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
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
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. Because…
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
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. Because…
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 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 impa…
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 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 impa…
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
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 fart…
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
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 fart…
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
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 Amendm…
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
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 Amendm…
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
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 tell…
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
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 tell…
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
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 into th…
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
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 into th…
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
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 whole epi…
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
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 whole epi…
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
#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 that's…
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
#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 that's…
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
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 the s…
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
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 the s…
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
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 Distributing, an…
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
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 Distributing, an…