#2640: Flunking Physics Again
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack the Tapper Brothers, |
| 0:20.2 | and we're broadcasting this week from campaign headquarters here at Car Talk Plaza. As you know, my brother |
| 0:26.1 | and I are running for president under the slogan Two Zero's in Zero. And after several |
| 0:32.4 | weeks on the campaign trail, we have finally hit upon the one issue that we believe will propel us all the way |
| 0:41.2 | to the lawn, to the White House, and beyond, and to the parking lot. I mean, as some of our |
| 0:48.1 | listeners may know, we are every week attempting to present one of our, as we call them, in the political business initiatives. |
| 0:55.9 | Yes. |
| 0:56.4 | And this week, we'd like to tell you about our slack off America initiative. |
| 1:02.4 | Well, this is like the central thrust of our campaign. |
| 1:04.9 | This is, I mean, this has been a guiding principle in our lives, in fact. |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah, we would like to extend it. |
| 1:10.1 | We do have an environmental initiative, Department of Defense initiative. |
| 1:13.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.4 | And all those things are somewhat understandable, but this one is. |
| 1:20.0 | Well, maybe it is. |
| 1:21.3 | I mean, here it is. |
| 1:22.6 | Everyone is stressed. |
| 1:25.0 | Whatever happened to leisure time? |
| 1:27.0 | We don't know how to do leisure time. In fact, |
| 1:29.7 | I will quote from my brother. He gave me this quote recently. You have a brother, another brother? |
| 1:35.2 | Many Americans think they need more money than they really need. And they have thus tragically |
| 1:41.7 | miscalculated the work to play ratio. Remember him? What a brilliant mind. |
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