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Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Hosted by Justin Fort · EN
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.
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06.26.26 (MP3): When DO Animals Attack the Garage Hour? More Hype but Same Man-Eating... Bullets for Bears, Wandering Wolves & Bad Bureaucrats, Fighting & Fleeing for Humans (Even the Dumb Ones), + Citizen Vigilante, Stereo Connectivity & Electric Wizard
1w ago01:02:22Tap to summarizeHere's the top line (up front, for once...): bears and wolves and meese and bees and pigs and all sorts of wildlife attack humans - you're on their menu. If you're prepared - right caliber, correct mindset, and knowing we're superior because of our brains and our tools (not our claws or our ability to rip a Honda apart with our teeth), you'll be fine. However, so many people are wandering into the woods without a whiff of sense or any serious prep, and they're gonna get et. Don't be an idiot (or a fool) and revel in the opportunity to survive in style. Probablmaybe. In the mean time, have fun stocking up on nasty bear rounds and pig-hunting techniques, train the dogs, hide the kids, learn to play dead and keep avoiding Canadians. While we're at it: a Mexican Batman (taping thieves to lamp posts), an American citizen (Vigilante), some sporty stereo wiring (HDMI and S-video and RG-59, oh my), plus a truckload of mama's Electric Wizard.
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06.26.26: When DO Animals Attack the Garage Hour? More Hype but Same Man-Eating... Bullets for Bears, Wandering Wolves & Bad Bureaucrats, Fighting & Fleeing for Humans (Even the Dumb Ones), + Citizen Vigilante, Stereo Connectivity & Electric Wizard
1w ago01:02:22Tap to summarizeHere's the top line (up front, for once...): bears and wolves and meese and bees and pigs and all sorts of wildlife attack humans - you're on their menu. If you're prepared - right caliber, correct mindset, and knowing we're superior because of our brains and our tools (not our claws or our ability to rip a Honda apart with our teeth), you'll be fine. However, so many people are wandering into the woods without a whiff of sense or any serious prep, and they're gonna get et. Don't be an idiot (or a fool) and revel in the opportunity to survive in style. Probablmaybe. In the mean time, have fun stocking up on nasty bear rounds and pig-hunting techniques, train the dogs, hide the kids, learn to play dead and keep avoiding Canadians. While we're at it: a Mexican Batman (taping thieves to lamp posts), an American citizen (Vigilante), some sporty stereo wiring (HDMI and S-video and RG-59, oh my), plus a truckload of mama's Electric Wizard.
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06.22.26 (MP3): Are Robot Cars Free Doom? Flying Teslas Kill Grandma (Who's First?), Drones Hunt Their Pilot (& Skeet w/ Prizes), Waymo Taxis Get Attacky (& Thousands Recalled), Construction Workers (on Robot Menu), Robot Weapons (Case in Point), + Snail
2w ago01:02:02Tap to summarizeTech... is still not on your side - from the Garage Hour to God's ears. Gearheads and geeks are here to help, though, reporting on the disturbing increase in incidents the are either blamed on artificial idiocy or the result of it. From thousands of robot cars ala Waymo and friends with "software issues" that cause them to hit construction zones at freeway speed (and hit semis, and hit SWAT standoffs, and hit your neighborhood like a swarm of locusts), to flying Teslas that hit your grandma's house doing 70mph. ...Mayyyyybe there's a little too much permission and a lot too much of tech companies beta testing their poorly guided cruise missiles on the same street your kids are throwing the frisbee on (poorly, I might add - tell them to use more wrist). Join us in being wayyy more worried about these stupid-intelligent amoral arguments against progress - nobody wants an omelette when the eggs they break are you. ...And when your accident may be intentional, we've got a shout out for the crowd at Cove Creek this PPIHC just past, a look at what a good marine does when some local crooks try to steal his truck, and a metric crapton of killer doom-blues from Snail.
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06.22.26: Are Robot Cars Free Doom? Flying Teslas Kill Grandma (Who's First?), Drones Hunt Their Pilot (& Skeet w/ Prizes), Waymo Taxis Get Attacky (& Thousands Recalled), Construction Workers (on Robot Menu), Robot Weapons (Case in Point), + Snail
2w ago01:02:02Tap to summarizeTech... is still not on your side - from the Garage Hour to God's ears. Gearheads and geeks are here to help, though, reporting on the disturbing increase in incidents the are either blamed on artificial idiocy or the result of it. From thousands of robot cars ala Waymo and friends with "software issues" that cause them to hit construction zones at freeway speed (and hit semis, and hit SWAT standoffs, and hit your neighborhood like a swarm of locusts), to flying Teslas that hit your grandma's house doing 70mph. ...Mayyyyybe there's a little too much permission and a lot too much of tech companies beta testing their poorly guided cruise missiles on the same street your kids are throwing the frisbee on (poorly, I might add - tell them to use more wrist). Join us in being wayyy more worried about these stupid-intelligent amoral arguments against progress - nobody wants an omelette when the eggs they break are you. ...And when your accident may be intentional, we've got a shout out for the crowd at Cove Creek this PPIHC just past, a look at what a good marine does when some local crooks try to steal his truck, and a metric crapton of killer doom-blues from Snail.
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06.12.26 (MP3): Road-Racing & Hillclimbing (Bigs @ Europe & America) - Pike's Peak Intl. & 24 Hours of LeMans, w/ The Drivers, Cars, Some Classes & Some Details, Rules VS Racing, + Another Electric Car Explodey Battery Recall & Z-Trip
Jun 1400:57:48Tap to summarizeRacing, racing, everywhere, but not a drop left to spend because it's a great way to make a small fortune (out of a big one)... We've got a pile of left-right road-racey sticky tire preambling from some of the most legendary automotive races in the world (until we start racing spaceships) - the 24 Hours of LeMans is on right now, and the Pike's Peak International Hillclimb comes up next weekend. We've even got a look forward at some good racing happening down under (once it cools off a little) at the Lemans-On-A-Mountain known as Bathurst, and Targa Tasmania, which races on a whole island. While you're in there, take a gander at another electric car recall because of minivan batteries that like to catch fire when being charged (nice work, Chrysler), and at the request of the Baron, rolling nothing but Z-Trip tracks and turntable behavior in the background.
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06.12.26: Road-Racing & Hillclimbing (Bigs @ Europe & America) - Pike's Peak Intl. & 24 Hours of LeMans, w/ The Drivers, Cars, Some Classes & Some Details, Rules VS Racing, + Another Electric Car Explodey Battery Recall & Z-Trip
Jun 1400:57:48Tap to summarizeRacing, racing, everywhere, but not a drop left to spend because it's a great way to make a small fortune (out of a big one)... We've got a pile of left-right road-racey sticky tire preambling from some of the most legendary automotive races in the world (until we start racing spaceships) - the 24 Hours of LeMans is on right now, and the Pike's Peak International Hillclimb comes up next weekend. We've even got a look forward at some good racing happening down under (once it cools off a little) at the Lemans-On-A-Mountain known as Bathurst, and Targa Tasmania, which races on a whole island. While you're in there, take a gander at another electric car recall because of minivan batteries that like to catch fire when being charged (nice work, Chrysler), and at the request of the Baron, rolling nothing but Z-Trip tracks and turntable behavior in the background.
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06.02.26 (MP3): Gearhead Awesomepile! Seatbelts VS Physics, Tank-Dozer VS Local Gov't, Ferrari VS Attractiveness, Audiot VS Golf Kart, Porsche Week VS Black Paint Month, 787 VS Gravity, Poop VS Mailbox, + Angry Midgets, Vaughn's Finger & The Professors
Jun 1201:01:11Tap to summarizeFirst, let's get this clear - typing with a smashed finger is hard. On the plus side, it's not Vaughn's finger, which is now missing (keep your hands inside the truck on-trail). Another warning: seatbelts are good (especially when Audiots are known to be in the area). This episode's one of those gearhead-sink specials, where everything is interesting and there's too much geek goodness for one (Garage) hour. We've got black paint on Scott's 911 and Ryan's B6, black music (does Black Sabbath quality?), Ferrari missing the electric-car boat in the most expensive (and ugliest) way possible (...introducing the Ferrari Aztek!), a fix for politicians who missed the Freedom Train and were trying to put spyware in new cars (can't flee the mutant eskimo polar deer monsters if the car won't start), and a bit of an over-the-shoulder anniversary look at the hypnotic tale of a man who couldn't take it any longer, so he built a tank out a bulldozer. There's also a 787 that narrowly missed FALLING on the runway-lights guy, technology (still not on our side), the robin that keeps pooping on the mailbox, and the Professors (not the Torquays - next time).
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06.02.26: Gearhead Awesomepile! Seatbelts VS Physics, Tank-Dozer VS Local Gov't, Ferrari VS Attractiveness, Audiot VS Golf Kart, Porsche Week VS Black Paint Month, 787 VS Gravity, Poop VS Mailbox, + Angry Midgets, Vaughn's Finger & The Professors
Jun 1201:01:11Tap to summarizeFirst, let's get this clear - typing with a smashed finger is hard. On the plus side, it's not Vaughn's finger, which is now missing (keep your hands inside the truck on-trail). Another warning: seatbelts are good (especially when Audiots are known to be in the area). This episode's one of those gearhead-sink specials, where everything is interesting and there's too much geek goodness for one (Garage) hour. We've got black paint on Scott's 911 and Ryan's B6, black music (does Black Sabbath quality?), Ferrari missing the electric-car boat in the most expensive (and ugliest) way possible (...introducing the Ferrari Aztek!), a fix for politicians who missed the Freedom Train and were trying to put spyware in new cars (can't flee the mutant eskimo polar deer monsters if the car won't start), and a bit of an over-the-shoulder anniversary look at the hypnotic tale of a man who couldn't take it any longer, so he built a tank out a bulldozer. There's also a 787 that narrowly missed FALLING on the runway-lights guy, technology (still not on our side), the robin that keeps pooping on the mailbox, and the Professors (not the Torquays - next time).
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05.22.26 (MP3): Ideas Work Better When Your Brain Works Too (Contrive Drunk, Execute Sober), More Mass-Air Madness, Honoring The Trucker (Minor Skills Make Major Difference), Tesla Trucks Won't Float, Reverse Cameras Can't See, + Dude Food & Beau Weevils
Jun 100:54:46Tap to summarizeIt's a leftover episode (or an episode made of leftovers) - who's hungry? This here Garage Hour is a delicious assortment of parts that'll put your mother's goulash to shame. Made with the finest ingredients we could find in the back of the 'fridge (and/or on the cutting room floor), we've got trucker skills, Tesla fails, drinking ideas versus sobering wrenches, gas prices, beer tourism, estate sale chemicals, thoughts on mass-air sensors, why so many reverse-cameras are being recalled (rightly so - turn your head already), and how to avoid the dreaded doom-loop of bad-idea layering. Meanwhile, there's the random outsourcing with the Walkin' Dude, Mr. Intolerant, White Mark the Diversity Hire, Tony Sawaya, Homer Simpson and Henchman 23.
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05.22.26: Ideas Work Better When Your Brain Works Too (Contrive Drunk, Execute Sober), More Mass-Air Madness, Honoring The Trucker (Minor Skills Make Major Difference), Tesla Trucks Won't Float, Reverse Cameras Can't See, + Dude Food & Beau Weevils
May 3100:54:46Tap to summarizeIt's a leftover episode (or an episode made of leftovers) - who's hungry? This here Garage Hour is a delicious assortment of parts that'll put your mother's goulash to shame. Made with the finest ingredients we could find in the back of the 'fridge (and/or on the cutting room floor), we've got trucker skills, Tesla fails, drinking ideas versus sobering wrenches, gas prices, beer tourism, estate sale chemicals, thoughts on mass-air sensors, why so many reverse-cameras are being recalled (rightly so - turn your head already), and how to avoid the dreaded doom-loop of bad-idea layering. Meanwhile, there's the random outsourcing with the Walkin' Dude, Mr. Intolerant, White Mark the Diversity Hire, Tony Sawaya, Homer Simpson and Henchman 23.
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