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#1220: The Black Hole of Auto Metaphysics

Original Air Date: 05.19.2012
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This week's Car Talk kicks off with one listener's brilliant (and only sorta wacko) theory: a non-essential repair on an old car creates a parallel universe in which everything else starts to break.
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