David ‘Punk’ Olsen, popular reviewer of bad motion pictures on X96’s ‘Radio From Hell,’ dies at 51

The comical “Punk’s Movie Opinions and Junk Food Update” aired on X96′s “Radio From Hell” from the ‘90s to 2010.

David “Punk” Olsen, who delivered comical reviews of B-movies — finish with recommendations for the junk foodstuff to go with them — in a common phase on X96′s “Radio From Hell” exhibit, died very last week.

Olsen died Wednesday, just after a lengthy struggle with a non-alcohol-related liver illness, according to an obituary prepared by his household, and read through on “Radio From Hell” on Friday morning. He was 51.

Olsen was a typical contributor to “Radio From Hell” for quite a few yrs, providing “Punk’s Movie Assessments and Junk Food Update.” In every biweekly segment, Olsen would describe a undesirable movie — commonly a direct-to-online video horror, science fiction or sexploitation film — highlighting the absurdities of each and every film.

Olsen’s weblog (punksmovies.livejournal.com) chronicles his critiques between 2007 and 2010, when he stopped the phase — but he experienced been providing his opinions practically from the starting of “Radio From Hell” in the ‘90s, the show’s hosts said Friday. The hosts reported the station would pay tribute to Olsen by airing some of his opinions Monday morning, between 6 and 10 a.m.

Alternatively of stars, Olsen applied a ranking program where by he awarded films between 1 and 4 Prozacs — the worse the movie, the bigger the Prozac score. He then would listing off the types of junk foods that he proposed would finest accompany just about every motion picture.

For the lower-spending budget 2006 superhero movie “Lightspeed,” for case in point, he encouraged “a wonderful scorching pan of fish sticks … with fry sauce, a flippantly toasted or very nuked grilled cheese sandwich (insert Spam as needed), a couple Twinkies, a box of Goobers, some Sixlets and Pixy Stix, with a bottle of blue glacier Gatorade Frost or your preferred Polygamy Porter.”

The evaluation segments had been charmingly reduced-tech. Olsen wrote them in notebooks, in longhand, then transferred them to his website. He would contain an audio snippet of each film, which he captured on a cassette recorder held up to his Tv set he would then hold the cassette player up to the microphone when he delivered his assessment on the air.

David Leon Olsen was born May well 20, 1970, in Murray, to Kay and Leon Olsen. He lived in Holladay and afterwards Centerville, and graduated from Viewmont Higher School in 1988.

Olsen was an Eagle Scout, and attained that rank even while he by no means earned a swimming advantage badge. “He loved to recount tales of his 50-mile hikes and the contraband he carried in his backpack,” the spouse and children wrote.

Olsen obtained a bachelor’s degree from Weber Point out College in history, mathematics and structure graphics. He worked at Taco Maker, and for many many years at EDA, an architectural agency in Salt Lake City, as an architectural supervisor. “He was cherished by shoppers and feared by contractors,” his loved ones wrote. Between his favourite projects was the new Salt Lake City Worldwide Airport.

Olsen was a common at FanX, and an avid toy collector. “He had much more ‘Star Wars’ weaponry than the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire blended,” the family members wrote.

Olsen is survived by his mother, Kay his sister, Cindy McConkie 4 nieces and nephews and four grandnieces and grandnephews. His father and grandparents died formerly.

Funeral solutions will be held Saturday, Feb. 26, at 11 a.m. at the Centerville 8th Ward Chapel, 210 E. 1825 North, Centerville. Loved ones and pals may perhaps visit from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. at the church ahead of the expert services. Interment will be in the Bountiful Metropolis Cemetery. A GoFundMe campaign is underway to increase income for Olsen’s clinical expenditures and funeral costs.

Editor’s notice: Sean P. Suggests contributes reviews of present-day films to “Radio From Hell.”