Episode 211

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 211

In this episode:

  • meeting Jeff Bridges again,
  • The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman,
  • more Paunch Luck and people who don’t post their videos of events,
  • Starman (1984) starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen,
  • our review of the 2nd season of Comic Book Men on AMC (birthday party, Kevin Smith signing, Ming in drag, and Stan Lee),
  • Run For Your Lives Zombie 5K obstacle course run (www.runforyourlives.com),
  • stuck between a rock and a hard place,
  • fellow NAVA member Stephanie McKeon’s appearance on Comic Book Men,
  • video gaming podcast Our Brooklyn Bytes hosted by Leon Barber and Stephanie,
  • celebrity deaths (Hector “Macho” Camacho, Larry Hagman, Dave Brubeck, Ravi Shankar, Jack Klugman, Norman Schwarzkopf, Conrad Bain, Abigail Van Buren, and Earl Weaver),
  • Paul McCartney is NOT dead,
  • Quincy, M.E.,
  • the 1987 computer game Earl Weaver Baseball,
  • Robert Duncan McNeill’s 666 Park Avenue was canceled,
  • the Paunch show archive created by Frank Nora of onsug.com,
  • Stefani Germanotta (pre Lady Gaga) performing Led Zeppelin’s “D’yer Maker” in NYC in January 2006 (video),
  • Eddie Brickell’s “Good Times” music video on Windows 95 CDs,
  • a listener email from Led Zeppelin cover band Custard Pie and That Confounded Bridge guitarist Kevin Nay,
  • and a Paunch tweet retweeted by It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Glenn Howerton (our photo collage showing Glenn’s uncanny resemblance to Lindsey Buckingham).

Pictures and Video from the Jeff Bridges book signing, New York, 1/8/2013:
Jeff Bridges QnA NYC 1-8-13

Jeff Bridges Signing NYC 1-8-13

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Episode 207

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 207

Part 2 of our 7th Anniversary Hoopla! Thanks to all the celebrities who appeared!

In this episode:

  • we meet Weird Al Yankovic,
  • Weird Al: The Book,
  • finding a Weird Al LP in a messy used record store,
  • Al’s least favorite album Polka Party!,
  • Scotti Brothers Records,
  • Crazy Eddie (his prices were insane!),
  • bantering around with Weird Al,
  • meeting friend and fellow NJ podcaster Brian Jude at the signing,
  • Weird Al recording “Smells like Nirvana” instead of “Snack All Night”,
  • how “I Lost on Jeopardy” revived the real Jeopardy! game show,
  • The Weird Al Show (1997) on CBS,
  • our trip to Chiller Theatre Expo 2012 in Parsippany, NJ,
  • getting a picture with Tom Wopat a.k.a. Luke Duke,
  • “Screech” Dustin Diamond teaching us a bar bet,
  • Ian Ziering of Beverly Hills, 90210 seated in the horror room,
  • John Wayne Bobbitt trying to talk to us,
  • meeting nice guy Andrew McCarthy, star of Weekend at Bernie’s II (1993),
  • meeting pop singer Samantha Fox,
  • meeting a grumpy Frank Vincent,
  • meeting Bronson Pinchot from Perfect Strangers,
  • old ABC TGIF trading cards Laffs,
  • Penny Marshall hiding from our camera,
  • talking with Robert Duncan McNeill from Star Trek: Voyager,
  • meeting a disinterested Shannon Elizabeth from American Pie (1999),
  • meeting Lethal Weapon‘s Danny Glover,
  • talking with the original voice of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, Caroll Spinney,
  • the upcoming Caroll Spinney documentary I Am Big Bird (2013),
  • our interview with Samantha Fox,
  • TigerTime campaign to save wild tigers,
  • and our new interview techniques.

Our pictures and videos from the Weird Al signing in Paramus, NJ:
Weird Al Yankovic book signing, Paramus, NJ 10/22/12

Weird Al Yankovic

Our pictures from the Chiller Theatre Expo 2012 in Parsippany, NJ:
Chiller Theatre Expo, Parsippany, NJ 10/27/12

Dustin Diamond

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