Heat Treated Garage

A half-finished bottle, a shop full of projects, and the kind of conversation that starts as jokes and ends as something real. We’re catching up the way we actually do it: talking through home garage life, what’s on the lift, what’s going right, and what’s quietly slipping down the to-do list. We get into homecoming week and the difference between harmless pranks and the kind of vandalism that wrecks property and puts people at risk. We also share a story about handling crossed-the-line beha...

Burnouts, busted brackets, and battery chargers sound like three different worlds, but they all live in the same garage. We start with the kind of loose, honest shop talk you’d expect after a long day: pizza problems, heat, house projects, and the constant temptation to run a Jeep topless even when the forecast looks sketchy. Then we get into the good stuff from Central City, including a burnout contest breakdown that goes beyond “spin tires, make smoke.” We talk surfaces, judging, why diese...

Brake pads, wiper blades, spark plugs, reman parts… what happens when the household names behind them start going dark? We kick things off in full garage mode with a Templeton Rye tasting and a barrel strength Penelope pour, swapping honest notes about burn, smoothness, and why a high-proof whiskey sometimes needs time (or a tiny splash of water) to open up. It’s the kind of hang where the jokes are loud, the opinions are unfiltered, and somebody’s always trying to justify a bottle purchase.&...

A week can disappear when your to-do list is longer than your daylight, and we’re feeling all of it: shop chaos, school nights creeping back in, and that familiar mix of “I ran all day” versus “I slept all day.” We talk through real garage-life problems, from a Scout that suddenly won’t prime the fuel pump after a power wash to the kind of low-voltage, no-RPM-signal troubleshooting that makes you question every connector under the dash. Then we get into towing safety and the expensive reality...

Rain doesn’t just make an off-road park messy, it changes the whole mindset. We’re recording from the “barn” at Myobi in Iowa after a soaked, muddy fundraiser weekend that still pulled in about 30 to 35 rigs, plus plenty of people we’d never met who showed up just to be part of it. The vibe is pure grassroots off-roading: the landowner unlocks the shed, points at the trails, asks us to keep mud off the road, and then we all figure it out together. If you like honest event recaps and real trai...