Take a
Look Under the Hood...
The Body Shop is a radio program dedicated to the two most
important topics for most Americans: Health Care and Car
Care. Sure there's lots of programs about health, and
lots about cars, but nowhere else can you find a program
combining the talents of a surgeon and an auto mechanic,
who happen to be brothers.
Sibling
Rivalry
Tom, the older brother, enjoyed being the youngest in the
family for three years before Tim was brought home from the
hospital. He remembers how stricken he was at losing
the coveted youngest-child spot and yelling at his mother,
"Take him back! We don't need any more!" He has never
forgiven his younger brother for usurping his place in the
family. Tim, meanwhile, learned very early on the survival
lesson of younger brothers throughout the world, that to
knuckle under only means a worse beating next time.
Too old to be shooting rubber bands at each other at the
dinner table when their parents aren't looking, Tim &
Tom confine their rivalry to words, trading witty banter
(and sometimes not-so-witty banter, at least according to
the offended brother) back and forth and they discuss
topics of oil changes, colonoscopies, two-cycle engines,
obesity surgery, automotive electrical systems, vascular
disease and brake line mishaps.
The Body
Shop
Why
The Body
Shop? After all,
the brothers are a mechanic and a surgeon, not radio hosts.
And they have no formal broadcast training. (Yes, they know
it shows, thanks for the reminder.) But most of what's on
the radio is exactly that, professional radio hosts with
lots of training in broadcasting and none in anything else.
What's lacking, especially in the very important areas of
car care and health care, is people actually in the
business sharing what they know. So Tim and Tom started The
Body Shop in 2006 to talk about the two topics they know
the most about, automobiles and medicine. It's always
funny, usually accurate, and sometimes even informative.
Check us out in the junkyard, or at blogtalkradio.com.