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Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« on: November 03, 2014, 03:03:35 PM »
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77

My wife grew up listening to Car Talk as a kid, and introduced me when we were dating. It's some of the best radio ever produced. Political disagreements with the show or NPR aside, it was a truly hilarious program.
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2014, 03:07:47 PM »
Oh no! I had always wanted to be a partner at Dewey, Cheatem and Howe!
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2014, 03:10:27 PM »
Wow, loved to listen to them and read their column.  Sad day indeed. :'(
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2014, 03:29:27 PM »
Best radio NPR ever produced.

First time I had my wife listen, they played one of their funny songs, "You picked a fine tie to leave me loose wheel..."

I would usually listen when I had a house project going on on Sundays.
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2014, 05:22:11 PM »
One of the local newspapers around here still runs the Car Talk column every Saturday. If Tom had Alzheimer's serious enough to kill him, I wonder who's writing the columns -- or if maybe those are also re-runs. I was very sorry when their show stopped being live -- at one point a woman I was dating called in and got on the air with a problem on her Subaru. I don't remember if they actually helped her -- they were so funny that nobody cared.
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2014, 05:38:18 PM »
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2014, 06:22:18 PM »
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2014, 06:46:38 PM »
Damn...loved the show.
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2014, 08:14:40 AM »
I started listening to them when I worked every Saturday morning back in 1989. These days I listen to the show as an iTunes download podcast. I've never been a car guy, but I learned a few things over the years and laughed a whole lot. Rest well ya knucklehead.
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2014, 09:45:04 AM »
I used to listen to it (if available) when I was trucking. It was always entertaining and informative.

He will be missed.
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2014, 10:42:47 AM »
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2014, 08:22:36 PM »
Damn. Use to listen to it and the other awesome programs in that time block, Prairie Home Companion and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, when I would drive to church in the mornings or drive to a gun show or any other time I happened to be out when it was on.
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2014, 12:15:04 AM »
Don't drive like my brudda.
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #13 on: November 05, 2014, 10:01:43 AM »
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #14 on: November 05, 2014, 10:11:53 AM »
There will be a special live version of Car Talk this weekend commemorating Tom's passing.
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Re: Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has died
« Reply #15 on: November 05, 2014, 03:44:45 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on November 05, 2014, 10:11:53 AM
There will be a special live version of Car Talk this weekend commemorating Tom's passing.

Terry Gross interviews "Car Talk's" executive producer.  http://www.npr.org/2014/11/04/361408028/-we-have-learned-absolutely-nothing-tom-magliozzi-on-decades-of-car-talk

I wonder how many of the "Car Talk" staff they will be bringing back for the show.  How could anybody forget http://www.cartalk.com/content/staff-credits ?

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