Episode 217

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 217

In this episode:

  • Jurassic Park 3D (2013) re-release,
  • memories of our small local movie theater, the Franklin in Nutley, NJ,
  • special effects still very convincing 20 years later,
  • running UNIX on an early 1990s Apple Macintosh Quadra?,
  • updated dinosaur science,
  • how do birds fly?,
  • Jeff Goldblum’s odd mannerisms and resemblance to Howard Stern,
  • did the sequels ruin the franchise?,
  • legacy and impact of Jurassic Park,
  • our surprise that Ask.com still exists,
  • review of Total Recall (2012) starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel, and Kate Beckinsale,
  • dumb backstory, lots of CGI, Blade Runner-esque, lens flares,
  • cool technology and CGI stunts,
  • celebrity deaths (Roger Ebert, Margaret Thatcher, Annette Funicello, and Jonathan Winters),
  • cicada bugs invade NJ again for the first time in 17 years,
  • Tami Erin runs afoul of the law,
  • Norm Macdonald is back with another interview show, Norm MacDonald Live on You Tube,
  • FunnyOrDie.com KickstarterOrDie April Fools videos,
  • Dinosaurs, Darkwing Duck, Family Matters Movie, and Sliders The Movie,
  • Reginald VelJohnson, Jerry O’Connell,
  • and American Psycho with Huey Lewis and Weird Al video.

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The late great ITT Tower in Nutley, NJ

ITT Tower picture by Greg

The ITT Research Tower was built along Washington Avenue in Nutley, NJ, in 1947. It stood 300 feet high, and was a landmark visible from miles around. I think it was even present in some of the Microsoft Flight Simulators in the mid 1990’s. ITT was a defense-related research company, which had a massive complex on the site. The company would greatly downsize and eventually demolished half of the site and sold it for redevelopment. Part is now the Clifton Commons Mall. Rob and I often road our bicycles there in the early 90’s to play volleyball on the sand court, only to be chased out by a fat security guy in a jeep. In fact the above picture is one I took back around 1994 I think, of the tower and the volleyball court.

History of ITT Research at the site: www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/historicalTE.cfm

And of course, the Nazi Germany/UFO Alien conspiracy information (No I am not kidding)!
Source: ORION BASED TECHNOLOGY, MIND CONTROL AND OTHER SECRET PROJECTS, by Val Valerian

NEW JERSEY, NEWARK – German [Thule Society] infiltration of the American military-industrial complex following WWII, via the NSA, I.T.T., ARCO, EXXON, etc., led to the construction of massive joint alien-fascist underground complexes [stemming from the Nazi alliance with an alien collaboration, based under the Gizeh plateau of Egypt – via the Grant Orient Lodge of Egyptian Freemasonry and the various gnostic Bavarian cults that were brought back from Egypt during the Egyptian occupation by the armies of the so-called “Holy Roman Empire” of Italy-Austria-Germany]. Tunnel systems run from the I.T.T. Corporation building in Newark to the I.T.T. facility at Nutley, to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio [mag-lev tubes], to A.I.L., to Long Island [Montauk Point].

Here is a video of the tower being demolished in 1996, as well as preceding photos and the local news videos of the destruction. What a shame they turned the large green space there into a gated Townhouse community. I hate those. Those are not communities, they are seperated from the community.

Episode 13: Monday, January 23, 2006

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 013

In this episode:

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger’s motorcycle accident,
  • the song “Thirteen,”
  • Friday the 13th,
  • message board posts (Joe in NJ, Madu, and Sepper in Spain),
  • a listener stupid style from Joe in NJ,
  • the NJ Transit bus accident in Nutley, NJ,
  • a local psycho (the crazy Greylock Parkway statue guy),
  • the rickety old typewriter at FedEx Kinko’s in Manhattan,
  • three new Michael Jackson lawsuits,
  • and a Publisher’s Clearing House update.

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