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Car Talk

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Car Talk was a Peabody Award-winning radio talk show broadcast weekly on NPR stations and elsewhere. [1]

81 relations: Anthropomorphism, Ashley Judd, Associated Press, Audible (store), Auto mechanic, B. J. Leiderman, Bill Lee (left-handed pitcher), Bluegrass music, Bob Edwards, Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cars (film), Chevrolet Camaro, Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns, Commencement speech, Cup holder, Daily Breeze, Daniel Pinkwater, David Grisman, Dewey, Cheatem & Howe, Doctor of Business Administration, Dodge A100, Dodge Dart, Donald Duck, Geena Davis, Gordon Elliott, Green-light, Harvard Square, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Internal combustion engine, Italian Americana, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, John M. Grunsfeld, King Features Syndicate, Leo Tolstoy, Lightning McQueen, Margin of error, Mark Twain, Mars rover, Martha Stewart, Marx Brothers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master of Business Administration, Mid-season replacement, Mobile phone, Monaural, Morley Safer, National Radio Hall of Fame, NPR, Peabody Award, ..., Peugeot, Pixar, Podcast, Pun, Questrom School of Business, Ray Suarez, Running gag, Scott Simon, Self-hatred, Single-lens reflex camera, Space Shuttle, Sponsor (commercial), Sport utility vehicle, Suffolk University, Susan Stamberg, Sylvia Poggioli, Talk radio, The George Wendt Show, The Verge, Theme music, Toll-free telephone number, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, TV Guide, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, War and Peace, WBUR-FM, Will Shortz, XM Satellite Radio, Young Frankenstein, 1994–95 United States network television schedule. Expand index (31 more) »

Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.

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Ashley Judd

Ashley Judd (born Ashley Tyler Ciminella; April 19, 1968) is an American actress and political activist.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Audible (store)

Audible is a seller and producer of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming on the Internet.

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Auto mechanic

An auto mechanic (automotive technician in most of North America, car mechanic in British English, and motor mechanic in Australian English) is a mechanic with a variety of automobile makes or either in a specific area or in a specific make of automobile.

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B. J. Leiderman

BJ Leiderman (born February 14, 1956 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American composer and songwriter.

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Bill Lee (left-handed pitcher)

William Francis Lee III (born December 28, 1946), nicknamed Spaceman, is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher.

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music named after Kentucky mandolin player and songwriter Bill Monroe's band, the Bluegrass Boys 1939-96, and furthered by musicians who played with him, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt, or who simply admired the high-energy instrumental and vocal music Monroe's group created, and carried it on into new bands, some of which created subgenres (Progressive Bluegrass, Newgrass, Dawg Music etc.). Bluegrass is influenced by the music of Appalachia and other styles, including gospel and jazz.

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Bob Edwards

Robert Alan "Bob" Edwards (born May 16, 1947) is an American broadcast journalist, a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Cars (film)

Cars is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Chevrolet Camaro

The Chevrolet Camaro is an American automobile manufactured by Chevrolet, classified as a pony car and some versions also as a muscle car.

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Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns

Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns is an American animated sitcom that follows the adventures of the brothers Click and Clack from their auto repair shop, Car Talk Plaza.

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Commencement speech

A commencement speech or commencement address is a speech given to graduating students, generally at a university, generally in the United States, although the term is also used for secondary education institutions.

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Cup holder

A cup holder is a device, such as a zarf, to hold a cup or other drinking vessel.

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Daily Breeze

The Daily Breeze is a print and digital news media company based in Torrance, California.

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Daniel Pinkwater

Daniel Manus Pinkwater (born November 15, 1941) is an American author of children's books and "Young Adult" fiction.

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David Grisman

David Grisman (born March 23, 1945) is an American mandolinist.

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Dewey, Cheatem & Howe

Dewey, Cheatem & Howe is the gag name of a fictional law or accounting firm, used in several parody settings.

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Doctor of Business Administration

The Doctor of Business Administration (abbreviated DBA, D.B.A., DrBA, or Dr.B.A. or BusD) is a research doctorate awarded on the basis of advanced study and research in the field of business administration.

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Dodge A100

The A100 is a range of American compact vans and trucks manufactured and marketed from 1964 to 1970 by Chrysler Corporation under the Dodge marque in the United States and the Fargo marque in Canada.

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Dodge Dart

The Dodge Dart is an automobile originally built by Dodge from 1960 to 1976 in North America, with production extended to later years in various other markets.

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Donald Duck

Donald Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions.

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Geena Davis

Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis (born January 21, 1956) is an American actress, film producer, writer, voice actress, former model, and former archer.

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Gordon Elliott

Gordon Elliott (born 30 September 1956) is a British Australian journalist and producer, radio and television personality, based now in the US He is the executive producer of ABC's daytime cooking related talk show The Chew, and had his own eponymous TV talk show program, between 1994 and 1997 The Gordon Elliott Show and Door Knock Dinners.

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Green-light

To green-light is to give permission or a go ahead to move forward with a project.

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Harvard Square

Harvard Square is a triangular plaza at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, Brattle Street, and John F. Kennedy Street, near the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Huey, Dewey, and Louie

Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck are triplet cartoon characters created in 1937 by writer Ted Osborne and cartoonist Al Taliaferro, and are owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine (ICE) is a heat engine where the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.

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Italian Americana

Italian Americana is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies on the Italian-American experience.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in Pasadena, California, United States, with large portions of the campus in La Cañada Flintridge, California.

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John M. Grunsfeld

John Mace Grunsfeld (born October 10, 1958) is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut.

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King Features Syndicate

King Features Syndicate, Inc. is a print syndication company owned by Hearst Communications that distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles, and games to nearly 5,000 newspapers worldwide.

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Leo Tolstoy

Count Lyov (also Lev) Nikolayevich Tolstoy (also Лев) Николаевич ТолстойIn Tolstoy's day, his name was written Левъ Николаевичъ Толстой.

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Lightning McQueen

Lightning McQueen, typically referred to by his surname McQueen, is an anthropomorphic stock car in the animated Pixar film Cars (2006), its sequels Cars 2 (2011), Cars 3 (2017), and TV shorts known as Cars Toons. The character is not named after actor and race driver Steve McQueen, but actually Pixar animator Glenn McQueen, who died in 2002.

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Margin of error

The margin of error is a statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Mars rover

A Mars rover is an automated motor vehicle that propels itself across the surface of the planet Mars upon arrival.

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Martha Stewart

Martha Helen Stewart (née Kostyra; born August 3, 1941) is an American businesswoman, writer, and television personality.

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Marx Brothers

The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in motion pictures from 1905 to 1949.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration (MBA or M.B.A.) is a master's degree in business administration (management).

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Mid-season replacement

In American and Canadian television, a mid-season replacement is a television series that premieres in the second half of the traditional television season, usually between January and May.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone, known as a cell phone in North America, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area.

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Monaural

Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction (often shortened to mono) is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position.

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Morley Safer

Morley Safer (November 8, 1931 – May 19, 2016) was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News.

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National Radio Hall of Fame

The National Radio Hall of Fame (NRHOF) is a United States organization that was created by the Emerson Radio Corporation in 1988.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Peabody Award

The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards) program, named for American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and online media.

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Peugeot

Peugeot is a French automotive manufacturer, part of Groupe PSA.

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Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, commonly referred to as Pixar, is an American computer animation movie studio based in Emeryville, California that is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Podcast

A podcast, or generically netcast, is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download and listen to.

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Pun

The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

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Questrom School of Business

The Questrom School of Business (formerly, the Boston University School of Management) is the business school at Boston University in Boston, MA, USA.

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Ray Suarez

Rafael Suarez, Jr. (born March 5, 1957), known as Ray Suarez, is an American broadcast journalist and the current John J. McCloy Visiting Professor of American Studies at Amherst College.

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Running gag

A running gag, or running joke, is a literary device that takes the form of an amusing joke or a comical reference and appears repeatedly throughout a work of literature or other form of storytelling.

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Scott Simon

Scott Simon (born March 16, 1952) is an American journalist and the host of Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR.

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Self-hatred

Self-hatred (also called self loathing) refers to an extreme dislike or hatred of oneself, or being angry at or even prejudiced against oneself.

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Single-lens reflex camera

A single-lens reflex camera (SLR) is a camera that typically uses a mirror and prism system (hence "reflex" from the mirror's reflection) that permits the photographer to view through the lens and see exactly what will be captured.

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Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the Space Shuttle program.

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Sponsor (commercial)

Sponsoring something (or someone) is the act of supporting an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services.

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Sport utility vehicle

Sport-utility (vehicle), SUV or sport-ute is an automotive classification, typically a kind of station wagon / estate car with off-road vehicle features like raised ground clearance and ruggedness, and available four-wheel drive.

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Suffolk University

Suffolk University is a private, non-sectarian research university located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Susan Stamberg

Susan Stamberg (born September 7, 1938) is an American radio journalist who is a Special Correspondent for National Public Radio and guest host of Weekend Edition Saturday.

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Sylvia Poggioli

Sylvia Poggioli (or; born 19 May 1946) is an American radio reporter for National Public Radio.

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Talk radio

Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music.

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The George Wendt Show

The George Wendt Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from March 8 to April 12, 1995.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news and media network operated by Vox Media.

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Theme music

Theme music is a piece that is often written specifically for a radio program, television program, video game or movie, and usually played during the intro, opening credits and/or ending credits.

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Toll-free telephone number

A toll-free telephone number or freephone number is a telephone number that is billed for all arriving calls instead of incurring charges to the originating telephone subscriber.

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Tom and Ray Magliozzi

Thomas Louis "Tom" Magliozzi (June 28, 1937 – November 3, 2014) and his brother Raymond Francis "Ray" Magliozzi (born March 30, 1949) were the co-hosts of NPR's weekly radio show, Car Talk, where they were known as "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers".

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TV Guide

TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes.

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Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) aims to develop the civic, cultural, and intellectual life of the Commonwealth of Virginia by creating learning opportunities for all Virginians.

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Walt Disney's Comics and Stories

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, sometimes abbreviated WDC or WDC&S, is an anthology comic book series that has an assortment of Disney characters, including Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse, Chip 'n Dale, Lil Bad Wolf, Scamp, Bucky Bug, Grandma Duck, Brer Rabbit, Winnie the Pooh, and others.

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War and Peace

War and Peace (pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; post-reform translit) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

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WBUR-FM

WBUR-FM (90.9 FM) is a public radio station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Boston University.

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Will Shortz

Will Shortz (born August 26, 1952 in Crawfordsville, Indiana) is an American puzzle creator and editor, and crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times.

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XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio (XM) was one of the three satellite radio (SDARS) and online radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Holdings.

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Young Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr.

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1994–95 United States network television schedule

The 1994–95 network television schedule for the six major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers prime time hours from September 1994 to August 1995.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Talk

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