Car Talk

[liveonearth]

The most astute diagnosticians I encounter on a regular (weekly) basis are "Click and Clack, the Tappitt brothers", on NPR. They are immediately assessing every variable for any possible cause the moment they begin talking to a person with a car problem. They are insightful and compassionate about the foibles of people. They know their shit

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[newedition]

Ha, funny you should mention that! My mom really enjoys Car Talk but I've never "gotten" it. Even so, I must admit the guys are funny, friendly, and very knowledgeable.

[liveonearth]

Yep. I bet if you listened more you'd probably discover the genius in it, because you strike me as an openminded person. Though not every shoe is as good as the one I heard today. The brothers had an Italian caller who's burned up his car's motor driving it hard. They got to show off their linguistic and cultural skills in jokes about Italian attitudes and treatment of cars. I suppose if you have no positive feelings about cars or Italians, you'd have less connection to the whole schtick

[leaves1]

I love Car Talk and never heard of anyone saying they can't stand it. How could you not at least like it?

Garrison Keillor: I have mixed feelings about. I think he's obviously very talented and funny, but I've heard him in a couple of interviews and in one of them he actually came off like a jerk, I have to say, and that's kind of tainted my enjoyment of the show. I love Sue Scott - I used to have a co-worker in MN who sounded just like her (or a couple of her characters) so that alone always cracks me up.

And unfortunately my opinion of Terri Gross has been going downhill. I don't know if it's me or her but I'm pretty sure it's at least partly her. I can tell you why if you really want to know.

Ira Glass is gay?

[liveonearth]

Oh I've had several people tell me they just can't STAND car talk! Something about the way those guys yuck it up is quite offensive to a lot of Oregonians, it is so.....Eastern.

I don't know if Ira's gay but he's self-admitted "femmy" and also highly sympathetic to the plight of gays in our society. Far as I'm concerned, everybody's bisexual they just don't know it yet. (But that's another big discussion.)

Terri's going downhill? I hadn't noticed. Do tell, what have you observed?

As for Garrison being a jerk, well, that's your reaction to something he said, and may not actually reflect on his state or mind or intentions in that moment that you reacted. That's the thing about radio. We all get our buttons pushed sometimes, but do we locate our buttons, or do we blame our discomfort on somebody else being bad or wrong?

I'm a jerk for sure. =-]

Hx...

[anonymous]

at one time, not long ago, there was another car repair show on public radio. I can't remember the name, but they were quite a bit more formal about their responses. They were quite offended when they were canceled D/T the seeming popularity of Click and Clack. They seemed to act as if this upstart, trendy little show made their stodgy deliver obsolete. Which, in fact, it was. But then again, it was NPR and, well, we all know what that sometimes means...sing it now, "TRADITION,.......TRADITION!..."