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
11.22.24 (MP3): Why Not Wrenching While Drinking? Bourbon & Brakes & Reversed Correctness, the Vulcan Mechanics Trick (If Hours Were Days...), Pickup Sound & Fury w/ Dodge 5.9 RTs & Blown (Up) Lightnings, Tin-Foil Bumpers, & Pre-Crashing In the Snow
If you want to celebrate your mechanical success before you've succeeded, don't expect much success - Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and Ryan the BMWery Guy test their livers with a debate of all the exc…
11.22.24: Why Not Wrenching While Drinking? Bourbon & Brakes & Reversed Correctness, the Vulcan Mechanics Trick (If Hours Were Days...), Pickup Sound & Fury w/ Dodge 5.9 RTs & Blown (Up) Lightnings, Tin-Foil Bumpers, & Pre-Crashing In the Snow
If you want to celebrate your mechanical success before you've succeeded, don't expect much success - Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and Ryan the BMWery Guy test their livers with a debate of all the exc…
12.22.24 (MP3): Pre-XMas Think-Piece, w/ Tesla TPMS Recall (or Skillset Fail?), Street Takeover Fight VS Flight, USPS Electric Truck Choke, Murder Hornet VS Desert Helicopter Wasp, & an Excellent Weirdo R.I.P. for Jean Lindamood/Jennings
Well, it's that time of year - time for the Garage Hour to cram the episode full of silly holiday fun and outros. How about some good gearhead up-to-stuffs while we're at it? Tesla is facing anothe…
12.22.24: Pre-XMas Think-Piece, w/ Tesla TPMS Recall (or Skillset Fail?), Street Takeover Fight VS Flight, USPS Electric Truck Choke, Murder Hornet VS Desert Helicopter Wasp, & an Excellent Weirdo R.I.P. for Jean Lindamood/Jennings
Well, it's that time of year - time for the Garage Hour to cram the episode full of silly holiday fun and outros. How about some good gearhead up-to-stuffs while we're at it? Tesla is facing anothe…
10.12.24 (MP3): Right Rubber for Snow! What Tire Is Better for Getting Where You're Snowing (& Amplifies Your Skillset), Size & Compounds & Compromises That Won't Kill You, + Locomotives Are Heavy, & Is That Guy Following You?
This episode's got all sorts of trafficky truckin' road-interface goodness to assist you in your daily gearhead existence, but it's mostly about how to understand your tires and what's right when the…
10.12.24: Right Rubber for Snow! What Tire Is Better for Getting Where You're Snowing (& Amplifies Your Skillset), Size & Compounds & Compromises That Won't Kill You, + Locomotives Are Heavy, & Is That Guy Following You?
This episode's got all sorts of trafficky truckin' road-interface goodness to assist you in your daily gearhead existence, but it's mostly about how to understand your tires and what's right when the…
09.23.24 (MP3): Knee-Voltage of Your Own Competence - It's the Lack-of-Skills Special (Every Day's an IQ Test!), w/ The Carl on the Phone, Distracted Driving, Being Your 100&%, + Chainsaws, Kyuss, Marylin Manson & Cutlass Burnouts
It's tired and we're late. No, wait a minute... Okay, that's right. There's much afoot at the Circle J, and the Garage Hour goons have another insightful batch of geekbrain excellence for you: the…
09.23.24: Knee-Voltage of Your Own Competence - It's the Lack-of-Skills Special (Every Day's an IQ Test!), w/ The Carl on the Phone, Distracted Driving, Being Your 100&%, + Chainsaws, Kyuss, Marylin Manson & Cutlass Burnouts
It's tired and we're late. No, wait a minute... Okay, that's right. There's much afoot at the Circle J, and the Garage Hour goons have another insightful batch of geekbrain excellence for you: the…
11.15.24 (MP3): Grenadiers VS Rocks, Automotive Industry (+ Hobbies & Geek Enthusiasm) VS New Jack President, Bad Bureaucrats Go Bye Bye, Building Bullets in the Basement, Why AI Can't Stop Lying, & Dude Food Does Ribs & Rubs
It's one of those episodes that seemed totally disjointed but turned out GREAT (kind'a like good ribs)... White Mark the Diversity Hire had Hostus Maximus Justin Fort down to his dungeon for some 6.5…
11.15.24: Grenadiers VS Rocks, Automotive Industry (+ Hobbies & Geek Enthusiasm) VS New Jack President, Bad Bureaucrats Go Bye Bye, Building Bullets in the Basement, Why AI Can't Stop Lying, & Dude Food Does Ribs & Rubs
It's one of those episodes that seemed totally disjointed but turned out GREAT (kind'a like good ribs)... White Mark the Diversity Hire had Hostus Maximus Justin Fort down to his dungeon for some 6.5…
09.13.24 (MP3): Gearhead Skills & Advanced Capabilities (Sharpening the Human), w/ Downhill Bumper Drag & Plowing Technique, Owning Your Tools to Amplify the You, + Seeking the Skillset Moment (w/ Chainsawing, Carpenting to Hydrometering)
You know what to do, so do it! It's all about the skillset today: remember to smile when you pull a fast one (or a perfect one), because that's the sort of geeksauce that makes life worth doin'. Di…
09.13.24: Gearhead Skills & Advanced Capabilities (Sharpening the Human), w/ Downhill Bumper Drag & Plowing Technique, Owning Your Tools to Amplify the You, + Seeking the Skillset Moment (w/ Chainsawing, Carpenting to Hydrometering)
You know what to do, so do it! It's all about the skillset today: remember to smile when you pull a fast one (or a perfect one), because that's the sort of geeksauce that makes life worth doin'. Di…
11.05.24 (MP3): No Election Nuthin'! Gearhead Escapism w/ a Tesla Graveyard, Ford's Bad Hair Day, Exploding Satellites, Spying Roombas, Chrysler Quits Itself, Chinese Electrics, Ford & Deere & Harley & Boeing Kill DIE, & When the Fire Dept. Burns Down
Alright, so there are a few things on your plate today that may involve the fate of America, but the Garage Hour is nothing if not distracting (with all the cars, trucks, beers, guns, parts, fixing, …
11.05.24: No Election Nuthin'! Gearhead Escapism w/ a Tesla Graveyard, Ford's Bad Hair Day, Exploding Satellites, Spying Roombas, Chrysler Quits Itself, Chinese Electrics, Ford & Deere & Harley & Boeing Kill DIE, & When the Fire Dept. Burns Down
Alright, so there are a few things on your plate today that may involve the fate of America, but the Garage Hour is nothing if not distracting (with all the cars, trucks, beers, guns, parts, fixing, …
09.03.24 (MP3): A Student of Traffic & Roadway Ruminations - Confident Maneuvers, Broken Windows for Motorists, Analyzing "The Pulse", Learning to Live in Space (Cushion), & the Risk of Vehicular Isolation, + Broken Drop Links & Better Alignment
We'll trade you a four-pound sledge and a twitchy STi for the time to get more episodes published... This one's full of traffic thinking, with a knobby-tired look at why good alignment matters (and …
09.03.24: A Student of Traffic & Roadway Ruminations - Confident Maneuvers, Broken Windows for Motorists, Analyzing "The Pulse", Learning to Live in Space (Cushion), & the Risk of Vehicular Isolation, + Broken Drop Links & Better Alignment
We'll trade you a four-pound sledge and a twitchy STi for the time to get more episodes published... This one's full of traffic thinking, with a knobby-tired look at why good alignment matters (and …
08.28.24 (MP3): When Animals Attack Garage Hour Fans, Recalls & More Recalls (Valves Fail, Brake Fluid Lights, Tow Hitches Fall Off), Exploding Deathbatteries, Bombs in Holes, Dewalt's DEI Fallapart, & Boar's Head Liverwurst
...A data-heavy slacker-upload episode for you - too much to do, so go do it. We did: wrasslin' animals and eating' bears, recalling Fords and Fords and DEIs and Toyotas and Fords and GMs and pickups…
08.28.24: When Animals Attack Garage Hour Fans, Recalls & More Recalls (Valves Fail, Brake Fluid Lights, Tow Hitches Fall Off), Exploding Deathbatteries, Bombs in Holes, Dewalt's DEI Fallapart, & Boar's Head Liverwurst
...A data-heavy slacker-upload episode for you - too much to do, so go do it. We did: wrasslin' animals and eating' bears, recalling Fords and Fords and DEIs and Toyotas and Fords and GMs and pickups…
08.14.24 (MP3): Detail (for Sale) & Car Care Tricks, Incl. Dashboard Chemicals & Seat Cleaning (w/ Craig the Detailer), Also, Knock-Off Chinese Taillights, Dreaded P0420 VS Out-of-State Catalytics, Puffy Jackets & GTI Guys (WTF, You), + A NYC Parking Fail
Be the geek and improve the you: the Garage Hour is here to help (everybody, apparently)... The lovely Pam called needing info on detailing a dashboard and cleaning seat fabric, so the Gearhead Consu…
08.14.24: Detail (for Sale) & Car Care Tricks, Incl. Dashboard Chemicals & Seat Cleaning (w/ Craig the Detailer), Also, Knock-Off Chinese Taillights, Dreaded P0420 VS Out-of-State Catalytics, Puffy Jackets & GTI Guys (WTF, You), + A NYC Parking Fail
Be the geek and improve the you: the Garage Hour is here to help (everybody, apparently)... The lovely Pam called needing info on detailing a dashboard and cleaning seat fabric, so the Gearhead Consu…