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Hello, and welcome to NPRs car. Talk with us, click and clack the Tappet brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the spring fever tower here at cartoon Plaza.

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Oh, I, this is cold. Yes or no.

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If you've been in the sun the last few days. Well, You

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know what happens? You know, when the sun comes out here where our fear City

0:50

great frozen. No, it is not Something

0:52

that happens every day.

0:54

And so one must take advantage of it at every opportunity.

0:57

So I had a choice today of working or walking around And

1:04

the health of the day before Working,

1:05

getting around.

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And She

1:09

hasn't been Well

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judging from all the peeling on my nose.

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I wasn't working.

1:16

I gather not because I figured there would be plenty of dismal dark days when I would be able to work murky, Dismal,

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dark murky, dark Dismal,

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dank, dank, Dais

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dank. Indeed. You're welcome.

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You're welcome.

1:32

Do you have any mail To rail? A couple of interesting items.

1:34

We got a letter here from John Henshaw who is, you know, how I'm I'm way behind in my mail.

1:41

This is dated. Look at the date.

1:43

I'm exactly one year late, big deal.

1:47

This guy Hinshaw though was from Pennsylvania is a time traveler.

1:52

Yes, sir. And he sent us back from the year 2006, July, 2006, a newspaper clipping.

2:02

Look at that.

2:03

The end of an era Tappet brothers retire.

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Isn't this something Bostonian's today witnessed the end of an era with the dual retirements of Tom and Ramo Yahtzee, but it don't do dozens of fans across the nation as click and collect the tapping brothers 2006.

2:20

We only got about 15 years to go for years.

2:24

The two brothers dispense them homespun brand of garage, humor and automotive malpractice across the airways via their contact program.

2:32

Through the auspices of radio station, WBUR and national public radio.

2:36

The brothers made several forays outside the medium of radio.

2:40

Hey, see, this is going to tell our future in their storied careers among the among the most successful was their academy award winning documentary saved the skeets, which chronicled the plight of an endangered species and was filmed entirely in Claymation brown brother Tom's coast to coast crusade for a national 35 mile an hour speed limit dismissed.

3:00

First as the ravings of a lunatic became a law late in the 20th century.

3:06

And has since been hailed as the greatest social reform since prohibition, my God, I shouldn't give up on this.

3:14

Along with the good has come the bad off course.

3:17

The brothers, the brothers have not entirely escape controversy who could forget their Titanic struggle with Ted Turner over colorization of the car talk reruns.

3:27

I remember that. Yes, I do that with all the famous Tappet brothers capital depreciation fund and the attendant unpleasantness with the sec Inquiries.

3:37

The inevitable notoriety brought on by such incidents eventually drove the brothers into seclusion and now finally retirement.

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Well, it's good to, it's always good to know, at least that we're going to live that long.

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It is, it is good to know 1,006 points.

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Well, John, I can hardly wait a long time.

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Travel is exciting, man.

3:56

It is not as exciting as what's coming up though.

3:58

What I call our 1-800-332-NINE 2 8 7.

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Hello. You're on contact. Hi, this is Dan from Lyman, Wyoming.

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I have a problem with my Toyota Tercel.

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Was it 86? It's a 19 84, 84.

4:14

We know everything about Everything.

4:16

What's up, Dan? What color is this to herself?

4:19

Kind of electric. Blue.

4:21

No wonder. See, I thought it was red. All right. Electric blow.

4:23

What's the Problem. We cannot get our windshield clean.

4:27

Okay. Jeez. And have a windshield problem.

4:29

You know, every time we give an answer to a windshield problem, we get a hundred letters telling us that our answer is stupid or wrong or dangerous or impossible.

4:43

W we got a hundred letters about every answer like that.

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Tell, tell us what happened. What have you done?

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What have you tried?

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The inside of the windshield? The outside washes up as far as we can tell.

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Just fine. Oh Good.

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This is an insight problem.

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It seems to have some kind of gunk on it.

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Right? I'll tell you what that dunk Is. Yeah, it is Gunk

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is that well, we tried to like a ammonia cleaner.

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We've tried like soap from the carwash.

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We've tried just regular soapy water.

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It has a film on it, right? Like a, like a smokey film.

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You notice it when you're wearing you notice it when you're wearing, We

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notice it a whole bunch of when we drive, like at night with headlights, we drive into the sun.

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Then you can't see anything, nothing at all, But

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it's cleanable. You can infect, remove this film.

5:34

Well for a short period of time.

5:36

Yeah. Yeah. And it keeps coming back.

5:38

But if, but you can remove it.

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What do you have? Carpets?

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Wait a minute. What is it that that gets, oh, wait a minute.

5:44

He said he can remove it for a short We'll

5:47

remove it. Vinegar is the best vinegar Smells Lousy,

5:51

but it works well. You recommend a little oil and vinegar, vinegar.

5:55

Do you recommend a vinegarette from a Davos?

5:59

All right now. Okay. So you can get it off, but it keeps coming back.

6:02

I want to tell you why you have it. I'm going to, I'm going to recommend a solution.

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The 7% solution. You have a cloth seats, vinyl, you have rugs.

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Do you have what you have carpeting?

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No, no.

6:17

I rest my case.

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Yeah. What's going on. What's happening to your windshield.

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Is that the plastic or the vinyl?

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Sublimated is sublimating. It's going from a solid to a gas.

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And it's positing.

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It's at that gas and condensing on your windows.

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We decomposing and it sits there on the inside of the windshield.

6:38

It's probably on the other windows too, but you don't notice it.

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And it's probably old, But lucky you Dan, that you will live in sheep country because what you need is a couple of sheepskin seat covers and uni and floor mats.

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If you cover up all this vinyl, you'll be surrounded by luxury.

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Do you won't care to you? Can't see out the window.

6:58

No, you will. You will reduce considerably the amount of sublimation that's taking place or whatever the evaporation or whatever they want to call.

7:05

Well, the other, the other thing is, I mean, it, it, out in Wyoming, it doesn't get very cold.

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So you could just leave the windows open all the time.

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If you left the windows open all the time, all of this, all of this stuff would just go out.

7:17

Instead of staying inside the car, I would Recommend

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in the warmer weather, you do leave the windows open.

7:22

Yeah, because It's probably not good for your lungs.

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Because if you leave the, if the, if you leave the car all shut up and in the sun and all this, all this stuff comes up into the air and then you open the door and sit in there.

7:33

That's probably not good for you.

7:35

Cover everything up. And if all else fails, there's always the hammer Traded

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in.

7:43

Good luck, Dan. See you later. Bye.

7:45

Bye. Bye. What? 803 3 2 9 2 8 7.

7:48

Hello. You're on cartoon. Hi, this is Nancy Weber from Tumwater, Iowa.

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What's up Nancy? Well, I got a 1989 Ford tempo.

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Then I'm thinking about buying out of my lease on May 1st, but the breaks are really squeaking and it doesn't do it all the time.

8:02

But when it does it, it's real loud. And I'm worried about the safety number one, because if I think they're the brakes, I mean squeaks.

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When I stopped It squeaks. When you step on the brakes, is it a squeak or a squeal?

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It's a wine. And everybody looks at Stoplight.

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Wait a minute. Now, As

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you complete your stop, the last few feet of the stop, you get this, That's

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it. I was about to do it.

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Now,

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if

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you

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didn't

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trade

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the

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car

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in

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or

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you

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didn't

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turn

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it

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in,

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right? You of course wouldn't do the brakes. You think it's dangerous?

8:43

It's probably not dangerous, but I mean, it's gotta be looked at.

8:45

It's probably something simple.

8:48

Yeah. You need new brakes. You almost have like 30,000 miles or so in this thing, right?

8:53

No, Sir. It's only 14.

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14. And you must do a lot of city driving.

8:59

Right? Well, town driving and they don't have city.

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You don't Have cities as close as you can get with city town driving.

9:06

Yeah. So that's what the, what did it, you need brake pads.

9:10

Maybe it may, it may be that you need nothing.

9:11

I have a novel idea. However, you could take it into a shop and have them look at it.

9:17

I already did. I would say you did.

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And what did they say? Oh,

9:21

nothing's wrong?

9:24

Did they say it like that, Nancy?

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Oh, well then they sorta pat you on the top of the head to Nancy.

9:30

Nothing's wrong. Go back in the car and drive.

9:33

Maybe there is nothing wrong. And maybe the squeaking is just a product of the way you drive it.

9:37

Yeah. Well, when you do a lot of stop and go driving, you tend to get like a glaze on the pads and that might lead to squeaking, But

9:46

it's nothing to be worried about if they say they're all right there.

9:48

All right. But here's what I would suggest.

9:50

I would take this car into a real mechanic and have him check it all out because you're in essence buying a used car.

9:57

So tell them you want them to check every single thing and tell you everything that could possibly go wrong with this car and the next year.

10:04

Right? I'm going to guess that like other people that leased cars, you were probably guilty of never having done anything to this car in Terms

10:11

of I had a service. That was a good girl.

10:13

You'll work. Change the oil regularly.

10:16

Yup. Yep. Well, that's all the more reason why you should buy it.

10:19

You wouldn't want someone else to be the beneficiary of your diligence.

10:23

True. And it's only got 14,000 miles on it.

10:25

Yeah. You'll never going to get a two year old temple with 14,000 miles Bad

10:30

either. They drive real nice and people don't laugh at you when you drive that, bro.

10:33

What was your previous car? Nancy and AMC.

10:35

What? In Chicago. And they didn't have one in the city.

10:38

Oh, oh. So this is your first car, Right?

10:40

Oh, well, compared to none, this is a Good

10:42

decision. Great. Yeah.

10:44

By the car Nancy and good luck.

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12:18

Well, you know, it's time for no, I didn't think he did.

12:21

I didn't think there was time. I mean, what's time.

12:23

It's Time for everything.

12:25

And it's and everything in its time is that like Benjamin Franklin said a place for everything and everything in its place.

12:30

A time for everything and everything in its time.

12:34

Right. Tom, my Yahtzee 1991.

12:36

Here it is.

12:37

It's the puzzle or time for the Puzzle.

12:39

Oh, you think? I didn't know.

12:41

He didn't. Of Course. I do remember the puzzle.

12:43

Nevermind. I don't remember what the puzzle was. Well, here it is.

12:46

In a nutshell, this couple we know has a matching pair or a pair of 1985 Nissans matching Nissans, different colors.

12:55

Yeah. But same key. And he always parks his car and leaves it in first gear.

12:59

When he parks. I Remember

13:01

this And she taking our advice will always leave her car in reverse.

13:06

You ready for this?

13:08

He leaves it in first gear. When he parks the car, she leaves it in reverse.

13:12

Right? Okay. Neither of them uses the parking.

13:14

They both do. They Both

13:16

do. I think, I don't remember. No, they don't.

13:19

Yeah. They don't think it's important to the puzzle. No,

13:21

I don't think so. Let's let's let's see how Anyway, they had a date that an after work date, they were going to meet at the three Stooges film festival.

13:31

Remember? Yeah, I remember that. And they show up, Right.

13:33

Because I asked how come they went to the movies in two separate cars.

13:36

They both came from work. You said?

13:37

And they met at the, The film festival.

13:40

Right. And they go, they all show up there, but they both show up late.

13:42

And they at the park illegally. Okay.

13:44

And they come out after the movie and they find out that their cars in fact have been towed away.

13:48

So they both cars while they were both parked illegally.

13:53

No. Right. Okay.

13:54

They go to the tow yard and he gets into his car and he turns the key and it crashed and cranks, but no stack was start.

14:04

She gets in and turns her key.

14:06

And the thing starts right up.

14:09

And who kidding? What happened?

14:12

She went home and left them there Among

14:16

other things.

14:18

I don't know what else, what caused, how come his car wouldn't start and her car could, Yeah,

14:27

they couldn't get into the car. When they went to told them, you see, they were locked.

14:30

They were locked and they, they couldn't break in.

14:33

Hmm. So they picked in the emergency brakes were on.

14:36

They picked each car up from the back end in Good

14:38

tow truck driver, fashion, tow truck driver said, ah, who cares?

14:44

Lift the baby up, drag it home.

14:47

Right. And they told each car away Bolt

14:50

from lifting the rear right Front

14:52

wheels on the ground. Right. And these are both front wheel drive cars.

14:55

So when they told these babies away, the engines were turning because the wheels returning and the things were in gear, except his engine was turning backwards or because he was in prison Moving

15:10

backwards. So the engine is turning back And

15:14

what happened to his, his timing belt jumped off and it bent all his valves and he jumped the car actually Then

15:22

later that night. And of course her car didn't suffer any damage because she was, she was Smart

15:28

in reverse. And then engine was going in reverse and everything was hunky Dory right now.

15:35

Right? The end of this, not the end of the end.

15:37

This was Paul Harvey with the end of the story or more to the story.

15:41

Yeah. He sued the tow company about $1.2 million that, And

15:45

he divorced her because she left them. Right.

15:48

Well with 300 ZX and moved into the west coast, living it up like Wayne Newton, I think anyway, He

15:54

is Wayne Newton. They have a winner. We have a winner.

15:56

The winner is Jean Stevens from Missoula, Montana.

15:59

And Yes,

16:03

Gene is going to get no longer as mangy old t-shirt no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

16:09

I was licensed. Fested fuzzy dice.

16:11

No, no, no, no, no. None of those fall off.

16:14

Save the skis. But No, no, no, no, no, no.

16:16

Jean is going to get an autographed copy of our new, our new book entitled what car talk.

16:25

The book published only recently.

16:27

And it's going to be autographed by Doug Berman.

16:31

Right? Congratulations, gene Stevens of Missoula, Montana.

16:33

You got up. Right.

16:35

And Jean, if you don't like the book, just don't tell anyone because they won't buy one.

16:39

We have a new puzzle coming up.

16:41

So make sure you're hanging around because it might be good.

16:43

You never know. I hope so. What? 803 3 2 9 2 8 7.

16:47

Hello. You're on car talk. Hi, This

16:50

is Rita from Belgium, Wisconsin.

16:51

And I have two questions.

16:53

One is about parking brakes.

16:55

And the other is about if N went and had warm up your car in the winter.

16:59

My but about the parking brakes, my ex-husband to be in.

17:09

Good. Excellent. And to be, does he Know

17:12

this?

17:15

I mean, I've just never heard the term before you call them my ex-husband to be, We

17:22

have a lot more graphic terminology actually. That's usually used, but ex-husband to be husband to be is perfectly okay.

17:32

Rita. I think it's great.

17:33

I'm going to, I'm going to use that.

17:35

My ex-husband to be So

17:37

what does he, what does he contend this? It was this the reason for this?

17:41

Well, it was one of millions.

17:43

Okay. But anyway, my ex-husband could be insist.

17:45

You should use your parking brake on all cars, automatic or standard at all times.

17:51

And no one else of my circle of friends who never liked them anyway, said that you should use it only on inclined to do that.

17:59

So I don't know what to do with my parking brake.

18:02

What do you know what to do with your husband?

18:04

My husband. Cause when I'm calling about, Well

18:06

of course your ex-husband the reason nobody liked them anyway is because he was wrong.

18:12

Oh no, he he's a nerd.

18:16

Yeah. You don't have to use the parking brake all the time.

18:18

Although it's suggested he has every manufacturer suggested.

18:22

And the reason they suggested is this to prevent lawsuits well among other things.

18:26

But if you were to have loose search suits, if, if your car would have surge, for example, if you were, if anything, if you put the thing from parking to drive and it were to surge and you had the emergency brake on, you might avoid an unintended acceleration incident.

18:41

Right? Okay. Because then you could release the handbrake.

18:43

Once you had the thing under control, I E you had your foot on the brake and whatever else you wanted to job.

18:49

I mean the truth, the truth is that if you have a manual transmission vehicle, it was probably right.

18:56

You are better off using the parking brake all the time.

19:00

She's only to get into the habit of doing it.

19:02

The reason for that is that the engine, which is keeping you from moving.

19:08

If you have it in gear, can't always do it.

19:11

If you have a car with a small engine and you park it on a hill and put it in gear, it could roll away.

19:18

If you didn't have the parking brake on and it might not do it immediately, as you stepped out of the car, it might do it five minutes later.

19:24

So when you have manual transmission, yes you should.

19:31

And if you have automatic, you should always use it.

19:33

Well,

19:38

No, no, No, no. We just got up.

19:40

We just got all flash here from the legal department said don't ever recommend that don't use the handbrake because you'll be sued.

19:45

No, no. The truth is I have two automatic transmission vehicles and I don't ever use the parking brake.

19:52

I just slam it into park and I parked Time.

19:55

You might not want to use it is if there were going to be a serious sleet and snow storm and then ice and stuff might get on it.

20:07

And it wouldn't release the next morning.

20:09

And I have a Target's empty five and the break came out out of my hand.

20:14

Yeah. Yeah. And that's why, And

20:16

that's why, well then my second question is about warmup in the winter.

20:20

Do you need to do No,

20:21

not only do you not need to do it, but you shouldn't do it.

20:25

You don't ever want to warm it up.

20:27

If it ever needs to be warmed up, it will tell you this is a self-regulating system.

20:31

What you need to do is you stop the car and you put it in drive and you drive away.

20:35

If you did that too soon, the car will stall.

20:39

In which case you put it back in park and started again and drive away because the car doesn't want to sit with the engine running.

20:47

It wants to be moving. It wants to be used as energy.

20:51

It Doesn't really care truthfully.

20:52

Well, You're wasting energy and you're putting too much junk into the atmosphere.

20:59

Just drive it Away. So did you win on that one too?

21:02

Well, you did the right thing.

21:04

Getting rid of that bump.

21:05

My

21:05

mother

21:05

agrees

21:05

with

21:08

you. Of course she would Tell.

21:11

Not always. How many times did she say I told you.

21:14

So he always said I picked the weird ones, but he was the weirdest.

21:18

Yeah. So you're married them.

21:20

Well, it's all right. You listen to your mother. Next time.

21:22

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22:16

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22:40

Hello, and welcome back to MPS car. Talk with us.

22:42

Clicking, collect the tablet brothers. And we're here to answer your question.

22:44

Thank you. It's a pleasure To be here. I'm glad you had me back.

22:47

Cars, car repair, and what our predictions are for the major league standings this year.

22:53

Yeah. That's what we're going to do. Yeah. What do you pick?

22:55

The green bay Packers for Green.

23:00

Well look. Yeah. What? You know what it's time for?

23:06

I don't even know what time it is then I'm like time for arrest.

23:10

Is it time for Pretty

23:12

soon? Oh, it's time for the new puzzler.

23:13

Oh yeah. And

23:15

this, this one is A good one. Well, we'll let our listeners don't Miss

23:19

it up now Because

23:20

I'm not going to miss up.

23:21

Don't Mess it up.

23:26

Okay. You have, you have your doubts. I trust I will do my best not to mess it up.

23:33

Okay. This is good. This is a very simple One.

23:35

All of us are familiar with the kinds of puzzles where we give a sequence of numbers and then ask you to name the next term.

23:42

What is the next number? For example, one comma three comma, five comma, seven common nine, comma, 23.

23:48

What's

23:48

the

23:48

next

23:48

term,

23:52

right? Well, this is just like that.

23:54

And I'm going to read it just like that.

23:56

All right. I'm going to give you a string of numbers, all separated by commas.

23:59

And I will say where the commas are and I want you to give us what the proverbial No,

24:06

this term, what is the next term?

24:08

And why?

24:09

Y if you get the next term, you probably know why I

24:15

got it. And I didn't know why.

24:17

No, I think we need a why also what's going to be the right rationale.

24:20

I mean, don't forget somebody could just by accident.

24:22

They say, if you put a room full of monkeys and word processes, they're going to come up with all the classics sooner or later.

24:29

So, you know, the same thing applies to us. If you ask a set of questions to the radio, could we come up with a few writings?

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That's exactly right. That's why we've been on so long.

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And it's for example, if you gave everyone the same answer every week, like choke pull off, We'd

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have, we have a better chance of being right.

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If we didn't keep changing our answer every time, Just

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the other day, I, I, my heart sang as I replaced a choke pull off and it, and it brought me great at time.

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Forget about the puzzling.

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And what kind of, of, of general motors, Carol? Wasn't.

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It was a fact that general motors was a Chevrolet Malibu.

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Yeah. Yeah. Old, old, old, old, old, older than you.

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Here's here's the sequence of numbers.

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Next term.

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Pretty good. Huh?

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Pretty well done. I wouldn't have done it exactly that way.

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How would you have done it? Probably towel. I'm afraid that if I, if I tell you how I would have done it a little faster might, might be, it might give, it might give it something away, but let me, Well,

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that's why I did it the way I did it, because I knew that you would have screwed it up.

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Okay. 'cause I, I, I think you might have screwed it up even though I had monist you not Right.

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I'll do it another way. Here's how I would've done.

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I would've, I would've done it like this. I'll do it the way you going to do 1 11 21, Where

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the commerce, Where

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the, where the gaps are in my voice.

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I would've said that's what I would've said, but we'll leave it at that.

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Now everyone knows that you would have done it and how I would have done it.

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And neither one of those things will help you at all. Right?

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But if you think, you know the answer, what if someone Actually

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put it until he or she knew that we may Have to milk?

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We have to use this puzzle for a couple of weeks.

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At least until Marilyn Vos savant comes up with the answer.

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We don't know what the answer is, but we will, we will leave this out For

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as long as it takes among you, As

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long as it takes to get the right answer. Right.

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I don't think Maryland steals them from us until she knows the answer.

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Yeah. Is that right? Well, if you know the answer you can write to us or Marilyn Vos savant at puzzle, a tower car talk Plaza, w B U R 6 3 0.

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It is a dam that we have not received a tremendous amount of good mail for the, for the department of wool and intrigue And

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slash or Injury.

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Well, I thought I'd simplify it and encourage people to write.

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The scale has been very boring lately.

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I mean, I, I once thought that we had listeners who were extremely clever, erudite, funny, even, and most of them didn't realize I

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put a fuel. They were counting on us to provide all those things and we've let them down.

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So, But I mean, I'm counting on them and I won't have any mail to read in a couple of days.

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I mean, you look, you saw already I'm working on 1990s mail.

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1990 was when the time traveler wrote to me.

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We'd love to hear from you if you have a good puzzler.

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If you had any good puzzles, 1-800-332-NINE 2 8 7.

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Or if you want to talk to us.

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Hi, this is Daria calling from Baltimore.

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Yes. Hi. Hi.

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I have an 89 Corolla.

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Toyota Corolla.

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Yeah. It's a strange problem.

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It's when I'm going, it really slow speeds or even stopped at a stoplight or something.

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There's a noise in the front driver's side.

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It kind of sounds like a spring and it kind of goes like Constantly

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as you're driving. No,

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no. And, and that's the weird thing.

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It's sometimes it disappears for weeks at a time.

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And then the noise will come Back

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As you're driving along. Would you hear this thing once are repeatedly?

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No, lots of times. And mostly, mostly I noticed it when I'm standing still, but it's but it, it goes when I'm driving.

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In other words, you, you can be motionless with the engine running.

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Yes. Manual transmission, no automatic manual.

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All right, great. You're the one you're sitting here in neutral and the engine is running and you hit boinga, boinga boinga.

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Well, let me check. Let me check my list of noises.

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I don't have boinga boinga.

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Oh, What? A minute. As soon as we identify what it is, Boinga,

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she that's good.

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I thought that I thought at first that it was in the window, but it sounds like it's coming from the front.

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Okay. This is a very strange symptom.

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Would the con not moving?

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You hear bling?

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A blink of Boingo.

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Is the radio warm when you'll hear this? Oh, no.

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Why isn't it? I mean, if, if the radio, Cause

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I hear it and turn the radio Down. If the radio were on, yes.

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You would still hear it, huh?

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No, it's not that loud. It depends on how loud I have the radio And

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the Faster, if I'm driving really fast, I don't hear it either.

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Cause the, the road noise.

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Right? Okay. Can you hear this noise?

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Ooh. Ooh, Ooh. Ooh.

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Ooh. Well Tommy has something and it isn't a case of acid ingestion.

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This time.

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This is a shot in the doctor area.

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Does anything not work on this car?

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Everything. Yeah. This car has been great, but that noise is just drives me nuts.

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I mean, you don't have any, you haven't had any problems with like the directional signals or the emergency flashers.

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No, isn't that a shame Wake

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up, boiling up Boys. The only thing I can think of that would make a funny noise like that.

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Have you w w have you taken it into anyone?

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Had them listen to this? Because

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I figured They'd really laugh. They think you will bunkie Dario.

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You win the prize of the day, because I don't have any idea what boiling of boiling and boiling it is.

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My husband thought that it could be an air.

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Oh, I forget what he said in an airlock.

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No, that's what you have between your front door and the, and the outside world.

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That's what I am between my ears And

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see if you can get it to make the noise with the engine off.

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If you just move the car around a little bit.

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No, I've tried that.

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I've tickled the door.

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I've tried to see.

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It's definitely not coming from any of the seats or mechanic and like that.

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Yeah, Boy,

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I give up, listen, you win the prize and we will send you a free copy of whatever we happen to have here.

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A save the skeets bumper sticker.

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Cause you have stumped the trumps stop the Well

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we're going to listen for the answer in a future show.

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Right? See you later.

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Bye. Bye.

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Well, another hour of NPRs car talk has miraculously come to an end?

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Yeah. Our producer, when he's here, the estimable Doug Berman, our assistant producer is the inestimable Don Jennings.

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Yeah. That's what it is. Our engineers, our up Jennifer lobe and Ken Rogers.

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Ken is also of course the Dean of the department of auto musicology.

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Yes. We have two engineers. Now. We used to only have one.

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Yes. One for the front of the train and one for the back. Now our technical advisor is John Lawler.

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Our automotive medical researcher is Dr.

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Denton, just plain old John Waller that I'm just reading it as reading it as it's wrote here.

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Our public opinion. Pollster was Paul murky holster holster, right?

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Paul murky, murky research, working on those Sherpas seat covers as we speak the manager of the Tappet brothers capital depreciation fund.

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So I had a choice today of working or walking around I had a choice today of working or walking around and of the day before working or watching around. And and Which has it been? Well, judging from all the peeling on my nose, I wasn't working. I gather not. I because I figured there would be plenty of dismal dark days when I would be able to work. Mercy dismal. Darkly dark dismal. So now Dink. Dink. Dink. dank. You're welcome. Do you have any mail to receive couple of interesting items? We got a letter here from John Henshaw who is You know how I'm I'm I'm way behind in my mail. This is dated date. I'm exactly one year late. A big deal. This guy, Henschavel, from Pennsylvania, is a time traveler. Yes, sir. And he sent us back from the year two thousand and six. July two thousand and six, a newspaper clipping. Look at that. The end of an era. Tappet Brothers retire. Isn't this something? Bostonians today witnessed the end of an era with the dual retirements of Tom and Ray Marlotte better known to dozens of fans across the nation as click and collect the tappy brothers. Two thousand and six million, about fifteen years to go. Mhmm. She's For years, the two brothers dispensed their homespun brand of garage humor and automotive malpractice way across the airways via their contact program through the auspices of radio station WBR and national public radio. The brothers made several forays outside the medium of radio. Hey, sync. This is gonna tell our future. In their storied careers among among the most successful was their Academy Award winning documentary saved the skis. Which chronicle the plight of an endangered species and was filmed entirely in claymation. Brother Tom's coast to coast crusade for a national thirty five mile an hour be limited, at first as the rravings of a lunatic became law late in the twentieth century in this since been hailed as the greatest social reform since Prohibition. My God, I shouldn't give up on this. Along with the good has come to bed. Wow. Of course. The bro the brothers have not entirely escaped controversy. Who could forget their titanic struggle with Ted Turner over colorization of the car talk reruns? I remember that. Yes, I do that with all the famous Tappet brothers capital depreciation fund and the attendant unpleasantness with the sec I do. That was Or the famous Tampa brothers capital depreciation fund and the attendant unpleasantness with the SEC. Oh, yeah. They've already begun the inquiries. The inevitable notoriety brought on by such incidents eventually drove the brothers into seclusion and now finally retirement. Well, it's good to it's always good to know at least that we're gonna live that long. It is. It is good to know. A thousand and six. Boy. Well, John, I can hardly wait. Thanks a lot. Time travel is exciting, man. It is. Not as exciting as what's coming up though. What? A caller. One eight hundred 3329287. Hello. you're on Kantar. Hi. This is Dan from Livent Wyoming. Hey, Dan. I have a problem with my Toyota Turt ourselves. Okay. How old is it? six. It's a nineteen eighty four. Eighty four. We know everything about ourselves. Everything. What's up, Dan? What color is this to yourself? Kind of electric blue. Oh, yeah. No wonder. See, I thought it was red. Alright. Electric blue. What's the problem? We cannot get our windshield clean. Oh, jeez. Another windshield problem. You know, every time we give an answer to a windshield problem, We get a hundred letters telling us that our answer is stupid or wrong or dangerous or possible. He means just about W we got a hundred letters about every answer like got a hundred letters about every answer like that. Wait. Until tell us, what happened? What have you done? What have you tried? Well, the inside of the windshield, the outside washes up as far as we can tell, just fine. Oh oh, good. This is an inside problem. Seems to have some kind of gunk on it. Right. I'll tell you what that gunk is. Yeah. It is gunk. Is that we've tried, like, ammonia cleaner. We've tried, like, soap from the car wash. We've tried just regular soapy water. It has a film on it, has a film on it. Right? Like a like a smoky film? Exactly. You noticed it when you're wearing smoke. You noticed it when you're wearing sunglasses? We noticed it a whole bunch when we drive like, at night with headlights that would drive into the sun. Then you can't see anything. Nothing at all. Right. But it's cleanable. You can, in fact, remove this film. Well, for a short period of time. Yeah. Yeah. And it keeps coming it keeps coming back. But if but you can remove it. Okay. What do you have carpet Wait a minute. What is it that that gets it Wait a minute. He said he can remove it for a short Anything We'll remove remove it. Vinegar is the best. Vinegar. Okay. Smells lousy, but it works well. Do you recommend a little oil and vinegar? No. No. No. No. No. It's the vinegar. Do you recommend a vinaigrette from Davios? Alright. now. So you can get it off, but it keeps coming back. I'm gonna tell you why you have it. I'm gonna I'm gonna recommend the solution. Okay? The 7% seven percent solution. You have a cloth seats, vinyl, you have You have Cloth seats? Final. I do. I do. You have rugs? Do we have what? You have carpeting? No. No. I rest my case. Yeah. What's going on, what's happening to your windshield is that the plastic or the vial sublimating is sublimating. It's going from solid to a gas and it's depositing it at that gas and condensing on your Windows. It's gradually decomposing and it sits there on the inside of the windshield. It's probably on the other windows too, but you don't notice it in probably all over you. But lucky you, Dan, that you live in sheep country. Because what you need is a couple of sheepskin seat covers. Okay. And you need and floor mats. Okay. If you cover up all this vinyl, you'll be surrounded by luxury. You won't get you can't see out the window. No. You you will you will reduce considerably the amount of sublimation that's taking place or whatever the evaporation whatever they wanna call it. the the other thing is I mean, in in Wyoming, it doesn't get very cold. So Oh, no. You can just leave the windows open all the time. If you left the windows open all the time, all of this all of this stuff would just go out instead of staying inside the car. I would recommend in a warmer weather that you do let the windows open. Yeah. Because It's probably not good for your probably not good for your lungs. Okay. Because if you leave the if you leave the car all shut up and and the sun and all this all this stuff comes up into the air and then you open the door and sitting there, That's probably not good for you. Cover everything up. And if all else fails, there's always a hammer. Trade it in. Good luck, luck, Dan. See you later. Bye bye. Bye. What? 803 3 2 9 2 8 eight hundred 3329287. Hello. You're in Kartik. Hi. This is Nancy Weber from Montgomery, Iowa. What's up, Nancy? Well, I got a nineteen eighty nine Ford Temple that I'm thinking about buying out of my lease in May first, but brakes are really squeaking. And it doesn't do it all the time, but when it does it, it's real loud and I'm worried about the safety number one because if I think though the brakes I mean, squeaks when I stop. It squeaks when you stop on the brakes. Yeah. I mean, it it's real. Is it a squeak or a squeal? It's a a wine and everybody looks at -- A wine. -- stop light. Wait a minute now. So as you as you as you As you complete your stop, the last few feet of the stop, you get this, as you complete your stop, the last few feet of the stop, you get this. That's it. I was about to do was about to do it. Now if you didn't, trade the car, you know? You didn't turn it in. Right. You, of course, wouldn't do the brakes. Do you think it's dangerous? It's probably not dangerous, but I mean, it's gonna be looked at. It's probably something simple. Yeah. You need new brakes. That's it. You must have, like, thirty thousand miles or so in this thing. Right? No, sir. It's only got fourteen. Fourteen. And you must do a lot of city driving. Right. Well, town driving. They don't have cities. You don't have Right. Well, as close as you can get to what city, town driving. Yeah. So that's what what did it. You need break pads. That's Maybe it may it may be that you need nothing. I have a novel idea, however. Okay. You could take it into a shop and have them look at it. I already did. I I was I'm gonna you did. And what did they And what did they say? Oh, nothing's wrong. Get all the did they say it like that, Nancy? Yeah. They did. Oh. Well, then then they then they sort of pat you on the top of their head too. Oh, Nancy. Nothing's wrong. Go back in the and drive out. Maybe there is nothing wrong, and maybe the squeaking is just a product of the way you drive it. Yeah. It could well be. When you do a lot of stop and go driving, you tend to get like a glaze on the pads. Okay. And that might lead to squeaking, but it's nothing to be worried about. If they say they're alright, they're alright, But here's what I would suggest -- Uh-huh. -- I would take this car into a real mechanic -- Okay. -- and have them check it all out because you're in essence buying a used car. So tell them you want them to check every single thing and tell you everything that could possibly go wrong with this car in the next year. Right. Now I'm going to guess that like other people that leased cars, you were probably guilty of never having done anything to this car in gonna guess that like other people that lease cars you were probably guilty of never having done anything to this car. Terms of I had a I had it serviced. I was a good girl. You were? Yeah. You still changed the oil regularly? Yep. Yeah. Well, that's all more reason why you should buy it. You wouldn't want someone else to be the beneficiary of your of your -- Yeah. -- diligence. That's true. And it's only got fourteen thousand miles on it. Yeah. You're never gonna get a two year old temple with fourteen thousand miles. They're not bad either. They drive real nice and people don't laugh at you when you drive that road. What was your previous car, Nancy? An AMC, what? In Chicago and they didn't have one in the city. Oh. Oh, so this is your first car. Right. Oh, well, compared to none. This is a good There's got a great year. Bye the car, Nancy, and good luck. Thanks. Bye bye. Guess what? The puzzle answer and more calls are coming up right after this. Support for NPR and the following message come from better help, offering online counseling, better help therapists Tessu Sue. Joe knows that lockdown has been hard on Joe knows that lockdown has been hard on us. As humans, As people are hardwired to connect with others, which is why this whole time is so us as humans. We as people are hardwired to connect with others, which is why this whole time is so difficult. 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Tomayazzi, nineteen ninety one. It's deep. Here it is. Yeah. It's the puzzler. Time for the pussler. Oh, you think I didn't know. He didn't. Of course. I just No. It's the puzzler. Not I don't remember what the possible one. Wire it is Oinga nutshell. This couple, we know, has a matching pair of pair of nineteen eighty five Nissan's matching Nissan's different colors. Yeah. But same key. And he always parks his car and leaves it in first gear when he parks I remember this. And she taking our advice will always leave her car in reverse. Got it. But he leaves it in first gear when he parks the car. She leaves it in reverse. Right. Okay. And neither of them uses the parking. They both do. They both do. I think. I don't remember. No. They don't. Yeah. They don't think it's important to the think it's important to the puzzle. No. I don't think so. Let's let's let's let's see how Let's show cars up. Anyway, they had AAA date and after work date, they're gonna meet at the three studios film festival. Remember? Yeah. I remember that. And and they show up late. Right. Because I asked how come they went to the movies in two separate cars. They both came from work, you said, and they met at the at The film film festival. Right. And they both they both show up there, but they both show up late night at the park illegally. K? Mhmm. And they come out after the movie and they find out that their cars, in fact, have been towed away. So they both cars well, they were both parked illegally. Right? Okay. They go to the tow yard Mhmm. -- and he gets into his car and turns the key and Cranks and cranks, but No stack. No stack. She gets in and turns her key and the thing starts right up. And who kidding? What happened? She went home and left them there. I'm Oinga thing. Oh, I don't know. Well, so What what what mean Like, caused how come his car wouldn't start and her car could Would? Didn't. Yeah. Yeah, they couldn't get into the couldn't get into either car when they went to tow them. You see? Oh, they were locked. They were locked. And they they couldn't break in. Hmm. So they picked in the emergency brakes were So they picked in the emergency breaks on. They picked each car up from the back end in They picked each car up from the back end. In in Good tow truck driver, fashion, tow truck driver said, ah, who toach truck driver. It's fashion. Toach truck driver said, ah, who cares? Lift the baby up, drag it home. Right. And they towed each car away. Both from lifting the rear. Right. Front wheels on the ground. Right. Those are both front wheel drive cars. So when they told these babies away. The engines were turning because the wheels were turning and the things were in gear. Except his engine was turning back cords. Oh, you know, because he was in his rearview mirror. First gear was moving backwards. So the engine is turning backwards. And what happened to his, his timing belt jumped off. And it bent all his valves and he jumped a car, actually. Well, later that nineties to And, of course, her car didn't suffer any damage because she was -- She was. -- smart. In reverse, and then engine was going in reverse, and everything was hunky dory. Right. And Right. The end of the it's not the end of the end. This is Paul Harvey with the end of or as more to the story? Yeah. He sued the tow company about one point two million dollars, actually. And he divorced her because she left them. Right. And after he bought us up with three hundred ex' x, and he moved to the west coast, and he's living it up like Wayne Newton, I think. Anyway, he is Wayne Newton. They have a winner. We have a winner. The winner is Gene Stevens from Missoula, Montana. And Yes. Jean is going to get no longer as mangy old t shirt. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Those licensed fested, fuzzy dice. No, no, no, no, no. None of those fall of those fall off. Save the skis. Oh, no. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Gene is going to get an autographed copy of our new our new book entitled What Car Talk The Book published only recently, and it's gonna be autographed by Doug Berman. Alright. Congratulations. Gene Stevens of Mizuho, Montana, You gotta buy it. And Jean, if you don't like the book, just don't tell anyone because they won't buy one. We have a new puzzle coming up, so make sure you hang around because It might be good. You never know. I hope so. What? 803 3 2 9 2 8 eight hundred 3329287? Hello. You're on car talk? Hi. Hi. This is Rita from Belgium, Wisconsin. And I have two questions. One is about parking breaks and the other is about if and when and had warm up your car in the winter. My but about the parking breaks, my ex husband is to be in sick. There is a good ex husband to be. He's, you know, this. It just goes to him or what? Is this gonna be No. No. This is serious. That left. I mean, I've just never heard the term before you call them my ex-husband to be, I mean, I've just never heard the term before. What the heck do you call them? My ex husband to be. Well, I could think of a lot more graphic terminology, actually. It's usually used, but Ex' husband to be. Husband to be is perfectly that. Okay. I think it's great. Rita, I think it's great. I'm gonna I'm gonna use that, my ex husband to be. So he what does he what does he contend? Is it was this the reason for this Oh, god. It Well, it was one of with one of millions. One of millions. Yeah. Anyway, my ex husband to be. And fifth, you should use your parking brake on all cars automatic or standard at all times. And no one else of my circle of friends who never liked them anyway said that you should use it only on incline should do this. So I don't know what to do with my parking brake. But you know what to do with your husband? I don't know what to do with my husband. The parking brake is what I'm calling about. Well, of course, your ex husband be the reason nobody liked them anyway is because he was wrong. Uh-huh. No. He he's nerd. You know them. Yeah. You don't don't have to use the parking brake all the time, although it's suggested. Here's every manufacturer suggested, and the reason they suggested is this. It's to prevent lawsuit. Well, among other things, but if if you order a blue surgical suit. If if your car would a surgical suit, for example. If you order if anything suits If you put the thing from park into drive and it were to surge and you had the emergency brake on, you might avoid an unintended acceleration incident. Right. Okay? Because then you could release the handbrake once you had the thing under control, I. E. You had your foot on the brake and whatever else you wanted to do. I mean the truth, the truth is that if you have a manual transmission vehicle, it was probably the truth the truth is that if you have a manual transmission vehicle -- Yes. -- he was probably right. You are better off using the parking brake all the time. She's only to get into the habit of doing it. Oh. Reason for that is that the engine, which is keeping you from moving if you have it in gear, can't always do it. If you have a car with a small engine, and you pocket on a hill and put it in gear, it could roll away. If you didn't have the parking brake on and it might not do it immediately, as you stepped out of the car, it might do it five minutes you didn't have the parking brake on. And it might not do it immediately as you stepped out of the car, it might do it five minutes later. Mhmm. So when you have manual transmission, yes, you should always use it. And if you have automatic You should always use it. Alright. Why hear you now? No. No. Wait a minute. No. No. Alright. We just gotta we got a flash here from the legal department said don't ever recommend they don't use the handbrake because you'll be sued. No. No. The truth is I have two automatic transmission vehicles. And I don't ever use the parking brake. I just slam it into park and I park. The only time you might not want to use it is if there were going to be a serious sleep and snowstorm. Okay. And then ice and stuff might get on it and it wouldn't release the next morning. That's what happened. I have a Taurus MT5 and the brake came out out in my hand. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's why. And that's why. Well then my second question is about warm up in the winter. Do you need to do it? No. Not only do you not need to do it, but you shouldn't do it. You don't ever want to warm it up. If it ever needs to be warmed up, it will tell you. This is a self regulating system. What you need to do is you stop the car and you put it in drive and you drive away. If you did that too soon, the car will stall. In which case, you put it back in park and start it again. And drive away because the car doesn't wanna sit there with the engine running. It wants to be moving. It wants to be useful. Well, it doesn't really care truthfully. Well, you're wasting energy and you are putting too much junk into the atmosphere. Just drive it away. Mhmm. So did you win on that one too? I did. Well, if you did the right thing getting rid of that bump. I thank you. My mother agrees with you. Of course, she would. Well, not always. How many times did she say I told you so? Well, he always said I picked weird ones, but he was the weirdest. Yeah. So you married them. Yeah. Yeah. I know what the hell? Well, it's alright. We'll listen to him by the next time. See you read it. Thank you. Thank you, Rita. Bye bye. More calls new puzzler are coming up right after these messages. 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On season two of the formula, some of hip hop's most respected rapper producer duos. Break down the method to their magic. They beat talk to me. They moves me as soon as I hear it. They they want me to make a Robbie. They want Freddie to go sir. We can do that on our day off. Watch new episodes at MPR dot org slash the formula. Hello, and welcome back to MPS car talk with us clicking back to TAVR Brothers. We had to answer your question. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. I'm glad you had me back. The cars, car repair, and the well, our predictions are for the major league standings this this year. That's what we're gonna do. Yeah. What do you pick the Green Bay packers for? Green. Well, look. Yeah. What? You know what it's time for? You keep asking. I don't even know what time it is. They look like time four. Is it for rest? Is it time for our break? Pretty soon. Oh. It's time for the puzzler. Oh, yeah. And this this one is a good one. Well, I will let our listeners. Don't mess it up now because Okay. Miss I. Don't mess it up. I won't. No. Okay. You have you have your downside trust. I do my best. Not to mess it up. Okay. This is good. This is a very simple one. All of us are familiar with the with the kinds of puzzle where we give a a sequence of numbers and then ask your name, the next term? What is the next number? For example, one, comma three, comma five, comma seven, comma nine, comma twenty three. What's the next turn? Right. Well, this is just like that. Now I'm gonna read it just like that. Alright. I'm gonna give you a string of numbers, all separated by commas, and I will say where the commas are. And I want you to give us what? The verb is tell us term. What is the next term and why? Why? Because if you get the next term, you probably know why. But I got it, and I didn't know why. No. I think we need a why also. What's gonna be the right rationale? I mean, don't forget somebody could just by accident. They say if you put a room full of monkeys and word processes, they're gonna come up with all the Clack's. Sooner or later. So So, you know, the same thing applies to the same thing applies to us. If you ask yourself questions sooner or later, could we come up with a few right answers? That's exactly right. That's why we've been on so long. And it's for example, if you gave everyone the same answer, everyone would, like, choke pull off. I mean, five or eight hundreds. We have we have a better chance of being right if we didn't keep changing our answer ever. Just the other day, I I my my heart sang as I replaced the chunk pull off, and it and it brought me great. I don't forget about the You were in place. And and what kind of a of a General Motors car wasn't? It wasn't fact that General Motors was a Chevrolet Malibu. Yeah. Yeah. How old old old old older than you? Here's here's the sequence of numbers. One comma. Eleven comma. Twenty one comma. One thousand two hundred and eleven comma. One hundred and eleven thousand two hundred and twenty one comma. Space. Next term. Pretty good. Pretty well done. I wouldn't have done it exactly that way. How would you have done it? Pratell? Well, I'm afraid that if I if I tell you how I would have done it. Little faster, man. It might it might give it might give it might give it something away. But let well, that's why I did it the way I did it because I knew that you would have screwed it up. Well, because III think you might have screwed it up. Even though I had managed you, Not so. Alright. I'll do it another way. Here's how I would have done. I would have done it like this. I'll do it the way would do one. Eleven, twenty one Where the commerce, the commas, where the gaps are in my voice. One, eleven, twenty 11211111221I would have said. That's what I would have said. But we'll leave it Well, at that, now everyone knows that how you would have done it and how I would have done it. 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Card talk Plaza, WBUR630 commonwealth Ave, Boston, our office in Massachusetts 02215. We'd love to hear from you. We're ready. You have a good puzzler. Yeah. We'd love we'd love to hear from you if you had any good questions. One eight hundred 3329287 thousand number if you wanna talk to us. Hi. This is Darius calling from Baltimore. Darius? Yes. Hi. Hi. I have a eighty nine Corolla Toyota Corolla. Yeah. It's a strange problem. It's when I'm going, it really slows speeds or even stops at a stoplight or something, there's a noise in the front driver's side. It it Oinga sounds like a spring and it 'Oinga goes like constantly as you're driving? No. No. And and that's the weird thing. It's sometimes it disappears for weeks at a time. And then the noise will come back. Boinga Boingo Boingo. But As you're driving are driving along, would you hear this thing once or repeatedly? No. Lots of times. And mostly, mostly I noticed it when I'm standing still, but it goes when I'm driving to. In other words, you can be motionless with the engine running -- Yes. manual transmission? No. Automatic. Oh, no. Manual. Alright. Be the one. Yeah. You're sitting here in neutral. And the engine is running and you hit Boinga boinga. Well, let me check let me check my list noise is here. I don't have boing a boing a boing a you're boing to What? A minute. As soon as we identify what it is. Boing a boing a boing a See, that's boing I thought that I thought at first that it was in the window, but it sounds like it's coming from the thought that I thought at first that it was in the window, but it sounds like it's coming from the front. Boy, Okay. This is a very strange this is a very strange symptom. With the with the car lot moving, you hear Boinga, boing, a boing, a Boinga, is the radio warm when you hear this? No. No. Why isn't it? I mean, if if the radio Well, because I hear it and turn the radio down. If the radio were on -- Yes. -- you would still hear it. No. It's not that loud. It depends on how loud I have the radio. So it's a very slight bogeyman. Faster, if I'm driving really fast, I don't hear it If I'm driving really fast, I don't hear it either because the road noise. Road noise. Yeah. Okay. Can you hear this noise? Ooh. Ooh, Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Well Tommy has something and it isn't a case of acid Tommy has something and it isn't a case of acid injection this time. This is a shot in the dark area. Does anything not work on this car? No. Everything works. Yeah. This car has been great, but that noise is just drives me nuts. I mean, you don't have any, you haven't had any problems with like the directional signals or the emergency You don't have any you haven't had any problems with, like, the directional signals -- No. -- or the emergency flashers? No. Isn't that a shame? Oh, great. Wake up, boiling up Blink Blink up. Blink up. The only thing I can think of that would make a funny noise like that. Mhmm. Have you wait. Have you taken it into anyone that had them? Listen to this Boinga boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing bo figured they'd really laugh. They think you were bonkers. Boinga. Bongo. Bongo. See, Terry, you win the prize of the day. Because I don't have any idea what Boinga boing boing a boing a is. Really? My husband thought that it could be a an air Oh, I forget what he said. An an airlock? Airlock. No. That's what you have between your front door and the and the outside world. Are your ears? That's what I have a bit where my ears. And see if you can get it to make the noise with the engine off if you just move the car around a little bit. No. I've tried that. We have. Yeah. I've peeked the door. I tried the seat. It's definitely not coming from any of the seats or mechanic, anything like that. Yeah. Boy, I give up. Listen, you win the prize and we will send you a free copy of whatever we happen to have here. A saved the skis bump a sticker because you have stump the chumps. Stump the chumps. I I don't know. We'll work in Adaria. Listen for the answer in a future show. Right? See you. See you later. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye bye. Boingo. Boingo. Well, another hour of NPR's car talk has miraculously come to an end. Yeah. Our producer, when he's here, is the estimable Doug Berman, our system producer. He's the inestimable Don Jennings. Yeah. That that's what is. Our engineers are up, Jennifer Globe and Ken Rogers. Ken is also, of course, the dean of the and develop musicology. You know, so we have two engineers. Now. We used to only have We used to only have one. Yes. One for the front of the train and one for the background. Our technical adviser is John Lawler. Our automotive medical researcher is doctor Denton. Just plain old John Waller. Denton. I just read it as read it as it's Rohit here. 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