Don't know if anyone else here is a fan. Heard locally on WBEZ Saturday mornings from 9A to 10A. I think I mentioned here that flipping back and forth between "Car Talk" and "Wake and Bake" while running around Saturday mornings is the appointment radio for me.

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20813861/npr-car-talk-duo-retiring-reruns-continue

NEW YORK -- The comic mechanics on NPR's "Car Talk" are pulling in to the garage.
Brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi said Friday they will stop making new episodes of their joke-filled auto advice show at the end of September, 25 years after "Car Talk" began in Boston. Repurposed versions of old shows will stay on National Public Radio indefinitely, however.
The show airs every Saturday morning and is NPR's most popular program.
"We've managed to avoid getting thrown off NPR for 25 years, giving tens of thousands of wrong answers and had a hell of a time every week talking to callers," Ray Magliozzi said. "The stuff in our archives still makes us laugh. So we figured, why keep slaving over a hot microphone?"
The duo will continue writing their "Dear Tom and Ray" column twice a week, NPR said.
With their byplay and Boston accents, "Car Talk" was as much about laughs as motor advice. On last week's show, a caller confessed that she had broken the clutches of some ex-boyfriends' cars and was now worrying that she was damaging her own.
"That might be the reason none of your relationships lasted," she was told.
The two men proved that public radio didn't have to be stuffy, said Doug Berman, executive producer of the show. "Car Talk" began as a local call-in show on Boston's BUR radio in 1977. It's now on 660 stations across the country, with some 3.3 million listeners a week.
"The guys are culturally right up there

with Mark Twain and the Marx Brothers," Berman said. "They will stand the test of time. People will still be enjoying them years from now. They're that good."
The staff has stored and logged some 12,500 phone calls since the show began, rating them in order of their entertainment value, Berman said. They will take the best and use them for the repurposed shows. Berman said he figured there was about eight years' worth of strong material without the show having to repeat itself again.
"I'm the producer of all their shows and I can't remember most of" the calls, he said.
"Car Talk" has tested out the repurposed show and is convinced they will work. There's a strong wish among NPR stations to keep the show going even if there isn't fresh material, he said.
Berman said he knew the retirement was a possibility; Tom is 74. That didn't stop Ray, 63, from mocking him. "My brother has always been work-averse," he said. "Now, apparently, even the one hour a week is killing him."
In a goodbye message posted on their website and titled "Time to Get Even Lazier," Tom wrote, "We're hoping to be like 'I Love Lucy' and air 10 times a day on 'NPR at Nite' in 2075."

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

Never heard of them,but judging from their last name,they must be very talented.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Car Talk is the only NPR show worse than Prairie Home Companion.

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Retiring from a one hour show broadcast once per week? That sounds already retired. The guys sound like nice guys on the air but the content is as mind numbing as fantasy football talk.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

A friend of mine who lives in Andover, MA actually takes her car to their garage.

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Don't take it personally.

Take. That. Back.

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

Weekend Edition Sunday (Will Shortz puzzle!) and To The Best Of Our Knowledge are where it's at. I like A Way With Words if I can remember to catch it. Whad'ya Know? is funny sometimes but I get sick of it easily. Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is just the poor man's Whad'ya Know. This American Life can be good, and I do a pretty good Ira Glass impression, so hey. Morning Edition and ATC are what they are. I also do a pretty good Robert Siegel impression.

Car Talk is the fucking worst, though. Car Talk is why people want to defund public radio.

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The comedy?? show out of Chicago I think that follows it is fucking god awful high brow shit on a stick.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

I'm sorry my tastes are so pedestrian. Good luck on your date for Schubert at Ravinia. Don't forget to cut a hole in the bottom of the brie tin.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

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Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is number one with a bullet when it comes to worst NPR shows.

It's okay sometimes, and I have fond memories of listening to it in the car on Saturdays, but there are weeks when it's just bad. I think I once called it the only truly left-wing show on public radio:

http://www.score670.com/phpBB/viewtopic ... 9#p1143579

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Can't say I was aware of this show's existence until I stumbled upon this article over the weekend. As for the idea of "repurposing" the show- the only time I can think of that this worked for me was Jim Rome on 1000. Not only was it on a 12 hour delay, whoever edited it should probably have tendered their letter of resignation if they had any sort of pride for the work they do. There were many times that halfway through a segment it would suddenly go to commercial without warning. Segments were often replayed- sometimes twice in a row. It was also common to have the same show replayed 2 or 3 times a week instead of airing that past morning's show.

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fock this club. I should manayer.

I didn't know there were so many NPR fans here in Chicago. I only thought cab drivers listened to that stuff.

No kidding. How old are you people?

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Old.

This American life is appointment radio. Last weeks was about card counting/gambling. Good listen.