Podcast appearances and mentions of David Leach

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2023 24:08

Are we witnessing the demise of conservatism as we know it? That's the provocative question we grapple with in our conversation with David Leach, the founder of Strident Conservative. Our deep-dive into the shifting political landscape unveils the compromising nature of both parties and their collective failure to protect our freedoms and liberties. David, with his unique journey from a Christian conference to creating a website scrutinizing politics and religion, challenges the status quo with his libertarian-leaning perspective.We navigate through the murky waters of populism, replacing the essence of conservatism, a trend deeply embedded in the Republican Party and Trump's platforms. The influence of this trend on younger generations and the need to foster independent thinking forms a major part of our discourse. Moreover, we delve into the intricate history of the power struggle between politics and the Supreme Court, tracing its roots back to the Eisenhower administration. Prepare yourself for a riveting discussion that will challenge your beliefs and opinions on politics, liberty, and much more. This conversation promises a fresh perspective on the issues you thought you knew.The Strident Conservative ™ - Politically Incorrect | Always Right ™ % Support the show --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/contra-radio-network/support

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Elsa Kurt with Clay Novak | The Church, Politics and You: Influencing Change (Part 2 With David Leach)

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2023 29:37

Get ready for a captivating journey through the intricate world of local politics and faith. We promise your understanding of community involvement and its pivotal role in shaping national policies will be entirely transformed. Delving into the heart of local governance, from school boards to town councils, we reveal the true power you hold as an individual to influence change. We also talk about the power of incumbency, its impact on democracy, and its role in upcoming elections. Brace yourselves, as we take you on an intriguing exploration of potential candidates and their impact on the future, featuring political figures like Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, and potential Libertarian Party candidates. We also bring the church into focus, emphasizing the importance of prayer and the role of the church in spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. Join us, as we unravel the essence of staying true to the gospel and how your involvement in local church can inspire a wave of change. This episode promises to be as thought-provoking as it is enlightening. Let's navigate these waters together! The Strident Conservative ™ - Politically Incorrect | Always Right ™ % Support the show --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/contra-radio-network/support

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Elsa Kurt with Clay Novak | The Strident Conservative: A Deep Dive into Political Shifts (Part 1)

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2023 19:49

Are we witnessing the demise of conservatism as we know it? That's the provocative question we grapple with in our conversation with David Leach, the founder of Strident Conservative. Our deep-dive into the shifting political landscape unveils the compromising nature of both parties and their collective failure to protect our freedoms and liberties. David, with his unique journey from a Christian conference to creating a website scrutinizing politics and religion, challenges the status quo with his libertarian-leaning perspective. We navigate through the murky waters of populism, replacing the essence of conservatism, a trend deeply embedded in the Republican Party and Trump's platforms. The influence of this trend on younger generations and the need to foster independent thinking forms a major part of our discourse. Moreover, we delve into the intricate history of the power struggle between politics and the Supreme Court, tracing its roots back to the Eisenhower administration. Prepare yourself for a riveting discussion that will challenge your beliefs and opinions on politics, liberty, and much more. This conversation promises a fresh perspective on the issues you thought you knew. The Strident Conservative ™ - Politically Incorrect | Always Right ™ % Support the show

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Elsa Kurt with Clay Novak | The Church, Politics and You: Influencing Change (Part 2 With David Leach)

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2023 25:19

Get ready for a captivating journey through the intricate world of local politics and faith. We promise your understanding of community involvement and its pivotal role in shaping national policies will be entirely transformed. Delving into the heart of local governance, from school boards to town councils, we reveal the true power you hold as an individual to influence change. We also talk about the power of incumbency, its impact on democracy, and its role in upcoming elections. Brace yourselves, as we take you on an intriguing exploration of potential candidates and their impact on the future, featuring political figures like Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, and potential Libertarian Party candidates. We also bring the church into focus, emphasizing the importance of prayer and the role of the church in spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. Join us, as we unravel the essence of staying true to the gospel and how your involvement in local church can inspire a wave of change. This episode promises to be as thought-provoking as it is enlightening. Let's navigate these waters together! The Strident Conservative ™ - Politically Incorrect | Always Right ™ % Support the show

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The Strident Conservative: A Deep Dive into Political Shifts (Part 1)

The Elsa Kurt Show

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2023 19:49 Transcription Available

Are we witnessing the demise of conservatism as we know it? That's the provocative question we grapple with in our conversation with David Leach, the founder of Strident Conservative. Our deep-dive into the shifting political landscape unveils the compromising nature of both parties and their collective failure to protect our freedoms and liberties. David, with his unique journey from a Christian conference to creating a website scrutinizing politics and religion, challenges the status quo with his libertarian-leaning perspective.We navigate through the murky waters of populism, replacing the essence of conservatism, a trend deeply embedded in the Republican Party and Trump's platforms. The influence of this trend on younger generations and the need to foster independent thinking forms a major part of our discourse. Moreover, we delve into the intricate history of the power struggle between politics and the Supreme Court, tracing its roots back to the Eisenhower administration. Prepare yourself for a riveting discussion that will challenge your beliefs and opinions on politics, liberty, and much more. This conversation promises a fresh perspective on the issues you thought you knew.The Strident Conservative ™ - Politically Incorrect | Always Right ™ %Support the show#ifounditonamazon https://a.co/ekT4dNOTRY AUDIBLE PLUS: https://amzn.to/3vb6Rw3Elsa's Books: https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B01E1VFRFQDesign Like A Pro: https://canva.7eqqol.net/xg6Nv Bible Journaling Finds: https://www.amazon....

The Church, Politics and You: Influencing Change (Part 2 With David Leach)

The Elsa Kurt Show

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2023 25:18 Transcription Available

Get ready for a captivating journey through the intricate world of local politics and faith. We promise your understanding of community involvement and its pivotal role in shaping national policies will be entirely transformed. Delving into the heart of local governance, from school boards to town councils, we reveal the true power you hold as an individual to influence change. We also talk about the power of incumbency, its impact on democracy, and its role in upcoming elections. Brace yourselves, as we take you on an intriguing exploration of potential candidates and their impact on the future, featuring political figures like Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, and potential Libertarian Party candidates. We also bring the church into focus, emphasizing the importance of prayer and the role of the church in spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. Join us, as we unravel the essence of staying true to the gospel and how your involvement in local church can inspire a wave of change. This episode promises to be as thought-provoking as it is enlightening. Let's navigate these waters together! The Strident Conservative ™ - Politically Incorrect | Always Right ™ %Support the show#ifounditonamazon https://a.co/ekT4dNOTRY AUDIBLE PLUS: https://amzn.to/3vb6Rw3Elsa's Books: https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B01E1VFRFQDesign Like A Pro: https://canva.7eqqol.net/xg6Nv Bible Journaling Finds: https://www.amazon....

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Mt Barker Mayor on country cabinet

Evenings with Matthew Pantelis

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2023 10:20

David Leach, Mayor of Mt Barker Council speaks with Matthew Pantelis on what he would raise with country cabinet tomorrow.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Cin7 - 2023 PwC NZ Hi-Tech Company of the Year

NZ Tech Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2023 19:22

On this special NZ Hi-Tech Award Winners episode, host Paul Spain sits down with David Leach, CEO of Cin7, the winner of this year's prestigious PwC NZ Hi-Tech Company of the Year Award. Join them as they delve into the story behind Cin7's remarkable achievement, exploring their approach to setting clear goals, scaling the business, and a strong company culture.

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David and Will podcast - 17th of April 2023

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2023 102:43

Tom Rehn, Tim Lester, Stephen Rowe, Phil Coorey, Rehnny's Golf Tip, The Best of Jon Blake, Breaking at 8 with Premier Peter Malinauskas, Lucy's Movie Review: Caddyshack v Happy Gilmore, David Leach and James Fantasia, Best of Jon BlakeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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David and Will podcast - 11 April 2023

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2023 95:39

Edward Godfrey, Gather Round Tickets, Stephen Rowe, Tom Doedee, Gather Round Tickets, Jon Blake, Breaking at 8, Lucy's Movie Review of the Life of Brian, Robert Bria and David Leach, Gather Round Tickets and Behind Closed Doors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tracking terrorists: David Leach Pt 2.

I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2023 70:56

In part two of Gary's chat with recently retired Scotland Yard Detective David Leach, the pair talk about David's work in some very high-profile counter-terrorism investigations and his work on a decade-old unsolved murder.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Face to face with a serial killer: David Leach Pt 1.

I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2023 70:38

Not everyone can say they stared down a serial killer, but recently retired Scotland Yard Murder Squad and Counter Terrorism Detective David Leach has done just that. In part one of his chat with Gary, David talks about the investigation that led to the arrest of Levi Bellfield, a serial killer that had been terrorising London until his arrest in 2004. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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INTERVIEW: Mayor David Leach - 15 February 2023

Sports Show with Rowey & Bicks

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2023 6:24

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Mayor of Mt Barker David Leach - 8 February 2023

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2023 5:03

Mayor of Mount Barker David Leach discusses with David and Will the report that dictates Mount Barker being on track to become the state's second largest city. Between 2021 & 2036, the population for Mount Barker District Council was forecast to increase by 15,990 people.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David and Will podcast - 8 February 2023

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2023 113:38

Tom Rehn, Geoffrey Thomas, Snap Poll, David Speirs, Around the Courts with Sean Fewster, Jon Blake, Breaking @ 8, David Leach, David Koch and Behind Closed Doors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Rock: Jared Leto Ripped In Half

Smack My Pitch Up

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2023 44:10

NSFW Smack My Pitch Up 93 - The Rock: Jared Leto Ripped In Half Hobbit and Thandi are finally back! They head to Alcatraz Island to remake and reimagine the 1996 Michael Bay action extravaganza, The Rock Subscribe to Smack My Pitch UP! https://link.chtbl.com/smpu_gui_subscribe Check out tons of merch for the GUI Network on TeePublic: http://bit.ly/teepublicGUI GUI Network Hotline: (804) 505-4GUI (4484) (Message & data rates may apply) _________________________________________________ ● Track Info ● "In A World" "Assasins" and "Bustin Loose" by Jason Shaw (audionautix.com) These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US "Steve Combs Through" Theme by Steve Combs Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ geeksundertheinfluence@gmail.com for sponsorship inquiries Transcript: SMPU - THE ROCK [00:00:00] Hobbit: [00:01:00] Hello geeks and welcome to a long overdue episode of Smack My Pitch Up, the show that reboots, remakes, reimagine sequels, sidequels and adapts some of your favorite and least favorite properties from film, television, and what have you. And Thandi we're back. Thandi: We're Beck, Winick. Hobbit: Yay. Thandi: Ha ha. Hobbit: Thank you so much to our longtime listeners for being patient with us. There's been a lot of moving and shaken going on over at the network And also figuring out how to get all the stuff we're doing to fit and so we can be more consistent with our releases. And so for this episode, this is a slight tweak on our previous format That's gonna make this a much tighter show Which allows us to record more consistently. So hopefully moving forward, we're gonna have like weekly releases for you of this Thandi: that's a good. Hobbit: It is a great thing. So This show previously was around an hour or two, an hour 15. We are shortening that by one of us each week doing a real take on the remake [00:02:00] And one of us doing the remix, weirdo outside the box, take on it. So we're just, instead of four versions of the same movie, we're taking it down to two. So it's a lot more manageable, I think, honestly, it's gonna be a more fun show to have it a little bit tighter like that. Thandi: Yeah, because everybody likes it Hobbit: tight. Yeah. And speaking of tight We are going into a tight action Comedy. I mean Thandi: Yeah, but only an action comedy in the vein of the idea that all nineties movies fall into this genre. Hobbit: when Sean Connery goes was it, losers? Think about Thandi: go home and to fuck the prom queen or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sean Connery is just rubbing his balls all over this movie, just spreading his musk Hobbit: No fucks given whatsoever. He's not doing a bad job, it's just that he's clearly not taking this seriously. Thandi: No, he has exactly the right tone for what that movie is. I would say that As [00:03:00] an understated for him character, it's Nick Cage that could bring it up a notch and he's still perfect. The movie for what it is, for the time in which it came out and what it does in cinema, is pretty much perfect. But yeah, the Nick Cage we know is really understated in the rock. Hobbit: Definitely and that is the movie. About this week, the Rock, the Michael Bay, 1996, I wanna say film who by the way, pitch smacked on Twitter and Facebook. If you want to interact with us on the social medias tell us what we're doing wrong or how you like the new format or what we're doing right. I would like that as well. Thandi: Or not you like the silky sound of our voices. Hobbit: Dulcet tones, Thandi: Our dulcet tones sweet caramel Hobbit: Oozing all over Nicholas Cage. Usually the rock. It is a pure example of what Michael Bay is good at, which is just making really dumb, [00:04:00] really straightforward, blow 'em up action adventure movies. Thandi: Ridiculous nonsense, spectacle. You know, the, the Rock is even though it's an early Michael Bay movie, it's super indicative of his style, which is like quick cuts and like no sense of spatial geography, shit's all over the place. It could be taking place on the ceiling or like, I don't know, in Hong Kong and then California and then New York. It could be anywhere, but you don't care because it's about the energy of the scene. Hobbit: and there's plenty of energy in this while since I've seen The Rock. It surprised me how many very well known actors have like very brief roles in this You've got the Candy Mane himself, Tony Todd that's in like two scenes, Thandi: Yeah. He is one of the, the Marine guys, one of the military. Hobbit: and he is got just one real scene that he has where he is like talking about how we're not, this isn't a threat. We will do this. We will blow up a bunch of people, and that's his main moment in the. Fucking [00:05:00] Candyman gets maybe 45 seconds of screen time in this movie. Thandi: Yep. At random Bokeem Woodbine Hobbit: right. I didn't even realize he was in this movie until about three quarters of the way through watching it, and then he just pops up randomly. You've got, of course, there's Michael Bean dying almost immediately as, as he's wants to Thandi: Yeah. As soon as they do the incursion, boom, gone David Morse, who I actually knew David Morse from St. Elsewhere, cuz that's how old I am. David Morse is just, yeah, just in that piece. Hobbit: And he has a little bit more time on screen, but not still, not much. I mean, he's not doing a ton. John Spencer as a director of Womack. Is a relatively well-known actor as well and he may have been in there for a day because most of his role was just looking at a screen and going, no Thandi: Yeah. William Forsyth. Hobbit: William Forsyth. Yeah. Yeah. Thandi: Yeah. There, there's a lot of big names, but like for the John c McGinley. Hobbit: that's, he was in like two seconds of it as like the [00:06:00] weird gadget guy, which becomes a trope in a lot of other Michael Bay movies is the guy that makes. Contraptions and shit, but he does one and it doesn't even really pay off Thandi: Yeah. Hobbit: He like Thandi: But he's in there, Hobbit: yeah. Thandi: just, just nineties guys. It's, it's these actors that we're all like, oh, I, I know this guy so well. It's because it's 30 years later and yeah. They've had long and storied careers at this point. Hobbit: As much as this is pretty straight ahead, there's no. Surprises really in this movie, it's still an enjoyable ride. You've got the cheesy one-liners throughout you've got big blow 'em up action, shoot 'em up sequences. Going through the sewers and stuff of Alcatraz, I didn't realize that Alcatraz was built on a underground mining roller coaster. But I didn't like I'll Thandi: fun nineties movie without a fun underground nineties Hobbit: rollercoaster Okay, well this could be mashed up with Temple of Doom if tracks were long enough. You know, what the [00:07:00] fuck? I forgot about that completely. And then that started happening. What were they making the prisoners do on Alcatraz? There's caverns, there's Thandi: why are there random spinning blades of doom? Because there are, Hobbit: I can just imagine Alcatraz when it was working that there's people in the mines of Alcatraz. Thandi: see, I think maybe it was just an amusement park. That's how they were paying for the prison. They had an amusement park that went underneath the prison. Hobbit: The most terrifying amusement park you can think of. Come on, get on the ride. Little kid Thandi: You took a wrong turn to coaster and now you're getting molested. Hobbit: This ride's called the Birdman of Alcatraz, where we just launch you via slingshot into the ocean. Yeah. There, there's so much nonsense. But the thing is like, you're not supposed to care. Like you, you're, Thandi: No you're not. Not for Eddie. Michael Bay Hobbit: No, you cannot examine a Michael Bay movie with any level of seriousness because it'll just completely fall apart if you do. Physics don't really matter. Yeah, like you said, directions don't matter. You, you would not be able [00:08:00] to map out Alcatraz by this movie by any Thandi: Yeah, because Michael Bay is selling a feeling. He's not selling a narrative. He's selling a feeling. He wants you to feel the energy of the scenes that he's strung together, seemingly haphazardly, and he's successful at that. Hobbit: The one thing that is different in this movie Ver versus a lot of his other films, is there's like this low, sometimes not so low key like hyper nationalism that really peppers in through a lot of his films. And in this film, it's highly critical of the American government. Thandi: how they've abandoned their soldiers. Hobbit: Yeah, and it's on all ends. You've got the I imprisoned without a trial. British spy. You've got the soldiers that are fighting for, you know, for basically benefits for the fallen soldiers. Nobody thinks the government's doing a good job. And then you've got, you know, the, the director Womack, that is a piece of shit, clearly and everybody knows he is a piece of shit like. Nicholas Cage, who is a straight laced by the rule book guy, by the end of it is just [00:09:00] like, I don't know, like fuck this guy. He was vaporized just totally down to lie to the government by the end of it. Thandi: y you know, Nick or Michael Bay's real thing is just he, he is, his main interest is the guys who do the work. So generally just it's, it's not the guys in the chair, it's the guys who do the work. And that's his love of soldiers too. Those are the guys out in the field who do the work. So he feels that they deserve the respect. And that's, that's true through all his movies. It's the guys who actually are out in the field getting their hands dirty. That's who Michael Bay celebrates. Hobbit: And that's definitely the case in this movie. I guess we're about ready to like dive in. I drew the straw of the real take for this version of the Rock. So I'm Thandi: Real take. Hobbit: the real take real take being what we think might actually work. For a remake or reimagining of the rock. And for this, because it's so straight ahead, there's a lot of d different directions you can take this, [00:10:00] but I thought it being a fun action movie. I wanted to kind of continue in that spirit, but maybe add a little bit more social commentary or subtext underneath that classic action like vibe. Is this conversation about the government and how people react to a crooked government. There are people that fight it like straight up 60 style or, you know, being held without parole and like, you know, trying to fight the system by exposing their secrets kind of thing, which is Sean Connery's character. Then you've got the hyper militarized you know, mercenaries that take over Alcatraz that are gonna do it by any means necessary. But then you see the infighting on what level they're willing to take it within those mercenaries. You've got Nicholas Cage who ends up being kind of like the soldier that turns to help the common man by the end of it. There's, there's a lot of different ways people deal with the, the crookedness of the government in this, in this film. And I thought putting a modern lens on it by having those soldiers come [00:11:00] imitating what we've seen in real life with the right wingers that took over the. Was it Yellowstone Park or what was the park system that they took over back Oh, the the cattle The cattle guys having a little bit of that as the aspect, so it's not just about soldiers. I think focusing on like va something that a lot of people have more experience with that the veterans affairs in this country are miserable. The soldiers that have have not lost their life, lost limb, or their health, their, their mental. That aren't getting the support that they need. So having maybe a collection of soldiers that are retired that are dealing with VA stuff and being like, this is, this isn't, you know, cool. And following that same kind of path that Ed Harris's character did Francis Hummel in the, in the original, but it being more about taking care of the soldiers that are still around, you know, it's be, it's them and their friends that are, you know, missing limbs and then you can have. A little bit more [00:12:00] empathy for these soldiers. As you see, they're all old guys that some of them might have a prosthetic leg or, you know, that these, these are like former soldiers that have been beaten and hurt that are just trying to get what they're due. And so there's. They're the bad guy, quote unquote, but not really, you know? And I really wanted to embolden that in the story a little bit more. It wasn't really pushed on too much. Ed Harris ended up being the only good soldier guy at the end because he wasn't willing to kill 70,000 people. , like that was his line. I thought it'd be a, I think a more complicated win in this movie if this soldiers like you, kind of were rooting for them. They're going about things the wrong way for sure. In this case, it's not gonna be like a rocket full of vaporized, you know aerosol. Thandi: kill gas or. Hobbit: yeah, I think something more simple of just like having an arsenal within range of a major city is enough. You don't have to make it [00:13:00] super sci-fi fancy stuff. Just, Thandi: But nineties Hobbit: the nineties, right? Alcatraz. It's called the Rock. You have to have it take place on Alcatraz. That's. But I did want to have that conversation about, you know, when crooked people earlier in charge, they even the most righteous of people, end up be at odds with each other instead of the real enemy because you know of who's calling the shots. And that being the tragic underpinning of this story is that everybody's trying to do the right thing, and because they're trying to do the right thing, they end up fighting against each other instead of the person that's really pulling strings. So then the conclusion of getting the microfilm the micro fiche and that being leaked to the press at the end, you know, that's one thing that they didn't want Mason or Connery's character out for. They didn't want him out because they didn't want these secrets. Stanley Nicholas Cage's character helps get that information out. You know, it ends up like at the [00:14:00] same, at the end of the first Black Panther where it's not the version that kil monger wanted of domination. But there is, now Wakanda is now part of the world. There is some truth to what, the bad guy was fighting for veteran affairs gets some of its money. You know, the, the, like, some of it goes through. and and Thandi: then everybody gets to know who actually killed J.F.K. Hobbit: The bad guys kind of win, but not really, you know, it, it's a, it's just a bittersweet conversation about figuring out that sometimes the enemy isn't your enemy. I, I would love that to be kinda the undertone, but that not being, I mean, it, it's still at the end of the day, a fucking action movie. And and you want big blow ups and you want, you know, everybody knows kung Fu. And everybody shoots guns really good. And I think for this, I really needed to get David Leach in there for it. It seemed like a no-brainer brainer. He was one of the directors of the first John Wick. He went on to do Atomic Blonde, Deadpool [00:15:00] two, Hobbs and Shaw and Bullet Train most recently. He has that right balance of being able to do great action sequences, but also having time for the characters. Do some yuck yucks in between and have character development and dialogue. So I thought that that was a really good fit for a remake of The Rock was to Thandi: I, I think that would work very well actually. Having seen bullet train recently, I think that's a that's a fun tone to play with in the modern time in general. Hobbit: absolutely. And when Bullet Train very much feels like almost a sendup of nineties action to a degree, it has that like silly. Action kind of vibe to it. So if, if that was applied to a remake of the Rock, I think in a modern take, I think it would fit really, really well. And then you get to play with all the people that David Leach has played with in the past that reappear and du cameos and stuff. So we've got like General Francis Hummel Ed Harris' character. I thought Idris Elba would be [00:16:00] incredible in that role. He was, he was. Thandi: we're canceling the Hobbit: apocalypse. Yes, the black Superman of Hobbs and Shaw coming out and being just like a, a wounded warrior, a a hardened soldier that wants what's due to him and his brothers just makes I wanna see that. I think that would be, and he would probably play it completely straight, like no winks of the camera, overdoing it, which would make all the zaniness around him that much more fun. He is the moral of the story character, you know, so, so him playing it straight, that gives that underpinning some weight while still everybody else is able to yak. Can he smack do around him? Thandi: Oh, definitely. And most importantly, as Hummel, he has gravity. Hobbit: Yeah, Thandi: So if you're doing a serious Hummel, Idris Elba has gravity, Hobbit: and I think, yeah, if we can get him to say, cancel the apocalypse at some point like that, that would be gr I'd be super down for that. I'm wondering how often that gets asked on set of something and it was like, you know, we are not for filming, but just for us, can you just say canceling the [00:17:00] apocalypse? He was Thandi: your pocalypse, Hobbit: like, okay, cool. For wire season three, you know, what's, what's happening 20 years later, let's cancel the apocalypse. Thandi: but, but can you do it in like your British accent? Not the wire accent, but like your British one. Just break into it. Hobbit: Yeah. The joys of fame is that everybody has that one line that people want them to say. So yeah, we've got Edris Alba as Francis hum. The FBI director Womack. I thought it would be fun. She is in Hobbs and Shaw, but is also she has that she could play like hard line in power person. Really. Well get Helen Miron to come in and play, play Womack. I mean, I don't feel like I even need to explain that she, I mean I had to actually double check and make sure she did a proper American accent before, cuz I Thandi: does she? Has she done a proper American accent in something? Hobbit: actually in the, the Yellowstone series or the, the prequel series that they have out with like a, a like old, like Dutch, Midwestern kind of accent. But [00:18:00] she's also been in a couple other roles within American accent and Sounds American. Sounds fine. So I just, I, I couldn't see the FBI director having a British accent. I felt like that was maybe a bridge too far. Thandi: Well, they're actors. They're, they're prof, they're professional actors. British actors are trained to take on those voices so they can really do just about anything. Hobbit: and British actors classically are pretty good at doing the American accent, so I wasn't that worried, but I just, I couldn't remember her having to do an American accent before, so I just had to check. But yeah, no, she's, she's fine. She's good with that. Then we've got Stanley good speed. I went through a couple. Choices for this one because it's Nicholas fucking cage. Like there is no way they can do Nicholas Cage. So didn't want somebody to do a version of him, but I wanted to do proper justice to the character who, he's a lab geek that gets put out in the world to like, on, on, to deal with this situation. So he is awkward. He doesn't come off as a badass at all. He's kind of [00:19:00] gawky. But I also needed an actor that would be able to do some of the action sequence stuff while still seeming gawky. And I thought that Andrew Garfield would be really fun in that role as the really nerdy lab guy that really likes toxins and stuff and, Thandi: You know, he works really well. Like when, when I originally, cuz behind the scenes, we actually planned the show a while ago. It didn't come together and now it's coming together again. So when I planned my series pitch, I had Nicholas Holt as an idea Hobbit: I thought about him as well. Yeah, Thandi: and LA Keith Stanfield, which we use all the Hobbit: all the, well, cuz he's so good. Thandi: Yeah. But yeah, Andrew Garfield is a great choice. And it, and it, I just, it never came to me that, that would. , but yeah, that's a great choice. Hobbit: And what's funny is I'm now seeing like the, the trajectory between like Nicholas Holt, LA Keith Stanfield and Andrew Garfield as like a certain type of archetype character. You know, like you, you'd just taking it out of the Hot Wheels play set and putting , putting [00:20:00] it in. But yeah, Andrew Garfield, I think he would have a lot of fun in that role. He'd be able to ad lib a little bit put. Charm, like goofy charm to the character that I think would play off of our mason character. John, John Patrick Mason. Played by Sean Connery relatively well. I wanna see this buddy team up. Is you get and I checked ages and this actor is only like five or six years younger than Sean Connery was when he played this role in the rock. Get Keanu Reeves to be John Patrick Mason. You just let him get a little bit more grizzled, you know, let that pepper and that beard really kind of shine a little bit more. And then you've got Andrew Garfield and Keanu Reeves, like kicking ass on Alcatraz. Thandi: does this version of Mason rub his balls on everything? Because that's not usually Keanu's Mo is, is he a, like a, a different kind of Mason? Hobbit: Yeah. He's not gonna be quite as like, fuck this, fuck that kinda attitude so much as more a little more stoic with his, but as. [00:21:00] Time goes on. He has almost like a maybe older brother kind of energy that he starts developing for Andrew Garfield, where like, he, he realizes that Andrew Garfield isn't the enemy. You know, he may work for the government, but he's just a lab geek that that was where he had to go for his lab geekery. You know, he's, he's not, he's not the guy that's, you know, greedy and trying to take over the world kind of energy. He's just a genuinely good. So he becomes protective of him and kind of lets down his, his emotional guard a little bit more around Andrew Garfield specifically. So you have this like, balance of them having private moments where they share stuff about their lives and about like, can or about Mason's, you know, daughter that he wants to spend more time with. And then he goes out and just breaks fucking bad, super hard as only Kiana Reeves can. And I wanna see that, that shift in energy I think would be really. Then we've got, I, I only did five castings, cuz you've got like the, you've got the daughter, but she's in [00:22:00] one scene. It doesn't really matter. You've got a couple of the other soldiers that I could have cast. But, but I just figured stick to the main main ones. Carla Pelosi Stanley's, I guess fiance at this point is played additionally by Vanessa Marce. I wanted somebody that was like traditionally stunning, but had a little bit of that, alt hotness to her as well for, Thandi: she from? Hobbit: oh, Vanessa Marci, the original actress that played, played the role. She was in the original of The Rock. Yeah Carla Pelosi is the character I wanted for somebody to, to pair with Andrew Garfield. I wanted to have kind of like somebody with kind of like an alternative edge to. , but still a classically just a, a beautiful, you know, woman. So one of my probably top five crushes zzz, he beats in there. I think would be really fun. It's just like the take no shit fiance. No, I'm coming to San Francisco anyway. Fuck you like kind [00:23:00] of energy Thandi: Yeah, she's great. And you're right, she is she's a beautiful woman, but she does have kind of an alt energy. Yeah, that works. Hobbit: So, yeah, and I think I, for some reason, I could see her kind of being into the, like lanky, gawky, Andrew Garfield type, you know, person like Andrew Garfield's, not a bad looking dude, but he does have the like classic big Adams, apple, long limb kind of thing going for him. So, Thandi: the, the, the body that Mace girls say, ah, I bet he's got a big dick Hobbit: So that's my casting. I think. Yeah, David Leach would have a ball doing a version of the Rock. Where, the government ends up being the loser at the end of the day, but only kind of, they're still in charge. This isn't one of those movies I feel like is beholden, like everybody loves it, but it's not untouchable. Thandi: So I think for what the Rock is and if you love The Rock, so I don't have any Michael Bay movies that I hold as sacred, but I think that The Rock is a really solid, almost perfect example of a [00:24:00] nineties movie. So there are people, I can understand why there are people that are like, the rock is untouchable, cuz there are people out there that are like, yeah, the Rock is untouchable Hobbit: I don't know. I feel that if you're looking at Michael Bay movies, that would be untouchable. First you'd have to go with ones that you know are original concepts. So a very small number of movies there. I'd say Bad Boys before the Rock. Thandi: really. Hobbit: Yeah. I mean, I feel like there's probably more people that are like beholden to bad boys. You can't do a bad boys with anybody, but Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, there would be a lot more pushback for I think bad boys than there would be for the Rock. Thandi: Yeah. Yeah, I guess I don't like the trajectory of the bad boys films. I don't like what that feel like. They did Martin Lawrence dirty over the course of time, kind of don't like the bad boys Hobbit: I loved the first one. Second one was so, so, although I hear a lot of people say they like the second one better, but I never bothered with bad boys for life. It looked like garbage from the trailer. I didn't want to Sully. Thandi: It was the last one I saw in the air of Covid, [00:25:00] so it was the last time I went to the movies for like a year and a half or something. Oh no. Yeah. ending strong. Yeah. Yeah, it sucked. People love that movie. People really enjoy that movie, but it sucked. Oh yeah, no, I didn't have any interest, but luckily Michael Bay does not have his hands all over this next version of the Rock that we are gonna be delivering to us. Unless he did, unless you want to give him another shot. But I'm intrigued. This can go so many ways, so I'm, I'm intrigued to see where he went with this. So my swing for the fences take is something that I actually, I had mentioned before, which is the rock. Starring The Rock Hobbit: Yeah. Yep. Has to. Thandi: And what I'm going for with this take is a it's also a dark action comedy cuz that's kind of what's popular, but also it, it, you know, it's entertaining. It's like generally entertaining in the [00:26:00] modern time. People like action, but they're a little bit depressed, so they're a little bit yeah, they, they, they just like that take on things, not so straightforward, dark action comedy. And I'm going for something indicative of J C V D. I don't know if you remember that movie Hobbit: I loved that movie. Thandi: or like, it's a deconstruction of John Claude Van Damme. It's not a comedy at all. It's very serious cuz and this character's depressed through the whole thing. But yeah, it's, it's a, it's kind of a deconstruction of the rock starring the. Hobbit: I remember J C V D, it was a great movie. Very much enjoyed it. And then there's this moment. That is unnecessarily artistic in a, in a good way when he floats up to the ceiling and then back down, he's talking about how the trajectory of his career got sullied with women and drugs and it's being pretty clearly serious about Jean Claude Van Dam in that moment. And I was just not ready for that. I was just a fun kind of play on his life and then all of a sudden there's this [00:27:00] really real moment in it that just took me off guard. It was great. I, I. Thandi: And the idea of he is not so self serious that he can actually do a movie like this. You'd never see Steven Sagal doing anything like that. Hobbit: No. . No. Never, never. Thandi: in a million years. But the Rock starring the rock takes place on a movie set, which happens to be Alcatraz. They are filming Stanley. Good speed. Stanley the Rock. Good speed. Cuz that's the, the actor that is, that the Rock is playing as himself. Being himself is filming actually a historical movie on Alcatraz Island that is about the Native American occupation of the 1960. Where people just took over the island for 19 months and said, this is our homeland, or whatever, and it went really badly. But that's what the movie's about. And he's filming this movie with his opposite in the movie is Jared Leto. is ? Who's playing [00:28:00] actor? Frank Hummel, actor Frank Hummel is also a cult leader actor. Frank Hummel's cult has decided to take over the island. It was all planned from the beginning before they start filming the movie Hobbit: Oh my God. Thandi: Yeah. Nice little touch there. Is that Frank Hummel is in a band called where did I put that? Oh mercurial Skid is the name of the band he leads. You get, you can see a little retrospective of his, of their careers before the the movie starts. And so he takes over the island. There are families on the island because not normally, but today some of the cast and crew are able to bring their families to the filming. So it becomes a dangerous situation. What happens is that there are arms on the island because they are doing a dramatic recreation of that occupation. So they're using these guns, but there were not supposed to be any live round. What Jared Leto's character did was have his people bring in live rounds [00:29:00] so they could use those guns to take over the island. And so now there's a dangerous situation and they're playing basically mouse maze through the Alcatraz prison itself as they try to both Dodge Leto and catch up to Leto and the, Hobbit: This is already a better, this is already a better movie than the Rock, like this is already, I've already sold at this point. This is fantastic. Thandi: So the Sean Connery character is actually one of the consultants that's working the movie. He used to be an SAS guy, and he's, he's gruff and he's kind of Like, I wanna call him evil. He's not evil, but he's got like a sadistic kind of sensibility where he's having fun during this thing cuz he is ready to fuck some people up. And basically he's paired up with the rock in this situation and the movie's about the rock, trying to maintain his image through this entire situation and not going like full the [00:30:00] movie rock in real life. He's, he doesn't wanna hurt. Not because he doesn't wanna hurt anybody. He doesn't want to damage his brand by hurting people. And so throughout the movie, Daniel Craig becomes the devil on the rock shoulder trying to like coax him more and more and to get in his hands dirty. And so you've got the rock kind of fucking up people like more and more throughout the movie. And Daniel Craig is actually shooting people, but he's trying to get the rock to his level basically, as the movie moves on. There are actors who are playing, the actors that are in the movie, who are part of JaredLeto's cult who represent like the Marines in the original movie. So we have miles Teller as the David Morse character Tom Baxter. And then for the other followers that are in this movie, we have John Boyega and Zach Efron. Bokeem Woodbine. Cuz I always like to bring somebody. Hobbit: Yeah. Yeah. Absolut. Thandi: Anthony Ramos who people might know from [00:31:00] what's the the president the guy who rap sings Hamilton. Hobbit: Lin Manuel Miranda, like, Thandi: So Anthony Ramos was in Hamilton Hobbit: Okay. Thandi: and he was also in the other musical from last year Dancing musical about the neighborhood Hobbit: Oh in the Thandi: Heights Something Heights. In The Heights. Hobbit: Yes. Thandi: That's Anthony Hobbit: Oh, Anthony, I know exactly who you're talking about now. Yeah, absolutely. Thandi: I first encountered him in and she's Gotta Have It, which was a remake of Spike Lee's movie as a TV show on like Netflix And then I wanted to add, since this is not actually a prison and it's a movie, I wanted to add a female follower, so Leslie Jones, Hobbit: Oh. Thandi: but as it's a violent action comedy, this Leslie Jones is not just doing her Leslie Jones thing. She's actually mean. She's actually fucking up people. Hobbit: was about to say, you have to have her being one of the most violent, like most aggressive. Thandi: Yeah. She's a monster. And then I wanted a kid [00:32:00] in danger. And I could not find a kid actor who was born before or after like 2011. So I settled on Cade Woodward, who was the kid who died in a quiet place, but the kid's like 15 years old or something. It's, it's so hard, like, it's so hard unless you watch a lot of TV to identify actual child actors. Hobbit: tell you the little bit of the inside baseball of this show is there's some movies that we have not done because there's too many kids in it. Like finding kid actors that are identifiable where it's actually fun to talk about is really hard. Thandi: Because that's not where the Zeit guy stands for movies now. It has been in the past, but it's not there right now. Hobbit: And also us as men in our forties probably shouldn't have a Rolodex of information about young children, actors. It's not, not really our it's not our specialty that, that it's not our career path. So we should probably Thandi: Yeah, and I don't, I don't think that like Teen Disney and [00:33:00] Nickelodeon are doing like tween sitcoms anymore either. I don't think that's like a, a farming ground for that kind of stuff anymore. So it's just hard to know these people. Hobbit: So now Thandi: yeah, there's a little kid in there. Hobbit: things are all the stranger things, kids are all in their Thandi: They're all like 20 Hobbit: So, Thandi: But yeah, there's a little kid in there who the rock meets early in the movie, Hey, you're here with your parents. Hi. It's great. I wanna be just like you, Stanley, the rock could speed or whatever. And then that kid is in danger at the end of the movie, which is the apotheosis. Where we have at, this is ridiculous on the face of it, but basically we established early on that Jared Leto's character is a martial arts master, as like an ultimate badass. He's like kicking people's ass throughout the movie or whatever. But by the end of the movie, the apotheosis is basically the rock's. Like, all right, I gotta save this kid. Fuck it. And there's no big fight. It's the Rock decides that he's going to save this kid. And he kills Jared Leno. [00:34:00] He breaks him like Bain immediately. Hobbit: like right off. Thandi: Yeah, he just immediately breaks him. Daniel Craig, his character actually takes the rap for it cuz he is just happy that he got the Rock to do this crazy thing. Hobbit: Sure. Thandi: And Hobbit: I can see this too, of there being some long diatribe that Jared Leno's doing is he pulling his white robe off and exposing like 18 abs. Thandi: his his his skinny guy muscles, Hobbit: And he's, walking, like looking away from the rock as he is delivering like all this, you know, the power that I have from within and all this shit. And he turned around and then just screams that like high pitched girl scream as he just gets ripped in half. Thandi: and half. That's what I want to see. Hobbit: Yes please. You know how cathartic that's gonna be for some people to just see Jared Leto ripped in half. Thandi: Oh, so many people would Hobbit: so many people would go to the movie just for that. I think. Thandi: because at this point, the the, the zeitgeist is such that regular people just don't like Jared Leto. They don't know why. They just know that people don't like Jared Leto and they don't like him either. But I have a few more actors. Hobbit: Okay. Thandi: David Harbor is [00:35:00] the FBI Director Hobbit: Nice. Okay. Thandi: Sophia Vigara is Carla. Hobbit: Nice. Thandi: And John Cho is the FBI special agent in charge. We do get a cameo from the president. It's not a big enough situation that it needs to like cut back to the president over and over again or whatever, but Sam Jackson is the president. Hobbit: Nice. Hell yeah. I was thinking Thandi: love Sam Jackson Hobbit: I was thinking about cameos and I just didn't know where to play with some, but clearly with David Leach there'd be a Ryan Reynolds appearance somewhere, some just minor role maybe Bokeem Woodbine's character who's in it for like four seconds with the entire. Thandi: then done, Hobbit: just done. Yeah. Or Brad Pitt like he did in a Deadpool yes, absolutely. That'd be incredible. Yeah. I am so sad. This is in a real movie. That sounds incredible. I would, I would go to the theater in a heartbeat to watch that version. Thandi: Yeah, just a good time. Hobbit: yeah, that sounds so big, dumb, fun, self-aware kind of. Thandi: the, and the rock. Like, you know, the rock is a good natured guy and his presence [00:36:00] as far as his brand is, is really good. But like that self-awareness that yeah, you just come off like your promotion machine at this point, dude, Hobbit: Yeah. Thandi: we all like you, but you, you like, you're like, you're always on selling something or whatever. Dude, it's it's a lot. Hobbit: And I would love to see this hesitance where, yeah, he is a beast. He probably could mutilate you. Like, no, I don't actually hurt people. That's not in my character. I'm Thandi: I sell tequila. What do you want from Hobbit: Right. . Look dude, I got a kid. I don't wanna go to jail. I'm into it. That's fucking fantastic. I, this, these are these moments on smack my pitch up that are painful when it's something that won't happen. You know, we come, it's a really good concept and it's just, it, it's like, great. Now this is a thing that I never get to have. So so thank Thandi: you. know, can, can you hold a rainbow in your hand? Hobbit: And a rainbow is the rock ripping Jared Leto in a half? Yeah. Yeah. I think that might be The name of this episode is ripping Jared Leto in a half. Alright, we are at the [00:37:00] tail end of this episode of Smack. My pitch up. One mashup that I thought would be kind of fun is that you just replaced the giant. Coup on Alcatraz with fight Club with just like the Project Mayhem dudes. Just trying to, so the Seeds of Chaos would be kind of fun. Thandi: Oh, that'd be big fun. I, I could see that. The longest yard. The rock with the longest yard, they're playing the football game and then like military incursion breaks out. Hobbit: Oh, Jesus Thandi: Adam Sandler. Save us all Hobbit: Oh, God. Doomed. Doomed. All right, we got one last little bit of stuff to do here. We're talking about our trailers, so I'm gonna do my David Leach action project, and then if you wanna follow up with your version here Here we go. From the director that brought you John Wick, atomic [00:38:00] Blonde, and Hobbes and Shaw gives you a new vision of action Insanity. Alcatraz Island off the San Francisco Bay. A place for prisoners or a place for terror this summer. Stanley, good speed. Regular lab schmo teams up with John Patrick, Patrick Mason, an escape artist to save the world from the deranged intent of General Francis Hummel. Join Iris Elba, Helen Mirren. Andrew Garfield, Keanu Reeves, and featuring Zazie Beetz who's the winner? Who's the loser? Who's the enemy? The rock. Thandi: The rock is all the [00:39:00] things. Hobbit: The rock is different to every person. Okay? It's not one thing to one person. My Lord and Savior. And he just may be a comfort to you Yeah. Some people I think, do look at the Rock as their Lord and Savior, honestly, so you're not too far off. Thandi: Hm. Hobbit: All right, so we've got your your, I think, perfect film that we've got next, moving forward. Thandi: too kind Hobbit: And did, who's directing this? Your, your version, Thandi: Oh, oh yeah. You know what? That is funny. John Chu, John m Chu who directed step Up to GI Joe Retaliation Jim and the Holograms. Actually, yeah crazy Rich Asians in The Heights, which I can't believe I couldn't come up with that movie cuz he directed in the Heights. I was going for somebody who does like, pretty shots and bright colors like, like the children of Michael Bay, but not one of the children of Michael Bay as far as the directorial style. Hobbit: Okay. Cool. Cool, cool. All right, so we, we are John [00:40:00] Shu. Definitely re-imagining of the rock. So here we go. Thandi: What's harder than The Rock? The Rock. Stanley. The rock. Good. Speed. In another movie this time on the island of Alcatraz. But what happens when things get out of crazy ass Jared Leto takes over the island with his cult? Yes. In this version of the Rock, we have Jared Leto as Frank Hummel, we have Daniel Craig, as John Patrick Mason, a shady guy with an SAS Pass that Special forces from Great Britain. Who's on the rock shoulder saying, do it. Do it. Yeah. The rock's gonna go hard if he can get past his brand identity, come on and let's see how hard it gets on the rock.[00:41:00] Hobbit: I'm fucking here for it. That is incredible. Yes. All right. So thank you so much to my co-host Andy, for bringing, bringing it hard on this long overdue episode of Smack My Pitch Up. Thandi: We're back, baby Hobbit: and we'll hopefully be releasing. The plan is to be releasing weekly from here on out. So please tell us what you wanna hear. Take a look at what we haven't covered, some of your favorite TV shows or movies or what have you. Throw it at us and we just might do it on an episode. You can hit us Thandi: some input from Hobbit: 100%, especially with the new format. Let us know how you. We are available through email at geeks under the influence gmail.com. Just put smack my pitch up in the subject line you can is up on pitch smacked both on Facebook and Twitter or hit up the GUI hotline at 8 0 4 5 0 5 4 4 8 4. Let us know what you think. Take voicemails and texts on that number. So It hit up our new account on key. Yeah, you are begging for us to have a [00:42:00] key party account. That's for, that's pre our first live event. We'll get a key party account going. yay, . All right. Until next time. I'm Mike the Hobbit Thandi: and I'm Thandi Hobbit: and you just got pitch smacked Thandi: in the face. Hobbit: the face in the rock, in the rocks. Thandi: Oh my stones.

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A Hard Agree Christmas Carol 2022 (featuring Evangeline Lilly, Michael Moorcock, Dave Gibbons, Olly Smith, Julie Stark, David Leach & Will O'Mullane)

Hard Agree

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2022 80:09

In this special Yuletide charity edition of Hard Agree, Andrew Sumner is joined by seven very special guests from the worlds of comics, movies, TV and theatre: legendary fantasy author Michael Moorcock; BBC presenter & wine expert Olly Smith (BBC's Saturday Kitchen, Olly Smith's Home Cocktail Bible); author, actor & MCU star Evangeline Lilly (Lost, The Hobbit, Ant-Man and The Wasp); comic book legend Dave Gibbons (Watchmen, Kingsman, The Originals); West End theatre star Julie Stark (Company, Chess, Les Misérables, We Will Rock You); comics editor & creator David Leach (Psycho Gran, David Leach Conquers the Universe) and marketing guru & ComicBooks for Kids UK director Will O'Mullane (Titan Comics). A Hard Agree Christmas Carol is the Christmas 2022 edition of Hard Agree's annual yuletide charity podcast and features Sumner and his guests performing Charles Dickens' live version of his Yuletide classic A Christmas Carol (in support of Comic Books for Kids). Our annual Hard Agree Players cartoon was donated by artist supreme Kelly Yates (Doctor Who, Amber Atoms, MonstHer). As Sumner says: “ComicBooks for Kids is a wonderful charity founded by Mark Weiss that does amazing work getting comic books into the hands of children in long-term hospital care on both sides of the Atlantic. Myself and my co-producers Kenric Regan & John Horsley have always admired Dickens' timeless seasonal message of empathy & civic responsibility, and thought ‘what better way to underline & amplify ComicBooks for Kids' mission than to return to the words of Charles Dickens himself, the great believer in human society pulling together?' Please visit their website CB4K.org, please check them out and please do what you can to help.” You can donate to Comic Books for Kids HERE: https://www.comicbooksforkids.org/donatestart You can check out everything Comic Books for Kids does at these links: CB4K.org https://www.comicbooksforkids.org/home https://twitter.com/Comicbooks4kids https://twitter.com/CB4KUK https://www.facebook.com/comicbooksforkids https://www.instagram.com/cb4kuk/ https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks4kids/ Follow Evangeline Lilly on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evangelinelillyofficial/ Follow Michael Moorcock on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/buggerly.otherly Follow Dave Gibbons on Instagram: https://twitter.com/davegibbons90 Follow Olly Smith on Social Media: https://ollysmith.com/ https://twitter.com/jollyolly https://www.instagram.com/ollysmith/ Follow Julie Stark on Social Media: https://www.juliestark.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/juliejuliestark Follow David Leach on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidleach2000 Follow Will O'Mullane on Social Media: https://twitter.com/willomullane https://establishingshotcomic.wordpress.com/ Follow Kelly Yates on Social Media: https://twitter.com/kellyyates_art https://subscribe.kellyyatesart.com/ Follow Hard Agree on Twitter: https://.twitter.com/hard_agree Follow Sumner on Social Media & YouTube: http://twitter.com/sumnarr https://www.youtube.com/c/Forbiddenplanetdotcom/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCstl1UHQVUC85DrCagF-wuQ/videos “Golden – The Hard Agree Theme” written and recorded for the podcast by DENIO Follow DENIO on Social Media: http://twitter.com/denioband/ http://instagram.com/denioband/ http://facebook.com/denioband/ http://soundcloud.com/denioband/ Follow the Spoilerverse on Social Media: http://facebook.com/spoilercountry/ http://twitter.com/spoiler_country http://instagram.com/spoilercountry/ Kenric Regan: http://twitter.com/XKenricX John Horsley: http://twitter.com/y2cl http://instagram.com/y2cl/ http://y2cl.net http://eynesanthology.com Did you know the Spoilerverse has a YouTube channel? https://youtube.com/channel/UCstl1UHQVUC85DrCagF-wuQ Support the Spoilerverse on Patreon: http://patreon.com/spoilercountry

A Hard Agree Christmas Carol 2022 (featuring Evangeline Lilly, Michael Moorcock, Dave Gibbons, Olly Smith, Julie Stark, David Leach & Will O'Mullane)

Spoiler Country

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2022 80:09

In this special Yuletide charity edition of Hard Agree, Andrew Sumner is joined by seven very special guests from the

Great Leadership

Shark Theory

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2022 8:30

Yesterday, I had the privelege of speaking to the great team at Cin7 in both America and New Zealand. Leading up to that talk, I got a chance to talk to the CEO David Leach about the company's vision and values. What I obsereved from him on that call and during the talk yesterday was a masterclass in great leadership. Today, i share some of those lessons. In this episode, we'll discuss: Being there Before Your People Living your Values Being there WITH your People The ultimate mark of great leadership

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Mayor of Mount Barker DAVID LEACH with Miles and Bryce (12.12.22)

SEN SA Breakfast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2022 9:39

The Mt Barker Council is naturally delighted to have an AFL game heading to the town during the AFL's "Gather Round". Mayor David Leach joined Miles and Bryce to discuss the process and what it will mean for the residents of the Adelaide Hills.

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David Leach - Mt Barker Mayor

RSN Breakfast Club

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2022 5:29

Mt Barker, regional town 33km from Adelaide, is set to be thrust into the spotlight with a game in “Magic” Round. What's it mean for the town? We catch up with the Mayor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Main Street TV: Remembering the 60's

Total Media - Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2022 60:10

Rock for Tots presents Remembering the 60's is coming to the Markay in Jackson This Friday, November 18th! This year's show will also feature a tribute to the late Bart Wiseman including a performance by the Sonic Rhythm Academy class of 2022! In addition to the classic lineup of John Pelletier, John Jones, David Leach, & Craig Klein the show will also feature Ben Davis Jr. and lots of Bart's friends! Tickets are $20 ea. and are available at MarkayTickets.org.

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Expanding reach by going viral (David Leach - Thrillz Danbury)

The Guest Experience Show

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2022 28:50

David Leach is the Marketing and Technology Director for Thrillz High Flying Adventure Park, located in Danbuy, CT and coming soon to Philadelphia, PA. In this interview, David shares the importance of making data-driven decisions that impact marketing, the guest experience, and future locations. Thrillz is designed with social media in mind, complete with studio lighting and an experience worth sharing, which has led to Thrillz going viral and expanding their marketing reach far beyond what they expected to be possible. By using the data collected from social media, combined with ticketing data and guest feedback, David shares that it influences their marketing, new attractions and experiences, and the location for their second park. Additionally, David shares the value of collecting guest feedback, including how Thrillz uses the feedback to make enhancements throughout the business.

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David Leach with Cin7

The Morgo Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2022 19:09

Cin7 was started by Danny Ing in 2012 to provide connected inventory and a point-of-sale system for small & medium businesses who sell through multiple channels. In 2019, the company received significant investment from a US PE firm and David joined as CEO to scale the company into the world. At that time the company had 140 employees in Auckland and 1,800 customers. Now the company is approaching 400 staff around the world and has more than 8,000 customers. www.cin7.com

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Ep. 18: J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2022 48:23

Co-hosts Deborah Campbell & David Leach talk to literary journalist J.B. MacKinnon about his new book, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves, including the motivation and research process for this globe-hopping "nonfiction thought experiment," as well as how the pandemic forced him to revisit his ideas and revise his manuscript. Bonus: J.B. reads an excerpt!

Lockout update: McCullough grills Drellich from a fan perspective and a lesson in labor relations law

The Athletic Baseball Show: A show about MLB

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2021 50:31

One week into the lockout and both sides are quiet. In this week's labor of love, Andy McCullough turns the tables on Evan and grills him about MLB's lockout from a fan perspective. Then Evan catches up with Brooklyn Law School professor David Leach, a former Regional Director on the National Labor Relations Board to get in to the nuts and bolts of how labor relations work. Follow Evan on Twitter: @EvanDrellich Follow Ken on Twitter: @ByMcCullough Save 33% on an annual subscription to The Atheletic at theathletic.com/baseball show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Importance of Credit Score ft. David Leach

3-21 NoKiddin' Gambling Recovery Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2021 27:02

574 - Did you know that 68 million Americans have less than a 601 credit score? Yep, you saw that right, 68 million! But, why does credit score important? Interesting? Listen to this episode! David Leach is a Home & Small Business Marketing Consultant. He saw the need to empower individuals on how to improve their credit scores so that they can properly manage and leverage their credit. David decided in 2019 to become a Board Certified Credit consultant to help families with their home-ownership goals. He works with realtors and loan officers nationwide.In this episode of 3-21 No Kiddin', David discussed: The importance of credit scoreThe credit rulesHow to improve your credit scoreWant to connect with David? Check him out in these channels:Email : ceo@iamdavidleach.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SuccessCoachDavid919 Website : https://iamdavidleach.comIf you would like to participate in our 30 Day Give Up Gambling Email Challenge, click below.https://www.321nokiddin.com/30-day-give-up-gambling-challengePositivity is NO Gamble!------------------------------------------------Did you enjoy the show? Please leave us a rate and review!This helps us reach other gamblers who may need to hear recovery messages.-------------------------------------------------Get in touch with me!Email address : bobbie@321NoKiddin.comFacebook : www.facebook.com/321NoKiddinInstagram : www.instagram.com/bobbietheawesomestPinterest : www.pinterest.ph/bobbiemalatestaLinkedIn : www.linkedin.com/in/bobbiemalatestaYouTube : www.youtube.com/channel/UCkUV58i4z2Se3jXuDldcXaAWebsite : www.321nokiddin.com**A super special thanks to Justin Furstenfeld for granting us permission to use his music on the show!Please support and follow the Blue October band on:Facebook : www.facebook.com/blueoctoberInstagram : www.instagram.com/blueoctoberbandTwitter : www.twitter.com/blueoctoberYoutube : www.youtube.com/user/blueoctoberofficialSupport the show9 of us wrote about the concept of Belonging and share our individual stories about how we found belonging.Please check it out in the link below!Link to our book- BELONGING- Secrets to Soothe the Soul https://amzn.to/45qS6pl Get in touch with me! Questions or feedback or just want to connect? Email address : bobbie@321NoKiddin.com Facebook : www.facebook.com/321NoKiddin Instagram : www.instagram.com/bobbietheawesomest Pinterest : www.pinterest.ph/bobbiemalatesta LinkedIn : www.linkedin.com/in/bobbiemalatesta YouTube : www.youtube.com/channel/UCkUV58i4z2Se3jXuDldcXaA Website : www.321nokiddin.com **A super special thanks to Justin Furstenfeld for granting us permission to use his music on the show!Please support and follow the Blue October band on: Facebook : www.facebook.com/blueoctober Instagram : www.instagram.com/blueoctoberband Twitter : www.twitter.com/blueoctober Youtube : www.youtube.com/user/blueoctoberofficial Support the show

The Importance of Credit Score ft. David Leach

3-21 NoKiddin' Gambling Recovery Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2021 27:02

574 - Did you know that 68 million Americans have less than a 601 credit score? Yep, you saw that right, 68 million! But, why does credit score important? Interesting? Listen to this episode! David Leach is a Home & Small Business Marketing Consultant. He saw the need to empower individuals on how to improve their credit scores so that they can properly manage and leverage their credit. David decided in 2019 to become a Board Certified Credit consultant to help families with their home-ownership goals. He works with realtors and loan officers nationwide.In this episode of 3-21 No Kiddin', David discussed: The importance of credit scoreThe credit rulesHow to improve your credit scoreWant to connect with David? Check him out in these channels:Email : ceo@iamdavidleach.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SuccessCoachDavid919 Website : https://iamdavidleach.comIf you would like to participate in our 30 Day Give Up Gambling Email Challenge, click below.https://www.321nokiddin.com/30-day-give-up-gambling-challengePositivity is NO Gamble!------------------------------------------------Did you enjoy the show? Please leave us a rate and review!This helps us reach other gamblers who may need to hear recovery messages.-------------------------------------------------Get in touch with me!Email address : bobbie@321NoKiddin.comFacebook : www.facebook.com/321NoKiddinInstagram : www.instagram.com/bobbietheawesomestPinterest : www.pinterest.ph/bobbiemalatestaLinkedIn : www.linkedin.com/in/bobbiemalatestaYouTube : www.youtube.com/channel/UCkUV58i4z2Se3jXuDldcXaAWebsite : www.321nokiddin.com**A super special thanks to Justin Furstenfeld for granting us permission to use his music on the show!Please support and follow the Blue October band on:Facebook : www.facebook.com/blueoctoberInstagram : www.instagram.com/blueoctoberbandTwitter : www.twitter.com/blueoctoberYoutube : www.youtube.com/user/blueoctoberofficialSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bobbieawesome/about-me-3-21-no-kiddin)

The Importance of Credit Score ft. David Leach

3-21 NoKiddin' Gambling Addiction Recovery Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2021 27:02

574 - Did you know that 68 million Americans have less than a 601 credit score? Yep, you saw that right, 68 million! But, why does credit score important? Interesting? Listen to this episode! David Leach is a Home & Small Business Marketing Consultant. He saw the need to empower individuals on how to improve their credit scores so that they can properly manage and leverage their credit. David decided in 2019 to become a Board Certified Credit consultant to help families with their home-ownership goals. He works with realtors and loan officers nationwide.In this episode of 3-21 No Kiddin', David discussed: The importance of credit scoreThe credit rulesHow to improve your credit scoreWant to connect with David? Check him out in these channels:Email : ceo@iamdavidleach.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SuccessCoachDavid919 Website : https://iamdavidleach.comIf you would like to participate in our 30 Day Give Up Gambling Email Challenge, click below.https://www.321nokiddin.com/30-day-give-up-gambling-challengePositivity is NO Gamble!------------------------------------------------Did you enjoy the show? Please leave us a rate and review!This helps us reach other gamblers who may need to hear recovery messages.-------------------------------------------------Get in touch with me!Email address : bobbie@321NoKiddin.comFacebook : www.facebook.com/321NoKiddinInstagram : www.instagram.com/bobbietheawesomestPinterest : www.pinterest.ph/bobbiemalatestaLinkedIn : www.linkedin.com/in/bobbiemalatestaYouTube : www.youtube.com/channel/UCkUV58i4z2Se3jXuDldcXaAWebsite : www.321nokiddin.com**A super special thanks to Justin Furstenfeld for granting us permission to use his music on the show!Please support and follow the Blue October band on:Facebook : www.facebook.com/blueoctoberInstagram : www.instagram.com/blueoctoberbandTwitter : www.twitter.com/blueoctoberYoutube : www.youtube.com/user/blueoctoberofficialSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bobbieawesome/about-me-3-21-no-kiddin)

The Importance of Credit Score ft. David Leach

3-21 NoKiddin' Gambling Recovery Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2021 27:02

574 - Did you know that 68 million Americans have less than a 601 credit score? Yep, you saw that right, 68 million! But, why does credit score important? Interesting? Listen to this episode! David Leach is a Home & Small Business Marketing Consultant. He saw the need to empower individuals on how to improve their credit scores so that they can properly manage and leverage their credit. David decided in 2019 to become a Board Certified Credit consultant to help families with their home-ownership goals. He works with realtors and loan officers nationwide.In this episode of 3-21 No Kiddin', David discussed: The importance of credit scoreThe credit rulesHow to improve your credit scoreWant to connect with David? Check him out in these channels:Email : ceo@iamdavidleach.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SuccessCoachDavid919 Website : https://iamdavidleach.comPositivity is NO Gamble!------------------------------------------------Did you enjoy the show? Please leave us a rate and review!This helps us reach other gamblers who may need to hear recovery messages.-------------------------------------------------Get in touch with me!Email address : bobbie@321NoKiddin.comFacebook : www.facebook.com/321NoKiddinInstagram : www.instagram.com/bobbietheawesomestPinterest : www.pinterest.ph/bobbiemalatestaLinkedIn : www.linkedin.com/in/bobbiemalatestaYouTube : www.youtube.com/channel/UCkUV58i4z2Se3jXuDldcXaAWebsite : www.321nokiddin.com**A super special thanks to Justin Furstenfeld for granting us permission to use his music on the show!Please support and follow the Blue October band on:Facebook : www.facebook.com/blueoctoberInstagram : www.instagram.com/blueoctoberbandTwitter : www.twitter.com/blueoctoberYoutube : www.youtube.com/user/blueoctoberofficial

Laura Watton & David Leach

Comic Cuts - The Panel Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2021 34:24

Manga creator Laura Watton (@pinkapplejam) and Titan books editor David Leach (@davidleach2000) bring in panels from a multi-million selling manga of the 1970s, and from probably Britain's most famous cartoonist of all time.See the images from all shows here at kevfcomicartist.com (they're also in the podcast artwork).Every episode, the guests reveal a panel from a comic, we try and guess where it's from, then we chat about it. Half an hour later hopefully we've learned something, or just shown off and had fun along the way.If you've enjoyed this, why not buy us a virtual coffee at Kev F's Ko-Fi page.Your host, and series creator, is Kev F Sutherland, writer and artist for Beano, Marvel, Oink, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, and most recently author and artist of graphic novels based on Shakespeare. kevfcomicartist.com

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Comic Cuts Trailer

Comic Cuts - The Panel Show

Play Episode Play 56 sec Highlight Listen Later Jun 25, 2021 1:35

Hi, I'm Kev F and I'm here to tell you about Comic Cuts The Panel Show, your new favourite podcast about comics.Every week I get two guests to bring a panel from a comic into the show. We try and guess where it's from, then we talk comics. Sometimes we get nerdy and knowledgable, and you learn a lot about comics you've probably never heard of, and more often we get inspired by what we see and the conversation goes off at wild tangents.My guests so far have included comic creators like Brian Bolland, Rachel Smith of Quarantine Comix, Metaphrog, Jessica Martin, Julius Zebra's Gary Northfield, The Beano's Nigel Auchterlounie, Laura Howell, Rianne Rowlands & Nigel Parkinson, manga artists like Sonia Leong & Laura Watton, Comics Laureate Hannah Berry, Psycho Gran's David Leach, Resident Alien creator Peter Hogan, and loads of comedians including Bethany Black, Will Hodgson, Paul Kerensa, Iszi Lawrence, Doug Segal, Ashley Storrie, Juliet Burton, Juliette Myers, Susan Murray, Bennett Arron. I've had The Secret History of Hollywood's Adam Roche, and legendary singer songwriter Dean Friedman - and the guest list grows every week.And the comics they've brought in have ranged from Marvel and DC to The Bunty and The Eagle, from Robert Crumb to Viz, from brand new webcomics to obscure manga, indy to classic, and all points in-between. There are so many comics out there, and so much love for them.So listen in, have fun guessing what comics we're looking at, and enjoy the conversation with this stellar cast of guests, in a show that - did I mention - is only half an hour long?Subscribe to Comic Cuts The Panel Show, wherever you get your podcasts, and we'll see you every Friday. Expect the unexpected.

Ep. 17 Writing About Family (& other sensitive subjects)

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2021 37:49

Susan Olding joins Deborah Campbell and David Leach to discuss the art, ethics, and pitfalls of writing nonfiction stories about family members as well as other vulnerable subjects. How does an author balance a responsibility for their subjects and for the quest for truth in their writing? Are we always selling someone out?

99 // A Future Past: Interviewing Senior Creative Editor at Titan Comics - David Leach

Shoulder of Orion: The Blade Runner Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2021 56:35

It’s been two years since David Leach, Senior Creative Editor at Titan Comics, has been on Shoulder of Orion. Since then, he’s shepherded not only the complete run of Blade Runner 2019, but launched two other titles as well (Blade Runner 2029 and Blade Runner Origins). Along the way, he and his collaborators have garnered industry awards, won over fans around the world, and added several memorable new characters to the imaginations of Blade Runner aficionados everywhere. Join Jaime, Patrick, and Dan as they chat with David about all this and more on this rollicking interview. // iTunes: bit.ly/shoulderoforionitunes // For more on this and our other projects, please visit www.bladerunnerpodcast.com // If you'd like to join the conversation, find us on our closed Facebook group: Fields of Calantha. // To support the show, please consider visiting www.bladerunnerpodcast.com/support. We've got some great perks available! // And as always, please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing this show. We can't tell you how much your support means to us, but we can hopefully show you by continuing to provide better, more ambitious, and more dynamic content for years to come.

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Ep. 15: Our (Pandemic) Year in Reading

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2021 48:53

Deborah Campbell & David Leach discuss the surreal experience of reading in the pandemic, as well as highlights from their favourite books & essays, including memoir, investigative journalism, essay collections and even a few (very long) novels. BONUS: now with the funky Zoom recording glitches fixed!

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TBD: Teaching Based Discussion

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2021 35:51

On this episode of TBD, we sat down with Pioneer director of bands and music department chair David Leach. Mr. Leach has become somewhat of a Pioneer legend over the last twenty years winning countless awards for the band and himself. This run includes being part of the program that won the Grammy award for best public school band in the country not once but twice. However, we talk to him about who his idols were growing up as a band kid in Ann Arbor and which experiences from his career meant the most to him.

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Ep. 14: Jivesh Parasnam of Rumble Theatre