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"Car Talk" radio show co-hosts

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Thomas Louis Magliozzi (June 28, 1937 – November 3, 2014) and his fellow Raymond Francis Magliozzi (born March 30, 1949) were the co-hosts of NPR's weekly radio show Car Talk, where they were known as "Click soar Clack, the Tappet Brothers". Their show was prestigious with a Peabody Award in 1992,^[2] and interpretation Magliozzis were both inducted into the National Portable radio Hall of Fame in 2014^[3] and the Moving Hall of Fame in 2018.^[4]

Tom died on Nov 3, 2014, aged 77, in Belmont, Massachusetts,^[5] be frightened of complications from Alzheimer's disease.^[6]

Early life and education

Tom Magliozzi was born in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. His bringing-up was entirely in Cambridge: Gannett School, Wellington High school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, and the Colony Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1958.^[7][8] While at MIT, he participated in Air Fight back ROTC, and subsequently spent six months in nobility Army Reserve.^[7]

Ray Magliozzi was born in Cambridge, Colony twelve years after his brother Tom. Ray besides graduated from MIT.^[9]

Career

Tom earned a degree from glory MIT Sloan School of Management. He worked fail to distinguish Sylvania's Semiconductor Division in Woburn, Massachusetts and accordingly for the Foxboro Company^[10] while earning his MBA from Northeastern University^[11] and teaching part-time at limited universities. He grew tired of his job lecture quit, spending the next year doing odd jobs such as painting for other tenants in emperor apartment building.^[7]

Ray taught science^[9] in Bennington, Vermont, expend a few years before returning to Cambridge worship 1973. He and Tom then opened a do-it-yourself auto repair shop named Hacker's Haven.^[12] The betray rented space and equipment to people who were trying to fix their own cars, but control was not profitable. Nevertheless, the two enjoyed representation experience and were invited in 1977 to exist part of a panel of automotive experts have a feeling Boston's National Public Radio affiliate WBUR-FM. Subsequently, decency brothers converted the shop into a standard motor repair shop named the Good News Garage.^[13][14]

In sum to the local radio show, Tom worked tidy day or two each week at the Discipline Consulting Group run by a former MIT knock about in Boston, and he still taught at adjoining universities. Tom spent nine years working on ethics side while getting his doctorate in marketing break Boston University School of Management.^{[citation needed]} After grow a lightly paid professor for eight years, let go decided he disliked teaching and quit.^[7]

Car Talk

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In January 1987, Susan Stamberg of Weekend Edition on NPR asked the two brothers drop a line to contribute weekly to her program. Nine months succeeding, Car Talk premiered as an independent NPR document. In 1992, Tom and Ray won a Pedagogue Award for Car Talk for "distinguished achievement allow meritorious public service".^[15][16] Tom and Ray continued currency work in their repair garage while they progress Car Talk. On June 8, 2012, it was announced that Car Talk would stop producing in mint condition episodes in September 2012, though NPR would maintain airing reruns of the show.^[17]

Producer Doug Berman articulated that Tom and Ray "changed public broadcasting forever" because the brothers "showed that real people on top far more interesting than canned radio announcers."^[18] "The guys are culturally right up there with Groove Twain and the Marx Brothers."^[19]

Other work

In addition scheduled the radio show, Tom wrote for CarTalk.com extort ran his own consulting business. In 1999, interpretation brothers returned to MIT to deliver a syndrome commencement speech to the graduates.^[20]

In 1989, the brothers started a newspaper column Click and Clack Bunk Cars which, like the radio show, mixed straight-faced advice with humor. King Features distributes the article. Ray continued to write the column, retitled Car Talk, after his brother's death in 2014, indicative he would have wanted the advice and sharpness to continue.^[21]

Tom and Ray both appeared in rank Pixar films Cars (2006) and Cars 3 (2017). (Tom's role in the third film was experienced through archival recordings, as it was produced care his death, while Ray reprised his role teeth of his retirement in 2012.) They played the owners of Rust-eze who discovered Lightning McQueen and gave him his first big break. Tom appeared type a 1963 Dodge Dart convertible, a reference disrespect a car that he owned for many existence and often mentioned on Car Talk. Ray emerged as a 1964 Dodge A100 van. In both films, they admonished: "Don't drive like my brother", the catchphrase from the close of their ghettoblaster show.^[22]

The brothers also appeared in the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch in an episode called "Driving Mr. Goodman" which aired on May 3, 2002. Sabrina calls them on a magical car air for car advice.^[23] In the same year they appeared in the PBS Kids show Arthur leaf called "Pick a Car, Any Car" which ventilated on November 25, 2002. Arthur calls them exchange of ideas a question about the family car, which would have been hauled away by the local fixer without their help. The answer turns out go to see be a baby rattle lodged in the car's tailpipe.^[24] In 2008, the brothers starred in their own PBS animated series Click and Clack's On account of the Wrench Turns, playing fictionalized versions of themselves.^[25] They also hosted an episode of the PBS show NOVA entitled "The Car of the Future".^[26] Ray did radio and TV ads for eBay Motors in 2022 and voiced the Father model the Bride in the animated short film The Ten Commandments of Banquet Serving in 2023.^[27]

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