Posts Tagged ‘California’

Item 22 – Mammoth, deadly cock and Baals

Monday, February 14th, 2011

GeminiDragon22I was nursing a cough lolly at the start of the show due to an allergic reaction. We gave an update on Jen’s jury duty summons. Thanks to feedback from David, Rowley, Les, Nathan, Erk and Robert, the audience has unlocked the bribery badge. Well done, audience. Prizes coming soon! I made an officially unofficial announcement about the future of my blog. Also, domain-name conspiracy theories. Then we covered a story about an avenging cock. After that, we discussed how a survey shows that California is full of fat kids. From California to Indiana where they’ve got some serious Baals:

Scientists want to resurrect a mammoth. Using SCIENCE! Of course, no one knows why they want to do this. A woman in India was ripped off when it turned out her husband wasn’t a dude. We played a fine, fine song by The Hold Steady. We brought the whole thing home with an important question from WikiAnswers.

Item 21 – Abuse, threats and bribery

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

GeminiDragon21We weren’t live again this week as we’re still working on some technical issues from the big studio move-around. It’s Super Bowl Sunday! And we don’t care. But we did talk about how I found an extra legal live stream of the last playoff game involving the Chicago Bears. That spun off into a discussion of a-la-carte media consumption. We updated the request made during our last show for comments from the audience. We read some feedback from Rowley and David. We went over the results of our highly interactive poll from last week. We read a story about a new marijuana-powered superhero. That was followed by us wondering if our hometown will begin to feel “the Oprah effect.” Then it was time for this:

Apparently, participating in social media may get you laid faster. First it was earthquakes. Now California may be annihilated by a superstorm. We played a jam by The Skelters. Finally, we finished up the program with an article about a cell-phone swallowing crocodile.

Item 20 – GeminiDraggin’

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

GeminiDragon20It’s a gray and rainy Sunday, perfect for recording a lazy-day kinda non-live podcast. We announced Jen’s new podcast project and did some wondering about the validity of the show’s name. We picked up some sandwiches earlier in the day from Subway. Jen thinks it was more than just her sandwich that was “toasted.” We joined the Internet pile-on over the “new” Zodiac signs and wondered if GeminiDragon may now be in need of a name change. We covered a story about a new law prohibiting Internet impersonators. Then we moved on to how hackers celebrated Kim Jong-Un’s birthday by hacking North Korean Twitter and YouTube accounts. We followed that up with a cool song by The Famous. We wrapped up the program with a top-ten list of addictive sounds. Don’t forget to vote in our highly interactive poll:

Item 19 – Knee deep in Skype Lady

Sunday, January 9th, 2011

GeminiDragon19If a live show happens and no one hears it, did it really happen? Thanks to podcasting – yes! We started this show off by talking about our good friend the Skype Lady. That lead in to a story about our trip to the local Apple Store where Jen gobsmacked the Apple Guy with a “software” question. Calling back to GeminiDragon 18, we placed a call to the “university program” that will hopefully get us masters degrees in three weeks. Jen read a story about a ludicrous Norwegian workplace policy that’s been implemented to make women more productive during that time of the month. Next, we made another callback to our last show in the form of this amazing song:

Mercifully, we moved from the song to a Yahoo! Answers question that received a universe-bending answer (with a reference to GeminiDragon 1). Then it was time for a cool song by The D-Matics. We finished out the program with a list of wacky pet names.

Item 15 – Making priorities

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

GeminiDragon15It was a live(ly?) time for this GeminiDragon presentation. In typical fashion, my microphone stand broke a few minutes before we began the show. We started off with some important announcements. We’re participating in NaPodPoMo this year and we’re also now syndicating over the old Airferg RSS feed. We provided a brief history of our exploits in podcasting. Then I explained why it’s been a few weeks since our last presentation. We debated on whether or not it’d be better to spend $840,000 on a home in downtown San Luis Obispo, or if it’d be better to purchase an entire quadrant of Oklahoma. We covered a story about a Las Vegas hotel that’s cooking its patrons with a death ray. We played some prank-name audio:

Then we discussed how a reality-show contestant is suing Simon Cowell for being mean! Then it was time for a song by Gidgets Ga-Ga. The show was finished up with a list of unusual celebrity-linked products.

Item 13 – Machine gun dreams

Saturday, October 16th, 2010

GeminiDragon13Live, we were for this failtabulous edition of GeminiDragon. I talked about how I pulled a muscle earlier this week, and how it lead to me having a strange drug-fueled dream about a machine-gun wielding kid. Then we played a voice mail from Nathan.
The original “Unchained Melody” by Todd Duncan:


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Item 12 – It’s a microwave!

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

GeminiDragon12We celebrated 10/10/10 the only way we know how. With a GeminiDragon live presentation. We gave ourselves some retroactive horn action. Then we talked about our new microwave. We read a story about a dude in Florida who has the same name as singer Justin Bieber. After that we found out why the place where we live is (apparently) the happiest place in America. Next, we played an important public service announcement:


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Item 10 – The authentic Likes

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

GeminiDragon10GeminiDragon 10 was live a couple days ago. I needed a cough drop, so I got one. Meanwhile, Jen “entertained” y’all by narrating the whole thing. Jen read a comment that David left in response to GeminiDragon 9. Then we discussed how the corn syrup industry would like to rename its product. We celebrated the arrival of the vuvuzela in the Oxford dictionary. Apparently, the Danes weren’t very happy with Whitney Houston this summer. You decide:

Some amusement-park thingie run by Coca-Cola connected its customers directly to Facebook via it’s “Like Machine.” Jen thinks this is lame. I just want to get to the authentic Likes. We heard my favorite song by (sorta) local band The Shamblers, who recently played a (sorta) reunion show that we attended. Drunken stupidity stories. We got ‘em. We finish things up with a partial list of celebrity-types who’ll be turning 40 next year.

Item 9 – All kinds of FAIL

Monday, September 20th, 2010

GeminiDragon9GeminiDragon 9 was live on uStream yesterday. We started off this audio presentation with an on-air production meeting where we tried to nail down a specific window of time wherein we will “summons the dragon” for future productions. I wondered at what point an unattended yard sale turns into a giveaway. We played our new Horns of Fail, courtesy of Nathan. We played a “prank” (?) voice mail. We covered a news story about a Krispy Kreme that accidentally gave a customer $5,000 instead of a box of donuts. That was followed by a description of a shitty Kings Of Leon show. Ever wonder what drunken Irish students like to throw into swimming pools and washing machines? Neither did we. But now we know. Then it was time for an impromptu mashup that included this:


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Item 8 – War of sound bonus!

Friday, July 16th, 2010

GeminiDragon8Today’s bonus audio presentation is a continuation of the show we released earlier this week. Erk and Judy joined us, as did Matt. (Ben joined us in the chat room for a little while, too.) There’s no reason to describe this audio, because it really defies description.