Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns

What'cha like? The big drop-in at Sand Dam? Shooting the sand to reach the rocks? Robbie Gordon VS in-car cameras? Truggies and Miatas? San Diego 4-Wheelers? The annual Superstition Run? Got'cha covered; it's in here. Also in here is Metallica, Suicidal Tendencies and Glenn Danzig on stage, Ranger hatred, WRXs at Oldsmobile Hill, rollers for fun and profit, New York's "Connector", why old cop cars are cool and the Mexican Pursuit Superbird. ... YOU try spending two straight days off-roading then driving 100 miles straight to the studio, then doing an hour of killer gearhead talk on two-hours sleep. Yikes - thank God for good cohosts (we had Mr. Dustin, Straight Edge and the imperturbable David Lozeau along for the grinding halt of Justin Fort's mental function).

What'cha like? The big drop-in at Sand Dam? Shooting the sand to reach the rocks? Robbie Gordon VS in-car cameras? Truggies and Miatas? San Diego 4-Wheelers? The annual Superstition Run? Got'cha covered; it's in here. Also in here is Metallica, Suicidal Tendencies and Glenn Danzig on stage, Ranger hatred, WRXs at Oldsmobile Hill, rollers for fun and profit, New York's "Connector", why old cop cars are cool and the Mexican Pursuit Superbird. ... YOU try spending two straight days off-roading then driving 100 miles straight to the studio, then doing an hour of killer gearhead talk on two-hours sleep. Yikes - thank God for good cohosts (we had Mr. Dustin, Straight Edge and the imperturbable David Lozeau along for the grinding halt of Justin Fort's mental function).

In a remarkable feat of staying on-topic, the Garage Hour assembled the Gearhead Consultancy and actually managed to talk about their favorite gifts for Those Who Turn Wrenches - for the whole show! The Diesel Ayatollah breezed in for this in-garage episode. Grab a mental wrench: goodies for the geekiest and greasiest, magazines in the (vapid) age of the web, Brock Yates, the Fummings, paying attention while driving (with #foundonroadawesome), and the Gift That Shall Not Be Named. Because Garage Hour.

In a remarkable feat of staying on-topic, the Garage Hour assembled the Gearhead Consultancy and actually managed to talk about their favorite gifts for Those Who Turn Wrenches - for the whole show! The Diesel Ayatollah breezed in for this in-garage episode. Grab a mental wrench: goodies for the geekiest and greasiest, magazines in the (vapid) age of the web, Brock Yates, the Fummings, paying attention while driving (with #foundonroadawesome), and the Gift That Shall Not Be Named. Because Garage Hour.

Garage Hour reload: the Poseur List. Everything you do to your ride that guarantees you're not cool (or just an idiot). Worse - even if you aren't a schmuck, these are the build decisions make you look like one. Everything from anti-tuning to bad towing, parts fighting parts, and stiff lifts, your embarrassments are cataloged. We're here to help. In pure Garage Hour tradition, Dirty Dave and Grizzly Chris ensured we got lost in other stuff - Greedo shot in the speedo, Blazing Haley, the new Pizza Port (now liquor), falling down drunk in your own front yard, and a chat with Tuna Pete from Barona Dragstrip. Why not? It's the Garage Hour.

Garage Hour reload: the Poseur List. Everything you do to your ride that guarantees you're not cool (or just an idiot). Worse - even if you aren't a schmuck, these are the build decisions make you look like one. Everything from anti-tuning to bad towing, parts fighting parts, and stiff lifts, your embarrassments are cataloged. We're here to help. In pure Garage Hour tradition, Dirty Dave and Grizzly Chris ensured we got lost in other stuff - Greedo shot in the speedo, Blazing Haley, the new Pizza Port (now liquor), falling down drunk in your own front yard, and a chat with Tuna Pete from Barona Dragstrip. Why not? It's the Garage Hour.

The Garage Hour: we've been waiting for you. What started out as the Garage Hour's famous "Gearhead Gifting" special rapidly veered off-course into fighting men (from dive-bombing presidents to white-sheet navy) and their weapons (from quad-.50 M-16 half-tracks to clip-pinging Garands), the toilet librarian, the growing hazard posed by a desperate Chinese military in the South Pacific, Silkworms, Phalanxes, the brown note and sage words from .45 Phil. Gringo Rich and the Diesel Ayatollah join the fracas at Protector Brewery, where the Gearhead Consultancy sipped the lasted batch of Defender IPA, Baghdad Special and West Coast while lamenting the absence of The Juice and Pineapple Grenade (the beer).

The Garage Hour: we've been waiting for you. What started out as the Garage Hour's famous "Gearhead Gifting" special rapidly veered off-course into fighting men (from dive-bombing presidents to white-sheet navy) and their weapons (from quad-.50 M-16 half-tracks to clip-pinging Garands), the toilet librarian, the growing hazard posed by a desperate Chinese military in the South Pacific, Silkworms, Phalanxes, the brown note and sage words from .45 Phil. Gringo Rich and the Diesel Ayatollah join the fracas at Protector Brewery, where the Gearhead Consultancy sipped the lasted batch of Defender IPA, Baghdad Special and West Coast while lamenting the absence of The Juice and Pineapple Grenade (the beer).

Ahhhh, Garage Hour. Just the scratch for your #FBlackFriday itch - we've got standard-issue gen-Z and hipster harassment (you poor phone-zombie shopping fools), plus a whole lot of real-people stuff like duck, pheasant, goose and crane hunting (#skysteak), beers and drinking in France, shop-vacs, axis spins and the introduction of Chooch from Subie Stickers. Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and gun-building machine Gringo Rich (#militaryhaircuts) also jumped on for this episode from Protector Brewery, which means whether you're proud of your #meatonastick or just want to #wandyourjerky, we've got your #gearheadfix.

Ahhhh, Garage Hour. Just the scratch for your #FBlackFriday itch - we've got standard-issue gen-Z and hipster harassment (you poor phone-zombie shopping fools), plus a whole lot of real-people stuff like duck, pheasant, goose and crane hunting (#skysteak), beers and drinking in France, shop-vacs, axis spins and the introduction of Chooch from Subie Stickers. Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and gun-building machine Gringo Rich (#militaryhaircuts) also jumped on for this episode from Protector Brewery, which means whether you're proud of your #meatonastick or just want to #wandyourjerky, we've got your #gearheadfix.

No fartin' around here: straight from the garage, the Gearhead Consultancy discusses its newfound free-to-we old-school monster Snap-On toolbox, as well as how to haul it without murdering all the people in traffic so unfortunate as to be in our rear-view. The Garage Hour goons also dig into toolbox values, weight, dimensions, cleaning, lifting and unloading, how many guys it takes (and how many beers), craftsmanship, theft, moving, and how many urban campers can live in one. More goodies: Baja 1000 border fun, tales of rock, roll, techno and new shows, Duramax versus EcoBoost, "real" versus Chinese straps, Found On Road Awesome, and what Navy guys call Iranian speedboats.

No fartin' around here: straight from the garage, the Gearhead Consultancy discusses its newfound free-to-we old-school monster Snap-On toolbox, as well as how to haul it without murdering all the people in traffic so unfortunate as to be in our rear-view. The Garage Hour goons also dig into toolbox values, weight, dimensions, cleaning, lifting and unloading, how many guys it takes (and how many beers), craftsmanship, theft, moving, and how many urban campers can live in one. More goodies: Baja 1000 border fun, tales of rock, roll, techno and new shows, Duramax versus EcoBoost, "real" versus Chinese straps, Found On Road Awesome, and what Navy guys call Iranian speedboats.

It's all ball-bearings nowadays, unless you're a gearhead on the Garage Hour: too many projects + not enough arms = late uploads. Thanks for waiting around (we're worth it). This one's a late-night special - Chef Jeff and Gringo Rich support Hostus Maximus Justin Fort's occupation of Protector Brewery's tasting room in the Beeralani Maker's District, but that's the only part that followed the plan. From bleeding (brakes) to gears and axles (broken), the Consultancy immediately veers off into Nine Inch Nails, old motorcycles and snowblowers, the Belushi Effect and the 17-Year Old Effect. The goons kidnapped Amanda from Protector to chat up their new brews too, including a S.M.A.S.H. named C2, a brut called Brutus and a fruit ale dubbed Berserker. She knows more about beer than we do, plus she's pretty: yes, have some!

It's all ball-bearings nowadays, unless you're a gearhead on the Garage Hour: too many projects + not enough arms = late uploads. Thanks for waiting around (we're worth it). This one's a late-night special - Chef Jeff and Gringo Rich support Hostus Maximus Justin Fort's occupation of Protector Brewery's tasting room in the Beeralani Maker's District, but that's the only part that followed the plan. From bleeding (brakes) to gears and axles (broken), the Consultancy immediately veers off into Nine Inch Nails, old motorcycles and snowblowers, the Belushi Effect and the 17-Year Old Effect. The goons kidnapped Amanda from Protector to chat up their new brews too, including a S.M.A.S.H. named C2, a brut called Brutus and a fruit ale dubbed Berserker. She knows more about beer than we do, plus she's pretty: yes, have some!

This is the inaugural Garage Hour Dude Food Chili Showoff, live from Protector Brewery. This is also gearhead awesomeness. #1: Do you like chili? We made four. Ruben from Smoke 'N Aces' watermelon chili beat Chef Jeff's pork cushion chili verde for "People's Choice" by one vote. Mr. G's salsa and two-bean chili and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort's two-meat chilis were popular, but could not measure up to the professional chefs. #2: Do you remember where you were on 9/11? We take a serious moment for reflections on where we were, why we re-enlisted, how we felt and how many Tomcats we scrambled on 9/11. #3: Do you want your multibillion-dollar car company to be headed by a pot-smoking vampire? We debate Elon "Caligula" Musk and his progress in circling the drain. Because we're awesome, that ain't all, folks. Direct from Pizza-Wrench Monkey Oven Brewing, there's also halal VS anti-halal chili, why 3-D printed guns are a First Amendment before they're a Second Amendment issue, and sorry about the delayed upload - server issues.

This is the inaugural Garage Hour Dude Food Chili Showoff, live from Protector Brewery. This is also gearhead awesomeness. #1: Do you like chili? We made four. Ruben from Smoke 'N Aces' watermelon chili beat Chef Jeff's pork cushion chili verde for "People's Choice" by one vote. Mr. G's salsa and two-bean chili and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort's two-meat chilis were popular, but could not measure up to the professional chefs. #2: Do you remember where you were on 9/11? We take a serious moment for reflections on where we were, why we re-enlisted, how we felt and how many Tomcats we scrambled on 9/11. #3: Do you want your multibillion-dollar car company to be headed by a pot-smoking vampire? We debate Elon "Caligula" Musk and his progress in circling the drain. Because we're awesome, that ain't all, folks. Direct from Pizza-Wrench Monkey Oven Brewing, there's also halal VS anti-halal chili, why 3-D printed guns are a First Amendment before they're a Second Amendment issue, and sorry about the delayed upload - server issues.

You can't get this kind'a gearhead awesomesauce without a license... or a warrant... The Garage Hour goons assembled at Location A for an hour of hard parts and broken bits. The Diesel Ayatollah and Gringo Rich performed a complete Harbor Freight compressor teardown during the show, much to Hostus Maximus Justin Fort's chagrin (poor bastard was trying to run a show...). Once the fleer diaphragm and hoseplot dialopter were adjusted to spec, however, it was all trucks and rocks and bonk, with extensive tales from the depths of high-mountain Colorado. Nothing like a weeklong diet of boulders, scree fields, knobby tires, murderous hyraxes and brewery after brewery to make the Ouray-Silverton-Durango off-roading mecca go like a champ - one of the best FJ Summits in memory. Thanks to Rock Hound Off-Road and Marlin Crawler for making getting there (and get-back) possible. Download yourself some Garage Hour now before Uncle Donald summons the Gearhead Consultancy to the Oval Office (because everything goes better in the garage).

You can't get this kind'a gearhead awesomesauce without a license... or a warrant... The Garage Hour goons assembled at Location A for an hour of hard parts and broken bits. The Diesel Ayatollah and Gringo Rich performed a complete Harbor Freight compressor teardown during the show, much to Hostus Maximus Justin Fort's chagrin (poor bastard was trying to run a show...). Once the fleer diaphragm and hoseplot dialopter were adjusted to spec, however, it was all trucks and rocks and bonk, with extensive tales from the depths of high-mountain Colorado. Nothing like a weeklong diet of boulders, scree fields, knobby tires, murderous hyraxes and brewery after brewery to make the Ouray-Silverton-Durango off-roading mecca go like a champ - one of the best FJ Summits in memory. Thanks to Rock Hound Off-Road and Marlin Crawler for making getting there (and get-back) possible. Download yourself some Garage Hour now before Uncle Donald summons the Gearhead Consultancy to the Oval Office (because everything goes better in the garage).

Why: Cammies & Canines benefit at Protector Brewery with Half-Face Blades and Smoke'n Aces BBQ. Who: Garage Hour gearheads (.45 Phil and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort), Protector primary Sean Hannity, Smoke'n Aces proprietor Ruben Sandwich. What: Half-Face/Protector collaboration Dragonfruit-Watermelon near-lambic semi-shandy, The Juice (New England IPA), The Beast (on nitro!), Pineapple Grenade IPA, with special guest Helix Brewing's raspberry Acid Drop. Where: Protector Brewery in the Beeralani Maker's District off the Miramar service zone (turn at Camino Ruiz). How: gearheads talk geeksauce, including hot pig-tuned ARs, 6.- and 6.5 Creedmor, hot-rod 18650 batteries and flashlight culture, Glocks and their parties, "Border Wars" and "Class 234", plus good chili ala our long-serving Dude Food series.

Why: Cammies & Canines benefit at Protector Brewery with Half-Face Blades and Smoke'n Aces BBQ. Who: Garage Hour gearheads (.45 Phil and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort), Protector primary Sean Hannity, Smoke'n Aces proprietor Ruben Sandwich. What: Half-Face/Protector collaboration Dragonfruit-Watermelon near-lambic semi-shandy, The Juice (New England IPA), The Beast (on nitro!), Pineapple Grenade IPA, with special guest Helix Brewing's raspberry Acid Drop. Where: Protector Brewery in the Beeralani Maker's District off the Miramar service zone (turn at Camino Ruiz). How: gearheads talk geeksauce, including hot pig-tuned ARs, 6.- and 6.5 Creedmor, hot-rod 18650 batteries and flashlight culture, Glocks and their parties, "Border Wars" and "Class 234", plus good chili ala our long-serving Dude Food series.

Breweries, wineries, meaderies, cideries, sakeries, distilleries, cofferies, salseries - it must be another episode in the Beeralani Makers' District with Protector Brewing. The Garage Hour goons link up with Protector point-man and retired SEAL Sean Hannity... sorry, Haggerty... for an hour of fine sippin' with good beers, including the Beast, Pineapple Grenade IPA - .45 Phil's new favorite - and Punisher Pils. Haggerty, .45 and a Canadian tourist also trade tales of things they brewerd and drank in Iraq, including Protector's first beer, a heff brewed in Ramadi called the Baghdad Special. Then the cohosts kung-fu fight over fresh, delicious Mister G's salsa (courtesy of Mike the Duck). From there, it's trucks and guns - Hostus Maximus and the Diesel Ayatollah go to town on trail-prep for a big run to Colorado's highlands, and everyone shares stories of their favorite assault rifle (It's a trick; get it? Anything you assault anyone with is an assault thing. Hit somebody with your phone and it's an assault phone. Hit someone with a meatball and you're an Italian grandmother. Grammar: use it right.) It's the Garage Hour - because gearhead.

Breweries, wineries, meaderies, cideries, sakeries, distilleries, cofferies, salseries - it must be another episode in the Beeralani Makers' District with Protector Brewing. The Garage Hour goons link up with Protector point-man and retired SEAL Sean Hannity... sorry, Haggerty... for an hour of fine sippin' with good beers, including the Beast, Pineapple Grenade IPA - .45 Phil's new favorite - and Punisher Pils. Haggerty, .45 and a Canadian tourist also trade tales of things they brewerd and drank in Iraq, including Protector's first beer, a heff brewed in Ramadi called the Baghdad Special. Then the cohosts kung-fu fight over fresh, delicious Mister G's salsa (courtesy of Mike the Duck). From there, it's trucks and guns - Hostus Maximus and the Diesel Ayatollah go to town on trail-prep for a big run to Colorado's highlands, and everyone shares stories of their favorite assault rifle (It's a trick; get it? Anything you assault anyone with is an assault thing. Hit somebody with your phone and it's an assault phone. Hit someone with a meatball and you're an Italian grandmother. Grammar: use it right.) It's the Garage Hour - because gearhead.

Garage Hour reload? Yes, please. The gearhead goons are joined in-studio by Colonel Rick Powell, who was (at the time) candidate for Califzuela's 78th Assembly District. This episode explores Col. Powell's thoughts on the threat posed by California's bureaucracy to small business and regular folk, as well as DeTomaso Panteras, teaching kids to ride, boxers versus briefs, off-road gates and why access is important, and how common sense can be worn as a shield against the kleptobureaucracy of KA.

Garage Hour reload? Yes, please. The gearhead goons are joined in-studio by Colonel Rick Powell, who was (at the time) candidate for Califzuela's 78th Assembly District. This episode explores Col. Powell's thoughts on the threat posed by California's bureaucracy to small business and regular folk, as well as DeTomaso Panteras, teaching kids to ride, boxers versus briefs, off-road gates and why access is important, and how common sense can be worn as a shield against the kleptobureaucracy of KA.

If you're a gearhead, a shooter, a vinyl fan, a brewer, if you like music or computers or old stereo equipment or hand-loading or woodworking, you're a geek - you dig your hobbies a little more than the average Joe. Congrats, you're one of us, and that makes you a target of the bureaucracy. Time to protect yourself by voting right: the Garage Hour is here to help. Join .45 Phil (That Which Goes Bump in the Night), Silent Craig (Official Show Pencil Artist) and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort for an hour of details on the votes presented in choice-flooded San Diego (and why all those choices are a type of tyranny in their own right). Remember, the only thing worse than making a bad choice is to make no choice at all (which is technically a bad choice too). Hank Watson's Garage Hour - because gearhead.

If you're a gearhead, a shooter, a vinyl fan, a brewer, if you like music or computers or old stereo equipment or hand-loading or woodworking, you're a geek - you dig your hobbies a little more than the average Joe. Congrats, you're one of us, and that makes you a target of the bureaucracy. Time to protect yourself by voting right: the Garage Hour is here to help. Join .45 Phil (That Which Goes Bump in the Night), Silent Craig (Official Show Pencil Artist) and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort for an hour of details on the votes presented in choice-flooded San Diego (and why all those choices are a type of tyranny in their own right). Remember, the only thing worse than making a bad choice is to make no choice at all (which is technically a bad choice too). Hank Watson's Garage Hour - because gearhead.

Garage Hour's Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and cohosting powerslab Chef Jeff join the boys from Burning Beard Brewing in their secret hilltop lair (apparently called Castle Beardenstien) to spin the best rock and roll (plus metal and punk) on vinyl while sipping fine local beers. ... And because Mike "Tape Deck" Maass and Jeff "Captain Sideburns" Weideker wouldn't have it any other way, let's just list the goodness on this episode and get to the show: Bands, in order of appearance: Creepy Creeps, Slayer, Alice In Chains, Electric Wizard, The Sword, KMFDM, 16 Volt, John Paul Jones, Them Crooked Vultures, Queens of the Stone Age, Faith No More, Booya Tribe, Die Krupps, Dwarves, Puny Human, Cramps, Mother Filner and the Mother Filners, Bitch Queens, Dio, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Ozbourne, Halford, Deep Purple, Scorpions, Voivod, Monolord, Mastodon, Led Zeppelin, Gwar, Les Claypool, Primus, Rush, Hawkwind, Hellacopters, Glucifer, Sinister, Volbeat, Gogol Bordello, Deadbolt, and the Reverend Horton Heat. Beers, in order of appearance: El Jefe, Benchmark Table Beer, June Lake's Sasquatchito, Rogue Dead Guy, Protector, The Dude, and June Lake's Deer Down Brown. When we're done, be sure to come see us with the Archduke of North Park and his barbershop quartet, "Soul-patch Seeking Sideburns".

Garage Hour's Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and cohosting powerslab Chef Jeff join the boys from Burning Beard Brewing in their secret hilltop lair (apparently called Castle Beardenstien) to spin the best rock and roll (plus metal and punk) on vinyl while sipping fine local beers. ... And because Mike "Tape Deck" Maass and Jeff "Captain Sideburns" Weideker wouldn't have it any other way, let's just list the goodness on this episode and get to the show: Bands, in order of appearance: Creepy Creeps, Slayer, Alice In Chains, Electric Wizard, The Sword, KMFDM, 16 Volt, John Paul Jones, Them Crooked Vultures, Queens of the Stone Age, Faith No More, Booya Tribe, Die Krupps, Dwarves, Puny Human, Cramps, Mother Filner and the Mother Filners, Bitch Queens, Dio, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Ozbourne, Halford, Deep Purple, Scorpions, Voivod, Monolord, Mastodon, Led Zeppelin, Gwar, Les Claypool, Primus, Rush, Hawkwind, Hellacopters, Glucifer, Sinister, Volbeat, Gogol Bordello, Deadbolt, and the Reverend Horton Heat. Beers, in order of appearance: El Jefe, Benchmark Table Beer, June Lake's Sasquatchito, Rogue Dead Guy, Protector, The Dude, and June Lake's Deer Down Brown. When we're done, be sure to come see us with the Archduke of North Park and his barbershop quartet, "Soul-patch Seeking Sideburns".

These no-notes episodes are candy when they go right. This Garage Hour reload has all the good stuff - NASCAR road racing, Colorado 4Runner Jamboree, camping on the hotel's lawn, cute chicks from New Zealand, engine racism, the cyclops eye, 3.55s versus 3.73s, old motocrossers trying new trucks, the Subaru Brat ("Trucknically, it's a car."), and ballahs with dollahs. Tourist cohost Hoosier Eric ("Corn is always interesting.") joins Black Ryna (his first appearance) and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort for an hour of good trucks (with 40psi in the Goodyears), good parts (so long as you know your limitations), good off-roading (so long as you're not stuck behind a bunch'a dicks in Jeeps), good saves (don't forget your cranium) and good blowoff valves (if you like metal-on-metal violence).

These no-notes episodes are candy when they go right. This Garage Hour reload has all the good stuff - NASCAR road racing, Colorado 4Runner Jamboree, camping on the hotel's lawn, cute chicks from New Zealand, engine racism, the cyclops eye, 3.55s versus 3.73s, old motocrossers trying new trucks, the Subaru Brat ("Trucknically, it's a car."), and ballahs with dollahs. Tourist cohost Hoosier Eric ("Corn is always interesting.") joins Black Ryna (his first appearance) and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort for an hour of good trucks (with 40psi in the Goodyears), good parts (so long as you know your limitations), good off-roading (so long as you're not stuck behind a bunch'a dicks in Jeeps), good saves (don't forget your cranium) and good blowoff valves (if you like metal-on-metal violence).

You head out to your favorite trailhead for a fun day-run and BLAMMO! There's a yuge tank gate. Who installed it? Who locked it? Why's it there? Is the universal key enough to open that door or will you need an actual tank? What's already a big problem in San Diego and the third-world kleptocracy of Kalifornistan can become a problem for you because your loss of access is driven by a mindset and an agenda, not real issues - look out, cats and kitties, THIS is watermelon environmentalism. The Garage Hour goons take a stab at this thorny issue and try to spur folks to pay attention. Recorded at the show's home brewery (Helix Brewing in La Mesa), the good gearheads at the Garage Hour might not raise everyone's alarms, but they're sure to raise some glasses... The special guest-host on this episode is Morgan Murtaugh, who's running for the 53rd congressional district in central-southern San Diego county, and guess what, boys and girls? She likes guns.

You head out to your favorite trailhead for a fun day-run and BLAMMO! There's a yuge tank gate. Who installed it? Who locked it? Why's it there? Is the universal key enough to open that door or will you need an actual tank? What's already a big problem in San Diego and the third-world kleptocracy of Kalifornistan can become a problem for you because your loss of access is driven by a mindset and an agenda, not real issues - look out, cats and kitties, THIS is watermelon environmentalism. The Garage Hour goons take a stab at this thorny issue and try to spur folks to pay attention. Recorded at the show's home brewery (Helix Brewing in La Mesa), the good gearheads at the Garage Hour might not raise everyone's alarms, but they're sure to raise some glasses... The special guest-host on this episode is Morgan Murtaugh, who's running for the 53rd congressional district in central-southern San Diego county, and guess what, boys and girls? She likes guns.

Don't let the delay fool you - the Garage Hour goons have been up to their necks in parts (the good kind and the bad), but you can only do so much. The Diesel Ayatollah, Dustin V2 (Mr. Pink? You decide.) and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort got back together in the Jeep Hole for an hour of tales from Tierra del Sol's annual Desert Safari, and this episode happened. What's on tap for this episode? One day of 'froading madness, with everything from FJ 9-coils ($5 a coil!), complicated driveshafts, kerploded hubs, portalled Jeeps, two-wheel drive Bugs, drooped leafs, Driveshaft Hill, bobbed 4Runners and WJs, full-time versus part-time four-wheel drive, viscous couplings, too many weird Jeeps, and why it's good not to flip your truck. The usual Garage Hour digression was well in hand, with hybrid drivers versus public perception, Subaru CD players, post-Obamunism increases in car ownership, 40-eary old blenders and the wonder that is BlendTech's "Will It Blend" series, plus Stephen Seagal attempting to kill everyone in a restaurant.

Don't let the delay fool you - the Garage Hour goons have been up to their necks in parts (the good kind and the bad), but you can only do so much. The Diesel Ayatollah, Dustin V2 (Mr. Pink? You decide.) and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort got back together in the Jeep Hole for an hour of tales from Tierra del Sol's annual Desert Safari, and this episode happened. What's on tap for this episode? One day of 'froading madness, with everything from FJ 9-coils ($5 a coil!), complicated driveshafts, kerploded hubs, portalled Jeeps, two-wheel drive Bugs, drooped leafs, Driveshaft Hill, bobbed 4Runners and WJs, full-time versus part-time four-wheel drive, viscous couplings, too many weird Jeeps, and why it's good not to flip your truck. The usual Garage Hour digression was well in hand, with hybrid drivers versus public perception, Subaru CD players, post-Obamunism increases in car ownership, 40-eary old blenders and the wonder that is BlendTech's "Will It Blend" series, plus Stephen Seagal attempting to kill everyone in a restaurant.

Just when you thought it was safe… No you didn't - hide your guns, hide your ammo: Spongebrain Brownpants and the third-world kleptocracy of Kalifornistan are out to get you and your Second Amendment rights. Reasonable, schmeasonable. The Garage Hour goons are here to help: we captured Mike Schwartz of San Diego County Gun Owners and sometime cohost Matt "Killer" Klier of Active Shooter Defense School to discuss the state of firearms ownership in the failing state of California. It's ugly and getting dumber, and your Constitutionally-guaranteed right to shoot, hunt, defend your home and person are in jeopardy. The Garage Hour will help you understand how, and then ridicule someone foolish.

Just when you thought it was safe… No you didn't - hide your guns, hide your ammo: Spongebrain Brownpants and the third-world kleptocracy of Kalifornistan are out to get you and your Second Amendment rights. Reasonable, schmeasonable. The Garage Hour goons are here to help: we captured Mike Schwartz of San Diego County Gun Owners and sometime cohost Matt "Killer" Klier of Active Shooter Defense School to discuss the state of firearms ownership in the failing state of California. It's ugly and getting dumber, and your Constitutionally-guaranteed right to shoot, hunt, defend your home and person are in jeopardy. The Garage Hour will help you understand how, and then ridicule someone foolish.

Live from Helix Brewing Co in lovely industrial La Mesa, the Garage Hour goons have assembled to take a whack at Christmas gift shopping, in particular, buying gearhead bits (gifts included) via Craig's List. FNG cohost Gringo Rich joins .45 Phil and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort to reveal his yearlong investigation/harassment of Craig's scammers, and between sips of fine Helix ales, the three chat up some of the essentials rules for shopping on the cash-and-carry geek goldmine that is the internet. It's not all ball bearings nowadays, however: there's more desert racing, ORW at TDS 2018, the Helix water system (just say "flume"), dude versus chick Christmas gifts (Black Purses Matter) and the incomprehensible Purse Logic Black Hole, Silent Dennis and Not So Silent Craig, plus #ScrewIt.

Live from Helix Brewing Co in lovely industrial La Mesa, the Garage Hour goons have assembled to take a whack at Christmas gift shopping, in particular, buying gearhead bits (gifts included) via Craig's List. FNG cohost Gringo Rich joins .45 Phil and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort to reveal his yearlong investigation/harassment of Craig's scammers, and between sips of fine Helix ales, the three chat up some of the essentials rules for shopping on the cash-and-carry geek goldmine that is the internet. It's not all ball bearings nowadays, however: there's more desert racing, ORW at TDS 2018, the Helix water system (just say "flume"), dude versus chick Christmas gifts (Black Purses Matter) and the incomprehensible Purse Logic Black Hole, Silent Dennis and Not So Silent Craig, plus #ScrewIt.

From the fancy "nomnom" intro (because food-truck BLT) to the battle of one-upmanship that kills the session (because VW powa!), it's a great time for gearhead talk. The Garage Hour goons assemble the consultancy for an hour about the Great American Beer Festival and diesel tuning ensued (Maximum Gearhead), but that's okay - you'd have done the same. Joining the usual suspects (.45 Phil, Chef Jeff and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort) on-air were Instagram sensation "SDBeerTour" founder, Rob Strudel, as well as Garage Hour groupie sensations Jennifer and Blaire. Why would we assemble this dreadnaught of talk-radio charm? Because of new beers at Helix Brewing Co., the annual gathering of small glasses that is the Great American Beer Fest in Denver, wild and crazy beers versus asparagus beer (yup!), as well as Americans' irrational hatred of Miatas, the latest bush-fire rampage in San Diego, as well as a little taste of desert season and the how-big-is-your-engine melee that ruined everything. Why not? Because gearhead.

From the fancy "nomnom" intro (because food-truck BLT) to the battle of one-upmanship that kills the session (because VW powa!), it's a great time for gearhead talk. The Garage Hour goons assemble the consultancy for an hour about the Great American Beer Festival and diesel tuning ensued (Maximum Gearhead), but that's okay - you'd have done the same. Joining the usual suspects (.45 Phil, Chef Jeff and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort) on-air were Instagram sensation "SDBeerTour" founder, Rob Strudel, as well as Garage Hour groupie sensations Jennifer and Blaire. Why would we assemble this dreadnaught of talk-radio charm? Because of new beers at Helix Brewing Co., the annual gathering of small glasses that is the Great American Beer Fest in Denver, wild and crazy beers versus asparagus beer (yup!), as well as Americans' irrational hatred of Miatas, the latest bush-fire rampage in San Diego, as well as a little taste of desert season and the how-big-is-your-engine melee that ruined everything. Why not? Because gearhead.

It's beers and gears season in San Diego, and the Garage Hour goons are out visiting new makers of fine sippables like Protector Brewery (thanks to the support of Helix Brewing). When one of our teams buddies suggested we needed to visit another teams guy making beer, who were we to refuse? Sean from Protector has carved out a niche in San Diego's grand brewing scene by going 100% organic with his ingredients (it's harder than you think) but that's about where his beers stopped following any rules. Protector's got a delightful - and eccentric - brigade of tastes and styles, and cohost/Master Guns .45 Phil joined Hostus Maximus Justin Fort on-air to sample as many as the taste buds would permit. It's a Garage Hour that's heavy on the beer and not much else.

It's beers and gears season in San Diego, and the Garage Hour goons are out visiting new makers of fine sippables like Protector Brewery (thanks to the support of Helix Brewing). When one of our teams buddies suggested we needed to visit another teams guy making beer, who were we to refuse? Sean from Protector has carved out a niche in San Diego's grand brewing scene by going 100% organic with his ingredients (it's harder than you think) but that's about where his beers stopped following any rules. Protector's got a delightful - and eccentric - brigade of tastes and styles, and cohost/Master Guns .45 Phil joined Hostus Maximus Justin Fort on-air to sample as many as the taste buds would permit. It's a Garage Hour that's heavy on the beer and not much else.

The Garage Hour brain trust gets together to debate the great questions of our time. Who's the better villain, Darth Vader or Little Bill Daggett? You'd be surprised. Who has more rights, your car or you? Will Isaac Asimov or Mary Shelley's vision of the robots in our future prevail? Will .45 Phil's September Temper spell the end of life on Planet Earth, or just wind up causing a pile of broken robots? Can Crag Maxwell cross "choke out Che Guevara" off his list of crazy sh!t he never thought he'd get to do? These questions and more (like Jagermeister versus Olde English, Morphine versus Spinal Tap, Nazis versus Imperial Stormtroopers, and Wikipedia's porn problem), all on this episode of Hank Watson's Garage Hour. Get some, because now.

The Garage Hour brain trust gets together to debate the great questions of our time. Who's the better villain, Darth Vader or Little Bill Daggett? You'd be surprised. Who has more rights, your car or you? Will Isaac Asimov or Mary Shelley's vision of the robots in our future prevail? Will .45 Phil's September Temper spell the end of life on Planet Earth, or just wind up causing a pile of broken robots? Can Crag Maxwell cross "choke out Che Guevara" off his list of crazy sh!t he never thought he'd get to do? These questions and more (like Jagermeister versus Olde English, Morphine versus Spinal Tap, Nazis versus Imperial Stormtroopers, and Wikipedia's porn problem), all on this episode of Hank Watson's Garage Hour. Get some, because now.

Let's get right to it: the Garage Hour goons gathered for a glorious getogether goading the girl from the Ladies Off-Road Network, none other than Charlene Bower, and she brings it. Jeeps and BFGs, Nittos and junkyards, Craig's parts and loud... women... it's just what you ordered - another groovy Garage Hour. Between sips of Helix's Praugenosis and the inimatable RNA red ale, the tales of tools and turbochargers quickly spin out of control. Fortunately, that's how we like it. Have yourself a Garage Hour, because gearhead.

Let's get right to it: the Garage Hour goons gathered for a glorious getogether goading the girl from the Ladies Off-Road Network, none other than Charlene Bower, and she brings it. Jeeps and BFGs, Nittos and junkyards, Craig's parts and loud... women... it's just what you ordered - another groovy Garage Hour. Between sips of Helix's Praugenosis and the inimatable RNA red ale, the tales of tools and turbochargers quickly spin out of control. Fortunately, that's how we like it. Have yourself a Garage Hour, because gearhead.

Reloaded Garage Hour gearhead awesomeness for you... Hostus Maximus Justinius Rex and longtime superfan Nacho "K" scatter stories and shrapnel about desert racing w/ the old BFGoodrich crew (while grooving Goodyears, ironically). Details include running from pit bikes and commiserating with federales, the men and the personalities of the Baja 1000 and/or 2000, Deadbolt, Frampton, stadium trucks, movies and Dougies. There's also a call from Alex at the Coronado Classics - because vintage Trans-Am, obviously - and various diverging topics like nailguns at weddings, Bizarro Justin, Brown's Chicken in Naperville, rallycross, Operation Hipster Shield, the Festival of Beers at Lost Abbey Brewing, plus puking on Rainer. Cohosts Dirty Dave and Grizzly Chris do their best to hold on.

Reloaded Garage Hour gearhead awesomeness for you... Hostus Maximus Justinius Rex and longtime superfan Nacho "K" scatter stories and shrapnel about desert racing w/ the old BFGoodrich crew (while grooving Goodyears, ironically). Details include running from pit bikes and commiserating with federales, the men and the personalities of the Baja 1000 and/or 2000, Deadbolt, Frampton, stadium trucks, movies and Dougies. There's also a call from Alex at the Coronado Classics - because vintage Trans-Am, obviously - and various diverging topics like nailguns at weddings, Bizarro Justin, Brown's Chicken in Naperville, rallycross, Operation Hipster Shield, the Festival of Beers at Lost Abbey Brewing, plus puking on Rainer. Cohosts Dirty Dave and Grizzly Chris do their best to hold on.

Gearhead talk radio starts in the garage, and the Garage Hour goons got together in the Fletcher Hills compound to talk about their recent weeklong run to high-mountain Colorado. Jeeps and leafs, Toyotas and tires, Silver Gulch, Imogene, Ouray and Ophir, plus trail-building and rotten weather, and you have a spectacular time on-trail: Dustin V2 and the Diesel Ayatollah join Hostus Maximus Justin Fort to talk about it all. The truck-guy party gets even better as brave neighbors come over for sips and bits and the pile of new truck parts in the garage from Total Chaos and BDS Suspension. Add a few growlers of Helix Brewing's "Honor, Not Inner" (a fine chocolatey stout) and "CentenniAll" (a one-hop pale), and we're in business. We ARE cars, trucks, beers and guns. PS> By the way, the second hour of the show was mistakenly deleted during mixing (seriously - more than eight years on-air, hundreds of episodes, and that's never happened). We'll do it over, once we've had enough to drink. Promise.

Gearhead talk radio starts in the garage, and the Garage Hour goons got together in the Fletcher Hills compound to talk about their recent weeklong run to high-mountain Colorado. Jeeps and leafs, Toyotas and tires, Silver Gulch, Imogene, Ouray and Ophir, plus trail-building and rotten weather, and you have a spectacular time on-trail: Dustin V2 and the Diesel Ayatollah join Hostus Maximus Justin Fort to talk about it all. The truck-guy party gets even better as brave neighbors come over for sips and bits and the pile of new truck parts in the garage from Total Chaos and BDS Suspension. Add a few growlers of Helix Brewing's "Honor, Not Inner" (a fine chocolatey stout) and "CentenniAll" (a one-hop pale), and we're in business. We ARE cars, trucks, beers and guns. PS> By the way, the second hour of the show was mistakenly deleted during mixing (seriously - more than eight years on-air, hundreds of episodes, and that's never happened). We'll do it over, once we've had enough to drink. Promise.