A new TV show broke through this year.

Can one stone change the course of history?

And it's a story that many people are pretty familiar with.

Goliath!

The biblical tale of David and Goliath! The Biblical Tale of David and Goliath.

House of David is an eight-part series airing on Amazon Prime video.

It follows the story of King David, from his early days as a shepherd to his epic fight with

Goliath.

After hitting the top rankings on Amazon this spring, the show has been greenlit for a second season.

What's interesting about House of David is that it's aspiring to be an HBO-style prestige TV show, right?

It's a show that they're shooting in Greece on this desert land, and there are these wide shots of landscapes.

And it's different from what you would expect if you were trying to think about a biblical series.

That's our colleague Maggie Severn's. She covers corporate influence.

And she's been looking into the people who've secretly been helping to bankroll this series.

One of the funders we uncovered in our reporting is Leonard Leo.

Leonard Leo isn't a name typically associated with Hollywood.

He's better known for his influence in Washington, where he's long been involved in causes important to the political right.

You know, he wears a suit and he looks very academic, you know, pocket square wearing, conservative, legal guy.

So he is someone who spent money on big political races.

He's been very influential in politics.

But these days, Leonard Leo has turned his influence toward changing American

culture more broadly. In the eyes of Leonard Leo, the left of center has come to dominate

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