Car Talk
Overview
Talk radio
Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live...
broadcast weekly on National Public Radio stations throughout the United States and elsewhere. Its subjects are automobiles and repair, and it often takes humorous turns. The hosts of Car Talk are brothers Tom
Tom Magliozzi
Thomas Louis "Click Tappet" Magliozzi is an American radio talk show host. He and his younger brother Ray Magliozzi, also known collectively as Click and Clack, The Tappet Brothers, are the hosts of National Public Radio's Car Talk. -Biography:Thomas Louis...
and Ray Magliozzi
Ray Magliozzi
Raymond F. "Clack Tappet" Magliozzi is a co-host of NPR's winning weekly radio show, Car Talk. They are known as "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers"...
, also known as Click and Clack, the Tappet
Tappet
A tappet is the noise made by a worn cam follower, however the term is widely used to represent the cam follower itself. In mechanical engineering it is a projection which imparts a linear motion to some other component within an assembly...
Brothers.
Car Talk is structured as a call-in radio show: listeners call with questions related to motor vehicle maintenance and repair.
Quotations
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave (2000)
The overhead projector has done more to destroy learning than any other thing I can think of.
"The Education Trilogy", in In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave (2000)