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The Paunch Stevenson Show

Greg and Rob in NJwww.paunchstevenson.com
The world's longest running pop culture podcast. Topics include movies, celebrities, video games, current events, old cartoons, silly web sites, and idiotic personal experiences. We also feature interviews, improvised comedy bits, impersonations, and bands.
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Episodes

Ep 315 04/28/2024

In this Episode...Paunch boys return to the Chiller Theatre Expo in Parsippany, NJ, Hollywood Squares, Threes Company, Dial of Destiny (2023), Priscilla (2023) and Elvis (2022) biopics, Marlon Brando vs Frank Oz during The Score (2001), Frasier reboot with Kelsey Grammer, rewatching Batman, X-Men, and Spider-Man 1990s animated series, bad videos games you got stuck on (NES Dick Tracy, Genesis X-Men), should the Angry Video Game Nerd stop being angry?, retro game channels (Retro Man Cave, Lazy Ga...

Apr 28, 20241 hr 26 min

Ep 314 03/13/2022

In this Episode with guest co-host Lanza...Super Bowl Commercials (Larry David, The Sopranos), Curb Your Enthusiasm season 11, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 15, Jeff Garlin quits The Goldbergs, No Time to Die (2021) starring Daniel Craig, the fifth Indiana Jones film wraps, Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) starring Paul Rudd, Matrix: Resurrections (2021) starring Keanu Reeves, 8-bit Christmas (2021) starring Neil Patrick Harris, Cobra Kai season 4, celebrity deaths (Bob Saget, Bob Dole,...

Mar 20, 20221 hr 12 min

Ep 313 10/02/21

In this Episode with Mr. Lanza: William Shatner commands a space ship for real this time, more Dark Side of the Ring episodes including Dynamite Kid, The Plane Ride From Hell, and Chris Kanyon, Ric Flair is in hot water, congratulations to Eliza Dushku and her husband on the birth of two sons, Tracy Torme IS working on a Sliders reboot, Marvel is being sued by the families of their deceased comic book creators, and a Norm MacDonald (1959-2021) tribute. 63 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com...

Oct 03, 20211 hr 3 min

Ep 312 09/19/21

In this Episode: Caddyshack II (1989) starring Jackie Mason, celebrity deaths (Richard Donner, Ed Asner, Charlie Watts, Fez Whatley), how AI is used to create video game dialogue, Rob didn't tell Greg he was also at the Rolling Stones concert, was Chad Channing truly Nirvana's drummer?, recent TV series that portray the 1990s (People vs. O.J. Simpson, Cruel Summer), To Funny To Fail: Life and Death of The Dana Carvey Show, Batman and Bill, documentary about the true creator of Batman, Bill Finge...

Sep 19, 20211 hr 35 min

Ep 311 08/29/21

In this Episode: taking horse pills to cure coronavirus, celebrity deaths (Charles Grodin, John Paragon, George Segal, Samuel E. Wright), Clifford (1994) starring Martin Short, Lon Adams, inventor of the Slim Jim, failed Dukes of Hazzard spinoff Enos, Neil Innes of The Rutles, anticipating the return of Terry Silver to Cobra Kai, Hollywood can now bring every dead actor back to the screen with AI de-aging technology, terrible de-aging vs. deep fake for Mark Hamill in The Mandalorian, Samuel L. J...

Aug 30, 20211 hr 5 min

Ep 310 04/21/21

In this Episode: co-host this show is The Great and Powerful Lanza, shout-out to Tom Santo from NJ Led Zeppelin cover band Custard Pie, Grant Garland's TV Theme covers, dumb "WHAT" WWE chant by wrestling fans for Stone Cold Steve Austin, Don Mattingly (New York Yankees) end of career what-ifs, Zack Hample, the guy who catches MLB home run balls, face plants, new mailbox for getting TTM autographed photos, the goofy names we used in our childhood backyard Wiffleball league, more John Sterling dum...

Apr 22, 20211 hr 6 min

Ep 309 03/14/21

In this episode: our review of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) starring Rick Moranis, Norm Macdonald destroying the 1998 Carrot Top movie Chairman of the Board with Courtney Thorne-Smith on Late Nite with Conan O'Brien, our local Kmart finally going out of business, megalithic former department store Bamberger's in Newark, NJ, Fred Space of Space Farms Zoo and Museum died, boring (or interesting) presentations given by former video game programmers, the Rare-developed Dinosaur Planet Nintendo 64...

Mar 14, 20211 hr 50 min

Ep 308 02/21/21

In this episode: Rob barks up his family tree, horrendously slow Race Drivin on Super Nintendo finally updated to run at proper speed, Chess Boxing, review of Cobra Kai Season Three, the tenants of John Kreese Karate, Celebrity Deaths (Cloris Leachman, Larry King, Phil Spector, Hank Aaron, Alex Trebek), Robin Hood Men in Tights (1991), Garlique, great baseball sluggers, and that time Cliff Clavin blew it on Jeopardy! 80 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

Feb 21, 20211 hr 20 min

Ep 307 11/29/20

In this episode: 80's voice actors doing high pitched voices, our incredibly bland, generic Presidental election response, followed by the Vince McMahon election response, remembering our buddy Frankie V. of the Digital Press Podcast, and avid fan and collector of Transformers and video games (news), also remembering Atari historian and homebrewer Curt Vendel (news), new discovery of NES Double Dribble voice samples being corrected (YouTube), did Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel" rip ...

Nov 29, 20201 hr 35 min

Ep 306 11/1/20

In this episode: mega celebrity deaths (Sean Connery, Regis Philbin, Kenny Rogers, James Lipton), long-anticipated crossover video between AVGN and Irate Gamer, $100,000-dollar auction prices for sealed NES retail packaging revisions, the Larry Bird tomato, Saved by the Bell returns on the Peacock streaming service, Keanu Reeves: shaved or unshaved?, Rob finally watches, and reviews, Cobra Kai starring William Zabka, Funny Key and Peele skit: Bobby McFerrin vs. Michael Winslow, Sonic the Hedgeho...

Nov 01, 20201 hr 34 min

Ep 305 10/21/20

In this episode: guest host Lanza218, we visit the Quick Stop in Leonardo, NJ, from Kevin Smith's Clerks, where is Burger King's Impossible Whopper Jr?, Always Sunny's What Are The Rules song, Shameless and Supernatural series reaching their end, Netflix has canceled everything, the unexpected return of Dexter, state of pro wrestling and sports during pandemic, Greg suddenly discovers his cousin's old friend is AEW star Orange Cassidy, Bill and Ted 3 Face The Music, starring Alex Winter and Kean...

Oct 21, 20201 hr 53 min

Ep 304 8/4/20

In this episode: will the COVID-19 ever go away?, we're not gonna protest, cancel culture, Howard Stern Ted Danson blackface controversy revisited, that's all the money we had KAREN, learned vs folksy people, old jingle of the episode (Bill Cosby's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), YouTube first time reaction videos to classic rock songs, The Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup 2020 album, Space Force starring Steve Carell, Star Trek The Next Generation bloopers in HD, still don't like The Shin...

Aug 12, 20201 hr 30 min

Ep 303 7/19/20

In this episode: celebrity deaths (Jerry Stiller, Fred Willard, Astrid Kirchherr, Milton Glaser, Richard Herd), Summer Rental (1985) starring John Candy and Rip Torn, Greg and Rob old Live Journal pages, TV reviews of Veep starring Julia-Louis Dreyfus, and Superstore starring America Ferrera, Space-X Dragon launch actually didn't crash, movie review of Ad Astra (2019) starring Brad Pitt and its relationship to Space Cowboys (2000) starring Tommy Lee Jones, The Swish Machine 70 Step Basketball Tr...

Jul 29, 20201 hr 22 min

Ep 302 5/9/20

In this episode: celebrity deaths (Kirk Douglas, Roy Horn, Kobe Bryant, Little Richard, Brian Dennehy, Howard Finkel, Lee Fierro, Honor Blackman, Max Von Sydow), old Nickelodeon cartoon Spartakus, crappy sci-fi movie Saturn 3 starring Harvey Kietel, Kirk Douglas, and Farah Fawcett, badly dubbed Netflix series Dark, Wheel of Fortune episode with Weird Al, Little Richard, and James Brown, how Bond film Thunderball got remade as Never Say Never Again, the non-Stan-Lee-created Avengers British spy s...

May 20, 20202 hr 12 min

Ep 301 4/1/20

It's the End of the World as We Know It! In this episode: April Fools or the apocalypse is here?, social distancing, Norm MacDonald's speaker phone chats with celebrities, business schmizzness, celebrity deaths (Max Wright, Don Imus, Danny Aiello, Rip Torn, Eddie Money, Valerie Harper), Night Terror aka Night Driver (1977), Cobra Kai on YouTube, starring William Zabka, Dave Merenda and Commuter, The Righteous Gemstones on HBO, starring John Goodman, McMillions documentary about the McDonalds Mon...

Apr 12, 20201 hr 40 min

Ep 300 7/3/19

The End is Here! Or is it? Join Rob, Greg, and The Overnightscape's Frank Nora on a 3 Hour Tour! In this episode: the origins of the Paunch Stevenson Show, our history with Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance, trading in CDs in the 1990s, our own Bill Murray Stories, celebrity deaths (Bob Einstein a.k.a. Super Dave Osborne, Gloria Vanderbilt, Peter Mayhew, Bill Buckner, Luke Perry, and Stan Lee), fireworks legal in NJ now, the curse of the Bambino, The Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night and song "...

Jul 03, 20193 hr 6 min

Ep 299 10/21/18

In this episode: The Muppets performers, including Dave Goelz and Loretta Long aka Susan, Tom Cruise live at Mission Impossible movie premiere, avoiding our bathrooms in high school, finally watching Transformers the Movie in a theater, Movie Pass debacle, Oscar for most popular film is dumb, Sears and Kmart memories, Bill Cosby heads to the slammer, It's Always Sunny, Norm MacDonald got tossed off Fallon, Power of Grayskull documentary review, Sony Playstation Classic, celebrity deaths (Robin L...

Oct 22, 20182 hr 18 min

Ep 298 06/22/18

Spaceman David returns for two and a half hours of nonsense! In this episode: World Cup 2018, Pump Up the Volume and Gleaming the Cube, starring Christian Slater, Carpool Karaoke with James Corden and Paul McCartney, meeting the legendary Diana Rigg, the latest Royal Wedding, can you understand our accents, Julian Lennon, new Lake Street Dive album, Free Yourself Up, Greg's resemblance to Joe Mantegna, Pamela Anderson, the many roles of James Earl Jones including Coming to America, the future of...

Jun 23, 20182 hr 30 min

Ep 297 04/27/18

In this episode: meeting has-beens at Chiller Theatre, Lyle Waggoner, Mike Lookingland, Randy Kleiser, Dinah Madoff, Flight of the Navigator main star Joey Cramer issues, why does Josh Charles HATE Dont Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead, Scott Baio to appear at a convention, Lottery World episode of Sliders featuring Nicholas Lea, drunk women, Jeffrey Kramer from Jaws, French Stewart, Class freaks out Ed Begley, Jr., Burton Gilliam in costume, Raj Singh finally shows up, talking Major League films w...

Apr 28, 201859 min

Ep 296 03/14/18

In this episode: NYC restaurants vanishing overnight, lunch busking, MeToo movement, Scott Baio vs Nicole Eggert, Stan Lee is now broke, Steven Seagal has his own bitcoin, Nolan Bushnell Atari GDC award fiasco, interview from 2006 where OJ Simpson sorta confesses to Brentwood murders released, Nic Cage will finally play (voice) Superman, celebrity death (Stephen Hawking), Toys R Us goes out of business, modern Viewmaster stinks, Chiller preview, John Erwin and Alan Oppenheimer message to sick bo...

Mar 14, 20181 hr 41 min

Ep 295 12/21/17

In this episode: Live from a Pot Belly Sandwich shop, SNES Classic Mini, Ringo Starr in concert, Star Wars The Last Jedi, Curb Your Enthusiasm, celebrity deaths (Jim Nabors, David Cassidy, Mel Tillis, Malcolm Young, Robert Guillaume, Charles Manson), Lame Idiots of 2017 are the Hollywood sexual assault buffoons (Harvey Weinstein, Louis C K, Kevin Spacey, Al Franken, etc.), Rhode Island and ACE Comic Cons, meeting Pee Wee Herman and the Revenge of the Nerds cast, Wormser and John Goodman story, m...

Dec 25, 20171 hr 30 min

Ep 294 10/28/17

In this episode: Paunch Stevenson returns to Chiller Theatre, Rob finally meets Willie Aames, talks Charles in Charge, Alexander Polinski's drama, Nicole Eggert's beauty light, Michael Nesmith, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jean-Claude Van Damme vs. Frank Dux hilarious trial in 1995, Rob photographs Terri Runnels, Don Harvey loves cookies, being directed by Verne Troyer, marker explodes on Johnny Whitworth, Michael des Barres from Pink Cadillac, celebrity deaths (Tom Petty, Fats Domino), RetroCon and TF...

Oct 29, 201755 min

Ep 293 9/14/17

In this episode: Live from the Lenwich II, Tiger R-Zone hand held console, SNES Classic Mini, Greg goes to Canada, eh, to meet Kathleen Turner and Drew Struzan, Tim Hortons, Talking UFOs with Richard Dreyfuss, celebrity deaths (Jerry Lewis, Frank Vincent), 1990 Stephen King IT Mini-series starring Tim Curry, reviewing 10 minutes of the Paul Feig Ghostbusters movie, Transformers Combiner Wars web series on Machinima go90, iPhone X, and yes, Sean Connery is still not dead. 51 minutes - http://www....

Sep 17, 201751 min

Ep 292 8/20/17

Rob returns! In this episode: Live from the Lenwich!, Karate Kid returns with Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, dumb 1980s school fundraisers and the trash you got as prizes, Ticket Center at the Willowbrook Mall in the 1990s, Will Rob finally meet Willie Aames?, Stan Lee critiquing Rob Liefeld and Todd McFarlane (YouTube Video), Scott and Todd WPLJ morning zoo show with Scott Shannon and Todd Pettingil, voice roles of Neil Ross and Jack Angel, ridiculous Game Boy accessories, Monster Mania recap...

Jun 26, 201755 min

Ep 291 6/18/17

Talkin new movies (SPOILERS!) with Grill Master Alex C. In this episode: Retron 77 Atari 2600 system by Hyperkin, redesigned HDMI Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis consoles from AtGames, Retroblox aka Polymega emulation console,celebrity deaths (Roger Moore, Glenne Headly, Adam West),Logan (2017) starring Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart,Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) starring Chris Pratt and Kurt Russell,Alien: Covenant (2017) directed by Ridley Scott,and the Blade Runner 2049 trailers. 64 min...

Jun 25, 20171 hr 4 min

Ep 290 4/23/17

In this episode: Star Wars Celebration Orlando recap with friend of the show Asian Dave, meeting Mark Hamill, Dennis Lawson, Anthony Daniels, Sarah Michelle Gellar, cast of Star Wars Rebels, cast of Rogue One, plus Chiller Theatre April edition recap with the Mighty Lanza, meeting Tom Berenger, expensive Perfect Strangers reunion, Tom Savini, arm wrestling Kenny Johnson, Alice Krige, The Hammer, Fright Night, Amy Locane, Pete and Pete, and celebrity death (J. Geils). 71 minutes - http://www.paun...

Apr 23, 20171 hr 10 min

Ep 289 3/21/17

Co-hosted by the Immortal Lanza. In this episode: Cinema Twain screening and meeting Val Kilmer in West Nyack, New York, Broadway fans, celebrity death (Chuck Berry), Monster Mania report (Wilford Brimley, John Cusack), new esotheric TV series (Legion, The OA), Martin Kove aka John Kreese talks Terry Silver, The Next Karate Kid (1994), starring Hillary Swank, the future of It s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Lanza really didn t like Terminator Genisys (2015) or Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)...

Mar 25, 201753 min

Ep 288 1/26/17

Special co-host SpaceMan David from UK! In this episode: Donald Trump, Brexit for breakfast, the hipsters LOVE obscure British television, debating Ridley Scott, debating Ben Affleck, Ringling Bros. Circus is done, Shia LeBeouf nutty protest, celebrity deaths (George Michael, Dick Gautier), discussing the snotty Daniel Craig, The Predator (2018), bad Die hard and Terminator films, The Man in the High Castle, 11.22.63 staring James Franco, Stranger Things, The Experts (1989) starring John Travolt...

Feb 18, 20171 hr 55 min

Ep 287 1/20/17

Special co-host Alex from NJ, collector extraordinaire! In this episode: Star Wars Rogue One Review, the new characters, the homages, the CGI recreations,celebrity death (Carrie Fisher), James Cameron to make a new Terminator film, upcoming Alien Covenant thoughts, The Man in the High Castle, Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior reunion in New York, featuring Bruce Spence, Virginia Key, Vernon Wells, Emil Minty and Kjell Nilsson. 68 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

Jan 22, 20171 hr 8 min

Ep 286 11/13/16

In this episode: Rhode Island Comic Con recap, Jon Voight in person, celebrity deaths (Kevin Meaney, Brock Yates, John Zacherle, Janet Reno), the Cannonball Run, meeting Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn from Hacksaw Ridge (2016), RICC meets included Richard Grieco, Mena Suvari, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Dennis Haskins, DJ Qualls, Billy Dee Williams, Howard Finkel, Jon Heder, Nolan North, Jim Parrack, Michael Cudlitz, John Ratzenberger, and Ian Ziering, Blizzard of 96, Ric Flair not happy, Jeffrey Dean Mor...

Nov 14, 20161 hr 28 min
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