108.9 The Hawk with 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.
Episodes
The Definitive Unflappable List of Pink Floyd Records
Every magazine, website or podcast has ranked the Pink Floyd catalog. Every one of those rankings is wrong.
Jason Gore and Geoff Garlock separately ranked all 15 Pink Floyd studio albums, then entered a brutal negotiation to create one final, legally binding list. No live albums. Only the studio half of Ummagumma. No appeals.
Along the way, Jason defends the Pink Floyd ...
CLASSIC HAWK: Mayor Lee Roth Indicted with Bobby Moynihan
It's Classic Hawk! Your weekly replay of some of the greatest Hawk moments in Val Verde history! Looking for a place to start with 108.9 The Hawk? Start here!
Originally released November 4, 2024.
Mayor Lee Roth has been indicted, and the one and only Bobby Moynihan has arrived at the Rock & Roll RV. Bobby and the newly indicted mayor went to high school t...
Former Intern Hates Us with Sally Ann Hall
Comedian Sally Ann Hall returns to 108.9 The Hawk more than 20 years after serving as the station’s “best intern in the biz.” Unfortunately, Sally Ann remembers the internship very differently than Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock.
She recalls ordering three lunches every day, being forbidden from eating any of them, getting pelted with...
I’ve Been On Hold Since 2005 with Brian Huskey
Paul Luzak has finally gotten through to 108.9 The Hawk. Unfortunately, he’s been on hold since 2005.
Brian Huskey joins Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock as a dedicated radio-contest caller who sacrificed his marriage, his family and 21 years of his life for a chance to win U2 tickets. Now Paul must confront the horrors of 2026, including...
The Cosmic Origin of Whisp Turlington
Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock are back from a vacation they absolutely did not take together, only to discover Geoff's hostel has burned to the ground and Kegstand has somehow fallen three years behind current events.
Then Whisp finally reveals one of the most important stories in Hawk history: the cosmic-ray incident at Val Verde University that gave him ...
A New Happy Birthday Song with Rekha Shankar
“No crust or bust, it’s your birthday.”
SERIES SEVEN PREMIERE! Rekha Shankar (Dropout, Smartypants, Game Changer) returns to 108.9 The Hawk as Amelia Dorch, Val Verde’s number one songwriter!
Amelia has written three James Bond themes, collaborated with Bono, survived the recording studio with Axl Rose and created one of the rarest private-press albums in...
HAWK ROCK SUMMER ends here with a quick Hawk Rock Taste of some of the bonuses you get on the Hawk Patreon! Classic Albums! Where Geoff Garlock and Jason Gore go deep on a Classic Rock STAPLE, Greg Lemonsour-style.
This week, Hawk Rock Summer wraps with a deep dive into the 1977 classic many Dads would fight you over, "Aja" by Steely Dan!
NEXT WEEK! SERIES SEVEN PREMIERE! Rekha Shankar (Dropout, Smartypants, Game Changer) ret...
Hawk Rock Talk: Rock Autopsy - Classic Rock One Hit Wonders, Volume 2
Jason Gore and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock return to the classic rock morgue for another examination of the songs that radio refused to let die.
But what exactly makes a classic rock one-hit wonder? A song does not necessarily have to dominate the Billboard charts. Sometimes one regional program director simply decides that “Never Been A...
Hawk Rock Talk Classic: Genesis
Hawk Rock Summer continues on and this week we feature a Hawk Rock Talk Classic. Originally released October 21, 2022, it’s Hawk Rock Talk: GENESIS!
Jason Gore and Geoff “The Real Person” Garlock go deep into the long, strange and surprisingly emotional history of Geoff’s favorite band: Genesis.
And Genesis is not just one band. It is several completely different band...
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 ...
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...
Jason Gore and Geoff Garlock continue Hawk Rock Summer with Heavy Metal Mania, a brand-new Hawk Rock Talk where they each choose twelve heavy metal cassettes from a 1992 Columbia House ad.
It’s one penny. It’s twelve cassettes. It’s a metal section that somehow includes Bon Jovi’s New Jersey, Pearl Jam’s Ten, and multiple records Columbia House may or may not have typed correctly.
Jason and Geoff...
CLASSIC HAWK: 41 Greatest Rock Songs About America July 4th Weekend Countdown
Originally released July 4, 2022
Fire up the grill, pop open a Soda Dad, crank the Seger and ask yourself one question: “Wait, did they really count down forty-one songs?”
This week on Classic Hawk. 41 Greatest Rock Songs About America July 4th Weekend Countdown.
Jason Gore and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock spent the en...
Hawk Rock Talk - The Horniest Classic Rock Songs of the 80’s!
Jason Gore and Geoff Garlock kick off Hawk Rock Summer with a deep, shameful, extremely denim-covered investigation into the horniest classic rock songs of the 1980s.
From BulletBoys screaming “Smooth Up In Ya” before the song even starts, to Aerosmith loving it up when they’re going down, Jason and Geoff ask the question rock historians hav...
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: ...
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 Whi...
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Originally released on April 8, 2024, this episode sent Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock live to the quad on the campus of Val Verde University for QUAD JAM 24, with DC Pierson appearing as Handsome “Gary” Tornado.
Whisp and Geoff broadcast from the heart of Val Verde higher education a...
Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock kick off the 7 a.m. hour with The Cars, a debate over how to pronounce Ric Ocasek, and a full investigation into Val Verde’s most confusing regional candy, Candy-O’s. Some bites are chocolate. Some are gummy. Some might be Vegemite. None of them are labeled, and that is exactly how Candy Time Candies wants it. Whisp introduces a game called Real, Real, Real ...
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Originally released on March 25, 2024, this episode welcomed Jordan Morris to 108.9 The Hawk as Chet Nighty, heir to the Nighty Night Mattress Store fortune and a man trying to determine what comes next for one of Val Verde’s most important sleep-based retail institutions.
Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man&r...
Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock are back in the Rock & Roll RV, where Sammy Hagar still refuses to explain the one true way to rock, Mayor Lee Roth is cutting multiple ribbons on Hog Street, and Big Truck is preparing to hawkcast from the Val Verde Municipal Dump VIP Preview Night. Plus, the kids of Val Verde are being forced to learn Squeeze lyrics before multiplication, which is how you build a ...
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