{"podcast":{"title":"The Carmudgeon Show","slug":"the-carmudgeon-show-5368942","podcast_index_feed_id":5368942,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/HGM7158837796","website_url":"http://sites.libsyn.com/410528/website","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/ef65297a-780e-11ed-b613-a73ab90cd13f/image/IMG_1266wHagerty2.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Hagerty Media","episode_count":199,"summary":"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 don’t have to be old to be grumpy, they spend each episode talking about what’s 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. Jason’s deeply technical understanding, made possible by a lifelong obsession with cars, allows him to fully digest what’s going on within an automobile — and then put it into simple terms for others to understand. Also, a Master’s Degree in Law trained him to be impossible to argue with. Derek Tam-Scott still tries. He’s a young automotive expert with old-man taste in cars, and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering — which means he knows how to be civil to Jason. Or at least he tries. With a decade and a half’s experience buying, selling, driving and b…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T06:17:47.677713+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942"},"episode":{"title":"Rivian R2 Review + Torturing The Chief Designer & Engineer Live — Carmudgeon Ep. 242 w Jason Cammisa","slug":"rivian-r2-review-torturing-the-chief-designer-engineer-live-carmudgeon-ep-242-w-jason-cammisa","published_at":"2026-06-30T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942/rivian-r2-review-torturing-the-chief-designer-engineer-live-carmudgeon-ep-242-w-jason-cammisa","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/HGM9956006845.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/HGM9956006845.mp3","summary":"On today’s episode, Jason and Derek get some exclusive seat time: both with the new Rivian R2, and with Rivian’s Chief Designer Officer Jeff Hammoud and Chief R2 Engineer Max Koff! === Visit http://JasonSentMe.com to get a Hagerty Guaranteed Value (TM) collector-car insurance quote! === The show hits the road, traveling to Rivian’s beautiful flagship space in San Francisco, where Jeff and Max face their worst nightmare: being peppered with questions and feedback about the new R2 - a make-or-break vehicle for the company. After Jason and Derek’s collective ~200 miles, they cover a host of issues - new design + UX features (halo wheels, rear drop glass, to name a few), acceleration times, uphill burnouts, R1 vs. R2, and most importantly (to Jason only) - the absence of Apple CarPlay. And of course, no episode is complete without a mention of Sacco Mercedes-Benzes and old Volkswagens (Mk1 Scirocco and Mk3 Corrado VR6). Will the R2 allow Rivian to continue its planned trajectory as a manufacture? And what’s going on with R3?? Time will tell, but we have a suspicion the Tesla Model Y better watch its back… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"On today’s episode, Jason and Derek get some exclusive seat time: both with the new Rivian R2, and with Rivian’s Chief Designer Officer Jeff Hammoud and C…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5955,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942/episodes/rivian-r2-review-torturing-the-chief-designer-engineer-live-carmudgeon-ep-242-w-jason-cammisa/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942/rivian-r2-review-torturing-the-chief-designer-engineer-live-carmudgeon-ep-242-w-jason-cammisa.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}