#2626: Rats!
The Best of Car Talk
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us, |
| 0:19.0 | Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Department of Wights and Measures here at Car Talk Plaza. |
| 0:25.9 | Yes, sent to us by Neil Jackson, 17th President of the United States, wasn't he? |
| 0:32.3 | All right, I'll give you a couple of test questions here. |
| 0:37.3 | Oh, this is a quiz for me? |
| 0:38.5 | Yeah, conversion units is the issue here. |
| 0:41.6 | For example, you know, 2,000 pounds of Chinese soup would be what? |
| 0:46.1 | One ton. |
| 0:47.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:48.0 | Now, it gets a little harder. |
| 0:50.1 | The ratio of an igloos circumference to its diameter. Oh, geez. The ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter. |
| 0:55.4 | Oh, geez. |
| 0:56.9 | A ratio of an... |
| 0:58.3 | Well, that's going to be Eskimo Pye. |
| 1:03.8 | Excellent. |
| 1:05.1 | All right. |
| 1:05.6 | Now, a millionth of a mouthwash. |
| 1:10.4 | A millionth of a mouthwash. A millionth of a mouthwash. |
| 1:13.4 | One microscope. |
| 1:15.3 | Oh, I love it. |
| 1:17.2 | I knew you'd love it. |
| 1:19.0 | The shortest distance between two jokes. |
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