Special guests Jim from the Silverball Pinbal Museum, Michael Zapcic from Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash and AMC's Comic Book Men, and Ken from Yestercades! In this episode: the thrilling conclusion to Episode 196, our Yestercades theme song, our review of the Silverball Pinball Museum in Asbury Park, NJ, playing old and rare pinball games, comparison to Austin, Texas, pinball arcade by The Overnightscape's Frank Nora, our interview with Jim of Silverball (origin of the arcade, where the game...
Jun 17, 2012•50 min
In this episode: another Paunch road trip on the Garden State Parkway, Bruce Springsteen talking like George W. Bush, What Ever Happened To? (Brett Butler), celebrity deaths (Donna Summer and Robin Gibb), who to blame for the pitiful Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) film?, Arsenio Hall winning Celebrity Apprentice 5, Adam Carolla, Lisa Lampinelli, Aubrey O'Day, our ideas for the next Celebrity Apprentice cast, the upcoming movie G.I. Joe Retaliation being delayed until 2013, G.I. Joe...
Jun 04, 2012•55 min
In this episode: celebrity deaths (Vidal Sassoon and Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys), the Jackson family's Pepsi deal, Bill Pullman talking like "Macho Man" Randy Savage, the crying wrestling fan, Norm MacDonald's boring golf tweets, What Ever Happened To? (the Saturday Supercast podcast), celebrity podcasts, the upcoming Expendables 2 movie, our movie review of God Bless America (2011) directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, What Ever Happened To? (clock radios), long sleeve T-shirts are contradictory, ...
May 21, 2012•1 hr 6 min
In this episode: a Paunch Stevenson Show update: Mel Blanc's voice was definitely used in Daffy's Rhapsody, thoughts on New Girl and college cuisine from new Paunch fan Steve Rugel, calling the Diarrhea Doctor, the Beatles kids band with James McCartney, Sean Lennon, Dhani Harrison, and Jason Starr, new Paunch fans Adam and his son Nate impersonating Stan Lee, spacemandavid's "comment" marathon, Penn Jillette fired on The Celebrity Apprentice, Arrested Development returning in 2013 with new epis...
May 07, 2012•1 hr 35 min
In this episode: Cheat our way to episode 200?, our review of The Three Stooges (2012) directed by the Farrelly Brothers and starring Will Sasso, Sean Hayes, and Chris Diamantopoulos, Moe beating up the cast of the Jersey Shore, the upcoming sequel to the movie Twins (Triplets) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny Devito, and Eddie Murphy, Google Maps 8-bit April Fool's gag, watching The Big Lebowski (1998) starring Jeff Bridges and John Goodman, at the landmark Loews Jersey Theater, Rob's diss...
Apr 21, 2012•1 hr 15 min
In this episode: well-aged James Lipton, The Celebrity Apprentice 5 starring Lou Ferrigno, Michael Andretti, Debbie Gibson, and Adam Carrolla, old former WWF and WWE wrestlers dancing, the movie Casa de mi Padre (2012) starring Will Ferrell speaking Spanish, riots in Florida over $300 Nike Foamposite One Galaxy sneakers, Masters of the Universe Classics toys, Voltron Classics, and movie Ghostbusters figures on MattyCollector.com, Saved by the Bell complete series DVD set in Canada with French au...
Apr 08, 2012•47 min
In this episode: celebrity deaths (Gary Carter, Jan Berenstain, and Davy Jones), the Berenstain Bears, Paddington Bear, and the Lollipop Dragon, Jason Malachi (the fake Michael Jackson) singing on Jackson's 2010 album Michael, Jaleel White competing on Dancing With The Stars season 14, the fantastic chemistry between Jaleel White and Reginald VelJohnson on the TV show Family Matters, @spacemandavid's Paunch marathons, friend of the show Jack Silbert @JackSilbert, Mr. Bruno's Pizzeria in Lyndhurs...
Mar 26, 2012•45 min
In this episode: our review of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (2012) starring The Rock and Michael Caine, the Looney Tunes 3D animated short Daffy's Rhapsody starring Billy West and Mel Blanc, Greg's wacky vivid dream featuring Eliza Dushku, Eliza's older non-existent sister, VCRs, a concert hall, an airport, and Ed Begley, Jr., a local Red Robin waiter entering a hamburger eating competition, is Nicolas Cage an immortal vampire?, dueling Nick Cages on Saturday Night Live, Macauley Culkin's...
Mar 04, 2012•1 hr
In this episode: pictures of the So You Want To Be A Dancer guy from our British fan spacemandavid, the "Ringo Remembers" skits on the BBC's The Peter Serafinowicz Show, long-time fan Esteban reminds us of the Robotix (1985) cartoon featuring the voices of Peter Cullen, Michael Bell, Frank Welker, Corey Burton, and Arthur Burghardt, What Ever Happened To? ("Lord of the Dance" Michael Flatley), Marky Mark Wahlberg claiming he would've single-handedly stopped 9/11, Betty White's 90th birthday, cel...
Feb 20, 2012•43 min
In this episode: the TV show Toy Hunters on the Travel Channel, toy prototypes (Boba Fett with rocket, Thundercats), the Bud Bowl and Puppy Bowl, Madonna being sued by the Girls Gone Wild creator, Giselle Bundchen's chain letter for her husband Tom Brady, celebrity Super Bowl XLVI picks, Roseanne Barr running for President, Pat Sajak hosting Wheel of Fortune drunk, Ricky Gervais's complete lack of screen time as host of the Golden Globes (false advertising by NBC), the 1990s Titanic movie phenom...
Feb 10, 2012•42 min
In this episode: Star Wars movies being re-released in theaters in 3D starting with The Phantom Menace, Rob's Star Wars knowledge derived only from video games, Darth Vader and Jedi hamburgers in France, What Ever Happened To? (Hayden Christensen), Shattered Glass (2003) starring Hayden Christensen, cross-dressing Larry a.k.a. Lana Wachowski, upcoming box office bomb Cloud Atlas (2012) starring Hugh Grant and Keith David, the new Van Halen with David Lee Roth song "Tattoo", Hulk Hogan shaving hi...
Jan 30, 2012•1 hr 12 min
In this episode: the Mayan apocalypse of 2012, infamous medieval fortune teller Nostradamus, 1980s housekeeper sitcoms (Benson, Mr. Belvedere, Charles in Charge, Who's the Boss?), "Ranger Joe" Dave Coulier from Full House, the 50th anniversary reunion tour of The Beach Boys, a Politically Incorrect skit starring Louie Anderson as Newt Gingrich and Bill Maher as the Godfather, Bored to Death gets canceled, our movie review of Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison (2...
Jan 21, 2012•58 min
Happy new year!! In this episode: a sing off: Eliza Dushku's "Freedom" vs. Paul McCartney's "Freedom", Yoko Ono ruining the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus performances, John Lennon in The Dirty Mac with Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, and Keith Richards, Rob's genius idea #1 (bomb scare to cancel a sports game), Jean-Claude Van Damme playing hockey in Sudden Death (1995), Rob's genius idea #2 (everybody gets a free crime to commit), Tom Cruise hires people to be his fans in India, Tom Hanks p...
Dec 31, 2011•1 hr 7 min
Happy holidays!! In this episode: our movie review of 12 Dates of Christmas (2011) starring Amy Smart and Mark-Paul Gosselaar, the fact that it completely ripped off Groundhog Day (1993) starring Bill Murray, Greg fist bumping Eliza Dushku's giant ring, Greg meeting Bill Maher at his book signing for The New New Rules, people not sharing their photos and videos from book signings, our movie review of D.C. Cab (1983) starring Bill Maher, Gary Busey, and Mr. T, Hasbro's KRE-O and Kreon Transformer...
Dec 18, 2011•55 min
6th anniversary of the Paunch Stevenson Show (Part 2)! In this episode: election lawn signs for Stallone and Hogan in Northern NJ, Conrad Murray trial verdict in death of Michael Jackson, more NJ pizzeria stereotypes, get rich quick (the classy pizzeria), celebrity death (Smokin' Joe Frazier), What Ever Happened To? (Judge Mills Lane and Fairuza Balk), Adam Sandler cursing his female co-stars' careers, Greg meets the legendary William Shatner, anecdotes from his new book Shatner Rules, the movie...
Nov 29, 2011•1 hr 23 min
Celebrating 6 Years of the Paunch Stevenson Show (Part 1)! In this episode: Sylvester Stallone's $5,000 Montegrappa Chaos pen, American cheese, chain letters, the Joke Society of America, how Greg and Rob met 25 years ago, middle school madness, celebrity deaths (Steve Jobs- creator of Apple, and Dennis Ritchie, creator of Unix), Steve Jobs' insanity, TNT's Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) TV movie, Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography, Pixar and the "violent Toy Story cut", Adobe Flash fails ...
Nov 19, 2011•1 hr 18 min
In this episode: Paunch luck (East Coast Earthquake, Hurricane Irene, London Riots), recapping Rob's first trip to England, London sights (Abbey Road, London Underground, London Eye Ferris Wheel, Big Ben, etc.), English culture (cuisine, accents, and weather), Rob playing drums on Beatles songs at the Liverpool Cavern Club, lousy British reality television, The Love We Make (2011) documentary starring Paul McCartney, "Rockestra 2", murals of Marlon Brando painted on NJ pizzeria walls, Danny Aiel...
Oct 28, 2011•1 hr 32 min
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 (1986)?, the newly released Star Wars The Complete Saga in HD on Blu-ray, extras, changes, the "Han shoots first" debacle, the history of Star Wars home video releases, Steven Spielberg's impersonation of George Lucas, communicating as children before the internet and cell phone age, annoying children who cam...
Oct 18, 2011•54 min
Our interview with Ed Daly, NJ author of the 2011 book Cereal: Snap, Crackle, Pop Culture! In this episode: Rob waking up from his trance, supermarkets carrying more than 90 different breakfast cereals, Ed's reasons for writing his book, his favorite cereals (General Mills Rice Chex and Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Kellogg's Special K, etc.), his least favorite cereals (Kellogg's Hannah Montana and All-Bran), TV show and movie tie-ins, the lack of prizes in cereal boxes today, Kellogg's Mueslix and th...
Sep 30, 2011•35 min
Special guest Caseen Gaines, writer of the first book about Pee-wee's Playhouse (Inside Pee-wee's Playhouse: The Untold, Unauthorized, and Unpredictable Story of a Pop Phenomenon)! In this episode: the 25th anniversary of Pee-wee's Playhouse, why Caseen wrote this book, thoughts about Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) and Big Top Pee-wee (1988), the appeal of the TV series to college kids, the longevity of Pee-wee's Playhouse, obtaining interviews for the book using the internet, tons of unique nev...
Sep 13, 2011•1 hr 5 min
In this episode: our trip to Barcade in Jersey City, NJ (microbrew beers and 1970s-1980s classic video arcade games), Barcade running on 100% wind power, Rob's dream about "Macho Man" Randy Savage, the 2011 ThunderCats cartoon show, Larry Kenney vs. Will Friedle as the voice of Lion-O, John Erwin as the voice of Prince Adam and He-Man, Greg's movie review of The A-Team (2010), Paunch Stevenson Show celebrity encounters, Greg meeting Tom Wopat (Luke Duke from The Dukes of Hazzard), John Schneider...
Sep 07, 2011•1 hr 21 min
In this episode: Our ideas for re-dubbing the latest Michael Bay Transformers movie, the Rupert Murdoch UK phone hacking scandal, undercover sleuth work by Hugh Grant, Norm MacDonald announcing the O.J. Simpson verdict on Saturday Night Live, cracking passwords using social engineering, the "Ralphige" real Michael Jackson prank call, a fifth child on the way for Kevin Federline, the arrest of former informercial star Don Lapre, Tony Little HoMedics Micropedic Sleep Pillows, Ted Danson to star on...
Aug 15, 2011•1 hr 25 min
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, S...
Jul 25, 2011•1 hr 24 min
In this episode: Bill Murray sings "Star Wars," lack of progress on Star Wars live action TV series, another incomplete George Lucas film: Red Tails (2012), Steven Spielberg will no longer modify his classic films, Kevin Smith's new comic book collector reality show, get rich quick (nutty video game collector reality show), better late than never movie reviews: Resident Evil Afterlife (2010) starring Milla Jovovich and Inception (2010) starring Leonardo DiCaprio, new TNT series Falling Skies sta...
Jul 15, 2011•1 hr 14 min
In this episode: reminiscing about Macho Man Randy Savage, bad reviews for the new video game Duke Nukem Forever, Duke being able to throw human feces at his enemies, new versions of U.S. pennies, the Bitcoin internet money controversy, celebrity deaths (Jeff Conaway and Jack Kevorkian), Nintendo's preview of its upcoming Wii U, custom made video game consoles (Ben Heck), our review of Super 8 (2011) directed by J.J. Abrams, our review of The Hangover 2 (2011) starring Ed Helms and Zach Galifian...
Jul 03, 2011•1 hr 27 min
In this episode: Greg meets AC/DC's Brian Johnson at Barnes and Noble in NYC, Brian Johnson's new memoir Rockers and Rollers, difficulties getting a picture taken at a book singing, a celebrity death (Osama bin Laden), Rob's quest for the perfect portable headphones, headphone web sites (headphone.com and head-fi.org), Sony MDR-ZX700 headphones, Rob's story about a customer puking in the Electronics Boutique video game store, Sean Penn playing a feminine-looking hair band rocker in This Must Be ...
Jun 23, 2011•38 min
In this episode: a celebrity death ("Macho Man" Randy Savage), reactions from former WWF wrestlers Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Honkey Tonk Man, and the Ultimate Warrior, wrestling news site 1wrestling.com, video from final in-character Macho Man promo (WWE All-Stars video game), another celebrity death (Len Lesser, Seinfeld's "Uncle Leo"), the redundancy of the term "optical illusion," Arnold Schwarzenegger's mistress and love child, Jerry Lewis retiring from the MDA telethon, Lady Gaga ripping off a...
Jun 15, 2011•1 hr 2 min
In this episode: the number 70?, Whatever Happened To? (swine flu and bird flu), Weird Al Yankovic's Lady Gaga song parody "I Perform This Way," Yvonne Strahovski in College Humor's "Three Pop Stars, One Song" music video parody, retail stores printing ridiculously long receipts, the customer membership club card scam, Facebook's usage of personal information, Eliza Dushku voicing Catwoman in the animated movie Batman Year One (2011), Larry King's stand-up comedy tour, celebrities appearing at t...
May 21, 2011•1 hr 12 min
In this episode: Rob's upgrade to Windows 7, April Fools' Day gag involving the Bio Force Ape prototype NES game, homebrew Bio Force Ape programmer foiled, Sega developed the Microsoft Xbox?, the video game prototype scene, the Angry Video Game Nerd's future, movies that kill franchises (The Jerky Boys: The Movie, Big Top Pee-wee, etc.), Pee-wee Herman on Saturday Night Live (http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/snl-digital-short-andy-samberg-and-pee-wee), the upcoming third Bill and Ted ...
May 18, 2011•1 hr 2 min
In this episode: our movie review of Cedar Rapids (2011) starring Ed Helms and John C. Reilly, our movie review of Blue Valentine (2010) starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, our second encounter with Ted Danson- this time at Barnes and Noble in NYC on 3/15/11, buying Danson's book Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them (2011), having him sign a copy to Paunch, and Ted Danson's actual speech (including a question from Rob about mercury). 50 minutes - http://paunchst...
Apr 20, 2011•50 min
