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 murky research here at Car Talk Plaza. Now, we can't actually take credit for this. This is from Gallup Research. They do research as well, and they're not as well-respected and well-known as Paul Merkey. No. But people have heard of Gallup polls.

Gallup polls.

Gallup polls.

Isn't that an island down off of Peru?

The Gallupils.

Yeah.

For the big turtles there.

Well, Gallup every year does the poll about what are the professions which are most and least respected.

And we have made it a tradition here at Contoc Plaza and murky research to

divulge this information to the rest of the universe because no one else knows about it

except anyone from time to time as we see fit.

Anyone who reads the newspaper.

And I thought, I mean, the top ten, most respected, you know what the most respected one is?

Well, nurses.

Oh, okay, I could say that.

I was going to say the medical profession, but they narrowed it down.

Oh, doctors are fourth.

So nurses, pharmacists, veterinarians, doctors, school teachers, clergy, judges.

Pharmacists are number two?

Number two.

Pharmacists are second most respected in the country.

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