Synopsis
Hank Watson's Garage Hour: Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns.Gearhead Talk Radio @ 6:PM Saturdays.1170AM/KCBQ.COM
Episodes
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12.12.22 (MP3): Crap Weather Automotive Operation - Things to Think When There's 0 Degrees, w/ Tires & Batteries VS Cold, Breaking Down VS Picking It Up, & a Little About Dirty Oil from Dirty Politicians, + Great Westerns, Good F1, & Supreme Court Lumps
31/12/2022 Duration: 01h01minPrepping versus being prepared: what's it take to keep the little things from killing you when it's snowing icebergs and polar bears (because there's no second chances at zero degrees), and intelligence versus smarts for dumb stuff like tires and recovery (because the difference between a minor inconvenience and a major one in cold weather is you). More fun: western actors and movies you didn't know were worth your time like "Night Passage" and "Ride Clear of Diablo" (with Jimmie Stewart, Dan Duryea and Audie Murphy), and a few thoughts on "Good/Bad/Ugly" versus "Fistful of Dollars" and "A Few Dollars More", and the unappreciated genius of Eastwood, Van Cleef and Wallach.
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12.12.22: Crap Weather Automotive Operation - Things to Think When There's 0 Degrees, w/ Tires & Batteries VS Cold, Breaking Down VS Picking It Up, & a Little About Dirty Oil from Dirty Politicians, + Great Westerns, Good F1, & Supreme Court Lumps
31/12/2022 Duration: 01h01minPrepping versus being prepared: what's it take to keep the little things from killing you when it's snowing icebergs and polar bears (because there's no second chances at zero degrees), and intelligence versus smarts for dumb stuff like tires and recovery (because the difference between a minor inconvenience and a major one in cold weather is you). More fun: western actors and movies you didn't know were worth your time like "Night Passage" and "Ride Clear of Diablo" (with Jimmie Stewart, Dan Duryea and Audie Murphy), and a few thoughts on "Good/Bad/Ugly" versus "Fistful of Dollars" and "A Few Dollars More", and the unappreciated genius of Eastwood, Van Cleef and Wallach.
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11.21.22 (MP3): Gearhead Stuff = The Return of Undercar Neon & Spinners, Snowy Railbed Roundhouse Adventures, Reciprocating Saws & Returning Thieves, + Too Much Wheel or Too Little Skill Makes Parade Floats Dangerous (w/ Rock & Roll, Beer, & ED 209)
19/12/2022 Duration: 58minSo much to upload - sorry, so busy... Garage Hour is on it, though, so don't 'fraid dat: we've got a goodly gearhead glob of geeksauce here. Undercar neon, roundhouses for parking your locomotive and your caboose, sawzalls and reciprocating burglars, driverless cabs, moralless robots, reliabilityless Fords, and the Novembre open-wheel Pike's Peak hillclimber for sale. There's more car-guy stuff: emergency brakes versus parking brakes, and the mechanical peril posed by wheel and tire choices combined with pulling a parade float while undertalented. As for the spice, there's much to enjoy: Rammsetin, Black Nasa, Alabama Thunderpussy, Monster Magnet, Nation of Fear, QOTSA, Wo Fat, as well as cohosts of note Gerhart Klimeck and Dirty Dave.
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11.21.22: Gearhead Stuff = The Return of Undercar Neon & Spinners, Snowy Railbed Roundhouse Adventures, Reciprocating Saws & Returning Thieves, + Too Much Wheel or Too Little Skill Makes Parade Floats Dangerous (w/ Rock & Roll, Beer, & ED 209)
19/12/2022 Duration: 58minSo much to upload - sorry, so busy... Garage Hour is on it, though, so don't 'fraid dat: we've got a goodly gearhead glob of geeksauce here. Undercar neon, roundhouses for parking your locomotive and your caboose, sawzalls and reciprocating burglars, driverless cabs, moralless robots, reliabilityless Fords, and the Novembre open-wheel Pike's Peak hillclimber for sale. There's more car-guy stuff: emergency brakes versus parking brakes, and the mechanical peril posed by wheel and tire choices combined with pulling a parade float while undertalented. As for the spice, there's much to enjoy: Rammsetin, Black Nasa, Alabama Thunderpussy, Monster Magnet, Nation of Fear, QOTSA, Wo Fat, as well as cohosts of note Gerhart Klimeck and Dirty Dave.
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11.11.22 (MP3): Rooftop Tents & Carriers are Car Abuse! Also, Jay Leno's Burns (and Gearhead Legitimacy), Carvana's Pending Flop (Used Car Lots Need Used Cars & Shoppers), Are Electric Vehicles Stealing Your Money?, + Herbie Hancock & Echo w/ Bunnymen
25/11/2022 Duration: 50minYummmm, segminty. Good stuff: The crap you bolt on your roof is a legitimate threat to your vehicle - wear and tear, fluid abuse and suspension decrepitation. Serious gearhead Jay Leno is saved from reallllllly bad burns by friends in his garatch. Carvana is choking on the reality of artificial pressures on capitalism ala Kung Flu. European Union bureaucrats are still pretending they can drive a unicorn fart to work (or: Thatcher and Friedman are still right). More good stuff: the pending prepping episode (and an upcoming Dude Food special), 10-year old Stagg chili and "expiration" dates, honey is also yummy (and good for what ails you), pork roast and a crock pot, and less "elite" but more "efite".
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11.11.22: Rooftop Tents & Carriers are Car Abuse! Also, Jay Leno's Burns (and Gearhead Legitimacy), Carvana's Pending Flop (Used Car Lots Need Used Cars & Shoppers), Are Electric Vehicles Stealing Your Money?, + Herbie Hancock & Echo w/ Bunnymen
25/11/2022 Duration: 50minYummmm, segminty. Good stuff: The crap you bolt on your roof is a legitimate threat to your vehicle - wear and tear, fluid abuse and suspension decrepitation. Serious gearhead Jay Leno is saved from reallllllly bad burns by friends in his garatch. Carvana is choking on the reality of artificial pressures on capitalism ala Kung Flu. European Union bureaucrats are still pretending they can drive a unicorn fart to work (or: Thatcher and Friedman are still right). More good stuff: the pending prepping episode (and an upcoming Dude Food special), 10-year old Stagg chili and "expiration" dates, honey is also yummy (and good for what ails you), pork roast and a crock pot, and less "elite" but more "efite".
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11.10.22 (MP3): Blind-Spot Indicators - Are You the Driver or Meat in the Seat? Loud Pipes Save Lives (& Loud People Save Ideas), Exploding Scooters, Tech VS You (Was Sagan Right?), 2 Degrees from a Cutlass, + (Bad) News from Area 51 & 2A Goodness In Iowa
15/11/2022 Duration: 56minYou can't get this kind of awesomeness without a warrant (or a prescription). This Garage Hour does geek right, with a firearm-friendly amendment in Iowa, big AM-talk in San Diego (board-ops, fer shur), the risk science poses to senseless sinners, why New Yorkers are scared shedless of chintzy scooters from pinko China (apartment flambé, anyone?), and why Kevin Bacon can't hold a candle to our "Two Degrees from a Cutlass" theory. There's also some reminiscence about a client with a private dirt-oval, and an exposé of what happens to your skillset when the electro-nannies start doing your legwork. But wait! the Gearhead Consultancy also explains the "Drowning Man" theory, and we take a look at how the thugly F.B.I. is taking a rope to the progenitor of Dreamland Resort (.com) and his affection for Area 51. There's also Machines of Loving Grace, Goatsnake, St. Vitus, Five Horse Johnson, Primus and Air.
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11.10.22: Blind-Spot Indicators - Are You the Driver or Meat in the Seat? Loud Pipes Save Lives (& Loud People Save Ideas), Exploding Scooters, Tech VS You (Was Sagan Right?), Two Degrees from a Cutlass, + (Bad) News from Area 51 & 2A Goodness In Iowa
15/11/2022 Duration: 56minYou can't get this kind of awesomeness without a warrant (or a prescription). This Garage Hour does geek right, with a firearm-friendly amendment in Iowa, big AM-talk in San Diego (board-ops, fer shur), the risk science poses to senseless sinners, why New Yorkers are scared shedless of chintzy scooters from pinko China (apartment flambé, anyone?), and why Kevin Bacon can't hold a candle to our "Two Degrees from a Cutlass" theory. There's also some reminiscence about a client with a private dirt-oval, and an exposé of what happens to your skillset when the electro-nannies start doing your legwork. But wait! the Gearhead Consultancy also explains the "Drowning Man" theory, and we take a look at how the thugly F.B.I. is taking a rope to the progenitor of Dreamland Resort (.com) and his affection for Area 51. There's also Machines of Loving Grace, Goatsnake, St. Vitus, Five Horse Johnson, Primus and Air.
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11.02.22 (MP3): Sneaky Cars w/ Jets, Hurricanes Making Electric Cars Explode (& Burn Down Your House), Why Round-Abouts Are Killing People, Parking Outside for Hail & Profit, Vehicle Dynamics and Building That Tool, + Probably Better Not to Make Girls Cry
09/11/2022 Duration: 01h01minIt's another pile of gearhead supersauce. ...Learning to read vehicle dynamics and understand where your car's "squish" is (and some thoughts on how to tune that thing so it goes left and right right). ...How Occum's Razor applies to traffic "circles" (the illustrious round-about, another thing that should have stayed in England) and why people keep dying on them. ...The basic math of salt water + electric components + vacuous elites ("elite" at what, exactly?) = car goes BOOM and house goes FLOOM. Also, a little bit of detail on how Kalifornistan has turned on Tesla (they can only take away what they gave you). Have some: Zach Wilde, Anthrax, drunk Jim Bowie, the Cadillac Eldorado, and RIP Dietrich Mateschitz.
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11.02.22: Sneaky Cars w/ Jets, Hurricanes Making Electric Cars Explode (& Burn Down Your House), Why Round-Abouts Are Killing People, Parking Outside for Hail & Profit, Vehicle Dynamics and Building That Tool, + Probably Better Not to Make Girls Cry
09/11/2022 Duration: 01h01minIt's another pile of gearhead supersauce. ...Learning to read vehicle dynamics and understand where your car's "squish" is (and some thoughts on how to tune that thing so it goes left and right right). ...How Occum's Razor applies to traffic "circles" (the illustrious round-about, another thing that should have stayed in England) and why people keep dying on them. ...The basic math of salt water + electric components + vacuous elites ("elite" at what, exactly?) = car goes BOOM and house goes FLOOM. Also, a little bit of detail on how Kalifornistan has turned on Tesla (they can only take away what they gave you). Have some: Zach Wilde, Anthrax, drunk Jim Bowie, the Cadillac Eldorado, and RIP Dietrich Mateschitz.
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10.02.22 (MP3): 10 Ways To Not Die On-Trail (Easy Stuff You Ought'a 'Froad) - Because You Can't Four-Wheel If You're Dead! Trail Awareness, Baggage Control, Self-Management & Knowing Your Functions, + Karma to Burn & a Little Sleep
24/10/2022 Duration: 57minThese aren't ideas you haven't had, but the Gearhead Coinsultancy got together in Black Forest with The Walkin' Dude to remind you why the basics matter with you've got one foot to spare between dropping 100ft into a washout and crawlin' the high side to your knobby-tired doom. Easy things: truck-training your kids and dogs, knowing your rig's behavior under duress, managing yourself and avoiding fatigue, as well as dumping the ego at the trailhead so you don't wind up an instructional video. Because there's always more: Dirty Harry and the Spanducci Speech, the Cell Phone Incident at FJ Summit, Fred's custom platform for him forum, and Eddyline's "Stay the Trail" Pale - a good beer but not always a good idea.
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10.02.22: 10 Ways To Not Die On-Trail (Easy Stuff You Ought'a 'Froad) - Because You Can't Four-Wheel If You're Dead! Trail Awareness, Baggage Control, Self-Management & Knowing Your Functions, + Karma to Burn & a Little Sleep
24/10/2022 Duration: 57minThese aren't ideas you haven't had, but the Gearhead Coinsultancy got together in Black Forest with The Walkin' Dude to remind you why the basics matter with you've got one foot to spare between dropping 100ft into a washout and crawlin' the high side to your knobby-tired doom. Easy things: truck-training your kids and dogs, knowing your rig's behavior under duress, managing yourself and avoiding fatigue, as well as dumping the ego at the trailhead so you don't wind up an instructional video. Because there's always more: Dirty Harry and the Spanducci Speech, the Cell Phone Incident at FJ Summit, Fred's custom platform for him forum, and Eddyline's "Stay the Trail" Pale - a good beer but not always a good idea.
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10.01.22 (MP3): State of 2A - Guns VS Tyranny (An Essential Bulwark), w/ Corporate Collusion, Bureaucrats Avoiding Oversight, Invasion of your Familial Sanctum, the Risk of Lists, + Stories of Mistakes & What NOT to Do When Big Gov't Comes Knocking
16/10/2022 Duration: 01h01minYeahhhh, we've been slacking - too much on one plate. No worries, though, because the Gearhead Consultancy got the Second Amendment episode screwed together that we've been promising you, and it's a deusie: everything from historic tales of armed citizens worldwide (and the dictators being dicts who disarmed them), background check fires, what the 3% actually looks like, and reinforcing your children's values to make them safe citizens and not a rat. ...Because geeks need their freedoms, no matter the age. Also making an appearance: "Heavy Metal" (the movie) with Harry Canyon and good niborg, plus Coldwave Breaks and Scrabble with Justin.
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10.01.22: State of 2A - Guns VS Tyranny (An Essential Bulwark), w/ Corporate Collusion, Bureaucrats Avoiding Oversight, Invasion of your Familial Sanctum, the Risk of Lists, + Stories of Mistakes & What NOT to Do When Big Gov't Comes Knocking
16/10/2022 Duration: 01h01minYeahhhh, we've been slacking - too much on one plate. No worries, though, because the Gearhead Consultancy got the Second Amendment episode screwed together that we've been promising you, and it's a deusie: everything from historic tales of armed citizens worldwide (and the dictators being dicts who disarmed them), background check fires, what the 3% actually looks like, and reinforcing your children's values to make them safe citizens and not a rat. ...Because geeks need their freedoms, no matter the age. Also making an appearance: "Heavy Metal" (the movie) with Harry Canyon and good niborg, plus Coldwave Breaks and Scrabble with Justin.
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09.19.22 (MP3): Diesel Dodge VS Damnable DMV, Truckers VS Teslas, Bosch Battery Boy VS Broadcast Boos, the Internet of Your Downfall (& Control in the Guise of Failure), + Fat Tony, Kaiser Soze & a Wreckful Childhood (...So Go Do Something Nice)
26/09/2022 Duration: 55minDo YOU know better than to put propane in your Tesla's tires? Do YOU know Teslas need special gas that doesn't come from the gas station? ...Then YOU might be smarter than the college laureates who could buy one but not own them. College... While we're at it: be nice to truckers (say it again, uh!), be wary of connecting your heater to your 'fridge to your A/C to your electricity (the internet of things or an appliance army marching towards your destruction?), and the story of a guy from New Jersey who was forced to crush his Cummins Dodge because it was for sale on Fakebook Marketface. Yuuuuuup. Don't say we didn't warn you (because we did, like, all the time ago). Also, Karma to Burn, John Lee Hooker, Big Head Todd, Naked Funk, QOTSA, Skynyrd and the Allmans.
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09.19.22: Diesel Dodge VS Damnable DMV, Truckers VS Teslas, Bosch Battery Boy VS Broadcast Boos, the Internet of Your Downfall (& Control in the Guise of Failure), + Fat Tony, Kaiser Soze & a Wreckful Childhood (...So Go Do Something Nice)
26/09/2022 Duration: 55minDo YOU know better than to put propane in your Tesla's tires? Do YOU know Teslas need special gas that doesn't come from the gas station? ...Then YOU might be smarter than the college laureates who could buy one but not own them. College... While we're at it: be nice to truckers (say it again, uh!), be wary of connecting your heater to your 'fridge to your A/C to your electricity (the internet of things or an appliance army marching towards your destruction?), and the story of a guy from New Jersey who was forced to crush his Cummins Dodge because it was for sale on Fakebook Marketface. Yuuuuuup. Don't say we didn't warn you (because we did, like, all the time ago). Also, Karma to Burn, John Lee Hooker, Big Head Todd, Naked Funk, QOTSA, Skynyrd and the Allmans.
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09.01.22 (MP3): Boats to Trains to Trucks to... Electrics? Who Wants Worse Transit? Efficiency VS Egos, Charging w/out Electrons (Looking at You, CA), Geeks Are Special (Nanoelectronics VS Headlights), & The Mileage Mirage - 7.3 'Stroke VS Nissan Minivan
19/09/2022 Duration: 58minThe Garage Hour would like to present you this barnyard of proclivities as gathered by Hostus Maximus Justin Fort on a cross-country dash to Mom's... The transit quesiton: why do some folks think we should be regressing with electric cars and trucks? The power question: who's going to want a car they can't fill up (brownouts, anyone?)? ...And the control issue: what happens when there's so little power that the next neighborhood gets some but you don't? Also, have some good mileage. Special guests include Durant from "Darkman", the Godwin Rule and Murray Gelman Amnesia Hypothesis, Chris Farley, plus some leftist efites and degree snobs.
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09.01.22: Boats to Trains to Trucks to... Electrics? Who Wants Worse Transit? Efficiency VS Egos, Charging w/out Electrons (Looking at You, CA), Geeks Are Special (Nanoelectronics VS Headlights), & The Mileage Mirage - 7.3 'Stroke VS Nissan Minivan
19/09/2022 Duration: 58minThe Garage Hour would like to present you this barnyard of proclivities as gathered by Hostus Maximus Justin Fort on a cross-country dash to Mom's... The transit quesiton: why do some folks think we should be regressing with electric cars and trucks? The power question: who's going to want a car they can't fill up (brownouts, anyone?)? ...And the control issue: what happens when there's so little power that the next neighborhood gets some but you don't? Also, have some good mileage. Special guests include Durant from "Darkman", the Godwin Rule and Murray Gelman Amnesia Hypothesis, Chris Farley, plus some leftist efites and degree snobs.
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08.28.22 (MP3): Speaker Repair, Porsche & Lexus & Subaru & Honda (Oh My), More on Motorcycle Mugging Gangs - In New York & Chicago! (Crime Ain't Complicated), & How the New Lightning is an Old Fail
13/09/2022 Duration: 54minBeen slackin'! Garage Hour's got too much on its plate, and we're chewing like mad to get back to you - in as-soon-as-it's-fixed gearhead time. We've got some goodness for you here: more left-turn-on-green intersection violence (somebody's up to something) and a revisitation of Asimov's rules (technology's not on your side), speaker repair fun (geeks don't chuck it, they fix it), and how Ford's ruining decades of reputation by calling a failing electric pickup by a classic nameplate (hints of Mustang, anyone?). ...Then we liked this picture: There's also some bits - revisiting the Lexus LFA and fat Porsches, a guy eating chips while he Subies, Charles Bronson, plus the Rev (Heat), Masters of Reality, Megadeth, Puny Human, Whoregasm, Mindbomb and the Space Truckers.
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08.28.22: Speaker Repair, Porsche & Lexus & Subaru & Honda (Oh My), More on Motorcycle Mugging Gangs - In New York & Chicago! (Crime Ain't Complicated), & How the New Lightning is an Old Fail
13/09/2022 Duration: 54minBeen slackin'! Garage Hour's got too much on its plate, and we're chewing like mad to get back to you - in as-soon-as-it's-fixed gearhead time. We've got some goodness for you here: more left-turn-on-green intersection violence (somebody's up to something) and a revisitation of Asimov's rules (technology's not on your side), speaker repair fun (geeks don't chuck it, they fix it), and how Ford's ruining decades of reputation by calling a failing electric pickup by a classic nameplate (hints of Mustang, anyone?). ...Then we liked this picture: There's also some bits - revisiting the Lexus LFA and fat Porsches, a guy eating chips while he Subies, Charles Bronson, plus the Rev (Heat), Masters of Reality, Megadeth, Puny Human, Whoregasm, Mindbomb and the Space Truckers.