Posts from — April 2006

In this episode, the genii speak with Warren Zanes from the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame. Warren also joins us as we play the fastest-growing quiz sensation: Cult or Rock Band!

Episode 0000025 Features:

- Welcome Back Roy!

- Check the Phone Messages

- What Does a Genius Eat for Lunch?

- Chasing Jon Stewart-FINALLY! We land the interview with Jon Stewart

- Special Interview: Warren Zanes talks about life as VP of Education and Public Programs at The Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame, his current career as a musician and his past life as rock god with The Del Fuegos. Visit his web site: www.warren-zanes.com

- The fastest growing quiz sensation: Rock and Roll Hall of Famer or Cult

- Billy Collins reads Thesaurus

This week we ask the question: Where’s Roy?
That’s the extent of this one. If you are a new listener to tBGR, we apologize from the bottom of our hearts.

When creating this post, I used the work inane {spelled incorrectly}. I find it particularly amusing that the term PODCAST CHATTER is in the dictionary under the definition for INNANE:

Podcast chatter is an uninteresting monolog put into a podcast due to the podcaster’s mistaken belief that (a) it is necessary to spend a significant amount of time in a podcast talking, and (b) said podcaster has something interesting to say.

We cannot disclose the location of our broadcast facility in Indiana, but we wanted to share some of the photos of our hip facilities.  photos by interns Wes, Klorf and Jafs

We’ve already had several emails asking how we built our TIME MACHINE.
Truth be told, we obtained our time machine prototype from Glendy M. at the Benjamin Franklin Science Fair. We convinced her that a stack of Pokemon cards, Roy’s Nano and 10,000 Second Life Lindex credits was a fair trade.

We think her father, Mr. M. helped build the machine, but we won’t tell.

Lastly, we’ve had a busy week of time travel, and are finally catching-up on emails. There have been many requests to tour our facilities here in Indiana. We are proud of our awesome facility, but at this time cannot allow any visitation. Once the insurance cases settle, we would love to have you come stay with us. Until then, we’ve posted several photos.
pictures below by Intern Jafs: Terry in his lab, preparing lunch, while Alan and Roy look on and Roy, the constant gardener, looks with pride on his prize-winning whatever-this-thing-is. More photos here.

the Genii speak with Amal Dorai about the Time Travel Convention at MIT and Ronald Mallett, Professor of Physics, Uconn. We also travel back in time and take full responsibility for the end of Betamax.

Episode 0000023 Features:

What Does a Genius Have for Lunch?

Chasing Jon Stewart Update: an interview with Amal Dorai about the Time Travel Convention at MIT.

Alan’s World: Alan takes us on a trip through time with our own time machine.

Special Interview: Ronald L. Mallett, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, University of Connecticut.
Visit his web site: phys.uconn.edu/faculty/mallett

Dr. Mallett’s Time Machine Project

For quite some time, Ronald Mallett has been working on plans for a time machine. This machine uses a ring laser and the theory of relativity. He plans on testing it in the near future. In a recent paper by Ken D. Olum and Allen Everett the authors claimed to have disproved Dr. Mallett’s hypothesis yet Dr. Mallett maintains that this paper is founded on a physical misconception. A constraint is needed to confine the circulating light beam to a cylindrical path. This is taken into account in his paper as a geometrical constraint. Dr. Mallett has attempted to contact the authors about this misconception but so far they have not responded. In the meantime as of this entry in October 2005, funding is still being pursued in order to properly test Dr. Mallett’s theories. He is also in the process of writing a book on Time Travel due for publication in the fall of 2006. snagged from wikipedia.com

In this poetic episode, the genii interview former U.S Poet Laureate Billy Collins! The podcast also features a true Scots reading of 16th-Century Scottish poet John Stewart’s “To Fame,” and the universe’s fastest-growing quiz sensation, Poet or Cocktail. Josh returns for this show only.

Episode 0000022 Features:

-What Does a Genius Eat for Lunch?

-Chasing Jon Stewart Update: A special poetry reading by Gordon from The Joan and Jeff Show, one of our podcast partners in The Network of Genii, reading 16th-Century Scottish poet John Stewart’s “To Fame” visit the joan and jeff show.

continues to be one of the best-known and most-popular poets, and is now making his first-ever podcast appearance. In addition to discussing the role of a poet laureate, and some of his personal favorites, the Bionic Geniuses also read Collins their own poem, “Things That Crunch.” visit Billy Collins online at www.bigsnap.com

-Universe’s Fastest-Growing Quiz Sensation: Poet or Cocktail

-Terry’s World: Terry reads his own poem to the world.