Tom and Ray Magliozzi
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| Tom Magliozzi | |
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| Born | Thomas Louis Magliozzi June 28, 1937 East Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Education | Chem Eng & Economics, BA Management: MBA, PhD |
| Alma mater | MIT (1958) Northeastern University Boston University |
| Occupation | Radio show host, mechanic |
| Years active | 1977–2012 |
| Known for | Car Talk |
| Home town | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Children | Lydia |
| Relatives | Ray, brother; Lucille, sister |
| Website | |
| www.cartalk.com | |
| Ray Magliozzi | |
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| Born | Raymond F. Magliozzi March 30, 1949 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Education | BS, Humanities |
| Alma mater | MIT (1972) |
| Occupation | Radio show host, mechanic |
| Years active | 1977–2012 |
| Known for | Car Talk |
| Home town | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Spouse(s) | Monique |
| Children | Louie and Andrew |
| Relatives | Tom, brother; Lucille, sister |
| Website | |
| www.cartalk.com | |
Thomas Louis Magliozzi (born June 28, 1937) and Raymond F. Magliozzi (born March 30, 1949) are the co-hosts of NPR's weekly radio show, Car Talk, where they are known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers. Their show was honored with a Peabody Award in 1992.
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Early life [edit]
Tom Magliozzi was born in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he attended Gannett School, Wellington School, Rindge Tech, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he participated in Air Force ROTC, and subsequently he spent six months in the Army Reserve. Ray Magliozzi was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and also graduated from MIT. In 1999, the brothers returned to MIT to jointly deliver the commencement speech to that year's graduates.[1]
Tom earned a degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and subsequently worked for Sylvania's Semiconductor Division in Woburn, Massachusetts and then for the Foxboro Company, while earning his MBA from Northeastern University[2] and teaching part-time at local universities. Eventually tiring of his commute and job, he quit, spending the next year doing odd jobs such as painting for other tenants in his apartment building.
Career [edit]
Ray taught science in Bennington, Vermont for a few years, before returning to Cambridge in 1973, when he and Tom opened a do-it-yourself repair shop, named Hacker's Haven. The shop rented space and equipment to "hackers" trying to fix their own cars, but was not profitable. Nevertheless, the two enjoyed the experience and were invited in 1977 to be part of a panel of automotive experts on Boston's NPR affiliate WBUR. Subsequently, the brothers converted the shop into a standard auto-repair shop named Good News Garage.
In addition to the local radio show, Tom also worked a day or two per week at the Technology Consulting Group, run by a former MIT classmate, in Boston, and still taught at local universities. Tom's belief that college professors make lots of money without working drove him to spend nine years working while getting his doctorate in Marketing from Boston University Graduate School of Management.[2] After being a professor for eight years, he decided that he disliked teaching, and quit.
Car Talk [edit]
In January 1987, host Susan Stamberg of Weekend Edition on NPR asked the two to contribute weekly to her program. Nine months later, Car Talk premiered as an independent NPR program. In 1992, Tom and Ray won a Peabody Award for Car Talk—for "distinguished achievement and meritorious public service".[3][4]
Tom and Ray continued to work in their garage while they produced Car Talk. On June 8, 2012, it was announced that Car Talk would stop producing new episodes in September 2012, though NPR will continue airing reruns of the show.[5]
Other work [edit]
In addition to the radio show, Tom writes for CarTalk.com, and runs his own consulting business.
Tom and Ray both appeared in the Pixar film Cars, where they played the owners of Rust-eze, who discover Lightning McQueen and gave him his first big break. Tom appeared as a 1963 Dodge Dart convertible—a reference to a '63 Dart convertible he owned for many years and often mentions on Car Talk. Ray appeared as a 1964 Dodge A100 van. They each give their admonishment, "Don't drive like my brother," a frequent catchphrase from Car Talk.
The Magliozzi brothers also appeared on the PBS Kids show Arthur. Arthur calls them with a question about the family car, which would have been hauled away by the local mechanic without their help. The answer turns out to be a baby rattle, presumably that of Arthur's baby sister Kate, in the car's tailpipe.
In 2008, the brothers starred in their own PBS animated series, Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns, playing fictionalized versions of themselves.
Notes [edit]
- ^ "Transcript of the Magliozzis commencement address". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
- ^ a b Bates (1999), MIT Tech Talk.
- ^ "Car Talk 1992". Peabody Awards. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
- ^ "The History of Car Talk". Car Talk. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
- ^ Bauder, David (8 June 2012). "NPR 'Car Talk' duo retiring; reruns to continue". Associated Press. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
References [edit]
- Bates, Betsy (2 June 1999). "Magliozzis have local roots, cool cars and colorful résumés". MIT Tech Talk 43 (32). Retrieved 14 February 2009.
- Magliozzi, Tom and Ray (2000). In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave. New York: Perigree Books. ISBN 0-399-52600-5.
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- 1937 births
- 1948 births
- American people of Italian descent
- American radio personalities
- American talk radio hosts
- Automotive cultural pioneers
- Boston University alumni
- Living people
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
- National Radio Hall of Fame inductees
- NPR personalities
- People from Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Sibling duos
- United States Army soldiers
