Fri, 10 September 2021
08.22.21 (MP3): Bushings & Wrenches & Trucks & Expansion Tanks, Oh My - Plus No Lane for You!, Curvy Road Requests, Tool Trays (& Not Tool Trays), Old Laptops & Old Software (w/ New Problems), + Rob Zombie
It's a fine selection of the random gearheadiness that makes the Garage Hour an international sensation (seriously, what's wrong with you people?) - semis and wide loads and how to own the lane, a review of some logic powering automotive bushings (and rubber versus polyurethane), and we found some Found On Road Awesomeness - Snap-On, baby! Because it's not a Garage Hour without serial weirdness, we've also got a Silence of the Lambs intro (basementy!), a Spyderco knife moment, the Walkin' Dude's 4Runner, and a call for geeks to get involved (because you pay the best attention). |
Fri, 10 September 2021
08.22.21: Bushings & Wrenches & Trucks & Expansion Tanks, Oh My - Plus No Lane for You!, Curvy Road Requests, Tool Trays (& Not Tool Trays), Old Laptops & Old Software (w/ New Problems), + Rob Zombie
It's a fine selection of the random gearheadiness that makes the Garage Hour an international sensation (seriously, what's wrong with you people?) - semis and wide loads and how to own the lane, a review of some logic powering automotive bushings (and rubber versus polyurethane), and we found some Found On Road Awesomeness - Snap-On, baby! Because it's not a Garage Hour without serial weirdness, we've also got a Silence of the Lambs intro (basementy!), a Spyderco knife moment, the Walkin' Dude's 4Runner, and a call for geeks to get involved (because you pay the best attention). |
Fri, 27 August 2021
08.21.21 (MP3): Superballs & Other Traffic Projectiles... Also Chevy Bolt Battery Fires (Crispy), Cool Military Hardware XMas for the Taliban (Toucans & Blackhawks & MRAPs, Oh My), No Bullets for You (but Plenty for Terrorists), + Some Motoring Questions
Balls that bounce are great, but GM recalling 50-70,000 Bolts aint. Also, when you have lemons, don't make terrorists lemonade. ...Unless you're a fool, in which case you gift-wrap that lemonade in $85billion of the finest military hardware on Earth. Geeks like military hardware, so we'll talk about it. There's other bouncing madness: even though fundamentalist cavemen get mountains of rifles and ammo courtesy of your tax dollars, you're about to be blocked from buying Russian bullets (first time Joke Biden blocked anything from Russia). |
Fri, 27 August 2021
08.21.21: Superballs & Other Traffic Projectiles... Also Chevy Bolt Battery Fires (Crispy), Cool Military Hardware XMas for the Taliban (Toucans & Blackhawks & MRAPs, Oh My), No Bullets for You (but Plenty for Terrorists), + Some Motoring Questions
Balls that bounce are great, but GM recalling 50-70,000 Bolts aint. Also, when you have lemons, don't make terrorists lemonade. ...Unless you're a fool, in which case you gift-wrap that lemonade in $85billion of the finest military hardware on Earth. Geeks like military hardware, so we'll talk about it. There's other bouncing madness: even though fundamentalist cavemen get mountains of rifles and ammo courtesy of your tax dollars, you're about to be blocked from buying Russian bullets (first time Joke Biden blocked anything from Russia). |
Sun, 22 August 2021
08.12.21 (MP3): Tech VS Gearheads - How & Why of Mindless Self-Surveillance, w/ Hacks @ Tech-Privacy Survival, Nuts & Bolts of Data-Hungry Vehicles, Vulnerability of Cars to Outside Control, Info-Harvesting Corporations, +Who Should Profit from Your Data
The next time you wander into the kitchen in your torn boxers, are the 'fridge and toaster watching you? ...And who's watching them? How about when you pair your car's "infotainment" system with your phone? "Smart" homes and cars appeal to a lot of stupid people because you can be really bright but still dumb enough not to realize that if you're not managing all that unwelcome tech in your life, someone else will. Unphone, bitches! The Gearhead Consultancy wants to help. Faraday-caged homes, phone boxes, historic examples of spying, modern examples of hacking risks and car-control death - it's a scary data forest out there, and you're in it. |
Sun, 22 August 2021
08.12.21: Tech VS Gearheads - Hows & Whys of Mindless Self-Surveillance, w/ Hacks for Tech-Privacy Survival, Nuts & Bolts of Data-Hungry Vehicles, Vulnerability of Cars to Outside Control, Info-Harvesting Corporations, + Who Should Profit from Your Data
The next time you wander into the kitchen in your torn boxers, are the 'fridge and toaster watching you? ...And who's watching them? How about when you pair your car's "infotainment" system with your phone? "Smart" homes and cars appeal to a lot of stupid people because you can be really bright but still dumb enough not to realize that if you're not managing all that unwelcome tech in your life, someone else will. Unphone, bitches! The Gearhead Consultancy wants to help. Faraday-caged homes, phone boxes, historic examples of spying, modern examples of hacking risks and car-control death - it's a scary data forest out there, and you're in it. |
Sat, 14 August 2021
08.02.21 (MP3): Why Car Accidents Don't Mean What You Think - Road Entitlement & Cost VS Competence, Traffic Elitism, Skill-Set Shortages, Distracted Drivers & the Unguided Missile, + 4-Wheeling Ramona, Trinity's Belgian Wit & Jaegermeister in 'da Freezer
...Because driving ain't about being able to afford a car, and being skilled ain't because you showed up - motoring fails are not what you think, but you should have thought of that. The Garage Hour goon squad - with Mr. Intolerant and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort - does a little dance with why car accidents are up, and the whys aren't what they were (ahem, the road is in the real world). While we're at it, there's cat versus squirrel (the cat lost), FJs in Ramona, street racing in the 'Springs, Hank Hill versus Homer Simpson, and Cut Chemist. |
Sat, 14 August 2021
08.02.21: Why Car Accidents Don't Mean What You Think - Road Entitlement & Cost VS Competence, Traffic Elitism, Skill-Set Shortages, Distracted Drivers & the Unguided Missile, + Four-Wheeling Ramona, Trinity's Belgian Wit & Jaegermeister in 'da Freezer
...Because driving ain't about being able to afford the car, and being skilled ain't because you showed up - motoring fails are not what you think, but you should have thought of that. The Garage Hour goon squad - with Mr. Intolerant and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort - does a dance with why car accidents are up, and the whys aren't what they were (hint: the road is in the real world). While we're at it, there's cat versus squirrel (the cat lost), FJs in Ramona, street racing in the 'Springs, Hank Hill versus Homer Simpson, and Cut Chemist. |
Fri, 6 August 2021
08.01.21 (MP3): Need New Conspiracies (Old Ones Came True)... Power-Grabbers Grabbing Your Power - Gov't Wants to Take Away Your Race Car, Track Your Driving & Call You Guilty Until Proven Innocent (Because "Infrastructure") - Gearheads Need to Get Mad
Want to do your thing, and geek out on fast cars, fine beer, crawly trucks and bangy guns? Like doing stuff that's not "approved" by the woketards? If you don't stand up for your right to do your thing, "your thing" could go from "out there" to "illegal" under cover of the Trojan corpse in the White House and his band of unmoored zealots. To borrow a term, it's time to fight for your right to party (however you do so). The Gearhead Consultancy took a few minutes to help understand why bad (Big) gov't is wrong - and will take away your rights. You should be mad. The idiots in DC want breathalyzers in all cars, are desperate to track you wherever you go, and to ban you from taking your car to the track. It's time to geek up and start punching back. |
Fri, 6 August 2021
08.01.21: Need New Conspiracies (Old Ones Came True)... Power-Grabbers Grabbing Your Power - Gov't Wants to Take Away Your Race Car, Track Your Driving & Call You Guilty Until Proven Innocent (Because "Infrastructure") - Gearheads Need to Get Mad
Want to do your thing, and geek out on fast cars, fine beer, crawly trucks and bangy guns? Like doing stuff that's not "approved" by the woketards? If you don't stand up for your right to do your thing, "your thing" could go from "out there" to "illegal" under cover of the Trojan corpse in the White House and his band of unmoored zealots. To borrow a term, it's time to fight for your right to party (however you do so). The Gearhead Consultancy took a few minutes to help understand why bad (Big) gov't is wrong - and will take away your rights. You should be mad. The idiots in DC want breathalyzers in all cars, are desperate to track you wherever you go, and to ban you from taking your car to the track. It's time to geek up and start punching back. |
Sat, 31 July 2021
07.27.21 (MP3): Just Add Rice! Fun w/ Japanese Cars & Tuner Bits, JDM & Ricer Stories, + Stick VS Paddle, Home-Fab Intakes, Making a Ridgeline Work On-Trail (Though It's Still Not a Truck), Speed Holes & Deep-Vee Powerboat Blowers
Nothing like climbing into a little history, especially when it's the great Japanese and USDM stuff from the late '80s and '90s. You name it - CRX, EF, EG and EK, S-13 and S-14, good seats and bad grounds, cotton and foam intakes, STILLEN, RNC, Jackson, HKS, Road & Track, Flyin' Miata, GTR, NSX, VQ, 350 and 370Z, fart pipes and blow-offs, 1J and 2JZ, straight fours and sixes, FJ40s and 80s, and whatever else we come up with. Meanwhile, the Garage Hour breaks in some new meat with the introduction of Mr. Intolerant, plus sips of What It Is kolsch and Dark Cherry Seltzer from Trinity Brewing. |
Fri, 30 July 2021
07.27.21: Just Add Rice! Fun w/ Japanese Cars & Tuner Bits, JDM & Ricer Stories, + Stick VS Paddle, Home-Fab Intakes, Making a Ridgeline Work On-Trail (Though It's Still Not a Truck), Speed Holes & Deep-Vee Powerboat Blowers
Nothing like climbing into a little history, especially when it's the great Japanese and USDM stuff from the late '80s and '90s. You name it - CRX, EF, EG and EK, S-13 and S-14, good seats and bad grounds, cotton and foam intakes, STILLEN, RNC, Jackson, HKS, Road & Track, Flyin' Miata, GTR, NSX, VQ, 350 and 370Z, fart pipes and blow-offs, 1J and 2JZ, straight fours and sixes, FJ40s and 80s, and whatever else we come up with. Meanwhile, the Garage Hour breaks in some new meat with the introduction of Mr. Intolerant, plus sips of What It Is kolsch and Dark Cherry Seltzer from Trinity Brewing. |
Wed, 28 July 2021
07.22.21 (MP3): Daytime-Running Lights - Good or Crap? In-Car Nanny Devices VS Skills & Attentiveness, Motorcycle Safety (Loud Pipes Save Lives!), Nightime Motoring & Car-to-Car Comms, + Demolition Man, Rust Belt & Emmitt from Silverado, & Naked Funk
The answer is "crap!" Geeks ain't fooled by a thin logic, and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort goes late-night weirdsauce (and possibly some other places) on the safety fraud that DRLs have become. Because there's always situational affects, there's also a look at good running lights on semis and bikes, lane-spltting, single DRLs and marker lights, and a little on why "automatic" headlights are not very. Just to keep things super, there's also self-driving canolis, sharpies, plastics, skillsetting the sheep, hydration, and Han shot first. |
Wed, 28 July 2021
07.22.21: Daytime-Running Lights - Good or Crap? In-Car Nanny Devices VS Skills & Attentiveness, Motorcycle Safety (Loud Pipes Save Lives!), Nightime Motoring & Car-to-Car Comms, + Demolition Man, Rust Belt & Emmitt from Silverado, & Naked Funk
The answer is "crap!" Geeks ain't fooled by a thin logic, and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort goes late-night weirdsauce (and possibly some other places) on the safety fraud that DRLs have become. Because there's always situational affects, there's also a look at good running lights on semis and bikes, lane-spltting, single DRLs and marker lights, and a little on why "automatic" headlights are not very. Just to keep things super, there's also self-driving canolis, sharpies, plastics, skillsetting the sheep, hydration, and Han shot first. |
Thu, 22 July 2021
07.17.21 (MP3): Don't Be a Speed Bump (Or Less Skilled), or Does More Automotive Technology = Less Driver Capability? (Automation & Convenience Make You Suck), Four-Wheeling Failtown, + Trainshooting for Thugs & Protecting Data VS Controlling It
From green lawns versus gravel yards (cop-out) to the human question of whether you're less of one if your car is more man than you, the Garage Hour doesn't phone it in. We've got the real-world impact of folks who can't figure out how their headlights work (uhhh, taillights are good), plus a hard look at the new trend for the victims of Tesla's robot-drive auto-wash self-steering crashes to sue from outside the restrictive NDAs that the company puts on its consumers. Then it's all beers and rock and roll and space-phalluses. Fatso Jetson, KMFDM, Ministry, Dog Fashion Disco, Blazing Haley, Bjork, Black Label Society, Cabbage Boy and Hum join in, because awesome. |
Thu, 22 July 2021
07.17.21: Don't Be a Speed Bump (Or Less Skilled), or Does More Automotive Technology = Less Driver Capability? (Automation & Convenience Make You Suck), Four-Wheeling Failtown, + Trainshooting for Thugs & Protecting Data VS Controlling It
From green lawns versus gravel yards (cop-out) to the human question of whether you're less of one if your car is more man than you, the Garage Hour doesn't phone it in. We've got the real-world impact of folks who can't figure out how their headlights work (uhhh, taillights are good), plus a hard look at the new trend for the victims of Tesla's robot-drive auto-wash self-steering crashes to sue from outside the restrictive NDAs that the company puts on its consumers. Then it's all beers and rock and roll and space-phalluses. Fatso Jetson, KMFDM, Ministry, Dog Fashion Disco, Blazing Haley, Bjork, Black Label Society, Cabbage Boy and Hum join in, because awesome. |
Sun, 18 July 2021
07.14.21 (MP3): Rehumanize! Right to Repair (Because Sh!t Must Be Fixed!) & Electric Car Letdowns (Ruined by Hype), + Dump Truck Crashes (Bye Bye Bridge), Cambus #69, Steve Wozniak, Dirty Dave, Queens of the Stone Age, Humping Squirrels & Too Much Justin
Let's do the thing - great rock (QOTSA all day), great crashes (who needed that yacht), earth-shaking stamping mills, loads of government graft on the back of fraudulent electric transit unicorn farts, the mystery of disappearing nuke plants, and 'You Can't Quit Me Baby". While we're at it: Gillig Phantoms, dump trucks, sinkholes, Arby's, Miata VS Mustang, and if you know what you're doing, why can't you do it? |
Sun, 18 July 2021
07.14.21: Rehumanize! Right to Repair (Because Sh!t Must Be Fixed!) & Electric Car Letdowns (Ruined by Hype), + Dump Truck Crashes (Bye Bye Bridge), Cambus #69, Steve Wozniak, Dirty Dave, Queens of the Stone Age, Humping Squirrels & Too Much Justin
Let's do the thing - great rock (QOTSA all day), great crashes (who needed that yacht), earth-shaking stamping mills, loads of government graft on the back of fraudulent electric transit unicorn farts, the mystery of disappearing nuke plants, and 'You Can't Quit Me Baby". While we're at it: Gillig Phantoms, dump trucks, sinkholes, Arby's, Miata VS Mustang, and if you know what you're doing, why can't you do it? |
Sat, 10 July 2021
07.04.21 (MP3): Superfried Support of Second Amendment (+2A News), 2/3 of US Counties = 2A Sanctuaries, the (Pending) Death of CA's "Assault" Weapon Ban, Cannon Building VS Cannon Owning, w/ The Precious (10mm) & Trinity's Dark Cherry Seltzer
Down in the lab... It's a 1% battery episode: Hostus Maximus Justin Fort's tank was on empty for this one, but somehow a good think-piece happened. There's reports on the health of our Second Amendment (w/ improvements!), cannon building versus cannon owning, money-making schemes from the Asterisk administration, and being the 2A every day. Surprises: Joke Biden was wrong again, arm braces brace your arms, scary features are not scary, the Dems want to keep you fearful, cactus needles hurt your face, and it's not Indiana's fault, Chicago. |
Sat, 10 July 2021
07.04.21: Superfried Support of Second Amendment (+2A News), 2/3 of US Counties = 2A Sanctuaries, the (Pending) Death of CA's "Assault" Weapon Ban, Cannon Building VS Cannon Owning, w/ The Precious (10mm) & Trinity's Dark Cherry Seltzer
Down in the lab... It's a 1% battery episode: Hostus Maximus Justin Fort's tank was on empty for this one, but somehow a good think-piece happened. There's reports on the health of our Second Amendment (w/ improvements!), cannon building versus cannon owning, money-making schemes from the Asterisk administration, and being the 2A every day. Surprises: Joke Biden was wrong again, arm braces brace your arms, scary features are not scary, the Dems want to keep you fearful, cactus needles hurt your face, and it's not Indiana's fault, Chicago. |
Wed, 30 June 2021
06.27.21 (MP3): Drivers & Racecars @ Pike's Peak Hillclimb - Times, Winners, Race-Lines, Recaps, "Incidents" & Conditions from the Mountain, + Rebuilding Old Mac Products, Cassette VS 8-Track, Fruity Beers & the Sandwich Break
PPIHC 2021 is in the books, and the Garage Hour goons were in the mix (George's, baby!). From early on the hill to fine sips afterwards (plus a little racing), we were in it and we have tales to tell. Drivers? Shute, Dallenbach, Dumas, Millen, Astier, Vasholtz, Schrantz, Donahue, Clay, Pobst and 100 more. Cars? LMPs, sprinters, stockers, Trans-Am, Cadillac, Porsche, BMW, Bentley, Camaro and Mustang, plus zip-ties, downforce and turbochargers. So many turbos. Because racecar, there's more: Engineers, Bottomless and Boulder Park, Contagion, Deep Purple, Eagles of Death Metal and Gruntruck. Oh yeah, and beer. |
Wed, 30 June 2021
06.27.21: Drivers & Racecars @ Pike's Peak Hillclimb - Times, Winners, Race-Lines, Recaps, "Incidents" & Conditions from the Mountain, + Rebuilding Old Mac Products, Cassette VS 8-Track, Fruity Beers & the Sandwich Break
PPIHC 2021 is in the books, and the Garage Hour goons were in the mix (George's, baby!). From early on the hill to fine sips afterwards (plus a little racing), we were in it and we have tales to tell. Drivers? Shute, Dallenbach, Dumas, Millen, Astier, Vasholtz, Schrantz, Donahue, Clay, Pobst and 100 more. Cars? LMPs, sprinters, stockers, Trans-Am, Cadillac, Porsche, BMW, Bentley, Camaro and Mustang, plus zip-ties, downforce and turbochargers. So many turbos. Because racecar, there's more: Engineers, Bottomless and Boulder Park, Contagion, Deep Purple, Eagles of Death Metal and Gruntruck. Oh yeah, and beer. |
Mon, 21 June 2021
06.15.21 (MP3): Pike's Peak Hillclimb 2021 Preamble - Racecar Audio from the Mountain, w/ Course & Spectator Info, Racers & History, Cars & Engines, Layout & Turn-Count, Records & Stories, + Session Lager, Amon Tobin & Re-Moding Your Bubble
Four hours of mixing better be worth a nut - the Garage Hour captured a truckload of mamma's muffins during practice and testing at the PPIHC, and spliced the sexiest sounding road-racey bits into this episode. There's tales of awesome from George's, Double-Cut and Cog, with Millen(s), Donahue, Becker, Crouch, Vasholtz, Gogelein, Wickstrum, Dallenbach, Strauch and Fouch. There's also hotter plugs, the smell of coolant, more Amon Tobin (Chaos Theory by popular demand, yous!), and the death of the Blue Yeti (time for the yetipult). |
Mon, 21 June 2021
06.15.21: Pike's Peak Hillclimb 2021 Preamble - Racecar Audio from the Mountain, w/ Course & Spectator Info, Racers & History, Cars & Engines, Layout & Turn-Count, Records & Stories, + Session Lager, Amon Tobin & Re-Moding Your Bubble
Four hours of mixing better be worth a nut - the Garage Hour captured a truckload of mamma's muffins during practice and testing at the PPIHC, and spliced the sexiest sounding road-racey bits into this episode. There's tales of awesome from George's, Double-Cut and Cog, with Millen(s), Donahue, Becker, Crouch, Vasholtz, Gogelein, Wickstrum, Dallenbach, Strauch and Fouch. There's also hotter plugs, the smell of coolant, more Amon Tobin (Chaos Theory by popular demand, yous!), and the death of the Blue Yeti (time for the yetipult). |
Sat, 19 June 2021
06.09.21 (MP3): Gearheads & Geeks Love Dude Food & the Second Amendment, w/ 2A Thinking for Smart Kids (& Better Parents), London Broil, Texas & Constitutional Carry, CA's "Assault" Weapons Court Choke, Fenix Ammo's Fine FU, & 7,000,000 Stolen Bullets
The Garage Hour asks: is your kid gun-safe? Borne of a perfect rant that took shape in the garadtch and made it all the way to the mic, we went for broke on 2A goodness and wound up with a whole episode. There's also details of Texas' embrace of "Constitutional carry", the court's arsing of Kalifornistan's "assault" weapon ban, an ammo company's feelings on Biden voters, and, oh yeah, 7,000,000 Aguila bullets stolen by Mexican cartels. Props to Breitbart and Gateway Pundit for the copious coverage... Also starring Tigger (springs in my butt), racecars (because), The Precious (10mm), Funyons, the Federalist Papers, the Blue mic fails, and truckloads of Amon Tobin. |
Sat, 19 June 2021
06.09.21: Gearheads & Geeks Love Dude Food & the Second Amendment, w/ 2A Thinking for Smart Kids (& Better Parents), London Broil, Texas & Constitutional Carry, CA's "Assault" Weapons Court Choke, Fenix Ammo's Fine FU, & 7,000,000 Stolen Bullets
The Garage Hour asks: is your kid gun-safe? Borne of a perfect rant that took shape in the garadtch and made it all the way to the mic, we went for broke on 2A goodness and wound up with a whole episode. There's also details of Texas' embrace of "Constitutional carry", the court's arsing of Kalifornistan's "assault" weapon ban, an ammo company's feelings on Biden voters, and, oh yeah, 7,000,000 Aguila bullets stolen by Mexican cartels. Props to Breitbart and Gateway Pundit for the copious coverage... Also starring Tigger (springs in my butt), racecars (because), The Precious (10mm), Funyons, the Federalist Papers, the Blue mic fails, and truckloads of Amon Tobin. |
Sat, 12 June 2021
06.06.09 (MP3): Classic Reload- Original Show @ KCBQ (Bask in the Shiny): Four-Wheeling the Cleveland National Forest, Post-Bailout Automaker Remorse, Transformers Movie PR Junk, Politics VS Hobbies, Living Efficiently VS Green Dogma + the Gift of Anthrax
#Becausegearhead - it's the first-ever Garage Hour. Combine big-AM talk radio w/ a first-time show host who's just found out how to talk to more people about cars, trucks, beers and guns, and that's this. From facts on the disaster caused by Obama's auto bailout (local impact, attacks on Republican dealership owners, Ford's debt, and why GM and Chrysler ain't cool anymore) to a little ditty about why watermelon environmentalism won't mix with real improvement, and you can see a lot of Justin Fort's baby monster here. ..And like always, there's more: Goodyear MT/R Kevlars, Saleen's bankruptsy, Scarecrow's diet, Econolube 163, and wherever the Hell is Hank Watson. Have some. |
Sat, 12 June 2021
06.06.09: Classic Reload - Original Show @ KCBQ (Bask in the Shiny): Four-Wheeling the Cleveland National Forest, Post-Bailout Automaker Remorse, Transformers Movie PR Junk, Politics VS Hobbies, Living Efficiently VS Green Dogma + the Gift of Anthrax
#Becausegearhead - it's the first-ever Garage Hour. Combine big-AM talk radio w/ a first-time show host who's just found out how to talk to more people about cars, trucks, beers and guns, and that's this. From facts on the disaster caused by Obama's auto bailout (local impact, attacks on Republican dealership owners, Ford's debt, and why GM and Chrysler ain't cool anymore) to a little ditty about why watermelon environmentalism won't mix with real improvement, and you can see a lot of Justin Fort's baby monster here. ..And like always, there's more: Goodyear MT/R Kevlars, Saleen's bankruptsy, Scarecrow's diet, Econolube 163, and wherever the Hell is Hank Watson. Have some. |
Sat, 5 June 2021
06.01.21 (MP3): Hills Climbed & Canyons Carved, Sips Swilled & Clay Barred, Good Curvy Roads in Colorado, Motorcyclists VS Track Snobs, Rescuing Hikers & Bikers (Because They're Tired & Grumpy), Your Tesla is Spying on You & China Wants to Spy on Us All
So much good stuff! The gearhead goons use clay bars for perfect paint (technique and tricks): clay behavior and quality, keeping the clay (and the paint) clean, detailer versus water (enabling the slide), and putting clay to stuff that's not auto paint (yuuuup!). There's also hillclimbing and Pikes Peak Hillclimb (coming up, plus Indy just passed), fun roads in Colorado, track snobs versus motorcyclists, and building the skillset. We've also got the new 2021 Distractomatic, Tesla spying for (or on?) China, China spying on us all (thanks, Joe!), and rescuing hikers and bikers for fun and 'froading. Oh yeah, and Ministry, Incubus and Trinity's Citra Pale. |
Sat, 5 June 2021
06.01.21: Hills Climbed & Canyons Carved, Sips Swilled & Clay Barred, Good Curvy Roads in Colorado, Motorcyclists VS Track Snobs, Rescuing Hikers & Bikers (Because They're Tired & Grumpy), Your Tesla is Spying on You & China Wants to Spy on Us All
So much good stuff! The gearhead goons use clay bars for perfect paint (technique and tricks): clay behavior and quality, keeping the clay (and the paint) clean, detailer versus water (enabling the slide), and putting clay to stuff that's not auto paint (yuuuup!). There's also hillclimbing and Pikes Peak Hillclimb (coming up, plus Indy just passed), fun roads in Colorado, track snobs versus motorcyclists, and building the skillset. We've also got the new 2021 Distractomatic, Tesla spying for (or on?) China, China spying on us all (thanks, Joe!), and rescuing hikers and bikers for fun and 'froading. Oh yeah, and Ministry, Incubus and Trinity's Citra Pale. |
Thu, 27 May 2021
05.16.21 (MP3): Use Detailer for Ideal Detailing & Other Car Care Crap - Don't Freeze the Chemicals (But Fear the Chamois), Microfiber Matters, Chemical Combos, Armor-All Syndrome, Some Thoughts on Gas Cans & Storage, + Turbo Swaps, Bowie & Contagion
Shooting from the hip never was better radio - great pile of gearhead goodness here, including tips and tricks for automotive detailing (with detailer - Mother's, Griot's, ECP, Glaze Distributing, and buying in bulk). There's also a useful thought-piece on the proper storage of gasoline - with everyone putting it in garbage bags nowadays, we'd probably best notify Darwin. More? DetailGuide.com for cleaner cars, Armor-All for better or worse, turbo swaps for driveability, avoiding frozen garages (because water), earthquake weather, plus excellent industrial and electronica. |
Thu, 27 May 2021
05.16.21: Using Detailer for Ideal Detailing & Other Car Care Crap - Don't Freeze the Chemicals (But Fear the Chamois), Microfiber Matters, Chemical Combos, Armor-All Syndrome, Some Thoughts on Gas Cans & Storage, + Turbo Swaps, Bowie & Contagion
Shooting from the hip was never better radio - great pile of gearhead goodness here, including tips and tricks for automotive detailing (with detailer - Mother's, Griot's, ECP, Glaze Distributing, and buying in bulk). There's also a useful thought-piece on the proper storage of gasoline - with everyone putting it in garbage bags nowadays, we'd probably best notify Darwin. More? DetailGuide.com for cleaner cars, Armor-All for better or worse, turbo swaps for driveability, avoiding frozen garages (because water), earthquake weather, plus excellent industrial and electronica. |
Sat, 22 May 2021
05.14.21 (MP3): UFOs VS Fighter Jockeys, Towel Pity VS Single-Stage Paint, Asterisk Admin VS Your Right to Roam, the Trojan Corpse VS Normal Automobility, + 5 Days of Gaslessness, Topless Jeep Rally, Ford's New Distracto 500 & Hail No (But Tornados)
Toyota corporate gets out against electric cars while Joe Basement plays down for the "struggle" (ahem, dog whistle?), impossible physics of UFOs (transmedium, anyone?) and WW2 gerry cans, giant TV screens and hot ads add to distracted driving (thanks, Ford)... Why not double down and throw hot peppers in your eyes, (Hell) spoken poetry, and polymathematical paws (now, with thumbs). Because gearhead! You're not going to repell firepower of this magnitude - from gearheads, cops, Jeepers and tops (not where they belong), it's the Garage Hour. |
Sat, 22 May 2021
05.14.21: UFOs VS Fighter Jockeys, Towel Pity VS Single-Stage Paint, Asterisk Admin VS Your Right to Roam, the Trojan Corpse VS Normal Automobility, + 5 Days of Gaslessness, Topless Jeep Rally, Ford's New Distracto 500 & Hail No (But Tornados)
Toyota corporate gets out against electric cars while Joe Basement plays down for the "struggle" (ahem, dog whistle?), impossible physics of UFOs (transmedium, anyone?) and WW2 gerry cans, giant TV screens and hot ads add to distracted driving (thanks, Ford)... Why not double down and throw hot peppers in your eyes, (Hell) spoken poetry, and polymathematical paws (now, with thumbs). Because gearhead! You're not going to repell firepower of this magnitude - from gearheads, cops, Jeepers and tops (not where they belong), it's the Garage Hour. |
Wed, 19 May 2021
05.11.21 (MP3): All Drinks Matter @ Location B(eer).. Ice Fog, Lost Wine & Dude Food Beta Kitchen (The Secret Ingredient is Phone) - AutoZone VS Advanced Auto VS NAPA, Iron Dome VS Patriot, Panko VS Crumbles, Shapiro VS Madcow + Operation Dude, Stop That!
Put an ongoing gearhead and a retired agency guy on-air and there's no telling what will happen. Drop them in a live setting (like Colorado's Trinity Brewing Company) and you'd better hide the cask. Special guests include Tall Jon, First Jon and Clark's Beard. This time, it was a grand pile of geek speak, with specialized weapons, gerry cans, the Dude Food Beta Kitchen (with panko, crumbles and phone), Forsaken Bacon, plus beers like Raspberry Kolsch, Cask Flo, Slapricot and Slap Yer Berry. |
Wed, 19 May 2021
05.11.21: All Drinks Matter @ Location B(eer)... Ice Fog, Lost Wine & Dude Food Beta Kitchen (The Secret Ingredient is Phone) - AutoZone VS Advanced Auto VS NAPA, Iron Dome VS Patriot, Panko VS Crumbles, Shapiro VS Madcow, + Operation "Dude, Stop That!"
Put an ongoing gearhead and a retired agency guy on-air and there's no telling what will happen. Drop them in a live setting (like Colorado's Trinity Brewing Company) and you'd better hide the cask. Special guests include Tall Jon, First Jon and Clark's Beard. This time, it was a grand pile of geek speak, with specialized weapons, gerry cans, the Dude Food Beta Kitchen (with panko, crumbles and phone), Forsaken Bacon, plus beers like Raspberry Kolsch, Cask Flo, Slapricot and Slap Yer Berry. |
Wed, 12 May 2021
05.07.21 (MP3): Past the Point of No Gaskets - Bellwether Car Prices & Blazing Saddles, JB Weld & Green Killing Germany, Honeywell Leaks B-1B, F-22 & F-35 Designs to China, Illegal Taxis VS Law Enforcement, + Prince Phillip's Custom Landie Pickup
A little bit of everything in this one... US taxpayers get screwed by big gov't contractors (as well as the supremacy of the B-1B, F-35 and F-22), turbocharger fixes for Subaru Legacy Outbacks and the EJ-255 (JB Weld!), how two-fisted royal Prince Phillip created his own hearse with a custom Land Rover pickup, how green energy is destroying Germany one industry at a time, and the mess that is illegal-immigrant coyotes driving like crazy people to escape the border patrol and local law enforcement. There's more fun stuff: peanut butter versus chocolate, wallet-sitting versus your income, and the schism between wanting a new (used) car and needing it. |
Wed, 12 May 2021
05.07.21: Past the Point of No Gaskets - Bellwether Car Prices & Blazing Saddles, JB Weld & Green Killing Germany, Honeywell Leaks B-1B, F-22 & F-35 Designs to China, Illegal Taxis VS Law Enforcement, + Prince Phillip's Custom Landie Pickup
A little bit of everything in this one... US taxpayers get screwed by big gov't contractors (as well as the supremacy of the B-1B, F-35 and F-22), turbocharger fixes for Subaru Legacy Outbacks and the EJ-255 (JB Weld!), how two-fisted royal Prince Phillip created his own hearse with a custom Land Rover pickup, how green energy is destroying Germany one industry at a time, and the mess that is illegal-immigrant coyotes driving like crazy people to escape the border patrol and local law enforcement. There's more fun stuff: peanut butter versus chocolate, wallet-sitting versus your income, and the schism between wanting a new (used) car and needing it. |
Fri, 7 May 2021
05.04.21 (MP3): Cougars in the Woods, Hybrids in Denial, GM in Mexico, Cavalier's Crash in Cook's Corner, Old Parts in Boxes, Cheap Commuters in Craig's List, & Blue Mics in Distress, + Zep, Korn, Slot, Vultures, Sessions, Testament, Puny, STP & Sleep
One of those raining in the garadtch/lab in defilade/tech in freakout Garage Hour shows where an absolute pile of unthunk topics turn into really good gearhead radio. Go figure: everything from the press-release media's attempts to paper over low repeat-purchase numbers for hybrids and electrics to great old parts boxes and what we find inside (inluding crashy bits from an otherwise great canyon run). There's also kudos for the Japanese (that seems to be a theme lately) and a big raspberry for GM's plans to move another factory south of the border. There's also a few little kitties on the run route (plus bears, elk and a bobcat), the finalé for the $500 commuter, plans for wintermobile # next, and our effort to get another Blue mic now that we found this Yeti. |
Fri, 7 May 2021
05.04.21: Cougars in the Woods, Hybrids in Denial, GM in Mexico, Cavalier's Crash in Cook's Corner, Old Parts in Boxes, Cheap Commuters in Craig's List, & Blue Mics in Distress, + Zep, Korn, Slot, Vultures, Sessions, Testament, Puny, STP & Sleep
One of those raining in the garadtch/lab in defilade/tech in freakout Garage Hour shows where an absolute pile of unthunk topics turn into really good gearhead radio. Go figure: everything from the press-release media's attempts to paper over low repeat-purchase numbers for hybrids and electrics to great old parts boxes and what we find inside (inluding crashy bits from an otherwise great canyon run). There's also kudos for the Japanese (that seems to be a theme lately) and a big raspberry for GM's plans to move another factory south of the border. There's also a few little kitties on the run route (plus bears, elk and a bobcat), the finalé for the $500 commuter, plans for wintermobile # next, and our effort to get another Blue mic now that we found this Yeti. |
Fri, 30 April 2021
04.25.21 (MP3): Suckin' Ain't No Crime (Until It Is): DC Police Street Racing (Because Desk Job), Subaru Recalls (Because Suspension Bolts), Global Parts Shortages (Because China), Gov't Swamp Dwellers (Because Nerds), + More Tesla AutoDrive Disasters
The Garage Hour's got gearhead news (because people seem to like it), so hereyago: - DC carkackings, lousy "expert" drivers, Ryan Hampton on lousy journalist drivers, and police who shouldn't be street racing (because they're not very good). - More new-car suspension parts falling off, this time of Subies. - Why dependence on global markets is a bad thing. - More tales of why Tesla's Auto Creepy-Drive is a bad thing. - Beer with Full Sail's Session Lager. Just to keep it awesome, we've also got Schroedinger's garbage can, Uber versus your phone, the Magnusson-Moss Warranty act, bricked electrics and fixing Sylvester Stallone with a hammer. |
Fri, 30 April 2021
04.25.21: Suckin' Ain't No Crime (Until It Is): DC Police Street Racing (Because Desk Job), Subaru Recalls (Because Suspension Bolts), Global Parts Shortages (Because China), Gov't Swamp Dwellers (Because Nerds), + More Tesla AutoDrive Disasters
The Garage Hour's got gearhead news (because people seem to like it), so hereyago: - DC carkackings, lousy "expert" drivers, Ryan Hampton on lousy journalist drivers, and police who shouldn't be street racing (because they're not very good). - More new-car suspension parts falling off, this time of Subies. - Why dependence on global markets is a bad thing. - More tales of why Tesla's Auto Creepy-Drive is a bad thing. - Beer with Full Sail's Session Lager. Just to keep it awesome, we've also got Schroedinger's garbage can, Uber versus your phone, the Magnusson-Moss Warranty act, bricked electrics and fixing Sylvester Stallone with a hammer. |
Wed, 21 April 2021
04.01.21 (MP3): F-15EX VS Formula 1, B-1B VS Bilstein, Taco Bell Hot Sauce Marinade VS Zombie Remixes, Santa Ana Winds VS Colorado Humidity, Spondivits VS MLB, Truckers VS Rioters, + U.S. UFOs, Chinese Spy Teslas & A Few Thoughts on Getting Prepped
...Crammed it all into this one. Script writer: go script yourself. With a device-thwarting free-news cable-cobbling in-lab intro, this is classic Garage Hour goodness. Better hydrate. Fried cheese curds, cheating Chinese Teslas, F1 or circle-track, Bilstein 5100 and 6112 on under your 4Runner, de-Wayneing the NRA, U.S. bombers in India and John Ratcliffe's UFOs. Even more: Body Armor? Drank it. Flopping tablets? Fixed 'em. Affirmative action for F1? Figures. '60s Chicaco P.D.? Need 'em. The greys? Found 'em. |
Wed, 21 April 2021
04.01.21: F-15EX VS Formula 1, B-1B VS Bilstein, Taco Bell Hot Sauce Marinade VS Zombie Remixes, Santa Ana Winds VS Colorado Humidity, Spondivits VS MLB, Truckers VS Rioters, + U.S. UFOs, Chinese Spy Teslas & A Few Thoughts on Getting Prepped
...Crammed it all into this one. Script writer: go script yourself. With a device-thwarting free-news cable-cobbling in-lab intro, this is classic Garage Hour goodness. Better hydrate. Fried cheese curds, cheating Chinese Teslas, F1 or circle-track, Bilstein 5100 and 6112 under your 4Runner, de-Wayneing the NRA, U.S. bombers in India and John Ratcliffe's UFOs. Even more: Body Armor? Drank it. Flopping tablets? Fixed 'em. Affirmative action for F1? Figures. '60s Chicaco P.D.? Need 'em. The greys? Found 'em. |
Sat, 17 April 2021
04.07.21 (MP3): Gearheads @ Location B(eer) - Techniques for Good Gear Selling Online & In-Person, the Reagan Shooting, Tip-Up VS Down, + a Visit w/ Head Brewer, Hype Forager, Idaho 7, Oak Gin Barrels & Fried Cheese Curds @ Trinity Brew
From haversacks to FIPG, Boogerbutt and B-sides, booing Seinfeld and ewwing Yuengling, Justin #2's Tourette's and the curdish (cheese) apocalypse, UZIs and a .38 in the briefcase, plus donations to the Cajun Navy and situational awareness, it's an alchivated Garage Hour (now, with beer!). This episode was originally oriented towards fine sips at Trinity Brewing and some discussion of good tactics for buying and selling things online and/or in the flesh, but you know detours... Admit it, you prefer them. #BecauseGearhead. |
Sat, 17 April 2021
04.07.21: Gearheads @ Location B(eer) - Techniques for Good Gear Selling Online & In-Person, the Reagan Shooting, Tip-Up VS Down, + a Visit w/ Head Brewer, Hype Forager, Idaho 7, Oak Gin Barrels & Fried Cheese Curds @ Trinity Brew
From haversacks to FIPG, Boogerbutt and B-sides, booing Seinfeld and ewwing Yuengling, Justin #2's Tourette's and the curdish (cheese) apocalypse, UZIs and a .38 in the briefcase, plus donations to the Cajun Navy and situational awareness, it's an alchivated Garage Hour (now, with beer!). This episode was originally oriented towards fine sips at Trinity Brewing and some discussion of good tactics for buying and selling things online and/or in the flesh, but you know detours... Admit it, you prefer them. #BecauseGearhead. |
Mon, 12 April 2021
04.02.21 (MP3): Vroom, Boom & Doom w/ Dude Food & How to Get Hit by a Car - Washed Up Mines & Leftover Bombs, Don't Crash Your Plane, Moby Wipe & the Sewer Beluga, RIP @ G. Gordon Liddy + GPS Proto-Fail (Thanks, Congress)
Surprisingly good gearhead talk radio right here (and it's pure rando-power): you can't fight skill of this magnitude without a prescription (or a warrant). There's pork shoulder on the grille and Richard III's skeleton under the parking lot, a thought or two on United Airlines hiring people because of their ability to fly to Duluth, and a reminder that it's tool time (spring means folks have the fool notion their garages are meant to be clean). Like always, it's more: the Psychonauts, Josh Homme (with Kyuss or QOTSA), soccer with Nelson & Bambalas, snowboarding with Teresa & Bondurant, Aunt Lou's Fiestaware and stickers by Freeb. |
Mon, 12 April 2021
04.02.21: Vroom, Boom & Doom w/ Dude Food & How to Get Hit by a Car - Washed Up Mines & Leftover Bombs, Don't Crash Your Plane, Moby Wipe & the Sewer Beluga, RIP @ G. Gordon Liddy + GPS Proto-Fail (Thanks, Congress)
Surprisingly good gearhead talk radio right here (and it's pure rando-power): you can't fight skill of this magnitude without a prescription (or a warrant). There's pork shoulder on the grille and Richard III's skeleton under the parking lot, a thought or two on United Airlines hiring people because of their ability to fly to Duluth, and a reminder that it's tool time (spring means folks have the fool notion their garages are meant to be clean). Like always, it's more: the Psychonauts, Josh Homme (with Kyuss or QOTSA), soccer with Nelson & Bambalas, snowboarding with Teresa & Bondurant, Aunt Lou's Fiestaware and stickers by Freeb. |
Wed, 31 March 2021
03.23.21 (MP3): Your Right to Roam VS a Mileage Tax - It's Car-Tracking & It's Big Gov't (Your Liberties VS a Slippery Slope), + Don't We Pay for Roads Already?, Why "Mileage Taxes" Hurt Low-Income Folks More, & The Problem w/ Bureaucrats
Creepy pinko nerds have infested the White House and they're after your liberties, particularly your right to roam. Among them is a second-generation marxist and small-town mayor who couldn't get potholes paved, Pete Buttgieg. While preaching his gospel, he made the mistake of saying the quiet part out loud, admitting he and his statist cronies want to track every mile you drive and CHARGE YOU FOR IT. Not on our watch - the Gearhead Consultancy has warned you about the "mileage tax" for a decade. Hostus Maximus Justin Fort was having a bad day on this episode, so enjoy the ride - he didn't. There's a lot of information and unbridled finger-pointing in this one too, so you might learn something. |
Wed, 31 March 2021
03.23.21: Your Right to Roam VS a Mileage Tax - It's Car-Tracking & It's Big Gov't (Your Liberties VS a Slippery Slope), + Don't We Pay for Roads Already?, Why "Mileage Taxes" Hurt Low-Income Folks More, & The Problem w/ Bureaucrats
Creepy pinko nerds have infested the White House and they're after your liberties, particularly your right to roam. Among them is a second-generation marxist and small-town mayor who couldn't get potholes paved, Pete Buttgieg. While preaching his gospel, he made the mistake of saying the quiet part out loud, admitting he and his statist cronies want to track every mile you drive and CHARGE YOU FOR IT. Not on our watch - the Gearhead Consultancy has warned you about the "mileage tax" for a decade. Hostus Maximus Justin Fort was having a bad day on this episode, so enjoy the ride - he didn't. There's a lot of information and unbridled finger-pointing in this one too, so you might learn something. |
Fri, 26 March 2021
03.21.21 (MP3): Get the Good Stuff (Be the Vulture!)... Intermediate Junkyarding - Rebuildable Parts (Swappable or Adaptable), Technique for Success, Respect for the Parts, Dirty Cars & Dirty Owners, + Flesh-Eating Floormats & Fu Manchu
It's time for gearhead class: smart thinking for your next run to the salvage yard (Junkyard 102!). At the intersection of knowledge and function is the junkyard (Best Auto, this time) you too can be the function whore. From impounds to rebuilds, rotating stock and picking up nuts and bolts, we'll help you know what's usable and what's junk (hah!). This episode's got a good slathering of additional sauce: Chef Jeff and Dave Lozeau, Fu Manchu and New Jersey brunos, plus Breck Brew's Vanilla Porter. |
Fri, 26 March 2021
03.21.21: Get the Good Stuff (Be the Vulture!)... Intermediate Junkyarding - Rebuildable Parts (Swappable or Adaptable), Technique for Success, Respect for the Parts, Dirty Cars & Dirty Owners, + Flesh-Eating Floormats & Fu Manchu
It's time for gearhead class: smart thinking for your next run to the salvage yard (Junkyard 102!). At the intersection of knowledge and function is the junkyard (Best Auto, this time) you too can be the function whore. From impounds to rebuilds, rotating stock and picking up nuts and bolts, we'll help you know what's usable and what's junk (hah!). This episode's got a good slathering of additional sauce: Chef Jeff and Dave Lozeau, Fu Manchu and New Jersey brunos, plus Breck Brew's Vanilla Porter. |
Sun, 21 March 2021
03.12.21 (MP3): Gearhead News! Ford Exploits Joe Basement's Leadership Gap, Exploding Jeep Wranglers in Tow & Crashing Rich Guys in NY, Don't Let Your Wife Park the Tank, USA on Mars & Repo in Space, + Breweries VS Bureaucracy (& Tiny Tyrants)
It's gearhead news from the Garage Hour: stuff goin' on that you ought to know. - Ford ships a $900,000,000 plant to Mexico after promising its workers it would be in Ohio. - How leaving your $60,000 Wrangler in low-four while towing is a 52,000rpm mistake. - A rich Chinese guy gets out of a crash-tantrum in New York City by waving the elitist-pity sign. - A funny tale of how to cause billions in damage with tanks. - New rovers on Mars (awesome) and old tricks in space (repo man's coming for your satellite!). - A VERY upsetting tale of a small brewery in Kalifornistan beset by tiny tyrants and wrongheaded bureaucrats. There's more exploding, too - thermometers, projects, and political attacks on your hobbies. Fortunately, there's also Trinity Brewing's Dark Cherry Radler, Josh Homme and QOTSA, KYUSS and Vultures, plus "Season in the Abyss" and another terrible move/great soundtrack (Orbital/Kirk Hammet). |
Sun, 21 March 2021
03.12.21: Gearhead News! Ford Exploits Joe Basement's Leadership Gap, Exploding Jeep Wranglers in Tow & Crashing Rich Guys in NY, Don't Let Your Wife Park the Tank, USA on Mars & Repo in Space, + Breweries VS Bureaucracy (& Tiny Tyrants)
It's gearhead news from the Garage Hour: stuff goin' on that you ought to know. - Ford ships a $900,000,000 plant to Mexico after promising its workers it would be in Ohio. - How leaving your $60,000 Wrangler in low-four while towing is a 52,000rpm mistake. - A rich Chinese guy gets out of a crash-tantrum in New York City by waving the elitist-pity sign. - A funny tale of how to cause billions in damage with tanks. - New rovers on Mars (awesome) and old tricks in space (repo man's coming for your satellite!). - A VERY upsetting tale of a small brewery in Kalifornistan beset by tiny tyrants and wrongheaded bureaucrats . There's more exploding, too - thermometers, projects, and political attacks on your hobbies. Fortunately, there's also Trinity Brewing's Dark Cherry Radler, Josh Homme and QOTSA, KYUSS and Vultures, plus "Season in the Abyss" and another terrible move/great soundtrack (Orbital/Kirk Hammet). |
Wed, 17 March 2021
03.09.21 (MP3): Unintentional Flamethrower & Sawzall Fix-Alls @Location B(eer) -Because Snowpacolypse- w/ Fine Sips, Lower Bushings (Just Add Fire), Traction Control VS Physics (Physics is Gonna Happen), Fletcher Hills Plane Crash +Cold-Weather Dude Food
Don't start drinking too beforehand. In this selection of random consulting, the Garage Hour does sawzalls (sorry, reciProcating saws) and blowtorches, a review of butane VS MAPP, the false sense of safety caused by electronic stability nannies, soup VS goulash (w/ a two-meat chili chaser), plus real beer chasers @ Trinity Brewing like Soul Horkey, Slap Yer Mammy, Garden of the Hops, Raspberry Kolsch & Idaho 7 Pale. Cohosts in this episode include Dr. Hibbert, fire, a foot-thick sheet of ice, the BFH (the "F" is for "friendly"), Seattle weather, sheddy sheds and Johnny Cash. |
Wed, 17 March 2021
03.09.21: Unintentional Flamethrowers & Sawzall Fix-Alls @ Location B(eer) - Because Snowpacolypse - w/ Fine Sips, Lower Bushings (Just Add Fire), Traction Control VS Physics (Physics is Gonna Happen), Fletcher Hills Plane Crash, + Cold-Weather Dude Food
Don't start drinking too beforehand. In this selection of random consulting, the Garage Hour does sawzalls (sorry, reciProcating saws) and blowtorches, a review of butane VS MAPP, the false sense of safety caused by electronic stability nannies, soup VS goulash (w/ a two-meat chili chaser), plus real beer chasers at Trinity Brewing like Soul Horkey, Slap Yer Mammy, Garden of the Hops, Raspberry Kolsch & Idaho 7 Pale. Cohosts in this episode include Dr. Hibbert, fire, a foot-thick sheet of ice, the BFH (the "F" is for "friendly"), Seattle weather, sheddy sheds and Johnny Cash. |
Sat, 13 March 2021
03.06.21 (MP3): Gearhead News - Anti-2A Biz List, Defending the Second VS the Usual (Racist, Elitist & Sexist) Suspects, States Like Montana, Missouri, Utah & W. Virginia VS Statists, Burgess Owens Speaks & Herschel Walker Seeks, + Tale of Two Washingtons
The Garage Hour goons have Second Amendment news you ought'a know: - Is gun control code for people control? - A list of companies that use the money you pay them to attack the 2A (some you might know). - Why leftist and marxist neurotics are desperate to thwart the 2A (because it's a threat to them). - New reps speak out on how 2A rights are even more valuable to poor, inner city taxpayers (who needs to protect themselves more?). - Why most restrictions on firearms rights are racist, sexist, elitist and statist (just ask the NRA). - The state of Washington and DC both triumph over gun-grabbers (or, Tiny Jerk Laws + Loopholes & Lobbyists). When the bureaucrats line up to give you their best Body Snatchers impression, you know you're on the right (constitutional) side. Be a brick in the wall with the Garage Hour, with Americans like AWR Hawkins, Burgess Owens, Lauren Bobert and Herschel Walker. |
Sat, 13 March 2021
03.06.21: Gearhead News - Anti-2A Biz List, Defending the Second VS the Usual (Racist, Elitist & Sexist) Suspects, States Like Montana, Missouri, Utah & W. Virginia VS the Statists, Burgess Owens Speaks & Herschel Walker Seeks, + a Tale of Two Washingtons
The Garage Hour goons have Second Amendment news you ought'a know: - Is gun control code for people control? - A list of companies that use the money you pay them to attack the 2A (some you might know). - Why leftist and marxist neurotics are desperate to thwart the 2A (because it's a threat to them). - New reps speak out on how 2A rights are even more valuable to poor, inner city taxpayers (who needs to protect themselves more?). - Why most restrictions on firearms rights are racist, sexist, elitist and statist (just ask the NRA). - The state of Washington and DC both triumph over gun-grabbers (or, Tiny Jerk Laws + Loopholes & Lobbyists). When the bureaucrats line up to give you their best Body Snatchers impression, you know you're on the right (constitutional) side. Be a brick in the wall with the Garage Hour, with Americans like AWR Hawkins, Burgess Owens, Lauren Bobert and Herschel Walker. |
Wed, 10 March 2021
03.03.21 (MP3): Gearhead Awesomepile - Prepping the Sled For Spring, Pegboard VS Toolbox (& Is Pegboard for Poseurs?), Chic your Geek (Because Project Season), Disarming New Jersey, + "Ride Clear of Diablo" & the Good Bad Guy
Jeez - this episode is all over the place. From Led Zeppelin VS Southern Culture on the Skids to Ray's blimp-bomb over Akron, you're not going to be able to find your seat. We couldn't even find the door. Fortunately, there's lots of goodies: a review of pegboard (poseur alert?), the new Garden of the Gods Beer Train, some overenthusiastic geeking around on rollaways and cowboy movies, and some crazy crap about magazine drills. There's also a crapton of good music - QOTSA, Anthrax, Helmet, Rammstein, Corrosion, Slot and the Desert Sessions. Now go organize your toolbox. |
Wed, 10 March 2021
03.03.21: Gearhead Awesomepile - Prepping the Sled For Spring, Pegboard VS Toolbox (& Is Pegboard for Poseurs?), Chic your Geek (Because Project Season), Disarming New Jersey, + "Ride Clear of Diablo" & the Good Bad Guy
Jeez - this episode is all over the place. From Led Zeppelin VS Southern Culture on the Skids to Ray's blimp-bomb over Akron, you're not going to be able to find your seat. We couldn't even find the door. Fortunately, there's lots of goodies: a review of pegboard (poseur alert?), the new Garden of the Gods Beer Train, some overenthusiastic geeking around on rollaways and cowboy movies, and some crazy crap about magazine drills. There's also a crapton of good music - QOTSA, Anthrax, Helmet, Rammstein, Corrosion, Slot and the Desert Sessions. Now go organize your toolbox. |
Thu, 4 March 2021
02.22.21 (MP3): Gearhead News - Don't Hold Your Breath for Electric Mail Trucks, Self-Disassembling Broncos (& the Corporatethink At Fault), Ford VS the NRA, F-35 VS F-16 VS F-15 VS A-10, Imagine a 2000-Year Old Car, + Bye Bye Fry's
Gearhead News #2: you ought'a know this. - The gov't wants to waste more of your money on the barely solvent USPS with electric mail vans (because windmills worked out so well). - Ford's new Broncos are falling apart because of a shortage of bolts (did management forget how to?). - Archeologists dug a chariot out of Pompeii's pyroclastic cement (would your Camaro last that long?). - The F-35 keeps getting its ass handed to it by 30-year old planes. - Ford is worried that the NRA's bankrupsty will cost them 150-so cars. - The Chinese bat plague just killed Fry's. On top of stories about cars, trucks, beers and guns, we've got Thomas Edison, bikes and cars on Palomar, Lemmy & Limbaugh, and Trinity Brewing Company's DDH-45 on sip. |
Thu, 4 March 2021
02.22.21: Gearhead News - Don't Hold Your Breath for Electric Mail Trucks, Self-Disassembling Broncos (& the Corporatethink At Fault), Ford VS the NRA, F-35 VS F-16 VS F-15 VS A-10, Imagine a 2000-Year Old Car, + Bye Bye Fry's
Gearhead News #2: you ought'a know this. - The gov't wants to waste more of your money on the barely solvent USPS with electric mail vans (because windmills worked out so well). - Ford's new Broncos are falling apart because of a shortage of bolts (did management forget how to?). - Archeologists dug a chariot out of Pompeii's pyroclastic cement (would your Camaro last that long?). - The F-35 keeps getting its ass handed to it by 30-year old planes. - Ford is worried that the NRA's bankrupsty will cost them 150-so cars. - The Chinese bat plague just killed Fry's. On top of stories about cars, trucks, beers and guns, we've got Thomas Edison, bikes and cars on Palomar, Lemmy & Limbaugh, and Trinity Brewing Company's DDH-45 on sip. |
Sun, 28 February 2021
02.02.21 (MP3): Towing Something? It's a Skill-Set Thing! Gearhead Guidance on Trucks, Trailers & Tires, Complicated VS Hard, Wood VS Aluminum, Years VS Miles, Friends Who Know Tows, + How Many Balls Do You Have?
Forgot we did this one... Garage Hour goons do lots of towing, and there's some easy to-dos that'll get it done. From truck and trailer to balls and hitches, there's tricks and technique that you might have missed (and we have already done wrong twice so you won't). Like a good gearhead, there's more: trailer, truck and tire maintenance, good co-pilots, and why what you're hauling matters. Gravy: Super Duty mirrors, Dennis Farina and Hunter S. Thompson, flakey trailer owners, plus why it's good to be afraid of Americans ('cause we're comin'). |
Sun, 28 February 2021
02.02.21: Towing Something? It's a Skill-Set Thing! Gearhead Guidance on Trucks, Trailers & Tires, Complicated VS Hard, Wood VS Aluminum, Years VS Miles, Friends Who Know Tows, + How Many Balls Do You Have?
Forgot we did this one... Garage Hour goons do lots of towing, and there's some easy to-dos that'll get it done. From truck and trailer to balls and hitches, there's tricks and technique that you might have missed (and we have already done wrong twice so you won't). Like a good gearhead, there's more: trailer, truck and tire maintenance, good co-pilots, and why what you're hauling matters. Gravy: Super Duty mirrors, Dennis Farina and Hunter S. Thompson, flakey trailer owners, plus why it's good to be afraid of Americans ('cause we're comin'). |
Thu, 25 February 2021
02.20.21 (MP3): Gearhead News: New F1 VS Old F1, USPS's Mutant Cartoon Trucks, Roush Pretends Racing Gives a Hoot, Springsteen Elites Away a DUI, Tiger Crashes a Wagon, & JD Power's New-Car Ratings, + Old Beer, Nice FJ Guys in TX, & Ethanol VS Dinner
Why not? The Garage Hour goons usually focus on one topic (before veering off), but tonight, it's a weekly look at gearhead news. J.D. Power's reliability ratings (Lexus and Porsche at the top, Chrysler, Tesla, and Fix It Again Tony at the bottom), pompous nuisance Bruce Stiffstein elites his way out of a DUI, Tiger crashes into some woods. Meanwhile, Roush Racing puts coffee mugs in the kitchen and calls itself green, ethanol makes your dinner more expensive, and F1's new prez tries to eliminate the parade-effect that's killed what little is left of interest in the series. After that, we've got a Toyota guy from Texas who pulled out 145 stuck motorist in two days (Texans do everything big). |
Thu, 25 February 2021
02.20.21: Gearhead News: New F1 VS Old F1, USPS's Mutant Cartoon Trucks, Roush Pretends Racing Gives a Hoot, Springsteen Elites Away a DUI, Tiger Crashes a Wagon, & JD Power's New-Car Ratings, + Old Beer, Nice FJ Guys in TX, & Ethanol VS Dinner
Why not? The Garage Hour goons usually focus on one topic (before veering off), but tonight, it's a weekly look at gearhead news. J.D. Power's reliability ratings (Lexus and Porsche at the top, Chrysler, Tesla, and Fix It Again Tony at the bottom), pompous nuisance Bruce Stiffstein elites his way out of a DUI, Tiger crashes into some woods. Meanwhile, Roush Racing puts coffee mugs in the kitchen and calls itself green, ethanol makes your dinner more expensive, and F1's new prez tries to eliminate the parade-effect that's killed what little is left of interest in the series. After that, we've got a Toyota guy from Texas who pulled out 145 stuck motorist in two days (Texans do everything big). |
Sun, 21 February 2021
02.10.21 (MP3): Freakin' Frozen Garage Hour (Escape to Trinity) - Car Batteries in Winter, Saving Neighbors, Gates Gloves VS 18 Below, Heating w/ Waste Oil, the Return of the Subie Bubble, + JB Quick, Great Stuff, Gatling Guns & Custom Plaster
It was so damn cold we couldn't stay home. The Garage Hour goons gathered at Trinity for sips of Idaho 7 Pale, Soul Horkey and Slap Yer Mammy, then tried to keep warm over topics like how batteries behave in the cold (to discharge or drain?), trickle charging, block heating, garage heating, Denver versus puffy jackets, the great "drive north" plan and surfing girlfriends. #Becausegearhead, there was more - homemade ARs, "Firefox", mug fixin', India's affinity for US beer, and advice for newbs. ...And thankfully (for the listeners) the cohosts were stacked deep - "Regular" Bill was joined by Santa Ana winds, tumbleweeds, topiaries and a Pinto. |
Sun, 21 February 2021
02.10.21: Freakin' Frozen Garage Hour (Escape to Trinity) - Car Batteries in Winter, Saving Neighbors, Gates Gloves VS 18 Below, Heating w/ Waste Oil, the Return of the Subie Bubble, + JB Quick, Great Stuff, Gatling Guns & Custom Plaster
It was so damn cold we couldn't stay home. The Garage Hour goons gathered at Trinity for sips of Idaho 7 Pale, Soul Horkey and Slap Yer Mammy, then tried to keep warm over topics like how batteries behave in the cold (to discharge or drain?), trickle charging, block heating, garage heating, Denver versus puffy jackets, the great "drive north" plan, and surfing girlfriends. #Becausegearhead, there was more - homemade ARs, "Firefox", mug fixin', India's affinity for US beer, and advice for newbs. ...And thankfully (for the listeners) the cohosts were stacked deep - "Regular" Bill was joined by Santa Ana winds, tumbleweeds, topiaries and a Pinto. |
Tue, 16 February 2021
02.01.21 (MP3): Road Trip to a Texas Garage - Dude Food (Beer, Bourbon & Brats), Summer Four-Wheeling (Toyota VS Jeep), Eating What You Killed (Deer Helper?), Dogs Worth Keeping, + Beers @ Edgewise Eight & Robert Johnson
Whether you like longhorns in the backyard or hounds in the garage, the Garage Hour went down to Texas and gearhead radio happened. We filled airtime with music - so much blues and country - and stomachs with deer sausage and "The Weatherfordian" from Edgewise Eight Brewing. Jeeps, trailers, "Fight Club" and "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" also happened, then we screwed up a bunch of artists' names. Who'd we get? Pantera, Faith No More, Stone Foxes, Beau Weevils, Dead Weather, Chris Stapleton, Pixies, Band of Heathens, Clutch, Sabbath, Them Crooked Vultures, Jerry Reed, Primus, Robert Johnson, Charlie Daniels, Hank Jr., Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith. There. |
Tue, 16 February 2021
02.01.21: Road Trip to a Texas Garage - Dude Food (Beer, Bourbon & Brats), Summer Four-Wheeling (Toyota VS Jeep), Eating What You Killed (Deer Helper?), Dogs Worth Keeping, + Beers @ Edgewise Eight & Robert Johnson
Whether you like longhorns in the backyard or hounds in the garage, the Garage Hour went down to Texas and gearhead radio happened. We filled airtime with music - so much blues and country - and stomachs with deer sausage and "The Weatherfordian" from Edgewise Eight Brewing. Jeeps, trailers, "Fight Club" and "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" also happened, then we screwed up a bunch of artists' names. Who'd we get? Pantera, Faith No More, Stone Foxes, Beau Weevils, Dead Weather, Chris Stapleton, Pixies, Band of Heathens, Clutch, Sabbath, Them Crooked Vultures, Jerry Reed, Primus, Robert Johnson, Charlie Daniels, Hank Jr., Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith. There. |
Sat, 13 February 2021
02.12.21 (MP3): Tex Wrecks (the Ft. Worth Pileup) & Denver's Subaru Bubble, & Why Electric Cars Aren't Happening (But Will Still Cost You Billions) - Corporate & Bureaucrat Virtue-Signalling, GM's Parlour Commies, Crony Capitalism & Hybrid Recidivism
Taxpayers beware. We're warning you - when ignorant bureaucrats and isolated executives start talking about how they're going to save you, it's time to revolt (hah! electric car pun...). There are lots of reasons why electric cars are still a fart on the wind. If you're a geek, consider a few: efficiency, power production, charging time, convenience, "0" emmisions, waste, capabilities, conditions, readiness, and parts and equipment - electrics fail across the board. You can't plan for a trip by shooting yourself in the foot. Remember, crony capitalism isn't bad capitalism, it's bad socialism. GM (and other electric-car makers) want to conspire with crooked politicians to use solar panels and windmills to shove the future right up your ass, and it's worse than you think. |
Sat, 13 February 2021
02.12.21: Tex Wrecks (the Ft. Worth Pileup) & Denver's Subaru Bubble, & Why Electric Cars Aren't Happening (But Will Still Cost You Billions) - Corporate & Bureaucrat Virtue-Signalling, GM's Parlour Commies, Crony Capitalism & Hybrid Recidivism
Taxpayers beware. We're warning you - when ignorant bureaucrats and isolated executives start talking about how they're going to save you, it's time to revolt (hah! electric car pun...). There are lots of reasons why electric cars are still a fart on the wind. If you're a geek, consider a few: efficiency, power production, charging time, convenience, "0" emmisions, waste, capabilities, conditions, readiness, and parts and equipment - electrics fail across the board. You can't plan for a trip by shooting yourself in the foot. Remember, crony capitalism isn't bad capitalism, it's bad socialism. GM (and other electric-car makers) want to conspire with crooked politicians to use solar panels and windmills to shove the future right up your ass, and it's worse than you think. |
Sat, 6 February 2021
01.22.21 (MP3): More Beer, More Snow, More Skill! There's Also Dude Food (Wings & Goulash), Shrapnel Curtain (the C-Ram), Destroyers (Up-Gunned Arleigh Burkes), Deserts (the Cleve Nat & Corral Canyon), & Will Your Subaru Save You (Get Some Skill)
More good stuff! The Garage Hour does another snowy night episode in this one, but we tromped out into the storm to Trinity Brewing for fine sips with Mr. Three-Letter Agency himself ("Regular" Bill) and FNC Spidertruck to have a beer melee (Space Force IPA, Garden of the Hops, Rasberry Kolsch, Sour Horkey, Stay Here from 2017, and Obnoxious Redhead (probably a beer)) and discuss fine shovelling (plastic versus aluminum, plus steel!). Don't worry: there's more than just a review of US military policy in the Pacific viavis the pinko peril posed by China. As promised, we've got a little ditty on whether your all-wheel drive Subaru will save you from inclement weather, and why the Subie solution isn't saving Denver from its bursting bubble. |
Sat, 6 February 2021
01.22.21: More Beer, More Snow, More Skill! There's Also Dude Food (Wings), Shrapnel Curtain (the C-Ram), Destroyers (Up-Gunned Arleigh Burkes), Deserts (Cleve Nat & Corral Canyon), & Will Your Subaru Save You (Get Some Skill)
More good stuff! The Garage Hour does another snowy night episode in this one, but we tromped out into the storm to Trinity Brewing for fine sips with Mr. Three-Letter Agency himself ("Regular" Bill) and FNC Spidertruck to have a beer melee (Space Force IPA, Garden of the Hops, Rasberry Kolsch, Sour Horkey, Stay Here from 2017, and Obnoxious Redhead (probably a beer)) and discuss fine shovelling (plastic versus aluminum, plus steel!). Don't worry: there's more than just a review of US military policy in the Pacific viavis the pinko peril posed by China. As promised, we've got a little ditty on whether your all-wheel drive Subaru will save you from inclement weather, and why the Subie solution isn't saving Denver from its bursting bubble. |
Thu, 28 January 2021
01.21.21 (MP3): Shovels, Bulldozers, Plows & Beer? Night Shovelling VS Snowball Hunting, Being Nice to the Fuzz, Plastic VS Steel Snow Blades, Jaimz's Monster, + Giant Brain, Small Stone Records, Amon Tobin & Big Gov's Electric Car Wreck
When in Rome... The Garage Hour goons got stuck between an icicle and a snowball, and a show happened. How about the mechanics of hot-rod shovels (leading edge, baby!), bowling for rioters, upping the anty on three feet of snow with a 20-foot articulated loader, plus driving with Rhythm of Snow, Larry Hagman's chopper-chase movie and a lush kind'a lost for Thanksgiving? Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Gearhead Consultancy drove a truck up OBiden's nose for the stupid all-electric car plan for the US Gov't (because you can't fix socialism). |
Thu, 28 January 2021
01.21.21: Shovels, Bulldozers, Plows & Beer? Night Shovelling VS Snowball Hunting, Being Nice to the Fuzz, Plastic VS Steel Snow Blades, Jaimz's Monster, + Giant Brain, Small Stone Records, Amon Tobin & Big Gov's Electric Car Wreck
When in Rome... The Garage Hour goons got stuck between an icicle and a snowball, and a show happened. How about the mechanics of hot-rod shovels (leading edge, baby!), bowling for rioters, upping the anty on three feet of snow with a 20-foot articulated loader, plus driving with Rhythm of Snow, Larry Hagman's chopper-chase movie and a lush kind'a lost for Thanksgiving? Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Gearhead Consultancy drove a truck up OBiden's nose for the stupid all-electric car plan for the US Gov't (because you can't fix socialism). |
Sat, 23 January 2021
01.12.21 (MP3): Quality & Safety Matter! Reasons Not To Buy Chinese (Or Crappy) Parts, w/ Counterfeit Tires, Low-Flow Injectors, Fraudulent QC, (Intentionally) Defective Equipment & Disregard @ Life (Poison Dog Food, Anyone?), + Dumb Is Not an Excuse
Because gearheads care (here to help!): we've got some logic on why buying products from countries that don't respect intellectul property or design integrity (ahem, China's a nice example) can lead to more than a crappy iPhone charge cord (ie: real risk to you). We're the Garage Hour, so our logic pivots from performance parts - when you need to depend on hard parts, what happens if they're soft? It's in there: the adventure of shopping for made-better, #getChinesegobroke, buycotting, fake quality, counterfeit branding, fradulent controls, intentional defect, disregard for life, and respecting the goods that have earned their reputation (knockoff handbag, anyone?). |
Sat, 23 January 2021
01.12.21: Quality & Safety Matter! Reasons Not To Buy Chinese (Or Crappy) Parts, w/ Counterfeit Tires, Low-Flow Injectors, Fraudulent QC, (Intentionally) Defective Equipment & Disregard @ Life (Poison Dog Food, Anyone?), + Dumb Is Not an Excuse
Because gearheads care (here to help!): we've got some logic on why buying products from countries that don't respect intellectul property or design integrity (ahem, China's a nice example) can lead to more than a crappy iPhone charge cord (ie: real risk to you). We're the Garage Hour, so our logic pivots from performance parts - when you need to depend on hard parts, what happens if they're soft? It's in there: the adventure of shopping for made-better, #getChinesegobroke, buycotting, fake quality, counterfeit branding, fradulent controls, intentional defect, disregard for life, and respecting the goods that have earned their reputation (knockoff handbag, anyone?). |
Mon, 18 January 2021
01.10.21 (MP3): Braking Brakes Until They Break... Do You Brake Right? How to Avoid Potato-Chipped Rotors: Pre-Braking & the Cool Roll, Brakes on Fire & Overheating, Disc & Rotor Physics, @ Uberlate Garage Hour w/ Fluke & Flying Lotus
You may think you drive well (be honest), but do you brake properly? So many brake problems - the Garage Hour has your answers (plus more questions): Heel or toe? Slotted or drilled? OE or aftermarket? Repair or modify? Good design or good practice? There's also bits from Baer, Brembo, Stop-Tech and Stillen... The gearhead goons have that, plus engineer-approved technique for protecting your brakes, stories from testing, and a little sideshow about taking care (bribery) of the grease monkeys who take care of you. |
Mon, 18 January 2021
01.10.21: Braking Brakes Until They Break... Do You Brake Right? How to Avoid Potato-Chipped Rotors: Pre-Braking & the Cool Roll, Brakes on Fire & Overheating, Disc & Rotor Physics, @ Uberlate Garage Hour w/ Fluke & Flying Lotus
You may think you drive well (be honest), but do you brake properly? So many brake problems - the Garage Hour has your answers (plus more questions): Heel or toe? Slotted or drilled? OE or aftermarket? Repair or modify? Good design or good practice? There's also bits from Baer, Brembo, Stop-Tech and Stillen... The gearhead goons have that, plus engineer-approved technique for protecting your brakes, stories from testing, and a little sideshow about taking care (bribery) of the grease monkeys who take care of you. |
Thu, 14 January 2021
01.02.21 (MP3): Successful Cerakoting & Broken BCGs w/ F:30, Including Tricks for Proper Coatings, Green-Tip Secrets (& Fraud!), Popped Gas Keys, Governor Recall, + the Necessity of Good Quality Control
Candy-coated Garage Hour right here, starring Green Tip and Pepe/Frank/Derailment Monster at Freedom:30 - everything from old 870s to new bolt-carrier groups, including what coatings are the best and what parts can break (there's a good piece on this at ConcealedPatrior). ...Plus tons of good details on cerakoting from the pros. It's the dynamite insights on applying Cerakote that put the weight in this episode - prep, bake, temps and types, abrasion and lasangakote - it's in there. Also in there is the growing problem of voting green-tip fraud, plus parts from Strike Industries and Geissele. |
Thu, 14 January 2021
01.02.21: Successful Cerakoting & Broken BCGs w/ F:30, Including Tricks for Proper Coatings, Green-Tip Secrets (& Fraud!), Popped Gas Keys, Governor Recall, + the Necessity of Good Quality Control
Candy-coated Garage Hour right here, starring Green Tip and Pepe/Frank/Derailment Monster at Freedom:30 - everything from old 870s to new bolt-carrier groups, including what coatings are the best and what parts can break (there's a good piece on this at ConcealedPatrior). ...Plus tons of good details on cerakoting from the pros. It's the dynamite insights on applying Cerakote that put the weight in this episode - prep, bake, temps and types, abrasion and lasangakote - it's in there. Also in there is the growing problem of voting green-tip fraud, plus parts from Strike Industries and Geissele. |
Sat, 9 January 2021
12.28.20 (MP3): Dead of Winter/Chicagoland Border Hell In-Garage Party... 4Runner VS Jeep, Porsche VS Their Owners, Traffic VS Chinese Bat Plague, Taking It Apart VS Putting It Together, + Hoff Brau, Lagunitas, Fortissimo, Fortification & Fortnite
"Is something wrong, or are you a Jeeper?" It's to the credit of the Garage Hour's fistfulls of gravity that we can sit down in a garage cold enough to hang meat with two rookie cohosts and still crush the episode... The Gearhead Consultancy gathered up Johnny the Brother and Eric the Jeeper to take an NOE run at engine swaps (and the explosions that create them), why Toyotas don't, Vise-Grips for fun and brake lines, plus binging on Golden Eye and Liquid Wrench . Additional stars of this show include grandpa's garage, canals, Jeep parts, Umberto's TV and the sandwich couch. |
Sat, 9 January 2021
12.28.20: Dead of Winter/Chicagoland Border Hell In-Garage Party... 4Runner VS Jeep, Porsche VS Their Owners, Traffic VS Chinese Bat Plague, Taking It Apart VS Putting It Together, + Hoff Brau, Lagunitas, Fortissimo, Fortification & Fortnite
"Is something wrong, or are you a Jeeper?" It's to the credit of the Garage Hour's fistfulls of gravity that we can sit down in a garage cold enough to hang meat with two rookie cohosts and still crush the episode... The Gearhead Consultancy gathered up Johnny the Brother and Eric the Jeeper to take an NOE run at engine swaps (and the explosions that create them), why Toyotas don't, Vise-Grips for fun and brakes, plus binging on Golden Eye and Liquid Wrench . Additional stars of this show include grandpa's garage, canals, Jeep parts, Umberto's TV and the sandwich couch. |
Sat, 2 January 2021
12.21.20 (MP3): Cross-Country Super Duty (Thoughts From the Road) - MPH Conundrums, Overnight Road-Tripping (& Headlight Upgrades), Traffic Mechanisms & Driver Analysis (w/ Self-Passive Aggressivism & Self-Clotting Clots), + Dude Food & Rock (w/ Roll)
Hostus Maximus Justin Fort uncorks a killer road-trip examination of other drivers and what's wrong with them from the cab of his Powerstroked Super Duty. 100% note-free and completely unhinged, this episode is a genius pile of observations about better road trips, manipulating other drivers, mileage versus miles-per-hour, plus learning from the freeway. This episode of the Garage Hour is joined by excellent random cohosts, including a 7.3 diesel Supe and a psychic iPod, Passat Guy, Lexus Guy, Accord Guy, Duramax Guy, the Iowa State troopers and a hillside cemetary. |
Sat, 2 January 2021
12.21.20: Cross-Country Super Duty (Thoughts From the Road) - MPH Conundrums, Overnight Road-Tripping (& Headlight Upgrades), Traffic Mechanisms & Driver Analysis (w/ Self-Passive Aggressivism & Self-Clotting Clots), + Dude Food & Rock (w/ Roll)
Hostus Maximus Justin Fort uncorks a killer road-trip examination of other drivers and what's wrong with them from the cab of his Powerstroked Super Duty. 100% note-free and completely unhinged, this episode is a genius pile of observations about better road trips, manipulating other drivers, mileage versus miles-per-hour, plus learning from the freeway. This episode of the Garage Hour is joined by excellent random cohosts, including a 7.3 diesel Supe and a psychic iPod, Passat Guy, Lexus Guy, Accord Guy, Duramax Guy, the Iowa State troopers and a hillside cemetary. |
Sun, 20 December 2020
12.12.20 (MP3): Some Sort of Winter Detailing Special (#BecauseSlush) - Dirt Has Friends & More Isn't Better, Protect Pretty w/ Off-Season Care, How to Use Coin-Op Wash, + Freeway Fun in Your L.A. Phase (Los Feliz!), Failure, Trinity DDH-45 & Slaughtercat
Why yes, we digress. It's in there (this time - we promise) with everything from a murderous feline to tow truck technique, plus seasons in Chicago, the 2020 Egg Nog GP, and Ken Andrews of the band Failure. While we're at it, there's actually a topic, too - detailing in the off-season because you care about how you look during the on-season. Winter is mean. Keep your rig clean even it it's not pretty, because little dings get big when you neglect them. Torn mats, harbored moisture, cracked clearcoats, destroyed fabrics - winter can make them all worse. You're a gearhead - do it right. |
Sun, 20 December 2020
12.12.20: Some Sort of Winter Detailing Special (#BecauseSlush) - Dirt Has Friends & More Isn't Better, Protect Pretty w/ Off-Season Care, How to Use Coin-Op Washes, + Freeway Fun in Your L.A. Phase (Los Feliz!), Failure, Trinity's DDH-45 & Slaughtercat
Why yes, we digress. It's in there (this time - we promise) with everything from a murderous feline to tow truck technique, plus seasons in Chicago, the 2020 Egg Nog GP, and Ken Andrews of the band Failure. While we're at it, there's actually a topic, too - detailing in the off-season because you care about how you look during the on-season. Winter is mean. Keep your rig clean even it it's not pretty, because little dings get big when you neglect them. Torn mats, harbored moisture, cracked clearcoats, destroyed fabrics - winter can make them all worse. You're a gearhead - do it right. |
Mon, 14 December 2020
12.02.20 (MP3): Gifts for Gearheads (& Geeks Too) - Good Ideas for X-Mas Gifting, w/ Tool Rules, One-Time VS One-Use, Valuable (& Bulk) Substances, Gifts that Enable Skills & Technique, Best Gearhead Retailers, + Fatso Jetson & Dead Guy Ale
Don't ruin the giving season with gift cards and missed targets. You can pimp your geek-power by thinking up ideal presents for all the aspiring gearheads on your list (and elevate your satisfaction in the process). The Garage Hour goons lay out automotive tools you didn't know about, used tools needing using too, shopping at pawn shops, and tools that fill a need. There's more, too: consumable gifts (drinkable, shootable or chemical), buying in bulk (don't be a cheap screw), plus parts for guns, cars and houses, as well as books (= timeless technique). |
Mon, 14 December 2020
12.02.20: Gifts for Gearheads (& Geeks Too) - Good Ideas for X-Mas Gifting, w/ Tool Rules, One-Time VS One-Use, Valuable (& Bulk) Substances, Gifts that Enable Skills & Technique, Best Gearhead Retailers, + Fatso Jetson & Dead Guy Ale
Don't ruin the giving season with gift cards and missed targets. You can pimp your geek-power by thinking up ideal presents for all the aspiring gearheads on your list (and elevate your satisfaction in the process). The Garage Hour goons lay out automotive tools you didn't know about, used tools needing using too, shopping at pawn shops, and tools that fill a need. There's more, too: consumable gifts (drinkable, shootable or chemical), buying in bulk (don't be a cheap screw), plus parts for guns, cars and houses, as well as books (= timeless technique). |
Thu, 10 December 2020
12.01.20 (MP3): Question Everything, Including Masks! Reward Your Skepticism & Feed the Gearhead Brain - What Works? Leadership VS Lockdowns? Hypocrites & Hysteria? Exposed VS Dead? + Monolord, Faust & Shortee, Folk Implosion
Scratch that itch - what's that line from Dirty Harry? "I gots to know!" The Gearhead Consultancy is fueled by the geek brain, always connecting the dots, pulling the threads, and more often than not, poking da' bears. We got a truckload of itches scratched and laid out some questions about why the mask fear-pressure freakout ain't making sense at a nuts-and-bolts level. Don't box yourself in with conventional logic, because it's usually wrong. This is an experimental intellegental - spitballing the whosits and debating the whatnots about the Chinese bat plague. |
Thu, 10 December 2020
12.01.20: Question Everything, Including Masks! Reward Your Skepticism & Feed the Gearhead Brain - What Works? Leadership VS Lockdowns? Hypocrites & Hysteria? Exposed VS Dead? + Monolord, Faust & Shortee, Folk Implosion
Scratch that itch - what's that line from Dirty Harry? "I gots to know!" The Gearhead Consultancy is fueled by the geek brain, always connecting the dots, pulling the threads, and more often than not, poking da' bears. We got a truckload of itches scratched and laid out some questions about why the mask fear-pressure freakout ain't making sense at a nuts-and-bolts level. Don't box yourself in with conventional logic, because it's usually wrong. This is an experimental intellegental - spitballing the whosits and debating the whatnots about the Chinese bat plague. |
Wed, 2 December 2020
11.21.20 (MP3): Go Ahead, Sweat the Small Stuff! Fun Fixes for Function, or How I Learned to Deal w/ Little Jobs & Love the Bomb, w/ 7.3 Powerstroke & Civic To-Dos, the Fail Cascade (Failscade), Dodging Big-$ Breakage, + Farflung, Hum & Dr. Who
If you don't take care of small repairs, they'll rot into big ones - it can be said about a million things, including ex-girlfriends and garbage disposals, but in this case, it's the easy stuff like brake pads, fuel filters, timing belts, tires, batteries and 100 other silly fixes that will bite you in the shiny metal ass if you don't deal with them pronto. So: don't be THAT guy, because SMBF. Joined on the episode by Tyrannosaurus Desk and Fancy Pen, Hostus Maximus delves deeply into this used-car spinoff topic, rummaging through the geek-food that comes from connecting the technical dots, one little fix at a time. |
Wed, 2 December 2020
11.21.20: Go Ahead, Sweat the Small Stuff! Fun Fixes for Function, or How I Learned to Deal w/ Little Jobs & Love the Bomb, w/ 7.3 Powerstroke & Civic To-Dos, the Fail Cascade (Failscade), Dodging Big-$ Breakage, + Farflung, Hum & Dr. Who
If you don't take care of small repairs, they'll rot into big ones - it can be said about a million things, including ex-girlfriends and garbage disposals, but in this case, it's the easy stuff like brake pads, fuel filters, timing belts, tires, batteries and 100 other silly fixes that will bite you in the shiny metal ass if you don't deal with them pronto. So: don't be THAT guy, because SMBF. Joined on the episode by Tyrannosaurus Desk and Fancy Pen, Hostus Maximus delves deeply into this used-car spinoff topic, rummaging through the geek-food that comes from connecting the technical dots, one little fix at a time. |
Mon, 23 November 2020
11.12.20 (MP3): Return of the Unprofessional Confessional, w/ Random Drag of the Swamp - Mercedes Engines VS Chrysler Vehicles, Railguns VS .300 Blackout, Hadron Collider VS Tokomak, Light VS Dark Meat, Lyft VS Uber, + Fine Sips from Trinity Brewing
Wow. This is why we don't drink BEFORE the show - no script, bottle openers and too many secrets. ...Somehow a fun episode happened - rare form, this one. On-air sauce includes copious dude food, vintage rock, sunken ships and submarines, Dodge VS Ford, U.P.'s turbine locomotives and towing houses. It doesn't stop there - introducing Mr. Three-Letter Agency himself, "Regular" Bill, as well as Silent Lauren and Tyrannosaurus Desk, plus standardbearers Wrath of God, DDH45 and 11th-Anniversary nectar from Trinity Brewing. |
Mon, 23 November 2020
11.12.20: Return of the Unprofessional Confessional, w/ Random Drag of the Swamp - Mercedes Engines VS Chrysler Vehicles, Railguns VS .300 Blackout, Hadron Collider VS Tokomak, Light VS Dark Meat, Lyft VS Uber, + Fine Sips from Trinity Brewing
Wow. This is why we don't drink BEFORE the show - no script, bottle openers and too many secrets. ...Somehow a fun episode happened - rare form, this one. On-air sauce includes copious dude food, vintage rock, sunken ships and submarines, Dodge VS Ford, U.P.'s turbine locomotives and towing houses. It doesn't stop there - introducing Mr. Three-Letter Agency himself, "Regular" Bill, as well as Silent Lauren and Tyrannosaurus Desk, plus standardbearers Wrath of God, DDH45 and 11th-Anniversary nectar from Trinity Brewing. |
Wed, 18 November 2020
11.10.20 (MP3): Traffic Should Be Fun! Make Your Commute Worth Your While (or, How to Subject Non-Believers to Your Superior Skill and Good Mood), Improving Technique in Traffic, Commuting No-Nos, + Egg Nog Review
Why ruin each day with two piece of shed drives from noisy kids to crappy boss and back - enjoy your commute instead. The Garage Hour goons have been molesting traffic since watching "Bullitt" in high school, and you can too. This episode has ideas on what to leave behind when you back out of the driveway, how to make every on-ramp an exercise of talent, and how to best time a close-fender fly-by of your boss's new Jag on the 15 South. While we're at it, this episode's got other goodies to keep you from being traffucked - opportunities to build skillset, tricks for making the multi-lane superslab slice-and-dice a pleasurable endeavor, and how to keep traffic carma in your pocket. |
Wed, 18 November 2020
11.10.20: Traffic Should Be Fun! Make Your Commute Worth Your While (or, How to Subject Non-Believers to Your Superior Skill and Good Mood), Improving Technique in Traffic, Commuting No-Nos, + Egg Nog Review
Why ruin each day with two piece-of-shed drives from noisy kids to crappy boss and back - enjoy your commute instead. The Garage Hour goons have been molesting traffic since watching "Bullitt" in high school, and you can too. This episode has ideas on what to leave behind when you back out of the driveway, how to make every on-ramp an exercise of talent, and how to best time a close-fender fly-by of your boss's new Jag on the 15 South. While we're at it, this episode's got other goodies to keep you from being traffucked - opportunities to build skillset, tricks for making the multi-lane superslab slice-and-dice a pleasurable endeavor, and how to keep traffic carma in your pocket. |
Wed, 11 November 2020
11.02.20 (MP3): What's A $500 Used Car Worth? Making Used Cars Good Cars, How About a $500 Honda Civic? Condition & What It Means, Minor VS Major Fixes & Things to Ignore, Rules That'll Get You to Driving
The Gearhead Consultancy would like to assist you in your efforts to find a good used car. More importantly, we're geeks and we're here to help, specifically help you make hay with a $500 pony. This isn't rocket-surgery, kids, it's a few rules like working from the cheapest to most expensive parts, knowing the platform's faults, and knowing when to fix and when to live with it. We'll walk you through a litany of easy fixes that looked like disasters (electrical gremlins - the dreaded power suck, bad brake lights, stupid switches and vaporized valve-cover gaskets). Things you can do yourself: ask a geek, lurk the forums (full of geeks), learn the "knowns" (become a geek). |
Wed, 11 November 2020
11.02.20: What's A $500 Used Car Worth? Making Used Cars Good Cars, How About a $500 Honda Civic? Condition & What It Means, Minor VS Major Fixes & Things to Ignore, Rules That'll Get You to Driving
The Gearhead Consultancy would like to assist you in your efforts to find a good used car. More importantly, we're geeks and we're here to help, specifically help you make hay with a $500 pony. This isn't rocket-surgery, kids, it's a few rules like working from the cheapest to most expensive parts, knowing the platform's faults, and knowing when to fix and when to live with it. We'll walk you through a litany of easy fixes that looked like disasters (electrical gremlins - the dreaded power suck, bad brake lights, stupid switches and vaporized valve-cover gaskets). Things you can do yourself: ask a geek, lurk the forums (full of geeks), learn the "knowns" (become a geek). |