Synopsis
Hank Watson's Garage Hour: Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns.Gearhead Talk Radio @ 6:PM Saturdays.1170AM/KCBQ.COM
Episodes
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02.05.25 (MP3): Gearhead Comeuppance (So Much Schadenfreude) - No Headlight Guy VS da Troopers, Limp Pickups Reflect (the Failure) of Pajama People, DOT Bureaucrats Choke, Motorcyclists' Shoes, Car Stickers, + An Excellent Weirdo RIP for George & Betty
23/02/2025 Duration: 01h02minSo much good stuff! Don't be a menace to fellow motorists when failing to use your headlights in the dark - and don't mind while the Gearhead Consultancy laughs its pretty heads off when you get lit up (pun intended) by the Johnnies for DRIVING ON THE FREEWAY IN THE DARK WITH NO LIGHTS. ...Way to act drunk or stoned or just dumb. There's also some cop-on-politician violence (good), the Colorado Highway Patrol versus the CHiPs, a few thoughts on why motorcyclists' shoes fall off all the time, how the $5 billion spent by Joke Biden's DOT bureaucracy (under the deleadership of Pothole Pete) created exactly eight electric car chargers (and how the failure was caused by... bureaucracy...), and an analysis of how ineffective little beta "trucks" like Ford's Maverick are a wonderful analog for the weakness of pajama-clad pepperoni-armed top-knot beta boys. A few thoughts for the gearheads: Do jury duty. It's so much fun (and you'll see law from it's unseemly underside). If you need your car to think for you, yo
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02.05.25: Gearhead Comeuppance (So Much Schadenfreude) - No Headlight Guy VS da Troopers, Limp Pickups Reflect (the Failure) of Pajama People, DOT Bureaucrats Choke, Motorcyclists' Shoes, Car Stickers, + An Excellent Weirdo RIP for George & Betty
23/02/2025 Duration: 01h02minSo much good stuff! Don't be a menace to fellow motorists when failing to use your headlights in the dark - and don't mind while the Gearhead Consultancy laughs its pretty heads off when you get lit up (pun intended) by the Johnnies for DRIVING ON THE FREEWAY IN THE DARK WITH NO LIGHTS. ...Way to act drunk or stoned or just dumb. There's also some cop-on-politician violence (good), the Colorado Highway Patrol versus the CHiPs, a few thoughts on why motorcyclists' shoes fall off all the time, how the $5 billion spent by Joke Biden's DOT bureaucracy (under the deleadership of Pothole Pete) created exactly eight electric car chargers (and how the failure was caused by... bureaucracy...), and an analysis of how ineffective little beta "trucks" like Ford's Maverick are a wonderful analog for the weakness of pajama-clad pepperoni-armed top-knot beta boys. A few thoughts for the gearheads: Do jury duty. It's so much fun (and you'll see law from it's unseemly underside). If you need your car to think for you, yo
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01.32.25 (MP3): SoCal 'Froading VS Cartel Sniping, LA Backyards VS Cash for Clunkers, LA Fires VS Electric Cars, New DOT Guy VS Cars Nobody Wants, & Protecting Property, Pockets of Righteousness, + Serious Looters & the Psychic iPod
13/02/2025 Duration: 54minSo much exhaustion... Caffeine fixes what the Sawzall can't, so we're here: the Gearhead Consultancy may be intriguing or offensive, but we're never boring. This episode's got a micro look at the baby Superfund sites left at every house in LA that burned with an electric Statusmobile (TM) in the garadtch, a bigger look at where the makers of these toxic messes are heading (prior to burning), some of the shame of a city like LA that's got classic cars in every backyard, and the DOT's possible return to reality with a sane human at the helm. Once the room's been softened up a bit, we've also got underwater oxygen rocks, the National Guard and local PD turning a blind eye towards locals who've chosen to defend their homes and neighborhoods against the professional-grade looters raiding LA post-inferno, the mess on the US-Mexico border in even relatively safe areas like San Diego (can you say "cartel snipers"?), the LA DWP not letting a crisis go to waste, and how the radio outfits being bought up by leftist c
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01.32.25: SoCal 'Froading VS Cartel Sniping, LA Backyards VS Cash for Clunkers, LA Fires VS Electric Cars, New DOT Guy VS Cars Nobody Wants, & Protecting Property, Pockets of Righteousness, + Serious Looters & the Psychic iPod
13/02/2025 Duration: 54minSo much exhaustion... Caffeine fixes what the Sawzall can't, so we're here: the Gearhead Consultancy may be intriguing or offensive, but we're never boring. This episode's got a micro look at the baby Superfund sites left at every house in LA that burned with an electric Statusmobile (TM) in the garadtch, a bigger look at where the makers of these toxic messes are heading (prior to burning), some of the shame of a city like LA that's got classic cars in every backyard, and the DOT's possible return to reality with a sane human at the helm. Once the room's been softened up a bit, we've also got underwater oxygen rocks, the National Guard and local PD turning a blind eye towards locals who've chosen to defend their homes and neighborhoods against the professional-grade looters raiding LA post-inferno, the mess on the US-Mexico border in even relatively safe areas like San Diego (can you say "cartel snipers"?), the LA DWP not letting a crisis go to waste, and how the radio outfits being bought up by leftist c
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01.22.25 (MP3): Burned Classics in LA & Burned Borders in San Diego, Ugly Land Rovers & Ugly Bureaucracy, DRLs Ain't Headlights & LCD Ain't Gauges, Battery Fires (Duhh), Bott's Dots (WTF?), Hoorah to Home Defenders & an Excellent Weirdo RIP to Bob Uecker
03/02/2025 Duration: 57minDon't flinch or you'll miss it: squashy gumdrop Hyundais and crosseyed-cubist Land Rovers, dirty grabby D.O.E. palm-greased double-dealing from former Gov. Hatchetface, details of more battery "storage" plant (pile) fires set to poison the air and water (and dirt and neighbors), minivan idiots and their self-awareness fails (headlights for fun and profit), as well as tales of melted classic cars in Los Angeles garages and a border fire south of San Diego that's ruining lots of great four-wheeling trails and a bunch of sneaky Border Patrol hideouts. While we're at it, how about some support for the folks who were able to (or smart enough to) hold back and protect their homes and neighbors during LA's latest Dem-fired inevitable tinderparty, Hunter S. Thompson, William Gibson, bubbled mongoloids and DC staffers (as if they're not the same thing).
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01.22.25: Burned Classics in LA & Burned Borders in San Diego, Ugly Land Rovers & Ugly Bureaucracy, DRLs Ain't Headlights & LCD Ain't Gauges, Battery Fires (Duhh), Bott's Dots (WTF?), Hoorah to Home Defenders & an Excellent Weirdo RIP to Bob Uecker
03/02/2025 Duration: 57minDon't flinch or you'll miss it: squashy gumdrop Hyundais and crosseyed-cubist Land Rovers, dirty grabby D.O.E. palm-greased double-dealing from former Gov. Hatchetface, details of more battery "storage" plant (pile) fires set to poison the air and water (and dirt and neighbors), minivan idiots and their self-awareness fails (headlights for fun and profit), as well as tales of melted classic cars in Los Angeles garages and a border fire south of San Diego that's ruining lots of great four-wheeling trails and a bunch of sneaky Border Patrol hideouts. While we're at it, how about some support for the folks who were able to (or smart enough to) hold back and protect their homes and neighbors during LA's latest Dem-fired inevitable tinderparty, Hunter S. Thompson, William Gibson, bubbled mongoloids and DC staffers (as if they're not the same thing).
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10.22.24 (MP3): Randomly Awesome - Caddy in the Snow, Snowplow in the Lane & Death Wish in the Andy Griffiths Show, + Westerns w/ Minigiuns, Jerks w/ Highbeams, Ford w/ Recalls, Israelis w/ Guns, Bears w/ 10mm & a Croc w/ 10,000 Kids
22/01/2025 Duration: 56minSlather on the Justin powa - from Canadian marionettes to catching up on your Orange Goblins, from dickheads with their high beams (and why is it always a Jeep or a Tesla?) to the rules about passing a snowplow, from Ford's exploding batteries to its self-disassembling front suspension (a case of the Teslas?), from Charles Bronson "fixing Emmitt" to the Israelis confiscating a lot of nice shotguns, from crashing into smaller things than you to Honda buying Nissan (why?), it's classic Garage Hour supersauce - spread it on. ...With Orange Goblin, Dire Straits, Masters of Reality, Soundgarden, Kyuss, Solarized, The Sword, Mastodon, Man or Astro Man and High on Fire. There's also bears, crocodiles, birds and Dad's poor Buick Century.
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10.22.24: Randomly Awesome - Caddy in the Snow, Snowplow in the Lane & Death Wish in the Andy Griffiths Show, + Westerns w/ Minigiuns, Jerks w/ Highbeams, Ford w/ Recalls, Israelis w/ Guns, Bears w/ 10mm & a Croc w/ 10,000 Kids
22/01/2025 Duration: 56minSlather on the Justin powa - from Canadian marionettes to catching up on your Orange Goblins, from dickheads with their high beams (and why is it always a Jeep or a Tesla?) to the rules about passing a snowplow, from Ford's exploding batteries to its self-disassembling front suspension (a case of the Teslas?), from Charles Bronson "fixing Emmitt" to the Israelis confiscating a lot of nice shotguns, from crashing into smaller things than you to Honda buying Nissan (why?), it's classic Garage Hour supersauce - spread it on. ...With Orange Goblin, Dire Straits, Masters of Reality, Soundgarden, Kyuss, Solarized, The Sword, Mastodon, Man or Astro Man and High on Fire. There's also bears, crocodiles, birds and Dad's poor Buick Century.
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01.12.25 (MP3): Howdy 2025 (A Reality Check) - U-Haul & Interstate Operators Know the Best States (While NYC Chokes Its Businesses), & Geeks Prep for Disaster Rather than Being One (Let's Not Lose More Classic Cars), + Monster Magnet & Pelham 1-2-3
20/01/2025 Duration: 01h02minWhether you're smart enough to know we're going to have some wind and fires in SoCal (duhh) or it's about a healthy distrust of government (kind'a like "technology", "gov't" is not on your side), a good gearhead just needs a reason not to be the meat in the seat. A gearhead also needs a good soundtrack - how about some Monster Magnet, with drops from Pelham 1-2-3 (one of the best NYC-based caper movies ever made - it nails '70s NY atmosphere). Take a dive - logic's fine: prepping for disaster is a badge of honor (plus, you get to keep your house and classic cars). You'll also avoid being one of the CA sheeple who 50 years of bad fire-prevention couldn't teach. May you broadcast in interesting times...
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01.12.25: Howdy 2025 (A Reality Check) - U-Haul & Interstate Operators Know the Best States (While NYC Chokes Its Businesses), & Geeks Prep for Disaster Rather than Being One (Let's Not Lose More Classic Cars), + Monster Magnet & Pelham 1-2-3
20/01/2025 Duration: 01h02minWhether you're smart enough to know we're going to have some wind and fires in SoCal (duhh) or it's about a healthy distrust of government (kind'a like "technology", "gov't" is not on your side), a good gearhead just needs a reason not to be the meat in the seat. A gearhead also needs a good soundtrack - how about some Monster Magnet, with drops from Pelham 1-2-3 (one of the best NYC-based caper movies ever made - it nails '70s NY atmosphere). Take a dive - logic's fine: prepping for disaster is a badge of honor (plus, you get to keep your house and classic cars). You'll also avoid being one of the CA sheeple who 50 years of bad fire-prevention couldn't teach. May you broadcast in interesting times...
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12.31.24 (MP3): Gearheads Survive a Year of Fear & Big Gov't Shows Its Butt, w/ Unsafe Spy Tech In Your Cars, Useless Powertrains In Your Trucks, Evil Capabilities In Your Home, & Dangerous Ideas In Gov't (...the Ides of Cronyist Bureaucrats)
01/01/2025 Duration: 01h01minTake a cautionary stance as gearheads, geeks and the great unwashed makers look forward to 2025 - it's our year to make great, but some of that tin needs straightening. From the evil of your refrigerator conspiring with the dishwasher to convince the thermostat to drop the house to 42º, to the sloppy software from fool programmers on the wrong side of the wall allowing your data to be hacked by your car before you even get out of the driveway, it's time to get paranoid and understand that bad governance won't fix itself. We've never seen so much of the tail of hidden corruption than we can now, so take a running start. It's in there: Sagan's theory on why tech without morality can end worlds (where's the stop sign?), why bad governors in sad states will still push failed technology (because it benefits them), and how the companies you shop need to be held to your standard (because Costco won't fix itself).
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12.31.24: Gearheads Survive a Year of Fear & Big Gov't Shows Its Butt, w/ Unsafe Spy Tech In Your Cars, Useless Powertrains In Your Trucks, Evil Capabilities In Your Home, & Dangerous Ideas In Gov't (...the Ides of Cronyist Bureaucrats)
31/12/2024 Duration: 01h01minTake a cautionary stance as gearheads, geeks and the great unwashed makers look forward to 2025 - it's our year to make great, but some of that tin needs straightening. From the evil of your refrigerator conspiring with the dishwasher to convince the thermostat to drop the house to 42º, to the sloppy software from fool programmers on the wrong side of the wall allowing your data to be hacked by your car before you even get out of the driveway, it's time to get paranoid and understand that bad governance won't fix itself. We've never seen so much of the tail of hidden corruption than we can now, so take a running start. It's in there: Sagan's theory on why tech without morality can end worlds (where's the stop sign?), why bad governors in sad states will still push failed technology (because it benefits them), and how the companies you shop need to be held to your standard (because Costco won't fix itself).
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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
30/12/2024 Duration: 58minIf 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 excellent mistakes they've made when the sips start before the work stops. From the Perrin charge tube that's supposed to take a half-hour to install, not a half-week, to the little things we miss like which way the brake pads go (and what sort of sparks they throw), there's a way to do it and a way you shouldn't (and we've tried both). Not to get too far afield, there's more gearhead goodness to be had: thinking out tube bumpers, sliding your truck into a snow drift before you crash into it, loud and noisy thug trucks, SVT's good old days, verbicide, Mitsubishi Outlanders, vintage Garage Hour cohosts, plus tasting Bushmills and Breckenridge whiskeys, Peach Crown Royal, Absolut Vodka and High Country Lager. There's also a host of tunes from Karma to Burn, 16 Volt and Deadbolt.
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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
30/12/2024 Duration: 58minIf 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 excellent mistakes they've made when the sips start before the work stops. From the Perrin charge tube that's supposed to take a half-hour to install, not a half-week, to the little things we miss like which way the brake pads go (and what sort of sparks they throw), there's a way to do it and a way you shouldn't (and we've tried both). Not to get too far afield, there's more gearhead goodness to be had: thinking out tube bumpers, sliding your truck into a snow drift before you crash into it, loud and noisy thug trucks, SVT's good old days, verbicide, Mitsubishi Outlanders, vintage Garage Hour cohosts, plus tasting Bushmills and Breckenridge whiskeys, Peach Crown Royal, Absolut Vodka and High Country Lager. There's also a host of tunes from Karma to Burn, 16 Volt and Deadbolt.
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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
26/12/2024 Duration: 01h09minWell, 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 another recall, but this one's full of shed. Street-takeovers are violent, stupid, dangerous affairs, which we'd usually encourage so long as they are away from people, but crowds tend to get stupid in the worst places. The postal service's electric trucks still suck. Automotive journalist of great repute (and high-Q oddball) Jean Lindamood/Jennings gets a classic Garage Hour excellent-weirdo sendoff. Also, Upslope Brewery's Draft Lager joined in for sips and grins. While we're at it, there's some fun thoughts about Christmas movies and family time (because it matters), the so-called government eradication of the Chinese murder hornet (and what could happen if they joined up with the desert helicopter wasp), Dennis Farina, Ray Liotta, and a set of chintzy Chinese (is that redundant?) foot warmers that cooked some i
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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
26/12/2024 Duration: 01h09minWell, 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 another recall, but this one's full of shed. Street-takeovers are violent, stupid, dangerous affairs, which we'd usually encourage so long as they are away from people, but crowds tend to get stupid in the worst places. The postal service's electric trucks still suck. Automotive journalist of great repute (and high-Q oddball) Jean Lindamood/Jennings gets a classic Garage Hour excellent-weirdo sendoff. Also, Upslope Brewery's Draft Lager joined in for sips and grins. While we're at it, there's some fun thoughts about Christmas movies and family time (because it matters), the so-called government eradication of the Chinese murder hornet (and what could happen if they joined up with the desert helicopter wasp), Dennis Farina, Ray Liotta, and a set of chintzy Chinese (is that redundant?) foot warmers that cooked some i
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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?
19/12/2024 Duration: 57minThis 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 white stuff is falling down in Front Range fashion. Or any range... We've got the grok on tire width, suppleness, temperature range, snow treads, chemicals and materials, ice versus snow driving, why it's a fine idea to have a second set of llantas for the off-season, and why you probably wouldn't wear hiking boots to a formal dance. ...And why all that and a bucket of fish heads still won't save you if you aren't good at driving. Not to put too fine a point on it (we're ALL fine points here at the Garage Hour), there's also a little free gas (at the pump), a few thoughts about why that guy is following you (such a nice bumper), plus Floyd, FLeppard and Pantera.
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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?
19/12/2024 Duration: 57minThis 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 white stuff is falling down in Front Range fashion. Or any range... We've got the grok on tire width, suppleness, temperature range, snow treads, chemicals and materials, ice versus snow driving, why it's a fine idea to have a second set of llantas for the off-season, and why you probably wouldn't wear hiking boots to a formal dance. ...And why all that and a bucket of fish heads still won't save you if you aren't good at driving. Not to put too fine a point on it (we're ALL fine points here at the Garage Hour), there's also a little free gas (at the pump), a few thoughts about why that guy is following you (such a nice bumper), plus Floyd, FLeppard and Pantera.
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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
14/12/2024 Duration: 50minIt'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 other side of the coin of our skillset episode a few weeks back, thanks to a gal in the #3 lane who couldn't look up from her Distractomatic 5000 long enough to not drive into the bumper of the truck in front of her. Don't be the anti-inspiration for our incompetence episode (and don't be a Carl). There's also guidance on measuring up to 100% you, avoiding the shallow end of the tool pool, using your head to avoid the obvious, and trying to use your capabilities once in a while instead of sucking all the time. Moving beyond the need for being the best you you can do (coocoo k'choo), there's insight on more electric car fails by the OEs (begging the G for good money to keep spending on bad ones), wildebeests and crocodiles and educational television (back when it was worth a beer), and steering clear of incompe
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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
14/12/2024 Duration: 50minIt'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 other side of the coin of our skillset episode a few weeks back, thanks to a gal in the #3 lane who couldn't look up from her Distractomatic 5000 long enough to not drive into the bumper of the truck in front of her. Don't be the anti-inspiration for our incompetence episode (and don't be a Carl). There's also guidance on measuring up to 100% you, avoiding the shallow end of the tool pool, using your head to avoid the obvious, and trying to use your capabilities once in a while instead of sucking all the time. Moving beyond the need for being the best you you can do (coocoo k'choo), there's insight on more electric car fails by the OEs (begging the G for good money to keep spending on bad ones), wildebeests and crocodiles and educational television (back when it was worth a beer), and steering clear of incompe