Stuff With Trucks: Toyotas, Junkyards, Coils, Leafs, Howitzers & Too Many Beers (Said No Gearhead Ever)

It’s not like we’ve stopped making awesomeness – it’s just a little airborne (it’s still good).  The Gearhead Consultancy got lost in the (Black) Forest and found us the Walkin’ Dude, and it was game on:  great garages, Toyotas and Fords, Subaru parts, Glock parts, wood-panelling, the JF Summit and...

Things You Should Hate – High-Beam Jerks, Robot Trucks, Unrepairable Anything, & Beer You Can’t Sip [Aired 12.02.21]

Hating is hard work – save it for something that deserves it.  This episode of garagey goodness deep-dives the gripey stuff on a cross-country flee-fest to Chi-town:  join us discussing some noteworthy reasons for unrest.  How about driverless cars and semis?  Why not add the right to repair (if you...

Gearhead Awesomepile: B-1Bs & F-15s, Bilsteins & F1, Santa Anas & Taco Bell Hot Sauce, + Truckers, Rioters, & Aliens [Aired 04.01.21]

…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...

Brake This & Break That – Garage Hour Does Hi-Po Brake Fixes & Avoiding Low-Quality Bits [AIRED 01.10 & 01.12.21]

Ahhh, repetitiveness…  You get into a groove, chatting up tricks for good braking technique and dodging lousy Chinese and third-world parts that’ll ruin your day (not to mention make you look stupid), then take a tug of a fine sip from Trinity Brewing, and suddenly there’s two episodes in a...

Canyon Carving & Curvy Roads 101! Taking Fun Seriously w/ Fast-Guy Thinking, Owning your Envelope & Daily-Driver Heel-Toe [Aired 05.15.20]

Make Sunday runday a fun day. The Garage Hour goons are pros at a few things, and a little gearhead gusto on the two-lane blacktop is one of them – the curvier the better. We’ll get you a few of the basics in this episode, including obvious stuff like knowing...

AR-15 Q & A: .223 VS 5.56, Handguard Styles, Trigger Types & Lots More AR Need-To-Knows [Aired 05.03.20]

When you’ve got to know the basics, it’s not okay to be a poseur.  The Garage Hour goons gathered up a few know-it guys from Freedom:30 Arms and peeled the onion on an episode all about new-guy questions about the AR-15 – y’know, helping you get over the hump.  We...
Active Shooter Defense School of San Diego

Active Shooter Defense School of San Diego
Active Shooter Defense School> When it's time to defend yourself with a firearm, will you know how? ASDS teaches and trains to make gun owners smart shooters.
Tony's Lube & Tune in San Diego, CA

Tony's Lube & Tune in San Diego, CA
Tony's Lube & Tune> Complete auto repair, upkeep and maintenance, plus specialty tuning of WRXs, STis and Evos.
Trinity Brewing - Just Down the Road from Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs)

Trinity Brewing - Just Down the Road from Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs)
Trinity Brewing> Some of the finest sips in Colorado are made at Trinity. Drop in and enjoy more than 40 exotic brews and perfect classics (with ales, pales, sours, stouts, seltzers and hoppy weirdos on tap at all times).
Subie Stickers of the Subaruniverse

Subie Stickers of the Subaruniverse
Subie Stickers> The original source for Subie goodies: if they don't have it, they'll make it. Don't be a punk - 10:GOTO Subie Stickers.
THIS is Hank Watson’s Garage Hour – 50,000 watts of gearhead terror. We’re the talk radio blowtorch you know and love, bringing you cars, trucks, beers and guns since 2009, with the sliciest canyon carving, dirtiest off-roading, biggest calibers, hairiest sasquatches, loudest explosions, and the best kinds of smoking rubble. Tune in to the go-to for gearhead get-some, the gear-banginest, term-slanginest, rootin-tootinest, highfalutinest, blue-collar awesomesauce you’ve heard since Top Gear full of beer.