When will Car Talk’s last “live” show air?

From today’s Boston Globe: In October, Tom and Ray will record their last completely new episode at WBUR, but the radio show on NPR will continue, and their weekly newspaper column will be published in the Boston Globe’s Automotive section every Saturday starting September 29.

Hmmmm. I very well might have to subscribe to the Saturday/Sunday Globe… I wonder if it can be sent to the DC area via snail mail? Does anyone know?

“I wonder if it can be sent to the DC area via snail mail?” Of course it can. All newspapers have a provision for mail subscriptions. However, most newspapers also have e-subscriptions nowadays, and it is very likely that you could receive this publication electronically.

Why is the date of the last show such a state secret? Trying to slip one by your devoted listeners? Come’on guys. Let us mourn, or celebrate, with dignity.

Was listening to the last 5 minutes of the show in the car this morning. The guys were talkng to the father of a listener who had confessed to running her dad’s car without oil in it. Sounded like a fun story so I logged into the site to listen to the rest of the show (and the beginning of the story…

@LesMoore … here in the San Francisco area at least, the show broadcast Oct 21 matched the podcast call for call, and which also matched this website’s description summary of the calls. The final call (the one broadcast and the one on the podcast) is where Tom and Ray call David, but he doesn’t an…

While we all know that some or all of the calls now are from the archives, I’ve noticed a few other show components which suggest that C&C must be continuing in some fashion. First of all, at the end of the show when they announce that listeners can download a podcast, they give the number of the p…

Good points @WesternRoadtripper . I think you are correct on all accounts. But I do believe I’ve heard this week’s new puzzler on the show before. Anybody else remember or have looked in the puzzler archives for it?

The recent puzzler about Jimmy’s house had a different winner in the podcast than in the puzzler archives on the web site. So they are at least re-recording the puzzler answers every week so they can have new winners. Otherwise the contest would be a sham.

Last live show?

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CapriRacer October 22, 2012, 4:00pm 9

I noted with interest that Click and Clack referrenced Felix Baumgartner - so at least part of the show is pretty current.

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Last live show?

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