I guess the question I was trying to ask is this: When my answering machine was dropping these four computer generated calls, could it have been a Car Talk computer in fact that was trying to arrange a time for a member of the staff to talk to me on the phone?
In other words. Once the Car Talk staff listens to the message you leave them, and decides you might make a good caller, what do they do next? Do they have their computer phone you up and schedule a time for a real person-to-person conversation? Or does an actual person phone you up?
It seems like the callers on the show – unlike callers on most radio talk shows – are almost universally very comfortable talking on the phone about their car problem, and are usually very friendly and witty, and they almost never ask rude questions, make accusations, etc. I mean by this the callers seems to be well screened and at least a little rehersed before they actually talk to the show’s hosts Tom and Ray.