HGC Radio - Episode 68: Oscars, Olympics and Airports... Oh, My!

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Yo son, he's back! NOAH PANICO returns to The HANDSOME GENIUS CLUB RADIO SHOW to tell host ANTHONY KINGDOM JAMES all about the month he spent in Vancouver working at the Winter Olympics. Noah talks ticketing, employee relations, sports fans with too much money, celebrity sightings, Gold Medal hockey games and much, much more including some of Noah's patented advice for scamming the system to make you life easier. But first, AKJ has some ranting to do about the movie Twilight and last night Oscar's and, as always, delivers all the NERD NEWS you need to start your week.

Listen to the show now in streaming audio or right click the link to download the show as an mp3. It's HGC Radio: Academy Award Winner for Outstanding Achievement in Loud-Mouth Nerd Podcastting! For photos, links, music info and more, click this link to read more!

This week's handsome links...
Listen for more from Noah Panico on his own podcast: Counting The Lights.
Follow the Handsome Genius Club on Twitter and Facebook today!

This week's music was "Superfast Jellyfish" from the brand new Gorillaz cd Plastic Beach and "Just Like That" from the Insane Clown Posse's 1997 disc Great Milenko.

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HGC Radio - Episode 67: Evil Genius At Work

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HGC Radio is back from vacation with a brand new episode! AKJ catches us all up on some great audio including Colorado Avalanche broadcaster PETER RUTTGAIZER discussing the Olympic men's hockey tournament and Kingdom's recent appearance on The Commercials' Free Podcast. Then stick around for the NERD NEWS!

Listen to the show now in streaming audio or right click the link to download the show as an mp3. It's HGC Radio: We're Back Like A Vertabrae! For photos, links, music info and more, click this link to read more!

This week's handsome links...
Check out The Commercials' Free Podcast starring our friends, Dave Koenig and Ken Pond.
Follow the Handsome Genius Club on Twitter and Facebook today!

This week's musical selections were:
"I Made It (Cash Money Heroes)" by Kevin Rudolf
"Valleys of Neptune" by Jimi Hendrix


Mike Comrie: Hillary? Will you marry me?


Hillary Duff: Oh my god! YES!


Hillary takes a moment to enjoy the greatest gift a man can give a woman.


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HGC Radio - Episode 66: We Got A Situation Over Here!

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Pump your fists to the sound of the beat! It's time for a Jersey Shore-style dance battle! Wait... No, it's not! It's time for another episode of the HANDSOME GENIUS CLUB RADIO SHOW! Today, ANTHONY KINGDOM JAMES welcomes Dose.ca television critic KAT ANGUS back to the show. Kat and Kingdom discuss the mess over at NBC with Jay and Conan, the upcoming final season of Lost, what a douche Jimmy Fallon is and a whole lot more.

Listen to the show now in streaming audio or right click the link to download the show as an mp3. It's HGC Radio: More Fun Than Punching Snooki In The Mouth! For photos, links, music info and more, click this link to read more!

This week's handsome links...
Look for more from Kat Angus at Dose.ca.
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"The Web Show" is FOX-y!

From cartoons, news, and some possible late night excursions, FOX is a big topic today. From Sarah Palin to Conan O'Brien, Family Guy, and more...what's going on with FOX?



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Hot Mess: Fried Butter, WWE vs. TNA, & the Late Night Battle

Catch the first NEW Hot Mess for 2010. It's the "Swine" Flu, Fried Butter, Monday Night Wars? between WWE & TNA (what about ROH, SAW, & PWU?), & The Battle for Late Night.



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I Bought The Iron Sheik A Hamburger... And Lived To Tell About It

This article comes to us from one of our favourite Usual Suspects: Jimmy Scoops.

“Woochu buy me a hahm-boorger?”

These were not the words I ever expected to come out of the mouth of The Iron Sheik.

As I sat in a folding chair after getting my picture taken with the professional wrestling legend in a high school gymnasium recently, I more expected The Iron Sheik to boast voraciously about being the man who ended Bob Backlund’s nearly six-year reign as WWF Champion. Or I thought he might fish for a quick compliment. Or, just maybe, I’d be lucky enough that he’d call me an anti-gay slur while threatening to make me “humble” by anally raping me, as he’s done countless times on YouTube in rants against, among others, Hulk Hogan.

But I never expected The Iron Sheik to hit me up for a sandwich.

The Sheik was making an appearance for National Championship Wrestling, a small indy which is anything but “national” and runs out of my hometown of York, Pa. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen many, many quality workers wrestle in NCW over the years, but no one is going to confuse it for Paul Heyman’s ECW anytime soon.

Anyway, for weeks prior to the show, my friend Mike and I talked about the many great things we could do to antagonize the notoriously nutty Iron Sheik. We could go out and get Hulk Hogan T-shirts to wear to the show. We could tell him that we saw the Ultimate Warrior perform the greatest version of the Camel Clutch we ever witnessed. We could question him regarding the YouTube video in which “Killer Bee” Brian Blair claims Iron Sheik “molested” a “little kid” (though to be fair, Blair immediately backpedals on this claim in the interview).

But after I paid my $20 to sit in a chair and be photographed with my own cell phone camera in the middle of two of old-school wrestling’s most notorious baddies, The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff, all of those thoughts disappeared from my head. I’m not proud to admit it, but even at 66 years old, and even though I had just watched him amble into that little high school gymnasium with the assistance of a cane, I was afraid of The Iron Sheik.

Volkoff? He seemed like a nice old man. He reminded me of a guy you’d sit next to at a VFW hall and trade dirty jokes with between sips of cheap beer. But The Sheik? You could see the insanity in his eyes. You could tell that in his mind, he was still that hulking, athletic mass of muscle, able to beat the ever-loving shit out of any man who dares cross him.

Sure, he smiled broadly and no longer wore the uniform of an anti-American, Ayatollah-worshipping Iranian. “I luff USA,” he told the crowd of hundreds who had gathered in southern York County. This was further advertised by The Sheik’s American flag bandana which, if his YouTube clips from the past few years are any indication, he wears often.

But he is still a scary man. Just before I sat to get my picture taken, The Sheik signed the T-shirt of a kid who looked to be about 15 years old. As the kid started to walk away, The Sheik got angry and yelled, “Hey, he need to pay me!” After the manager stopped the kid, The Sheik agreed that if the kid bought him a burger, he wouldn’t have to pay him for the autograph.

And then it was my turn to get my picture taken. As I sat in the chair, I got called a “jabroni” by Mr. Volkoff, who I swear said “jabroni” as if it was a term of endearment, and The Sheik demanded that I hold his replica WWE World Championship Belt over my shoulder. Why he bought that model belt, I have no idea, as I’m pretty sure it doesn’t resemble any of the belts he wore during his career. Maybe it was a present from Vince after getting elected into the WWE Hall of Fame? So we took a great picture, the three of us, whom I fantasized would be called “The New Axis of Evil.” Perhaps my character could be James W. Sanders, an evil American imperialist neocon?

This fantasy didn’t last long, for then it happened. I got hit up by the Iron Sheik to buy him a burger. “How much food does this guy need?” I thought to myself (I didn’t mention that he was already eating a burger before I approached his merch table for the photo, before he had demanded another burger from the pencil-necked adolescent). “When the fuck did The Iron Sheik turn into ‘Wimpy’ from Popeye?” I asked myself.

But, I rationalized, if I were at a bar, I would definitely buy The Iron Sheik a beer. So why not buy him a burger? “Because he just charged you $10 to sit next to him for a photo!” I can hear my dad saying to me. But whatever; I buckled. I bought The Iron Sheik a hamburger.

When I returned to my seat to show my friend Mike the awesome photo I had just paid to have taken, I flat out told him a boldfaced lie, which yes, I still regret. I told my friend that I got a discount on the photo for buying The Sheik the burger. Why did I lie to my friend? I guess I was embarrassed about being intimidated by a 66-year-old man who walks with a cane. Or maybe I just didn’t want to admit, even to my fellow wrestling fan friend, that I felt enough reverence toward that crazy old bastard to buy him a burger on top of the money I just gave him for the picture.

But what makes me feel even stranger is the fact that though I’ve previously met sports legends such as Mario Andretti, Joe Montana, and Hulk Hogan, I was still kind of shaking when I returned to my seat after looking into the eyes of the infamous, the insane, The Iron Sheik. Read more!

"THE WEB SHOW" is #1!

HGC Radio's Chief Whovian correspondent and member of "The Usual Suspects" Phil Stamper makes his triumphant return to HandsomeGeniusClub.com with a brand new web show for the brand new year: the very aptly named "The Web Show". From The Jonas Brothers to Miley Cyrus to Disney to Marvel to Doctor Who, Phil tackles it all on this first episode, so sit back and enjoy "The Web Show"!



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HGC Radio - Episode 65: The Best of 2009

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The holidays are over and a new year has begun! But before we move on, The HANDSOME GENIUS CLUB RADIO SHOW takes a look back at some of the moments that made 2009 so special. ANTHONY KINGDOM JAMES has clips featuring Rob Van Dam, Dirk Benedict, Nina Hartley, Larry Hama, Jimmy Palmiotti, Paul Lazenby, Kat Angus and Michael Jai White plus appearances from many of the Usual Suspects including TJ Habibi, Noah Panico, Big Ron Larmondin, George Zotti, Dean Brotton and Persephone Vice.

Listen to the show now in streaming audio or right click the link to download the show as an mp3. Or subscribe via iTunes. It's HGC Radio: an episode so good, it took us a whole year to make it! For photos, links, music info and more, click this link to read more!

This week's handsome links...
Noah Panico co-hosts the wildly popular pro wrestling podcast Counting The Lights.
TJ Habibi heads a kick-ass band call Secret Suburbia.
The official Rob Van Dam website.
The official Dirk Benedict website.
The official Nina Hartley website. (18+ only please)
The official Jimmy Palmiotti blog site.
The official Paul Lazenby website.
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HGC Radio - Episode 64: It's A Podcast About Nothing

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History is made this week... a tiny little piece of history that no one will care about but history nonetheless. The first-ever Handsome Genius Club/Counting The Lights supershow is online! ANTHONY KINGDOM JAMES joined forces with SAM and NOAH PANICO, BRIAN KRASMAN, JASON KERNATZ, JAKE GARRETT and LEE BARKER from CountingTheLights.com to record their shows at the same time at the CTL Studio in Pittsburgh. It's an expeiment in hilarity and YOU are the test subject!

Listen to the show now in streaming audio or right click the link to download the show as an mp3. It's HGC Radio: More Fun Than a Ninja Fighting a Pirate! For photos, links, music info and more, click this link to read more!

This week's handsome links...
The Counting The Lights crew can also be read and heard at their website.
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HGC Radio - Episode 63: Are You Adequately Prepared To Rock?

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Fetish photographer and sex educator MORPHEOUS and fetish model ELLE join today's HANDSOME GENIUS CLUB RADIO SHOW to discuss Morpheous' new book "How To Be Kinky: A Beginner's Guide To BDSM". Stay tuned to the end of the show when your host ANTHONY KINGDOM JAMES will tell you how you can win a copy of Morph's book. Plus, NERD NEWS, a brand new STUPIDEST BASTARD ON EARTH and a whole ton of THINGS TO DO. This episode is definitely NSFW, so turn up your speakers and freak out the people at your office!

Listen to the show now in streaming audio or right click the link to download the show as an mp3. It's HGC Radio: The Safe Word is Chewbacca! For photos, links, music info and more, click this link to read more!




A few pics from Morpheous' recent Northern Ontario photo shoot with fetish model Elle.

This week's handsome links...
Check out fetish photographer and sex educator Morpheous at his official website. This site is definitely NSFW and 18+ only.
Follow the Handsome Genius Club on Twitter and Facebook today!

This week's music is "In The City" by Kevin Rudolf. (Did I play this song once already?) Read more!

HGC Radio now available thru iTunes Store!

Success!!! The fine folks at Apple have officially added The Handsome Genius Club Radio Show to their iTunes Store! That means that not only will you be able to do a search for "Handsome Genius Club" in iTunes from any computer and find HGC Radio but you'll be able to subscribe and iTunes will automatically download new episodes of the show whenever they appear online.

No more wondering whether or not Kingdom got off his ass and put a new episode online on Friday or Monday or at 9am or 5pm. Let iTunes do that thinking for you and you'll always be up to date with the shenanigans of Anthony Kingdom James and The Usual Suspects here on The Handsome Genius Club Radio Show!

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HGC Radio - Episode 62: The Horsemen Genius Club

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HGC RADIO returns with a hilarious new episode. SAM AND NOAH PANICO join your host ANTHONY KINGDOM JAMES for a lively conversation about American vs Canadian Thanksgiving and the Black Friday shopping nightmare that follows the holiday in the United States. Plus, Noah reviews the movie "NINJA ASSASSIN", Sam declares war on Old Navy and Kingdom discusses what's wrong with his love life before setting the Panico Brothers straight about all things Canadian. Stay tuned after that for the NERD NEWS and a double dose of "STUPIDEST BASTARD" action!

Listen to the show now in streaming audio or right click the link to download the show as an mp3. It's HGC Radio: Something WORTH Giving Thanks For! For photos, links, music info and more, click this link to read more!



This week's handsome links...
Sam and Noah Panico are two of the co-hosts of the wildly popular podcast Counting The Lights.
Follow the Handsome Genius Club on Twitter and Facebook today!

This week's music is "Linus and Lucy" as performed by George Winston from the album "Linus and Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi".

Swiped directly from Eonline.com, here's the calendar of upcoming tv premiere dates:
DECEMBER
Tuesday, Dec. 1
Scrubs (ABC), 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 2
Launch My Line (Bravo), 11 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 6
Alice (Syfy), 9 p.m.
Holly's World special (E!), 11 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 7
The Closer returns (TNT), 9 p.m.
Men of a Certain Age (TNT), 10 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 8
Better Off Ted (ABC), 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 13
Keeping Up With the Kardashians, 10 p.m.

JANUARY
Monday, Jan. 4
The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love (ABC), 8 p.m.
Make It or Break It returns (ABC Family), 9 p.m.
The Secret Life of the American Teenager returns (ABC Family), 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 5
The Good Wife returns (CBS), 10 p.m.
NCIS returns (CBS), 8 p.m.
NCIS: Los Angeles returns (CBS), 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 6
Nip/Tuck (FX), 10 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 8
Ghost Whisperer returns (CBS), 8 p.m.
Medium returns (CBS), 9 p.m.
Numb3rs returns (CBS), 10 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 9
Legend of the Seeker returns (syndication)

Sunday, Jan. 10
Big Love (HBO), 10 p.m.
Chuck (NBC), 9 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 11
Accidentally on Purpose returns (CBS), 8:30 p.m.
The Big Bang Theory returns (CBS), 9:30 p.m.
CSI: Miami returns (CBS), 10 p.m.
Heroes returns (NBC), 9 p.m.
How I Met Your Mother returns (CBS), 8 p.m.
Two and a Half Men returns (CBS), 9 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 12
American Idol (Fox), 8 p.m.
Southland (TNT), 10 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 13
Criminal Minds returns (CBS), 9 p.m.
CSI: NY returns (CBS), 10 p.m.
Gary Unmarried returns (CBS), 8:30 p.m.
Leverage returns (TNT), 10 p.m.
The New Adventures of Old Christine returns (CBS), 8 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 14
Archer (FX), 10 p.m.
Bones returns (Fox), 8 p.m.
CSI returns (CBS), 9 p.m.
Fringe returns (Fox), 9 p.m. (for four weeks, then off until April)
Grey's Anatomy returns (ABC), 9 p.m.
The Mentalist returns (CBS), 10 p.m.
Parks and Recreation returns (NBC), 8:30 p.m.
Private Practice returns (ABC), 10 p.m.
Project Runway (Lifetime), 10 p.m.
The Vampire Diaries returns (CW), 8 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 17
24 (Fox), 9 p.m.
Human Target (Fox), 8 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 18
Life UneXpected (CW), 9 p.m.
One Tree Hill returns (CW), 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 19
White Collar returns (USA), 10 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 21
Burn Notice returns (USA), 10 p.m.
Supernatural returns (CW), 9 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 22
Caprica (Syfy), 9 p.m.
Smallville returns (CW), 8 p.m.
Spartacus (Starz), 10 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 25
Damages (FX), 10 p.m.
Greek returns (ABC Family), 10 p.m.
La La Land (Showtime), 11 p.m.
Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Showtime), 10 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 27
Psych returns (USA), 10 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 31
American Dad returns (Fox), 9:30 p.m.
The Cleveland Show returns (Fox), 8:30 p.m.
Family Guy returns (Fox), 9 p.m.
The Simpsons returns (Fox), 8 p.m.

FEBRUARY
Tuesday, Feb. 2
Lost (ABC), 9 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 4
The Office returns (NBC), 9 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 11
Past Life (Fox), 8 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 19
Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO), 9 p.m.

MARCH
Monday, March 8
Gossip Girl returns (CW), 9 p.m.

Sunday, March 14
Sons of Tucson (Fox), 8:30 p.m.

Monday, March 22
Nurse Jackie (Showtime), 10 p.m.
United States of Tara (Showtime), 10:30 p.m.

APRIL
Thursday, April 1
Fringe returns (Fox), 9 p.m.

Sunday, April 11
The Tudors (Showtime), 9 p.m.

Tuesday, April 13
Glee returns (Fox), 9 p.m.

NOTES
Breaking Bad returns in March, exact date TBD.
New FX series Justified (formerly Lawman) starring Timothy Olyphant premieres in March, exact date TBD.
Lie To Me returns in late spring, exact date TBD.
Trauma probably returns sometime after the winter Olympics.
V returns in March, exact date TBD.
If you liked the Planet Earth miniseries, hang tight for the sequel. The series, called Life, is narrated by Oprah Winfrey and premieres in March on Discovery. We've seen a sample hour, and in the tradition of its predecessor, it looks amazing.
HBO's highly anticipated World War II miniseries The Pacific (think Band of Brothers on other side of the world) is possibly premiering in March. Read more!

HGC Radio - Episode 61: Is There Life After Oprah?

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Finally, ANTHONY KINGDOM JAMES gets off his seasonally depressed ass and completes another episode of THE HANDSOME GENIUS CLUB RADIO SHOW!!! This week, mixed martial artist PHIL FRIEDMAN joins the show to discuss his life as a pro fighter and trainer at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas, his former career as a professional wrestler including his incredible first tour of Japan and a whole lot more. Plus, Kingdom has NERD NEWS and both a brand new LUCKIEST FUCKER and STUPIDEST BASTARD for us.

Listen to the show now in streaming audio or right click the link to download the show as an mp3. It's HGC Radio: If You Pee Into A Brita Filter, What Comes Out? For photos, links, music info and more, click this link to read more!

Tila Tequila Sex Tape preview

Hawkman attack Green Arrow on an upcoming episode of Smallville.

Doctor Fate and StarGirl from an upcoming episode of Smallville.

This week's handsome links...
Phil Friedman is one of the trainers at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas.
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This week's music is "Devil On My Shoulder" by Billy Talent and "Superfly" by jackSOUL featuring the recently deceased Haydain Neale. Read more!

Please Visit HGC.com and Re-Subscribe to the HGC Radio Show

We had a problem with the RSS feed of the Handsome Genius Club last week that prevented a great many of our listeners from getting Episode 60 through their iTunes subscription. Well, thanks to some FeedBurner wizardry, that is now fixed. We have a BRAND NEW subscription button here on the site (upper right corner of the page) that will allow you to subscribe to the Radio Show through a number of services INCLUDING ITUNES!!!

HURRAY! iTunes will now download each week's episode of the show automatically and without fail. Please stop by The Handsome Genius Club website and click the button and renew your membership in the Handsome Genius Club. Or just follow THIS LINK!!!

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HGC Radio - Episode 60: Geniusamania Runnin' Wild

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If you like guys in their mid-30's, talking shit and having a laugh, then have we got a podcast for you! THE HANDSOME GENIUS CLUB RADIO SHOW returns for its 60th episode with your host ANTHONY KINGDOM JAMES and special guests TJ HABIBI and NOAH PANICO. TJ tells us about a recent singing gig, Noah talks about an upcoming wrestling event and Kingdom has all your NERD NEWS for the week. Join in the fun and have a few laughs.

Listen to the show now in streaming audio or right click the link to download the show as an mp3. It's HGC Radio: If You Pee Into A Brita Filter, What Comes Out? For photos, links, music info and more, click this link to read more!

This week's handsome links...
Check out Noah's pro wrestling podcast: Counting The Lights
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This week's music is "God Save The Queen" by The Sex Pistols. Read more!

Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles

Hey! It's funny. So watch it and enjoy.


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