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CAN YOU SAY THATONRADIO?A pair of brothers from Boston are trying to do for carswhatDr Ruth Westheimerdid for sex

B y Robert E . CharmRay: "Hello, you're on the air."Caller: "Hi. First I want to ull youthat my husband an d I redly enjoy yourprogram. We listen to you every Sundaynight, an d I never rhoughr I'd call, but-''Ray. "We didn't think so either."Tom: "Yeah, we've been waiting all thistime, thinking, 'When is s k going to d l ?She keeps promising... "-Ray and Tom Magllaz i of Car Talk

f you've been watching C k e r s onTV-you know, that show on NBCabout a tarm Boston-you've heardCliff the mlman go off on one ofhls Hibernian phllosophrcal flightsand you probably think you know w h a ~re d Boston accent sounds Ilk.Well, sorryto drsagpoint you, but nobody up here inthls c o m a of the U.S knows where theactor got the accent he's trylng to palm offas g e n u m Bostonian. Somewh cn betweenHoboken and Akron,mosl l k l yTo hear a rral Boston aroent, nme n toyour lneal Nat~onalPublic M o W nSunday monungs for Weekend Ed~tion.hisnew program is paced a lot slower thanmost news W s t's aM f radio egwv-aknt of the Sunday papcr, an m a m m t ofnews. arts and llfestyk fcaturcs rnlmdcd forkisurely audio p c ~ s a l hile one mdulgcs loa n u n h u m c d S u n d a y b r e a k f a s ( o f ~ ,c a ~ ~ u o c i n ~ .roi r~~~nrsvec ladm.nd&+in c i n c h c e d with 4 & s . Angular fcsnue is a 15 minute visit with nvocar mechanics namd T a n and Ray Magli-oz z i (p ronounc e d Mall-Yacht-cee ...Wink). Thcy'vc had a weekly pugram caUcdC a r Talk on Boston public radio stationWBUR for 10 years. It's an unmmplicpteds h o d i al l in with quatiaD aboutcam and car mpair and the hoQrs give th eanswers. And if chey cso't give the a n s wt h e y m k e M j a l r c s i n s ( u d .Simple, hiced, but it's boeome the m tpopllar pmgramon he station. Whcn Week-end Edifim hog Susati Stambcrg was sann-ing the c m m y for talmt for her new show.

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she l~srencdtoadnmrapofTanandRay .I mk about thnc minuts for her to decidekse guys d e d nationalaudience."I lrstened and heard those accenIs."Stamberg s a d fm m her Washington, D.C.studios. "They're so genuine, so smart.Tell them any muble you have, they'll k l psolve it . lt's almost like going to a csrshrink."A car shrink. Yes. Judging by th e callsthcy get, it's a comparison more appropriatethan Stamberg probably knows.

"The temperature lrghr on my car's dash

keeps gorng on.""You didn't t& the radiator capoflandsee if there's coolant, did you?""No.""You want to da this eNirely by infer-ence, eh?"The studios of WBUR have thc kind ofcramped. shahby. lax-deduc t ibledo~tion

h a ommon to puMic stations allthe heunhy. lbt are weer stains on theceilmg. g m g s in the wdls, chip on theFormica ables, grubby, rmsma~~hedhairs.and a dirty floor tangled with wlres andAUTOWEEK JUNE 1.1987

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I The M . g l l o u l s may no t a h m y s come upw nh th e answer, but lhey always have funcables. There arc about eight "N O SM O K-I N G " signs taped to the walls, i n vain.m a t ' s because 10 minutes after the arrivalo f the Magl iozr i Brothers with their ciga-rettes and cigars. the studio looks l ike Lo sAngeles on a Health Alen day. It's f romthese studios that the M a g l i o v i s do theirlocal show live and, via satellite link, tapetheir Sunday morning with Stamberg downin Waqhinemn~~ = - - ~ ~

Ray. 37. wearing a khak i shirt. chinowork pants an d grease under his fingernailslooks l ike a...a...a...well, he looks l i kea ca r mechanic . ac tua l l y . H is brother,maybe 10 years older and dressed similarly,bears a dis turb ing resemblance to Auro-WeeP's own Leon Mandel. except he's per-haps a little taller.Th e Boston version o f their show opensw i th the Car Talk theme, a banjo ri f f easi lymistaken fo r the k i n d o f Revolurionary -Hoedowns ofrhe Sandinisras-type show one

usually hears on public radio. Th e nationalversion plays i t a little straighter. Th e soundo f a car engine revving serves as the intro.Both versions then segue to Those Voicesand Those Accents.

"I u r t u shift problem on my Plymourh.When If i rs f rlrive ir'sfine hu t rhen. when i fw,urms up, you reully hrnr s,~ , r m c h0 geti f in Xear.""Iure tr r suy this. bur rou ' re probubl?

our i$rrimsmission oi l ."" I hu~,en'r hecked i f . I f ' s us t u junker.""Yeah! You uin'r kiddin'. Ift wasn't ajunker before, ir is no-,.''Th e accents. which have to be heard to beappreciated, probably were what Stamberghad in mind when she said her only secondthought about having them on her show waswhether people f rom other pan, o f thecountry "could develop the same rapporiwith them that Boston listeners have." Orto pu t i t more simply. would the listener inAmes. Iowa. (WOI-AM) understand thatwhen a ~ a g l i o z z i aid "Caaaahhhh:' hemeant "car."They come by the accent honeslly, hav.in g grown up in a working class neighbor-

hood o f East Cambridge. just outside o fBoston. East Cambridge is one o f thoseneighborhods where the young men eithergo into the priesthood, a trade, or prison.Th e brothers took a slightly different route.AUTOWEEK JUNE 1. 1981

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~ . E r b n c ~ t o M T w b c n T o mpidnd op a c h c d engiocsrine d e pdRqp*Lalagmcnlse*aadcgrec.Tknhywminto8mde.It w a s a d o - i t - ~ ~ .kbwas the wrly "10sand BostaD rrr fellO r ~ ~ i a t o ~ d P n - ~self, back- mmmmt, dtg rtgk.18 people living togexher in a spmwiiqN b d o w n V i n a h n r r m g h n ~ t o f m dw r y r t o 8 ) l r a g m d r r m r i j l m l ~ i ucbebackysrd,db)Laptbsirugoltal~ ~ . C b e v g - , ~ ~ p o a t l l j s e p srmmiDgintkdrivew8y.T c m d R q pvidrdafoay ~ ~ f d r m e m t ow o r L , t o d s t h r t d b em t a l d l d v i c tUmtwasfm. "Wefiguredae'daDadthae3 5 f t c t a w a y f m m t b e ~ i n m r c l a pmur 8ed my, .Ycab. 8djusl that. Ti@mthis',"Raysaid.d.'IheycPUeditfhc'.omlN C M ~ . . d f h c i d a M l L a f f o r *ssb i l e ,botmeDcrmc~bdocwr ." C a g o t m o ~ c ~ , " s d d T o m ."Tbe ( cus t o lm)wouWga in~mdm'd Bm to bdp out." Tbe bipphwaetandog into yu*. Lgs ilmmsa 8adless capable of usdencanding w b w u

Radio 11stc1~0gudience. Have no doubtabout it. They're going to be a huge success.adwUpmbablyroargaaregularshmoftheir-. A t d t h a t ' s a g o ~ I t b i ~ ! ~NPR needs car shrinks. When it comesbcnsNPRlisrmwirecmy.nytoffgmitarr AlolofhblicRdiopop*don'tliLcurs.llvyViCwmem.sOW,O-, e m v e , clry,cl.ss, lpplimceswhoseolllylalvnlucia~a d i e illboard for left-wiq politidbPmpr s t i d r a s . Tb i du o f dd v i n g aurorfunubcyolldthcirmmprcbmslonsndt b e i a ao f an i ngapmc rh r l , c xpmkadaotsicsponsePhrtlbjcQOmeird&p d i s l pgwr l .s vrgudy im-~ . A ~W p a v e r s e l ~ , W l o v r a r b . t -w mu t istky own. llq've beta driv-~ ~ k a p f a 1 S y e s r ~ d h y h r t a d t olragfhcheapgoiag-1JF.'Wsa 1969Vh.""How's rh e nur on rhir baby?""WeU, people shouldk'r sir cR ac pds-e s ide."Ar i dh e s p a t h c ym .Ta t c a a rmyo fktums and you'll fmd mep dike waen r , ~ .mo r e r u&d - om19 7 0 ' s v b1.a Toy& cormlas, more S n hm,r e ~ r r~s B210s, Dodgc C-ts,aoaL civics. Peugwt 504s. S88b 968,thore Volvo 142s, 164s, 241s. 1448,

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w x - & i t e d t o p n t * i p t e b u t i m w A ~ c i h o e a ~ , r u w i w c d ~ r r a o . f ad ymw b s b o R d u p . T b e s b o r r a * ~ i r , ~ g i v e B & t k o a a a s n m aa e l l , U ~ ~ ~ g h . d h c w a s i n v i t c d b d . R qt o f o o t d o w u p m . ' l l m t ' a f h c d yurn,mo. Things looked dicey, bowamr, orsbsnnbb.whcntkymivcdathcsaai iomdfomd RapbhWPcalhap.thaewaamhopdtiogfaIkm,c&yr N o w ~ v a ~ i t o r a y S ~ y . mIlotc:"WatEhtbelmPrmneEUvsmdrood

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