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
03.12.21 (MP3): Gearhead News! Ford Exploits Joe Basement's Leadership Gap, Exploding Jeep Wranglers in Tow & Crashing Rich Guys in NY, Don't Let Your Wife Park the Tank, USA on Mars & Repo in Space, + Breweries VS Bureaucracy (& Tiny Tyrants)
It's gearhead news from the Garage Hour: stuff goin' on that you ought to know.
- Ford ships a $900,000,000 plant to Mexico after promising its workers it would be in Ohio.
- How leaving your $60,000…
03.12.21: Gearhead News! Ford Exploits Joe Basement's Leadership Gap, Exploding Jeep Wranglers in Tow & Crashing Rich Guys in NY, Don't Let Your Wife Park the Tank, USA on Mars & Repo in Space, + Breweries VS Bureaucracy (& Tiny Tyrants)
It's gearhead news from the Garage Hour: stuff goin' on that you ought to know.
- Ford ships a $900,000,000 plant to Mexico after promising its workers it would be in Ohio.
- How leaving your $60,000…
03.09.21 (MP3): Unintentional Flamethrower & Sawzall Fix-Alls @Location B(eer) -Because Snowpacolypse- w/ Fine Sips, Lower Bushings (Just Add Fire), Traction Control VS Physics (Physics is Gonna Happen), Fletcher Hills Plane Crash +Cold-Weather Dude Food
Don't start drinking too beforehand. In this selection of random consulting, the Garage Hour does sawzalls (sorry, reciProcating saws) and blowtorches, a review of butane VS MAPP, the false sense of…
03.09.21: Unintentional Flamethrowers & Sawzall Fix-Alls @ Location B(eer) - Because Snowpacolypse - w/ Fine Sips, Lower Bushings (Just Add Fire), Traction Control VS Physics (Physics is Gonna Happen), Fletcher Hills Plane Crash, + Cold-Weather Dude Food
Don't start drinking too beforehand. In this selection of random consulting, the Garage Hour does sawzalls (sorry, reciProcating saws) and blowtorches, a review of butane VS MAPP, the false sense of…
03.06.21 (MP3): Gearhead News - Anti-2A Biz List, Defending the Second VS the Usual (Racist, Elitist & Sexist) Suspects, States Like Montana, Missouri, Utah & W. Virginia VS Statists, Burgess Owens Speaks & Herschel Walker Seeks, + Tale of Two Washingtons
The Garage Hour goons have Second Amendment news you ought'a know:
- Is gun control code for people control?
- A list of companies that use the money you pay them to attack the 2A (some you might kno…
03.06.21: Gearhead News - Anti-2A Biz List, Defending the Second VS the Usual (Racist, Elitist & Sexist) Suspects, States Like Montana, Missouri, Utah & W. Virginia VS the Statists, Burgess Owens Speaks & Herschel Walker Seeks, + a Tale of Two Washingtons
The Garage Hour goons have Second Amendment news you ought'a know:
- Is gun control code for people control?
- A list of companies that use the money you pay them to attack the 2A (some you might kno…
03.03.21 (MP3): Gearhead Awesomepile - Prepping the Sled For Spring, Pegboard VS Toolbox (& Is Pegboard for Poseurs?), Chic your Geek (Because Project Season), Disarming New Jersey, + "Ride Clear of Diablo" & the Good Bad Guy
Jeez - this episode is all over the place. From Led Zeppelin VS Southern Culture on the Skids to Ray's blimp-bomb over Akron, you're not going to be able to find your seat. We couldn't even find th…
03.03.21: Gearhead Awesomepile - Prepping the Sled For Spring, Pegboard VS Toolbox (& Is Pegboard for Poseurs?), Chic your Geek (Because Project Season), Disarming New Jersey, + "Ride Clear of Diablo" & the Good Bad Guy
Jeez - this episode is all over the place. From Led Zeppelin VS Southern Culture on the Skids to Ray's blimp-bomb over Akron, you're not going to be able to find your seat. We couldn't even find th…
02.22.21 (MP3): Gearhead News - Don't Hold Your Breath for Electric Mail Trucks, Self-Disassembling Broncos (& the Corporatethink At Fault), Ford VS the NRA, F-35 VS F-16 VS F-15 VS A-10, Imagine a 2000-Year Old Car, + Bye Bye Fry's
Gearhead News #2: you ought'a know this.
- The gov't wants to waste more of your money on the barely solvent USPS with electric mail vans (because windmills worked out so well).
- Ford's new Broncos …
02.22.21: Gearhead News - Don't Hold Your Breath for Electric Mail Trucks, Self-Disassembling Broncos (& the Corporatethink At Fault), Ford VS the NRA, F-35 VS F-16 VS F-15 VS A-10, Imagine a 2000-Year Old Car, + Bye Bye Fry's
Gearhead News #2: you ought'a know this.
- The gov't wants to waste more of your money on the barely solvent USPS with electric mail vans (because windmills worked out so well).
- Ford's new Broncos …
02.02.21 (MP3): Towing Something? It's a Skill-Set Thing! Gearhead Guidance on Trucks, Trailers & Tires, Complicated VS Hard, Wood VS Aluminum, Years VS Miles, Friends Who Know Tows, + How Many Balls Do You Have?
Forgot we did this one... Garage Hour goons do lots of towing, and there's some easy to-dos that'll get it done. From truck and trailer to balls and hitches, there's tricks and technique that you m…
02.02.21: Towing Something? It's a Skill-Set Thing! Gearhead Guidance on Trucks, Trailers & Tires, Complicated VS Hard, Wood VS Aluminum, Years VS Miles, Friends Who Know Tows, + How Many Balls Do You Have?
Forgot we did this one... Garage Hour goons do lots of towing, and there's some easy to-dos that'll get it done. From truck and trailer to balls and hitches, there's tricks and technique that you m…
02.20.21 (MP3): Gearhead News: New F1 VS Old F1, USPS's Mutant Cartoon Trucks, Roush Pretends Racing Gives a Hoot, Springsteen Elites Away a DUI, Tiger Crashes a Wagon, & JD Power's New-Car Ratings, + Old Beer, Nice FJ Guys in TX, & Ethanol VS Dinner
Why not? The Garage Hour goons usually focus on one topic (before veering off), but tonight, it's a weekly look at gearhead news. J.D. Power's reliability ratings (Lexus and Porsche at the top, Chry…
02.20.21: Gearhead News: New F1 VS Old F1, USPS's Mutant Cartoon Trucks, Roush Pretends Racing Gives a Hoot, Springsteen Elites Away a DUI, Tiger Crashes a Wagon, & JD Power's New-Car Ratings, + Old Beer, Nice FJ Guys in TX, & Ethanol VS Dinner
Why not? The Garage Hour goons usually focus on one topic (before veering off), but tonight, it's a weekly look at gearhead news. J.D. Power's reliability ratings (Lexus and Porsche at the top, Chry…
02.10.21 (MP3): Freakin' Frozen Garage Hour (Escape to Trinity) - Car Batteries in Winter, Saving Neighbors, Gates Gloves VS 18 Below, Heating w/ Waste Oil, the Return of the Subie Bubble, + JB Quick, Great Stuff, Gatling Guns & Custom Plaster
It was so damn cold we couldn't stay home. The Garage Hour goons gathered at Trinity for sips of Idaho 7 Pale, Soul Horkey and Slap Yer Mammy, then tried to keep warm over topics like how batteries …
02.10.21: Freakin' Frozen Garage Hour (Escape to Trinity) - Car Batteries in Winter, Saving Neighbors, Gates Gloves VS 18 Below, Heating w/ Waste Oil, the Return of the Subie Bubble, + JB Quick, Great Stuff, Gatling Guns & Custom Plaster
It was so damn cold we couldn't stay home. The Garage Hour goons gathered at Trinity for sips of Idaho 7 Pale, Soul Horkey and Slap Yer Mammy, then tried to keep warm over topics like how batteries …
02.01.21 (MP3): Road Trip to a Texas Garage - Dude Food (Beer, Bourbon & Brats), Summer Four-Wheeling (Toyota VS Jeep), Eating What You Killed (Deer Helper?), Dogs Worth Keeping, + Beers @ Edgewise Eight & Robert Johnson
Whether you like longhorns in the backyard or hounds in the garage, the Garage Hour went down to Texas and gearhead radio happened. We filled airtime with music - so much blues and country - and sto…
02.01.21: Road Trip to a Texas Garage - Dude Food (Beer, Bourbon & Brats), Summer Four-Wheeling (Toyota VS Jeep), Eating What You Killed (Deer Helper?), Dogs Worth Keeping, + Beers @ Edgewise Eight & Robert Johnson
Whether you like longhorns in the backyard or hounds in the garage, the Garage Hour went down to Texas and gearhead radio happened. We filled airtime with music - so much blues and country - and sto…
02.12.21 (MP3): Tex Wrecks (the Ft. Worth Pileup) & Denver's Subaru Bubble, & Why Electric Cars Aren't Happening (But Will Still Cost You Billions) - Corporate & Bureaucrat Virtue-Signalling, GM's Parlour Commies, Crony Capitalism & Hybrid Recidivism
Taxpayers beware. We're warning you - when ignorant bureaucrats and isolated executives start talking about how they're going to save you, it's time to revolt (hah! electric car pun...). There are l…
02.12.21: Tex Wrecks (the Ft. Worth Pileup) & Denver's Subaru Bubble, & Why Electric Cars Aren't Happening (But Will Still Cost You Billions) - Corporate & Bureaucrat Virtue-Signalling, GM's Parlour Commies, Crony Capitalism & Hybrid Recidivism
Taxpayers beware. We're warning you - when ignorant bureaucrats and isolated executives start talking about how they're going to save you, it's time to revolt (hah! electric car pun...). There are l…