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
Release Date: 11/17/2025
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...
info_outlineHank 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...
info_outlineHank 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...
info_outlineHank 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...
info_outlineHank 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...
info_outlineHank 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...
info_outlineHank 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...
info_outlineHank 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...
info_outlineHank 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_outlineHank 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_outlineBetween 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 batch #6 (vanilla and maple and oh so smooth)

Then it's the fun outside interestingness that makes the Garage Hour more than human: Mark's pal Adam Duce of MachineHead, Justin's pal Jaimz of Off-Road.com, Dennis Combs (the Luckiest Man in the World) and tales of brine shrimp and junk bonds, plus Sen. McCarran versus Harry Reid, warthog moats, JF Summit 4, Fatso Jetson and the Truckfighters.