The Overnightscape Underground

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1:19:47 – In this episode:

• Rob barks up his family tree,
• horrendously slow Race Drivin’ on Super Nintendo finally updated to run at proper speed (YouTube video),
• Chess Boxing (YouTube video),
• 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!

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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1:35:13 – 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 â€œThe Way You Make Me Feel” rip off Tommy James’ â€œDragging 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.

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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1:34:16 – In this episode:

• mega celebrity deaths (Sean Connery, Regis Philbin, Kenny Rogers, James Lipton),
• long-anticipated crossover video between AVGN and Irate Gamer (YouTube),
• $100,000-dollar auction prices for sealed NES retail packaging revisions (story),
• 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 (YouTube),
• Wrestling with Gaming’s “The Making of Goldeneye N64” (YouTube),
• the touristy Cheers bar in Boston, MA closes (story),
• Evan Ferrante “Tom Cruise” impersonator on AVGN,
• and review of Netflix documentary High Score.

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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1:52:59 – In this episode:

• guest host Lanza218,
• visit to the Quick Stop in Leonardo, NJ, from Kevin Smith’s Clerks,
• where’s Burger King’s Impossible Whopper Jr.?,
• Always Sunny’s “What Are The Rules?”,
• 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 (2020), 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’s Craig Carton documentary on his gambling arrest,
• and the “Sports Pope” Mike Francesa retires again.

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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1:30:44 – In this episode:

• will the COVID-19 ever go away?,
• we’re not gonna protest!,
• cancel culture,
• Howard Stern/Ted Danson blackface controversy revisited,
• Karen! 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 (link),
• The Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup 2020 album,
• Space Force starring Steve Carell,
• Star Trek: The Next Generation bloopers in HD (link),
• 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?

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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1:22:07 – 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’s 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) YouTube Link,
• 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.

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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2:12:37 – 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 (1980) 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 (YouTube video),
• how Bond film Thunderball (1965) got remade as Never Say Never Again (1983),
• the non-Stan Lee created The Avengers British spy show,
• Tom Cruise wants to go to space (for real this time),
• politics schmolitics,
• Corey Feldman’s disastrous documentary My Truth,
• Scott Schwartz calls out Feldman’s lies (article link),
• old TV and movie casts reuniting on video chats,
• War Stories series on Ars Technica – Prince of Persia rotoscoping (YouTube video),
• old school video game engines,
• From Bedroom to Billions (2014) â€“ a UK computer gaming documentary,
• homebrew games lacking proper physics,
• ONSUG’s The Exit Ramp (podcast link),
• Rob’s guitar tutorials return! (YouTube link),
• keeping somewhat busy during quarantine,
• and Nintendo data leak featuring console design secrets.

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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1:40:43 – 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 celebs (YouTube),
• 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 & Commuter (YouTube),
• The Righteous Gemstones on HBO, starring John Goodman,
• McMillions documentary about the McDonalds Monopoly Game,
• upcoming Netflix Transformers series,
• James Bond games on Nintendo64,
• 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.

Hey Man, it’s me, Superman Nic Cage!

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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3:06:12 – The End is Here! Or is it?

Join Rob, Greg & The Overnightscape’s Frank Nora on a 3 Hour Tour!

In this episode:

• the origins of the Paunch Stevenson Show,
• a history with Gerard Way,
• trading CD’s and albums in,
• our own Bill Murray Stories,
• celebrity deaths (Super Dave Osborne, Gloria Vanderbilt, Peter Mayhew, Bill Buckner, and Stan Lee),
• fireworks are legal now,
• the curse of the Bambino,
• A Hard Day’s Night and Dig It,
• car air fresheners,
• Cameo.com ridiculous prices for celebrity video greetings,
• cheating on school book reports,
• marathoning classic sitcoms,
• George Constanza ripped off Larry Appleton,
• Nancy Walker, Bounty paper towel spokeswoman,
• the fat guys of pro wrestling from the old days,
• Geraldo Rivera’s dumb 1980s gimmicks,
• Weird Al’s future prospects,
• Uncle Floyd,
• bad impersonators of the 1980s,
• Learn at Home infomercials with Sally Struthers,
• depressing sitcom theme songs of the 1970s,
• secrets of disco,
• imposters recording new Michael Jackson music,
• all the new video game mini’s,
• whatever happened to VR?,
• thanks to all our listeners and many great guests!

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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2:17:57 - 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’s new album Egypt Station,
• 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.

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