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Tom Magliozzi, one of the hosts of NPR’s Car Talk, has died at 77 years old.
The radio host, known for his booming laughter, died from complications from Alzheimer’s disease, NPR reports.
Magliozzi and his brother, Ray, became famous public radio personalities as “Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers” on the weekly show Car Talk, which went national in 1987.
After graduating from MIT, where his brother also went, Magliozzi worked as an engineer, a college professor and a mechanic. He got into radio after a local station started putting together a panel of mechanics for a show. He was the only one who showed up but was such a hit that he was invited back (and brought his brother, who is twelve years his junior, with him).
Car Talk has been airing archived shows since 2012, when the brothers retired.
[NPR]
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