08.14.25: Carmakers Stealing Performance (from You), Right-To-Repair (for You), Camping World's FU, NPR Discovers Tractor Pulls (Duhh, You), Illegal Truckers Could Kill You, Filipinos Give China a Screw You, & Excellent Weirdo RIP to Terrence Stamp
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Release Date: 09/02/2025
12.22.25 (MP3): (Last Minute) Gifts for Gearheads! ...From Hard Parts to Hard to Find Parts, Tools for Pros, Found On Road Awesome, Old Snowplows (Never Die), Locks for Honest People, + Chuck Norris, Jayne & Vera, Excellent Surf Guitar
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Got some gifting goodies for the gearhead in your day (a little late, we know...) - tap in while Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and The Walkin' Dude get together in BFE for a night in the garage and a list of ideas for your last minute shopping. Most of these are pretty easy, too, so you really CAN do it today. Everything from tools (themed upfitting, anyone?), training (welding, driving or wiring?), preparedness (ready for your next disappearing act?), lighting (but not blinding!), gifts made in the U.S.A. (easier than you think!), chemicals (is it empty?), period-correct movies...
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12.22.25: (Last Minute) Gifts for Gearheads! ...From Hard Parts to Hard to Find Parts, Tools for Pros, Found On Road Awesome, Old Snowplows (Never Die), Locks for Honest People, + Chuck Norris, Jayne & Vera, Excellent Surf Guitar
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Got some gifting goodies for the gearhead in your day (a little late, we know...) - tap in while Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and The Walkin' Dude get together in BFE for a night in the garage and a list of ideas for your last minute shopping. Most of these are pretty easy, too, so you really CAN do it today. Everything from tools (themed upfitting, anyone?), training (welding, driving or wiring?), preparedness (ready for your next disappearing act?), lighting (but not blinding!), gifts made in the U.S.A. (easier than you think!), chemicals (is it empty?), period-correct movies...
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12.12.25 (MP3): 43-Car Pileups & Winter Driving VS Your Performance Envelope, Jaguar & Land Rover VS Woke, Dashboard Distractions from Subaru, Pulling the Plug on CAFE Standards, Driving High (F'N Stop Already), Camera Glasses & Artificial Stupidity
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Wellllll... Don't blame we - holidays came quick this year and nothing's getting done beyond Christmas trees and gifts for Mom. There's a high-q Garage Hour for you right here, though (found time between wrapping and trimming), with a sleigh load of gearhead goodness. Subaru's trying to extra-distract you while driving by piping ads through the silly screen in the dash, Jaguar's trying to save itself from the 95% fail of their woketarded rainbow-sprocket rebrand by firing the guy who green-lighted it, the Trump administration is trying to save Americans from terrible and...
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12.12.25: 43-Car Pileups & Winter Driving VS Your Performance Envelope, Jaguar & Land Rover VS Woke, Dashboard Distractions from Subaru, Pulling the Plug on CAFE Standards, Driving High (F'N Stop Already), Camera Glasses & Artificial Stupidity
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Wellllll... Don't blame we - holidays came quick this year and nothing's getting done beyond Christmas trees and gifts for Mom. There's a high-q Garage Hour for you right here, though (found time between wrapping and trimming), with a sleigh load of gearhead goodness. Subaru's trying to extra-distract you while driving by piping ads through the silly screen in the dash, Jaguar's trying to save itself from the 95% fail of their woketarded rainbow-sprocket rebrand by firing the guy who green-lighted it, the Trump administration is trying to save Americans from terrible and...
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11.05.25 (MP3): Revel in the MultiGeek - Beware the Pressure Washer, When Animals Attack the Garage Hour (Bears, Bears & Savages, Oh My), More Battery Plant & Electric Car Fails, & Drunken History @ the Edmund Fitzgerald, + Surf Guitar & Dead Guys
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Some shows are just a pile of shiny stuff passing over the electrodes in the hosts' brains, and this one's some of that: a rant about how much damage your pressure washer is causing (your cars and your homes), the things living in the woods and what you're doing to be prepared for them (bears in Japan, more bears in Europe, wolves in Colorado, and rioters in your front yard), Vanagons, Synchros, Dude Food, the lethal levels of fail in statist electric car manufacturing and ownership (and the lethal levels of stupid in their owners' brains), and some pretty-far-into-the-Dead-Guy-ales history of...
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11.05.25: Revel in the MultiGeek - Beware the Pressure Washer, When Animals Attack the Garage Hour (Bears, Bears & Savages, Oh My), More Battery Plant & Electric Car Fails, & Drunken History @ the Edmund Fitzgerald, + Surf Guitar & Dead Guys
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Some shows are just a pile of shiny stuff passing over the electrodes in the hosts' brains, and this one's some of that: a rant about how much damage your pressure washer is causing (your cars and your homes), the things living in the woods and what you're doing to be prepared for them (bears in Japan, more bears in Europe, wolves in Colorado, and rioters in your front yard), Vanagons, Synchros, Dude Food, the lethal levels of fail in statist electric car manufacturing and ownership (and the lethal levels of stupid in their owners' brains), and some pretty-far-into-the-Dead-Guy-ales history of...
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09.21.25 (MP3): Exploding Engines & Exploding Beers, Heads VS Blocks, Aluminum VS Iron, BMW VS Dodge, FIPG VS RTV, Best-By VS Good-By, Fel-Pro VS Mahle, Mexican VS American Optimas, R.E.I. VS KCBQ, Dino VS Synthetic & Dakota Pickups VS Winter
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
How about a high-Q blowout from Other Ryan's garage, where the ongoing parade of attempts to get a junkyard manifold to align with a junkyard 5.9 (hey, $400 with a set of equal-lengths can't be all bad) turns into a great piece of show. From tales of how the usually dependable 5.9 lump could go from power to just POW, Freiburger's motorhomes and Péwé's Jeeps, professional drivers and drifters, and tanks buried all over Europe, to Nayr Zedlav and Nutsij Trof's thoughts on getting the dissimilar surfaces in an engine to mate up... You'll probably learn something - sorry about that....
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09.21.25: Exploding Engines & Exploding Beers, Heads VS Blocks, Aluminum VS Iron, BMW VS Dodge, FIPG VS RTV, Best-By VS Good-By, Fel-Pro VS Mahle, Mexican VS American Optimas, R.E.I. VS KCBQ, Dino VS Synthetic & Dakota Pickups VS Winter
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
How about a high-Q blowout from Other Ryan's garage, where the ongoing parade of attempts to get a junkyard manifold to align with a junkyard 5.9 (hey, $400 with a set of equal-lengths can't be all bad) turns into a great piece of show. From tales of how the usually dependable 5.9 lump could go from power to just POW, Freiburger's motorhomes and Péwé's Jeeps, professional drivers and drifters, and tanks buried all over Europe, to Nayr Zedlav and Nutsij Trof's thoughts on getting the dissimilar surfaces in an engine to mate up.. You'll probably learn something - sorry about that. ...
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10.20.25 (MP3): 911s New & Old, Grenadier T-Cases Working & Popped, Trail Rigs Pricey & Parts, & All About the Sauce - Real Deal's Bloody Mary, Pizza Port's Chronic Amber, + Adam Duce from Machine Head & Dennis Combs (Luckiest Man in the World)
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Between so many interruptions - the politicking and the Chinese food, phone calls from friends and parts percolating in the garadtch - White Mark the Diversity Hire and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort were lucky to get through this one at all. What's in it? Skyrocketing values of old 911s and the cost of our buddy the Doc's new pistachio GT2; strange new clunks in the new Grenader; comfortable old clunks in a 300K 4Runner. Then it's all about the sauce: the Real Dill's Bloody Mary mix, Pizza Port's Chronic Amber Ale, Stone Brewing in Pt. Loma, and the return of Gilark Bourbon with...
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10.20.25: 911s New & Old, Grenadier T-Cases Working & Popped, Trail Rigs Pricey & Parts, & All About the Sauce - Real Deal's Bloody Mary, Pizza Port's Chronic Amber, + Adam Duce from Machine Head & Dennis Combs (Luckiest Man in the World)
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Between so many interruptions - the politicking and the Chinese food, phone calls from friends and parts percolating in the garadtch - White Mark the Diversity Hire and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort were lucky to get through this one at all. What's in it? Skyrocketing values of old 911s and the cost of our buddy the Doc's new pistachio GT2; strange new clunks in the new Grenader; comfortable old clunks in a 300K 4Runner. Then it's all about the sauce: the Real Dill's Bloody Mary mix, Pizza Port's Chronic Amber Ale, Stone Brewing in Pt. Loma, and the return of Gilark Bourbon with...
info_outlineAre you a maker or a taker? We've made nothing but the good stuff on this episode: automaker OEs forgetting who owns the cars they sold (you) and taking away the performance over the phone (and forgetting the rules of Right-To-Repair as outlined by champs like Steve Wozniak and the federal case against John Deere). Speaking of tractors, we've got a study of the big-head elitist media whackos at NPR who are either pretending they just discovered tractor pulling or they're actually that clueless. There's also the new measurement of horse-pounds (when HP and FT-LBs ain't enough), Camping World's big American flags and even bigger FU to every city that complains about 'em, some thoughts about the hazards of folks who break into your country being allowed to drive 40,000lb not-very-guided cruise missiles, and some great video of a small Philippines Coast Guard cruiser outsmarting two Chinese warships into ramming each other.
Backing it all up - literally and metaphorically - is The Prodigy and a proper Excellent Weirdo RIP for classic English acting oddball Terrence Stamp (if you haven't seen him in "The Limey", you're missing out - dude could act, and that movie's got fire and some high-Q ass-kicking).