Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
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.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 819
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
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
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, fer shu…
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
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, fer shu…
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
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 right…
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
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 right…
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
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 drop…
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
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 drop…
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
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 it's a…
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
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 it's a…
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)
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 laureates who…
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)
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 laureates who…
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
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 think we…
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
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 think we…
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
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-turn-…
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
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-turn-…
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
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 intersections t…
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
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 intersections t…
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?
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, bungees …
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?
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, bungees …
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
(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. In …
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
(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. In …