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It would be a mistake to evaluate this double-CD as a stand-alone product.
Instead, it is the byproduct of an authentic American phenomenon. I’ve been fortunate to live all over. Believe me: Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers on National Public Radio could only happen here.
I find these guys hilarious. Not everyone will. To make a long story short, these Boston greasepit goons (one of them has a PhD from MIT) started a call-in radio show years ago in New England called ‘Car Talk‘. The audience would call in to ask questions about their cars, which these two brothers would answer after a bit of Socratic questioning from their seemingly limitless knowledge of automobile innards.
Little by little, people’s car problems became the thin edge of the wedge for things much more interesting, personal, and hilarious. NPR picked up the show and it became required Saturday morning listening for gazillions of devotees.
Like any media phenomenon that inspires intense loyalty, Car Talk also generates detractors. They are legion.
But it would be a mistake not to give Click and Clack and their self-deprecating humor a chance. They so obviously love what they do. I love what they do, too. Some people don’t. That’s OK.
Just give’em a chance. My hunch is you’ll soon be helpless with laughter along with the Magliozzi brothers and their cameo-appearing Mom.
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