Episode 179

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 179

Our interview with Ed Daly, NJ author of the 2011 book Cereal: Snap, Crackle, Pop Culture!

In this episode:

  • Rob waking up from his trance,
  • supermarkets carrying more than 90 different breakfast cereals,
  • Ed’s reasons for writing his book,
  • his favorite cereals (General Mills Rice Chex and Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Kellogg’s Special K, etc.),
  • his least favorite cereals (Kellogg’s Hannah Montana and All-Bran)
  • TV show and movie tie-ins,
  • the lack of prizes in cereal boxes today,
  • Kellogg’s Mueslix and the Eddie Murphy movie Meet Dave (2008),
  • Ed’s opinion of Quaker Cap’n Crunch and various peanut butter flavored cereals,
  • crunchy marshmallows in cereal,
  • cereal box artwork, characters, and commercials,
  • sugary cereals marketed as being healthy,
  • Post Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles melting in milk,
  • cereal restaurants and Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts World in Times Square NYC,
  • Ed’s milk-to-cereal ratio,
  • his next pop culture project,
  • and how much (or little) money an author makes from a book like this.

Buy Cereal: Snap, Crackle, Pop Culture on Amazon or Barnes and Noble
Follow Ed Daly on Twitter: twitter.com/ezeddaly
Visit Ed’s web site: cerealsnapcracklepopculture.tumblr.com

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Episode 177

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 177

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
Barcade Jersey City

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Episode 174

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 174

In this episode:

  • Bill Murray sings “Star Wars,”
  • lack of progress on Star Wars live action TV series,
  • another incomplete George Lucas film: Red Tails (2012),
  • Steven Spielberg will no longer modify his classic films,
  • Kevin Smith’s new comic book collector reality show,
  • get rich quick (nutty video game collector reality show),
  • better late than never movie reviews: Resident Evil Afterlife (2010) starring Milla Jovovich and Inception (2010) starring Leonardo DiCaprio,
  • new TNT series Falling Skies starring Noah Wyle,
  • another bad remake: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011),
  • Phil Hartman’s Soylent Green impression,
  • floating swimming pools on the East River,
  • getting a letter from After Dark Films,
  • and celebrity deaths (Ryan Dunn and Clarence Clemons).

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Episode 165

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 165

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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Episode 153

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 153

In this episode:

  • movies in the 1980s in which boys switched bodies with their fathers,
  • The Kid from Brooklyn Mike Caracciolo (The Joker video, Superman video),
  • “Macho Man” Randy Savage wrestling “Weird Al” Yankovic (video),
  • Pee-wee Herman’s upcoming Broadway show,
  • the Angry Video Game Nerd’s review of obscure video storage media,
  • RCA’s Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED),
  • John Logie Baird’s phonovision from 1927,
  • Michael Bay firing Megan Fox from the upcoming movie Transformers 3 (2011),
  • the upcoming Jaws movie starring Tracy Morgan,
  • Three Men and a Bride (2012) starring Steve Guttenberg and Tom Selleck,
  • director Guillermo del Toro quitting The Hobbit,
  • the Lost exhibit in NYC (Our Pictures),
  • our book report shortcuts in school,
  • and Optimus Prime dying after one shot.

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