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Episode 238

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 238

In this episode:

  • celebrity deaths (Harold Ramis, Russell Johnson, David Brenner),
  • Bill Murray’s grudge with Ramis,
  • converting television shows from film to HD vs. video to HD,
  • observational humor,
  • disheveled Russell Crowe,
  • gifts from Space Man David,
  • RGB SCART cable,
  • 1979 book So You Want To Be A Dancer by William E. Thomas,
  • Paul McCartney does a podcast interview,
  • Mike Carbo’s New York Comic Book Marketplace,
  • Roddy Piper canceled,
  • our interview with voice actor Larry Kenney,
  • our meeting with Larry Storch and Johnny Brennan from the Jerky Boys,
  • One Sheet Studios (stylized, 3D art prints),
  • Star Wars cosplayers,
  • Nintendo World Store,
  • eating at Lenny’s The Ultimate Sandwich,
  • Adam Driver to play an upcoming Star Wars villain,
  • HBO series Girls, starring Lena Dunham,
  • Rocky the Musical,
  • and will How I Met Your Mother ever be resolved?

Pictures from the New York Comic Book Marketplace March 1, 2014 in New York, NY:
Mike Carbo’s NY Comic Book Marketplace, NYC 3/1/14

Larry Kenney
John Brennan
Larry Storch

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Episode 206

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 206

Part 1 of our 7th Anniversary Hoopla!

In this episode:

  • Hurricane Sandy,
  • George Lucas selling LucasFilm to Disney,
  • what does the future hold for Star Wars?,
  • Esteban’s theory about the Otaking Star Wars anime short,
  • Episode VII – the return of Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Billy Dee Williams?,
  • Star Wars Dark Empire ,
  • the recentThundercats Cartoon Network show canceled,
  • celebrity death (Pascual Gross Perez),
  • colorizing of antique black and white photographs,
  • Lance Amstrong caught cheating,
  • Google Translate’s Optimus Prime Easter egg,
  • Greg meets Pete Townshend of The Who,
  • 2012 Presidential Election,
  • angry Who fan that didn’t get his picture signed,
  • New York Comic Con 2012,
  • avoiding a crazy person on the ferry,
  • Greg gets autographs from Stan Lee, Sean Astin, and Christopher Lloyd,
  • another Sears portrait photo with Christopher Lloyd,
  • meeting Bob Budiansky by chance,
  • the “Who is Paunch Stevenson?” question,
  • Chris Elliott was a no-show,
  • and “The Star Wars That I Used To Know” Gotye parody.

Goofy video of Stan Lee playing XBOX Kinect at the NYCC 2012!

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Episode 200

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 200

In this episode:

  • longtime listener Esteban in Florida returns!,
  • difficulties keeping track of listeners,
  • nicknames for Paunch listeners,
  • where do our topics come from?,
  • Rob’s pop culture deficiencies,
  • our Stan Lee impersonation,
  • a 1977 Stan Lee interview on video,
  • our old recording secrets,
  • Paunch in Time (Cuban Missile Crisis),
  • the genesis of Esteban’s Roboplastic Apocalypse podcast,
  • Esteban meeting legendary cartoon voice actors at conventions,
  • Gregg Berger (Grimlock from The Transformers) disrespected by cosplayers,
  • the location of Botcon conventions,
  • old age of Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, and Michael Bell,
  • will they turn grey when they die?,
  • our thoughts about meeting and interviewing quasi-celebrities,
  • tidbits about our Ted Danson and Ed Begley Jr. interviews,
  • the Paunch Show archive,
  • the Target Deli,
  • the backstory of Rob meeting Britta Phillips in 2003,
  • the Old Jingles of the Episode (“Galaxy Glue” song from The Incredible Shrinking Woman and the theme to Zoobilee Zoo),
  • Esteban seeking out Optimus Prime’s creator,
  • Transformers model kits by Revell,
  • the reason certain robots in Transformers catalogs never appeared in the cartoon,
  • our review of the Transformers: Prime animated show (slow pacing, Frank Welker’s Megatron voice, lack of robots, etc.),
  • Hasbro’s poor handling of the Transformers franchise,
  • our review of the new ThunderCats series on Cartoon Network (art and music quality, non-talking Snarf, strong backstories, etc.),
  • Esteban meeting and aggravating Larry Kenney (original voice of Lion-O),
  • people not posting their photos of celebrity encounters online for the public to see,
  • the Beardo,
  • our brief review of the new Tron: Uprising cartoon,
  • newly released “classic” yet low quality Voltron toys,
  • the complicated origins of the original Voltron cartoon,
  • the Transformers Generation 1 re-released toys,
  • and other 1980s robot toys that deserve credit (Gobots, Robo Force, Zoids, and Starriors).

200th Episode Bonuses from the Achrive!

Finally, it’s the video of Greg and Rob interviewing Ed Begley Jr. in 2008, from Episode 101!

Our long unseen video commentary of the disappointing WBHS Belleville NJ public access TV station’s 25th anniversary celebration in 2006, from Episode 41!

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Episode 188

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 188

In this episode:

  • the TV show Toy Hunters on the Travel Channel,
  • toy prototypes (Boba Fett with rocket, Thundercats),
  • the Bud Bowl and Puppy Bowl,
  • Madonna being sued by the Girls Gone Wild creator,
  • Giselle Bundchen’s chain letter for her husband Tom Brady,
  • celebrity Super Bowl XLVI picks,
  • Roseanne Barr running for President,
  • Pat Sajak hosting Wheel of Fortune drunk,
  • Ricky Gervais’s complete lack of screen time as host of the Golden Globes (false advertising by NBC),
  • the 1990s Titanic movie phenomenon,
  • the remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) movie only two years after the original,
  • celebrities changing the pronounciation of their names (Cheech Marin, Demi Moore, and Kim Basinger),
  • William Shatner hanging out with Stan Lee,
  • the web site awesome people hanging out together,
  • the use of ammonia (a.k.a. Pink Slime) in fast food hamburgers,
  • and Ed Grimley.

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Episode 177

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 177

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
Barcade Jersey City

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