Synopsis
Hank Watson's Garage Hour: Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns.Gearhead Talk Radio @ 6:PM Saturdays.1170AM/KCBQ.COM
Episodes
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01.21.23 (MP3): Geeking Out on Home Fixes (It's Cold Out!) - Burning Wood & Cookin' w/ Gas, 3-Way Switches, Tool Drawers & Function Centers, Sweating Pipe & Shark Fittings, Schrader Valves, Arced Tools & Electrocuted Friends, + Music for Misbehavior
30/01/2023 Duration: 58minIf it's snowing igloos and narwhales outside, you might as well do something in (let your home be a canvas for your genius). The Gearhead Consultancy also knows fine homeownerin', so this episode's got three-way switches (fix the travellers, don't be one), municipalities' rules for wiring (no dimmers for you), firewood and gas logs (because chainsaw), making your utility drawer an expansion of capability (no junk so no junk drawer), not trusting the web (buy a book, maybe even the old Reader's Digest bible), and fixing scuffs in hardwood (markers!). Random rock and/or roll: Zach Wilde, Candy Snatchers, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Chainsaws & Children, Metallica, Puny Human, AC/DC, Orgy, Desert Sessions, Hydroponix, Machines of Loving Grace & Blazing Haley!
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01.21.23: Geeking Out on Home Fixes (It's Cold Out!) - Burning Wood & Cookin' w/ Gas, 3-Way Switches, Tool Drawers & Function Centers, Sweating Pipe & Shark Fittings, Schrader Valves, Arced Tools & Electrocuted Friends, + Music for Misbehavior
30/01/2023 Duration: 58minIf it's snowing igloos and narwhales outside, you might as well do something in (let your home be a canvas for your genius). The Gearhead Consultancy also knows fine homeownerin', so this episode's got three-way switches (fix the travellers, don't be one), municipalities' rules for wiring (no dimmers for you), firewood and gas logs (because chainsaw), making your utility drawer an expansion of capability (no junk so no junk drawer), not trusting the web (buy a book, maybe even the old Reader's Digest bible), and fixing scuffs in hardwood (markers!). Random rock and/or roll: Zach Wilde, Candy Snatchers, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Chainsaws & Children, Metallica, Puny Human, AC/DC, Orgy, Desert Sessions, Hydroponix, Machines of Loving Grace & Blazing Haley!
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01.12.23 (MP3): Caught In Thought -Swiss Lightning Super Lasers, Weird Things for Sale Online, Corporations Polluting the Atmosphere, Distracted Driving Attention Budgets, Electric Cars Cost More (& Just Got Banned), +More CO2, More Fixes & More Elephants
23/01/2023 Duration: 01h04min"The more I learn, the less I know." said everyone, always - it's time to get your geek on with some off-the-wall thinking. With tacos full of bell and turbos full of charge (and a guest appearance by Glorvox the Massive), the gearhead goons put words to cold batteries and warm wi-fi (and the shame that's what happened to the nameplates "Lightning" and "Hummer"), as well as why CO2 is good (we like trees), distracted driving is bad (spend some attention), Carl Sagan was wise (technology w/ morality), and why just because we can doesn't mean we should. Also appearing: Ministry, Air, Five-Horse Johnson, Biopsiy and Cujo (because that stuff's great!), as well as some crazy eyes, yuge glasses, and green thumbs.
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01.12.23: Caught In Thought - Swiss Lightning Super Lasers, Weird Things for Sale Online, Corporations Polluting the Atmosphere, Distracted Driving Attention Budgets, Electric Cars Cost More (& Just Got Banned), + More CO2, More Fixes & More Elephants
23/01/2023 Duration: 01h04min"The more I learn, the less I know." said everyone, always - it's time to get your geek on with some off-the-wall thinking. With tacos full of bell and turbos full of charge (and a guest appearance by Glorvox the Massive), the gearhead goons put words to cold batteries and warm wi-fi (and the shame that's what happened to the nameplates "Lightning" and "Hummer"), as well as why CO2 is good (we like trees), distracted driving is bad (spend some attention), Carl Sagan was wise (technology w/ morality), and why just because we can doesn't mean we should. Also appearing: Ministry, Air, Five-Horse Johnson, Biopsiy and Cujo (because that stuff's great!), as well as some crazy eyes, yuge glasses, and green thumbs.
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01.03.23 (MP3): Post-Xmas Reality, w/Right to Repair (Deere VS Farmers & The Woz's Gluey Macs), Murderdrones, Clocks at Sea, Knitting Sweaters, Kalifornistan's Infrastructure (Build a Dam Already) &Illinois Gun Control (Weaver or Isosceles) +Karma to Burn
17/01/2023 Duration: 54minLet's spread some real on now that the good day is done - the Garage Hour goons have hit 2023 like a dump truck full of boba and we're getting it all over the place: freak out the neighbors with your old-school drone, then fix things because the courts came down on farmers' side against John Deere (Steve Wozniak isn't wrong - your right to repair is a big deal). Then it's upgrade versus Green Hell in CA as nobody thought of raising a few dams and keeing water when it's rainiy for days when it ain't. Nice state you've got there... We'll also help you yell about the random craptastic gift for your kid that turned out to be a dirty old man's joke-machine, as well as dish on some Karma to Burn ("V" and "Arch Stanton") and Clutch ("Spacegrass").
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01.03.23: Post-Xmas Reality, w/ Right to Repair (Deere VS Farmers & The Woz's Gluey Macs), Murderdrones, Clocks at Sea, Knitting Sweaters, Kalifornistan's Infrastructure (Build a Dam Already) & Illinois Gun Control (Weaver or Isosceles), + Karma to Burn
17/01/2023 Duration: 54minLet's spread some real on now that the good day is done - the Garage Hour goons have hit 2023 like a dump truck full of boba and we're getting it all over the place: freak out the neighbors with your old-school drone, then fix things because the courts came down on farmers' side against John Deere (Steve Wozniak isn't wrong - your right to repair is a big deal). Then it's upgrade versus Green Hell in CA as nobody thought of raising a few dams and keeing water when it's rainiy for days when it ain't. Nice state you've got there... We'll also help you yell about the random craptastic gift for your kid that turned out to be a dirty old man's joke-machine, as well as dish on some Karma to Burn ("V" and "Arch Stanton") and Clutch ("Spacegrass").
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12.28.22 (MP3): Good, Bad & Ugly Xmas Gifts - Second Amendment & CCWs, Battery Reliability in the Cold, Real VS Fake Trees (What About the Effort?), Steel Plates Fix Fire, Egg Nog Testing + All-Wheel Drive VS Rear-Wheel Drive for Fun w/ Snow (& Some Mom)
09/01/2023 Duration: 59minGearheads giving geeky goodness - what could be better for Christmas? There's gobs of great holiday happiness here, plus a few gifts you shouldn't give. Putting some 2A under a real tree? You and 16,000,000 other Americans this year. Concealed-carry helpers are grand too. Making the effort matters - you don't want to mistakenly send someone to Kalifornistan and its reanimation of zombie unconstitutional microstamping mandates, or electric cars, which still don't work when it's cold. More goodies: Christmas chili, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Brian Setzer, Art Carney, Burl Ives, Arthur Fiedler and Deadblot, with notes from the Mom Planet (population turkey).
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12.28.22: Good, Bad & Ugly Xmas Gifts - Second Amendment & CCWs, Battery Reliability in the Cold, Real VS Fake Trees (What About the Effort?), Steel Plates Fix Fire, Egg Nog Testing + All-Wheel Drive VS Rear-Wheel Drive for Fun w/ Snow (& Some Mom)
09/01/2023 Duration: 59minGearheads giving geeky goodness - what could be better for Christmas? There's gobs of great holiday happiness here, plus a few gifts you shouldn't give. Putting some 2A under a real tree? You and 16,000,000 other Americans this year. Concealed-carry helpers are grand too. Making the effort matters - you don't want to mistakenly send someone to Kalifornistan and its reanimation of zombie unconstitutional microstamping mandates, or electric cars, which still don't work when it's cold. More goodies: Christmas chili, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Brian Setzer, Art Carney, Burl Ives, Arthur Fiedler and Deadblot, with notes from the Mom Planet (population turkey).
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12.12.22 (MP3): Crap Weather Automotive Operation - Things to Think When There's 0 Degrees, w/ Tires & Batteries VS Cold, Breaking Down VS Picking It Up, & a Little About Dirty Oil from Dirty Politicians, + Great Westerns, Good F1, & Supreme Court Lumps
31/12/2022 Duration: 01h01minPrepping versus being prepared: what's it take to keep the little things from killing you when it's snowing icebergs and polar bears (because there's no second chances at zero degrees), and intelligence versus smarts for dumb stuff like tires and recovery (because the difference between a minor inconvenience and a major one in cold weather is you). More fun: western actors and movies you didn't know were worth your time like "Night Passage" and "Ride Clear of Diablo" (with Jimmie Stewart, Dan Duryea and Audie Murphy), and a few thoughts on "Good/Bad/Ugly" versus "Fistful of Dollars" and "A Few Dollars More", and the unappreciated genius of Eastwood, Van Cleef and Wallach.
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12.12.22: Crap Weather Automotive Operation - Things to Think When There's 0 Degrees, w/ Tires & Batteries VS Cold, Breaking Down VS Picking It Up, & a Little About Dirty Oil from Dirty Politicians, + Great Westerns, Good F1, & Supreme Court Lumps
31/12/2022 Duration: 01h01minPrepping versus being prepared: what's it take to keep the little things from killing you when it's snowing icebergs and polar bears (because there's no second chances at zero degrees), and intelligence versus smarts for dumb stuff like tires and recovery (because the difference between a minor inconvenience and a major one in cold weather is you). More fun: western actors and movies you didn't know were worth your time like "Night Passage" and "Ride Clear of Diablo" (with Jimmie Stewart, Dan Duryea and Audie Murphy), and a few thoughts on "Good/Bad/Ugly" versus "Fistful of Dollars" and "A Few Dollars More", and the unappreciated genius of Eastwood, Van Cleef and Wallach.
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11.21.22 (MP3): Gearhead Stuff = The Return of Undercar Neon & Spinners, Snowy Railbed Roundhouse Adventures, Reciprocating Saws & Returning Thieves, + Too Much Wheel or Too Little Skill Makes Parade Floats Dangerous (w/ Rock & Roll, Beer, & ED 209)
19/12/2022 Duration: 58minSo much to upload - sorry, so busy... Garage Hour is on it, though, so don't 'fraid dat: we've got a goodly gearhead glob of geeksauce here. Undercar neon, roundhouses for parking your locomotive and your caboose, sawzalls and reciprocating burglars, driverless cabs, moralless robots, reliabilityless Fords, and the Novembre open-wheel Pike's Peak hillclimber for sale. There's more car-guy stuff: emergency brakes versus parking brakes, and the mechanical peril posed by wheel and tire choices combined with pulling a parade float while undertalented. As for the spice, there's much to enjoy: Rammsetin, Black Nasa, Alabama Thunderpussy, Monster Magnet, Nation of Fear, QOTSA, Wo Fat, as well as cohosts of note Gerhart Klimeck and Dirty Dave.
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11.21.22: Gearhead Stuff = The Return of Undercar Neon & Spinners, Snowy Railbed Roundhouse Adventures, Reciprocating Saws & Returning Thieves, + Too Much Wheel or Too Little Skill Makes Parade Floats Dangerous (w/ Rock & Roll, Beer, & ED 209)
19/12/2022 Duration: 58minSo much to upload - sorry, so busy... Garage Hour is on it, though, so don't 'fraid dat: we've got a goodly gearhead glob of geeksauce here. Undercar neon, roundhouses for parking your locomotive and your caboose, sawzalls and reciprocating burglars, driverless cabs, moralless robots, reliabilityless Fords, and the Novembre open-wheel Pike's Peak hillclimber for sale. There's more car-guy stuff: emergency brakes versus parking brakes, and the mechanical peril posed by wheel and tire choices combined with pulling a parade float while undertalented. As for the spice, there's much to enjoy: Rammsetin, Black Nasa, Alabama Thunderpussy, Monster Magnet, Nation of Fear, QOTSA, Wo Fat, as well as cohosts of note Gerhart Klimeck and Dirty Dave.
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11.11.22 (MP3): Rooftop Tents & Carriers are Car Abuse! Also, Jay Leno's Burns (and Gearhead Legitimacy), Carvana's Pending Flop (Used Car Lots Need Used Cars & Shoppers), Are Electric Vehicles Stealing Your Money?, + Herbie Hancock & Echo w/ Bunnymen
25/11/2022 Duration: 50minYummmm, segminty. Good stuff: The crap you bolt on your roof is a legitimate threat to your vehicle - wear and tear, fluid abuse and suspension decrepitation. Serious gearhead Jay Leno is saved from reallllllly bad burns by friends in his garatch. Carvana is choking on the reality of artificial pressures on capitalism ala Kung Flu. European Union bureaucrats are still pretending they can drive a unicorn fart to work (or: Thatcher and Friedman are still right). More good stuff: the pending prepping episode (and an upcoming Dude Food special), 10-year old Stagg chili and "expiration" dates, honey is also yummy (and good for what ails you), pork roast and a crock pot, and less "elite" but more "efite".
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11.11.22: Rooftop Tents & Carriers are Car Abuse! Also, Jay Leno's Burns (and Gearhead Legitimacy), Carvana's Pending Flop (Used Car Lots Need Used Cars & Shoppers), Are Electric Vehicles Stealing Your Money?, + Herbie Hancock & Echo w/ Bunnymen
25/11/2022 Duration: 50minYummmm, segminty. Good stuff: The crap you bolt on your roof is a legitimate threat to your vehicle - wear and tear, fluid abuse and suspension decrepitation. Serious gearhead Jay Leno is saved from reallllllly bad burns by friends in his garatch. Carvana is choking on the reality of artificial pressures on capitalism ala Kung Flu. European Union bureaucrats are still pretending they can drive a unicorn fart to work (or: Thatcher and Friedman are still right). More good stuff: the pending prepping episode (and an upcoming Dude Food special), 10-year old Stagg chili and "expiration" dates, honey is also yummy (and good for what ails you), pork roast and a crock pot, and less "elite" but more "efite".
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11.10.22 (MP3): Blind-Spot Indicators - Are You the Driver or Meat in the Seat? Loud Pipes Save Lives (& Loud People Save Ideas), Exploding Scooters, Tech VS You (Was Sagan Right?), 2 Degrees from a Cutlass, + (Bad) News from Area 51 & 2A Goodness In Iowa
15/11/2022 Duration: 56minYou can't get this kind of awesomeness without a warrant (or a prescription). This Garage Hour does geek right, with a firearm-friendly amendment in Iowa, big AM-talk in San Diego (board-ops, fer shur), the risk science poses to senseless sinners, why New Yorkers are scared shedless of chintzy scooters from pinko China (apartment flambé, anyone?), and why Kevin Bacon can't hold a candle to our "Two Degrees from a Cutlass" theory. There's also some reminiscence about a client with a private dirt-oval, and an exposé of what happens to your skillset when the electro-nannies start doing your legwork. But wait! the Gearhead Consultancy also explains the "Drowning Man" theory, and we take a look at how the thugly F.B.I. is taking a rope to the progenitor of Dreamland Resort (.com) and his affection for Area 51. There's also Machines of Loving Grace, Goatsnake, St. Vitus, Five Horse Johnson, Primus and Air.
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11.10.22: Blind-Spot Indicators - Are You the Driver or Meat in the Seat? Loud Pipes Save Lives (& Loud People Save Ideas), Exploding Scooters, Tech VS You (Was Sagan Right?), Two Degrees from a Cutlass, + (Bad) News from Area 51 & 2A Goodness In Iowa
15/11/2022 Duration: 56minYou can't get this kind of awesomeness without a warrant (or a prescription). This Garage Hour does geek right, with a firearm-friendly amendment in Iowa, big AM-talk in San Diego (board-ops, fer shur), the risk science poses to senseless sinners, why New Yorkers are scared shedless of chintzy scooters from pinko China (apartment flambé, anyone?), and why Kevin Bacon can't hold a candle to our "Two Degrees from a Cutlass" theory. There's also some reminiscence about a client with a private dirt-oval, and an exposé of what happens to your skillset when the electro-nannies start doing your legwork. But wait! the Gearhead Consultancy also explains the "Drowning Man" theory, and we take a look at how the thugly F.B.I. is taking a rope to the progenitor of Dreamland Resort (.com) and his affection for Area 51. There's also Machines of Loving Grace, Goatsnake, St. Vitus, Five Horse Johnson, Primus and Air.
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11.02.22 (MP3): Sneaky Cars w/ Jets, Hurricanes Making Electric Cars Explode (& Burn Down Your House), Why Round-Abouts Are Killing People, Parking Outside for Hail & Profit, Vehicle Dynamics and Building That Tool, + Probably Better Not to Make Girls Cry
09/11/2022 Duration: 01h01minIt's another pile of gearhead supersauce. ...Learning to read vehicle dynamics and understand where your car's "squish" is (and some thoughts on how to tune that thing so it goes left and right right). ...How Occum's Razor applies to traffic "circles" (the illustrious round-about, another thing that should have stayed in England) and why people keep dying on them. ...The basic math of salt water + electric components + vacuous elites ("elite" at what, exactly?) = car goes BOOM and house goes FLOOM. Also, a little bit of detail on how Kalifornistan has turned on Tesla (they can only take away what they gave you). Have some: Zach Wilde, Anthrax, drunk Jim Bowie, the Cadillac Eldorado, and RIP Dietrich Mateschitz.
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11.02.22: Sneaky Cars w/ Jets, Hurricanes Making Electric Cars Explode (& Burn Down Your House), Why Round-Abouts Are Killing People, Parking Outside for Hail & Profit, Vehicle Dynamics and Building That Tool, + Probably Better Not to Make Girls Cry
09/11/2022 Duration: 01h01minIt's another pile of gearhead supersauce. ...Learning to read vehicle dynamics and understand where your car's "squish" is (and some thoughts on how to tune that thing so it goes left and right right). ...How Occum's Razor applies to traffic "circles" (the illustrious round-about, another thing that should have stayed in England) and why people keep dying on them. ...The basic math of salt water + electric components + vacuous elites ("elite" at what, exactly?) = car goes BOOM and house goes FLOOM. Also, a little bit of detail on how Kalifornistan has turned on Tesla (they can only take away what they gave you). Have some: Zach Wilde, Anthrax, drunk Jim Bowie, the Cadillac Eldorado, and RIP Dietrich Mateschitz.
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10.02.22 (MP3): 10 Ways To Not Die On-Trail (Easy Stuff You Ought'a 'Froad) - Because You Can't Four-Wheel If You're Dead! Trail Awareness, Baggage Control, Self-Management & Knowing Your Functions, + Karma to Burn & a Little Sleep
24/10/2022 Duration: 57minThese aren't ideas you haven't had, but the Gearhead Coinsultancy got together in Black Forest with The Walkin' Dude to remind you why the basics matter with you've got one foot to spare between dropping 100ft into a washout and crawlin' the high side to your knobby-tired doom. Easy things: truck-training your kids and dogs, knowing your rig's behavior under duress, managing yourself and avoiding fatigue, as well as dumping the ego at the trailhead so you don't wind up an instructional video. Because there's always more: Dirty Harry and the Spanducci Speech, the Cell Phone Incident at FJ Summit, Fred's custom platform for him forum, and Eddyline's "Stay the Trail" Pale - a good beer but not always a good idea.
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10.02.22: 10 Ways To Not Die On-Trail (Easy Stuff You Ought'a 'Froad) - Because You Can't Four-Wheel If You're Dead! Trail Awareness, Baggage Control, Self-Management & Knowing Your Functions, + Karma to Burn & a Little Sleep
24/10/2022 Duration: 57minThese aren't ideas you haven't had, but the Gearhead Coinsultancy got together in Black Forest with The Walkin' Dude to remind you why the basics matter with you've got one foot to spare between dropping 100ft into a washout and crawlin' the high side to your knobby-tired doom. Easy things: truck-training your kids and dogs, knowing your rig's behavior under duress, managing yourself and avoiding fatigue, as well as dumping the ego at the trailhead so you don't wind up an instructional video. Because there's always more: Dirty Harry and the Spanducci Speech, the Cell Phone Incident at FJ Summit, Fred's custom platform for him forum, and Eddyline's "Stay the Trail" Pale - a good beer but not always a good idea.