While pubcasters debate keeping Car Talk alive in reruns, Garrison Keillor hopes it will go “on and on,” along with his own Prairie Home Companion and Ira Glass's This American Life, according to an interview in the Los Angeles Times.
"Car Talk is a small slice of the week," Keillor said. "People love those voices, that Boston honk, and the way they laugh, it's so un-public radio."
Keillor also is backing away from talk of retiring in 2013. He told the Times media critic James Rainey that he wants to find a replacement host but has no timetable. "I see a lot of people who could do this," Keillor said. "The problem is persuading managers of public radio stations [to accept a new host]. And like managers everywhere, they tend to be very conservative. That is our conflict."
Keillor also envisions a big folk festival in St. Paul, Minn., for the show’s 40th-anniversary celebration in 2014.
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