In this episode:

• Our ideas for re-dubbing the latest Michael Bay Transformers movie,
• the Rupert Murdoch UK phone hacking scandal,
• undercover sleuth work by Hugh Grant,
• Norm MacDonald announcing the O.J. Simpson verdict on Saturday Night Live,
• cracking passwords using social engineering,
• the “Ralphige” real Michael Jackson prank call (link),
• a fifth child on the way for Kevin ‘K-Fed’ Federline,
• the arrest of former informercial star Don Lapre,
• Tony Little HoMedics Micropedic Sleep Pillows,
• Ted Danson to star on the next season of CSI,
• Barney Miller,
• return of Curb Your Enthusiasm,
• why the Golden Girls is still funny (video),
• US Marines asking Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake on dates,
• Rob’s failure to book Tami Erin, star of The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988) on the show,
• emulating classic PC games using DOSBOX,
• downfall of modern gaming franchises and developers (Hitman, Max Payne, Project Gotham, LucasArts),
• Copyright Alert System,
• and a celebrity death (Roberts Blossom).

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In this episode:

• Rob’s upgrade to Windows 7,
• April Fools’ Day gag involving the Bio Force Ape prototype NES game,
• homebrew Bio Force Ape programmer foiled,
• Sega developed the Microsoft Xbox?,
• the video game prototype scene,
• the Angry Video Game Nerd’s future,
• movies that kill franchises (The Jerky Boys: The Movie, Big Top Pee-wee, etc.),
• Pee-wee Herman on Saturday Night Live (video),
• the upcoming third Bill and Ted movie starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter,
• Nicolas Cage arrested in New Orleans while busting into houses and screaming in the street,
• the upcoming cartoon series The Governator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger,
• the Fake Stan Lee meets the Real Stan Lee,
• and Ted Danson’s lack of podium microphone skills.

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In this episode:

• our movie review of Cedar Rapids (2011) starring Ed Helms and John C. Reilly,
• our movie review of Blue Valentine (2010) starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling,
• our second encounter with Ted Danson- this time at Barnes and Noble in NYC on 3/15/11,
• buying Danson’s book Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them (2011) (Amazon link),
• having him sign a copy to Paunch,
• and Ted Danson’s actual speech (including a question from Rob about mercury).

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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).

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

In this episode:

• the old show theme song (from episode 3),
• interviewing the fake Christopher Walken (from episode 3),
• our skit about a doctor mixing lab results up (from episode 4),
• the fake Sean Connery (from episode 5),
• The Night Before Christmas Troll Read-Along Classics (from episode 7),
• Ted Danson in black face (from episode 9),
• My Chemical Romance and the singing Hobo (from episode 10),
• music from The Doors causing pain (from episode 12),
• the song “Thirteen” by Rob (from episode 13),
• duped into seeing the lousy IMAX movie Roving Mars (from episode 15),
• our hometown Belleville, NJ trivia (from episode 15),
• Paunch in Time (retreat of George Washington) (from episode 18),
• Max Wright (from episode 21),
• our 7th grade geography bee (from episode 22),
• Greg’s quest to meet the “Dush” Eliza Dushku (from episode 24),
• the Old Jingle of the Episode (Bod) (from episode 24),
• Tom Green (from episode 27),
• educational comedic film Grizzly Man (from episode 31),
• Star Wars: Louie Anderson Special Edition (from episode 34),
• our version of Sanford and Son (from episode 34),
• Jaleel White’s rumored death (from episode 36),
• the fake William Shatner sings “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” (from episode 38),
• Nicolas Cage or Dr. Phil as Superman? (from episode 39),
• Who Wants to Be a Superhero? starring Stan Lee (from episode 43),
• fake Steven Seagal sequel Under Siege 3: Space Station (from episode 61),
• Jon Voight’s zany accents and pronunciations (from episode 76),
• and our Larry David and Jeff Garlin impersonations (from episode 91).

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Our first-ever completely unedited episode!

In this episode:

• Michael Caine skips out on his book signing!,
• The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) starring Michael Caine,
• the song “Michael Caine” (1984) by Madness,
• celebrity deaths (Tom Bosley of Happy Days and David the Gnome, and the inventor of fractals Benoit Mandelbrot),
• the new “emo” inspired Superman redesign,
• Jean-Claude Van Damme denies having a heart attack while doing split,
• the Back to the Future teaser trailer redone for the Spike Scream Awards (video),
• Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd celebrate the BTTF 25th anniversary (video),
• Bill Murray appears at the awards in his Ghostbusters costume! (video),
• once again the upcoming movie Ghostbusters III (2012),
• AMC Theaters re-release of Back to the Future (1985),
• fan customized DeLorean DMC-12′s to look like the movie versions,
• The Heartbreak Kid (2007) starring Ben Stiller,
• the upcoming movie Gulliver’s Travels (2010) starring Jack Black,
• Fleischer Studios’ Gulliver’s Travels (1939) animated feature film,
• the HBO series Bored to Death starring Ted Danson and Jason Schwartzman,
• the new Huey Lewis and the News album Soulsville (2010),
• the perfect length of a pop or rock and roll song,
• Taylor Swift and her obnoxiously long and bad songs,
• past oldies-inspired Huey Lewis albums Plan B (2001) and Four Chords and Several Years Ago (1994),
• Will Smith’s daughter Willow Smith and her new song “Whip My Hair,”
• Kid Rock’s new song “Born Free” – inspired by Bob Seger or ripped off from Simon and Garfunkel?,
• Randy Quaid and his wife arrested and afraid of the “Hollywood Star Whackers,”
• the new American Idol judges,
• our rapid fire movie review of The Social Network (2010) starring Jesse Eisenberg,
• and Facebook’s controversial advertising scheme.

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In this episode:

• getting a picture with Ed Begley Jr. and Bill Nye at PSEG GreenFest 2009 in Somerset, NJ,
• ShamWow pitchman Vince Offer getting arrested for punching a prostitute (mugshot),
• the yelling commercial guy Billy Mays,
• interviewing Ted Danson and Ed Begley Jr. at PSEG Global Green Expo 2008,
• asking Bill Nye about Tesla electric cars,
• Muppet voices,
• every episode of the TV show Get a Life online,
• Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) starring Chevy Chase,
• The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) movie poster,
• Steven Seagal,
• Simone (2002) starring Al Pacino,
• Looker (1981) starring Albert Finney,
• renting VHS tapes in the early 1980s,
• digital hoarding and people pirating songs and movies they’ll never play,
• and 1980s cartoons.

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Don’t forget: nominate your Lame Idiot of 2008!

In this episode:

• Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) starring Kevin James,
• the upcoming movie Not Another Not Another Movie (2009) starring Chevy Chase and Vinnie Jones,
• Funny Money (2006) starring Chevy Chase,
• the A&E TV show The Beast starring Patrick Swayze (official site),
• Jeremy Piven’s mercury poisoning,
• Taken (2008) starring Liam Neeson,
• The Dark Knight (2008) starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger,
• Shatner’s Raw Nerve on BIO Channel (official site),
• William Shatner (audio) and Casey Kasem (audio) going crazy in the studio,
• Darryl McCauley stealing $1 million from Dane Cook,
• WormyT‘s impressive ThunderCats movie trailer,
• Tom Cruise’s desire to star on Broadway,
• Elvis Presley’s deceptive songwriting credits,
• and Ricky Gervais’s HBO comedy special Out of England.

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Ted Danson is an actor and environmental activist. He is best known for his role as Sam Malone on the TV show Cheers and has starred in several movies, including Creepshow (1982), Three Men and a Baby (1987), Three Men and a Little Lady (1990), Made in America (1993), and Getting Even with Dad (1994). He cofounded the American Oceans Campaign in 1987 and is a board member of Oceana.

On Saturday, April 26, 2008, Ted Danson made a keynote speech at the PSEG Global Green Expo 2008 in Jersey City, NJ. Afterwards, he let us take a picture with him and granted us an interview, which we featured in episode 101. Thanks!

discussed in episodes 7, 9, 40, 49, 99, and 101

We interview Ted Danson and Ed Begley, Jr. at the Global Green Expo 2008 in Jersey City, NJ!

In this episode:

• TV newscasters (Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Peter Jennings),
• Pat O’Brien,
• the PSEG Global Green Expo 2008,
• a summary of Ted Danson’s keynote speech,
• Oceana (www.oceana.org),
• ocean trolling,
• fish contaminated with mercury,
• fake Duracell batteries,
• the pointlessness of autographs,
• our interview with Ted Danson,
• the Paunch bad luck,
• Ed Begley Jr. (www.edbegley.com),
• a raw sewage backup in Greg’s basement,
• our interview with Ed Begley Jr.,
• Fixing the Planet (www.fixingtheplanet.com),
• The Paunch Stevenson Show All-Stars,
• a summary of Ed Begley Jr.’s keynote speech,
• recycling and simplifying our lives,
• consumerism,
• Rob’s computer mouse problem,
• gardening,
• standby power,
• reusing grocery bags,
• the lack of environmentalism in TV shows and movies,
• and Autograph magazine’s list of the best and worst Hollywood autograph signers.

Photos, video, and additional audio from the expo:
Ed Begley and Ted Danson Global Green Expo 2008 Keynote Speeches

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