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
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
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 buildin…
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
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 buildin…
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
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, the L…
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
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, the L…
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
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 Camino,…
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
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 Camino,…
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
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 "lead…
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
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 "lead…
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
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 wrenc…
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
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 wrenc…
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
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 take no…
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
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 take no…
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
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 consultancy'…
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
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 consultancy'…
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)
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 neighbor a …
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)
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 neighbor a …
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
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 he res…
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
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 he res…
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
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 are …
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
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 are …