WBUR says it's chosen McSweeney's to create a pilot show that could replace the Car Talk reruns the station now airs.
The show would be hosted by Chris Monk of Arlington, who now runs McSweeney's Internet Tendency and who obviously has the Massachusetts roots to replace a show famous for its Boston accent: Who else but a Bay Stater could have come up with this list?
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I mostly get on the internet
By baustin
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 10:18am
I mostly get on the internet to become enraged at strangers, but I have to say, that list made me crack a smile.
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By Camberville
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 6:37pm
Pronounced "Leh-ton."
i guess it's time
By surprisefries
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 11:03am
I still listen to Car Talk 30+ years after my dad made us all listen to it on car trips (Stockholm Syndrome?). Though it's been reruns for years, and there's the podcast archive, WBUR won't be quite the same.
Old Cars
By anon
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 12:00pm
The shows are so old they are talking about fixing cars that are about 20 years old. Anyone tuning in and not knowing they were reruns wouldn't be surprised that these old heaps were having problems.
hah!
By surprisefries
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 2:10pm
so true
Love me some Car Talk
By Lunchbox
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 12:11pm
BUR should at least put it on the radio at some odd hour, so you can still have that wonderful moment of kismet of hearing those two entertainingly yammering away.
You can still hear one of them
By Ari O
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 1:46pm
Go and hang around Good News in Cambridgeport long enough, and Ray will walk in. You may not recognize him when he does, but wait until he opens his mouth …
it's not quite the same but
By surprisefries
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 2:12pm
there will (hopefully) always be the podcast archive!
https://www.cartalk.com/podcast
McSweeney's?
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 2:43pm
Gee, expect a show with a couple of deep thinking, clearly neurotic Mini Cooper mechanics who really, really know where to get the best artisan coffee at the Seaport. Special guests first show will be Jay Leno, Elon Musk and David Sedaris.
Except that the Seaport is kryptonite
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 3:12pm
to hipsters. All those suburbanites and conventioneers, stupid national chain restaurants, and Lil' Houston of the North architecture? Blecccch!
You know...
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 3:24pm
You're right! Should have said Davis Square!
Bzzzt, try again
By anon
Fri, 06/22/2018 - 7:08am
Davis is for the yuppies and frat bros. Hipsters only make it over there for the inclusive burlesque events at the Somerville Theatre.
Try Union Square
By anon
Fri, 06/22/2018 - 3:00pm
That's hipster central.
Amusing, since I lived there at a hipster age, but the midnite market and Capones were about it.
Seaport hipsters
By Ron Newman
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 3:55pm
Still a fair number in the old brick warehouses on and near A Street.
Good amount of hipsters in 12
By Murphquake
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 6:02pm
Good amount of hipsters in 12 channel St as well.
I'll bet both those groups of folks disavow the Seaport
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 11:26pm
and claim Fort Point as their neighborhood.
I adore my colleagues
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 9:54pm
At my current job, and I drank with them a couple of weeks ago in Somerville.
I didn't bother to chase them down last weekend when they went to Whiskey Priest. Seaport is all them, those 23 year olds from Wakefield.
NOT Elon Musk
By anon
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 3:14pm
You clearly know nothing about McSweeney's.
Then again, you are a mansplainer.
FINE!!!
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 8:49pm
Malcolm Gladwell instead of Musk. Happy?
Terrible list
By UHub-fan
Sat, 06/23/2018 - 2:42pm
a) Mansocket is in Rhode Island
b) Whitefolk is a county, not a town
c) They left off Fordford (/Ford'-ferd/)
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