Father and Son duo, Randy and Andrew Butcher talk to their countless friends from their decades-long careers as professional stunt coordinators/performers in the TV & Film biz!
Randy Butcher and Andrew Butcher
Noelle Kim is the CEO of StuntContact.com as well as the founder and president of StuntAccess.com, providing digital access to stunt professionals worldwide. She has also repped a variety of professionals with specialized athletic skills and superior acting ability for many years.
Eddie Bowman is arguably the film industry's best Transport Coordinator and Driver to the Stars. Music producer, concert producer, and head of security to the top rock'n roll stars.
Oleksiy Zolotarov, president of Filmotechnic, is the Academy Award Winning designer of the U-Crane and camera stabilization system used around the globe today on some of the biggest action films and TV commercials shot. Nikita Zolotarov is the top U-Crane operator in the business.
Bernadette Connors is an incredibly talented singer-songwriter-musician. She is extremely popular on the live music circuit.
Steve Chase, the worlds greatest TV commercial director talks about shoot over 50 spots with his friend Tiger Woods...
Grant Harvey is a film and tv director. He has directed hit shows like The Way Home, Orphan Black, Wynona Earp and Heartland. He also directs video games such as Far Cry 6.
Tom Marazzo is a former Captain in the Canadian military, former college professor and was an executive organizer of the Canadian Trucker Freedom Convoy into Ottawa. He is the author of 'The People's Emergency Act', about the Freedom Convoy 2022.
Jim Lytle is a stuntman, great stunt driver, U-Crane camera car driver, and entrepreneur. He's a former pro motorcycle racer and waterskier.
Harland Williams is a comedian, an actor, a director, a creator, a producer. If you haven't heard of Harland, we've only one question; what planet do you live on? So much fun on this one...
Mark Cabiddu is the film industry's premier U-Crane camera car driver, and the Vice President of Filmotechnic-Canada
Steve Chase is arguably the best TV commercial director ever. If you've watched TV, you've seen his work. And his Hollywood stories are killer!
Max MacDonald is a movie and television special effects, firearms and pyro expert. This man has blown up everything, and is one of the busiest FX technicians in the business.
Jeff Hutcheson is a former weather and sports anchor on CTV's Canada AM. Residing in Prince Edward Island, he is an author and world traveller.
Rupert Harvey is a Kung Fu expert, a movie stuntman, a philosopher, a Juno award winning musician ( he is a founding member of the Reggae band Messenjah), and a friend who almost made Randy cry...
Bronwyn Hart-Irwin and Jason Irwin are professional Horse trainers, competitive riders and TV personalities appearing on the Cowboy Channel and RFD-TV. They also appeared on season 2 of Canada's Got Talent.
Keith Murphy is a career steadicam operator/cinematographer for film and television. He is also an award winning producer and director.
Dave Tommasini is the owner of Four Seasons Aviation, and is the premier helicopter pilot to the film and television industry in Canada. His list of credits is too long to list here, but you can find him on the imdb.com (internet movie database).
Tom Comet is an airplane pilot who is also the president and owner of Drone Boy, a full service drone company servicing among other things, the film and television industry. He has been a professional juggler, circus performer and stuntman. He is also a professional pyro technician whose company provides the explosive excitement you see when the Toronto Raptors play.
Shak Foroughi, a seventh degree black best in Tae Kwon Do as well as being a high ranking black belt in Hapkido, is the owner and president of MFTK Martial Arts Academy in Toronto, Canada. Having escaped war torn Afghanistan as a young man, he has fulfilled his boyhood dream of teaching martial arts and working in the film industry as a stuntman beyond what even he thought possible.
Joe Sousa is an automotive mechanic by trade, and an extremely successful entrepreneur. He is the President of Roadtripz Vehicle Logistics, the President of Detail Patrol Ltd, and President of Jaxwax.ca - the finest automotive detailing products in the business.
Carly Brenner-Hunter is a professional cinematographer who makes movies under water. She is also a professional SCUBA instructor, safety diver and mom.
Hamish Allan-Headley is an actor. One of the leads on the hit Paramount+ series Mayor of Kingstown created by Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone) and Hugh Dillon (Flashpoint), Hamish plays Robert, the most kick-ass SWAT cop on television.
Bryan Renfro is the best damn dog trainer in the world. From doing all the animals on Little House On The Prairie, training the cockatoo on the TV series Baretta, to appearing on The Johnny Carson show, Bryan has had one helluva career. He was even on the set of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds! From gang life to prison to Vietnam to Hollywood, Bryan Renfro captures all of it in his book Hard Work & Dumb Luck , and we capture a little of it here.
Tig Fong is an Emmy nominated Stunt Coordinator. He is a director, actor, stuntman, photographer and a globetrotting undersea adventurer with sharks being his current focus. This was an entertaining and educational chat.
Andrew Butcher is a singer-songwriter-musician, and co-host of Going Again Podcast. After two guests bailed on the show, by no fault of their own mind you, we decided to fill one of the spots by having Andrew perform a few of his original songs.
Danny Bailey is a globe-trotting videographer and photographer. A dream career shooting such things as the Olympics, Grand Prix Racing, and following Tiger Woods around a golf course, breeds great stories.
John Nelles is simply amazing. This is a master-class for anyone interested in improving their craft as an actor, and an insight into the process for anyone who is a fan of television and film.
Lorin Raine will tell you he's a 2nd Assistant Director for film and television. But he's so much more. He's the best 2nd Assistant Director for film and television. He's also a sketch comedy artist, and a playwright, and a director. He's a writer, a comedian, and a classically trained actor and opera singer. And most important of all, he's one of our favourite people ever.
Dwayne McLean, at 83 years young, is still a working professional stuntman and stunt coordinator. An inductee of both the Canadian and American Stuntmen's Halls of Fame, Dwayne is a living legend in the stunt biz. You may even remember him as Black Bart in the iconic 'A Christmas Story'.D
Joe Forte is an artist. At 80 years young, he has been homeless for four decades, relying on the kindness of others to live a life creating. His main medium is black ink and paper. His inspiration, life. A philosopher of sorts, his wizardly white beard offers wisdom gleaned from his years of earthly experience and soulful spirituality.
Mike Meacher is a professional musician and commercial paleontologist. He has toured all over Canada and the United States with Canadian rock band, Mudmen, releasing an album with the group in 2016 entitled "Old Plaid Shirt". His band Factory City, has released two albums, "Factory City" and "Art Is War". Nowadays, though he continues to do live shows as a solo artist, Mike has been focused on a company he founded in 2018, Stormbed Paleontological. They are a sales and preparation service that digs, collects and prepares world class North American trilobites. Mike is also a breeder of poison dart frogs for the pet trade.
Randy Daudlin, special effects makeup expert and makeup artist, writer and director, is one of Randy's oldest friends in the film business. This is an eye-opening dive into everything makeup from lipstick to full-body special effects prosthetics. Plus he tells you where you can get his three special effects makeup books - a must for any film maker.
Big Rob Archer, all six foot seven and nearly three hundred pounds of him, is a sponsored body-builder and personal trainer, actor and stuntman. His personal apparel brand Hate Me can be found at hateme.ca. Have a listen and discover why the name Hate Me.
Mariah Owen was once hailed as the youngest executive producer in Hollywood. She is a writer, director, producer and actor who has been creating content and producing feature films for years, and is, as of this podcast, still only 28 years old. Simply incredible. You're going to want to listen in on our conversation with Mariah.
Don Carmody is arguably the biggest, most prolific film and television producer in Canada - His credits include Porky's, Good Will Hunting, Chicago (for which he won an Academy Award), The Boondock Saints I and II, all the Resident Evil movies, Silent Hill, Goon, and the list goes on. Check him out on the IMDB. This was a fun, insightful and honest conversation about his career and his movies. Don't miss this one.
Dave Flood, a former SWAT cop, is a close protection specialist, veteran competitive body-builder, stuntman and film and television armourer. He is also an avid boater.
Flint Eagle is a stuntman, stunt coordinator, and actor. Born on a reservation in Quebec, he was raised by his Grandmother in Florida following the murders of his parents. A dramatic story-teller, often speaking fluently in his Mohawk language, Flint's passion is incredibly moving.
Dylan Lindsay is a standup comedian who was born with cerebral palsy. Not only did he have us in stitches, he's also our favourite former Blockbuster Video employee...
Mark Fisher was a junior Olympic basketball player, is a former pro hockey player, pro lacrosse player and golf pro. He is a former undercover drug cop, and the conversation is incredible.
Charlie Taylor is the premier armourer in the TV and film industry today. If you've ever watched television or a movie, you've seen his work. A former tool and die maker, he became a gunsmith and gunshop/shooting range owner working for 6 law-enforcement agencies as their armourer. In 1995 he did his first film, Romeo & Juliet for Director Baz Lurhman (Elvis), and the rest is history.
Claire Trickey is a farrier, a bow-hunter and a taxidermist. She brought along her 15 month old Weimaraner hunting partner, Adlie, and the conversation was, in a word, fascinating.
Scott Hogarth is a 12 time world champion martial artist, holding advanced level black belts in numerous styles. He is a former paramedic and firefighter, stuntman and actor, and has been the owner and head instructor at Fighting Griffin Martial Arts in Milton, Ontario, Canada for four decades.
Darren Marsman is a professional TV and movie stunt coordinator and stunt performer. He is a special effects technician, an actor, and he even drove army tanks for a living once.
Adam Winnick is a warrant officer with the 'Queen's Own Rifles of Canada', and an airborne infantryman. He is a skydive instructor with Skydive Ontario, as well as an armourer and firearms consultant for the film and television industry.
Les Bryce is a former fire Captain/30 year veteran fire-fighter with the Toronto fire service in the deepest, darkest areas of the city, and among other things, is a custom motorcycle builder.
Kym Wyatt McKenzie is an actor, writer, director and comedian. He is the creator, as well as a performer, in Smooth Comedy, a sketch comedy show at The Staircase in Hamilton, Ontario.
Shawn Lawrence has over 28 years experience and over 2000 operational calls as a tactical operator and sergeant with Toronto's elite SWAT team. He is a former Israeli special forces/paratrooper, and has recently made a shift into acting and stunt work in film and tv. He can be seen in the Taylor Sheridan/Hugh Dillon created hit tv series Mayor of Kingstown on Paramount+.