Commander Mark starred in The Secret City Adventures, a children’s drawing show on PBS in the late 1980s. He focused on 3D perspective and shading and was obsessed with Twinkies.
Episode 90: Monday, November 12, 2007
We talk with special guest Frank Edward Nora from The Overnightscape podcast (www.theovernightscape.com)!
In this episode:
- the end of analog broadcast TV on February 17, 2009,
- 2008 U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul,
- the Republican Party’s obsession with terrorism,
- $100 per barrel of oil,
- 24 minute podcast episodes,
- old 74 minute CD-R discs,
- transferring old VHS video tapes to DVDs,
- the ridiculous Beanie Babies fad in the late 1990s,
- storing photos,
- history in the future,
- albums being released on USB flash drives in England,
- iTunes digital release cards at Starbucks,
- the loudness war and horrible audio CD mastering,
- a get-rich-quick scheme for record companies,
- the Fun N Games arcade in Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, NJ, shutting down,
- Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) computer software,
- the video game Red Earth (known as Warzard in Japan) by Capcom,
- reading bad novels in high school (The Good Earth, The Chocolate War, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, etc.),
- David Copperfield’s current FBI investigation,
- Frank’s review of Bee Movie (2007) starring Jerry Seinfeld,
- the Writers Guild of America strike,
- Late Show with David Letterman,
- TV interviews via satellite,
- Heroes season 2,
- the online video revolution,
- podcasting and online audio,
- Frank’s attempt at a premium podcast (Anything But Monday),
- and Frank’s upcoming secret project.
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Happy birthday to Adam in SC
Happy birthday to Adam in SC!
Episode 89: Monday, November 5, 2007
The Paunch Stevenson Show two-year anniversary special, part two!
In this episode:
- placing radiators next to windows,
- traffic cops vs. traffic lights,
- terrible movie remakes (The Dukes of Hazzard and Bad News Bears),
- the new Fred Claus (2007) commercial,
- a Led Zeppelin update,
- insane Hannah Montana concert ticket prices,
- Marked for Death (1990) starring Steven Seagal and Keith David,
- an embarrassing Van Halen performance in Greensboro, NC,
- celebrity sightings (Patton Oswalt and Ron Wood),
- celebrity deaths (Joey Bishop and Robert Goulet, thanks to www.deadoraliveinfo.com),
- the current top ten movies at the box office,
- baseball (the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tommy Lasorda, Joe Torre, Don Mattingly, the Boston Red Sox, Mike Piazza, etc.),
- an Eliza Dushku update (Dollhouse),
- Dark City (1998) starring Rufus Sewell and William Hurt,
- Alien Nation,
- the Writers Guild of America strike,
- Jack Palance audio clips,
- the Fun N Games arcade in Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, NJ, shutting down,
- old video game console prices vs. old computer prices,
- various horror movies,
- women’s Halloween costumes,
- a Britney Spears and Kevin Federline update,
- Duane “Dog” Chapman’s racial slur,
- commercials on the Game Show Network,
- restless legs syndrome,
- and Mirapex side effects.
Happy birthday to Adam in SC!
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Episode 88: Monday, October 29, 2007
The Paunch Stevenson Show two-year anniversary special, part one!
In this episode:
- the current top ten movies at the box office,
- Jack Palance and Ripley’s Believe It or Not!,
- David Hasselhoff starring in an upcoming Anaconda sequel,
- the upcoming movie I Am Legend (2007) starring Will Smith,
- The Omega Man (1971) starring Charlton Heston,
- the upcoming movie Fred Claus (2007) starring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti,
- the onslaught of Bee Movie commercials,
- microfiche and microfilm,
- the Belleville Public Library in Belleville, NJ, in the 1990s,
- the Dewey Decimal System,
- horribly outdated computers in school,
- Belleville High School’s CAD class,
- an old pen plotter from the 1970s,
- the uselessness of old computers,
- fanfold printer paper,
- Macintosh vs. PC prices,
- old computer gimmicks (RAM Doubler, Stacker, etc.),
- old internet service providers (Prodigy, Compuserve, etc.),
- and receiving free AOL discs in the mail.
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