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Goodbye Car Talk, Hello Marketplace Weekend

It's time to say goodbye to Click and Clack. The Best of Car Talk will be leaving North State Public Radio's airwaves at the end of September. It will be replaced starting October 1, 2016, with American Public Media's Marketplace Weekend.

NPR announced this summer that Best of Car Talk would be ending production in fall 2017. As Current reported, "Car Talk ended production of brand-new episodes in 2012 with the retirement of iconic hosts Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the chatty, cackling car-mechanic brothers who started the show at WBUR in Boston in 1977. They stepped away from their mics as Tom Magliozzi’s health was declining; he died in 2014 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease."

In many ways, the Best of Car Talk is the best of public radio—honest, authentic, original, warm, interactive, broadly welcoming, and unforgettable. Car Talk fans have not only supported the show, they have been an important part of every episode. Car Talk would not be what it is without that special interaction between its hosts and listeners, and we're happy to share that you can continue to listen to the show online and in podcast form. You can also contact the Car Talk team directly via theirwebsite.

While we know this beloved show will be missed by many, we are excited to introduce you to APM's stellar Marketplace Weekend. 

Marketplace Weekend brings you powerful conversation on economies both large and personal, at a pace that suits your weekend life. Host Lizzie O'Leary delivers an hour of lively reporting with guests ranging from entertainers and entrepreneurs to government leaders and listeners, too. It's real people dealing with our ever-changing economy.

“One thing I would say about money and the way I think about it is, I think about money really as just a framing device,” O’Leary said in a recent conversation with NSPR. “It's something that forces us to do stuff or make choices. I think people are scared of it because it sounds like a different language that we don't speak, but it's not. It's just a window into sort of psychology. And so that's how we kind of look at the show.”

We can't wait for you to hear it—starting Oct. 1, listen Saturdays at 9 a.m. on NSPR.