Episode 187

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 187

In this episode:

  • Star Wars movies being re-released in theaters in 3D starting with The Phantom Menace,
  • Rob’s Star Wars knowledge derived only from video games,
  • Darth Vader and Jedi hamburgers in France (link),
  • What Ever Happened to? (Hayden Christensen),
  • Shattered Glass (2003) starring Hayden Christensen,
  • cross dressing Larry a.k.a. Lana Wachowski,
  • upcoming box office bomb Cloud Atlas (2012) starring Hugh Grant and Keith David,
  • the new Van Halen with David Lee Roth song “Tattoo”,
  • Hulk Hogan shaving his mustache,
  • Chuck Norris joining The Expendables 2 (2012) cast,
  • Rowdy Roddy Piper wrestling in an episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia,
  • Hasbro’s Transformers G1 toys (Masterpiece, Classics, etc.),
  • Michael Bay’s 3D Transformers The Ride,
  • Transformers Vault: The Complete Transformers Universe by Pablo Hidalgo,
  • Star Trek Vault: 40 Years from the Archives by Scott Tipton,
  • Star Wars Vault: Thirty Years of Treasures from the Lucasfilm Archives by Stephen Sansweet,
  • Barnes & Noble selling used books,
  • Moon 3-D and Mars 3-D books by Jim Bell,
  • local psychos (Donnie T and his bag of wrestling figures and Donnie D and his bike without brakes),
  • hiding from annoying kids during childhood,
  • and Mio Water Enhancer.

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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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Episode 183

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 183

Sixth anniversary of the Paunch Stevenson Show (Part II)!

In this episode:

  • election lawn signs for Stallone and Hogan in Northern NJ,
  • Conrad Murray trial verdict in death of Michael Jackson,
  • more NJ pizzeria stereotypes,
  • get rich quick (the classy pizzeria),
  • celebrity death (Smokin’ Joe Frazier),
  • What Ever Happened To? (Judge Mills Lane and Fairuza Balk),
  • Adam Sandler cursing his female co-stars’ careers,
  • Greg meets the legendary William Shatner,
  • anecdotes from his new book Shatner Rules,
  • the movie Incubus (1966) spoken entirely in Esperanto,
  • In Living Color returning to Fox in 2012,
  • another celebrity death (Heavy D),
  • Johnny English Reborn (2011) starring Rowan Atkinson,
  • Rob’s fundamental categories of video games (fun, strategy, and wonder),
  • why can’t a one-person bathroom be unisex?,
  • the Paunch luck (we missed a chance to meet Stan Lee),
  • cheap 1980s Halloween costumes for children (Voltron, E.T., etc.),
  • super expensive price for Mark Hamill’s autograph or photo,
  • Greg meets the star of Hercules (Kevin Sorbo),
  • Greg meets Eliza Dushku at last!,
  • a motion ride using George Lucas’ Red Tails,
  • movie cars (1966 Batmobile, 1989 Batmobile, 1985 Back to the Future DeLorean),
  • Michael J. Fox impersonator,
  • Carroll Spinney, original voice and puppeteer of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch,
  • New York Comic Con chaos and costumes,
  • KRE-O Transformers,
  • R2D2Builder.com R2-D2 working models,
  • tracking down a Quiznos restaurant,
  • Michael Jackson’s stoned singing,
  • and the return of the Hobo!

It's really

Flickr Album – New York Comic Con, NYC 10/16/11

The Great William Shatner, NYC, 10/6/11

Flickr Album – William Shatner book signing, NYC 10/6/11

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Episode 171

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 171

In this episode:

  • a celebrity death (“Macho Man” Randy Savage),
  • reactions from former WWF wrestlers Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Honkey Tonk Man, and the Ultimate Warrior,
  • wrestling news site 1wrestling.com,
  • video from the Macho Man’s final in-character promo (WWE All-Stars video game),
  • another celebrity death (Len Lesser, Seinfeld’s “Uncle Leo”),
  • the redundancy of the term “optical illusion,”
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mistress and love child,
  • Jerry Lewis retiring from the MDA telethon,
  • Lady Gaga ripping off a classic Madonna song and then lying about it,
  • an update on the new Three Stooges movie (2012),
  • Seth MacFarlane reviving The Flintstones,
  • Titanic in 3D,
  • Joe Pesci in 3D,
  • the Rapture that didn’t happen on May 21st, 2011,
  • and the planking craze.

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Episode 157

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 157

In this episode:

  • wrestling titles won by Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair,
  • our movie review of The Expendables (2010) starring Sly Stallone,
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme’s interview about turning down the part,
  • Michael Bay’s dangerous stunts on set of Transformers 3,
  • M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil (2010) trailer,
  • Ryan Reynolds gets Buried (2010) trailer,
  • Tron Legacy (2010) trailer starring Jeff Bridges,
  • our movie review of Leap Year (2010) starring Amy Adams,
  • our old movie review of Made of Honor (2008) starring Patrick Dempsey,
  • our really old movie review of The Outsiders (1983) starring Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Leif Garrett, Tom Waits, and Diane Lane,
  • William Shatner using the Paunch Stevenson “record an interview in your car” method,
  • season 8 of Curb Your Enthusiasm shooting in New York City (teaser),
  • our movie review of Cop Out (2010) starring Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis,
  • LEGO website brickset.com,
  • approaching the 25th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System,
  • the lost Paunch Stevenson video game podcast show,
  • Frank Nora’s podcasting network The Overnightscape Underground,
  • Creative Commons licensing,
  • and Rob’s cat appears in a video game article.

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