The Overnightscape Underground

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1:20:55 – PriorCaster, by Bob LeMent of Static Radio and Morning Commute, seeks to document the people who were the pioneers of audio on the internet.

The Paunch Stevenson Show was born from two friends having fun recording silly bits that they dreamed up onto an old boom box. Rob and Greg, two lifelong friends from New Jersey had been doing these things their whole lives, and then they got inspiration.

That inspiration came in the form of a friend and confusion. Who could remember the guys from CHiPs names, let alone their characters, and with the connection to Frank Edward Nora and a love of old television, the Paunch Stevenson show was launched.

In 2005 the world was a different place, technology was not the easy point and click world we have today, but Greg and Rob had a vision, a drive, a reason to spoof everything in their nostalgia filled minds. The 1980’s had been a huge stack of firewood for them and now it was time to burn a bit of that off and the fire pit of choice became the Paunch Stevenson Show.

So after you take in their historic story here, swing by and dive into the 80s and 90s soaked nostalgia of the show that they have been producing for 20 years.

The Paunch Stevenson Show

The Paunch Stevenson Show

Rob & Greg

Trailblazers, web slingers, mimics, celebrity hunters and just all around good guys.

• Entourage members
• Musician
• Spoofers
• Impressionists
• Historians
• World’s Longest Running Pop Culture Podcast

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Bob LeMent- more info at priorcaster.com and onsug.com

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1:40:35 – It’s the 20th Anniversary Episode!!!:

• some early Paunch memories,
• sequels to Airheads (1994) and The Running Man (1987),
• whatever happened to butt fumbler Mark Sanchez?,
• Tom Cruise looking like Norm MacDonald,
• Al Pacino as “Foghorn Leghorn” in Scent of a Woman (1992),
• Martin Kove bites Cobra Kai co-star,
• meeting Weird Paul Petrovsky and Mr. T at conventions,
• Spaceballs 2 on the horizon,
• the return of the video game company Acclaim?,
• 20th Anniversary of the Digital Press videogame store,
• finally found out what S.E.P.P.O. was (episode 164),
• Greg’s first arcade, Game Town in Pine Brook, NJ,
• fun gaming YouTube channels to check out, including The Retro Collective, Daniel Evensen‘s sports reviews, My Retro Life,
• Skote Outdoors channel where a couple remodels a remote cabin in Newfoundland,
• A.I. celebrity videos (MJ at Walmart),
• Rob’s AI hype rant (it’s just a toy),
• cerealgeekTV restored Sunbow Transformers recording sessions,
• the lost Transformers alternate pilot (video),
• and Dr. Phil goes bankrupt (link).

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:46:07 – In this Episode:

• co-founders and hosts of the Marked Out Podcast, Sean and Dana join on the road from Pittsburgh,
• Tastykake Krimpets,
• visiting the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, PA,
• Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood exhibit,
• Napoleon’s death mask,
• Oceangate’s “Titanic” sub implodes,
• Doom scrolling through crazy social media videos,
• Dalat, Vietnam, real life Mario Kart downhill racer ride,
• return of The Naked Gun and Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
• celebrity deaths of Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Bob Uecker, Jay North, Lynne Marie Stewart, Brian Wilson, Mark Snow, Connie Francis,
• Dennis the Menace show and movie,
• famous musicians posting “reports” about meeting Brian Wilson,
• the not so Immortal Hulk Hogan,
• Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell,
• the end of the Howard Stern Show?

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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2:46:37 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

Peer back into the early days of podcasting!

Over the years I have added the back archives of a number of different shows to Onsug Radio, and when I do, I add each episode to the “Grand Chronology”, a list of shows by release date. After recently adding “The Obtuse Angle” to the archive, I saw that around mid-2006, there were five different shows running around that time. I tried looking for one day on which all five shows had an episode, but that didn’t occur. But I did find a two-day span in which all five shows had an episode – Sunday, June 18 and Monday, June 19. Presented here, is those five episodes.

It’s an amazing snapshot of the early days of podcasting – just like listening to a series podcasts on your “podcatcher” 19 years ago!

– Frank Edward Nora, March 9, 2025

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

The shows:

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1:26:00 – In this Episode:

• Paunch boys return to the Chiller Theatre Expo in Parsippany, NJ,
• Hollywood Squares,
• Three’s 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 1990’s 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 Game Reviews),
• copy protection codes from the 80s and 90s, and cracking C64 games,
• AI-generated classic rock music,
• the Beatles Get Back (2021) documentary,
• celebrity deaths (Richard Lewis, Carl Weathers, O.J. Simpson),
• and the demise of Vince McMahon.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:12:13 – In this Episode with guest co-host Lanza:

• Super Bowl Commercials (Larry David, The Sopranos),
• Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s season 11,
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia‘s 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‘s 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 children’s show Encyclopedia,
• and the early cable television networks.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:03:00 – In this Episode with guest co-host 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 Tormé 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.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:34:25 – 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?

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:05:19 – 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!

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:49:29 – In this episode:

• our movie review of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) starring Rick Moranis,
• Norm Macdonald destroying the Carrot Top movie Chairman of the Board (1998) 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 NJ’s Space Farms Zoo and Museum died (news),
• boring (or fascinating) presentations given by former video game programmers,
• Rare-developed Dinosaur Planet Nintendo 64 prototype found and shared (news),
• Goldeneye 007 XBLA finally discovered and dumped! (news),
• Greg finally gets a Nintendo Virtual Boy,
• “breaking” trading card boxes,
• Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” vocals line up perfectly 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 Half Nelson starring Joe Pesci, Victoria Jackson, and Dean Martin (Video),
• the original MTV Real World cast returns to New York (news),
• refurbishment of the 1929 Loew’s Jersey Theatre (news),
• and celebrity deaths (Dustin Diamond, Prince Markie Dee, Christopher Plummer, Mary Wilson, Larry Flynt).

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com