In this episode:

• getting Joe in KY and Kelly from www.wrestlecrap.com on the show,
• celebrity deaths (Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and David Carradine),
• Alan Alda and “Weird Al” Yankovic,
• Jeff Goldblum and Harrison Ford supposedly killing each other on a movie set in New Zealand,
• a guest celebrity death by Lauren Elder from the Broadway cast of Hair (Michael Jackson),
• Tiffani-Amber Thiessen refusing to participate in Jimmy Fallon’s Saved by the Bell reunion,
• our phone call with Michael Jackson from December 2005,
• Paul McCartney,
• celebrities we’ve recently met (Al Unser Jr., Janeane Garofalo, and Dan Aykroyd),
• An Evening with Kevin Smith at Carnegie Hall,
• the upcoming video game Wet featuring the voice of Eliza Dushku,
• our movie review of The Dark Knight (2008) starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger,
• the Atari 5200 USB 128-in-1 flash multi-cart on www.atarimax.com,
• the Nintendo Entertainment System PowerPak flash cart www.retrousb.com,
• Jimmy Justice’s YouTube videos,
• Uncle Floyd Vivino running for governor of New Jersey,
• and our giant movie review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox.
• (here’s our giant review of Michael Bay’s first Transformers movie)

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In this episode:

• Greg’s horrible computer science classes at Rutgers University in the late 1990s,
• NJIT,
• our trip to Live with Regis and Kelly,
• the insanity of driving in Manhattan,
• seeing Regis Philbin in person,
• Wayne Brady’s weird hairline,
• NASCAR drivers throwing ice cream at each other,
• photos from the show,
• and the Paunch luck.

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There’s a restaurant called Silver Spurs on the corner of Broadway and E. 9th St. in Manhattan, only a few blocks away from Union Square Park. I’ve walked by it many times, but never ate there until this past Friday.

I went in and ordered the Salada Georgie. The description: “chicken chunks n’ shrimp combo atop garden-fresh greens, avocado.” The price: $12.75.

Service was below average, but that’s usually the case in NYC. I’m used to it by now. What I’m not used to is paying $12.75 for a salad that consists of rotten lettuce and shrimp that still has the shell on it.

I didn’t send the salad back or talk to the manager. A customer should never have to do that in the first place. Besides, what would the salad have been replaced with, more rotten salad?

I thought to myself, “How does the chef know he or she didn’t prepare this salad for a food critic?” Then I realized, I criticize movies, TV shows, video games, music, and people on The Paunch Stevenson Show all the time, so why not food, too? Hence, this blog entry.

I even took a picture, so you can see the disgusting rip-off salad for yourself. Obviously, I won’t be eating at Silver Spurs again.

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On Saturday, July 12, 2008, I went to the Apple Store on 5th Ave. in Manhattan. This location is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So how come I couldn’t go in?

The answer: because hundreds of people were lined up outside waiting to buy the new iPhone 3G and the Apple Store employees were only letting a few people into the store at a time. People like me who weren’t buying an iPhone had to wait in a separate line. The entire ordeal was ridiculous and unnecessary.

I hate waiting in line for five minutes at the grocery store, yet these fools were perfectly happy waiting in line for eight or nine hours to buy a telephone. You’d think it were a brand new invention.

What’s even more stupid is most of these idiots already have an iPhone from a year ago that’s 99% identical to the new one.

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Greg and I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull together in NYC this afternoon. Here are some pictures:

Flickr – AMC Loews 19th St. East, NYC 5/30/08

Did we love it? Did we hate it? Listen to our review in episode 104, which will be online Monday, June 2!

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We interview Ted Danson and Ed Begley, Jr. at the Global Green Expo 2008 in Jersey City, NJ!

In this episode:

• TV newscasters (Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Peter Jennings),
• Pat O’Brien,
• the PSEG Global Green Expo 2008,
• a summary of Ted Danson’s keynote speech,
• Oceana (www.oceana.org),
• ocean trolling,
• fish contaminated with mercury,
• fake Duracell batteries,
• the pointlessness of autographs,
• our interview with Ted Danson,
• the Paunch bad luck,
• Ed Begley Jr. (www.edbegley.com),
• a raw sewage backup in Greg’s basement,
• our interview with Ed Begley Jr.,
• Fixing the Planet (www.fixingtheplanet.com),
• The Paunch Stevenson Show All-Stars,
• a summary of Ed Begley Jr.’s keynote speech,
• recycling and simplifying our lives,
• consumerism,
• Rob’s computer mouse problem,
• gardening,
• standby power,
• reusing grocery bags,
• the lack of environmentalism in TV shows and movies,
• and Autograph magazine’s list of the best and worst Hollywood autograph signers.

Photos, video, and additional audio from the expo:
Ed Begley and Ted Danson Global Green Expo 2008 Keynote Speeches

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As I promised at the end of episode 101, we have photos, video, and audio from Ed Begley, Jr. and Ted Danson’s Global Green Expo 2008 keynote speeches.

Ted Danson photos:
Flickr – Global Green Expo, Jersey City, NJ 4/26/08

Ed Begley, Jr. photos:
Flickr – Global Green Expo, Jersey City, NJ 4/27/08

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Ed Begley, Jr. video:

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There are two environmental expos in the northern NJ/NYC area this weekend and we will be attending both:

PSEG Global Green Expo 2008
Liberty State Park
Historic Central Railroad Terminal
Jersey City, NJ
Friday 4/25/08, 10:00-3:30
Saturday 4/26/08, 10:00-5:30, keynote speaker Ted Danson
Sunday 4/27/08, 10:00-4:30, keynote speaker Ed Begley, Jr.

Go Green Expo
The Hilton New York
1335 6th Ave. (near 53rd St.)
New York, NY
Saturday 4/26/08, 10:00-6:00
Sunday 4/27/08, 10:00-3:00

Episode 101 of The Paunch Stevenson Show will feature audio from the events. It’d be great to talk with Ted Danson, Kevin Bacon, and Ed Begley, Jr.!

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I attended Nintendo’s Mario Kart Wii promotional event in New York City at 12:00 this afternoon and recorded a video:

I also snapped some photos:
Flickr – Mario Kart Wii promo event, NYC 4/24/08

Based on my experience with other Nintendo events in NYC – the Nintendo World grand opening in May 2005, the debut of Nintendogs with special guest Shigeru Miyamoto in September 2005, and the debut of Super Mario Galaxy in November 2007 – I anticipated a huge crowd, but when I got there, it was just me and one other guy standing in front of the Sheraton hotel on 7th Avenue waiting for Mario. Oh well. When Mario finally walked down the steps, the other guy and I surrounded him and were taking tons of pictures like idiots.

Eventually, a small crowd gathered and children were genuinely excited to see Mario walking down the street. I was surprised by how many adults asked to take a picture with him. It was cool.

The point of this event: Nintendo’s new racing video game Mario Kart Wii debuts Sunday, April 27, 2008, in the U.S. To promote it, Mario walked back and forth along the sidewalk holding the steering wheel that’s included with the game and hailed taxi cabs for people. Steering wheel…racing game…taxi cabs…it sort of makes sense, right? As a bonus, Nintendo paid $10 toward each fare, including mine. Thanks!

Being a video game fan and a Nintendo fan, I knew what the event was for, but I don’t think people walking by did. As you can tell by my video, this was an incredibly quiet publicity event. Mario didn’t talk, but neither did the woman who was with him. She should’ve been belting out, “Hey everybody, Mario Kart Wii is coming this Sunday! It features twelve-player online fun and a motion-sensing steering wheel! Who wants a cab ride? The first $10 is on us!” She wasn’t. There weren’t even any signs or free keychains.

I realize this event wasn’t really necessary because several million copies of the game will be bought automatically by Nintendo fans like me, but still, someone should’ve been handing out buttons or fliers letting people know what was going on. If you’re reading this and work for Nintendo, please consult me for your next game publicity event.

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Link to Yahoo! News Article

In the tradition of the inane orange “gates” put up in Central Park, the artists are at it again. This time building 4 man-made waterfalls in New York. Why? Seriously, someone tell me why?

This was his previous project in London, a ball of mirrors and such made to look like a mini-Sun.

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