Stay Connected108.9 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.
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Big Scotty won a cruise prize. Unfortunately, the prize was authority.
Tom Scharpling returns as Big Scotty, the bane of Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock’s existence and the proud winner of the Hawk Rock Cruise’s “Security Barracks.”
With Big Scotty and Abe serving as the ship’s entire security team, enjoying the Southwest’s premium rock cruise means following Big Scotty’s rules. Whisp Turlington and Geoff get the briefing.
Sponsored by Sharney’s, Like a Rock Climbing Gym, O Neal Advertising and HR Puttintutts.
Tom Scharpling is the host of The Best Show, co-host of Double Threat, and the author of It Never Ends. His television writing credits include Monk and What We Do in the Shadows. With his partner, Julia Vickerman, he is opening a rescue dog cafe and immersive art space in downtown Los Angeles. Find out more here: https://www.hellostrangefriend.com/
Originally released September 4, 2023.
108.9 The Hawk. Val Verde’s second favorite classic rock radio station.
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98.6 The Squirt has fired everybody and gone automated. Now Jason Gore is back at 108.9 The Hawk, asking Whisp and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock for another chance. Can he win back their trust? And how quickly can they send him to a miserable remote?
Meanwhile, Big Truck hauls the performers from Kraftwerk Pizza down the Steely Dan Expressway, the boys ask whether Waymo is God, and “Goofs, Spoofs or Troofs” returns with rules nobody understands. Spirit Halloween lands a defense contract, the airport cell phone lot elects a leader, and a library dog’s publishing deal threatens Geoff’s literary ambitions.
Plus: Schlarb, the rideshare service that promises never to use GPS, and a very special Old Oyster Day at Food Gulch.
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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 KLOWNHUNTER. The hosts keep telling him he might die. Apparently, that's just a stock phrase.
Also: Giuseppe's Haunted Italian restaurant, the brutal logistics of a "diarrhea gig," Mick Jagger's skinwalker workout regimen, and a rescue attempt by a man who insists you can call him "Batman."
After the broadcast, Jason, Geoff, and Matt talk sketch comedy, UCB, Roy "Nickels" Orbison, and playing Jeff Beck's guitars at Jan Hammer's house.
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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.
Along the way: the greatest live-album debate, the gamble of Hipgnosis album covers, the studio work behind supposedly live records in the seventies, UFO’s Spinal Tap connection, and Jason’s proposal to replace the podcast with a Strangers in the Night tribute band. Geoff anticipates overwhelming enthusiasm from their wives.
Hawk Rock Talk is the rock music companion podcast to 108.9 The Hawk, the comedy podcast about a fictional classic rock radio station.
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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 dangers of free chicken wings.
Plus: Clumpsy, Val Verde’s 420-friendly feline; Channel 8++’s adult animated series ASSDOG; and a Def Leppard ticket giveaway. Listen for the sounder. From 2025.
Sponsored by Val Verde Records’ “Songs From the 70’s & 80’s That Have Been Ruined by Being in Movies and Documentaries About Vietnam” and John Cougar Summercamp.
Jamie Loftus is a comedian, writer and author known for Sixteenth Minute (of Fame), The Bechdel Cast and Raw Dog.
Originally released April 14, 2025.
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This AI CEO Wants Your Water with Gil Ozeri
Val Verde has too much water. Thankfully, a billionaire has arrived to take it.
Gil Ozeri returns for his second appearance on 108.9 The Hawk as Sario Marlon, CEO of Graft AI, with plans for a ten-million-square-foot data center near the Woodstock ’99 Simulation and the children’s hospital. He’s promising jobs, lower taxes, and a bright future for every resident who survives it.
Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock meet Graft’s AI assistant Stephanie, explore a Del Taco sponsorship, and open the phone lines to name the new facility. There’s also glowing wastewater, an AI film and art festival, and two suspiciously agreeable replacements for your favorite morning hosts. Sario’s publicist would really appreciate it if everyone stopped asking questions.
Plus: Sabrina’s Carpenters, Tired John, Booger’s House of Chill Repute, and a Hawk Interview with Gil about making comedy while Hollywood crumbles, social media algorithms, Good Science, and his Silly Gilly improv show at Largo.
Gil Ozeri is a comedian, actor, writer, and producer whose credits include Big Mouth, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Happy Endings, and #blackAF. He co-hosts Good
Science with Anthony Atamanuik.
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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.
Sponsored by Shetland Creameries, Flenderson’s Horse Bags, Channel 8’s Crypt of the Eyeless Horde and Rock Dolls.
Rekha Shankar is a comedian, writer and performer known for Dropout’s Smartypants, Grand Crew and Digman!
Originally released October 21, 2024.
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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.
108.9 The Hawk is Val Verde's second favorite classic rock radio station. New broadcasts every Monday.
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The Bob Seger Clown Vortex
Whisp Turlington has been against the wind since 1975. Unfortunately, that wind has carried him directly into the Bob Seger Clown Vortex.
On this broadcast: Bob Seger abandons rock for experimental clown comedy, Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock investigates why his $50 paycheck bounced, Christine McVie operates a private Talbots in her basement, Farmer Dan returns from Sedona, and Whisp becomes trapped inside the number-one-rated Bob Seger Morning Show.
PLUS: Good Rock Facts, the Bob Seger System, mouth clowning, a mechanical eagle at Valmart, and the most disturbing performance of “Shakedown” ever attempted.
108.9 The Hawk is Val Verde’s second favorite classic rock radio station.
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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 need additional oversight.
Also on this broadcast:
• Art Spart explains why Creedence Clearwater Revival is responsible for the rain
• Shartlesburg elects a new mayor
• Whisp previews the new rock coming to 108.9 The Hawk
• Val Verde salutes its greatest space heroes
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