The Paunch Stevenson Show

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, Michael Nesmith, Betty White, Ronnie Spector, John Madden, William Hurt, Emilio Delgado, Sally Kellerman), rewatch of The Muppet Show, The Muppet Musicians of Bremen (1972), HBO childrens show Encyclopedia, and the early cable television networks. 72 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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

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 Finger, and whether pop culture has now passed us by? 95 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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. Jackson's UNIX computer interface in Jurassic Park, and the Coz is on the Loose. 65 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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 dumb Yankee home run calls, the online sports betting craziness, celebrity deaths (Lon Adams, Tommy Lasorda, Jessica Walter, Yaphet Kotto), body doubles used for movie posters, banned SNL episodes, and VICE TV's Dark Side of the Ring review (Bruiser Brody, Dino Bravo, Jimmy Snuka, New Jack, UWF). 66 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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 prototype found, Goldeneye 007 XBLA prototype found, Greg finally gets a Nintendo Virtual Boy, box breaks, Metallica "Enter Sandman" vocals set to "Hip to be Square" by Huey Lewis and the News, Scary Pockets YouTube channel that funkifies hit songs, the failed 1985 detective comedy drama TV show Half Nelson starring Joe Pesci, Victoria Jackson, and Dean Martin, the original MTV Real World cast returns to New York, refurbishment of the 1929 Loew's Jersey Theatre, and celebrity deaths (Dustin Diamond, Prince Markie Dee, Christopher Plummer, Mary Wilson, Larry Flynt). 110 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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

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 off Tommy James "Dragging The Line", Mortal Kombat on the Atari Lynx (link), the miserable Baseball Stars 2 NES sequel, celebrity deaths (Joe Ruby, Bonnie Pointer, Ken Osmond, Sam Lloyd, Thomas L. Miller, Bill Withers, Eddie Van Halen, Ruth Bader Ginsburg), Rob-review of Nathan for You, the Comedy Central 2013-17 TV series, starring Nathan Fielder. 95 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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 Hedgehog ported to SNES for the first time, Wrestling with Gaming: The Making of Goldeneye N64, the touristy Cheers bar in Boston, MA closes, Evan Ferrante the Tom Cruise impersonator on AVGN, and review of Netflix documentary High Score. 94 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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 Keanu Reeves, Ghostbusters 3 talk, Rick Moranis gets punched out in NYC, celebrity deaths (Carl Reiner, Wilford Brimley, Reni Santoni, Chadwick Boseman, Road Warrior Animal), NHL 94 Documentary by Pixelated Heroes, collecting of NES games, when will the celebrity meeting hobby return?, WFAN host Craig Carton documentary on his gambling arrest, and the Sports Pope Mike Francesa retires again. 113 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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 Shining (1980), review of Terminator Dark Fate (2019), starring Linda Hamilton, celebrity deaths (Joel Schumacher, Denny O'Neil, Ennio Morricone, Kelly Preston), updates on the Sham-Wow guy Vincent Offer and Billy Mitchell's video game record scores, LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System set, and Kanye West for President. 90 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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 Trickshot (Rube Goldberg Machine), scandalous Entertech water guns and the bankruptcy of LJN, AMC Theatres going out of business, SEGA of Japan releasing a Game Gear Micro, hilarious Trump mime Sarah Cooper and impressionist J-L Cauvin, and a movie review of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) starring Matthew Rhys and Tom Hanks. 82 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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 show, Tom Cruise wants to go to space for real this time, politics schmolitics, Corey Feldman's disastrous documentary movie My Truth, Scott Schwartz calls out Feldman's lies, old TV and movie casts reuniting on video chats, War Stories series on Ars Technica, Prince of Persia rotoscoping, old school video game engines, From Bedroom to Billions a UK computer gaming documentary, homebrew games lacking proper physics, ONSUG's The Exit Ramp podcast, Rob's guitar tutorials return, keeping somewhat busy during quarantine, and the Nintendo data leak featuring console design secrets. 132 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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 Monopoly Game, upcoming Netflix Transformers series, James Bond games on Nintendo 64, the auction of the Nintendo Playstation prototype, Curb Your Enthusiasm season 10 review, meeting Uncle Floyd, Christopher Walken, Nicolas Cage, and real racing drivers playing sim games online to pass the time 100 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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 "Dig It", car air fresheners, Hollywoodiscalling.com, Cameo.com ridiculous prices for "celebrity" video greetings, cheating on school book reports, marathoning classic sitcoms (Cheers, Frasier, Seinfeld, Perfect Strangers, Family Matters), George Costanza from Seinfeld vs. Larry Appleton from Perfect Strangers, Bounty paper towel spokeswoman Nancy Walker (NJ diner waitress Rosie), fat pro wrestlers in the 1980s, Geraldo Rivera's dumb gimmicks in the 1980s, Weird Al's future prospects, Uncle Floyd Vivino, stand up comedy impersonation trends, Learn at Home commercials starring Sally Struthers and William Shatner, depressing 1970s sitcom theme songs (All in the Family, M*A*S*H, Taxi, etc.), secrets of disco, Sony hiring an imposter to record new Michael Jackson music, all the new video game mini consoles, What Ever Happened To? (virtual reality), and a big thanks to all our listeners and many great guests! 186 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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 Leach, Burt Reynolds, Geoff Emerick), Paul McCartney new album Egypt Station, Atari 2600 E.T. is not the worst video game ever, concert review of Billy Joel, Eagles, and Phil Collins, meeting Tom Arnold and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Disenchantment, Matt Groening's new animated series, Chris Elliott and Adam Resnick from Get A Life And Cabin Boy, and Action Point starring Johnny Knoxville. 138 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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 Star Wars, and what was wrong with Solo, past and future of Indiana Jones, Ready Player One, Counterpart on Starz, featuring Stephen Rea, Simon Pegg likes to run away from me, David Fincher's Mindhunter and Alien 3, absurd Roseanne-less spinoff The Connors, debating the more embarrassing national leader, Kyle MacLachlan and the cast of Dune, Churchill starring Brian Cox, celebrity deaths (Margot Kidder, Big Van Vader), Terence Stamp retrospective and Peter Fonda getting into hot water, Jurassic Welp, and crazy countries to visit. 150 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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 with Rube Baker, sheer number of major actors in the 1990 Dick Tracy film, Mark Metcalf goofy Oscar story re: Sylvestor Stallone, celebrity deaths (Verne Troyer, R. Lee Ermey, Barbara Bush), Supernatural Scoobynatural episode, Counterpart on Starz starring JK Simmons, and The Goldbergs and The Walking Dead seasons. 59 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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 boy from 1980s, NYC subway doo doo, having to drive to Ohio with Lanza after flights cancelled, meeting Arnold Schwarzenegger, discussing Sacha Baron Cohen movies, Anna Chlumskys many moods, and the deep voiced Stacy Keach. 101 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

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, more JCVD Bloodsport BTS stories, Carl Weathers was under the weather, tv reviews Youre The Worst, Supernatural, more Curb, and Stranger Things, and talking with 1980s favorites John Ashton, Charles Fleischer, and Tom Wilson. 90 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com