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Episode 302

In this episode:

  • celebrity deaths (Kirk Douglas, Roy Horn, Kobe Bryant, Little Richard, Brian Dennehy, Howard Finkel, Lee Fierro, Honor Blackman, Max Von Sydow),
  • old Nickelodeon cartoon Spartakus,
  • crappy sci-fi movie Saturn 3 (1980) starring Harvey Kietel, Kirk Douglas and Farah Fawcett,
  • badly dubbed Netflix series Dark,
  • Wheel of Fortune episode with Weird Al, Little Richard, and James Brown (YouTube video),
  • how Bond film Thunderball (1965) got remade as Never Say Never Again (1983),
  • the non-Stan Lee created The Avengers British spy show,
  • Tom Cruise wants to go to space (for real this time),
  • politics schmolitics,
  • Corey Feldman’s disastrous documentary My Truth,
  • Scott Schwartz calls out Feldman’s lies (article link),
  • old TV and movie casts reuniting on video chats,
  • War Stories series on Ars Technica – Prince of Persia rotoscoping (YouTube video),
  • old school video game engines,
  • From Bedroom to Billions (2014) – a UK computer gaming documentary,
  • homebrew games lacking proper physics,
  • ONSUG’s The Exit Ramp (podcast link),
  • Rob’s guitar tutorials return! (YouTube link),
  • keeping somewhat busy during quarantine,
  • and Nintendo data leak featuring console design secrets.

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Episode 225

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 225

In this episode:

  • Nintendo sends a cease and desist letter to AtariAge for Princess Rescue,
  • methods for physically producing homebrew video games,
  • is Nintendo in dire straights?,
  • the Nintendo 2DS,
  • our review of the Ouya game console,
  • using Ouya to play arcade games via MAME,
  • the good and bad of Netflix streaming,
  • lousy indie films,
  • our review of Your Sister’s Sister (2012) starring Mark Duplass and Emily Blunt,
  • our review of Price Check (2012) starring indie queen Parker Posey,
  • our review of The Vicious Kind (2009) starring Adam Scott,
  • our review of Oblivion (2013) starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman,
  • Did Mr. Wizard debunk that sea level rises due to global warming? (video),
  • Dr. Kiki of This Week in Science explains that no he did NOT! (video),
  • our review of Riddick (2013), starring Vin Diesel and Katee Sackhoff,
  • upcoming Robocop (2014) film, featuring Michael Keaton,
  • Ben Affleck hired as Batman for the foreseeable future,
  • celebrity death (boxer Tommy Morrison),
  • and a corny news report about Nintendo from the early 1990s.

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Episode 216

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 216

In this episode:

  • Rob meant Cesar Chavez not Hugo Chavez,
  • guest list for the upcoming April Chiller Theatre Expo,
  • William Forsythe, Karen Allen, James Tolkan, Michael Dudikoff, Lorenzo Lamas, Billy Zapka, Denny Laine, and more,
  • what ended the band Wings?,
  • being forced to do a photo op with a celebrity,
  • celebrity death (Phil Ramone),
  • high mortality rate of The Temptations and The Ramones,
  • Mike Love firing Brian Wilson from The Beach Boys,
  • a Paunch Stevenson Show miracle: My Chemical Romance breaks up,
  • Louie Anderson competing on Splash,
  • update on the Celebrity Apprentice All-Stars,
  • Gary Buseyism F.A.R.T. (feeling a rectal transmission),
  • Upper Deck putting George Washington’s hair on a baseball card,
  • McDonald’s with Nintendo 64 or Gamecube kiosks,
  • Fuddruckers fast food chain with arcades inside,
  • rash of apocalyptic 2013 movies,
  • After Earth starring Will Smith, Obliviion starring Tom Cruise, and World War Z starring Brad Pitt,
  • Rob’s dream car- the DeLorean DMC,
  • Independence Day sequels coming,
  • Paunch luck: Greg misses PAX East convention with the flu,
  • Capcom revamping NES Duck Tales with original voice cast (including Alan Young!),
  • and George Lucas’s cameo in Beverly Hills Cop III.

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Episode 199

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 199

In this episode:

  • a celebrity death (Andy Griffith),
  • the questionable courtroom antics of Ben Matlock,
  • What Ever Happened To? (Hal Sparks),
  • Love Connection hosted by Chuck Woolery,
  • What Ever Happened To? (Barret Oliver, star of The NeverEnding Story and D.A.R.Y.L.),
  • Tom Cruise getting another divorce (Katie Holmes),
  • middle-aged former action stars going mental,
  • more movie remakes coming (Robocop, Total Recall, and Mad Max),
  • former soccer player and current commentator Steve “Maca” McManaman talkng like Paul McCartney,
  • Stan Lee’s cameo on the Muppet Babies cartoon,
  • The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989) starring Lou Ferrigno,
  • Get A Life the complete series finally coming to DVD!,
  • sitcoms without laugh tracks,
  • mattress companies all starting with the letter “S”,
  • a Brett Butler update,
  • SyFy TV movie Bigfoot (2012) starring Barry Williams and Danny Bonaduce,
  • What Ever Happened To? (Kel Mitchell from Keenan and Kel),
  • dumb 1990s rumors involving side effects of drinking too much Arizona iced tea,
  • local NJ competitive eater Maria Edible,
  • a Kickstarter project for an updated version of the classic 1983 video game M.U.L.E.,
  • creator of the game Dan Bunton a.k.a Danielle Bunton Berry,
  • Stan Lee is Cameo Man,
  • What Ever Happened To? (competitive eater Kate Stelnick),
  • the current Canadian lousy pop song invasion,
  • the “Call Me Maybe” craze by Carly Rae Jepsen,
  • the new Beach Boys album That’s Why God Made the Radio (2012),
  • the upcoming Disney animated video-game-themed movie Wreck-It Ralph (2012),
  • the various voice acting styles of Super Mario,
  • our review of Prometheus (2012) directed by Ridley Scott,
  • the Greek god Prometheus being a trickster,
  • early development involving James Cameron,
  • fan reaction, comparison to the previous Alien films, source of backstory,
  • ancient alien concept, fuzzy math, scary moment, a race of angry Mr. Cleans,
  • and the quality of the IMAX 3D presentation.

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Episode 185

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 185

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!
Curb Your Enthusiasm Cast in Gilligan's Island

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