Ouch.
It's Frick! Some of you might think: Frick? Hey, where's Frack? Ha ha. But there was a Frick and Frack. That's who the "Car Talk" guys are referencing. They came to the US from Switzerland in 1937, to appear in the very first Ice Follies. Frick - real name "Frach" - was known for a tendon-tasking move he called the "cantilever spread-eagle," and I'm guessing that's what you're seeing above.
Frack had retired many years before, and was married to an ice skater from Minneapolis. Frick died in 2008 - complications from a broken leg.
Bonus fact: he started every day with a shot of bourbon poured over a grapefruit. And lived to be 93.
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