Car Talk

I've had two boyfriends in my life who are car obsessed- my current BF is and my very first boyfriend from high school was too. Both of them have had an impact on me to the point where I can carry on a pretty lengthy conversation about Car and Driver's rating of mid-size luxury sedans, the next car I am going to buy and why, and my dream car. I don't even mind doing it. I don't claim to know anything about horsepower or torque or pistons, but I like walking around dealerships to look at cars I'll never buy, and I can identify just about any car from a mile away within two seconds of spotting it. I still talk to that high school boyfriend, and he still sends me pictures of himself in his friend's Porsche Carerra GT (see left). With my current BF, if he's being quiet, all I have to do is say, "So what is your next car going to be" and he is off and running for a good 45 minutes.

But that's not why I listen to Car Talk. I am an NPR junkie, so I'll listen to any old thing that comes across its airwaves, and that's how I found Car Talk, which is on Chicago Public Radio at 9:00 a.m. on Saturdays. It's hilarious. Even if you would rather eat poo that talk about cars, I'd highly recommend tuning in. Yes, they take calls from people having problems with their cars. But it's surprisingly entertaining to hear a woman explain the noise her 1996 Chevy Cavalier makes when she's in idle, a guy explain how a banana ended up in the tailpipe, calling an odor coming from a the vents a "car fart", and the two brothers goofing on the callers and each other for an hour.