Episode 185

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 185

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!
Curb Your Enthusiasm Cast in Gilligan's Island

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Episode 183

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 183

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

The Great William Shatner, NYC, 10/6/11

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

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Episode 171

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 171

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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Episode 157

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 157

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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Episode 150

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 150

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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