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Massachusetts-based show could replace Cah Talk on WBUR
By adamg on Thu, 06/21/2018 - 10:01am
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
I mostly get on the internet to become enraged at strangers, but I have to say, that list made me crack a smile.
Leominsterlingburghamshireton
Pronounced "Leh-ton."
i guess it's time
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
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!
so true
Love me some Car Talk
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
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
there will (hopefully) always be the podcast archive!
https://www.cartalk.com/podcast
McSweeney's?
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
to hipsters. All those suburbanites and conventioneers, stupid national chain restaurants, and Lil' Houston of the North architecture? Blecccch!
You know...
You're right! Should have said Davis Square!
Bzzzt, try again
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
That's hipster central.
Amusing, since I lived there at a hipster age, but the midnite market and Capones were about it.
Seaport hipsters
Still a fair number in the old brick warehouses on and near A Street.
Good amount of hipsters in 12
Good amount of hipsters in 12 channel St as well.
I'll bet both those groups of folks disavow the Seaport
and claim Fort Point as their neighborhood.
I adore my colleagues
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
You clearly know nothing about McSweeney's.
Then again, you are a mansplainer.
FINE!!!
Malcolm Gladwell instead of Musk. Happy?
Terrible list
a) Mansocket is in Rhode Island
b) Whitefolk is a county, not a town
c) They left off Fordford (/Ford'-ferd/)