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Set your faces for stunned – it’s one of thooooose Garage Hours, where we keep throwing interesting at the wall to see what sticks.

Today’s show at 6:PM has a little of everything, and when we say everything, we mean environmentalism (the what’s-up on the whole Blackfish freakout) with a real-live one (dolphin and whale fan; not an environmentalist whacko), some of the back-story on all of the Democrats being singled out for their duplicitous criminal nature (some would say the DOJ is winnowing out the weak ones before 2014…), some fun broken truck part fixes (old Toyotas never die, they just squeak more) and some shotgun shells that we’ve never used before that might or might not be awesome, but are definitely made in the USA and inexpensive.

Join host Justin Fort at 6:PM, with cohosts .45 Phil, Crag Maxwell, Kristine Alessio (mayyyyybe) and old friend of ours (and aspiring cohost), Leslie Rapp.

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More gearhead, more horsepower, more off-roading and more canyon carving, more jackassery and exploding propane tanks, Sten guns, railguns, battleships, guitars, Dude Food, sasquatches and all of the general awesomesauce you’ve come to demand from the best piece of sheeeeeeeow since Top Gear full of beer: it’s the Garage Hour, now in podcast form!

Click to “Garage Hour” in iTunes or visit the Garage Hour’s podcasting microsite (http://garagehour.libsyn.com/) to download a fleet of live episodes that are now available for your listening pleasure.

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We’re taking a step off our usual gearhead path to revel in something we know you’ll all dig: food.  To be exact, dude food – the barbecuest, flavorest, meatiest, I-killed-this-three-hours-ago freshest eating you crave – and we’ve got head chef Jeff Hall from Eastbound Bar & Grill to help us get the seasonings right. Everyone’s bringing a recipe or two, and we’ll chat up eating and drinking and generally pleasing our taste buds.  We’ll also talk about Eastbound’s new restaurant, opening up in the home of cohosts Crag Maxwell and .45 Phil, La Mesa, Communifornia, which is ironically westbound of Eastbound.

It’s not just Dude Food, of course, because we’re the Garage Hour.  There’s always cars, trucks, beers and guns, plus whatever else gets in the way.  In-studio with Hostus Maximus Justin Fort (in addition to the aforementioned Chefus Maximus Jeff Hall) will be none other than .45 Phil, SuperMeg (with her own take on Dude Food) and whomever else roams past the door at the station.

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We’ve got gearhead awesomesauce stacked up for this Saturday.  San Diego local Shane Henry, of Dirt Built Industries, fresh from competition in this year’s King of Hammers off-road melee, will be in-studio to talk about what it takes to build and run in the ultracompetitive Ultra4 series.  We also dip into how bone-stockers and slightly modded off-road newbs can get involved in off-roading at run-what’cha-drove-to-work events like the Superstition Run and Tierra del Sol, and how you can help preserve access to the trails and back-country that every American should have a right to enjoy.

It wouldn’t be the Garage Hour without some digression, however, so we’ll also take a run at carrying concealed in California, the ongoing joke that are electric vehicles, conservative politicians who are fed up with BS as usual in Washington D.C., the rolling humiliation that is the Obama White House’s foreign policy, and whatever else gets in our way.

While you’re at it, don’t forget to grab our podcasts – follow the link.  Catch you at 6:PM on Saturday (every Saturday).

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Did you miss us?

We took one Saturday off to play in the desert at the annual Superstition Run (thank you, San Diego Four-Wheelers), and y’all missed us all over the place.  It’s nice to be wanted.  On the other hand, we were able to air one of the young classics from our burgeoning collection of two-hour episodes – find them at our podcast page or iTunes (search “Garage Hour).

The January 25 show at 6:PM is right up your alley: Mike Petschek from Smog Only in El Cajon will try on the Garage Hour’s goodness in-studio, with Master Guns .45 Phil and Unidentified Flying Cohost Duncan Lancaster (lead singer of Skynyrd tribute band Skynyrd’s Innyrds) and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort. We’re going to do the Practical Dance with your auto smog need-to-knows, including new laws being served up by the state and the feds to make enjoying your gearheadventures harder every day (sure, it’s a conspiracy; ask us how).

Tune in every Saturday at 6:PM, only on 1170AM and KCBQ.com.

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It’s a bear sitting at a picnic table.  Just smile and keep walking.

Speaking of it’s, it’s easy to give something back.  In fact, it feels good aaaaaand it’s easy.  Join us on-air Saturday, 01.11, and we’re going to chat a little about an old gearhead who put together a charity with nothing more than a few of his work contacts and an understanding of the way things work at a local garage.

The Garage Hourians are also going to have  Jeff and Jake from Manzanita Brewing on air with them, which is on the cusp of opening Manzanita Distilling.  How’d this happen?  Is distilling fine sips the next dance for San Diego’s brewing party?  Can we distill in our garages like we brew beer?  Our questions know no bounds.

It’s not all unicorns and low-beams, though – the Garage Hour goons will play with a few pointed thoughts about how hard it is for Californians (SoCalians, especially) to drive in weather.  Any weather – not this namby pamby sunshine stuff.

Tune in at 6:PM, on 1170AM and KCBQ.com.

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It’s 2014, but other than a new page on the calendar, not much has changed.  Hostus Maximus Justin Fort, as well as .45 Phil, Agent Aya (if she can escape her FBI, DHS, CIA and ATF tails) and whomever else wanders into the studio will chat up cars, trucks, beers and guns just like you like.  We’ve got a hard look at the 2014 San Diego Auto Show, the inexpensive sports coupes and hatches you’ll find in local dealerships in 2014, as well as a chat about where full-size trucks are going.

Don’t cheat yourself the time to listen this week – above and beyond the hefty slice of this week’s Garage Hour we’ll spend picking apart the finer things coming to driveways in 2014, we’ll hit a few of the notsos that you might like to avoid.  We’ll also be graced by a call-in from Amy Foley, the media relations savant at the San Diego Auto Show.

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