10.15.25 (MP3): Curvy Roads & ATVs Necessitate Skills & Brains (...& They're Not Always Enough), Car Fads' Functionality Fail, a (VW) Buzz No One Wants, Big Boy 4014 Thunders Back for 2026, What's the Guardian of Liberty?, Sunken Treasure, + Amon Tobin
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Release Date: 10/30/2025
01.06.26 (MP3): Fun w/ Wires & 3-Way Electrocution, Decent Pavement & Good On-Ramps, Fixture Fixes & Appliance Cavemen, Fragile Germans & Peat Kurgans, French Burn Cars & Illegals Steal Fewer, Bird Blender Builders, McRib Eaters & Making Kids Gun-Safe
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Gearheads do things and make stuff because they're doers at heart. Just add tools and bolts and wires and parts (it's all ball bearings anyway) and fixing happens, no matter where we're pointed. Make your house happy and point yourself at some walls and ceilings for an hour - it's more fun with wiring. What's more: multimeters, wire nuts, 10-minute crashing guitar murder, dikes and strippers, and blaming hippies. For fun: massive blackouts in first-world countries show they can't even subsist at third-world levels, laws to protect 'froaders, campers, bikers and hikers...
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01.06.26: Fun w/ Wires & 3-Way Electrocution, Decent Pavement & Good On-Ramps, Fixture Fixes & Appliance Cavemen, Fragile Germans & Peat Kurgans, French Burn Cars & Illegals Steal Fewer, Bird Blender Builders, McRib Eaters & Making Kids Gun-Safe
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Gearheads do things and make stuff because they're doers at heart. Just add tools and bolts and wires and parts (it's all ball bearings anyway) and fixing happens, no matter where we're pointed. Make your house happy and point yourself at some walls and ceilings for an hour - it's more fun with wiring. What's more: multimeters, wire nuts, 10-minute crashing guitar murder, dikes and strippers, and blaming hippies. For fun: massive blackouts in first-world countries show they can't even subsist at third-world levels, laws to protect 'froaders, campers, bikers and hikers...
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11.21.25 (MP3): Targa Tasmania (It's Back), Diesel Mechanic Pardoned (Right Thing), Brewery & Distillery Growing Pains (Because Trendy), Interesting Asteroid or Invading Aliens (Drinking w/ Aliens), + Burning Battery Walls & CA VS Drivers
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
So much show, show little time. ...Still uploading episodes from 2025 - this one was close at hand. It starts with a look at distilleries like Jim Beam and others which are having a hard time coping with market movement, and how it's an analog to brewery behavior in years past (including outfits now and gone like Manzanita, Butcher's, Ballast Point, Breckenridge and more), and then overrules it all with the potential alien invasion loaded up on an "asteroid" named 3I/Atlas (perhaps they like beer). Curveballs continue with extra arms and prehensile tails, and then there's the...
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11.21.25: Targa Tasmania (It's Back), Diesel Mechanic Pardoned (Right Thing), Brewery & Distillery Growing Pains (Because Trendy), Interesting Asteroid or Invading Aliens (Drinking w/ Aliens), + Burning Battery Walls & CA VS Drivers
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
So much show, show little time. ...Still uploading episodes from 2025 - this one was close at hand. It starts with a look at distilleries like Jim Beam and others which are having a hard time coping with market movement, and how it's an analog to brewery behavior in years past (including outfits now and gone like Manzanita, Butcher's, Ballast Point, Breckenridge and more), and then overrules it all with the potential alien invasion loaded up on an "asteroid" named 3I/Atlas (perhaps they like beer). Curveballs continue with extra arms and prehensile tails, and then there's the...
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12.31.25 (MP3): 2025 GTFO w/ Gearhead Goodness - Toyota Stereos, Scion Albums, Hard Copies VS Cloud Farts, Electric Bus Fails (While Power Provision Chokes), Jeep Recalls, Bad People Do Bad Things (Stop Blaming Guns), & an Inner City Rich Kid VS da NYPD
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Why not finish the year with a geek-strength pile-on: we've got everything from robot cars freezing up in blackouts to electric Jeeps blowing up in garages, rich fat girls getting high and running over the NYPD, the importance of being prepared for your adventure (whether at sea in your sweet fishing boat or on-trail in your busted up rock rig), and electric school busses that can't keep kids warm (let alone work on hills, in the cold, with a load, or in any municipality's budget). There's also a maddening report on the ongoing inability of bureaucrats to make the Dem's watermelon...
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12.31.25: 2025 GTFO w/ Gearhead Goodness - Toyota Stereos, Scion Albums, Hard Copies VS Cloud Farts, Electric Bus Fails (While Power Provision Chokes), Jeep Recalls, Bad People Do Bad Things (Stop Blaming Guns), & an Inner City Rich Kid VS da NYPD
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Why not finish the year with a geek-strength pile-on: we've got everything from robot cars freezing up in blackouts to electric Jeeps blowing up in garages, rich fat girls getting high and running over the NYPD, the importance of being prepared for your adventure (whether at sea in your sweet fishing boat or on-trail in your busted up rock rig), and electric school busses that can't keep kids warm (let alone work on hills, in the cold, with a load, or in any municipality's budget). There's also a maddening report on the ongoing inability of bureaucrats to make the Dem's watermelon...
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12.25.25 (MP3): Christmas Report (from the Gearhead Planet), w/ Good Gift Rules for the Geeks in Your Life, Santa's Hot Rod, Fireplaces & Yule Logs, Sit-Down-Together Movies, Focusing on Giving, Crazy Christmas Weather, + Burl Ives & James Bond
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Everything Christmas from Where the Gearheads Are (with a little Judiasm and Islam thrown in), we've got a fun Xmas Day analysis of what's up in OUR world. Why is it important to focus on being the giver? How can you put all the phones away - if but for a day? How do you overcome the challenge of shopping for a geek (shooters, gamers, gardeners, stereophiles and makers worldwide need apply)? Why is "Sleigh Ride" the best Christmas song (even if it's 70º and sunny)? Can a Xmas turkey (chili) satisfy all comers? Is untraditional (or is it non?) Xmas music...
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12.25.25: Christmas Report (from the Gearhead Planet), w/ Good Gift Rules for the Geeks in Your Life, Santa's Hot Rod, Fireplaces & Yule Logs, Sit-Down-Together Movies, Focusing on Giving, Crazy Christmas Weather, + Burl Ives & James Bond
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Everything Christmas from Where the Gearheads Are (with a little Judiasm and Islam thrown in), we've got a fun Xmas Day analysis of what's up in OUR world. Why is it important to focus on being the giver? How can you put all the phones away - if but for a day? How do you overcome the challenge of shopping for a geek (shooters, gamers, gardeners, stereophiles and makers worldwide need apply)? Why is "Sleigh Ride" the best Christmas song (even if it's 70º and sunny)? Can a Xmas turkey (chili) satisfy all comers? Is untraditional (or is it non?) Xmas music...
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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...
info_outlineSome marginal catching up going on here; more episodes in the queue... What's in it? Car fads like the BMW 3-Series, Audi 5000 and SAAB 900s versus electric cars, and how the electric car fad is coming to grief over its feasibility issues (couldn't help ourselves); a microcosm of plug-in car failures in the Volkswagen Buzz (and why no one's buying the hype because it doesn't match the myth - or reality - of the original VW Bus). There's curvy road fun (and failure) with Colorado's fabulous, famous and frightening 550 - a nice job by Zebulon Pike - and why you shouldn't try to mess with your phone when a right turn starts with a 300ft curb. We also take a somber moment to discuss being safe with your ATV because it's easy to get yourself killed on a quad or snowmobile, even when you've got the money of a Lending Tree CEO or the skillset of a Ken Block. Risk takes brains and skill, and even that ain't always enough (...'Tis better to hit the deer than miss the road).
There's more about Big Boy 4014's plans for a coast-to-coast run in 2026, sunken treasure from Florida's Treasure Coast, Blackbeard, Tommy Thompson and the S.S. Central America, the French pick a winner with the Guardian of Liberty, a new door kills an old finger, plus Amon Tobin rolls tracks throughout; with details on albums and soundtracks (just "Like Regular Chickens").