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 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-rock Genesis fron...

“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...

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 fin...

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 possibi...

Welcome to CLASSIC HAWK - a weekly look back at the greatest broadcasts in 108.9 The Hawk history. 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 as Quad Jam 24 brings music, campus pride, and whatever Val Verde University considers “student...

“My pants got too political, so I left them by the Golden Tee.”

"Dad! NO!"

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 better future. This week, comedian and longtime Daily Show writer Matt Koff...

“I did not want to be a Doobie Brother. I didn’t want to be a Doobie sister, Doobie auntie, nothing.”

Welcome to CLASSIC HAWK - a weekly look back at the greatest broadcasts in 108.9 The Hawk history. Originally released on April 29, 2024, this episode welcomed Natasha Vaynblat to 108.9 The Hawk as Linda Labz, the proud owner of CorkPlugz and one of the brave entrepreneurs trying to make a living on Hog Street. Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock talk with Linda Labz about opening a new earplug business in Val Verde’s most powerful business corridor. Plus, Geoff delivers an ecli...

It’s Whisp Plays Anything He Wants Wednesday on 108.9 The Hawk, which means Whisp Turlington has seized full control of the playlist, threatened Val Verde with multiple Tormado warnings, and dedicated emotionally devastating Mike + The Mechanics to anyone with a dead dad. This week, legendary rock journalist Guy Trinkler drops by the Rock & Roll RV to promote his new self-published memoir, Songs, a 655-page list of songs he either helped write, inspired, or assumes were probably about him. Alon...

Welcome to CLASSIC HAWK - a weekly look back at the greatest broadcasts in 108.9 The Hawk history. Originally released on September 30, 2024, this episode brought legendary radio DJ Don Valley, played by James Adomian, into the Hawk universe for a rare and possibly medically inadvisable morning appearance. Due to a 5am misfire from sister station 8888 ValleyNewsRadio, Don Valley has to extend his overnight shift on 108.9 The Hawk and suddenly finds himself awake at 6am, which is not where an o...