In this episode:

• our review of The Expendables 2 (2012) starring Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger,
• lots of guns and people getting shot,
• even more blood and gore,
• Dolph Lundgren’s chemical engineering degree coming in handy,
• Chuck Norris facts,
• Van Damme’s accent,
• the high number of Indiana Jones references,
• “classic” combat,
• our ideas for the next sequel,
• the trailer for Seven Psychopaths (2012) ripping off David Spade’s Lost and Found (1999),
• a 100-year-old locked safe in Rob’s basement,
• world champion safe cracker Jeff Sitar,
• opening the safe on the air in a future episode,
• Nintendo Power magazine ceasing publication (1988-2012),
• Rob’s attempt to sell a huge crate of old issues,
• being duped into buying bad video games by Nintendo Power previews and reviews,
• Robs dog eating cat vomit,
• celebrity deaths (William Windom, Tony Scott, Neil Armstrong, Phyllis Diller, and Michael Clarke Duncan),
• Jesse Ventura’s “poisoned bottle water” conspiracy,
• the origin of the expression “the whole nine yards”,
• Greg meeting John Schneider of Dukes of Hazzard and Smallville,
• problems getting a good picture with him,
• deciding what items to get signed,
• Greg’s home-made Dukes of Hazzard birthday cake from 1982,
• and Wezzer’s rendition of the Dukes of Hazzard theme song.

1982 – Greg’s Dukes of Hazzard birthday cake.

2012 – Greg with John Schneider, imitating the DVD cover.

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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

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

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Celebrating 6 Years of the Paunch Stevenson Show (Part I)!

In this episode:

• Sylvester Stallone’s $5,000 Montegrappa Chaos pen,
• American cheese,
• chain letters,
• the Joke Society of America,
• how Greg and Rob met 25 years ago,
• middle school madness,
• celebrity deaths (Steve Jobs, creator of Apple, and Dennis Ritchie, creator of Unix),
• Steve Jobs’ many idiosyncracies,
• TNT’s Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) tv movie,
• Steve Jobs, the biography by Walter Isaacson,
• Pixar and the “violent Toy Story cut”,
• Adobe Flash fails on mobile devices,
• other celebrity deaths (Andy Rooney, Al Davis),
• Steven Tyler falls again, loses a tooth,
• John Lennon’s tooth sold for $31,000 dollars,
• cloning the Beatles,
• Chris Tucker goes bankrupt,
• Paunch luck (Rob misses the Ghostbusters theater re-release),
• losing power in the freak October snow storm,
• Greg meets Jerry O’Connell at the Live with Regis and Kelly show in NYC,
• Bill Cosby gets flashed by a topless woman in New York,
• and Greg meets John Lithgow at Barnes and Noble in Princeton, NJ.

Video of John Lithgow at the book signing…

Flickr Album – Greg meets John Lithgow, Princeton, NJ 10/12/11

Flickr Album – Jerry O’Connell on the Live with Regis and Kelly show, NYC 10/13/11

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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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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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