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
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
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 down th…
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
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 down th…
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
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 (rep…
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
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 (rep…
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)
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 Kaliforni…
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)
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 Kaliforni…
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
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 what…
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
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 what…
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)
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 overdo: wh…
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)
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 overdo: wh…
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
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.
Racecar: Mustang, Camaro, Bronco, Wolf, 911, Cayman GT4, E…
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
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.
Racecar: Mustang, Camaro, Bronco, Wolf, 911, Cayman GT4, E…
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
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 Caterpillar. .…
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
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 Caterpillar. .…
06.16.22 (MP3): Litter Is Still Bad (Give a Hoot & Don't Be A Jerk); Garage Hour Chats w/ Focus on the Forest About Cleaning Your Camp & Getting Your Garbage, w/ Who Picks Up the Best, the Sawzall Solution, The Compactor Experiment, & How To Help
Our friends at Focus on the Forest have built a grassroots non-profit that picks up trash just like we all should, and because the Garage Hour runs what we brung and hauls what we brought, we got tog…
06.16.22: Litter Is Still Bad (Give a Hoot & Don't Be A Jerk); Garage Hour Chats w/ Focus on the Forest About Cleaning Your Camp & Getting Your Garbage, w/ Who Picks Up the Best, the Sawzall Solution, The Compactor Experiment, & How To Help
Our friends at Focus on the Forest have built a grassroots non-profit that picks up trash just like we all should, and because the Garage Hour runs what we brung and hauls what we brought, we got tog…
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)
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 and st…
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)
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 and st…
05.30.22 (MP3): Doing Memorial Day the Right Way (and Why), w/ Some Gearheaded Distractions: the Return of the Sub-$G Commuter (and How), Russians VS Space Stations (& Tesla Guy's Space Taxi), Israel VS Everyone (Lasers!), + Sesame Street VS The Muppets
...Because there's still squads of peoplelike objects shambling the streets who think Memorial Day is National Uncover the Pool Day or Barbecue Day, the Gearhead Consultancy is here to unconfuse you …
05.30.22: Doing Memorial Day the Right Way (and Why), w/ Some Gearheaded Distractions: the Return of the Sub-$G Commuter (and How), Russians VS Space Stations (& Tesla Guy's Space Taxi), Israel VS Everyone (Lasers!), + Sesame Street VS The Muppets
...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 you …