Fans of "Die Hard" - or any fictional audio comedy - will love this mini series as we follow a criminal named Hans as he flees Berlin and heads to Los Angeles in the winter of 1988, and hatches a diabolical plan...
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Die Hard With a Podcast is a 9-part series examining the best American action film of all time: Die Hard. This podcast may center around Die Hard, but it also explores more than just what happened inside Nakatomi Tower that fateful Christmas Eve. This is a podcast for anyone out there with interest in the film – or even just action films, films from the 1980s, the evolution of the American movie hero, film production… Die Hard is at once a product of its time, and the start of a new kind of ...
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Steve and Pete continue with ridiculous ideas for 80s crossovers with Die Hard, including Beverly Hills Die Hard Cop and Top Die Gun Hard!By Various
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In this 2023 xmas episode Steve and Peter revisit another 80s classic, License To Drive, and if it could ever "merge" with the Hansiverse! - Plus other crossover musings....Part one of a two-part waste of time!By Various
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Hans On! (Inside The Series) "Bill and Ted and Hans and Ferris"
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In this epic final (for now?) look at Old Habits: The Rise Of Hans, Peter explains the twist ending to the season finale "Sitting On A Beach", Steve suggests 80's movie characters to pit against Hans, and we talk to three of our brilliant female cast members!By Various
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Episode Five (Season Finale): Sitting On A Beach
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As the night of the heist draws near, Hans must contend with a new challenge to his leadership, and Marco's plan to hide in christmas trees...By Various
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Hans On! (Inside The Series) "Electron Whale Stabber!"
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Peter talks to Jonno Roberts (Karl) about 80s New Zealand and playing Draco Malfoy on Broadway...By Various
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Hans continues to build his team by enlisting a crazy Italian and a chocoholic assassin. Then gets them to help him steal an ambulance.By Various
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Hans On! (Inside The Series) "Breakfast With Oliver Reed"
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Todays guests Anthony and Matthew Arkin (who play multiple roles in "Old Habits") talk about growing up on movie sets in the 80's and we discuss Die Hard vs Lethal Weapon as Christmas movies...By Various
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A chance encounter with a sleazy idiot leads Hans to the scheme of a lifetime. But a scheme...needs a team.By Various
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Hans On! (Inside The Series) "A Very Convincing Corpse"
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Peter and Steve talk Hans, Argyle and Wales, plus a bonus clip of some specially-created British 80's talk radio cheese!By Various
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A sudden confrontation sends Hans, Tony and Karl on an international adventure...By Various
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Hans On! (Inside The Series) "Janet McClane"
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Welcome to the companion podcast to "Old Habits: The Rise Of Hans"! Steve Dennis and Peter Stray talk Die Hard and 80s trivia, and talk to some of the actors who brought the characters in the series to life. Today's Guest: Daniel Hawksford (Tony)By Various
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West Berlin, October 1988. A man named Hans is finding himself increasingly out of step with his revolutionary comrades. Could crime and capitalism be...more fun?By Various
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A sneak-peek at our accompanying "behind the scenes" podcasts, "Hans On", with banter, trivia and interviews with the "Old Habits" cast!By Various
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A quick sneak peek at what's to come!By Various
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Episode 06 - It's a Christmas movie. So why do we care?
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If you're going to talk Die Hard, you cannot avoid the meme/debate over whether or not it's a Christmas movie. We discuss why it is (and okay, a few reasons why not), but more importantly, why we care about the question in the first place. What does Christmas mean to us, and how do pop culture traditions factor in? Let us know what you think! Drop …
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Episode 05 - Roderick Thorp's Nothing Lasts Forever
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Almost a decade before there was Die Hard, there was Nothing Lasts Forever. While it sounds like a lost James Bond film, it's actually the book that Die Hard was based on. That's right – Die Hard was based on a book. Roderick Thorp was a crime novelist who met success with 1966's The Detective, which first spawned a movie adaptation, and then a seq…
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Episode 04 - Holly Gennaro (and Holly McClane)
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Holly Gennaro McClane: portrayed in Die Hard by Bonnie Bedelia, John McClane's estranged wife reflects the conflicts and contradictions facing women at the time the film was made – and even still today. She's a working woman, a mother, and a wife. But there’s no consensus on whether she’s also a damsel in distress, or if she – like so many other co…
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Episode 03 - John McClane: Analyzing a Barefoot Hero
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The high-quality talent of the team that brought Die Hard to the screen is well-recognized. But to many, the secret ingredient to the movie's success was Bruce Willis and his portrayal of John McClane, an everyman police officer from New York, trapped in Nakatomi Tower at exactly the wrong time – and without even shoes on his feet. McClane takes on…
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Episode 02 - Breaking the 80s action movie mold
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Every film is both a product of its environment, and a rebellion against it. Artists (and audiences) search for something new and fresh, but cannot escape the world as it exists around them. Die Hard is no exception. While Die Hard is often marked as a turning point in American action cinema, we must first look at the state of action cinema as it e…
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There's no better place to start than at the beginning – so, for the first episode of Die Hard With a Podcast, we're taking a look at the making of Die Hard. For a film with so many incredible stunts and huge explosions, it's hard to believe it's based on a book – or is technically a sequel to a 1960s Frank Sinatra flick. On this show, we go from a…
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