In this episode:

• the Mayan apocalypse of 2012,
• infamous medieval fortune teller Nostradamus,
• 1980s housekeeper sitcoms (Benson, Mr. Belvedere, Charles in Charge, Who’s the Boss?),
• “Ranger Joe” Dave Coulier from Full House,
• the 50th anniversary reunion tour of The Beach Boys,
• a Politically Incorrect skit starring Louie Anderson as Newt Gingrich and Bill Maher as the Godfather,
• Bored to Death gets canceled,
• our movie review of Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison (2010),
• William Campbell,
• Paul McCartney’s new 2012 album Kisses on the Bottom (1930s era songs),
• Keith Richards fighting off a fan on stage with his guitar,
• the Give My Regards to Broadstreet video game on the Commodore 64,
• Robin Williams naming his children after video game characters,
• CCG (collectible card game) stores and players,
• giant board games (Axis and Allies, X-Men Under Siege),
• Twitter follower @spacemandavid asking us to refer to him as Mrs. Paunch Stevenson,
• donate to Eliza Dushku’s Tharce-Gulu charity,
• and the dumb new DC Comics logo.

Download this episode:
58 minute MP3 file – 26.8 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

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!

Download this episode:
67 minute MP3 file – 30.8 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

In this episode:

• Paunch luck (East Coast Earthquake, Hurricane Irene, London Riots),
• Recapping Rob’s first trip to England,
• London sights (Abbey Road, London Underground, London Eye Ferris Wheel, and Big Ben),
• English cuisine, accents, and weather,
• Rob playing drums on Beatles songs at the Liverpool Cavern Club,
• lousy British reality television,
• The Love We Make (2011) documentary, starring Paul McCartney,
• “Rockestra 2″ (the remake video),
• murals painted on pizzeria walls of Marlon Brando,
• Danny Aiello,
• Conrad Murray’s trial,
• drunk Michael Jackson recording,
• Marquis Who’s Who in America books,
• Amazon Kindle Fire tablet,
• our review of Curb Your Enthusiasm season 8,
• our review of the book Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good: Larry David and the Making of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, by Josh Levine,
• Larry David on the old ABC show Fridays,
• and the first Curb Your Enthusiam special.

Download this episode:
92 minute MP3 file – 42.1 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

In this episode:

• Rob’s favorite adjective “weird,”
• Frank Nora’s doppelganger/clone theory,
• George Lucas and Lionel Richie look-alikes at NAVA,
• John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998),
• classic 1990s science fiction series SLIDERS,
• The Beatles’ lousy movie Magical Mystery Tour (1967),
• Paul McCartney teaching Steven Spielberg how to make movies,
• Yoko Ono’s solo career,
• wannabe Beatle Jeff Lynne,
• musicians embarrassing themselves past their primes,
• the Rolling Stones,
• Phil Collins’s rumored retirement,
• “Land of Confusion” music video by Genesis,
• Jon Bon Jovi blaming Steve Jobs for ruining music sales,
• Jersey Shore Snooki wrestling in the WWE,
• dummies getting famous (Does the cream really rise to the top?),
• Dr. Phil being sued yet again,
• Aflac firing Gilbert Gottfried for his jokes about Japan,
• Norm MacDonald’s Twitter,
• and Charlie Sheen going nuts.

Download this episode:
60 minute MP3 file – 27.5 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Celebrating 5 Years of the Paunch Stevenson Show (Part II)!

In this episode:

• UPS delivering to the wrong state and a nutty guy in Texas (from episode 99),
• dueling Dr. Phil’s sing “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” (from episode 100),
• a physics experiment with the fake Julius Sumner Miller: pressure (from episode 100),
• our interview with Ted Danson (from episode 101),
• our behind the scenes video of Rob interviewing Danson,
• our interview with Ed Begley Jr. (from episode 101),
• Paunch fan Esteban listening on four continents (from episode 108),
• listening to every episode in reverse (from episode 110),
• good celebrity encounter: Lewis Black (from episode 112),
• bad celebrity encounter: Juliana Hatfield (from episode 112),
• Celebrity Rehab featuring Gary Busey and Jeff Conaway (from episode 117),
• our movie review of Snowglobe (2007) starring Christina Milian (from episode 119),
• the antics and poor wrestling ability of the immortal Hulk Hogan (from episode 140),
• Paul McCartney’s classical music flop (from episode 143),
• the music video to Paul McCartney’s “Coming Up” (from episode 143),
• Jesse Ventura making fun of Dick Cheney (from episode 150),
• This Man’s Not Dead: Ross Perot (from episode 156),
• and Jean-Claude Van Damme insulting Sylvester Stallone (from episode 157).

Download this episode:
86 minute MP3 file – 39.3 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

In this episode:

• George Harrison impersonator Glen Knowler’s version of “Something”,
• Paul McCartney impersonator Neil Tudor singing “Jet”,
• Beatles impersonators together on You Tube,
• Mike Masse singing U2,
• the death of rock and roll music,
• country music vs. rap,
• Jack Nicholson taking donations for Haiti,
• Nicolas Cage,
• From Paris with Love (2010) starring John Travolta,
• rock band OAR cover of Led Zeppelin’s Fool in the Rain,
• the upcoming movie Jurassic Park IV,
• the death of toy cartoon shows,
• Lego Arcade by Michael Hickox,
• our review of Sherlock Holmes (2009) starring Robert Downey Jr.,
• the upcoming movie The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010) starring Nicolas Cage,
• a Rip Torn update and Rip Taylor on The Monkees,
• Tom Green,
• a celebrity death (J. D. Salinger),
• Gallagher,
• the 2009 Golden Raspberry Awards (the Razzies),
• Al Pacino,
• Jeff Bridges nominated for an Oscar,
• and Beverly Hills Cop (1984) vs. 48 Hours (1982).

Download this episode:
79 minute MP3 file – 36.2 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Our Beatles episode!

In this episode:

• The Paunch Stevenson Show four year anniversary,
• Windows 7,
• Rob’s Beatles CD collection,
• the funny music video for “Coming Up” by Paul McCartney,
• Yoko Ono’s horrendous songs on John Lennon’s Some Time in New York City album,
• the music video for “This One” by Paul McCartney,
• John Lennon wanting to play on “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?”,
• three generations of Lennon music (Freddie Lennon, John Lennon, and Julian Lennon),
• Elvis Presley betraying The Beatles,
• John Lennon’s terrible Rock ‘n’ Roll cover song album,
• the bootleg of Lennon and McCartney’s only post-Beatles jam session (A Toot and a Snore in ’74),
• George Harrison’s solo album Brainwashed,
• Jeff Lynne,
• Backbeat (1994) starring Stephen Dorff,
• Two of Us (2000) starring Aidan Quinn,
• The Beatles: Rock Band video game,
• rhythm video games vs. playing real instruments,
• the difference between the Beatles mono and stereo remastered CD boxed sets,
• and some clips of Rob and friends playing Beatles songs live in Wes’s backyard on 9/19/09 (video).

Download this episode:
64 minute MP3 file – 29.3 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

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)

Download this episode:
90 minute MP3 file – 41.2 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

In this episode:

• special guest Dennis in CA,
• the upcoming movie Toy Story 3 (2010),
• the most recent episode of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO,
• Republicans and evolution,
• Jesus and tall tales,
• watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) at Sunshine Cinema in NYC (picture)
• various James Bond actors,
• Sean Connery,
• Dennis’s review of Watchmen (2009),
• the superhero movie fad,
• Superman,
• Paul McCartney and The Fireman,
• MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice (concert promo pic),
• old stupid styles (Z. Cavaricci, I.O.U., Hypercolor, and sweatpants with the legs pulled up),
• the upcoming movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009),
• the upcoming movie Thor (2011),
• Will Smith as Captain America,
• Jake “The Snake” Roberts trapping The Ultimate Warrior in a room full of snakes,
• the Metal Gear series of video games,
• The Fountain (2006) starring Hugh Jackman,
• The Prestige (2006) starring Christian Bale,
• and Dennis’s encounter with George Lucas at the Game Developers Conference in 2008.

Download this episode:
73 minute MP3 file – 33.4 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

In this episode:

• customers killing a Wal-mart employee in Valley Stream, NY,
• Greg adding pictures to previous episodes,
• a video of Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones,
• recent photos of “Macho Man” Randy Savage,
• a get-rich-quick scheme (the Old-Timers Wrestling League),
• Ironhide and Ratchet Transformers custom heads by Best Toys,
• good free antivirus programs (AVG, Avast!, and Avira AntiVir),
• The Morton Downey Jr. Show,
• our trip to the children’s TV show Steampipe Alley hosted by Mario Cantone,
• The Cover Girls,
• The Magic Garden on DVD,
• the Mellotron,
• 1970s progressive rock music,
• “Carnival of Light” by The Beatles,
• and Paul McCartney making fun of Michael Jackson.

Download this episode:
40 minute MP3 file – 18.4 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.