Current Events > Car Talk on NPR was hilarious

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It was the perfect mix of hosts that mastered the art of self-deprecating humor and ADHD

Yep, I remember my parents listening to it in the car.

Astronaut and engineer John Grunsfeld called into the show during Space Shuttle mission STS-81 in January 1997, in which Atlantis docked to the Mir space station. In this call he complained about the performance of his serial-numbered, Rockwell-manufactured "government van". To wit, it would run very loud and rough for about two minutes, quieter and smoother for another six and a half, and then the engine would stop with a jolt. He went on to state that the brakes of the vehicle, when applied, would glow red-hot, and that the vehicle's odometer displayed "about 60 million miles". This created some consternation for the hosts, until they noticed the audio of Grunsfeld's voice, being relayed from Mir via TDRS satellite, sounded similar to that of Tom Hanks in the then-recent film Apollo 13, after which they realized the call was from space and the government van in question was, in fact, the Space Shuttle.
In addition to the on-orbit call, the Brothers once received a call asking advice on winterizing an electric car. When they asked what kind of car, the caller stated it was a "kit car", a $400 million "kit car". It was a joke call from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory concerning the preparation of the Mars Opportunity rover for the oncoming Martian winter, during which temperatures drop to several hundred degrees below freezing.[20][21] Click and Clack have also been featured in editorial cartoons, including one where a befuddled NASA engineer called them to ask how to fix the Space Shuttle.

So good

I'd never forget the episode of the guy who had a spoon in his AC or something like that haha.

Was a great show. Loved the humor.

It was a great show. It'd be great if there was an archive to listen to the old shows.

Bishop_Hastur posted...

It was a great show. It'd be great if there was an archive to listen to the old shows.

There's a 'best of' podcast of old shows, you can get a lot of old one's from NPR's website. Podcast/streaming services usually only have 4 shows at a time.