Episodes

Emergency Drummer with Matt Moskovciak | 108.9 The Hawk It's Halloween in Val Verde. The goblins are tearing heads off, the Warren Zevon werewolves are furious about their haircuts, and KLOWNHUNTER needs an emergency drummer. Matt Moskovciak (Above Average, The Bilderbergers, Lunch Pitches with Matt & Dru) joins Whisp Turlington and Geoff "The Angry Man" Garlock as Phil Inn, the world's preeminent emergency drummer. He's filled in for rock royalty since the 1960s. Tonight, he's filling in for ...

UFO should have been huge. Jason Gore and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock present an entire live album’s worth of evidence. On this edition of Hawk Rock Talk: Classic Albums, the guys dig into UFO’s classic live album, “Strangers in the Night,” a record packed with Michael Schenker’s melodic guitar work, Phil Mogg’s killer vocals, everything brilliant that was Pete Way, and songs that should have been permanent fixtures on classic rock radio. “Doctor Doctor,” “Rock Bottom”: come on, people. Alon...

CLASSIC HAWK: The Val Verde Guide to Influencing with Jamie Loftus Whisp and Geoff have spent their lives influencing people through terrestrial radio. Now somebody says they need a TikTok account. Jamie Loftus joins Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock as Mackenzie Mackenzie, feminist icon and social media guru, to teach Val Verde’s radio veterans how to become influencers. Topics include TikTok, Truth Social, avoiding the Val Verde Police Department’s tasers and the very real d...

“A taco is the people’s food.”

CLASSIC HAWK: The Fastest Guitarists in the World with Rekha Shankar Behind every great guitarist is a great surgeon. Apparently. Rekha Shankar returns as Dr. Sheila Hands, the world’s only guitar surgeon, to explain how rock legends become shredding legends. Who’s had work done? Who got extra fingers? Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock have questions. Plus: classic rock trivia, Val Verde’s sandworm crisis, Reba McEntire and the mysterious distribution of Tom Cochrane’s bones. ...

Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock are giving away a satchel of Crowes, the erectile dysfunction pills from The Black Crowes. To win, caller 24 has to identify whether a Black Crowes song is a cover or an original. The phones work. Almost nothing else does. Also on the broadcast: Vince Neil's five-alarm pizza deal, a marathon of mystery VHS tapes, Steve's Discount Concrete's Bury Your Past Community Day, and a round of What's That Sound? with the only contestant available: Geoff...

“You’re busted.”

CLASSIC HAWK: A Moonman From Maine with John Hodgman Originally released March 11, 2024. The Geoff and Whisp Show salutes the brave men and women who have escaped the Earth. Legendary Val Verde space hero Charley “Clunk” Bottoms, played by John Hodgman, lands inside the Rock & Roll RV to promote his explosive new memoir, Moonman From Maine. Clunk reveals the secrets of space travel, explains his place in Val Verde history and provides evidence that America’s astronaut-selection process may ne...

"The world is falling apart!"

CLASSIC HAWK: A Rolling Stone Restaurant with Paul Scheer Originally released April 7, 2025. The Hard Rock Cafe Val Verde has a new owner, a new concept and almost no legitimate connection to the Rolling Stones. Flip Turley, played by Paul Scheer, visits the Rock & Roll RV to unveil his completely unauthorized Rolling Stones restaurant. Come for the Stones-themed meals. Stay for the specially shaped urinals and Flip’s extremely distant connection to Ronnie Wood. Also on this broadcast: • Ge...

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 album he bought at a midnight release, Geoff attacks a beloved record al...

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 together, setting the stage for an emotional reunion between two men who remember a...

“I’m actually a very famous and successful comedian, no thanks to this internship.”

“I’m gonna go see U2!”

“Val Verde University was always getting hit with cosmic energy.”

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 Val Verde history. But now she faces her greatest challenge yet: replacing “Happy Bir...

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) returns to 108.9 The Hawk! Keep The Transmitter Powered Listen to every f...

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 Any Reason” needs to play three times a week until the end of civilization. Jason and Ge...

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 bands occupying the same school uniform. There is the strange British progressive...

“There’s been a lot of rumors lately about a certain band called Queen.”

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 ...

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 debate Sepultura, Scorpions, Spinal Tap, KISS, Anthrax, Alice In Chains, Faith No More, ...

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 entire July 4th weekend counting down the most American rock songs ever recorded. It’s classic rock...

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 have been too afraid to ask: Who was the horniest rock band of the 80s? Also discussed: Faith N...