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Massachusetts-based show could replace Cah Talk on WBUR

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 to become enraged at strangers, but I have to say, that list made me crack a smile.

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Leominsterlingburghamshireton

Pronounced "Leh-ton."

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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.

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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.

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so true

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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.

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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 …

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there will (hopefully) always be the podcast archive!

https://www.cartalk.com/podcast

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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.

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to hipsters. All those suburbanites and conventioneers, stupid national chain restaurants, and Lil' Houston of the North architecture? Blecccch!

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You're right! Should have said Davis Square!

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Davis is for the yuppies and frat bros. Hipsters only make it over there for the inclusive burlesque events at the Somerville Theatre.

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That's hipster central.

Amusing, since I lived there at a hipster age, but the midnite market and Capones were about it.

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Still a fair number in the old brick warehouses on and near A Street.

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Good amount of hipsters in 12 channel St as well.

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and claim Fort Point as their neighborhood.

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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.

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You clearly know nothing about McSweeney's.

Then again, you are a mansplainer.

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Malcolm Gladwell instead of Musk. Happy?

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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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