The Birthday/#BonnarooGethard Launch Show
Calls from my mom! Poems, presidential revelations, hair in a jar, Vacation Jason, and a very insulting song! It was a good birthday and we got to put out some last minute desperate pleas for #BonnarooGethard. Not to mention, Shellshag is one of the coolest bands on the planey. Check this one out. Thanks again for the birthday well wishes. - Geth
Packing for #BonnarooGethard
Fun facts - 1. I carried the manriki chain in my pocket every day for three years straight. 2. Dead roses on the tv stand in the living room. I am a Morrissey fan. 3. Fly paper in my room. Gross. 4. Posters of myself. Horrible. Enjoy! - Geth
I recently called some of the #BonnarooGethard help-offerers on the phone. It got weird really, really fast. Thanks to everyone who’s been emailing helpgethard@gmail.com so far - I think this trip is going to be beyond trippy and I can’t wait to meet all the people who are gonna be a part of it. - Geth
TCGS 5/23 - Gethard’s Birthday/#BonnarooGethard/Shellshag!
Thanks to everyone who watched last week’s show. The ROBOT FIGHTS were super fun. HAND JOB ACADEMY were super fun and also semi-disturbing. We really enjoyed doing that show and also hope you enjoyed doing it.
This week, Wednesday marks my 32nd birthday. I am getting kind of old, but feeling pretty good about it.
Also, this week is the last show before I head out to the West Coast to start the mad dash back across the country that is #BonnarooGethard. The process of organizing #BonnarooGethard has been massive and comprehensive and straining.
SO -
This week we are going to take it relatively easy. No cardboard exo-skeletons, for example. BUT – I do want to invite any friends of mine, friends of the show, friends of the world out to the studio for what will serve as my de-facto birthday celebration. I have no idea if anyone is planning anything for this. But if you’ll allow me to be cheesy for a moment – this show is the highlight of every week for me, the people involved in it are people I consider family at this point, and the callers who call in feel like weird, oddly close being that they’re faceless friends. I am glad my birthday is on a Wednesday this year so I can spend it with all of you.
Everyone is invited – past guests, new guests, whomever – please feel free to drop by and hang out.
ALSO – if you are somewhere in America and watch the show but have never called in – please call in and let us know if you want to be part of #BonnarooGethard. It’s going to be a taxing, trying, physically exhausing process – it’s the first project of this type that I’ve done in a few years where I actually feel nervous – and this will be our launch show. This may be the last time our viewers see me in one piece, so please call up, say your goodbyes, offer your help, and let me know what you think my chances are of not collapsing of dehydration in the desert and being sent to a hospital in the greater Albuquerque area.
OUR MUSICAL GUEST THIS WEEK IS SHELLSHAG. HERE’S THE THING ABOUT SHELLSHAG – YOU SHOULD ALREADY BE ROCKING TO SHELLSHAG. I don’t know how two people make more noise and have more fun than bands triple their size, but Shellshag does it. I’m no authority on music, but if I can say one thing from the layman’s perspective, it’s that Shellshag feels like something completely fresh and brand new while also reminding me of the bands from my youth that made me love music in the first place. Shellshag is a two headed monster and I feel like the TCGS audience is going to walk away from this week with a new favorite band, and guess what? That band is Shellshag.
ROBOT FIGHTS AND HANDJOB ACADEMY. AN ALL TIME CLASSIC TCGS!
This week’s show was chaotic and fun. We had eight robots fighting, all with various strategies. Matthew Meyer and Don Fanelli decided to not read the email saying the robots should retain a box shape as their strategy. Sundae Fantastique and Noah Forman planned theirs to offer mobility and high percentage of winning. Melissa Vile Kingdom andBethany Hall combined strategy with aesthetics. Myself and Shannon O’Neill went with “put very little work into it and then go for broke”. All in all, ROBOTS FOUGHT, The Keeper of the Battle Dome told us about the future, we had great calls, 40-YEAR-OLD GOOSEY continued his reign on top, and Hand Job Academy sang songs about incest and menstruation. All in all, a top shelf episode with a lot of weird funny violence. I recommend you watch the whole thing and then when your boss tells you to get back to work you tell him to go fuck himself. - Geth
RATLIFF (“STILLMAN”)/HANKIN 2012
STILLMAN conceptual art by official campaign cartoonist Matt Mayer.
STILLMAN’s superpowers include the ability to move so fast he appears to be standing still and also appearing to still be approximately 35 years old.
(via connorratliff)
Source: connorratliff4president
Making The Map with the #BonnarooGethard Team
I can say that I have so much love in my heart for guys like Keith “Bananaman” Haskel, Robert Malone, Andrew Flynn Soltys, Andrew “Hot Dog” Parrish, and J.D. Amato. But do I feel like they are necessarily the safety net one wants when they are the production crew who can potentially keep one alive when one is wandering through a desert? No, no I do not.
ROBOT FIGHTS and HAND JOB ACADEMY
This week on TCGS we will straight up have PEOPLE IN HOMEMADE ROBOT COSTUMES FIGHTING EACH OTHER and our band is called HAND JOB ACADEMY. People are definitely going to take the fights too seriously and friendships will be strained and all that shit, and also our musical guest is named HAND JOB ACADEMY. Guys, I can not stress enough that this one should not be missed. - Geth
I really love how this week’s show turned out. We started with nothing and didn’t just get through the hour, but had so much fun stuff happen. A fight between two audience members. 40-Year-Old Goosey joining the panel. Electric Monday rocking it hard. Most importantly, there is no way to accentuate this enough - I have NEVER smelled anything worse than the fermented herring we opened at the end of this show. We freaked out on camera, but it doesn’t nearly capture that stench. It was like a close up sniff of a cat’s asshole if the cat’s asshole was filled with cigarette butts. So, so, so fucked up and awful. Enjoy! - Geth
My mom is not a fan of this whole walking across America idea. Also, not really a fan of me and the life I have wound up leading and what not.
