Greg and Rob appear on the Digital Press video podcast episode 10, March 10, 2013:
Episode 214
In this episode:
- Stan Lee’s Rants on You Tube,
- Lou Ferrigno and Steven Seagal training a posse of criminals to guard schools,
- thoughts on Once Upon Atari,
- wacky Tod Frye and Atari’s lucrative game compensation package,
- Howard Scott Warshaw acting like Indiana Jones,
- Rick Maurer fitting 100+ variations of Space Invaders on one 2600 cartridge,
- Playstation 4 unveiling,
- MC Hammer gets arrested for unknown reasons,
- laptop computer sweater sock,
- Umberto of Naples, ventriloquist on 1990s NJ Suburban Cable public access (video),
- our video game ideas from 25 years ago,
- lousy and obscure Atari computer games,
- was there really a Birdman’s Alley?,
- repairman purposely breaking a Sylvania console television in the 1980s,
- and Alec Baldwin vs. Shia LeBeouf.
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Episode 213
In this episode:
- vociferous comments for our old customer service call bit on YouTube,
- Rob’s terrible Angry Video Game Bear parody video of the Angry Video Game Nerd,
- celebrity deaths (Patty Andrews, Stan Musial, Ed Koch),
- crazy Oreo Cookie Whisper Fight Super Bowl commercial video,
- Volkswagon Game Day Video – Get in. Get Happy,
- Oreo cookie sculptures,
- defunct chain Computer City lives on in Denmark,
- Super Mario Bros.: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen! (1986) anime,
- lousy English fan dub video vs. original Japanese high quality video,
- Storage Wars guy who thought a NES was worth $14,000,
- Charlotte Rea,
- Jim Nabors, Back Home in Indiana,
- Nostalgia Critic and Angry Video Game Nerd show up in Japanese anime,
- Once Upon Atari documentary (1999) (link),
- Steve Jobs’s Apple car,
- J.J. Abrams to direct Star Wars 7,
- Star Wars spin-off films involving Yoda, Han Solo, Boba Fett,
- Jason Statham/Guy Ritchie movies,
- where are DVDs for Star Wars Droids and Ewoks, or Disney’s Gummi Bears?,
- Gary Busey’s new website (buseyzone.com),
- upcoming Celebrity Apprentice All-Stars,
- Dennis Haskins,
- Transformers Monopoly board game,
- possibly talking to Jim Shooter, then of Defiant Comics, in 1993,
- stealing samples and promos from Heroes World Distribution dealer convention,
- and Todd Rogers “Mr. Activision” lied about his video game record high scores.
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Episode 212
7 Years in the Making, it’s Two Full Hours of Eliza Dushku, in person too!!
In this episode:
- Dear Albania (2012) documentary,
- Albania song on Cheers,
- Kickstarter effort to fund the film,
- Dushku rap video “My Console”,
- Paunch luck: Skype and recording problems,
- driving through the Lincoln Tunnel,
- our Skype interview with Eliza Dushku,
- Senna (2010) documentary film,
- racing go-karts,
- baseball card stores our fathers owned,
- Zach Galifianakis,
- Doll House thoughts,
- Eliza’s career path,
- Russian Tea Room,
- Wilson Cleveland from Leap Year TV,
- Albania photographer Fadil Berisha,
- Eliza’s “coming to America” moments,
- a pilot for a travel show,
- unhappiness with the Liam Neeson Taken movies,
- Albania stereotypes,
- Robert DeNiro,
- PBS documentary,
- SAG card tips,
- Keanu Reeves,
- Angry Video Game Nerd,
- inexpensive cities to shoot films in,
- Rick Fox, star of four TV shows,
- Mr. Box Office starring Bill Bellamy,
- getting pictures with Eliza,
- and we’re now VIPS!
Picture of Eliza Dushku with the Paunch Show Guys
Twitter interaction with Wilson Cleveland and Rick Fox
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Episode 211
In this episode:
- meeting Jeff Bridges again,
- The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman,
- more Paunch Luck and people who don’t post their videos of events,
- Starman (1984) starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen,
- our review of the 2nd season of Comic Book Men on AMC (birthday party, Kevin Smith signing, Ming in drag, and Stan Lee),
- Run For Your Lives Zombie 5K obstacle course run (www.runforyourlives.com),
- stuck between a rock and a hard place,
- fellow NAVA member Stephanie McKeon’s appearance on Comic Book Men,
- video gaming podcast Our Brooklyn Bytes hosted by Leon Barber and Stephanie,
- celebrity deaths (Hector “Macho” Camacho, Larry Hagman, Dave Brubeck, Ravi Shankar, Jack Klugman, Norman Schwarzkopf, Conrad Bain, Abigail Van Buren, and Earl Weaver),
- Paul McCartney is NOT dead,
- Quincy, M.E.,
- the 1987 computer game Earl Weaver Baseball,
- Robert Duncan McNeill’s 666 Park Avenue was canceled,
- the Paunch show archive created by Frank Nora of onsug.com,
- Stefani Germanotta (pre Lady Gaga) performing Led Zeppelin’s “D’yer Maker” in NYC in January 2006 (video),
- Eddie Brickell’s “Good Times” music video on Windows 95 CDs,
- a listener email from Led Zeppelin cover band Custard Pie and That Confounded Bridge guitarist Kevin Nay,
- and a Paunch tweet retweeted by It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Glenn Howerton (our photo collage showing Glenn’s uncanny resemblance to Lindsey Buckingham).
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