Tag: Leonard Nimoy

Posted on

Episode 260

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 260

In this episode:

  • celebrity deaths (Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Gore, and Ernie Banks),
  • Greg always missing Nimoy’s convention appearances,
  • Mind Meld (2001) featuring Nimoy and William Shatner,
  • local psychos playing football in 1996 (video),
  • Power Rangers actor murdered someone?,
  • Regis Philbin is really old,
  • Brian Williams can’t stop fibbing,
  • Bill Brasky,
  • Jimmy Fallon’s Saved by the Bell reunion (video),
  • 12 Monkeys on SyFy,
  • Philips Hue lighting,
  • Matt Groening’s book signing,
  • “Big Book of Hell”,
  • Shaquille O’Neal’s disastrous signing at a NJ bar,
  • and a guy using makeup to look like famous women (link).

Matt Groening (Simpsons co-creator) Book Signing in NYC – 2/13/15

Matt Groening

Download this episode:
60 minute MP3 file – 27.7 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode:

Posted on

Episode 239

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 239

In this episode:

  • Scott and Todd show canceled,
  • “Blame it on Hussein” Milli Vanilli song parody,
  • celebrity death (Hal Douglas),
  • the upcoming movie Console Wars from Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg,
  • the grotesque Steve Jobs memorial statue,
  • the future Indiana Jones,
  • Ed Begley Jr. returns to the Paunch Stevenson Show,
  • 2014 Garden State GreenFest,
  • home energy audits,
  • the mainstream availability of “green” products,
  • our toilet seat preferences,
  • Rob getting too much fiber,
  • Lady Gaga vomited on,
  • Mike Masse’s cover song tournament,
  • the band Lake Street Dive,
  • Bad Self Portraits album,
  • a Rob-view of The Polar Express (2004),
  • Rob’s better mousetrap,
  • Leonard Nimoy,
  • Freddie Mercury sound-alike Marc Martel,
  • and our review of the fourth season of Arrested Development on Netflix.

Pictures and Video from the Garden State GreenFest on March 15, 2014 in Union, NJ:
Garden State GreenFest, Union, NJ 3/15/14

Greg, Rob, Ed Begley, Jr.
Ed Begley, Jr.

Download this episode:
82 minute MP3 file – 37.5 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode:

Posted on

Episode 219

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 219

In this episode:

  • Rob calls everyone “Living Legend” at Chiller Theatre,
  • How I Met Your Mother episode guest starring William Zabka and Ralph Macchio,
  • Celebrity Apprentice finale (Trace Adkins defeats Penn Jillette),
  • Gary Busey’s mechanical dog,
  • The Office finally comes to an end,
  • Liberace movie starring Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Paul Reiser, and Dan Aykroyd,
  • another post-apocalypse movie Elysium (2013) starring Matt Damon,
  • Steven Seagal is the new ambassador to Russia?,
  • The Purge (2013) rips off Rob’s “everyone gets one free murder” concept,
  • co-workers hate Michael Bay,
  • Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles using the voice actors in motion capture suits,
  • Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto in Audi car commercial “The Challenge” ,
  • David Bowie surprises with new album The Next Day,
  • upcoming CGI Disney Star Wars Rebels (2014) cartoon,
  • Bernie Stolar, destroyer of 32-bit 2D video games,
  • the demise of SEGA,
  • Microsoft unveils the Xbox One,
  • DRM: Digital Rights Management,
  • proposed documentary on Atari’s New Mexico “E.T.” landfill,
  • what’s with all the NJ roadkill?,
  • our review of Rockshow: Wings Over America (1979/2013), starring Paul McCartney and Denny Laine,
  • Paul McCartney concert performances,
  • extremely high Stub Hub prices,
  • celebrity deaths (Chris Kelly, Ray Manzarek, Jean Stapleton),
  • somethingstore.com – get shipped mystery packages,
  • The Breeders reunite for a 20th anniversary tour,
  • Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs movie gets panned,
  • Funny or Die’s iSteve parody biopic starring Justin Long,
  • SNES game Earthbound fetching huge ebay prices,
  • Esteban and the 7 Cities of Gold game coming to Wii U,
  • and Grimaldi’s Pizza in Clifton, NJ, has video game consoles to play.

Download this episode:
88 minute MP3 file – 40.3 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode:

Posted on

Episode 180

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 180

In this episode:

  • Family Guy episodes with Frank Welker playing Megatron,
  • were the lack of color and overuse of generic characters money saving tricks by Sunbow after Transformers: The Movie?,
  • the newly released Star Wars The Complete Saga on Blu Ray disc,
  • extras (good description here), changes, “Han shoots first” debacle, and the history of Star Wars home video releases,
  • Steven Spielberg’s impersonation of George Lucas,
  • communicating as kids before the Internet and cell phone age,
  • annoying kids who came to our doors unannounced and unwelcome,
  • Leonard Nimoy almost eaten by a bear,
  • another “Jesse Ventura Conspiracy” (who really designed Manhattan Island’s grid system?),
  • Casey Jones (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) fan film, directed by Polaris Banks (starring Hilarion Banks as Casey and Robbie Rist as Michelangelo),
  • and Eddy Grant’s Romancing The Stone movie theme song.

Download this episode:
54 minute MP3 file – 25 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode:

Posted on

Episode 175

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 175

In this episode:

  • our giant movie review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) in 3D, starring Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley,
  • the ridiculous length of the movie,
  • the end of the shaky camera fad,
  • a list of movies and TV shows Michael Bay ripped off (The Transformers, Superman, The Watchmen, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Jackie Chan’s Who Am I?),
  • illogical Duracell battery pricing at Staples,
  • our roll call of robots in the movie (Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Ratchet, Sentinal Prime, Starscream, Megatron, Shockwave, Soundwave, and dozens of unnamed robots),
  • Sentinal Prime’s face modeled after Sean Connery,
  • Bay’s horrendous computer animated version of John F. Kennedy,
  • Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) constantly screaming and crying,
  • Bay’s terrible Barack Obama impersonator,
  • Sam spending an hour going on job interviews,
  • Leonard Nimoy as the voice of Sentinal Prime and Galvatron,
  • various plot holes,
  • Optimus Prime actually wondering where his trailer went in the movie,
  • robots who were killed in the movie (the unnamed Scottish Autobot, Ironhide, Megatron, Starscream, the unnamed Decepticon bird, etc.),
  • our welcoming of the inevitable Transformers movie reboot,
  • Transformers spitting,
  • Michael Bay turning Optimus Prime into a ruthless murderer,
  • Peter Cullen and Frank Welker’s voice acting,
  • Shia LaBeouf’s recent acting career (Eagle Eye and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps),
  • Bay’s constant use of slow motion,
  • billions of dollars worth of damage in action movies with no consequences,
  • hacking into objects,
  • Bay’s ignorance of science,
  • the lack of rules and continuity in Bay’s Transformers movies,
  • What Ever Happened To? (Bugle Boy jeans, Z. Cavaricci genie pants, Zubaz, IOU sweatshirts, B.U.M. Equipment, etc.),
  • Roseanne Barr’s reality show Roseanne’s Nuts on Lifetime,
  • a Transformers: Dark of the Moon cameo by Scott Krinsky from Chuck,
  • Bay’s completely wasted use of 3D,
  • fans feeling obligated to watch bad movies,
  • Glynn Turman appearing in Super 8 (2011) and Gremlins (1984),
  • Sean Connery’s brother Neil Connery starring in bad movies: OK Connery (1967) and The Body Stealers (1969),
  • celebrity deaths (Peter Falk and Sherwood Schwartz),
  • Paul Reiser and The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 2,
  • and a new stupid style (extremely short cutoff shorts with dangling pockets).

Download this episode:
84 minute MP3 file – 38.6 MB (right-click to save)

Listen to this episode: