{"id":3726,"date":"2014-11-08T06:25:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T13:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2014-11-08T06:25:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T13:25:22","slug":"a-fond-farewell-to-car-talks-tom-magliozzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2014\/11\/a-fond-farewell-to-car-talks-tom-magliozzi.html","title":{"rendered":"A Fond Farewell to Car Talk’s Tom Magliozzi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"cars\"<\/a>In my twenties and thirties, I spent\u00a0more time on the road than at home. I was attempting to make a career in music, first on my own, then with the band Satellite Soul. I was a fickle NPR listener in the beginning, but that many hours staring at the horizon (pre-Sirius Satellite Radio and in car DVD players), had me and my mates searching the dial for something worth listening to. More times than not, NPR was the only thing worth hearing. The Magliozzi brothers and their show Car Talk<\/em>, became familiar and friendly\u00a0voices in an often lonely time.<\/p>\n

Tom and Ray Magliozzi used a conversation about cars as a medium to talk about life, philosophy, relationships, and the human experience. It was always funny, but the genius of the show was their chemistry, and their big hearts.<\/p>\n

After my kids were born & the movie Cars<\/em> came out, the two voices became part of their lives as well. They played the star struck pitch me for Rust-eze, sponsors of Lightening McQueen\u2019s car. We\u00a0still catch a Car Talk segment every now and then when we\u2019re in the car together. These men were hilarious and fun, generous and insightful\u2026\u00a0a matched pair if ever there was one in broadcasting.<\/p>\n

Tom Magliozzi died of complications from Alzheimer\u2019s Disease earlier this week. He will be deeply missed.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an excerpt from a great tribute article from Paste<\/a>, written by Sarah Marshall. It\u2019s a good article, and would be worth a full read:<\/p>\n

There was never anything hip about Tom and Ray Magliozzi, who made their debut on NPR when it was still deeply uncool, and who were slowly grandfathered in even as the neighborhood began to change drastically around them. Car Talk wasn\u2019t cool: only warm, generous, loud, and impossible to imagine not having around, like the lone Boston-Italian family on a block filling up with serious young professionals who keep compost heaps in their backyards. They felt like family, even if you\u2019d never met them, and they ended each show making listeners and callers alike feel somehow better about the world, even if they still didn\u2019t know what was wrong with their carburetors. And, as part of an institution that prided itself on producing the kind of programming that made people challenge their ideas and change their minds, Tom and Ray Magliozzi lived up to this mission weekly, and without ever seeming to try very hard. In one memorable show, a long-frustrated woman called in determined to beat her old VW to smithereens rather than selling it. Five minutes later, she agreed to give away for free to a needy stranger instead. \u201cWe wish you the very best,\u201d Tom said, seeming, as he always did, to mean it. As it turns out, you can only listen to so much laughter\u2014and a little gentle chiding\u2014before you begin laughing yourself.<\/p>\n

Car Talk was also something listeners could all too easily take for granted. In its 25-year broadcast history (35 if you counted back the show\u2019s initial run on Boston\u2019s WBUR), Car Talk was always the same. There was always the same mix of listener problems, ranging from the simple to the philosophical, the jokes and puzzlers, the ritual of the sign-off (\u201cDon\u2019t drive like my brother!\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t drive like my brother!\u201d), and, of course, the laughter. When you listen to the episodes of classic Car Talk now on the show\u2019s website in podcast form, the years quickly become indistinguishable from each other. Or, as Caspian Kang wrote, \u201cthe only way you can tell a 2010 recording from a 1989 recording is the years of the caller\u2019s cars.\u201d Like the Ramones, the Magliozzi brothers were consistent enough for the public to take their continued existence as a given and did something that seemed simple until you realized just how hard it was to replicate.<\/p>\n

Today, people who grew up with Car Talk may live in a world very different from seventh grade gym. Being an NPR listener is not just a badge of cultural awareness, but a go-to conversation topic at parties. \u201cDid you hear that episode of RadioLab where\u2026\u201d is the new \u201cDon\u2019t I know you from somewhere?\u201d And seeing someone listening to a podcast of This American Life is a bit like spotting a colored handkerchief in someone\u2019s back pocket once was for the leather bar crowd, \u201cDon\u2019t you just love Ira Glass?\u201d being the nebbish mating call of the podcast age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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