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
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Release Date: 02/23/2025
06.16.25 (MP3): Pike's Peak Hillclimb Pre-Race - Cars & Racers, Tales of Woe & Stuff We Know, History & Schmistory, Turns, Straights, Pavement & Drop-Offs, To-Dos & Planning, Go-Tos & Don't Dos, + a Total 2A Aside - Good News for SBRs & Suppressors
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
You can't get this kind of goodness without a prescription (or a warrant) - it's a roundabout look at the upcoming 2025 Pike's Peak International Hillclimb [PPIHC.org (or .com - choose your adventure)], with everything from drivers, racecars (because racecar!), viewing (in-person or on TV and online), spectating (because you're not going to choke on race fuel fumes in your living room - probably), course info (best turns and, well, there are no worst turns here), and a little bit of history (because you can't do 100+ years of racing without having something historic happen). Also, Hostus...
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06.16.25: Pike's Peak Hillclimb Pre-Race - Cars & Racers, Tales of Woe & Stuff We Know, History & Schmistory, Turns, Straights, Pavement & Drop-Offs, To-Dos & Planning, Go-Tos & Don't Dos, + a Total 2A Aside - Good News for SBRs & Suppressors
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
You can't get this kind of goodness without a prescription (or a warrant) - it's a roundabout look at the upcoming 2025 Pike's Peak International Hillclimb [PPIHC.org (or .com - choose your adventure)], with everything from drivers, racecars (because racecar!), viewing (in-person or on TV and online), spectating (because you're not going to choke on race fuel fumes in your living room - probably), course info (best turns and, well, there are no worst turns here), and a little bit of history (because you can't do 100+ years of racing without having something historic happen). Also, Hostus...
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05.25.25 (MP3): Enable Your Functionality w/ Some Gearhead OCD - Matching Your Toolbox to your Brain, a Place for Everything, Screwdriver VS Plier, Being a Better Human (Fixer of Things), & Red Adair, Dad's Toolbox, CA Basements + Ether Martinis
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Tools are for humans (and super-smart animals, apparently), garages are for cars, countertops are for food, and rollaways are for organizing! This esoteric episode is all (mostly) about embracing the perfectionist - just a little - and making your tools and shop space match your intellect and style. Because so many good projects and necessary repairs get hog-tied by bad organization, and a lack of operable tool enhancement can be submarined by a lack of organization, we want you to scratch that itch and embrace the OCD (if just long enough to put the nut drivers in the correct...
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05.25.25: Enable Your Functionality w/ Some Gearhead OCD - Matching Your Toolbox to your Brain, a Place for Everything, Screwdriver VS Plier, Being a Better Human (Fixer of Things), & Red Adair, Dad's Toolbox, CA Basements + Ether Martinis
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Tools are for humans (and super-smart animals, apparently), garages are for cars, countertops are for food, and rollaways are for organizing! This esoteric episode is all (mostly) about embracing the perfectionist - just a little - and making your tools and shop space match your intellect and style. Because so many good projects and necessary repairs get hog-tied by bad organization, and a lack of operable tool enhancement can be submarined by a lack of organization, we want you to scratch that itch and embrace the OCD (if just long enough to put the nut drivers in the correct...
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05.15.25 (MP3): Big Speakers, Old Stereo Equipment, Fresh Four-Wheeling Plans, the Value of a Good Repairman, the Threat of Spies in Modern "Connected" Electronics, & Some Excellent Weirdo R.I.P.s for Joe Don Baker, George Wendt & Bruce Glover
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Catching up with the backup - it's a timely episode of the Garage Hour (not to be cornfused with the usual when-we-can upload freakout). There are still a few more further-behind units to be kicked into production, so don't worry - you won't miss a thing. What's in this 'un? Good electronics versus new, "dumb" appliances versus robot vacuums conspiring with the 'fridge, and the importance of having a good TV repairman up your sleeve. There's a stint with the inevitable: electric cars and why taxpayer dough makes them soft and flabby (and inevitable losers); a possible...
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05.15.25: Big Speakers, Old Stereo Equipment, Fresh Four-Wheeling Plans, the Value of a Good Repairman, the Threat of Spies in Modern "Connected" Electronics, & Some Excellent Weirdo R.I.P.s for Joe Don Baker, George Wendt & Bruce Glover
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Catching up with the backup - it's a timely episode of the Garage Hour (not to be cornfused with the usual when-we-can upload freakout). There are still a few more further-behind units to be kicked into production, so don't worry - you won't miss a thing. What's in this 'un? Good electronics versus new, "dumb" appliances versus robot vacuums conspiring with the 'fridge, and the importance of having a good TV repairman up your sleeve. There's a stint with the inevitable: electric cars and why taxpayer dough makes them soft and flabby (and inevitable losers); a possible...
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04.04.25 (MP3): Pure Garagesound - Maintenance Cleaning VS Show Detailing, Truck Bumpers & Trail Tires, Grenadiers & 4Runners, + Old Stereo Equipment, Lousy AI Ad Reads, Karma to Burn, the CA Car Duster & JF Summit #3
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
If you've got a year's worth of 'froading fun (ie: dirt) crammed into every corner of your truck, reaching a "perfect" clean might not be a thing. Instead, aim for "maintenance clean" - the body is rinsed off, the two-bucket method is in overdrive, the dirt is gone, and the rig is neat enough that you can go back to work fixing what you broke on-trail (or wash it again to a state of "show detailed"). The Garage Hour discusses how. We also chat about the need for a good fabrication guy, and why a good can of Krylon can be essential to your truckly appearance. There's also fun times...
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04.04.25: Pure Garagesound - Maintenance Cleaning VS Show Detailing, Truck Bumpers & Trail Tires, Grenadiers & 4Runners, + Old Stereo Equipment, Lousy AI Ad Reads, Karma to Burn, the CA Car Duster & JF Summit #3
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
If you've got a year's worth of 'froading fun (ie: dirt) crammed into every corner of your truck, reaching a "perfect" clean might not be a thing. Instead, aim for "maintenance clean" - the body is rinsed off, the two-bucket method is in overdrive, the dirt is gone, and the rig is neat enough that you can go back to work fixing what you broke on-trail (or wash it again to a state of "show detailed"). The Garage Hour discusses how. We also chat about the need for a good fabrication guy, and why a good can of Krylon can be essential to your truckly appearance. There's also fun times...
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03.25.25 (MP3): Most Random Episode... .40S&W & .357 Sig (Boutique VS Fad), F:30 Redux & ACME Pickups, Camel Spiders & Vinegaroons, Mountains for 'Froading, Bad Laws in CA Jr (for Goading), + Dude Food: Meatloaf, Eatloaf, w/ Dunkels & Lagers @ Bierwerks
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and White Mark the Diversity Hire got lost in the hills (and their minds) for this one: two-lane blacktop uphill to see our old friends at Freedom:30 Arms for some lasers and weirdo rounds spurred the conversation about what makes a bullet a boutique round instead of a fad, and why .40 Smith & Wesson has staying power versus Mark's freaky LE-favorite .357 Sig Sauer. We also get some Dude Food going, with a debate about how meat patties can be a loaf instead of a patty, and why the meat's more important than the shape of it. There's also mountains to...
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03.25.25: Most Random Episode... .40S&W & .357 Sig (Boutique VS Fad), F:30 Redux & ACME Pickups, Camel Spiders & Vinegaroons, Mountains for 'Froading, Bad Laws in CA Jr (for Goading), + Dude Food: Meatloaf, Eatloaf, w/ Dunkels & Lagers @ Bierwerks
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and White Mark the Diversity Hire got lost in the hills (and their minds) for this one: two-lane blacktop uphill to see our old friends at Freedom:30 Arms for some lasers and weirdo rounds spurred the conversation about what makes a bullet a boutique round instead of a fad, and why .40 Smith & Wesson has staying power versus Mark's freaky LE-favorite .357 Sig Sauer. We also get some Dude Food going, with a debate about how meat patties can be a loaf instead of a patty, and why the meat's more important than the shape of it. There's also mountains to...
info_outlineSo 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, you're dumber.
- Remember when people bragged about being an elitist?
- Police bodycams are backfiring on politicians.
While we're in there - and because the Garage Hour's audience appreciates folks who showed up and brought their A-game - we've got a heartfelt sendoff and Excellent Weirdo RIP for two great neighbors, George and Betty. The world needs more folks like this, and we'll miss them.