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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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:

• 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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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:

• 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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In this episode:

• getting Joe in KY and Kelly from www.wrestlecrap.com on the show,
• celebrity deaths (Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and David Carradine),
• Alan Alda and “Weird Al” Yankovic,
• Jeff Goldblum and Harrison Ford supposedly killing each other on a movie set in New Zealand,
• a guest celebrity death by Lauren Elder from the Broadway cast of Hair (Michael Jackson),
• Tiffani-Amber Thiessen refusing to participate in Jimmy Fallon’s Saved by the Bell reunion,
• our phone call with Michael Jackson from December 2005,
• Paul McCartney,
• celebrities we’ve recently met (Al Unser Jr., Janeane Garofalo, and Dan Aykroyd),
• An Evening with Kevin Smith at Carnegie Hall,
• the upcoming video game Wet featuring the voice of Eliza Dushku,
• our movie review of The Dark Knight (2008) starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger,
• the Atari 5200 USB 128-in-1 flash multi-cart on www.atarimax.com,
• the Nintendo Entertainment System PowerPak flash cart www.retrousb.com,
• Jimmy Justice’s YouTube videos,
• Uncle Floyd Vivino running for governor of New Jersey,
• and our giant movie review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox.
• (here’s our giant review of Michael Bay’s first Transformers movie)

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In this episode:

• Greg’s horrible computer science classes at Rutgers University in the late 1990s,
• NJIT,
• our trip to Live with Regis and Kelly,
• the insanity of driving in Manhattan,
• seeing Regis Philbin in person,
• Wayne Brady’s weird hairline,
• NASCAR drivers throwing ice cream at each other,
• photos from the show,
• and the Paunch luck.

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There’s a restaurant called Silver Spurs on the corner of Broadway and E. 9th St. in Manhattan, only a few blocks away from Union Square Park. I’ve walked by it many times, but never ate there until this past Friday.

I went in and ordered the Salada Georgie. The description: “chicken chunks n’ shrimp combo atop garden-fresh greens, avocado.” The price: $12.75.

Service was below average, but that’s usually the case in NYC. I’m used to it by now. What I’m not used to is paying $12.75 for a salad that consists of rotten lettuce and shrimp that still has the shell on it.

I didn’t send the salad back or talk to the manager. A customer should never have to do that in the first place. Besides, what would the salad have been replaced with, more rotten salad?

I thought to myself, “How does the chef know he or she didn’t prepare this salad for a food critic?” Then I realized, I criticize movies, TV shows, video games, music, and people on The Paunch Stevenson Show all the time, so why not food, too? Hence, this blog entry.

I even took a picture, so you can see the disgusting rip-off salad for yourself. Obviously, I won’t be eating at Silver Spurs again.

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.

Greg and I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull together in NYC this afternoon. Here are some pictures:

Flickr – AMC Loews 19th St. East, NYC 5/30/08

Did we love it? Did we hate it? Listen to our review in episode 104, which will be online Monday, June 2!