#2619: Teens and Cars
The Best of Car Talk
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4.7 • 16.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Linda is a lovely lady from the land of nice; Minnesota. As lovely as she is, however, Linda has to contend with her three teenagers, one of whom wrecked their minivan. Can Click and Clack convince Linda to put away those Midwest manners long enough to extract a confession from one of the little cretins? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR and the following message come from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, |
| 0:05.4 | investing in creative thinkers and problem solvers who help people, communities, and the planet flourish. |
| 0:11.1 | More information is available at Hewlett.org. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us, Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, |
| 0:35.1 | and we're broadcasting this week from the Department of Wights and Measures here at Car Talk Plaza. |
| 0:39.8 | Oh, I didn't know we had such a... |
| 0:41.0 | Well, this is a follow-up to a conversation we had a few months ago. |
| 0:44.9 | You may remember that our pal, Daniel Pinkwater, called, and he was discussing... |
| 0:49.3 | I don't know how to put this delicately. |
| 0:51.9 | The enormity of his posterior. |
| 0:55.3 | That's delicate. |
| 0:56.2 | And we decided that during that call that the official unit of button measurement should be a pink water. |
| 1:02.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.0 | So, for instance, Daniel is by definition one pink water, obviously, and I'd say I'm like 0.6. |
| 1:09.1 | And you're like what? |
| 1:10.7 | Point 1. Maybe 0.2. And you're like what? |
| 1:11.4 | Point one. |
| 1:12.6 | Maybe 0.2. Maybe 0.2. |
| 1:13.5 | Well, this sparks some discussion on the show and on the website as well. |
| 1:17.2 | And another caller told us that when she was little, her brother used to push her butt against the piano keys and measure her butt by how many octaves she played. |
| 1:27.7 | Ah, I always liked that one. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah. |
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