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Episode #1214
title: “The Flower and Blue Cheese Belvedere”
airdate: 2012-04-07
The Cautionary Tales Department
“Always wear clean underwear”
time: 2:02
Jeannie from Montgomery, Alabama
Brake pedal going closer to the floor
Advice to use emergency brakes every day
Colt Vista
time: 7:25
Jonathan from Greensboro, NC
Car pulls to the left because of speed bumps
“Loyalty has no place in science”
time: 12:10
Tina from Portland, OR / Las Vegas
“Something has changed on my car since driving 1,500 miles”
1990 Honda Civic SI (“So it’s old, but really fast”)
Brake pedal sinks like a sponge
Failing master cyclinder
Works for Cirque du Soleil
time: 15:47
Break
Music
Ad
time: 17:35
Answer to last week’s #puzzler (#1213)
Nancy Moore from Milo Maine
time: 21:12
Amy from Naperville, IL
Husband bought $500 1985 Nissan Maxima
DIY replacing rack and pinion
time: 25:34
Kevin from Meriden, NH
Quarter stuck in buckle
time: 30:14
Anna from Portland, ME / Rockland
Calling from a boat
Makes a whirring after it rains
Cooing/spaceship noise
time: 34:32
Break
Music
time: 35:23
New #puzzler
Heart carved into tree
time: 39:40
Josefa from Anchorage, AK
Everyone in Anchorage is wacko
#car[1982,Subaru sedan, 2-door, GLF
Sound like flushing a toilet
Hole in #4 cylinder
Alaska
time: 45:00
Chris from Dallas
Birdseed thrown in car from wedding, now a little garden is growing
Chunks of roots would fly out through air vents
Kid put blue cheese in car too
time: 50:53
Close credits
Episode #1214 @ time: 52:46
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