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Well, you've done it again. You've wasted 25 perfectly good years listening to Car Talk.
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But unfortunately, Tom and Ray will be signing off for the last time sometime this fall.
Yup, they're finally retiring. However, archives of the show will still be played on NPR on a weekly basis, so you can still hear them talk about cars, car repair, but probably not the answer to last week's puzzler.
Let's hear it for Car Talk.
Yup, they're finally retiring. However, archives of the show will still be played on NPR on a weekly basis, so you can still hear them talk about cars, car repair, but probably not the answer to last week's puzzler.
June 8, 2012; Our Fair City – Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers, the comedian mechanics who host NPR's Car Talk, will tell their listeners this afternoon that as of this fall, they'll no longer record new programs. But their weekly call-in series will continue to be distributed by NPR drawing on material from their 25 years of show archives.
"My brother has always been 'work-averse,' " says Ray, 63. "Now, apparently, even the one hour a week is killing him!"
"It's brutal!" adds Tom, 74.
The brothers have been taping Car Talk at WBUR in Boston for 35 years, and the show has been a staple on NPR Member stations for the last 25 years. With older brother Tom turning 75 this year, the guys decided it was time to "stop and smell the cappuccino."
NPR will continue to distribute the weekly show ... to stations across the country. Beginning in October, the Car Talk production team will actively produce new shows built from the best of its 25 years of material – more than 1,200 shows – with some updates from the brothers. The guys will also still write their twice weekly Dear Tom and Ray column, and put their feet in their mouths in surprising new ways on the web and Facebook. ...
The brothers will mark their 25th anniversary on NPR this fall, and then put the series in the hands of their producers, who will continue to produce the show.
Let's hear it for Car Talk.
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Seriously though these guys have definitely earned their retirement. They had a fantastic idea for a radio show and I hope someone else runs with it later on, though it won't be the same without these two making wisecracks.
"yeah and maybe we can get them to make ridiculous noises!"
and thus the greatest show was born
My dad and I listened to Car Talk nearly every week when I was younger. Still love it.
Some notable cartalk staff:
British Hospitality Advisor Tina Crumpet
Customer Service Specialist Begonia Payne-Diaz
Director of Cosmetic Surgery Zbigniew Kuptz
Plumber's Crack Apologist Lucy Lastic
Obsessive Yard Care Specialist Moses Lonergan
Ornithology Intern Luke A. Boyd
Sculling Coach Rose Dior
Work and Leisure Time Coach Kay Keneetit
I probably should have!
Holy jeezums do they work with a lot of people
Always gives me a chuckle. Also the little rhyme they usually give to Dougie Berman at the end of the show, like "Sandwitch Eating, No Defeating, Pants with Pleating"
and so I am I.
I think I would probably have enjoyed their show.
Who is married to Royal Payne-Diaz, the father of Sasha Payne-Diaz.
Tune in while it's still there! It's on your local NPR station, I don't know the time though. Here it's at 10 AM west coast. It is totally worth at least an hour listen.
Basically people call in with car problems, they make fun of that person, and then they give them pretty good car advice. One of the guys actually has his PhD from MIT, but they both sound like the best grandpa ever. The entire time they just laugh at each other and other people.
these guys are incredible, and are both actually quite brilliant
also absolutely do not look like what you would think
Plus I actually learn shit about how cars work from time to time.
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=9911203
haha wow
they totally do not, man.
They totally look what I thought they would! I might be racist but they look really similar to what I imagine italian Americans to look like
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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and the did some jokes or something, and I roughly remember this one:
We all know about Ghandi, an incredible man with an incredible life. He walked barefoot everywhere, building up huge callouses on his feet. He lead an ascetic life style that didn't lend itself to the most healthy of diets, so he had a sort of weak constitution from the incomplete nutritional intake. This lead also to another aspect of his life you don't hear much about, because he never brushed his teeth he had incredibly bad breath, you could barely stand to be in the same room as him.
So if you were to describe Ghandi in one sentence, you could say he was a
It tickled me at the time and I wish I remembered it better, but I got the punchline right.