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

This week we lace-up our running shoes and pull a hami with legendary Ultramarathon Man Dean Karnazes.

Episode 0000027 Milestones:

- What Does a Genius Eat for Lunch?

- Impromptu “Will it Whistle?”

- Inaugural “Ask a Genius” This week we answer listener voicemail: How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop? Special thanks to Turtle & Mr. Owl.

- Roy’s World: Calling for the redesign of man’s biological reproductive system.

- Special Interview: Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man.
Visit the Ultramarathon Man web site to read more about Dean’s achievements.

- Gameshow: “Running Nowhere”

Call us to leave a message: 206-NOODLE-6
Send us an email: roundtable at bionicgenius dot com

This week we saddle-up, hit the trail, gather round the campfire and chew the fat with poet Baxter Black.

Episode 0000026 Features:

- What Does a Genius Eat for Lunch?

- Terry’s Car trouble – Serves him right. No cowboy should drive a VW.

- The Missing Ventriloquist Act – Soon you will have the chance to bid on this missing piece of audio. Thats right: we will be auctioning-off the clip of Terry & Willie Talk to one lucky bidder. Stick around for details.

Special Interview: Baxter Black, Cowboy Poet. Visit Baxter online: www.baxterblack.com

- Game Show: Tied Up In Knots – The Genii wrangle Baxter into a right spiffy gameshow.

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.

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.)