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04.04.25 (MP3): Pure Garagesound - Maintenance Cleaning VS Show Detailing, Truck Bumpers & Trail Tires, Grenadiers & 4Runners, + Old Stereo Equipment, Lousy AI Ad Reads, Karma to Burn, the CA Car Duster ...
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57:18If you've got a year's worth of 'froading fun (ie: dirt) crammed into every corner of your truck, reaching a "perfect" clean might not be a thing. Instead, aim for "maintenance clean" - the body is rinsed off, the two-bucket method is in overdrive, the dirt is gone, and the rig is neat enough that you can go back to work fixing what you broke on-tr…
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04.04.25: Pure Garagesound - Maintenance Cleaning VS Show Detailing, Truck Bumpers & Trail Tires, Grenadiers & 4Runners, + Old Stereo Equipment, Lousy AI Ad Reads, Karma to Burn, the CA Car Duster & JF ...
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57:18If you've got a year's worth of 'froading fun (ie: dirt) crammed into every corner of your truck, reaching a "perfect" clean might not be a thing. Instead, aim for "maintenance clean" - the body is rinsed off, the two-bucket method is in overdrive, the dirt is gone, and the rig is neat enough that you can go back to work fixing what you broke on-tr…
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03.25.25 (MP3): Most Random Episode... .40S&W & .357 Sig (Boutique VS Fad), F:30 Redux & ACME Pickups, Camel Spiders & Vinegaroons, Mountains for 'Froading, Bad Laws in CA Jr (for Goading), + Dude Food ...
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50:06Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and White Mark the Diversity Hire got lost in the hills (and their minds) for this one: two-lane blacktop uphill to see our old friends at Freedom:30 Arms for some lasers and weirdo rounds spurred the conversation about what makes a bullet a boutique round instead of a fad, and why .40 Smith & Wesson has staying power ver…
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03.25.25: Most Random Episode... .40S&W & .357 Sig (Boutique VS Fad), F:30 Redux & ACME Pickups, Camel Spiders & Vinegaroons, Mountains for 'Froading, Bad Laws in CA Jr (for Goading), + Dude Food: Meatloaf ...
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50:06Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and White Mark the Diversity Hire got lost in the hills (and their minds) for this one: two-lane blacktop uphill to see our old friends at Freedom:30 Arms for some lasers and weirdo rounds spurred the conversation about what makes a bullet a boutique round instead of a fad, and why .40 Smith & Wesson has staying power ver…
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03.23.25 (MP3): UberSexy Vintage Benz Racer @ the Block, Fresh Recalls @ Foreign & Domestic OEs (Broken Batteries & Worn Wiring - Oh My), Making Electrics Worse w/ AI and/or Bureaucracy, Grounding in the ...
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50:36It's not hard to make fine gearhead talk (TM) when the world lines 'em up like this: wicked and nasty Mercedes W196R Stromlinienwagen nets $54 mill on the block (and why modern go-fast cars can't hold a candle to the brutal elegance and sexual attractiveness of the classics), more failures of modern OEs as they try to avoid testing their hardware b…
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03.23.25: UberSexy Vintage Benz Racer @ the Block, Fresh Recalls @ Foreign & Domestic OEs (Broken Batteries & Worn Wiring - Oh My), Making Electrics Worse w/ AI and/or Bureaucracy, Grounding in the Garden ...
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50:36It's not hard to make fine gearhead talk (TM) when the world lines 'em up like this: wicked and nasty Mercedes W196R Stromlinienwagen nets $54 mill on the block (and why modern go-fast cars can't hold a candle to the brutal elegance and sexual attractiveness of the classics), more failures of modern OEs as they try to avoid testing their hardware b…
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03.14.25 (MP3): Bolts & Fasteners, Ammo & Peppers, NASCAR & Electrics, Teslas & Politics, Crazies & Customers, Re-Gippers & Pinkos, Tools & Leverages, Spyware & Static, Clocks & Waves, + the Visceral Satisfaction ...
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59:50With the throwback gratification of Failure's "Fantastic Planet" rolling throughout, the gearhead goons at the Garage Hour start out gritty with the bucket (or well-sorted trays) of backup bolts that every good geek has in the garadtch. Note: if that pile of bolts (and rags, and parts, and tools) is getting dusty, you're not making enough - time to…
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03.14.25: Bolts & Fasteners, Ammo & Peppers, NASCAR & Electrics, Teslas & Politics, Crazies & Customers, Re-Gippers & Pinkos, Tools & Leverages, Spyware & Static, Clocks & Waves, + the Visceral Satisfaction ...
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59:50With the throwback gratification of Failure's "Fantastic Planet" rolling throughout, the gearhead goons at the Garage Hour start out gritty with the bucket (or well-sorted trays) of backup bolts that every good geek has in the garadtch. Note: if that pile of bolts (and rags, and parts, and tools) is getting dusty, you're not making enough - time to…
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03.02.25 (MP3): Warplanes That Whistle & Howl, Teslaggression (Against & Betwixt), Russian Wartime Innovation (Pipeline Invasion), Driverless Taxis, Electric Mail Truck & Bus Fails, Honda & Nissan Hijinks ...
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54:15So much afoot we've got two: there's the Avro Vulcan howl, the Corsair whistle, Hellcat .50s and tanks with cats, and a cool story about two F-14s that scrambled to blow up an egg salad sandwich. Then there's tales of Tesla owners attacking each other when there were no protesters around, Honda and Nissan moving in and out of the US but not each ot…
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03.02.25: Warplanes That Whistle & Howl, Teslaggression (Against & Betwixt), Russian Wartime Innovation (Pipeline Invasion), Driverless Taxis, Electric Mail Truck & Bus Fails, Honda & Nissan Hijinks ...
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54:15So much afoot we've got two: there's the Avro Vulcan howl, the Corsair whistle, Hellcat .50s and tanks with cats, and a cool story about two F-14s that scrambled to blow up an egg salad sandwich. Then there's tales of Tesla owners attacking each other when there were no protesters around, Honda and Nissan moving in and out of the US but not each ot…
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02.25.25 (MP3): Yuge Explosions (& the Gearheads Who Love Them) - When One Megaton Ain't Enough: Texas City, Beirut, Halifax, West, Henderson, Mine Gas, Nuclear Testing, Rabaul, St. Helens, Krakatoa ...
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56:47Hostus Maximus and sometime savant Justin Fort goes full brain-dump on the kind of history that makes pre-teen kids deep-dive science for all the wrong reasons. Obviously, when folks die because a ship full of ammonium nitrate or radical WW1-era explosives goes kablooey in the harbor, it's a damn shame, but you can't help but marvel at the sheer ma…
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02.25.25: Yuge Explosions (& the Gearheads Who Love Them) - When One Megaton Ain't Enough: Texas City, Beirut, Halifax, West, Henderson, Mine Gas, Nuclear Testing, Rabaul, St. Helens, Krakatoa, + A Few ...
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56:47Hostus Maximus and sometime savant Justin Fort goes full brain-dump on the kind of history that makes pre-teen kids deep-dive science for all the wrong reasons. Obviously, when folks die because a ship full of ammonium nitrate or radical WW1-era explosives goes kablooey in the harbor, it's a damn shame, but you can't help but marvel at the sheer ma…
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02.15.25 (MP3): Mudslide Head-On-A-Swivel Doom, Offshore Land Cruisers, Nissan's Buck & Border Issues, Euro Makers Flee Electric Car Politics, + Awesome Space Metal (Literal & Physical), Shark Hands, Blazing ...
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50:26...With an "Orange Goblin" backer (Frequencies from Planet Ten), we've got a good assortment of gearhead supersauce on this burger: blind squirrel finds a nut (bad gov't radio ads get one right while missing the point on distracted driving); speed limits for asteroids (does it apply to meteors?); weird foreign terrorist Toyotas in Wyoming (hat tip,…
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02.15.25: Mudslide Head-On-A-Swivel Doom, Offshore Land Cruisers, Nissan's Buck & Border Issues, Euro Makers Flee Electric Car Politics, + Awesome Space Metal (Literal & Physical), Shark Hands, Blazing ...
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50:26...With an "Orange Goblin" backer (Frequencies from Planet Ten), we've got a good assortment of gearhead supersauce on this burger: blind squirrel finds a nut (bad gov't radio ads get one right while missing the point on distracted driving); speed limits for asteroids (does it apply to meteors?); weird foreign terrorist Toyotas in Wyoming (hat tip,…
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02.05.25 (MP3): Gearhead Comeuppance (So Much Schadenfreude) - No Headlight Guy VS da Troopers, Limp Pickups Reflect (the Failure) of Pajama People, DOT Bureaucrats Choke, Motorcyclists' Shoes, Car Stickers ...
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1:02:03So much good stuff! Don't be a menace to fellow motorists when failing to use your headlights in the dark - and don't mind while the Gearhead Consultancy laughs its pretty heads off when you get lit up (pun intended) by the Johnnies for DRIVING ON THE FREEWAY IN THE DARK WITH NO LIGHTS. ...Way to act drunk or stoned or just dumb. There's also some …
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01.22.25 (MP3): Burned Classics in LA & Burned Borders in San Diego, Ugly Land Rovers & Ugly Bureaucracy, DRLs Ain't Headlights & LCD Ain't Gauges, Battery Fires (Duhh), Bott's Dots (WTF?), Hoorah to Home ...
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57:38Don't flinch or you'll miss it: squashy gumdrop Hyundais and crosseyed-cubist Land Rovers, dirty grabby D.O.E. palm-greased double-dealing from former Gov. Hatchetface, details of more battery "storage" plant (pile) fires set to poison the air and water (and dirt and neighbors), minivan idiots and their self-awareness fails (headlights for fun and …
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02.05.25: Gearhead Comeuppance (So Much Schadenfreude) - No Headlight Guy VS da Troopers, Limp Pickups Reflect (the Failure) of Pajama People, DOT Bureaucrats Choke, Motorcyclists' Shoes, Car Stickers ...
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1:02:03So much good stuff! Don't be a menace to fellow motorists when failing to use your headlights in the dark - and don't mind while the Gearhead Consultancy laughs its pretty heads off when you get lit up (pun intended) by the Johnnies for DRIVING ON THE FREEWAY IN THE DARK WITH NO LIGHTS. ...Way to act drunk or stoned or just dumb. There's also some …
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01.32.25 (MP3): SoCal 'Froading VS Cartel Sniping, LA Backyards VS Cash for Clunkers, LA Fires VS Electric Cars, New DOT Guy VS Cars Nobody Wants, & Protecting Property, Pockets of Righteousness, + Serious ...
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54:46So much exhaustion... Caffeine fixes what the Sawzall can't, so we're here: the Gearhead Consultancy may be intriguing or offensive, but we're never boring. This episode's got a micro look at the baby Superfund sites left at every house in LA that burned with an electric Statusmobile (TM) in the garadtch, a bigger look at where the makers of these …
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01.32.25: SoCal 'Froading VS Cartel Sniping, LA Backyards VS Cash for Clunkers, LA Fires VS Electric Cars, New DOT Guy VS Cars Nobody Wants, & Protecting Property, Pockets of Righteousness, + Serious Looters ...
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54:46So much exhaustion... Caffeine fixes what the Sawzall can't, so we're here: the Gearhead Consultancy may be intriguing or offensive, but we're never boring. This episode's got a micro look at the baby Superfund sites left at every house in LA that burned with an electric Statusmobile (TM) in the garadtch, a bigger look at where the makers of these …
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01.22.25: Burned Classics in LA & Burned Borders in San Diego, Ugly Land Rovers & Ugly Bureaucracy, DRLs Ain't Headlights & LCD Ain't Gauges, Battery Fires (Duhh), Bott's Dots (WTF?), Hoorah to Home Defenders ...
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57:38Don't flinch or you'll miss it: squashy gumdrop Hyundais and crosseyed-cubist Land Rovers, dirty grabby D.O.E. palm-greased double-dealing from former Gov. Hatchetface, details of more battery "storage" plant (pile) fires set to poison the air and water (and dirt and neighbors), minivan idiots and their self-awareness fails (headlights for fun and …
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10.22.24 (MP3): Randomly Awesome - Caddy in the Snow, Snowplow in the Lane & Death Wish in the Andy Griffiths Show, + Westerns w/ Minigiuns, Jerks w/ Highbeams, Ford w/ Recalls, Israelis w/ Guns, Bears ...
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56:27Slather on the Justin powa - from Canadian marionettes to catching up on your Orange Goblins, from dickheads with their high beams (and why is it always a Jeep or a Tesla?) to the rules about passing a snowplow, from Ford's exploding batteries to its self-disassembling front suspension (a case of the Teslas?), from Charles Bronson "fixing Emmitt" t…
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10.22.24: Randomly Awesome - Caddy in the Snow, Snowplow in the Lane & Death Wish in the Andy Griffiths Show, + Westerns w/ Minigiuns, Jerks w/ Highbeams, Ford w/ Recalls, Israelis w/ Guns, Bears w/ 10mm ...
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56:27Slather on the Justin powa - from Canadian marionettes to catching up on your Orange Goblins, from dickheads with their high beams (and why is it always a Jeep or a Tesla?) to the rules about passing a snowplow, from Ford's exploding batteries to its self-disassembling front suspension (a case of the Teslas?), from Charles Bronson "fixing Emmitt" t…
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01.12.25 (MP3): Howdy 2025 (A Reality Check) - U-Haul & Interstate Operators Know the Best States (While NYC Chokes Its Businesses), & Geeks Prep for Disaster Rather than Being One (Let's Not Lose More ...
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1:02:33Whether you're smart enough to know we're going to have some wind and fires in SoCal (duhh) or it's about a healthy distrust of government (kind'a like "technology", "gov't" is not on your side), a good gearhead just needs a reason not to be the meat in the seat. A gearhead also needs a good soundtrack - how about some Monster Magnet, with drops fr…
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01.12.25: Howdy 2025 (A Reality Check) - U-Haul & Interstate Operators Know the Best States (While NYC Chokes Its Businesses), & Geeks Prep for Disaster Rather than Being One (Let's Not Lose More Classic ...
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1:02:33Whether you're smart enough to know we're going to have some wind and fires in SoCal (duhh) or it's about a healthy distrust of government (kind'a like "technology", "gov't" is not on your side), a good gearhead just needs a reason not to be the meat in the seat. A gearhead also needs a good soundtrack - how about some Monster Magnet, with drops fr…
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12.31.24 (MP3): Gearheads Survive a Year of Fear & Big Gov't Shows Its Butt, w/ Unsafe Spy Tech In Your Cars, Useless Powertrains In Your Trucks, Evil Capabilities In Your Home, & Dangerous Ideas In Gov ...
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1:01:52Take a cautionary stance as gearheads, geeks and the great unwashed makers look forward to 2025 - it's our year to make great, but some of that tin needs straightening. From the evil of your refrigerator conspiring with the dishwasher to convince the thermostat to drop the house to 42º, to the sloppy software from fool programmers on the wrong side…
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12.31.24: Gearheads Survive a Year of Fear & Big Gov't Shows Its Butt, w/ Unsafe Spy Tech In Your Cars, Useless Powertrains In Your Trucks, Evil Capabilities In Your Home, & Dangerous Ideas In Gov't ...
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1:01:52Take a cautionary stance as gearheads, geeks and the great unwashed makers look forward to 2025 - it's our year to make great, but some of that tin needs straightening. From the evil of your refrigerator conspiring with the dishwasher to convince the thermostat to drop the house to 42º, to the sloppy software from fool programmers on the wrong side…
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11.22.24 (MP3): Why Not Wrenching While Drinking? Bourbon & Brakes & Reversed Correctness, the Vulcan Mechanics Trick (If Hours Were Days...), Pickup Sound & Fury w/ Dodge 5.9 RTs & Blown (Up) Lightnings ...
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58:19If you want to celebrate your mechanical success before you've succeeded, don't expect much success - Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and Ryan the BMWery Guy test their livers with a debate of all the excellent mistakes they've made when the sips start before the work stops. From the Perrin charge tube that's supposed to take a half-hour to install, not…
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11.22.24: Why Not Wrenching While Drinking? Bourbon & Brakes & Reversed Correctness, the Vulcan Mechanics Trick (If Hours Were Days...), Pickup Sound & Fury w/ Dodge 5.9 RTs & Blown (Up) Lightnings, Tin ...
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58:19If you want to celebrate your mechanical success before you've succeeded, don't expect much success - Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and Ryan the BMWery Guy test their livers with a debate of all the excellent mistakes they've made when the sips start before the work stops. From the Perrin charge tube that's supposed to take a half-hour to install, not…
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12.22.24 (MP3): Pre-XMas Think-Piece, w/ Tesla TPMS Recall (or Skillset Fail?), Street Takeover Fight VS Flight, USPS Electric Truck Choke, Murder Hornet VS Desert Helicopter Wasp, & an Excellent Weirdo ...
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1:09:30Well, it's that time of year - time for the Garage Hour to cram the episode full of silly holiday fun and outros. How about some good gearhead up-to-stuffs while we're at it? Tesla is facing another recall, but this one's full of shed. Street-takeovers are violent, stupid, dangerous affairs, which we'd usually encourage so long as they are away fro…
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12.22.24: Pre-XMas Think-Piece, w/ Tesla TPMS Recall (or Skillset Fail?), Street Takeover Fight VS Flight, USPS Electric Truck Choke, Murder Hornet VS Desert Helicopter Wasp, & an Excellent Weirdo R.I ...
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1:09:30Well, it's that time of year - time for the Garage Hour to cram the episode full of silly holiday fun and outros. How about some good gearhead up-to-stuffs while we're at it? Tesla is facing another recall, but this one's full of shed. Street-takeovers are violent, stupid, dangerous affairs, which we'd usually encourage so long as they are away fro…
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10.12.24 (MP3): Right Rubber for Snow! What Tire Is Better for Getting Where You're Snowing (& Amplifies Your Skillset), Size & Compounds & Compromises That Won't Kill You, + Locomotives Are Heavy, & Is ...
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57:58This episode's got all sorts of trafficky truckin' road-interface goodness to assist you in your daily gearhead existence, but it's mostly about how to understand your tires and what's right when the white stuff is falling down in Front Range fashion. Or any range... We've got the grok on tire width, suppleness, temperature range, snow treads, chem…
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10.12.24: Right Rubber for Snow! What Tire Is Better for Getting Where You're Snowing (& Amplifies Your Skillset), Size & Compounds & Compromises That Won't Kill You, + Locomotives Are Heavy, & Is That ...
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57:58This episode's got all sorts of trafficky truckin' road-interface goodness to assist you in your daily gearhead existence, but it's mostly about how to understand your tires and what's right when the white stuff is falling down in Front Range fashion. Or any range... We've got the grok on tire width, suppleness, temperature range, snow treads, chem…
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09.23.24 (MP3): Knee-Voltage of Your Own Competence - It's the Lack-of-Skills Special (Every Day's an IQ Test!), w/ The Carl on the Phone, Distracted Driving, Being Your 100&%, + Chainsaws, Kyuss, Marylin ...
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50:06It's tired and we're late. No, wait a minute... Okay, that's right. There's much afoot at the Circle J, and the Garage Hour goons have another insightful batch of geekbrain excellence for you: the other side of the coin of our skillset episode a few weeks back, thanks to a gal in the #3 lane who couldn't look up from her Distractomatic 5000 long en…
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09.23.24: Knee-Voltage of Your Own Competence - It's the Lack-of-Skills Special (Every Day's an IQ Test!), w/ The Carl on the Phone, Distracted Driving, Being Your 100&%, + Chainsaws, Kyuss, Marylin Manson ...
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50:06It's tired and we're late. No, wait a minute... Okay, that's right. There's much afoot at the Circle J, and the Garage Hour goons have another insightful batch of geekbrain excellence for you: the other side of the coin of our skillset episode a few weeks back, thanks to a gal in the #3 lane who couldn't look up from her Distractomatic 5000 long en…
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11.15.24 (MP3): Grenadiers VS Rocks, Automotive Industry (+ Hobbies & Geek Enthusiasm) VS New Jack President, Bad Bureaucrats Go Bye Bye, Building Bullets in the Basement, Why AI Can't Stop Lying, & Dude ...
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1:01:11It's one of those episodes that seemed totally disjointed but turned out GREAT (kind'a like good ribs)... White Mark the Diversity Hire had Hostus Maximus Justin Fort down to his dungeon for some 6.5 Creedmoor loading and a dissertation on the goodness of bad times - learning to be better (geek it!) with what you can get, such as when the Obama gun…
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11.15.24: Grenadiers VS Rocks, Automotive Industry (+ Hobbies & Geek Enthusiasm) VS New Jack President, Bad Bureaucrats Go Bye Bye, Building Bullets in the Basement, Why AI Can't Stop Lying, & Dude Food ...
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1:01:11It's one of those episodes that seemed totally disjointed but turned out GREAT (kind'a like good ribs)... White Mark the Diversity Hire had Hostus Maximus Justin Fort down to his dungeon for some 6.5 Creedmoor loading and a dissertation on the goodness of bad times - learning to be better (geek it!) with what you can get, such as when the Obama gun…
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09.13.24 (MP3): Gearhead Skills & Advanced Capabilities (Sharpening the Human), w/ Downhill Bumper Drag & Plowing Technique, Owning Your Tools to Amplify the You, + Seeking the Skillset Moment (w/ Chainsawing ...
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57:08You know what to do, so do it! It's all about the skillset today: remember to smile when you pull a fast one (or a perfect one), because that's the sort of geeksauce that makes life worth doin'. Did you save some cops from a deer-blood shower? Did your old buddy Baris from Turkey pull a neato Euro-style brakestand to get parked in the snow? Did you…
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09.13.24: Gearhead Skills & Advanced Capabilities (Sharpening the Human), w/ Downhill Bumper Drag & Plowing Technique, Owning Your Tools to Amplify the You, + Seeking the Skillset Moment (w/ Chainsawing ...
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57:08You know what to do, so do it! It's all about the skillset today: remember to smile when you pull a fast one (or a perfect one), because that's the sort of geeksauce that makes life worth doin'. Did you save some cops from a deer-blood shower? Did your old buddy Baris from Turkey pull a neato Euro-style brakestand to get parked in the snow? Did you…
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11.05.24 (MP3): No Election Nuthin'! Gearhead Escapism w/ a Tesla Graveyard, Ford's Bad Hair Day, Exploding Satellites, Spying Roombas, Chrysler Quits Itself, Chinese Electrics, Ford & Deere & Harley ...
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1:03:44Alright, so there are a few things on your plate today that may involve the fate of America, but the Garage Hour is nothing if not distracting (with all the cars, trucks, beers, guns, parts, fixing, kerplosions and awesomeness) - let us help you escape, if just for a minute: lithium battery fires don't just kill people, they kill fire departments, …
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11.05.24: No Election Nuthin'! Gearhead Escapism w/ a Tesla Graveyard, Ford's Bad Hair Day, Exploding Satellites, Spying Roombas, Chrysler Quits Itself, Chinese Electrics, Ford & Deere & Harley & Boeing ...
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1:03:44Alright, so there are a few things on your plate today that may involve the fate of America, but the Garage Hour is nothing if not distracting (with all the cars, trucks, beers, guns, parts, fixing, kerplosions and awesomeness) - let us help you escape, if just for a minute: lithium battery fires don't just kill people, they kill fire departments, …
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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 ...
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1:01:11We'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 (a…
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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 ...
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1:01:11We'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 (a…
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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 ...
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52:56...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 G…
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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 ...
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52:56...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 G…
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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 ...
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55:56Be 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 …
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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 ...
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55:56Be 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 …
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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 ...
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1:00:00Don'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 tech…
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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 ...
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1:00:00Don'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 tech…
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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 ...
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1:01:52You 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-ran…
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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 ...
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1:01:52You 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-ran…
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