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Episode 271

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 271

Our recap of Retro Con 2015 in Oaks, PA, featuring celebrity voice acting legends!

In this episode:

  • meeting Larry Kenney again,
  • Caseen Gaines was there promoting his excellent book We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy,
  • Doug Stone who played Matt Trakker on M.A.S.K. and Psycho Mantis in Metal Gear Solid joins us to discuss how voice acting is done, the looping process, and impersonating Joe Pesci,
  • Michael McConnohie who played Tracks and Cosmos on The Transformers and voice directed the Star Trek: Judgment Rites CD-ROM video game gives a great interview and coins the name “Murder Prime”,
  • Michael Bell, voice talent icon, who played Duke on G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Lance on Voltron, and Prowl and Swoop on The Transformers, talks about the voice acting process covered in his online class belltritel-vo.com and shares his memories with us,
  • John Moschitta, Jr., the incredible fast talker who played Blurr on The Transformers, jokes about residuals, That’s Incredible, and being paid to shave his mustache,
  • Jim Martin from The Great Space Coaster,
  • Real Life Peter Griffin,
  • and picking up the book “Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America” by Jeff Ryan.

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Photos and Video Interviews @ Retrocon in Oaks, PA, September 12, 2015

Retro Con, Oaks, PA 9/12/15
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Episode 270

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 270

In this episode:

  • Jeremiah Oresky, master celebrity photo seeker, joins us,
  • the beginnings of a hobby,
  • nice and nasty celebrities,
  • celebrity deaths (Wes Craven, Yvonne Craig, Dean Jones, and Darryl Dawkins),
  • awkward back to school memories and feelings,
  • mullets,
  • Gerard and Michael Way,
  • Zap It water guns,
  • Kanye West for President?,
  • Christian Slater,
  • Olivia Wilde,
  • Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel,
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) starring Tom Hardy,
  • Back to School (1986) starring Rodney Dangerfield,
  • Google and Apple map cars,
  • movie premieres for Dogma (1999) and Hitman Agent 47 (2015),
  • Rob-views of Ride Along (2014) starring Ice Cube and Let’s Be Cops (2014) starring Damon Wayans, Jr.,
  • review of Ant-Man (2015) starring Paul Rudd,
  • what’s the better Star Trek show?,
  • convention antics of Lou Ferrigno and Virgil,
  • and more Stan Lee and Transformers impressions.

We’ve been talking about him for 10 years, Christian Slater in New York, 8/20/15

Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer, a real life Ménage a Cinq, in New York, 8/17/15

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Episode 262

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 262

In this episode it’s our long time friend, listener and podcaster Esteban aka Steve of the Roboplastic Podcastalypse live in studio!!!!!

  • The Big Event in Flushing, NY,
  • “American Dream” Dusty Rhodes,
  • “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair,
  • Monster Mania,
  • Tobin Bell, Dina Meyer, Judge Reinhold, Lin Shaye, Claudia Wells, Robert Patrick, and Christopher McDonald,
  • Dushku Fan of the Year,
  • Cinemax Banshee,
  • Esteban’s NYC and NJ subway, smells, and experiences,
  • the Spanish version of The Transformers (video),
  • Scooter in the “Last Magic Man” episode of Challenge of the GoBots,
  • dumb names for GoBots and He-Man characters,
  • Penny Power and Zillions children’s magazines,
  • the Tomy Armatron,
  • Bucky O’Hare comic books,
  • Esteban’s cringe-worthyinterview with Larry Hama discussing “Pirate Jenny”,
  • celebrity deaths (James Best, Richard Dysart, Geoffrey Lewis, and Stan Freberg),
  • Richard Dreyfus sues Disney over What About Bob> royalties,
  • the upcoming Robotech movie debacle,
  • young people don’t know the phrase “jump the shark”,
  • Preschool Mastermind in Brooklyn,
  • why Esteban is also called Steve,
  • Nintendo warehouse employee “Robin Graves” complains to Kotaku,
  • the Times Square Toys “R” Us,
  • shopping for toiletries in the middle of the night,
  • and would Bob Budiansky remember any of us?

The Big Event 8 – New York – 3/7/15
Big Event Wrestling Show

Monster Mania Convention, Cherry Hill, NJ, 3/14/2015

Big Event Wrestling Show

paunch with esteban 1

paunch with esteban 2

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Episode 259

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 259

In this episode we finally welcome long-time listener Space Man David!:

  • impressions and local psychos,
  • Death Wish rip-off Harry Brown (2009) starring Michael Caine,
  • Spaceman David’s listening back story,
  • tips on visiting jolly old England,
  • Clockwork Orange (1971) my brothers,
  • new brutalist architecture,
  • Star Wars VII thoughts,
  • Alias starring Jennifer Garner,
  • the upcoming female Ghostbusters movie,
  • extremely long films (Michael Bay’s Transformers series, The Hobbit series, Dune),
  • The Clash, Depeche Mode, The Jam,
  • hipsters,
  • collecting vs. clutter,
  • Paunch bumpers and t-shirts,
  • Pee-wee’s Playhouse in the UK,
  • upcoming comic book “Hierarchy” by David and his mates Paul and Nathan Kilburn,
  • Paunch episode 0,
  • bad British accents,
  • popular and hated Brits to Americans,
  • Spice Girls,
  • downloading JPEGs in 1997,
  • trying to understand the speech of Cheryl Cole and Vinnie Jones,
  • and House of Nine (2004) starring Kelly Brook.

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Episode 249

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 249

In this episode:

  • our review of Transformers Age of Extinction (2014) starring Marky Mark,
  • John Goodman, Kelsey Grammer, and Stanley Tucci,
  • Richard Riehle and “Jump to Conclusions” game from Office Space,
  • Transformium,
  • angry and murderous Optimus Prime,
  • instant, confusing scene transitions,
  • Frank Welker as Galvatron, briefly,
  • massive plot holes and characters changing allegiances back and forth,
  • overt product placement,
  • what was the purpose of the Dinobots?,
  • lazy, coughing Transformers,
  • the infamous Casey Kasem tapes,
  • celebrity deaths (Robin Williams, Elaine Stritch, Lauren Bacall),
  • Expendables 3 (2014) review,
  • goofy one-liners, bad special effects,
  • our 22 Jump Street (2014) review,
  • and Robin Williams films: Awakenings, Good Morning Vietnam, and Batman?

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