# Car Talk ends its radio run

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-talk-ends-its-radio-run/179608>\
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**Created:** [September 27, 2021, 11:11am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-talk-ends-its-radio-run/179608 "2021-09-27T11:11:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 11:11am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-talk-ends-its-radio-run/179608/1 "2021-09-27T11:11:38Z")

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😔

Even the show’s re-runs have come to an end.

[‘Car Talk’ Ends Its Radio Run. Here’s What Ray Magliozzi Hopes You’ll Remember | WBUR News](https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/09/25/car-talk-click-clack-ray-tom-magliozzi)

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**Author:** ![It\_s-Me](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/it_s-me/32/12660_2.png) [@It\_s-Me](https://community.cartalk.com/u/It_s-Me)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-talk-ends-its-radio-run/179608/2 "2021-09-27T12:36:20Z")

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But we will now get 2 podcasts a week, starting from the very beginning.

> [@NPR Doubles Podcasts - More Laughs Per Week!](https://community.cartalk.com/t/npr-doubles-podcasts-more-laughs-per-week/179115):
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> Beginning in October, the Car Talk team will take listeners back to the early years of the series, and distribute edited versions of every show, in sequential order. The new, twice-weekly podcasts will be about 35-40 minutes in length. “We’re taking out the worst stuff from each show, and leaving just the pretty bad stuff,” said co-host Ray Magliozzi. Each show will include a puzzler, a puzzler answer, some great calls, and plenty of Tom and Magliozzi’s famous, and often hilarious diversions. [Mo…](https://www.cartalk.com/cars-content/car-talk-doubles-down-on-podcasting)

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**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 11:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-talk-ends-its-radio-run/179608/3 "2021-09-27T23:59:24Z")

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> [@VDCdriver](#):
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> Even the show’s re-runs have come to an end.

Over the air broadcast of _Best of Car Talk_ ended here about 5 years ago. So as a practical matter, no change for me. Actually I’m looking forward to the podcasts from the older shows. I wonder if they’ll go back to the very beginning, late 70’s era when it was a local Boston WBUR show, or will they only be posting shows from when the show became a national NPR show? Ray and Tom joked that in their early shows, their answers tended to be “It’s the choke pull off!”, irrespective of what the symptom was … lol …

This has always been surprising to me b/c while I’ve had to fix pretty much every possible problem a carburetor might develop at one time or another, I’ve never had a problem with the choke pull off … oh oh, maybe I shouldn’t have said that … 😉

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**Author:** ![wolyrobb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/wolyrobb/32/45497_2.png) [@wolyrobb](https://community.cartalk.com/u/wolyrobb)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 3:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-talk-ends-its-radio-run/179608/4 "2021-09-28T03:06:27Z")

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The show hasn’t been on either local NPR station for several years now. Still download the podcasts.