |
| 0:29.6 | I don't know who sent this. |
| 0:31.4 | Yes, I do. |
| 0:32.9 | Eric Scharnberg, perhaps? |
| 0:35.1 | Yeah, sure. |
| 0:36.1 | The Washington Post style invitational asked readers to take any word from the dictionary |
| 0:41.6 | and alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and then supply a new definition. |
| 0:50.6 | And then they gave prizes, of course, and I have a few here that I'd like to share with you. Go ahead. I'm sure they're going to be beauties. Well, here's the first one. Sarcasm, but it's spelled S-A-R-C-H-A-S-M, sarcasm. I like it. And it is the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the reader who doesn't get it. |
| 1:13.1 | Cool. |
| 1:13.5 | I like that. |
| 1:14.3 | Just to warm you up. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:16.6 | Here's another one. |
| 1:18.3 | I'll tell you the word. |
| 1:19.1 | You tell me what it means. |
| 1:22.2 | Reintarnation. |
| 1:24.9 | Reintarnation. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.2 | I give up. |
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