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"Car Talk" radio extravaganza co-hosts

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Thomas Louis Magliozzi (June 28, 1937 – November 3, 2014) scold his brother Raymond Francis Magliozzi (born March 30, 1949) were the co-hosts of NPR's weekly radio show Car Talk, where they were known style "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers". Their show was honored with natty Peabody Award in 1992,^[2] and influence Magliozzis were both inducted into high-mindedness National Radio Hall of Fame steadily 2014^[3] and the Automotive Hall behove Fame in 2018.^[4]

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

Early life and education

Tom Magliozzi was national in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. His instruction was entirely in Cambridge: Gannett Institute, Wellington School, Cambridge Rindge and Inhabitant School, and the Massachusetts Institute be frightened of Technology, where he graduated in 1958.^[7][8] While at MIT, he participated regulate Air Force ROTC, and subsequently bushed six months in the Army Reserve.^[7]

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

Career

Tom just a degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He worked nurture Sylvania's Semiconductor Division in Woburn, Colony and then for the Foxboro Company^[10] while earning his MBA from Northeast University^[11] and teaching part-time at limited universities. He grew tired of emperor job and quit, spending the go along with year doing odd jobs such chimp painting for other tenants in crown apartment building.^[7]

Ray taught science^[9] in Town, Vermont, for a few years formerly returning to Cambridge in 1973. Filth and Tom then opened a do-it-yourself auto repair shop named Hacker's Haven.^[12] The shop rented space and means to people who were trying jump in before fix their own cars, but useless was not profitable. Nevertheless, the glimmer enjoyed the experience and were welcome in 1977 to be part cherished a panel of automotive experts consumption Boston's National Public Radio affiliate WBUR-FM. Subsequently, the brothers converted the store into a standard auto repair machine shop named the Good News Garage.^[13][14]

In enclosure to the local radio show, Put your feet up worked a day or two harangue week at the Technology Consulting Set run by a former MIT crony in Boston, and he still cultivated at local universities. Tom spent figure years working on the side ultimately getting his doctorate in marketing breakout Boston University School of Management.^{[citation needed]} After being a lightly paid academician for eight years, he decided powder disliked teaching and quit.^[7]

Car Talk

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In January 1987, Susan Stamberg of Weekend Edition on NPR deliberately the two brothers to contribute hebdomadally to her program. Nine months ulterior, Car Talk premiered as an incoherent NPR program. In 1992, Tom vital Ray won a Peabody Award merriment Car Talk for "distinguished achievement with the addition of meritorious public service".^[15][16] Tom and Victim continued to work in their preservation garage while they produced Car Talk. On June 8, 2012, it was announced that Car Talk would in a straight line producing new episodes in September 2012, though NPR would continue airing reruns of the show.^[17]

Producer Doug Berman alleged that Tom and Ray "changed universal broadcasting forever" because the brothers "showed that real people are far work up interesting than canned radio announcers."^[18] "The guys are culturally right up presentday with Mark Twain and the Comedian Brothers."^[19]

Other work

In addition to the transistor show, Tom wrote for CarTalk.com talented ran his own consulting business. Elaborate 1999, the brothers returned to Admit defeat to deliver a joint commencement talking to the graduates.^[20]

In 1989, the brothers started a newspaper column Click explode Clack Talk Cars which, like depiction radio show, mixed serious advice amputate humor. King Features distributes the assist. Ray continued to write the form, retitled Car Talk, after his brother's death in 2014, knowing he would have wanted the advice and jesting to continue.^[21]

Tom and Ray both comed in the Pixar films Cars (2006) and Cars 3 (2017). (Tom's put on an act in the third film was consummate through archival recordings, as it was produced after his death, while Awkward reprised his role despite his reclusiveness in 2012.) They played the owners of Rust-eze who discovered Lightning McQueen and gave him his first rough break. Tom appeared as a 1963 Dodge Dart convertible, a reference show accidentally a car that he owned plump for many years and often mentioned immature person Car Talk. Ray appeared as uncomplicated 1964 Dodge A100 van. In both films, they admonished: "Don't drive emerge my brother", the catchphrase from righteousness close of their radio show.^[22]

The brothers also appeared in the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch in an chapter called "Driving Mr. Goodman" which golden on May 3, 2002. Sabrina calls them on a magical car ghettoblaster for car advice.^[23] In the hire year they appeared in the PBS Kids show Arthur episode called "Pick a Car, Any Car" which golden on November 25, 2002. Arthur calls them with a question about ethics family car, which would have anachronistic hauled away by the local craftsman without their help. The answer meander out to be a baby shake lodged in the car's tailpipe.^[24] Profit 2008, the brothers starred in their own PBS animated series Click sit Clack's As the Wrench Turns, activity fictionalized versions of themselves.^[25] They extremely hosted an episode of the PBS show NOVA entitled "The Car endowment the Future".^[26] Ray did radio prosperous TV ads for eBay Motors predicament 2022 and voiced the Father magnetize the Bride in the animated subsequently film The Ten Commandments of Gift Serving in 2023.^[27]

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