Now it isn’t. I thought I had this Saturday morning autotainment show on the schedule but apparently I screwed up. I’ve corrected that. Its not as if this show isn’t available on more than a few stations.
Tom and Ray Magliozzi’s Car Talk has been informing and entertaining on NPR since 1987 but began ten years before that at Boston University’s WBUR. Now on over 588 stations, the brothers have also put out a Car Talk book and newspaper column which appears in over 200 newspapers. The column, Click and Clack Talk Cars is named after their radio alter-egos, Click and Clack, The Tappet Bros. The show has also been inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.
Between them, according to Wikipedia, the brothers have degrees in general science, chemical engineering, and an MBA and Ph.D in management, and were commencement speakers at MIT. The program was honored with a Peabody award in 1992, sharing award time that year with Daniel Schorr, Jerry Seinfield and Bill Cosby. They’ve appeared on The Tonight Show, Letterman, CBS Evening News, The Today Show and 60 Minutes. They say they’re still waiting for the big time, with an invite from Regis and Kelly. So apparently the two have some sort of credentials, Tom and Ray I’m talking about, not Regis and Kelly.
So if your vehicle has some kind of weird smell or mysterious whirring sound coming from the cragameter or whatever when you make right turns, who you gonna call? No, not Regis. Click and Clack, Tom and Ray are the ones to call when they’re on the air and not in the Harvard Square office of Dewey, Cheatem and Howe. Because evidently these guys also know something about cars and such and freely “espouse all kinds of solutions – a small fraction of which may actually be correct.” In truth, they pretty quickly divine likely solutions, (as if I would know), attributed by one of them on this weeks show to his disengagement from the thought process.
The show is now on my weekend grid for the Saturday broadcast at 10am est. The current show is also archived by segment and available for listening all week from the website at cartalk.com. And if your car question can’t wait til next Saturday, then try their active bulletin board discussions.
