RAY: OK. It is time, once again.

TOM: Oh.

RAY: To provide America with the answer.

TOM: The answer.

RAY: To last week's puzzler.

TOM: To last week's puzzler.

RAY: Which was historic, folk loric, not very challenging because you've got the answer and not terribly interesting.

TOM: I got the answer?

RAY: Hey, two out of four ain't bad. Right?

TOM: I don't even know the question.

RAY: Didn't need it.

TOM: I didn't need the question and I got the answer anyway.

RAY: Well, at the time you needed the question.

TOM: Ah. I remember.

RAY: Sometime ago I used the puzzler regarding the man who was responsible for introducing to America the car radio.

TOM: That's right.

RAY: His name was Lear.

TOM: Yeah.

RAY: Norman Lear. He later went on to write the famous show, All in the Family, with Archie Bunker?

TOM: That guy.

RAY: Bill Lear was his name.

TOM: Yeah.

RAY: From Lear Jet fame.

TOM: Yeah. Sure.

RAY: And the radio was called the Moto-rolla. Motor. Olla.

TOM: Oh. Great name.

RAY: Victrola. Motor-ola.

TOM: Great name. Great name. Yeah.

RAY: Bill Lear as it turned out invented many things, but he also invented another car related device that was popular in the 70's. In fact, the car I owned had one and it was something you would find in the dash board, of cars, of that ilk, but you'd hardly ever find one on a car anymore.

TOM: Yeah.

RAY: Unless it was from that era I suppose.

TOM: Um.

RAY: The question, very simply was what was it? You immediately --

TOM: Jumped right in.

RAY: Jumped right in and figured out the answer. And what was it, man?

TOM: I can't remember. It was an eight-track player.

RAY: There you go. An eight-track tape player. For those of you who don't know, we have a lot of young listeners and a lot of real old listeners.

TOM: I mean it's easy to have never seen an eight-track player.

RAY: Yeah. An eight track was one continuous loop of tapes. It would just keep playing over and over and over again.

TOM: Yeah.

RAY: And there were eight tracks on it so you could switch from. It was brilliant.

TOM: I don't understand what happened to that. That was a great technology.

RAY: Well, there was something wrong. They jammed up all the time. I threw away more tapes.

TOM: You never knew what was on any of those tracks. You never knew what was actually happening when you pressed the button.

RAY: Oh no.

TOM: Cause if you trying to find something you had just listened to, it would take you a week.

RAY: Oh yeah. Ah, geez.

TOM: Yeah. Actually, I want to say that I willed all my eight tracks to John Sebastian Lawler.

RAY: Who now has them all.

TOM: He has them all. Cause he is the only one around --

RAY: He has all those Paul Mariott tapes.

TOM: Maria Muldaur was big in those days. OK.

RAY: Do we have a winner? Come on, man.

TOM: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

RAY: Come on. Between the poll thing and this, we're not going to take any calls today. The show's already half over.

TOM: The winner this week is Ed Mazurek. Mazawreck.

RAY: Miz-zurich.

TOM: Miz-zurich. M-A-Z-U-R-E-C-K. From Mebane. M-E-B --

RAY: Mebannie.

TOM: M-E-B-A-N-E. Me-bane or Meb-anny. I'm a bane.

RAY: Meb-bane.

TOM: Meb-bannie. North Carolina. Isn't that the State that Jesse Helms... And Ed, for having the correct answer, chosen at random from those thousand of correct answers --

RAY: And there were.

TOM: Our pal Ed is going to win one of Car Talk sistine wrench T-shirts. This is just like the one that Michelangelo painted except there is a strategically placed adjustable wrench and God is handing it to my brother, saying go forward my son.

RAY: And fix those Chevies.

TOM: Make those boat payments. Well, congratulations, Ed.

RAY: We'll have a puzzler coming up in the second half of today's show. Notice I didn't say, "New." It may be a used one, but you'll see why.

TOM: Yeah.