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

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

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S11 Ep 4008.21.21 (MP3): Superballs & Other Traffic Projectiles... Also Chevy Bolt Battery Fires (Crispy), Cool Military Hardware XMas for the Taliban (Toucans & Blackhawks & MRAPs, Oh My), No Bullets for You (but Plenty for Terrorists), + Some Motoring Questions

Balls that bounce are great, but GM recalling 50-70,000 Bolts aint. Also, when you have lemons, don't make terrorists lemonade. ...Unless you're a fool, in which case you gift-wrap that lemonade in $85billion of the finest military hardware on Earth. Geeks like military hardware, so we'll talk about it. There's other bouncing madness: even though fundamentalist cavemen get mountains of rifles and ammo courtesy of your tax dollars, you're about to be blocked from buying Russian bullets (first time Joke Biden blocked anything from Russia).

Aug 27, 202157 min

S11 Ep 4008.21.21: Superballs & Other Traffic Projectiles... Also Chevy Bolt Battery Fires (Crispy), Cool Military Hardware XMas for the Taliban (Toucans & Blackhawks & MRAPs, Oh My), No Bullets for You (but Plenty for Terrorists), + Some Motoring Questions

Balls that bounce are great, but GM recalling 50-70,000 Bolts aint. Also, when you have lemons, don't make terrorists lemonade. ...Unless you're a fool, in which case you gift-wrap that lemonade in $85billion of the finest military hardware on Earth. Geeks like military hardware, so we'll talk about it. There's other bouncing madness: even though fundamentalist cavemen get mountains of rifles and ammo courtesy of your tax dollars, you're about to be blocked from buying Russian bullets (first time Joke Biden blocked anything from Russia).

Aug 27, 202157 min

S11 Ep 3908.12.21 (MP3): Tech VS Gearheads - How & Why of Mindless Self-Surveillance, w/ Hacks @ Tech-Privacy Survival, Nuts & Bolts of Data-Hungry Vehicles, Vulnerability of Cars to Outside Control, Info-Harvesting Corporations, +Who Should Profit from Your Data

The next time you wander into the kitchen in your torn boxers, are the 'fridge and toaster watching you? ...And who's watching them? How about when you pair your car's "infotainment" system with your phone? "Smart" homes and cars appeal to a lot of stupid people because you can be really bright but still dumb enough not to realize that if you're not managing all that unwelcome tech in your life, someone else will. Unphone, bitches! The Gearhead Consultancy wants to help. Faraday-caged homes, phone boxes, historic examples of spying, modern examples of hacking risks and car-control death - it's a scary data forest out there, and you're in it.

Aug 22, 202157 min

S11 Ep 3908.12.21: Tech VS Gearheads - Hows & Whys of Mindless Self-Surveillance, w/ Hacks for Tech-Privacy Survival, Nuts & Bolts of Data-Hungry Vehicles, Vulnerability of Cars to Outside Control, Info-Harvesting Corporations, + Who Should Profit from Your Data

The next time you wander into the kitchen in your torn boxers, are the 'fridge and toaster watching you? ...And who's watching them? How about when you pair your car's "infotainment" system with your phone? "Smart" homes and cars appeal to a lot of stupid people because you can be really bright but still dumb enough not to realize that if you're not managing all that unwelcome tech in your life, someone else will. Unphone, bitches! The Gearhead Consultancy wants to help. Faraday-caged homes, phone boxes, historic examples of spying, modern examples of hacking risks and car-control death - it's a scary data forest out there, and you're in it.

Aug 22, 202157 min

S11 Ep 3808.02.21 (MP3): Why Car Accidents Don't Mean What You Think - Road Entitlement & Cost VS Competence, Traffic Elitism, Skill-Set Shortages, Distracted Drivers & the Unguided Missile, + 4-Wheeling Ramona, Trinity's Belgian Wit & Jaegermeister in 'da Freezer

...Because driving ain't about being able to afford a car, and being skilled ain't because you showed up - motoring fails are not what you think, but you should have thought of that. The Garage Hour goon squad - with Mr. Intolerant and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort - does a little dance with why car accidents are up, and the whys aren't what they were (ahem, the road is in the real world). While we're at it, there's cat versus squirrel (the cat lost), FJs in Ramona, street racing in the 'Springs, Hank Hill versus Homer Simpson, and Cut Chemist.

Aug 14, 20211h 0m

S11 Ep 3808.02.21: Why Car Accidents Don't Mean What You Think - Road Entitlement & Cost VS Competence, Traffic Elitism, Skill-Set Shortages, Distracted Drivers & the Unguided Missile, + Four-Wheeling Ramona, Trinity's Belgian Wit & Jaegermeister in 'da Freezer

...Because driving ain't about being able to afford the car, and being skilled ain't because you showed up - motoring fails are not what you think, but you should have thought of that. The Garage Hour goon squad - with Mr. Intolerant and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort - does a dance with why car accidents are up, and the whys aren't what they were (hint: the road is in the real world). While we're at it, there's cat versus squirrel (the cat lost), FJs in Ramona, street racing in the 'Springs, Hank Hill versus Homer Simpson, and Cut Chemist.

Aug 14, 20211h 0m

S11 Ep 3708.01.21 (MP3): Need New Conspiracies (Old Ones Came True)... Power-Grabbers Grabbing Your Power - Gov't Wants to Take Away Your Race Car, Track Your Driving & Call You Guilty Until Proven Innocent (Because "Infrastructure") - Gearheads Need to Get Mad

Want to do your thing, and geek out on fast cars, fine beer, crawly trucks and bangy guns? Like doing stuff that's not "approved" by the woketards? If you don't stand up for your right to do your thing, "your thing" could go from "out there" to "illegal" under cover of the Trojan corpse in the White House and his band of unmoored zealots. To borrow a term, it's time to fight for your right to party (however you do so). The Gearhead Consultancy took a few minutes to help understand why bad (Big) gov't is wrong - and will take away your rights. You should be mad. The idiots in DC want breathalyzers in all cars, are desperate to track you wherever you go, and to ban you from taking your car to the track. It's time to geek up and start punching back.

Aug 6, 202158 min

S11 Ep 3708.01.21: Need New Conspiracies (Old Ones Came True)... Power-Grabbers Grabbing Your Power - Gov't Wants to Take Away Your Race Car, Track Your Driving & Call You Guilty Until Proven Innocent (Because "Infrastructure") - Gearheads Need to Get Mad

Want to do your thing, and geek out on fast cars, fine beer, crawly trucks and bangy guns? Like doing stuff that's not "approved" by the woketards? If you don't stand up for your right to do your thing, "your thing" could go from "out there" to "illegal" under cover of the Trojan corpse in the White House and his band of unmoored zealots. To borrow a term, it's time to fight for your right to party (however you do so). The Gearhead Consultancy took a few minutes to help understand why bad (Big) gov't is wrong - and will take away your rights. You should be mad. The idiots in DC want breathalyzers in all cars, are desperate to track you wherever you go, and to ban you from taking your car to the track. It's time to geek up and start punching back.

Aug 6, 202158 min

S11 Ep 3607.27.21 (MP3): Just Add Rice! Fun w/ Japanese Cars & Tuner Bits, JDM & Ricer Stories, + Stick VS Paddle, Home-Fab Intakes, Making a Ridgeline Work On-Trail (Though It's Still Not a Truck), Speed Holes & Deep-Vee Powerboat Blowers

Nothing like climbing into a little history, especially when it's the great Japanese and USDM stuff from the late '80s and '90s. You name it - CRX, EF, EG and EK, S-13 and S-14, good seats and bad grounds, cotton and foam intakes, STILLEN, RNC, Jackson, HKS, Road & Track, Flyin' Miata, GTR, NSX, VQ, 350 and 370Z, fart pipes and blow-offs, 1J and 2JZ, straight fours and sixes, FJ40s and 80s, and whatever else we come up with. Meanwhile, the Garage Hour breaks in some new meat with the introduction of Mr. Intolerant, plus sips of What It Is kolsch and Dark Cherry Seltzer from Trinity Brewing.

Jul 31, 202159 min

S11 Ep 3607.27.21: Just Add Rice! Fun w/ Japanese Cars & Tuner Bits, JDM & Ricer Stories, + Stick VS Paddle, Home-Fab Intakes, Making a Ridgeline Work On-Trail (Though It's Still Not a Truck), Speed Holes & Deep-Vee Powerboat Blowers

Nothing like climbing into a little history, especially when it's the great Japanese and USDM stuff from the late '80s and '90s. You name it - CRX, EF, EG and EK, S-13 and S-14, good seats and bad grounds, cotton and foam intakes, STILLEN, RNC, Jackson, HKS, Road & Track, Flyin' Miata, GTR, NSX, VQ, 350 and 370Z, fart pipes and blow-offs, 1J and 2JZ, straight fours and sixes, FJ40s and 80s, and whatever else we come up with. Meanwhile, the Garage Hour breaks in some new meat with the introduction of Mr. Intolerant, plus sips of What It Is kolsch and Dark Cherry Seltzer from Trinity Brewing.

Jul 31, 202159 min

S11 Ep 3507.22.21 (MP3): Daytime-Running Lights - Good or Crap? In-Car Nanny Devices VS Skills & Attentiveness, Motorcycle Safety (Loud Pipes Save Lives!), Nightime Motoring & Car-to-Car Comms, + Demolition Man, Rust Belt & Emmitt from Silverado, & Naked Funk

The answer is "crap!" Geeks ain't fooled by a thin logic, and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort goes late-night weirdsauce (and possibly some other places) on the safety fraud that DRLs have become. Because there's always situational affects, there's also a look at good running lights on semis and bikes, lane-spltting, single DRLs and marker lights, and a little on why "automatic" headlights are not very. Just to keep things super, there's also self-driving canolis, sharpies, plastics, skillsetting the sheep, hydration, and Han shot first.

Jul 28, 20211h 0m

S11 Ep 3507.22.21: Daytime-Running Lights - Good or Crap? In-Car Nanny Devices VS Skills & Attentiveness, Motorcycle Safety (Loud Pipes Save Lives!), Nightime Motoring & Car-to-Car Comms, + Demolition Man, Rust Belt & Emmitt from Silverado, & Naked Funk

The answer is "crap!" Geeks ain't fooled by a thin logic, and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort goes late-night weirdsauce (and possibly some other places) on the safety fraud that DRLs have become. Because there's always situational affects, there's also a look at good running lights on semis and bikes, lane-spltting, single DRLs and marker lights, and a little on why "automatic" headlights are not very. Just to keep things super, there's also self-driving canolis, sharpies, plastics, skillsetting the sheep, hydration, and Han shot first.

Jul 28, 20211h 0m

S11 Ep 3407.17.21 (MP3): Don't Be a Speed Bump (Or Less Skilled), or Does More Automotive Technology = Less Driver Capability? (Automation & Convenience Make You Suck), Four-Wheeling Failtown, + Trainshooting for Thugs & Protecting Data VS Controlling It

From green lawns versus gravel yards (cop-out) to the human question of whether you're less of one if your car is more man than you, the Garage Hour doesn't phone it in. We've got the real-world impact of folks who can't figure out how their headlights work (uhhh, taillights are good), plus a hard look at the new trend for the victims of Tesla's robot-drive auto-wash self-steering crashes to sue from outside the restrictive NDAs that the company puts on its consumers. Then it's all beers and rock and roll and space-phalluses. Fatso Jetson, KMFDM, Ministry, Dog Fashion Disco, Blazing Haley, Bjork, Black Label Society, Cabbage Boy and Hum join in, because awesome.

Jul 22, 202159 min

S11 Ep 3407.17.21: Don't Be a Speed Bump (Or Less Skilled), or Does More Automotive Technology = Less Driver Capability? (Automation & Convenience Make You Suck), Four-Wheeling Failtown, + Trainshooting for Thugs & Protecting Data VS Controlling It

From green lawns versus gravel yards (cop-out) to the human question of whether you're less of one if your car is more man than you, the Garage Hour doesn't phone it in. We've got the real-world impact of folks who can't figure out how their headlights work (uhhh, taillights are good), plus a hard look at the new trend for the victims of Tesla's robot-drive auto-wash self-steering crashes to sue from outside the restrictive NDAs that the company puts on its consumers. Then it's all beers and rock and roll and space-phalluses. Fatso Jetson, KMFDM, Ministry, Dog Fashion Disco, Blazing Haley, Bjork, Black Label Society, Cabbage Boy and Hum join in, because awesome.

Jul 22, 202159 min

S11 Ep 3307.14.21 (MP3): Rehumanize! Right to Repair (Because Sh!t Must Be Fixed!) & Electric Car Letdowns (Ruined by Hype), + Dump Truck Crashes (Bye Bye Bridge), Cambus #69, Steve Wozniak, Dirty Dave, Queens of the Stone Age, Humping Squirrels & Too Much Justin

Let's do the thing - great rock (QOTSA all day), great crashes (who needed that yacht), earth-shaking stamping mills, loads of government graft on the back of fraudulent electric transit unicorn farts, the mystery of disappearing nuke plants, and 'You Can't Quit Me Baby". While we're at it: Gillig Phantoms, dump trucks, sinkholes, Arby's, Miata VS Mustang, and if you know what you're doing, why can't you do it?

Jul 18, 202158 min

S11 Ep 3307.14.21: Rehumanize! Right to Repair (Because Sh!t Must Be Fixed!) & Electric Car Letdowns (Ruined by Hype), + Dump Truck Crashes (Bye Bye Bridge), Cambus #69, Steve Wozniak, Dirty Dave, Queens of the Stone Age, Humping Squirrels & Too Much Justin

Let's do the thing - great rock (QOTSA all day), great crashes (who needed that yacht), earth-shaking stamping mills, loads of government graft on the back of fraudulent electric transit unicorn farts, the mystery of disappearing nuke plants, and 'You Can't Quit Me Baby". While we're at it: Gillig Phantoms, dump trucks, sinkholes, Arby's, Miata VS Mustang, and if you know what you're doing, why can't you do it?

Jul 18, 202158 min

S11 Ep 3207.04.21 (MP3): Superfried Support of Second Amendment (+2A News), 2/3 of US Counties = 2A Sanctuaries, the (Pending) Death of CA's "Assault" Weapon Ban, Cannon Building VS Cannon Owning, w/ The Precious (10mm) & Trinity's Dark Cherry Seltzer

Down in the lab... It's a 1% battery episode: Hostus Maximus Justin Fort's tank was on empty for this one, but somehow a good think-piece happened. There's reports on the health of our Second Amendment (w/ improvements!), cannon building versus cannon owning, money-making schemes from the Asterisk administration, and being the 2A every day. Surprises: Joke Biden was wrong again, arm braces brace your arms, scary features are not scary, the Dems want to keep you fearful, cactus needles hurt your face, and it's not Indiana's fault, Chicago.

Jul 10, 202157 min

S11 Ep 3207.04.21: Superfried Support of Second Amendment (+2A News), 2/3 of US Counties = 2A Sanctuaries, the (Pending) Death of CA's "Assault" Weapon Ban, Cannon Building VS Cannon Owning, w/ The Precious (10mm) & Trinity's Dark Cherry Seltzer

Down in the lab... It's a 1% battery episode: Hostus Maximus Justin Fort's tank was on empty for this one, but somehow a good think-piece happened. There's reports on the health of our Second Amendment (w/ improvements!), cannon building versus cannon owning, money-making schemes from the Asterisk administration, and being the 2A every day. Surprises: Joke Biden was wrong again, arm braces brace your arms, scary features are not scary, the Dems want to keep you fearful, cactus needles hurt your face, and it's not Indiana's fault, Chicago.

Jul 10, 202157 min

S11 Ep 3106.27.21 (MP3): Drivers & Racecars @ Pike's Peak Hillclimb - Times, Winners, Race-Lines, Recaps, "Incidents" & Conditions from the Mountain, + Rebuilding Old Mac Products, Cassette VS 8-Track, Fruity Beers & the Sandwich Break

PPIHC 2021 is in the books, and the Garage Hour goons were in the mix (George's, baby!). From early on the hill to fine sips afterwards (plus a little racing), we were in it and we have tales to tell. Drivers? Shute, Dallenbach, Dumas, Millen, Astier, Vasholtz, Schrantz, Donahue, Clay, Pobst and 100 more. Cars? LMPs, sprinters, stockers, Trans-Am, Cadillac, Porsche, BMW, Bentley, Camaro and Mustang, plus zip-ties, downforce and turbochargers. So many turbos. Because racecar, there's more: Engineers, Bottomless and Boulder Park, Contagion, Deep Purple, Eagles of Death Metal and Gruntruck. Oh yeah, and beer.

Jun 30, 20211h 0m

S11 Ep 3106.27.21: Drivers & Racecars @ Pike's Peak Hillclimb - Times, Winners, Race-Lines, Recaps, "Incidents" & Conditions from the Mountain, + Rebuilding Old Mac Products, Cassette VS 8-Track, Fruity Beers & the Sandwich Break

PPIHC 2021 is in the books, and the Garage Hour goons were in the mix (George's, baby!). From early on the hill to fine sips afterwards (plus a little racing), we were in it and we have tales to tell. Drivers? Shute, Dallenbach, Dumas, Millen, Astier, Vasholtz, Schrantz, Donahue, Clay, Pobst and 100 more. Cars? LMPs, sprinters, stockers, Trans-Am, Cadillac, Porsche, BMW, Bentley, Camaro and Mustang, plus zip-ties, downforce and turbochargers. So many turbos. Because racecar, there's more: Engineers, Bottomless and Boulder Park, Contagion, Deep Purple, Eagles of Death Metal and Gruntruck. Oh yeah, and beer.

Jun 30, 20211h 0m

S11 Ep 3006.15.21 (MP3): Pike's Peak Hillclimb 2021 Preamble - Racecar Audio from the Mountain, w/ Course & Spectator Info, Racers & History, Cars & Engines, Layout & Turn-Count, Records & Stories, + Session Lager, Amon Tobin & Re-Moding Your Bubble

Four hours of mixing better be worth a nut - the Garage Hour captured a truckload of mamma's muffins during practice and testing at the PPIHC, and spliced the sexiest sounding road-racey bits into this episode. There's tales of awesome from George's, Double-Cut and Cog, with Millen(s), Donahue, Becker, Crouch, Vasholtz, Gogelein, Wickstrum, Dallenbach, Strauch and Fouch. There's also hotter plugs, the smell of coolant, more Amon Tobin (Chaos Theory by popular demand, yous!), and the death of the Blue Yeti (time for the yetipult).

Jun 21, 202159 min

S11 Ep 3006.15.21: Pike's Peak Hillclimb 2021 Preamble - Racecar Audio from the Mountain, w/ Course & Spectator Info, Racers & History, Cars & Engines, Layout & Turn-Count, Records & Stories, + Session Lager, Amon Tobin & Re-Moding Your Bubble

Four hours of mixing better be worth a nut - the Garage Hour captured a truckload of mamma's muffins during practice and testing at the PPIHC, and spliced the sexiest sounding road-racey bits into this episode. There's tales of awesome from George's, Double-Cut and Cog, with Millen(s), Donahue, Becker, Crouch, Vasholtz, Gogelein, Wickstrum, Dallenbach, Strauch and Fouch. There's also hotter plugs, the smell of coolant, more Amon Tobin (Chaos Theory by popular demand, yous!), and the death of the Blue Yeti (time for the yetipult).

Jun 21, 202159 min

S11 Ep 2906.09.21 (MP3): Gearheads & Geeks Love Dude Food & the Second Amendment, w/ 2A Thinking for Smart Kids (& Better Parents), London Broil, Texas & Constitutional Carry, CA's "Assault" Weapons Court Choke, Fenix Ammo's Fine FU, & 7,000,000 Stolen Bullets

The Garage Hour asks: is your kid gun-safe? Borne of a perfect rant that took shape in the garadtch and made it all the way to the mic, we went for broke on 2A goodness and wound up with a whole episode. There's also details of Texas' embrace of "Constitutional carry", the court's arsing of Kalifornistan's "assault" weapon ban, an ammo company's feelings on Biden voters, and, oh yeah, 7,000,000 Aguila bullets stolen by Mexican cartels. Props to Breitbart and Gateway Pundit for the copious coverage... Also starring Tigger (springs in my butt), racecars (because), The Precious (10mm), Funyons, the Federalist Papers, the Blue mic fails, and truckloads of Amon Tobin.

Jun 19, 202159 min

S11 Ep 2906.09.21: Gearheads & Geeks Love Dude Food & the Second Amendment, w/ 2A Thinking for Smart Kids (& Better Parents), London Broil, Texas & Constitutional Carry, CA's "Assault" Weapons Court Choke, Fenix Ammo's Fine FU, & 7,000,000 Stolen Bullets

The Garage Hour asks: is your kid gun-safe? Borne of a perfect rant that took shape in the garadtch and made it all the way to the mic, we went for broke on 2A goodness and wound up with a whole episode. There's also details of Texas' embrace of "Constitutional carry", the court's arsing of Kalifornistan's "assault" weapon ban, an ammo company's feelings on Biden voters, and, oh yeah, 7,000,000 Aguila bullets stolen by Mexican cartels. Props to Breitbart and Gateway Pundit for the copious coverage... Also starring Tigger (springs in my butt), racecars (because), The Precious (10mm), Funyons, the Federalist Papers, the Blue mic fails, and truckloads of Amon Tobin.

Jun 19, 202159 min

S11 Ep 2806.06.09 (MP3): Classic Reload- Original Show @ KCBQ (Bask in the Shiny): Four-Wheeling the Cleveland National Forest, Post-Bailout Automaker Remorse, Transformers Movie PR Junk, Politics VS Hobbies, Living Efficiently VS Green Dogma + the Gift of Anthrax

#Becausegearhead - it's the first-ever Garage Hour. Combine big-AM talk radio w/ a first-time show host who's just found out how to talk to more people about cars, trucks, beers and guns, and that's this. From facts on the disaster caused by Obama's auto bailout (local impact, attacks on Republican dealership owners, Ford's debt, and why GM and Chrysler ain't cool anymore) to a little ditty about why watermelon environmentalism won't mix with real improvement, and you can see a lot of Justin Fort's baby monster here. ..And like always, there's more: Goodyear MT/R Kevlars, Saleen's bankruptsy, Scarecrow's diet, Econolube 163, and wherever the Hell is Hank Watson. Have some.

Jun 12, 202158 min

S11 Ep 2806.06.09: Classic Reload - Original Show @ KCBQ (Bask in the Shiny): Four-Wheeling the Cleveland National Forest, Post-Bailout Automaker Remorse, Transformers Movie PR Junk, Politics VS Hobbies, Living Efficiently VS Green Dogma + the Gift of Anthrax

#Becausegearhead - it's the first-ever Garage Hour. Combine big-AM talk radio w/ a first-time show host who's just found out how to talk to more people about cars, trucks, beers and guns, and that's this. From facts on the disaster caused by Obama's auto bailout (local impact, attacks on Republican dealership owners, Ford's debt, and why GM and Chrysler ain't cool anymore) to a little ditty about why watermelon environmentalism won't mix with real improvement, and you can see a lot of Justin Fort's baby monster here. ..And like always, there's more: Goodyear MT/R Kevlars, Saleen's bankruptsy, Scarecrow's diet, Econolube 163, and wherever the Hell is Hank Watson. Have some.

Jun 12, 202158 min

S11 Ep 2706.01.21 (MP3): Hills Climbed & Canyons Carved, Sips Swilled & Clay Barred, Good Curvy Roads in Colorado, Motorcyclists VS Track Snobs, Rescuing Hikers & Bikers (Because They're Tired & Grumpy), Your Tesla is Spying on You & China Wants to Spy on Us All

So much good stuff! The gearhead goons use clay bars for perfect paint (technique and tricks): clay behavior and quality, keeping the clay (and the paint) clean, detailer versus water (enabling the slide), and putting clay to stuff that's not auto paint (yuuuup!). There's also hillclimbing and Pikes Peak Hillclimb (coming up, plus Indy just passed), fun roads in Colorado, track snobs versus motorcyclists, and building the skillset. We've also got the new 2021 Distractomatic, Tesla spying for (or on?) China, China spying on us all (thanks, Joe!), and rescuing hikers and bikers for fun and 'froading. Oh yeah, and Ministry, Incubus and Trinity's Citra Pale.

Jun 5, 202159 min

S11 Ep 2706.01.21: Hills Climbed & Canyons Carved, Sips Swilled & Clay Barred, Good Curvy Roads in Colorado, Motorcyclists VS Track Snobs, Rescuing Hikers & Bikers (Because They're Tired & Grumpy), Your Tesla is Spying on You & China Wants to Spy on Us All

So much good stuff! The gearhead goons use clay bars for perfect paint (technique and tricks): clay behavior and quality, keeping the clay (and the paint) clean, detailer versus water (enabling the slide), and putting clay to stuff that's not auto paint (yuuuup!). There's also hillclimbing and Pikes Peak Hillclimb (coming up, plus Indy just passed), fun roads in Colorado, track snobs versus motorcyclists, and building the skillset. We've also got the new 2021 Distractomatic, Tesla spying for (or on?) China, China spying on us all (thanks, Joe!), and rescuing hikers and bikers for fun and 'froading. Oh yeah, and Ministry, Incubus and Trinity's Citra Pale.

Jun 5, 202159 min

S11 Ep 2605.16.21 (MP3): Use Detailer for Ideal Detailing & Other Car Care Crap - Don't Freeze the Chemicals (But Fear the Chamois), Microfiber Matters, Chemical Combos, Armor-All Syndrome, Some Thoughts on Gas Cans & Storage, + Turbo Swaps, Bowie & Contagion

Shooting from the hip never was better radio - great pile of gearhead goodness here, including tips and tricks for automotive detailing (with detailer - Mother's, Griot's, ECP, Glaze Distributing, and buying in bulk). There's also a useful thought-piece on the proper storage of gasoline - with everyone putting it in garbage bags nowadays, we'd probably best notify Darwin. More? DetailGuide.com for cleaner cars, Armor-All for better or worse, turbo swaps for driveability, avoiding frozen garages (because water), earthquake weather, plus excellent industrial and electronica.

May 27, 202156 min

S11 Ep 2605.16.21: Using Detailer for Ideal Detailing & Other Car Care Crap - Don't Freeze the Chemicals (But Fear the Chamois), Microfiber Matters, Chemical Combos, Armor-All Syndrome, Some Thoughts on Gas Cans & Storage, + Turbo Swaps, Bowie & Contagion

Shooting from the hip was never better radio - great pile of gearhead goodness here, including tips and tricks for automotive detailing (with detailer - Mother's, Griot's, ECP, Glaze Distributing, and buying in bulk). There's also a useful thought-piece on the proper storage of gasoline - with everyone putting it in garbage bags nowadays, we'd probably best notify Darwin. More? DetailGuide.com for cleaner cars, Armor-All for better or worse, turbo swaps for driveability, avoiding frozen garages (because water), earthquake weather, plus excellent industrial and electronica.

May 27, 202156 min

S11 Ep 2505.14.21 (MP3): UFOs VS Fighter Jockeys, Towel Pity VS Single-Stage Paint, Asterisk Admin VS Your Right to Roam, the Trojan Corpse VS Normal Automobility, + 5 Days of Gaslessness, Topless Jeep Rally, Ford's New Distracto 500 & Hail No (But Tornados)

Toyota corporate gets out against electric cars while Joe Basement plays down for the "struggle" (ahem, dog whistle?), impossible physics of UFOs (transmedium, anyone?) and WW2 gerry cans, giant TV screens and hot ads add to distracted driving (thanks, Ford)... Why not double down and throw hot peppers in your eyes, (Hell) spoken poetry, and polymathematical paws (now, with thumbs). Because gearhead! You're not going to repell firepower of this magnitude - from gearheads, cops, Jeepers and tops (not where they belong), it's the Garage Hour.

May 22, 20211h 0m

S11 Ep 2505.14.21: UFOs VS Fighter Jockeys, Towel Pity VS Single-Stage Paint, Asterisk Admin VS Your Right to Roam, the Trojan Corpse VS Normal Automobility, + 5 Days of Gaslessness, Topless Jeep Rally, Ford's New Distracto 500 & Hail No (But Tornados)

Toyota corporate gets out against electric cars while Joe Basement plays down for the "struggle" (ahem, dog whistle?), impossible physics of UFOs (transmedium, anyone?) and WW2 gerry cans, giant TV screens and hot ads add to distracted driving (thanks, Ford)... Why not double down and throw hot peppers in your eyes, (Hell) spoken poetry, and polymathematical paws (now, with thumbs). Because gearhead! You're not going to repell firepower of this magnitude - from gearheads, cops, Jeepers and tops (not where they belong), it's the Garage Hour.

May 22, 20211h 0m

S11 Ep 2405.11.21 (MP3): All Drinks Matter @ Location B(eer).. Ice Fog, Lost Wine & Dude Food Beta Kitchen (The Secret Ingredient is Phone) - AutoZone VS Advanced Auto VS NAPA, Iron Dome VS Patriot, Panko VS Crumbles, Shapiro VS Madcow + Operation Dude, Stop That!

Put an ongoing gearhead and a retired agency guy on-air and there's no telling what will happen. Drop them in a live setting (like Colorado's Trinity Brewing Company) and you'd better hide the cask. Special guests include Tall Jon, First Jon and Clark's Beard. This time, it was a grand pile of geek speak, with specialized weapons, gerry cans, the Dude Food Beta Kitchen (with panko, crumbles and phone), Forsaken Bacon, plus beers like Raspberry Kolsch, Cask Flo, Slapricot and Slap Yer Berry.

May 19, 202155 min

S11 Ep 2405.11.21: All Drinks Matter @ Location B(eer)... Ice Fog, Lost Wine & Dude Food Beta Kitchen (The Secret Ingredient is Phone) - AutoZone VS Advanced Auto VS NAPA, Iron Dome VS Patriot, Panko VS Crumbles, Shapiro VS Madcow, + Operation "Dude, Stop That!"

Put an ongoing gearhead and a retired agency guy on-air and there's no telling what will happen. Drop them in a live setting (like Colorado's Trinity Brewing Company) and you'd better hide the cask. Special guests include Tall Jon, First Jon and Clark's Beard. This time, it was a grand pile of geek speak, with specialized weapons, gerry cans, the Dude Food Beta Kitchen (with panko, crumbles and phone), Forsaken Bacon, plus beers like Raspberry Kolsch, Cask Flo, Slapricot and Slap Yer Berry.

May 19, 202155 min

S11 Ep 2305.07.21 (MP3): Past the Point of No Gaskets - Bellwether Car Prices & Blazing Saddles, JB Weld & Green Killing Germany, Honeywell Leaks B-1B, F-22 & F-35 Designs to China, Illegal Taxis VS Law Enforcement, + Prince Phillip's Custom Landie Pickup

A little bit of everything in this one... US taxpayers get screwed by big gov't contractors (as well as the supremacy of the B-1B, F-35 and F-22), turbocharger fixes for Subaru Legacy Outbacks and the EJ-255 (JB Weld!), how two-fisted royal Prince Phillip created his own hearse with a custom Land Rover pickup, how green energy is destroying Germany one industry at a time, and the mess that is illegal-immigrant coyotes driving like crazy people to escape the border patrol and local law enforcement. There's more fun stuff: peanut butter versus chocolate, wallet-sitting versus your income, and the schism between wanting a new (used) car and needing it.

May 12, 202155 min

S11 Ep 2305.07.21: Past the Point of No Gaskets - Bellwether Car Prices & Blazing Saddles, JB Weld & Green Killing Germany, Honeywell Leaks B-1B, F-22 & F-35 Designs to China, Illegal Taxis VS Law Enforcement, + Prince Phillip's Custom Landie Pickup

A little bit of everything in this one... US taxpayers get screwed by big gov't contractors (as well as the supremacy of the B-1B, F-35 and F-22), turbocharger fixes for Subaru Legacy Outbacks and the EJ-255 (JB Weld!), how two-fisted royal Prince Phillip created his own hearse with a custom Land Rover pickup, how green energy is destroying Germany one industry at a time, and the mess that is illegal-immigrant coyotes driving like crazy people to escape the border patrol and local law enforcement. There's more fun stuff: peanut butter versus chocolate, wallet-sitting versus your income, and the schism between wanting a new (used) car and needing it.

May 12, 202155 min

S11 Ep 2205.04.21 (MP3): Cougars in the Woods, Hybrids in Denial, GM in Mexico, Cavalier's Crash in Cook's Corner, Old Parts in Boxes, Cheap Commuters in Craig's List, & Blue Mics in Distress, + Zep, Korn, Slot, Vultures, Sessions, Testament, Puny, STP & Sleep

One of those raining in the garadtch/lab in defilade/tech in freakout Garage Hour shows where an absolute pile of unthunk topics turn into really good gearhead radio. Go figure: everything from the press-release media's attempts to paper over low repeat-purchase numbers for hybrids and electrics to great old parts boxes and what we find inside (inluding crashy bits from an otherwise great canyon run). There's also kudos for the Japanese (that seems to be a theme lately) and a big raspberry for GM's plans to move another factory south of the border. There's also a few little kitties on the run route (plus bears, elk and a bobcat), the finalé for the $500 commuter, plans for wintermobile # next, and our effort to get another Blue mic now that we found this Yeti.

May 7, 20211h 0m

S11 Ep 2205.04.21: Cougars in the Woods, Hybrids in Denial, GM in Mexico, Cavalier's Crash in Cook's Corner, Old Parts in Boxes, Cheap Commuters in Craig's List, & Blue Mics in Distress, + Zep, Korn, Slot, Vultures, Sessions, Testament, Puny, STP & Sleep

One of those raining in the garadtch/lab in defilade/tech in freakout Garage Hour shows where an absolute pile of unthunk topics turn into really good gearhead radio. Go figure: everything from the press-release media's attempts to paper over low repeat-purchase numbers for hybrids and electrics to great old parts boxes and what we find inside (inluding crashy bits from an otherwise great canyon run). There's also kudos for the Japanese (that seems to be a theme lately) and a big raspberry for GM's plans to move another factory south of the border. There's also a few little kitties on the run route (plus bears, elk and a bobcat), the finalé for the $500 commuter, plans for wintermobile # next, and our effort to get another Blue mic now that we found this Yeti.

May 7, 20211h 0m

S11 Ep 2104.25.21 (MP3): Suckin' Ain't No Crime (Until It Is): DC Police Street Racing (Because Desk Job), Subaru Recalls (Because Suspension Bolts), Global Parts Shortages (Because China), Gov't Swamp Dwellers (Because Nerds), + More Tesla AutoDrive Disasters

The Garage Hour's got gearhead news (because people seem to like it), so hereyago: - DC carkackings, lousy "expert" drivers, Ryan Hampton on lousy journalist drivers, and police who shouldn't be street racing (because they're not very good). - More new-car suspension parts falling off, this time of Subies. - Why dependence on global markets is a bad thing. - More tales of why Tesla's Auto Creepy-Drive is a bad thing. - Beer with Full Sail's Session Lager. Just to keep it awesome, we've also got Schroedinger's garbage can, Uber versus your phone, the Magnusson-Moss Warranty act, bricked electrics and fixing Sylvester Stallone with a hammer.

Apr 30, 20211h 1m

S11 Ep 2104.25.21: Suckin' Ain't No Crime (Until It Is): DC Police Street Racing (Because Desk Job), Subaru Recalls (Because Suspension Bolts), Global Parts Shortages (Because China), Gov't Swamp Dwellers (Because Nerds), + More Tesla AutoDrive Disasters

The Garage Hour's got gearhead news (because people seem to like it), so hereyago: - DC carkackings, lousy "expert" drivers, Ryan Hampton on lousy journalist drivers, and police who shouldn't be street racing (because they're not very good). - More new-car suspension parts falling off, this time of Subies. - Why dependence on global markets is a bad thing. - More tales of why Tesla's Auto Creepy-Drive is a bad thing. - Beer with Full Sail's Session Lager. Just to keep it awesome, we've also got Schroedinger's garbage can, Uber versus your phone, the Magnusson-Moss Warranty act, bricked electrics and fixing Sylvester Stallone with a hammer.

Apr 30, 20211h 1m

S11 Ep 2004.01.21 (MP3): F-15EX VS Formula 1, B-1B VS Bilstein, Taco Bell Hot Sauce Marinade VS Zombie Remixes, Santa Ana Winds VS Colorado Humidity, Spondivits VS MLB, Truckers VS Rioters, + U.S. UFOs, Chinese Spy Teslas & A Few Thoughts on Getting Prepped

...Crammed it all into this one. Script writer: go script yourself. With a device-thwarting free-news cable-cobbling in-lab intro, this is classic Garage Hour goodness. Better hydrate. Fried cheese curds, cheating Chinese Teslas, F1 or circle-track, Bilstein 5100 and 6112 on under your 4Runner, de-Wayneing the NRA, U.S. bombers in India and John Ratcliffe's UFOs. Even more: Body Armor? Drank it. Flopping tablets? Fixed 'em. Affirmative action for F1? Figures. '60s Chicaco P.D.? Need 'em. The greys? Found 'em.

Apr 21, 20211h 0m

S11 Ep 2004.01.21: F-15EX VS Formula 1, B-1B VS Bilstein, Taco Bell Hot Sauce Marinade VS Zombie Remixes, Santa Ana Winds VS Colorado Humidity, Spondivits VS MLB, Truckers VS Rioters, + U.S. UFOs, Chinese Spy Teslas & A Few Thoughts on Getting Prepped

...Crammed it all into this one. Script writer: go script yourself. With a device-thwarting free-news cable-cobbling in-lab intro, this is classic Garage Hour goodness. Better hydrate. Fried cheese curds, cheating Chinese Teslas, F1 or circle-track, Bilstein 5100 and 6112 under your 4Runner, de-Wayneing the NRA, U.S. bombers in India and John Ratcliffe's UFOs. Even more: Body Armor? Drank it. Flopping tablets? Fixed 'em. Affirmative action for F1? Figures. '60s Chicaco P.D.? Need 'em. The greys? Found 'em.

Apr 21, 20211h 0m

S11 Ep 1904.07.21 (MP3): Gearheads @ Location B(eer) - Techniques for Good Gear Selling Online & In-Person, the Reagan Shooting, Tip-Up VS Down, + a Visit w/ Head Brewer, Hype Forager, Idaho 7, Oak Gin Barrels & Fried Cheese Curds @ Trinity Brew

From haversacks to FIPG, Boogerbutt and B-sides, booing Seinfeld and ewwing Yuengling, Justin #2's Tourette's and the curdish (cheese) apocalypse, UZIs and a .38 in the briefcase, plus donations to the Cajun Navy and situational awareness, it's an alchivated Garage Hour (now, with beer!). This episode was originally oriented towards fine sips at Trinity Brewing and some discussion of good tactics for buying and selling things online and/or in the flesh, but you know detours... Admit it, you prefer them. #BecauseGearhead.

Apr 17, 202157 min

S11 Ep 1904.07.21: Gearheads @ Location B(eer) - Techniques for Good Gear Selling Online & In-Person, the Reagan Shooting, Tip-Up VS Down, + a Visit w/ Head Brewer, Hype Forager, Idaho 7, Oak Gin Barrels & Fried Cheese Curds @ Trinity Brew

From haversacks to FIPG, Boogerbutt and B-sides, booing Seinfeld and ewwing Yuengling, Justin #2's Tourette's and the curdish (cheese) apocalypse, UZIs and a .38 in the briefcase, plus donations to the Cajun Navy and situational awareness, it's an alchivated Garage Hour (now, with beer!). This episode was originally oriented towards fine sips at Trinity Brewing and some discussion of good tactics for buying and selling things online and/or in the flesh, but you know detours... Admit it, you prefer them. #BecauseGearhead.

Apr 17, 202157 min

S11 Ep 1804.02.21 (MP3): Vroom, Boom & Doom w/ Dude Food & How to Get Hit by a Car - Washed Up Mines & Leftover Bombs, Don't Crash Your Plane, Moby Wipe & the Sewer Beluga, RIP @ G. Gordon Liddy + GPS Proto-Fail (Thanks, Congress)

Surprisingly good gearhead talk radio right here (and it's pure rando-power): you can't fight skill of this magnitude without a prescription (or a warrant). There's pork shoulder on the grille and Richard III's skeleton under the parking lot, a thought or two on United Airlines hiring people because of their ability to fly to Duluth, and a reminder that it's tool time (spring means folks have the fool notion their garages are meant to be clean). Like always, it's more: the Psychonauts, Josh Homme (with Kyuss or QOTSA), soccer with Nelson & Bambalas, snowboarding with Teresa & Bondurant, Aunt Lou's Fiestaware and stickers by Freeb.

Apr 12, 202158 min

S11 Ep 1804.02.21: Vroom, Boom & Doom w/ Dude Food & How to Get Hit by a Car - Washed Up Mines & Leftover Bombs, Don't Crash Your Plane, Moby Wipe & the Sewer Beluga, RIP @ G. Gordon Liddy + GPS Proto-Fail (Thanks, Congress)

Surprisingly good gearhead talk radio right here (and it's pure rando-power): you can't fight skill of this magnitude without a prescription (or a warrant). There's pork shoulder on the grille and Richard III's skeleton under the parking lot, a thought or two on United Airlines hiring people because of their ability to fly to Duluth, and a reminder that it's tool time (spring means folks have the fool notion their garages are meant to be clean). Like always, it's more: the Psychonauts, Josh Homme (with Kyuss or QOTSA), soccer with Nelson & Bambalas, snowboarding with Teresa & Bondurant, Aunt Lou's Fiestaware and stickers by Freeb.

Apr 12, 202158 min

S11 Ep 1703.23.21 (MP3): Your Right to Roam VS a Mileage Tax - It's Car-Tracking & It's Big Gov't (Your Liberties VS a Slippery Slope), + Don't We Pay for Roads Already?, Why "Mileage Taxes" Hurt Low-Income Folks More, & The Problem w/ Bureaucrats

Creepy pinko nerds have infested the White House and they're after your liberties, particularly your right to roam. Among them is a second-generation marxist and small-town mayor who couldn't get potholes paved, Pete Buttgieg. While preaching his gospel, he made the mistake of saying the quiet part out loud, admitting he and his statist cronies want to track every mile you drive and CHARGE YOU FOR IT. Not on our watch - the Gearhead Consultancy has warned you about the "mileage tax" for a decade. Hostus Maximus Justin Fort was having a bad day on this episode, so enjoy the ride - he didn't. There's a lot of information and unbridled finger-pointing in this one too, so you might learn something.

Mar 31, 202159 min

S11 Ep 1703.23.21: Your Right to Roam VS a Mileage Tax - It's Car-Tracking & It's Big Gov't (Your Liberties VS a Slippery Slope), + Don't We Pay for Roads Already?, Why "Mileage Taxes" Hurt Low-Income Folks More, & The Problem w/ Bureaucrats

Creepy pinko nerds have infested the White House and they're after your liberties, particularly your right to roam. Among them is a second-generation marxist and small-town mayor who couldn't get potholes paved, Pete Buttgieg. While preaching his gospel, he made the mistake of saying the quiet part out loud, admitting he and his statist cronies want to track every mile you drive and CHARGE YOU FOR IT. Not on our watch - the Gearhead Consultancy has warned you about the "mileage tax" for a decade. Hostus Maximus Justin Fort was having a bad day on this episode, so enjoy the ride - he didn't. There's a lot of information and unbridled finger-pointing in this one too, so you might learn something.

Mar 31, 202159 min

S11 Ep 1603.21.21 (MP3): Get the Good Stuff (Be the Vulture!)... Intermediate Junkyarding - Rebuildable Parts (Swappable or Adaptable), Technique for Success, Respect for the Parts, Dirty Cars & Dirty Owners, + Flesh-Eating Floormats & Fu Manchu

It's time for gearhead class: smart thinking for your next run to the salvage yard (Junkyard 102!). At the intersection of knowledge and function is the junkyard (Best Auto, this time) you too can be the function whore. From impounds to rebuilds, rotating stock and picking up nuts and bolts, we'll help you know what's usable and what's junk (hah!). This episode's got a good slathering of additional sauce: Chef Jeff and Dave Lozeau, Fu Manchu and New Jersey brunos, plus Breck Brew's Vanilla Porter.

Mar 26, 202157 min

S11 Ep 1603.21.21: Get the Good Stuff (Be the Vulture!)... Intermediate Junkyarding - Rebuildable Parts (Swappable or Adaptable), Technique for Success, Respect for the Parts, Dirty Cars & Dirty Owners, + Flesh-Eating Floormats & Fu Manchu

It's time for gearhead class: smart thinking for your next run to the salvage yard (Junkyard 102!). At the intersection of knowledge and function is the junkyard (Best Auto, this time) you too can be the function whore. From impounds to rebuilds, rotating stock and picking up nuts and bolts, we'll help you know what's usable and what's junk (hah!). This episode's got a good slathering of additional sauce: Chef Jeff and Dave Lozeau, Fu Manchu and New Jersey brunos, plus Breck Brew's Vanilla Porter.

Mar 26, 202157 min