Once in a while, we'd come up with a brilliant answer to an automotive query. Once in a while! But in any case, it was always entertaining, at least for my brother, because no matter what the answer was, he laughed. What worked great is when we didn't have a ready answer for the car problem, we could always go into this area of your personal life and discuss that.
It was a way of getting people to talk about what else is going on in their lives. In Italian, they would call me a "ficcanaso," which means you're sticking your nose in! So, yeah, I am sticking my nose into other people's business. That's what we did on Car Talk for, you know, years, and it seemed to work! On what surprised him the most about the Car Talk experience:. What took them so long to get rid of us?
What the heck were they thinking? To this day, it still baffles me. What's incredible is that I would run into people who were 80 years old, and they would say, 'Oh, I've been listening to your show for 30 years.
And his laugh was contagious. On his tips for moving through the world with friendly exuberance:. I just have always felt that my mission in life is to make other people happy. And you have a choice. You can make other people miserable, or you make other people happy.
And if you have a chance to make other people happy, that's a lot more fun. It really is. And if you can make other people's lives a little better, why not give it a try? I got a fortune cookie with a little aphorism, and it said, 'Things work out best for those of us who make the best of the way things work out. Things go wrong all the time in life. And you've got to turn around and make the most of it.
And you only got one shot at this, I think. I don't know, but I think you got one shot at it. And there's no sense in being unhappy and miserable if you don't have to be. Put yourself in a situation where you can have fun and love the people that you're with! On his sage advice, now that the broadcast version of The Best Of Car Talk is riding off into the sunset :. Don't take anything too seriously. Laugh when you can, have a good time and enjoy the people around you because you know, it's a short trip.
And here's the message: thanks for listening! You know, whoever thought that the show would have lasted as long as it did, with two buffoons making fun of one another, laughing at each other's jokes, or worse, laughing at their own jokes! I mean, no one laughed at his own joke better than Tommy.
He'd say something stupid and laugh like hell. The brothers officially retired from the show in , but reruns and additional unused content continued to run for years to come. Tom Magliozzi died in following complications from Alzheimer's Disease.
At the time of the his death, Ray Magliozzi quipped that his brother "really couldn't remember last week's puzzler. The brothers took verbal snipes at each other and the callers, all in the name of fun and friendly ribbing. The brothers spent as much time helping people figure out what that knocking noise is as they did cracking jokes and laughing at each other. I came to the show late in its run and stuck around for the finale not because I had any interest in cars but because the brothers were genuinely entertaining and their enjoyment was genuinely infectious.
Or it could be possible that I could find another public radio station that is still airing the show and can listen to it there.
I will indeed miss Car Talk when it goes off the air. I am a huge fan of the show. It has been a part of my life since my growing up years from when I was a little boy. Not exactly sure. But as always is the case shows come and shows go Car Talk has been on the air for more than 30 years. I also love the laughter of Tom and Ray Magliozzi as well as their advice about cars.
The only thing that I think is the problem with Car Talk now is I think the stuff they are discussing is pretty much outdated. I know that many of you are unlike me I would rather want reruns of Car Talk on forever. They stopped producing the show live a long time ago. And still after all of these years they are airing reruns of old shows.
I wish it could be that way for Car Talk when I first learned that Car Talk was no longer going to be producing new episodes and airing just repeats of old shows. I thought that those shows would stay on forever. And that NPR would continue running them on the radio forever.
It has been my pleasure to hear Car Talk Saturday mornings for the last 15 and a half years of my life It has really been a huge part of my life with me growing up. Could be the next Car Talk. Maybe for the most part it could be an alternate quiz show Thanks for the memories Tom And Ray Magliozzi You have taught me everything not only about cars but just about life in general. You have definitely made a huge impact in my life from the time I was little to the time I grew up.
There is a time and a season for things. And now it is time to let the show and both of the hosts RIP and look forward to the next generation of programming that NPR is creating. I definitely look forward to seeing what that will be like.
I find this to be my comfort zone on a Saturday morning while drinking my Folgers. Things are changing….. Yes, the calls are about dated vehicles, but guess what, the mechanical problems are quite often the same in modern vehicles. A few years ago, when Car Talk was still in production, we were driving into Boston on the Mass Pike on our way to an early Sunday morning visit at the MFA, when another vehicle entered from Rt We were surprised by Tom Magliozzi lunging out of the rear window, obviously trouble shooting a sound from the right rear wheel.
We had no idea that someone could hang that far out of a car window. But, a car is still a major purchase for most of us. Selection and maintenance tips are certainly appreciated. This is an active decision by NPR to not continue the concept of the most successful weekend public radio show ever made. They can call it whatever they want; nobody…not even the Magliozzis…has the exclusive legal right to a public radio show that has a humorous take on cars and relationships.
But any universal topic would work: it could be about computers, or housing, or food. Anything, really, if the structure is done right and you get the right two people to be the hosts. The car repair thing was just a clever conceit. I would love to see the station get into talks with Ray. He and Tom had a real gift which paid off.
Of course, it might depend heavily on rights management issues. NPR is not living in a fact-based world. CarTalk has been a ratings leader for many years. In these days of NPR duress why not respond to this rare, successful history at NPR with a similar show which should have been under development for the past half decade. And the days when the Magliozzis and Garrison Kellior drove in the most pledge money were over years ago.
Car Talk has sucked for years. Enough of the wife jokes!!! Please do not put it back on, but put something much better in its place. Prairie Home is slightly better without Garrison Keilor, but not that good. We need something NEW! I agree this is not a show we could have invented — it hinged on or maybe unhinged on these too guys — they did something that Public Radio does best.
They made gaining knowledge fun and entertaining. We all hate our cars and car mechanics — at least almost all of us do. I could listen to them and the reruns for years — I need the repeats. I would never remember how to change the oil no matter how many times they told me. But they did teach my hopelessly poor parking partner — how to parallel park at the ripe old age of And they made my 70 year old father listen to me about how to set his side mirrors!
Now those are miracles. And they sure fixed things!
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