Nick Hearne - Podcast Details

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Are You Creative?EP54 - COSTA MAN AND PR CREATIVE - Nick HearneA special episode about Nick’s epic Costa To Costa walk to raise £5000 for Chelmsford Foodbank. Disclaimer: Nick doesn’t know about coffee or bleaching beans or anything - Costa Coffee DO NOT bleach their beans, but it sounds funny. Nick visited 33 Costa Coffees in Chelmsford on foot! Nick walked 27.01 miles, which took 12 hours. Now some Costa To Costa artefacts are in The Museum of Chelmsford. Stuff from now is the old shit of the future. The beautiful handmade posters that supporters (Candy Joyce, Elaine Tribley, Jen Flint) made are in the museum. Community support, and people involved in it ar...

2025-12-3054 min

Are You Creative?EP53 - VOICE ARTIST AND CREATIVE AUDIO PRODUCER - Helen QuigleyPodcasts, audio drama, recording, editing, mixing, Helen does it all! And is in the studio judging us! Helen’s voice is YouTube famous because she narrates a school sex education film - in the style Julie Andrews reads 50 Shades of Grey! Helen does amazing on-hold message voices and you have probably been told by her that your call is important to the company. Also the English voice of petrol pumps in Spain. Having a signature voice. What are VO (Voice Over) Sessions like? Is Artificial Intelligence for voice overs affecting the industry? Stock phrases and concatenation. Tom Baker, Toast of...

2025-12-281h 06

Are You Creative?EP52 - COLOMBIAN VISUAL ARTIST - Catalina CarvajalColombian visual artist and illustrator living in Essex, via Mexico and Suffolk, it’s a complicated story! She paints murals, creates digital illustrations, picture books and everything in between. Fine art and snobbery in art. Catalina blames her ADHD for ending up in Essex, she met an English man in Mexico who shared the same music taste (Josef K), and she decided to go on an adventure to Ipswich. Her experience in Ipswich ended up inspiring her artwork. It is hard to make a living from art in Colombia. In Mexico, Catalina funded her art and illustration studies by wo...

2025-12-031h 09

Are You Creative?EP51 - RADIO PRESENTER - Rob JellyRadio presenter for BBC Essex, event host and all round comedy man. A Romford boy gone Chelmsford. How do you say ‘Up and not crying’ in Icelandic? Sangita ACED her guess of what Rob does. Rob Jelly was born as Rob Jelly, it’s not a stage name! Rob hosts Nuclear Races in Kelvedon Hatch and gets the crowd pumped up for the event. He studied music tech at university and accidentally got into student radio. Student radio and hospital radio are great ways into the profession - put in the hours, practice and learn the craft. Talking about Sealan...

2025-11-231h 19

Are You Creative?EP50 - THEME PARK CONTENT CREATOR - Kip HakesA man of many talents from ‘near Colchester’. Kip creates content around theme parks and technology, not both at the same time. Kip is proud of his honest reviews, he’s not ashamed to call out things that aren’t working. Creators have a responsibility where people will make decisions based on your content, so honesty is very important for respecting your audience. When Kip started there weren’t many theme park content creators, but now there are LOADS! Kip will go in as a normal punter and have an unbiased experience. Kip’s been blogging since 2008, which makes him an OG bl...

2025-11-101h 04

Are You Creative?EP49 - BRITISH INDIAN POLITICAL PUNK - Paul from PiecesLord Shiva is in the building! Paul from the band Pieces has amazing arm tattoos for all of his passions. Born and raised in Chelmsford. Now he writes and sings for his British Indian punk band Pieces. They write songs about politics, race, the state of the nation. Paul decided to become more active and pokey with his lyrics - to not ignore what’s going on. 2025 has been a vintage year for political music with Kneecap, Bob Vylan, The Mary Wallopers, Mudrat, and Hyphen. Paul’s grandparents are from Guyana, they came to Essex in the Windrush generation, his...

2025-11-0553 min

Are You Creative?EP48 - MULTIPASSIONATE MULTIPOTENTIALITE - Rebecca CarterThe Face of Chelmsford. The future mayor of the City. The future of creativity (FULL STOP). Rebecca described herself as multi-passionate when it comes to creativity. She hosts women’s circles - a safe space for people to turn up authentically and connect. She is part of Make Space for Girls - a project for creating specific spaces for girls to feel safe and belong - architecture for girls and women. Rebecca is a self taught creative. She wasn’t encouraged creatively at school, and left to get on with things herself, so had to discover her own outlets for...

2025-10-231h 11

Are You Creative?EP47 - URBAN MUSIC EDUCATOR - Project LandoOwen aka Project Lando aka Art of the Roadz. He’s got ADHD and the smoothest voice we’ve ever had on the podcast. He’s a music producer, radio host and he runs events. He runs workshops in Colchester for kids to learn about DJing and MCing with AC MC at The Minories, which isn’t a place you’d expect urban art. But the director of the gallery Emma Howe saw the potential to widen the gallery’s culture and bring in new visitors to the gallery. They ran Free Fest in the garden of the Minories on a beautif...

2025-10-201h 15

Are You Creative?EP46 - ARTIST AND FACILITATOR - George MorlLive from Firstsite Colchester (the Golden Banana). Exhibition programme manager George is born and bred Bas Vegas (aka Basildon) from Laindon Hills. His family grew up in a self-built wooden shack in the Plotlands - which fitted closely into the themes of Michael Landy’s ‘Welcome to Essex’ exhibition, George’s first project at Firstsite. Firstsite has seen artists like Ai Weiwei, Anthony Gormley, Grayson Perry - and now George himself! It began with a bursary in 2020 talking to autistic people about what art meant to them. Which led to an open call for artworks about technology, which lead to this...

2025-10-091h 01

Are You Creative?EP45 - BURGER AFICIONADO - Jake WillisIt’s National Cheeseburger Day and Sangita isn’t here, it’s the legend Adam on the co-host - He’s been at Rom Skatepark chucking coloured powder all over the kids for the end of skatepark summer season. Over to our guest… Jake ‘The Burgerman’ Willis plays guitar in hardcore band Raiden, and being in a heavy metal band makes you have bad hearing. Prank chat. Hat chat. Wait for it… BURGER CHAT! Jake was named after Jake’s Hamburgers in Ilford, his Dad loves burgers too. Jake likes his burgers simple! Quality ingredients. No fancy extras. A beef patty between...

2025-10-051h 08

Are You Creative?EP44 - ALTERNATIVE WEDDING FASHIONISTA - Lucy Can't DanceAlternative wedding dress fashion designer. Born and bred on the wrong side of the tracks in Chelmsford, Essex. Not everyone likes to wear white at their wedding, so Lucy Can’t Dance make more individual items. Dip dye is a big thing for them, Dresses that look great and still allow y ou to eat, drink, dance and not have ten people have to help you to the toilet. Ease of going to the toilet in a wedding dress is something not enough people think about! Lucy started out learning performing arts, singing and acting, not wardrobe. She’d cust...

2025-09-211h 03

Are You Creative?EP43 - FINE ART REBEL - Elaine TribleyArtist, educator, curator, and rebel. A portfolio worker - someone that has lots of different artistic things going on. Creative variety keeps life interesting. Elaine created Birdland on a roundabout in Chelmsford, it is a birdhouse city - commissioned by a housing developer - and created in collaboration with local kids. More on the housing crisis and the return of peregrines to Chelmsford. Bronze plaques with collective nouns for birds. Training robins to land on your hand. Elaine’s creative career started at BBC Essex, as a receptionist, then a news Radio Production Assistant. Blue Peter’s Katy Hill work...

2025-08-271h 17

Are You Creative?EP42 - GRAFFITI ART PRODIGY - GrubGrub is a young graffiti artist from Southend. At just 11 years old he’s taken part in Southend City Jam and painted around the country. He is mostly interested in classic graffiti styles, rather than street art. Sangita looks through Grub’s black book (graf sketch book) and can’t believe he can draw so well. Grub is from a creative family, and his Dad is an excellent artist who has taught him to draw. One of Grub’s teachers, Miss James, spotted his artistic talent when he was 8 and motivated him. Grub now has mentors for painting - Ekto, St...

2025-08-171h 01

Are You Creative?EP41 - AUDIO DOCUMENTARY MAKER - Kaelyn SpikeRadio presenter and audio documentary maker. Kaelyn created a documentary about the Chelmsford skateboarding scene, around Central Park between 2020 and 2023. Kaelyn is a skateboarder, so the subject was personal for her. Skate scenes are always in flux, and this was a busy time for the scene in Essex. Why do creative people gravitate to skateboarding? Or does skateboarding make people creative? Being a female skater is hard because you don’t feel fully included. Especially when a WhatsApp group was created just for the male skaters at the skatepark. Kaelyn tackles this in her audio documentary. Is it fun to...

2025-07-211h 11

Are You Creative?EP40 - STREET ART LEGEND - Chaz from The London PoliceChaz is from art duo The London Police - originally from Chelmsford. His partner Bob got attacked by a seagull on Chelmsford Tindal Street while they were painting at Concrete Canvas. The danger of painting very high murals - territorial gulls. At school he was into drawing, and then moved into photography, especially for bands. Chaz ended up on the music scene and sold t-shirts for 90s indie superstars Echobelly, as well as touring with Oasis, PWEI and Boyzone. Becoming famous street artists meant that The London Police could live the rock and roll tour life around the world...

2025-07-041h 18

Are You Creative?EP39 - MUSIC MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATE - Jeordie ShentonJeordie is the Programmes Lead at the charity Tonic Music providing mental health support to the music industry and music fans. School and Jeordie didn’t get on - except for Mr.Harris the sociology teacher who encouraged his path into sociology. His psychology and sociology dissertation at uni was inspired by the death of Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots - why do these entertainers that give us so much enjoyment struggle with mental health? He’s since published a book chapter on mental health in the music business, and gone on to a pHD. And this led him...

2025-06-211h 12

Are You Creative?EP38 - MULTIGENERATIONAL ROCK AND ROLLER - Neil McDonnellNeil is in a band with his 77 year old grandad Ken - Ken and Neil McDonnell. Playing 50s and 60s rock and roll. They’ve already made three albums in their first two years. Ken is a tough creative lead and has a clear vision of how he wants audio, image etc. for the band. He is motivated to be productive while he ‘still has his faculties’. Ken gave Neil his first guitar when he was 10, and ever since they’ve been jamming at family gatherings. There is a band with a parrot singer called Hatebeak. Chat about ALL the Blac...

2025-05-231h 03

Are You Creative?EP37 - MAGAZINE CREATIVE DIRECTOR - Ben WatkinsWhat does an art director do? They make things look nice! Having visual ideas, organising photoshoots, video, social media, layouts, typography, Ben even designed the HEAT Magazine logo…. Ooooo! Telling the story visually is essential. The features editor will assign a celebrity and a small time frame to shoot images for the magazine. The art director has to have ideas, and arrange the photography shoot. A creative director will lead people on their team to come up with great ideas. How do you ask celebrities to do crazy things for photos on set? Working with Alan Carr and making si...

2025-05-121h 14

Are You Creative?EP36 - CABINET MAKER SKATER - Jim RandsFurniture maker. Cabinet maker. Just don’t call him a carpenter! What does it all mean? Jim started out making cabinets next to Liam Howlett from The Prodigy’s house… that’s like Essex’s answer to Buckingham Palace surely! Jim started his creative journey polishing furniture, and then learned more about how to make it. When do you know you are ready to set up on your own and become self-employed? Applying craft, skills and unique materials to create bespoke cabinets on massive budgets for wealthy people. Jim also makes art from wood. Usually by identifying potential in knotted wo...

2025-05-0952 min

Are You Creative?EP35 - PUNK ROCK ROLE MODEL - Lily MeffMEFF ARMY! Singer and guitarist in the punk rock band The Meffs. Born and raised in Colchester. Going from playing Hot Box to 100 people to Alexandra Palace to 10000 people in just a few years - WHAT A LIFE! What is the optimal strategy for a pre-stage wee? Recording at Frank Turner’s studio on Mersea Island. How not to do gang vocals! WHAT!? What’s it like supporting Alice Cooper? And Primal Scream? When does a duo become a band, even if it’s two people? How does Lily get a huge guitar tone and make enough noise to not ne...

2025-05-021h 07

Are You Creative?EP34 - WITCH RESEARCHER AND CURATOR - Emma WardallCo-founder of Essex Witch Museum. Researcher, historian, marketing genius, and part of the creative force behind the project to bring Essex’s witch history to life. Everything Emma has ever done in her career is coming in useful on the journey to create a new museum. Adelle invents Witchipedia - let this be a permanent record. What is a ‘familiar’? It’s a demon in the form of an animal which will do their evil bidding. Like Satan the Cat/Toad/Dog. Who belonged to Agnes Waterhouse. Sent after a neighbour for not giving them any cheese. Witch trials happened...

2025-04-201h 06

Are You Creative?EP33 - A MAN OF LETTERS - Repeat Beat PoetWriter, spoken word artist, journalist, DJ, historian, researcher, poet, slam poet, life-long student. Peter deGraft-Johnson is The Repeat Beat Poet, aka PJ, and Mr. Loose Egusi (his afrobeat DJ name). Talking about flâneurs, Argentinian funk, plumbing, and other random things. Slam poetry is a fake-competitive parlour game of poetry, where two poets go head to head in front of a very vocal and involved audience. The line between poets and rappers has gotten thin. Poetic writing can elevate theatre, drama, film, music - The right words, in the right order, being delivered in the right way. We feel f...

2025-04-131h 03

Are You Creative?EP32 - COSPLAY CRAFTER - Emily WhiteThis is the way! Cosplay is when you dress as a popular character from film, TV, games. Cosplayers usually start by buying costumes, and then realise it’s cheaper and more fun to make your own and customise it. Emily is involved with Chelmsford Takeover with Essex Cosplayers and Chelmsford For You. The whole town centre gets taken over by characters and vehicles, with chances to learn about craft and meet creators, and get selfies with RoboCop (next event Saturday 12th April 2025). Featuring the famous cosplay conga, where you can see George Lucas (not the real one), Transformers, Star Wa...

2025-04-051h 07

Are You Creative?EP31 - NAMER AND MICROFICTION WRITER - Ben StanburyCompetitive story writer, namer, brander, and editor/designer of Menticulture magazine. Overall creative legend, and nicest bloke in Essex. Originally from the glorious hill of Danbury. Ben trained as a graphic designer as a mature student. Now he runs his own naming and brand agency The Identity Bureau. Naming is finding what a company is going to call themselves. A name that’s memorable and describes the company. A good name should be easy to say, easy to spell, easy to remember. Company names have the most brand longevity, outlasting multiple logo refreshes etc, so it’s super important to g...

2025-03-2950 min

Are You Creative?EP30 - PARANORMAL PODCASTER - Bethan Briggs-MillerOne of the hosts of the Eerie Essex podcast (with Ailsa Clarke), all about paranormal happenings and traditional stories of mysteries and the unexplained in Essex. Is the Loch Ness Monster a ghost dinosaur? Old Roughy the poltergeist in Great Waltham. Ghost cats in pubs. How do Bethan and Ailsa research their podcast? Start with the paranormal database, books, British newspaper archive. Weird Norfolk podcast from the Norfolk Folklore Society inspired them to start their Essex podcast. Black Shuck the East Anglian dog is a brilliant regional myth. Part cryptid, part entity, a black dog with blazing red eyes...

2025-03-241h 13

Are You Creative?EP29 - POET AND CULT SURVIVOR - Leon The PoetObservational poet with luxuriant hair from Witham. Leon started poetry in 2016, and became Leon The Poet in 2022. He was a songwriter first, and got inspired by spoken word like Kae Tempest. His first book was published in 2024 - ‘Sometimes I’m The Bull, Sometimes I’m The China Shop’ - with a brilliant cover by Essex artist Jackson Bollocks. The book looks more like a music album than a poetry book. Leon finds that poetry has a more focused audience than when he used to perform music. He wants to make poetry more accessible for a wider audience - not just...

2025-03-1554 min

Are You Creative?EP28 - COMEDY FILMMAKER - Joe McGowanThis one’s a bit sweary! Joe writes, directs and edits sketches and shorts that screen globally. He also has a background in commercials and branded content. He’s had viral successes with his films. How do big American productions end up being edited in Joe’s house in Romford? Because he’s awesome! Can you learn to be funny? Or are you born funny? Joe worked a lot of corporate video jobs before realising that he could specialise in comedy. Joe took a media course at Havering Sixth Form and learned film-making and editing and found his passion. Then wor...

2025-03-0551 min

Are You Creative?EP27 - DRAG SUPERSTAR - Ella VadayNick Collier AKA Ella Vaday is The Drag Beast from Dagenham East. Is Dagenham Essex or London? It’s Essex innit! Ella appeared on Season 3 of Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK in 2021, and has since shot to drag stardom. Nick trained in musical theatre and dance when he was 16. And after graduating performed in Wicked, Book of Mormon, Cats, Fame among other West End smashes. Ella has now been performing in Pantomime, so how does Nick act as Ella acting as an Ugly Sister - it’s drag inception! Being in drag gives you so much more permission to be...

2025-03-0355 min

Are You Creative?EP26 - COMMUNITY FARMER AND FILM MAKER - Marley KarazimbaFilm-maker, Marley lives on a three acre farm, designs permaculture, and specialises in community supported agriculture (CSA). Marley also co-runs a community cooperative cafe in Colchester. He’s been commissioned by Culture Essex to make a film for Extraordinary Essex with the working title ‘Don’t Fight The Land That Feeds You’ about the people of Essex and the land that nourishes them. Marley is interviewing people ranging from farmers with hectares of land to small growers with allotments. In CSA people can pay a share towards harvest by subscribing to seasonal veg boxes, or volunteer on the farm in excha...

2025-02-1257 min

Are You Creative?EP25 - INDEPENDENT VENUE MANAGER - Jon HughesJon manages Hot Box in Chelmsford. An independent community venue for music, poetry, chess, comedy, drag, retro gaming and other things. At a small venue everyone has to muck in and do all the jobs. Venue is 110 capacity, but has seen huge acts like Fat Boy Slim, Frank Turner, High Fade, The Meffs, Beans on Toast, Native James. Norman Cook has come back to DJ many times, and once to help raise funds to save the venue. Venues and events make memories for the staff and crowd. How starting a new venue fired up a creative community in the...

2025-02-071h 06

Are You Creative?EP24 - FIGURATIVE ARTIST - Nat GuinamardFigurative drawing. With special guest co-host Adam Whitaker. Nat’s collection of art ‘An Untamed Line’ is currently exhibited on Chelmsford Museum’s Gallery Wall. She makes a rough shape on paper with water and then inks in the figure. How does life drawing online differ from drawing from a photo? And how short time limits lead to the best art? Sixty second drawings have a lot of energy. Ink never behaves the same way, so the art can be unpredictable. Imposter syndrome in art and judging your own output. Life drawing tips. Moving your eye as little as possible...

2025-01-1752 min

Are You Creative?EP23 - BASS CULTURE ADVOCATE - Jean-Claude LionbeatOwner of Lionbeat, a company that advocates for bass culture and black music. Jean-Claude was born and raised in Brentwood. Bass culture happened when the sound systems from the Caribbean travelled to Europe and eventually African diasporic culture. Bringing people together with a uniform love for bass. People immigrated to Britain and brought over sound system culture - Bass and dance was a ritualistic behaviour for these people. Peace, love and unity in the dance. Lionbeat is the ‘barristers for bass’. Jean-Claude initially went to university to study law, and wanted to move as far as pos...

2025-01-071h 23

Are You Creative?EP22 - ADVERTISING LEADER - Elliot HarrisCreative director for advertising and entertainment. Elliot is 1000% creative! Why do younger people not like advertising as a creative career? People are paying to avoid adverts, and using ad blockers. People are watching telly in a different way now - no longer are people sitting at the same time to watch the same scheduled show. Elliot loved the Benetton adverts when he was younger, and how it played with culture and broke the mould. Oliver Toscani was the creative director and photographer behind these adverts. Elliot was inspired by music and art, raving, parties, putting on events, making flyers...

2024-12-141h 13

Are You Creative?EP21 - OPERA SINGER - Donna LennardProfessional opera singer. Donna’s origins story, she was spotted as a talented singer by a teacher who took her to a French chateau to perform Mozart arias - this was of course acceptable in the late 1980s. Opera has music, drama, costume, and the power of an orchestra - opera is massive! In opera the singers also act, there’s a lot to be good at. Donna’s first professional opera gig was at the Royal Opera House. Donna has been performing modern opera works, like The Little Prince performing as a mad robot calculator character. Donna has perfor...

2024-12-0853 min

Are You Creative?EP20 - COMIC BOOK WRITER - Phil ChapmanCreator of the independent comic series System Error. How to start creating a comic. Why does the System Error robot have such a big head? Creating a recognisable silhouette is essential for character design. Phil started drawing with biro, then pen, dip brush pens, and then creating digitally. Note: Phil has very clean hands, no ink! Digital is faster, cleaner and easier to adjust. Phil uses Procreate for black line work and Photoshop for colour. Phil LOVES Procreate and recommends investing the £13 to get it. System Error is about a robot called ITTO and why things went wrong in t...

2024-11-3054 min

Are You Creative?EP19 - VIDEO GAME CREATOR - AJ Grand-ScruttonAJ is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dlala Studios making video games in Witham in Essex. Dlala Studios made the Battletoads sequel in 2020 and more recently Disney Illusion Island starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. Illusion Island is available on the Nintendo Switch. How did AJ start a computer games studio from his Mum’s garage in 2012? Starting as a programmer as a Game Content Developer at Jagex, then at Bossa, then winning a BAFTA, then starting Dlala Studios with Craig. Dlala have now been nominated for two BAFTAs for Illusion Island - Best British Game and Best Fa...

2024-11-2153 min

Are You Creative?EP18 - ARTIST - Miss MeatfaceArt as escape and a therapeutic outlet. Kat Toronto is Miss Meatface. Garry Vanderhorne the wrestling promoter told us about her in EP1 of Are You Creative? Miss Meatface is a photographic alter-ego for Kat. She was an escape for Kat to express how she was feeling at a dark time in her life in 2015 - like an art therapy. Kat uses latex masks to remove her identity and create the anonymous character. Kinky and kitchy. 1950s typical domestic scenes, made playful and surreal with latex. Miss Meatface was born in America. Kat studied photography at art school. And...

2024-11-0951 min

Are You Creative?EP17 - VIOLINIST - Elodie Chousmer-HowellesPROFESSIONAL violinist! Making money doing the creative thing that you love. Life as a musician can be hard. It’s not a 9-5 job, and there is a lot of practicing! Streamlining practice, and finding the time to do it. Diminishing returns in practicing. Setting goals for quality practice. What is score reading? Being inspired by an older sibling learning music and attending her cello lessons. Big up Classic FM - no adverts though please! Being inspired by BBC Young Musician of the Year. Attending a Nicola Benedetti concert and getting creatively inspired as a six year old. And Je...

2024-10-2853 min

Are You Creative?EP16 - CREATIVE ENIGMA - GoldyThe Marilyn Monroe of Essex. The most chaotic episode ever. Goldy does EVEYRTHING creative! New rave. Nick’s Pot Trumps cards are now in the Chelmsford Museum recent additions cabinet. Is Chingford in Essex? Can you ever really refer to yourself as creative? Is Goldy the most glamorous person in Essex? Like a Parisian flamingo with mermaid legs - in the best way! - OFFICIAL! Editor of an aesthetics magazine, and presenter of awards and shows. Creating TikToks and doing the socials to promote shows. Spotting AI cats on the internet. Being a wrestler, a crochet-er, and a pin-up mod...

2024-10-2452 min

Are You Creative?EP15 - STUNTMAN - Andy Pilgrim BONUS EPISODESpecial audience questions edition from Essex Podcast Festival.What’s the coolest stunt Andy has done? A high fall. How high? 100ft! What’s your favourite movie you’ve done a stunt in? Grimsby was the most fun film to shoot. What stunt did you do in Harry Potter? Andy was a student as a 30-year old man, and a Death Eater and had to go to Wand School to learn the actions. Have you ever done a stunt so crazy it made you reconsider your career choice? Andy broke his ankle as a Whit...

2024-10-2110 min

Are You Creative?EP14 - STUNTMAN - Andy PilgrimStunt performer and stunt coordinator. Has the best imdb page in the world - FACT! Including loads of 10/10 films, and also falling off a cliff in Emmerdale. Getting burned by a dragon on Game of Thrones - Dracarys!!! Learning to be set on fire by scuba diving. Andy’s stunt origin story. Gymnastics, high-diving, judo, theatre. Assessing risks on set to make it safe for you and actors. South Essex Gymnastics Club - is it Kingsmen recruitment for stunt performers? Coming up through the profession with David Holmes, Daniel Radcliffe’s double in Harry Potter and the star of the...

2024-10-1145 min

Are You Creative?EP13 - CRAFT BREWER - Dan HarveyCraft brewer and founder for Radio City Beer Works and Radio City Social venue. Creating beer alchemy with just four ingredients to make loads of different flavours, colours, bitterness, gravities. Beer magic! Learning about wort and brewing process. Being self-critical for growth and improvement. Aromas, head retention, drinkability - all the factors to consider in brewing. Having a flavour vision in your head and working out how to achieve it. Hops and different fruit flavours in them. Knowing how to extract the different flavours from the hop oil at stages of brewing. Beer drinking as a hobby for craft...

2024-10-041h 04

2024-09-291h 18

Are You Creative?EP12 - PUNK MUSICIAN - Adam SandersAdam is MUSIC BOY! Musician, music teacher, studio owner, producer, rockstar! Being in pop-punk tribute bands, and coming up with puns for names - Blinked-182, Dookie and Half-Real Lavine. Supportive parents, and living out their rock fantasies. Starting young and finding music. Is 8 too young to learn guitar? NO! Seeing Adam playing drums at Teddy Rocks with pyrotechnic flames on stage - ultimate rockstar. Starting to learn drums at 10 and getting Grade-8 by 13 - Yep, he’s a prodigy! Grades maketh not the drummer. The student became the teacher - doing a postgrad PGCE and learning to teach. Teaching a...

2024-09-2252 min

Are You Creative?EP11 - PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTER - James CallaghanJames's journey from photography into high-end film processing and printing. Owner of BlueSky Printing and London Film Lab. Working for Björk! BJÖRK the Icelandic music legend! Printing on special papers and hand finishing artwork. Being a paper expert and choosing the right paper for a print. Setting up colour managed environments (yeah we’re going deep into printing!) Does Bjork want paper made from swan feathers? James’s other premises London Film Lab off Brick Lane - a special analog film processing facility. Taking away snobbery and making high level film processing available to everyone. Colour grading photos...

2024-09-1532 min

Are You Creative?EP10 - AUTHOR - Sade FadipeSade’s journey from school teacher to author. Being a top 50 children’s book in the US - A Fun ABC (US edition: A Visit to Grandad). Leaving London for Nigeria. How Sade’s experiences growing up in both London and Nigeria built the foundation for her first book. Working as a Reading Consultant in Nigeria. Donated books and lack of representation of Nigerian children’s lives and experiences. Funding for books, but lack of appropriate reading material. Creating an example text to demonstrate creating stories, rhythms and rhymes. Any teacher can make up stories. Accidentally finding a publisher. Finding...

2024-09-1043 min

Are You Creative?EP9 - PHOTOGRAPHIC SCIENTIST - Jack HolmesPhotos for the first manned Moon mission. Photo finishes for horses. The first televised Queen's speech. Jack's done a lot! Making photographic film to send to the Moon. Being lead scientist of Ilford special projects. High speed cheese. Yellow light. Radiation. Seeing if it was safe for humans to land on the Moon. High speed film image quality trade off. Silver halide science! Testing film with all the bad radiation. Getting film back from the Moon without disturbing the results. Why isn’t the Moon photo on Jack’s wall? Was Jack’s photo the most important photo of that y...

2024-08-1735 min

Are You Creative?EP8 - RETRO KNITTER - Maddy MooreBy order of the Peaky Blinders. What comes first - the button or the sweater? Knitted turbans. Is knitting like computer programming? Making sweaters for Wonka. Etsy costs for craft creators. Boo to fast fashion! Making handmade affordable. The 1930s and 1940s body shape. Decoding old knitting patterns. Finding the right yarn. Collecting a horde of buttons. Being born in the wrong decade. A creative journey through dance, film, fashion to becoming The Sweater Girl. The supportive retro knitting community. Knitting for mental health. Retro machines. And making sweaters for Peaky Blinders! WOW! What an inspiring guest. Thanks Maddy!

2024-08-0144 min

Are You Creative?EP7 - TRANS INFLUENCER - Adelle BarkerTrigger warning: Early talk about s*lf h*rm. Gay jobs vs Day jobs. Being on a fancy video shoot for a TV ad. Coming out as a trans woman at work. Getting pro make-up. Unmasking. Identity. Air quotes in different fonts. Being in The Sims in real life. Is Sangita an energy vampire? Pretending to be geezer Dads to fit in. Adelle’s media empire of #not stuff. Adelle and Jordan Grey’s parallel trans journeys. Supportive managers at work. Deadnaming. The awkward teenage dressing up stage. 'My trombone is brilliant!' Nick. Tights filled with rice as boob...

2024-07-2653 min

Are You Creative?EP6 - PIERCER - Cat ChudykMaking belly button piercing inclusive for all body shapes. English sushi. Staring at people’s ears. Bespoke ear curation. Natural vs unnatural stones. Alan & Ron’s jewelry designs. Copycats copying Cat’s jewelry. Four dimensional jewelry shapes. Finding inspiration for designs in nature. Inclusive body jewelry. Ear transplants. Needles vs guns. A whole needle portfolio? Turning people away can be good for business! Cat remembers ears. Having multiple ear piercings is so hot right now on the red carpet! Naming jewelry after friends - jewelry friends! Pawsome! Snochs. Schnarvels. Tragus. Schnagus. Daith. Daves. All the bits of ears. Tiny little...

2024-07-0846 min

Are You Creative?EP5 - ACTOR - Carlos BylesBecoming an actor. The journey from creative awakening to reality. Jaiden Smith in Karate Kid to Top Boy. We are Creative Gods! Is panto more fun than telly? Ice skating skills. The Brit school. Pretending to be a sausage like Benedict Cumberland. Music with Adele. Meeting Jessie J. Casual school visits from Tom Holland. Being a tree. Supportive teachers vs unsupportive teachers. Shrek auditions. Positive support networks. Coconuts for horse hooves. Finding an agent. Dealing with rejection from roles. Tips for a great first impression in casting. Carlos the Frozen Sausage. Being resilient. Being in Top Boy! Method acting...

2024-07-0150 min

Are You Creative?EP4 - HORROR FILM MAKER - Jim DexterBuilding a supportive film making community with the Independent Horror Society. How much would it cost to make a feature film about a killer swan? What’s a DOP? Introducing Nickipedia. Do you need to go to University to work in film? Advice for making your first film. Finding collaborators. Learning from YouTube. Dolphin impressions. Bill vs Ripper. Best gore in a horror film. Bill Kill 3: Triple Bill. Learning to make practical special effects ‘Just buy some bits!’ The problems of having a kid’s brain with adult money. Making fake sweat and tears. And making 6 minute 6 second films in 66 hou...

2024-06-2348 min

Are You Creative?EP3 - STREET ART FESTIVAL MANAGER - Candy JoyceOrganising a street art festival. Don’t mess with a mother seagull! Twig art. Learning how to spray paint. What’s an Open Reach box? The London Police and their cheeky LADS. Making Chelmsford more cultural and civic pride. Chexit. Running out of walls to paint. The barriers to organising a street art festival. Scotty Brave’s Grayson Perry portrait. More seagull attacks. Graffiti gang vs The Wicker Crew. Razorbeak of Tindall Street. Doodle walls. The smell of spray paint. Fat Boy Slim in a wicker spray can. Spray paint BINGO! Advice for young artists and street artists starting out.

2024-06-1938 min

Are You Creative?EP2 - PUBLISHING DIRECTOR - Keshini NaidooHow to get into books? What’s a bad first sentence? Alan Kazam and the alternative Harry Potter universe. Nick pitches 'Robo-Tindal: Judgement on Chelmsford'. How BookTok has sent physical sales through the roof. Boardroom sausagefests. Fiction Girl and her sharpened commas. Female-run publishing and smashing the glass ceiling. Working with literary agents to get your book seen by publishers. Do judge a book by its cover! Naughty AI robots writing books. South Asian drag queens. And Sangita is pretty much horizontally chilled with the post-holiday vibes - so she doesn’t talk much for the second half - just...

2024-06-1050 min

Are You Creative?EP1 - WRESTLING PROMOTER - Garry VanderhorneHow did Garry set up an inclusive wrestling scene? Is wrestling creative? How do you turn a human man into an evil duck? What is Sangita's wrestling name? How did Garry help to mould Essex legend Will Ospreay into the AEW Superstar he is today? Bacon balaclavas? World Records for wrestling? Would Mr.Bean make a good wrestler? Can you wrestle in tweed? And how do you get into wrestling as a performer or promoter? And wise creative advice for anyone looking to get into performance arts!Thanks to our amazing guest Garry Vanderhorne from Lucha Britannia.

2024-06-0945 min

Hellfire Creative Podcast Episode 6 - Nick Hearne#6 - NICK HEARNE - STICK IT IN SPACE - Hellfire Creative Podcast http://instagram.com/slayduggee https://nickhearne.co.uk Website - http://hellfirecreative.com Instagram - http://instagram.com/hellfirecreative Vimeo - http://vimeo.com/hellfirecreative

2022-02-1446 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Our Favorite 90’s Cartoons!At one time, Saturday morning was the only reason kids of every age trudged through their dreary week day lives. Because Saturday morning meant Saturday morning cartoons! There is a generation of kids and young adults that have no idea what I’m talking about. […]

2020-12-1256 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture One-Shots! Comic Reviews: TMNT Presents The Last Ronin #1Looking for comic book reviews that don’t pander to one company or the other? Wanting some honest first impressions from geeks that know what they’re talking about? Needing a podcast series that isn’t afraid to show emotion regarding the topic of conversation? You Found […]

2020-12-0724 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Understanding DC Comics Continuity: The Dark Years – Part 1Change can be a good thing. It brings growth. Expansion. Understanding. And appreciation for what came before. But change can also bring fear. Anger. Darkness. After the continuity altering effects of The Crisis on Infinite Earths, The DCU enjoyed a period of peace and […]

2020-12-041h 16

I Hate Sand: A Star Wars Podcast Nick Stanner: Mandalorian StuntmanWe had the absolute pleasure of chatting with real Mandalorian stuntman--Nick Stanner! Nick shares a ton of behind the scenes stories of Mandalorian, as well as his other stunts from Ozark, Black Panther, and Stranger Things. You don't want to miss this one! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/taylor-hearne/support

2020-11-1744 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Current Issues – Episode 9 (October/November 2020)Welcome to another edition of Current Issues, where your hosts turn their heads away from the seriousness of reality and focus more on geek things like comics, video games, movies and other pop culture related materials. Our top stories for this episode include Solving […]

2020-11-111h 14

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Writers Room: Horror Comic PitchesBeing a fan of pop culture entertainment comes with a certain amount of healthy debate on some topics. Who would win in a fight…Superman or the Hulk? Which one’s better…cyborgs or robots? What would happen if warring aliens battled in a post-apocalyptic Earth city? […]

2020-10-2834 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Is It Worth It? The Question: Deaths Of Vic SageMuch like the dinosaurs, We’re BACK! Back with another episode of “Is It Worth It?” For this instalment, we’ll be tackling the four issue mini-series The Question: Many Deaths of Vic Sage from DC’s Black Label The My Big Fat Pull List Podcast […]

2020-09-3024 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Current Issues – Episode 8 (September 2020)Welcome to another edition of Current Issues, where your hosts ignore all the ugliness in the world and discuss fun, happy things like comics, video games, movies and other pop culture related material. Our top stories for this episode include exploring the not-so-live-ness of […]

2020-09-2442 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Our Favorite Superhero Video Games!If you’re a resourceful cos-player, you’d have no issues grabbing a needle and thread and producing a kick ass costume to represent the embodiment of your favorite comic book or pop culture character. For others, they let their wallet do the talking and buy pre-made […]

2020-09-0948 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture DC FanDome Day 1 ReviewWhat we once hid from the general public, for fear of ridicule, is now the norm! Geek culture has swept the Earth! One of the things that has helped geek culture flourish is the mega events we call Comic-Cons. Sadly, the year 2020 has […]

2020-08-281h 05

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Observe and Report: Rick & Morty vs Dungeons & DragonsGreetings Listers! Are you a fan of the outrageous cartoon Rick and Morty? Are you a fan of the classic role playing game Dungeons and Dragons? Have you ever wondered if Rick and Morty have played Dungeons and Dragons? If YOU answered “yes” to […]

2020-08-2031 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Current Issues – Episode 7 (July/August 2020)Welcome to another edition of My Big Fat Pull List’s Current Issues. Our top stories for this episode include looking at the latest alien invasion targeting Marvel Comics in Empyer, examining how Amazon’s deal with the apocalypse in Wonder Woman: Dead Earth from DC […]

2020-08-121h 07

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Summer Special Spectacular!As children, summer time meant sleeping in and staying up late, going out into the world, looking for harmless mischief, reading stacks of comics and debating with your friends “who’s the coolest primate character, The Mandrill, Gleek, Cy-Gor, Detective Chimp, or Gorilla Grodd?” Summer […]

2020-08-051h 17

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Interview with Agent Shield creator Rik Offenberger – A Video Podcast EpisodeWhen it comes to comic book superheroes, everyone knows the big names: Superman, Captain America, Batman, Wolverine, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, Green Lantern, Spider-Man. But sometimes it’s fun to dive into new universes and discover brand new characters who don’t have 80+ years of […]

2020-07-3156 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture The Story Continues – Comics That Resume Stories From Films & TV ShowsHave you ever walked out of a theater, after just watching a great movie, and asked yourself…”I wonder what happens next?” What about when your favorite TV show ends or, worse yet, gets canceled? Do you find yourself daydreaming about where the characters went […]

2020-07-2955 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Choose Your Own Justice League – A Video Podcast!In the DC Universe, the Justice League is known as THE team of super heroes. With a reputation like that, one would think that to gain membership would be the height of ones crime fighting career. But did you know, there are some heroes who […]

2020-07-0900 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Is It Worth It? – Legion Of Super-HeroesWelcome to another edition of Is It Worth It? Where we select something from comic book pop culture and inform YOU, our loyal Listers, if it’s worth your time and money, or not. For this episode, we will be taking a journey into the […]

2020-07-0141 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Current Issues – Episode 6 (May/June 2020)Welcome to another edition of My Big Fat Pull List’s Current Issues. Our top stories for this episode include a discussion regarding the return of comic books back in shops, DC Comics decision to break ties with Diamond Publishing, the unfortunate passing of the […]

2020-06-2451 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Observe & Report: TITANS Season OneGreetings Listers! Today on My Big Fat Pull List we are going to explore the world of Titans! No, not the mythical kind, we’re talking about the DC kind. Not to be confused with the animated Teen Titans, DC’s Titans is a darker, more […]

2020-06-031h 18

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture “Star Wars: Marvel Comics Cannon!”There are a number of book, television and film properties that have spawned worlds of endless imagination and wanted exploration. The battlefields of Middle Earth, the sprawling grounds of Hogwarts, the hidden highways of the Land of OZ. But none are more endlessly expansive […]

2020-05-181h 16

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture “For The Love Of LEGO!”Have you ever imagined what it would have been like if the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were chosen to take the One Ring to Mordor instead of Frodo and the hobbits? Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Iron Man worked […]

2020-04-2938 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Current Issues – Episode 5 – Quarantine Edition – (March/April 2020)Welcome to this special Quarantine Edition of Current Issues. Our top stories for this episode include a peek inside our daily lives as we deal with no new comic books and practice self-distancing while Surviving The Pandemic, an attempt to predict the future in […]

2020-04-2252 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Our Favorites – Erik Burnham On IDWs Ghostbusters!The love of comic books and pop culture associated with them have shaped us into the geeks and nerds we are today. The experiences we have revolving around our favorite (insert name of awesome thing here) are what bind us together in this community […]

2020-04-0835 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Most Wanted: Exiles!Have you ever been on vacation and looked over and seen a familiar face but when you approach that person you realize they aren’t who you thought they were? Well that is exactly what it feels like to travel through the multiverses as a […]

2020-04-0139 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Is It Worth It? Usagi Yojimbo from IDWThat new comic book series, is it going to be a waste of money? That new TV Show, is it going to be a waste of time? That new movie, is it going to be a waste of BOTH? Well we here at My […]

2020-03-1828 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture X-Men X-periences!The X-Men. Once an obscure comic book loved by a group of devoted fans. Now a profitable franchise with fans around the globe. It doesn’t matter if you’re exposure to Marvel’s Merry Mutants came from comic pages, trading cards, action figures, animation or feature […]

2020-03-111h 03

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Understanding DC Comics – Episode 3: A New EarthThese days, Comic Book reboots have become a normal part of the industry. Origins reworked, storylines updated and histories retconned. It’s become as synonymous with comic book storytelling as tights and capes. But that wasn’t always the case. In 1986, following the reality altering […]

2020-03-041h 32

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Current Issues – Episode 4 – (Feb. 2020)Welcome to our fourth instalment of Current Issues, where your hosts talk about what THEY think are the most important news items going on in the world of comic books and pop culture. These topics are triple fact checked and double researched, for You, […]

2020-02-261h 06

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Does Continuity Matter In Comics?In organized fandom, “continuity” can be a trigger word for many fanboys and fangirls out there. Continuity is what ties a universe full of stories together. But it can also be a detrimental roadblock for anyone attempting to understand and digest 30, 40, 50…hell, […]

2020-02-1249 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Comic Book Movies Overlooked For Awards!As comic fans, the idea of a live action film representation fills us with glee. Especially if it’s a property we’ve been following for awhile. But until recently, Hollywood hasn’t always had the source material’s best interests at heart. That being said, there are […]

2020-02-0532 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Star Wars: The Disney Trilogy!In 1977, a movie was released that changed the world of filmmaking and fandom forever. That movie was George Lucas’s Star Wars. It was groundbreaking and had all the right ingredients to create a universe filled with epic stories and larger than life characters. […]

2020-01-292h 07

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Comic VS Adaptation: WantedMovies and television based off of comic books are a staple in modern entertainment. The quality may vary, but the quantity can not be denied. When the source material is adapted, it’s not uncommon for changes to be made. Some time even major changes. […]

2020-01-1550 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Current Issues – Episode 3 – (Jan. 2020)Welcome to the year 2020 and to My Big Fat Pull List’s third instalment of Current Issues, where your hosts talk about what they think are the most important news items going on in the world of comic books and pop culture. These topics […]

2020-01-0858 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture “Understanding DC Comics – Episode 2: Crisis On Infinite Earths!”Major events are something of a regular occurance in modern superhero comics. We’re use to seeing at least one company wide crossover event happening each year, as well as smaller events taking place inside individual titles. But none compare to the historical significance of […]

2020-01-011h 56

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Our Favorites – Green Lantern: Rebirth (2004)The love of comic books and pop culture associated with them have shaped us into the geeks and nerds we are today. The experiences we have revolving around our favorite (insert name of awesome thing here) are what bind us together in this community […]

2019-12-1836 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Most Wanted: Darkwing DuckHe is the terror that flaps in the night. He is the wind beneath your wings. He is the scourge that pecks at your nightmares. He is DARKWING DUCK! While you most likely know him from his television series, DW is more than just […]

2019-12-1139 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Current Issues – Episode 2 – (Nov./Dec. 2019)With the world of comic books and pop culture ever changing, how are fans meant to keep up with trends in the industry? Is the new EVENT from the Big Two worth reading? What’s the story on that show from that network about that […]

2019-12-0459 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture “A Revisit To Marvel 2099!”The Future. Is it a destination, an ideology to strive towards, a conscience feeling of the passage of time? All of the above? The future is a great setting for storytelling. It doesn’t matter if it’s post-apocalyptic, beautiful utopia or somewhere in between, when […]

2019-11-201h 39

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture “Understanding DC Comics – Part 1: Crisis Of Continuity!”The DC Universe. It can be a complicated and sometimes convoluted place. There are hundreds of characters, both heroes and villains, all with rich origins and histories. But after eighty years of stories, the DC Universe doesn’t have the easiest continuity to understand. Why […]

2019-11-061h 21

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture “10 Key Characters In Horror Comics!”Horror comics are a staple in the industry. Monsters, ghouls, zombies, vampires, they’re everywhere, in beautifully bright splattered gore and crimson carnage. Over the decades, the characters appearing in Horror comics have captured the imaginations of readers and gathered a following stronger than any […]

2019-10-241h 36

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture Current Issues – Episode 1 (Sep./Oct. 2019)With the world of comic books and pop culture ever changing, how are fans meant to keep up with trends in the industry? Is the new EVENT from the Big Two worth reading? What’s the story on that show from that network about that […]

2019-10-1647 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture “Don’t Call It A Relaunch!” – Volume 3 BeginsIn the comic book industry, the hip thing to do nowadays is to take a book, doesn’t matter if it’s a team or solo title, end its run and then start up a brand new volume. And not just every once in a while, […]

2019-10-1241 min

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture History Of The Mighty Crusaders – Episode 5 – “New Crusaders And Beyond”You’ve heard of The Avengers. The Justice League. The X-Men, Teen Titans, Guardians of the Galaxy, Defenders, The Legion of Superheroes. Even The Watchmen. But what if we told you that there was another team of colorfully clad heroes that you’ve never heard of […]

2019-09-301h 12

My Big Fat Pull List - Geek-out with Engaging Comic Book Content & Get Educated About and Pop Culture History Of The Mighty Crusaders – Episode 4 – “The Impact Era Begins!”You’ve heard of The Avengers. The Justice League. The X-Men, Teen Titans, Guardians of the Galaxy, Defenders, The Legion of Superheroes. Even The Watchmen. But what if we told you that there was another team of colorfully clad heroes that you’ve never heard of […]

2019-09-231h 08