Comments on: RIP, Tom Magliozzi

By: Gringo

Gringo — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 02:09:30 +0000

He will be missed.

By: blert

blert — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 05:32:39 +0000

I bought my truck based on their recommendation.

It’s worked out very well.

Out my way, Car Talk was broadcast at weird hours — sort of a throw-away. (Honolulu.)

So, I only picked them up from time to time.

That laugh… it’s too much.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 23:50:39 +0000

I moved to Cambridge (Porter Square) in 1993 from out of state. ne day, as I was driving around to get to know the area, I came across the Good News Garage (E. Cambridge)! It actually existed!

By: CV

CV — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 23:39:08 +0000

?..their mother bantered with them on the air. Family dinners must have been a blast in their house.

RIP. And thanks to WBUR for discovering them and sharing them with the rest of us.

By: CV

CV — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 23:36:31 +0000

So sad the hear this. Those guys were true originals, and could instantly brighten your day just by spending a few minutes listening to them.

I remember how shocked I was when I learned about their MIT degrees. They sounded just like my working class Boston relatives, who hailed from the Irish ghetto of South Boston. Not that there weren’t brainy people in my working class family, but MIT degrees are rare indeed.

I especially liked some of the early programs in which their mother

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:47:42 +0000

Paul in Boston:

MIT is in a part of town less grubby than it once was.

Central Square is still pretty grubby, but Kendall Square is a bit like Brazilia.

MIT students may be geeks, but they ain’t townies.

By: Paul in Boston

Paul in Boston — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:44:20 +0000

MIT is definitely not the gown part of Cambridge either in location or spirit. Not with all those geeky engineers and grubby entrepeneurs trying to get rich by making stuff. Plus it (at least used to be) is in the grubby part of town.

By: parker

parker — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:36:58 +0000

I still listen to car talk if I am in the car at the right time. And even though every episode is now a rerun, they continue to make me chuckle. RIP Tommy.

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:31:13 +0000

Loved those guys.

In addition to that special brothers’ humor you mention, Neo, it was the true delight the two of them took in each other’s company. A fairly rare thing.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:13:16 +0000

Another thing I really liked about the brothers' humor was that you really could tell they were brothers. Brother-on-brother humor is often very special, where they share a certain sensibility and can riff off each other seamlessly.