{"id":6151,"date":"2025-06-14T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/06\/14\/car-talk\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:16","slug":"car-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/06\/14\/car-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hJ12-5jEw8I?si=TsOIPRBQH3PRtZuO?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>The video above is really a lot of fun. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>We are approaching the 20th anniversary of the SolderSmoke Podcast. Our first upload was August 21, 2005. This has caused me to reflect a bit on those who are responsible for making our podcast what it is. So, these guys are definitely among the responsible. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Wow, MIT grads. Is Phil W1PJE listening? <br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> Dewey, Cheatham &#038; Howe! Right in the window! <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>How computers in cars have killed the joy. &#8220;There is just not a lot to be in love with anymore.&#8221; <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;The show sounds like the kind of thing you&#8217;d hear on a high school PA system.&#8221; Indeed. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Other influences: Jean Shepherd. HCJB. Radio Moscow. More to follow.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Here is their 1999 MIT Commencement Speech: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KWG1Yxoa_Os\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KWG1Yxoa_Os<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video above is really a lot of fun. We are approaching the 20th anniversary of the SolderSmoke Podcast. Our first upload was August 21, 2005. This has caused me to reflect a bit on those who are responsible for making our podcast what it is. So, these guys are definitely among the responsible. Wow, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/06\/14\/car-talk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Car Talk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,72,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean-shepherd","category-short-wave-listening","category-soldersmoke-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11073,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions\/11073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}