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Episode 29: Monday, May 15, 2006

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 029

In this episode:

  • a skit about Rosie O’Donnell replacing Meredith Vieira on The View (featuring The Paunch Stevenson Show reporter),
  • Awful Plastic Surgery (www.awfulplasticsurgery.com),
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) starring Leonardo DiCaprio and John Malkovich,
  • actors and actresses receiving praise for portraying mentally retarded people,
  • our crass high school English teacher,
  • Kaavya Viswanathan’s plagiarism,
  • and “Ring of Fire” and “Seven Nation Army” performed live by the Screaming Orphans.

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Episode 28: Monday, May 8, 2006

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 028

In this episode:

  • a defect that causes self-heating Wolfgang Puck gourmet latte cans to explode,
  • a get-rich-quick scheme (Doc Brown’s plutonium-heated coffee),
  • the upcoming Nintendo Wii,
  • old British street vendor in NYC Joe Ades selling peelers,
  • stupid styles (small women’s shoes and men wearing flip-flops without cutting their toenails),
  • bags of vomit being dumped throughout Mount Pleasant, IA,
  • The Old Jingle of the Episode (Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes commercial),
  • and local psychos from Dennis in NC (Willowbrook Mall customers).

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Joe Ades, British street vendor in NYC

old British street vendor Joe Ades selling peelers in NYC
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This old British street vendor sells peelers in NYC. He swears they are the sharpest peelers in existence and makes a mess all over the sidewalk trying to prove it.

Update 2/16/11: The old British street vendor’s name was Joe Ades. He died February 3, 2009, at the age of 75. Links:

Gothamist.com – Union Square Peeler Peddler Joe Ades Dead at 75

Gothamist.com – Memorial for Joe Ades, Peeler Peddler, Planned for Saturday

Flickr Blog – RIP Joe Ades

Flickr Blog – Carrots! (Joe Ades)


YouTube – Joe Ades , The King of New York Hacks and a potato peeler!!

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Episode 27: Monday, May 1, 2006

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 027

In this episode:

  • What Ever Happened To? (Tom Green and Ralph Macchio),
  • another physics experiment with the fake Julius Sumner Miller,
  • Stoogemania (1986) starring Josh Mostel and Sid Caesar,
  • My Million Dollar Year (www.mymilliondollaryear.net),
  • Alan Thicke,
  • Rob finding the same take-out menus on his front steps every day,
  • Freddy Krueger vs. Jason Voorhees vs. Michael Myers,
  • and The Old Jingle of the Episode (Wrigley’s Big Red commercial).

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Episode 26: Monday, April 24, 2006

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 026

In this episode:

  • Silent Hill (2006) starring Radha Mitchell,
  • Midway’s 1994 Aerosmith video game Revolution X,
  • Fever Pitch (2005) starring Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore,
  • Rosie O’Donnell’s fake crush on Tom Cruise,
  • celebrity deaths (Richard Fleischer and Buck Owens),
  • Charlton Heston,
  • Rocky Balboa Blog (www.rockybalboablog.com),
  • a get-rich-quick scheme (.ocm URL’s),
  • a listener get-rich-quick scheme from Dennis in NC (NASCAR chicken),
  • Born To Run (1993) starring Richard Grieco,
  • What About Bob? the video game,
  • and The Old Jingle of the Episode (Alvin and the Chipmunks theme song).

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