BrotherVille
Back in the days when we lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, C. and I listened religiously to 'Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers' every Saturday morning on the local NPR affiliate, KQED.
More specifically, we tuned in to hear the real life Magliozzi brothers, Tom and Ray, kibbutz hilariously and insightfully with each other and the folks who called them up to ask for advice about their cars (allegedly).
The show ran in some form for more than 30 years until 2012 when elder brother Tom got sick. At that time it was on 660 stations and pulled in more than 3 million listeners per week.
But...
Luckily, we (and you, too, if you so choose) can still listen to old 'repurposed' Tom and Ray shows in podcast form.
Personally, I can't think of a better way to spend an hour or so once a week, preferably on Saturday mornings...
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The image at the top of the post is actually their office in the 'Puzzler Tower' located on the 'Car Talk Plaza' of their 'Fair City, Cambridge Mass'....They were actually MIT-educated former academics who turned to running first a utopianco-op garage and later a more conventional car shop that stood behind its work...As for the 'Dewey Cheetham and How' logo on the window?...Well, they were punmeisters too (just add a question mark to the logo and you'll get it)...If you listen to the show right through to the end you will get an hilarious bushel full of them...Puns, I mean.
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