Happy Holidays! It's the Head Ginger here and I said to my friend Gabe Colman " Come on to the podcast, we'll talk together, have a few laughs" so he did!
And we made the final determination as to whether or not Die Hard is in fact a Christmas movie!
Take a listen!
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Join the Head Ginger and guest Connor Patrick as they talk about the 1984 film Gremlins, which, while not released during the holidays, is in fact a great holiday movie covering lots of views on that time of year and a bit of an intense story about Santa Claus!
Much like gremlins the two gingers should not be exposed to sunlight. However we did get water on us and we did eat after midnight!
Join The Head Ginger as he and longtime friend Trish Kennedy (like back to JR High friendship) as they talk about growing up in the 80's, National Lampoon and their movies and a deeper dive into the 1989 Holiday Classic, Christmas Vacation!
The Head Ginger is very happy to have on Jim Inman as we discuss the 1983 holiday classic. A Christmas Story.
We talk about geeking out over holidays, the movie overview with our favorite scenes and trivia and get into Jim attending the grand opening of A Christmas Story House in Cleveland in 2006 and his obsession with holiday Blow Molds.... Those plastic lawn decorations with lights inside!
Join the head ginger Wes as he brings this podcast back in the most joyous way he could think of... ELF
The first in a series of holiday movie based podcasts with people that are big geeks for the movie.
We start this off with guest Liby Ball who was on Season 1 Episode 4 and who performs burlesque and drag around the midwest and is a HUGE Elf and Will Ferrell fan.
We discuss favorite holidays and foods, growing up without celebrating the holidays much and then we get into the best part, the performance inspired by the sugary breakfast that Elf makes for the family and it's heck of a number!
Join The Head Ginger and his guest James as we boldly go were many have gone before and ENGAGE! in a lengthy discussion about Star Trek and specifically his "Number 1" favorite TNG (The Next Generation)
We talk about the origins of Star Trek, how it influenced so many things in its limited original run in the 1960's and how it showed us that uniting together to take care of each other and grow as a society is what socialism really can be. Also we make a joke about Riker going to the bathroom.
Listen in it would be the honorable thing to do!
Join the Head Ginger and his guest Allie(former child performer in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) as they taking a broad look at broadway and beyond.
Topics include: a brief and incomplete history of musical theatre, current trends and popular shows and we layout or plan for all live performances going forward into 2021 and as Covid hopefully goes away!
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Join the Head Ginger as he talks with Glen Inman about going up with great tv and finding he perfect show with The Office, which he estimates he has watched all of about 12 times.
Listen as we talk about the evolution of the show from the 14 episode English version with Ricky Gervais to the 201 episodes of the NBC version from 2005-2013.
We talk a LOT and cover things like favorite moments, episodes, call backs, guest stars and whose careers were made on this amazing show.
Join the Head Ginger as he talks about one of his favorite shows of all time. Buffy The Vampire Slayer. But there is a twist!
Our guest is Singe who produced a burlesque show called Once More With Stripping based on the fan favorite Once More with Feeling the Buffy Musical episode from Season 6.
We also discuss, Buffy as a series and the importance of the LGBTQ+ relationship of Willow and Tara and the impact it had on fans that were able to finally see themselves shown in a positive way on television at that time.
Join the Head ginger as he talks with good friend, past total electrical engineering nerd and beer brewing genius - Steve Llewellyn from Function Brewing located in Bloomington IN.
Topics include: An early desire to see how things work leading to an engineering degree, what are the best pop culture representations for beer, How one ends up starting a brewery and naming all the beers after math and science equations, having twins at home while dealing with a nationwide pandemic!
This episode was inspired by two beers from Function one being the one below on sale now!
Order Function Beer here!
A History of Beer Here - www.craftbeer.com/beer/beer-history
Take a listen to the longest episode of A Geek of all Trades yet!
Our guest Marie Ragatz is a geek goddess who is just flat out a Wikipedia of geeky knowledge. She kicks ass at many things including playing trivia, supplying the DEEP cuts for LOTR, Harry Potter and more at the local pub quiz, back when we could do them... sigh. So much so that she was asked to run the last LOTR trivia night and she had to verbally smack down someone that had the nards to try to nerd-splain an answer to her.
We talk about many many aspects of the geek world and try desperately to keep one another on topic for A Song of Ice and Fire and the tv show counterpart. We don't always do that well and get about 10 minutes of the series covered, but fueled by Switchyard Brewery ale and fortified by Pizza X pizza we just had good time.
It is part 1 or maybe part .5 of many many future episodes.
In Episode 9 The Head Ginger is joined by another geeky ginger Christina Parker and they discuss the origins and seasons of Supernatural on the WB or wait no.... The CW I mean!
We talk about being geeky growing up, finding our passions in general, the history of the show Supernatural and talk about the final season at least the road so far.. SPOILERS for Supernatural up to and including Season 15 Episode 13.
It's the longest and most wayward episode yet!
This episode of A Geek of All Trades talks gives a brief and totally incomplete history of Vampires and their place in literature, movies and television.
We touch on several fandoms with our guest Jess, however she is currently a fan of the CW Series The Vampire Diaries and we talk about life in Mystic Falls, vampires overall obsession with women that are way too young for them, rippers, originals, and how vampires in general probably shouldn't sparkle.
The discussion has sparked a need to do several more episodes about vampires in the near future.
After a very long hiatus, the head ginger is back with a new episode with a new guest!
In this episode we talk about zombies with our guest Sandra Lee, who has been watching horror films, end of the world survival movies, and catastrophic movies, since she was a young child, picking 28 Days Later to watch with her friends at a sleep over.
Wes and Sandra go through her path to geekiness and the long history of zombies starting with references in Greek literature, through the introduction to main stream media with George Romero's Living Dead movies and finally the big zombie obsession that we have had in the last 10 years with an emphasis on the AMC series The Walking Dead.
Read about Zombie History through 2008 from this paper written for a thesis in Dublin Ireland.
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/Zombies/From%20Voodoo%20to%20Viruses.pdf
Geek definition on Bigthink.com
https://bigthink.com/laurie-vazquez/are-you-a-geek-or-a-nerd
Linda Cardellini was in Freaks and Geeks and is Laura Barton in the MCU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Cardellini
Join The Head Ginger as he welcomes long time friend and fellow D&D fan on the podcast to talk about discovering D20 gaming as a youth and still following it and how it in part influenced his current passion and business, custom and time period based murder mystery parties.
Josh talks about role playing in games and how it influenced the desire to role-play in the world of murder mysteries and he also hosts local trivia nights in his spare time.
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Join The Head Ginger again, as he talks with Stephanie who is a big Harry Potter fan and one of Wes' favorite former bartenders!
As two geeky gingers we of course talk about the Weasley's, but also lots of things involving the books, the movies, going to Universal Studios and much more.
Join Host Wes Lasher (The Head Ginger) as he talks with Liby Ball (aka Verna Vendetta) about the tailoring business, cosplay and being a Drag King.
We discuss Game of Thrones, Jay and Silent Bob and bunch of other geeky stuff.
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On Episode 3 of GOAT, The Head Ginger talks with longtime friend and I.T. Services guru Cameron Smith from Smith Group Technologies about well a LOT of stuff. Anime, Star Wars, and cyber attacks and you dont want them.
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On the 2nd Episode of GOAT, The Head Ginger talks with long time friend and lego geek Harry Shafer.
Harry has been a lifelong lego fan and collector and that along with his love of match box cars his life has lead him to his current career in automobile salesperson.
Find Harry as Harris Shafer online or contact him below
https://www.communitycars.com/ford-lincoln/home
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In the first podcast ever for GOAT, host Wes Lasher (The Head Ginger) talks with guest Andrew Lambert about growing up geeky in the late 90's and how the pop culture of the time influenced him and his current life as comedian, author, podcaster and business consultant.
Mind Yo' Business podcast
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