Car Chat is a Peabody Award radio talk show broadcast weekly at NPR stations and elsewhere. Subjects are cars and automotive repairs, often spoken in a funny way. It was hosted by Tom's brother and Ray Magliozzi, also known as "Click and Clack, Tappet Brothers". The show was produced from 1977 to October 2012, when the Magliozzi brothers retired. Edited reruns (introduced as The Best of Car Talk ) continue to be available for weekly views on NPR's national schedule until September 30, 2017, although some NPR affiliates continue to broadcast reruns. Previous episodes are available in podcast format.
Video Car Talk
Premise
Car Talk is presented in the form of a radio call event: the listener is called upon with questions related to vehicle maintenance and repairs. Most of the suggestions sought were diagnostic, with the caller describing the symptoms and demonstrating the sound of a sick vehicle while Magliozzis was trying to identify the damage on the phone and provide suggestions on how to fix it. While the hosts embellish their incoming calls with jokes aimed at callers and themselves, Magliozzis can usually arrive at diagnosis. However, when they are confused, they keep trying with the answers they claim "" unencumbered by the thought process ", the official motto of the show.
Edited impressions are performed on XM Satellite Radio via the Public Radio channel and NPR Now.
Car Talk theme music is "Dawggy Mountain Breakdown" by bluegrass artist David Grisman.
Incoming call procedure
Throughout the program, listeners are encouraged to dial a toll-free number, 1-888-CAR-TALK (1-888-227-8255), which connects to the 24 hour reply service. Although some 2,000 questions received each week were screened by the Car Talk staff, the question was not previously known by Magliozzis as "which would require examining the correct answer, which one?..." Work. "
Features
The show initially consists of two segments with a break in between but is converted into three segments. After the shift to the three segment format, it becomes a joke to refer to the last segment as the "third half" of the program.
The show opens with a short comedy segment, usually a joke sent by the listener, followed by eight incoming call sessions. The host ran a contest called "Puzzler", where puzzles, sometimes related cars, were presented. The answer to the previous week's "Puzzler" was given at the beginning of the "second half" of the show, and the new "Puzzler" was given at the beginning of the "third round". The host instructs listeners to write answers to the "Puzzler Tower" on a non-existent or expensive object, such as a "$ 26 bill" or an advanced digital SLR camera. This blocking was originally started as a suggestion that the answer was written "behind the $ 20 bill". A joke involving Tom's inability to remember the "Puzzler" the previous week without the heavy pressure from Ray. For each tangle, one correct answer is randomly selected, with the winner receiving a $ 26 gift certificate to the Car Talk store, called the "Uninspired Trade Division". Originally $ 25, but increased for inflation after a few years. Initially, winners receive certain items from the store, but soon turn into gift certificates to allow winners to choose the items they want (though Tom often makes suggestions of items).
The recurring feature is "Stump the Chumps," where the host visits the caller of the previous show to determine the accuracy and influence, if any, at their suggestion. A similar feature began in May 2001, "Where are they now, Tommy?" It started with a funny musical theme with a car engine that was as loud and horny as the background. Tom then announces who the caller was before, followed by a brief replay of the essence of the previous call, preceded and followed by harp music that is often used in other audiovisual media to show the recall and return of the dream. The hosts then greeted the previous callers, asserting that they had not spoken since their previous performances and asked whether there was any influence on the answers they would associate, such as the mysterious bribe by NPR staff. The improvement story is then discussed, followed by fanfare and applause if the Tappet Brothers' diagnosis is correct, or a piece of wah-wah-wah music mixed with a starter car operated by a weak battery (the machine will not start) if the diagnosis is wrong. The host then thanks the callers for their return performance.
The brothers also have a Biologist and Wildlife Animals named Kieran Lindsey. He answered questions like How to remove a snake from my car? and offers advice on how those who live in cities and suburbs can reconnect with wildlife.
Celebrities are featured as "callers" as well, including Geena Davis, Morley Safer, Ashley Judd, Gordon Elliott, former Premier League pitcher Bill Lee, and astronaut John M. Grunsfeld calling from Outer Aircraft Space. There are many performances of NPR's personality, including Bob Edwards, Susan Stamberg, Scott Simon, Ray Suarez, Will Shortz, Sylvia Poggioli, and commentator and writer Daniel Pinkwater. On one occasion, the show featured Martha Stewart as a guest in the studio, the Magliozzis twice during the segment referred to as "Margaret".
In addition to at least one call in orbit, the Brothers never received a call asking for advice on winterizing an electric car. When they asked what kind of car, the caller claimed it was a "kit car", a $ 400 million kit car. "It was a joke from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory about the preparation of the Mars rover for the upcoming winter of Mars.Click and Clack have also featured in an editorial cartoon, including one in which a confused NASA engineer called them to ask how to fix the Space Shuttle.
Humor
Humor and wisecracking include this program. Tom and Ray are known for their self-deprecating humor, often joking about the quality of their suggestions and performances that should be bad in general. They also commented at the end of each show: "Well, it happened again - you've spent very well listening to Car Talk."
At a certain point in almost every show, usually when giving an address for a Puzzler answer or a fan letter, Ray mentions Cambridge, Massachusetts (where the event originated), at which point Tom respectfully interrupts with the pride of the citizens, "Our fair city". Ray always mocked "'Cambridge, MA', short for two United States Postal letters for 'Massachusetts', by saying" MA "as a word.
Preceding every pause in the show, one of the hosts leads the network's identification with a humorous response to the disgusted reaction of some people who are usually famous for hearing that identification. The full line follows the pattern, for example, "And although Roger Clemens stabbed his radio with a syringe every time he heard us say it, this is NPR: National Public Radio" (later only)... Ã, this is NPR ").
At one point in the show, often after the break, Ray usually states that: "Support for the event is provided by," followed by an absurd fundraiser.
The final credits from the event begin with a thank-you to the staff who are often dubbed colorfully: producer Doug "fugitive subway, not a fashion slave, bongo boy frogman" Berman; "John 'Bugsy' Lawlor, just returned from..." every week a different meal with the rhyme name; David "Calves of Belleville" Greene; Catherine "Frau BlÃÆ'¼cher" Fenollosa, whose name causes the horse neighing and racing (an allusion to jokes in the film Young Frankenstein); and Carly "High Voltage" Nix, among others. Following the real staff is a long list of staff and fiction sponsors filled with words like Marge Innovera ("margin of error") statisticist, customer service representative Haywood Jabuzoff ("Hey, are you going to die"), meteorologist Claudio Vernight (" "cloudy overnight"), optometry company C.Ã, F. Eye Care ("see if I care"), Russian driver Pikup Andropov ("take and lose"), Warren Peace biographer Leo Tolstoy ("War and Peace"), Hygiene officer and Tokyo Oteka Shawa office head ("oh bath"), Swedish snowboard instructor Soren Derkeister ("sick in the keister"), Dewey law firm, Cheetham & amp; Howe ("Do we cheat them? And how!"), The Greek Tailor Euripides Eubyades ("You tear-a this, you buy-a this"), Mahatma Coate locker clerk ("My hat, my coat"), and many, many others, usually ending with Erasmus B. Dragon ("The butt must be draggin '"), whose positions vary, but it is often said to be the head of a working mother support group. They sometimes suggest that "our chief counsel from Dewey, Cheetham, & Howe law firm is Hugh Louis Dewey, known [a group of people] at Harvard Square as Huey Louie Dewey." Huey, Louie, and Dewey are teenage nephews who were raised by Donald Duck in Walt Disney Comics and Stories. Guest accommodations are provided by The Horseshoe Road Inn ("horse you drive").
At the end of the show, Ray warned the audience, "Do not drive like my brother!" Tom replied, "And do not drive like my brother!" The original tag line is "Do not drive like a fool!" There are variations like, "Do not drive like my brother..." "And do not drive like his brother!" and "Do not drive like my sister..." "And do not drive like my brother!" Tagline is heard in the movie Pixar Car , where Tom and Ray are voicing anthropomorphic vehicles (Rusty and Dusty Rust-eze, respectively 1963 Dodge Dart V1.0 and 1963 Dodge A100 vans, as Lightning McQueen sponsorship racing) with a personality similar to their own on-air persona. Tom is famous for ever having a "convertible, green with a large area of ​​rust!" Dodge Dart, known for joking on shows with the faux-elegant name "Dartre".
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History
In 1977, WBUR-FM radio station in Boston scheduled a local car mechanics panel to discuss car repair on one of its programs, but only Tom Magliozzi appeared. She did so very well that she was asked to return as a guest, and she invited her sister Ray (who is actually more than a car repair expert) to join her. Brothers and sisters are immediately asked to hold their own radio show on WBUR, which they keep on doing every week. In 1986, NPR decided to distribute their performances nationwide.
In 1992, Car Talk won the Peabody Prize, saying "Every week, the main mechanics of Tom and Ray Magliozzi provide useful information about preserving and protecting our car, but the true core of the program is what is told to we are about human mechanics... The insights and laughter provided by Messrs.Magliozzi, along with their producer, Doug Berman, provide weekly mental tune-ups for a broad and growing public radio audience. "
In May 2007, the program, which was previously available digitally only as a paid subscription from Audible.com, became a free podcast distributed by NPR, after a two-month test period in which only "weekly calls" were available through podcasts.
In 2012, it has 3.3 million listeners every week, at about 660 stations. On June 8, 2012, the brothers announced that they will no longer broadcast a new episode in October. Executive producer Doug Berman says the best material from 25 years of past performances will be used to gather "repurposed" events for NPR to broadcast. Berman estimates that the archives contain enough material for eight years before something has to be repeated. However, Ray Magliozzi, sometimes recording new slogans and sponsoring the announcements that aired at the end of the show.
The event was inaugurated as the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2014.
Ray Magliozzi held a special Car Talk warning episode for his brother Tom after he died in November 2014. However, Ray continued to write their syndicated newspaper column, saying that his brother would want him.
The Best of Car Talk episode ended their weekly broadcast on NPR on September 30, 2017, although previous episodes will continue to be available online and via podcasts. 120 of 400 stations are meant to continue to show the event. NPR announced an option for the time slot will be their new news-chat program It's Minutes .
Host
The Magliozzis is an old car mechanic. Ray Magliozzi has a bachelor's degree in humanities and sciences from MIT, while Tom has a bachelor's degree in economics at MIT and an MBA and DBA from Boston University School of Management.
The duo, usually led by Tom, is known for raving about the crime of internal combustion engines, people talking on mobile while driving, Peugeots, a woman named Donna who seems to always drive the Chevrolet Camaros, lawyers, word games, and other ingenious use. from English, people who choose to live in Alaska (or a snowy and cold climate like that), and almost anything else, including themselves. They have a relaxed and fun approach to cars, car repairs, cup holders, pets, lawyers, car repair mechanics, SUVs, and almost anything else. They often throw the eyes of people who are critical and do not believe in the car industry. Tom and Ray are committed to defensive driving values ​​and environmentalism.
The Magliozzis operated a do-it-yourself garage together in the 1970s that became more than a conventional workshop in the 1980s. Ray continues to have his hands in the day-to-day operations of the store for years, while his brother Tom is semi-retired, often joking around Car Talk about his dislike of doing "real work". The show offices were located near their store on the corner of JFK Street and Brattle Street in Harvard Square, marked "Dewey, Cheetham & Howe", the imaginary law firm they aired in the air. DC & amp; H doubled as the business name of Tappet Brothers Associates, a company founded to manage the end of the Car Talk business. Initially a joke, the company was founded after the event was expanded from one station to the national syndication.
Both were early speakers at MIT in 1999.
Executive producer Doug Berman said in 2012, "People are culturally there with Mark Twain and Marx Brothers, they will stand the test of time, people will enjoy them for years from now.
Tom Magliozzi died on 3 November 2014, at the age of 77, due to complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Adaptations
The show was an inspiration for the short lived The George Wendt Show, briefly broadcasted on CBS in the 1994-1995 season - as a mid-season replacement.
In July 2007, PBS announced that it had turned on animated adaptations of Car Talk , to premiere in prime time in 2008. The event titled Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns based on the fictional garage adventure "Click and Klak" in "Car Talk Plaza". Ten episodes aired in July and August 2008.
Car Talk: The Musical !!! written and directed by Wesley Savick, and composed by Michael Wartofsky. This adaptation was presented by Suffolk University, and opened on March 31, 2011, at the Modern Theater in Boston, Massachusetts. The drama was not officially supported by Magliozzis, but they participated in the production, lending their voices to the central figurehead named "The Wizard of Cahs".
References
Further reading
- Newton, Christopher (1996). " ' The Prince Macaroni Hour' to 'Car Talk': The Evolution of Italian American Radio". Americana Italia . 14 (1): 5-15. JSTORÃ, 29776333.
External links
- Official website
- Click and Clack As Lock On official site (archived)
- Magliozzis prefix address transcript at MIT, 1999
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