The War On Cars Meets Car Talk - The Full Interview

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4.9 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this TWOC Extra, we present co-host Doug Gordon's full interview with Ray Magliozzi of "Car Talk," conducted in February 2019 at the WBUR studios in Boston and previously available only to Patreon supporters. Hear more about Ray's thoughts on how cities are changing to be more friendly to people who aren't in cars and learn why he sometimes runs red lights on his bike.

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For nearly thirty years, brothers Ray and Tom Magliozzi were the hosts of NPR’s “Car Talk” and the voices of American car culture. Famous for their distinctive Boston accents and infectious laughs, Click and Clack didn’t just diagnose engine troubles, they recognized that people’s personal relationships often revolved around their automobiles. In a War on Cars exclusive, Doug sits down with Ray Magliozzi to talk about car culture, the brothers’ surprising war on SUVs, and whether or not “Bike Talk” could even be half the phenomenon “Car Talk” was… and still is.

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Show Notes:

Learn more about Car Talk…

…and listen to “The Best of Car Talk.”

“Car Talk’s Tom Magliozzi: An Unlikely Environmental Advocate.” (ThinkProgress)

Tom and Ray’s “Live Large, Drive Smaller” anti-SUV campaign. (The New Yorker)

Tom and Ray’s 2007 letter to Congress in favor of higher fuel standards. (Car Talk)

Dispatches from Aaron’s years-long Twitter crusade to banish “Car Talk” from WNYC.

Twitter: @TheWarOnCars, Doug Gordon @BrooklynSpoke, Aaron Naparstek @Naparstek, Sarah Goodyear @buttermilk1

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a special edition of the War on Cars. I'm Sarah Goodyear.
0:10.0	In case you didn't get enough of Ray Malayati's beautiful Boston accent in our
0:13.4	Kartok episode from March 2019, here's an extended cut of the talk he and my
0:17.9	co-host Doug Gordon had at the W-B-U-R studio in February.
0:21.4	Thanks to Catherine Fennelosa and everyone else at the station
0:25.0	for helping us with this one. And now without further ado here's more of the
0:28.8	War on Cars meets Car Talk. It's car talk. So I moved to New York from the Boston area in 1998 and car talk was on the
0:40.5	air then and ran for an hour on Saturday and it was great because I would be putting
0:47.6	around my apartment or whatever just cleaning up or doing work around the house.
0:51.1	I turned you guys on and it was like being home for an hour.
0:54.0	It was great. I mean just hearing your voices was comforting because you don't hear that in New York.
0:59.6	You hear a lot of you know D's and does and does in New York but you don't hear that good Boston accent so it's just it's it's nice to meet you in the flesh and thank you for doing this.
1:08.0	Oh my pleasure. We used to get those kinds of comments from people who had who had been, what do you call it, sent to Alaska in places like that.
1:18.0	You know, designated.
1:20.0	And they said, oh my God, I love here in the Boston accent X and you know they'd be in exile right yeah
1:24.6	but so you know it's Red Sox nation we're everywhere so exactly right yeah
1:28.0	so I guess where I wanted to get started was you know it so Car Talks obviously, it's about people's cars, but in
1:36.3	1992 you guys win the Peabody Award and I was reading...
1:39.5	They were regretting that ever shits.
1:41.3	Exactly.
1:42.3	So they said that the real core of your program was what it
1:47.4	told us about human mechanics and what I really liked not human mechanics as opposed to robot mechanics, but the human mind.
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