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Here’s a stack of Thanksgiving treats just spilling out of your cornucopia…

“The Return of the Thanksgiving Jedi Special” (2008)

Complete show notes…

Terry’s song THANKS A LOT…

The original 2005 Bionic Genius Thanksgiving Special…

This episode, we’re joined by John Cohn, “The Professor” from Discovery Channel’s THE COLONY!

About John Cohn (from wikipedia)
John Cohn is a 50-year-old chief IBM scientist for design automation from Richmond, Vermont. He is an expert in fixing, making or hacking electronics, mechanical fabrication, and welding. His other talents include building structures out of natural materials, growing edible plants, sculpting and fire building. He has been referred to by the other colonists as ‘The Professor’.

About The Colony
The Colony was a controlled experiment produced by the Discovery Channel, to see exactly what it would take to survive and rebuild under these post-apacolyptic circumstances. For 10 weeks, a group of 10 volunteers, whose backgrounds and expertise represent a cross-section of modern society, are isolated in an urban environment outside Los Angeles and tasked with creating a livable society.

Visit Sam’s Stones and tell John we said hello!

Visit The Colony at The Discovery Channel to learn more about the project.

Follow Terry (@tclovescricket) and Alan (@alanhouser) on Twitter.

Learn about Terry’s book, “DRY FLY GOSPEL” on his web site: www.dryflygospel.com
Grab Dry Fly Gospel from Amazon Now!

If you’re an eternal optimist, then you’ll appreciate the fact that our guest didn’t show-up. Or something like that.

Your geniuses talk about State Fair food and prattle about Winston, the carrier pigeon who beat broadband speed.

Follow Winston the pigeon on Facebook and Twitter and visit his site.

Follow Terry (@tclovescricket) and Alan (@alanhouser) on Twitter.

Read about Terry’s book, “DRY FLY GOSPEL” on his web site: www.dryflygospel.com
Grab Dry Fly Gospel from Amazon Now!

The recipe for What Martha Stewart would call a good thing. This is episode is three-parts genius with a dash of et cetera.

The genii reunite after a relaxing Summer. As usual, things went a little long, Terry wanted to skit, Alan dropped innuendos, and Roy just wanted to go.

Follow Terry (@tclovescricket) and Alan (@alanhouser) on Twitter

Read about Terry’s book, “DRY FLY GOSPEL” on his web site: www.dryflygospel.com
Grab Dry Fly Gospel from Amazon Now!

Alan’s other/better podcast “CreativeXpert” is nominated for “Podcast of the Year” over at www.thenetawards.com
Visit CreativeXpert.com for more information.

This week we welcome Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will Be Invincible to the show! We also welcome back Josh the Intern who moved to Austin with his band, Know More Robots!

Episode 0000048 Features

Austin Grossman wrote the book on superheroes — literally.

from wikipedia:
The novel {Soon I Will Be Invincible} is told through two alternating first person narratives of the characters Dr. Impossible and Fatale. Dr. Impossible is a self-proclaimed supervillain of the mad genius variety, who suffers from “Malign Hypercognition Disorder” (“evil genius” syndrome). Fatale is a female cyborg and the novel begins with her called up to join the superhero group The Champions, a Justice League of America/Avengers-style team in the wake of the disappearance of the superhero CoreFire.

Visit the book’s website: sooniwillbeinvincible.com and tell Austin we said hello!

We also welcome Josh the Intern to the show, who’s up & re-located to Austin with his band Know More Robots.

Visit Know More Robots online: myspace.com/knowmorerobots and the official KMR site: knowmorerobotsband.com

This week we welcome author Paul Malmont back to the show!

Paul first appeared on The Roundtable in June of 2006 to discuss his book “Chinatown Death Cloud Peril”, and he’s returned to tell the world about his latest book: “Jack London in Paradise“.

SFGATE, Home of the San Francisco Chronicle says:

“Jack London in Paradise” reveals London as a creature of the cinematic age and a writer intrigued with cultures and races not his own. He emerges as our contemporary, not a musty figure from the past. In Hawaii, he comes to grips with his tangled self and sees himself for the first time as he really is. He’s a tragic hero, though he can also be a bit of a buffoon. Like the real London, he makes speeches and pontificates. Moreover, he’s afraid that he’s been cursed; his great wealth and fame only add to his woes.

Visit Paul’s website: www.paulmalmont.com and check-out Jack London in Paradise!

This week we bring back the roundtable, with actual discussating. It was a little exhausting, but we covered every topic known to genii from pole to pole.

Featured in episode 0000046:

We discussed what we had for lunch, Red Stripe Lauger, Blood River and Beer from the Republic of Congo, Frank Miller’s The Spirit, Sin City, The chase scenes in Ronin, The Hawk, Gill Gerrard, Erin Grey, F. Murray Abraham, Ben Folds, Randy Newman, The Killing of a Porno Queen, Kojak, David Byrne and Brian Eno, Cale and Vitamin D, Music for the Knee Plays, U2’s The Unforgettable Fire, Ray Stevens, Motley Crue, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Armageddon, Michael Bay and the rest of the global impact films, Bruce Willis, Moonlighting, Unbreakable, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, The Dark Knight, the Batman franchise, The Bionic Genius Hat Company, Tom Wopat, Bernadette Peters, Obama’s Manatees, Obamafication, man caves, the ATF, The Comics Curmudgeon, former intern Josh, Comics Curdungeon, and snoods from every corner of wikipedia.

Thanks again to our sponsor, The Bionic Genius Hat Company.

Happy Christmas, Geniuses!

This week I changed the format completely with a shocking twist.

Please don’t tell Roy and Terry.
Maybe they won’t even realize that I taped-over the Larry David interview.

Thanks again to our sponsor, The Bionic Genius Hat Company.

Episode 0000044 things and what-not:

This week, The Geniuses return for a rapidly-failing attempt at anything resembling comedy!

Features include:

• Can you really call these features?
• What does a genius eat for lunch?
  
• Break for our sponsor: The Bionic Genius Hat Company
• Airing of the Grievances
• ‘The Interviews’ and why they suck
  
• The Universe’s Fastest-Growing Quiz Sensation: Seinfeld Girlfriend, or Go-Go?
• Excessive Blurting
• Random “This Year in Death” recap from the Dead People Server
• No Festivus Miracles were found on wikipedia either
• Twisted Sister Recorded a Christmas song, “O come All You faithful”

That’s about it.

Apologies and kind thanks to our sponsor, The Bionic Genius Hat Company.

PSST!
Roy wanted to know what Dinosaurs had to do with Christmas.
A kind listener sent us this:

The Christosaur

I was just cleaning-out the AV closet and wound this old filmstrip.

We aired it in November, 2005. enjoy!

“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.

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.

in episode 0000041:

The genii are back after a 23-month hibernation!

This is the first show that wasn’t recorded in the workplace, so the “let’s not go there” filters were completely broken. We’re really, really sorry.

Features include:

• What does a genius eat for Lunch?
• Will it Whistle: An Obama Yard Sign
• Gameshow: Gilmore Girl Character or Palin Child?
• Genius Swift Boat: We make up our own outrageous lies about the candidates and see if we can have an impact on the outcome of the election
• Old Man Yelling At Clouds: Your favorite John McCain Senior Moment
• Oh, Bama!: Your favorite instance of over-the-top Obama worship or attack
• Political Yearbook: Most Likely to: Which of the four candidates is more likely to: ….. Bite the head off a live bat? Run naked with the bulls in Pamplona? Go “commando?” Eat the kidney of their dead foe with some fava beans and a nice Chianti?

in episode 0000040:

So we seriously, really made it back! In this episode, we basically do nothing at all. We didn’t think it would be right to just throw you into an awesome ELECTION 2008 episode without first priming the pump.

Coming next: The 2008 Election Episode!

Well twist my mustache and tickle my ivories! The Bionic Genii are back!?

Don’t get your sock garters in a bunch… Like when David Lee Roth hooked-up again with the VanHalens, this is an experiment to see if the band can still play after all these months of disdain and what-what.

Join the genii in this most festive of occasions. We ate, we drank and Roy played Mary in the BGR Christmas pageant.
We apologize in advance, as the only thing PC in this show is the title.

We also welcome to the show a noob named Mike, who’s learning the ropes of what it’s like to be a genius. Mike is a music freak who’s more excited than the rest of us to sit at the roundtable. If you don’t like the show, it’s Mike’s fault.