'Car Talk' Co-Host Tom Magliozzi Dies At 77

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/03/360340663/car-talk-co-host-tom-magliozzi-dies-at-77

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Tom Magliozzi, one half of the wisecracking Car Talk duo known as "Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers," has died after complications from Alzheimer's Disease. He was 77.
Car Talk Executive Producer Doug Berman sent this note Monday:
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"I have the sad duty to report today that Tom Magliozzi, one of the hosts of Car Talk, passed away this morning due to complications of Alzheimer's Disease.
"Tom's been such a dominant, positive personality amongst us for so long that all of us in the public radio family and I include our millions of listeners will find this news very difficult to receive."
Magliozzi and his co-host brother, Ray, began the show at WBUR in Boston in 1977, taking it to the NPR network, and a national audience, a decade later. In 2012, the brothersannounced they were retiring from the show, and it has been heard in re-runs on NPR member stations since then.
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the best show on radio
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Very sad news.

My wife and I loved that show and their laughter. It was the funniest enducational hour in Radio history.

I still download the podcasts and use it when I take my dog for walks.
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Oh wow, that's so sad. I didn't know they were all reruns now.
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Some great quotes by Tom, some of them rather poignant, or even ironic, which I think he would love.

"If money can fix it, it's not a problem."

"Happiness equals reality minus expectations"

"Non Impediti Ratione Cogitationis" - "Unencumbered by the thought process." --His official motto.
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Sad day, it always makes me happy to hear them on the radio.
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Man, used to listen to this with my dad
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Man, used to listen to this with my dad


Same here. Every Sunday after church. This news hit me hard.
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Been a listener for years. Still tune in on Saturday morning for the reruns.
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Alzheimer's sucks. His brother said, "Maybe he really did forget last week's puzzler."
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Man, used to listen to this with my dad


Same here. Every Sunday after church. This news hit me hard.


Me too. My dad and I loved it.

I guess this explains their retirement a couple years back.
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Oh wow, that's so sad. I didn't know they were all reruns now.

They aren't reruns. When they retired, Doug Berman started to look through the canned stuff that never made the original shows and spliced together enough "new" material that it could go on for another 2 - 3 seasons.
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Alzheimer's sucks.
go listen to the new glen campbell tune about his own alzheimers. 100% chance of a dust storm blowing through the room as the song plays. i think its called "not gonna miss you".
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twenty two ags said:

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Alzheimer's sucks.
go listen to the new glen campbell tune about his own alzheimers. 100% chance of a dust storm blowing through the room as the song plays. i think its called "not gonna miss you".

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