Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast

This podcast was recorded at the end of March, and lookie, I'm just now getting around to posting it. W00t! Well, at least we'll be caught up to record a new show very soon. And more once we get to Ireland. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

• Bardic Bonus Features
• Bardic Foundation of Not Losing Your Brain Through the Windshielf
• Car mileage conspiracy
• Consuming the consumer
• Executive Suite (1954) with William Holden
• Battlestar Galactica Nerd Warning!
• Marketing with Integrity
• Politics Above the Law
• Summer Brooks of Slice of Sci Fi and Essays on Battlestar Galactica
• Buck Rogers DVD
• GM Motors Annecdote

Songs This Week:

• "The Heart of Fangorn" from Memories of Middle Earth
• "Patriot Game" from Songs of Ireland
• "Shepherd's Serenade" from Songs of the Muse

Welcome to Season 3 of A Brodingnagian Minute. We're back with more zany bardic goodness… whatever that may be. This month, we're happy to say we WON in the Austin Music Awards, plus lots of rambling on the usual bardic randomness.

Show Notes:

• Too many podcasts: Irish & Celtic Music Podcast, Renaissance Festival Podcast and other podcasts by Marc Gunn
• Andrew's Picasso Period
• Lord of War
• Pet Peeve: Trailers you can't fast forward through
• Best Folk Act in the Austin Music Awards
• The Cowsills
• Music for old video games: Pitfall, Pacman, Donkey Kong
• Samson Zoom H2
• Onya, Irish rock musician
• Demand the Brobdingnagian Bards

Songs This Week:

• "Patriot Game" from Songs of Ireland
• "Harvest Home" from Songs of the Muse
• "The Holy Ground" from The Holy Grail of Irish Drinking Songs
• "Jug of Punch (Live)" from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus

Download MP3 A Brobdingnagian Minute #25 – Austin Music Award Win #3

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Welcome to Season 3 of A Brodingnagian Minute. We're back with more zany bardic goodness… whatever that may be. This month, we're talking about Wil Wheaton, the Ireland tour, our presidential nomination, and a "crapload" of shows for the spring.

Show Notes:

• Writer's Strike
• Wil Wheaton on Pulp Gamer
• Join the Bards Tour of Ireland
• Bards on SoundClick
• Brobdingnagian Bards for President
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Love Bites"
• Movie comments: Juno, Charlie Wilson's War and Atonement
• Gigs in Yuma, Arizona, Four Winds, Muskogee, I-Con, and more!

Songs This Week:

• "Spancil Hill" from Songs of Ireland
• "Rising of the Moon" from Songs of Ireland
• "Like a Hobbit in a Mushroom Field" from Memories of Middle Earth

Download MP3 A Brobdingnagian Minute #24 – Explicit Writer's Strike

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Show Notes:

• Dune
• Red Dwarf Mobile Pack
• New CD: LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus
• New Bards Video Podcast Coming Soon
• Six Weeks at the Louisiana Renaissance Festival
• Bourbon Street and The Drunken Scotsman video
• And We're Back!
• Booking for 2008
• How to Find Good Mexican Food

Songs This Week:

• "Finnegan's Wake" from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus,
• "LOOB" from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus,
• "Donald, Where's Your Drunken Scotsman?" from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus.

This weeks Brobdingnagian Bards podcast was recorded on the drive to DragonCon 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Show Notes:

• Marc's fancy sports car
• Lots of shows at DragonCon
• New CD: LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus
• The Bardy Balls: The Case of the Bardic Treasure
• The Stalkers Union of DragonCon
• A Word from our Table People
• Other bands at DragonCon: Voltaire, Bedlam Bards, Boogie Knights, Emerald Rose

Songs This Week:

• "Pachelbel's Canon/Old Dun Cow" from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus,
• "Jedi Drinking Song Prequel" from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus,
• "If I Had A Million Smurfy Ducats" from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus.

Recorded live in Lisdoonvarna, Ireland while on the Brobdingnagian Bards Tour of Ireland.

Songs This Week:

• "Man of La Mancha"
• "Old Dun Cow" from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales,
• "Frog Kissin'" from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales,
• "A Fairy Story" from A Faire To Remember,
• "Lily the Pink" from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales,
• "Spancil Hill" from Songs of Ireland,
• "Whiskey in the Jar" from A Faire To Remember,
• "An Irishman Who Doesn't Drink"
• "Donald, Where's Your Trousers Medley" from A Faire To Remember,
• Marc Trying to Think/"Munumanuh"
• "Star of the County Down"
• "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from A Faire To Remember.

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Notes:

• Talking about Ireland while viewing the Cliffs of Moher on the Brobdingnagian Bards Tour of Ireland. Don't you wish you were here?
• Question or Comment for the Bards at 512-879-NEWT (6398)

Notes:

• Live recordings and CD?,
• Oklahoma Renaissance Festival,
• Bardic passports,Stamps, Indulgences, and toe bones in Vatican City,
• Shakespeare and Friends Renaissance Festival,
• Learning not to wear tights,
• Nickel Shakespeare Girls,
• Interview with WANC,
• "My Prison Time with Paris Hilton",
• Role Models,
• Snowball fights in Colorado,
• Stoa Galleries,
• Opus Fantasy Arts Festival,
• 3 Summer Movies: Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Shrek 3, and Spider-Man 3, and Harry Potter,

Songs This Week:

• "Lady Faery" from Songs of the Muse,
• "Big Strong Man (My Bruddha Sylvest)" from Songs of Ireland,
• "An Irish Lullaby" from Songs of Ireland.

Notes:

• The World's Biggest Flubs by the Brobdingnagian Bards,
• The Hoax,
• Based on a True Story,
• Splash with Tom Hanks,
• George Lucas and the Director's Guild,
• South Park Easter Special ala Da Vinci Code,
• Four Winds Renaissance Faire,
• Another Random Andrew Quote,

Songs This Week:

• "My Darling Clementine Blues (Live from I-Con)",
• "Old Dun Cow (live)" from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales,
• "A Fairy Story (live)" from A Faire To Remember.

Notes:

• Voted "Best None of the Above" in the 2006-2007 Austin Music Awards
• KUT with John Aielli
• Thanks to everyone who voted for us,
• Other winners we met: Guitar Center, Lucid Dementia, Eklektikos, John Aielli, KUT, and Bobby Bones,
• Shameless self-promotion

Songs This Week:

• "Spancil Hill" from Songs of Ireland,
• "Lily the Pink" from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales,
• "Tolkien (The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings)" from Songs of the Muse,
• "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from A Faire To Remember.