Tue, 29 October 2024
09.03.24 (MP3): A Student of Traffic & Roadway Ruminations - Confident Maneuvers, Broken Windows for Motorists, Analyzing "The Pulse", Learning to Live in Space (Cushion), & the Risk of Vehicular Isolation, + Broken Drop Links & Better Alignment
We'll trade you a four-pound sledge and a twitchy STi for the time to get more episodes published... This one's full of traffic thinking, with a knobby-tired look at why good alignment matters (and dying end-links don't). There's an in-depth analysis of how it's essential to be in an offensive state of mind when commanding your place in the flow (and why bubbling yourself off from those selfsame traffic physics makes you the problem we've been waiting for). There's also a few thoughts about how "Broken Windows Policing" could do wonders for incompetent motoring. Don't fret: how about some Amon Tobin, Die Krupps, Deep Purple and Blue Oyster Cult (no "White Room" or "Yellow Submarine", however), plus killer Bronco audio, Mom's Camry, cars in garages and TVs in dashboards. |
Tue, 29 October 2024
09.03.24: A Student of Traffic & Roadway Ruminations - Confident Maneuvers, Broken Windows for Motorists, Analyzing "The Pulse", Learning to Live in Space (Cushion), & the Risk of Vehicular Isolation, + Broken Drop Links & Better Alignment
We'll trade you a four-pound sledge and a twitchy STi for the time to get more episodes published... This one's full of traffic thinking, with a knobby-tired look at why good alignment matters (and dying end-links don't). There's an in-depth analysis of how it's essential to be in an offensive state of mind when commanding your place in the flow (and why bubbling yourself off from those selfsame traffic physics makes you the problem we've been waiting for). There's also a few thoughts about how "Broken Windows Policing" could do wonders for incompetent motoring. Don't fret: how about some Amon Tobin, Die Krupps, Deep Purple and Blue Oyster Cult (no "White Room" or "Yellow Submarine", however), plus killer Bronco audio, Mom's Camry, cars in garages and TVs in dashboards. |
Wed, 16 October 2024
08.28.24 (MP3): When Animals Attack Garage Hour Fans, Recalls & More Recalls (Valves Fail, Brake Fluid Lights, Tow Hitches Fall Off), Exploding Deathbatteries, Bombs in Holes, Dewalt's DEI Fallapart, & Boar's Head Liverwurst
...A data-heavy slacker-upload episode for you - too much to do, so go do it. We did: wrasslin' animals and eating' bears, recalling Fords and Fords and DEIs and Toyotas and Fords and GMs and pickups and some junk in the trunk, as well as recalling a run from El Paso to Wisco in one of BFGoodrich's fleet of jacked-up Suburbans, and revisiting the Garage Hour rule that if you dig two holes in England (or Europe) there will be a skeleton or a bomb in at least one of them. There's also a Dude Food shout-out to liverwurst, a warning tear for DeWalt (what's trying to pull a Bud Light), and a serious discussion about how artificial reinsertion of apex predators into environments from which they've absconded (ie: Colorado's wolves, which are being eaten by cougars, and Italian bears, which are eating liberals). More goodies: cheap akiya homes in Japan, awesome actors in "Copland" and "Demolition Man", terrible flame throwing pinko battery deaths from scooters and other electric deathtraps worldwide, essential electronics repair and the necessity of having a wiring and circuitry guy in your stable, plus Sinister, Fishbone, Cheap Dates, Alien Faktor, U2 (really), Earthlings?, Desert Sessions, Butthole Surfers, L.S.G., Sausage, The Dead Elvi and Incubus. |
Wed, 16 October 2024
08.28.24: When Animals Attack Garage Hour Fans, Recalls & More Recalls (Valves Fail, Brake Fluid Lights, Tow Hitches Fall Off), Exploding Deathbatteries, Bombs in Holes, Dewalt's DEI Fallapart, & Boar's Head Liverwurst
...A data-heavy slacker-upload episode for you - too much to do, so go do it. We did: wrasslin' animals and eating' bears, recalling Fords and Fords and DEIs and Toyotas and Fords and GMs and pickups and some junk in the trunk, as well as recalling a run from El Paso to Wisco in one of BFGoodrich's fleet of jacked-up Suburbans, and revisiting the Garage Hour rule that if you dig two holes in England (or Europe) there will be a skeleton or a bomb in at least one of them. There's also a Dude Food shout-out to liverwurst, a warning tear for DeWalt (what's trying to pull a Bud Light), and a serious discussion about how artificial reinsertion of apex predators into environments from which they've absconded (ie: Colorado's wolves, which are being eaten by cougars, and Italian bears, which are eating liberals). More goodies: cheap akiya homes in Japan, awesome actors in "Copland" and "Demolition Man", terrible flame throwing pinko battery deaths from scooters and other electric deathtraps worldwide, essential electronics repair and the necessity of having a wiring and circuitry guy in your stable, plus Sinister, Fishbone, Cheap Dates, Alien Faktor, U2 (really), Earthlings?, Desert Sessions, Butthole Surfers, L.S.G., Sausage, The Dead Elvi and Incubus. |
Sun, 22 September 2024
08.14.24 (MP3): Detail (for Sale) & Car Care Tricks, Incl. Dashboard Chemicals & Seat Cleaning (w/ Craig the Detailer), Also, Knock-Off Chinese Taillights, Dreaded P0420 VS Out-of-State Catalytics, Puffy Jackets & GTI Guys (WTF, You), + A NYC Parking Fail
Be the geek and improve the you: the Garage Hour is here to help (everybody, apparently)... The lovely Pam called needing info on detailing a dashboard and cleaning seat fabric, so the Gearhead Consultancy went to town with everything from car care on the Front Range to the beauty of factory headlight plastic - it's all about the sincerity of your detail. With our old buddy Craig and special appearances from a $500 Civic, a hampster's Kia, a wrecked 4Runner, a very fine Legacy, a V-6 Accord, and a cherished STi, this episode's on track like a Big Boy. Now, will someone tell us how to clean soap? Don't stop, go: Gruntruk, Toadies, Jane's, Butthole Surfers, Monolord, Low Rider, Coldcut and "Ugly Americans"... We cap it all off with a tale of how not to be a menace in the Bronx while leaving your Audi at a block party in the 'hood. |
Sun, 22 September 2024
08.14.24: Detail (for Sale) & Car Care Tricks, Incl. Dashboard Chemicals & Seat Cleaning (w/ Craig the Detailer), Also, Knock-Off Chinese Taillights, Dreaded P0420 VS Out-of-State Catalytics, Puffy Jackets & GTI Guys (WTF, You), + A NYC Parking Fail
Be the geek and improve the you: the Garage Hour is here to help (everybody, apparently)... The lovely Pam called needing info on detailing a dashboard and cleaning seat fabric, so the Gearhead Consultancy went to town with everything from car care on the Front Range to the beauty of factory headlight plastic - it's all about the sincerity of your detail. With our old buddy Craig and special appearances from a $500 Civic, a hampster's Kia, a wrecked 4Runner, a very fine Legacy, a V-6 Accord, and a cherished STi, this episode's on track like a Big Boy. Now, will someone tell us how to clean soap? Don't stop, go: Gruntruk, Toadies, Jane's, Butthole Surfers, Monolord, Low Rider, Coldcut and "Ugly Americans"... We cap it all off with a tale of how not to be a menace in the Bronx while leaving your Audi at a block party in the 'hood. |
Mon, 9 September 2024
08.08.24 (MP3): Roadway Ruminations @ Gearhead Central - Work Trucks VS New Dirt, Mirrors Warning Lights for Distracted Drivers, Hunting the Clunk, Straps Good & Bad, Multi-Lane Merge-Fails & Fighting the (Man) Ticket, + New Shows VS Mealy-Mouth Beta Boys
Don't let the compunannies and digidistractions make you less of a (hu)man - it's time to think before you sink (into the mud and unpacked dirt at that job site, Mr. Cement Truck Driver)... It's an episode full of whatever got in the Gearhead Consultancy's way, because we're too damn busy. How about cops and their Exploders? Good and bad strap technique for fun and disastrous truck towing and hauling? Why that little light in your sideview mirror should warn motorists about YOU... ...And why turning across lanes to avoid one driver is a recipe for meeting other drivers the hard way. So much good stuff... What about some thinly veiled leftism hiding in new limp-wristed podcasts? Some Amon Tobin and traffic school? ...Also, let's remember Scott Bloomquist, incredible dirt-track racer but not so much of a pilot. R.I.P., you excellent weirdo. |
Mon, 9 September 2024
08.08.24: Roadway Ruminations @ Gearhead Central - Work Trucks VS New Dirt, Mirrors Warning Lights for Distracted Drivers, Hunting the Clunk, Straps Good & Bad, Multi-Lane Merge-Fails & Fighting the (Man) Ticket, + New Shows VS Mealy-Mouth Beta Boys
Don't let the compunannies and digidistractions make you less of a (hu)man - it's time to think before you sink (into the mud and unpacked dirt at that job site, Mr. Cement Truck Driver)... It's an episode full of whatever got in the Gearhead Consultancy's way, because we're too damn busy. How about cops and their Exploders? Good and bad strap technique for fun and disastrous truck towing and hauling? Why that little light in your sideview mirror should warn motorists about YOU... ...And why turning across lanes to avoid one driver is a recipe for meeting other drivers the hard way. So much good stuff... What about some thinly veiled leftism hiding in new limp-wristed podcasts? Some Amon Tobin and traffic school? ...Also, let's remember Scott Bloomquist, incredible dirt-track racer but not so much of a pilot. R.I.P., you excellent weirdo. |
Mon, 26 August 2024
07.27.24 (MP3): Whiskey & Winchester @ Mark's Ammo Dungeon... Custom Ammo & Homemade Sips w/ Nosler, Hornaday, Sierra, Vargit, .308, & the Return of "When Animals Attack" w/ .44 Mag, 10mm, .458 Casull, .45 Long Colt, + Rangland, Straits & Wizard
You asked for it... Well, technically, White Mark's wife got called in for double surgery so we just ran to the garage and started pouring powder and Gilark Whiskey (version-four rye AND version-five bourbon). What resulted? Hot .308s for the M24 (Nosler + Hornaday +Winchester + Vargit = 2500fps), a bunch of shaped and cleaned brass, and a wide-ranging chat about what goes into making good ammo (...because if you want it to be super, you've got to MAKE it super.), with recapping, resizing, case lube, work-hardening, and some geekly mechanical catharsis. Seriously, this one is stacked: how to sniff out a fed at the range (and how bad gov makes us all paranoid), stick VS flake, tricklers for powder, .30-06s and 5.56 at the range, lands jumping, breech wear, how not to get attacked by bears in Alaska and Mark's family in Louisiana, a little Dude Food segment, and some good tunes. |
Mon, 26 August 2024
07.27.24: Whiskey & Winchester @ Mark's Ammo Dungeon... Custom Ammo & Homemade Sips w/ Nosler, Hornaday, Sierra, Vargit, .308, & the Return of "When Animals Attack" w/ .44 Mag, 10mm, .458 Casull, .45 Long Colt, + Rangland, Straits & Wizard
You asked for it... Well, technically, White Mark's wife got called in for double surgery so we just ran to the garage and started pouring powder and Gilark Whiskey (version-four rye AND version-five bourbon). What resulted? Hot .308s for the M24 (Nosler + Hornaday +Winchester + Vargit = 2500fps), a bunch of shaped and cleaned brass, and a wide-ranging chat about what goes into making good ammo (...because if you want it to be super, you've got to MAKE it super.), with recapping, resizing, case lube, work-hardening, and some geekly mechanical catharsis. Seriously, this one is stacked: how to sniff out a fed at the range (and how bad gov makes us all paranoid), stick VS flake, tricklers for powder, .30-06s and 5.56 at the range, lands jumping, breech wear, how not to get attacked by bears in Alaska and Mark's family in Louisiana, a little Dude Food segment, and some good tunes. |
Sun, 11 August 2024
07.14.24: Cars & Caffeine? Motivation VS Hydration, DRLs VS Headlights, Ford VS Chevy, Gatorade VS the Chinese, + the Hazard of Connectivity in Cars ala Data Capture & Pinko Robots, + Residents of the Liquor Cabinet & a Lesson in Soviet Steel
Straight from the no-math Greek-'froading bipedal-maintenance intro, it's a full hour of gearhead supremacy. Two big topics loom: tech versus you (and two of the nastiest manifestations of the threat, including what's being done with your data and what the Chinese are doing with self-driving cars), plus a chaser about carmakers having to lie about electric car sales numbers because no one wants them. From there, we've got what sensible carmakers like Ford and Toyota are doing (running away from electrics), while woketarded outfits like GM are barreling headlong into battery-powered doom. ...Epoch Times and Legal Insurrection provided articles for this show. There's also a little something about caffeination and hydration with sauce from the pickle ball pros at Holey Performance. ...Because you're already dirty: good whiskey, bad investments, the Caprice versus the Crown Vic, and rock from COC, Bowie, Ninja, Graveyard Farmers, Electronic Excursions, and Southern Culture. |
Sun, 11 August 2024
07.14.24 (MP3): Cars & Caffeine? Motivation VS Hydration, DRLs VS Headlights, Ford VS Chevy, Gatorade VS the Chinese, + the Hazard of Connectivity in Cars ala Data Capture & Pinko Robots, + Residents of the Liquor Cabinet & a Lesson in Soviet Steel
Straight from the no-math Greek-'froading bipedal-maintenance intro, it's a full hour of gearhead supremacy. Two big topics loom: tech versus you (and two of the nastiest manifestations of the threat, including what's being done with your data and what the Chinese are doing with self-driving cars), plus a chaser about carmakers having to lie about electric car sales numbers because no one wants them. From there, we've got what sensible carmakers like Ford and Toyota are doing (running away from electrics), while woketarded outfits like GM are barreling headlong into battery-powered doom. ...Epoch Times and Legal Insurrection provided articles for this show. There's also a little something about caffeination and hydration with sauce from the pickle ball pros at Holey Performance. ...Because you're already dirty: good whiskey, bad investments, the Caprice versus the Crown Vic, and rock from COC, Bowie, Ninja, Graveyard Farmers, Electronic Excursions, and Southern Culture. |
Mon, 29 July 2024
07.03.24 (MP3): 911s, 4Runners, Harlequin Golfs, Pistachio SAABs & a Range Rover for John, w/ Tint & PPF Wraps, Putin & Albright, the White Needle of Death, the Concorde, Uncle Donald the Velociraptor, + Heineken, 'Fleppard, Offspring & Brown
It's an afternoon at AutoVos with Brown Caleb, White Mark and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort. There's a good chat on recoloring your coach with the new SVG dry PPF (SVGIP.com), tinting technique (using XPel), and a secret tint job for a Porsche that's heading for Kansas, and a visit from the Boys in Brown (trucks) carrying the new dealer kit from SVG for Caleb. As per the usual, the gearhead goons get off course and have fun with the goodness: snorkels and rooftop tents (boo!), gun purchase numbers for Q1 in 2024 (yay!), and Nurburgring versus LeMans versus the Pike's Peak Hillclimb (soon). It's in there: a 996 Carrera 2 and a 997 Carrera 4S Targa, Porsche hand placement, Dos Santos for lunch, Putin's aversion to alcohol, Albright's aversion to Putin and JustMark's aversion to Albright on SMG753. |
Mon, 29 July 2024
07.03.24: 911s, 4Runners, Harlequin Golfs, Pistachio SAABs & a Range Rover for John, w/ Tint & PPF Wraps, Putin & Albright, the White Needle of Death, the Concorde, Uncle Donald the Velociraptor, + Heineken, 'Fleppard, Offspring & Brown
It's an afternoon at AutoVos with Brown Caleb, White Mark and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort. There's a good chat on recoloring your coach with the new SVG dry PPF (SVGIP.com), tinting technique (using XPel), and a secret tint job for a Porsche that's heading for Kansas, and a visit from the Boys in Brown (trucks) carrying the new dealer kit from SVG for Caleb. As per the usual, the gearhead goons get off course and have fun with the goodness: snorkels and rooftop tents (boo!), gun purchase numbers for Q1 in 2024 (yay!), and Nurburgring versus LeMans versus the Pike's Peak Hillclimb (soon). It's in there: a 996 Carrera 2 and a 997 Carrera 4S Targa, Porsche hand placement, Dos Santos for lunch, Putin's aversion to alcohol, Albright's aversion to Putin and JustMark's aversion to Albright on SMG753. |
Thu, 11 July 2024
06.28.24 (MP3): Big Boy 4014 Rides Again (Powa!), Design & Build Issues for Ford, Chrysless & Toyota (+ Toyoda Punches Back), Fireproof Flags for the 4th, Electric Car Sales & Battery Facilities Kerplode (Coincidence?), + Rock, Roll & Eli's GC8
Phew! We'll get back on track ASAP - there's a few episodes waiting to be put together, and the Garage Hour goons are on it. This show's pretty gearhead: a prayer for John Force, whose funny car wasn't very (just add kerploding), a chat w/ our old buddy David Lozeau about how Jap cars, trucks and bikes parts were freakin' perfect in the '90s, how Toyota's fighting with bureaucrats about testing standards in the 2020s, why Ford's first-gearing F-150s are failing while Chrysler's reverse cameras don't see much, and why batteries and electric cars are running out of ways to pretend they're viable. Sources include Breitbart, Yahoo, Asia News and Cowboy State Daily... While we're in there: Challenger 4-8-8-4 4014 is once again roaming the Midwest (apparently pulling the city of Cheyenne behind it), Pennsylvanians put $10 million in the garbage, and an excellent weirdo sendoff for "Kelly's Heroes" standout Donald Sutherland, plus Prodigy, Josh Wink, Chemical Bros., Prong, Orbital and KMFDM. |
Thu, 11 July 2024
06.28.24: Big Boy 4014 Rides Again (Powa!), Design & Build Issues for Ford, Chrysless & Toyota (+ Toyoda Punches Back), Fireproof Flags for the 4th, Electric Car Sales & Battery Facilities Kerplode (Coincidence?), + Rock, Roll & Eli's GC8
Phew! We'll get back on track ASAP - there's a few episodes waiting to be put together, and the Garage Hour goons are on it. This show's pretty gearhead: a prayer for John Force, whose funny car wasn't very (just add kerploding), a chat w/ our old buddy David Lozeau about how Jap cars, trucks and bikes parts were freakin' perfect in the '90s, how Toyota's fighting with bureaucrats about testing standards in the 2020s, why Ford's first-gearing F-150s are failing while Chrysler's reverse cameras don't see much, and why batteries and electric cars are running out of ways to pretend they're viable. Sources include Breitbart, Yahoo, Asia News and Cowboy State Daily... While we're in there: Challenger 4-8-8-4 4014 is once again roaming the Midwest (apparently pulling the city of Cheyenne behind it), Pennsylvanians put $10 million in the garbage, and an excellent weirdo sendoff for "Kelly's Heroes" standout Donald Sutherland, plus Prodigy, Josh Wink, Chemical Bros., Prong, Orbital and KMFDM. |
Sat, 22 June 2024
06.18.24 (MP3): Pike’s Peak Hillclimb Tour Guide! Killer Deets for an Ideal Hangout @ PPIHC, w/ Location Insights, Racecourse Facts, Access Info, & a Crapton of Gearhead Lowdown, + Music for Driving Fast & a Hillclimb Wedding
An out-of-order episode from Gearhead Consultantcy - blame the psychic iPod: hillclimb and mountain details for race fans attending this year’s 102nd PPIHC… This is a special thing, and thanks to the officials, organizers, racers and crews that make it possible (with a little help from the Garage Hour), you can better sink your teeth into one of America’s most iconic motorsports to-dos. …Spots to spectate, locations to get to, background on names and why they matter, plus neatos like the flyby at Glen Cove, getting airborne at Engineers, the other side of Bottomless Pit, natural terrain versus “built” roads, why George’s Corner is the best spot on the hill, and yelling at photographers. Then again, it’s the Garage Hour, so there’s more: why all the trees fell down, weed whacking your leg for fun and pain, hidden reserviors, Sesame Street versus the Muppets, Fisker’s refail bankruptsy, personal hillclimbing versus 100% race, driving music for brainly balance, and tracks from the Hillclimb Special. |
Sat, 22 June 2024
06.18.24: Pike’s Peak Hillclimb Tour Guide! Killer Deets for an Ideal Hangout @ PPIHC, w/ Location Insights, Racecourse Facts, Access Info, & a Crapton of Gearhead Lowdown, + Music for Driving Fast & a Hillclimb Wedding
An out-of-order episode from Gearhead Consultantcy - blame the psychic iPod: hillclimb and mountain details for race fans attending this year’s 102nd PPIHC… This is a special thing, and thanks to the officials, organizers, racers and crews that make it possible (with a little help from the Garage Hour), you can better sink your teeth into one of America’s most iconic motorsports to-dos. …Spots to spectate, locations to get to, background on names and why they matter, plus neatos like the flyby at Glen Cove, getting airborne at Engineers, the other side of Bottomless Pit, natural terrain versus “built” roads, why George’s Corner is the best spot on the hill, and yelling at photographers. Then again, it’s the Garage Hour, so there’s more: why all the trees fell down, weed whacking your leg for fun and pain, hidden reserviors, Sesame Street versus the Muppets, Fisker’s refail bankruptsy, personal hillclimbing versus 100% race, driving music for brainly balance, and tracks from the Hillclimb Special. |
Mon, 17 June 2024
05.09.24 (MP3): Hidden Low-Cost AGM Batteries & Secret Garage Sale Tools, Fish Tacos from Mexico & Fine Steak from Omaha, CA Earthquakes & Okinawan Tunnels, Woodpecker from Mars & War from CNN, + RIP for Excellent Weirdo Larry Allen
…Lots of parts to this episode, but they fit: with Faith No More on the soundtrack, Hostus Maximus Justin Fort does everything from excellent Dude Food (fine sirloin and the only way to enjoy fish tacos), a revelation of historic WW2 Jap tunnels under Okinawa by NHK, scary details of federal bureaucrats trying to double the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (and send taxpayers to the poorhouse), and a proper sendoff for NFL standout (back when the NFL was worth a shed) and seriously powerful dude Larry Allen, whose pleasant normalcy made him an excellent weirdo. While that’s afoot, there’s a leg too: Joe Biden’s basement ruining Rubio’s, electricity, trees and NASCAR (or what’s left of it), UPS stalkers, new automotive crime from gangs in NYC, and some cool WW2 history. |
Mon, 17 June 2024
05.09.24: Hidden Low-Cost AGM Batteries & Secret Garage Sale Tools, Fish Tacos from Mexico & Fine Steak from Omaha, CA Earthquakes & Okinawan Tunnels, Woodpecker from Mars & War from CNN, + RIP for Excellent Weirdo Larry Allen
…Lots of parts to this episode, but they fit: with Faith No More on the soundtrack, Hostus Maximus Justin Fort does everything from excellent Dude Food (fine sirloin and the only way to enjoy fish tacos), a revelation of historic WW2 Jap tunnels under Okinawa by NHK, scary details of federal bureaucrats trying to double the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (and send taxpayers to the poorhouse), and a proper sendoff for NFL standout (back when the NFL was worth a shed) and seriously powerful dude Larry Allen, whose pleasant normalcy made him an excellent weirdo. While that’s afoot, there’s a leg too: Joe Biden’s basement ruining Rubio’s, electricity, trees and NASCAR (or what’s left of it), UPS stalkers, new automotive crime from gangs in NYC, and some cool WW2 history. |
Mon, 10 June 2024
05.04.24 (MP3): Big To-Do Attack Episode, EVs VS Pedestrians, Electric Bikes VS NYC Traffic, Politicos VS Your Hobbies & Tech, UAW VS Mercedes, US Congress VS Chinese Slave Parts on BMW, Jag & VWs, Texas VS Bureaucratic 2A Manipulation, & Bye Bye Malibu
So much episodery coming… This one’s a deusie - everything that’s going on to mess with your gearhead and geek existence. From GM torpedoing the Malibu to Kalifornistan blowing up your right to roam, it’s in there. Remember, just because you don’t care about politics doesn’t mean politicians don’t want to screw you. There’s some good stuff to be heard on this episode, though - longtime contender for Best Boss Ever Col. Doug Hamlin just got voted in to fix the NRA, Texas AG Ken Paxton just scored one for America versus Biden’s basement, and rock and/or roll with Melvins, Union Underground, Puny Human, Atomic Bitchwax, Adema, Ennio Morricone, Deftones and Killing Joke. |
Mon, 10 June 2024
05.04.24: Big To-Do Attack Episode, EVs VS Pedestrians, Electric Bikes VS NYC Traffic, Politicos VS Your Hobbies & Tech, UAW VS Mercedes, US Congress VS Chinese Slave Parts on BMW, Jag & VWs, Texas VS Bureaucratic 2A Manipulation, & Bye Bye Malibu
So much episodery coming… This one’s a deusie - everything that’s going on to mess with your gearhead and geek existence. From GM torpedoing the Malibu to Kalifornistan blowing up your right to roam, it’s in there. Remember, just because you don’t care about politics doesn’t mean politicians don’t want to screw you. There’s some good stuff to be heard on this episode, though - longtime contender for Best Boss Ever Col. Doug Hamlin just got voted in to fix the NRA, Texas AG Ken Paxton just scored one for America versus Biden’s basement, and rock and/or roll with Melvins, Union Underground, Puny Human, Atomic Bitchwax, Adema, Ennio Morricone, Deftones and Killing Joke. |
Tue, 21 May 2024
04.24.24 (MP3): Enable Your Garage w/ Expanded Space, Better Floors, More Tools & Storage, Oil Heating & Actualy Drainage, also Porsche V Peugeot, Jeep V Grenadier, 928 V Wife, Ruger V Savage, Mace V Bludgeon, Mexicans V Kung Flu
Finally, something good comes of enabling: enable your garage to do more gearhead things (and stuff)! Just Mark, Just Caleb and Justin sit down amongst the Porsches at the new AutoVos (Caleb bought out EAS and went independent) for an hour of making garages better. Stop polishing the door handles and think bigger: (tasteful) additions of more floor and door, coating and levelling those floors, getting more work underway with ramps and stools, expanding the tools available with better boxes, plus seasonal enhancement with heating and drainage, and while we’re thinking big, how about building up with a second story and a bridge to the house? There’s so much more: a semi drag races a Rav4, Ruger makes a nice .22, the Dutchese sell a pricey Stryker, Great Divide, Big Sky, Cerviceria and Trinity brew fine beers, catwalks make a handy way to repel the hipster hordes, plus Man or Astroman, Galactic, Pantera, Dead Milkmen, Fugazi, Truckfighters and Five Horse Johnson. |
Tue, 21 May 2024
04.24.24: Enable Your Garage w/ Expanded Space, Better Floors, More Tools & Storage, Oil Heating & Actualy Drainage, also Porsche V Peugeot, Jeep V Grenadier, 928 V Wife, Ruger V Savage, Mace V Bludgeon, Mexicans V Kung Flu
Finally, something good comes of enabling: enable your garage to do more gearhead things (and stuff)! Just Mark, Just Caleb and Justin sit down amongst the Porsches at the new AutoVos (Caleb bought out EAS and went independent) for an hour of making garages better. Stop polishing the door handles and think bigger: (tasteful) additions of more floor and door, coating and levelling those floors, getting more work underway with ramps and stools, expanding the tools available with better boxes, plus seasonal enhancement with heating and drainage, and while we’re thinking big, how about building up with a second story and a bridge to the house? There’s so much more: a semi drag races a Rav4, Ruger makes a nice .22, the Dutchese sell a pricey Stryker, Great Divide, Big Sky, Cerviceria and Trinity brew fine beers, catwalks make a handy way to repel the hipster hordes, plus Man or Astroman, Galactic, Pantera, Dead Milkmen, Fugazi, Truckfighters and Five Horse Johnson. |
Mon, 13 May 2024
04.22.24 (MP3): Coin-Op Spray Wash Dos & Don’ts for Mud-Season Cleanin’, w/ Beers & Cheers at Pike’s Peak Brewing (Too Much Wind & Overspray Makes Beers Somethin’ Somethin’)…
While sipping some super sauce at local brewer Pike’s Peak (home of too much wind and a few excellent beers), Hostus Maximus Justin Fort did a fine observational study of quarter-powered spray and wand car care. With details on doin’ from brush cleaning to pressure application, to some not-tos to avoid that will turn your car washing adventure into a frizzle-fry of your fancy finish, this episode’s got it: some BMWs, a Pilot and a Legacy, some Mustangs and the Cutlass Two-Degrees Theory, a 4Runner, some mud, and some strange pepperoni-armed top-knots who have the car-care acumen of a left-handed turnip. While he’s at it: Mother’s Detail Guide, too much pressure or not enough kid, Chef Jeff, the Minnesota Cohost Report, dogs, geese, fat people, inside brooms and rocks for railcars. |
Mon, 13 May 2024
04.22.24: Coin-Op Spray Wash Dos & Don’ts for Mud-Season Cleanin’, w/ Beers & Cheers at Pike’s Peak Brewing (Too Much Wind & Overspray Makes Beers Somethin’ Somethin’)…
While sipping some super sauce at local brewer Pike’s Peak (home of too much wind and a few excellent beers), Hostus Maximus Justin Fort did a fine observational study of quarter-powered spray and wand car care. With details on doin’ from brush cleaning to pressure application, to some not-tos to avoid that will turn your car washing adventure into a frizzle-fry of your fancy finish, this episode’s got it: some BMWs, a Pilot and a Legacy, some Mustangs and the Cutlass Two-Degrees Theory, a 4Runner, some mud, and some strange pepperoni-armed top-knots who have the car-care acumen of a left-handed turnip. While he’s at it: Mother’s Detail Guide, too much pressure or not enough kid, Chef Jeff, the Minnesota Cohost Report, dogs, geese, fat people, inside brooms and rocks for railcars. |
Sun, 5 May 2024
04.14.24 (MP3): When Bureaucrats Attack the Garage Hour (A 2A/“Animals Attack” Redux) - Feds Push Grizzlies & Wolves Into CO & WA, Statists Molest the Constitution in Court (Some More); However, the Rulings Keep Going Our Way (So Keep Punching)
What does your Second Amendment right to defend your person, people and property have to do with the government-funded effort to reinvade rural lands with man-eating (and livestock-eating, dog-eating, kid-eating and small car-eating) apex predators? Federal interference in your life. …Government overreach, bureaucratic N.I.M.B.Y.ism, a collectivist enthusiasm for a forced march into urban squalor, and the slippery statist fever dream of an empowered state at the expense of you, me and we - the independent American. Sh!t’s getting weird fast - opt in to protect yourself now, cats and kiddies. Some episodes go together like white on rice, but this guy was hanging in the lurch for weeks. It’s got lots: running with a sidearm, Mad Cow for deer now, 700,000,000 standard-cap mags, AR-15s under assault, and loads of Deadbolt - plus some. |
Sun, 5 May 2024
04.14.24: When Bureaucrats Attack the Garage Hour (A 2A/“Animals Attack” Redux) - Feds Push Grizzlies & Wolves Into CO & WA, Statists Molest the Constitution in Court (Some More); However, the Rulings Keep Going Our Way (So Keep Punching)
What does your Second Amendment right to defend your person, people and property have to do with the government-funded effort to reinvade rural lands with man-eating (and livestock-eating, dog-eating, kid-eating and small car-eating) apex predators? Federal interference in your life. …Government overreach, bureaucratic N.I.M.B.Y.ism, a collectivist enthusiasm for a forced march into urban squalor, and the slippery statist fever dream of an empowered state at the expense of you, me and we - the independent American. Sh!t’s getting weird fast - opt in to protect yourself now, cats and kiddies. Some episodes go together like white on rice, but this guy was hanging in the lurch for weeks. It’s got lots: running with a sidearm, Mad Cow for deer now, 700,000,000 standard-cap mags, AR-15s under assault, and loads of Deadbolt - plus some. |
Mon, 15 April 2024
04.08.24 (MP3): Break Contact w/ the Low-Info Zombies & Survive the Eclipse Apocalypse (& Other Sundry Gearhead Ruminations Like Cars, Booze, Beer & Blackouts, Hybrids VS Electrics, Hacktivists VS Hillclimbing, Hawks VS Turkeys) + Some Zep
Gearhead Consultants and Garage Hour hosts Justin Case and Marking Time met up high above the city to watch it all burn during our recent eclipsalypse. Rounds were chambered, pizza from Sprouts was et, and beers from Red Leg, Pike’s Peak, Outer Range and Dry Dock were sipped, but unfortunately, no pepperoni armed pajama perp apocalypse was thwarted, not even in the driveway. Fortunately, Justin and Justmark didn’t mind missing “shoot, shovel and shut up” because doin’s were to be discussed: a positive word or three about hybrid automotive technology, the growing dumbness of nanny tech in cars, Eneos sneg for fun and kitchen, Van Café and LaRue for edible freebies, and Dude Food ala dove and grilled sirloin from Omaha Steaks. Don’t forget the sauce: Led Zeppelin, free televisions, Gold Camp Road, apocalypse booze and getaway vehicles, some guns, historical eclipses, more electric car fails, and Chuck Norris. |
Mon, 15 April 2024
04.08.24: Break Contact w/ the Low-Info Zombies & Survive the Eclipse Apocalypse (& Other Sundry Gearhead Ruminations Like Cars, Booze, Beer & Blackouts, Hybrids VS Electrics, Hacktivists VS Hillclimbing, Hawks VS Turkeys) + Some Zep
Gearhead Consultants and Garage Hour hosts Justin Case and Marking Time met up high above the city to watch it all burn during our recent eclipsalypse. Rounds were chambered, pizza from Sprouts was et, and beers from Red Leg, Pike’s Peak, Outer Range and Dry Dock were sipped, but unfortunately, no pepperoni armed pajama perp apocalypse was thwarted, not even in the driveway. Fortunately, Justin and Justmark didn’t mind missing “shoot, shovel and shut up” because doin’s were to be discussed: a positive word or three about hybrid automotive technology, the growing dumbness of nanny tech in cars, Eneos sneg for fun and kitchen, Van Café and LaRue for edible freebies, and Dude Food ala dove and grilled sirloin from Omaha Steaks. Don’t forget the sauce: Led Zeppelin, free televisions, Gold Camp Road, apocalypse booze and getaway vehicles, some guns, historical eclipses, more electric car fails, and Chuck Norris. |
Fri, 5 April 2024
03.13.24 (MP3): Gearheads Do Good Bond (James) & Bad Guns, Also Bond Guns, Good Beers, Bond Cars, Bad Bonds, Good Tunes, Good Bad Guys, Good Bond Gals & a Star Wars Cantina Intro
So much good stuff… From better and worse James Bonds (Connery versus Moore, the right and wrong Brosnhan… Brosnan… Brosnahan…. Remington Steele, and the “other” Bonds) to Lotus Esprit (and which one) versus DB5, DB7, 750, and AMX versus Javelin, the Gearhead Consultancy promises to ricochet off the point. Bond guns. Bond villains. Octopussy versus A View to a Kill. Pussy Galore versus Verper Lynn. Add to that a celebration of crappy guns, like an A5 Remington 1911 that shoots itself, a break-action Rossi that only shoots on safe, and Jim’s Thumper, a personal pocket five-round .44 Special super-snub that’ll deafen the bad guy whether or not the round hits anyone. Also, Bond tunes ala ska band (what?): Skatellites, Roland Alfonso, McCartney, G n’ R, Duran Duran and the Propellerheads. Also also, very nice sips from FH Beerworks, Living the Dream and Epic Brewing. |
Fri, 5 April 2024
03.13.24: Gearheads Do Good Bond (James) & Bad Guns, Also Bond Guns, Good Beers, Bond Cars, Bad Bonds, Good Tunes, Good Bad Guys, Good Bond Gals & a Star Wars Cantina Intro
So much good stuff… From better and worse James Bonds (Connery versus Moore, the right and wrong Brosnhan… Brosnan… Brosnahan…. Remington Steele, and the “other” Bonds) to Lotus Esprit (and which one) versus DB5, DB7, 750, and AMX versus Javelin, the Gearhead Consultancy promises to ricochet off the point. Bond guns. Bond villains. Octopussy versus A View to a Kill. Pussy Galore versus Verper Lynn. Add to that a celebration of crappy guns, like an A5 Remington 1911 that shoots itself, a break-action Rossi that only shoots on safe, and Jim’s Thumper, a personal pocket five-round .44 Special super-snub that’ll deafen the bad guy whether or not the round hits anyone. Also, Bond tunes ala ska band (what?): Skatellites, Roland Alfonso, McCartney, G n’ R, Duran Duran and the Propellerheads. Also also, very nice sips from FH Beerworks, Living the Dream and Epic Brewing. |
Tue, 2 April 2024
03.01.24: Reporting on Henchicrats Who’re After Your Guns (& Will Kill You w/ Wild Animals Next), Hertz Dumps CEO Because It Can’t Dump His Electric Cars (or Rent Them), Short-Bed Truck Function Envy, Necessary R.I.P.s & Some Doom
…Catching up with the episode backlog - only more to go. Played in and out by Snail (more happy bluesy doom, says Conan), this Garage Hour’s got everything you like. Cars and trucks (why to never buy a rental car, and diagnosing your short-bed problems), beers and guns (well, a ton of Second Amendment info about how states like Colorado and Kalifornistan are still seeking to disarm you shortly before seting grizzly bears and wolves loose in your back yard). There’s also chainsaw-grade shorts, the better “Blade Runner”, a look at how much ammo you keep (hint: probably not enough), ATF fails, and a sendoff for excellent weirdos Paul “Iron Lung” Alexander and Emmit “You Didn’t Know You Knew Me” Walsh. |
Tue, 2 April 2024
03.01.24 (MP3): Reporting on Henchicrats Who’re After Your Guns (& Will Kill You w/ Wild Animals Next), Hertz Dumps CEO Because It Can’t Dump His Electric Cars (or Rent Them), Short-Bed Truck Function Envy, Necessary R.I.P.s & Some Doom
…Catching up with the episode backlog - only more to go. Played in and out by Snail (more happy bluesy doom, says Conan), this Garage Hour’s got everything you like. Cars and trucks (why to never buy a rental car, and diagnosing your short-bed problems), beers and guns (well, a ton of Second Amendment info about how states like Colorado and Kalifornistan are still seeking to disarm you shortly before seting grizzly bears and wolves loose in your back yard). There’s also chainsaw-grade shorts, the better “Blade Runner”, a look at how much ammo you keep (hint: probably not enough), ATF fails, and a sendoff for excellent weirdos Paul “Iron Lung” Alexander and Emmit “You Didn’t Know You Knew Me” Walsh. |
Sun, 24 March 2024
02.22.24 (MP3): Porsche, Pistols & Pepperoni - Gearhead Bits & Bites (+ Bushmills Whiskey), Picky Porsches, Pocket Pistols (Good & Bad) & Reload of the Week, Return of Right to Repair, To Tow or Be Towed, + Allman Bros, Skynyrd & CCR
…Like a kid full of candy who won’t shut up and go to sleep, it’s the episode that would’t go to bed - so much doin’ and so little time. Well, it’s done: Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and Porsche Boy JustMark met up in the hills for fine sopressata, Irish whiskey (that loved Justin but hated Mark) and a chat about pocket pistols - commonly called a “micro” nowadays. From Derringers to Jennings and S&Ws and LCPs, the gerhead consultants whip it out and compare misfires. When it was all said and done, it was just stuff we like (or like to hate): Jaegermeister, Kennewick Man, glue versus screws, Grenadier versus 4Runner, Hickock .45, stoned drivers, Trotski, used Porsches and guns, das hooter, Porschelish and Japlish, Metzger engines, old retaining walls, old steel and old mining history. Oh yes, plus Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness, Air America, Wooley Bully, Tour of Duty, Dredd and Riddick. |
Sun, 24 March 2024
02.22.24: Porsche, Pistols & Pepperoni - Gearhead Bits & Bites (+ Bushmills Whiskey), Picky Porsches, Pocket Pistols (Good & Bad) & Reload of the Week, Return of Right to Repair, To Tow or Be Towed, + Allman Bros, Skynyrd & CCR
…Like a kid full of candy who won’t shut up and go to sleep, it’s the episode that would’t go to bed - so much doin’ and so little time. Well, it’s done: Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and Porsche Boy JustMark met up in the hills for fine sopressata, Irish whiskey (that loved Justin but hated Mark) and a chat about pocket pistols - commonly called a “micro” nowadays. From Derringers to Jennings and S&Ws and LCPs, the gerhead consultants whip it out and compare misfires. When it was all said and done, it was just stuff we like (or like to hate): Jaegermeister, Kennewick Man, glue versus screws, Grenadier versus 4Runner, Hickock .45, stoned drivers, Trotski, used Porsches and guns, das hooter, Porschelish and Japlish, Metzger engines, old retaining walls, old steel and old mining history. Oh yes, plus Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness, Air America, Wooley Bully, Tour of Duty, Dredd and Riddick. |
Thu, 7 March 2024
02.20.24(MP3): Mercedes, Ford & Volvo Jump Electric Ship, Airlines Can’t Fly DIE & Dealerships Can’t Sell Nonsense, Fob Hopping & Camaro Stealing VS Anti-Theft Devices (Car Keys), Coffee VS Bourbon, iMac Win VS iCar Flop, Custom Reloads, Gearhead Over
While the cohosts are away building bumpers, bullets and blackout tint, Hostus Maximus will play (with Tomahawk, all show long). Gasoline and caffeine. 7mm-08 and .308. Bourbon and coffee. iMacs, iPhones and iCars (win, win and lose). Automakers losing their electric religion as shoppers lose the fad. Integra and Cutlass. Woke fails at 30,000ft and corporates bail on ground-level politics. Meanwhile, we’ve got some stand-in cohosts: Dave Mustaine, Thomas Sowell, Layne Staley, Mike Patton, Rob Zombie, plus CHUDS, troglodites, morlochs and the lung brush. |
Thu, 7 March 2024
02.20.24: Mercedes, Ford & Volvo Jump Electric Ship, Airlines Can’t Fly DIE & Dealerships Can’t Sell Nonsense, Fob Hopping & Camaro Stealing VS Anti-Theft Devices (Car Keys), Coffee VS Bourbon, iMac Wins VS iCar Flops, Custom Reloads, Gearhead Overlap
While the cohosts are away building bumpers, bullets and blackout tint, Hostus Maximus will play (with Tomahawk, all show long). Gasoline and caffeine. 7mm-08 and .308. Bourbon and coffee. iMacs, iPhones and iCars (win, win and lose). Automakers losing their electric religion as shoppers lose the fad. Integra and Cutlass. Woke fails at 30,000ft and corporates bail on ground-level politics. Meanwhile, we’ve got some stand-in cohosts: Dave Mustaine, Thomas Sowell, Layne Staley, Mike Patton, Rob Zombie, plus CHUDS, troglodites, morlochs and the lung brush. |
Wed, 28 February 2024
02.04.24 (MP3): Old Car Speedos & German Trannies, Rolex 24 @ Daytona & Rye Bread @ the Hollywood Bowl, Eneos Grenadiers & Prius Pickups, Used Glocks & Manlicher 10-22s, Jeep Top Rules for Girls & Gun Rules for Kids, + Tastiest Presidents & Best Squirrels
What do you get for the episode that has everything? This cut of the Garage Hour with Justin, Justmark and Justcaleb even sports a backup Caleb (in the form of his sensible son Liam), who schools the newbs on smart kid firearm rules, and Justmark on MySpace humor. Just to be thorough, there’s a race report from this year’s 24 Hours at Daytona, a range report on an almost-on M24 in .308 and a never-off Weatherby Vanguard in 7mm-08, a reloading report featuring Hornaday, Vargit, AA, boat-tails, NATO M80s and fire-formed brass, and a wayout report on what old hamburgers and Jap bombs from WW2 have in common. It’s in there: advice for children about guns (from a kid who appears to know well enough), Green Street and McCurdy’s Bodyworks in Pasadena, the best (and least) U.S. presidents, plus rye bread. |
Wed, 28 February 2024
02.04.24: Old Car Speedos & German Trannies, Rolex 24 @ Daytona & Rye Bread @ the Hollywood Bowl, Eneos Grenadiers & Prius Pickups, Used Glocks & Manlicher 10-22s, Jeep Top Rules for Girls & Gun Rules for Kids, + Tastiest Presidents & Best Squirrels
What do you get for the episode that has everything? This cut of the Garage Hour with Justin, Justmark and Justcaleb even sports a backup Caleb (in the form of his sensible son Liam), who schools the newbs on smart kid firearm rules, and Justmark on MySpace humor. Just to be thorough, there’s a race report from this year’s 24 Hours at Daytona, a range report on an almost-on M24 in .308 and a never-off Weatherby Vanguard in 7mm-08, a reloading report featuring Hornaday, Vargit, AA, boat-tails, NATO M80s and fire-formed brass, and a wayout report on what old hamburgers and Jap bombs from WW2 have in common. It’s in there: advice for children about guns (from a kid who appears to know well enough), Green Street and McCurdy’s Bodyworks in Pasadena, the best (and least) U.S. presidents, plus rye bread. |
Mon, 19 February 2024
01.22.24 (MP3): Save the Geeks (& Other Revolting Peasants), w/ Truckers & Farmers VS Eurocrats, Right Tires for Bad Weather, Bad Governance VS Good Tires, Airbag, Sensor & Fuel Pump Recalls, Electric Car & Truck Fails, +Early Ministry & Earlier Booker T
Alien technology (might be fun at parties but probably won’t solve anything). While we’re at it, Hostus Maximus Justin Fort revels in the old Party Point ‘Squatch Runs, Justmark’s M1A, tales of cohosts like The Jaimz and Dirty Dave, crime versus law and order (and citizens living in an upside-down world that makes the Second Amendment even more important), Uncle Doug’s Northstar-powered Caddy versus Dad’s Lincoln, and what it means for a tire to actually work in sheddy snowy situations. There’s also a lot of red meat in this episode for Jeep haters, bureaucratic fakers, tire deflators and Eurocrat takers. More more more: Foghat, Deep Purple, Get Shorty, Dennis Farina and John Travolta, plus Ryan’s whiskey, Leslie’s Miata and Churchill’s quote. |
Mon, 19 February 2024
01.22.24: Save the Geeks (& Other Revolting Peasants), w/ Truckers & Farmers VS Eurocrats, Right Tires for Bad Weather, Bad Governance VS Good Tires, Airbag, Sensor & Fuel Pump Recalls, Electric Car & Truck Fails, + Early Ministry & Earlier Booker T
Alien technology (might be fun at parties but probably won’t solve anything). While we’re at it, Hostus Maximus Justin Fort revels in the old Party Point ‘Squatch Runs, Justmark’s M1A, tales of cohosts like The Jaimz and Dirty Dave, crime versus law and order (and citizens living in an upside-down world that makes the Second Amendment even more important), Uncle Doug’s Northstar-powered Caddy versus Dad’s Lincoln, and what it means for a tire to actually work in sheddy snowy situations. There’s also a lot of red meat in this episode for Jeep haters, bureaucratic fakers, tire deflators and Eurocrat takers. More more more: Foghat, Deep Purple, Get Shorty, Dennis Farina and John Travolta, plus Ryan’s whiskey, Leslie’s Miata and Churchill’s quote. |
Fri, 2 February 2024
01.12.24 (MP3): Summer Plans & 24 at LeMans, Mike’s Practice Rounds & K-Mart Scopes We Found, Burning Wood & Knives are Good, + Shotguns, Shotguns, Shotguns (w/ Sounthern Culture on the Skids)
Who’s doing what this summer? You’d better get some things figured because whether it’s Tail of the Dragon, 24 Hours of LeMans, JF Summit, or just a few runs at Palomar, any high-Q gearhead fun requires a little foresight (even if that just means inflating tires)…. But you’ll need to survive that long to make anything happen, so the Gearhead Consultancy chats up a few home-defense shotgun options (870, 500 and 1300, for example), and factors for recalcitrant applicant-operating cohost PK JustCaleb. JustMark and JustIn are here to help - like any good geek should be. Want more? The value of dummy rounds for loading practice. A silenced .22 varmint slayer. Cale Yarborough and Alex Trebeck (R.I.P., you excellent weirdos). Knives from CFK, David Yellowhorse, Hill & Creek, Whiskey Bent and Cold Steel. Some suggestions for your next home inspection. Also, a bunch of road racing madness (because we can’t not). |
Fri, 2 February 2024
01.12.24: Summer Plans & 24 at LeMans, Mike’s Practice Rounds & K-Mart Scopes We Found, Burning Wood & Knives are Good, + Shotguns, Shotguns, Shotguns (w/ Southern Culture on the Skids)
Who’s doing what this summer? You’d better get some things figured because whether it’s Tail of the Dragon, 24 Hours of LeMans, JF Summit, or just a few runs at Palomar, any high-Q gearhead fun requires a little foresight (even if that just means inflating tires)…. But you’ll need to survive that long to make anything happen, so the Gearhead Consultancy chats up a few home-defense shotgun options (870, 500 and 1300, for example), and factors for recalcitrant applicant-operating cohost PK JustCaleb. JustMark and JustIn are here to help - like any good geek should be. Want more? The value of dummy rounds for loading practice. A silenced .22 varmint slayer. Cale Yarborough and Alex Trebeck (R.I.P., you excellent weirdos). Knives from CFK, David Yellowhorse, Hill & Creek, Whiskey Bent and Cold Steel. Some suggestions for your next home inspection. Also, a bunch of road racing madness (because we can’t not). |
Mon, 22 January 2024
01.03.24 (MP3): Watches & Gun Shows & Powdercoating, Oh My! The NRA is DeWayned, an M1A & a G43X, 870s VS 500s, Wood VS Plastic Furniture, Porsche Speedsters & Boxsters, Gun Stores in Co. Springs, + .308, .22LR, Iridium 192 & Bald Parents
So much junk in this trunk… Zippos and hippos and chrome-plated nipples, plus a fancy Luftkraft shift knob cohost PK Caleb (ala EAS) bought for the Porsche he hasn’t yet. Hostus Maximus Justin Fort’s reports from the Tanner Gun Show illuminated more than overprices ammo (unless you’re willing to bundle bullets) - yes, used and new pew-pews are starting to act affordably again (so don’t sit on your hands). He also picked up a neato flexy Bad Ass (straight out’a Texas) IWB holster for one of the compacts, which iridium 192-soaked cohost Isotope of Mark immediatedly coveted, but he managed to slake his thirst with a scouterized M1A he built for why nots… Hey, it’s the Garage Hour - because why not is why enough.
Whyle we’re at it: proprietary Japanese rounds, the NRA has been DeWayned (probably should’a mentioned that sooner), Norma’s making a .22LR that’ll drop squirrels at 500 yards, and shotguns for Caleb, R.L.O. Custom Leather for Mark and risotto for Justin. Hell yes, we’re awesome. |
Mon, 22 January 2024
01.03.24: Watches & Gun Shows & Powdercoating, Oh My! The NRA is DeWayned, an M1A & a G43X, 870s VS 500s, Wood VS Plastic Furniture, Porsche Speedsters & Boxsters, Gun Stores in Co. Springs, + .308, .22LR, Iridium 192 & Bald Parents
So much junk in this trunk… Zippos and hippos and chrome-plated nipples, plus a fancy Luftkraft shift knob cohost PK Caleb (ala EAS) bought for the Porsche he hasn’t yet. Hostus Maximus Justin Fort’s reports from the Tanner Gun Show illuminated more than overprices ammo (unless you’re willing to bundle bullets) - yes, used and new pew-pews are starting to act affordably again (so don’t sit on your hands). He also picked up a neato flexy Bad Ass (straight out’a Texas) IWB holster for one of the compacts, which iridium 192-soaked cohost Isotope of Mark immediatedly coveted, but he managed to slake his thirst with a scouterized M1A he built for why nots… Hey, it’s the Garage Hour - because why not is why enough.
Whyle we’re at it: proprietary Japanese rounds, the NRA has been DeWayned (probably should’a mentioned that sooner), Norma’s making a .22LR that’ll drop squirrels at 500 yards, and shotguns for Caleb, R.L.O. Custom Leather for Mark and risotto for Justin. Hell yes, we’re awesome. |
Tue, 9 January 2024
11.21.23 (MP3): Lost Episode! Fast Cars on Curvy Freeways & Being Nice to the Boys in Blue, Don’t Hijack the UPS Gal VS Don’t Drop Your Tools in Space, a $100 Mill Loss for Fisker VS a Tesla Loss for Toyota, +500 Million Guns & Condor’s Gonna Condor
Some times you feel like a nut (such as after an episode of the Garage Hour), and some times the recording software miscodecs a segment and you have to redrop the file raw. Whoops. So! …Here’s the lost November episode of the show the gearhead goons warned you about - chock full of the goodness you demand - so at least there’s that: making freeways fun (especially in an uncorked 5.0), the Mr. Dustin Report (Miatas and dollars and go-fast habits), the UPS chick getting truckjacked (and another lady losing a bag of space tools because it wasn’t from Louis Vitton - in space!), Fisker preplans its flight from Kalifornistan, Tesla versus Toyota versus the same failing bureaucleptocracy, more guns for everyone (1 mill just last month), fewer rules from the ATF (Dems can’t buy a law, let alone a vowel), and an orthodontist in North Carolina who’s giving away Glocks (because why not?). There’s always more: cops have a tough job so be nice (especially in NY), fun fuzzy music from the ‘70s, why we all should want more forest fires and CO2, hunting two-headed whitetails in Canadia, and who needs enemies when you have family? |
Tue, 9 January 2024
11.21.23: Lost Episode! Fast Cars on Curvy Freeways & Being Nice to the Boys in Blue, Don’t Hijack the UPS Gal VS Don’t Drop Your Tools in Space, a $100 Mill Loss for Fisker VS a Tesla Loss for Toyota, + 500 Million Guns & Condor’s Gonna Condor
Some times you feel like a nut (such as after an episode of the Garage Hour), and some times the recording software miscodecs a segment and you have to redrop the file raw. Whoops. So! …Here’s the lost November episode of the show the gearhead goons warned you about - chock full of the goodness you demand - so at least there’s that: making freeways fun (especially in an uncorked 5.0), the Mr. Dustin Report (Miatas and dollars and go-fast habits), the UPS chick getting truckjacked (and another lady losing a bag of space tools because it wasn’t from Louis Vitton - in space!), Fisker preplans its flight from Kalifornistan, Tesla versus Toyota versus the same failing bureaucleptocracy, more guns for everyone (1 mill just last month), fewer rules from the ATF (Dems can’t buy a law, let alone a vowel), and an orthodontist in North Carolina who’s giving away Glocks (because why not?). There’s always more: cops have a tough job so be nice (especially in NY), fun fuzzy music from the ‘70s, why we all should want more forest fires and CO2, hunting two-headed whitetails in Canadia, and who needs enemies when you have family? |
Thu, 4 January 2024
12.21.23 (MP3): What’s Your Next Beater? Too Nice Used Cars VS Choice Beaters, & Classic Gearhead Mistakes, .40 S&W and .30-30 W.C.F., Used Glocks & New Henrys, Shark Week at Home, Fancy Overtuning Fails, + Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Public Enemy & Anthra
Caffiene and Christmas go together (because you can’t handle one without the other), and the Gearhead Consultancy is up to its gills in it to get through this episode. P.K. outrovert Caleb of EAS and Radar Mark, Porsche man and sticker fan, joined Hostus Maximus Justin “Type A” Fort for this pre-holiday freeforall, and it’s got everything. Buying a beater but not falling into the “too nice” trap, wailing on expensive cars and because why not, battleships and their powder, rifles and their tuning, horny bucks and their antlers, left-eye dominance and its downsides, flagging noboby and who cares, Bring- A-Trailer and its stalkers, and psychic iTunes and its creepiness. What, more? Border Patrol Raptors, used FJs, Beetles and Vanagons and pickups (oh my), abusing Porsches for fun and employment, new Broncos (not so much), and a black P1800. |
Thu, 4 January 2024
12.21.23: What’s Your Next Beater? Too Nice Used Cars VS Choice Beaters, & Classic Gearhead Mistakes, .40 S&W and .30-30 W.C.F., Used Glocks & New Henrys, Shark Week at Home, Fancy Overtuning Fails, + Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Public Enemy & Anthrax
Caffiene and Christmas go together (because you can’t handle one without the other), and the Gearhead Consultancy is up to its gills in it to get through this episode. P.K. outrovert Caleb of EAS and Radar Mark, Porsche man and sticker fan, joined Hostus Maximus Justin “Type A” Fort for this pre-holiday freeforall, and it’s got everything. Buying a beater but not falling into the “too nice” trap, wailing on expensive cars and because why not, battleships and their powder, rifles and their tuning, horny bucks and their antlers, left-eye dominance and its downsides, flagging noboby and who cares, Bring- A-Trailer and its stalkers, and psychic iTunes and its creepiness. What, more? Border Patrol Raptors, used FJs, Beetles and Vanagons and pickups (oh my), abusing Porsches for fun and employment, new Broncos (not so much), and a black P1800. |
Mon, 18 December 2023
12.10.23 (MP3): Gifts for Gearheads (w/ Guns & Sips & Tools & Fancy Waxy Polish), + Brother James’ Creekwater Whiskey, .40 S&W Wrecking Guns, Two Degrees from a Cutlass, 719 Traffic VS 24 Hours of LeMans, & A Family Brawl at the Broadmoor
It’s Christmastime, so why not grab the punching handle by the blondes and try the Home Depot China Challenge yourself? …Because the gearheads in your life like what we like, we have ideas: fine waxes (Zymol), special sips (Gilark Creekwater rye whiskey, Axe & Oak, and 291), good tools (used or new, it’s about the function), obscure watches (make the effort), tint and clear-bra from E.A.S., slot cars, Atari and N64, and the gift of babysitting (so folks can make some time). Most importantly, shop local and seek something that’s better than expected. While we’re at it: How about a fistfight over chablis at the Broadmoor? How about Subie politics and 4Runner douchebaggery on the Front Range? Who isn’t two degrees from a Cutlass? …And why do all the racoons have knives? |
Mon, 18 December 2023
12.10.23: Gifts for Gearheads (w/ Guns & Sips & Tools & Fancy Waxy Polish), + Brother James’ Creekwater Whiskey, .40 S&W Wrecking Guns, Two Degrees from a Cutlass, 719 Traffic VS 24 Hours of LeMans, & A Family Brawl at the Broadmoor
It’s Christmastime, so why not grab the punching handle by the blondes and try the Home Depot China Challenge yourself? …Because the gearheads in your life like what we like, we have ideas: fine waxes (Zymol), special sips (Gilark Creekwater rye whiskey, Axe & Oak, and 291), good tools (used or new, it’s about the function), obscure watches (make the effort), tint and clear-bra from E.A.S., slot cars, Atari and N64, and the gift of babysitting (so folks can make some time). Most importantly, shop local and seek something that’s better than expected. While we’re at it: How about a fistfight over chablis at the Broadmoor? How about Subie politics and 4Runner douchebaggery on the Front Range? Who isn’t two degrees from a Cutlass? …And why do all the racoons have knives? |
Sun, 10 December 2023
12.03.23 (MP3): Guns, Whiskey, Tanks & the Phantom Crapper (i.e. Random Gearhead Awesomesauce) - Live from EAS, w/ Tank VS Tank, Lemans VS Lemons, Old Lexuses VS Glickenhouse Porsches, + Sabot Rounds, Crotch Bats & the Jerky Boys
Yeah, yeah, it’s been too long. …Usual Christmastime to-do list is kicking everyone’s ass. Thankfully, Caleb from EAS in the ‘Springs kicked Hostus Maximus Justin and Gearhead Celebutant Mark’s collective asses back into the studio (over sips at Bristol Brewery), because the Garage Hour is too much candy not to have some. Gearhead location experimentation ensued, fueled by Axe & Oak’s Pike’s Peak Hillclimb whiskey, 9mm and .22 Magnum, visits from Charlie (who actually commanded an Abrams tank), plus movies Caleb’s got to watch (or he’ll die). What’s more to like: the F1 parade and ear-plugging weenies, tank movies, Saturday night coolers and van parties, a Glock 43 and an S&W with a billion rounds in the mag, plus Frank Rizzo, Saul Rosenberg and the Egyptian Magician. |
Sun, 10 December 2023
12.03.23: Guns, Whiskey, Tanks & the Phantom Crapper (i.e. Random Gearhead Awesomesauce) - Live from EAS, w/ Tank VS Tank, Lemans VS Lemons, Old Lexuses VS Glickenhouse Porsches, + Sabot Rounds, Crotch Bats & the Jerky Boys
Yeah, yeah, it’s been too long. …Usual Christmastime to-do list is kicking everyone’s ass. Thankfully, Caleb from EAS in the ‘Springs kicked Hostus Maximus Justin and Gearhead Celebutant Mark’s collective asses back into the studio (over sips at Bristol Brewery), because the Garage Hour is too much candy not to have some. Gearhead location experimentation ensued, fueled by Axe & Oak’s Pike’s Peak Hillclimb whiskey, 9mm and .22 Magnum, visits from Charlie (who actually commanded an Abrams tank), plus movies Caleb’s got to watch (or he’ll die). What’s more to like: the F1 parade and ear-plugging weenies, tank movies, Saturday night coolers and van parties, a Glock 43 and an S&W with a billion rounds in the mag, plus Frank Rizzo, Saul Rosenberg and the Egyptian Magician. |
Sun, 5 November 2023
10.22.23 (MP3): So Much - Fart Pipes, Bad Tires, Good Thinking, Automatic Transmissions (or Trannies), Volvo Households, Off-Roaders VS REI, the Electric Car “Cold Snap Sprint”, Ice Fog, Louisiana Fog, + RIP to Some Excellent Weirdos
Okay, busy boy does gearhead goodness: good pipes on slushbox BR-Zs (awww), Volvo households and 244s (turbo!), car racism and Tiptronic, automatic trannies for off-road effect, avoiding Chinese tires, new-car reality versus the electric car market and the “Cold Snap Sprint” (home), the 80-40 ice fog freakout, REI (bad) versus four-wheeling (good), and the big Louisiana fog crash (holy shed). More: discretion versus valor (pull off and have a burrito), pilots versus shrooms (and 83 counts of attempted murder for Captain Stupid), UFC refuses to learn from Bud Light’s fail, and a big Garage Hour R.I.P. to excellent weirdos Richard Mull (“Bull” from Night Court) and Matthew Perry from Friends (don’t do drugs then hit the hot tub). …Sounds from Peter Gunn, Vibravoid, God Lives Underwater, and thoughts about sounds from Iron Maiden. |
Sun, 5 November 2023
10.22.23: So Much - Fart Pipes, Bad Tires, Good Thinking, Automatic Transmissions (or Trannies), Volvo Households, Off-Roaders VS REI, the Electric Car “Cold Snap Sprint”, Ice Fog, Louisiana Fog, + RIP to Some Excellent Weirdos
Okay, busy boy does gearhead goodness: good pipes on slushbox BR-Zs (awww), Volvo households and 244s (turbo!), car racism and Tiptronic, automatic trannies for off-road effect, avoiding Chinese tires, new-car reality versus the electric car market and the “Cold Snap Sprint” (home), the 80-40 ice fog freakout, REI (bad) versus four-wheeling (good), and the big Louisiana fog crash (holy shed). More: discretion versus valor (pull off and have a burrito), pilots versus shrooms (and 83 counts of attempted murder for Captain Stupid), UFC refuses to learn from Bud Light’s fail, and a big Garage Hour R.I.P. to excellent weirdos Richard Mull (“Bull” from Night Court) and Matthew Perry from Friends (don’t do drugs then hit the hot tub). …Sounds from Peter Gunn, Vibravoid, God Lives Underwater, and thoughts about sounds from Iron Maiden. |
Mon, 23 October 2023
10.01.23 (MP3): Cars Getting Uglier (Melty Booger Benz) & Weather Getting Nastier (& Invading ze Garadtch), Tie-Down Authentication & Ratchet-Strap Redundancy, Jeepers FAFO & Electric Jeeping Because Cheap(ening), + Dude Food Meat Science
Somuchworktodo…. Sorry about the untimely uploads, but the Gearhead Consultancy’s plate doth overfloweth. Now, about some good talk: What happens when a thunderstorm bombs the garage, and what’s the deal when your meat has been froen instead of hitting the ‘fridge fresh? 4Runner trans mounts (and squishy torque specs), stupid Jeepers winning stupid prizes (or horse-tranqed beggars - hey, it’s not MY wedding), secret Pioneer head units, JKs with V8s, electric Jeeps with rebates, new cars suffering a case of the old elbows, stolen design cues, and tie-downs and ratchet straps (because if it’s on the side of the road, it’s not on your load). Also, Home Depot versus Harbor Freight, half-digested Citroens, Zach’s elk summer sausage, and Electric Wizard, Living Color, Propellerheads and Electronic Excursions in High-Fi. |
Mon, 23 October 2023
10.01.23: Cars Getting Uglier (Melty Booger Benz) & Weather Getting Nastier (& Invading ze Garadtch), Tie-Down Authentication & Ratchet-Strap Redundancy, Jeepers FAFO & Electric Jeeping Because Cheap(ening), + Dude Food Meat Science
Somuchworktodo…. Sorry about the untimely uploads, but the Gearhead Consultancy’s plate doth overfloweth. Now, about some good talk: What happens when a thunderstorm bombs the garage, and what’s the deal when your meat has been froen instead of hitting the ‘fridge fresh? 4Runner trans mounts (and squishy torque specs), stupid Jeepers winning stupid prizes (or horse-tranqed beggars - hey, it’s not MY wedding), secret Pioneer head units, JKs with V8s, electric Jeeps with rebates, new cars suffering a case of the old elbows, stolen design cues, and tie-downs and ratchet straps (because if it’s on the side of the road, it’s not on your load). Also, Home Depot versus Harbor Freight, half-digested Citroens, Zach’s elk summer sausage, and Electric Wizard, Living Color, Propellerheads and Electronic Excursions in High-Fi. |
Mon, 2 October 2023
09.20.23 (MP3): Shredding Nuts & Bolts & Shocks, Invading Wolves & Bears & Cougars, Goolag Kills Drivers (?), Robot Semis Attack CA (& OH & IN), Diesel Makes Batteries Work, Green Makes LEGOs Fail, + Dad’s Cigarette & Yuge Pieces of Whatever In the Road
When we’re not stripping bolts on Warn hubs and trans mounts, the gearhead goons have a good little bit of info for you on using the right fastener (and not the “it fits” rule employed by the Walkin’ Dude…). There’s also news on robot-controlled semis being permitted on more roads (we’re about two steps from “Maximum Overdrive”, kids), the Goolag steering hapless Jeep owners off cliffs and creeks (buy a map), electric cars being powered by diesel (when unicorn farts are in short supply), and the wisdom of avoiding yuge chunks of Jersey barrier while commuting the company coche (because ashtray). Then again: wolves (not) in Colorado, wasted capital on fake green agendi, the Densh…. Denmarkers…. people of Daneland… giving up on environmentally friendly LEGOs, plus Goblin, Blur, Puny, Fatso, FNM, Mastodon, Faktor, Dekoder, Straits and AIC. |
Mon, 2 October 2023
09.20.23: Shredding Nuts & Bolts & Shocks, Invading Wolves & Bears & Cougars, Goolag Kills Drivers (?), Robot Semis Attack CA (& OH & IN), Diesel Makes Batteries Work, Green Makes LEGOs Fail, + Dad’s Cigarette & Yuge Pieces of Whatever In the Road
When we’re not stripping bolts on Warn hubs and trans mounts, the gearhead goons have a good little bit of info for you on using the right fastener (and not the “it fits” rule employed by the Walkin’ Dude…). There’s also news on robot-controlled semis being permitted on more roads (we’re about two steps from “Maximum Overdrive”, kids), the Goolag steering hapless Jeep owners off cliffs and creeks (buy a map), electric cars being powered by diesel (when unicorn farts are in short supply), and the wisdom of avoiding yuge chunks of Jersey barrier while commuting the company coche (because ashtray). Then again: wolves (not) in Colorado, wasted capital on fake green agendi, the Densh…. Denmarkers…. people of Daneland… giving up on environmentally friendly LEGOs, plus Goblin, Blur, Puny, Fatso, FNM, Mastodon, Faktor, Dekoder, Straits and AIC. |
Sun, 24 September 2023
09.09.23 (MP3): Just Because You’re Paranoid… Situational Garage Awareness, Car Theft (and Overseas Markets), Gearhead Lost & Found, UAW VS Ford (& Its Members), Electric Vehicle Bans, + Stop Running Over Sh!t & Your Car Won’t Blow Up
We warned you - the Gearhead Consultancy is all about paying attention (because geek!), and this uberule applies to home, self, car, property and Sanctum Garagium. If you don’t want your goods to get grabbed, watch your back when you park the Aston (or whatever you roll) in the car hole, because with all the crime exploding across America, someone might be watching you. The market is there for thieves - don’t be their meat. There’s more: lost D-rings, lost hitches and lost F-35s, hacked ships and hacked warplanes (yikes?), pawn shops and battery slop, Teslas running over junk and unions running over members, JF Summit, illegal Canadia, the thumb on the scale, plus Fu Manchu, High on Fire, Sleep, Matt Pike and Dragonaut, Herbalizer, Alice in Chains and Die Krupps. |
Sun, 24 September 2023
09.09.23: Just Because You’re Paranoid… Situational Garage Awareness, Car Theft (and Overseas Markets), Gearhead Lost & Found, UAW VS Ford (& Its Members), Electric Vehicle Bans, + Stop Running Over Sh!t & Your Car Won’t Blow Up
We warned you - the Gearhead Consultancy is all about paying attention (because geek!), and this uberule applies to home, self, car, property and Sanctum Garagium. If you don’t want your goods to get grabbed, watch your back when you park the Aston (or whatever you roll) in the car hole, because with all the crime exploding across America, someone might be watching you. The market is there for thieves - don’t be their meat. There’s more: lost D-rings, lost hitches and lost F-35s, hacked ships and hacked warplanes (yikes?), pawn shops and battery slop, Teslas running over junk and unions running over members, JF Summit, illegal Canadia, the thumb on the scale, plus Fu Manchu, High on Fire, Sleep, Matt Pike and Dragonaut, Herbalizer, Alice in Chains and Die Krupps. |
Mon, 18 September 2023
09.01.23 (MP3): Get Back to Four-Wheeling (‘Tis the Season)! Gear for On-Trail, Prep to Avoid Being a Burden, National Forests VS State Parks, Mileage Math & Oil Consumption, + Lost Lexuses, Four-By Celicas, Pressure Washing, & Pleasure Mechanicking
Holy carp - too much to do (and apologies for the tardy transmission). The Gearhead Consultantcy is always on the job, we’re just busy. Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and the Walkin’ Dude got back together out in BFE (Black Forest Excellence) for some trail tales - Red Cone, Imogene, Webster Pass, Mt. Herman, Gold Camp, Mt. Baldy - and thoughts on truck bags (gear for a day), mine access, universal keys, lost D-rings, and not ‘froading alone. As always, there’s a lot more: bags on roofs and tents on trucks, too much pressure washing and oil consumption, not enough Eddyline and Coors Banquest, Fred and Rudy (dogs), Cujo (dog name), Capt. Surly and Dani (people), and The Toadies and Presidents of the United States of America (bands). |
Mon, 18 September 2023
09.01.23: Get Back to Four-Wheeling (‘Tis the Season)! Gear for On-Trail, Prep to Avoid Being a Burden, National Forests VS State Parks, Mileage Math & Oil Consumption, + Lost Lexuses, Four-By Celicas, Pressure Washing, & Pleasure Mechanicking
Holy carp - too much to do (and apologies for the tardy transmission). The Gearhead Consultantcy is always on the job, we’re just busy. Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and the Walkin’ Dude got back together out in BFE (Black Forest Excellence) for some trail tales - Red Cone, Imogene, Webster Pass, Mt. Herman, Gold Camp, Mt. Baldy - and thoughts on truck bags (gear for a day), mine access, universal keys, lost D-rings, and not ‘froading alone. As always, there’s a lot more: bags on roofs and tents on trucks, too much pressure washing and oil consumption, not enough Eddyline and Coors Banquest, Fred and Rudy (dogs), Cujo (dog name), Capt. Surly and Dani (people), and The Toadies and Presidents of the United States of America (bands). |
Mon, 4 September 2023
08.28.23 (MP3): The Value of Overdoing It (Embracing the Gearhead Brain) - Hard Lessons from the Maui Fire, Incl. Outside-the-Box Survivors, Hazards of Herd Mindset, Misplaced Trust in Authorities, Hardening Your Kids Against Risk, & When Cows Attack
Drive over the lawn, bust down the fence, toss the barricade in the ditch, ‘froad the road less travelled, or just go the “wrong” way - it’s not the climate that’s going to ruin your day, it’s the fire started by bad behavior (intentional or incompetent) storming around the corner of your neighbor’s bungalow that you need to flee. Lots of bad stuff happened in the Maui firestorm, but good lessons are never too early to be learned, and the Gearhead Consultancy is here to help - turns out your natural distrust of government, bureaucrats, elected libtards and watermelon environmentalists is well placed. Yes, you’re correct - it’s a little soon for this chat - but it’s never too soon to be prepared for the next one, and not knowing when that is, let’s take this opportunity to toughen up and avoid a repeat. Because, in the end, your survival is your business. |
Mon, 4 September 2023
08.28.23: The Value of Overdoing It (Embracing the Gearhead Brain) - Hard Lessons from the Maui Fire, Incl. Outside-the-Box Survivors, Hazards of Herd Mindset, Misplaced Trust in Authorities, Hardening Your Kids Against Risk, & When Cows Attack
Drive over the lawn, bust down the fence, toss the barricade in the ditch, ‘froad the road less travelled, or just go the “wrong” way - it’s not the climate that’s going to ruin your day, it’s the fire started by bad behavior (intentional or incompetent) storming around the corner or your neighbor’s bungalow that you need to flee. Lots of bad stuff happened in the Maui firestorm, but good lessons are never too early to be learned, and the Gearhead Consultancy is here to help - turns out your natural distrust of government, bureaucrats, elected libtards and watermelon environmentalists is well placed. Yes, you’re correct - it’s a little soon for this chat - but it’s never too soon to be prepared for the next one, and not knowing when that is, let’s take this opportunity to toughen up and avoid a repeat. Because, in the end, your survival is your business. |
Fri, 25 August 2023
08.13.23 (MP3): Plate Cameras, Robot Cars & Non-Destructive Creative Civil Disobedience (NDCCD), Don’t Leave Babies in Cars (Tech Can’t Save You from Darwin), Battery Vehicle Bankruptsy, Exploding Houses, Hurricane Hillarious, & Close Your Damn Garage
...Got a lot of respect for Darwin’s capability to wipe out bad batches of genes from the people stew that is humanity, but let’s stop making kids in hot cars take the brunt of it. Meanwhile, back at the garage, how about some gearhead civil disobedience? You’re no pepperoni-armed hipster antifa weenie, so keep it non-destrictive like MLK Jr. said we should. Plate cams, robot cars and bad bureaucracy are a great place to start: unplug something; cover something; aim something at a wall; drop a traffic cone in front of something - show how bad or stupid or insidious something is without destroying it. More goodness: Funyons versus coffee, Hillary’s SoCal fail (less rain than January), IRS agents with guns, new homes on old mines (wicked ultra KAPOW, folks), Bud versus Busch, Maui’s firebug problem, electric busses go bankrupt because they only do politics, and another electric F-150 function flop. |
Fri, 25 August 2023
08.13.23: Plate Cameras, Robot Cars & Non-Destructive Creative Civil Disobedience (NDCCD), Don’t Leave Babies in Cars (Tech Can’t Save You from Darwin), Battery Vehicle Bankruptsy, Exploding Houses, Hurricane Hillarious, & Close Your Damn Garage
...Got a lot of respect for Darwin’s capability to wipe out bad batches of genes from the people stew that is humanity, but let’s stop making kids in hot cars take the brunt of it. Meanwhile, back at the garage, how about some gearhead civil disobedience? You’re no pepperoni-armed hipster antifa weenie, so keep it non-destrictive like MLK Jr. said we should. Plate cams, robot cars and bad bureaucracy are a great place to start: unplug something; cover something; aim something at a wall; drop a traffic cone in front of something - show how bad or stupid or insidious something is without destroying it. More goodness: Funyons versus coffee, Hillary’s SoCal fail (less rain than January), IRS agents with guns, new homes on old mines (wicked ultra KAPOW, folks), Bud versus Busch, Maui’s firebug problem, electric busses go bankrupt because they only do politics, and another electric F-150 function flop. |
Thu, 17 August 2023
08.03.23 (MP3): What the Hail? Can You Defend Your Daily Driver from Doom in the Sky w/ Hail “Proof” Car Covers? Options, Types & Homemade Jobs, + Ford F-150 Recalls (Just a Million), & Exploding Cancer Vehicles from the E.P.A. (...Not On Our Side)
Join the Garage Hour goons and say “Hail No!” to your cars and trucks looking like you left them parked at the receiving end of a driving range. Jus because it’s summer and you live in a town that’s prone to the big icy agony-inducing airborne projectiles known as HAIL doesn’t mean you have to live with dents and dings and the sneering sideways glances from your dentless neighbors. We’ve got ideas and solutions: homemade, inexpensive, effective, available, inflatable, hand-me-down and hard to assemble. Also, this episode’s got OE recalls (F-150 e-brakes engaging when they feel like it), Porsche insulting Christianity but pretending days of editing was an “error”, the E.P.A. approving additives for gas that cause cancer in EVERYTHING (government isn’t on your side), and why Ohio and Indiana letting HAL 9000 drive their semis. ...And sorry about the delayed upload - too much to-doing in Earning a Livingland. More: Rev. Heat versus Liberace, barn haters, baloney sandwiches, and gambling with music (like Horton Heat, A.F.I., Ministry, Wellwater Conspiracy, Metallica, Sugar Ray, Living Colour, Luscious Jackson and 16-Volt). |
Thu, 17 August 2023
08.03.23: What the Hail? Can You Defend Your Daily Driver from Doom in the Sky w/ Hail “Proof” Car Covers? Options, Types & Homemade Jobs, + Ford F-150 Recalls (Just a Million), & Exploding Cancer Vehicles from the E.P.A. (...Not On Our Side)
Join the Garage Hour goons and say “Hail No!” to your cars and trucks looking like you left them parked at the receiving end of a driving range. Jus because it’s summer and you live in a town that’s prone to the big icy agony-inducing airborne projectiles known as HAIL doesn’t mean you have to live with dents and dings and the sneering sideways glances from your dentless neighbors. We’ve got ideas and solutions: homemade, inexpensive, effective, available, inflatable, hand-me-down and hard to assemble. Also, this episode’s got OE recalls (F-150 e-brakes engaging when they feel like it), Porsche insulting Christianity but pretending days of editing was an “error”, the E.P.A. approving additives for gas that cause cancer in EVERYTHING (government isn’t on your side), and why Ohio and Indiana letting HAL 9000 drive their semis. ...And sorry about the delayed upload - too much to-doing in Earning a Livingland. More: Rev. Heat versus Liberace, barn haters, baloney sandwiches, and gambling with music (like Horton Heat, A.F.I., Ministry, Wellwater Conspiracy, Metallica, Sugar Ray, Living Colour, Luscious Jackson and 16-Volt). |
Mon, 31 July 2023
07.27.23 (MP3): Excellent Car Cleaning Tips (You May Not Know), w/ Tricks for Better Washing, Quicker Drying, Avoiding Water Spots, Building Shine, Removing Tar & Saving Grease, + 42 Days of Tracks Fighting to Be on the Garage Hour
The Garage Hour goons got our fancy canyon carving nasties a little dirty on a fuuuuuun run over Independence Pass (lousy stupid mountain cloudbursts), so it’s time for car cleaning. How about some technique you might not know from the detailing experts (referring to us - hilarious)? Here’s the what: keeping metal cool and wet, cold water versus glass, pre-washing, two buckets (and two sponges?), detailing with detailer, thumbnail tricks, clar bars, cotton and microfiber towels, car-care chemicals, wheel brushes, tool prep, hang-drying, air and water drying, specialized cleaners for special surfaces, and using good products like Mother’s, Griot’s and E.C.P. ( as well as their detail guides). More: Worschestirerer sauce, fresh O.J. (now that he’s out of prison), plus Truckfighters, Quicksilver Loom, Yes, Faust & Shortee, Soundgarden, Tomohawk, and Massive Attack. |
Mon, 31 July 2023
07.27.23: Excellent Car Cleaning Tips (You May Not Know), w/ Tricks for Better Washing, Quicker Drying, Avoiding Water Spots, Building Shine, Removing Tar & Saving Grease, + 42 Days of Tracks Fighting to Be on the Garage Hour
The Garage Hour goons got our fancy canyon carving nasties a little dirty on a fuuuuuun run over Independence Pass (lousy stupid mountain cloudbursts), so it’s time for car cleaning. How about some technique you might not know from the detailing experts (referring to us - hilarious)? Here’s the what: keeping metal cool and wet, cold water versus glass, pre-washing, two buckets (and two sponges?), detailing with detailer, thumbnail tricks, clar bars, cotton and microfiber towels, car-care chemicals, wheel brushes, tool prep, hang-drying, air and water drying, specialized cleaners for special surfaces, and using good products like Mother’s, Griot’s and E.C.P. ( as well as their detail guides). More: Worschestirerer sauce, fresh O.J. (now that he’s out of prison), plus Truckfighters, Quicksilver Loom, Yes, Faust & Shortee, Soundgarden, Tomohawk, and Massive Attack. |
Mon, 24 July 2023
07.12.23 (MP3): Garagey Gearhead Awesomepile - 5VZ & 1UZ, 4Runners, Fairmonts, Phil’s TOWs & Dustin’s Greens, Big Brakes & Backing Plates, Red Sticky, Plant Haters, Engine Swaps, Sorting Bolts, Wratcheting Renches & Wonderful (Boneless) Breasts
Some Garage Hours are just a free-for-all, with parts and nuts and sockets and rockets and blowing up bad guys, while Colorado windshield death comes for us all. The Walkin’ Dude cohosts this one while Hostus Maximus Justin Fort stabs a transfer case into the revitalized third-gen trail pig (a.k.a. Mr. Miyagi). There’s also some junkyarding, good installation tricks and Dude Food. What else... Shepherdlike coyotesque dogbjects, disc versus drums, Bradley tarps, good grease, e-people and CO2 haters versus trees and shade, bolt sorting, coolant hoarding and a jack named tranny. |
Mon, 24 July 2023
07.12.23: Garagey Gearhead Awesomepile - 5VZ & 1UZ, 4Runners, Fairmonts, Phil’s TOWs & Dustin’s Greens, Big Brakes & Backing Plates, Red Sticky, Plant Haters, Engine Swaps, Sorting Bolts, Wratcheting Renches & Wonderful (Boneless) Breasts
Some Garage Hours are just a free-for-all, with parts and nuts and sockets and rockets and blowing up bad guys, while Colorado windshield death comes for us all. The Walkin’ Dude cohosts this one while Hostus Maximus Justin Fort stabs a transfer case into the revitalized third-gen trail pig (a.k.a. Mr. Miyagi). There’s also some junkyarding, good installation tricks and Dude Food. What else... Shepherdlike coyotesque dogbjects, disc versus drums, Bradley tarps, good grease, e-people and CO2 haters versus trees and shade, bolt sorting, coolant hoarding and a jack named tranny. |
Sat, 15 July 2023
07.02.23 (MP3): Are Flying “Cars” Future Jetsonmobiles OR a Frightening Air-Traffic Liability Crashpig? Also, Used-Cars Price Stagnation (& Taking Advantage of It), When Brake Pads Fall Off, Tornado Wrenching w/ the Ayatollah, & Sears May Still Be
Don’t get us wrong - if people drove as well as flying cars deserved, the Garage Hour goons would be all about Jetsoning to the hardware store for a 2x4, but as long as geeks like us can’t get straight answers about liability and licensing and small details like power provison, controls sans computer, and when we can fly our car up a canyon like Clint in “Firefox”, we’ll stick with the backyard helicopter, thank you. ...Just like electric cars, until said thing can stand on its own two, it’s just words. More to love: rock and roll from Dog Fashion Disco, Contagion, Man or Astroman, Hum, Dandelion and Die Krupps, fire and lots of it, “Demolition Man” robot-car self-drive shenannigans, with an intro by some misshapen monsters from Mars. |
Sat, 15 July 2023
07.02.23: Are Flying “Cars” Future Jetsonmobiles OR a Frightening Air-Traffic Liability Crashpig? Also, Used-Cars Price Stagnation (& Taking Advantage of It), When Brake Pads Fall Off, Tornado Wrenching w/ the Ayatollah, & Sears May Still Be Sears
Don’t get us wrong - if people drove as well as flying cars deserved, the Garage Hour goons would be all about Jetsoning to the hardware store for a 2x4, but as long as geeks like us can’t get straight answers about liability and licensing and small details like power provison, controls sans computer, and when we can fly our car up a canyon like Clint in “Firefox”, we’ll stick with the backyard helicopter, thank you. ...Just like electric cars, until said thing can stand on its own two, it’s just words. More to love: rock and roll from Dog Fashion Disco, Contagion, Man or Astroman, Hum, Dandelion and Die Krupps, fire and lots of it, “Demolition Man” robot-car self-drive shenannigans, with an intro by some misshapen monsters from Mars. |
Fri, 30 June 2023
06.22.23 (MP3): Automaker Data Capture & What They Do w/ It (Or Refuse to Admit They’re Doing), A Submarine Built with Doubt, Federal Law Enforcement’s Ongoing Green Fail-Fest, + Destroyers in WW2, Green Beret Party Games & Clutch
Of course, we could not have known that the little sub that might’ve didn’t (R.I.P., gents), but a thought or two about trusting your geek instinct and self-preservation... There’s also a few thoughts about how automakers are attempting to (or desperately want to) capture and sell your data, from face-recognition to fingerprints and banking records to who you know. ...Sound like what you signed up for when you wanted a new car? More gearhead goodness: plumb and true versus rack, rake and run, being as dumb as a smart home, Ai versus operator, Polish beet sauce, wool from Cabela’s, pirate ships, more soy at the FBI, and lot’sa Clutch. |
Fri, 30 June 2023
06.22.23: Automaker Data Capture & What They Do w/ It (Or Refuse to Admit They’re Doing), A Submarine Built with Doubt, Federal Law Enforcement’s Ongoing Green Fail-Fest, + Destroyers in WW2, Green Beret Party Games & Clutch
More gearhead goodness: plumb and true versus rack, rake and run, being as dumb as a smart home, Ai versus operator, Polish beet sauce, wool from Cabela’s, pirate ships, more soy at the FBI, and lot’sa Clutch. |
Thu, 22 June 2023
06.13.23 (MP3): ...When the Sheriff Gives Police a Speeding Ticket, Pike’s Peak Hillclimb Preview, Leatherman Warranty Save, Theoretical VS Experimental Gearheads, Get Your Politics Out of My Beer, & Tech Is Still Not On Our Side, w/ Karma to Burn
Now, with less hoit and toit... The Gearhead Consultancy has a few gems for you: handy PPIHC pre-race details (false peak but real info), excellent tales of service from the Leatherman multi-tool people (some warranties are worth more than others), thoughts on what (not) to say when the law is at the door, why political garbage is now even less welcome in your beer, tech and radio (and speaking of tech, Amazon might be out to get you), and an Orlando cop gets the speeding ticket he deserved from a Florida sheriff (and a whole bunch more). More: dishwashers washing dishes, being the agent of karma (carma?), owning your sincerity, not digging coal with your teeth, and some Karma to Burn (while we’re at it). |
Thu, 22 June 2023
06.13.23: ...When the Sheriff Gives Police a Speeding Ticket, Pike’s Peak Hillclimb Preview, Leatherman Warranty Save, Theoretical VS Experimental Gearheads, Get Your Politics Out of My Beer, & Tech Is Still Not On Our Side, w/ Karma to Burn
Now, with less hoit and toit... The Gearhead Consultancy has a few gems for you: handy PPIHC pre-race details (false peak but real info), excellent tales of service from the Leatherman multi-tool people (some warranties are worth more than others), thoughts on what (not) to say when the law is at the door, why political garbage is now even less welcome in your beer, tech and radio (and speaking of tech, Amazon might be out to get you), and an Orlando cop gets the speeding ticket he deserved from a Florida sheriff (and a whole bunch more). More: dishwashers washing dishes, being the agent of karma (carma?), owning your sincerity, not digging coal with your teeth, and some Karma to Burn (while we’re at it). |
Tue, 13 June 2023
06.02.23 (MP3): Open Can Insert Fort! Bubba “Loser” Wallace VS Jim “Fireball” Brown, Kia & Hyundai VS New York City, Rioting Antifalike Objects VS Your Car, Chinese In Cuba VS Your Data, Robot Cars VS Law Enforcement, + 16 Volt & Freakonomics
Is Bubba Wallace the new Danica Patrick? Way to ruin what little credibility you had left, schmuck. We prefer Jim Brown - R.I.P., big guy. We also prefer Richard Jewell (speaking of R.I.P.), whom this episode somehow commingles with the Unabomber (who will probably not be resting peacefully, if you catch our drift). Then it’s all experts and flying SFPD patrol cars and NYC suing carmakers who don’t make cars that can survive the city’s criminals, plus not blowing people up. Don’t worry, there’s more, like a complete “16 Volt” background track, journalists behaving badly, “Escape from New York”, “Invasion USA”, Kurt Russell, Chuck Norris, Lee Van Cleef, Mac 10s, and more corruption in Quid Pro Joe’s basement. |
Tue, 13 June 2023
06.02.23: Open Can Insert Fort! Bubba “Loser” Wallace VS Jim “Fireball” Brown, Kia & Hyundai VS New York City, Rioting Antifalike Objects VS Your Car, Chinese In Cuba VS Your Data, Robot Cars VS Law Enforcement, + 16 Volt & Freakonomics
Is Bubba Wallace the new Danica Patrick? Way to ruin what little credibility you had left, schmuck. We prefer Jim Brown - R.I.P., big guy. We also prefer Richard Jewell (speaking of R.I.P.), whom this episode somehow commingles with the Unabomber (who will probably not be resting peacefully, if you catch our drift). Then it’s all experts and flying SFPD patrol cars and NYC suing carmakers who don’t make cars that can survive the city’s criminals, plus not blowing people up. Don’t worry, there’s more, like a complete “16 Volt” background track, journalists behaving badly, “Escape from New York”, “Invasion USA”, Kurt Russell, Chuck Norris, Lee Van Cleef, Mac 10s, and more corruption in Quid Pro Joe’s basement. |
Sat, 10 June 2023
05.23.23 (MP3): Madcap Freeway Action (Spoilt Teens + No Skills + BMW + Stinger Flatbed), Small Cars VS Large Safety, Small VS Large Brewers, OEs Hacking YOU (Duhh) & AI Hunting YOU (That Was Quick), Cars & Engines That Last, + NHTSA’s Political Agendi
Geeks don’t want politicians to take away their freedom to roam, nor ruin their gearhead life (geek powa!), and the skill-set guys (aka: geeks) won’t let snap-lift oversteer derail an otherwise enjoyable 120mph joyride in the 3-Series daddy just bought ‘em. Meanwhile, back at the garadtch, we dipped our toes in a collection of indestructibility for your driveway (this topic will return - the schwartz says so), as well as vacuum wiring, “initial” build quality, tranny fluid, Floriditis, and technology is still not on our side. It’s not all ball bearings nowadays: independent beermakers like Appalachian Mountain go rogue, drones with artificial intelligence go rogue, carmakers’ data-capture goes rogue, and Wyoming goes rogue to protect its taxpayers. Special appearances by Carl Sagan, Mission Creep, Orbital, Elmer Bernstein, Meat Beat Manifesto, Genesis and the NY Post... |
Sat, 10 June 2023
05.23.23: Madcap Freeway Action (Spoilt Teens + No Skills + BMWs + a Stinger Flatbed), Small Cars VS Large Safety, Small VS Large Brewers, OEs Hacking YOU (Duh) & AI Hunting YOU (That Was Quick), Cars & Engines That Last, + NHTSA’s Political Agendi
Geeks don’t want politicians taking away their freedom to roam, nor ruining their gearhead life (geek powa!), and the skill-set guys (aka: geeks) won’t let snap-lift oversteer derail an otherwise enjoyable 120mph joyride in the 3-Series daddy just bought ‘em. Meanwhile, back at the garadtch, we dipped our toes in a collection of indestructibility for your driveway (this topic will return - the schwartz says so), as well as vacuum wiring, “initial” build quality, tranny fluid, Floriditis, and technology is still not on our side. It’s not all ball bearings nowadays: independent beermakers like Appalachian Mountain go rogue, drones with artificial intelligence go rogue, carmakers’ data-capture goes rogue, and Wyoming goes rogue to protect its taxpayers. Special appearances by Carl Sagan, Mission Creep, Orbital, Elmer Bernstein, Meat Beat Manifesto, Genesis and the NY Post... |
Tue, 30 May 2023
05.13.23 (MP3): When Animals Attack (the Garage Hour), Carving Curvies & Hillclimbs Upcoming, What Your Car Says About You & What Music Does to Movies, How Defending Yourself & War Graves Against Pinkos Is a Thing, + Plumbing, Shark Bites & GLU
That’s a spicy meatball - everything from killer whales eating your rudder (still not sure of their MO) to godless commies dredging up sunken WW2 wrecks for scrap, this episode’s got it. ...It’s all gearhead, though - don’t ‘fraid dat. On top of the usual suspects, however, we’ve piled plumbing parts, protecting your peep, new steekers, old lamp oil, Curtis Sliwa and a Marine in New Yawk City, and the plum amber at Trinity. Now, go out in the world and make something - we made some God Lives Underwater (come through your speakers), Shark Bite (fittings fix some pipes), new Garage Hour vinyl (stick to your jalopy), with honorable mentions for White Gladis and John Cleese. |
Tue, 30 May 2023
05.13.23: When Animals Attack (the Garage Hour), Carving Curvies & Hillclimbs Upcoming, What Your Car Says About You & What Music Does to Movies, How Defending Yourself & War Graves Against Pinkos Is a Thing, + Plumbing, Shark Bites & GLU
That’s a spicy meatball - everything from killer whales eating your rudder (still not sure of their MO) to godless commies dredging up sunken WW2 wrecks for scrap, this episode’s got it. ...It’s all gearhead, though - don’t ‘fraid dat. On top of the usual suspects, however, we’ve piled plumbing parts, protecting your peep, new steekers, old lamp oil, Curtis Sliwa and a Marine in New Yawk City, and the plum amber at Trinity. Now, go out in the world and make something - we made some God Lives Underwater (come through your speakers), Shark Bite (fittings fix some pipes), new Garage Hour vinyl (stick to your jalopy), with honorable mentions for White Gladis and John Cleese. |
Mon, 22 May 2023
05.12.23 (MP3): Why Are Lousy New Cars Ruining the Used-Car Market, When AM Becomes Pirate Radio (We’ll All Be Pirates), Truckers & Earthquakes in CA, Pasadena’s Fail Patrol, + James Bondses, Right to Repair, & an HKS EVC
When the gearheads get enthusiastic, the geeks get going: the new-car connectivity albatross and its threat to AM (as well as your seat heaters), why new cars and their general state of suck is making a mess of the used-car market, and some F!ed up fun from Kalifornistan, where the police can’t chase you and the earth is swallowing up off-roaders. Then it’s turbos, bugeye WRXs, EVCs, own-versus-rent and right-to-repair, and a breakdown of the better James Bonds (and why Remington Steele’s/Pierce Brosnahanan’s “November Man” could have been perfect). More for you: DJ Contact (w/ DJ Cookie Dough), Amon Tobin (with a mashup), Air (#becauseweird), and Source Direct (#becausetractor). Also, Umberto from GRC, The Uhhs, jerkles and unicorn skulls. |
Mon, 22 May 2023
05.12.23: Why Are Lousy New Cars Ruining the Used-Car Market, When AM Becomes Pirate Radio (We’ll All Be Pirates), Truckers & Earthquakes in CA, Pasadena’s Fail Patrol, + James Bondses, Right to Repair, & an HKS EVC
When the gearheads get enthusiastic, the geeks get going: the new-car connectivity albatross and its threat to AM (as well as your seat heaters), why new cars and their general state of suck is making a mess of the used-car market, and some F!ed up fun from Kalifornistan, where the police can’t chase you and the earth is swallowing up off-roaders Then it’s turbos, bugeye WRXs, EVCs, own-versus-rent and right-to-repair, and a breakdown of the better James Bonds (and why Remington Steele’s/Pierce Brosnahanan’s “November Man” could have been perfect). More for you: DJ Contact (w/ DJ Cookie Dough), Amon Tobin (with a mashup), Air (#becauseweird), and Source Direct (#becausetractor). Also, Umberto from GRC, The Uhhs, jerkles and unicorn skulls. |
Mon, 15 May 2023
05.01.23 (MP3): Carrying Concealed & Round in the Chamber? Great Training & Killer Ideas to Survive a Shootout (From a Guy Who Did), w/ Must-Watch Video on How to Practice & What to Expect When A Meet-Up Goes Bad, + Good Thoughts on Staying Alive
Holy carp, if you ever may use a gun to protect your person, people or property, this is an episode for you. We dug into a great interview of a gent who came out on top during a parking lot throwdown with an armed criminal. Colion Noir did a good job and let the winner (hey, he’s not dead) talk about it: the boon of practice (practice, practice...), the bane of tactical doodads, why round-limits will get you killed, big guns versus small, physical wellbeing and the right clothes, situational awareness, how you’ll feel and what to do and say afterwards, and why you carry with a pew in the pipe (because “Carrying With a Round in the Chamber Saved My Life”). There’s a lot more here, and every ounce is worth a shooter’s time: smart meet-ups, lawyers for shut the f@€& up, don’t be fat, plus Contagion, NIN, Deftones, Whorgasm, Chainsaws & Children, Alien Faktor and Steril. |
Mon, 15 May 2023
05.01.23: Carrying Concealed & Round in the Chamber? Great Training & Killer Ideas to Survive a Shootout (From a Guy Who Did), w/ Must-Watch Video on How to Practice & What to Expect When A Meet-Up Goes Bad, + Good Thoughts on Staying Alive
Holy carp, if you ever may use a gun to protect your person, people or property, this is an episode for you. We dug into a great interview of a gent who came out on top during a parking lot throwdown with an armed criminal. Colion Noir did a good job and let the winner (hey, he’s not dead) talk about it: the boon of practice (practice, practice...), the bane of tactical doodads, why round-limits will get you killed, big guns versus small, physical wellbeing and the right clothes, situational awareness, how you’ll feel and what to do and say afterwards, and why you carry with a pew in the pipe (because “Carrying With a Round in the Chamber Saved My Life”). There’s a lot more here, and every ounce is worth a shooter’s time: smart meet-ups, lawyers for shut the f@€& up, don’t be fat, plus Contagion, NIN, Deftones, Whorgasm, Chainsaws & Children, Alien Faktor and Steril. |
Fri, 12 May 2023
04.22.23 (MP3): Hillclimbing VS Hilldescending, Electric STi Boos, Lambo Urus Record, Smoking Tesla VS Race Day, Fighter Pilot Effectiveness (Chicks VS Dudes), BMW VS Takata, Car Prices & Car-Loan Defaults, + Used Plastics, Used Words & Used Stickies
Thoughts from the gearhead planet... Sticky tires and Bilstein PSS9s, Doc’s Elise and Ryan’s Alpina, pie-faced ditzes and Porsche mugs, Teslas trying to burn down mid-race, BMWs and their airbags, electric STis won’t hunt (or go hillclimbing, or all day), new and used car prices up about 20% since Sniffy Joe got into office (and the electric-car price distortion), Lamborghini’s slightly challenging (and airborne) Pike’s Peak record attempt, and a few thoughts on how microplastics might be a secondary problem to the overall plastic recycling fraud. Also, other stuff. Also also, safety should not depricate freedom, and dumb folks don’t know they are. More tastiness: Velvet Acid Christ, Steril, Korn, Zombie, Skrew, Nation of Fear, Nick Cave, 16 Volt and Sugar Ray. |
Fri, 12 May 2023
04.22.23: Hillclimbing VS Hilldescending, Electric STi Boos, Lambo Urus Record, Smoking Tesla VS Race Day, Fighter Pilot Effectiveness (Chicks VS Dudes), BMW VS Takata, Car Prices & Car-Loan Defaults, + Used Plastics, Used Words & Used Stickies
Thoughts from the gearhead planet... Sticky tires and Bilstein PSS9s, Doc’s Elise and Ryan’s Alpina, pie-faced ditzes and Porsche mugs, Teslas trying to burn down mid-race, BMWs and their airbags, electric STis won’t hunt (or go hillclimbing, or all day), new and used car prices up about 20% since Sniffy Joe got into office (and the electric-car price distortion), Lamborghini’s slightly challenging (and airborne) Pike’s Peak record attempt, and a few thoughts on how microplastics might be a secondary problem to the overall plastic recycling fraud. Also, other stuff. Also also, safety should not depricate freedom, and dumb folks don’t know they are. More tastiness: Velvet Acid Christ, Steril, Korn, Zombie, Skrew, Nation of Fear, Nick Cave, 16 Volt and Sugar Ray. |
Tue, 2 May 2023
04.12.23(MP3): Greetings From The T-Shirt Planet! Fake Car Sounds, Fraudulent Electric Car Emissions, Foolish Bureaucrats Traff*@€ing w/ Your Right to Roam, Cronyism @ Ford, Badge Dishonesty, Catalytic Killings, + Keeping Old Farts On Cam (More Inputs!)
Do you want alien archeologists to brand Earth the T-shirt and cardboard planet? We neither, so let’s get to work quelling the free-farce zone built upon by bumper stickers, bad governance, idiot officials and ideology that can’t get past its first foot forward. Expand your inputs (think from the firehose) - AM is a part of unexpected reality, and that’s good. Challenge the bubble - Car & Driver is taking down the fake figures supporting e-car efficiency. Ridicule bureaucrats when they say things that don’t make sense - racist roads and electric tanks? ...And call out corruption when you see it - Sniffy Joe’s White House basement just hired Ford’s China-funded battery lobbyist. WT capital F? More to love (perhaps it’s time for a diet): cyborgs, hard-boiled eggs, New Jersey-level paranoid, electric NASCAR and quiet Thunderboats, are catalytic thefts being buoyed by the skidplate industry, plus Folk Implosion, Man or Astroman, Mastodon, Cujo, Beck, DJ Shadow, Gruntruck and Bio-Mechanical Degeneration. |
Tue, 2 May 2023
04.12.23: Greetings From The T-Shirt Planet! Fake Car Sounds, Fraudulent Electric Car Emissions, Foolish Bureaucrats Traff*@€ing w/ Your Right to Roam, Cronyism @ Ford, Badge Dishonesty, Catalytic Killings, + Keeping Old Farts On Cam (More Inputs!)
Do you want alien archeologists to brand Earth the T-shirt and cardboard planet? We neither, so let’s get to work quelling the free-farce zone built upon by bumper stickers, bad governance, idiot officials and ideology that can’t get past its first foot forward. Expand your inputs (think from the firehose) - AM is a part of unexpected reality, and that’s good. Challenge the bubble - Car & Driver is taking down the fake figures supporting e-car efficiency. Ridicule bureaucrats when they say things that don’t make sense - racist roads and electric tanks? ...And call out corruption when you see it - Sniffy Joe’s White House basement just hired Ford’s China-funded battery lobbyist. WT capital F? More to love (perhaps it’s time for a diet): cyborgs, hard-boiled eggs, New Jersey-level paranoid, electric NASCAR and quiet Thunderboats, are catalytic thefts being buoyed by the skidplate industry, plus Folk Implosion, Man or Astroman, Mastodon, Cujo, Beck, DJ Shadow, Gruntruck and Bio-Mechanical Degeneration. |
Tue, 25 April 2023
04.03.23(MP3): Americans Stock Up! 60Million New Guns Ain’t Wrong (+Millions of 1st-Timers), w/ 400 Rounds in 4 Hours (Practice), Unconstitutional Laws (Common Use), Smart Guns (Ain’t), +Florida Bacteria, Exploding Rockets, Tyrannosauruses & Yuengling
You’re the geek, so you understand the importance of the Second Amendment (probably to the point of being obnoxious). Good - we too. This piece gathers the bits, including the massive growth of ownership, all the new (and novel) firearms owners, the importance of training - don’t buy 10 guns, buy one and ten boxes of bullets. ...Or maybe 100. Then the Gearhead Consultancy flubs the Constitution (we should all grab a copy and bone up), but saves the day with background on bad laws from Washington state (a rifle ban?) and bad ideas from idiots (“smart” guns)... What’s more: Atomic Bitchwax, Southern Culture, Failure, Goatsnake, For Love Not Lisa, Josh Wink, Corrosion, Bowie, and Al King with Stevie Ray. Also, Legos for kids and adults, tyrannosaurus skeletons for the living room, T-90s for truck stops, bacteria for everyone, good PR for exploding billions, beers for Americans, and tranny fluid for pinkos. |
Tue, 25 April 2023
04.03.23: Americans Stock Up! 60 Million New Guns Can’t Be Wrong (+Millions of 1st-Timers), w/ 400 Rounds in 4 Hours (Practice), Unconstitutional Laws (Common Use), Smart Guns (Ain’t), +Florida Bacteria, Exploding Rockets, Tyrannosauruses & Yuenglings
You’re the geek, so you understand the importance of the Second Amendment (probably to the point of being obnoxious). Good - we too. This piece gathers the bits, including the massive growth of ownership, all the new (and novel) firearms owners, the importance of training - don’t buy 10 guns, buy one and ten boxes of bullets. ...Or maybe 100. Then the Gearhead Consultancy flubs the Constitution (we should all grab a copy and bone up), but saves the day with background on bad laws from Washington state (a rifle ban?) and bad ideas from idiots (“smart” guns)... What’s more: Atomic Bitchwax, Southern Culture, Failure, Goatsnake, For Love Not Lisa, Josh Wink, Corrosion, Bowie, and Al King with Stevie Ray. Also, Legos for kids and adults, tyrannosaurus skeletons for the living room, T-90s for truck stops, bacteria for everyone, good PR for exploding billions, beers for Americans, and tranny fluid for pinkos. |
Fri, 21 April 2023
03.32.23 (MP3): Gearhead Questions & Geekthink Re: Forcing Electric Cars VS Failing Demand & Fraudulent Ideology, & Gov’t Force VS Your Right to Roam, + New Connectivity for Auto Thieves, Robot Cars (Tech Is Not On Your Side), & A Bud Mea Culpa
So much good stuff: why Johnny Cab is planning to kill you, why nobody wants electric cars, why gov’t choices aren’t, why electric cars are a social contagion too, why gov’t action is an inverse penalty, why more CO2 is a good thing, why 60% of new cars can never be electric, why artificial intelligence isn’t, and why robot cars are causing new and innovative traffic jams. Also, F-16 flyovers, hooch VS hooch, Budweiser’s tranny fail (is more than a missed gear), “She’s So Heavy” and “Spaceship Landing”, and Kyuss, Anthrax, Southern Culture on the Skids, Bio-Mechanical Degeneration, Living Colour, Beatles, Volbeat, Zeppelin, The Rev and Machines of Loving Grace. |
Fri, 21 April 2023
03.32.23: Gearhead Questions & Geekthink Re: Forcing Electric Cars VS Failing Demand & Fraudulent Ideology, & Gov’t Force VS Your Right to Roam, + New Connectivity for Auto Thieves, Robot Cars (Tech Is Not On Your Side), & A Bud Mea Culpa
So much good stuff: why Johnny Cab is planning to kill you, why nobody wants electric cars, why gov’t choices aren’t, why electric cars are a social contagion too, why gov’t action is an inverse penalty, why more CO2 is a good thing, why 60% of new cars can never be electric, why artificial intelligence isn’t, and why robot cars are causing new and innovative traffic jams. Also, F-16 flyovers, hooch VS hooch, Budweiser’s tranny fail (is more than a missed gear), “She’s So Heavy” and “Spaceship Landing”, and Kyuss, Anthrax, Southern Culture on the Skids, Bio-Mechanical Degeneration, Living Colour, Beatles, Volbeat, Zeppelin, The Rev and Machines of Loving Grace. |
Mon, 10 April 2023
03.23.23 (MP3): Don’t Miss the Thing! A Guide to Found On Road Awesome (FORA), Driving VS Running, Scanning VS Staring, Planning, Recognizing & Picking It Up, w/ Specific Mass & Remembering the Where - You Too Can Have the Awesome & Cool Weirdness
Do you have the walnuts to stop and grab that sweet thing you saw on this morning’s commute? The Gearhead Consultancy is here to help, with suggestions (and excellent results) from our adventures in exploiting the retention-disabled. ...Because Found On Road Awesome! We catalog one month’s grabs: a D-ring and hitch-block, channel-locks and flush-cuts, an air chuck and some serious scissors (all tools we can use), plus some sweet signage. You can do it too (...because geek). It’s there for you: Sackpack’s pricey flashlight, Walkin’ Dude’s yuge Ft. Carson & orange Yellow Freight signs, plus Justinius Rex’s dozens of Snap-On tools and jar O’ sockets. Also, Earthlings?, Megadeth, Kyuss, Dog Fashion Disco, Filter, Solarized and Die Krupps. |
Mon, 10 April 2023
03.23.23: Don’t Miss the Thing! A Guide to Found On Road Awesome (FORA), Driving VS Running, Scanning VS Staring, Planning, Recognizing & Picking It Up, w/ Specific Mass & Remembering the Where - You Too Can Have the Awesome & Cool Weirdness
Do you have the walnuts to stop and grab that sweet thing you saw on this morning’s commute? The Gearhead Consultancy is here to help, with suggestions (and excellent results) from our adventures in exploiting the retention-disabled. ...Because Found On Road Awesome! We catalog one month’s grabs: a D-ring and hitch-block, channel-locks and flush-cuts, an air chuck and some serious scissors (all tools we can use), plus some sweet signage. You can do it too (...because geek). It’s there for you: Sackpack’s pricey flashlight, Walkin’ Dude’s yuge Ft. Carson & orange Yellow Freight signs, plus Justinius Rex’s dozens of Snap-On tools and jar O’ sockets. Also, Earthlings?, Megadeth, Kyuss, Dog Fashion Disco, Filter, Solarized and Die Krupps. |