Tom and Ray Magliozzi

Tom Magliozzi was born in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. His education was mostly in Cambridge: Gannett School, Wellington School, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1958.{{cite web |url=http://www.cartalk.com/content/tom-and-rays-bios-photos-2 |title=Tom's CarTalk.com biography|date=December 5, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2024/02/20/1196550768/best-of-car-talk-draft-02-20-2024|title=The Best of Car Talk Episode #2415: The Wrong Kind of Horsepower|website=NPR |date=February 20, 2024}} While at MIT, he participated in Air Force ROTC, and subsequently spent six months in the Army Reserve.

Ray Magliozzi was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts twelve years after his brother Tom. Ray also graduated from MIT.{{cite web|url=https://www.cartalk.com/content/tom-and-rays-bios-photos-1|title=Ray's CarTalk.com biography|date=December 4, 2014}}

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Tom earned a degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He worked for Sylvania's Semiconductor Division in Woburn, Massachusetts and then for the Foxboro Company{{cite book|author=Tina Grant|title=International directory of company histories|url=https://archive.org/details/internationaldir0013unse/page/233|year=1996|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-341-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/internationaldir0013unse/page/233 233]}} while earning his MBA from Northeastern UniversityBates (1999), MIT Tech Talk. and teaching part-time at local universities. He grew tired of his job and quit, spending the next year doing odd jobs such as painting for other tenants in his apartment building.

Ray taught science in Bennington, Vermont, for a few years before returning to Cambridge in 1973. He and Tom then opened a do-it-yourself auto repair shop named Hacker's Haven.{{cite web

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}} The shop rented space and equipment to people who were trying to fix their own cars, but it 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 National Public Radio affiliate WBUR-FM. Subsequently, the brothers converted the shop into a standard auto repair shop named the Good News Garage.{{cite web

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In addition to the local radio show, Tom worked a day or two each week at Technology Consulting Group started by Mike Brose, a former MIT classmate in Boston, and he still taught at local universities. Tom spent nine years working on the side while getting his doctorate in marketing from Boston University School of Management.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} After being a lightly paid professor for eight years, he decided he disliked teaching and quit.

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In January 1987, Susan Stamberg of Weekend Edition on NPR asked the two brothers 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".{{cite web |access-date=14 February 2009 |url=http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/car-talk |title=Car Talk 1992 |publisher=Peabody Awards}}{{cite web |access-date=14 February 2009 |url=http://www.cartalk.com/content/about/history/ |title=The History of Car Talk |work=Car Talk}} Tom and Ray continued to work in their repair 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 would continue airing reruns of the show.{{Cite news|url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/car-talk-ending-npr-shows_n_1581239.html|title = 'Car Talk' Ending: NPR Show's Duo Will Retire In October|last = Bauder|first = David|date = 8 June 2012|work = Huffington Post|access-date = 4 November 2014|agency = Associated Press}}

Producer Doug Berman said that Tom and Ray "changed public broadcasting forever" because the brothers "showed that real people are far more interesting than canned radio announcers."[http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3062649-181/nprs-car-talk-co-host-tom NPR's 'Car Talk' co-host Tom Magliozzi dies at 77], Associated Press, Philip Marcelo, November 4, 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2014. "The guys are culturally right up there with Mark Twain and the Marx Brothers."[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/car-talk-hosts-tom-ray-magliozzi-aka-click-clack-step-npr-show-article-1.1092260 "Car Talk's hosts Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack, to step down from NPR show"], Associated Press, June 8, 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2014.

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In addition to the radio show, Tom wrote for CarTalk.com and ran his own consulting business. In 1999, the brothers returned to MIT to deliver a joint commencement speech to the graduates.{{cite web |access-date=12 December 2010 |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1999/clickclackspeech.html |title=Transcript of the Magliozzis commencement address |date=June 4, 1999 |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}

In 1989, the brothers started a newspaper column Click and Clack Talk Cars which, like the radio show, mixed serious advice with humor. King Features distributes the column. Ray continued to write the column, retitled Car Talk, after his brother's death in 2014, knowing he would have wanted the advice and humor to continue.{{cite web|url=http://kingfeatures.com/features/columns-a-z/click-and-clack-talk-cars/|title=Car Talk|date=June 8, 2011|publisher=King Features|access-date=June 13, 2019}}

Tom and Ray both appeared in the Pixar films Cars (2006) and Cars 3 (2017). (Tom's role in the third film was accomplished through archival recordings, as it was produced after his death, while Ray reprised his role despite his retirement in 2012.) They played the owners of Rust-eze who discovered Lightning McQueen and gave him his first big break. Tom appeared as a 1963 Dodge Dart convertible, a reference to a car that he owned for many years and often mentioned on Car Talk. Ray appeared as a 1964 Dodge A100 van. In both films, they admonished: "Don't drive like my brother", the catchphrase from the close of their radio show.{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317219/reference|title=Cars (2006) - IMDb|via=www.imdb.com}}

The brothers also appeared in the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch in an episode called "Driving Mr. Goodman" which aired on May 3, 2002. Sabrina calls them on a magical car radio for car advice.{{cite web |title=Driving Mr. Goodman |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0693044/ |website=IMDB |date=May 3, 2002 |access-date=27 January 2020}} In the same year they appeared in the PBS Kids show Arthur episode called "Pick a Car, Any Car" which aired on November 25, 2002. 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 lodged in the car's tailpipe.{{cite web |title=Pick a Car, Any Car |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hdvtwYSRXA |publisher=YouTube }} In 2008, the brothers starred in their own PBS animated series Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns, playing fictionalized versions of themselves.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/arts/television/29jens.html?_r=0|title=Welcome to Toontown, Radio Guys|last=Jenson|first=Elizabeth|date=June 29, 2008|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 6, 2014}} They also hosted an episode of the PBS show NOVA entitled "The Car of the Future".{{cite web|title=Car of the Future|website=PBS|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/car-of-the-future.html|date=April 22, 2008|access-date=January 19, 2015}} Ray did radio and TV ads for eBay Motors in 2022 and voiced the Father of the Bride in the animated short film The Ten Commandments of Banquet Serving in 2023.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHmnIRPhXog&ab%20channel=Gruppetstudios The Ten Commandments of Banquet Serving on YouTube]

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• {{cite journal |access-date=14 February 2009 |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1999/profile-0602.html |title=Magliozzis have local roots, cool cars and colorful résumés |date=2 June 1999 |first=Betsy |last=Bates |journal=MIT Tech Talk |volume=43 |issue=32 |ref=Bates1999}}
• {{cite book |author=Magliozzi, Tom and Ray |title=In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave |location=New York |publisher=Perigee Books |year=2000 |ref=Magliozzi2000 |isbn=0-399-52600-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/inourhumbleopini00magl }}

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• {{Official website|http://www.cartalk.com/}}
• [http://www.cartalk.com/content/tom-and-rays-bios-photos-2 Tom's Car Talk bio]
• [http://www.cartalk.com/content/tom-and-rays-bios-photos-1 Ray's Car Talk bio]
• [https://www.npr.org/people/2100834/tom-and-ray-magliozzi NPR bio]
• {{IMDb name|1137137|Tom Magliozzi}}
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