★ Good things come in threes: Musketeers, Amigos, Stooges and Yada’s ★

Get Offensive: www.oplusd.com/holidays

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!

Buy your poster today at the Wondermark Goodsery!

Stay tuned for feats of strength.

“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.

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.

So we’ve decided to hold the baby under the water until it stopped kicking.

We might be developing some new shows, but for now… just let it be.

To mark this weekend in history as the anniversary of the show’s launching, here’s a special redux version of our first show, THE 2005 THANKSGIVING SPECIAL.

the 2005 Bionic Genius Roundtable Live Thanksgiving Show!
In this episode, the geniuses broadcast in full Pilgrim dress, out in the woods of Plymouth {Indiana}, complete with blunderbusses. Jed joins us this week as our intern. Listen as the geniuses hope to shoot and eat a turkey before the show ends.

in episode 0000038:

So we finally made it back!  In this episode, we finally swore-off skits!!!  Like Terry will ever give-up the skits!?

Over lunch we talked about the usual: what we were eating, wearing, watching, listening to and morning over.

If you think there’s a Star Wars element to this episode, then you’re just wishful thinking.