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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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06.02.26 (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
5d ago01:01:11Tap 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
5d ago01:01:11Tap 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
2w ago00:54:46Tap 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
2w ago00:54:46Tap 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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05.02.26 (MP3): What Fancy Cars Are Preferred by Fraudsters? Which Food-Delivery Zoombie Will Post Pictures of You Online? Which Bigfoot Gets the Best Press? Also, A Rav4's Funeral & Frankenstein Switches, + So Much Zep (ala Physical & B-Side Winners)
3w ago00:54:46Tap to summarizeOut of order awesomeness... Which luxury and/or exotic cars are preferred by crooks and food-stamp fraudsters (by brand - Ferarris and Lambos and Porsches, oh my) - and what your car behavior says about you (publicly, on gov't docs, you fool), why trusting Door Dash randos to not film you passed out through a closed door and then go full tick-tocking victim-voyeur is probably a bridge too far (invite the worst and you'll get it) and why there's an entire generation that deserves the Ray Liotta prison-island treatment, and the sad death of a (and some fun history about) the first-generation Toyota Rav4. There's also a warning from the Gearhead Consultancy: when you're having fun at less-sanctioned small-scale car-guy gatherings like a bit of crawling, an illegal street race or a monster truck event in Colombia, keeping your head on a swivel is not optional - what keeps you safe is YOU. All that, plus project pouncing (let the geek ride!), Led Zeppelin, battle-driving and coyotes in Chi-town, Bigfoot and friends (El Squatcho and attack avocados - real or just underdiscovered?), and wearing pants for the neighbors.
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05.02.26: What Fancy Cars Are Preferred by Fraudsters? Which Food-Delivery Zoombie Will Post Pictures of You Online? Which Bigfoot Gets the Best Press? Also, A Rav4's Funeral & Frankenstein Switches, + So Much Zep (ala Physical & B-Side Winners)
3w ago00:54:46Tap to summarizeOut of order awesomeness... Which luxury and/or exotic cars are preferred by crooks and food-stamp fraudsters (by brand - Ferarris and Lambos and Porsches, oh my) - and what your car behavior says about you (publicly, on gov't docs, you fool), why trusting Door Dash randos to not film you passed out through a closed door and then go full tick-tocking victim-voyeur is probably a bridge too far (invite the worst and you'll get it) and why there's an entire generation that deserves the Ray Liotta prison-island treatment, and the sad death of a (and some fun history about) the first-generation Toyota Rav4. There's also a warning from the Gearhead Consultancy: when you're having fun at less-sanctioned small-scale car-guy gatherings like a bit of crawling, an illegal street race or a monster truck event in Colombia, keeping your head on a swivel is not optional - what keeps you safe is YOU. All that, plus project pouncing (let the geek ride!), Led Zeppelin, battle-driving and coyotes in Chi-town, Bigfoot and friends (El Squatcho and attack avocados - real or just underdiscovered?), and wearing pants for the neighbors.
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05.12.26 (MP3): Pay Attention, Dammit! Speeding Ticket for Knight 2000, Ramming Speed for Poop Truck, Complacency for Bureaucrats, a Diet for Porsche, Some Cuts for E-Cars, Collapsing Tunnels, Lousy Radio Ads, Night Runs, Refried Beans, + Unida & Dozer
3w ago00:57:58Tap to summarizeA surprisingly gearheadly episode for something served with a side of dried apples - it's time to tighten your belt and peel your ears. We've got someone spoofing The Hoff's Knight 2000 so Mr. Someone can speed through school zones, tunnels falling apart in big cities (not always fatal), tales of tickets and fees that no one earned (and some tolls that no one deserved - talk about incompetence...), trucks on mountains at night, Porsche selling off properties because they overreached again (some more), and many more auto manufacturers (including the guys at Porch) taking yuge losses on electric cars. There's also some thoughts on bad radio ads (beta much, you incompetent boobs?), good beans, and a septic tanker that parked in the second worse spot in the world. Also, a the Unida/Dozer split album...
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05.12.26: Pay Attention, Dammit! Speeding Ticket for Knight 2000, Ramming Speed for Poop Truck, Complacency for Bureaucrats, a Diet for Porsche, Some Cuts for E-Cars, Collapsing Tunnels, Lousy Radio Ads, Night Runs, Refried Beans, + Unida & Dozer
3w ago00:57:58Tap to summarizeA surprisingly gearheadly episode for something served with a side of dried apples - it's time to tighten your belt and peel your ears. We've got someone spoofing The Hoff's Knight 2000 so Mr. Someone can speed through school zones, tunnels falling apart in big cities (not always fatal), tales of tickets and fees that no one earned (and some tolls that no one deserved - talk about incompetence...), trucks on mountains at night, Porsche selling off properties because they overreached again (some more), and many more auto manufacturers (including the guys at Porch) taking yuge losses on electric cars. There's also some thoughts on bad radio ads (beta much, you incompetent boobs?), good beans, and a septic tanker that parked in the second worse spot in the world. Also, a the Unida/Dozer split album...
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04.24.26 (MP3): Get the Mud Out... K&N-Style Cotton Filters? Soaping, Soaking, Drying & Oiling, Snorkels VS Water, Mass-Air Cleaner VS Brake Cleaner, Bloodhounds VS Air Horns, Squeaky Subie Engines, the Wifey's Favorite Skillet & God Lives Underwater
May 900:51:51Tap to summarizeYes, have some... ideas about cleaning your K&N-style cotton filter: how often do you check it (more often), how much do you soak it (more soaking), what do you look for when it's clean (more clean), how dry does it need to be (more dry), and how much oil do you need to put on it (less oil). Hostus Maximus Justin Fort, the Walkin' Dude and a spider got together at the Garage Hour's Location B.F.E. for an hour of keeping that filter cleaner, longer, and how to fix the little to-dos that crop up when you're getting it done, like oil on the mass-air, mud in the mesh, and water in the snorkus. While we're at it, there's a metric crapton of '90s industrial and goth-metal, a C-130, a mystery squeak in a Subaru Legacy's 2.5-liter flat-four, a bloodhound, about a dozen horns, some sporty chemicals and Dani's favorite skillet.
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04.24.26: Get the Mud Out... K&N-Style Cotton Filters? Soaping, Soaking, Drying & Oiling, Snorkels VS Water, Mass-Air Cleaner VS Brake Cleaner, Bloodhounds VS Air Horns, Squeaky Subie Engines, the Wifey's Favorite Skillet & God Lives Underwater
May 900:51:51Tap to summarizeYes, have some... ideas about cleaning your K&N-style cotton filter: how often do you check it (more often), how much do you soak it (more soaking), what do you look for when it's clean (more clean), how dry does it need to be (more dry), and how much oil do you need to put on it (less oil). Hostus Maximus Justin Fort, the Walkin' Dude and a spider got together at the Garage Hour's Location B.F.E. for an hour of keeping that filter cleaner, longer, and how to fix the little to-dos that crop up when you're getting it done, like oil on the mass-air, mud in the mesh, and water in the snorkus. While we're at it, there's a metric crapton of '90s industrial and goth-metal, a C-130, a mystery squeak in a Subaru Legacy's 2.5-liter flat-four, a bloodhound, about a dozen horns, some sporty chemicals and Dani's favorite skillet.
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