The Tappet Brothers knew they had to link to my blog after seeing this groovy picture of my sisters and me in front of Cheryl’s lime green 1967 Mustang.
You’ve heard of an NPR show called Car Talk, right? Tom and Ray Magliozzi? Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers? Well, then you can imagine what fun it was to hear my talking computer sing out Doug Mayer’s name from my in box the other day.
Doug Mayer is the head writer of Car Talk and the producer of the radio show’s website. And as all Car Talk fans know, Doug Mayer is not a slave to fashion. Doug Mayer had emailed me to let me know he liked the post I’d written about driving the 2010 Mustang. He liked that post so much, in fact, that he added it to the “Links We Like” Section of the Car Talk website! This is no small thing – cartalk.com receives more than 400,000 unique visitors per week. You read that right: more than 400,000 unique visitors a week.
Hanni didn’t seem at all excited about the attention we might get from this great news. She did, however, take notice when my talking computer started barking out a bio of Doug Mayer’s dog Chloe from the Car Talk website:
Chloe Mayer is Car Talk’s Assistant Staff Canine.
Chloe commutes to Car Talk Plaza with Doug Mayer, her human companion. At Car Talk, her primary responsibility is to greet visitors, shake her tail so violently that her butt knocks over boxes, and bark menacingly when a visit from weird Bob next door is impending.
When not on duty at Car Talk Plaza, Chloe is responsible for keeping a number of beds at Mayer’s home office warm and fur covered, and staying on guard against the constant threat posed by possible Fed Ex, UPS-guy or Jehovah’s Witness visits.
In her 22 hours of free time each day, Chloe enjoys sleeping, running alongside skiers, sleeping, hiking, trail running, compost-pile excavation and cataloging, mindless retrieving of objects of all kinds and sleeping.
Now, that’s one job any working dog would love. I’m afraid Hanni is envious.
Wow I love those guys…….maybe this can work into a few minutes on their show! What a gas!
Oh, Nancy, you read my mind. I’d love to be on Car Talk! Let’s hope they call…
How exciting!
Wow! I am totally impressed. Tom and Ray are fabulous! Hope you’re not too cool for school now, Beth. Your young fans would be disappointed.
Wow – how great! You are just getting more famous by the minute. I love Chloe’s bio. She and Hanni have something very important in common – they get to spend their entire days with their beloved humans.
Yes, they are happy working dogs, aren’t they? And by coincidence I just heard about *another* dog with an unusual job description. Emjoy, the actress who played the Audrey Hepburn character in the Court Theatre production of “Wait Until Dark” just emailed me yesterday. She wanted to let me know she made the cast of “Arabian Nights” at Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago. I’m going to go see it! In her note, Emjoy mentioned “Mr. Beary,” the director’s dog: “Mary Zimmerman brings her dog Mr. Beary to every rehearsal so occasionally we’ll be singing a song or telling a story about magic genies on carpets and a large lazy dog will just slump onto the carpets with us. It’s very funny.”
Next thing we know, these dogs will want to unionize…!
Hi Beth. I listen to Click and Clack on a pretty regular basis even though I don’t drive, and they’re hilarious! I even read a portion of their book several years ago at a small Jesuit college in Lake Forest called Barat. I don’t think it’s around anymore. But Click and Clack do a great job, and from what I’ve heard they really know their stuff too! A sister of mine and her husband tried to answer one of the Puzzlers not too long ago but they unfortunately had the wrong answer, so didn’t manage a spot on the show.
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