The Chevrolet Corvette is a fast and stylish car that many people love to drive. It's known for being really powerful and fun on the road, and it has a special place in American car history.
Circuit of the Americas is a famous racetrack in Texas where many car races take place. It's known for its exciting design and is used for big events like Formula 1 races.
A track day is when people can drive their cars on a racetrack, allowing them to go faster and learn how to handle their cars better in a safe environment.
HPDE means High-Performance Driving Experience, where you can drive your car on a racetrack and learn how to handle it better, usually with help from experts.
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Hello, everybody. Thanks for listening. We are back with a very brief, mostly update podcast because we know we've been quiet for a bit. I listen to a few podcasts and I know, personally, when the podcast goes away for a bit, you're kind of out of sorts. Like, you're normal. Like, what do I listen to on this day? I listen to this. It's not there. It's true. It's definitely happened to me and I know that that we've been a little silent and I wanted to speak to that and try to explain what we've done, what's going on. There's been a few questions online.
But I don't know if you remember. We went to Coda and now we've done Coda. I remembered, but then I forgot because we did so much other filming and then I remembered again. Yes, I agree. But the photos will be a great time because we'll remember with photos. I'll post some of those on social media along with this podcast, extra podcast, and just a quick update to let you all know what's going on, what's been going on. Our backs are sore because we've been driving for two weeks. Yes, we have. Nearly 5,000 miles. The cars still aren't home because the cars are currently in Kansas City.
We're going back to Kansas City this weekend to drive hedge hollow. It's going to be amazing. Yes. Then we get the cars home with over 5,000 miles on them. And then I do want to mention that we are going to be at the National Corvette Museum track, the NCM track on June 28th and 29th with our brand new Mid Atlantic region. That is their launch event. And we are very excited. We've never driven that track. We're looking for some exciting things to drive there. We're working on that. We'll see where that goes. But we're very excited to be at that track. We hope if you're in the region, you've ever wanted to drive NCM.
Before, come drive it with hooked on driving. That is going to be an amazing event. Again, that's June 28th, 29th. This weekend is hedge hollow, 13, 14, 15. We're doing a lot still. But we are here to talk a little bit about Coda, what happened and what is coming because, let's see, 11 days, 11 days total. We just got back. I had to go back and scroll through my phone. I had to look and I found photos and like, Oh, yeah, we did that too. That happened. Oh, I know.
It was like less than a week ago. When we were a week away from Coda, we were on the back end of the road trip and Coda felt like three weeks prior. We had this. We had an amazing two days at circuit of the Americas. We drove 13 cars total on camera between the week prior to circuit of the Americas and the week after that is 13 featured cars, including our own. That means multiple road trip films are coming. It's going to be a whole series. My tally was 14 states. Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky,
North Carolina, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Wyoming by the time we get home. I counted nine on the way to Knoxville, where we stayed after doing tail of the dragon. We have never done it. Thank you to those who joined us on the tail. It was incredible. It really impressed us. And I liked it so much better than I thought it would. I knew I'd like it. But I came away loving that road. We're going to end up with some really good coverage about that road. Actually more coverage on tail of the dragon specifically than I kind of expected when we first went into it.
It's going to be great. I have to I have to say this to put it on record. We went to circuit of the Americas after six months worth of planning to do our 1000th podcast to have a two day track day to have a road trip before and after.
And I have to admit it was scary the entire time until the event opened Saturday morning. I was excited and quite quite anxious and it was and I'm saying this because it was said to us that I was want to put it out there in the world.
Because I can't believe what was said to us from local drivers that have driven circuit of the Americas before local coaches that have worked circuit of the Americas before at other HPDE
companies and Koda themselves. We were told regularly it was one of the best hooked apart me one of the best track days ever held at Koda by one of the groups
like hooked on driving hooked on driving put on a phenomenal event. We are incredibly proud of all the hard work of Mandy and Derek Lonnie and Marla. All of the
coaches, Tupper, DW, I could go on listing people Rob. I keep all these faces are floating in front of my brain. All there were so many of you. There are all these local coaches.
It is. I'm trying to win the actors. Yes. I can. And then they remember their agents. Yes, their manager. I didn't write the speech down. I did a really bad job. There are so many people that made it an amazing event. We had great coaches. We had incredible low count car days. We had low count days on purpose. I want you to understand. This is what hooked on driving
is what you're paying for is low count days. People had amazing time on track for both of those days. You and I got on track quite a bit which was nice. More than I expected. I expected like I'll get a few laps. I got like your full session. Which is really cool. So that was amazing as well. We had an incredible couple of days. We're looking forward to hopefully doing circuit of the Americas again under hooked on driving. We're also looking forward to hopefully a new Texas franchise that we can build up around that event. But that's a big signature corporate hooked on driving national event. We're looking forward to doing it again.
But it was so much fun and it turned out you plan something like this, a big birthday party, a huge anniversary, whatever it is. And you have the way you hope it'll go. And then you have in the back your mind all the ways it could really go wrong. We've been living in that space in a grand scale for a long time all the way up to all of our technology failing before the thousandth podcast. And ultimately it went really, really well. It went well minutes before we needed to record. Yes. I am so happy with how it went.
It felt relaxed. We had, by the way, everyone, we took the record not only for being the first podcast at the top of the tower, the first live stream podcast. And the most chairs fit at the top of the code of tower. 39 chairs, I believe, I think we were sitting down. Yeah. Todd and I then chance. And then we had people sitting down. Your wife Kate was there. Derrick was sitting down. I think maybe was sitting bringing chairs for the last minute. For some of those folks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We took the record, which felt really good. It did. It did.
Apparently there have been many concerts at the top. Another employee of Coda has gone on to become a country star. His name's Dylan Gossett. And he came back and did a mini concert from the top of the tower. So apparently concert has happened, but also a podcast has happened. I'm very proud of it. I looked over the edge once you did once. And I was very proud of it. I got through it. You did. I managed to, but I such fun memories such a great time. I didn't want it to end.
That was a very cool podcast. Let me, let me stop right there because this is key. That was podcast 1000. You're listening this right now. And you podcast 1000 isn't currently available. And this is the reason we're doing this update. I want you guys to understand this. We had the live stream on that night, May 31st, that Saturday night. We did a live stream. We left it up for about 24 hours because it was raw. It was done from the top of the tower, etc. And also it was done on a Saturday. Okay. And we aren't ready with studio and schedule to start
2001 and move forward weekly. So we pulled it down off of the YouTube channel as a live stream. I'm putting a little bit of stuff front and rear. So you kind of get a sense of the event. And then that piece will go back up on the main YouTube channel, the everyday driver, YouTube channel. When it goes up in a week or so, that will be the beginning of weekly cadence for 1000, 1000, 2000, 2003, etc. Okay. So we're going to align that 1000 to release with, okay, next week you can expect another one. Also, when that 1000 goes up,
as a YouTube video, we will also drop as audio, which it hasn't existed as audio yet. So all those of you that get this on your feed, you will get the 1000th podcast as audio only coming out then again on a week or two. That's when that's going to happen.
We will launch that on a Tuesday. Our intention is that podcasts will launch on Tuesdays going forward. It will probably this may change a bit. It will probably be what you've expected on Tuesdays, meaning like really early in the morning, like one in the morning, your phone gets the updated podcast episode.
On your audio podcast feed and they'll on YouTube, it'll drop about noon. Okay. That'll be Tuesdays going forward. But we wanted to get the 1000th, 1000 one with the studio and everything we're doing ready to drop the 1000 the week before the 1000 one and off we go indefinitely doing another podcast with a video element, but still audio is key going forward.
I don't even know how long we're doing this, but we're doing it for a while. It's going to keep going. Yes.
Regarding hooked on driving, there's another signature event for all the Northeast drivers. We've mentioned it before. And that is 4th of July 2025 big three day event July 3rd through the 6th load in July 3rd in the evening by 6pm camping available. Check out the website. That is a huge event. They've got a lot of drivers. I think over 600 people have already signed up for the car show alone not to mention three days on track fireworks camping. It's going to be a huge, huge great celebration.
So more details at hooked on driving.com and also there's other events ongoing at all regions. Now we're just starting to get in the peak season of driving for every region. So I just want to encourage you if you've ever thought about getting on track with great coaching. That's the key. That's the signature for hooked on driving is excellent instruction. So that you know and you're safe and you're confident in your car. You can bring the car that you love and know that the person next to you in the pit lane loves their car to you don't want to connect you want to have a great time.
That's the whole place. Yes. Yes. Switching over to every driver. Go to the adventures tab. You can find the Utah adventure for 2025 and also bear tooth in September. That's become a famous one. And we really really love doing that. We'd love to fully sell that out and come with us. If you've been considering it. We had such a great time on this last one that wasn't even an adventure. And people love coming with us. So we'd love to have you. Please keep sending us also your car debates, your car conclusions and topic Tuesday.
We mentioned the Tuesday release because topic Tuesdays very much are still a part of what we do. Keep it broadened and expanded and we still want to hear your emails. We know your car shopping has not stopped. Nope. Still not looking. So keep those coming. Those emails coming as well. Yeah. Keep in mind that the the structure of the podcast is not going to be rigid. But the structure of the podcast going forward will be roughly a 90 minute to two hour episode. That's what we're intending once a week with the video element. But all of the pieces will be in every episode. It'll have a topic Tuesday. It'll have some cards.
It'll have some car conclusions. It'll have some random ranting by one or both of us about topics that we like like movies and design and who knows. And then it'll still take your live questions. So all your questions, I say live, the questions that you've posted for that episode just before we go live. That'll be all the stuff we do. And I'm going to go ahead and put it out there.
Even though these will be pre-recorded. I keep using the word live wrong. I'm going to try to clarify. We are going to record them and we're going to release them on Tuesdays. But every 25 we will still do an actual live one. Yes.
It's just the 25s will come out as fast because we're only doing one podcast a week. But all of the things will be in that podcast.
We're looking forward to your ongoing questions. Thank you to all of you that joined us anywhere along our road trip. It was such madness to be filming featured cars every day.
But every day at lunch, we'd be like, there's a new person right there. At dinner, there'd be two more people right there. At the drivers meeting the next day, we'd be like, I haven't seen three of you. It was amazing. It was amazing. Now the downside to that was we were doing so much that we weren't able to hang out with many of you as much as we liked.
Now we think we need to start trying to do it. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. We're talking about, can we do a regular East Coast meetup drive every year? We don't know. We're stacking things deep folks.
But the reason that we're going to one podcast a week is to add the video element, apparently every podcast needs now. And also to free up our schedule a little bit because there's so much going on. We love doing these road trips with you guys. We thank you so much for listening for watching to our big videos.
Again, the Coda series is going to be massive. We've got other big stuff coming this year. We haven't even filmed yet. That's also coming.
We just had to get to midway through the year. The Coda adventure. We kept telling ourselves, just get to Coda. Just get. I wish we could get it done. We did. I wish I could describe to all of you. Those of us that were working the event you and me.
The level of sleep we've gotten in the 24, 48 hours we've been home has been like the sleep of the dead. There has been catch up going on. Yeah, it's been. It's been a lot of stuff. But it's been so cool. And I've met so many of you and seen so many of you again.
I just I still kind of can't get over. I am on a high. But of course I'll do that thing I always do. And that is I'll really enjoy it now that I edit it.
That's right. I just you know, I'll get to really enjoy it now that we're home. It's like reliving your vacation through your camera. Like that's right. We went to Italy. Oh my gosh. I saw that road too.
Okay, we're off to visit chiropractors to stretch our bodies out and unfold out of the seats because that still hasn't happened. But we're getting there.
Looking forward to kicking this off. We'll definitely continue to post on social. I realize I haven't done any posting on social is going to catch up. Yeah, we've been so busy and that had to drop off the plate. But that will start regular cadence again and looking forward to hearing from you. Cheers everyone.
About this episode
Exciting updates on the Everyday Driver podcast reveal plans for the upcoming 1000th episode and future events. The hosts share their recent experiences at Circuit of the Americas, including driving 13 cars and participating in a successful track day with hooked on driving. They discuss upcoming events, including a launch at the National Corvette Museum track and a major July 4th celebration. Listeners can expect a new weekly podcast format with video elements, while the hosts reflect on their road trip adventures and the community of car enthusiasts they've met along the way.
Hello all, a brief extra to let you know what's coming and what we've been up to! We're transitioning over to video podcasts, but will still publish audio-only too. On May 31, 2025, we successfully live-streamed Episode 1000 from the top of the COTA tower that will be re-uploaded soon. We're looking forward to the new format and see you soon!
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