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
01.22.21 (MP3): More Beer, More Snow, More Skill! There's Also Dude Food (Wings & Goulash), Shrapnel Curtain (the C-Ram), Destroyers (Up-Gunned Arleigh Burkes), Deserts (the Cleve Nat & Corral Canyon), & Will Your Subaru Save You (Get Some Skill)
More good stuff! The Garage Hour does another snowy night episode in this one, but we tromped out into the storm to Trinity Brewing for fine sips with Mr. Three-Letter Agency himself ("Regular" Bill)…
01.22.21: More Beer, More Snow, More Skill! There's Also Dude Food (Wings), Shrapnel Curtain (the C-Ram), Destroyers (Up-Gunned Arleigh Burkes), Deserts (Cleve Nat & Corral Canyon), & Will Your Subaru Save You (Get Some Skill)
More good stuff! The Garage Hour does another snowy night episode in this one, but we tromped out into the storm to Trinity Brewing for fine sips with Mr. Three-Letter Agency himself ("Regular" Bill)…
01.21.21 (MP3): Shovels, Bulldozers, Plows & Beer? Night Shovelling VS Snowball Hunting, Being Nice to the Fuzz, Plastic VS Steel Snow Blades, Jaimz's Monster, + Giant Brain, Small Stone Records, Amon Tobin & Big Gov's Electric Car Wreck
When in Rome... The Garage Hour goons got stuck between an icicle and a snowball, and a show happened. How about the mechanics of hot-rod shovels (leading edge, baby!), bowling for rioters, upping …
01.21.21: Shovels, Bulldozers, Plows & Beer? Night Shovelling VS Snowball Hunting, Being Nice to the Fuzz, Plastic VS Steel Snow Blades, Jaimz's Monster, + Giant Brain, Small Stone Records, Amon Tobin & Big Gov's Electric Car Wreck
When in Rome... The Garage Hour goons got stuck between an icicle and a snowball, and a show happened. How about the mechanics of hot-rod shovels (leading edge, baby!), bowling for rioters, upping …
01.12.21 (MP3): Quality & Safety Matter! Reasons Not To Buy Chinese (Or Crappy) Parts, w/ Counterfeit Tires, Low-Flow Injectors, Fraudulent QC, (Intentionally) Defective Equipment & Disregard @ Life (Poison Dog Food, Anyone?), + Dumb Is Not an Excuse
Because gearheads care (here to help!): we've got some logic on why buying products from countries that don't respect intellectul property or design integrity (ahem, China's a nice example) can lead …
01.12.21: Quality & Safety Matter! Reasons Not To Buy Chinese (Or Crappy) Parts, w/ Counterfeit Tires, Low-Flow Injectors, Fraudulent QC, (Intentionally) Defective Equipment & Disregard @ Life (Poison Dog Food, Anyone?), + Dumb Is Not an Excuse
Because gearheads care (here to help!): we've got some logic on why buying products from countries that don't respect intellectul property or design integrity (ahem, China's a nice example) can lead …
01.10.21 (MP3): Braking Brakes Until They Break... Do You Brake Right? How to Avoid Potato-Chipped Rotors: Pre-Braking & the Cool Roll, Brakes on Fire & Overheating, Disc & Rotor Physics, @ Uberlate Garage Hour w/ Fluke & Flying Lotus
You may think you drive well (be honest), but do you brake properly? So many brake problems - the Garage Hour has your answers (plus more questions): Heel or toe? Slotted or drilled? OE or afterm…
01.10.21: Braking Brakes Until They Break... Do You Brake Right? How to Avoid Potato-Chipped Rotors: Pre-Braking & the Cool Roll, Brakes on Fire & Overheating, Disc & Rotor Physics, @ Uberlate Garage Hour w/ Fluke & Flying Lotus
You may think you drive well (be honest), but do you brake properly? So many brake problems - the Garage Hour has your answers (plus more questions): Heel or toe? Slotted or drilled? OE or afterm…
01.02.21 (MP3): Successful Cerakoting & Broken BCGs w/ F:30, Including Tricks for Proper Coatings, Green-Tip Secrets (& Fraud!), Popped Gas Keys, Governor Recall, + the Necessity of Good Quality Control
Candy-coated Garage Hour right here, starring Green Tip and Pepe/Frank/Derailment Monster at Freedom:30 - everything from old 870s to new bolt-carrier groups, including what coatings are the best and…
01.02.21: Successful Cerakoting & Broken BCGs w/ F:30, Including Tricks for Proper Coatings, Green-Tip Secrets (& Fraud!), Popped Gas Keys, Governor Recall, + the Necessity of Good Quality Control
Candy-coated Garage Hour right here, starring Green Tip and Pepe/Frank/Derailment Monster at Freedom:30 - everything from old 870s to new bolt-carrier groups, including what coatings are the best and…
12.28.20 (MP3): Dead of Winter/Chicagoland Border Hell In-Garage Party... 4Runner VS Jeep, Porsche VS Their Owners, Traffic VS Chinese Bat Plague, Taking It Apart VS Putting It Together, + Hoff Brau, Lagunitas, Fortissimo, Fortification & Fortnite
"Is something wrong, or are you a Jeeper?" It's to the credit of the Garage Hour's fistfulls of gravity that we can sit down in a garage cold enough to hang meat with two rookie cohosts and still cr…
12.28.20: Dead of Winter/Chicagoland Border Hell In-Garage Party... 4Runner VS Jeep, Porsche VS Their Owners, Traffic VS Chinese Bat Plague, Taking It Apart VS Putting It Together, + Hoff Brau, Lagunitas, Fortissimo, Fortification & Fortnite
"Is something wrong, or are you a Jeeper?" It's to the credit of the Garage Hour's fistfulls of gravity that we can sit down in a garage cold enough to hang meat with two rookie cohosts and still cr…
12.21.20 (MP3): Cross-Country Super Duty (Thoughts From the Road) - MPH Conundrums, Overnight Road-Tripping (& Headlight Upgrades), Traffic Mechanisms & Driver Analysis (w/ Self-Passive Aggressivism & Self-Clotting Clots), + Dude Food & Rock (w/ Roll)
Hostus Maximus Justin Fort uncorks a killer road-trip examination of other drivers and what's wrong with them from the cab of his Powerstroked Super Duty. 100% note-free and completely unhinged, thi…
12.21.20: Cross-Country Super Duty (Thoughts From the Road) - MPH Conundrums, Overnight Road-Tripping (& Headlight Upgrades), Traffic Mechanisms & Driver Analysis (w/ Self-Passive Aggressivism & Self-Clotting Clots), + Dude Food & Rock (w/ Roll)
Hostus Maximus Justin Fort uncorks a killer road-trip examination of other drivers and what's wrong with them from the cab of his Powerstroked Super Duty. 100% note-free and completely unhinged, thi…
12.12.20 (MP3): Some Sort of Winter Detailing Special (#BecauseSlush) - Dirt Has Friends & More Isn't Better, Protect Pretty w/ Off-Season Care, How to Use Coin-Op Wash, + Freeway Fun in Your L.A. Phase (Los Feliz!), Failure, Trinity DDH-45 & Slaughtercat
Why yes, we digress. It's in there (this time - we promise) with everything from a murderous feline to tow truck technique, plus seasons in Chicago, the 2020 Egg Nog GP, and Ken Andrews of the band …
12.12.20: Some Sort of Winter Detailing Special (#BecauseSlush) - Dirt Has Friends & More Isn't Better, Protect Pretty w/ Off-Season Care, How to Use Coin-Op Washes, + Freeway Fun in Your L.A. Phase (Los Feliz!), Failure, Trinity's DDH-45 & Slaughtercat
Why yes, we digress. It's in there (this time - we promise) with everything from a murderous feline to tow truck technique, plus seasons in Chicago, the 2020 Egg Nog GP, and Ken Andrews of the band …
12.02.20 (MP3): Gifts for Gearheads (& Geeks Too) - Good Ideas for X-Mas Gifting, w/ Tool Rules, One-Time VS One-Use, Valuable (& Bulk) Substances, Gifts that Enable Skills & Technique, Best Gearhead Retailers, + Fatso Jetson & Dead Guy Ale
Don't ruin the giving season with gift cards and missed targets. You can pimp your geek-power by thinking up ideal presents for all the aspiring gearheads on your list (and elevate your satisfaction…
12.02.20: Gifts for Gearheads (& Geeks Too) - Good Ideas for X-Mas Gifting, w/ Tool Rules, One-Time VS One-Use, Valuable (& Bulk) Substances, Gifts that Enable Skills & Technique, Best Gearhead Retailers, + Fatso Jetson & Dead Guy Ale
Don't ruin the giving season with gift cards and missed targets. You can pimp your geek-power by thinking up ideal presents for all the aspiring gearheads on your list (and elevate your satisfaction…
12.01.20 (MP3): Question Everything, Including Masks! Reward Your Skepticism & Feed the Gearhead Brain - What Works? Leadership VS Lockdowns? Hypocrites & Hysteria? Exposed VS Dead? + Monolord, Faust & Shortee, Folk Implosion
Scratch that itch - what's that line from Dirty Harry? "I gots to know!" The Gearhead Consultancy is fueled by the geek brain, always connecting the dots, pulling the threads, and more often than no…
12.01.20: Question Everything, Including Masks! Reward Your Skepticism & Feed the Gearhead Brain - What Works? Leadership VS Lockdowns? Hypocrites & Hysteria? Exposed VS Dead? + Monolord, Faust & Shortee, Folk Implosion
Scratch that itch - what's that line from Dirty Harry? "I gots to know!" The Gearhead Consultancy is fueled by the geek brain, always connecting the dots, pulling the threads, and more often than no…