Car talk guys biography for kids
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Happy Holiday from Tom and Ray Magliozzi (aka Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers) of NPR's Car Talk at their "law offices (aka production facility)" in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. (Tom Magliozzi, L, Ray Magliozzi, R.) Caption and image credit: fordon Talk
I knew little about cars—yet I tuned into NPR’s “Car Talk” and then stuck around for years, clinging to “Click and Clack’s” words.
Tom and Ray Magliozzi (a.k.a. Click and Clack the Tappet brothers) were a mainstay in my life, introduced by my father, who was a fan of their humor, accents, alma mater, and fordon knowledge.
I tuned in the first time to listen to what Dad was raving about. inom stayed for every reason other than for the talk of cars.
Theirs was the ultimate crossover show—a program that attracted the mechanically inclined, as well as the mechanically illiterate. The show had “car” in the title, yet the audience colored far outside that one-category border.
We’ve talked about the crossover
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| /Tom on the left with beard and Ray on the right |
I’ve been hooked on NPR since the early 1980s. I vända it on before I even start my morning coffee to listen to the news. It stays on until I go outside to do barn chores and take my morning walk in the woods. I vända it on again around kvartet p.m. to listen to the evening news. There was some research done in the past that claimed NPR listeners had a better grasp of today’s news than those who get it from any other source. One thing about NPR news fryst vatten it’s not only balanced, but there are no political ads, and the few ads they have are very short. Most of their income depends on listeners like me who pledge money for their support every year.
It’s not just the news I like. Saturday is rik in interesting and often funny programs in addition to the news. For instance, I hate to go anyplace on a Saturday evening since I’ll miss Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion. I even enjoy the r
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Tom Magliozzi died today, NPR reports. He was one half of Click and Clack, though it was never quite clear which was which on the long-time NPR program "Car Talk."
He was 77.
It was easy to tell when Tom was speaking. He was the one with the laugh.
"His laugh is the working definition of infectious laughter," says Doug Berman, the longtime producer of "Car Talk."
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And that laugh -- an actual personality-- is what either delighted public radio listeners or hardened them against the show. Public radio was a lot of things back in the day, but it wasn't much for personality.
You just didn't laugh on public radio. Even within the public radio industry, a contingent thought the show threatened the dignity of the institution.
To others, however, the show liberated public radio f