# Who is Frank? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Show\ **Created:** [July 9, 2011, 12:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-frank/66071 "2011-07-09T00:03:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mockchoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@mockchoi](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mockchoi)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 12:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-frank/66071/1 "2011-07-09T00:03:38Z")
Forgive me if this has come up before, but several times in the past, I’ve heard Tom address Ray as ‘Frank’. I thought maybe your radio names are pseudonyms, but the other day, I _think_ I heard Ray call Tom ‘Frank’. What gives? Are the two of you the same person in some Norman Bates kind of way? Also, if you’re not the same person, the only picture of you I’ve seen is in my local newspaper, and I don’t know which is which. Which of you is Cheech and which is Chong? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![mcparadise](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mcparadise/32/32_2.png) [@mcparadise](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mcparadise)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-frank/66071/2 "2011-07-09T00:34:25Z")
Tom and Ray rarely post here. You can email them directly from the CarTalk home page if you wish. I can’t say I’ve ever heard either brother call the other “Frank.” Perhaps I’m missing something. ---
**Author:** ![WaltBurns](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/waltburns/32/5830_2.png) [@WaltBurns](https://community.cartalk.com/u/WaltBurns)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-frank/66071/3 "2011-07-11T17:03:04Z")
I think I’ve heard one of them call the other Frank, too. I assume that either Tom and Ray aren’t their real names or that Frank is a producer or other staff person. ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-frank/66071/4 "2011-07-11T17:05:45Z")
Tom and Ray ARE their real names… Frank is one of the Producers. ---
**Author:** ![ken\_green](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/ken_green/32/816_2.png) [@ken\_green](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ken_green)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-frank/66071/5 "2011-07-11T21:58:52Z")
I wonder if it has nothing to do with anyone’s real name. “Well now, let’s be frank.” “Both of us ?” “ok ,you can be frank.” “Surely you must be joking” “and don’t call me shirley” “ok frank” ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-frank/66071/6 "2011-07-11T22:56:24Z")
Let me be Frank: Ken may be on to something. ---
**Author:** ![jt1979](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jt1979/32/1863_2.png) [@jt1979](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jt1979)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-frank/66071/7 "2011-07-12T00:45:29Z")
> _Tom and Ray ARE their real names..._ > > _Frank is one of the Producers._ This is their staff bio page. No Frank there. [http://www.cartalk.com/content/about/bios/ctbios.html](http://www.cartalk.com/content/about/bios/ctbios.html) ---
**Author:** ![tbb007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tbb007](https://community.cartalk.com/u/tbb007)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 10:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-frank/66071/8 "2011-07-12T22:57:36Z")
It sounds like they’re quoting someone (doesn’t it always go something like “That’s a great idea, Frank!”). I’ve always assumed it’s a friend of theirs, but it might be from a movie or somethihng. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-frank/66071/9 "2011-07-13T02:00:12Z")
The Movie “Airplane” ---
**Author:** ![srmclauren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@srmclauren](https://community.cartalk.com/u/srmclauren)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-frank/66071/10 "2011-07-19T13:56:36Z")
But if Frank pulled the trigger in the last puzzler, who’s going to produce the show? Who’s on first? And speaking of the last puzzler, which I did only as a lead in, Tom and Frank, I mean Ray, are really behind the times in these days of equal rights for women. Don’t you think a female plumber named Frances could have a right to a nickname like ‘Frank’? And was it a male or female voice that told ‘Frank’ not to do it? Things are just not as simple and cut and fried as they were when you were younger. The times they are a changin’ and crimson flames tied through my ears and all that crap. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-frank/66071/11 "2011-07-19T14:11:10Z")
The female plumber is Shirley. Frank doesn’t like being called Shirley. ---
**Author:** ![waterboy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/waterboy/32/764_2.png) [@waterboy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/waterboy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-frank/66071/12 "2011-07-20T05:15:28Z")
Let’s all be Frank here, Since now we are Frank, which one is it that looks and sounds like the rat on Beakman’s world? ---
**Author:** ![HaroldB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f14d63/32.png) [@HaroldB](https://community.cartalk.com/u/HaroldB)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-frank/66071/13 "2011-07-28T16:32:37Z")
From the 2002 MIT Alumni Register: “Raymond F. Magliozzi”. We can probably assume the “F” is for Frank