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RIP. They were so entertaining. I never knew shit about cars but always felt a bit of excitement when I was in the car and heard that we'd be listening to the
by wdewind 12y ago
RIP. They were so entertaining. I never knew shit about cars but always felt a bit of excitement when I was in the car and heard that we'd be listening to them instead of some of my parents' music.
Also this is pretty great:
> Tom and Ray Magliozzi did open that do-it-yourself repair shop in the early '70s. They called it Hackers Heaven.
- jgwest 12y agoDon't care about cars. Care about those devices called "humans". These dudes fixes and tuned the latter while appearing to fix and tune the former. And one will not be the same without the other. So many fond memories...
- tsotha 12y agoYeah, this is true. That show was never actually about cars.
- kevinkimball 12y agomakes sense... weren't they MIT grads?
- JshWright 12y agoTom graduated from MIT (some branch of engineering, IIRC), then went on to get his MBA, and a PhD in business.
- ryanburk 12y agoyes, they both were. it is in the NPR article.
- Symmetry 12y agoYup, and they warned me not to follow in their footsteps. I didn't listen, though.
- Symmetry 12y agoLooks like I need to expand on that a bit. Nowadays we say "Tech is Hell" but it was even worse back in their day and they had a lot of stories about their experience that, them being them, were both hilarious and awful. I ignored their advice because, hey, don't get a teenage boy to not do something by telling him it's hard.