Happy holidays!!

In this episode:

• our movie review of 12 Dates of Christmas (2011) starring Amy Smart and Mark-Paul Gosselaar,
• the fact that it completely ripped off Groundhog Day (1993) starring Bill Murray,
• Greg fist bumping Eliza Dushku’s giant ring,
• Greg meeting Bill Maher at his book signing for The New New Rules,
• people not sharing their photos and videos from book signings,
• our movie review of D.C. Cab (1983) starring Bill Maher, Gary Busey, and Mr. T,
• Hasbro’s KRE-O and Kreon Transformers,
• Greg meeting Regis Philbin at Bookends for his book How I Got This Way,
• the complete series of Jem on DVD for the first time (released by Shout! Factory),
• fanboys pestering Shout! Factory DVD producer Brian Ward about film transfer quality,
• Shout! Factory’s Sunbow animated DVDs vs. Rhino’s past DVD releases,
• ruining old TV shows by creating fake Dolby 5.1 surround sound audio,
• the upcoming movie G.I. Joe Retaliation (2012) starring Bruce Willis, The Rock, and Channing Tatum,
• former WWOR channel 9 weatherman Lloyd Lindsay Young and his crazy antics,
• and a celebrity death (comedian Patrice O’Neal).

“Poster” for 12 Dates of Christmas ripping off Groundhog Day…	Eliza Dushku’s massive ring…
Greg with Bill Maher in the background…	Video of Bill Maher’s signing, can you spot Greg at about 2:35?

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Celebrating 6 Years of the Paunch Stevenson Show (Part I)!

In this episode:

• Sylvester Stallone’s $5,000 Montegrappa Chaos pen,
• American cheese,
• chain letters,
• the Joke Society of America,
• how Greg and Rob met 25 years ago,
• middle school madness,
• celebrity deaths (Steve Jobs, creator of Apple, and Dennis Ritchie, creator of Unix),
• Steve Jobs’ many idiosyncracies,
• TNT’s Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) tv movie,
• Steve Jobs, the biography by Walter Isaacson,
• Pixar and the “violent Toy Story cut”,
• Adobe Flash fails on mobile devices,
• other celebrity deaths (Andy Rooney, Al Davis),
• Steven Tyler falls again, loses a tooth,
• John Lennon’s tooth sold for $31,000 dollars,
• cloning the Beatles,
• Chris Tucker goes bankrupt,
• Paunch luck (Rob misses the Ghostbusters theater re-release),
• losing power in the freak October snow storm,
• Greg meets Jerry O’Connell at the Live with Regis and Kelly show in NYC,
• Bill Cosby gets flashed by a topless woman in New York,
• and Greg meets John Lithgow at Barnes and Noble in Princeton, NJ.

Video of John Lithgow at the book signing…

Flickr Album – Greg meets John Lithgow, Princeton, NJ 10/12/11

Flickr Album – Jerry O’Connell on the Live with Regis and Kelly show, NYC 10/13/11

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In this episode:

• our trip to Barcade in Jersey City, NJ (microbrew beers and 1970s-1980s classic video arcade games),
• Barcade running on 100% wind power,
• Rob’s dream about “Macho Man” Randy Savage,
• the 2011 ThunderCats cartoon show,
• Larry Kenney vs. Will Friedle as the voice of Lion-O,
• John Erwin as the voice of Prince Adam and He-Man,
• Greg’s movie review of The A-Team (2010),
• Paunch Stevenson Show celebrity encounters,
• Greg meeting Tom Wopat (Luke Duke from The Dukes of Hazzard),
• John Schneider and Tom Wopat on Smallville,
• Greg meeting Jeff Bridges (Barney Cousins from The Vanishing),
• celebrity deaths (Christopher Mayer from The Dukes of Hazzard and Bubba Smith),
• the 2011 season of Curb Your Enthusiasm finally taking place in NYC,
• our future children missing out on pop culture from the past,
• important pop culture getting lost in time (CHiPs, the Marx Brothers, The Little Rascals, Droopy, The Ant and the Aardvark, etc.),
• the upcoming Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood spin-off Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,
• Jonah Hill’s weight loss,
• Mike Masse’s music video for “Long Time” (acoustic Boston cover),
• the decline of music videos,
• Rob constantly hearing people whistle Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” in England,
• Rob’s 4D movie experience,
• and Tom Wopat’s music vs. Jeff Bridges’s music.

We also snapped some photos of Barcade Jersey City:
Flickr – Barcade, Jersey City, NJ 8/20/11

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In this episode:

• Our ideas for re-dubbing the latest Michael Bay Transformers movie,
• the Rupert Murdoch UK phone hacking scandal,
• undercover sleuth work by Hugh Grant,
• Norm MacDonald announcing the O.J. Simpson verdict on Saturday Night Live,
• cracking passwords using social engineering,
• the “Ralphige” real Michael Jackson prank call (link),
• a fifth child on the way for Kevin ‘K-Fed’ Federline,
• the arrest of former informercial star Don Lapre,
• Tony Little HoMedics Micropedic Sleep Pillows,
• Ted Danson to star on the next season of CSI,
• Barney Miller,
• return of Curb Your Enthusiasm,
• why the Golden Girls is still funny (video),
• US Marines asking Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake on dates,
• Rob’s failure to book Tami Erin, star of The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988) on the show,
• emulating classic PC games using DOSBOX,
• downfall of modern gaming franchises and developers (Hitman, Max Payne, Project Gotham, LucasArts),
• Copyright Alert System,
• and a celebrity death (Roberts Blossom).

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In this episode:

• our giant movie review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) in 3D, starring Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley,
• the ridiculous length of the movie,
• the end of the shaky camera fad,
• a list of movies and TV shows Michael Bay ripped off (The Transformers, Superman, The Watchmen, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Jackie Chan’s Who Am I?),
• illogical Duracell battery pricing at Staples,
• our roll call of robots in the movie (Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Ratchet, Sentinal Prime, Starscream, Megatron, Shockwave, Soundwave, and dozens of unnamed robots),
• Sentinal Prime’s face modeled after Sean Connery,
• Bay’s horrendous computer animated version of John F. Kennedy,
• Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) constantly screaming and crying,
• Bay’s terrible Barack Obama impersonator,
• Sam spending an hour going on job interviews,
• Leonard Nimoy as the voice of Sentinal Prime and Galvatron,
• various plot holes,
• Optimus Prime actually wondering where his trailer went in the movie,
• robots who were killed in the movie (the unnamed Scottish Autobot, Ironhide, Megatron, Starscream, the unnamed Decepticon bird, etc.),
• our welcoming of the inevitable Transformers movie reboot,
• Transformers spitting,
• Michael Bay turning Optimus Prime into a ruthless murderer,
• Peter Cullen and Frank Welker’s voice acting,
• Shia LaBeouf’s recent acting career (Eagle Eye and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps),
• Bay’s constant use of slow motion,
• billions of dollars worth of damage in action movies with no consequences,
• hacking into objects,
• Bay’s ignorance of science,
• the lack of rules and continuity in Bay’s Transformers movies,
• What Ever Happened To? (Bugle Boy jeans, Z. Cavaricci genie pants, Zubaz, IOU sweatshirts, B.U.M. Equipment, etc.),
• Roseanne Barr’s reality show Roseanne’s Nuts on Lifetime,
• a Transformers: Dark of the Moon cameo by Scott Krinsky from Chuck,
• Bay’s completely wasted use of 3D,
• fans feeling obligated to watch bad movies,
• Glynn Turman appearing in Super 8 (2011) and Gremlins (1984),
• Sean Connery’s brother Neil Connery starring in bad movies: OK Connery (1967) and The Body Stealers (1969),
• celebrity deaths (Peter Falk and Sherwood Schwartz),
• Paul Reiser and The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 2,
• and a new stupid style (extremely short cutoff shorts with dangling pockets).

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In this episode:

• reminiscing about Macho Man Randy Savage,
• bad reviews for the new video game Duke Nukem Forever,
• Duke being able to throw human feces at his enemies,
• new versions of U.S. pennies,
• the Bitcoin internet money controversy,
• celebrity deaths (Jeff Conaway and Jack Kevorkian),
• Nintendo’s preview of its upcoming Wii U,
• custom made video game consoles (Ben Heck),
• our review of Super 8 (2011) directed by J.J. Abrams,
• our review of The Hangover 2 (2011) starring Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis,
• George Lopez starring in a remake of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
• 4D movie technology Smell-O-Vision (article),
• going to school on super hot summer days,
• Nicolas Cage’s son Weston beaten up by Nic’s security guard,
• and Al Pacino.

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In this episode:

• Greg meets AC/DC’s Brian Johnson at Barnes and Noble in NYC,
• Brian Johnson’s new memoir Rockers and Rollers,
• difficulties getting a picture taken at a book singing,
• a celebrity death (Osama bin Laden),
• Rob’s quest for the perfect portable headphones,
• headphone forums (headphone.com and head-fi.org),
• Sony MDR-ZX700 headphones,
• Rob’s story about a customer puking in the Electronics Boutique video game store,
• Sean Penn playing a feminine-looking hair band rocker in This Must Be the Place (2011),
• our movie review of Bridesmaids (2011) starring Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph,
• tattoo controversy involving The Hangover 2 (2011),
• happy 70th birthday to Bob Dylan!,
• and The Band’s cover of Dylan’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece.”

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In this episode:

• a celebrity death (“Macho Man” Randy Savage),
• reactions from former WWF wrestlers Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Honkey Tonk Man, and the Ultimate Warrior,
• wrestling news site 1wrestling.com,
• video from the Macho Man’s final in-character promo (WWE All-Stars video game),
• another celebrity death (Len Lesser, Seinfeld’s “Uncle Leo”),
• the redundancy of the term “optical illusion,”
• Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mistress and love child,
• Jerry Lewis retiring from the MDA telethon,
• Lady Gaga ripping off a classic Madonna song and then lying about it,
• an update on the new Three Stooges movie (2012),
• Seth MacFarlane reviving The Flintstones,
• Titanic in 3D,
• Joe Pesci in 3D,
• the Rapture that didn’t happen on May 21st, 2011,
• and the planking craze.

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In this episode:

• celebrity deaths (Jack LaLanne),
• WWF wrestler Dino Bravo,
• Rob’s new solo podcast The Goodrob13 Music Show,
• walking around NYC talking into a sock,
• Frank Nora’s podcast network The Overnightscape Underground,
• the Overnightscape Central podcast,
• Sean Connery refusing to participate in the 50th anniversary of James Bond,
• Zardoz (1974) starring Sean Connery,
• Will Smith’s daughter Willow Smith starring in an upcoming remake of Annie,
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,
• Ashton Kutcher’s new TV show,
• the lack of talent in Hollywood today,
• The Dark Knight Rises (2012) starring Anne Hathaway as Catwoman,
• more of Stan Lee’s Twitter tweets,
• The Celebrity Apprentice season 4 starring Gary Busey and La Toya Jackson,
• Regis Philbin retiring from Live with Regis and Kelly in November 2011,
• IBM’s computer Watson competing against humans on Jeopardy!,
• Eliza Dushku updates (The Big Bang Theory, her broken finger, and her car being towed),
• the return of Bagels Plus in Belleville, NJ,
• drawing posters about Belleville in seventh grade,
• Chicken Galore,
• our nasty psychotic seventh grade math teacher (and part-time clown),
• the vice principal getting punched out,
• our typing teacher playing The Howard Stern Show and selling watches in class,
• his son’s collection of every G1 Transformer in the box,
• and a different classmate’s collection.

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In this episode:

• the iPhone 4 on Verizon,
• a stupid style (sweater parties),
• a Five Guys correction,
• The Ron and Fez Show stealing our “This Man Is not Dead” bit,
• Australian comedian James Smith talking about seppos,
• making posters in elementary school for S.E.P.P.O. disabled competitive sporting events,
• Robopocalypse vs. the Roboplastic Podcastalypse,
• counterfeit versions of The Paunch Stevenson Show,
• old toy robots we’ve never heard of (Lords of Light, Micronauts, Interchangeables, Starriors, and Robo Force),
• Greg and Rob randomly seeing each other on the bus to NYC,
• the Paunch luck (Greg getting ripped off at a Chinese buffet in Manhattan),
• celebrity deaths (Gerry Rafferty, Captain Beefheart, Blake Edwards, and Bob Feller),
• our movie review of The Other Guys (2010) staring Will Ferrell,
• Michael J. Fox’s outtakes from The Frighteners (1996),
• AVGN James Rolfe’s interview with Marty McFly voice actor AJ LoCascio,
• Michael Gambon on British TV show Top Gear telling a crazy story about Christian Slater,
• Michael Caine on British TV show Parkinson doing an impersonation of himself and Sean Connery,
• and George Martin’s horrible 1998 album In My Life featuring Robin Williams, Bobby McFerrin, Jim Carrey, Sean Connery, and Billy Connolly.

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