CAR TALK vs WAIT WAIT

car talk fuckin' rules

Car talk easy dude but host of wait wait is a super secret porno freako.

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When I listen to W/W I imagine Peter Sagal furtively wanking under the table.

HOLY SHIT!!!!

My dad and I always concoct some ridiculous errand to run on the weekend just so we can listen to Car Talk together.

Paula Poundstone is always on WW and is HORRIBLE.

those WW chuckleheads are all pretty awful

When I listen to Paula Poundstone, I also imagine her wanking, but like with a Tonka toy.

Car Talk is better but gets old faster. WW is consistently just-amusing-enough to have on while doing housecleaning on weekends.

ww keeps you up to date on weird news and often times has candid interviews with people you would not usually hear candid interviews from during the "not my job" segment. car talk is one joke over and over again (don't drive like my brother x 1000 variables on that premise) with useful info every once in a while. ww also has mo rocca, pj o'rourke as a punching bag, roy blunt (hilarious), and tom bodett. ww for the win.

Car Talk doesn't usually reach the same heights of funny, but is more consistently satisfying/interesting and has good music and is up against less competition. Some of WW can be good - Not My Job, Roy Blount, Kasell, Sagal and one of the other guys (I think it's Felber rather than Charlie whatever) - but sometimes it's just bad, and if you get much news there, you're not paying enough attention.

fuckin' love click and clack

we have a ripoff of this show on our radio station called "car concerns"

WW is kind of a joke in that if you've listened to All Things Considered for the past week, each question is a total sneeze. It's like a 1hr ad for ATC.

However, I love Paula Poundstone. Pervert or no, she's awesome.

Car Talk, by a mile.

Mainly because it is information that I don't get from anywhere else. Obviously I like the car fixing stuff but nobody's yet mentioned the amount of relationship advice they give -- often combined with the car talk -- for humorous and practical effect.

Yeah I also like Roy Blount.

WW is the total embodiment of NPR humor and also apparently chaki likes it so it sucks obviously

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What I love about Car Talk isn't the jokes, it's the infectious nature of the Magliozzi brothers' laughter.

I think I like WW just a tad more, though.

btw Car Talk is humor and WW is comedy

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i love "the puzzler".

not solving it - just hearing them laugh about it.

i would have voted car talk if i had seen this in time.

It's okay, we smashed the news losers anyhow.

It's all in the laughter. They make you laugh at everything because you start to feel silly for NOT laughing.

I've never driven, so I have never even bother to check out Car Talk.

I listen to WW cuz Sagal and Roy (the funny Blount) are generally amusing, and I like hearing Carl Kassel (sp?) say dumb lines.

car talk would be better if, instead of actually answering callers' questions about cars, or discussing any automotive issues whatsoever, they would just cackle about the caller's name and make condescending jokes about where they're from and ask the obligatory question about what they do, but then, as soon as the caller attempts to answer, immediately start cackling again, just an intense deluge of gasping, hysterical cackling that goes on for minutes and minutes and minutes while the caller attempts and fails to be heard over them. and then just hang up and play hillbilly music and take another call

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77

Fucking hell :(

oh that SUCKS

although I find myself wondering which one was Tom, was he the slightly more garrulous one or the slightly more serious one

The more garrulous one

RIP

aw

I met him briefly after he saw me perform "When You're Good To Mama" and "Cell Block Tango" in horrifying drag at a fundraiser cabaret for my church choir

RIP

Oh no!

:(

Poor Ray.

:(

welp time to close npr

:(

although I find myself wondering which one was Tom, was he the slightly more garrulous one or the slightly more serious one

― shoot skag listen to sotl (rip van wanko), Monday, November 3, 2014 3:35 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't know how you would make these distinctions; i'd call Ray arguably the more of each of those, but you could make an argument for Tom on each as well. Tom was the second banana, i'd say, and the hippier of the two.

welp time to close npr

― difficult listening hour, Monday, November 3, 2014 4:06 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Their show ended some time ago; it's been in reruns ever since

http://www.cartalk.com/blogs/staff-blog/tom-magliozzi-1937-2014

Tom Magliozzi who, along with his brother Ray, hosted NPR’s hit comedy show Car Talk for the last 37 years, died Monday morning from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. “Turns out he wasn’t kidding,” said Ray. “He really couldn’t remember last week’s puzzler.”

:( RIP

nothing made me dive for the off button faster than Car Talk, with those MA vocal honks.

In memoriam, I will make "here's puzzlemaster Will Shortz" and any question asked by Terry Gross my leading bete noires.