02.16.26 (MP3): Fog Wrecks & Shipwrecks, Hypermiling & the Stupid Stoplight Button, CO2 is Good for You, Recalls for Quiet Electrics, How Not to Get Arrested by the Police, & Texas VS Evil Chinese Mystery Seeds, + More History (Schmistory)
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Release Date: 02/28/2026
04.02.26 (MP3): U.S.A. VS Chinese Cars (Park the Pinko Peril), Dude-Don't D.U.I. (Learn a Lesson from Tiger's Travails), Fixing Things Because You Can (Drive Belts VS Digital), Used Car Prices: New VS Old, + So Much Zep & Rando Beer Adventures
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Some serious stuff lands better with humor, so help yuck up some doom and gloom with the Garage Hour gearheads. We've got the potential peril of cars made in China (everything from unactuated robot cars and vampire technology to dangerously chintzy products and blatant trademark infringement) and the real-life lessons you and we can learn from the rinse-and-repeat episodes of Tiger Woods' DUIs (let the celeb make the mistake for you). From there, there's some thought development on a schism developing in the used car market (new and old - divergent, but why?), and a reminder that...
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04.02.26: U.S.A. VS Chinese Cars (Park the Pinko Peril), Dude-Don't D.U.I. (Learn a Lesson from Tiger's Travails), Fixing Things Because You Can (Drive Belts VS Digital), Used Car Prices: New VS Old, + So Much Zep & Rando Beer Adventures
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Some serious stuff lands better with humor, so help yuck up some doom and gloom with the Garage Hour gearheads. We've got the potential peril of cars made in China (everything from unactuated robot cars and vampire technology to dangerously chintzy products and blatant trademark infringement) and the real-life lessons you and we can learn from the rinse-and-repeat episodes of Tiger Woods' DUIs (let the celeb make the mistake for you). From there, there's some thought development on a schism developing in the used car market (new and old - divergent, but why?), and a reminder that...
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03.32.26 (MP3): Lift Your Car Why, Clunk Your Truck Now, Used Car Values Do What, Earth Sounds (or Man Fans) Make AI Worse, Progress is Sonic Booms, the Historic Argument for VW Building Weapons for Israel, Phalanx for Fun & Profit, & a Shark Named Bruce
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
The Garage Hour: ignoring life's biggest questions because gearhead (or racecar - you choose). We've got everything in this one: why lift your car when you could buy a truck; why the Concorde's awesomeness was so early we missed it; why Volkswagen is building missiles for Israel (mis-Israel?) (and why Ford, GM, AM General and 100 other good manufacturers did the same); why the FTC is eyeballing car sellers, why the cooling needs of AI and data centers will make your brain hurt (and drive their neighbors crazy); why more automakers are not making electric cars; and why so many car...
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03.32.26: Lift Your Car Why, Clunk Your Truck Now, Used Car Values Do What, Earth Sounds (or Man Fans) Make AI Worse, Progress is Sonic Booms, the Historic Argument for VW Building Weapons for Israel, Phalanx for Fun & Profit, & a Shark Named Bruce
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
The Garage Hour: ignoring life's biggest questions because gearhead (or racecar - you choose). We've got everything in this one: why lift your car when you could buy a truck; why the Concorde's awesomeness was so early we missed it; why Volkswagen is building missiles for Israel (mis-Israel?) (and why Ford, GM, AM General and 100 other good manufacturers did the same); why the FTC is eyeballing car sellers, why the cooling needs of AI and data centers will make your brain hurt (and drive their neighbors crazy); why more automakers are not making electric cars; and why so many car...
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03.12.26 (MP3): Gearhead Excellence from B.F.E. - Toys in the 'Woods, Speaking Jeep, Phoneless Errands, Landau Tops & Grand Coupes, Brakes & Ball-Joints, Leafs & Shackles, Hammers & Bald Mtn (Night Run?), + Stocking Firewood, Fred's Face & 3x5" Cards
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Time for an hour of Black Forest Excellence at Dan's Burrito & Taco Emporium... With enough beer in us to speak Jeep (many F.I.A.T. jokes, plus tonned and LS'd), the Gearhead Consultancy got together in the deep dark woods to chat out the things that matter: 1UZ oil pans, JFS4, Bud Light (back when chainsaws were still funny), tire pressure, heat cycling, expensive brake pads, and keeping the leafs from bonking the frame (of a 4Runner?). There's also Fat Foot Syndrome versus heel-and-toe, rollover Exploders versus the '99 4Runner, and the value of expensive brake pads. Meanwhile, back at...
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03.12.26: Gearhead Excellence from B.F.E. - Toys in the 'Woods, Speaking Jeep, Phoneless Errands, Landau Tops & Grand Coupes, Brakes & Ball-Joints, Leafs & Shackles, Hammers & Bald Mtn (Night Run?), + Stocking Firewood, Fred's Face & 3x5" Cards
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Time for an hour of Black Forest Excellence at Dan's Burrito & Taco Emporium... With enough beer in us to speak Jeep (many F.I.A.T. jokes, plus tonned and LS'd), the Gearhead Consultancy got together in the deep dark woods to chat out the things that matter: 1UZ oil pans, JFS4, Bud Light (back when chainsaws were still funny), tire pressure, heat cycling, expensive brake pads, and keeping the leafs from bonking the frame (of a 4Runner?). There's also Fat Foot Syndrome versus heel-and-toe, rollover Exploders versus the '99 4Runner, and the value of expensive brake pads. Meanwhile, back at...
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03.23.26 (MP3): Because Racecar! Garage Hour Does Race Prep w/ Jim & Jimmy Ford, + Belts, Welds, & Never Accepting Second, 9000RPM, 6-Inch Exhaust, Yuge Generators, 1st-Gear Turns & Slap Stick Sequentials (Technology Is Finally Good For Something)
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and regular liveregulator Ryan the BMW Guy were roaming backwoods 'Springs and happened upon the compound of PPIHC Open Class contenders Jim and Jimmy Ford. These guys are so serious about homebuilt, homedriven all-comers competition in the most famous hillclimb in the world they didn't even waste time on new names. ...And lurking in the the Ford Garage Bar is one very evolved, poked and stroked Roush-Yates Windsor-powered Trans-Am TA-1 car (and all the stories that power it). ...This episode was so good we had to skip a few. (Don't worry, they're comin' up next.) ...
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03.23.26: Because Racecar! Garage Hour Does Race Prep w/ Jim & Jimmy Ford, + Belts, Welds, & Never Accepting Second, 9000RPM, 6-Inch Exhaust, Yuge Generators, 1st-Gear Turns & Slap Stick Sequentials (Technology Is Finally Good For Something)
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and regular liveregulator Ryan the BMW Guy were roaming backwoods 'Springs and happened upon the compound of PPIHC Open Class contenders Jim and Jimmy Ford. These guys are so serious about homebuilt, homedriven all-comers competition in the most famous hillclimb in the world they didn't even waste time on new names. ...And lurking in the the Ford Garage Bar is one very evolved, poked and stroked Roush-Yates Windsor-powered Trans-Am TA-1 car (and all the stories that power it). ...This episode was so good we had to skip a few. (Don't worry, they're comin' up next.) ...
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03.03.26 (MP3): Tactical Recall Robot Trolley Truck Mushbrain Motorist Madness... Ford, Porsche, BMW, Tesla, Subie, & a Sinkhole, a Satellite & a Starter (On Fire), + Shooting Classes, Spaceships, Samurai Cat & So Much NIN
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Ever look up and wonder what you're looking at? Well, this time it's the Garage Hour. We're too busy to pull a Strangelove, however - there's a space station (international), a satellite (train or track), and a semi that got punted into orbit by Ktulu's little brother, Bl'Slyu. Pile them in with a mess of auto manufacturer recalls from the likes of Ford, Porsche, Tesla and BMW (just in case your driveshaft is separating, your cameras are shorting, or your fuel pump ain't), a few robot semis (those that escaped Bl'Slyu's wrath), an out-of-control tram (a trolley, but for fancy people), the...
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03.03.26: Tactical Recall Robot Trolley Truck Mushbrain Motorist Madness... Ford, Porsche, BMW, Tesla, Subie, & a Sinkhole, a Satellite & a Starter (On Fire), + Shooting Classes, Spaceships, Samurai Cat & So Much NIN
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Ever look up and wonder what you're looking at? Well, this time it's the Garage Hour. We're too busy to pull a Strangelove, however - there's a space station (international), a satellite (train or track), and a semi that got punted into orbit by Ktulu's little brother, Bl'Slyu. Pile them in with a mess of auto manufacturer recalls from the likes of Ford, Porsche, Tesla and BMW (just in case your driveshaft is separating, your cameras are shorting, or your fuel pump ain't), a few robot semis (those that escaped Bl'Slyu's wrath), an out-of-control tram (a trolley, but for fancy people), the...
info_outlineOrder, schmorder - this much gearhead goodness doesn't need "order" (especially when an episode at the junkyard had to hit beforehand)... This episode is in good Garage Hour form: reporting from the industry (the stupid stoplight shutoff feature that nobody likes and does literally nothing beneficial is no longer necessary - kind'a like that belt buzzer from the '70s), musings on interesting/weird/underappreciated automotive trends (hypermiling, anyone?), warnings for idiots (about idiots?) about driving in the fog (because "smart" cars just make soyboys and bullygirls dumber), a couple recalls for bad manufacturing, and a few ideas about not being a psycho liar when you get pulled over by Johnny Law (and advice on how treat the fuzz and NOT to get a ticket when you do something adventurous in your vehicle).
Then it's the usual awesomesoup: sheetrock sucks, string cheese and scamorza at Mollica's, the neighbor chick caught pickin' her nose again, why CO2 is just great, why Scapa Flow in particular and shipwrecks in general are just interesting, why you should never plant the mystery seeds, PPIHC 2026, phones not in your bedroom, and COC, Contagion, the Blues Bros., Tom Waits, Dire Straits, and Dog Fashion Disco.