In this episode:

• a roll call of our listeners,
• the New York Jets vs. the Indianapolis Colts,
• Jimmy the Greek,
• weird comments on our Steven Seagal Hall of Lame post,
• Steven Seagal vs. Jean-Claude Van Damme,
• Van Damme’s return to professional kickboxing,
• celebrity boxing (Dustin Diamond vs. Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Rodman vs. Dennis Haskins),
• the Japanese believing Sony products break on purpose,
• pieces of the white Apple Macbook cracking off,
• Rob’s switch from the iPhone 3G to a free Pantech Reveal,
• a video of Pee-wee Herman using the Apple iPad,
• a fan dub of the G1 Transformers episode Scramble City,
• Alan Alda as the voice of Bumblebee,
• a Frank Welker fan site,
• Michael Bay’s belief that superheroes don’t wear masks,
• Dr. Phil as the voice of Optimus Prime,
• and George Lucas re-releasing the Star Wars movies in 3D.

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On Saturday, July 12, 2008, I went to the Apple Store on 5th Ave. in Manhattan. This location is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So how come I couldn’t go in?

The answer: because hundreds of people were lined up outside waiting to buy the new iPhone 3G and the Apple Store employees were only letting a few people into the store at a time. People like me who weren’t buying an iPhone had to wait in a separate line. The entire ordeal was ridiculous and unnecessary.

I hate waiting in line for five minutes at the grocery store, yet these fools were perfectly happy waiting in line for eight or nine hours to buy a telephone. You’d think it were a brand new invention.

What’s even more stupid is most of these idiots already have an iPhone from a year ago that’s 99% identical to the new one.

We talk with special guest Frank Edward Nora from The Overnightscape podcast (www.theovernightscape.com)!

In this episode:

• the end of analog broadcast TV on February 17, 2009,
• 2008 U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul,
• the Republican Party’s obsession with terrorism,
• $100 per barrel of oil,
• 24 minute podcast episodes,
• old 74 minute CD-R discs,
• transferring old VHS video tapes to DVDs,
• the ridiculous Beanie Babies fad in the late 1990s,
• storing photos,
• history in the future,
• albums being released on USB flash drives in England,
• iTunes digital release cards at Starbucks,
• the loudness war and horrible audio CD mastering,
• a get-rich-quick scheme for record companies,
• the Fun N Games arcade in Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, NJ, shutting down,
• Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) computer software,
• the video game Red Earth (known as Warzard in Japan) by Capcom,
• reading bad novels in high school (The Good Earth, The Chocolate War, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, etc.),
• David Copperfield’s current FBI investigation,
• Frank’s review of Bee Movie (2007) starring Jerry Seinfeld,
• the Writers Guild of America strike,
• Late Show with David Letterman,
• TV interviews via satellite,
• Heroes season 2,
• the online video revolution,
• podcasting and online audio,
• Frank’s attempt at a premium podcast (Anything But Monday),
• and Frank’s upcoming secret project.

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The Paunch Stevenson Show two-year anniversary special, part one!

In this episode:

• the current top ten movies at the box office,
• Jack Palance and Ripley’s Believe It or Not!,
• David Hasselhoff starring in an upcoming Anaconda sequel,
• the upcoming movie I Am Legend (2007) starring Will Smith,
• The Omega Man (1971) starring Charlton Heston,
• the upcoming movie Fred Claus (2007) starring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti,
• the onslaught of Bee Movie commercials,
• microfiche and microfilm,
• the Belleville Public Library in Belleville, NJ, in the 1990s,
• the Dewey Decimal System,
• horribly outdated computers in school,
• Belleville High School’s CAD class,
• an old pen plotter from the 1970s,
• the uselessness of old computers,
• fanfold printer paper,
• Macintosh vs. PC prices,
• old computer gimmicks (RAM Doubler, Stacker, etc.),
• old internet service providers (Prodigy, Compuserve, etc.),
• and receiving free AOL discs in the mail.

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In this episode:

• Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980, 2006) on DVD,
• Highlander: The Source (2007) starring Adrian Paul,
• director Brett Leonard and his horrible movies,
• The Lawnmower Man (1992) starring Pierce Brosnan,
• bad computer graphics,
• Virtuosity (1995) starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe,
• T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (1998),
• Bloodfist VII: Manhunt (1995) starring Don “The Dragon” Wilson,
• Cobra (1986) starring Sylvester Stallone,
• Steven Seagal breaking Sean Connery’s wrist,
• Imus Ranch salsa,
• and the Apple iPhone price cut.

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In this episode:

• a Sean Connery update,
• the Die Hard series of movies starring Bruce Willis,
• the Apple iPhone launch,
• a Transformers cosplay video on YouTube.com,
• a five foot tall Devastator by Shane (www.kingbotz.com),
• useless Japanese robots,
• anticipation for Transformers opening July 3, 2007,
• a listener’s web site (pleasesavemerobots.blogspot.com by Esteban),
• celebrity deaths (Charles Nelson Reilly, Don Herbert, and Liz Claiborne, thanks to www.deadoraliveinfo.com),
• The Wizard (1989) starring Fred Savage and Christian Slater,
• The Vanishing (1993) starring Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland,
• What Ever Happened To? (Fred Savage and Ben Savage),
• and WWE wrestler Chris Benoit’s steroid-induced murders and suicide.

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In this episode:

• Carroll Shelby,
• Bill Cosby’s Super Snake custom car and Tony Maxey’s death,
• a new X-Files movie,
• the upcoming movie Star Trek (2008),
• various actors we’d prefer as the voice of Megatron in the upcoming movie Transformers (2007),
• the upcoming movie Pee-wee’s Playhouse: The Movie (2009),
• Teen Wolf (1985) starring Michael J. Fox and Teen Wolf Too (1987) starring Jason Bateman,
• Steve Jobs buying Pixar from George Lucas in 1986,
• live-action G.I. Joe fan movies (Special Missions and Battle for the Serpent Stone),
• insane celebrities,
• the fall of Britney Spears,
• and a Kevin Federline update.

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In this episode:

• our interview with filmmaker Scott C. Clements in Toronto,
• his movie serial The Scarlet Avenger (www.youtube.com/sclements75),
• Apple Final Cut Pro,
• Sam Raimi,
• special effects on a limited budget,
• masked villains,
• Spy Smasher (1942) by Republic Pictures,
• Cinemaware’s 1988 video game Rocket Ranger,
• George Lucas and the upcoming Indiana Jones movie,
• Silent Hill (2006) starring Radha Mitchell,
• and The Old Jingle of the Episode (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! closing theme “Do the Mario”).

More links about Scott C. Clements and The Scarlet Avenger:

the blog of filmmaker Scott C. Clements

The Scarlet Avenger part 1 of 3 (4 min. 58 sec.)

The Scarlet Avenger part 2 of 3 (6 min. 49 sec.)

The Scarlet Avenger part 3 of 3 (9 min. 42 sec.)

The Scarlet Avenger on the iTunes store

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• professional video gamers and Major League Gaming (www.mlgpro.com),
• Burger King video games for Microsoft Xbox,
• Sony PlayStation 3 launch day scams,
• Nintendo Wii bundles,
• bleem!,
• the hypocrisy of Apple fanatics installing Microsoft Windows on their new Macintosh computers,
• elevator common sense,
• the Power Glove by Mattel and other useless gimmick toys,
• Tyco slot cars,
• and Tom Cruise’s auto racing career.

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Since early 2006, Apple has been paying Justin Long to lie about Macintosh and Windows computers in its commercials. He’s also an actor and is starring in the upcoming movie Live Free or Die Hard (2007) with Bruce Willis and Kevin Smith.