GHIT 0242: EveryDay Driver's Todd Deeken and Paul Schmucker

Published: Sept. 27, 2021, 7:30 a.m.

Everyday Driver started as one of the early YouTube channels in 2007 and again they started an early podcast in 2014 that Bill first discovered in late August.\xa0 The fundamental premise for Everyday Driver is that cars can and should be fun and they work tirelessly to help by testing virtually all types of new cars and many used cars.\xa0 In addition, a majority of their podcast segments are aimed at helping their listeners to find the car that matches their needs and maximizes the fun of driving everyday.

Paul and Todd were eventually able to grow this into a full time business for each of them and have a television show that is on its 9th season on the Motor Trend channel as well as having produced several of the finest automotive feature films, including the history of the 911, each of the BMW 3 series M cars, and every generation of the Corvette among others.\xa0 At one point, we were even going to race Road Atlanta with Todd, Paul, and Chance but things fell through due to scheduling issues so that rain check was issued and we hope to cash it in post Covid.\xa0 Paul and Todd are usually asking the questions or answering car related questions, so we tried to learn a bit more about them and their background during this episode.

Everyday Driver provided the final push to our team starting racing.\xa0 So you can blame then in part for our podcast, lol.\xa0\xa0

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating or even better, a podcast review, we would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is very easy.\xa0 If you go to your podcast library, under shows and click on the podcast you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.\xa0

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/EverydayDriver\xa0

We hope you enjoy this episode!

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Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

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Highlights from this episode include:

1)\xa0 We start of talking about our postponed endurance race and the potential for Todd and Paul to join us in a coming endurance race.

2)\xa0 Paul and Todd were kind enough to go into their respective pasts and go through their individual processes that has allowed them to transfer from a part time YouTube channel to a full time operation that has a show on Motor Trend, several feature films, two YouTube channels, and a twice weekly podcast that is closing in on 650 episodes with well over 1,000 hours of the podcast content.\xa0 And in their spare time, lol.

3)\xa0 If you have ever wanted to drive the Nurburgring and/or Spa, Paul and Todd also run an annual tour of both that allows you to arrive and drive both tracks as well as the transit between.

4)\xa0 Paul and Todd share the passion for cars and driving, but each are different in their preferences and driving style to compliment each other.\xa0 They often end up discussing the different cars and end with different preferences.\xa0 It is as close to watching a modern version of the "Siskel and Ebert" show that is aimed at cars and driving (with a bit less disagreement lol).\xa0 Bill seems to usually be a "Todd" and Vicki seems to usually fall into the camp of "Paul".

5)\xa0 We also go into how they transitioned from a part time, side operation to the more than full time operation that they now have.\xa0 The highs and lows, as well as what was a bit harder than they expected.

6)\xa0 Bill takes the opportunity to ask his Ladder question to Todd and Paul.\xa0 It is roughly stated as what is the lowest car that is currently available would you like that is better "to you" than everything else that is less expensive.\xa0 And then moving up the ladder, what car would be the next rung up the ladder until we get to cars in excess of $100,000 or so.

7)\xa0 We inadvertently almost broke news on this podcast of a future series that they have yet to announce.\xa0 Tune in to the Everyday Driver YouTube channel in the next few weeks for the reveal.

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You can follow Paul and Todd at:

Website:\xa0 https://www.everydaydriver.com/ \xa0

YouTube Site:\xa0 https://www.youtube.com/c/EverydayDriver\xa0