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George Hrab – Bond, Bee Gees & Baths

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George Hrab has been a favourite of mine to interview since first meeting him in 2010 at TAM (The Amazing Meeting) Australia.

George is the fun filled science communicator-adjacent, overly-talented musician from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

I have known George for 10 years, but only met him 3 times. So of course we are best friends.

This 30 minutes has the usual wide ranging and seemingly random topics. Expect bathroom etiquette, attractive women wanting to kill you, and trombones.

From humble beginnings overcoming the shame of Moonraker being his first James Bond film, to performing around the world solo, with a string quartet or his usual 9 piece funk band The Philadelphia Funk Authority.

Whenever there’s a “big blow” on, I try to be in the bath.

George Hrab, Hydro Enthusiast
George Hrab in snappy 3 piece suit
George scubas up well folks.

I am comfortable with my role as the brain sorbet of the science communication community.

George Hrab, the popular palate cleanser.
Pick Up The Pieces
George performing Small Comfort live with string quartet at QED in Manchester, England.
Geo’s regular fireside acoustic one man Jam.

George & Maynard get together backstage in Las Vegas after working 48 hours straight in 2012.

George Hrab’s wonderful world online

Maynard & George Hrab 2010
Maynard & George Hrab 2010
The scene George & Maynard reference at end of show.
Maynard, Retro

Tom Jones – the legend and his pants.

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Maynard interviews the mighty Tom Jones for radio Triple J in 1988, just before Tom released “Kiss” in Australia, and then for 2SER, backstage at Sydney Entertainment Centre after his 1995 concert.

Hear the legend, his voice, and his secret of long lasting pants.

I get my trousers specially made. So busted pants for me are now a thing of the past.

Tom Jones 1988
Maynard with Tom Jones 1988
Maynard with Tom Jones, Southern Cross Hotel, 1988

I’ve never taken myself too seriously. If I’m going to do an up tempo song, I’ll have fun with it.

Tom Jones 1988
Just Help Yourself to some Tom 1968.

Tom Jones turned 80 this month……

Maynard with Tom Jones 1995
Maynard with Tom Jones backstage Sydney Entertainment Centre, 1995.
“Think I better dance now!” Kiss 1988
John Ottway front cover of his version of Green, Green, Grass of Home.
John Otway front cover of his version of Green, Green Grass of Home.
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Bunga Bunga 61 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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Bunga Bunga 61 has Tim Ferguson & Maynard discovering a powerful medical phenomenon, Herd Humility.

Kitler reaps his revenge upon Tim for showing him far too much affection.

Maynard asks to you two questions you have to answer, before you are allowed out of lockdown.

Maynard’s Madd club show, last one Friday at 8:30pm

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Bunga Bunga 60 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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Bunga Bunga 60 has Tim & Maynard keeping Australia up to date on the things that count. Distracting zombies with online streaming and the fate of that possum in Maynard’s shed.

They take Crankmail on Bond, boobs, and a rather feisty Dachshund from Perth calls into the Alan Jones show to counter the issues brought up last time by Tim’s cat.

It’s not a bit of wood or an owl.

Maynard’s Madd club show, every Friday at 8:30pm

To The Batpoles podcast

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Bunga Bunga 59 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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Maynard gets Tim Ferguson on the Bungaphone for an action packed and speculation filled Bunga Bunga 59.

Don’t know where it will all end? Neither do Tim nor Maynard, but in a show that somehow connects 3 different native animals, a cat and Alan Jones you are assured to be no wiser by the end of this travesty of a mockery.

Your Crankmail is answered, Tim addresses the country’s lack of panic buying this week and Maynard starts an airline with the help of Winston Churchill.

Keep hoarding Australia!

Tim Ferguson
Kangaroo disappointed by Adelaide.

Maynard Air, it’s up yours.

Maynard
Winston Churchill describes Maynard Air
Winston Churchill describes the future Maynard Air.

Gretel Killeen’s website

Bunga Bunga live video at Tim’s

Aerobics Oz Style
June, Taryn & Wendy are back with Aerobics Oz Style. Tim’s concerns about shoulder pads are ill founded.
Jodie asked, What is this plastic thing?
Jodie asked, What is this plastic thing?

Don’t Take Pandemic Advice From A Podcast

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Bunga Bunga 58 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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Desperate times call for a highly entertaining and consummate Bunga Bunga.

Tim Ferguson & Maynard are the right duo up in the right place to get down at the right time. Join them as they cower in place in the lofty heights of Tim’s Fortress of Arrogance. But don’t worry, Maynard’s Bug Out Bag has been ready for years, full of questionable cultural content.

Even gossip king Lance Leopard phones in to the show from his ivory tower of scandal, to solve a burning social issue. You know, the Kylie/Madonna one.

Hold the line Australia. Hold the line.

Tim Ferguson

Bunga Bunga 58 contains advice, laughs, wisdom and a little bit of comfort food as Tim & Maynard pirouette on the cutting edge with things that are SO early March, that no one is talking about any more: micro plastics in teabags, waxed baking paper usage and that Greta.

If you can’t lick anybody else, you might as well lick yourself.

Maynard

Learn about yet another emerging threat to Australia from Northcote. Be alert and maybe a bit alarmed about the scourge of overly earnest poetry about to swamp a nation that has already suffered enough.

Kitler 2 oversees the production of Bunga Bunga 58
Kitler 2 oversees the production.

You aren’t the only one tired of being part of a major historical event. So let’s discuss Julie Andrews in the bathroom, Tim & Maynard’s career having eerie similarities to the Australian economy right now and poop on a plate.

First ever Bunga Bunga live video

13 Minutes to the Moon, Season 2 – Apollo 13

So, Ruby don’t take your love to town. It’s shut. Settle in with Bunga Bunga 58. But remember…..

Don’t Take Pandemic Advice From A Podcast

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Bunga Bunga 57 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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Bunga Bunga 57 brings poor advice and even worse lifestyle choices into your hearing once again.

We hear from Tim on his new cat, Star Trek’s best movies, burlesque as a tax dodge, inappropriate dress for time travel and why cows and mining don’t mix.

Tim and Maynard also dive deep into the burning social issue of feline appropriation.

We also put our political predictions where our Trump is, by calling the results of the US election. Tim does anyway. Maynard is busy thinking about his Pseudo Echo support gig in March.

Kitler 2 takes an important FaceTime call.
Kitler 2 takes an important FaceTime call.

Tim’s live shows around Australia

Maynard supports Pseudo Echo March 7th

Last to Die, the non fiction book Maynard is reading

Tijuana Taxi interview, what a band!

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Bunga Bunga 56 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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Bunga Bunga 56 returns for 2020 to save you from an expensive haircut.

Tim Ferguson is sporting the latest look in Summer festival fashion, his sustainable “conflict haircut”. No one died for the look he has this month, described by Green Left Weekly as “no justice, no pants”.

We introduce you to the newest member of the Bunga Bunga family:

Kitler 2, Tim's new cat.
Meet Kitler 2. As Tim says in the show; “He’s just like the second Titanic you never thought you’d see”. Here we see him judging Charlotte.

Only the big issues in Bunga Bunga 56. We answer your Crankmail, find it more difficult than usual to launder money thru Westpac, and ask Tim if he owes Scott Morrison an apology.

This year’s Coldest 100 tunes mentioned in the show.

Tim’s live shows

The Sydney Hellfire Club story Tim keeps asking about.

Maynard supports Pseudo Echo, March 7th.

Newcastle Fringe Festival program

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Bunga Bunga 55 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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Tim and Maynard return with Bunga Bunga 55 just in time to advise the Australian Labor Party on their future AND blame their election loss on the catchy jingle they DIDN’T use.

Tim is going to Hobart, Maynard is going Village People (again).

Bunga Bunga doesn’t obsess over popular culture, we obsess obsessively over UNpopular culture.

We raise trivial issues of great importance including (but are not limited to):

Sir Lawrence Olivier, girl guides, Law & Order’s obsession with our podcast, what happens when Batman goes on holiday, Tim in a barrel, the sanctity of marriage/Star Wars, Apollo 11, the Hammond organ and the unearthly sound of Maynard’s possibly haunted harmonica.

That Flying High scene we talk about

Tim’s weekly Fake News in The New Daily

Maynard backstage with Village People in 2010

Maynard presents Can’t Stop The Music

The kind of thing Tim complains about in his rant about men

Where you can catch Tim’s show around Australia.

Tim Ferguson & Maynard bring you Bunga Bunga 46
Tim Ferguson & Maynard wintering in Glebe.
Be mesmerised by Omar on his mighty Hammond organ
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Bunga Bunga 54 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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What kind of a CD does an adult buy? Tim & Maynard have no idea. What kind of music wins an academy award? Maynard & Tim can only guess. Badly. Have Australian politics demystified, and find out which one of these two floats in Bunga Bunga 54.

Tim is on sale and Maynard is going out the door at below cost as BB54 whistles a happy tune, warns you of Tim coming to a street near you and answers your Crankmail.

All stock must go!

Maynard’s next Loveshack night June 22nd

Maynard & Lance Leopard present Flash Gordon July 2nd

Where you can catch Tim’s show around Australia.