Posts from — November 2008

“The Return of the Thanksgiving Jedi Special”

In Episode 0000043

This week, The Geniuses return for a LIVE SHOW, taped in front of a few confused people with nothing better to do!

Features include:

• What Does A Genius Eat for Lunch?
• Podcast Throwdown
• Break for our sponsor: The Bionic Genius Hat Company
• Will It Whistle?
• Quiz Sensation: Star Wars or Star Wars: Items are either from the movies, or from the Star Wars Missile Defense project
• tBGR Soul Search: Which Star Wars character would you invite to spend Thanksgiving with your family and why?
• Super-Colossal, Ultimately Fabulous Amazing Happy Time: Our newest segment in which we discuss which of two things would make us most happy. This week: Princess Leia or Queen Amidala? Discuss!
• Iron Genius—This Week, Iron Jedi, with the special ingredient: STAR WARS!: Roy, Steve and special guest Matt Hofmann go at it in the ultimate quiz fight to the death in Bionic Stadium!
• Impromptu “Wookie-Off”

Photo of Matt Hofmann used without permission and stolen from MySpace.

Matt Hofmann is the Rebel Legion Commanding Officer
SW Costuming Club “The Rebel Legion”
www.rebellegion.com / www.midwestbase.com
Chris Baker Joins in the last minutes to add sweetener to the Blue Milk.

Special thanks to the 501st Podcast: www.501st.com
The H-Wing Car Site mentioned in the show: click.

If you were with us back in Season One, you fell in love with the cute & quirky thereminist, Pamelia Kurstin. She played her theremin on the phone for us, and it looks like she’s now hit the big time! {As if it wasn’t “big time” yet to play with David Byrne or the Bionic Geniuses}

Pamelia is a featured presenter at TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.
The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

Read more about Pamelia Kurstin on TED.com.

Pamelia at TED:

We had a great time on our first live show tonight!

We broke new ground as we wandered deep into the nerd forest, and contributed to the first live broadcast to simultaneously feature video of a catbox and a Wookie throwdown.

tBGR

in episode 0000042:

The Geniuses return for a post-election wrap-up special with almost two great guests!

Features include:

• What Does A Genius Eat for Lunch
• Election Recap: The Bhutan Coronation Recap
• Special guest: Terry’s Teen-College-Sensation Cousin Luke
• The Universe’s Fastest-Growing Quiz Sensation, Pilgrim or Possible Obama cabinet member?
• Terry plays and sings “Thanks a Lot”. Nope, scratch that.
• Special guest Mike F. plays and sings “Thanks a Lot”. Much better than Terry. Sing-along here.
• The announcement of the show’s friend and ex-intern, Josh Shop, who has moved to Austin to make it big with his band, KNOW MORE ROBOTS! myspace.com/knowmorerobots
• Roy shares his entertainment perspective from music to Warcraft.
• Sadly, that’s about the extent of it.

Thanks a Lot!
By Terry Coffey
More Than a Genius, Really, Honest Records ASCAP
Featured in podcast episode 0000042

Thanks, thanks a lot,
Thanks for all the stuff we got.
For all the stuff we’ve got,
Thanks a lot.

Thanks for Alan,
Thanks for Roy,
They’re such a couple of goofy boys,
For all the stuff we’ve got,
Thanks a lot.

Thanks for mustaches,
Thanks for beards,
Even though they look so weird,
For all the stuff we’ve got,
Thanks a lot.

Thanks for dogs,
Thanks for cats,
Thanks for parakeets and rats
For all the stuff we’ve got,
Thanks a lot.

Thanks for hammocks,
Thanks for thongs,
Thanks for the ending of this song,
For all the stuff we’ve got,
Thanks a lot.

Thanks, thanks a lot,
Thanks for all the stuff we got.
For all the stuff we’ve got,

Thanks a lot.