Join your host Wes Lasher, The Head Ginger, as he discusses growing up geeky with his guests. And helps everyone realize that we are all "geeks" for something, by talking about not only the pop culture geekiness that is out there today but also how if you really love something, you are a geek for it, you just don't know it.
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A Geek of All Trades S2:E5 - Welcome to the podcast PAL! - A Die Hard XMAS
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Happy Holidays! It's the Head Ginger here and I said to my friend Gabe Colman " Come on to the podcast, we'll talk together, have a few laughs" so he did! And we made the final determination as to whether or not Die Hard is in fact a Christmas movie! Take a listen! https://www.thevenuebloomington.com/ https://teacherswarehouse.org/…
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A Geek of All Trades S2:E4 - Gremlins - "A fantastic podcast for a fantastic world!"
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“To understand, one has only to listen!" Join the Head Ginger and guest Connor Patrick as they talk about the 1984 film Gremlins, which, while not released during the holidays, is in fact a great holiday movie covering lots of views on that time of year and a bit of an intense story about Santa Claus! Much like gremlins the two gingers should not b…
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A Geek of All Trades S2:3P3 - "Hallelujah! Holy sh*t! Here's a podcast!?"
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Join The Head Ginger as he and longtime friend Trish Kennedy (like back to JR High friendship) as they talk about growing up in the 80's, National Lampoon and their movies and a deeper dive into the 1989 Holiday Classic, Christmas Vacation!By A Geek of All Trades
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A Geek of All Trades: S2:E2 - It's a MAJOR Podcast - A Christmas Story
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The Head Ginger is very happy to have on Jim Inman as we discuss the 1983 holiday classic. A Christmas Story. We talk about geeking out over holidays, the movie overview with our favorite scenes and trivia and get into Jim attending the grand opening of A Christmas Story House in Cleveland in 2006 and his obsession with holiday Blow Molds.... Those…
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A Geek of All Trades: S2:E1- ELF 2 - SpaghettiOs and Cotton Candy
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Join the head ginger Wes as he brings this podcast back in the most joyous way he could think of... ELF The first in a series of holiday movie based podcasts with people that are big geeks for the movie. We start this off with guest Liby Ball who was on Season 1 Episode 4 and who performs burlesque and drag around the midwest and is a HUGE Elf and …
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A Geek of All Trades: S1:E15: It's TNG.... It's dyna-mite!! TNG! (Star Trek)
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Join The Head Ginger and his guest James as we boldly go were many have gone before and ENGAGE! in a lengthy discussion about Star Trek and specifically his "Number 1" favorite TNG (The Next Generation) We talk about the origins of Star Trek, how it influenced so many things in its limited original run in the 1960's and how it showed us that unitin…
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A Geek of All Trades: S1:E14 - An Amusing Musical Theater musing
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Join the Head Ginger and his guest Allie(former child performer in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) as they taking a broad look at broadway and beyond. Topics include: a brief and incomplete history of musical theatre, current trends and popular shows and we layout or plan for all live performances going forward into 2021 and as Covid …
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A Geek of All Trades: S1:E13 - "It's The Office..BITCHES!!!!"
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Join the Head Ginger as he talks with Glen Inman about going up with great tv and finding he perfect show with The Office, which he estimates he has watched all of about 12 times. Listen as we talk about the evolution of the show from the 14 episode English version with Ricky Gervais to the 201 episodes of the NBC version from 2005-2013. We talk a …
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A Geek of All Trades: S1:E12 - Once More With Stripping - A Tale of Buffy
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Join the Head Ginger as he talks about one of his favorite shows of all time. Buffy The Vampire Slayer. But there is a twist! Our guest is Singe who produced a burlesque show called Once More With Stripping based on the fan favorite Once More with Feeling the Buffy Musical episode from Season 6. We also discuss, Buffy as a series and the importance…
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A Geek of All Trades: S1:E11 - Functional Beer Making
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Join the Head ginger as he talks with good friend, past total electrical engineering nerd and beer brewing genius - Steve Llewellyn from Function Brewing located in Bloomington IN. Topics include: An early desire to see how things work leading to an engineering degree, what are the best pop culture representations for beer, How one ends up starting…
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A Geek of All Trades: S1:E10 - G.O.T. Geek?
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Take a listen to the longest episode of A Geek of all Trades yet! Our guest Marie Ragatz is a geek goddess who is just flat out a Wikipedia of geeky knowledge. She kicks ass at many things including playing trivia, supplying the DEEP cuts for LOTR, Harry Potter and more at the local pub quiz, back when we could do them... sigh. So much so that she …
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A Geek of All Trades S1:E9 - Super-"natural" Gingers
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In Episode 9 The Head Ginger is joined by another geeky ginger Christina Parker and they discuss the origins and seasons of Supernatural on the WB or wait no.... The CW I mean! We talk about being geeky growing up, finding our passions in general, the history of the show Supernatural and talk about the final season at least the road so far.. SPOILE…
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A Geek of All Trades - Dead Sexy (A brief history of Vampires Part 1 of many)
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This episode of A Geek of All Trades talks gives a brief and totally incomplete history of Vampires and their place in literature, movies and television. We touch on several fandoms with our guest Jess, however she is currently a fan of the CW Series The Vampire Diaries and we talk about life in Mystic Falls, vampires overall obsession with women t…
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A Geek of All Trades: It has Risen!
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After a very long hiatus, the head ginger is back with a new episode with a new guest! In this episode we talk about zombies with our guest Sandra Lee, who has been watching horror films, end of the world survival movies, and catastrophic movies, since she was a young child, picking 28 Days Later to watch with her friends at a sleep over. Wes and S…
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A Geek of All Trades: D&D, murder mysteries and the rise of the beta male
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Join The Head Ginger as he welcomes long time friend and fellow D&D fan on the podcast to talk about discovering D20 gaming as a youth and still following it and how it in part influenced his current passion and business, custom and time period based murder mystery parties. Josh talks about role playing in games and how it influenced the desire to …
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A Geek of All Trades: A Tale of Two Gingers - Harry Potter books, movies and theme park!
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Join The Head Ginger again, as he talks with Stephanie who is a big Harry Potter fan and one of Wes' favorite former bartenders! As two geeky gingers we of course talk about the Weasley's, but also lots of things involving the books, the movies, going to Universal Studios and much more. http://www.mugglenet.com www.geekygingertees.com…
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A Geek of All Trades - Tailoring, Cosplay and Drag Kings
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Join Host Wes Lasher (The Head Ginger) as he talks with Liby Ball (aka Verna Vendetta) about the tailoring business, cosplay and being a Drag King. We discuss Game of Thrones, Jay and Silent Bob and bunch of other geeky stuff. www.bloomingtonstitchery.com www.facebook.com/vernavendetta/ https://www.patreon.com/vernavendetta/…
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Geek of All Trades - Anime and I.T.
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On Episode 3 of GOAT, The Head Ginger talks with longtime friend and I.T. Services guru Cameron Smith from Smith Group Technologies about well a LOT of stuff. Anime, Star Wars, and cyber attacks and you dont want them. Contact Cameron at https://smithgroup.tech Sponsors: www.geekygingertees.com www.productionhousevideo.com…
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Geek of All Trades - Fast cars and Legos
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On the 2nd Episode of GOAT, The Head Ginger talks with long time friend and lego geek Harry Shafer. Harry has been a lifelong lego fan and collector and that along with his love of match box cars his life has lead him to his current career in automobile salesperson. Find Harry as Harris Shafer online or contact him below https://www.communitycars.c…
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Geek of All Trades - Episode One - Geeky Business
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In the first podcast ever for GOAT, host Wes Lasher (The Head Ginger) talks with guest Andrew Lambert about growing up geeky in the late 90's and how the pop culture of the time influenced him and his current life as comedian, author, podcaster and business consultant. www.lambertconsulting.biz Mind Yo' Business podcast https://bit.ly/2JBj5bI Spons…
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