In this episode:

• Star Wars movies being re-released in theaters in 3D starting with The Phantom Menace,
• Rob’s Star Wars knowledge derived only from video games,
• Darth Vader and Jedi hamburgers in France (link),
• What Ever Happened to? (Hayden Christensen),
• Shattered Glass (2003) starring Hayden Christensen,
• cross dressing Larry a.k.a. Lana Wachowski,
• upcoming box office bomb Cloud Atlas (2012) starring Hugh Grant and Keith David,
• the new Van Halen with David Lee Roth song “Tattoo”,
• Hulk Hogan shaving his mustache,
• Chuck Norris joining The Expendables 2 (2012) cast,
• Rowdy Roddy Piper wrestling in an episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia,
• Hasbro’s Transformers G1 toys (Masterpiece, Classics, etc.),
• Michael Bay’s 3D Transformers The Ride,
• Transformers Vault: The Complete Transformers Universe by Pablo Hidalgo,
• Star Trek Vault: 40 Years from the Archives by Scott Tipton,
• Star Wars Vault: Thirty Years of Treasures from the Lucasfilm Archives by Stephen Sansweet,
• Barnes & Noble selling used books,
• Moon 3-D and Mars 3-D books by Jim Bell,
• local psychos (Donnie T and his bag of wrestling figures and Donnie D and his bike without brakes),
• hiding from annoying kids during childhood,
• and Mio Water Enhancer.

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Happy New Year!!

In this episode:

• a sing off: Eliza Dushku’s “Freedom” vs. Paul McCartney’s “Freedom”,
• Yoko Ono ruining the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus performances,
• John Lennon in The Dirty Mac with Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, and Keith Richards,
• Rob’s genius idea #1 (bomb scare to cancel a sports game),
• Jean-Claude Van Damme playing hockey in Sudden Death (1995),
• Rob’s genius idea #2 (everybody gets a free crime to commit),
• Tom Cruise hires people to be his fans in India,
• Tom Hanks posting pictures of his injured thumb on Twitter,
• our new Paunch Twitter account,
• Alec Baldwin gets thrown off a plane and makes fun of it on Saturday Night Live,
• the trailer for the upcoming movie The Three Stooges (2012),
• a remake of Gilligan’s Island starring the cast of Curb Your Enthusiasm,
• Unabomber Ted Kasinsky being tortured with CIA mind control,
• more incompetent bus drivers,
• What Ever Happened To? (comedian Bob Nelson),
• the new Modern Warfare video game making $4 billion in its first few days of sales,
• Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake suing Hogan’s ex-wife,
• Miyamoto not retiring from Nintendo,
• our Lame Idiot of the Year award goes to Charlie Sheen,
• and the runner up is Kim Kardashian.

Here’s our take on the Curb Your Enthusiasm cast starring in a new Gilligan’s Island!

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Sixth anniversary of the Paunch Stevenson Show (Part II)!

In this episode:

• election lawn signs for Stallone and Hogan in Northern NJ,
• Conrad Murray trial verdict in death of Michael Jackson,
• more NJ pizzeria stereotypes,
• get rich quick (the classy pizzeria),
• celebrity death (Smokin’ Joe Frazier),
• What Ever Happened To? (Judge Mills Lane and Fairuza Balk),
• Adam Sandler cursing his female co-stars’ careers,
• Greg meets the legendary William Shatner,
• anecdotes from his new book Shatner Rules,
• the movie Incubus (1966) spoken entirely in Esperanto,
• In Living Color returning to Fox in 2012,
• another celebrity death (Heavy D),
• Johnny English Reborn (2011) starring Rowan Atkinson,
• Rob’s fundamental categories of video games (fun, strategy, and wonder),
• why can’t a one-person bathroom be unisex?,
• the Paunch luck (we missed a chance to meet Stan Lee),
• cheap 1980s Halloween costumes for children (Voltron, E.T., etc.),
• super expensive price for Mark Hamill’s autograph or photo,
• Greg meets the star of Hercules (Kevin Sorbo),
• Greg meets Eliza Dushku at last!,
• a motion ride using George Lucas’ Red Tails,
• movie cars (1966 Batmobile, 1989 Batmobile, 1985 Back to the Future DeLorean),
• Michael J. Fox impersonator,
• Carroll Spinney, original voice and puppeteer of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch,
• New York Comic Con chaos and costumes,
• KRE-O Transformers,
• R2D2Builder.com R2-D2 working models,
• tracking down a Quiznos restaurant,
• Michael Jackson’s stoned singing,
• and the return of the Hobo!

Flickr Album – New York Comic Con, NYC 10/16/11

Flickr Album – William Shatner book signing, NYC 10/6/11

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• 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:

• wrestling titles won by Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair,
• our movie review of The Expendables (2010) starring Sly Stallone,
• Jean-Claude Van Damme’s interview about turning down the part,
• Michael Bay’s dangerous stunts on set of Transformers 3,
• M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil (2010) trailer,
• Ryan Reynolds gets Buried (2010) trailer,
• Tron Legacy (2010) trailer starring Jeff Bridges,
• our movie review of Leap Year (2010) starring Amy Adams,
• our old movie review of Made of Honor (2008) starring Patrick Dempsey,
• our really old movie review of The Outsiders (1983) starring Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Leif Garrett, Tom Waits, and Diane Lane,
• William Shatner using the Paunch Stevenson “record an interview in your car” method,
• season 8 of Curb Your Enthusiasm shooting in New York City (teaser),
• our movie review of Cop Out (2010) starring Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis,
• LEGO website brickset.com,
• approaching the 25th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System,
• the lost Paunch Stevenson video game podcast show,
• Frank Nora’s podcasting network The Overnightscape Underground,
• Creative Commons licensing,
• and Rob’s cat appears in a video game article.

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In this episode:

• another physics experiment with the fake Julius Sumner Miller (nuclear fusion using lasers),
• Rob getting the complete series of Get a Life on DVD,
• Family Matters season one coming to DVD in June 2010,
• celebrity deaths (Corey Haim, Peter Graves, and Robert Culp),
• Jon Voight as Jim Phelps in Mission: Impossible (1996),
• Esteban and Billy Mitchell,
• more weird comments on our Steven Seagal Hall of Lame post,
• Nicolas Cage,
• the new 15-minute National Lampoon’s Vacation short film starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo,
• Crash Course In Science performing “Cakes in the Home” on The Uncle Floyd Show circa 1980 (video),
• Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy (Backstage with Bob Dylan),
• Unseen64′s screenshots and videos from the unreleased video game GoldenEye 007 Remake (Xbox Live Arcade),
• Hulk Hogan imitating “Macho Man” Randy Savage on TNA Wrestling,
• Greg talking to Jesse Ventura at Barnes and Noble in Clifton, NJ,
• Abraham Lincoln and John Lennon conspiracy theories,
• Predator vs. Dick Cheney,
• Eliza Dushku selling clothes and car tires on eBay,
• our review of Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) starring John Cusack and Craig Robinson,
• our review of On the Waterfront (1954) starring Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint,
• Marlon Brando’s filmography,
• the upcoming movie MacGruber (2010) starring Will Forte and Val Kilmer,
• the best movies from 1960-1989,
• and the exclusive new version of “We Are the World” featuring Michael Jackson, Larry King, Louie Anderson, Sean Connery, Stan Lee, Dr. Phil, Bill Cosby, Sylvester Stallone, “Macho Man” Randy Savage, Al Gore, Billy Connolly, Don Knots, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tom Green, Gary Busey, Jeff Bridges, Hulk Hogan, Marlon Brando, and Steven Seagal.

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In this episode:

• updates to the Paunch Stevenson Show web site,
• Rob’s phones vs. email vs. text messaging rant,
• Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien’s NBC nonsense,
• Rob’s late night talk show rant,
• Bernie Madoff and Wall Street,
• the price of baseball card packs,
• the upcoming movie The A-Team (2010) starring Liam Neeson,
• NBC’s upcoming TV show remake The Rockford Files,
• the upcoming movie remake Caesar: Planet of the Apes (2010),
• the upcoming movie remake Ghosts of Mars (2010) remake,
• the upcoming movie Spider-Man: The Teenage Years (2011) starring Michael Cera,
• Louie Anderson on Facebook and Twitter,
• Hulk Hogan,
• Microsoft’s Project Natal,
• a Steven Seagal video game,
• and 3D HDTVs.

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• special guest Kelly from www.wrestlecrap.com,
• professional wrestling,
• stupid wrestling gimmicks and characters (Doink the Clown, Bastion Booger, the Repo Man, etc.),
• WWE vs. ECW vs. WCW,
• the WWF and WCW merger,
• the Gobbledy Gooker,
• “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes and his taco stand,
• Jake “The Snake” Roberts luring The Ultimate Warrior into a basement,
• “Macho Man” Randy Savage damaging Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat’s voice box,
• wrestler promos and vignettes,
• two different Hulk Hogans,
• Hulk Hogan’s shaking and blowing gimmick,
• body slamming Andre the Giant,
• wrestlers knocking each other out and laying in the ring for 10 minutes,
• Hulk Hogan rescuing Miss Elizabeth in WrestleMania V,
• Kelly’s favorite wrestlers (Bret Hart, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, etc.),
• Morton Downey Jr.,
• “The Genius” Lanny Poffo,
• wrestlers changing characters (Tony Atlas/Saba Simba, One Man Gang/Akeem the African Dream, Cactus Jack/Dude Love/Mankind, etc.),
• celebrities wrestling (Mike Tyson, Jay Leno, David Arquette, etc.),
• Sgt. Slaughter joining Iraq’s side during the Gulf War,
• Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake,
• wrestling fans believing it’s real,
• wrestling deaths,
• Billy Gunn and Chuck Palumbo’s gay wedding in 2002,
• Steampipe Alley,
• the horrendous movie The Honeymooners (2005),
• and movie ticket prices in NYC vs. Atlanta.

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In this episode:

• Alex Rodriguez vs. Babe Ruth,
• steroids,
• Hulk Hogan,
• TNA wrestler “Black Machismo” Jay Lethal,
• a video of “Macho Man” Randy Savage crying,
• PSE&G’s upcoming GreenFest 2009 featuring Ed Begley Jr. and Bill Nye,
• the upcoming video game Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings,
• watching The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) at the historic Loew’s Jersey Theater in Jersey City, NJ,
• photos from the James Bond night at Loew’s,
• Roman Polanski vs. Woody Allen vs. Michael Jackson vs. Jerry Lee Lewis,
• Eliza Dushku and the Paunch luck,
• actor Dennis Haysbert,
• and another Saturday Night Live skit about blind NY governor David Paterson.

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In this episode:

• another trip to the Digital Press video game store in Clifton, NJ (www.digitpress.com),
• meeting James Rolfe (the Angry Video Game Nerd) and trying to get him on the show,
• the Nostalgia Critic,
• celebrity deaths (Mel Ferrer, Bo Diddley, Harvey Korman, Jim McKay, Tim Russert, and George Carlin, thanks to www.deadoraliveinfo.com),
• What Ever Happened To? (Jim J. Bullock),
• a psycho in Union Square Park claiming NASA is going to blow up Jupiter on 7/7/08,
• Project Lucifer,
• a Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling update,
• Sean Connery’s memoirs,
• Kung Fu Panda (2008) starring Jack Black,
• You Don’t Mess with the Zohan (2008) starring Adam Sandler,
• Kevin Nealon’s horrible acting,
• Dana Carvey’s new HBO comedy special Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies,
• Mike Myers,
• the upcoming movie Disaster Movie (2008),
• Frank Darabont’s Indiana Jones and the City of Gods script,
• the new Apple iPhone 3G and disposable gadgets,
• The Kid from Brooklyn on Last Comic Standing (www.thekidfrombrooklyn.com),
• Rob’s trip to California,
• Los Angeles vs. New York City,
• celebrity sightings (Lisa Bonet, Neil Patrick Harris, and Ryan Reynolds),
• and our listener Joe from Belleville, NJ.

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