Word: magliozzis
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...given Saturday, Drew Magliozzi, a freshman in Straus, doesn’t care to get up very early. But while Drew is slumbering away, over two million Americans tune into his father and uncle’s nationally syndicated public radio talk show-Car Talk...
...father Ray and his uncle Tom have broadcast automotive wisdom to a cadre of devoted fans and desperate motorists on their Peabody Award winning show “Car Talk.” The show asks callers to phone in with their car problems and the omniscient Magliozzi brothers dish out their advice. Miles away from the troubled car, Ray and Tom often have little to go on besides noises made by bewildered callers trying to replicate their car’s rattle...
...John F. Kennedy streets and his father’s auto shop, where Ray still fixes cars himself, is located off Central Square. “I was actually nervous when I got Straus because it’s so close to their office.” Says Magliozzi. “They have a webcam in their office looking out to Harvard Square. I was worried my mom would...
...such is the price of celebrity. Constant exposure is just part of the game. “Truthfully,” Magliozzi says, “this is the first crushing paparazzi moment of my life.” Magliozzi, a fan of Boston’s Jammin’ 94.5 and Howard Stern, was quite surprised to hear that his dad was even that well known. “People do tend to ask me a lot about cars,” says the young Magliozzi, adding, “[they] assume that I know a lot about cars...
...they enjoy a meal of salmon and Italian red wine in the lunchroom of the Boston public radio station where they've taped their show for the past 23 years, none of their co-workers come within 50 decibels of the laughter emanating from Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the brothers who go by the on-air pseudonyms Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers. In fact, if you listen closely, you realize that Tom laughs slightly louder at Tom's jokes and Ray laughs a bit harder at his own. These guys would do the show without an audience...