Episode 223

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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Episode 221

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 221

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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Episode 202

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 202

In this episode:

  • 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.

Pictures from the John Schneider Dodge Dealer Signings:
John Schneider signing, East Hanover, NJ, 8/17/2012
John Schneider signing, Sussex, NJ, 8/18/2012

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Episode 76: Monday, July 9, 2007

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 076

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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Episode 75: Monday, July 2, 2007

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 075

In this episode:

  • 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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