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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 285 10/30/16

In this episode: Chiller Theatre October Recap with Lanza, Tim Curry, the dudes from Summer School, Natasha Henstridge, The Warriors, Martin Landau, Nancy Allen, Kristin Bauer not smiling, Megan Cavanagh surprised by Patrick Stewart's fan behavior, a grouchy Mark Margolis, Sonny "Enos" Shroyer, jacked Sasha Mitchell from Step by Step, Marsha Warfield from Caddyshack II, Lassies' Jon Provost, and Class flips out after discovering he paid for a Tyler Labine photo twice. 53 minutes - http://www.pau...

Oct 30, 201653 min

Ep 284 10/21/16

In this episode: New York Comic Con recap with Lanza, meets include Carrie Fisher, Jimi Simpson, John McEnroe, AJ Michalka, Rob Paulsen, Alan Tudyk, Milla Jovovich, Kate Beckinsale, and Pierce Brosnan, chasing the cast of SyFy's The Expanse, finally getting a photo with Jeff Bridges a.k.a. Barney from The Vanishing, an actual reunion with former Paunch classmate Gerard Way, driving to Hartford Comic-Con on the awful Merritt Parkway, Judith Hoag, April O'Neil in the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turt...

Oct 21, 20161 hr 19 min

Ep 283 9/28/16

Special guest Lanza! In this episode: meeting "The Boss" Bruce Springsteen, celebrity deaths (Gene Wilder, Arnold Palmer), getting autographs through the mail, Norm MacDonald book signing, his start in comedy, Rodney Dangerfield, Sam Kinison, Chris Farley, his greatest gig was at a mental institute, funeral home cookies, appearing on talk shows, trying to book Robert Blake for Norm talk show, and another guy named Charles Manson. 76 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

Sep 28, 20161 hr 16 min

Ep 282 8/17/16

Special guest Class316, celebrity photo combo collector! http://celebmeets.blogspot.com In this episode: celebrity deaths (David Huddleston, Marni Nixon, Gary Marshall), Santa Claus the Movie (1985), how did the combo mania start?, the code words of the celebrity photo hobby, met a few wrestlers (The Miz), Class meeting the Holy Grail Johnny Depp, big meets and misses, whatever happened to He-Man voice actor John Erwin?, the future of Class, we find Yoda (Frank Oz), but R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) is de...

Aug 17, 20161 hr

Ep 281 7/10/16

Rob returns to go through a box of old junk! In this episode: the Silver Beatles, Abbott and Costello, Wonderwall (1968) featuring music by George Harrison, Weird Paul Petroskey, Rhino VHS releases of Get a Life, George Carlin's CDs, Ladystein- the band that Rob scuttled our Angry Video Game Nerd interview for way back in Episode 106, recording NES and SNES video game soundtracks and selling them on eBay in 2000, who the hell is Corn Mo?, more VHS tapes (Richard Lewis, Pink Panther, Betty Boop, ...

Jul 10, 20161 hr 2 min

Ep 280 6/7/16

In this episode: celebrity deaths (Michael Cimino, Theresa Saldana, Anton Yelchin), James Marsters talks the Dush, Brian O'Halloran talks Hockey and Clerks, Caseen Gaines talks Pee-Wee's Big Holiday and the celebrity death of Prince, Lanza recaps the Wizard World Philadelphia convention featuring Michael J. Fox and Lea Thompson, meeting Tate Donovan, Freddie Prinze, Jr., and Mark Ruffalo who blanked us, and AMC's Comic Book Men (Ming, Walt, Bryan). 54 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

Jun 07, 201654 min

Ep 279 5/10/16

Special guest host Lanza218 from markedout.com! In this episode: celebrity death (Doris Roberts), Chicago trip (the Home Alone and Family Matters houses), meeting John Cusack, a lousy bus ride to Cincinnati for another convention, Macauley Culkin and Daniel Stern make in-character Home Alone videos, Paul Rudd convention mishap, meeting Louie Anderson, Danny Devito, and Steve Martin!, Nic Cage fights Vince Neill, Chiller Theatre Expo spring 2016 review, Meatloaf, Ted McGinley, Dennis Haskins, Nan...

May 10, 20161 hr 8 min

Ep 278 4/3/16

We're back with superfan Spaceman David! In this episode: can you fart on US network television?, Sean Connery and Roger Moore, famous Welshmen, goofy informercial hosts, men with GLH spray on hair, Sgt. Slaughter as the heel during the Gulf War, Hulk Hogan's Thunder in Paradise, Walken for President revisited, The Who, celebrity death (Sir George Martin, Keith Emerson, Lemmy, George Kennedy), David Bowie retrospective, cuddle clones, and the new Ghostbusters movie trailer. 73 minutes - http://w...

Apr 03, 20161 hr 13 min

Ep 277 3/15/16

Rob's farewell! In this episode: who's worse- Bill Cosby, Charlie Sheen, or Tiger Woods?, who's coming to Chiller Theatre Expo in April?, the O.J. Simpson trial verdict, celebrity deaths (Joe Alasky, Natalie Cole, Robert Loggia, and Bob Elliott), even more important celebrity deaths (David Bowie and Alan Rickman), Louie Anderson originally cast in Perfect Strangers, the new theoretical ninth planet, the virtual reality age is upon us, another broken toe for Rob, Arnold Schwarzenegger takes over ...

Mar 15, 20161 hr 28 min

Ep 276 2/10/16

Special guest host, Lanza218, from markedout.com! In this episode: our trip to Pennsylvania for "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Cinemax series Banshee, competitive dock/dog jumping, meeting more actors from The League TV show, converstation with Michael Biehn about future Aliens films, celebrity deaths (Abe Vigoda, "Grizzly Adams" Dan Haggerty, Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon, and Glenn Frey), The Monkees return, The X-Files mini-series, Rhys Darby, FX series discussion (The People v. O.J. Simps...

Feb 10, 20161 hr 1 min

Ep 275 12/31/15

In this episode: our review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) starring Daisy Ridley and John Boyega, the return of Genesis with Phil Collins?, celebrity death (Scott Weiland), George Lucas is to Star Wars as Mel Brooks is to The Producers, talking with Taylor Grey from Star Wars Rebels, chatting with Mark Dodson from Gremlins, Walter Matthau, Greg meeting Quentin Tarantino and Al Pacino, the "Humans of Sesame Street" event, Angelika Film Center's Shia LaBeouf movie marathon in NYC, a Rob-vi...

Dec 31, 20151 hr 21 min

Ep 274 11/29/15

In this episode: celebrity deaths (Yogi Berra, Fred Dalton Thompson), Steven Seagal posting click bait videos on Warrior Zen website, Steve Jobs (2015) movie flops, Back to the Future Day, meeting director of BTTF and Polar Express Robert Zemeckis, Supernatural NJ Con experience, New York Comic Con 2015 coverage, meeting the cast of The Walking Dead, the Eliza Dushku/Lanza photo struggle, Greg missing out on meeting Clint Eastwood, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Josh Holloway due to a cold, Chiller ...

Nov 29, 20151 hr 19 min

Ep 273 10/31/15

In this episode: old Budweiser beer commercials, the "Yes I Am" guy Eddie Jemison, 10 years of Paunch Stevenson Show memories including past Overnightscape appearances, the Russian who wants to launch a space probe to look for moon landing equipment, the Digital Press Podcast meeting Billy Mitchell at AVGC, our Super Mario: How Nintendo Conqurerd America and Console Wars book reviews, the Retro VGS debacle, the Atari Jaguar, The Resurrection of Jake the Snake Roberts (2015) movie, Greg meeting M...

Oct 31, 20151 hr 34 min

Ep 272 10/17/15

In this episode: Back to the Future Day, failed predictions from the movie, Class of 96 drama series starring Lisa Dean Ryan, Rob's dreadful interviews with the cast of Hair, a Randy Quaid update, he's Chevy Chase and we're not (Greg meeting Chevy), the Marty Moose song, why did they make the Fletch movies?, Tim Allen a.k.a. Tim Dick, more Hollywood remakes including Die Hard, a Rob-view of The Heartbreak Kid (2007) starring Ben Stiller vs. The Heartbreak Kid (1972) starring Charles Grodin, and ...

Oct 17, 20151 hr

From the Vault: Rob interviews the cast of Hair in 2007

In honor of our 10th anniversary, from the Paunch Stevenson Show vaults, travel back to September 23, 2007. Rob interviewed members of the cast of the 40th anniversary revival of Hair in Central Park, NYC. He asked them about Louie Anderson and Steven Seagal of course. 13 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

Oct 10, 201513 min

Ep 271 9/30/15

Our Retro Con 2015 recap featuring special guests Doug Stone, Michael McConnohie, Michael Bell, and John Moschitta! In this episode: Retro Con 2015 in Oaks, PA, meeting Larry Kenney again, author Caseen Gaines was also there promoting his excellent Back to the Future book We Don't Need Roads, voice actor Doug Stone who played Matt Trakker on M.A.S.K. and Psycho Mantis in Metal Gear Solid joins us to discuss how voice acting is done, the looping process, and impersonating Joe Pesci, voice actor M...

Sep 30, 20151 hr 51 min

Ep 270 9/12/15

In this episode: special guest Jeremiah Oresky- master celebrity photo seeker, the beginnings of the hobby, nice and nasty celebrities, celebrity deaths (Wes Craven, Yvonne Craig, Dean Jones, and Darryl Dawkins), awkward back to school memories and feelings, mullets, Gerard and Michael Way, Zap It water guns, Kanye West for President?, Christian Slater, Olivia Wilde, Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) starring Tom Hardy, Back to School (1986) starring Rodney Dangerfield, Googl...

Sep 12, 20151 hr 39 min

Ep 269 8/29/15

In this episode: a Rob-view of Coffee Town (2013) starring Glenn Howerton and Josh Groban, review of Jurassic World (2015) starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt, the Star Wars Battle Pod arcade game, NASA finally gets to Pluto with its New Horizons probe, a Rob-view of Trainwreck (2015) starring Amy Schumer and Bill Hader, the curiously weird Jason Segel, meeting the great Michael Caine on set, Monster Mania 31 convention meets (Malcolm McDowell, Neve Campbell, Nikolai Volkoff, and George...

Aug 29, 201550 min

Ep 268 8/15/15

In this episode: Chiller Theatre October 2015 lineup, celebrity deaths (Frank Gifford, Roddy Piper), the hapless New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith's jaw broken over a $600 plane ticket, Hulk Hogan fired for being a racist, why bring back Prison Break?, Curb Your Enthusiasm returning?, Esteban's TurboGrafx Turbo Club package, Star Wars Rogue One (2016) cast announced, meeting Jennifer Lopez, Adam Sandler, and Paul Rudd in New York, Adam Sandler's album They're All Gonna Laugh At You, and Overn...

Aug 15, 20151 hr 10 min

Ep 267 7/11/15

In this episode: Arnold Schwarzenegger pranks his fans, Zachary Levi, Alicia Silverstone, environmentally safe Lego pieces, Shatner finally retweets Greg and starts a flame war, another Dush sighting at premiere for her film Jane Wants a Boyfriend (2015), Kevin Smith's Tusk (2014) starring Justin Long, meeting Huey Lewis and the News at their NJ concert with Caseen Gaines, Paul McCartney's Out There Philly show, Too Many Games convention in Pennsylvania, Hori N64 mini controller from Japan, A Vi...

Jul 11, 20151 hr 28 min

Ep 266 6/30/15

In this episode: a Harry Shearer/Simpsons update, Darrell Hammond as Colonel Sanders in KFC commercials, Dukes of Hazzard> being removed from TV Land due to the Confederate Flag controversy, apps (Snapchat, Periscope, Meerkat, Tapatalk), John Stamos going to rehab and starring in Fuller House, Jimmy's Seaside Fries, Subway's Jared Fogle says "that's ignorant", Frank Welker and Peter Cullen appearing at Rhode Island Comic Con, upcoming video game Transformers: Devastation, getting a Jay and Si...

Jun 30, 20151 hr 10 min

Ep 0 6/4/15

Since we're now in the 10th year of the life sentence that is The Paunch Stevenson Show, here's the oft-mentioned aborted attempt at our first episode. It was riddled with audio distortion by the air conditioner in Greg's car, the slightest bit of profanity, and a lot of offensiveness/silliness which we apologize for in advance. Blame Esteban, he insisted we release this! We recorded this on Saturday, June 4, 2005, while driving around the Jersey Shore in Greg's car, using an old laptop Rob boug...

Jun 04, 201530 min

Ep 265 5/29/15

In this episode: the defunct Plaza Game Room arcade on Route 46 in Little Falls, NJ, the Mad Max films, David Letterman's retirement, Harry Shearer quitting The Simpsons, comedian Dan Soder's "Macho Man" Randy Savage impression, Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck (2015), bad Michael Douglas movies, Greg meeting the Pawn Stars and American Pickers in NYC, the Montclair Film Festival featuring Richard Gere, Stephen Colbert, Patrick Wilson, Dane DeHaan, Michael Ian Black, Bobcat Goldthwait and...

May 29, 20152 hr

Ep 264 5/8/15

Special guest Caseen Gaines, author of We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy, available now! In this episode: the Back to the Future theme song created with SNES Mario Paint, BTTF 30th anniversary reunions at London Film and Comic Con and We're Going Back in Los Angeles, screenwriter Bob Gale, Crispin Glover's empty house, Marty McFly originally played by Eric Stoltz, Soul Man swap of C. Thomas Howell and Melora Hardin, director Robert Zemeckis, hoverboard stunt crash...

May 08, 20151 hr 30 min

Ep 263 4/24/15

Our Chiller Theatre Expo April 2015 retrospective! We spoke to, or about, these celebrities: Don Most, James Darren, Lee Meriwether, Dick Miller (documentary That Guy Dick Miller), Michael Gross, Terry Kiser, Rip Torn, and Richard Karn. Also in this episode: the end of the Ron and Fez Show, Jeremy Piven, Greg denied by Michael Keaton, Greg missed Michael J. Fox thanks to moronic out-of-control autograph dealers, Jason Biggs is not Jewish but is from New Jersey, Greg attending the Paul Blart Mall...

Apr 24, 20151 hr 58 min

Ep 262 4/10/15

Special guest Esteban of the Roboplastic Podcastalypse in person! In this episode: The Big Event in Flushing, NY, "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, Monster Mania, Tobin Bell, Dina Meyer, Judge Reinhold, Lin Shaye, Claudia Wells, Robert Patrick, and Christopher McDonald, the Eliza Dushku Fan of the Year, Cinemax Banshee, Esteban's NYC and NJ subway, smells, and experiences, the Spanish version of The Transformers, Scooter in the "Last Magic Man" episode of Challenge of th...

Apr 10, 20152 hr

Ep 261 3/31/15

In this episode: our SNL40 review, the Blues Brothers, Paul McCartney, Celebrity Jeopardy, The Californians, Greg meeting several comedians in NYC (Sarah Silverman, Bill Burr, Amy Schumer, Robert Smigel, and Jon Stewart), Paul Rudd performs the "baby bird", Marked Out member Joresky gets a photo with Paul McCartney, Larisa Oleynik (The Secret World of Alex Mack), returning TV series (Heroes, Coach, The X-Files), a male Ghostbusters movie, TV shows, etc., the upcoming live-action Robotech movie, ...

Mar 31, 20151 hr 6 min

Ep 260 3/19/15

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, a video of local psychos playing football in 1996, 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, 12 Monkeys on SyFy, Philips Hue lighting, Matt Groening's book signing, "Big Book of Hell", Shaquille O'...

Mar 19, 20151 hr

Ep 259 2/25/15

Special guest Spaceman David in England! In this episode: impressions and local psychos, Death Wish rip-off Harry Brown (2009) starring Michael Caine, Spaceman David's Paunch Stevenson Show listening back story, tips on visiting jolly old England, Clockwork Orange (1971) my brothers, new brutalist architecture, Star Wars VII thoughts, Alias starring Jennifer Garner, the upcoming female Ghostbusters movie, extremely long films (Michael Bay's Transformers series, The Hobbit series, Dune), The Clas...

Feb 25, 20151 hr 36 min

Ep 258 1/31/15

In this episode: Paul McCartney collaborating with Kayne West?, "Only One" sung properly by Sarah Close, the lousy Celebrity Apprentice 7 cast, the upcoming Star Wars: Battle Pod arcade game, Weird Al's 2015 tour, overpriced music festivals, Greg meeting friendly Hugh Jackman and unfriendly Sting, the T-Rex at the Toys "R" Us in Times Square, Greg also meeting the lovely Ruth Wilson and enigmatic Jake Gyllenhaal, another Olivia Munn enocunter, Wade Boggs on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and ...

Jan 31, 20151 hr 5 min
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