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The loss of Car Talk (as well as You Bet Your Garden) from my local NPR broadcast are both still felt sharply.

A Prairie Home Companion was also a dear loss too.

I enjoyed Live from Here, its replacement - but Chris Thile was not Garrison Keillor, and the pivot from an even mix of storytelling and music to mostly storytelling, caused it to lose something.

I think had COVID not come along, it could have found its audience, but alas, COVID came and it went.

The switch to WFH definitely lost a lot of NPR radio time. While not driveway moments, since Car Talk was on the weekend, I would find myself with parking lot moments as I was usually running weekend errands and would find myself hanging out in the parking lot of Home Depot.

Live From Here was mostly storytelling? I thought it was mostly music, given that Thile is one of the greatest living musicians. I never listened to a whole LFH show, but I watch a lot of great musical clips from it.

Here's my favorite LFH clip: https://youtu.be/I_LhXKBSNi8?si=QzqUBXzWLutFQtck&t=127

Yes, indeed, I meant it the other way.

I believe the entire Car Talk catalog(or maybe just "Best of Car Talk", but still many years worth) is available on the NPR site / app, if streaming is an option for you.

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