Podcasts by Hank Watsons Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers

Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers

50,000 watts of gearhead terror. We’re the talk radio blowtorch you want, chock-full of cars, trucks, beers and guns since 2009. We'll be your go-to for gearhead get-some, full of the sliciest canyon carving, dirtiest off-roading, biggest calibers, hairiest sasquatches, loudest explosions, plus the best epic fails, smoking rubble and blue-collar awesomesauce since Top Gear full of beer.

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.03.23 (MP3): Guns, Whiskey, Tanks&the Phantom Crapper (i.e. Random Gearhead Awesomesauce) - Live from EAS, w/ Tank VS Tank, Lemans VS Lemons, Old Lexuses VS Glickenhouse Porsches, + Sabot Rounds, Crotch Bats&the Jerky Boys from 2023-12-10T19:15:17

Yeah, yeah, it’s been too long.  …Usual Christmastime to-do list is kicking everyone’s ass.  Thankfully, Caleb from EAS in the ‘Springs kicked Hostus Maximus Justin and Gearhead Celebutant Mark’...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.03.23: Guns, Whiskey, Tanks&the Phantom Crapper (i.e. Random Gearhead Awesomesauce) - Live from EAS, w/ Tank VS Tank, Lemans VS Lemons, Old Lexuses VS Glickenhouse Porsches, + Sabot Rounds, Crotch Bats&the Jerky Boys from 2023-12-10T19:03:27

Yeah, yeah, it’s been too long.  …Usual Christmastime to-do list is kicking everyone’s ass.  Thankfully, Caleb from EAS in the ‘Springs kicked Hostus Maximus Justin and Gearhead Celebutant Mark’...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.22.23 (MP3): So Much - Fart Pipes, Bad Tires, Good Thinking, Automatic Transmissions (or Trannies), Volvo Households, Off-Roaders VS REI, the Electric Car “Cold Snap Sprint”, Ice Fog, Louisiana Fog, + RIP to Some Excellent Weirdos from 2023-11-05T19:01:06

Okay, busy boy does gearhead goodness:  good pipes on slushbox BR-Zs (awww), Volvo households and 244s (turbo!), car racism and Tiptronic, automatic trannies for off-road effect, avoiding Chines...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.22.23: So Much - Fart Pipes, Bad Tires, Good Thinking, Automatic Transmissions (or Trannies), Volvo Households, Off-Roaders VS REI, the Electric Car “Cold Snap Sprint”, Ice Fog, Louisiana Fog, + RIP to Some Excellent Weirdos from 2023-11-05T18:55:37

Okay, busy boy does gearhead goodness:  good pipes on slushbox BR-Zs (awww), Volvo households and 244s (turbo!), car racism and Tiptronic, automatic trannies for off-road effect, avoiding Chines...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.01.23 (MP3): Cars Getting Uglier (Melty Booger Benz)&Weather Getting Nastier (&Invading ze Garadtch), Tie-Down Authentication&Ratchet-Strap Redundancy, Jeepers FAFO&Electric Jeeping Because Cheap(ening), + Dude Food Meat Science from 2023-10-24T04:28:38

Somuchworktodo…. Sorry about the untimely uploads, but the Gearhead Consultancy’s plate doth overfloweth.  Now, about some good talk:  What happens when a thunderstorm bombs the garage, and what...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.01.23: Cars Getting Uglier (Melty Booger Benz)&Weather Getting Nastier (&Invading ze Garadtch), Tie-Down Authentication&Ratchet-Strap Redundancy, Jeepers FAFO&Electric Jeeping Because Cheap(ening), + Dude Food Meat Science from 2023-10-24T04:11:51

Somuchworktodo…. Sorry about the untimely uploads, but the Gearhead Consultancy’s plate doth overfloweth.  Now, about some good talk:  What happens when a thunderstorm bombs the garage, and what...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.20.23 (MP3): Shredding Nuts&Bolts&Shocks, Invading Wolves&Bears&Cougars, Goolag Kills Drivers (?), Robot Semis Attack CA (&OH&IN), Diesel Makes Batteries Work, Green Makes LEGOs Fail, + Dad’s Cigarette&Yuge Pieces of Whatever In the Road from 2023-10-03T03:56:29

When we’re not stripping bolts on Warn hubs and trans mounts, the gearhead goons have a good little bit of info for you on using the right fastener (and not the “it fits” rule employed by the Wa...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.20.23: Shredding Nuts&Bolts&Shocks, Invading Wolves&Bears&Cougars, Goolag Kills Drivers (?), Robot Semis Attack CA (&OH&IN), Diesel Makes Batteries Work, Green Makes LEGOs Fail, + Dad’s Cigarette&Yuge Pieces of Whatever In the Road from 2023-10-03T03:37:03

When we’re not stripping bolts on Warn hubs and trans mounts, the gearhead goons have a good little bit of info for you on using the right fastener (and not the “it fits” rule employed by the Wa...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.09.23 (MP3): Just Because You’re Paranoid… Situational Garage Awareness, Car Theft (and Overseas Markets), Gearhead Lost&Found, UAW VS Ford (&Its Members), Electric Vehicle Bans, + Stop Running Over Sh!t&Your Car Won’t Blow Up from 2023-09-24T21:33:30

We warned you - the Gearhead Consultancy is all about paying attention (because geek!), and this uberule applies to home, self, car, property and Sanctum Garagium.  If you don’t want your goods ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.09.23: Just Because You’re Paranoid… Situational Garage Awareness, Car Theft (and Overseas Markets), Gearhead Lost&Found, UAW VS Ford (&Its Members), Electric Vehicle Bans, + Stop Running Over Sh!t&Your Car Won’t Blow Up from 2023-09-24T21:19:18

We warned you - the Gearhead Consultancy is all about paying attention (because geek!), and this uberule applies to home, self, car, property and Sanctum Garagium.  If you don’t want your goods ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.01.23 (MP3): Get Back to Four-Wheeling (‘Tis the Season)! Gear for On-Trail, Prep to Avoid Being a Burden, National Forests VS State Parks, Mileage Math&Oil Consumption, + Lost Lexuses, Four-By Celicas, Pressure Washing,&Pleasure Mechanicking from 2023-09-18T21:13:11

Holy carp - too much to do (and apologies for the tardy transmission).  The Gearhead Consultantcy is always on the job, we’re just busy.  Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and the Walkin’ Dude got back...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.01.23: Get Back to Four-Wheeling (‘Tis the Season)! Gear for On-Trail, Prep to Avoid Being a Burden, National Forests VS State Parks, Mileage Math&Oil Consumption, + Lost Lexuses, Four-By Celicas, Pressure Washing,&Pleasure Mechanicking from 2023-09-18T20:59:44

Holy carp - too much to do (and apologies for the tardy transmission).  The Gearhead Consultantcy is always on the job, we’re just busy.  Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and the Walkin’ Dude got back...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.28.23 (MP3): The Value of Overdoing It (Embracing the Gearhead Brain) - Hard Lessons from the Maui Fire, Incl. Outside-the-Box Survivors, Hazards of Herd Mindset, Misplaced Trust in Authorities, Hardening Your Kids Against Risk,&When Cows Attack from 2023-09-04T19:12:01

Drive over the lawn, bust down the fence, toss the barricade in the ditch, ‘froad the road less travelled, or just go the “wrong” way - it’s not the climate that’s going to ruin your day, it’s t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.28.23: The Value of Overdoing It (Embracing the Gearhead Brain) - Hard Lessons from the Maui Fire, Incl. Outside-the-Box Survivors, Hazards of Herd Mindset, Misplaced Trust in Authorities, Hardening Your Kids Against Risk,&When Cows Attack from 2023-09-04T19:05:31

Drive over the lawn, bust down the fence, toss the barricade in the ditch, ‘froad the road less travelled, or just go the “wrong” way - it’s not the climate that’s going to ruin your day, it’s t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.13.23 (MP3): Plate Cameras, Robot Cars&Non-Destructive Creative Civil Disobedience (NDCCD), Don’t Leave Babies in Cars (Tech Can’t Save You from Darwin), Battery Vehicle Bankruptsy, Exploding Houses, Hurricane Hillarious,&Close Your Damn Garage from 2023-08-25T19:45:01

...Got a lot of respect for Darwin’s capability to wipe out bad batches of genes from the people stew that is humanity, but let’s stop making kids in hot cars take the brunt of it.  Meanwhile, b...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.13.23: Plate Cameras, Robot Cars&Non-Destructive Creative Civil Disobedience (NDCCD), Don’t Leave Babies in Cars (Tech Can’t Save You from Darwin), Battery Vehicle Bankruptsy, Exploding Houses, Hurricane Hillarious,&Close Your Damn Garage from 2023-08-25T19:35:26

...Got a lot of respect for Darwin’s capability to wipe out bad batches of genes from the people stew that is humanity, but let’s stop making kids in hot cars take the brunt of it.  Meanwhile, b...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.03.23 (MP3): What the Hail? Can You Defend Your Daily Driver from Doom in the Sky w/ Hail “Proof” Car Covers?  Options, Types&Homemade Jobs, + Ford F-150 Recalls (Just a Million),&Exploding Cancer Vehicles from the E.P.A. (...Not On Our Side) from 2023-08-18T04:54:38

Join the Garage Hour goons and say “Hail No!” to your cars and trucks looking like you left them parked at the receiving end of a driving range.  Jus because it’s summer and you live in a town t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.03.23: What the Hail? Can You Defend Your Daily Driver from Doom in the Sky w/ Hail “Proof” Car Covers?  Options, Types&Homemade Jobs, + Ford F-150 Recalls (Just a Million),&Exploding Cancer Vehicles from the E.P.A. (...Not On Our Side) from 2023-08-18T04:43:28

Join the Garage Hour goons and say “Hail No!” to your cars and trucks looking like you left them parked at the receiving end of a driving range.  Jus because it’s summer and you live in a town t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.27.23 (MP3): Excellent Car Cleaning Tips (You May Not Know), w/ Tricks for Better Washing, Quicker Drying, Avoiding Water Spots, Building Shine, Removing Tar&Saving Grease, + 42 Days of Tracks Fighting to Be on the Garage Hour from 2023-07-31T16:06:50

The Garage Hour goons got our fancy canyon carving nasties a little dirty on a fuuuuuun run over Independence Pass (lousy stupid mountain cloudbursts), so it’s time for car cleaning.  How about ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.27.23: Excellent Car Cleaning Tips (You May Not Know), w/ Tricks for Better Washing, Quicker Drying, Avoiding Water Spots, Building Shine, Removing Tar&Saving Grease, + 42 Days of Tracks Fighting to Be on the Garage Hour from 2023-07-31T15:46:14

The Garage Hour goons got our fancy canyon carving nasties a little dirty on a fuuuuuun run over Independence Pass (lousy stupid mountain cloudbursts), so it’s time for car cleaning.  How about ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.12.23 (MP3): Garagey Gearhead Awesomepile - 5VZ&1UZ, 4Runners, Fairmonts, Phil’s TOWs&Dustin’s Greens, Big Brakes&Backing Plates, Red Sticky, Plant Haters, Engine Swaps, Sorting Bolts, Wratcheting Renches&Wonderful (Boneless) Breasts from 2023-07-25T05:21:24

Some Garage Hours are just a free-for-all, with parts and nuts and sockets and rockets and blowing up bad guys, while Colorado windshield death comes for us all.  The Walkin’ Dude cohosts this o...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.12.23: Garagey Gearhead Awesomepile - 5VZ&1UZ, 4Runners, Fairmonts, Phil’s TOWs&Dustin’s Greens, Big Brakes&Backing Plates, Red Sticky, Plant Haters, Engine Swaps, Sorting Bolts, Wratcheting Renches&Wonderful (Boneless) Breasts from 2023-07-25T05:07:07

Some Garage Hours are just a free-for-all, with parts and nuts and sockets and rockets and blowing up bad guys, while Colorado windshield death comes for us all.  The Walkin’ Dude cohosts this o...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.02.23 (MP3): Are Flying “Cars” Future Jetsonmobiles OR a Frightening Air-Traffic Liability Crashpig?  Also, Used-Cars Price Stagnation (&Taking Advantage of It), When Brake Pads Fall Off, Tornado Wrenching w/ the Ayatollah,&Sears May Still Be from 2023-07-15T17:35:04

Don’t get us wrong - if people drove as well as flying cars deserved, the Garage Hour goons would be all about Jetsoning to the hardware store for a 2x4, but as long as geeks like us can’t get s...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.02.23: Are Flying “Cars” Future Jetsonmobiles OR a Frightening Air-Traffic Liability Crashpig?  Also, Used-Cars Price Stagnation (&Taking Advantage of It), When Brake Pads Fall Off, Tornado Wrenching w/ the Ayatollah,&Sears May Still Be Sears from 2023-07-15T17:24:32

Don’t get us wrong - if people drove as well as flying cars deserved, the Garage Hour goons would be all about Jetsoning to the hardware store for a 2x4, but as long as geeks like us can’t get s...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.22.23 (MP3): Automaker Data Capture&What They Do w/ It (Or Refuse to Admit They’re Doing), A Submarine Built with Doubt, Federal Law Enforcement’s Ongoing Green Fail-Fest, + Destroyers in WW2, Green Beret Party Games&Clutch from 2023-06-30T13:25:12

Of course, we could not have known that the little sub that might’ve didn’t (R.I.P., gents), but a thought or two about trusting your geek instinct and self-preservation...  There’s also a few t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.22.23: Automaker Data Capture&What They Do w/ It (Or Refuse to Admit They’re Doing), A Submarine Built with Doubt, Federal Law Enforcement’s Ongoing Green Fail-Fest, + Destroyers in WW2, Green Beret Party Games&Clutch from 2023-06-30T13:09:24


Of course, we could not have known that the little sub that might’ve didn’t (R.I.P., gents), but a thought or two about trusting your geek instinct and self-preservation...  There’s also ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.13.23 (MP3): ...When the Sheriff Gives Police a Speeding Ticket, Pike’s Peak Hillclimb Preview, Leatherman Warranty Save, Theoretical VS Experimental Gearheads, Get Your Politics Out of My Beer,&Tech Is Still Not On Our Side, w/ Karma to Burn from 2023-06-22T17:47:24

Now, with less hoit and toit...  The Gearhead Consultancy has a few gems for you:  handy PPIHC pre-race details (false peak but real info), excellent tales of service from the Leatherman multi-t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.13.23: ...When the Sheriff Gives Police a Speeding Ticket, Pike’s Peak Hillclimb Preview, Leatherman Warranty Save, Theoretical VS Experimental Gearheads, Get Your Politics Out of My Beer,&Tech Is Still Not On Our Side, w/ Karma to Burn from 2023-06-22T17:32:26

Now, with less hoit and toit...  The Gearhead Consultancy has a few gems for you:  handy PPIHC pre-race details (false peak but real info), excellent tales of service from the Leatherman multi-t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.02.23 (MP3): Open Can Insert Fort! Bubba “Loser” Wallace VS Jim “Fireball” Brown, Kia&Hyundai VS New York City, Rioting Antifalike Objects VS Your Car, Chinese In Cuba VS Your Data, Robot Cars VS Law Enforcement, + 16 Volt&Freakonomics from 2023-06-14T04:40:47

Is Bubba Wallace the new Danica Patrick?  Way to ruin what little credibility you had left, schmuck.  We prefer Jim Brown - R.I.P., big guy.  We also prefer Richard Jewell (speaking of R.I.P.), ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.02.23: Open Can Insert Fort! Bubba “Loser” Wallace VS Jim “Fireball” Brown, Kia&Hyundai VS New York City, Rioting Antifalike Objects VS Your Car, Chinese In Cuba VS Your Data, Robot Cars VS Law Enforcement, + 16 Volt&Freakonomics from 2023-06-14T04:27:06

Is Bubba Wallace the new Danica Patrick?  Way to ruin what little credibility you had left, schmuck.  We prefer Jim Brown - R.I.P., big guy.  We also prefer Richard Jewell (speaking of R.I.P.), ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.23.23 (MP3): Madcap Freeway Action (Spoilt Teens + No Skills + BMW + Stinger Flatbed), Small Cars VS Large Safety, Small VS Large Brewers, OEs Hacking YOU (Duhh)&AI Hunting YOU (That Was Quick), Cars&Engines That Last, + NHTSA’s Political Agendi from 2023-06-10T20:49:31

Geeks don’t want politicians to take away their freedom to roam, nor ruin their gearhead life (geek powa!), and the skill-set guys (aka: geeks) won’t let snap-lift oversteer derail an otherwise ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.23.23: Madcap Freeway Action (Spoilt Teens + No Skills + BMWs + a Stinger Flatbed), Small Cars VS Large Safety, Small VS Large Brewers, OEs Hacking YOU (Duh)&AI Hunting YOU (That Was Quick), Cars&Engines That Last, + NHTSA’s Political Agendi from 2023-06-10T20:33:12

Geeks don’t want politicians taking away their freedom to roam, nor ruining their gearhead life (geek powa!), and the skill-set guys (aka: geeks) won’t let snap-lift oversteer derail an otherwis...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.13.23 (MP3): When Animals Attack (the Garage Hour), Carving Curvies&Hillclimbs Upcoming, What Your Car Says About You&What Music Does to Movies, How Defending Yourself&War Graves Against Pinkos Is a Thing, + Plumbing, Shark Bites&GLU from 2023-05-30T22:47:42

That’s a spicy meatball - everything from killer whales eating your rudder (still not sure of their MO) to godless commies dredging up sunken WW2 wrecks for scrap, this episode’s got it.  ...It’...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.13.23: When Animals Attack (the Garage Hour), Carving Curvies&Hillclimbs Upcoming, What Your Car Says About You&What Music Does to Movies, How Defending Yourself&War Graves Against Pinkos Is a Thing, + Plumbing, Shark Bites&GLU from 2023-05-30T22:27:42

That’s a spicy meatball - everything from killer whales eating your rudder (still not sure of their MO) to godless commies dredging up sunken WW2 wrecks for scrap, this episode’s got it.  ...It’...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.12.23 (MP3): Why Are Lousy New Cars Ruining the Used-Car Market, When AM Becomes Pirate Radio (We’ll All Be Pirates), Truckers&Earthquakes in CA, Pasadena’s Fail Patrol, + James Bondses, Right to Repair,&an HKS EVC from 2023-05-22T19:26:25

When the gearheads get enthusiastic, the geeks get going:  the new-car connectivity albatross and its threat to AM (as well as your seat heaters), why new cars and their general state of suck is...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.12.23: Why Are Lousy New Cars Ruining the Used-Car Market, When AM Becomes Pirate Radio (We’ll All Be Pirates), Truckers&Earthquakes in CA, Pasadena’s Fail Patrol, + James Bondses, Right to Repair,&an HKS EVC from 2023-05-22T18:58:32

When the gearheads get enthusiastic, the geeks get going:  the new-car connectivity albatross and its threat to AM (as well as your seat heaters), why new cars and their general state of suck is...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.01.23 (MP3): Carrying Concealed&Round in the Chamber? Great Training&Killer Ideas to Survive a Shootout (From a Guy Who Did), w/ Must-Watch Video on How to Practice&What to Expect When A Meet-Up Goes Bad, + Good Thoughts on Staying Alive from 2023-05-16T04:36:57

Holy carp, if you ever may use a gun to protect your person, people or property, this is an episode for you.  We dug into a great interview of a gent who came out on top during a parking lot thr...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.01.23: Carrying Concealed&Round in the Chamber? Great Training&Killer Ideas to Survive a Shootout (From a Guy Who Did), w/ Must-Watch Video on How to Practice&What to Expect When A Meet-Up Goes Bad, + Good Thoughts on Staying Alive from 2023-05-16T04:08:03

Holy carp, if you ever may use a gun to protect your person, people or property, this is an episode for you.  We dug into a great interview of a gent who came out on top during a parking lot thr...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.22.23 (MP3): Hillclimbing VS Hilldescending, Electric STi Boos, Lambo Urus Record, Smoking Tesla VS Race Day, Fighter Pilot Effectiveness (Chicks VS Dudes), BMW VS Takata, Car Prices&Car-Loan Defaults, + Used Plastics, Used Words&Used Stickies from 2023-05-12T17:58:16

Thoughts from the gearhead planet...  Sticky tires and Bilstein PSS9s, Doc’s Elise and Ryan’s Alpina, pie-faced ditzes and Porsche mugs, Teslas trying to burn down mid-race, BMWs and their airba...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.22.23: Hillclimbing VS Hilldescending, Electric STi Boos, Lambo Urus Record, Smoking Tesla VS Race Day, Fighter Pilot Effectiveness (Chicks VS Dudes), BMW VS Takata, Car Prices&Car-Loan Defaults, + Used Plastics, Used Words&Used Stickies from 2023-05-12T17:43:24

Thoughts from the gearhead planet...  Sticky tires and Bilstein PSS9s, Doc’s Elise and Ryan’s Alpina, pie-faced ditzes and Porsche mugs, Teslas trying to burn down mid-race, BMWs and their airba...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.12.23(MP3): Greetings From The T-Shirt Planet! Fake Car Sounds, Fraudulent Electric Car Emissions, Foolish Bureaucrats Traff*@€ing w/ Your Right to Roam, Cronyism @ Ford, Badge Dishonesty, Catalytic Killings, + Keeping Old Farts On Cam (More Inputs!) from 2023-05-02T20:08:05

Do you want alien archeologists to brand Earth the T-shirt and cardboard planet?  We neither, so let’s get to work quelling the free-farce zone built upon by bumper stickers, bad governance, idi...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.12.23: Greetings From The T-Shirt Planet! Fake Car Sounds, Fraudulent Electric Car Emissions, Foolish Bureaucrats Traff*@€ing w/ Your Right to Roam, Cronyism @ Ford, Badge Dishonesty, Catalytic Killings, + Keeping Old Farts On Cam (More Inputs!) from 2023-05-02T19:56:12

Do you want alien archeologists to brand Earth the T-shirt and cardboard planet?  We neither, so let’s get to work quelling the free-farce zone built upon by bumper stickers, bad governance, idi...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.03.23(MP3): Americans Stock Up! 60Million New Guns Ain’t Wrong (+Millions of 1st-Timers), w/ 400 Rounds in 4 Hours (Practice), Unconstitutional Laws (Common Use), Smart Guns (Ain’t), +Florida Bacteria, Exploding Rockets, Tyrannosauruses&Yuengling from 2023-04-26T03:03:32

You’re the geek, so you understand the importance of the Second Amendment (probably to the point of being obnoxious).  Good - we too.  This piece gathers the bits, including the massive growth o...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.03.23: Americans Stock Up! 60 Million New Guns Can’t Be Wrong (+Millions of 1st-Timers), w/ 400 Rounds in 4 Hours (Practice), Unconstitutional Laws (Common Use), Smart Guns (Ain’t), +Florida Bacteria, Exploding Rockets, Tyrannosauruses&Yuenglings from 2023-04-26T02:44:13

You’re the geek, so you understand the importance of the Second Amendment (probably to the point of being obnoxious).  Good - we too.  This piece gathers the bits, including the massive growth o...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.32.23 (MP3): Gearhead Questions&Geekthink Re: Forcing Electric Cars VS Failing Demand&Fraudulent Ideology,&Gov’t Force VS Your Right to Roam, + New Connectivity for Auto Thieves, Robot Cars (Tech Is Not On Your Side),&A Bud Mea Culpa from 2023-04-21T21:29:03

So much good stuff:  why Johnny Cab is planning to kill you, why nobody wants electric cars, why gov’t choices aren’t, why electric cars are a social contagion too, why gov’t action is an invers...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.32.23: Gearhead Questions&Geekthink Re: Forcing Electric Cars VS Failing Demand&Fraudulent Ideology,&Gov’t Force VS Your Right to Roam, + New Connectivity for Auto Thieves, Robot Cars (Tech Is Not On Your Side),&A Bud Mea Culpa from 2023-04-21T21:07:57

So much good stuff:  why Johnny Cab is planning to kill you, why nobody wants electric cars, why gov’t choices aren’t, why electric cars are a social contagion too, why gov’t action is an invers...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.23.23 (MP3): Don’t Miss the Thing! A Guide to Found On Road Awesome (FORA), Driving VS Running, Scanning VS Staring, Planning, Recognizing&Picking It Up, w/ Specific Mass&Remembering the Where - You Too Can Have the Awesome&Cool Weirdness from 2023-04-10T19:04:28

Do you have the walnuts to stop and grab that sweet thing you saw on this morning’s commute?  The Gearhead Consultancy is here to help, with suggestions (and excellent results) from our adventur...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.23.23: Don’t Miss the Thing! A Guide to Found On Road Awesome (FORA), Driving VS Running, Scanning VS Staring, Planning, Recognizing&Picking It Up, w/ Specific Mass&Remembering the Where - You Too Can Have the Awesome&Cool Weirdness from 2023-04-10T18:41:19

Do you have the walnuts to stop and grab that sweet thing you saw on this morning’s commute?  The Gearhead Consultancy is here to help, with suggestions (and excellent results) from our adventur...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.03.23 (MP3): What the Buck, Used Cars? Prices Up Again! Why Big $ Pressures&New Cars&Statist Gov’t&Supply Chains Make It Worse, + Two Cubans Geek Out to FL, Streets of Chicago VS Kabul, Dad’s Scott Amp&AM Radio, Good Logs&Bad Pinkos from 2023-03-31T04:40:54

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- used-car prices gone crazy (again), w/ financial pressures, interest and inflation hikes, shortages of cars/parts/money Listen

Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.03.23: What the Buck, Used Cars? Prices Up Again! Why Big $ Pressures&New Cars&Statist Gov’t&Supply Chains Make It Worse, + Two Cubans Geek Out All the Way to FL, Streets of Chicago VS Kabul, Dad’s Scott Amp&AM Radio, Good Logs&Bad Pinkos from 2023-03-31T04:26:20

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.02.23 (MP3): State of 2A - Gearheads&Geeks Targeted by Alphabet Agencies: The Hazard of Lists&Secondary Offenses, Firearms Dealers&West VA File Stash; Citizens&Voters Fight Back w/ 2A Sanctuaries, Constitutional Carry,&the Girl Scout Snipers from 2023-03-22T21:49:04

Oi vey! Americans just want to defend their home, family and property, but grabby bureaucrats and Big Gov’t fans want to defang the everyday man and force his compliance.  The Garage Hour goons ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.02.23: State of 2A - Gearheads&Geeks Targeted by Alphabet Agencies: The Hazard of Lists&Secondary Offenses, Firearms Dealers&West VA File Stash; Citizens&Voters Fight Back w/ 2A Sanctuaries, Constitutional Carry,&the Girl Scout Snipers from 2023-03-22T21:17:50

Oi vey! Americans just want to defend their home, family and property, but grabby bureaucrats and Big Gov’t fans want to defang the everyday man and force his compliance.  The Garage Hour goons ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.23.23 (MP3): Tire&Wheel Clearance - Wide x Tough Guy Tires VS Wheel Wells, Stuff VS Flex, Mounting VS Spacing, Trimming VS De-Fendering, Tire Shape VS Suspension Selection, + Ford’s Remote Repo, VW Carjacker Protection&Saw Blade Doom from 2023-03-09T23:03:50

Put on the goggles, ‘cause this ‘uns a lumpy one:  good ideas and bad results of clearancing your trail rig to let the tires eat!  Trailing arms, tire sizes, Pahnard bars, shackle positioning, p...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.23.23: Tire&Wheel Clearance - Wide x Tough Guy Tires VS Wheel Wells, Stuff VS Flex, Mounting VS Spacing, Trimming VS De-Fendering, Tire Shape VS Suspension Selection, + Ford’s Remote Repo, VW Carjacker Protection&Saw Blade Doom from 2023-03-09T22:45:12

Put on the goggles, ‘cause this ‘uns a lumpy one:  good ideas and bad results of clearancing your trail rig to let the tires eat!  Trailing arms, tire sizes, Pahnard bars, shackle positioning, p...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.13.23 (MP3): Chunks of Gearhead Reality - Smart Truck Wiring VS Extracurricular Components, London VS Leftover Bombs, Snow-‘Froading, Catalytic Stealin’, AI Vomitin’, Lightning Failin’, Kyle Busch’s Handgun Elitin’, + Eddyline&Saturnine from 2023-03-01T00:24:49

This is a test (new uploading technique), but it’s also gearhead goodness - all the stuff you like.  Safe shopping for online scores?  Walkin’ Dude flash-fries a water buffalo?  Wiring and trans...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.13.23:  Chunks of Gearhead Reality - Smart Truck Wiring VS Extracurricular Components, London VS Leftover Bombs, Snow-‘Froading, Catalytic Stealin’, AI Vomitin’, Lightning Failin’, Kyle Busch’s Handgun Elitin’, + Eddyline&Saturnine from 2023-02-28T21:12:05

This is a test (new uploading technique), but it’s also gearhead goodness - all the stuff you like.  Safe shopping for online scores?  Walkin’ Dude flash-fries a water buffalo?  Wiring and trans...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.03.23 (MP3): This Old Hour (House) Redux: Fortify the Castle w/ Geek Fix-It Juice, Incl. Can Your Car Be Safer, Security Ideas from the Fuzz, Destructive Testing, Being Safe VS Feeling It, + Making Screws Feel Your Soapy Wrath from 2023-02-22T05:56

Invent a better mousetrap and they'll beat a path to your door, or, in the case of the gearheads at the Garage Hour, do an episode full of fun homeownery crap and everyone will want more.  ...Be...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.03.23: This Old Hour (House) Redux: Fortify the Castle w/ Geek Fix-It Juice, Incl. Can Your Car Be Safer, Security Ideas from the Fuzz, Destructive Testing, Being Safe VS Feeling It, + Making Screws Feel Your Soapy Wrath from 2023-02-22T05:35:22

Invent a better mousetrap and they'll beat a path to your door, or, in the case of the gearheads at the Garage Hour, do an episode full of fun homeownery crap and everyone will want more.  ...Be...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.31.23 (MP3): Pickup Trucks&Miles Driven in the Crosshairs, Lumberjack Commandos VS Hipster Chin, Mixed Freight VS High Coal, Bitter Beers VS Bitter People, Tesla Democrats VS Twitter Files,&Why Are Land Fan Bird Blenders Blowing Up? from 2023-02-07T05:09:49

Alright, gearhead here: Which came first - harsh I.P.A.s or histper sippers? Dwindling dollars cause big dogs to suffer the same fate as big cars and big homes? Does your 7500lb one-week chargem...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.31.23: Pickup Trucks&Miles Driven in the Crosshairs, Lumberjack Commandos VS Hipster Chin, Mixed Freight VS High Coal, Bitter Beers VS Bitter People, Tesla Democrats VS Twitter Files,&Why Are Land Fan Bird Blenders Blowing Up? from 2023-02-07T04:48:05

Alright, gearhead here: Which came first - harsh I.P.A.s or histper sippers? Dwindling dollars cause big dogs to suffer the same fate as big cars and big homes? Does your 7500lb one-week chargem...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.21.23 (MP3): Geeking Out on Home Fixes (It's Cold Out!) - Burning Wood&Cookin' w/ Gas, 3-Way Switches, Tool Drawers&Function Centers, Sweating Pipe&Shark Fittings, Schrader Valves, Arced Tools&Electrocuted Friends, + Music for Misbehavior from 2023-01-30T16:20:59

If it's snowing igloos and narwhales outside, you might as well do something in (let your home be a canvas for your genius).  The Gearhead Consultancy also knows fine homeownerin', so this episo...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.21.23: Geeking Out on Home Fixes (It's Cold Out!) - Burning Wood&Cookin' w/ Gas, 3-Way Switches, Tool Drawers&Function Centers, Sweating Pipe&Shark Fittings, Schrader Valves, Arced Tools&Electrocuted Friends, + Music for Misbehavior from 2023-01-30T16:03:28

If it's snowing igloos and narwhales outside, you might as well do something in (let your home be a canvas for your genius).  The Gearhead Consultancy also knows fine homeownerin', so this episo...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.12.23 (MP3): Caught In Thought -Swiss Lightning Super Lasers, Weird Things for Sale Online, Corporations Polluting the Atmosphere, Distracted Driving Attention Budgets, Electric Cars Cost More (&Just Got Banned), +More CO2, More Fixes&More Elephants from 2023-01-23T04:33:12

"The more I learn, the less I know." said everyone, always - it's time to get your geek on with some off-the-wall thinking.  With tacos full of bell and turbos full of charge (and a guest appear...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.12.23: Caught In Thought - Swiss Lightning Super Lasers, Weird Things for Sale Online, Corporations Polluting the Atmosphere, Distracted Driving Attention Budgets, Electric Cars Cost More (&Just Got Banned), + More CO2, More Fixes&More Elephants from 2023-01-23T04:17:27

"The more I learn, the less I know." said everyone, always - it's time to get your geek on with some off-the-wall thinking.  With tacos full of bell and turbos full of charge (and a guest appear...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.03.23 (MP3): Post-Xmas Reality, w/Right to Repair (Deere VS Farmers&The Woz's Gluey Macs), Murderdrones, Clocks at Sea, Knitting Sweaters, Kalifornistan's Infrastructure (Build a Dam Already)&Illinois Gun Control (Weaver or Isosceles) +Karma to Burn from 2023-01-17T00:49:24

Let's spread some real on now that the good day is done - the Garage Hour goons have hit 2023 like a dump truck full of boba and we're getting it all over the place: freak out the neighbors with...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.03.23: Post-Xmas Reality, w/ Right to Repair (Deere VS Farmers&The Woz's Gluey Macs), Murderdrones, Clocks at Sea, Knitting Sweaters, Kalifornistan's Infrastructure (Build a Dam Already)&Illinois Gun Control (Weaver or Isosceles), + Karma to Burn from 2023-01-17T00:17:19

Let's spread some real on now that the good day is done - the Garage Hour goons have hit 2023 like a dump truck full of boba and we're getting it all over the place: freak out the neighbors with...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.28.22 (MP3): Good, Bad&Ugly Xmas Gifts - Second Amendment&CCWs, Battery Reliability in the Cold, Real VS Fake Trees (What About the Effort?), Steel Plates Fix Fire, Egg Nog Testing + All-Wheel Drive VS Rear-Wheel Drive for Fun w/ Snow (&Some Mom) from 2023-01-09T17:49:12

Gearheads giving geeky goodness - what could be better for Christmas?  There's gobs of great holiday happiness here, plus a few gifts you shouldn't give. Putting some 2A under a real tree?  You ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.28.22: Good, Bad&Ugly Xmas Gifts - Second Amendment&CCWs, Battery Reliability in the Cold, Real VS Fake Trees (What About the Effort?), Steel Plates Fix Fire, Egg Nog Testing + All-Wheel Drive VS Rear-Wheel Drive for Fun w/ Snow (&Some Mom) from 2023-01-09T17:25:31

Gearheads giving geeky goodness - what could be better for Christmas?  There's gobs of great holiday happiness here, plus a few gifts you shouldn't give. Putting some 2A under a real tree?  You ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.12.22 (MP3): Crap Weather Automotive Operation - Things to Think When There's 0 Degrees, w/ Tires&Batteries VS Cold, Breaking Down VS Picking It Up,&a Little About Dirty Oil from Dirty Politicians, + Great Westerns, Good F1,&Supreme Court Lumps from 2022-12-31T23:20:38

Prepping versus being prepared: what's it take to keep the little things from killing you when it's snowing icebergs and polar bears (because there's no second chances at zero degrees), and inte...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.12.22: Crap Weather Automotive Operation - Things to Think When There's 0 Degrees, w/ Tires&Batteries VS Cold, Breaking Down VS Picking It Up,&a Little About Dirty Oil from Dirty Politicians, + Great Westerns, Good F1,&Supreme Court Lumps from 2022-12-31T23:19:25

Prepping versus being prepared: what's it take to keep the little things from killing you when it's snowing icebergs and polar bears (because there's no second chances at zero degrees), and inte...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.21.22 (MP3): Gearhead Stuff = The Return of Undercar Neon&Spinners, Snowy Railbed Roundhouse Adventures, Reciprocating Saws&Returning Thieves, + Too Much Wheel or Too Little Skill Makes Parade Floats Dangerous (w/ Rock&Roll, Beer,&ED 209) from 2022-12-19T07:00:06

So much to upload - sorry, so busy...  Garage Hour is on it, though, so don't 'fraid dat: we've got a goodly gearhead glob of geeksauce here.  Undercar neon, roundhouses for parking your locomot...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.21.22: Gearhead Stuff = The Return of Undercar Neon&Spinners, Snowy Railbed Roundhouse Adventures, Reciprocating Saws&Returning Thieves, + Too Much Wheel or Too Little Skill Makes Parade Floats Dangerous (w/ Rock&Roll, Beer,&ED 209) from 2022-12-19T06:45:26

So much to upload - sorry, so busy...  Garage Hour is on it, though, so don't 'fraid dat: we've got a goodly gearhead glob of geeksauce here.  Undercar neon, roundhouses for parking your locomot...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.11.22 (MP3): Rooftop Tents&Carriers are Car Abuse! Also, Jay Leno's Burns (and Gearhead Legitimacy), Carvana's Pending Flop (Used Car Lots Need Used Cars&Shoppers), Are Electric Vehicles Stealing Your Money?, + Herbie Hancock&Echo w/ Bunnymen from 2022-11-25T04:37:50

Yummmm, segminty.

Good stuff:  The crap you bolt on your roof is a legitimate threat to your vehicle - wear and tear, fluid abuse and suspension decrepitation.  Serious gearhead Jay Leno ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.11.22: Rooftop Tents&Carriers are Car Abuse! Also, Jay Leno's Burns (and Gearhead Legitimacy), Carvana's Pending Flop (Used Car Lots Need Used Cars&Shoppers), Are Electric Vehicles Stealing Your Money?, + Herbie Hancock&Echo w/ Bunnymen from 2022-11-25T04:20:23

Yummmm, segminty.

Good stuff:  The crap you bolt on your roof is a legitimate threat to your vehicle - wear and tear, fluid abuse and suspension decrepitation.  Serious gearhead Jay Leno ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.10.22 (MP3): Blind-Spot Indicators - Are You the Driver or Meat in the Seat? Loud Pipes Save Lives (&Loud People Save Ideas), Exploding Scooters, Tech VS You (Was Sagan Right?), 2 Degrees from a Cutlass, + (Bad) News from Area 51&2A Goodness In Iowa from 2022-11-15T12:15

You can't get this kind of awesomeness without a warrant (or a prescription). This Garage Hour does geek right, with a firearm-friendly amendment in Iowa, big AM-talk in San Diego (board-ops, fe...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.10.22: Blind-Spot Indicators - Are You the Driver or Meat in the Seat? Loud Pipes Save Lives (&Loud People Save Ideas), Exploding Scooters, Tech VS You (Was Sagan Right?), Two Degrees from a Cutlass, + (Bad) News from Area 51&2A Goodness In Iowa from 2022-11-15T12:00

You can't get this kind of awesomeness without a warrant (or a prescription). This Garage Hour does geek right, with a firearm-friendly amendment in Iowa, big AM-talk in San Diego (board-ops, fe...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.02.22 (MP3): Sneaky Cars w/ Jets, Hurricanes Making Electric Cars Explode (&Burn Down Your House), Why Round-Abouts Are Killing People, Parking Outside for Hail&Profit, Vehicle Dynamics and Building That Tool, + Probably Better Not to Make Girls Cry from 2022-11-09T17:04:17

It's another pile of gearhead supersauce. ...Learning to read vehicle dynamics and understand where your car's "squish" is (and some thoughts on how to tune that thing so it goes left and right ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.02.22: Sneaky Cars w/ Jets, Hurricanes Making Electric Cars Explode (&Burn Down Your House), Why Round-Abouts Are Killing People, Parking Outside for Hail&Profit, Vehicle Dynamics and Building That Tool, + Probably Better Not to Make Girls Cry from 2022-11-09T16:46:57

It's another pile of gearhead supersauce. ...Learning to read vehicle dynamics and understand where your car's "squish" is (and some thoughts on how to tune that thing so it goes left and right ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.02.22 (MP3): 10 Ways To Not Die On-Trail (Easy Stuff You Ought'a 'Froad) - Because You Can't Four-Wheel If You're Dead! Trail Awareness, Baggage Control, Self-Management&Knowing Your Functions, + Karma to Burn&a Little Sleep from 2022-10-24T03:43:59

These aren't ideas you haven't had, but the Gearhead Coinsultancy got together in Black Forest with The Walkin' Dude to remind you why the basics matter with you've got one foot to spare between...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.02.22: 10 Ways To Not Die On-Trail (Easy Stuff You Ought'a 'Froad) - Because You Can't Four-Wheel If You're Dead! Trail Awareness, Baggage Control, Self-Management&Knowing Your Functions, + Karma to Burn&a Little Sleep from 2022-10-24T03:18:33

These aren't ideas you haven't had, but the Gearhead Coinsultancy got together in Black Forest with The Walkin' Dude to remind you why the basics matter with you've got one foot to spare between...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.01.22 (MP3): State of 2A - Guns VS Tyranny (An Essential Bulwark), w/ Corporate Collusion, Bureaucrats Avoiding Oversight, Invasion of your Familial Sanctum, the Risk of Lists, + Stories of Mistakes&What NOT to Do When Big Gov't Comes Knocking from 2022-10-16T19:57:23

Yeahhhh, we've been slacking - too much on one plate.  No worries, though, because the Gearhead Consultancy got the Second Amendment episode screwed together that we've been promising you, and i...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.01.22: State of 2A - Guns VS Tyranny (An Essential Bulwark), w/ Corporate Collusion, Bureaucrats Avoiding Oversight, Invasion of your Familial Sanctum, the Risk of Lists, + Stories of Mistakes&What NOT to Do When Big Gov't Comes Knocking from 2022-10-16T19:14:29

Yeahhhh, we've been slacking - too much on one plate.  No worries, though, because the Gearhead Consultancy got the Second Amendment episode screwed together that we've been promising you, and i...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.19.22 (MP3): Diesel Dodge VS Damnable DMV, Truckers VS Teslas, Bosch Battery Boy VS Broadcast Boos, the Internet of Your Downfall (&Control in the Guise of Failure), + Fat Tony, Kaiser Soze&a Wreckful Childhood (...So Go Do Something Nice) from 2022-09-26T03:13:59

Do YOU know better than to put propane in your Tesla's tires?  Do YOU know Teslas need special gas that doesn't come from the gas station?  ...Then YOU might be smarter than the college laureate...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.19.22: Diesel Dodge VS Damnable DMV, Truckers VS Teslas, Bosch Battery Boy VS Broadcast Boos, the Internet of Your Downfall (&Control in the Guise of Failure), + Fat Tony, Kaiser Soze&a Wreckful Childhood (...So Go Do Something Nice) from 2022-09-26T02:47:28

Do YOU know better than to put propane in your Tesla's tires?  Do YOU know Teslas need special gas that doesn't come from the gas station?  ...Then YOU might be smarter than the college laureate...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.01.22 (MP3): Boats to Trains to Trucks to... Electrics? Who Wants Worse Transit? Efficiency VS Egos, Charging w/out Electrons (Looking at You, CA), Geeks Are Special (Nanoelectronics VS Headlights),&The Mileage Mirage - 7.3 'Stroke VS Nissan Minivan from 2022-09-19T16:27:11

The Garage Hour would like to present you this barnyard of proclivities as gathered by Hostus Maximus Justin Fort on a cross-country dash to Mom's...  The transit quesiton: why do some folks thi...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.01.22: Boats to Trains to Trucks to... Electrics? Who Wants Worse Transit? Efficiency VS Egos, Charging w/out Electrons (Looking at You, CA), Geeks Are Special (Nanoelectronics VS Headlights),&The Mileage Mirage - 7.3 'Stroke VS Nissan Minivan from 2022-09-19T15:56:44

The Garage Hour would like to present you this barnyard of proclivities as gathered by Hostus Maximus Justin Fort on a cross-country dash to Mom's...  The transit quesiton: why do some folks thi...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.28.22 (MP3): Speaker Repair, Porsche&Lexus&Subaru&Honda (Oh My), More on Motorcycle Mugging Gangs - In New York&Chicago! (Crime Ain't Complicated),&How the New Lightning is an Old Fail from 2022-09-13T03:15:43

Been slackin'!  Garage Hour's got too much on its plate, and we're chewing like mad to get back to you - in as-soon-as-it's-fixed gearhead time.  We've got some goodness for you here: more left-...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.28.22: Speaker Repair, Porsche&Lexus&Subaru&Honda (Oh My), More on Motorcycle Mugging Gangs - In New York&Chicago! (Crime Ain't Complicated),&How the New Lightning is an Old Fail from 2022-09-13T02:05:26

Been slackin'!  Garage Hour's got too much on its plate, and we're chewing like mad to get back to you - in as-soon-as-it's-fixed gearhead time.  We've got some goodness for you here: more left-...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.12.22 (MP3): Gearhead Weirdness -Zero-Dark Thirty Four-Way Crash-Course&Teslas VS Accident Scenes, Defining Fail w/ Tax-Pig Statusmobiles, Why Chip Shortages Ain't Just, "Journalists" Who Can't Tell a Story +Scotland Bulldozing Forests for CO2's Sake from 2022-08-24T11:15

Get wound up and the oddball icing stacks up.  From the accelerating failure of Ford's useless electric trucks (as heralded by the frauds at Autoweek) to a strange-by-creepy exposé of i...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.12.22: Gearhead Weirdness - Zero-Dark Thirty Four-Way Crash-Course&Teslas VS Accident Scenes, Defining "Fail" w/ Tax-Pig Statusmobiles, Why Chip Shortages Ain't Just, "Journalists" Who Can't Tell a Story, + Scotland Bulldozing Forests for CO2's Sake from 2022-08-24T11:00

Get wound up and the oddball icing stacks up.  From the accelerating failure of Ford's useless electric trucks (as heralded by the frauds at Autoweek) to a strange-by-creepy exposé of i...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.08.22 (MP3): Celebrity Drivers&Cyborg Over-Under, Gas Station Fixes (Crowbar), Found On Road Awesome (Analysis), Brazil's Citizens VS Muggers On Motorcycles (Justice), When Animals Attack (Four-Legged Tank Says 'Hi"), + Is the iPod Psychic? from 2022-08-20T08:47:31

We've got places to be!  Get out of the Garage Hour's way, because there's bike parts, buckets, lumber, hangars, tire irons, fuel cans, straps, chains, come-alongs, brooms, ducting, coolers, bun...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.08.22: Celebrity Drivers&Cyborg Over-Under, Gas Station Fixes (Crowbar), Found On Road Awesome (Analysis), Brazil's Citizens VS Muggers On Motorcycles (Justice), When Animals Attack (Four-Legged Tank Says 'Hi"), + Is the iPod Psychic? from 2022-08-20T08:32:19

We've got places to be!  Get out of the Garage Hour's way, because there's bike parts, buckets, lumber, hangars, tire irons, fuel cans, straps, chains, come-alongs, brooms, ducting, coolers, bun...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.04.22 (MP3): Details on the $800 Crawler (Find What's Wrong&Find Your Own -What to Ask&When to Pounce), w/ 5.0s&IROCs (In School Zones), Florida Man, Banjos, Trans Jacks (the Normal Kind), + Drill Press, Farting Fred&Estes Park Brewery's Pale from 2022-08-11T16:29:01

(Not) lost in the woods with the gearhead goons - Hostus Maximus Justin Fort joins the Walkin' Dude at his Black Forest shop for an hour to work through finding the newest small-dollar commuter....

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.04.22: Details on the $800 Crawler (Find What's Wrong&Find Your Own - What to Ask&When to Pounce), w/ 5.0s&IROCs (In School Zones), Florida Man, Banjos, Trans Jacks (the Normal Kind), + a Drill Press, Farting Fred&Estes Park Brewery's Pale from 2022-08-11T16:06:22

(Not) lost in the woods with the gearhead goons - Hostus Maximus Justin Fort joins the Walkin' Dude at his Black Forest shop for an hour to work through finding the newest small-dollar commuter....

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.25.22 (MP3): Corn for Cars or Ethanol for Dinner? Good Beer VS Lots Of It? Electric Cars - Unsafe or Just Ugly? Pyramid Scheme Vampire or Mega-Distruptor? Skinny Black Hole or Increased Suction? + Postman Flexes His Muscles to Throw Off Electric Vans from 2022-07-29T06:30:26

No, it's not Dude Food, it's good tortillas versus crap fuel, plus corn, cane and calories, as well as the mailman's budget sticking its foot up the bureaucrats' exhaust port.  You can't keep do...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.25.22: Corn for Cars or Ethanol for Dinner? Good Beer VS Lots Of It? Electric Cars - Unsafe or Just Ugly? Pyramid Scheme Vampire or Mega-Distruptor? Skinny Black Hole or Increased Suction? + the Postman Flexes His Muscles to Throw Off Electric Vans from 2022-07-29T06:14:25

No, it's not Dude Food, it's good tortillas versus crap fuel, plus corn, cane and calories, as well as the mailman's budget sticking its foot up the bureaucrats' exhaust port.  You can't keep do...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.22.22 (MP3): Technology Is Not On Our Side (Where's Asimov When You Need Him?); Mazda 6 VS Norfolk Southern, Map Apps VS Cliffs&Docks, Auto Theft&Fob Hopping (Reach, Reprogram&Repeat), Gas Stoves VS Electrics, + The Desert Sessions from 2022-07-22T11:15

These two episodes from May almost took a long walk off a short hard drive, but thanks to doing stuff with our brains, hereyago: Tesla's legacy issues with batteries and taxpayers, electric cars...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.22.22: Technology Is Not On Our Side (Where's Asimov When You Need Him?); Mazda 6 VS Norfolk Southern, Map Apps VS Cliffs&Docks, Auto Theft&Fob Hopping (Reach, Reprogram&Repeat), Gas Stoves VS Electrics, + The Desert Sessions from 2022-07-22T11:00

These two episodes from May almost took a long walk off a short hard drive, but thanks to doing stuff with our brains, hereyago: Tesla's legacy issues with batteries and taxpayers, electric cars...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.11.22 (MP3): F' Around&Find Out! (Told You)- Tractors in Europe Pull a Canadian Trucker, Electric Cars Still Less Efficient (Pulling a Catevari?), RoboCar Tries to Murder Its Baggage, Texas Can't Charge Teslas, +When Bikes Replace Cars (Less Happens) from 2022-07-19T05:23:30

Garage Hour goons go off about the stupid shed we warned you was going to happen - doesn't take much to figure out the future when you're a geek (2 + 2, cats and kitties).  Yes, truckers in Kali...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.11.22: F' Around&Find Out! (Told You So) - Tractors in Europe Pull a Canadian Trucker, Electric Cars Still Less Efficient (Pulling a Catevari?), RoboCar Tries to Murder Its Baggage, Texas Can't Charge Teslas, + When Bikes Replace Cars (Less Happens) from 2022-07-19T04:31:38

Garage Hour goons go off about the stupid shed we warned you was going to happen - doesn't take much to figure out the future when you're a geek (2 + 2, cats and kitties).  Yes, truckers in Kali...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.01.22 (MP3): How to Not Miss the Point (Now, for Something Completely Different!) - Gearhead PR-Doer Tips for Seeing BS in News, Ads&Public Relations, w/Developing Awareness, Hazards of Devices&Tools&Social Media, +Personal Risks of Bad Messaging from 2022-07-15T18:45:45

Try on this episode for a two-hour dissertation on how to get what's up (and not be fooled by the info snobs, liars and malcreators in the media).  We've got what's said versus what's meant (and...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.01.22: How to Not Miss the Point (Now, for Something Completely Different!) - Gearhead PR-Doer Tips for Seeing BS in News, Ads&Public Relations, w/Developing Your Awareness, Hazards of Devices&Tools&Social Media, + Personal Risks of Bad Messaging from 2022-07-15T18:15:34

Try on this episode for a two-hour dissertation on how to get what's up (and not be fooled by the info snobs, liars and malcreators in the media).  We've got what's said versus what's meant (and...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.04.22 (MP3): Traffic Should Be Fun! (Not the #1 Lane Looking Like #2), w/Your Cannonball Sense, Using the Blocker (Whether They Like It or Not), Midwest Gas Prices, + Previous Owner Issue-Chasing&Clustertrip Redux (What's Missing in the Because Bag) from 2022-07-10T06:56:50

Roads from the thought with a trip-think spectacular - freeway rules for signal-work, flow-merging, traffic-desnobbing and photo-enforcement unConstitutionalism.  It's geek stuff - what we overd...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.04.22: Traffic Should Be Fun! (Not the #1 Lane Looking Like #2), w/ Your Cannonball Sense, Using the Blocker (Whether They Like It or Not), Midwest Gas Prices, + Previous Owner Issue-Chasing&Clustertrip Redux (What's Missing in the Because Bag) from 2022-07-10T06:47:26

Roads from the thought with a trip-think spectacular - freeway rules for signal-work, flow-merging, traffic-desnobbing and photo-enforcement unConstitutionalism.  It's geek stuff - what we overd...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.26.22 (MP3): PPIHC 2022 Review - The Drivers, Racecars&Stories from the Race, w/ Finishing Times, Backgrounds, Tales from the Track&A Little Bit About the Course, Somehow Good Weather, Next Year's Access, + Daily-Driven Hillclimbers&Going Plaid from 2022-07-01T00:25:47

Too much good stuff:  with the Pike's Peak International Hillclimb done (full-length, too!), it's down to the whos, the whats and the hows.

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.26.22: PPIHC 2022 Review - The Drivers, Racecars&Stories from the Race, w/ Finishing Times, Backgrounds, Tales from the Track&A Little Bit About the Course, Somehow Good Weather, Next Year's Access, + Daily-Driven Hillclimbers&Going Plaid from 2022-07-01T00:06:07

Too much good stuff:  with the Pike's Peak International Hillclimb done (full-length, too!), it's down to the whos, the whats and the hows.

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.22.22 (MP3): News for Gearheads - Ford VS Its Customers (Testing on Buyers&Recalling the Fails), Governor VS Business (Caterpillar Bails on Gov. Pretzyl), Local Police Defending Law&Order Like a Boss, + Helmet, Garbage, Magnet, Duran, Mondo&Karma from 2022-06-23T22:01:38

You know you're popular when the citizens of your state call you "Gov. Toilet Scandal", and Illinois' elected rich snob has cemented his popularity by bulldozing legacy state resident Caterpilla...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.22.22: News for Gearheads - Ford VS Its Customers (Testing on Buyers&Recalling the Fails), Governor VS Business (Caterpillar Bails on Gov. Pretzyl), Local Police Defending Law&Order Like a Boss, + Helmet, Garbage, Magnet, Duran, Mondo&Karma from 2022-06-23T21:42:09

You know you're popular when the citizens of your state call you "Gov. Toilet Scandal", and Illinois' elected rich snob has cemented his popularity by bulldozing legacy state resident Caterpilla...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.04.22 (MP3): Pre Pike's Peak Hillclimb Primer - Drivers, Racecars, Track&Turns @ #100, Tarmac&Dirt, Car Control&Skill-Sets, + Darwin's Off-Ramp (Because Seattle), Bicycles in Germany (Because Trance-Hop)&Han Shot First (Because Greedo) from 2022-06-13T06:23:57

Backwards or forwards, it's still racecar!  Uphillclimbing at its finest is once again uponst us with the return of the Pike's Peak Hillclimb (PPIHC.com), one of America's oldest running races a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.04.22: Pre Pike's Peak Hillclimb Primer - Drivers, Racecars, Track&Turns @ #100, Tarmac&Dirt, Car Control&Skill-Sets, + Darwin's Off-Ramp (Because Seattle), Bicycles in Germany (Because Trance-Hop)&Han Shot First (Because Greedo) from 2022-06-13T06:06:34

Backwards or forwards, it's still racecar!  Uphillclimbing at its finest is once again uponst us with the return of the Pike's Peak Hillclimb (PPIHC.com), one of America's oldest running races a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.30.22 (MP3): Doing Memorial Day the Right Way (and Why), w/ Some Gearheaded Distractions: the Return of the Sub-$G Commuter (and How), Russians VS Space Stations (&Tesla Guy's Space Taxi), Israel VS Everyone (Lasers!), + Sesame Street VS The Muppets from 2022-05-30T11:15

...Because there's still squads of peoplelike objects shambling the streets who think Memorial Day is National Uncover the Pool Day or Barbecue Day, the Gearhead Consultancy is here to unconfuse...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.30.22: Doing Memorial Day the Right Way (and Why), w/ Some Gearheaded Distractions: the Return of the Sub-$G Commuter (and How), Russians VS Space Stations (&Tesla Guy's Space Taxi), Israel VS Everyone (Lasers!), + Sesame Street VS The Muppets from 2022-05-30T11:00

...Because there's still squads of peoplelike objects shambling the streets who think Memorial Day is National Uncover the Pool Day or Barbecue Day, the Gearhead Consultancy is here to unconfuse...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.20.22 (MP3): Four-Wheelin' Preparedness - Junk for Your Trunk So Your Truck Won't Get Stuck, w/ Racks, Jacks, Tools&Straps, Truck Guns, Garage Dogs, $600 Commuters, +Kyuss, PPIHC, Trinity's Hype&Horkey, Dead Guy, Banquet Beer&Being Nice to Trees from 2022-05-28T23:10:16

Go get lost - in the mountains, on some trails, in the canyons, in the woods, in some history. The Garage Hour goons (with 'froading fool Fred and his Walkin' Dude) are here to help with a few t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.20.22: Four-Wheelin' Preparedness - Junk for Your Trunk So Your Truck Won't Get Stuck, w/ Racks, Jacks, Tools&Straps, Truck Guns, Garage Dogs, $600 Commuters, + Kyuss, PPIHC, Trinity's Hype&Horkey, Dead Guy, Banquet Beer,&Being Nice to Trees from 2022-05-28T22:56:38

Go get lost - in the mountains, on some trails, in the canyons, in the woods, in some history. The Garage Hour goons (with 'froading fool Fred and his Walkin' Dude) are here to help with a few t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.11.22 (MP3): Driving Like a Predator, Idling-for-15-Minutes Guy, Auto-Drive Robot Death Going to Court, Spying Video Cameras, India Backhanding Tesla (Because China), + Desalination (It's Smart)&S-Metal (It's for More Heavy) from 2022-05-22T21:10:57

Here's something: The Man is after robot cars (but not for a reason that would fix the problem), rich guys are making the twits at Twatter crazier (because geek trumps nerd), Russian tanks are t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.11.22: Driving Like a Predator, Idling-for-15-Minutes Guy, Auto-Drive Robot Death Going to Court, Spying Video Cameras, India Backhanding Tesla (Because China), + Desalination (It's Smart)&S-Metal (It's for More Heavy) from 2022-05-22T20:55:54

Here's something: The Man is after robot cars (but not for a reason that would fix the problem), rich guys are making the twits at Twatter crazier (because geek trumps nerd), Russian tanks are t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.07.22 (MP3): Road Manners for the Regulators (Featuring Officer Uptosomething) - Gas Prices VS Boost, Texas VS Iowa Drivers, Barn Finds, Good Cooling (Hose Clamps, Zip-Ties&Duct Tape, Oh My!),&A Tale of Two Fat Ladies @ the Bettendorf Merge from 2022-05-17T11:15

TIme to push it down and lean back - it's a one-day sprint from here to there with Hostus Maximus Justin Fort. From rating the troopers in Illinois against the meter maids in the San Diego secto...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.07.22: Road Manners for the Regulators (Featuring Officer Uptosomething) - Gas Prices VS Boost, Texas VS Iowa Drivers, Barn Finds, Good Cooling (Hose Clamps, Zip-Ties&Duct Tape, Oh My!),&A Tale of Two Fat Ladies @ the Bettendorf Merge from 2022-05-17T11:00

TIme to push it down and lean back - it's a one-day sprint from here to there with Hostus Maximus Justin Fort. From rating the troopers in Illinois against the meter maids in the San Diego secto...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.03.22 (MP3): Chicagoland Border Hell Spring Garagefest! Used Jeeps, 4Runners, Porsches&Dogs, Shopping for Deals in a Crashing (Car) Economy w/ Price VS Panic, Opportunists VS Offers, Asking VS Selling, + Auto Shop, Nolectric 'Froading&17" of Rain from 2022-05-14T04:40:27

Holy freakin' sequel, Batman - the Garage Hour goons gathered up the Chi-town hustlers for another armpit-adjacent gearhead free-for-all, and spicy meatballs happened. What's it? Cutting cars in...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.03.22: Chicagoland Border Hell Spring Garagefest! Used Jeeps, 4Runners, Porsches&Dogs, Shopping for Deals in a Crashing (Car) Economy w/ Price VS Panic, Opportunists VS Offers, Asking VS Selling, + Auto Shop, Nolectric 'Froading&17" of Rain from 2022-05-14T04:22:29

Holy freakin' sequel, Batman - the Garage Hour goons gathered up the Chi-town hustlers for another armpit-adjacent gearhead free-for-all, and spicy meatballs happened. What's it? Cutting cars in...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.24.22 (MP3): Off-Road Adventure Goes Full-Cluster! Four-Wheel Drifting Curveballs w/ Old Hoses&Coolant Clouds, Wind, Fire, Snow,&Sheep (+ Trout, Dirt, Trails&Tents) + 10th Man Analysis, Dude Food Creek Cooling,&Fish on a Stick from 2022-04-30T17:09:29

...And sometimes, the cluster is half the adventure (or most of it, in this case).  While doing a banzai run to a "meet here" out-there getogether with some 'froading buddies (who we met at the ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.24.22: Off-Road Adventure Goes Full-Cluster! Four-Wheel Drifting Curveballs w/ Old Hoses&Coolant Clouds, Wind, Fire, Snow,&Sheep, (&Trout, Dirt, Trails&Tents) + 10th Man Analysis, Dude Food Creek Cooling,&Fish on a Stick from 2022-04-30T16:52:23

...And sometimes, the cluster is half the adventure (or most of it, in this case).  While doing a banzai run to a "meet here" out-there getogether with some 'froading buddies (who we met at the ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.22.22 (MP3): Road-Run to 4Runners - Colorado Cars, Truculent Traffuckery, Freeway Logic (Faster Roads in SoCal&the Front Range), Excessive Roof-Rackism, the Return of Traffic Elitists, + Breckenridge Brewery, the Beer Fort&a Kia Forte from 2022-04-29T04:27:22

Wellll...  It should be no surprise that wading waist-deep into mid-day traffic for a Colorado hot lap might plunge the Garage Hour into some of the usual left-lane snobs, inattentive Audis, slo...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.22.22: Road-Run to 4Runners - Colorado Cars, Truculent Traffuckery, Freeway Logic (Faster Roads in SoCal&the Front Range), Excessive Roof-Rackism, the Return of Traffic Elitists, + Breckenridge Brewery, the Beer Fort&a Kia Forte from 2022-04-29T04:05:49

Wellll...  It should be no surprise that wading waist-deep into mid-day traffic for a Colorado hot lap might plunge the Garage Hour into some of the usual left-lane snobs, inattentive Audis, slo...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.04.22 (MP3): NASCAR Fights&Airport Robots, Texan Troopers VS Mexican Semis, Electric Car Brownouts, Ethanol Gas Fails, Municipal Attacks on Constitutional Rights, + the Terrible&Fiery Death of Many Nails, Drill Bits&2x4s from 2022-04-24T05:28:24

Even the fist-fights between millenial race-car drivers suck - what we'd give for the good old days when Cale Yarborough beat up the whole Allison family, or Boris Said "teaching 'em a lesson......

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.04.22: NASCAR Fights&Airport Robots, Texan Troopers VS Mexican Semis, Electric Car Brownouts, Ethanol Gas Fails, Municipal Attacks on Constitutional Rights, + the Terrible&Fiery Death of Many Nails, Drill Bits&2x4s from 2022-04-24T05:15:45

Even the fist-fights between millenial race-car drivers suck - what we'd give for the good old days when Cale Yarborough beat up the whole Allison family, or Boris Said "teaching 'em a lesson......

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.02.22 (MP3): Dark:30 Gearhead Brain - Slashing Tires&Burning Cars Doesn't Make Your Point, Jumping Teslas Ain't Brainful, Chernobyl Is No Sandbox, Missing Chips Isn't Just a Parts Problem, Horse Fear of Fat Folks, + 3D RPGs&Blue Wonder Power Milk from 2022-04-11T11:15

When you've got too much to do but no daylight to do it, be the night owl. With syrupy tracks and big thoughts, Hostus Maximus Justin Fort pours on the goodness: why Ukraine's war hurts your aut...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.02.22: Dark:30 Gearhead Brain - Slashing Tires&Burning Cars Doesn't Make Your Point, Jumping Teslas Ain't Brainful, Chernobyl Is No Sandbox, Missing Chips Isn't Just a Parts Problem, Horse Fear of Fat Folks, + 3D RPGs&Blue Wonder Power Milk from 2022-04-11T11:00

When you've got too much to do but no daylight to do it, be the night owl. With syrupy tracks and big thoughts, Hostus Maximus Justin Fort pours on the goodness: why Ukraine's war hurts your aut...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.27.22 (MP3): Traffic Cameras Hate Your Safety&More Illogical Attacks on Gearheads, w/ People Who Hate Trains (Who Hates Trains?), Electric-Car Fires, Gas-Price Fails&Race Car Frauds, + Sounds of Clutch (the Band)&Being Nice to Your Dog (Dammit) from 2022-04-09T19:09:42

Don't let the small-thinkery of those who'd walk into traffic because their phone was more interesting than their wellbeing steer your geek-brain wrong. We've got the Motts on traffic cameras (a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.27.22: Traffic Cameras Hate Your Safety&More Illogical Attacks on Gearheads, w/ People Who Hate Trains (Who Hates Trains?), Electric-Car Fires, Gas-Price Fails&Race Car Frauds, + Sounds of Clutch (the Band)&Being Nice to Your Dog (Dammit) from 2022-04-09T18:47:52

Don't let the small-thinkery of those who'd walk into traffic because their phone was more interesting than their wellbeing steer your geek-brain wrong. We've got the Motts on traffic cameras (a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.17.22 (MP3): Night of the Living Day Drinking @ Trinity w/ Tube-Frame Pintos&Rodeck V8s, Beer Canning&German Interrupting, Taco Pizza VS Pizza Taco, Tales from the Studio, + Barns, Belly Rigs&Broken Tables (Fuggedaboutit!) from 2022-03-23T18:19:04

Yikes.  This one was all over the place from the word "Welcome" - Dude Food (w/ bacon, beef and horseradish sauce), Javelins and Call of Duty, breaking in your belly holster (and standards for p...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.17.22: Night of the Living Day Drinking @ Trinity w/ Tube-Frame Pintos&Rodeck V8s, Beer Canning&German Interrupting, Taco Pizza VS Pizza Taco, Tales from the Studio, + Barns, Belly Rigs&Broken Tables (Fuggedaboutit!) from 2022-03-23T18:01:27

Yikes.  This one was all over the place from the word "Welcome" - Dude Food (w/ bacon, beef and horseradish sauce), Javelins and Call of Duty, breaking in your belly holster (and standards for p...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.13.22 (MP3): Driveshaft Diagnostic&Late-Night Deepthink - U-Joints&Yokes VS Bearings&Half-Shafts, Rebuilt VS Replaced, Staked&Clipped&Welded&Clocked, + Anarchy VS Enthusism, Avocados VS Coconuts, Toothbrushing, Jokers&New Sips from 2022-03-20T06:10:13

If you're gonna be a bear, be a grizzly - the Garage Hour gearheads got their groove on for an hour of issues with new and used driveshafts.  Troubleshooting, driving diagnosis, balancing and bu...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.13.22: Driveshaft Diagnostic&Late-Night Deepthink - U-Joints&Yokes VS Bearings&Half-Shafts, Rebuilt VS Replaced, Staked&Clipped&Welded&Clocked, + Anarchy VS Enthusism, Avocados VS Coconuts, Toothbrushing, Jokers&New Sips from 2022-03-20T05:53:19

If you're gonna be a bear, be a grizzly - the Garage Hour gearheads got their groove on for an hour of issues with new and used driveshafts.  Troubleshooting, driving diagnosis, balancing and bu...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.10.22 (MP3): Defending the Second Amendment (Like a Boss) - Constitutional Carry, "Not About Hunting", FJB VS Gun Owners, Hiding Rules in Swampy Laws,&Safe-Room VS Prison?, + Tesla's China Problem, Electric's Conceit Problem, AMMO Inc&NASCAR Owners from 2022-03-14T21:25:52

The 2A is going to need to land a few punches - let's help by asserting our individual rights and freedoms and standing up for Indiana (constitutional carry, mostly for the better).  Meanwhile, ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.10.22: Defending the Second Amendment (Like a Boss) - Constitutional Carry, "Not About Hunting", FJB VS Gun Owners, Hiding Rules in Swampy Laws,&Safe-Room VS Prison?, + Tesla's China Problem, Electric's Conceit Problem, AMMO Inc&NASCAR Owners from 2022-03-14T20:50:22

The 2A is going to need to land a few punches - let's help by asserting our individual rights and freedoms and standing up for Indiana (constitutional carry, mostly for the better).  Meanwhile, ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.05.22 (MP3): Gas Price Stupidity&Electric Idiocy, Why Old Names Ain't New Cars, Automaker Badge-Engineering Fails&Reputation Degredation, Axle Assemblies&Bearings, Calibers for Ukraine, More Felon Foolishness In Chi-Town, + Bye Bye Antonov 225 from 2022-03-10T06:38:32

Don't let the progressives regress your success: it's a brand new Garage Hour, complete with 16-Volt, Sepultura and Metallica, plus why your new Maverick, Mustang and Blazer still ain't an El Ca...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.05.22: Gas Price Stupidity&Electric Idiocy, Why Old Names Ain't New Cars, Automaker Badge-Engineering Fails&Reputation Degredation, Axle Assemblies&Bearings, Calibers for Ukraine, More Felon Foolishness In Chi-Town, + Bye Bye Antonov 225 from 2022-03-10T06:22:25

Don't let the progressives regress your success: it's a brand new Garage Hour, complete with 16-Volt, Sepultura and Metallica, plus why your new Maverick, Mustang and Blazer still ain't an El Ca...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.22.22 (MP3): Formula 1&Tesla VS Re-Soviet Russia? How About USPS VS Electric Cars (&Big Gov't)? Also, Narcissm Sticks&Loud Phone Talkers, Leftover 2x4s, Being Nice to the Police (Because Patrol Car), + Megadeth, Massive Attack&Man Or Astro-Man from 2022-02-28T23:11:23

Now that's a spicy meatball - more strange things afoot at Circle K...  Why are business leaders leading in defending Ukraine (including F1 and Elon "Pyramid Scheme Vampire" Musk) when national ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.22.22: Formula 1&Tesla VS Re-Soviet Russia? How About USPS VS Electric Cars (&Big Gov't)? Also, Narcissm Sticks&Loud Phone Talkers, Leftover 2x4s, Being Nice to the Police (Because Patrol Car), + Megadeth, Massive Attack&Man Or Astro-Man from 2022-02-28T22:54:48

Now that's a spicy meatball - more strange things afoot at Circle K...  Why are business leaders leading in defending Ukraine (including F1 and Elon "Pyramid Scheme Vampire" Musk) when national ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.12.22 (MP3): 4Runner&Tacoma Parts @ the Junkyard (Tales from Garages of Merit), w/ Blower Tuning (Stop It!), Resale Value Rebound, Flipping Flips, Leafs&Coils, FJ Summit, + More Trucker Protests&Sleeping Too Close to the Howitzers from 2022-02-26T18:03:25

Gettin' lost in great garages (or on the way to garages in the backwoods of Colorado Springs), the Garage Hour shunpikers do a drunken deep-dive from the Walkin' Dude's Toyota and Ford-infested ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.12.22: 4Runner&Tacoma Parts @ the Junkyard (Tales from Garages of Merit), w/ Blower Tuning (Stop It!), Resale Value Rebound, Flipping Flips, Leafs&Coils, FJ Summit, + More Trucker Protests&Sleeping Too Close to the Howitzers from 2022-02-26T17:35:44

Gettin' lost in great garages (or on the way to garages in the backwoods of Colorado Springs), the Garage Hour shunpikers do a drunken deep-dive from the Walkin' Dude's Toyota and Ford-infested ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.10.22 (MP3): Avocados&Potholes, Robot Dogs&Tough Cats, Rivian&Tesla&Big-Money Evil VS Taxpayers' Interests, + Nature&Nurture VS Chinese Bat Plague, w/ Deadbolt, Alien Faktor, Fishbone, Die Krupps&The Desert Sessions from 2022-02-20T06:42:49

What's in there...  Pothole season and the billions spend by taxpayers to mitigate the billions spent by big-city leadership...  Avocados are next to godliness (tell us why)...  Tomcats don't ta...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.10.22: Avocados&Potholes, Robot Dogs&Tough Cats, Rivian&Tesla&Big-Money Evil VS Taxpayers' Interests, + Nature&Nurture VS Chinese Bat Plague, w/ Deadbolt, Alien Faktor, Fishbone, Die Krupps&The Desert Sessions from 2022-02-20T06:30:56

What's in there...  Pothole season and the billions spend by taxpayers to mitigate the billions spent by big-city leadership...  Avocados are next to godliness (tell us why)...  Tomcats don't ta...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.02.22 (MP3): Return of Gearhead News - Toyota Chokes on Chi-Com Olympic&Colon Kapernick Stunt, Tesla's Satellites&Batteries VS Nature, Pothole Pete Buttgieg is Killing Cyclists (While Pinkos Murder Language),&Nick Picks the Blues from 2022-02-16T16:43:12

Too much good stuff (said no geek ever) - it's the news with the blues (okay, you're right, too easy)... Backed by blues from former board-opp Nick the Trick (2012 edition), the Gearhead consult...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.02.22: Return of Gearhead News - Toyota Chokes on Chi-Com Olympic&Colon Kapernick Stunt, Tesla's Satellites&Batteries VS Nature, Pothole Pete Buttgieg is Killing Cyclists (While Pinkos Murder Language),&Nick Picks the Blues from 2022-02-16T16:25:44

Too much good stuff (said no geek ever) - it's the news with the blues (okay, you're right, too easy)... Backed by blues from former board-opp Nick the Trick (2012 edition), the Gearhead consult...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.21.22 (MP3): Truckers, Traffuckers, Rockers, Shoppers&Building Resistance,+ Constitutional Carry, National Reciprocity, Malicious Manufacturing, Jellyfish, Baking Soda&Cat Your Dogs (w/ King&Stevie, Sepultura, Wizard, Tobin, Method&Puny Human) from 2022-01-31T05:35:59

Just have some: this one's got a look at traffic buggery (you can't be that bad by mistake), dogs on neighbors' property (hello or hunting?), big rigs protesting in Canada (still the best neighb...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.21.22: Truckers, Traffuckers, Rockers, Shoppers&Building Resistance, + Constitutional Carry, National Reciprocity, Malicious Manufacturing, Jellyfish, Baking Soda&Catting Your Dogs (w/ King&Stevie, Sepultura, Wizard, Tobin, Method&Puny Human) from 2022-01-31T05:09:28

Just have some: this one's got a look at traffic buggery (you can't be that bad by mistake), dogs on neighbors' property (hello or hunting?), big rigs protesting in Canada (still the best neighb...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.20.22 (MP3): How To Too Many Beers (Said No Gearhead Ever) - Brewing Technique, Distilling&Dude Food Deep-Dive @ Trinity w/ the Master of Sauce, w/ Browns, Farmhouse, IPAs, Reds, + Cask VS Cellar, Snow Beer, Nostalgic Styles&Secret Sipping from 2022-01-25T03:32:45

This episode was a big-belly special after only a few minutes - even the villains were edible.  Hostus Maximus Justin Fort ran a surprise salvo at Location B(eer)'s head brewer Jon Taylor, and h...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.20.22: How To Too Many Beers (Said No Gearhead Ever) - Brewing Technique, Distilling&Dude Food Deep-Dive @ Trinity w/ the Master of Sauce, w/ Browns, Farmhouse, IPAs, Reds, + Cask VS Cellar, Snow Beer, Nostalgic Styles&Secret Sipping from 2022-01-25T03:07:59

This episode was a big-belly special after only a few minutes - even the villains were edible.  Hostus Maximus Justin Fort ran a surprise salvo at Location B(eer)'s head brewer Jon Taylor, and h...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.12.22 (MP3): Help w/ Tires, Help w/ Overheating, Help w/ Computers, Help w/ Lighting (Dr. Watson's Garage Medicine!),&Making Your Vacuum Suck - Gearheads Can, + Flat-Tire 5-Series, Cold = Worse,&Annual Egg Nog Test from 2022-01-15T17:57:22

Geeks are here to help - we know stuff you don't (and your ignorance makes us want to help even more).  Just let it happen.  From furniture moving (why would you want to live amongst things that...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.12.22: Help w/ Tires, Help w/ Overheating, Help w/ Computers, Help w/ Lighting (Dr. Watson's Garage Medicine!),&Making Your Vacuum Suck - Gearheads Can, + Flat-Tire 5-Series, Cold = Worse,&Annual Egg Nog Test from 2022-01-15T17:48:35

Geeks are here to help - we know stuff you don't (and your ignorance makes us want to help even more).  Just let it happen.  From furniture moving (why would you want to live amongst things that...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.10.22 (MP3): Live @ the Brewery! Beers, Booze, Brokens&Baskets of Bacon @ Trinity, w/ Dodges&Toyotas, Submarines&SEALs, ATF&3-D Printing, .308&.300 Blackout, Eatin' What Yer' Hunting, Trunks for (2) Bodies, + Dumb People Saying Dumb Things from 2022-01-12T20:32:38

Got'ta wear shorts - why not in the middle of winter?  Hostus Maximus Justin Fort is pursued by Jason and Peyton from Trinity and "Regular" Bill into Location "B" for broken Dodges, tube amps, r...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.10.22: Live @ the Brewery! Beers, Booze, Brokens&Baskets of Bacon @ Trinity, w/ Dodges&Toyotas, Submarines&SEALs, ATF&3-D Printing, .308&.300 Blackout, Eatin' What Yer' Hunting, Trunks for (2) Bodies, + Dumb People Saying Dumb Things from 2022-01-12T20:15:26

Got'ta wear shorts - why not in the middle of winter?  Hostus Maximus Justin Fort is pursued by Jason and Peyton from Trinity and "Regular" Bill into Location "B" for broken Dodges, tube amps, r...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.02.22 (MP3): Going Fast is Geek Chic, But Why? Why All Skill Sets Matter, Why Mapping Software Is Out To Get You, Why Auto Sales Are Flopping, +Road Race-Ism (The Curves VS The Straights), 500,000 Teslas Recalled,&RIP @ Rick Marcinko&John Madden from 2022-01-09T01:02:30

So much for on-topic - you can't get lost when you're already there.  The Gearhead Consultancy is off to the races yet again, this time debating whether left and right is better than here to the...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.02.22: Going Fast is Geek Chic, But Why? Why All Skill Sets Matter, Why Mapping Software Is Out To Get You, Why Auto Sales Are Flopping, + Road Race-Ism (The Curves VS The Straights), 500,000 Teslas Recalled,&RIP @ Rick Marcinko&John Madden from 2022-01-09T00:47:28

So much for on-topic - you can't get lost when you're already there.  The Gearhead Consultancy is off to the races yet again, this time debating whether left and right is better than here to the...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.22.21 (MP3): Lurkers Unite @ Post-Pre Garage Christmas! 9mm Phones&AT&T Derringers, Porsche Guy Parts&Glock Guy Bits, Fine Sips&Fancy Booze, + Mileage Mandate Fails, Snow Driving, Exploding Teslas&Big-Blocks (for Motorhomes, not Sleighs) from 2021-12-31T06:30:09

Don't get too much awesome in your Christmas chili: it's time to put the nose to the Panetone and activate your Lurker Sense. From foolish gun buy-backs and anti-cop Dem politicos being carjacke...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.22.21: Lurkers Unite @ Post-Pre Garage Christmas! 9mm Phones&AT&T Derringers, Porsche Guy Parts&Glock Guy Bits, Fine Sips&Fancy Booze, + Mileage Mandate Fails, Snow Driving, Exploding Teslas&Big-Blocks (for Motorhomes, not Sleighs) from 2021-12-31T06:02:46

Don't get too much awesome in your Christmas chili: it's time to put the nose to the Panetone and activate your Lurker Sense. From foolish gun buy-backs and anti-cop Dem politicos being carjacke...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.12.21 (MP3): Gearhead Roughtimate of Rhino-Lined FJs VS Plasti-Dipped Miatas, Cowboy Bebop Canon VS Netflix Remake Fail, Vinegar&Truck Bumpers (for Bumping!) VS Grocery Store Pinkos, Racist Electric Cars (Huh?) + #2 in the #1 Lane from 2021-12-21T17:54:20

Pre-Christmas madness from the one-track guardrails-by-braille festival of gearhead goodness that makes the Garage Hour's wheels turn: Rhino-lined FJ80s versus Plasti-Dip Miatas, Cowboy Bebop (v...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.12.21: Gearhead Roughtimate of Rhino-Lined FJs VS Plasti-Dipped Miatas, Cowboy Bebop Canon VS Netflix Remake Fail, Vinegar&Truck Bumpers (for Bumping!) VS Grocery Store Pinkos, Racist Electric Cars (Huh?) + #2 in the #1 Lane from 2021-12-21T17:43:03

Pre-Christmas madness from the one-track guardrails-by-braille festival of gearhead goodness that makes the Garage Hour's wheels turn: Rhino-lined FJ80s versus Plasti-Dip Miatas, Cowboy Bebop (v...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.02.21 (MP3): Stuff You Ought'a Hate - Dangerous Robot Trucks, Ill-Mannered High Beams,&Things You Can't Fix (Support "Right to Repair"), + John Wayne Flics, Monster Magnet, Masters of Reality, Orbital, 16-Volt, Steril, Hellacopters&White Zombie from 2021-12-14T01:17:25

Do stuff (because you can) - pedalling the Subie wagoon cross-country is a great time to collect some serious gearhead thoughts.  Garage Hour's Hostus Maximus peels apart the reasons for actuall...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.02.21: Stuff You Ought'a Hate - Dangerous Robot Trucks, Ill-Mannered High Beams,&Things You Can't Fix (Support "Right to Repair"), + John Wayne Flics, Monster Magnet, Masters of Reality, Orbital, 16-Volt, Steril, Hellacopters&White Zombie from 2021-12-14T00:58:59

Do stuff (because you can) - pedalling the Subie wagoon cross-country is a great time to collect some serious gearhead thoughts.  Garage Hour's Hostus Maximus peels apart the reasons for actuall...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.20.21 (MP3): Driver Crutches, Device Depencency, Two-Lane Traffuckery, Busting Bad Rythms&Deflating Drivers' Bubbles (Because Motoring Should Be Brainful) + Some Gun-Sales Numbers @ Black Friday&Some Prius-Driving Thoughs (@ Don't Be A Prius) from 2021-12-07T23:24:46

Why do things "because that's how we always dude them"?  Dump the habits that don't make sense and honor the physics of traffic (with a little nod to the law, just to keep those tickets to a min...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.20.21:  Driver Crutches, Device Depencency, Two-Lane Traffuckery, Busting Bad Rythms&Deflating Drivers' Bubbles (Because Motoring Should Be Brainful) + Some Gun-Sales Numbers @ Black Friday&Some Prius-Driving Thoughs (@ Don't Be A Prius) from 2021-12-07T23:09:31

Why do things "because that's how we always dude them"?  Dump the habits that don't make sense and honor the physics of traffic (with a little nod to the law, just to keep those tickets to a min...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.02.21 (MP3): Gearhead Pile of Questions - Trailer-Hitch Murder, How Much (Cost) Is Too Much (for Gas)?, Sticker Preachers (Window Hypocrisy), Trucks&Cars Invading Your Phone (Whose Data Is It?), + Popping Some Bubbles This Thanksgiving from 2021-11-20T22:10:44

Remember, many of the world's great problems could have been smothered in the crib - don't let your headache grow into World War Seven.  The Garage Hour is here to help when it does, though, wit...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.02.21: Gearhead Pile of Questions - Trailer-Hitch Murder, How Much (Cost) Is Too Much (for Gas)?, Sticker Preachers (Window Hypocrisy), Trucks&Cars Invading Your Phone (Whose Data Is It?), + Popping Some Bubbles This Thanksgiving from 2021-11-20T21:58:05

Remember, many of the world's great problems could have been smothered in the crib - don't let your headache grow into World War Seven.  The Garage Hour is here to help when it does, though, wit...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.01.21 (MP3): What Your Cars Says About Your Vote&Other Gearhead Logic... Down at the Brewery w/ CDs VS Gs (&Sticking the Turn), Thoughts on Concealed-Carry (Steel VS Plastic, Ladies' Comfort,&9mm VS 10mm VS .40), + Punisher&Judge Dredd from 2021-11-16T18:09:43

Cars, trucks, beers and guns! We've got those for a night of sips at Trinity Brewing, plus an analysis of which generations of Dredd and Punisher were worth your time, plus Tiggers, bacon and a ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.01.21: What Your Cars Says About Your Vote&Other Gearhead Logic... Down at the Brewery w/ CDs VS Gs (&Sticking the Turn), Thoughts on Concealed-Carry (Steel VS Plastic, Ladies' Comfort,&9mm VS 10mm VS .40), + Punisher&Judge Dredd from 2021-11-16T17:58:17

Cars, trucks, beers and guns! We've got those for a night of sips at Trinity Brewing, plus an analysis of which generations of Dredd and Punisher were worth your time, plus Tiggers, bacon and a ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.22.21 (MP3): ...A Road Tripping Deep-Dive Special - Mechanical Lockers&Hard Parts VS Electronannies&Computer-Aided Traction for Off-Road Functionality (a.k.a. Who's In Charge of Your Truck?), or Who's Skill Set Is It? from 2021-11-01T11:15

When time for negotiations are through and Lelu Dallas's multipass won't cut the mustard (Bunky), you can usually fall back on a mechanical part to function like the instructions said it would. ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.22.21: ...A Road Tripping Deep-Dive Special - Mechanical Lockers&Hard Parts VS Electronannies&Computer-Aided Traction for Off-Road Functionality (a.k.a. Who's In Charge of Your Truck?), or Who's Skill Set Is It? from 2021-11-01T11:00

When time for negotiations are through and Lelu Dallas's multipass won't cut the mustard (Bunky), you can usually fall back on a mechanical part to function like the instructions said it would. ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.20.21 (MP3): Can You Hack It? Nissans VS Coolant, Binge Watching Deep-Vees VS Haulover Point, Mustang Guy VS Traffic, Fat Basement People VS The Bicycle (&Millenials VS Reality), + the Pending Uber Shortage&Your Cat's Not a Dog from 2021-10-26T15:44:02

As if the geeks and goons chasing the Garage Hour don't have enough reality to deal out already, it's a show with more - fat beardos with their first bike (and it was pink!), Florida's Haulover ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.20.21: Can You Hack It? Nissans VS Coolant, Binge Watching Deep-Vees VS Haulover Point, Mustang Guy VS Traffic, Fat Basement People VS The Bicycle (&Millenials VS Reality), + the Pending Uber Shortage&Your Cat's Not a Dog from 2021-10-26T15:42:17

As if the geeks and goons chasing the Garage Hour don't have enough reality to deal out already, it's a show with more - fat beardos with their first bike (and it was pink!), Florida's Haulover ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.12.21 (MP3): 2A VS CA&the Guns of Kalifornistan: Further Firearming for Women and First-Timers, Some New Gun Owners&More Old Tool Functions, + Wearing Shorts to Work,&the North Face Loses It While Dudes&Chicks Use It from 2021-10-21T11:30

Don't be a tool - let function guide you to the geek side.  Garage Hour goons and gearhead gadabouts alike are celebrating more Second Amendment fans, and everyone's going plinkin'.  Meanwhile, ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.12.21: 2A VS CA&the Guns of Kalifornistan: Further Firearming for Women and First-Timers, Some New Gun Owners&More Old Tool Functions, + Wearing Shorts to Work,&the North Face Loses It While Dudes&Chicks Use It from 2021-10-21T11:15

Don't be a tool - let function guide you to the geek side.  Garage Hour goons and gearhead gadabouts alike are celebrating more Second Amendment fans, and everyone's going plinkin'.  Meanwhile, ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.10.21(MP3): Questionable Car-Maker Ideas -Design Fails VS Leadership Virtue-Signals @Cadillac&Ford&Hyundai, Exploding Bolts (Still Funny), Supply Lines (Still Choked), Engine Bans (Still Kalifornistan), +English Drivers&Italian Truckers VS Idiots from 2021-10-14T17:51:52

The Gearhead Consultancy made a drive-by of recent decisions by hallmark international automakers' lousy design and product ideas, and was led into a originality dead end.  From parts-bin novelt...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.10.21: Questionable Car-Maker Ideas - Design Fails VS Leadership Virtue-Signals @ Cadillac&Ford&Hyundai, Exploding Bolts (Still Funny), Supply Lines (Still Choked), Engine Bans (Still Kalifornistan), + English Drivers&Italian Truckers VS Idiots from 2021-10-14T17:34:09

The Gearhead Consultancy made a drive-by of recent decisions by hallmark international automakers' lousy design and product ideas, and was led into a originality dead end.  From parts-bin novelt...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.02.21 (MP3): On the Road (Again...) w/ Uncle Travelling Gearhead - Lighting Legality, Stolen Design Cues, Gas Station Poseurs, Lane 1 Tough Guys, 99% Racecar Drivers, Idiots Doing Idiot Things (in Traffic),&Starting Days Right + Info Deserts from 2021-10-11T21:42:46

Getting back in the saddle is hard to do - but we're doing it anyway, because gearhead.  Hostus Maximus Justin Fort was on the road and captured everything from automotive design cheating (BMW a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.02.21: On the Road (Again...) w/ Uncle Travelling Gearhead - Lighting Legality, Stolen Design Cues, Gas Station Poseurs, Lane 1 Tough Guys, 99% Racecar Drivers, Idiots Doing Idiot Things (in Traffic),&Starting Days Right + Info Deserts from 2021-10-11T21:28:34

Getting back in the saddle is hard to do - but we're doing it anyway, because gearhead.  Hostus Maximus Justin Fort was on the road and captured everything from automotive design cheating (BMW a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.01.21 (MP3): Too Many "B"s, Not Enough Time @ Trinity Brewing - Beer, Brats, (Where's) Bill, Bacon, (Upper) Brass, Blown (Up), Balls, (Will It) Blend,&Buttons! Also, Cast-Iron Pans, w/ Trinity's Head Brewer on How We Got Here (Beer!) from 2021-09-19T16:45:40

English, schminglish...  Sorry, but there's a lot going on in Garage World right now - running out of hours.  We did manage to kidnap Trinity's saucemaster for an hour - Jon Taylor, Regular Bill...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.01.21: Too Many "B"s, Not Enough Time @ Trinity Brewing - Beer, Brats, (Where's) Bill, Bacon, (Upper) Brass, Blown (Up), Balls, (Will It) Blend,&Buttons! Also, Cast-Iron Pans, w/ Trinity's Head Brewer on How We Got Here (Beer!) from 2021-09-19T16:26:58

English, schminglish...  Sorry, but there's a lot going on in Garage World right now - running out of hours.  We did manage to kidnap Trinity's saucemaster for an hour - Jon Taylor, Regular Bill...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.22.21 (MP3): Bushings&Wrenches&Trucks&Expansion Tanks, Oh My - Plus No Lane for You!, Curvy Road Requests, Tool Trays (&Not Tool Trays), Old Laptops&Old Software (w/ New Problems), + Rob Zombie from 2021-09-10T18:41:50

It's a fine selection of the random gearheadiness that makes the Garage Hour an international sensation (seriously, what's wrong with you people?) - semis and wide loads and how to own the lane,...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.22.21: Bushings&Wrenches&Trucks&Expansion Tanks, Oh My - Plus No Lane for You!, Curvy Road Requests, Tool Trays (&Not Tool Trays), Old Laptops&Old Software (w/ New Problems), + Rob Zombie from 2021-09-10T18:28:54

It's a fine selection of the random gearheadiness that makes the Garage Hour an international sensation (seriously, what's wrong with you people?) - semis and wide loads and how to own the lane,...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.21.21 (MP3): Superballs&Other Traffic Projectiles... Also Chevy Bolt Battery Fires (Crispy), Cool Military Hardware XMas for the Taliban (Toucans&Blackhawks&MRAPs, Oh My), No Bullets for You (but Plenty for Terrorists), + Some Motoring Questions from 2021-08-27T15:52:46

Balls that bounce are great, but GM recalling 50-70,000 Bolts aint.  Also, when you have lemons, don't make terrorists lemonade.  ...Unless you're a fool, in which case you gift-wrap that lemona...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.21.21: Superballs&Other Traffic Projectiles... Also Chevy Bolt Battery Fires (Crispy), Cool Military Hardware XMas for the Taliban (Toucans&Blackhawks&MRAPs, Oh My), No Bullets for You (but Plenty for Terrorists), + Some Motoring Questions from 2021-08-27T15:33:46

Balls that bounce are great, but GM recalling 50-70,000 Bolts aint.  Also, when you have lemons, don't make terrorists lemonade.  ...Unless you're a fool, in which case you gift-wrap that lemona...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.12.21 (MP3): Tech VS Gearheads - How&Why of Mindless Self-Surveillance, w/ Hacks @ Tech-Privacy Survival, Nuts&Bolts of Data-Hungry Vehicles, Vulnerability of Cars to Outside Control, Info-Harvesting Corporations, +Who Should Profit from Your Data from 2021-08-22T17:08:23

The next time you wander into the kitchen in your torn boxers, are the 'fridge and toaster watching you?  ...And who's watching them?  How about when you pair your car's "infotainment" system wi...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.12.21: Tech VS Gearheads - Hows&Whys of Mindless Self-Surveillance, w/ Hacks for Tech-Privacy Survival, Nuts&Bolts of Data-Hungry Vehicles, Vulnerability of Cars to Outside Control, Info-Harvesting Corporations, + Who Should Profit from Your Data from 2021-08-22T16:54:34

The next time you wander into the kitchen in your torn boxers, are the 'fridge and toaster watching you?  ...And who's watching them?  How about when you pair your car's "infotainment" system wi...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.02.21 (MP3): Why Car Accidents Don't Mean What You Think - Road Entitlement&Cost VS Competence, Traffic Elitism, Skill-Set Shortages, Distracted Drivers&the Unguided Missile, + 4-Wheeling Ramona, Trinity's Belgian Wit&Jaegermeister in 'da Freezer from 2021-08-14T07:05:48

...Because driving ain't about being able to afford a car, and being skilled ain't because you showed up - motoring fails are not what you think, but you should have thought of that.  The Garage...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.02.21: Why Car Accidents Don't Mean What You Think - Road Entitlement&Cost VS Competence, Traffic Elitism, Skill-Set Shortages, Distracted Drivers&the Unguided Missile, + Four-Wheeling Ramona, Trinity's Belgian Wit&Jaegermeister in 'da Freezer from 2021-08-14T06:49:46

...Because driving ain't about being able to afford the car, and being skilled ain't because you showed up - motoring fails are not what you think, but you should have thought of that.  The Gara...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.01.21 (MP3): Need New Conspiracies (Old Ones Came True)... Power-Grabbers Grabbing Your Power - Gov't Wants to Take Away Your Race Car, Track Your Driving&Call You Guilty Until Proven Innocent (Because "Infrastructure") - Gearheads Need to Get Mad from 2021-08-06T16:18:45

Want to do your thing, and geek out on fast cars, fine beer, crawly trucks and bangy guns?  Like doing stuff that's not "approved" by the woketards?  If you don't stand up for your right to do y...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.01.21 (MP3): Need New Conspiracies (Old Ones Came True)... Power-Grabbers Grabbing Your Power - Gov't Wants to Take Away Your Race Car, Track Your Driving & Call You Guilty Until Proven Innocent (Because "Infrastructure") - Gearheads Need to Get Mad from 2021-08-06T16:18:45

Want to do your thing, and geek out on fast cars, fine beer, crawly trucks and bangy guns?  Like doing stuff that's not "approved" by the woketards?  If you don't stand up for your right to do y...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.01.21: Need New Conspiracies (Old Ones Came True)... Power-Grabbers Grabbing Your Power - Gov't Wants to Take Away Your Race Car, Track Your Driving&Call You Guilty Until Proven Innocent (Because "Infrastructure") - Gearheads Need to Get Mad from 2021-08-06T16:04:06

Want to do your thing, and geek out on fast cars, fine beer, crawly trucks and bangy guns?  Like doing stuff that's not "approved" by the woketards?  If you don't stand up for your right to do y...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.01.21: Need New Conspiracies (Old Ones Came True)... Power-Grabbers Grabbing Your Power - Gov't Wants to Take Away Your Race Car, Track Your Driving & Call You Guilty Until Proven Innocent (Because "Infrastructure") - Gearheads Need to Get Mad from 2021-08-06T16:04:06

Want to do your thing, and geek out on fast cars, fine beer, crawly trucks and bangy guns?  Like doing stuff that's not "approved" by the woketards?  If you don't stand up for your right to do y...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.27.21 (MP3): Just Add Rice! Fun w/ Japanese Cars&Tuner Bits, JDM&Ricer Stories, + Stick VS Paddle, Home-Fab Intakes, Making a Ridgeline Work On-Trail (Though It's Still Not a Truck), Speed Holes&Deep-Vee Powerboat Blowers from 2021-07-31T04:19:06

Nothing like climbing into a little history, especially when it's the great Japanese and USDM stuff from the late '80s and '90s. You name it - CRX, EF, EG and EK, S-13 and S-14, good seats and b...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.27.21: Just Add Rice! Fun w/ Japanese Cars&Tuner Bits, JDM&Ricer Stories, + Stick VS Paddle, Home-Fab Intakes, Making a Ridgeline Work On-Trail (Though It's Still Not a Truck), Speed Holes&Deep-Vee Powerboat Blowers from 2021-07-31T03:57:45

Nothing like climbing into a little history, especially when it's the great Japanese and USDM stuff from the late '80s and '90s. You name it - CRX, EF, EG and EK, S-13 and S-14, good seats and b...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.22.21 (MP3): Daytime-Running Lights - Good or Crap? In-Car Nanny Devices VS Skills&Attentiveness, Motorcycle Safety (Loud Pipes Save Lives!), Nightime Motoring&Car-to-Car Comms, + Demolition Man, Rust Belt&Emmitt from Silverado,&Naked Funk from 2021-07-28T15:29:51

The answer is "crap!" Geeks ain't fooled by a thin logic, and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort goes late-night weirdsauce (and possibly some other places) on the safety fraud that DRLs have become. Be...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.22.21: Daytime-Running Lights - Good or Crap? In-Car Nanny Devices VS Skills&Attentiveness, Motorcycle Safety (Loud Pipes Save Lives!), Nightime Motoring&Car-to-Car Comms, + Demolition Man, Rust Belt&Emmitt from Silverado,&Naked Funk from 2021-07-28T15:16:42

The answer is "crap!" Geeks ain't fooled by a thin logic, and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort goes late-night weirdsauce (and possibly some other places) on the safety fraud that DRLs have become. Be...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.17.21 (MP3): Don't Be a Speed Bump (Or Less Skilled), or Does More Automotive Technology = Less Driver Capability? (Automation&Convenience Make You Suck), Four-Wheeling Failtown, + Trainshooting for Thugs&Protecting Data VS Controlling It from 2021-07-22T23:35:25

From green lawns versus gravel yards (cop-out) to the human question of whether you're less of one if your car is more man than you, the Garage Hour doesn't phone it in. We've got the real-world...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.17.21: Don't Be a Speed Bump (Or Less Skilled), or Does More Automotive Technology = Less Driver Capability? (Automation&Convenience Make You Suck), Four-Wheeling Failtown, + Trainshooting for Thugs&Protecting Data VS Controlling It from 2021-07-22T23:20:06

From green lawns versus gravel yards (cop-out) to the human question of whether you're less of one if your car is more man than you, the Garage Hour doesn't phone it in. We've got the real-world...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.14.21 (MP3): Rehumanize! Right to Repair (Because Sh!t Must Be Fixed!)&Electric Car Letdowns (Ruined by Hype), + Dump Truck Crashes (Bye Bye Bridge), Cambus #69, Steve Wozniak, Dirty Dave, Queens of the Stone Age, Humping Squirrels&Too Much Justin from 2021-07-18T06:54:11

Let's do the thing - great rock (QOTSA all day), great crashes (who needed that yacht), earth-shaking stamping mills, loads of government graft on the back of fraudulent electric transit unicorn...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.14.21: Rehumanize! Right to Repair (Because Sh!t Must Be Fixed!)&Electric Car Letdowns (Ruined by Hype), + Dump Truck Crashes (Bye Bye Bridge), Cambus #69, Steve Wozniak, Dirty Dave, Queens of the Stone Age, Humping Squirrels&Too Much Justin from 2021-07-18T06:39:55

Let's do the thing - great rock (QOTSA all day), great crashes (who needed that yacht), earth-shaking stamping mills, loads of government graft on the back of fraudulent electric transit unicorn...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.04.21 (MP3): Superfried Support of Second Amendment (+2A News), 2/3 of US Counties = 2A Sanctuaries, the (Pending) Death of CA's "Assault" Weapon Ban, Cannon Building VS Cannon Owning, w/ The Precious (10mm)&Trinity's Dark Cherry Seltzer from 2021-07-10T17:27:23

Down in the lab... It's a 1% battery episode: Hostus Maximus Justin Fort's tank was on empty for this one, but somehow a good think-piece happened.  There's reports on the health of our Second A...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.04.21: Superfried Support of Second Amendment (+2A News), 2/3 of US Counties = 2A Sanctuaries, the (Pending) Death of CA's "Assault" Weapon Ban, Cannon Building VS Cannon Owning, w/ The Precious (10mm)&Trinity's Dark Cherry Seltzer from 2021-07-10T16:51:02

Down in the lab... It's a 1% battery episode: Hostus Maximus Justin Fort's tank was on empty for this one, but somehow a good think-piece happened.  There's reports on the health of our Second A...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.27.21 (MP3): Drivers&Racecars @ Pike's Peak Hillclimb - Times, Winners, Race-Lines, Recaps, "Incidents"&Conditions from the Mountain, + Rebuilding Old Mac Products, Cassette VS 8-Track, Fruity Beers&the Sandwich Break from 2021-06-30T23:09:15

PPIHC 2021 is in the books, and the Garage Hour goons were in the mix (George's, baby!). From early on the hill to fine sips afterwards (plus a little racing), we were in it and we have tales to...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.27.21: Drivers&Racecars @ Pike's Peak Hillclimb - Times, Winners, Race-Lines, Recaps, "Incidents"&Conditions from the Mountain, + Rebuilding Old Mac Products, Cassette VS 8-Track, Fruity Beers&the Sandwich Break from 2021-06-30T22:59:12

PPIHC 2021 is in the books, and the Garage Hour goons were in the mix (George's, baby!). From early on the hill to fine sips afterwards (plus a little racing), we were in it and we have tales to...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.15.21 (MP3): Pike's Peak Hillclimb 2021 Preamble - Racecar Audio from the Mountain, w/ Course&Spectator Info, Racers&History, Cars&Engines, Layout&Turn-Count, Records&Stories, + Session Lager, Amon Tobin&Re-Moding Your Bubble from 2021-06-21T22:26:47

Four hours of mixing better be worth a nut - the Garage Hour captured a truckload of mamma's muffins during practice and testing at the PPIHC, and spliced the sexiest sounding road-racey bits in...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.15.21: Pike's Peak Hillclimb 2021 Preamble - Racecar Audio from the Mountain, w/ Course&Spectator Info, Racers&History, Cars&Engines, Layout&Turn-Count, Records&Stories, + Session Lager, Amon Tobin&Re-Moding Your Bubble from 2021-06-21T22:13:52

Four hours of mixing better be worth a nut - the Garage Hour captured a truckload of mamma's muffins during practice and testing at the PPIHC, and spliced the sexiest sounding road-racey bits in...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.09.21 (MP3): Gearheads&Geeks Love Dude Food&the Second Amendment, w/ 2A Thinking for Smart Kids (&Better Parents), London Broil, Texas&Constitutional Carry, CA's "Assault" Weapons Court Choke, Fenix Ammo's Fine FU,&7,000,000 Stolen Bullets from 2021-06-19T16:43:24

The Garage Hour asks: is your kid gun-safe?  Borne of a perfect rant that took shape in the garadtch and made it all the way to the mic, we went for broke on 2A goodness and wound up with a whol...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.09.21: Gearheads&Geeks Love Dude Food&the Second Amendment, w/ 2A Thinking for Smart Kids (&Better Parents), London Broil, Texas&Constitutional Carry, CA's "Assault" Weapons Court Choke, Fenix Ammo's Fine FU,&7,000,000 Stolen Bullets from 2021-06-19T16:26:38

The Garage Hour asks: is your kid gun-safe?  Borne of a perfect rant that took shape in the garadtch and made it all the way to the mic, we went for broke on 2A goodness and wound up with a whol...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.06.09 (MP3): Classic Reload- Original Show @ KCBQ (Bask in the Shiny): Four-Wheeling the Cleveland National Forest, Post-Bailout Automaker Remorse, Transformers Movie PR Junk, Politics VS Hobbies, Living Efficiently VS Green Dogma + the Gift of Anthrax from 2021-06-12T21:34:02

#Becausegearhead - it's the first-ever Garage Hour.  Combine big-AM talk radio w/ a first-time show host who's just found out how to talk to more people about cars, trucks, beers and guns, and t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.06.09: Classic Reload - Original Show @ KCBQ (Bask in the Shiny): Four-Wheeling the Cleveland National Forest, Post-Bailout Automaker Remorse, Transformers Movie PR Junk, Politics VS Hobbies, Living Efficiently VS Green Dogma + the Gift of Anthrax from 2021-06-12T21:24:53

#Becausegearhead - it's the first-ever Garage Hour.  Combine big-AM talk radio w/ a first-time show host who's just found out how to talk to more people about cars, trucks, beers and guns, and t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.01.21 (MP3): Hills Climbed&Canyons Carved, Sips Swilled&Clay Barred, Good Curvy Roads in Colorado, Motorcyclists VS Track Snobs, Rescuing Hikers&Bikers (Because They're Tired&Grumpy), Your Tesla is Spying on You&China Wants to Spy on Us All from 2021-06-05T19:09:34

So much good stuff! The gearhead goons use clay bars for perfect paint (technique and tricks): clay behavior and quality, keeping the clay (and the paint) clean, detailer versus water (enabling ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.01.21: Hills Climbed&Canyons Carved, Sips Swilled&Clay Barred, Good Curvy Roads in Colorado, Motorcyclists VS Track Snobs, Rescuing Hikers&Bikers (Because They're Tired&Grumpy), Your Tesla is Spying on You&China Wants to Spy on Us All from 2021-06-05T18:59:11

So much good stuff! The gearhead goons use clay bars for perfect paint (technique and tricks): clay behavior and quality, keeping the clay (and the paint) clean, detailer versus water (enabling ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.16.21 (MP3): Use Detailer for Ideal Detailing&Other Car Care Crap - Don't Freeze the Chemicals (But Fear the Chamois), Microfiber Matters, Chemical Combos, Armor-All Syndrome, Some Thoughts on Gas Cans&Storage, + Turbo Swaps, Bowie&Contagion from 2021-05-27T16:18:08

Shooting from the hip never was better radio - great pile of gearhead goodness here, including tips and tricks for automotive detailing (with detailer - Mother's, Griot's, ECP, Glaze Distributin...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.16.21: Using Detailer for Ideal Detailing&Other Car Care Crap - Don't Freeze the Chemicals (But Fear the Chamois), Microfiber Matters, Chemical Combos, Armor-All Syndrome, Some Thoughts on Gas Cans&Storage, + Turbo Swaps, Bowie&Contagion from 2021-05-27T15:53:50

Shooting from the hip was never better radio - great pile of gearhead goodness here, including tips and tricks for automotive detailing (with detailer - Mother's, Griot's, ECP, Glaze Distributin...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.14.21 (MP3): UFOs VS Fighter Jockeys, Towel Pity VS Single-Stage Paint, Asterisk Admin VS Your Right to Roam, the Trojan Corpse VS Normal Automobility, + 5 Days of Gaslessness, Topless Jeep Rally, Ford's New Distracto 500&Hail No (But Tornados) from 2021-05-22T13:15

Toyota corporate gets out against electric cars while Joe Basement plays down for the "struggle" (ahem, dog whistle?), impossible physics of UFOs (transmedium, anyone?) and WW2 gerry cans, giant...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.14.21: UFOs VS Fighter Jockeys, Towel Pity VS Single-Stage Paint, Asterisk Admin VS Your Right to Roam, the Trojan Corpse VS Normal Automobility, + 5 Days of Gaslessness, Topless Jeep Rally, Ford's New Distracto 500&Hail No (But Tornados) from 2021-05-22T13:00

Toyota corporate gets out against electric cars while Joe Basement plays down for the "struggle" (ahem, dog whistle?), impossible physics of UFOs (transmedium, anyone?) and WW2 gerry cans, giant...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.07.21 (MP3): Past the Point of No Gaskets - Bellwether Car Prices&Blazing Saddles, JB Weld&Green Killing Germany, Honeywell Leaks B-1B, F-22&F-35 Designs to China, Illegal Taxis VS Law Enforcement, + Prince Phillip's Custom Landie Pickup from 2021-05-12T19:26:35

A little bit of everything in this one...  US taxpayers get screwed by big gov't contractors (as well as the supremacy of the B-1B, F-35 and F-22), turbocharger fixes for Subaru Legacy Outbacks ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.07.21: Past the Point of No Gaskets - Bellwether Car Prices&Blazing Saddles, JB Weld&Green Killing Germany, Honeywell Leaks B-1B, F-22&F-35 Designs to China, Illegal Taxis VS Law Enforcement, + Prince Phillip's Custom Landie Pickup from 2021-05-12T19:13:31

A little bit of everything in this one...  US taxpayers get screwed by big gov't contractors (as well as the supremacy of the B-1B, F-35 and F-22), turbocharger fixes for Subaru Legacy Outbacks ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.04.21 (MP3): Cougars in the Woods, Hybrids in Denial, GM in Mexico, Cavalier's Crash in Cook's Corner, Old Parts in Boxes, Cheap Commuters in Craig's List,&Blue Mics in Distress, + Zep, Korn, Slot, Vultures, Sessions, Testament, Puny, STP&Sleep from 2021-05-07T13:15

One of those raining in the garadtch/lab in defilade/tech in freakout Garage Hour shows where an absolute pile of unthunk topics turn into really good gearhead radio.  Go figure: everything from...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.04.21: Cougars in the Woods, Hybrids in Denial, GM in Mexico, Cavalier's Crash in Cook's Corner, Old Parts in Boxes, Cheap Commuters in Craig's List,&Blue Mics in Distress, + Zep, Korn, Slot, Vultures, Sessions, Testament, Puny, STP&Sleep from 2021-05-07T13:00

One of those raining in the garadtch/lab in defilade/tech in freakout Garage Hour shows where an absolute pile of unthunk topics turn into really good gearhead radio.  Go figure: everything from...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.25.21 (MP3): Suckin' Ain't No Crime (Until It Is): DC Police Street Racing (Because Desk Job), Subaru Recalls (Because Suspension Bolts), Global Parts Shortages (Because China), Gov't Swamp Dwellers (Because Nerds), + More Tesla AutoDrive Disasters from 2021-04-30T13:15

The Garage Hour's got gearhead news (because people seem to like it), so hereyago:

- DC carkackings, lousy "expert" drivers, Ryan Hampton on lousy journalist drivers, and police who shoul...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.25.21: Suckin' Ain't No Crime (Until It Is): DC Police Street Racing (Because Desk Job), Subaru Recalls (Because Suspension Bolts), Global Parts Shortages (Because China), Gov't Swamp Dwellers (Because Nerds), + More Tesla AutoDrive Disasters from 2021-04-30T13:00

The Garage Hour's got gearhead news (because people seem to like it), so hereyago:

- DC carkackings, lousy "expert" drivers, Ryan Hampton on lousy journalist drivers, and police who shoul...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.01.21 (MP3): F-15EX VS Formula 1, B-1B VS Bilstein, Taco Bell Hot Sauce Marinade VS Zombie Remixes, Santa Ana Winds VS Colorado Humidity, Spondivits VS MLB, Truckers VS Rioters, + U.S. UFOs, Chinese Spy Teslas&A Few Thoughts on Getting Prepped from 2021-04-21T13:15

...Crammed it all into this one.  Script writer: go script yourself.  With a device-thwarting free-news cable-cobbling in-lab intro, this is classic Garage Hour goodness.  Better hydrate.  Fried...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.01.21: F-15EX VS Formula 1, B-1B VS Bilstein, Taco Bell Hot Sauce Marinade VS Zombie Remixes, Santa Ana Winds VS Colorado Humidity, Spondivits VS MLB, Truckers VS Rioters, + U.S. UFOs, Chinese Spy Teslas&A Few Thoughts on Getting Prepped from 2021-04-21T13:00

...Crammed it all into this one.  Script writer: go script yourself.  With a device-thwarting free-news cable-cobbling in-lab intro, this is classic Garage Hour goodness.  Better hydrate.  Fried...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.07.21 (MP3): Gearheads @ Location B(eer) - Techniques for Good Gear Selling Online&In-Person, the Reagan Shooting, Tip-Up VS Down, + a Visit w/ Head Brewer, Hype Forager, Idaho 7, Oak Gin Barrels&Fried Cheese Curds @ Trinity Brew from 2021-04-17T21:00:52

From haversacks to FIPG, Boogerbutt and B-sides, booing Seinfeld and ewwing Yuengling, Justin #2's Tourette's and the curdish (cheese) apocalypse, UZIs and a .38 in the briefcase, plus donations...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.07.21: Gearheads @ Location B(eer) - Techniques for Good Gear Selling Online&In-Person, the Reagan Shooting, Tip-Up VS Down, + a Visit w/ Head Brewer, Hype Forager, Idaho 7, Oak Gin Barrels&Fried Cheese Curds @ Trinity Brew from 2021-04-17T20:57:23

From haversacks to FIPG, Boogerbutt and B-sides, booing Seinfeld and ewwing Yuengling, Justin #2's Tourette's and the curdish (cheese) apocalypse, UZIs and a .38 in the briefcase, plus donations...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.02.21 (MP3): Vroom, Boom&Doom w/ Dude Food&How to Get Hit by a Car - Washed Up Mines&Leftover Bombs, Don't Crash Your Plane, Moby Wipe&the Sewer Beluga, RIP @ G. Gordon Liddy + GPS Proto-Fail (Thanks, Congress) from 2021-04-12T13:15

Surprisingly good gearhead talk radio right here (and it's pure rando-power): you can't fight skill of this magnitude without a prescription (or a warrant).  There's pork shoulder on the grille ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.02.21: Vroom, Boom&Doom w/ Dude Food&How to Get Hit by a Car - Washed Up Mines&Leftover Bombs, Don't Crash Your Plane, Moby Wipe&the Sewer Beluga, RIP @ G. Gordon Liddy + GPS Proto-Fail (Thanks, Congress) from 2021-04-12T13:00

Surprisingly good gearhead talk radio right here (and it's pure rando-power): you can't fight skill of this magnitude without a prescription (or a warrant).  There's pork shoulder on the grille ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.23.21 (MP3): Your Right to Roam VS a Mileage Tax - It's Car-Tracking&It's Big Gov't (Your Liberties VS a Slippery Slope), + Don't We Pay for Roads Already?, Why "Mileage Taxes" Hurt Low-Income Folks More,&The Problem w/ Bureaucrats from 2021-03-31T16:23:09

Creepy pinko nerds have infested the White House and they're after your liberties, particularly your right to roam. Among them is a second-generation marxist and small-town mayor who couldn't ge...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.23.21: Your Right to Roam VS a Mileage Tax - It's Car-Tracking&It's Big Gov't (Your Liberties VS a Slippery Slope), + Don't We Pay for Roads Already?, Why "Mileage Taxes" Hurt Low-Income Folks More,&The Problem w/ Bureaucrats from 2021-03-31T16:13:07

Creepy pinko nerds have infested the White House and they're after your liberties, particularly your right to roam. Among them is a second-generation marxist and small-town mayor who couldn't ge...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.21.21 (MP3): Get the Good Stuff (Be the Vulture!)... Intermediate Junkyarding - Rebuildable Parts (Swappable or Adaptable), Technique for Success, Respect for the Parts, Dirty Cars&Dirty Owners, + Flesh-Eating Floormats&Fu Manchu from 2021-03-26T15:58:40

It's time for gearhead class: smart thinking for your next run to the salvage yard (Junkyard 102!).  At the intersection of knowledge and function is the junkyard (Best Auto, this time) you too ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.21.21: Get the Good Stuff (Be the Vulture!)... Intermediate Junkyarding - Rebuildable Parts (Swappable or Adaptable), Technique for Success, Respect for the Parts, Dirty Cars&Dirty Owners, + Flesh-Eating Floormats&Fu Manchu from 2021-03-26T15:31:49

It's time for gearhead class: smart thinking for your next run to the salvage yard (Junkyard 102!).  At the intersection of knowledge and function is the junkyard (Best Auto, this time) you too ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.12.21 (MP3): Gearhead News! Ford Exploits Joe Basement's Leadership Gap, Exploding Jeep Wranglers in Tow&Crashing Rich Guys in NY, Don't Let Your Wife Park the Tank, USA on Mars&Repo in Space, + Breweries VS Bureaucracy (&Tiny Tyrants) from 2021-03-21T16:42:43

It's gearhead news from the Garage Hour: stuff goin' on that you ought to know.

- Ford ships a $900,000,000 plant to Mexico after promising its workers it would be in Ohio.

- How l...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.12.21: Gearhead News! Ford Exploits Joe Basement's Leadership Gap, Exploding Jeep Wranglers in Tow&Crashing Rich Guys in NY, Don't Let Your Wife Park the Tank, USA on Mars&Repo in Space, + Breweries VS Bureaucracy (&Tiny Tyrants) from 2021-03-21T16:24:38

It's gearhead news from the Garage Hour: stuff goin' on that you ought to know.

- Ford ships a $900,000,000 plant to Mexico after promising its workers it would be in Ohio.

- How l...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.09.21 (MP3): Unintentional Flamethrower&Sawzall Fix-Alls @Location B(eer) -Because Snowpacolypse- w/ Fine Sips, Lower Bushings (Just Add Fire), Traction Control VS Physics (Physics is Gonna Happen), Fletcher Hills Plane Crash +Cold-Weather Dude Food from 2021-03-17T16:18:37

Don't start drinking too beforehand.  In this selection of random consulting, the Garage Hour does sawzalls (sorry, reciProcating saws) and blowtorches, a review of butane VS MAPP, the false sen...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.09.21: Unintentional Flamethrowers&Sawzall Fix-Alls @ Location B(eer) - Because Snowpacolypse - w/ Fine Sips, Lower Bushings (Just Add Fire), Traction Control VS Physics (Physics is Gonna Happen), Fletcher Hills Plane Crash, + Cold-Weather Dude Food from 2021-03-17T16:13:01

Don't start drinking too beforehand.  In this selection of random consulting, the Garage Hour does sawzalls (sorry, reciProcating saws) and blowtorches, a review of butane VS MAPP, the false sen...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.06.21 (MP3): Gearhead News - Anti-2A Biz List, Defending the Second VS the Usual (Racist, Elitist&Sexist) Suspects, States Like Montana, Missouri, Utah&W. Virginia VS Statists, Burgess Owens Speaks&Herschel Walker Seeks, + Tale of Two Washingtons from 2021-03-13T14:15

The Garage Hour goons have Second Amendment news you ought'a know:

- Is gun control code for people control?

- A list of companies that use the money you pay them to attack the 2A ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.06.21: Gearhead News - Anti-2A Biz List, Defending the Second VS the Usual (Racist, Elitist&Sexist) Suspects, States Like Montana, Missouri, Utah&W. Virginia VS the Statists, Burgess Owens Speaks&Herschel Walker Seeks, + a Tale of Two Washingtons from 2021-03-13T14:00

The Garage Hour goons have Second Amendment news you ought'a know:

- Is gun control code for people control?

- A list of companies that use the money you pay them to attack the 2A ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.03.21 (MP3): Gearhead Awesomepile - Prepping the Sled For Spring, Pegboard VS Toolbox (&Is Pegboard for Poseurs?), Chic your Geek (Because Project Season), Disarming New Jersey, + "Ride Clear of Diablo"&the Good Bad Guy from 2021-03-10T14:15

Jeez - this episode is all over the place.  From Led Zeppelin VS Southern Culture on the Skids to Ray's blimp-bomb over Akron, you're not going to be able to find your seat.  We couldn't even fi...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.03.21: Gearhead Awesomepile - Prepping the Sled For Spring, Pegboard VS Toolbox (&Is Pegboard for Poseurs?), Chic your Geek (Because Project Season), Disarming New Jersey, + "Ride Clear of Diablo"&the Good Bad Guy from 2021-03-10T14:00

Jeez - this episode is all over the place.  From Led Zeppelin VS Southern Culture on the Skids to Ray's blimp-bomb over Akron, you're not going to be able to find your seat.  We couldn't even fi...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.22.21 (MP3): Gearhead News - Don't Hold Your Breath for Electric Mail Trucks, Self-Disassembling Broncos (&the Corporatethink At Fault), Ford VS the NRA, F-35 VS F-16 VS F-15 VS A-10, Imagine a 2000-Year Old Car, + Bye Bye Fry's from 2021-03-04T23:25:51

Gearhead News #2: you ought'a know this.

- The gov't wants to waste more of your money on the barely solvent USPS with electric mail vans (because windmills worked out so well).

- ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.22.21: Gearhead News - Don't Hold Your Breath for Electric Mail Trucks, Self-Disassembling Broncos (&the Corporatethink At Fault), Ford VS the NRA, F-35 VS F-16 VS F-15 VS A-10, Imagine a 2000-Year Old Car, + Bye Bye Fry's from 2021-03-04T23:08:32

Gearhead News #2: you ought'a know this.

- The gov't wants to waste more of your money on the barely solvent USPS with electric mail vans (because windmills worked out so well).

- ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.02.21 (MP3): Towing Something? It's a Skill-Set Thing! Gearhead Guidance on Trucks, Trailers&Tires, Complicated VS Hard, Wood VS Aluminum, Years VS Miles, Friends Who Know Tows, + How Many Balls Do You Have? from 2021-02-28T21:47:52

Forgot we did this one...  Garage Hour goons do lots of towing, and there's some easy to-dos that'll get it done.  From truck and trailer to balls and hitches, there's tricks and technique that ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.02.21: Towing Something? It's a Skill-Set Thing! Gearhead Guidance on Trucks, Trailers&Tires, Complicated VS Hard, Wood VS Aluminum, Years VS Miles, Friends Who Know Tows, + How Many Balls Do You Have? from 2021-02-28T21:34:48

Forgot we did this one...  Garage Hour goons do lots of towing, and there's some easy to-dos that'll get it done.  From truck and trailer to balls and hitches, there's tricks and technique that ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.20.21 (MP3): Gearhead News: New F1 VS Old F1, USPS's Mutant Cartoon Trucks, Roush Pretends Racing Gives a Hoot, Springsteen Elites Away a DUI, Tiger Crashes a Wagon,&JD Power's New-Car Ratings, + Old Beer, Nice FJ Guys in TX,&Ethanol VS Dinner from 2021-02-26T00:34:24

Why not? The Garage Hour goons usually focus on one topic (before veering off), but tonight, it's a weekly look at gearhead news.  J.D. Power's reliability ratings (Lexus and Porsche at the top,...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.20.21: Gearhead News: New F1 VS Old F1, USPS's Mutant Cartoon Trucks, Roush Pretends Racing Gives a Hoot, Springsteen Elites Away a DUI, Tiger Crashes a Wagon,&JD Power's New-Car Ratings, + Old Beer, Nice FJ Guys in TX,&Ethanol VS Dinner from 2021-02-26T00:22:16

Why not? The Garage Hour goons usually focus on one topic (before veering off), but tonight, it's a weekly look at gearhead news.  J.D. Power's reliability ratings (Lexus and Porsche at the top,...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.10.21 (MP3): Freakin' Frozen Garage Hour (Escape to Trinity) - Car Batteries in Winter, Saving Neighbors, Gates Gloves VS 18 Below, Heating w/ Waste Oil, the Return of the Subie Bubble, + JB Quick, Great Stuff, Gatling Guns&Custom Plaster from 2021-02-21T17:06:47

It was so damn cold we couldn't stay home.  The Garage Hour goons gathered at Trinity for sips of Idaho 7 Pale, Soul Horkey and Slap Yer Mammy, then tried to keep warm over topics like how batte...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.10.21: Freakin' Frozen Garage Hour (Escape to Trinity) - Car Batteries in Winter, Saving Neighbors, Gates Gloves VS 18 Below, Heating w/ Waste Oil, the Return of the Subie Bubble, + JB Quick, Great Stuff, Gatling Guns&Custom Plaster from 2021-02-21T16:58:14

It was so damn cold we couldn't stay home.  The Garage Hour goons gathered at Trinity for sips of Idaho 7 Pale, Soul Horkey and Slap Yer Mammy, then tried to keep warm over topics like how batte...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.01.21 (MP3): Road Trip to a Texas Garage - Dude Food (Beer, Bourbon&Brats), Summer Four-Wheeling (Toyota VS Jeep), Eating What You Killed (Deer Helper?), Dogs Worth Keeping, + Beers @ Edgewise Eight&Robert Johnson from 2021-02-16T13:15

Whether you like longhorns in the backyard or hounds in the garage, the Garage Hour went down to Texas and gearhead radio happened.  We filled airtime with music - so much blues and country - an...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.01.21: Road Trip to a Texas Garage - Dude Food (Beer, Bourbon&Brats), Summer Four-Wheeling (Toyota VS Jeep), Eating What You Killed (Deer Helper?), Dogs Worth Keeping, + Beers @ Edgewise Eight&Robert Johnson from 2021-02-16T13:00

Whether you like longhorns in the backyard or hounds in the garage, the Garage Hour went down to Texas and gearhead radio happened.  We filled airtime with music - so much blues and country - an...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.12.21 (MP3): Tex Wrecks (the Ft. Worth Pileup)&Denver's Subaru Bubble,&Why Electric Cars Aren't Happening (But Will Still Cost You Billions) - Corporate&Bureaucrat Virtue-Signalling, GM's Parlour Commies, Crony Capitalism&Hybrid Recidivism from 2021-02-13T17:43:45

Taxpayers beware. We're warning you - when ignorant bureaucrats and isolated executives start talking about how they're going to save you, it's time to revolt (hah! electric car pun...).  There ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.12.21: Tex Wrecks (the Ft. Worth Pileup)&Denver's Subaru Bubble,&Why Electric Cars Aren't Happening (But Will Still Cost You Billions) - Corporate&Bureaucrat Virtue-Signalling, GM's Parlour Commies, Crony Capitalism&Hybrid Recidivism from 2021-02-13T17:24:23

Taxpayers beware. We're warning you - when ignorant bureaucrats and isolated executives start talking about how they're going to save you, it's time to revolt (hah! electric car pun...).  There ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.21.21 (MP3): Shovels, Bulldozers, Plows&Beer? Night Shovelling VS Snowball Hunting, Being Nice to the Fuzz, Plastic VS Steel Snow Blades, Jaimz's Monster, + Giant Brain, Small Stone Records, Amon Tobin&Big Gov's Electric Car Wreck from 2021-01-28T05:31:48

When in Rome...  The Garage Hour goons got stuck between an icicle and a snowball, and a show happened.  How about the mechanics of hot-rod shovels (leading edge, baby!), bowling for rioters, up...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.21.21: Shovels, Bulldozers, Plows&Beer? Night Shovelling VS Snowball Hunting, Being Nice to the Fuzz, Plastic VS Steel Snow Blades, Jaimz's Monster, + Giant Brain, Small Stone Records, Amon Tobin&Big Gov's Electric Car Wreck from 2021-01-28T05:30:27

When in Rome...  The Garage Hour goons got stuck between an icicle and a snowball, and a show happened.  How about the mechanics of hot-rod shovels (leading edge, baby!), bowling for rioters, up...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.12.21 (MP3): Quality&Safety Matter! Reasons Not To Buy Chinese (Or Crappy) Parts, w/ Counterfeit Tires, Low-Flow Injectors, Fraudulent QC, (Intentionally) Defective Equipment&Disregard @ Life (Poison Dog Food, Anyone?), + Dumb Is Not an Excuse from 2021-01-24T01:53:26

Because gearheads care (here to help!): we've got some logic on why buying products from countries that don't respect intellectul property or design integrity (ahem, China's a nice example) can ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.12.21: Quality&Safety Matter! Reasons Not To Buy Chinese (Or Crappy) Parts, w/ Counterfeit Tires, Low-Flow Injectors, Fraudulent QC, (Intentionally) Defective Equipment&Disregard @ Life (Poison Dog Food, Anyone?), + Dumb Is Not an Excuse from 2021-01-24T01:38:54

Because gearheads care (here to help!): we've got some logic on why buying products from countries that don't respect intellectul property or design integrity (ahem, China's a nice example) can ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.10.21 (MP3): Braking Brakes Until They Break... Do You Brake Right? How to Avoid Potato-Chipped Rotors: Pre-Braking&the Cool Roll, Brakes on Fire&Overheating, Disc&Rotor Physics, @ Uberlate Garage Hour w/ Fluke&Flying Lotus from 2021-01-18T17:35:11

You may think you drive well (be honest), but do you brake properly?  So many brake problems - the Garage Hour has your answers (plus more questions):  Heel or toe?  Slotted or drilled?  OE or a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.10.21: Braking Brakes Until They Break... Do You Brake Right? How to Avoid Potato-Chipped Rotors: Pre-Braking&the Cool Roll, Brakes on Fire&Overheating, Disc&Rotor Physics, @ Uberlate Garage Hour w/ Fluke&Flying Lotus from 2021-01-18T17:25:10

You may think you drive well (be honest), but do you brake properly?  So many brake problems - the Garage Hour has your answers (plus more questions):  Heel or toe?  Slotted or drilled?  OE or a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.02.21 (MP3): Successful Cerakoting&Broken BCGs w/ F:30, Including Tricks for Proper Coatings, Green-Tip Secrets (&Fraud!), Popped Gas Keys, Governor Recall, + the Necessity of Good Quality Control from 2021-01-14T23:14:06

Candy-coated Garage Hour right here, starring Green Tip and Pepe/Frank/Derailment Monster at Freedom:30 - everything from old 870s to new bolt-carrier groups, including what coatings are the bes...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.02.21: Successful Cerakoting&Broken BCGs w/ F:30, Including Tricks for Proper Coatings, Green-Tip Secrets (&Fraud!), Popped Gas Keys, Governor Recall, + the Necessity of Good Quality Control from 2021-01-14T23:00:15

Candy-coated Garage Hour right here, starring Green Tip and Pepe/Frank/Derailment Monster at Freedom:30 - everything from old 870s to new bolt-carrier groups, including what coatings are the bes...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.28.20 (MP3): Dead of Winter/Chicagoland Border Hell In-Garage Party... 4Runner VS Jeep, Porsche VS Their Owners, Traffic VS Chinese Bat Plague, Taking It Apart VS Putting It Together, + Hoff Brau, Lagunitas, Fortissimo, Fortification&Fortnite from 2021-01-09T23:59:12

"Is something wrong, or are you a Jeeper?"  It's to the credit of the Garage Hour's fistfulls of gravity that we can sit down in a garage cold enough to hang meat with two rookie cohosts and sti...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.28.20: Dead of Winter/Chicagoland Border Hell In-Garage Party... 4Runner VS Jeep, Porsche VS Their Owners, Traffic VS Chinese Bat Plague, Taking It Apart VS Putting It Together, + Hoff Brau, Lagunitas, Fortissimo, Fortification&Fortnite from 2021-01-09T23:47:48

"Is something wrong, or are you a Jeeper?"  It's to the credit of the Garage Hour's fistfulls of gravity that we can sit down in a garage cold enough to hang meat with two rookie cohosts and sti...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.21.20 (MP3): Cross-Country Super Duty (Thoughts From the Road) - MPH Conundrums, Overnight Road-Tripping (&Headlight Upgrades), Traffic Mechanisms&Driver Analysis (w/ Self-Passive Aggressivism&Self-Clotting Clots), + Dude Food&Rock (w/ Roll) from 2021-01-02T06:38:08

Hostus Maximus Justin Fort uncorks a killer road-trip examination of other drivers and what's wrong with them from the cab of his Powerstroked Super Duty.  100% note-free and completely unhinged...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.21.20: Cross-Country Super Duty (Thoughts From the Road) - MPH Conundrums, Overnight Road-Tripping (&Headlight Upgrades), Traffic Mechanisms&Driver Analysis (w/ Self-Passive Aggressivism&Self-Clotting Clots), + Dude Food&Rock (w/ Roll) from 2021-01-02T06:25:38

Hostus Maximus Justin Fort uncorks a killer road-trip examination of other drivers and what's wrong with them from the cab of his Powerstroked Super Duty.  100% note-free and completely unhinged...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.12.20 (MP3): Some Sort of Winter Detailing Special (#BecauseSlush) - Dirt Has Friends&More Isn't Better, Protect Pretty w/ Off-Season Care, How to Use Coin-Op Wash, + Freeway Fun in Your L.A. Phase (Los Feliz!), Failure, Trinity DDH-45&Slaughtercat from 2020-12-21T03:19:55

Why yes, we digress.  It's in there (this time - we promise) with everything from a murderous feline to tow truck technique, plus seasons in Chicago, the 2020 Egg Nog GP, and Ken Andrews of the ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.12.20: Some Sort of Winter Detailing Special (#BecauseSlush) - Dirt Has Friends&More Isn't Better, Protect Pretty w/ Off-Season Care, How to Use Coin-Op Washes, + Freeway Fun in Your L.A. Phase (Los Feliz!), Failure, Trinity's DDH-45&Slaughtercat from 2020-12-21T03:08:35

Why yes, we digress.  It's in there (this time - we promise) with everything from a murderous feline to tow truck technique, plus seasons in Chicago, the 2020 Egg Nog GP, and Ken Andrews of the ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.02.20 (MP3): Gifts for Gearheads (&Geeks Too) - Good Ideas for X-Mas Gifting, w/ Tool Rules, One-Time VS One-Use, Valuable (&Bulk) Substances, Gifts that Enable Skills&Technique, Best Gearhead Retailers, + Fatso Jetson&Dead Guy Ale from 2020-12-14T23:14:45

Don't ruin the giving season with gift cards and missed targets.  You can pimp your geek-power by thinking up ideal presents for all the aspiring gearheads on your list (and elevate your satisfa...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.02.20: Gifts for Gearheads (&Geeks Too) - Good Ideas for X-Mas Gifting, w/ Tool Rules, One-Time VS One-Use, Valuable (&Bulk) Substances, Gifts that Enable Skills&Technique, Best Gearhead Retailers, + Fatso Jetson&Dead Guy Ale from 2020-12-14T23:00:41

Don't ruin the giving season with gift cards and missed targets.  You can pimp your geek-power by thinking up ideal presents for all the aspiring gearheads on your list (and elevate your satisfa...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.01.20 (MP3): Question Everything, Including Masks! Reward Your Skepticism&Feed the Gearhead Brain - What Works? Leadership VS Lockdowns? Hypocrites&Hysteria? Exposed VS Dead? + Monolord, Faust&Shortee, Folk Implosion from 2020-12-10T05:28:05

Scratch that itch - what's that line from Dirty Harry?  "I gots to know!" The Gearhead Consultancy is fueled by the geek brain, always connecting the dots, pulling the threads, and more often th...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.01.20: Question Everything, Including Masks! Reward Your Skepticism&Feed the Gearhead Brain - What Works? Leadership VS Lockdowns? Hypocrites&Hysteria? Exposed VS Dead? + Monolord, Faust&Shortee, Folk Implosion from 2020-12-10T05:13:16

Scratch that itch - what's that line from Dirty Harry?  "I gots to know!" The Gearhead Consultancy is fueled by the geek brain, always connecting the dots, pulling the threads, and more often th...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.21.20 (MP3): Go Ahead, Sweat the Small Stuff! Fun Fixes for Function, or How I Learned to Deal w/ Little Jobs&Love the Bomb, w/ 7.3 Powerstroke&Civic To-Dos, the Fail Cascade (Failscade), Dodging Big-$ Breakage, + Farflung, Hum&Dr. Who from 2020-12-03T02:26:32

If you don't take care of small repairs, they'll rot into big ones - it can be said about a million things, including ex-girlfriends and garbage disposals, but in this case, it's the easy stuff ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.21.20: Go Ahead, Sweat the Small Stuff! Fun Fixes for Function, or How I Learned to Deal w/ Little Jobs&Love the Bomb, w/ 7.3 Powerstroke&Civic To-Dos, the Fail Cascade (Failscade), Dodging Big-$ Breakage, + Farflung, Hum&Dr. Who from 2020-12-03T02:12:29

If you don't take care of small repairs, they'll rot into big ones - it can be said about a million things, including ex-girlfriends and garbage disposals, but in this case, it's the easy stuff ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.12.20 (MP3): Return of the Unprofessional Confessional, w/ Random Drag of the Swamp - Mercedes Engines VS Chrysler Vehicles, Railguns VS .300 Blackout, Hadron Collider VS Tokomak, Light VS Dark Meat, Lyft VS Uber, + Fine Sips from Trinity Brewing from 2020-11-24T02:41

Wow.  This is why we don't drink BEFORE the show - no script, bottle openers and too many secrets.  ...Somehow a fun episode happened - rare form, this one.  On-air sauce includes copious dude f...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.12.20: Return of the Unprofessional Confessional, w/ Random Drag of the Swamp - Mercedes Engines VS Chrysler Vehicles, Railguns VS .300 Blackout, Hadron Collider VS Tokomak, Light VS Dark Meat, Lyft VS Uber, + Fine Sips from Trinity Brewing from 2020-11-24T02:28:37

Wow.  This is why we don't drink BEFORE the show - no script, bottle openers and too many secrets.  ...Somehow a fun episode happened - rare form, this one.  On-air sauce includes copious dude f...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.10.20 (MP3): Traffic Should Be Fun! Make Your Commute Worth Your While (or, How to Subject Non-Believers to Your Superior Skill and Good Mood), Improving Technique in Traffic, Commuting No-Nos, + Egg Nog Review from 2020-11-18T05:39:27

Why ruin each day with two piece of shed drives from noisy kids to crappy boss and back - enjoy your commute instead.  The Garage Hour goons have been molesting traffic since watching "Bullitt" ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.10.20: Traffic Should Be Fun! Make Your Commute Worth Your While (or, How to Subject Non-Believers to Your Superior Skill and Good Mood), Improving Technique in Traffic, Commuting No-Nos, + Egg Nog Review from 2020-11-18T05:26:23

Why ruin each day with two piece-of-shed drives from noisy kids to crappy boss and back - enjoy your commute instead.  The Garage Hour goons have been molesting traffic since watching "Bullitt" ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.02.20 (MP3): What's A $500 Used Car Worth? Making Used Cars Good Cars, How About a $500 Honda Civic? Condition&What It Means, Minor VS Major Fixes&Things to Ignore, Rules That'll Get You to Driving from 2020-11-12T02:34:17

The Gearhead Consultancy would like to assist you in your efforts to find a good used car. More importantly, we're geeks and we're here to help, specifically help you make hay with a $500 pony. ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.02.20: What's A $500 Used Car Worth? Making Used Cars Good Cars, How About a $500 Honda Civic? Condition&What It Means, Minor VS Major Fixes&Things to Ignore, Rules That'll Get You to Driving from 2020-11-12T02:23:25

The Gearhead Consultancy would like to assist you in your efforts to find a good used car. More importantly, we're geeks and we're here to help, specifically help you make hay with a $500 pony. ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.28.20 (MP3): Beers for Fall, Home-Brew Help (Geeks Do)&Can VS Bottle @ Trinity Brewing, + Beer Tourism&Librarianing, Hop VS Malt-Forward, Beer Insider Tales&Recipies,&Where's the Beef? [Hello, Ladies] from 2020-11-05T22:26:07

It's here - beer radio with the Garage Hour goons.  What beers?  Hazy Doodle, Hype Forager, Pliny the Elder, TPS Report, Pale Pumpkin & Dark Tourist, and beer for space (cadets).  What breweries...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.28.20: Beers for Fall, Home-Brew Help (Geeks Do)&Can VS Bottle @ Trinity Brewing, + Beer Tourism&Librarianing, Hop VS Malt-Forward, Beer Insider Tales&Recipies,&Where's the Beef? [Hello, Ladies] from 2020-11-05T22:15:52

It's here - beer radio with the Garage Hour goons.  What beers?  Hazy Doodle, Hype Forager, Pliny the Elder, TPS Report, Pale Pumpkin & Dark Tourist, and beer for space (cadets).  What breweries...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.21.20 (MP3): New Shotguns, Whiskey VS Tequila, Silencer Rules&Regs, Too Much Caffeine, WW1 Battleships VS Armored Islands, WW2 Stories from the Pacific, + Neighborhood Paintball Patrol&Cultural Appropriation! from 2020-10-26T18:54:33

Too much good stuff.  The Garage Hour goons got together for an hour of cars, trucks, beers and guns at F:30 in Colorado, and good talk happened all over the place.  Joined by Distraction Monste...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.21.20: New Shotguns, Whiskey VS Tequila, Silencer Rules&Regs, Too Much Caffeine, WW1 Battleships VS Armored Islands, WW2 Stories from the Pacific, + Neighborhood Paintball Patrol&Cultural Appropriation! from 2020-10-26T18:45:05

Too much good stuff.  The Garage Hour goons got together for an hour of cars, trucks, beers and guns at F:30 in Colorado, and good talk happened all over the place.  Joined by Distraction Monste...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.12.20 (MP3): Used Car 101 - Some Things to Think When Shopping A New-To-You-Mobile: Good Cars&Bad Reps, Local VS Shipped, Flipper Tricks&Handy Geeks, Paperwork&Panels, Undercarriage&Unimportant, Things to Check&Things to Ignore from 2020-10-19T22:13:31

The much-requested followup to our September used-car what-the-Hell episode - it's Used Cars 101. Sadly, the Gearhead Consultancy needed about eight hours to cover all the bases on what to look ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.12.20: Used Car 101 - Some Things to Think When Shopping A New-To-You-Mobile: Good Cars&Bad Reps, Local VS Shipped, Flipper Tricks&Handy Geeks, Paperwork&Panels, Undercarriage&Unimportant, Things to Check&Things to Ignore from 2020-10-19T21:56:52

The much-requested followup to our September used-car what-the-Hell episode - it's Used Cars 101. Sadly, the Gearhead Consultancy needed about eight hours to cover all the bases on what to look ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.10.20 (MP3): Don't Fear Solid Axles! Garage Hour Does Dana 50&You Can Too; w/ Big Trucks Have Big Bolts, Easy R&R, Loaded Hubs, Simple Seals, Geek Technique, Good SAS (Solid-Axle Sources), Terminology Matters,+ Bringing the BFH from 2020-10-14T21:35:08

There is no Zuul, only Dana (50 and 60). The Garage Hour goons dove into a Dana 50 steer-axle on an F-250 and it was easy (never done it before). Career guys might laugh, but there's plenty of g...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.10.20: Don't Fear Solid Axles! Garage Hour Does Dana 50&You Can Too; w/ Big Trucks Have Big Bolts, Easy R&R, Loaded Hubs, Simple Seals, Geek Technique, Good SAS (Solid-Axle Sources), Terminology Matters,+ Bringing the BFH from 2020-10-14T21:17:03

There is no Zuul, only Dana (50 and 60). The Garage Hour goons dove into a Dana 50 steer-axle on an F-250 and it was easy (never done it before). Career guys might laugh, but there's plenty of g...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.02.20 (MP3): Afternoon @ Trinity Brewing Co.: Geek-Strength Sipping&Local Beer-Fan Vibes, + New Beers, Owning the Rep, Legacy Maintenance, Can Shortages, Home Brewers, Cage the Yeast,&Good Knife Carma (Found on Road Awesome) from 2020-10-11T02:31:34

We're here:  It's Colorado time.  Garage Hour goons finally found a free hour (with all the minutes next to each other) to chat beer at Trinity, and it's siptastic.  Hostus Maximus Justin Fort e...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.02.20: Afternoon @ Trinity Brewing Co.: Geek-Strength Sipping&Local Beer-Fan Vibes, + New Beers, Owning the Rep, Legacy Maintenance, Can Shortages, Home Brewers, Cage the Yeast,&Good Knife Carma (Found on Road Awesome) from 2020-10-10T22:00:48

We're here:  It's Colorado time.  Garage Hour goons finally found a free hour (with all the minutes next to each other) to chat beer at Trinity, and it's siptastic.  Hostus Maximus Justin Fort e...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.29.20 (MP3): Late Night @ the Gun Store? The Fall Firearm Freakout is Still a Thing, w/ First-Time Buyers&New Shooters, 2A Comprehension, Uninformed VS Unprepared, LARP-Proofing, + Give a Shoot - Don't Pollute! from 2020-10-08T17:50:01

2020 hindsight is still coming to get you, but the Garage Hour goons are in the best place to catch it on the back foot - a gun store in Colordo.  The 2A is back and we're here to help, with Gre...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.29.20: Late Night @ the Gun Store? The Fall Firearm Freakout is Still a Thing, w/ First-Time Buyers&New Shooters, 2A Comprehension, Uninformed VS Unprepared, LARP-Proofing, + Give a Shoot - Don't Pollute! from 2020-10-08T17:41:27

2020 hindsight is still coming to get you, but the Garage Hour goons are in the best place to catch it on the back foot - a gun store in Colordo.  The 2A is back and we're here to help, with Gre...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.21.20 (MP3): Road Trip to Chi-Town&Attitude Performance -Project Trucks, FEADs, Lasers, Broken Driveshafts&Melted Pistons, Plasti-Dip Miatas&Retro Paint, SEMA Fails (&China Invasion), Jeep Suspension&SAS Kits @ the New Bronco, +Bad Computer... from 2020-09-28T02:41:58

Put professional gearheads together and good tales from the crazy old days (back when SEMA was still business and not a car party) flow, with the Gravedigger, OE rules for dollar trucks, and all...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.21.20: Road Trip to Chi-Town&Attitude Performance - Project Trucks, FEADs, Lasers, Broken Driveshafts&Melted Pistons, Plasti-Dip Miatas&Retro Paint, SEMA Fails (&China Invasion), Jeep Suspension&SAS Kits for the New Bronco, + Bad Computer... from 2020-09-28T02:33:14

Put professional gearheads together and good tales from the crazy old days (back when SEMA was still business and not a car party) flow, with the Gravedigger, OE rules for dollar trucks, and all...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.12.20 (MP3): What's Happened to Used Cars&Trucks? Value Drives Worth: Increasing Prices, Tons of Selling, w/ Good Stuff Going Fast&Great Deals for Gearheads, Using Craig's, Bring-A-Trailer&Online Forums +The Night Stalker Social Convention (WTF?) from 2020-09-15T22:34:58

Used cars and trucks - tons of fun get-theres and gearhead entertainment from the candy stores at Craig's List, Bring A Trailer and 100 other used-retail platforms... Americans and geeks of all ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.12.20: What's Happened to Used Cars&Trucks? Value Drives Worth: Increasing Prices, Tons of Selling, w/ Good Stuff Going Fast&Great Deals for Gearheads... Using Craig's, Bring-A-Trailer&Online Forums, + The Night Stalker Social Convention (WTF?) from 2020-09-15T22:25:50

Used cars and trucks - tons of fun get-theres and gearhead entertainment from the candy stores at Craig's List, Bring A Trailer and 100 other used-retail platforms... Americans and geeks of all ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.09.20 (MP3): Buying Guns in a Seller's World - Can't Find Firearms&Ammo? Refuse to Freak Out? Waiting for Pew Pew Bits? Market Signals Making You Angry? We Can Help; + Frankenphones&a Motorhome Parade from 2020-09-11T17:24:58

The Garage Hour goons know where to go when your favorite gun store tells you that nice new Glock you ordered will arrive some time in 2021. It's all about the private sale - which forums and we...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.09.20: Buying Guns in a Seller's World - Can't Find Firearms&Ammo? Refuse to Freak Out? Waiting for Pew Pew Bits? Market Signals Making You Angry? We Can Help; + Frankenphones&a Motorhome Parade from 2020-09-11T17:15:36

The Garage Hour goons know where to go when your favorite gun store tells you that nice new Glock you ordered will arrive some time in 2021. It's all about the private sale - which forums and we...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.01.20 (MP3): Race Recap @ Pike's Peak Hillclimb - Stories from George's Corner&Glen Cove, w/ Vahsholtz (Winning Open-Wheel Ford), Donahue (Wrecked Porsche GT2), Schranz (Turbo'd Stock-Car Threat), + More Exotic Road-Race Awesomeness from 2020-09-03T18:30:09

So much good (hillclimb) stuff!  The Garage Hour supported this year's PPIHC as a race official and, like usual, lending a helping hand also provided one of the best seats in the house for this ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.01.20: Race Recap @ Pike's Peak Hillclimb - Stories from George's Corner&Glen Cove, w/ Vahsholtz (Winning Open-Wheel Ford), Donahue (Wrecked Porsche GT2), Schranz (Turbo'd Stock-Car Threat), + More Exotic Road-Race Awesomeness from 2020-09-03T18:15

So much good (hillclimb) stuff!  The Garage Hour supported this year's PPIHC as a race official and, like usual, lending a helping hand also provided one of the best seats in the house for this ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.28.20 (MP3): Pike's Peak Hillclimb Hangout, w/ Danger-Close Hard Launches by Schranz's Open-Class Stock Car&Schmidt T-A Mustang, PPIHC History&Perspective, Tales of the Pavement, + Chats w/ Road/Race Engineering (Supporting the Kobayashi 911 GT3) from 2020-08-29T21:20:53

#Becauseracecar!  It's hillclimbing season (when isn't it?) and the PPIHC is running its chop fluey-addled rescheduled race.  It's a little weird being fan-free ('cause kung flu), but the racers...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.28.20: Pike's Peak Hillclimb Hangout, w/ Danger-Close Hard Launches by Schranz's Open-Class Stock Car&Schmidt T-A Mustang, PPIHC History&Perspective, Tales of the Pavement, + Chats w/ Road/Race Engineering (Supporting the Kobayashi 911 GT3) from 2020-08-29T21:13:01

#Becauseracecar!  It's hillclimbing season (when isn't it?) and the PPIHC is running its chop fluey-addled rescheduled race.  It's a little weird being fan-free ('cause kung flu), but the racers...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.16.20 (MP3): Distracted Driving/Don't Be That Guy - Facts&Figures from Crap Driver Failfest, w/ Devices VS DUIs, Selfish Justification&OE Enabling, Car&Driver Theories, Bad Factory Designs, + Dad's Secret Barbecue Sauce Recipe from 2020-08-24T21:32:55

Don't be a Carl - or any other guy (or gal) like the ones we've all run across.  You know the type - paying more attention to the phone than the road, devicing all over the place, less there tha...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.16.20: Distracted Driving/Don't Be That Guy - Facts&Figures from Crap Driver Failfest, w/ Devices VS DUIs, Selfish Justification&OE Enabling, Car&Driver Theories, Bad Factory Designs, + Dad's Secret Barbecue Sauce Recipe from 2020-08-24T21:17:33

Don't be a Carl - or any other guy (or gal) like the ones we've all run across.  You know the type - paying more attention to the phone than the road, devicing all over the place, less there tha...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.04.20 (MP3): Ammo Prices, Buying VS Practicing, Safety Blanket Shopping VS the Panic Plateau, w/ Small-Arms Rounds Like .22LR, Ammo Storage, Historic Bullets&Bombs, + Fatso Jetson for the Win from 2020-08-18T03:33:12

The Gearhead Consultancy has determined that 2020-hindsight is coming to get you, too, so you may as well stock up (you prepper you). More pistols, more gun food, more practice, more burying (no...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.04.20: Ammo Prices, Buying VS Practicing, Safety Blanket Shopping VS the Panic Plateau, w/ Small-Arms Rounds Like .22LR, Ammo Storage, Historic Bullets&Bombs, + Fatso Jetson for the Win from 2020-08-18T03:17:50

The Gearhead Consultancy has determined that 2020-hindsight is coming to get you, too, so you may as well stock up (you prepper you). More pistols, more gun food, more practice, more burying (no...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.10.20 (MP3): Summer Gearhead Season w/ Care&Feeding Tricks for K&N Filters, Popped Radiators&Blown Bearings, Podcast Logic, + Introducing Garage Hour's Explosion of the Week from 2020-08-11T18:58:31

You don't crawl, carve, peel or plink your way into the dog days of summer without a little preventative maintenance (and some expensive new parts).  The Gearhead Consultancy took a few minutes ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.10.20: Summer Gearhead Season w/ Care&Feeding Tricks for K&N Filters, Popped Radiators&Blown Bearings, Podcast Logic, + Introducing Garage Hour's Explosion of the Week from 2020-08-11T18:43:51

You don't crawl, carve, peel or plink your way into the dog days of summer without a little preventative maintenance (and some expensive new parts).  The Gearhead Consultancy took a few minutes ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.30.20 (MP3): Is How You Drive Who You Are? What You Do Because You Forget It's Not Just You, Traffic Physics&Driver Psychology, Necessary (Partial) Conformity, Moral Narcissism, Auto Isolation + the Zen of Traffic from 2020-07-31T22:35:14

There's plenty of theory and reason supporting the hypothesis that how you drive is a good look into the issues that you haul around with you (or don't).  When you descend into a trancelike stat...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.30.20: Is How You Drive Who You Are? What You Do Because You Forget It's Not Just You, Traffic Physics&Driver Psychology, Necessary (Partial) Conformity, Moral Narcissism, Auto Isolation + the Zen of Traffic from 2020-07-31T22:24:12

There's plenty of theory and reason supporting the hypothesis that how you drive is a good look into the issues that you haul around with you (or don't).  When you descend into a trancelike stat...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.21.20 (MP3): Steel for Shooting&Targets for Testing (w/ Bullets), Blasting Brake Rotors, Ripping Up Rebar, (Don't) Hold Your Own, More Reasons Not to Buy Things Made in China, + Announcing the Freedom:30&Garage Hour Range Cleanup from 2020-07-28T04:27:04

The firearm retailin' folks from Freedom:30 joined the gearhead consultancy for a chat about what to shoot at when you're shooting, including pieces of AR500, hanging targets (like Freedom:30's ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.21.20: Steel for Shooting&Targets for Testing (w/ Bullets), Blasting Brake Rotors, Ripping Up Rebar, (Don't) Hold Your Own, More Reasons Not to Buy Things Made in China, + Announcing the Freedom:30&Garage Hour Range Cleanup from 2020-07-28T04:15:58

The firearm retailin' folks from Freedom:30 joined the gearhead consultancy for a chat about what to shoot at when you're shooting, including pieces of AR500, hanging targets (like Freedom:30's ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.13.20 (MP3): Family Four-Wheelin' - 'Froading w/ Folks for Fun; Dad Rules&Kid Options, Shared To-Dos&Friends w/ Trucks, Adventure by Committee&Touristing Like you Mean It, + No Reception = No Escape from 2020-07-21T05:36:37

Sure, sometimes your kids don't fit, but a good day off-road just screams for accessories. Why not bring the child-units along and teach 'em what matters? The history, the technique, the parts a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.13.20: Family Four-Wheelin' - 'Froading w/ Folks for Fun; Dad Rules&Kid Options, Shared To-Dos&Friends w/ Trucks, Adventure by Committee&Touristing Like you Mean It, + No Reception = No Escape from 2020-07-21T05:28:55

Sure, sometimes your kids don't fit, but a good day off-road just screams for accessories. Why not bring the child-units along and teach 'em what matters? The history, the technique, the parts a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.04.20: July Fourth is for Freedom (Like Every Other Day in America): Now, How to Celebrate? Go Shoot, Go Camp, Fly Your Flag&Fly Your Freak, + Freeing Seattle's Soy Zone w/ Vets&Bikers from 2020-07-04T04:00

Gearheads love freedom - freedom to roam, freedom to experiment, freedom to build a Porsche or Chevy or Toyota or Yugo, freedom to blow up pricey parts and then buy more and blow them up too.  T...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.04.20 (MP3): July Fourth is for Freedom (Like Every Other Day in America): Now, How to Celebrate? Go Shoot, Go Camp, Fly Your Flag&Fly Your Freak, + Freeing Seattle's Soy Zone w/ Vets&Bikers from 2020-07-04T04:00

Gearheads love freedom - freedom to roam, freedom to experiment, freedom to build a Porsche or Chevy or Toyota or Yugo, freedom to blow up pricey parts and then buy more and blow them up too.  T...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.22.20: Truck Detailing: Tube Bumpers&Dented Fenders Like to Be Clean Too, w/ Cleaning for Maintenance&Affection, To Wax or Not To Wax, Soap is Not Soap, Polish Other Bits, Tire Goo is Maintenance Too, + Avoiding the Spike from 2020-07-01T16:08:32

'Tis the season for more 'froading, but too many rock and bonkers tend to ignore a key bit of maintenance: cleaning.  It's not just ball bearings anymore, and the dirt you don't deal with can de...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.22.20 (MP3): Truck Detailing: Tube Bumpers&Dented Fenders Like to Be Clean Too, w/ Cleaning for Maintenance&Affection, To Wax or Not To Wax, Soap is Not Soap, Polish Other Bits, Tire Goo is Maintenance Too, + Avoiding the Spike from 2020-07-01T16:00:27

'Tis the season for more 'froading, but too many rock and bonkers tend to ignore a key bit of maintenance: cleaning.  It's not just ball bearings anymore, and the dirt you don't deal with can de...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.14.20 (MP3): Tips for Building Your First AR-15, w/ Tools&Tricks, Books&Blocks, + Banning Liquor&Gun Stores (So Much for the ATF), 2A in Europe&Waiting-Period Tantrums for Hipsters&Ignoramuses from 2020-06-25T20:05:10

"Like a good neighbor, stay over there!"

The Garage Hour goons have been helping friends and neighborlings make their home more secure (#becausegearhead!), and for many (really many) neig...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.14.20: Tips for Building Your First AR-15, w/ Tools&Tricks, Books&Blocks, + Banning Liquor&Gun Stores (So Much for the ATF), 2A in Europe&Waiting-Period Tantrums for Hipsters&Ignoramuses from 2020-06-25T19:57:15

"Like a good neighbor, stay over there!"

The Garage Hour goons have been helping friends and neighborlings make their home more secure (#becausegearhead!), and for many (really many) neig...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.02.20 (MP3): Defend Your Home - Ideas&Practices for First-Time Firearm Owners (Because the Second Amendment Matters Even More Nowadays), + Willie Pete, Flare Guns, Zombie Rules, Cocktail Mags&Home-Defense Logic from 2020-06-14T18:23:26

This is the only time the Garage Hour will tell you to think defensively - eat it up. Whether you're a 2A guy (or gal!) - or the merits of the Second Amendment are just now making sense...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.02.20: Defend Your Home - Ideas&Practices for First-Time Firearm Owners (Because the Second Amendment Matters Even More Nowadays), + Willie Pete, Flare Guns, Zombie Rules, Cocktail Mags&Home-Defense Logic from 2020-06-14T18:09:35

This is the only time the Garage Hour will tell you to think defensively - eat it up. Whether you're a 2A guy (or gal!) - or the merits of the Second Amendment are just now making sense...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.30.20 (MP3): Because Junkyard! Bring the Right Tools for Junkyard Winning (&Rules for Good Junkyard Carma - sic!), w/ Killer Tracks by Primus, Straits, Waits, Colour, Snail, Sword, FTM, M'Deth, Volbeat, 16-Volt, Circle&Astro-Man from 2020-05-31T22:12:51

You don't hit the junkyard to look at stuff, it's about parts. Oh, wait, you totally go to geek out on cool bits you don't need, then rush to get everything you came for after wasting an hour fi...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.30.20: Because Junkyard! Bring the Right Tools for Junkyard Winning (&Rules for Good Junkyard Carma - sic!), w/ Killer Tracks by Primus, Straits, Waits, Colour, Snail, Sword, FTM, M'Deth, Volbeat, 16-Volt, Circle&Astro-Man from 2020-05-31T22:00:12

You don't hit the junkyard to look at stuff, it's about parts. Oh, wait, you totally go to geek out on cool bits you don't need, then rush to get everything you came for after wasting an hour fi...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.15.20 (MP3): Canyon Carving&Curvy Road 101! Take Serious Fun Seriously w/ Fast-Guy Thinking (Fast Car OR Fast Guy?) - Prep the Car&Prep the You w/ Mechanical Tricks, Cockpit Position, Situational Awareness, Own the Envelope&Daily-Driver Heel-Toe from 2020-05-23T06:47:02

Make Sunday funday a run to remember, or country road playtime will wind up being something to regret. The Garage Hour goons are pros at a few things, and a little gearhead gusto on the two-lane...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.15.20: Canyon Carving&Curvy Roads 101! Taking Serious Fun Seriously w/ Fast-Guy Thinking (Fast Car OR Fast Guy?) - Prep the Car&Prep the You w/ Mechanical Tricks, Cockpit Position, Situational Awareness, Owning your Envelope&Daily-Driver Heel-Toe from 2020-05-23T06:34:32

Make Sunday funday a run to remember, or country road playtime will wind up being something to regret. The Garage Hour goons are pros at a few things, and a little gearhead gusto on the two-lane...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.03.20 (MP3): AR-15 Q&A - .223 VS 5.56, M4 or M-16, What "AR" Means, Long VS Short Handguards (Technique&Style), Co-Witnessed Sights, 1 or 2-Stage Triggers, Barrel Length&Twist, + The Most Important Thing Ever: LEGO Bullets from 2020-05-10T18:01:29

Arm yourself with some facts for the next time you walk into a word-fight about AR-platform rifles. The Gearhead Consultancy got together with shooters and military men at Freedom:30 Arms for a ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.03.20: AR-15 Q&A - .223 VS 5.56, M4 or M-16, What "AR" Means, Long VS Short Handguards (Technique&Style), Co-Witnessed Sights, 1 or 2-Stage Triggers, Barrel Length&Twist, + The Most Important Thing Ever: LEGO Bullets from 2020-05-10T17:54:37

Arm yourself with some facts for the next time you walk into a word-fight about AR-platform rifles. The Gearhead Consultancy got together with shooters and military men at Freedom:30 Arms for a ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.24.20 (MP3): Operation Do Stuff: Involved&Half-Done Projects, Dude Food (Crisis Chili!)&Long Drives to the (Grocery) Bar, + Cohosts' New AR-15s, Kid-Friendly Technology, Gardening, Reading, Geek Pursuits&Trucking Bat Plague Out to Pasture from 2020-04-28T23:43:58

Don't let the Chinese bat plague get you down - with all this spare time to watch crap governors hold your paycheck ransom, there's time to finish what you started. Whether it's yours, your kids...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.24.20: Operation Do Stuff: Involved&Half-Done Projects, Dude Food (Crisis Chili!)&Long Drives to the (Grocery) Bar, + Cohosts' New AR-15s, Kid-Friendly Technology, Gardening, Reading, Geek Pursuits&Trucking Bat Plague Out to Pasture from 2020-04-28T23:34:35

Don't let the Chinese bat plague get you down - with all this spare time to watch crap governors hold your paycheck ransom, there's time to finish what you started. Whether it's yours, your kids...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.16.20 (MP3): Found On Road Awesome? Pay Attention - Sockets, Snips&Snap-On, + Barbecues&Dinner (w/ the Sandbox Edition), + Ammo for Pig Hunts, Colorado Elk Poaching, the Sequel Rule&A Robin Williams Review from 2020-04-22T22:25:37

All the cool stuff that's sitting right there that fell off somebody's truck that they'd really like back but they forgot it fell off so now it's yours!  The Garage Hour goons gather up for anot...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.16.20: Found On Road Awesome? Pay Attention - Sockets, Snips&Snap-On, + Barbecues&Dinner (w/ the Sandbox Edition), + Ammo for Pig Hunts, Colorado Elk Poaching, the Sequel Rule&A Robin Williams Review from 2020-04-22T22:19:20

All the cool stuff that's sitting right there that fell off somebody's truck that they'd really like back but they forgot it fell off so now it's yours!  The Garage Hour goons gather up for anot...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.20.20 (MP3): Tales from Colorado! Subie Head Gaskets, Open Carry&Operation Hipster-Shield, Gun-Ownership Percentages, 2A Sanctuaries VS Gun Racism, Fresh Cattle&Eggs, Toyota VS Jeep, + the Shame of an Empty Holster from 2020-04-06T23:28:27

Dynamite gearhead randomsauce right here: you can't get this kind of military-grade digression without a warrant (or a prescription). The gearhead goons cornered the guys from Freedom:30 Arms fo...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.20.20: Tales from Colorado! Subie Head Gaskets, Open Carry&Operation Hipster-Shield, Gun-Ownership Percentages, 2A Sanctuaries VS Gun Racism, Fresh Cattle&Eggs, Toyota VS Jeep, + the Shame of an Empty Holster from 2020-04-06T23:15:09

Dynamite gearhead randomsauce right here: you can't get this kind of military-grade digression without a warrant (or a prescription). The gearhead goons cornered the guys from Freedom:30 Arms fo...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.13.10 (MP3): Classic! Gearhead Talk Radio w/ Formula 1 Qualifying, Bad Movies, Ghostrider (Not the Bad Movie), Prius Accelerator Fake News & Hybrid Batteries @ Yucca Mountain, Burning Rivers, Scary Tales @ FoMoCo, Mosh Pits & Metallica's Enter Richman from 2020-03-29T06:16:55

Reach into the Wayback Machine for a Garage Hour Reload - this is the big-AM gearhead randomsauce we're known for. 10 years ago, the Gearhead Consultancy crammed the studio with dogs, doctors, driv...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.13.10: Classic! Gearhead Talk Radio w/ Formula 1 Qualifying, Bad Movies, Ghostrider (Not the Bad Movie), Prius Accelerator Fake News & Hybrid Batteries @ Yucca Mountain, Burning Rivers, Scary Stories @ FoMoCo, Mosh Pits & Metallica's Enter Richman from 2020-03-29T06:09:49

Reach into the Wayback Machine for a Garage Hour Reload - this is the big-AM gearhead randomsauce we're known for. 10 years ago, the Gearhead Consultancy crammed the studio with dogs, doctors, driv...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.10.20 (MP3): Gearhead Guide to Enjoying the China Pinko Bat Plague Freakout, or How I Learned to Love Preparedness, w/Thinking Like a Gearhead, Alcohol (In & Out), Zombie Skills, Being Smart About News, + Neighborly Gloating from 2020-03-19T21:43:26

Once again, life proves that a little preparation goes a long way (to making prepping look good). The Garage Hour did a recon of why you're already in good shape because you're a gearhead, and you'...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.10.20: Gearhead Guide to Enjoying the China Pinko Bat Plague Freakout, or How I Learned to Love Preparedness, w/Thinking Like a Gearhead, Alcohol (In & Out), Zombie Skills, Being Smart About News, + Neighborly Gloating from 2020-03-19T21:28:42

Once again, life proves that a little preparation goes a long way (to making prepping look good). The Garage Hour did a recon of why you're already in good shape because you're a gearhead, and you'...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.01.20 (MP3): Building the Perfect Workbench - Enabling Gearhead Function w/ Bench Design Essentials, Purpose, Pitfalls & the Art of Scrap, + Deadbolt & Oskar Blues G'Knight from 2020-03-12T03:12:39

#Becauseworkbench: you know you need it, and preferably with the function needed for your gearhead existence, whether that means building engines, guns or laptops. The Gearhead Consultancy does a t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.01.20: Building the Perfect Workbench - Enabling Gearhead Function w/ Bench Design Essentials, Purpose, Pitfalls & the Art of Scrap, + Deadbolt & Oskar Blues G'Knight from 2020-03-12T03:05:24

#Becauseworkbench: you know you need it, and preferably with the function needed for your gearhead existence, whether that means building engines, guns or laptops. The Gearhead Consultancy does a t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.15.20 (MP3): Black Rifles & Breakfast (in the 2A Sanctuary of Woodland Park) - Freedom Arms & Gearhead Goons on 2A Education, Red-Flag Laws, Generational Values, Due Process VS Statist Witch Trials, + Introducing Trigger Break-In Services from 2020-02-24T06:44:14

Get lost in nice places. The Garage Hour made friends at Freedom Arms in Woodland Park, CO on our most recent breakfast run (this truck ain't going to wheel itself), and gearhead talk happened. Wha...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.15.20: Black Rifles & Breakfast (in the 2A Sanctuary of Woodland Park) - Freedom Arms & Gearhead Goons on 2A Education, Red-Flag Laws, Generational Values, Due Process VS Statist Witch Trials, + Introducing Trigger Break-In Services from 2020-02-24T06:32:16

Get lost in nice places. The Garage Hour made friends at Freedom Arms in Woodland Park, CO on our most recent breakfast run (this truck ain't going to wheel itself), and gearhead talk happened. Wha...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.20.10 (MP3): Classic! Efficiency VS Hybricity, or Reasons to Keep Your CRX, w/ Prius Owners VS Porsche Clubbers, the Birth of Hybrid Hatred, Moral Narcissism & Self-Entitlement, Plus Beers @ Pizza Port, Danica Rage & Exploding Whales from 2020-02-13T02:34:27

Garage Hour Reload: the gang's all here, pillaging your village with everything from feedback dynos, DSM and EVO fails, how to explode your whale, the Japanese Overgrowth Syndrome, and every sad fa...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.20.10: Classic! Efficiency VS Hybricity, or Reasons to Keep Your CRX, w/ Prius Owners VS Porsche Clubbers, the Birth of Hybrid Hatred, Moral Narcissism & Self-Entitlement, Plus Beers @ Pizza Port, Danica Rage & Exploding Whales from 2020-02-13T02:24:35

Garage Hour Reload: the gang's all here, pillaging your village with everything from feedback dynos, DSM and EVO fails, how to explode your whale, the Japanese Overgrowth Syndrome, and every sad fa...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.21.20 (MP3): What's New for #2? 2A VS VA - The Weird State of Affairs in Virginia, w/ Second Amendment Rally, Progressive Ideology, Illegal Laws, 2A Sanctuaries, West VA to the Rescue, & The Laboratory of Democracy from 2020-01-28T20:58:09

It's time to share a regard for the Second Amend. as felt by our fellow geeks - builders, shooters, trap and skeeters, hunters, home-defenders and the peep in America's military. Because of the att...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.21.20: What's New for #2? 2A VS VA - The Weird State of Affairs in Virginia, w/ Second Amendment Rally, Progressive Ideology, Illegal Laws, 2A Sanctuaries, West VA to the Rescue, & The Laboratory of Democracy from 2020-01-28T20:48:51

It's time to share a regard for the Second Amend. as felt by our fellow geeks - builders, shooters, trap and skeeters, hunters, home-defenders and the peep in America's military. Because of the att...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.12.20 (MP3): Engine Swaps & Broken Bolts! Update VS Why Not, Blown Heads, V8s in Everything, Factory Specials, Truck Motors, Cummins, Flat-Fours & the Coltinator, + Ministry, Contagion, Deftones, Killing Joke, 16-Volt & Pike's Peak's Devil's Head Red from 2020-01-22T06:08:35

The Diesel Ayatollah & Dustin v2 went to town with an engine swap for the 4Runner, so we put together an episode all about swaps. It's got everything from factory-built specials and tales from the ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.12.20: Engine Swaps & Broken Bolts! Update VS Why Not, Blown Heads, V8s in Everything, Factory Specials, Truck Motors, Cummins, Flat-Fours & the Coltinator, + Ministry, Contagion, Deftones, Killing Joke, 16-Volt & Pike's Peak's Devil's Head Red from 2020-01-22T06:02:51

The Diesel Ayatollah & Dustin v2 went to town with an engine swap for the 4Runner, so we put together an episode all about swaps. It's got everything from factory-built specials and tales from the ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.29.19 (MP3): What's New, 2020? Car & Truck Stuff for 2020 & Beyond That's Good, Bad & Ugly for Electrics, SUVs, In-Car Data & Infotainment, Timeless VS Timed-Out, Big Brotherism VS Safety & Your Freedom to Roam from 2019-12-31T21:50:04

Don't fool yourself: "new" frequently means "worse", and this show itself best in the automotive industry. Gems must be found, and bad ideas must be whipped. In-car touch-screens? Boo. Exotic SUVs?...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.29.19: What's New, 2020? Car & Truck Stuff for 2020 & Beyond That's Good, Bad & Ugly for Electrics, SUVs, In-Car Data & Infotainment, Timeless VS Timed-Out, Big Brotherism VS Safety & Your Freedom to Roam from 2019-12-31T21:42:41

Don't fool yourself: "new" frequently means "worse", and this show itself best in the automotive industry. Gems must be found, and bad ideas must be whipped. In-car touch-screens? Boo. Exotic SUVs?...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.09.19 (MP3): Tire Abuse! Garage Hour Goons on How You Hate Your Tires, w/ Pressure Love, Chinese Fraud, Nails VS Tread, Sidewalls VS Rocks & Curbs, Snow VS Lugs VS Studs, + the 20-Inch Conundrum (Exploding Engineer Heads) from 2019-12-26T05:28:31

It's simple: you hate your tires. At least, you act like you hate your tires. Nails and bolts, curbs and rocks, dub-physics and China-quality, it all screams that people are missing the point: blac...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.09.19: Tire Abuse! Garage Hour on How You Hate Your Tires, w/ Pressure Love, Chinese Fraud, Nails VS Tread, Sidewalls VS Rocks & Curbs, Snow VS Lugs VS Studs, + the 20-Inch Conundrum (Exploding Engineer Heads) from 2019-12-26T05:21:57

It's simple: you hate your tires. At least, you act like you hate your tires. Nails and bolts, curbs and rocks, dub-physics and China-quality, it all screams that people are missing the point: blac...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.09.19 (MP3): Because Cold: Automotive Batteries & Battery Maintenance for Ice & Snow, w/ Fails, Causes, Solutions, Tricks, Trickle Charging, Jump Boxes, Block Heaters & Accessory Bleed (Powered by 100% Electric Wizard) from 2019-11-16T20:05:27

Cold weather got your power down? Worried the icy night will put your battery to bed? The Garage Hour charges to the rescue with an episode about how to understand the power well you depend on when...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.09.19: Because Cold: Automotive Batteries & Battery Maintenance for Ice & Snow, w/ Fails, Causes, Solutions, Tricks, Trickle Charging, Jump Boxes, Block Heaters & Accessory Bleed (Powered by 100% Electric Wizard) from 2019-11-16T20:01:41

Cold weather got your power down? Worried the icy night will put your battery to bed? The Garage Hour charges to the rescue with an episode about how to understand the power well you depend on when...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.31.19 (MP3): Pumpkins & Preppers! Bagels, Batteries & Bullets: Because Disasters Are Closer than You Think (Ahem, CA?), with Bad Bureaucrats & Politics, Infrastructure Fails & Chop Down a Freakin' Tree Already from 2019-11-01T00:46:29

Remember when prepping was bad? Gearheads and geeks call it #because, and Kalifornistan is proving the point. Join us for the sort'a annual Bagels, Batteries and Bullets show as the Gearhead Consul...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.31.19: Pumpkins & Preppers! Bagels, Batteries & Bullets: Because Disasters Are Closer than You Think (Ahem, CA?), with Bad Bureaucrats & Politics, Infrastructure Fails & Chop Down a Freakin' Tree Already from 2019-11-01T00:41:05

Remember when prepping was bad? Gearheads and geeks call it #because, and Kalifornistan is proving the point. Join us for the sort'a annual Bagels, Batteries and Bullets show as the Gearhead Consul...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.09.19 (MP3): Twofer In-The-Garadtch Episode w/ Detailing for Dirty Trucks (Bad Owner!) & Gearheads VS Politics (Why Geeks Should Watch Out - You're the Target), + Workbench Needs, Beer Travels & Hello New Breweries from 2019-10-21T21:00:41

This one-man episode visits with auto-detailing logic, powered by Mother's and a truckload of elbow grease, then veers off into geeks and gearheads being aware of when the little man with the big e...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.09.19: Twofer In-The-Garadtch Episode w/ Detailing for Dirty Trucks (Bad Owner!) & Gearheads VS Politics (Why Geeks Should Watch Out - You're the Target), + Workbench Needs, Beer Travels & Hello New Breweries from 2019-10-21T20:53:22

This one-man episode visits with auto-detailing logic, powered by Mother's and a truckload of elbow grease, then veers off into geeks and gearheads being aware of when the little man with the big e...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.12.19 (MP3): The Dumbening of Drivers, or What's Wrong w/ Traffic? Also: Fine Beer & Expansion Plans @ Protector Brewery from 2019-10-03T04:24:14

The Garage Hour is back from its Ukrainian espionage collusion sabatical (those tanks won't fork themselves, or how I learned to love Uncle Donald's Javelins), and it's time.

Because how y...

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06.12.19: The Dumbening of Drivers, or What's Wrong w/ Traffic? Also: Fine Beer & Expansion Plans @ Protector Brewery from 2019-10-03T04:17:25

The Garage Hour is back from its Ukrainian espionage collusion sabatical (those tanks won't fork themselves, or how I learned to love Uncle Donald's Javelins), and it's time.

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05.01.19 (MP3): State of 2A? Second Amendment in Kalifornistan w/ SDCGO, w/ Latest News on CCWs, Week of Freedom, 30 & 15-Round Amnesty, Red-Flag Fails, Politics VS Gun Shows, + Castle Doctrine, Assault Laptops, Phones VS Firearms & Roof Korean Week from 2019-05-08T19:59:36

Mike from San Diego County Gun Owners joins Sean from Protector on the Garage Hour to talk gun laws in San Diego, SoCal and worldwide. This episode has all the updates: CCWs and how to get one, the...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.01.19: State of 2A? Second Amendment in Kalifornistan w/ SDCGO, w/ Latest News on CCWs, Week of Freedom, 30 & 15-Round Amnesty, Red-Flag Fails, Politics VS Gun Shows, + Castle Doctrine, Assault Laptops, Phones VS Firearms & Roof Korean Week from 2019-05-08T19:50:29

Mike from San Diego County Gun Owners joins Sean from Protector on the Garage Hour to talk gun laws in San Diego, SoCal and worldwide. This episode has all the updates: CCWs and how to get one, the...

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04.26.19 (MP3): Unprofessional Confessional - In-Garage Cluster-Episode w/ATF Fails, Dirt Bike Mods, Detailing Chokes, Rodeo Bulls, Mouse Hunting, Gearhead Movies, Cyborg Dick Cheney, Snowflake Melting, Death of Rock + FNG Cohost Invasion from 2019-04-30T07:23:19

Eight gearheads, blowtorches, bolts, Blues Brothers, barbecue, beers and a garage apparently add up to gearhead talk-radio genius. From banning Priuses from the Mumford lane to banning Burns Co. sl...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.26.19: Unprofessional Confessional - In-Garage Cluster-Episode w/ATF Fails, Dirt Bike Mods, Detailing Chokes, Rodeo Bulls, Mouse Hunting, Gearhead Movies, Cyborg Dick Cheney, Snowflake Melting, Death of Rock + FNG Cohost Invasion from 2019-04-30T07:16:38

Eight gearheads, blowtorches, bolts, Blues Brothers, barbecue, beers and a garage apparently add up to gearhead talk-radio genius. From banning Priuses from the Mumford lane to banning Burns Co. sl...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.05.19 (MP3): Real-World Gearhead Logic VS Hybrids, Solar, Wind Turbines & Commuting Via Bike: What Works, What's Worthless & Why Ignorance Is Bias (Or, How I Learned to Love the Bomb), + Rockabilly, Grunge & Neighbor Beer from 2019-04-21T09:04:02

The Gearhead Consultancy turns enviroweenie tropes to tasty tripe, discussing the downsides of hybrid and electric cars (cost, inefficiency, toxicity, value, etc), solar (what's good for your roof ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.05.19: Real-World Gearhead Logic VS Hybrids, Solar, Wind Turbines & Commuting Via Bike: What Works, What's Worthless & Why Ignorance Is Bias (Or, How I Learned to Love the Bomb), + Rockabilly, Grunge & Neighbor Beer from 2019-04-21T08:57:14

The Gearhead Consultancy turns enviroweenie tropes to tasty tripe, discussing the downsides of hybrid and electric cars (cost, inefficiency, toxicity, value, etc), solar (what's good for your roof ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.19.19 (MP3): Ale Sipping & Vibe Maintenance @ Burning Beard... Rock VS Roll, Grunge VS History, Filner VS Damage, Normcore VS Schlitz, Hazy, Homebrew, Fallujah, Tasty Dunkel, + Soul Patch Napalm & Twizzling on FacePile from 2019-04-08T19:36:39

Cheffing beer with the philosopher beermakers... The Garage Hour goons got their guns to Burning Beard for a serious hour of brewing business in San Diego's East County, new brews (now in cans), an...

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03.19.19: Ale Sipping & Vibe Maintenance @ Burning Beard... Rock VS Roll, Grunge VS History, Filner VS Damage, Normcore VS Schlitz, Hazy, Homebrew, Fallujah, Tasty Dunkel, + Soul Patch Napalm & Twizzling on FacePile from 2019-04-08T19:27:27

Cheffing beer with the philosopher beermakers... The Garage Hour goons got their guns to Burning Beard for a serious hour of brewing business in San Diego's East County, new brews (now in cans), an...

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05.08.10 (MP3): Classic! T-Shirt Cannons & Belt-Fed Patriotism w/2A Clothing, Wisco & AZ, +Tank Gates, Saddleback VS 'Froading in SoCal, Diggstown & James Woods, Ace Ventura & Randall Cobb, Del Mar Gun Shows, Dodge 2500s, & .22 ARs from 2019-03-30T19:36:33

This Garage Hour Reload had everything from Tannerite to OJ's Bronco, short-course off-road to Elsinore VS Glen Helen, 'froading in SoCal, Blackstar Canyon, Zip-It Hippie and pistolized Mosin Nagan...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.08.10: Classic! T-Shirt Cannons & Belt-Fed Patriotism w/2A Clothing, Wisco & AZ, +Tank Gates, Saddleback VS 'Froading in SoCal, Diggstown & James Woods, Ace Ventura & Randall Cobb, Del Mar Gun Shows, Dodge 2500s, & .22 ARs from 2019-03-30T19:25:59

This Garage Hour Reload had everything from Tannerite to OJ's Bronco, short-course off-road to Elsinore VS Glen Helen, 'froading in SoCal, Blackstar Canyon, Zip-It Hippie and pistolized Mosin Nagan...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.20.19 (MP3): Crashing Cars & Yeast - Rainy Day Beer Geek Technique @ Protector, w/Homebrew Tips & Veteran Business Clips (or Mags?), Bald Tires, Bad Drivers, Kombucha, Berserker, Beast Mod & Pineapple Grenade Secrets, + Enter the Liberator from 2019-03-22T18:18:08

Tactical thinking makes good beer. The Garage Hour invaded Protector Brewery's beer concentration and tortured Sean Haggerty (SEAL Team 5 and Protector Team 1) with rainy day traffic until he told ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.20.19: Crashing Cars & Yeast - Rainy Day Beer Geek Technique @ Protector, w/Homebrew Tips & Veteran Business Clips (or Mags?), Bald Tires, Bad Drivers, Kombucha, Berserker, Beast Mod & Pineapple Grenade Secrets, + Enter the Liberator from 2019-03-22T18:15:18

Tactical thinking makes good beer. The Garage Hour invaded Protector Brewery's beer concentration and tortured Sean Haggerty (SEAL Team 5 and Protector Team 1) with rainy day traffic until he told ...

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03.02.19 (MP3): Rattlecan for Bumpers, Parts for Trucks, E-Type Jags & John Deere Magnets, CHP Dishonesty, TDS Howdy, Natural Innovation VS Pointless Tweaks, Conservative Conservationism VS Watermelon Environmentalism, + Process as Punishment from 2019-03-14T00:41:38

Perfect garage chat session: Gringo Rich joins Hostus Maximus Justin Fort for nothing but gearhead. Coatings for new steel on old trucks (spray paint!), tickets from the CHP (take the ticket) and i...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.02.19: Rattlecan for Bumpers, Parts for Trucks, E-Type Jags & John Deere Magnets, CHP Dishonesty, TDS Howdy, Natural Innovation VS Pointless Tweaks, Conservative Conservationism VS Watermelon Environmentalism, + Process as Punishment from 2019-03-14T00:37:32

Perfect garage chat session: Gringo Rich joins Hostus Maximus Justin Fort for nothing but gearhead. Coatings for new steel on old trucks (spray paint!), tickets from the CHP (take the ticket) and i...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.15.19 (MP3): Random Awesomefest - Gearheads Off-Script @ Protector, w/ Aircraft Carriers, 'Jersey + Jaws, Zombie Episodes, Tactical Shooting, 40S&W VS 9mm, + Beast MOD, Juice IPA, Man in the Arena & Mosaic SMASH from 2019-02-28T19:41:28

You don't duck curveballs, you hit them: when a planned episode with SEAL Team 5er and Protector lead Sean Hannity was derailed by a $8200 parking ticket, the Garage Hour kidnapped Beer Servatrix A...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.15.19: Random Awesomefest - Gearheads Off-Script @ Protector, w/ Aircraft Carriers, 'Jersey + Jaws, Zombie Episodes, Tactical Shooting, 40S&W VS 9mm, + Beast MOD, Juice IPA, Man in the Arena & Mosaic SMASH from 2019-02-28T19:33

You don't duck curveballs, you hit them: when a planned episode with SEAL Team 5er and Protector lead Sean Hannity was derailed by a $8200 parking ticket, the Garage Hour kidnapped Beer Servatrix A...

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02.09.19 (MP3): Cold Places & Cold Beer... Late-Night Gearheads Talk New Beers at Protector Brewery, Lethal Weather, Thin Blood, Broken T-40s, Black Hold & Frozen Knuckles, Randy Hall's New Book, + a Little About Jump Packs (Get One) from 2019-02-20T06:07:57

The gearheads gathered at Protector Brewery for a night with ales, friends and a mic. Topics were incoming beers (a S.M.A.S.H. and a hazy IPA called "Man In the Arena" - Gringo Rich's fave). Other ...

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02.09.19: Cold Places & Cold Beer... Late-Night Gearheads Talk New Beers at Protector Brewery, Lethal Weather, Thin Blood, Broken T-40s, Black Hold & Frozen Knuckles, Randy Hall's New Book, + a Little About Jump Packs (Get One) from 2019-02-20T05:55:30

The gearheads gathered at Protector Brewery for a night with ales, friends and a mic. Topics were incoming beers (a S.M.A.S.H. and a hazy IPA called "Man In the Arena" - Gringo Rich's fave). Other ...

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02.08.19 (MP3): Robot Cars & Autodrive Fails (Asimov Would Agree) - the Body-Count Paradox & Responsibility Vacuum, Human Reductionism, Liability Black Holes & Why Johnny Car is Out to Get You + the Knowledge Island from 2019-02-12T08:17:01

From OCD HQ (Gringo Rich's garage - Location A-2), the Gearhead Consultancy spells out some of the logical, political and humanity-eroding failings of robots driving cars and autodrive anything. I...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.08.19: Robot Cars & Autodrive Fails (Asimov Would Agree) - the Body-Count Paradox & Responsibility Vacuum, Human Reductionism, Liability Black Holes & Why Johnny Car is Out to Get You + the Knowledge Island from 2019-02-12T08:11:58

From OCD HQ (Gringo Rich's garage - Location A-2), the Gearhead Consultancy spells out some of the logical, political and humanity-eroding failings of robots driving cars and autodrive anything. I...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.26.19 (MP3): Guilty Until Proven Innocent - Why Mandatory Breathalyzing is Ineffective, Regressive & Unconstitutional, + Better Ideas Like Whiskey Plates, One-and-Done, Forfeiture & Tiered Punishment from 2019-02-01T00:46:16

Guilty until proven innocent (not very constitutional) but statist officials want to make you prove you're sober before you drive. Seem silly? Huge overreach? Anti-reality?
After a chat about h...

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01.26.19: Guilty Until Proven Innocent - Why Mandatory Breathalyzing is Ineffective, Regressive & Unconstitutional, + Better Ideas Like Whiskey Plates, One-and-Done, Forfeiture & Tiered Punishment from 2019-02-01T00:37:13

Guilty until proven innocent (not very constitutional) but statist officials want to make you prove you're sober before you drive. Seem silly? Huge overreach? Anti-reality?
After a chat about h...

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01.16.10 (MP3): Classic! Superstition Run: Fire & Beer & 'Froading w/ SD4Wh, w/ Sand Dam Drop-Ins & Fails, Camp Yota, Miatas VS Dry Lakes, Sand VS Crawlers, The Econobox Rally, + Jesse James, Cyco Miko + Beating Glenn Danzig from 2019-01-26T20:28:40

What'cha like? The drop-in at Sand Dam? Shooting sand to reach rock? Robbie Gordon VS in-car cameras? Truggies and Miatas? San Diego 4-Wheelers? The annual Superstition Run? Also here is Metallica,...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.16.10: Classic! Superstition Run: Fire & Beer & 'Froading w/ SD4Wh, w/ Sand Dam Drop-Ins & Fails, Camp Yota, Miatas VS Dry Lakes, Sand VS Crawlers, The Econobox Rally, + Jesse James, Cyco Miko + Beating Glenn Danzig from 2019-01-26T20:19:08

What'cha like? The drop-in at Sand Dam? Shooting sand to reach rock? Robbie Gordon VS in-car cameras? Truggies and Miatas? San Diego 4-Wheelers? The annual Superstition Run? Also here is Metallica,...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.24.18 (MP3): Gearhead Gift Recon, w/ Toolboxes (Used), Flashlights (18650), Growlers (Because Beer), Hot Peppers (Because Food), Bumpers (Because Bumping), Not Bad Fang Handhelds (No Collusion!), + Road & Track VS Car & Driver, & Print VS Online from 2018-12-28T20:44:19

In a remarkable feat of on-topicness, the Garage Hour assembled the Gearhead Consultancy and actually managed to talk about their favorite gifts for Those Who Turn Wrenches - for the whole show! Listen

Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.24.18: Gearhead Gift Recon, w/ Toolboxes (Used), Flashlights (18650), Growlers of Beer (from Protector), Hot Peppers (Because Food), Bumpers (Because Bumping), Not Bad Fang Handhelds (Because Not Ham), + Road & Track VS Car & Driver, & Print VS Online from 2018-12-28T20:37:21

In a remarkable feat of on-topicness, the Garage Hour assembled the Gearhead Consultancy and actually managed to talk about their favorite gifts for Those Who Turn Wrenches - for the whole show! Listen

Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.22.10 (MP3): Classic! The Poseur List (What Makes Your Fake) - Sidewalls, Anti-Function, Parts VS Part, Spray-Bombs, Frightful Aero, Tribal Anything, Class-Envy Trash & Pimpy Priuses... + Blunderbusses & Eating Squirrel from 2018-12-22T07:53:54

The Poseur List. Everything you do that guarantees you're not cool (or an idiot). Worse - even if you aren't a schmuck, these are the decisions make you look like one. Anti-tuning, bad towing, p...

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05.22.10: Classic! The Poseur List (What Makes Your Fake) - Sidewalls, Anti-Function, Parts VS Part, Spray-Bombs, Frightful Aero, Tribal Anything, Class-Envy Trash & Pimpy Priuses... + Blunderbusses & Eating Squirrel from 2018-12-22T07:47:24

The Poseur List. Everything you do that guarantees you're not cool (or an idiot). Worse - even if you aren't a schmuck, these are the decisions make you look like one. Anti-tuning, bad towing, p...

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12.07.18 (MP3): Quad .50s & Quad Cities on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day w/Arleigh Burke VS LCS, US Lasers VS Chinese Missiles, Phone Batteries, the Toilet Silencer, Manufacturing 1911s & M1s, Warfighting Presidents, + a Big FU to PC from 2018-12-09T23:20:51

The Garage Hour's famous "Gearhead Gifting" special veered off-course into fighting men (from dive-bombing presidents to white-sheet navy) and their weapons (from half-tracks to Garands), the toile...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.07.18: Quad .50s & Quad Cities on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day w/Arleigh Burke VS LCS, US Lasers VS Chinese Missiles, Phone Batteries, the Toilet Silencer, Manufacturing 1911s & M1s, Warfighting Presidents, + a Big FU to PC from 2018-12-09T23:18:09

The Garage Hour's famous "Gearhead Gifting" special veered off-course into fighting men (from dive-bombing presidents to white-sheet navy) and their weapons (from half-tracks to Garands), the toile...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.24.18 (MP3): The Anti-Black Friday Episode (Don't Be A Zombie) - Duck & Drone Hunting, Tugboats & Whalers, Sacrificial Wear Parts, Batteries & O'Reilly's, + Berzerker, Freedom Stout & The Juice @ Protector Brewery & The Gerwerstermeiner Incident from 2018-11-30T20:16:15

The scratch for your #FBlackFriday itch - we've got standard-issue gen-Z and hipster harassment (you phone-zombie shopping fools), plus real-people stuff like duck, pheasant, goose and crane huntin...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.24.18: The Anti-Black Friday Episode (Don't Be A Zombie) - Duck & Drone Hunting, Tugboats & Whalers, Sacrificial Wear Parts, Batteries & O'Reilly's, + Berzerker, Freedom Stout & The Juice @ Protector Brewery & The Gerwerstermeiner Incident from 2018-11-30T20:12:40

The scratch for your #FBlackFriday itch - we've got standard-issue gen-Z and hipster harassment (you phone-zombie shopping fools), plus real-people stuff like duck, pheasant, goose and crane huntin...

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11.17.18 (MP3): Toolboxes & Tie-Downs! Free Snap-On Rollaway (w/ Free Grease) - How to Load, Haul, Unload & Degrime, Trucking w/ an EcoFart Ford, + Rock Stories from Suicidal Tendencies, Southern Culture on the Skids, Tool, Ghost & Pet Shop Boys from 2018-11-24T23:17:18

The Gearhead Consultancy discusses its newfound free-to-we old-school monster Snap-On toolbox, and how to haul it without murdering all the people in our rear-view.

The Garage Hour goons d...

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11.17.18: Toolboxes & Tie-Downs! Free Snap-On Rollaway (w/ Free Grease) - How to Load, Haul, Unload & Degrime, Trucking w/ an EcoFart Ford, + Rock Stories from Suicidal Tendencies, Southern Culture on the Skids, Tool, Ghost & Pet Shop Boys from 2018-11-24T23:09:59

The Gearhead Consultancy discusses its newfound free-to-we old-school monster Snap-On toolbox, and how to haul it without murdering all the people in our rear-view.

The Garage Hour goons d...

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10.05.18 (MP3): Slackervision! Garage Hour Does Late-Night @ Protector Brewery (then dogs the upload), w/ New Beers, Old Rockers, Gears & Axles & Meticulous Bleeding from 2018-11-17T09:21:33

Chef Jeff and Gringo Rich support Justin Fort's occupation of Protector Brewery in the Beeralani Maker's District. From bleeding (brakes) to gears and axles (broken), the Consultancy veers off int...

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10.05.18: Slackervision! Garage Hour Does Late-Night @ Protector Brewery (then dogs the upload), w/ New Beers, Old Rockers, Gears & Axles & Meticulous Bleeding from 2018-11-17T09:14:08

Chef Jeff and Gringo Rich support Justin Fort's occupation of Protector Brewery in the Beeralani Maker's District. From bleeding (brakes) to gears and axles (broken), the Consultancy veers off int...

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09.08.18(MP3): Chili Showoff @Protector Brewery w/Smoke 'N Aces BBQ &Mr. G's Salsa; + 9/11 Where-Were-Yous from Warfighters &Cohosts, 3D Guns VS 80% Lowers, Organic Certification VS Top-Secret Clearance, Liberators &Gun Shows, Scantily Clad Western Women from 2018-10-01T02:34:07

This is the inaugural Garage Hour Dude Food Chili Showoff, live from Protector Brewery. This is also gearhead awesomeness.
#1: We made four chilis. Smoke 'N Aces' watermelon chili beat Chef ...

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09.08.18: Chili Showoff @ Protector Brewery w/ Smoke 'N Aces BBQ & Mr. G's Salsa; + 9/11 Where-Were-Yous from Warfighters & Cohosts, 3-D Guns VS 80% Lowers, Organic Certification VS Top-Secret Clearance, Liberators & Gun Shows, Scantily Clad Western Women from 2018-10-01T02:24:39

This is the inaugural Garage Hour Dude Food Chili Showoff, live from Protector Brewery. This is also gearhead awesomeness.
#1: We made four chilis. Smoke 'N Aces' watermelon chili beat Chef ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.01.18: When Gearheads Attack the Garage - Tales of Adventure to Whereabouts Off-Road, Suspension & Skidplate Doom, Driveshaft Mysteries, Compressor Deconstruction, + Trail Recovery Stories for the Boys Back Home from 2018-09-08T09:59:16

The Garage Hour goons assembled at Location A for an hour of hard parts and broken bits. The Diesel Ayatollah and Gringo Rich performed a complete Harbor Freight compressor teardown during the sho...

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09.01.18 (MP3): When Gearheads Attack the Garage - Tales of Adventure to Whereabouts Off-Road, Suspension & Skidplate Doom, Driveshaft Mysteries, Compressor Deconstruction, + Trail Recovery Stories for the Boys Back Home from 2018-09-08T09:55:17

The Garage Hour goons assembled at Location A for an hour of hard parts and broken bits. The Diesel Ayatollah and Gringo Rich performed a complete Harbor Freight compressor teardown during the sho...

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07.28.18 (MP3): Fine Ale & Sweet Chili @ Protector Brewery for Cammies & Canines/Half-Face Benefit, + Pig Hunting, Bacon Eating, Dude Food, Flashlight Culture & 18650s, Hog Hour VS Garage Hour Chili Cookoff, SCARs & Glocks, Live from Beeralani Maker's Dis from 2018-07-31T22:41:33

Why: Cammies & Canines benefit at Protector Brewery with Half-Face Blades and Smoke'n Aces BBQ.

Who: Garage Hour gearheads (.45 Phil and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort), Protector primary Se...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.28.18: Fine Ale & Sweet Chili @ Protector Brewery for Cammies & Canines/Half-Face Benefit, + Pig Hunting, Bacon Eating, Dude Food, Flashlight Culture & 18650s, Hog Hour VS Garage Hour Chili Cookoff, SCARs & Glocks, Live from Beeralani Maker's District from 2018-07-31T22:36:39

Why: Cammies & Canines benefit at Protector Brewery with Half-Face Blades and Smoke'n Aces BBQ.

Who: Garage Hour gearheads (.45 Phil and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort), Protector primary Se...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.08.18 (MP3): Cold Beers & Overheated Gearheads @ Beeralani Makers' District, w/ the Protector Brewing Origin Story, Hooch in Iraq, the New Punisher Pils, SCAR VS M4, Libations VS Lubrications, Baghdad Special, Iraqi Alcohol, + Pineapple Grenade IPA from 2018-07-28T08:18:21

Breweries, wineries, meaderies, cideries, sakeries, distilleries, cofferies, salseries - it must be another episode in the Beeralani Makers' District with Protector Brewing.

The Garage Hou...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.08.18: Cold Beers & Overheated Gearheads @ Beeralani Makers' District, w/ the Protector Brewing Origin Story, Hooch in Iraq, the New Punisher Pils, SCAR VS M4, Libations VS Lubrications, Baghdad Special, Iraqi Alcohol, + Pineapple Grenade IPA from 2018-07-28T08:16:28

Breweries, wineries, meaderies, cideries, sakeries, distilleries, cofferies, salseries - it must be another episode in the Beeralani Makers' District with Protector Brewing.

The Garage Hou...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.24.10: Classic! Throwback Kalifornistan Politics from 2010, w/ Col. Rick Powell on Small Business VS Big Government, Small Blocks VS Big Access, + Marines, DEA, Vietnam, Green Berets, Customs & ATF (Alcohol, Trucks and Firearms) from 2018-06-28T22:44:45

Garage Hour reload? Yes, please. The gearhead goons are joined in-studio by Colonel Rick Powell, who was (at the time) candidate for Califzuela's 78th Assembly District.

This episode exp...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.24.10 (MP3): Classic! Throwback Kalifornistan Politics from 2010, w/ Col. Rick Powell on Small Business VS Big Government, Small Blocks VS Big Access, + Marines, DEA, Vietnam, Green Berets, Customs & ATF (Alcohol, Trucks and Firearms) from 2018-06-28T22:43:44

Garage Hour reload? Yes, please. The gearhead goons are joined in-studio by Colonel Rick Powell, who was (at the time) candidate for Califzuela's 78th Assembly District.

This episode exp...

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06.03.18 (MP3): Voting for Gearheads! Garage Hour Does San Diego (Elections) @ Location B, w/ Hobbyist Choices to Protect your Right to Geek Out, the Trump Effect, Used Car Hair, + Dive-Bombing Water-Choppers & Hobo-Vision from 2018-06-05T07:35:03

If you're a gearhead, a shooter, a vinyl fan, a brewer, if you like music or computers or old stereo equipment or hand-loading or woodworking, you're a geek - you dig your hobbies a little more tha...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.03.18: Voting for Gearheads! Garage Hour Does San Diego (Elections) @ Location B, w/ Hobbyist Choices to Protect your Right to Geek Out, the Trump Effect, Used Car Hair, + Dive-Bombing Water-Choppers & Hobo-Vision from 2018-06-05T07:28:47

If you're a gearhead, a shooter, a vinyl fan, a brewer, if you like music or computers or old stereo equipment or hand-loading or woodworking, you're a geek - you dig your hobbies a little more tha...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.11.18 (MP3): Rock, Metal & Punk on Vinyl w/ Burning Beard Brewing, + The Aluminum Falcon, Distinguished Delinquents or Fight Club for Beer?, Tapatio VS Cholula, Wild Ales, Secret Tracks, Usual Suspects VS Robot Chicken, & the Cassette VS Record War. from 2018-05-31T22:49:23

Garage Hour's Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and cohosting powerslab Chef Jeff join the boys from Burning Beard Brewing in their secret hilltop lair (apparently called Castle Beardenstien) to spin the ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.11.18: Rock, Metal & Punk on Vinyl w/ Burning Beard Brewing, + The Aluminum Falcon, Distinguished Delinquents or Fight Club for Beer?, Tapatio VS Cholula, Wild Ales, Secret Tracks, Usual Suspects VS Robot Chicken, & the Cassette VS Record War. from 2018-05-31T22:43:53

Garage Hour's Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and cohosting powerslab Chef Jeff join the boys from Burning Beard Brewing in their secret hilltop lair (apparently called Castle Beardenstien) to spin the ...

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08.07.10 (MP3): Classic! Jeeper Fail, Parking Fail, A6 Engine Fail, Funny Car Fail, Evo Guy Fail, 5-Speed Fail, RFL Fail, Camaro Fail, CAFE Fail, Little Brother's Dodge Fail, High-Center Fail, New STi Fail, + Blue Kids @ the Beach from 2018-04-20T18:47:09

This Garage Hour reload has all the goods - NASCAR road racing, Colorado 4Runner Jamboree, New Zealand chicks, engine racism, the cyclops eye, 3.55s versus 3.73s, old motocrossers trying new trucks...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.07.10: Classic! Jeeper Fail, Parking Fail, A6 Engine Fail, Funny Car Fail, Evo Guy Fail, 5-Speed Fail, RFL Fail, Camaro Fail, CAFE Fail, Little Brother's Dodge Fail, High-Center Fail, New STi Fail, + Blue Kids @ the Beach from 2018-04-20T18:41:54

This Garage Hour reload has all the goods - NASCAR road racing, Colorado 4Runner Jamboree, New Zealand chicks, engine racism, the cyclops eye, 3.55s versus 3.73s, old motocrossers trying new trucks...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.22.18 (MP3): Trail & Off-Road Access at Risk! Watermelon Environmentalism VS Your Right to Roam, New & Locked Gates, State VS Fed Rules, & It's Not Just About Off-Roading (What Else Do You Like to Do?) from 2018-03-28T20:34:58

You head out to your favorite trailhead for day-run and BLAMMO! There's a yuge tank gate. Who installed it? Who locked it? Why's it there?

What's already a big problem in San Diego and the...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.22.18: Trail & Off-Road Access at Risk! Watermelon Environmentalism VS Your Right to Roam, New & Locked Gates, State VS Fed Rules, & It's Not Just About Off-Roading (What Else Do You Like to Do?) from 2018-03-28T20:33:33

You head out to your favorite trailhead for day-run and BLAMMO! There's a yuge tank gate. Who installed it? Who locked it? Why's it there?

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.06.18 (MP3): Escape from Purgatory - Off-Road Season & TDS 2018 Report, 4-Hi VS 4-Low, Exploding Hubs & Paperclip Wiring, Driveshafts to Mars, Paint VS Powdercoat, Awesomely Weird Rigs VS Windows & A/C, + Wood Paneling for WJs from 2018-03-16T02:13:23

The Diesel Ayatollah, Dustin V2 (Mr. Pink?) and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort got together in the Jeep Hole for an hour of tales from Tierra del Sol's Desert Safari, and this episode happened.
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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.06.18: Escape from Purgatory - Off-Road Season & TDS 2018 Report, 4-Hi VS 4-Low, Exploding Hubs & Paperclip Wiring, Driveshafts to Mars, Paint VS Powdercoat, Awesomely Weird Rigs VS Windows & A/C, + Wood Paneling for WJs from 2018-03-16T02:11:46

The Diesel Ayatollah, Dustin V2 (Mr. Pink?) and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort got together in the Jeep Hole for an hour of tales from Tierra del Sol's Desert Safari, and this episode happened.
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01.08.18 (MP3): Second Amendment VS California! Garage Hour Talks 2A w/ San Diego County Gun Owners: Mags, Ammo, "Evil" Features, Primary Offenses, CCWs & Why Kalifornistan Is Out to Get You, + Rebuilds, 80%s, Bullet Buttons, & The Cost of Arrest VS Guilt from 2018-01-20T04:16:08

Hide your guns, hide your ammo: Spongebrain Brownpants and the third-world kleptocracy of Kalifornistan are out to get you and your 2A rights.

We captured Mike Schwartz of San Diego County...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.08.18: Second Amendment VS California! Garage Hour Talks 2A w/ San Diego County Gun Owners: Magazines, Ammo, "Evil" Features, Primary Offenses, CCWs & Why Kalifornistan Is Out to Get You, + Rebuilds, 80%s, Bullet Buttons, & The Cost of Arrest VS Guilt from 2018-01-20T04:10:48

Hide your guns, hide your ammo: Spongebrain Brownpants and the third-world kleptocracy of Kalifornistan are out to get you and your 2A rights.

We captured Mike Schwartz of San Diego County...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.20.17 (MP3): Gearhead Shopping @ Christmas - What, Why & How, + Craig's List Techniques & Bad Guys, Illinois Nazis, Desert Race Dudes & ORW @ TDS, The Helix Flume & Garages Full of Cool Crap, New Brews in San Diego & the Sketch-O-Meter from 2018-01-01T00:08:21

Live from Helix Brewing Co in lovely industrial La Mesa, the Garage Hour goons have assembled to take a whack at Christmas gift shopping, in particular, buying gearhead bits (gifts included) via Cr...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.20.17: Gearhead Shopping @ Christmas - What, Why & How, + Craig's List Techniques & Bad Guys, Illinois Nazis, Desert Race Dudes & ORW @ TDS, The Helix Flume & Garages Full of Cool Crap, New Brews in San Diego & the Sketch-O-Meter from 2017-12-31T23:53

Live from Helix Brewing Co in lovely industrial La Mesa, the Garage Hour goons have assembled to take a whack at Christmas gift shopping, in particular, buying gearhead bits (gifts included) via Cr...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.05.17 (MP3): GABF & Groupies in da Garage. San Diego Fires & Blackout Beers, Miata Hatred & Three-Wheeler Doom, Desert VS Desert, + Beers! Puff Puff, Night Stalker & the Hot Hop Crop, Quality VS Destination & Veggie Beers from 2017-12-21T02:42:24

Joining the usual suspects (.45 Phil, Chef Jeff and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort) on-air were Instagram sensation "SDBeerTour" founder, Rob Strudel, and Garage Hour groupie sensations Jennifer and Bl...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.05.17: GABF & Groupies in da Garage. San Diego Fires & Blackout Beers, Miata Hatred & Three-Wheeler Doom, Desert VS Desert, + Beers! Puff Puff, Night Stalker & the Hot Hop Crop, Quality VS Destination & Veggie Beers from 2017-12-21T02:27:51

Joining the usual suspects (.45 Phil, Chef Jeff and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort) on-air were Instagram sensation "SDBeerTour" founder, Rob Strudel, and Garage Hour groupie sensations Jennifer and Bl...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.04.17 (MP3): Beermaker Sit-Down w/ Protector Brewery (SEALs Like Beer Too), Bureaucracy VS Beer, Independent VS Craft, Organic Ingredients, + Beers Like The Beast, Dank & Citrus, American Pale & the Barbarian; All @ San Diego's Industrial Booze Sector from 2017-12-07T22:44:36

When one of our teams buddies suggested we needed to visit another teams guy making beer, who are we to refuse?  Sean from Protector has carved out a niche in San Diego's brewing scene by going 100...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.04.17: Beermaker Sit-Down w/ Protector Brewery (SEALs Like Beer Too), Bureaucracy VS Beer, Independent VS Craft, Organic Ingredients, + Beers Like The Beast, Dank & Citrus, American Pale & the Barbarian; All @ San Diego's Industrial Booze Sector from 2017-12-07T22:40:41

When one of our teams buddies suggested we needed to visit another teams guy making beer, who are we to refuse?  Sean from Protector has carved out a niche in San Diego's brewing scene by going 100...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.29.12 (MP3): Robot Road Rage VS Your Right to Roam, Asimov VS Shelley, Darth Vader VS Little Bill (Villains Cage Match), .45 Phil VS Septemper, Crag VS Che Guevara, + Dirty Harry, Oktoberfestin', Jagermeister, Morphine & Amon Tobin @ the HOB from 2017-12-04T00:46:07

The Garage Hour brain trust gets together to debate the great questions of our time.  Who's the better villain, Darth Vader or Little Bill Daggett?  Who has more rights, your car or you?  Will Isaa...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.29.12: Robot Road Rage VS Your Right to Roam, Asimov VS Shelley, Darth Vader VS Little Bill (Villains Cage Match), .45 Phil VS Septemper, Crag VS Che Guevara, + Dirty Harry, Oktoberfestin', Jagermeister, Morphine & Amon Tobin @ the HOB from 2017-12-04T00:45

The Garage Hour brain trust gets together to debate the great questions of our time.  Who's the better villain, Darth Vader or Little Bill Daggett?  Who has more rights, your car or you?  Will Isaa...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.08.17 (MP3): Girls Off-Road! Tires, Trucks & Taboos w/ Charlene Bower of Ladies Off-Road Network, + the State of 'Froading, a Baja 1000 Preview, Trail Tire Technology, & Stealing the Skipper's Burrito During a Late Night @ Helix Brewing from 2017-11-09T06:32:05

Let's get right to it: the Garage Hour goons gathered for a glorious getogether goading the girl from the Ladies Off-Road Network, none other than Charlene Bower, and she brings it. Jeeps and BFGs...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.08.17: Girls Off-Road! Tires, Trucks & Taboos w/ Charlene Bower of Ladies Off-Road Network, + the State of 'Froading, a Baja 1000 Preview, Trail Tire Technology, & Stealing the Skipper's Burrito During a Late Night @ Helix Brewing from 2017-11-09T06:19:01

Let's get right to it: the Garage Hour goons gathered for a glorious getogether goading the girl from the Ladies Off-Road Network, none other than Charlene Bower, and she brings it. Jeeps and BFGs...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.26.09 (MP3): Classic! Baja 1000 Tales w/ Nacho @ BFG. Locking Hubs & Grooving Tires, Pit Bikes & Federales, Mickey Thompson & Jimmie Johnson, Dougie's Doggie & Curb Checks, Brown's Chicken & Biscuits VS Fries, Guy Gifts @ Weddings + Coronado Classics from 2017-10-28T03:37:55

Reloaded Garage Hour gearhead awesomeness... Hostus Maximus Justinius Rex and superfan Nacho "K" scatter shrapnel about desert racing w/ the BFGoodrich crew (while grooving Goodyears). Details i...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.26.09: Classic! Baja 1000 Tales w/ Nacho "K" @ BFG... Locking Hubs & Grooving Tires, Pit Bikes & Federales, Mickey Thompson & Jimmie Johnson, Dougie's Doggie & Curb Checks, Brown's Chicken & Biscuits VS Fries, Guy Gifts @ Weddings + Coronado Classics from 2017-10-28T03:22:56

Reloaded Garage Hour gearhead awesomeness... Hostus Maximus Justinius Rex and superfan Nacho "K" scatter shrapnel about desert racing w/ the BFGoodrich crew (while grooving Goodyears). Details i...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.23.17 (MP3): Colorado Four-Wheeling Stories & Off-Road Parts, w/ Toyotas & Jeeps, FJ Summit & Silverton, Total Chaos & BDS, Avalanches & Ridiculous Rain, Bikini Tops & Flip Flops (Seriously, WTH?), + Fine Beers & The Horse You Rode In On from 2017-09-30T07:28:14

Jeeps and leafs, Toyotas and tires, Silver Gulch, Imogene, Ouray and Ophir, plus trail building and rotten weather, and you have a spectacular time on-trail: Dustin V2 and the Diesel Ayatollah join...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.23.17: Colorado Four-Wheeling Stories & Off-Road Parts, w/ Toyotas & Jeeps, FJ Summit & Silverton, Total Chaos & BDS, Avalanches & Ridiculous Rain, Bikini Tops & Flip Flops (Seriously, WTH?), + Fine Beers & The Horse You Rode In On from 2017-09-30T06:41:25

Jeeps and leafs, Toyotas and tires, Silver Gulch, Imogene, Ouray and Ophir, plus trail building and rotten weather, and you have a spectacular time on-trail: Dustin V2 and the Diesel Ayatollah join...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.12.09 (MP3): Classic! Filthy Cars, Midnight Quesadillas, A Review of "Panther Soup" (Hellcats & History), Cash VS Clunkers, Dilber VS Madoff, Khadaffi VS New Jersey, Used Truck Part Fails, Tourist Hunting + Stupid Commie Holidays from 2017-08-31T23:14:25

Vintage Garage Hour reload for you:  vintage cohosts Dirty Dave and Grizzly Chris show how digression is done in this episode: "Intriguing or Offensive, but Never Boring".

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.12.09: Classic! Filthy Cars, Midnight Quesadillas, A Review of "Panther Soup" (Hellcats & History), Cash VS Clunkers, Dilber VS Madoff, Khadaffi VS New Jersey, Used Truck Part Fails, Tourist Hunting + Stupid Commie Holidays from 2017-08-31T23:01:18

Vintage Garage Hour reload for you:  vintage cohosts Dirty Dave and Grizzly Chris show how digression is done in this episode: "Intriguing or Offensive, but Never Boring".

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.16.17 (MP3): Late-Night Garage Hour @ Helix Brewing, w/ Beer Tuning & Hazy=Lazy, 'Froading a Prius (Gasp!), 12-Volt Battery Care, Buying VS Owning (Gearheads Get It), Truck Poseurs VS Gas Mileage, September Beer Fests, + Freeway Flybys from 2017-08-24T21:18:12

The Garage Hour goons got together at Helix Brewing for a late-night chat under the stars.  You can hear the freeway and WRXs going by at speed (with an HKS tweet!), you can hear the earth breathin...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.16.17: Late-Night Garage Hour @ Helix Brewing, w/ Beer Tuning & Hazy=Lazy, 'Froading a Prius (Gasp!), 12-Volt Battery Care, Buying VS Owning (Gearheads Get It), Truck Poseurs VS Gas Mileage, September Beer Fests, + Freeway Flybys from 2017-08-24T21:03:31

The Garage Hour goons got together at Helix Brewing for a late-night chat under the stars.  You can hear the freeway and WRXs going by at speed (with an HKS tweet!), you can hear the earth breathin...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.07.17 (MP3): Beers & Gears @ San Diego Beer & Music Fest, w/ Fine Ale Tastes, Fine Brewer Chats, Fine Ammunition, Fine Truck Parts, Fine Wrenches, Fine Restaurants, Plus Fancy Pretzel Clothing, 10-Piece Buckets & the Spetsnazula from 2017-08-13T08:10:46

Hey, it's summer - too much gearheadventure to be had.  We're back now, though, with miles in our eyes, dust on our tunics and gristle in our teeth.  Well, not gristle, really, more like bacon. ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.07.17: Beers & Gears @ San Diego Beer & Music Fest, w/ Fine Ale Tastes, Fine Brewer Chats, Fine Ammunition, Fine Truck Parts, Fine Wrenches, Fine Restaurants, Plus Fancy Pretzel Clothing, 10-Piece Buckets & the Spetsnazula from 2017-08-13T07:53:19

Hey, it's summer - too much gearheadventure to be had.  We're back now, though, with miles in our eyes, dust on our tunics and gristle in our teeth.  Well, not gristle, really, more like bacon. ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.29.17 (MP3): Gears & Beers @ Helix Brewing: Beermaking Techniques, GABF Plans, Carrot Beer & SDBeerTour, + Trucks & Trails, Toyotas & Jeeps, SD 4-Wheelers & TDS, Local Trails, + Three-Hour Tours & Tugboat Tales from 2017-06-30T23:17:38

'Tis the season for fine beers and high-mountain off-roading.  We did a little better with the succulent sipping on this episode, Listen

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06.29.17: Gears & Beers @ Helix Brewing: Beermaking Techniques, GABF Plans, Carrot Beer & SDBeerTour, + Trucks & Trails, Toyotas & Jeeps, SD 4-Wheelers & TDS, Local Trails, + Three-Hour Tours & Tugboat Tales from 2017-06-30T23:08:03

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06.15.17 (MP3): Fine Ales, Rock & Roll and Bike Parts @ Burning Beard Brewing: Local Gigs, Aged Metal, Eagles of Death Metal & Mastodon, Electric Wizard & Golden Earring, + Chasing Liberace & Side Effects from 2017-06-17T21:33:44

Some good beer-on-radio gearhead talk for you…  The Garage Hour goons get together with our other favorite brewery in the East County's Circle of Hops to sip and chat rock, bikes and beers.

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06.15.17: Fine Ales, Rock & Roll and Bike Parts @ Burning Beard Brewing: Local Gigs, Aged Metal, Eagles of Death Metal & Mastodon, Electric Wizard & Golden Earring, + Chasing Liberace & Side Effects from 2017-06-17T21:17:44

Some good beer-on-radio gearhead talk for you…  The Garage Hour goons get together with our other favorite brewery in the East County's Circle of Hops to sip and chat rock, bikes and beers.

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.22.17 (MP3): CA's Gax Tax VS Taxpayers & Your Gov-Sanctioned Doom: Why It's Happening, Why It Matters & Why You Should Care (& Why You Ought'a Flee), + The Pedal Conundrum, Efficiency VS Efficient, & Spongebrain Brownpants from 2017-05-31T00:10:01

Why does it feel like being a gearhead makes us a target?  Cars, trucks, beers or guns, they're all in the sights of the politicians in Sacramento, and you should be worried.

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.22.17: CA's Gax Tax VS Taxpayers & Your Gov-Sanctioned Doom: Why It's Happening, Why It Matters & Why You Should Care (& Why You Ought'a Flee), + The Pedal Conundrum, Efficiency VS Efficient, & Spongebrain Brownpants from 2017-05-31T00:05:47

Why does it feel like being a gearhead makes us a target?  Cars, trucks, beers or guns, they're all in the sights of the politicians in Sacramento, and you should be worried.

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.02.17 (MP3): Best Beer for Bleeding Brakes (& Burning the Burl) @ Helix Brewing; We Meet the New Brewer & Talk Hop Strategies, + Combat Pistol, Weaver VS Isosceles, Diesel VS Urea, & Kalifornistan VS Taxpayers (Just Flee Now) from 2017-05-16T09:21:25

The Garage Hour's Gearhead Consultancy talks truck parts and the third-world cleptobureaucracy of Kalifornistan's latest plan to screw its taxpayers right out the door over new beers and the new...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.02.17: Best Beer for Bleeding Brakes (& Burning the Burl) @ Helix Brewing; We Meet the New Brewer & Talk Hop Strategies, + Combat Pistol, Weaver VS Isosceles, Diesel VS Urea, & Kalifornistan VS Taxpayers (Just Flee Now) from 2017-05-16T09:10:04

The Garage Hour's Gearhead Consultancy talks truck parts and the third-world cleptobureaucracy of Kalifornistan's latest plan to screw its taxpayers right out the door over new beers and the new...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.15.10 (MP3): Classic! Cliff Diving for Jeeps, Road Racing for Torrey Pines & Ballas With Dollas, + Off-Road Tow Points and 'Froadin' w/ Friends, How Fox Killed Speed(Vision) & When 'Squatches and Bears Attack; Powered by the MultiDave from 2017-04-28T19:14:20

Sorry about the slow uploading - too much work to do.  Got to pay the bills.  Lots of new Garage Hour coming in May.

This vintage reload is all about the 'froadin: we have near-death expe...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.15.10: Classic! Cliff Diving for Jeeps, Road Racing for Torrey Pines & Ballas With Dollas, + Off-Road Tow Points and 'Froadin' w/ Friends, How Fox Killed Speed(Vision) & When 'Squatches and Bears Attack; Powered by the MultiDave from 2017-04-28T19:12:52

Sorry about the slow uploading - too much work to do.  Got to pay the bills.  Lots of new Garage Hour coming in May.

This vintage reload is all about the 'froadin: we have near-death expe...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.16.17 (MP3): In-Garage Hour w/ Blown Engines (Oil's Still a Good Idea), Jeep Bobbleheads & Square Needle Bearings, Tierra Del Sol VS Mario Kart Side-X-Side Idiots, V8 FJ60s, Losing your Keys, Auto Victim Groups, Hand Throttles, + Prepping for Trump from 2017-03-31T21:49:29

We've got your microaggression right here, plus the other kinds.  In a rare two-hour Garage Hour, tonight's contestants invaded Dustin V.2's Jeep Kitchen for a good sipping session, and then let...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.16.17: In-Garage Hour w/ Blown Engines (Oil's Still a Good Idea), Jeep Bobbleheads & Square Needle Bearings, Tierra Del Sol VS Mario Kart Side-X-Side Idiots, V8 FJ60s, Losing your Keys, Auto Victim Groups, Hand Throttles, + Prepping for Trump from 2017-03-31T21:25:15

We've got your microaggression right here, plus the other kinds.  In a rare two-hour Garage Hour, tonight's contestants invaded Dustin V.2's Jeep Kitchen for a good sipping session, and then let...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.08.12: Gearheads Argue Auto Detailing @ Two-Buckets, Microfiber & Meltofiber, Clay Elbow, Carnauba & Cotton Tests, + Smart Car Crows, Old Spice Crews, Bacon Smoothies, Robot Dogs, Antagonizing ZR-1s, w/ Amon Tobin & Dog Fashion Disco & Ozzy from 2017-03-24T20:04:44

Long-lost Garage Hour found: you've got it right here.  It's one of our auto-detailing specials, with everything from crappy clear coats, clear versus enamel, polishing by hand versus machine, p...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.08.12 (MP3): Gearheads Argue Auto Detailing @ Two-Buckets, Microfiber & Meltofiber, Clay Elbow, Carnauba & Cotton Tests, + Smart Car Crows, Old Spice Crews, Bacon Smoothies, Robot Dogs, Antagonizing ZR-1s, w/ Amon Tobin & Dog Fashion Disco & Ozzy from 2017-03-24T19:59:39

Long-lost Garage Hour found: you've got it right here.  It's one of our auto-detailing specials, with everything from crappy clear coats, clear versus enamel, polishing by hand versus machine, p...

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02.01.17 (MP3): In-Garage Hour! Gearheads Talk Broken Jeeps, Blown V8s, Helicopter Rescues, Selectrac Fixes, Salvage Screws, Dirt Virgins, Nail V Screw, AZ V CA, Loctite, Urinals, Decontenting, 2017 Superstition Run, + Why It's Nice to Have Oil in Engines from 2017-02-28T22:53:42

Just add gearhead!  The Garage Hour goons gathered in Dustin v2's garage for an hour of broken parts - Toyota AND Jeep (who knew?), shouldered bolts and Loctite's new "Black Hold" supersauce, wa...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.01.17: In-Garage Hour! Gearheads Talk Broken Jeeps, Blown V8s, Helicopter Rescues, Selectrac Fixes, Salvage Screws, Dirt Virgins, Nail V Screw, AZ V CA, Loctite, Urinals, Decontenting, 2017 Superstition Run, + Why It's Nice to Have Oil in Engines from 2017-02-28T22:41:16

Just add gearhead!  The Garage Hour goons gathered in Dustin v2's garage for an hour of broken parts - Toyota AND Jeep (who knew?), shouldered bolts and Loctite's new "Black Hold" supersauce, wa...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.23.10 (MP3): Classic! Drag Racing & F1 (& Schumie's Return), Tiger VS GM (& Ambien), Automotive Design Faves, Bugeye VS STi, Selling Cars in SD, w/ My Life w/ Thrill Kill Cult, Stone Foxes + Sweat Engine, + Studio Invasion by San Diego's Halloran from 2017-02-08T07:23:52

Long-lost Garage Hour awesomeness right here:  gearhead friend of the show Mark Deadrick joined Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and Dirty Dave for an episode, and he brought along his punk/talk/DJ bu...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.23.10: Classic! Drag Racing & F1 (& Schumie's Return), Tiger VS GM (& Ambien), Automotive Design Faves, Bugeye VS STi, Selling Cars in SD, w/ My Life w/ Thrill Kill Cult, Stone Foxes + Sweat Engine, + Studio Invasion by San Diego's Halloran from 2017-02-08T07:10:10

Long-lost Garage Hour awesomeness right here:  gearhead friend of the show Mark Deadrick joined Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and Dirty Dave for an episode, and he brought along his punk/talk/DJ bu...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.02.17 (MP3): An Hour of Beer @ Helix Brewing, w/ Fine Brews, Selling Diesel Trucks, Tuning FN/FALs for Fun & Profit, Home Stilling, Stupid San Diego Weather & Flying Quonset Huts, w/ the Anarchist-In-Chief & Beer Tourism from 2017-02-08T06:38:23

Live from San Diego's Circle of Hops (yes, that's a thing now), the Garage Hour goons - with everyone from .45 Phil, Chef Jeff & Ms. Karen, to the Diesel Ayatollah and our newest cohost, Vinnie ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.02.17: An Hour of Beer @ Helix Brewing, w/ Fine Brews, Selling Diesel Trucks, Tuning FN/FALs for Fun & Profit, Home Stilling, Stupid San Diego Weather & Flying Quonset Huts, w/ the Anarchist-In-Chief & Beer Tourism from 2017-02-08T06:36:54

Live from San Diego's Circle of Hops (yes, that's a thing now), the Garage Hour goons - with everyone from .45 Phil, Chef Jeff & Ms. Karen, to the Diesel Ayatollah and our newest cohost, Vinnie ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.30.16 (MP3): New-For-2017 @ San Diego Auto Show Show! Truck & Car Intros, Robot Cars VS Your Liberties, Diesel & Eco, CF Wheels, Pickup Beds, Cute Utility Vehicles + Gearhead Christmas, Good Beers, Candy Snatchers & Fatso Jetson from 2017-01-01T06:39:46

The Garage Hour goons did a slow troll through the halls of San Diego's International Auto Show, but the fireworks didn't hit until they got back to the garadtch.  They also tried to get HCM Car...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.30.16: New-For-2017 @ San Diego Auto Show Show! Truck & Car Intros, Robot Cars VS Your Liberties, Diesel & Eco, CF Wheels, Pickup Beds, Cute Utility Vehicles + Gearhead Christmas, Good Beers, Candy Snatchers & Fatso Jetson from 2017-01-01T06:31:30

The Garage Hour goons did a slow troll through the halls of San Diego's International Auto Show, but the fireworks didn't hit until they got back to the garadtch.  They also tried to get HCM Car...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.03.10 (MP3): Classic! Dude Food (Fried Fair Fare & Heavy Tanks), Nissan Leaf VS Taxpayers & Logic, F1 & Ferrari Fails, TVR VS Top Gear, Drawbridges & Moats, + Led Zeppelin, Ozzy, Deftones & Mr. Dustin's Fantasy Factory (Enter the Warehouse) from 2016-12-28T03:58:37

Somewhere between a hungry gearhead and the toolbox is the Garage Hour: so much good stuff.  Beginning with beer at the Pizza Port, carrying through to how to outfit your personal castle with tu...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.03.10: Classic! Dude Food (Fried Fair Fare & Heavy Tanks), Nissan Leaf VS Taxpayers & Logic, F1 & Ferrari Fails, TVR VS Top Gear, Drawbridges & Moats, + Led Zeppelin, Ozzy, Deftones & Mr. Dustin's Fantasy Factory (Enter the Warehouse) from 2016-12-28T03:57:39

Somewhere between a hungry gearhead and the toolbox is the Garage Hour: so much good stuff.  Beginning with beer at the Pizza Port, carrying through to how to outfit your personal castle with tu...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.21.09 (MP3): Classic! Motorcycles & Dude Food? Bikers VS SoCal Traffic, Crashing V-Maxes & the Low-Side Slide, Leather & Mopeds, Dump Exhaust & Creepy Holiday Cartoons, Luau-Style Turkey, Peppers & Onion Carne, Homepies, + KMFDM & Deadbolt from 2016-12-01T00:34:34

Good food and bad motorcycles accidents, plus trucks and cars and shooting holes in things: it must be the Garage Hour.

Skully and low-brow artist Dave Lozeau joined Hostus Maximus Justin...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.21.09: Classic! Motorcycles & Dude Food? Bikers VS SoCal Traffic, Crashing V-Maxes & the Low-Side Slide, Leather & Mopeds, Dump Exhaust & Creepy Holiday Cartoons, Luau-Style Turkey, Peppers & Onion Carne, Homepies, + KMFDM & Deadbolt from 2016-11-30T23:57:55

Good food and bad motorcycles accidents, plus trucks and cars and shooting holes in things: it must be the Garage Hour.

Skully and low-brow artist Dave Lozeau joined Hostus Maximus Justin...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.05.10 (MP3): Classic! Garage Hour @ the P'Port Real Ale Fest, w/Beer Smells & Beer Sours, Nazis VS Viet Cong, Tipper Gore VS Suicidal Tendencies, Gore VS Ruby Ridge, Berlin VS Old Bombs, Celebrity Soldiers, + Bashlacks, Overhangs, Excrooses & Ornidance from 2016-11-23T01:11:43

One of the Garage Hour's original brewery shows, live from the Pizza Port Carlsbad's Real Ale Festival.  Beer technology, beer tastes, beer names, beer sours and beer brewing: it's an Hour at th...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.05.10: Classic! Garage Hour @ the P'Port Real Ale Fest, w/ Beer Smells & Beer Sours, Nazis VS Viet Cong, Tipper Gore VS Suicidal Tendencies, Gore VS Ruby Ridge, Berlin VS Old Bombs, Celebrity Soldiers, + Bashlacks, Overhangs, Excrooses & Ornidance from 2016-11-23T00:59:57

One of the Garage Hour's original brewery shows, live from the Pizza Port Carlsbad's Real Ale Festival.  Beer technology, beer tastes, beer names, beer sours and beer brewing: it's an Hour at th...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.16.16 (MP3): Gearheads & Beerheads! Garage Hour Goons Talk Fine Sips @ Burning Beard w/ Rock & Roll, Grunge, Prog Rock, Folk Punk VS Folk Metal, Rifle Building, Kalifornistan Fails, Christmas Movies, + Video Game Brewing Hijinks & the OJ Bronco from 2016-11-23T00:16:16

Ahhhh, so yum.  The Garage Hour trips out of its home base at Helix Brewing in La Mesa, KA, to visit with another Circle of Hops brewer of note, Burning Beard.  'Beard primaries Jeff "Get a Hair...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.16.16: Gearheads & Beerheads! Garage Hour Goons Talk Fine Sips @ Burning Beard w/ Rock & Roll, Grunge, Prog Rock, Folk Punk VS Folk Metal, Rifle Building, Kalifornistan Fails, Christmas Movies, + Video Game Brewing Hijinks & the OJ Bronco from 2016-11-23T00:08:32

Ahhhh, so yum.  The Garage Hour trips out of its home base at Helix Brewing in La Mesa, KA, to visit with another Circle of Hops brewer of note, Burning Beard.  'Beard primaries Jeff "Get a Hair...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.20.10 (MP3): Classic! Off-Road Season & Four-Wheel Advocacy, Tierra del Sol Leadup, Elmer Fudd w/ Irma, Ruth, Gertrude & Phyllis, Fat-Foot Braking & Me-Too Media Fear Mongers, Temple of Doom & Tiger Woods, + Burnout & Drifting Non-Expertise from 2016-10-31T22:37:17

You can't have this sort of awesome without a license, or a warrant: it's the Garage Hour and their goon-approved truckload of gearhead goodness.

To keep things level, in this show, we ch...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.20.10: Classic! Off-Road Season & Four-Wheel Advocacy, Tierra del Sol Leadup, Elmer Fudd w/ Irma, Ruth, Gertrude & Phyllis, Fat-Foot Braking & Me-Too Media Fear Mongers, Temple of Doom & Tiger Woods, + Burnout & Drifting Non-Expertise from 2016-10-31T22:12:59

You can't have this sort of awesome without a license, or a warrant: it's the Garage Hour and their goon-approved truckload of gearhead goodness.

To keep things level, in this show, we ch...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.14.16 (MP3): Dangerous Choices: Truck Frame VS Unibody & Canklegate VS Trump! What Makes a Truck a Truck, the Corruptopotamus Party, Are Jeeps Trucks?, Bed VS Frame, Ridgeline Fail, Clinton Crises, Invading Canada, Benghazi, Gov Religion, + Dead-End V from 2016-09-30T23:29:08

It started with trucks (and what ain't), but like any good party, the Garage Hour rarely winds up where it began.  If you like trucks, hate cars, have a soft spot ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.14.16: Dangerous Choices: Truck Frame VS Unibody & Canklegate VS Trump! What Makes a Truck a Truck, the Corruptopotamus Party, Are Jeeps Trucks?, Bed VS Frame, Ridgeline Fail, Clinton Crises, Invading Canada, Benghazi, Gov Religion, + Dead-End Voters from 2016-09-30T23:01:06

It started with trucks (and what ain't), but like any good party, the Garage Hour rarely winds up where it began.  If you like trucks, hate cars, have a soft spot ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.09.10 (MP3): Classic! Superstition Mtn Run w/ SD 4-Wheel, Jeep Wrangler Chassis Codes, 4.0 VS V6, MT/Rs & Kevlar, Refinancing for Mods, Family Off-Roading, Rocks VS Sand, 'Froading Cubes & Scions, A Little Bit of Winch Tech, & Backflipping Migs from 2016-09-26T08:49:24

This classic Garage Hour reload brings RJ from San Diego 4-Wheelers into the studio to talk through the upcoming Superstition Mountain Run. Trails, terrain, rocks, sand (and the legendary Sand D...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.09.10: Classic! Superstition Mtn Run w/ SD 4-Wheel, Jeep Wrangler Chassis Codes, 4.0 VS V6, MT/Rs & Kevlar, Refinancing for Mods, Family Off-Roading, Rocks VS Sand, 'Froading Cubes & Scions, A Little Bit of Winch Tech, & Backflipping Migs from 2016-09-26T08:31:48

This classic Garage Hour reload brings RJ from San Diego 4-Wheelers into the studio to talk through the upcoming Superstition Mountain Run. Trails, terrain, rocks, sand (and the legendary Sand D...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.20.16 (MP3): Beers & Bond! Best Bad Guys & Best Bonds, Local Beers & Awful Aliens, Skully Art, Two-Sided Boxes, Rio Fails, Deadbolt Threats, Bond Cars, Bond Chases, Bond Quotes & Sherif JW Pepper from 2016-08-31T18:55:47

Do you like beer?  Do you like Bond?  Well, then this is your favorite episode of the Garage Hour and you haven't even listened yet.  Skully/lowbrow/Day-Dead artist Dave Lozeau and Garage Hour h...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.20.16: Beers & Bond! Best Bad Guys & Best Bonds, Local Beers & Awful Aliens, Skully Art, Two-Sided Boxes, Rio Fails, Deadbolt Threats, Bond Cars, Bond Chases, Bond Quotes & Sherif JW Pepper from 2016-08-31T18:41:51

Do you like beer?  Do you like Bond?  Well, then this is your favorite episode of the Garage Hour and you haven't even listened yet.  Skully/lowbrow/Day-Dead artist Dave Lozeau and Garage Hour h...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.17.16 (MP3): Helix's One-Year Spectacular! Burning Beard & Helix Brewing On-Air: It's All Beer - Mosaicoholic, Stoner Moment, Circle of Wet Hops, Mouth Feel VS Girth, Taste VS Texture, CD VS Tape, + Mastodon, Zep, Psychotic Waltz & Good Jukebox from 2016-08-24T23:22:42

Now that's a Garage Hour - all beer, all the time (well, there was some rock & roll too, but we know you like it).  Hostus Maximus Justin Fort brings beer friends (and fine brewers in t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.17.16: Helix's One-Year Spectacular! Burning Beard & Helix Brewing On-Air: It's All Beer - Mosaicoholic, Stoner Moment, Circle of Wet Hops, Mouth Feel VS Girth, Taste VS Texture, CD VS Tape, + Mastodon, Zep, Psychotic Waltz & Good Jukebox from 2016-08-24T23:09:13

Now that's a Garage Hour - all beer, all the time (well, there was some rock & roll too, but we know you like it).  Hostus Maximus Justin Fort brings beer friends (and fine brewers in t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.13.16 (MP3): Second Amendment Issues in Kalifornistan (Live from Helix Brewing), Assault Weapons Ban VS Civil Rights, Glock Factory Triggers, Legislators VS Voters, Government Creatures, Reservoir Dogs VS Usual Suspects, + Gun Care w/ Brake Cleaner from 2016-07-19T00:43:16

Sometimes there's just enough episode for one really big point, and this was one of those nights.  Recording at Helix Brewing Co. in La Mesa, CA, the Garage Hour goons (well, just two goons plus...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.13.16: Second Amendment Issues in Kalifornistan (Live from Helix Brewing), Assault Weapons Ban VS Civil Rights, Glock Factory Triggers, Legislators VS Voters, Government Creatures, Reservoir Dogs VS Usual Suspects, + Gun Care w/ Brake Cleaner from 2016-07-19T00:16:33

Sometimes there's just enough episode for one really big point, and this was one of those nights.  Recording at Helix Brewing Co. in La Mesa, CA, the Garage Hour goons (well, just two goons plus...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.16.13 (MP3): Off-Road Access (& Who's Blocking it), F-15 VS Tupolev, Trench Guns VS Shovels, Shotguns VS Iraq, Interior Dept's Sally Jewell VS Freedom, REI+Sierra Nevada=Evil, + Goatsnake, St. Vitus, Five Horse Johnson, Coverdale-Page &the FAL of Tanks from 2016-07-02T19:12:32

Wondering why your favorite trail is locked up now?  Can't figure out why the off-roading that Americans have always done is suddenly verboten and frowned upon?  Can't stand the tree-hugging wat...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.16.13: Off-Road Access (& Who's Blocking it), F-15 VS Tupolev, Trench Guns VS Shovels, Shotguns VS Iraq, Interior Dept's Sally Jewell VS Freedom, REI+Sierra Nevada=Evil, + Goatsnake, St. Vitus, Five Horse Johnson, Coverdale-Page & the FAL of Tanks from 2016-07-02T18:47:04

Wondering why your favorite trail is locked up now?  Can't figure out why the off-roading that Americans have always done is suddenly verboten and frowned upon?  Can't stand the tree-hugging wat...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.22.16 (MP3): Garage Hour Learns Weird Beer @ Helix Brewing (+ Return of Stanky Dank), Food Trucks, AR-15s & AK-47s, Barrels & Bricks, Special Forces & Forklifts, Old Soldiers & Tales from Laos, + First-Person Analysis of the JFK Shooting by .45 Phil from 2016-06-28T17:12:19

True to form, the Garage Hour goons have recorded another ricochet episode: so much topic, so little time.  Too many good guests and too many powerful cohosts means what little rudder this episo...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.22.16: Garage Hour Learns Weird Beer @ Helix Brewing (+ Return of Stanky Dank), Food Trucks, AR-15s & AK-47s, Barrels & Bricks, Special Forces & Forklifts, Old Soldiers & Tales from Laos, + First-Person Analysis of the JFK Shooting by .45 Phil from 2016-06-28T16:45:08

True to form, the Garage Hour goons have recorded another ricochet episode: so much topic, so little time.  Too many good guests and too many powerful cohosts means what little rudder this episo...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.23.13 (MP3): Prius Driver Fails, MRAPs for Everyone, F1 Malaysia, Lewis Hamilton's Boyband Beard, Tesla V Edison, Planes, Trains & Dead Actors, Gopher 'Sploding & Local 'Froading, Zombies or Low-Info, +Great Cowboy Bad Guys & La Mesa's Mayor Methuselah from 2016-06-20T19:30:31

So much good stuff…  Do you like your gearhead awesomeness covered in political gravy and conspiracy sauce?  This Garage Hour has your number.  Hell, all of 'em do.

Right out of the gate,...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.23.13: Prius Driver Fails, MRAPs for Everyone, F1 Malaysia, Lewis Hamilton's Boyband Beard, Tesla VS Edison, Planes, Trains & Dead Actors, Gopher 'Sploding & Local 'Froading, Zombies or Low-Info, + Great Cowboy Bad Guys & La Mesa's Mayor Methuselah from 2016-06-20T18:53:05

So much good stuff…  Do you like your gearhead awesomeness covered in political gravy and conspiracy sauce?  This Garage Hour has your number.  Hell, all of 'em do.

Right out of the gate,...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.26.13 (MP3): US VS Chinese Jeeps (Jeep Inline 4.0 VS Minivan V6), .45 Phil's Tank of the Week (M18 Hellcat VS Tigers), Birthdays for Stonewall & MacArthur, Snipes VS Stallone (Demolition Man VS Copland), Panther Soup +Perverse Savant VS Sage Roast Beef from 2016-06-14T01:42:01

From a steamroller intro charged with goon-hosin' wankery to our favorite government agency, the ATF (Alcohol, Trucks & Firearms), THIS is one of the epic ricochetfest Garage Hours that have mad...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.26.13: US VS Chinese Jeeps (& Jeep Inline 4.0 VS Minivan V6), .45 Phil's Tank of the Week (& M18 Hellcat VS Tigers), Birthdays for Stonewall & MacArthur, Snipes VS Stallone (& Demolition Man VS Copland), Panther Soup +Perverse Savant VS Sage Roast Beef from 2016-06-14T01:21:57

From a steamroller intro charged with goon-hosin' wankery to our favorite government agency, the ATF (Alcohol, Trucks & Firearms), THIS is one of the epic ricochetfest Garage Hours that have mad...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.05.13 (MP3): Nissan Delta VS LeMans & .45 Phil VS Iraqi Tanks, Cigarette Smuggling in Cigarette Boats, Efficient VS Electric Cars & Fisker VS DeLorean, Piers Morgan VS Detroit, High Beams VS Speed Traps & Other Stupid Laws, + Ozzy's Perry Mason from 2016-05-31T21:50:46

With everyone in the studio either dying or trying, this Garage Hour was doomed to be awesome from the start.  Who doesn't love reminding the English that the nation which brought us Churchill a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.05.13: Nissan Delta VS LeMans & .45 Phil VS Iraqi Tanks, Cigarette Smuggling in Cigarette Boats, Efficient VS Electric Cars & Fisker VS DeLorean, Piers Morgan VS Detroit, High Beams VS Speed Traps & Other Stupid Laws, + Ozzy's Perry Mason from 2016-05-31T21:37:28

With everyone in the studio either dying or trying, this Garage Hour was doomed to be awesome from the start.  Who doesn't love reminding the English that the nation which brought us Churchill a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.12.16 (MP3): Sipping Beer w/ Burning Beard (Because Garage Beer!), AR Builds & Cohost Breakdowns, Skateboards & Orwell, East County Industrial Charm VS German Fairy Chairs, Nitrates VS Less Filling, + Canlers & Crowlers & Stouts & Lagering from 2016-05-28T04:25:28

Our live-from-the-brewhouse episodes are some of the best talk radio ever to grace the airwaves.  So much personality, so much information, and a pure drill-down on what really makes a brewery t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.12.16: Sipping Beer w/ Burning Beard (Because Garage Beer!), AR Builds & Cohost Breakdowns, Skateboards & Orwell, East County Industrial Charm VS German Fairy Chairs, Nitrates VS Less Filling, + Canlers & Crowlers & Stouts & Lagering from 2016-05-28T04:12:25

Our live-from-the-brewhouse episodes are some of the best talk radio ever to grace the airwaves.  So much personality, so much information, and a pure drill-down on what really makes a brewery t...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.02.13 (MP3): Armored! Tank of the Week &Armored Vacuums, Silver State Camaro, Galaxie, Chevelle, Ford PU, Feinstein VS Star Wars (Han Shot First), Pinko Placation &Potemkin Shooters, Operation Coin Slot & Dustin's Trip Up Puke Puke Hwy (+ Pearl Harbor) from 2016-05-19T18:42:48

From armored vacuums to Logan's Run, Star Wars on VHS and Operation Coin Slot, you can count on the Garage Hour to find your soft spot and stick it with something sharp.

So, does anyone b...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.02.13: Armored! Tank of the Week & Armored Vacuums, Silver State Camaro, Galaxie, Chevelle, Ford PU, Feinstein VS Star Wars (Han Shot First), Pinko Placation & Potemkin Shooters, Operation Coin Slot & Mr. Dustin's Trip Up Puke Puke Hwy (+ Pearl Harbor) from 2016-05-19T18:02:51

From armored vacuums to Logan's Run, Star Wars on VHS and Operation Coin Slot, you can count on the Garage Hour to find your soft spot and stick it with something sharp.

So, does anyone b...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.27.10 (MP3): Classic! Desert 'Froading, Buggy Kerploding, Traffic Poking, Machine Gun Toting, Islamist Goading, Rock/Roll Blowing, REI Loathing, Border Guarding, Manners Smarting Solo Filthy Hosting Awesomeness from 2016-04-30T20:53:47

Trucks and traffic, Manxes on Craig's, holiday traffic (poor
idiots), rockers and rollers (including Zach Wilde, Randy Rhodes,
COC and Willie Nelson), Sal Giunta's uncomfortable time rec...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.27.10: Classic! Desert 'Froading, Buggy Kerploding, Traffic Poking, Machine Gun Toting, Islamist Goading, Rock/Roll Blowing, REI Loathing, Border Guarding, Manners Smarting Solo Filthy Hosting Awesomeness from 2016-04-30T20:20:30

Trucks and traffic, Manxes on Craig's, holiday traffic (poor
idiots), rockers and rollers (including Zach Wilde, Randy Rhodes,
COC and Willie Nelson), Sal Giunta's uncomfortable time rec...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.22.16 (MP3): Rollbars & Cheeseboroughs, Elvis's Van & VW's Diesels, Connery & Moore, Beers @ Helix Brewing, Zep, Beatles, Trower, Menomena, + GH Cohost Speedboat Goes Gilligan w/ Laser Dolphins & Vessel Assist from 2016-04-25T06:41:26

Hell's bells, it's another in-garage Garage Hour.  THIS is the purest gearhead talk, surrounded by fire extinguishers and beers and Muslim wrenches and ammunition ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.22.16: Rollbars & Cheeseboroughs, Elvis's Van & VW's Diesels, Connery & Moore, Beers @ Helix Brewing, Zep, Beatles, Trower, Menomena, + GH Cohost Speedboat Goes Gilligan w/ Laser Dolphins & Vessel Assist from 2016-04-25T06:02:04

Hell's bells, it's another in-garage Garage Hour.  THIS is the purest gearhead talk, surrounded by fire extinguishers and beers and Muslim wrenches and ammunition ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.26.10 (MP3): Classic! Zip-Ties & Beer Cans, Hungover Bears VS Pistol-Packin' Geologists (Now, w/ Choppers), Genius VS Felony Stupid, Marmots VS Your Truck, Physical Graffiti VS Master of Puppets, Dude Food w/ Off-Road Manifold Onions &Mountain Burritos from 2016-04-17T22:03:33

So much goodness…  Tales of mountain climbing on Mt. Whitney and bears attacking on three hours sleep, with zombies and whether they care about how long they last, plus so much rock and roll it'...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.26.10: Classic! Zip-Ties & Beer Cans, Hungover Bears VS Pistol-Packin' Geologists (Now, w/ Choppers!), Genius VS Felony Stupid, Marmots VS Your Truck, Physical Graffiti VS Master of Puppets, Dude Food w/ Off-Road Manifold Onions & Mountain Burritos from 2016-04-17T21:35:59

So much goodness…  Tales of mountain climbing on Mt. Whitney and bears attacking on three hours sleep, with zombies and whether they care about how long they last, plus so much rock and roll it'...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.23.16 (MP3): Beer Makin' & Dude Foodin' w/ Gearheads @ Helm's, LS1 Buggy Fail, F-35 VS F-14 Tomcats VS Nato F-16, Jungle Juice, New Zealish Beer, Short Beer, Grapefruit & Mango Beer, Brewing History, Beer Floats, Pork Belly Sandwiches, +San Diego Beers from 2016-04-01T00:46:57

Ahhhhh, that's the stuff.  The Garage Hour goons got together with friends at Helm's Brewing and talked about what's good for your stomach: brewing beer, brands of beer, new beers being brewed, ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.23.16: Beer Makin' & Dude Foodin' w/ Gearheads @ Helm's, LS1 Buggy Guy Fail, F-35 VS F-14 Tomcats VS Nato F-16, Jungle Juice, New Zealish Beer, Short Beer, Grapefruit & Mango Beer, Brewing History, Beer Floats, Pork Belly Sandwiches, + San Diego's Beer from 2016-04-01T00:20:38

Ahhhhh, that's the stuff.  The Garage Hour goons got together with friends at Helm's Brewing and talked about what's good for your stomach: brewing beer, brands of beer, new beers being brewed, ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.07.11 (MP3): Dead Stuff Episode? US Manufacturing VS China, Buick, Getrag, Osama, Kung-Fu Fighting, Empire Carpet Guy & King Stahlman, Matt Marker, + Cobalt, WRX & Miata Mileage, Taco Bell VS Slaughterhouses, & the .50-cal Ricochet from 2016-03-27T19:11:38

They tried so hard - the "Dead Stuff" topic was supposed to be a collection of slightly serious topics that would allow the Garage Hour goons to explore gearhead topics with their brains instead...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.07.11: Dead Stuff Episode? US Manufacturing VS China, Buick, Getrag, Osama, Kung-Fu Fighting, Empire Carpet Guy & King Stahlman, Matt Marker, + Cobalt, WRX & Miata Mileage, Taco Bell VS Slaughterhouses, & the .50-cal Ricochet from 2016-03-27T18:43:33

They tried so hard - the "Dead Stuff" topic was supposed to be a collection of slightly serious topics that would allow the Garage Hour goons to explore gearhead topics with their brains instead...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.13.12 (MP3): Get In the Dirt! Off-Roading Basics, + Volvo People, Sasquatch & the Bilstein Boys, Creature's Thing, Bathurst & F1 (& F1's Bobbleheads), Guitars for Nick, Metallica VS Anthrax VS Megadeth VS Helmet VS Rammstein VS QOTSA VS COC from 2016-03-19T20:29:12

The Garage Hour goons try to make an episode of getting your driveway anchor ready for trail season - tires, maintenance, parts and such - and find themselves waylaid by jackassery and rock and ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.13.12: Get In the Dirt! Off-Roading Basics, + Volvo People, Sasquatch & the Bilstein Boys, Creature's Thing, Bathurst & F1 (& F1's Bobbleheads), Guitars for Nick, Metallica VS Anthrax VS Megadeth VS Helmet VS Rammstein VS QOTSA VS COC from 2016-03-19T20:06:16

The Garage Hour goons try to make an episode of getting your driveway anchor ready for trail season - tires, maintenance, parts and such - and find themselves waylaid by jackassery and rock and ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.28.16 (MP3): Tires & Trucks, Superstition & Sand Dam, Beer & a Blowtorch, HP VS 4Runner, Toy Diesel VS Lexus V8, Hybrids VS Reality, Big Bear Off-Road Terrain, Chinese Product Fails, Stock Truck Abuse, + the Happy Patrol & Daring to be Special from 2016-03-06T20:45:42

Like the title says: Super Duties and 4Runners, V-10s and diesels, Lexus and GM V8s, sweet mountain bike tires and crappy Chinese ones, trails in Big Bear and Superstition, Foresters and stock p...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.28.16: Tires & Trucks, Superstition & Sand Dam, Beer & a Blowtorch, HP VS 4Runner, Toy Diesel VS Lexus V8, Hybrids VS Reality, Big Bear Off-Road Terrain, Chinese Product Fails, Stock Truck Abuse, + the Happy Patrol & Daring to be Special from 2016-03-06T20:21:13

Like the title says: Super Duties and 4Runners, V-10s and diesels, Lexus and GM V8s, sweet mountain bike tires and crappy Chinese ones, trails in Big Bear and Superstition, Foresters and stock p...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.17.16 (MP3): SEALs, Marines & Gearheads! We Chat w/ Retired SEAL Commander Larry Wilske About ISIS, Putin, Benghazi, Laser-Attack Dolphins, President Weak Broad, the South China Sea, Blowing Up Noriega's Yacht & Tugboats from 2016-02-28T22:12:44

Now THIS is the kind of sauce we're talking about.  In another "Where the Hell is the Garage Hour?" special, Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and cohosts .45 Phil (That Which Goes Bump in the Night) a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.17.16: SEALs, Marines & Gearheads! We Chat w/ Retired SEAL Commander Larry Wilske About ISIS, Putin, Benghazi, Laser-Attack Dolphins, President Weak Broad, the South China Sea, Blowing Up Noriega's Yacht & Tugboats from 2016-02-28T21:34:35

Now THIS is the kind of sauce we're talking about.  In another "Where the Hell is the Garage Hour?" special, Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and cohosts .45 Phil (That Which Goes Bump in the Night) a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.22.16 (MP3): Gearhead Studio Attack w/ Dave Lozeau! Low-Brow/Day of the Dead Art, Robots VS Humans (First They Become Our Cars) & Asimov's Rules, Technology VS Morality, Skill Set VS Safety Net, & Snoop Job VS Perp Jam from 2016-02-03T08:01:15

Soooo much gearhead, so little time.  Old pals Dave Lozeau (San Diego skully/low-brow artist of repute) and Garage Hour host Justin Fort (former test driver and wall of mouth) beer it up for thi...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.22.16: Gearhead Studio Attack w/ Dave Lozeau! Low-Brow/Day of the Dead Art, Robots VS Humans (First They Become Our Cars) & Asimov's Rules, Technology VS Morality, Skill Set VS Safety Net, & Snoop Job VS Perp Jam from 2016-02-03T07:33:42

Soooo much gearhead, so little time.  Old pals Dave Lozeau (San Diego skully/low-brow artist of repute) and Garage Hour host Justin Fort (former test driver and wall of mouth) beer it up for thi...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.27.10 (MP3): Classic! Screw Tibet & Free Yourself? Anti-Stupid Traffic Freakout or Top Gear Hilux Destruction? Replace Injectors or Carnivalé at Lost Abbey? Beck's Music or Scientology? B-17 Strafer or C-130 Spectre? Beretta or Glock? Zaphod or Homer? from 2016-01-22T06:21:36

How about some Grade "A" Garage Hour goodness?  With the bad weather, bad drivers, bad habits and bad injectors, this one's got it all.  Or, possibly some sort of infection, but hey, what's a co...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.27.10: Classic! Screw Tibet & Free Yourself? Anti-Stupid Traffic Freakout or Top Gear Hilux Destruction? Replace Injectors or Carnivalé at Lost Abbey? Beck's Music or Scientology? B-17 Strafer or C-130 Spectre? Beretta or Glock? Zaphod or Homer? from 2016-01-22T06:03:59

How about some Grade "A" Garage Hour goodness?  With the bad weather, bad drivers, bad habits and bad injectors, this one's got it all.  Or, possibly some sort of infection, but hey, what's a co...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.03.16 (MP3): New Cars & Trucks 2016! Garage Hour Does San Diego Auto Show, w/ 4R TRD Pro, Diesel Colorado, Jeeps, the Slingshot, Best & Worst, BMW VS BMW, Big Engine VS Big Fat, Reality VS Hybrids, Tesla VS Warranties, + Where's Our Flying Cars? from 2016-01-06T19:23:06

Ultra-live new car and truck report from the finest little-big city auto show - it's the Garage Hour goons versus the San Diego Auto Show.  Recording live from the floor of the best looking S.D....

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.03.16: New Cars & Trucks 2016! Garage Hour Does San Diego Auto Show, w/ 4R TRD Pro, Diesel Colorado, Jeeps, the Slingshot, Best & Worst, BMW VS BMW, Big Engine VS Big Fat, Reality VS Hybrids, Tesla VS Warranties, + Where's Our Flying Cars? from 2016-01-06T18:57:50

Ultra-live new car and truck report from the finest little-big city auto show - it's the Garage Hour goons versus the San Diego Auto Show.  Recording live from the floor of the best looking S.D....

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.23.15 (MP3): Garagey Kind'a Christmas! Fools in the Rain (SoCal Drivers VS the Liquid Lobotomy), Duct Tape Halfshafts, Powerstroke Fords, New Star Wars Heckling, Life of a Farm Truck, + Hawkeyes VS Gophers & Homemade Grill Repairs w/ Rebar from 2015-12-25T04:12:23

When you get gearheads together for good talk radio, you know what to expect: a whole lot of random awesomesauce like blown bushings, auto repair with timber, Murphy's Law, snowboard versus ski,...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.23.15: Garagey Kind'a Christmas! Fools in the Rain (SoCal Drivers VS the Liquid Lobotomy), Duct Tape Halfshafts, Powerstroke Fords, New Star Wars Heckling, Life of a Farm Truck, + Hawkeyes VS Gophers & Homemade Grill Repairs w/ Rebar from 2015-12-25T03:48:26

When you get gearheads together for good talk radio, you know what to expect: a whole lot of random awesomesauce like blown bushings, auto repair with timber, Murp...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.30.10 (MP3): Classic! Fat-Foot Recalls & Toyota Mother-Computer, Daytona & LeMans 24Hrs, Miata People, Death @ 1000ft in a Cobra Gunship, Nain Rogue & Mothug Doug, & Why Danica Patrick's a Nasty Jerk from 2015-12-22T08:22:13

Yo! Who wants a C4 'Vette? How 'bout one with a motor as big as a whale with a cog-drive blower that works just great for smokey 'Jersey burnouts?  Make the check out to Mothug Doug.


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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.30.10: Classic! Fat-Foot Recalls & Toyota Mother-Computer, Daytona & LeMans 24Hrs, Miata People, Death @ 1000ft in a Cobra Gunship, Nain Rogue & Mothug Doug, & Why Danica Patrick's a Nasty Jerk from 2015-12-22T08:07:25

Yo! Who wants a C4 'Vette? How 'bout one with a motor as big as a whale with a cog-drive blower that works just great for smokey 'Jersey burnouts?  Make the check out to Mothug Doug.


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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.10.09 (MP3): Classic! Strafing B-25s + Doolittle Falsies, Robocop VS Detroit Unions, Ford VS Poncho VS Chrysler Burnouts, CamRon's Swine Flu VS Cohagen Raising the Price of Air, Dirty Dave VS the SEALS, Shine VS Lightning, & Metallica VS Kyuss from 2015-12-19T01:17:23

Sporty vintage Garage Hour reload - from Dirty Dave's creepy shoes and Grizzly Chris's Mogfest plans to which makes (Ford, Pontiac or Chrysler) do the best burnouts.  Like the inevitable gravy o...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.10.09: Classic! Strafing B-25s + Doolittle Falsies, Robocop VS Detroit Unions, Ford VS Poncho VS Chrysler Burnouts, CamRon's Swine Flu VS Cohagen Raising the Price of Air, Dirty Dave VS the SEALS, Shine VS Lightning, & Metallica VS Kyuss from 2015-12-19T00:50:19

Sporty vintage Garage Hour reload - from Dirty Dave's creepy shoes and Grizzly Chris's Mogfest plans to which makes (Ford, Pontiac or Chrysler) do the best burnouts.  Like the inevitable gravy o...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.02.10 (MP3): Classic! Distracted Driving Facts w/ Crash Rates for Alcohol VS Device, Outlawing VS Mocking Stupid People, Education VS Laws, GH Ideas for Getting Even w/ Distracted Drivers, How Cops Know, + Nasty Vauxhalls, Diesels, SB Cobras & Evos from 2015-11-24T22:56:04

This is one of those episodes that we weren't sure how it would turn out - esoteric topic, lots of research and numbers, and a host of personal realities that may not jive with the facts. Boy, w...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.02.10: Classic! Distracted Driving Facts w/ Crash Rates for Alcohol VS Device, Outlawing VS Mocking Stupid People, Education VS Laws, GH Ideas for Getting Even w/ Distracted Drivers, How Cops Know, + Nasty Vauxhalls, Diesels, SB Cobras & Evos from 2015-11-24T22:33:27

This is one of those episodes that we weren't sure how it would turn out - esoteric topic, lots of research and numbers, and a host of personal realities that may not jive with the facts. Boy, w...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.15.09: Classic! Clunker Program Logic FAIL, Shovel-Head Drifter (So 'Jersey!), Puking Down Rainer, Chuck Dempsey on Goodyears & Desert-Race Goodness, Barona Drags Funny Car Nights, + Liver Patrol @ Jack Murphy from 2015-11-21T18:26:58

Raise deflector sacrasm!  It's a classic Garage Hour.  There are serious issues to bring to the light of day, such as the Kardashian administration's ongoing Cash ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.15.09 (MP3): Classic! Clunker Program Logic FAIL, Shovel-Head Drifter (So 'Jersey!), Puking Down Rainer, Chuck Dempsey on Goodyears & Desert-Race Goodness, Barona Drags Funny Car Nights, + Liver Patrol @ Jack Murphy from 2015-11-21T18:04:30

Raise deflector sacrasm!  It's a classic Garage Hour.  There are serious issues to bring to the light of day, such as the Kardashian administration's ongoing Cash ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.24.15 (MP3): Pure Garage! Detailing Dirty Trucks, Microfiber VS Cotton, Dry VS Detail, Tire Goo VS Preservative, Mothers Powerball, Car Care Resources, + Frankenmower, Nacho & Sheriff Clark, STi VS Elise & How Politicians Cause Water Shortages from 2015-11-14T21:45:51

Instead of the usual everyone's here madness, it's time for a garage-pure one-on-one with Garage Hour Hostus Maximus Justin Fort.  Sure, he'll ramble and go on about road-racing and shooting rac...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.24.15: Pure Garage! Detailing Dirty Trucks, Microfiber VS Cotton, Dry VS Detail, Tire Goo VS Preservative, Mothers Powerball, Car Care Resources, + Frankenmower, Nacho & Sheriff Clark, STi VS Elise & How Politicians Cause Water Shortages from 2015-11-14T20:56:52

Instead of the usual everyone's here madness, it's time for a garage-pure one-on-one with Garage Hour Hostus Maximus Justin Fort.  Sure, he'll ramble and go on about road-racing and shooting rac...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.18.12: Flaming Fiskers, Hot & Humid VS HWY Stupid, V8-Zeta, Daytona & Rolex Prototypes VS Diesel, Gov't Motors VS 'Vette Design, Red Bull F1 VS Lincoln Tunnel, Cop Armor VS Cop Donuts, + 9mm VS .45 ACP & Mayor Filner VS Madrid? from 2015-11-07T21:36:17

What'cha like?  Some road racing like the production and prototypes at Circuit Giles Villeneuve in Canada?  How about the return of GM's good ideas with the rebirth of the G8 (or another GM fail...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.18.12 (MP3): Flaming Fiskers, Hot & Humid VS HWY Stupid, V8-Zeta, Daytona & Rolex Prototypes VS Diesel, Gov't Motors VS 'Vette Design, Red Bull F1 VS Lincoln Tunnel, Cop Armor VS Cop Donuts, + 9mm VS .45 ACP & Mayor Filner VS Madrid? from 2015-11-07T21:16:43

What'cha like?  Some road racing like the production and prototypes at Circuit Giles Villeneuve in Canada?  How about the return of GM's good ideas with the rebirth of the G8 (or another GM fail...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.17.15 (MP3): Backcountry Range Day, w/ Second Amendment Awesome, Close-Quarter Fun & Touching Steel at 700yd, Plus More VW Diesel VS Electric & Bureaucratic BS, Truck-Use Goodness, Volvo People, Traffic Laws & Delicate Bicycle Wienerkids from 2015-10-29T08:53:01

Some Garage Hours are put together in breweries, others in garages, a few at gun stores, some more in the studio, but when was the last time you got to hear a broadcast from a covert black-ops a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.17.15: Backcountry Range Day, w/ Second Amendment Awesome, Close-Quarter Fun & Touching Steel at 700yd, Plus More VW Diesel VS Electric & Bureaucratic BS, Truck-Use Goodness, Volvo People, Traffic Laws & Delicate Bicycle Wienerkids from 2015-10-29T08:13:46

Some Garage Hours are put together in breweries, others in garages, a few at gun stores, some more in the studio, but when was the last time you got to hear a broadcast from a covert black-ops a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.17.11 (MP3): GH VS PBID! Small Business VS La Mesa Mayor, Old Trucks, Military History, Sean Connery, Skateboard Sawing, Jaegermeister VS Beer VS Dirndls, Crimey Businesses, Warm Beer & British Teeth, Plus Tales of DUIs & Mayors from 2015-10-22T04:20:02

The Garage Hour goons dig into some neighborhood charm and explore a local manifestation of Big Government in Chicago By The Sea, otherwise known as the Jewel in the Hills, La Mesa, CA.


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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.17.11: GH VS PBID! Small Business VS La Mesa Mayor, Old Trucks, Military History, Sean Connery, Skateboard Sawing, Jaegermeister VS Beer VS Dirndls, Crimey Businesses, Warm Beer & British Teeth, Plus Tales of DUIs & Mayors from 2015-10-22T03:53:40

The Garage Hour goons dig into some neighborhood charm and explore a local manifestation of Big Government in Chicago By The Sea, otherwise known as the Jewel in the Hills, La Mesa, CA.


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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.30.15: Back At It-->GH @ Helix for Beers, Powdercoating, a Realist's Take on the VW Diesel Mess (and Why It's Big Gov's Fault), Pretty Girlfriends & Mr. Burns's Mom, Hank Watson's Origin Story, Plus a Beer Named AR-15 from 2015-10-15T10:02:37

From La Mesa's burgeoning brewing district, the Garage Hour goons are back for another run at the super sips from Helix Brewing (drinkhelix.com!) and a rowdy rendition of Hank Watson's Garage Ho...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.30.15 (MP3): Back At It-->GH @ Helix for Beers, Powdercoating, a Realist's Take on the VW Diesel Mess (and Why It's Big Gov's Fault), Pretty Girlfriends & Mr. Burns's Mom, Hank Watson's Origin Story, Plus a Beer Named AR-15 from 2015-10-15T09:32:56

From La Mesa's burgeoning brewing district, the Garage Hour goons are back for another run at the super sips from Helix Brewing (drinkhelix.com!) and a rowdy rendition of Hank Watson's Garage Ho...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.27.11 (MP3): Low-Fi German-Infested Twilight VS Apocalypse Bear Attack Awesomeness, Plus Bender's Musings (Must Kill All Humans), Toyota Recalls, Boba Choking, Jap Tsunami Cars, Abercrombie Zombies, Manz Kegging, SD Beer Week & Ford FE Blocks from 2015-10-07T02:32:11

Ahhh, yes, a show to end all shows (or just this one).  With almost no tracking of topics and the digression tsunami the Garage Hour goons are famous for, this episode doesn't want for good stuf...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.27.11: Low-Fi German-Infested Twilight VS Apocalypse Bear Attack Awesomeness, Plus Bender's Musings (Must Kill All Humans), Toyota Recalls, Boba Choking, Jap Tsunami Cars, Abercrombie Zombies, Manz Kegging, SD Beer Week & Ford FE Blocks from 2015-10-07T00:58:39

Ahhh, yes, a show to end all shows (or just this one).  With almost no tracking of topics and the digression tsunami the Garage Hour goons are famous for, this episode doesn't want for good stuf...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
09.09.15: Garage Hour Visits Helix Brewing (Made in the USA), Turning Homebrew Into a Business (Nano VS Micro), Building a Brewery, Ingredient Percentages, Plus What Uber's Up To, Old Laptops, Pork Chop Cruise Missiles, AR-15s + Kelly's Heroes from 2015-09-14T02:19:55

The Garage Hour goons managed to check off one of the to-dos on their list with a broadcast from the brewhouse at Helix Brewing, a charming new brewery that just opened for business in La Mesa, ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.04.12: Tech Zep Junkyard Gearhead Fanmail Star Wars Off-Road Talk Radio! HOB LA, Miata Parts, Superbowl + Star Wars Fails, SERE Training, Dust & Rent, Counting Daves, Lozeau Harleys, Plus Domino's Pizza ala Superfan Tristain from 2015-08-31T01:20:29

Hank Watson's Garage Hour: the creek for which you forgot your paddle. One of those excellent 100%-everything shows, with tons of great things that gearheads dig...  off-roading, Army goading, C...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.29.09 (MP3): Classic! 4th-Ever Show, w/ Formula 1 Rich Guy Fights, Building Toyota Trucks, Venture Bros., Tow Straps, Backwoods Rescues, Slow Rangers, Stupid Subie Moments, Plus NASCAR Road Racing & San Diego Rallycross from 2015-08-30T01:00:09

Old Garage Hours sound so different from the new ones - more car and truck (which is good), less guns and beer (which is not good).  Oh, and you can tell we don't have the rhythm yet.  That's ok...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.05.09: Classic! Rock & Roll VS Drunk Drivers? Rev. Heat VS Liberace, Rollins VS Fans, Deadbolt VS CO, Velvet Acid Christ VS Hunter S., Hemmingway & Hendrix & Staley & Snoop, Plus Sopwith Camels & Chasing Drunk Drivers To Their Garage from 2015-07-23T21:26:44

From Horton Heat to DUI attorneys, and ether martinis to dogfighting, from Admiral Ackbar to Hillary Clinton, and Hunter S. Thompson to Gonzo host Justin Fort, this Garage Hour will not disappoi...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.28.09: Classic! Thanksgiving Shoots, Off-Road Cube, Tundra Recall, GM's SAAB Fail, Edward R. Murrow, Glamis Drags & "Nobody Cares Until LifeFlight Shows Up", Old Guns, Sherlock Holmes VS Air America, + Tiger "I LIke Hookers" Woods VS The Nine Iron from 2015-07-11T21:06:43

Killer throwback shows! This post-Thanksgiving episode has the Dukes of Hazzard, desert shooting (a family that shoots together survives the zombie apocalypse together), all-terrain tires, gun a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
07.11.09: Classic! Distracted Driving Fails, Gov't Motors & Chrysler Jokes, GM Lawsuit & Red Bull VS F1 Predictions, Buffalo VS Humvee, Honda VS Porsche, Shelby VS Saleen Bankruptcy Battle, Texting VS Drunk Driving, Goatsnake & the Rolling Bomb from 2015-06-27T23:22:31

Maxi-early Garage Hour right here: Dirty Dave and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort continue their adventures in big AM talk with their sixth-ever show. It's also one of the early seguefests, with repe...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.26.11: Superstition Run @ El Centro (w/ SD 4Wheelers), Ferd FTeenthousand VS X-90 Trucklet, Klingon Fiveheads, Hoosier Eric's Brat 2.2 EJ Swap, Black Ryan's Copper Wire & Bargaining Humor, Mr. Dustin's XJ, N. County VS E. County, w/ Eggnog! from 2015-06-10T07:53:06

From beard wookies to Star Trek tricycles, it's the Garage Hour - so much good stuff.  Want to EJ your Subaru Brat?  Need to do donuts in the desert?  Like watching the repo man try to haul away...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
05.28.15: An Hour @ Helm's Brewing: San Diego Beer VS the World, the Booming Beer Biz, Gov't Tracking of Your Mileage, bin Laden's Reading List, Shopping .22 Rifles, Plus Ministry, STP, Primus & Mars Volta from 2015-05-31T23:39:29

Cars, trucks, beers, guns!  It's the Garage Hour - go figure.  This week, we pried ourselves out of the garage to put together another one of our adventure episodes, sitting down for an hour of ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.04.10: Classic! Christmas Holiday Traffic Rage & Lane-Change Logic, Don't Feed the Hippies, Rating Idiot VS Stupid, Bob Hansen & Quadalcanal, Cat VS Gator, Plus the Happy Patrol & Animal House's Eat Me Special (a.k.a. the Deathmobile) from 2015-05-30T08:41:07

When you're this good, who needs a plan? From the scattered intro to the return of Grizzly Chris, this one's pure Garage Hour.  There's Grizzlies Gone Wild, Mr. Dustin's (Top Earner) report from...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.05.11: Flux Capacitor Day! Also Guy Fawkes Day (For Real?) & 100%-Everything Attack on Occupy Idiots (Occupuke? Occupoop? Yummy Occupie?), w/ Occupy VS Cops, VS Volcanos & VS Themselves, +Jon Lovitz & Ship High In Transit from 2015-05-24T20:31:59

So much good stuff! The Garage Hour goons go after the usual fools in the Occupy idiots (remember all that astroturf?) with unusual relish in this episode of the show.  There's some honest-to-go...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.12.11: Rainy Traffic Crap Salad! Wet Weather Fails VS San Diego Fires, Tires/Wipers/Headlights (Oh My), Junkyard Adventures, Hybrids @ 88mph, Slow-Exploding Volts, Cartel Truck Tanks, + Deadbolt, Fatso Jetson & Secret Samurai from 2015-05-12T22:44:44

In this episode, the gearhead goons go after the liquid lobotomy that is SoCal traffic during the rain - any rain.  When did you last check your tires?  Your wipers?  Your headlights?  Don't let...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.28.15: In-Garage Hour! Live @ Yawsport w/ Track & Street Car Tuning & Setup, Plus Massive Suspension Knowledge, Bilstein's PSS-9, Corner Weighting, Techniques for Balance, Hillclimbing & High-Speed Solo 2-Style Competition @ The Lone Pine Trials from 2015-05-08T08:04:45

So much tech!  This live in-garage episode of the Garage Hour is dense with answers to your suspension-setup questions, including coilvers versus struts versus shocks, springs and perches, adjus...

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09.17.11: Truck Parts, Reno Air Race Crash, Death By Gingivitis, Dodge Trucks & Vipers, Alan Specter IS Adm. Ackbar, Hoffa Humor (Shot/Day), Damon VS Seagal, Infantry VS Finance Rangers, Medals of Honor (& Myers VS Giunta), Plus the Bear Zombie Apocalypse from 2015-04-30T23:43:54

Don't be mad - we warned you: sometimes the Garage Hour goons stay on-topic, and other times it's a 100% mashup trainwreck like this.  Fortunately, we do great trainwrecks.


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02.09.13: GH's 5 Rules for Traffic, LS1s for Ultimas, Ted Nugent VS Nancy Pelosi, Cabela's VS REI, Obama's Sally Jewell VS the Outdoor Industry, Useless Eggheads VS Convicts, Plus Invading Russia & .45 Phil's Tank of the Week from 2015-04-28T00:02:23

So much yum! This gearhead romp into the geekiverse is another great Garage Hour goonfest.  Do you like the Nuge?  Cabelas?  Off-roading?  High-powered component (kit) cars or new places to stuf...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.06.12: Oktoberfest & the 'Squatch Run, Economy of Sports Cars VS Hybrid Propagandization, Bathurst Road-Race Awesomeness VS F1 Lament, Villains Cage Match (Khan VS Lord Humongous), Pet Shop Boys & Korn & King's X from 2015-04-25T03:23:42

From gun lubrication to Isuzus needing lubricating, and from Auntie Entity to Dilbert, it's GOT to be the Garage Hour.  We know gearhead, and we are geeksauce.


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07.04.09: Classic! July 4 Dude Food Excellence, Trail-Access & Off-Road Advocacy (& What You Can Do), Broken CA, Hummers & Vintage Desert Racing, Conservative Conservationism, Plus Testament, Ministry, Lemmy & Ugly Rockers #1 from 2015-04-19T20:28:51

This early Garage Hour is a fine example of the banter-beating delivery that hallmarks the show's festival-of-digression style - from off-road and trail-access issues that affect everyone with k...

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04.06.15: 'Hour @ the Still! Robot Cars, Truck Parts, Dude Food, Turbines & Beerguns, Litter Rage VS Hipster Thrashing (w/ Betting), Beer Tourists & Junkyards, Plus Fine Sips & Distilling Tech w/ Twisted Manzanita Spirits from 2015-04-15T23:43:26

From ratty Tacos to good food, this Garage Hour runs the gamut, with fine liquor tasting and aging techniques at Twisted Manzanita Distillery, commie capitalism, our collective disdain for litte...

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10.01.11: Animals Attack the Garage Hour (Again)... Bears VS 'Jersey, Bear Tax VS Bear Patrol, Piranhas VS Tourists, Crocs VS Locals (Pet It With a Buick!), Plus Hydraulics VS Chinooks, Bender & the Beatles, & Hellfire VS al Awlaki (Take That!) from 2015-04-04T21:37:42

It's on those days when we're just gearheaded out that the Garage Hour goons take a stroll down Digression Lane.  This episode's chock full of those crazy stories you read about of bears beating...

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12.29.12: F-150 & Junkyards Stories, A-10s VS Tanks, NY's Mama Bloomberg, Beer & Dirt Season, Porter VS Stout, Deep Purple & Deadbolt, BLEEP Fails On-Air & A Serious Chat About Movies' & Video Games' Part in People Behaving Badly from 2015-03-24T23:06:14

With a reassuring intro from the most dangerous show in the world, Hank Watson's Garage Hour gets right down to gearhead, with Fords, junkyards (like A&B and 67 Truck in San Diego), tales of fin...

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04.13.13: Drag Racing, F1 & NASCAR, Raptor Fails, Steekers!, Commie BS (& Red Bob Failner), Helmet & Blue Oyster Cult, Blues Brothers, Tanks, Eugene Sledge, Bears & Snakes & Bees (Oh My), & Goodbye to the Iron Lady from 2015-03-20T18:30:15

From the most dangerous studio in the world, another wicked-dense 100%-everything Garage Hour for you.


From the Russian-rich intro, with local commie sycophants and hidden leftists (w...

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01.19.13: Junkyard Parts, Bilstein & the Nurburgring, Trap League @ P2K, GH Show & Tell, Beers & Birthdays, Gen. McChrystal Conspiracies, Ted Nugent VS Piers Morgan (Plus Jesse Ventura), Gun Appreciation Day, Merkava 4 @ Tank of the Week, & 1911s from 2015-03-15T08:38:04

Sometimes your inner gearhead screams for tires and wrenches and pistons, and other times it wants to geek out elsewhere - guns, beers, politics, military junk, rock and/or roll, and/or other go...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
11.06.10: Classic! Rednecks & Machine Guns, F4 Flyby (You're All Gonna Die), Happy Birthday @ Marines, Electronica, Old Rock & Die Krupps, Mr. Dustin's SEMA Report, Wreckage in Pro 5.0, & the GH's Official CA Voter WTF? from 2015-03-11T04:16:32

One of the most requested, replayed and reccoculous Garage Hours ever: our post-election freakout and firepower binge following the bipolar electoral results in 2010, where just about every stat...

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08.14.10: Classic! Pranks for Gearheads, Off-Roady FJs, Drifting HMMTs & Work Vans, Progressive Politicians Running Over Bikers, Engine Swaps, Miatas @ Midwest, In-Flight Freakouts, Snatch VS Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, & A Warning About Your Belt from 2015-02-28T22:57:20

A big pile of Garage Hour jackassery right here: off-roading, our friends at Off-Road.com and FJs for fun and breakage, messing with cars to make a point without damaging them, folks freaking ou...

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02.23.13: AR-15 & Swap Meet Awesomeness (w/ AR Function & Esthetics, Plus Swap Tools & Junk), w/ Biden Duncery, Hippie Hypocrisy, White House Kleptocracy, Eugene Stoner History, Amon Tobin Sophistry, & RINOs VS Conservatives from 2015-02-28T06:19:33

Ahhhh, the AR-15 - like the Second Amendment, a touchstone of so many of the what's-wrongs infesting the current inhabitants of the White House.  The Garage Hour and its intrepid cohosts spend a...

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04.06.13: So Much Mustang - SN-95 VS Fox, 5.0 VS 301, Boss VS Mach, & Drinking WITH Your Cars, Plus Venture Bros., Nick Cage VS Grizzly Chris, Prius Owners VS Reality, & Overweight Target Shoppers VS "Manatee Grey" from 2015-02-25T05:44:22

Hilarious Garage Hour - electronified, computerated, dense with laughs and gearhead insight, chock-full of geek power...  From Fox-Bodies and DEW-platform cars and why all SN-95s need a 5.0, to ...

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08.20.11: Brawlin' w/ Boris Said, Drinkin' w/ Chrysler Employees, Bangin' w/ Dave Mustaine, Cruise Missilin' w/ the Air Force, Bein' an Idiot w/ Decaprio/Penn/Damon, Trappin' w/ Admiral Akbar, Failin' w/ Big Mac Fans, Plus Conspirin' w/ Fishermen from 2015-02-22T19:42:57

This Garage Hour is one of the classic free-fire episodes, kicked off right with tales of Boris Said and his plans to beat Greg Biffle's ass, and that sets the tone for the whole rest of the thi...

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02.06.15: Garage Hour Lite: Ales & Spirits, Making & Partaking in Fine Adult Beverages, Oaked Rye for Fun & Pleasure, Brewery Machinery Guide, Plus NJ, PA, Carolina Drinking Shouts Out & Tasty Sips @ Twisted Manzanita from 2015-02-15T21:15:24

From the hardware in the brewhouse to soft liquor made for the ladies, this abbreviated Garage Hour is heavy on sipping power.  Whether you're a Manz fan, you just like the craft ale and booze s...

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12.15.12: Gearheads VS Christmas Traffic, Off-Road Damage & Mods & Trails, Return of Convertibles, Military/Battleship/Tank Shout-Outs, Holed Race Tires, Charlie Brown Christmas, Salt Flats VS DTM, Sauce VS Marinade, Plus Real VS Fake Christmas Trees from 2015-02-11T21:28:15

So much sauce, so little time. The Garage Hour goons take a flying leap at getting traffucked in the stupid soup that is Christmas and holiday driving in rainy San Diego and Southern California;...

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09.25.10: Classic! Off-Road & Trail Chicanery @ Holy Jim & Corral Canyon, Toyota VS Jeep, Barfing Cohosts, Barfy Union Vote Rigging, Representative VS Politician, Punishing Rifles, Plus Coronado SpeedFest Promo from 2015-01-31T23:42:05

So much sturm und drang, so little lead...  The Garage Hour goons - including Hostus Maximus Justin Fort, Charlie (My Other Brain) and Patrick from Fine Firearms La Mesa - set off on one of thos...

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08.08.09: Classic! GH's Cash for Clunkers Exposé (Bad Gov, Bad Biz & Bad Math), Lambo Crashing, NASCAR @ Watkins Glen, NHRA @ Barona, Saleen VS Saleen, Porsche VS Volkswagen, Plus Innertubepalooza & Dr. Craw from 2015-01-31T09:15:57

Untested host Justin Fort tried one of his rare solo appearances for this Garage Hour, completing an hourlong rant aimed at one of Barry O's first failures, the Cash for Clunkers program (which ...

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03.16.13: Roadside Finds & Other Gearhead Treasure (Incl. Iraq & Desert Storm), AR Assembly & Ammo Day, Global Threats in the Pacific Theater, Mexican Trucks & US Junkyards, Plus DUIs on St. Patty's from 2015-01-28T00:53:10

It's one of the great gearhead mysteries: when you see something interesting on the side of the road, do you stop and grab it?


We've all asked ourselves the same question, because we'...

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10.16.10: Classic! Bullitt's Charger VS George Washington's Challenger, 100MPG VS Plymouth Superbirds, Miatas, AWJunkies, Propane & Propane Accessories, Ken Block, BMWs, Plus Hikers in Iran & Hanoi Jane from 2015-01-21T20:44:12

Got to love the oldies!  Dirty Dave, Mr. Dustin (Top Earner) and Black Ryan back up Hostus Maximus Justin Fort for this epic piece of ricocheting gearhead entertainment.


With everythi...

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07.23.11: In-Shop Live @ Reese Tuning w/ D1 Drifter Andrew Redward, Plus Dyno Pulls, LS Motors, Evo & 'Vette Guys, Preppie Beer Snobs, Range Time, Fatso Jetson & Black Ryan VS Black James from 2015-01-18T02:10:25

Killer live Garage Hour from San Diego tuner shop Reese Tuning...  Included in this episode is a sporty chat with New Zealand-based D1 drifter Andrew Redward about good places to put an LS6 (lik...

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01.12.13: Show & Tell (Cool Gearhead & Geek Bits Like Titanium Ore & Blown Turbos), Junkyard Truck Parts, Beer VS Captain, Laws VS Criminals, 2A VS Politicians, Monty VS Rommel, Plus Piers Morgan's Fail, NY's Bloomberg Fail & SD's Bob Failner from 2014-12-31T06:08:27

Geeks do the best show & tell - let the Garage Hour tell you how.  We've got everything from a blown quad piston (13:1 compression on av-gas will do that), fragged spider gears (from a fragged S...

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11.03.12: Gearhead Attack on CA Politics (w/ Richard Rider), Plus Optima Street Car Challenge, Diesel Swaps, Pretty Shooting, Ugly Reporters, Comrade Filner & Other Pinko Threats from 2014-12-26T06:20:13

YEEEARRRRGH!  So much information, so little filter.  Instead of displaying their collective ignorance (not really), the Garage Hour goons brought California political observer/wiseguy Richard R...

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12.22.12: Gearhead Xmas! Gifting, Shopping & Traffic Terrorism for Gearheads, 'Vette Flags, Lambo Crashes, F-150 Parts, Estate Sales, Jaws VS Barbosa, Plus Serious Looks at Violence & Culture from 2014-12-25T07:50:28

So much good stuff...  Pile up some layers of gearhead fun for the silly season: truck parts and car parts, tools and estate sales, Corvette guys and Lambo guys, reading tires, reading firearms,...

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11.10.12: Celebrating Veterans Day & Marines Birthday, Drifting Semi Tractors, Computer Tattlers, Swingline Staplers, Corrosion of Conformity, Mr. Dustin's SEMA Experience, Plus Shocking Post-Election Lament & Understanding Proto-Socialists from 2014-12-22T18:14:25

Uggh! So much venting, so much post-electoral disdain as the Garage Hour goons get the re-election of President Pickle out of their systems... On top of their cries are heaped the last gasps of ...

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04.16.11: Zombies! Original GH Apocalypse Special, w/ Top-10 To-Be-Eatens, Escape Drivers, Prep List, Weaponry, & Zombie Fighters, Plus Bad Monster Movies & Killing Sparkly Vampires (Just Because) from 2014-12-19T05:19:25

It took years to get to our first Zombie Apocalypse Special, but it was worth the wait - everything from napalm to snowplows come up in this first adventure in redeading the undead, which also i...

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04.20.13: Big Gov VS Americans' Rights, Up-Armored Police VS Disarmed Americans, Raptor Run Report (w/ Bison), Justin's 4-20 Rant, Domestic Terrorists & Barry Obama, Knives & Guns, Boston Bombing Details & the Texas Fertilizer Explosion, & .45 Phil's Tank from 2014-12-12T22:08:16

Stunningly good episode - some of the best gearhead talk the Garage Hour goons have ever done.  THIS is big-AM radio.


If you're a gearhead who thinks about more than car and truck par...

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11.07.09: Classic! A Little Everything w/ Skully & Lowbrow Artist David Lozeau, Plus F-150s & Cash/Clunkers, 2WD Xterras, Homer Simpson, James Bonds, Beers @ Hamilton's, Beta Band, and Bridge @ River Kwai from 2014-12-11T09:09:16

Fantastic Garage Hour Reload: beer, burgers, Arlen Specter and Admiral Ackbar, the Beta Band, vintage movies (roots of our must-see list), The Saint, breaking the studio, Cash for Clunkers and h...

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12.26.09: Classic! Hayabusa Smarts, Holiday Traffic Fails, Weather VS SoCal, 'Vette Flags, DUI for the Holidays, Christmas Truck Parts, Firechicken Cubes, Kimbo Fail, Bad Movies, Bad Colors, Big "O" La Mesa, Ford VS China, and Fluffy VS Pointy from 2014-12-06T22:33:36

Well, OF COURSE we're going to do that.


It's a full studio in this Garage Hour Reload, chock full of cars and trucks and beers and at least one gun.  Do you like Evos? STis?  Subie pa...

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05.04.13: Tanks & Slayer's Jeff Hanneman (RIP), Bombers VS Boston, CA & Barry VS 2A, UK VS US Media, Blue VS Red States, Blues Brothers VS Venture Bros, Finns VS Russia, Plus Baader-Meinhof VS Lead Coffins from 2014-12-01T01:25:20

So much good stuff! The Garage Hour goons dig in to the slobbering populist US media and slobbering Ismalic fundamentalists, the importance of where you bury your bodies (and the fancy lead-weig...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.24.10: Classic! Evos & Off-Road, Broken FJs & Tijuana Paint Jobs, Mac 10s & AKs & The Suitcase Gun, Sasquatch VS Beer, Turbo 4Runners, Slayer & High On Fire & Die Krupps, Anza-Borrego Earthquakes from 2014-11-30T18:13:28

Pure gearhead talk superiority right here:  the Garage Hour goons hit every target with this episode.  Cars, trucks, beers and guns, sasquatch ballistics and FJ ignition, hippie hunting and Supr...

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06.13.09: Classic! Second-Ever Garage Hour, w/ Harley Letner & Cory Halopoff & Goodyear Racing, Crap Orange County Traffic, Good Clay Bar Detailing, Formula 1 VS F1 Manufacturers, GM VS the U.S. Taxpayer, Plus Hummer & SAAB Say FU from 2014-11-30T05:26:25

Holy schnikeys, that's an old one!  This Garage Hour Reload is the second-ever episode of the show, and man, does it stink.  No, actually, it doesn't, but it does do a lot to show how Hank Watso...

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09.10.11: Southern Fried Garage Hour, w/ Skynyrd's Innyrds, Off-Roading, Chuck Norris Jokes, P2K & the Tornado, San Diego Beer Week, Manzanita Brewing, Lifted Subies, the AWJunkies, Plus Zach Wylde VS James Hetfield from 2014-11-26T05:41:26

Epic early Garage Hour...  Everything from San Diego Beer Week and Manzanita Brewing's one-year birthday party to Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band Skynyrd's Innyrds lead Duncan Lancaster and lifted S...

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09.21.13: Garage Hour Lite w/ The Bullet Points, Plus Volvette, the Coronado Classics, Sandwich Testing the AR-AK, Blackout Season in San Diego, Post-War Rifles, A Little Gun Racism & Feature Fear from 2014-11-25T04:58:30

Shortened Garage Hours suck, especially when it's a Garage Half-Hour.  Arizombies ate off 3/4 of the show this week, so Hostus Maximus Justin Fort has a hard time getting in to the thick of thin...

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09.05.09: Classic! Off-Road @ CO & CleveNat, CO4RJ, Dude Food @ Labor Day (Boneless Chicken & Watermelon Margaritas), Rob Zombie & Nailgun Tales, Plus Breaking 4Runner Parts & Priuses from 2014-11-21T03:47:10

Whether you're flexing your retro terror or just want to get a glimpse of the Garage Hour's roots, this is a great episode to dive in to the what we call old school.


Grizzly Chris and...

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05.05.12: Chuck Norris Episode, Plus Motor Mounts, Turn Signals, Miatas & Tornadoes, Old Kung Fu Asskickers, New Viper VS Old, Pedal Footwork, Creature's Truck Wreck, Grilled Cheese, Saigas, Bullet Buttons, & Robin Trower from 2014-11-19T04:30:06

THIS is a hysterical Garage Hour, with all the back and forth gearhead tomfoolery you've come to expect from the best of the Garage Hour goons.  So much good stuff.


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05.25.13: Garage Hour Fan-Mail (w/ Haters!), KGB Humor, Sid Vicious VS Garbage VS King's X, .45 Phil's Tank of the Week, Memorial Day Dos & DUI Don'ts, Hybrid Hypocrisy, #1 Lane Fails, Gun Control = Two Hands, Plus Cool Battleship Stuff from 2014-11-15T09:12:51

A very high-Q Garage Hour right here: KGB and Russians, the tanks that defeated them, sunken passenger ships and the battleships that didn't, a thoughtful reminiscence of Memorial Day and the me...

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07.20.13: Gearheads Talk Auto Mechanics & How to Trust a Garage, SeeBees, Car VS Book Geeks, Tactical Shooter Training for Home Defense, The Low-Information Apocalypse, Scientologists, Bad Behavior @ the IRS, Plus Deadbolt & The Graveyard Farmers from 2014-11-14T01:55:49

Ultra topic Garage Hour: how to pick, know, and trust the people who keep your car on the road (and how to know you're being screwed).  Everything comes across the bench, from how to identify an...

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07.03.10: Hour @ the 'Port Classic! Beer Tasting & Beer Terms (Trube!), Evo & WRX VS Porsche, Magic Bullet & Original .50-Cal Ricochet Debate, Shooting iPhones, Ford & Toyota Recalls, Plus Boston's Kennedy Problem from 2014-11-13T03:31:47

Live radio from the brewery: it's an Hour at the 'Port, with the Garage Hour goons joining forces with Pizza Port Carlsbad for one of our first beerhead shows.  Everything from beer tasting - Ni...

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02.11.12: Hybrid Hatred, Fisker VS Leaf, Stimulus Fund Fails, Trap "Speed Rounds" @ P2K, NASCAR VS F1 VS Prototypes VS Bathurst, King of Hammers, T-Bird Recalls, Plus Vomiting Mayors from 2014-11-11T05:01:30

Too much good stuff!  Starting with the hybrid hatred (well, it's closer to pity: Fiskers and Leafs es no bueno) and running headlong into UFOs and the new T-Bird recalls, the Garage Hour goons ...

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05.11.13: Tanks & Trucks, Bilsteins & ARs, Doc Holliday's Street Howitzer, Expensive Stereotypes, German Planes @ WW2, Zep VS Keith Moon, Plus Scary Movies VS American Literature & Hillary VS Benghazi from 2014-11-10T06:57:46

The Garage Hour is not complete without an occasional episode that actually demonstrates our actual intelligence.  This is one of those, short on the usual ricochet hillarity and leveraged prett...

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01.08.11: Tahoe's New Year's Riots, Prius Angst, Track Days for Beaters, 4Runners on Five Holes, the Indiana Report, Earth's Magnetic Poles, Leftist Hypocrisy, and New Year's Resolution Fails from 2014-11-06T09:52:50

Hank Watson's Garage Hour asks South Tahoe "Why the Hell are you idiots rioting?", plus 100 more questions about Heavenly (a.k.a. Hill Envy) and the whole area's messed up New Year's scene.

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10.24.09: Classic! Mogs & Pinzgauers @ Mogfest, District 9, Braun F1, Robbie Knievel, QOTSA & Fatso Jetson, Remodeling Angst & Conservative Conservationism from 2014-11-06T09:48:35

Vintage supersauce: this Garage Hour Reload is the good old stuff.  From the music-fail intro, F1 and District 9 to the roots of our disdain for Nick Cage and our limitless adoration of Queens o...

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07.13.13: Combo Episode: Auto Detailing & Wartime Politics! Off-Road Advocacy, Cruise Missile Diplomacy, Car Washing Humor, East County Dining, Plus Bret "Statist Nozzle" Stalbaum from 2014-10-31T07:46:52

Another grand experiment in gearhead radio: the Garage Hours' Auto Detailing & Wartime Politics episode, or how we learned to stop worrying and love Cruise Missile Diplomacy.  Also included in t...

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01.22.11: 4Runner Trail Damage, Ammo Laws, GH Fanmail, GH Parenting, Cows & Kids, Anti-Job Smelt? Led Zeppelin, Hulk VS Batman? Voyager=Awesome, Railguns & Lasers, Plus WW2 in the Pacific ala "With the Old Breed" from 2014-10-28T21:54:21

One of THOSE episodes of the Garage Hour...  All of the good gearhead stuff, crammed into a one-hour talk show clown car piloted by the Garage Hour goons: trucks, sports, Charger ownership hatre...

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10.25.14: Mustangs, Movember & Manly Cancer Awareness Month! We Chat Beer, Batteries and Bullets, IT & Information Security, Plus Curvy Roads & Unphoning Yourself from 2014-10-27T23:30:34

With topics like potatoes, .45 ACP, Mustangs, mustaches, Manly Cancer Awareness Month (better known as Movember), ebola, preparedness and making musclecars dance, it's got to be another episode ...

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07.06.13: First Two-Hour Garage Hour! Auto-Detailing Attack, Filner Grope-Attack, Hipster Attack, DUI Attack, Manz Attacks, Germans Attack, Hillary Attack, Attacking Bureaucracy, Plus Lightning Attack Windmills from 2014-10-24T19:22:42

First-ever two-hour Garage Hour right here, and it's all you'd expect from the best kind of AM talk - gearhead talk.  Enjoy auto detailing? Want to hear about Mayor Bob "Gropomatic" Filner and M...

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07.10.10: Classic! Impalas & Bars in Milwaukee, Office VS Military Pranks, Jeeper VS PT Cruiser Death, Clutch, Tobin & Sasquatch, Trail Plans for Corral Canyon, Plus the Latest List of Secret Scientologists from 2014-10-23T06:06:31

This Garage Hour Reload pits some good old cohosts (Dirty Dave and Grizzly Chris, with host Justin Fort) against some of the Garage Hour's good old nemeses: our pal Gravedigger's '67 Impala, off...

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10.18.14: Mexican (Dude) Food @ San Diego, Commuting on Race Tires, Local Hillclimbing, Polymer AR Lowers, Shoe Goo, Plus Tex-Mex VS Cal-Mex & Bar VS Restaurant, and the Wonderment That is the California Burrito from 2014-10-22T01:31:15

If you like Mexican food and live in the Garage Hour's home city of San Diego (last bastion of sanity in the glorious People's Republic of California), then this Dude Food episode is right up yo...

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05.18.13: AR-15 Is Your Friend, Building ARs, Gun Racism, Watching Cannonball Run, Salt Flat Fly-Bys, Dick Trickle (RIP), the State of Barry O's White House, Reloading Ammo, Plus Drunken Sailors & Instigatism of the Idiotlings from 2014-10-16T03:30:02

It's the second of many Garage Hour AR-15 episodes, this with the boys from Wilde Built Tactical - a fine collection of AR building, AR styles, AR sources, AR-15 versus AR-10, and some of the cr...

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10.11.14: Road-Racing & Crisis Prepping (Combo Episode!), 24 Hours of Lemons @ Thunderhill, Disaster Awareness, Celebrating Columbus Day and Stare at a Hybrid Month, P2K Safe & Membership Giveaway, & the DOT in your Car (Gettin' Tickets & Sh!t) from 2014-10-13T22:21:21

Can the Garage Hour goons pull off the ultimate two-faced episode? Two great gearhead topics - road-racing with the 24 Hours of Lemons gang at Thunderhil,l and a little bit of basic "prepping" s...

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06.01.13: Truck Parts In-Studio, Gearhead Boycotts, Turbos VS Superchargers, Hunter S. Thompson, Sterling M. Archer, Working on Fuel Tanks, Drug-Driving Idiots, Enthusiastic Beveraging, and Mazda Miata for Everyone from 2014-10-11T04:32:02

So much sauce, so few hours...  This is one of the most entertaining Garage Hours ever, with special guest host 220,000-Mile 4Runner Fuel Filter and regular cohost Agent Aya supporting Hostus Ma...

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12.18.10: Classic! Top Gear VS Garage Hour, Rainy Traffic Fail, Installing Gauges, Century Clubbing, Absinthe VS Jagermeister, Little Brothers, Gun Bans VS Crime Rates, and Quantum Mechanics from 2014-10-09T09:27:42

Uberexcellent early Garage Hour: all of the madness, in a portable old-school one-hour size.


An aborted attempt at discussing how poorly Californians drive (in the rain) leads to a ri...

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07.27.13: Hillclimbing, Off-Roading, Dennis Farina Sendoff, Must-Watch Movies for Americans, World War Z Fail, Terminators, Dude Food, Crashing, and the Tank of the Week from 2014-10-07T06:27:16

What's the difference between World War Z, Bob Filner and .45 Phil's makeup?  Nothing, if you're the Garage Hour goons - everything's a target.  Grab this podcast of a killer episode, chock full...

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08.03.13: How You Drive & What It Says About You, Traffic Carma, Boxer VS Fighter, Fast Guy Training, Good Stereotypes and Bad Politics, Plus Leftist Tool Brett Stalbaum from 2014-09-30T04:32:24

Another one of the Garage Hour's traffic-psychology spectaculars...  Agent Aya and a medicated Dirty Dave join Hostus Maximus Justin Fort to dig into what your driving says about you, and how yo...

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09.27.14: Most Dangerous Radio Show in the World? Marines & SEALs & SeaBees & Gearheads Debate Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns, Politics & Your Vote, Plus Race & Adventure Season in San Diego, With Larry Wilske In-Studio from 2014-09-28T20:04:06

Scratching the itch: the Garage Hour goons join forces with former SEAL Command Master Chief Larry Wilske for two hours of gearheads talking about the big-picture politics that affect your every...

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06.04.11: Classic! Off-Roading, 'Squatch Goading, German Floozies, Kosher Jokes, CHP @ the 15, Subie & Evo Suspensions, and Pig Hunting in East County from 2014-09-27T05:03:07

Mmmmmmore reloaded Garage Hour for you - killer off-road and Sasquatch Run fun, plus XJs, Evos and Subies, the Barona Drags, shooting at P2K Range, Germans and their floozies and their jokes, lu...

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06.08.13: Second Amendment in CA, Your Rights VS Bogus Laws, Tower Records, Al Jourgensen VS Ministry, Ammunition & Firearms Retail w/ Wilde Built Tactical from 2014-09-26T19:08:05

Rock & roll?  Check.  Second Amendment rights?  Check.  Ammo?  Check.  School districts and local cops with MRAPs and APCs?  Check.  Conspiracies and Rachel Madcow?  Check.  Local and national p...

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09.11.10: Classic! 9-11 Vigilance & Reflection, Moral Behavior, Drag Racing VWs, Desert & Off-Road Season, Trail Access, Lawnmowers, and Playing Football in the Cold; Now, with Informotage! from 2014-09-23T01:51:02

It's a reloaded Garage Hour from the good (bad) old days of gearhead radio, with a proper discussion of the terrorist attacks from September 11, 2001, plus a little bit about the morality of tho...

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11.09.13: Buying & Selling Car & Truck Parts @ Craigslist, Blowing Up Turbos (& Evos), Craftsman VS Gearhead?, Testament Live in LA, Big Guns in Yuma, Tag-Team Tank of the Week, and Selling Agent Aya's Commie Mini from 2014-09-20T03:33:22

Holy atomic warheads, Hank!  Must be the Garage Hour, because that talk show just ricocheted from battle beards to the big guns on display at the Yuma Proving Grounds, then back to stock 4G Evol...

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05.01.10: Classic! Road Warrior & Aussie Mullets, Big Steam (SF 3751) @ 230psi, Big V8 Sounds @ Salt Flats, Slayer + Testament + Megadeth VS Fatso Jetson, and Why We Still Love Demon Toyotas from 2014-09-16T08:50:27

Big steam coming to San Diego - the Garage Hour goons geek on Santa Fe 3751, plus pop a few of the vultures circling Toyota (now, with facts!) and levy a fine defense of a fine automaker (who wo...

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09.07.13: Lock the Hatch! Tanks & Bumpers & Chuck Norris & Earth Sounds, Firefly VS Farscape, Dimension Rubbing, Monster Magnet, St. Vitus, Scooby, Yeti, and Israel VS the World, w/ Special Guest Tony Sawaya from 2014-09-13T01:33:52

Another screaming gearhead radio freakout from Hank Watson's Garage Hour's Industrial Incentive Division, with a studio full of all sorts of geeksauce spectacularity.


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10.29.11: Classic! Torchmate/Goodyear Ultra4 Competitor JT Taylor In-Studio, Building & Racing in Unlimited Buggies, King of Hammers, Fatso Jetson, Zombie Episode Flashback, Toyota & Jeep Stories, Plus Admiral Ackbar from 2014-09-08T21:54:21

Another great Garage Hour Reload: JT Taylor in-studio for an hour of off-road, race, tires, building, wrecking, winning, shooting and zombies, plus rock and roll groovemasters Fatso Jetson (plus...

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11.02.13: Off-Roading for Newbies (Get That Truck on the Trail), plus Tires, Tank of the Week, the Crag Report, the 4:44AM Report, Russians and Germans, a Little Prepping for SoCal, and Johnny Lee Hooker from 2014-09-05T20:03:44

Excellent gearhead chat! Off-roading for newbies is one of those unending topics that we love to talk up - who doesn't have an Exploder, Toyoter or Heep in their driveway that could get them nic...

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07.17.10: Classic! Toyota VS NHTSA (and Big Gov), Corral Canyon Trail Action, Stuffing a Viper Truck, Mr. Dustin's Evo, Guns & Bears, Burnout Videos and More Obama Fails from 2014-08-31T23:30:13

Great Garage Hour Reload: Evos, Toyotas, warranties, off-roading, trail damage, Corral Canyon (outside San Diego), guns and bears, boba choking, tennis ball exploding, 511hp at the wheels, Where...

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08.30.14: 100% Everything, w/ Black Boxes for Your Car, Aussie Movies (Road Games!), King Crimson and the Beta Band, Diamond Hole Saws, Fort Garage Hour, Eating Vegan(s), Mexican Food, and One Good Prius Guy from 2014-08-31T10:38:36

So much good stuff crammed into two hours...  Everything from Mexican restaurants in San Diego (Dude Food!) to great movies in Australia, plus cars, trucks, beers and guns.


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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.15.11: Classic! Oh Canada (How Dare You?), Dyno VS Road Tuning, Ram Trucks, Goulash, Indiana Weather, Detroit Boo, South Park Abuse, Pro-CCW Evidence, and Maintaining Our East County Cred from 2014-08-30T02:57:08

Gearhead VS Beerhead? Everything from old hangovers to new dyno tuning (and its arch nemesis, road tuning), plus union disdain, podcasts promises, the Frozen Stuff Report with Indiana-based Hoos...

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04.28.12: Classic! East County Cred, Car Chases, W VS Obama, W + the Lama, Charger Bashing, Political Freakouts (Local to Global), and Knife VS Butcher from 2014-08-28T09:24:54

Holy bunch'a politics, Batman! It's not the Garage Hour without a lot of gearhead stuff (including 2012 GM warranty, South China Sea, windmill and solar theories that all came true in 2014...), ...

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11.19.11: Home Defense Special (Strategies & Laws for Armed Defense in CA), plus Evo Abuse, Miata Abuse, Host Abuse, Crowbars, Spare Keys and Being Nice to Mormons from 2014-08-23T23:54:41

So much good stuff! Great Garage Hour reload here, straight from 2011: it's all about home-defense, and how you can keep yourself safe from burglaring and home-invading so you don't even neeeeed...

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08.16.14: Good Mechanics, Bad Politics, Tony Stewart's Sprint Car Accident, Cruise Missile Diplomacy, Cleaning K&Ns, Beer Growlers, Tesla's Infinity Warranty, Republican VS Conservatives Contenders, and Appliance Repair from 2014-08-18T00:14:23

Want war? Auto racing? Mechanics? Exploding Teslas? Appliance repair? How about beer, or the vodka-swilling troll from under the bridge?  K&N Filters?  Growlers? Conservatives VS Republicans?  T...

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06.23.12: Classic! Boris Said, BBQ Marinades, F1 Golfballs, Bacon (Duhh), Crawlers, Miata Ownership, Pig Hunting, Farcebook's Fraud, Progressive Frauds, Rev. Horton Heat from 2014-08-12T18:56:26

Yummy!  Good radio right here (in podcast form...).  Dirty Dave, Don't Die Brian and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort practice exacting gearhead conversation with a big ball of worship for the road-ra...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.09.14: Curvy Roads in San Diego, Off-Road Adventures in Mammoth (and Shouts Out), Getting Newbies Involved, Toyota Truck Part Mods, Circle Track Racing, Operators Shootin', Fox VS Speedvision, and Tilting (Angrily) at Windmills from 2014-08-10T19:15:36

Ahhh, that's the stuff - start at cars and trucks (canyon carving in San Diego, serious trail time in Mammoth) and get lost immediately in the shooting sports, windmills killing birds and bats b...

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06.16.12: Classic! Plentiful Rant Episode w/ Diesel V12s, 24 Hrs of LeMans, Land Engines, Speedvision, Obama Predictions, Crazy Women, Nuke Shutdown Lunacy and Dying Mustangs from 2014-08-09T20:57:20

You've got to love these 100%-everything episodes, now with more race, more car, more breakdown, more buildup, more diesel, more trike,  and more rants.  Also, this one's hysterical - have some....

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07.02.11: Classic! VR-4 VS 323 GTX, Time Trials, Sasquatch Runs, Swingline Staplers, Israel VS Hamas, and the Chargers Owners VS San Diegans from 2014-08-07T04:09:45

Do we call these early Garage Hours "classics" or "reloads"?  It's a fiery argument down at GHHQ, but either way, here's the goods: this one is all about the gearheads.  From VR-4 Mitsu Galants ...

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02.12.11: Classic! Subied Boxsters, Off-Road Vans, F1, BAR, VIR + Crashes, Dirty Dave Quits Smoking, and Sh!t My Dad Says from 2014-08-05T20:24:45

This show's got a little bit of everything, from open-wheel road racing, off-roaded vans, Schumacher love and Danica hate, Subaru-powered Porsche Boxsters, piles of crashes at Virginia Internati...

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05.14.11: Classic! Off-Road w/ Toy VS Jeep, the Garage Hour Navy, Ducks Unlimited, New Subies, Hillclimbing Lightnings (Don't), Diesel Drifting, Patton Quotes, and Knife Hunting Pigs from 2014-08-01T01:21:08

Killer roots Garage Hour right here: everything from broken mics to broken Jeeps, plus Justin and Mr. Dustin's midnight run, side-by-sides VS real trucks, Corral Canyon, battleships and railguns...

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07.26.14: Top Sci-Fi Movies (From Serenity to Black Hole) and Railgun Science-Fact w/ US Navy, Plus Sci-Fi VS Near-Fi (and More Movie Rules) from 2014-07-28T04:19:56

The Garage Hour's sci-fi special: all of the best movies, including Star Wars and Star Trek, the Fifth Element and District 9, Dune and 2001, Blade Runner and Logan's Run, plus dozens more - eve...

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06.12.10: Classic! Toyota Recall Kickback and GM Recalls "Chevy", NASCAR on Road Courses, Union Suckage, Complicateder Cars, Acetylene Blimps, and Croaking Toads for Fun and Profit from 2014-07-23T01:07:47

Killer throwback Garage Hour: road-racing with NASCR, toad killing in the Australian outback, tiger-attacked slingshot stoners sue the zoo, face-melting with the Ark of the Covenant, Buick recal...

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07.19.14: Gearheads on Chasing Bad Guys, Testing Railguns, Breaking Overdrives, Missing Anthrax, Burning Windmills, Simmering International Tensions, Shooting Springfields, Buying Pistols, Cursing Farcebook from 2014-07-20T21:37:07

Gearhead-issue Garage Hour target-rich environment: police chases in San Diego, the CDC loosing anthrax and Metallica and Helmet, our upcoming railgun interviews, broken drivetrain parts, input/...

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03.31.12: 100% Everything w/ F1, Alonso & Kimi, Ugly Rockers, Ruger Backorder, Bricking Fiskers, Electric Car Fails, Race Baiters, Anthrax, Helmet, and the Super Pooper from 2014-07-18T00:12:37

This is one of those Garage Hours where you probably want to stand back - there's everything from the Supreme Court to the Colt 1911, Porsches and Unimogs, wrenching on Dirty Dave's Super Pooper...

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07.12.14: Racer & Fast Guy Special! Hillclimbing and a Potential Palomar Race, Road Racing and the 24 Hours of Lemons, Broken Parts Show & Tell and How to Get Started from 2014-07-14T05:31:42

It's another Garage Hour full of fast guys, with factory test driver and host Justin Fort joined in-studio by hillclimb specialist and Yawsport overseer Bret Norgaard, and miserable hot shoe Mar...

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05.29.10: Classic! Hour at the 'Port, w/ Ferraris, Lexi, Fords, TPMS, Layoffs, Everest, the Bottle Shop, the Scoupe, Coffee, the Explorer Tire Recall, the Magic Bullet and an Analysis of East Coast People from 2014-07-13T01:23:25

Hostus Maximus Justin Fort brings you one of the Garage Hour's classic "Hour at the 'Port" episodes from 2010, with a little bit of everything car, truck, beer and gun from such vintage cohostin...

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10.26.13: Top Gear, Superstition Run, Cannonball Run, Escape from New York, Escape from Yuma, The Stand, Zombie Batman, Zombie Politicians, Twisted Manzanita Ales & Spirits and Volvos for Everyone! from 2014-07-09T05:41:29

A Garage Hour for all seasons:  Top Gear - props for the limey edition (Formula Off-Road on water and TVR headaches), the upcoming Superstition Run in San Diego's Chocolate Mountains, the Blue A...

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07.05.14: 4th of July, Patriotism and Dude Food, Plus Gov Motor's Growing Recall, Breech VS Chamber, Beer in San Diego, Flags in Fletcher Hills, the Scary State of the US's Southern Border, and Our Ongoing Assault on Hipsters from 2014-07-06T20:14:16

Yummy stuff: on this Fourth (Fifth) of July episode, the Garage Hour goons spend time feeling good about America, watching out for America, talking about America, and then reminiscing about all ...

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02.05.11: Classic! Epic Roots GH w/ Genesis of the Jalopy Plan, When Animals Attack, .50-Cal Ricochet, STi VS Evo Midnight Run, Geek VS Nerd, Propane Explosion UberTopics from 2014-07-06T01:15:46

Holy epic historical Garage Hour: the genesis of so many great things, including Dirty Dave's Jalopy race plan, Justin Fort's fascination with exploding propane and propane accessories, the geek...

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04.17.10: Classic @ Mr. Dustin's Wrenching Palace, w/ Ramona Off-Roading, Prius Punting, the Roadburn Festival, Tax Day Pays, Black Jack Pershing and Jaime's FJ from 2014-07-01T01:14:23

Hank Watson's Garage Hour: Making a point of making a point.  This GH reload's got everything from the US's southern border, taxes, Jaime's FJ, Ramona trails and our plans to use 'em, the big Ro...

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06.28.14: Garage Hour International! Democracy VS Bureaucracy, Scary World Crises, Jobs in CA, the Southern Border Freakout, All with Larry Wilske (Running for San Diego's 53rd) In-Studio from 2014-06-29T22:24:10

We Garage Hour types need to unload more than just ammo - this episode is all about the political madness gripping an uneasy American electorate that we usualy restrain ourselves from mentioning...

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06.18.11: Classic! DUI Show #2, or Cops VS Lawyers, Plus Drunks, Checkpoints, Costs, Good Law and Bad Law and How the Fuzz is Gonna Get'Cha from 2014-06-26T18:36:20

Vintage Garage Hour Reload - the seminal DUI episode.


DUI Arrest Machine Mark McCullough of the SDPD takes on attorneys Frank Pabst and the Garage Hour's very own Grizzly Chris about ...

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06.21.14: Black Guns & Brown Bottles (Learn to Love the AR/Don't Be a Gun Racist), Plus AR Tech and History, Jet Turbines for Fun and Pleasure, Rock and/or Roll, and Jeff from Twisted Manzanita from 2014-06-22T21:37:37

Good stuff - the Garage Hour guys get into a chat about why the AR-15 rifle is not only fun to build and great to shoot, but is an excellent home-defense weapon (especially for women and young a...

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05.21.11: Classic! RIP Macho Man, Patton VS Chuck Quotes, Off-Road @ Corral Canyon, Death Threats, Border Patrol, Open Carry, Disaster Relief, Purgatory, and Why The Barry Administration's Huge Heads Don't Mean They're Smart from 2014-06-21T22:43:50

Oh. My. God.  Mega-humor Garage Hour right here - everything from one of our most unprofessional intros to how to ghost-ride your whip in Donk Town.  Also, Patton VS Chuck, off-road plans, Charl...

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10.22.11: Zombie Apocalypse #2 - Ten Dudes Debate the Zombie Apocalypse, Plus 100 More Ways to Thin the Horde from 2014-06-20T06:25:19

Uploaded by popular demand, it's the Garage Hour's second-ever Zombie Apocalypse special.    On this iteration of the famous zombie episode is a collection of the most important questions you'll...

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06.14.14: Distracted Driving Fails (Plus Actual Solutions), 24 Hours of LeMans and Assorted Nurburgring Awesomeness, Texting Tickets, NFL Freebies VS Minnesota Taxpayers, and Making Fun of Yourself from 2014-06-16T00:09:19

As if you needed 100 more reasons to stop devicing while driving, texting while driving, phoning while driving, or eating your makeup while putting on a hamburger while driving, we've got them: ...

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10.19.13: Zombie Apocalypse! The Garage Hour's Hysterical Guide to Zombie Attack, Strategy, Survival, Suppression, Weaponry, and Which Idiots Are Assigned to Operation Hipster Shield from 2014-06-12T08:25:07

Epic Garage Hour Alert: this is 50,000 watts of humanity's last hope, the third Zombie Apocalypse special, complete with the firepower, machinery, thought processes and personnel necessary to su...

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06.07.14: 5th-Anniversary Uncelebration, 'Squatch VS Vespa, GM VS Recalls, GM VS Itself, International Podcasting Awesomeness and Garambiance from 2014-06-08T19:50:41

Ahhh yes, one of those episodes...  We hit on everything that makes gearheads tick (now, in our fifth year!), ratcheting up the garambiance for a review of Gov'ment Motors' troubles wit...

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05.31.14: Sasquatch Run Off-Road Report, Scary CA Laws to Track Your Driving, Local Fairs and Fine Dining, Beer (Duhh), Sci-Fi Movie Preview, and Get Off Your Ass and Vote! from 2014-06-02T04:04:29

This Garage Hour has tons of good stuff: off-road details from the latest Sasquatch Run (including creaky Toyotas, 22R noises, Jaime's stunning candlepower and a Jeeper named Mark), tales of CA'...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.24.12: Classic! Two Hours You Can't Have Back: Bad Movie Episode (w/ Bad Movie Rules: Sequel Syndrome, Bad Choice Rule and the Dreaded Double-Suck), Plus the Hyundai Elantra and Naming Don't Die Brian from 2014-05-30T07:22:06

Awesome retrosauce: this is the Garage Hour's vaunted Bad Movies Special (Two Hours You Can't Have Back), complete with the Bad Choice Rule (actors can screw themselves, apparently), the dreaded...

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05.24.14: Memorial Day, Plus Full-Cluster Episode; Including Road Racing, Active Shooting, Beer in SD, Squatch Run #3 and UKIP's Nigel Farage from 2014-05-26T00:33:56

With Memorial Day right around the corner, .45 Phil and host Justin Fort run an old-fashioned cluster-Garage Hour, with a host of gearhead thoughts about everything from bighorn sheep in the Eas...

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11.20.10: Classic! Parking, Toyota's Warranty Trainwreck, WW1 v WW2, the LA Auto Show, Dirty Dave @ Superstition, Vipers, Texas Rangers, Hippie Bashing and Alligator Bashing from 2014-05-21T08:52:38

This is the good stuff (like all the other good stuff): parking, designer hippies, Toyota's warranty troubles, WW 1, 2 and 3, the Poles, 9/11, the FIAT 500, beating the crap out of your car, bea...

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05.17.14: Gearhead Questions for Larry Wilske (Congress: CA's 53rd), San Diego Fire Report, P2K's Listener Giveaway, And An Angry Letter to the NFL from 2014-05-19T19:36:43

The Garage Hour goons welcome Larry Wilske to KCBQ's gleaming black tower of broadcast superiority. The retired Navy SEAL Command Master Chief is running for California's 53rd congressional dist...

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03.02.13: Off-Road Trails, Women in the Infantry, Sequestergeddon, Sasquatch and Swap Meets from 2014-05-15T08:07:26

Hate windmills?  Love HG Wells?  Like movies?  Despise big government?  Tired of Farcebook?  Have an opinion about women in front-line infantry?  Think Quebecois chicks are hot?  Need to know mo...

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05.10.14: Summer Off-Roading, Sasquatch Off-Road Prep, BLM Catches Fire for Starting Chariot Fire, and a Chat With the Ultimate Street Car Association from 2014-05-13T00:08:29

Getting back to our roots - this Garage Hour is all off-road, all the time.  Well, some of the time, because we also promoted our next Sasquatch Run, talked trash on Jeepers (Toyota guys, go fig...

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05.03.14: Gearhead Questions for Aspiring Reps, Sasquatch Run #3, Judges and Surgeons and Marines (Oh My) from 2014-05-12T01:31:35

The political silly season is on, so the Garage Hour is using some of its gearhead cred to dig up answers from real candidates, with Dr. Fred Simon (San Diego's 52nd) and Judge Pro-Tem Ken Gosse...

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09.28.13: Clarkson VS Piers Morgan, Dogfights, NASCAR @ Road Courses, Elsinore GP, Marines Birthday, Joseph Stalin Tank, Oktoberfest, MRAPs and Neighborhood Legislature. from 2014-05-08T02:21:20

One of those Garage Hours: everything from tanks to trucks and Speedvision to Jeremy Clarkson punching out Piers Morgan, plus WW2 dogfights, Paths of Hate (just search for the video and...

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08.31.13: CA Gun Laws, CA Traffic, Marines and Their Shotguns, Fletch, Old Rockers (Ugly!), Windmill Poison, Scary Progressives, Muggers VS Rugby Guys from 2014-05-06T01:06:31

This one's an educational show: we learn about the gun-banning laws and regulations being pushed by the deliriously nutty progressive freakshow called the state of CA (some in the dead of night)...

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08.17.13: Attack of the Board Ops! 100%-Everything, with Check-Engine Lights, the Bear Patrol, Mad Max, Tanks, Failner, Nickname Origins, Celeb Bashing and Honda in F1 from 2014-05-04T22:44:06

This is what happens when you let the guys who usually operate the show take over the mic...  With a 100%-everything list of gearhead topics, from international racing, local politics, the idiot...

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08.25.12: Villains! Classic GH, w/ Jaws, Blofeld, Joker, Angel Eyes, Beetlejuice VS Darth, and the Introduction of the Villains Cage Match from 2014-04-29T05:40:01

Killer Garage Hour: the Villains Episode.  We collect more than 70 movie villains of every stripe, from Blofeld to Little Bill, Darth to Ming, Jaws to Angel Eyes, plus Cruella DeVille and the ho...

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04.26.14: Cars, Trucks, Beers and Punks! Pop Core "Look Up Here", Mobile Devicing Tickets, Explosions, Twisted Manzanita, GM's "Fat Keys" Scandal, Santee's Street Fair, Desert Toys on Craig's List, Gas Prices, Sasquatch and Awesomesauce. from 2014-04-28T00:34:07

With the guys from Look Up Here in-studio, SuperMeg, East County Beerlord Jeff Trevaskis and former factory test driver Justin Fort whip up a batch of gearhead-talk radio superiority on Saturday...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
04.19.14: Guitar Dudes! Rock/Roll, Best Guitar Players, Best Rock Bands, What's a Pickup, Plus Off-Road, The Hills in La Mesa, Toyota VS Jeep and Smashing Instruments for Profit from 2014-04-26T08:29:16

Put a bunch of guitar experts on a gearhead show and you'll get more than you bargained for, including all sorts of stories about the rock and rollists, tales of humbuckers (whatever the Hell th...

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04.27.13: Screamin' Jesus! (the 320mm Spigot Mortar) Plus Prius Bashing, Windmill Bashing, Nick Bashing, Batman Bashing, Hipster Bashing, and Stereo Equipment from 2014-04-23T23:46:26

With everything from electric cars to electric stereo parts, this Garage Hour episode is chock-full of good gearhead talk.  Mike the Mic joined Hostus Maximus Justin Fort, Agent Aya and .45 Phil...

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06.22.13: A Big Pile of Conspiracies (Flight 800, the .50-Cal Ricochet, NSA, Drones, MRAPs, McChrystal VS Hastings) and 100 More Reasons to Pay Attention from 2014-04-22T00:00:56

This is the episode that catapulted the Garage Hour to doubled listenership, and the show that put the gearhead goons from San Diego into an expanded time slot.  Download a full hour of everythi...

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04.12.14: Fast Guys Talk Lone Pine Time Trials, Plus Hillclimbing, Radical Crawlers, Smart Car Tipping, Smart Cars with Hayabusa Motors, the Demise of the RamRunner, Rio Shotgun Shells and a Bunch of Other Stuff We've Broken from 2014-04-14T21:25:34

All gearhead, all the time...  Host Justin Fort has Bret Norgaard from Yawsport and Neil Alexander from the Lone Pine Time Trials (coming up in May) to talk their little slice of road-racing hea...

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09.19.09: Classic! Thunderboats, Cannibals @ the Fair, Claimer Racing, Taking a Dive in F1, Smog Laws, Brett Farvrere and Conservative Conservationism from 2014-04-12T19:19:20

Excellent early Garage Hour - episodes like this are what brought the show to life way back in 2009...  Everything from CanAm to Batman, fake mechanics and poseur Farves, Orwellian education, ch...

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06.11.11: Ferd FTeenthousand VS Sasquatch, 24 Hours of LeMans, Shooting Trap, Broken Studios, Beck & Scientology, Engineers' Brains and the DMV from 2014-04-11T08:29:59

Killer show! This reloaded Garage Hour features a pile of legendary topics, including the Ferd FTeenthousand (whale house!), Sasquatch, scary celebrities, Beck's Scientology, Gavin Newsbag, Amon...

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04.05.14: Fred Simon and District 52, Ford VS Chevy, Jag VS Benz, Dog VS Cat, King Crimson, Plus 100 More Garage Hour Questions for Candidates from 2014-04-07T10:28:16

You can't spell politics without... a "p"... and the Garage Hour can't get this close to the mid-term elections without having some hopeful congressional candidates in the studio.  What can we s...

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06.29.13: Semi-Vintage Garage Hour - the ComicCon Episode, with Batman VS Superman VS Aquaman VS Brock Sampson VS Han Solo, Plus Filner VS Madrid, Gun Stores, Venn Diagrams and the Weather from 2014-04-06T01:24:07

Well, some episodes don't stay gearhead for long, and this one went decidedly cartoon in about five minutes.  Join us for an hour (one of the last hour-only Garage Hours) of unrelenting comic bo...

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03.29.14: We Care A Lot - About Off-Roading, Sasquatch, Gun-Running Senators, Dolphins (They Don't Taste Like Fish), Tactical Shotguns, Environmentalists, E-Cigs and Tilting at Windmills from 2014-04-01T05:54:30

How about something completely different? The Garage Hour goons (and the vice mayor of La Mesa) had a really involved conversation about the environment, with none other than a real environmenta...

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05.26.12: Vintage! Memorial Day Show, w/ POWs, War Movies, Freedom Station, Lincoln VS Vampires, Hybridiots, Stupidists, Monster Trucks, Buddy Guy, ZZ Top, Bullitt, and Rampant Unprofessionalism from 2014-03-26T00:23:44

We dish out some real respect on this Memorial Day, with extensive chatter about Americans who've given the ultimate measure in the name of God and country. Like the icing on this Cake of Respec...

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03.22.14: Get Traff@cked (Because Those Idiots Won't Tell Themselves Off) With All the Things You Hate About Traffic, Plus Guns, Gardening, Silver State Open-Road Racing, Rock & Roll, the Tick, Food Trucks, Hipster Hunting and Twistidity from 2014-03-24T07:41:05

When one of these unscripted episodes turns out right, it's such a great feeling. Hostus Maximus Justin Fort coupled SuperMeg and the return of Chef Jeff from Eastbound Bar & Grill to do two hou...

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08.10.13: Beer Names (Night Fighter!), Local Off-Roading for Summer, Tony's Pissed List, Unphoning, Because Railgun, Beer-Con and Regular Cons. from 2014-03-21T01:30:44

Intriguing or offensive, but never boring: it's your kind of doom on the hoof, and now for two hours!  Join us for some adventures in beer (Night Fighter), off-roading, railguns, Beer-Con, and t...

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03.15.14: New Guns and Old Rock & Roll w/ Springfield Armory and Skynyrd's Innyrds, as well as Gov't Motors' Liability Meltdown, Flight 370 and a Truckload of Info That's Good for Firearms Owners in CA from 2014-03-17T00:16:13

The gearhead mavens from the Garage Hour served up everything from nifty new firearms to dusty old war stuff in this show, as well as dabbling in the unfolding Flight 370 mystery (how couldn't w...

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03.08.14: Dude Food! Gearheads Talk Local Eats with Eastbound Bar & Grill, BBQ, Smoking Meat, Marinades, Burgers, Hot Sauce and Peppers (and Fish Heads), Plus the Power Team VS the Strength Team from 2014-03-14T21:48:42

Yummiest episode ever. We focused on our appetitie for Dude Food this show, talking cooking, eating, beer with food, smoking and barbecuing meats of every stripe.  Grow your own hot peppers? We ...

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12.21.13: Made in the USA, Duck Dynasty, Redneck+Truck, Porsches, Blues Brothers, Chicago History, Term Limits, Pajamification, and ReChristmasification from 2014-03-07T18:46:23

Proving that gearhead talk radio can mantain its balance when talking about politics, the Garage Hour combined both in this fine Made In the USA episode (now, with the latest technology!).  From...

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09.24.11 (Vintage Garage Hour): Silver State Cars, Big Red Camaro, Bilstein, Coronado Classics, Hiking In Iran, Stuxnet, Beer, Beer, Glow-In-The-Dark Cats, and Skynyrds Inyrds. from 2014-03-05T03:31:16

With killer Silver State flyby sounds (ever wonder what a big-block sounds like at 217?), this reloaded Garage Hour brings together two of our old-school cohosts, DoubleMint Cameron (now knows a...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
10.31.09 (Vintage Garage Hour): Halloween, Batmobile VS Ghostbusters Hearse VS Damnation Alley Thingy, Ferraris, Movies Not for Kids, Poison Ivy, Stephen King, Critical Mass and the Plague from 2014-03-05T00:17:10

From the Ghostbusters to the apocalypse, this is a Halloween Garage Hour that drives every stake home.  Admit it, you can hear the Ghostbusters' siren in your head right now...  In a rare case o...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.04.14: A Critique of New for 2014 Cars and Trucks, Loser Politics, Driving Gently, the Tijuana Effect, Shotguns for Marines, and a Serious Analysis of the Problems Facing Fallujah from 2014-03-01T01:25:33

Sometimes the Garage Hour is a real gem (and sometimes it's something else...). This episode is one of those gemlike objects.  .45 Phil and Mike the Mic join host Justin Fort to work over the 20...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.11.10: Vintage Garage Hour (w/ the Hoarsest Host), plus Railguns, Hydroshocks, Beetlejuice, Texas, Antigravity, Antimatter and Armored Vacuums from 2014-02-26T21:58:55

Ready for a 100%-random Garage Hour? This one's got it all - Buck Rogers, bullets, Beetlejuice, plus Texans declaring war (again?), the famous armored vacuum discussion, a how-to on heckling at ...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.11.14: A Preview of Manzanita Brewing's New Distillery, Plus Fallujah, Tequila, Shooting, Writing Checks, Ronald Reagan, Tires, San Diego Drivers, Suburbans, Superstition, Spirits, and Pawns VS Minions from 2014-02-25T08:59:29

Ahhhh, the Garage Hour.  We bring intriguing and offensive to a whole new level without upsetting the FCC.  Much.  On this epsiode, we chat up Jeff Trevaskis, head of Manzanita Brewing, about th...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.21.10: When Animals Attack the Garage Hour/Bears, Bulls and Sharks, Oh My (... Or Solutions to San Diego's Pig and Seal Infestations) plus Jeeps, Darwin and Chicks from Montreal. from 2014-02-20T09:50:21

Vintage Garage Hour right here - it's "When Animals Attack the Garage Hour".  If you hear about bears eating nature fans, bulls goring bullfight fans, sharks attacking boats, and you ask why the...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.15.14: Attacking Politicians, Making Friends in High Places, 2A vs. CA's 9th Court, UAW and VW vs. Its Employees, Not Hillary and Not Shooting Windmills from 2014-02-17T22:47:32

We get politics, politicians and political BS out of our systems on this episode of Hank Watson's Garage Hour, and yes, you want to listen. W...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
01.25.14: The Smog Guy Episode, Plus Old Trucks, Old Catalytics, Old Volvos, New Rock, Tactical Shooting, Camp 'Yota and Killing the Hostage Chicken from 2014-02-13T19:02

Do you have questions about passing smog?  Curious about how to make your hot rod/ricer/sled/trail rig/show car/commuter slug survive two more years in California's growing emisions police state...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.08.14: WRX and STi VS Evo, King of Hammers, SHOT Show, Deep Purple, Army VS Marines VS Navy VS Coasties, and 9mm VS .40 S&W. from 2014-02-10T09:31

Fastest Garage Hour podcast ever! We hit all the buttons on this mammoth show, with WRX and STi versus Evolution, all the fun stuff at this year's SHOT Show, all the things that are wrong with "...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.27.10: An Hour at the 'Port - the Garage Hour Live at Pizza Port's Belgian Beer Party. from 2014-02-08T21:37

Awesome retrosauce right here: it's the Garage Hour live with old-school cohosts at the Pizza Port's Belgian Beer Party in 2010.  We brought all of Hank Watson's killing power to the 'Port, with...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.24.13: the Detailing Episode, or How to Wash Your Sled; Plus Batman, Choppers, Bacon and the Death Star. from 2014-02-04T03:39

On this Garage Hour, the crew will tell you how to wash your cars.  There's a studio full of expertise, and we tap into Listen

Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.28.13: Marines, Trucks, Bullets, Off-Road Access and the Boys from RuckPack: Most Ruckable Garage Hour Ever from 2014-01-31T00:08

Oh dear.  Never has Hank Rotten's Garage Hour flipped the bird to the FCC more than on this episode, and you can thank the Marines. Joined in-studio by the folks from RuckPack - Oran "Turbo" Roo...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
02.13.10: All About DUIs and How the Cops Will Get You - It's the Garage Hour's DUI Special. from 2014-01-25T21:45

Cop tires, cop brakes, cop shocks, cop think, cop talk, plus it runs good on regular gas - this is the original Garage Hour DUI Special, in which host Justin Fort is joined by Mark McCullough of...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
08.31.13: Shotguns, Bad Traffic, Details of CA's Ridiculous Gun Bills, Back to the Future, and Old Rockers. from 2014-01-19T20:19

This Garage Hour has it all, most notably two hours, as well as cranes, bad traffic, shotguns, regular guns, muggers being beaten, Deadbolt, Ozzy and Metallica, fart jokes, terrorists, rugby, Ma...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
06.15.13 Garage Hour: Fast Guy Episode (w/ Skills!), Yawsport's Grand Opening, How to Kill It in Traffic (with Schnozzberries). from 2014-01-09T23:11

With the most unprofessional intros and outros known to big talk radio, this is Hank Watson's Garage Hour.  You're in for a treat with this one - it's the Fast Guy episode, with special Guest Br...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
03.09.13 Garage Hour: Trucks, Tanks, Indy, Gun Laws and ze Germans from 2013-12-18T00:29

Tune in for cars, trucks, beers and guns with test driver/road racer/radio host Justin Fort, who's got help this week from .45 Phil and Crag Maxwell as he whacks and bonks his way through hybrid...

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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers
12.22.11 Garage Hour: A Garage Hour Christmas 2011 from 2013-12-05T02:00

The Garage Hour goons join host Justin Fort to record their 2011 Christmas episode in Manzanita Brewing's tasting room.  Friends of the show and regular cohosts come along for the fun, including...

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