Posts from — March 2006

In this action-packed episode, the Bionic Geniuses speak with the Weather Prognisticating Llama and Buck Foley, Motivational Speaker. Also featuring a tribute to Buck Owens with the latest quiz sensation: HEE-HAW HONEY or SCIENTOLOGIST?

Episode 0000021 Features:

-What Does a Genius Eat for Lunch?

-Mr. Prozac / Mark Harries, handler and confidant of Mr. Prozac, the one-and-only Weather Prognosticating Llama. Visit Mr. Prozac at WindstarFarm.com

-Chasing Jon Stewart Update
-Motivational Comedy – Interview with Buck Foley and Lloyd Work. Visit BuckFoley.com

-Buck Owens Tribute – An open letter from Dwight Yoakam; Terry plays a moving chorus from “Act Naturally”

-Hee Haw Honey or Scientologist

-Roy’s World: Roy Rants about Mobile Memorials

-Poetry Slam update: Join us NEXT WEEK for our interview with Billy Collins!

Dwight Yoakam on Buck Owens:

“I was devastated by Buck’s passing since I had talked to him just a couple days ago and even though he seemed in a somewhat fragile physical state, he was emotionally exuberant and still living life in a forward motion, discussing a variety of plans for his future. My thoughts and prayers are with his three sons, Buddy Allen, Michael and Johnny, his grandchildren and his girlfriend Karen. I will cherish, forever, the musical moments he graciously shared with me during his life. I will be eternally grateful for his fatherly chastisements, encouragement and, ultimately, his friendship and love. I will miss him deeply.”

Learn all about whisky from Mark Gillespie of whiskycast.com and the Worlds Worst Opening Line Contest interview with Scott Rice from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

Episode 0000020 Features:

{Roy, pictured at left, wearing his Superman costume}
What Does a Genius Eat for Lunch?

Chasing Jon Stewart: Interview with Mark Gillespie of whiskycast.com, a podcast dedicated to whisky. Mark obviously wants you to visit his site, but also suggests for more whisky information, check-out maltadvocate.com, whiskymag.com

World’s Worst Opening Line Contest interview with Scott Rice (Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest-challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels). Visit the Bulwer-Lytton site: bulwer-lytton.com

Join the Genii for another loathsome dance break.

★ THE POWER OF DREW DOMKUS ★

To our surprise, we were called-out on the Dawn & Drew Show. The VW Partisan gave us the what-for.
Listen to the edited clip from episode 278 from their show. Funny!

★ GMA FEATURES tBGR! ★

ABC’s Good Morning America aired a great piece on moustaches, and included photos of us!
STORY | CLIP

★ BRAVO TV AND tBGR FEATURE JIBJAB ★

Bravo’s original Outrageous and Contageous Viral Videos covers many clips that internet genii have viewed and likely passed-along to others. Hence the term viral. While Bravo is just a bunch a’ Johnny Come Lately’s, we give them props for airing these clips. One featured clip was JIBJAB’s Year-End Round-Up, which was covered first by the Bionic Genius Roundtable. Tune-in to the Jibber Jabber Issue and listen to our interview with Gregg Spiridellis. Listen why Terry likes the cut of his Jib.

In this episode, the Geniuses are broadcasting live from the road in Riverside Iowa, birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk. Featuring music and an interview with Iron Horse – A Bluegrass band who covers Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Modest Mouse, The Shins and more!

Episode 0000019 Featurette:

What does a Genius Have for Lunch?

Chasing Jon Stewart Update

Rock-n-Roll Roundtable – Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame Nominees: is, are, was, were, be, being, been.
Includes a special musical arrangement by the Joan and Jeff Show.
Iron Horse interview. The Genii speak with banjo picker, Anthony Richardson who talks about thier unique bluegrass covers of Metallica, LedZeppelin, Modest Mouse, The Shins and more. Visit Iron Horse at www.IronHorseBluegrass.com

St. Patrick’s Day special: Irish or Scientologist

Presidents and Parrots: Grover Cleveland

Recorded phonecalls: Call us at 206-NOODLE-6

We’re having some fun out here! Thanks for your support! Lonnie Gimmons {raspberry hat} is pictured pulling our Roy.

Dyersville Iowa welcomed St. Patrick’s Day with their Helms’ Main Street Parade. We were lucky as Irish to stay at the Helms Bed & Breakfast. Alan was excited about the free wireless internet; Roy was happy to take part in the parade. The parade’s chairperson was Lavon Helms Gimmons – owner of our B&B! When you’re in Dyersville, you need to try Lavon’s “Afternoon Delight”, A graham cracker crust filled with a creamy sweet concoction and topped with raspberry pie filling. She added green coloring to top the occasion! Our interns had a food fight at the Helms Dog Walk. We didn’t get a picture, but you can imagine the green and red mess. What a great crew! Alan is finally catching-up on emails and we finally will have time to get the show posted. Take care people!

We apologize for the delay. The VW van broke down when we visited the Field of Dreams Baseball Diamond, and it took us a couple of days to tie in to the power grid, readjust satellite locations and throw up false trails for the CIA. We should be finished with these technical preparations by this evening, when we will, at long last, post the long-awaited Episode 19: the Fade to Bluegrass Episode, in which we discover a bluegrass band playing Stairway to Heaven.

While presenting you all with a huge laurel and hearty handshake, we also have some ‘splainin’ to do for our regular listeners/visitors. The geniuses sold their souls to the ones who sold their souls to the devil. Yes, they bought air time on The Dawn & Drew Show. Surprisingly to Terry, Alan & Roy, the Bionic Genius Board of Directors approved the expenditure. On budgetary matters they’re still in the dark, and we owe them some answers as to why we’re even on the road. Luckily, they are not hip to anything web-related. (If by chance one of the executives finds this message, this is an intern who hacked-into tBGR mainframe.)

We wanted to share our travels with you. Hop-over to The Bionic Genius Travel Journal and see what this great country of ours has to offer!

In early March, the Bionic Genii set-out on a trip across America, destination: THE OSCARS in Hollywood, California. This photo journal is a record of our amazing trip, and all of the cool things we tried along the way…

The Bionic Geniuses pose during a visit to the UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico. The exhibit in front of which they are posing is dedicated to the movie, “Roswell.”

The Bionic Geniuses stopped off for a cold one at the A Le Inn, located along the “Extraterrestrial Highway”, near Area 51.

Roy is shown posing atop Carhenge.

Bionic Geniuses adding to the world’s largest stack of oil cans, Casselton, North Dakota.

The Bionic Geniuses at El Canibal, part of the Alferd Packer Memorial Grill at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Alferd Packer was a famous Colorado cannibal who, after serving time in prison, became a vegetarian.

Roy shows off his catch. After years of wanting to try fishing for catfish with his bare hands, Roy’s dreams came true at Lake Squarehead in Nuttin, Arkansas. Roy reached in, felt around, came upon a catfish, and let the big fella grab onto his arm. He then hauled him out for a quick photo before releasing this magnificent creature back into the wild, where he will live to face another day and, perhaps, be more wary in the future after today’s lesson in survival.

The Bionic Geniuses spent many nights camping beneath the stars, stopping at motels, or pulling into campgrounds. Wherever we went we were met with the same suspicion and hostility that we have come to expect and enjoy, but perhaps our favorite camping stop was at this VW van show, where we are asked to leave after Terry brought his guitar to the communal campfire and tried to sing “Chasing John Stewart.”

Alan Points skyward while standing next to a Starfleet vessel in Riverside, Iowa, future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk, and current home of KirkFest. The ship is NOT the USS Enterprise; Paramount reportedly wanted to charge the town $40,000 clams for the rights to an Enterprise statue. Being so far inland, the community opted for a previously unknown Starfleet vessel.

After crossing America in a VW van, the Bionic Geniuses check out the relative comfort and roominess of a vintage trailer in at the RV & Manufactured Housing Museum in Elkhart, Indiana.

The Genii added weekly to thier very own poem, which was read to Billy Collins on April 5th, 2006. Here’s the link for the POETRY LICENSE REVOKED show.

The kind folks at Odeo have added our podcast to their Staff List! What a great honor from the people who know stuff about stuff. Hippety-Hop over to Odeo and tell them we said HELLO-DEO.

Taped on our way back from the Oscars! We have been visiting some great sites in California. This episode is recorded from the parking lot of the Burlingame Museum of Pez, here in Burlingame, California. Dont all roadtrips have their snags? We sure did on this show.
Episode 0000018 Dinner Entre:

What Does a Genius Eat for Lunch?

Mayberry Diner-Don Knotts tribute

Chasing Jon Stewart Update

Game Show: Barney Fife or Mr. Furley?
A quiz of lines from these two characters-which character said the line?

The Museum of Pez Memorabilia- Gary Doss, curator

Poetry Slam-Things That Crunch

Roundtable: Musical upcoming releases that we looking forward to
(Lips! Iron Horse tribute to Modest Mouse! David Bowie concert DVD! Etc. Etc. Etc.)

We thought you should know: Pamelia, the theremin player who was nominated for CRAZIEST LAUGH from Episode 0000008 is going on tour. Says she:

I am hitting london this friday… then off to georgia to tour with barbez to South by Southwest.. then March 25 in Paris, with Sebastien Tellier (first time in a LONG long time… i think a few of you might have seen us way back when we were opening for Air) all of the explicit details are on my site… which has a link to my new my space space!

We’re traveling back from Cali! We’ve stopped-off at some great sites that we’ll tell you about on this week’s show. We’ve been camped outside the Burlingame Museum of Pez, here in Burlingame, California.

We’re using the Kinko’s computers here in Millbrae, responding to all of your emails, but need to wrap this up. Talk to you soon!

Darnell Skruggs, with an apparent eye injury, sends his peace from Cali.

Hank “Handlebar” Hoolihan poses for a photo in Amsterdam.