Too accurate and frequently hilarious send-up of classic rock radio. I REALLY LIKE THIS GEOFF! Update 4/24/26: still rules with an iron fist! I STILL RULE WITH AN IRON FIST! KEGSTAND!

Overall, a solid podcast. Lots of hilarious bits. There’s so much parody that it’s overwhelming.

…for incredible people. This podcast will get you laid.

My new favorite zoo crew

My favorite radio station! Absolutely love the commercials, the djs, and the guests! Hilarious from start to finish!!

Geoff and Jason have created a dense, hilarious world with Val Verde and The Hawk, from the characters to the ads to the sheer classic rock knowledge … this is a really funny and really impressive show that any rawwwk fan will love! Listen!

Truly silly. They’re having a fun time recording and I’m having a fun time listening. The world of Val Verde is a reassuring place to slip away to each week.

So so so funny, so quick, and so well made. Truly a pitch perfect parody of a classic rock station. And to think it’s all improvised! Incredible.

Classic rock, improv comedy, all star guests….did I fill out a survey??? Sign me up!

The care and attention that these guys put into world-building is truly first-class. How they keep it all straight is beyond me, but this is a pitch-perfect show that’s both an homage to and a parody of the hometown classic rock radio stations we all know and love. Props to Jason and Geoff!

Classic rock never divorced me, but I’m divorcing this feed and joining the Patreon because this show is awesome!

Currently listening to the Genesis episode and you guys are the best. Right up there with the Rat. A great morning show DJ parity with exponential intelligence and humor! And by the way you guys are deep cut with your Genesis knowledge! There is no misunderstanding! And by the way, going back and listening to the catalog Abacab, it’s also my favorite Genesis album! The way they play with the time signature on all the songs.

I am huge fan of the world Jason and Geoff have built. The commercials are hilarious. If you like The Best Show or Double Threat you will love The Hawk!! Please bring back Willy Crystal, Atamanuik is hilarious.

makes me rethink my patreon to the best show.

Foxy Lady ruined by classical rock radio

These two recorded how much Hawk Rock Talk AND Whisp AND commercials in the same day? Legends. Needless to say this has become a go-to for this formerly fervent metalhead. Excellent improv, mad scenes, great guests, and the homegrown Val Verde radio spots are perfectly unhinged, featuring your favorite classic rock legends. Keep em coming fellas

This show really nails the sound of listening to a classic rock station all day—the DJ personalities, the commercial breaks, all parodied from a place of genuine love, while doing a great amount of world-building in the fictional town of Val Verde. The fake commercials really are brilliant, too.

F—- charity. Let’s rock!

You’re doing a real Egg Foo What?! with this. Five stars!

And he died on my birthday, so take that, Jeff! Love the show concept! Love the deep dive project! Love the banter!

having grown up listening to classic rock radio in the mornings while getting ready for school, 108.9 The Hawk is absolutely hilarious and spot-on. the ads and jingles are so well done (the NyQuil Chicken song made me burst out laughing in public) and really bring the Val Verde Extended Universe to life. great podcast, 10/10, would recommend

FUNNIEST podcast ever! 90s kids - come for the classic rock station boomer DJ characters, stay for the hilarious ear-worm commercial jingle parodies!

108.9 The Hawk rules.

Every Monday mornin’ you know I’m crankin The Hawk. You gotta love it. Deacon style Peek-A-Boo? Tom Keifer’s Blowin Leafers? You’re only gettin that kinda stuff at The Hawk.

Micki macmac’s talons have me hooked! This is my favorite comedy podcast. Seriously great characters in the immersive world of Valverde. I can’t stop replaying to epic end of the Willy Crystal episode. You must listen or Wisp is coming for you! You won’t even know what happened. Just ask Danny Ackroyd.

Mickey Mack Mack haunts my dreams.

The 5-layer bean dip of alternate reality that is Val Verde which emerges over the series is an impressive piece of world-building by Jason & Geoff. The guests have been funny and fun, and I especially enjoy the commercials.

I love this podcast. Quickly becoming a weekly first listen. If you loved the “alternate radio universe” bits on the best show and/or ever spent a lot of time listening to your local small town rock station, you’ll love it too

Consistently hilarious, totally nails the classic rock format

Do you like comedy? Do you like radio? Do you like to RAAAAAWK? Download this now, your ears will thank you.

Dude. Show rules. Get hip.

No better medicine for a Monday like getting a bite in the ear from The Hawk! It's like taking laughing pills to excess, except no pills and just a ridiculously hilarious podcast. The Hawk rules.

But, this is my 3rd favorite classic rock radio podcast. Naw, just “boston” on the boys from Val Verde a smidge. Get a grip. This podcast has me hooked like The Angry Man (sp?) is/was hooked on those chicken wings!!

This is dumb in the best possible way. It’s hilarious and I love it immensely. Not convinced about that Jason guy though, maybe he’s not the best fit for the format of the show.

This is easily my new favorite podcast. The DJs on this station really know their stuff! This reminds me of what rock radio used to be like and I mean that in the best way possible.

This show is awesome if you like REAL CLASSIC ROCK! However, I’m still waiting on my two free tickets to see Sarsaparilla The Singing Gorilla.

Get your Jimmy Page outrider doll and gather round the transistor! This station ROCKS

For anyone who grew up listening to classic rock radio, this is a must listen. Gore and Garlock get it hilariously right.

I have always had a soft spot for classic rock radio. It’s obvious that Jason and Jeff, the two on-air personalities for fictional radio station 108.9 The Hawk, do as well. This is a delightfully silly send-up of every tertiary market’s bombastic classic rock radio station. Improv comedy at its best!

Highly recommended: Laughter is the best therapy for the trauma of hearing classic rawk radio growing up in the Philly burbs.

I grew up mindlessly listening to Top 40, AOR and the nation’s first morning zoo show before I discovered independent, listener-supported radio. Everywhere you go there seems to be a hard rock FM station that hasn’t changed since the Seventies — or is at least a throwback — that caters to what seems to be infinitely-spawning, mullet-wearing, sleeveless-band-tee-owning, Camaro-driving lunkheads that this music was made for and back announced by deejays who are part archetype, part stereotype who are sometimes as indistinguishable from each other as the music they play is. If you’ve ever ridiculed a deejay for saying “another commercial-free cruise” or “Tuesday twofer,” then you’re probably already in on the joke; 108.9 The Hawk is hilarious and holds up to multiple listenings.

This show has me cracking up every single episode, especially the rock dolls (which are not for sex).

Makes me laugh out loud multiple times per episode. “Nobody likes a garbage cow”. Surreal, zany, goofy. If you grew up on classic rock radio, this podcast is for you.

I haven’t seen/heard much good improv but these two are MASTERFUL! Hilarious, I love the world building. For fans or even more for people that hate classic rock.

Heard about this thru The Best Show, so I gave it a shot, and I was not let down! Instantly hooked and binged it in two days. Jason Gore’s voice and sensibility is a perfect match for this excellent classic rock radio parody show. Loving all the thoughtfully observed details and developing story arcs. Can’t wait to see where it goes!

Fantastic new podcast from Jason and Geoff. From its beginnings as a classic rock radio spoof, it is going full throttle: introducing unique characters and building the foundations of what will soon be known as the Val Verde Podcastic Universe. Avoid the Hawk Trees, and f@%#n Stan.

I’ve been loving Jason’s writing and performing since discovering him through the Best Show. This is some of the finest work he’s done and it’s barely gotten started. The world that he and Geoff are building has so much potential. I’m dying for a Val Verde/Newbridge crossover episode. In a sea of way too many comedy podcasts, this is worth taking time out for.

“A twisted comic masterpiece” - Gene Shalit

Go to podcast for all my Classic Rock jamz!

I’ve listened to every episode of Meet My Friends the Friends at least twice. Three times for some episodes. This show is equally magnificent and I can’t wait for more!