Car Talk on NPR

[BrianWC]

Wow, been listening to Car Talk since 1990. Heck, I think they are the reason I first got interested in tinkering with cars.

In the early to mid 2000's, they got kinda rabid on the anti-SUV kick. But otherwise, I've never been bothered by anything they've said.

As for NPR, I have a love/hate relationship with them. Sometimes I can't turn it off. Sometimes I can't stand to listen. But it's always been the #1 preset on any car radio I've ever owned.

BTW, the Maggliozzi brothers ARE MIT grads, but Ray says his degree was in "humanities and science."

 

[wavinwayne]

I especially like the credits at the end of the show.

 

[CivicFan]

Originally Posted By: BrianWC
Wow, been listening to Car Talk since 1990. Heck, I think they are the reason I first got interested in tinkering with cars.

In the early to mid 2000's, they got kinda rabid on the anti-SUV kick. But otherwise, I've never been bothered by anything they've said.

As for NPR, I have a love/hate relationship with them. Sometimes I can't turn it off. Sometimes I can't stand to listen. But it's always been the #1 preset on any car radio I've ever owned.

BTW, the Maggliozzi brothers ARE MIT grads, but Ray says his degree was in "humanities and science."


NPR is on #2 on my radio (#1 is a classical music channel). I get to listen to about an hour of business news twice a week.

 

[wapacz]

Originally Posted By: javacontour
Tommy's rant on education

http://web.archive.org/web/19990220100156/cartalk.cars.com/About/Rant/r-r.html


The funny things is i remember listening once when a guy with a semi called in. The sensor in his gas tank stopped working and he want to use a stick to measure how much was in the tank. So he was asking where 1/4 and 3/4 would be on the stick. To solve this you would need to find the area under a curve. Which is most easily done with calculus.

 

[JohnBrowning]

Too bad it is on NPR radio! I donot listen to NPR too much of their stuff has too much of a liberal and or socialist slant! It is too bad these guys are not on something besides NPR.Can I listen to them from somplace besides NPR or Itunes?

 

[wapacz]

Originally Posted By: JohnBrowning
Too bad it is on NPR radio! I donot listen to NPR too much of their stuff has too much of a liberal and or socialist slant! It is too bad these guys are not on something besides NPR.Can I listen to them from somplace besides NPR or Itunes?


There website use to have a stream of the past weeks show. Haven't check to see if it was still there in a long time though.

 

[BrianWC]

Like wapacz says, their website has archives of the show. As for NPR, as long as you don't send them money, you're not losing anything by listening to them. Before XM, I used to listen to NPR for half my commute and AM talk radio for the other half to be "Fair and Balanced." Hah!

Of course, by pledging, you can make your thoughts known.

 

[SteveSRT8]

OMG, how can anyone stand the extreme liberal bias of anything NPR?

They are just as bad as any conservative talk show on AM!

 

[CivicFan]

Not to digress but I don't think NPR is either liberal or conservative. It's civilized radio - no screaming, cursing or illogical leaps of reasoning.

It's quite informative if that's what you want from your radio. Last night, for example, they had a health program with physicians explaining the way the infants think, the future of the elderly care in the US, etc. There's nothing liberal in that.

 

[javacontour]

You can d/l the podcast from iTunes.

I think it largely takes a liberal slant, but is very subtle about it.

I recall, years ago, when Don't Ask/Don't Tell was being trotted out by the Clinton administration. I recall where they had all sorts of PhD.s discussing the pro-DADT side, and it seemed they went to the hills of Appalachia to get the anti-DADT side.

Instead of getting someone educated and articulate like say a William Buckley (I don't know his view on that topic, but he was a very articulate conservative) or a Ben Stein, it seems they interviewed only those who would make the anti-DADT view look bad.

So yes, technically they got both sides of the issue. But in that case, it really didn't appear they sought the same intellectual caliber to represent each side.

I've seen balanced programs. However, I've yet to see one that went the other way and leaned to the right.

So I find things to be at the center and balanced sometimes, but far more often slanted to the left.

I still listen to NPR, because I like balance. I listen/watch Fox news as well, again for balance.

 

[Tornado Red]

CarTalk is mainly for entertainment; they do not select callers with interesting car problems that need a solution, they just want an interesting person to talk to.

But not all advice is bad. Yesterday they had a woman in Ottawa who needed a 10-passenger vehicle to replace an Astro van. They recommended a Sprinter, which is really the only solution for people needing more room than the conventional 7- and 8-passenger choices.

 

[Vikas]

I like them because they give inside view from the other side of a shop. Most other car repair talk shows never talk about They the "boat payment due" and/or "wall repairs".

- Vikas

 

[rjundi]

I remember listening to it in high school 20 years ago. Funny and interesting show with a bit of education on how to take care of a car.

Good advice on cars here for everyone>>>> http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?...amp;aff=cartalk

I learned about the 5000 miles oil change interval too from them.