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I was a faithful listener of "Car Talk" for many years.

Well, not all of it. Parts. And mostly because I liked listening to the Magliozzi brothers, both MIT graduates incidentally.

Then I moved away from Boston and didn't follow them anymore although they were on NPR nationwide for a very long time.

Now, we have lost Tom. He is the one on the right. The older and wiser one with the maniacal laugh.

Tom Magliozzi, Popular Co-Host Of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies At 77

Sad. And I can't help noting that he was my age less a year.

I don't remember him or them at MIT but it is nice to know that we shared that.

I am losing peers. It made my father depressed and worried every time one of his friends would go. I try not to let that happen to me. At least the worry part. But it is difficult not to personalize it in that way.

I would rather personalize it with the memory of all the laughs I had with these guys. I didn't learn fuck all about cars but I sure got a lot of happiness out of it.

Labels: automobiles, nostalgia, radio