Hello and welcome to car talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack the Tappitt Brothers,

and we're broadcasting this week from the Department of Shameless Self Promotion here at Caratoc Plaza.

It is that.

Honesty is the best policy, so we'll just call this what it is.

What it is is, is the publication of a book that we wrote, which is out on your shelves just today.

And if you're a hurry, you can get it before it close to the buck of books.

The title is in our humble opinion, and we're not asking you to buy it.

And I'll tell you why.

I'll read to you from the introduction, which explains that we're not asking you to buy it.

We're not. It says, you may have some misgivings about buying a book about someone's opinions as well.

You should. After all, we all have opinions, and as we know, men have strong opinions about everything,

especially topics they know nothing about. Moreover, you have your own opinion, so why would you give a rat's patootie about ours?

And it goes on to say, we wrote the book because someone actually offered to pay us to write it.

They gave us what's called in the business an advance.

Now, it says, we really don't expect to make any more money than they've already given us.

So if it makes you feel any better, none of the money you spend on the book will come to us.

It will all go to the publisher to help defray the expenses of the very big mistake that they have made.

And the ensuing lawsuits and negative publicity and all that.

He says, of course, you may or may not want to reward them for that mistake.

It's up to you.

We don't really care.

We really don't care.

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