Bruce Willis – The Paunch Stevenson Show

Episode 223

In this episode:

the death of the Big Man, the Kid from Brooklyn, Mike Caracciolo,
Big Man interviewed by the IBEW (video),
the 1982 book Video Invaders! by Stephen Bloom,
looking at old high school yearbook scans at the Belleville Public Library in NJ,
descreening when using a scanner,
Harrison Ford to appear in The Expendables 3 (2014),
Bruce Willis fired by Sylvester Stallone,
short review of 42 (2013), starring Harrison Ford and Chadwick Boseman,
review of Taken 2 (2012), starring Liam Neeson,
a Rob-view of It’s a Disaster (2012), starring David Cross and Erinn Hayes,
another Rob-view of Nature Calls (2012), starring Patton Oswalt and Johnny Knoxville,
review of View From the Top (2003), starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Christina Applegate,
Bankrupt by Beanies (2013) documentary,
and Princess Rescue– a new homebrew Super Mario Bros. clone for the Atari 2600.

Rob’s infamous appearance in the 1993-94 High School Yearbook!

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In this episode:

Josh Blake playing Jake Ochmonek, a Ralph Macchio imitation on ALF,
actress Randee Heller played the mother on ALF’s “Macchio” and The Karate Kid‘s real Macchio,
IFOCE update (Joey Chestnut defeats Sonya Thomas again in the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest),
Larry David and J.B. Smoove in upcoming HBO film Clear History (2013),
our review of This is the End (2013), starring the cast of Pineapple Express,
why are cameo’s featured in movie trailers?,
our review of Man of Steel (2013), starring Henry Cavill,
short review of The Heat (2013) starring Sandra Bullock,
using a RedBox machine,
disappointing review of A Good Day to Diehard (2013), starring Bruce Willis,
upcoming Annie remake (2014), starring Jamie Foxx,
get well wishes to Tim Curry,
how get away with murder by using blood transfusions,
were ice cream cones a bad invention?,
life-size inflatable hamster balls for children,
celebrity deaths (Slim Whitman, Bobby Blue Bland, James Gandolfini, and Dennis Farina),
Blues Brothers video games,
crowdfunding for a new World’s Largest Pinball Museum in California (donate),
and more crowdfunding for the Seriously?! smartphone game, by video game programming legends Roger Hector and Al Alcorn (donate).

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our review of The Expendables 2 (2012) starring Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger,
lots of guns and people getting shot,
even more blood and gore,
Dolph Lundgren’s chemical engineering degree coming in handy,
Chuck Norris facts,
Van Damme’s accent,
the high number of Indiana Jones references,
“classic” combat,
our ideas for the next sequel,
the trailer for Seven Psychopaths (2012) ripping off David Spade’s Lost and Found (1999),
a 100-year-old locked safe in Rob’s basement,
world champion safe cracker Jeff Sitar,
opening the safe on the air in a future episode,
Nintendo Power magazine ceasing publication (1988-2012),
Rob’s attempt to sell a huge crate of old issues,
being duped into buying bad video games by Nintendo Power previews and reviews,
Robs dog eating cat vomit,
celebrity deaths (William Windom, Tony Scott, Neil Armstrong, Phyllis Diller, and Michael Clarke Duncan),
Jesse Ventura’s “poisoned bottle water” conspiracy,
the origin of the expression “the whole nine yards”,
Greg meeting John Schneider of Dukes of Hazzard and Smallville,
problems getting a good picture with him,
deciding what items to get signed,
Greg’s home-made Dukes of Hazzard birthday cake from 1982,
and Wezzer’s rendition of the Dukes of Hazzard theme song.

1982 – Greg’s Dukes of Hazzard birthday cake.

2012 – Greg with John Schneider, imitating the DVD cover.

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The Paunch Stevenson Show super mega movie review of Transformers!

In this episode:

our Transformers (2007) movie review with Adam in SC,
the Transformers’ lack of dialogue and personality,
shaky camera work during battles,
lengthy transformations,
Hugo Weaving’s lame Megatron voice,
Peter Cullen as the voice of Optimus Prime,
Darius McCrary as the voice of Jazz,
the Allspark cube,
eBay,
the World Wide Web and Al Gore,
Jon Voight’s pronunciation of “robot,”
a list of movies that Transformers (2007) ripped off (They Live, Small Soldiers, Superman, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Independence Day, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, etc.),
the lack of machines in the 1930s,
Kremzeek,
the lack of the Transformers’ backstory,
the trailer for the upcoming untitled J.J. Abrams movie (2008),
season two of Who Wants to Be a Superhero? starring Stan Lee,
our movie review of Live Free or Die Hard (2007) starring Bruce Willis and Justin Long,
Herbie the Love Bug,
the Transformers peeing and playing hide and seek,
impressive fan CGI,
and a line from The Transformers: The Movie (1986).

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a Sean Connery update,
the Die Hard series of movies starring Bruce Willis,
the Apple iPhone launch,
a Transformers cosplay video on YouTube.com,
a five foot tall Devastator by Shane (www.kingbotz.com),
useless Japanese robots,
anticipation for Transformers opening July 3, 2007,
a listener’s web site (pleasesavemerobots.blogspot.com by Esteban),
celebrity deaths (Charles Nelson Reilly, Don Herbert, and Liz Claiborne, thanks to www.deadoraliveinfo.com),
The Wizard (1989) starring Fred Savage and Christian Slater,
The Vanishing (1993) starring Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland,
What Ever Happened To? (Fred Savage and Ben Savage),
and WWE wrestler Chris Benoit’s steroid-induced murders and suicide.

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