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
05.20.22 (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
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 though…
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
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 though…
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)
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 thwart…
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)
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 thwart…
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
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 sector (so…
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
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 sector (so…
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
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 half…
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
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 half…
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
...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 now-d…
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
...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 now-d…
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
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, sloppy S…
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
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, sloppy S…
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
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..." Wh…
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
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..." Wh…
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
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 auto par…
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
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 auto par…
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)
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 (and wh…
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)
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 (and wh…
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!)
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 perfor…
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!)
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 perfor…