108.9 The Hawk with Jason Gore and Geoff Garlock

Jason Gore and Geoff Garlock

108.9 The Hawk is a classic-rock radio station broadcasting from Val Verde, the strangest city in America. Hosted by Jason Gore and Geoff Garlock and featuring your favorite comedians, The Hawk presents a fully fictional world of DJs, fake sponsors, live remotes, and station drama — all in service of keeping classic rock alive on a dying medium. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 5d ago

    Hawk Rock Talk - Queen: Live At Wembley 40th Anniversary

    Hawk Rock Talk - Queen: Live At Wembley 40th Anniversary Queen’s legendary Live at Wembley Stadium concert turns 40, and Jason Gore is ready to celebrate one of the most important live albums of his life. Geoff Garlock also watched it, although he did occasionally fast-forward through Brian May’s guitar solo and Queen’s extended trip through the 1950s. Jason and Geoff look back at Queen’s massive July 12, 1986 Wembley performance, the peak of the Magic Tour and one of the final concerts Queen ever played with Freddie Mercury. They discuss Jason discovering Queen through “Another One Bites the Dust,” Wayne’s World and a mall record store employee named Rick; Freddie’s iconic yellow military jacket; John Deacon’s alarmingly short shorts; the mystery of Freddie Mercury’s onstage package; the audience couple that apparently hugged for the entire concert; and Queen’s unmatched ability to command a stadium. They also break down the explosive opening run of “One Vision” and “Tie Your Mother Down,” the return of “In the Lap of the Gods… Revisited,” Freddie’s legendary crowd work, the “Radio Ga Ga” claps, the emotional power of “Love of My Life” and “Who Wants to Live Forever,” and the slightly strange decision to place “Friends Will Be Friends” between “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions.” Plus: Pantera reply guys, gas-station sunglasses, the UK kite festival, One Chicken, Status Quo somehow being the actual answer, the cheap-looking royal crown, and Geoff & Jason saying “nah.” Hawk Rock Summer continues next week with Rock Autopsy: Classic Rock One-Hit Wonders Part Two! Series Seven of 108.9 The Hawk premieres Monday, August 17th. Tell your friends about the show and support The Hawk at Patreon.com/1089TheHawk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Hawk Rock Talk - Queen: Live At Wembley 40th Anniversary
  2. Jul 13

    Hawk Rock Talk: Rock Autopsy: Classic Rock One Hit Wonders 1

    Hawk Rock Talk: Rock Autopsy: Classic Rock One Hit Wonders 1 It’s Hawk Rock Summer, and Jason Gore and Geoff Garlock are putting on the gloves, grabbing the bone saw, and cracking open the chest cavity of Classic Rock Radio to examine one of its strangest organs: the classic rock one-hit wonder. What even counts as a one-hit wonder in classic rock? Did it have to make the Top 40? Does it count if the song barely charted, but every classic rock station played it eight times a day? Does it count if the band had other hits, but your local station decided, “No thank you, we will only be playing the one with the riff”? Jason and Geoff dig into a playlist of “that song!” bands, the groups whose names you may not know, whose albums you may never have heard, but whose one immortal track has been following you around your whole life through movie trailers, sports arenas, local classic rock stations, beer commercials, jukeboxes, and dads’ cars. Along the way, Jason and Geoff discuss Christian fuzz gospel death boogie, LA spirituality, Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe’s Seinfeld cup, Mungo holes, proto-metal holes, Paul Carrick’s voice, Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street legacy, Tarantino soundtrack brain, Leslie West making a Les Paul look tiny, Arthur Brown as a pre-KISS theatrical freak, Argent records that Geoff keeps buying and selling, KISS’s “God Gave Rock and Roll to You II,” and whether Europe should legally be required to play “The Final Countdown” three times per set. This is Part One. Rock Autopsy continues in two weeks. Next week: Queen: Live At Wembley 40th Anniversary Special! Subscribe to 108.9 The Hawk on YouTube and wherever you get podcasts. Support the station on Patreon: patreon.com/1089thehawk Get more Hawk: 1089thehawk.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Hawk Rock Talk: Rock Autopsy: Classic Rock One Hit Wonders 1
  3. Jun 22

    Val Verde Vertical Film Festival with BriTANick

    Val Verde Vertical Film Festival with BriTANick Season Six Finale! BriTANicK are back in Val Verde for their second appearance in four years, and this time Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher are not trying to sell out Dingbat’s. They’re here to present their Hulu comedy Pizza Movie at the Val Verde Vertical Film Festival, where every movie is shown the way God, Marvin Scorsese and a heavily armed theater staff intended: cropped into an unforgiving vertical nightmare.  On this Season Six finale of 108.9 The Hawk, Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock welcome Brian and Nick to discuss Pizza Movie, written and directed by McElhaney and Kocher. mUnfortunately, Val Verde has its own questions. Is Ryan Reynolds in Pizza Movie? No. Is the vertical cut mostly black bars and half a face? Yes. Will there be eight 40-minute local shorts before the movie? Absolutely. Are there snipers outside the theater? Pip pop. Also in this broadcast: Whisp recovers from the Classic Rock Divorce Karaoke Semifinals at Shooters Bar & Buffet.Art Spart tries to give traffic while still trapped inside Ocarina of Time.And Val Verde becomes an all-day, every-day Purge town. Series Seven of 108.9 The Hawk starts Monday, August 17th! Until then, enjoy a HAWK ROCK SUMMER! Nothing but Hawk Rock Talks until the Series premiere! Listen and watch on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Val Verde Vertical Film Festival with BriTANick
  4. Jun 15

    Moontan, The Wet Horn and Samantha Mule

    Moontan, The Wet Horn and Samantha Mule This week on 108.9 The Hawk, Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock survive All Request Friday, Grand Funk Railroad, and the sudden realization that Golden Earring’s Moontan might be a secret prog-rock masterpiece hiding behind “Radar Love.” What starts as a normal Hawk broadcast quickly becomes a cursed classic rock investigation involving Meg White’s texting style, Rock Dolls, BASTRD AI, Samantha Fox, Samantha Mule, and the terrifying possibility that Extreme’s Pornograffitti deserves a second look. Plus, the Val Verde Community Calendar returns with Farrelly Fest, the Channel 8 Fall Preview Upfronts, Otter Pop Festival, Paul Hogan just being in town, and Sharney’s Tower testing its new shrimp siren.  Also Whisp opens All Request Friday by declaring Grand Funk Railroad one of Michigan’s worst exports.Rock Dolls introduces BASTRD 3.3-powered recycled rocker dolls, including a suspicious overstock of Eddie Moneys.Geoff reveals he was kicked in the head by Samantha Mule, Keith Talon’s extremely unsafe Samantha Fox alternative.A Good Rock Fact about “Radar Love” leads Whisp and Geoff into a deep dive on Golden Earring’s Moontan.Extreme’s “More Than Words” is examined as a marital aid, with mixed results. Next week! The Season Six finale with BriTANick! Listen and watch 108.9 The Hawk on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more. Support Val Verde’s second favorite classic rock radio station at Patreon.com/1089thehawk. Visit the station website at 1089thehawk.com. If you hear a wet horn followed by a woman saying, “Leave the elevator,” don’t panic. That’s not an emergency. That’s dinner service. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Moontan, The Wet Horn and Samantha Mule
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108.9 The Hawk is a classic-rock radio station broadcasting from Val Verde, the strangest city in America. Hosted by Jason Gore and Geoff Garlock and featuring your favorite comedians, The Hawk presents a fully fictional world of DJs, fake sponsors, live remotes, and station drama — all in service of keeping classic rock alive on a dying medium. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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