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The Carmudgeon ShowAuthor: Hagerty Media
Part of the Hagerty Podcast Network, the Carmudgeon Show is a comedic, information-filled conversation with Jason Cammisa and Derek Tam-Scott, two car enthusiasts who are curmudgeonly beyond their years. Proving you dont have to be old to be grumpy, they spend each episode talking about whats wrong with various parts of the automotive universe. Despite their best efforts to keep it negative, they usually wind up laughing, happy, and extolling their love for cars. Which just makes them angrier and more bitter. Jason Cammisa is an automotive journalist, social-media figure, and TV host with over 300 million views on YouTube alone. Jasons deeply technical understanding, made possible by a lifelong obsession with cars, allows him to fully digest whats going on within an automobile and then put it into simple terms for others to understand. Also, a Masters Degree in Law trained him to be impossible to argue with. Derek Tam-Scott still tries. Hes a young automotive expert with old-man taste in cars, and a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering which means he knows how to be civil to Jason. Or at least he tries. With a decade and a halfs experience buying, selling, driving and brokering classic and exotic cars, hes experienced the worlds most iconic cars. And hated most of them. Language: en Genres: Automotive, Comedy, Leisure Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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20 Years In Automotive Journalism: Jason Cammisa’s Most Insane Assignment 20 Years In Automotive Journalism: Jason Cammisa’s Most Insane Assignment — Carmudgeon Ep. 244
Monday, 13 July, 2026
Just three days ago, Jason celebrated 20 years in an automotive journalism! The industry has changed in a number of ways - most noticeably, with video taking over as the primary consumed content medium over print. Jason’s career started at the beginning of the end of the print heydays - a time vastly different than the one we’re currently living in. Jason’s story starts in Ann Arbor, MI in 2007 - where actually, it almost stopped completely. Very quickly, he’s thrown into the middle of a pyramidal power struggle between the domain name-owning agency Automotive.com, and his in-person editorial team. From getting a speeding ticket on his first day with a press car, to getting fired by one internal team and immediately re-hired by another, to living in a place he struggled to call home, Jason nearly threw in the towel. But automotive legend Jean Jennings - his (real) boss at the time - is one of the reasons you see him with us today. And a trip from New York to New Orleans in a $250 Cadillac Fleetwood Limo cemented - but almost shattered - their relationship. This episode, amongst other parts of Jason’s career - is primarily about that perilous journey. Jason recounts his time in a broken-frame Cadillac limo with Jean and another automotive legend - Sam Smith - with nearly 100 breakdowns, bruises, burns, pink tutus and tuxedos, rubber ducks, and unbearable heat. But somehow, they made it - and you can read more about it here from the original airing of the article in Automobile Magazine in 2007: http://bit.ly/4vqFvhw (Also, a link to the 1983 Car And Driver Mexico Torture Test - you’ll understand why later in the show: https://www.caranddriver.com/photos/g17857487/escape-from-baja-mexican-sports-sedan-torture-test-archived-comparison-test-gallery/ ) All this and much more on this special episode of The Carmudgeon Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
