South Kongress Podcast

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * Highlights: - Trav's arrival in Austin - The Colin Kaepernick Deal - Marvel Comics in 2016 - Deathstroke as the antagonist in the Battfleck Movie - The One Star Stitcher Review - South Kongress Merchandise - College Football Kickoff - Cam's budding acting career

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * (note - these descriptions were getting too long) - Travis and I talk his impending move to Austin, including what went into the decision, what he expects, and all the places we plan on eating - Travis takes us through the first volume of the super popular, well received 'Vision' series - We talk about the "Zendaya as Mary Jane" controversy, and how "spirit of the character" is a racist cop-out (it is, you know it is) - We review 'Sremmlife 2' the second album from Rae Sremmurd, MikeWillMadeIt's energetic protégés from Tupelo, Mississippi

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * No Flash, No Preacher... no problem! DC messed around and put out a hit, so it's only right we take the time to break down the rights, wrongs, high and lows of 'Suicide Squad'! This week, my guest Ted Colunga of the 'Countdown City Geekcast' and I discuss lost high school years, how binge watching affects family time, and the greatness that is the Comic Con experience. After the formalities, we talk some 'Man of Steel' and 'Batman v. Superman', his undying optimism, and my everlasting pessimism, on our way to 'Suicide Squad'. We get into Will Smith's return to the summer blockbuster, what could have been with Tom Hardy, the new Joker/ Harley dynamic, and ALL THE THINGS THEY LEFT ON THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR! You'll hear us pray to the altar of Viola Davis, admit 'Avengers 2' was kinda trash, and try to figure out how to get BET 'Uncut' in 2016 on this week's Fan X Fan Show!

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * Wow. That's it. The show I've personally been anticipating for years just finished it's first season run. Travis and I talk expectations vs. reality on a variety of levels as we cover not only the season finale, but the first season as a whole. "Call and Response" is the proper sendoff for those wanting to get to the meat of the comics, while also giving our home city of Annville it's proper due. Yes, I'm being short because this is better said aloud this time. A full review, some time to thank all of our great guests, a bit of our post 'Preacher', pre- 'Flash' plans, some 'Suicide Squad' and a comic you NEED TO READ on this week's Fan X Fan Show!!!

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * He's back! After a week with his OTHER friends in the American Midwest, Travis is back to reading comics and talking shop with yours truly! We touch a bit on his time at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame (for the full story, listen to the 7/27/16 edition of the PW Torch East Coast Cast) and travels along the way. We talk a bit about the episode he skipped out on (thanks Trevor) before getting the visually stunning penultimate episode that was "Finish the Song". Jesse escapes custody, and eats "under the bridge brunch" with the locals. Tulip escapes her babysitting duties, and proceeds to see about a man in Albuquerque. And Emily escapes the lame she was seeing, who Cassidy, in turn, sees and eats. IT'S ALL RELATIVE! Jesse makes peace with Cassidy, Quincannon prepares for his greatest victory, and we go to Hell like 45 times. Deblanc does his best goalie impression, The Sheriff eases a bit of built up stress... and we'll ne

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * CROSSOVER EPISODE! This week, with Travis Purifying himself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka, I'm joined by Trevor Reece of the 'Podcast of Two Worlds'! We talk about the insightful and detailed Flash coverage he does with partner in crime Chris Fimbres, his love of the source material, and of course, his adoration of 'Preacher'. He picks a great week to stalk stylized ultraviolence, as Jesse fends off the Quincannon boys with Karate, Choppers and Molotov cocktails! Blood will be shed and penises will be lost (no, really, shot smooth off)! We see the accident that causes Quincannon's change of heart, Donnie finds a way to circumvent Jesse's gift, and Tulip goes pup hunting! Eugene's back, Eugene's gone, Genesis is gone, Genesis is back... and Miles finally shows his hand. All this, a potential God run-in, and much more on this week's Fan X Fan Show!

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * This week, I spend some time telling you that if you think diversity in comics is "PC", you're a piece of s**t. No, seriously, I do. And if you think that, you are. We talked about it, and I felt it was wrong to have platform like this and not talk race in America in the wake of what's been happened around us, well, all our lives. We touch on some things, and welcome feedback. However, the meat of this episode is the FANTASTIC follow up to the best 'Preacher' show so far. In "He Gone"... he gone! "He" is most notably Eugene, who was wished away to Hell (seriously) after a heated conversation with Jesse, who's more focused on putting butts in the seats than really helping people. A healthy heaping on flashbacks take place, as we see the incidents that brought Jesse and Tulip together, and at times set them apart. Cassidy struggles to find the good in Jesse, and takes drastic measures to bring it out of him. Tulip proves to b

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * PANTHEON EPISODE ALERT! Even though it's been a short run, THIS IS the episode of 'Preacher' you go and show your friends not familiar with the material. In "Sundowner", Jesse's arrogance (and maybe guilt?) reaches new heights, Cassidy struggles w/ the "homies over heauxs" conundrum (a phrase, not an indictment), and Eugene's newfound friendships help him give him some clarity in a world quickly falling apart. Angels fighting vampires fighting martial artists? Check. Piles of bodies filling hotel rooms? Check. People quite literally going to Hell? Check. Skinny guys doing laundry in their underpants? DOUBLE CHECK. The war between Heaven and Hell seems to have some very clear lines, and when those are crossed? Well, we get a TV show!!! I tell you about the audio that'll NEVER see the light of day, Travis tells us about the time he was STABBED FOR WEARING JEANS TO A BASKETBALL GAME, and I tell you how a 3 hours cut of 'Batma

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * After a few bumps in the road, we're here at the halfway point of the inaugural season of 'Preacher'! We start off celebrating the news of the show's early renewal, then meet this week's guest, Senior Columnist (and my personal favorite podcaster) Bruce Mitchell from the Pro Wrestling Torch! Bruce takes us to school on 'Preacher', Garth Ennis, ultra violence in comics and maintaining the soul of the art in the transition from page to screen. We take turns yelling at Travis for being a terrible, terrible advice taker, and have some extended time discussing 'Lucifer', 'Rebirth' and 'Watchmen'. This week's episode, "South Will Rise Again", gives us peak arrogant Jesse, Tulip buying the most expensive item on the menu, and Cassidy capitalizing on said item. We have another extended "Saint" flashback, talk about the terrible children that love Native scalps, the old western trope of shooting people in the hand, and maybe bringing you

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * Fan... X Fan... X Fan! After Travis and I give our just due to the NBA Finals, and one of the most jam packed Sunday nights in recent memory, we welcome in our guest Dani Lipari-Mareth, fellow Texas Ex and avid 'Preacher' fan. We talk about her adoration for the source material, have the very necessary "they didn't do that in the books!" conversation, and talk Annville vs. the open road. On this week's episode, "Monster Swamp", we find our townsfolk involved in a few... wait for it... shi**y situations! (couldn't resist) We've got the hooker paintball challenge, the cheeto dust conundrum, and the flatscreen for your shame giveaway! Quincannon continues to be my favorite, the Mayor is somewhere between the friend zone and the g spot, and Cassidy eviscerates himself into a kiss from Tulip! Trav very appropriately calls out Jesse's Hubris, a few flashbacks take me back to my Sunday school secretary/ usher days, and Dani waits for

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * This week, prior to our episode breakdown, we take the time to thank the lovely folks of Ashburn, VA, for rocking with us. Specifically because we know NO ONE there, y'all must really dig us! Also, we salute Belgium for the same reason, and I refrain from any waffle jokes. We talk just a bit about our weeks, I talk about how hard it is to get your friends to listen to your mixtape, and completely forget to talk about the greatness of the OJ Simpson 30 for 30 (even though I talked it up for 20 minutes of our preshow). This week's episode "The Possiblities" gives us a snuff film festival, Jesse with a really bad haircut, and proves that children are the most hurtful creatures on planet Earth. Tulip plays war vet, Cassidy plays middleman, and Jesse plays puppetmaster en route to figuring out just what the power is residing inside of him. Quincannon shines, Geico Peter Pan unwittingly throws his pops to the wolves, and our two "Age

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * With a short turnaround between shows, we dive deeper into the peculiar world of Annville, TX. Travis still can't fathom the logistics of a Meat and Energy Company, I try and understand the logistics of... wait for it... the attack of the clones! Cassidy continues to shine, and I wonder aloud if a change was made between his fighting style between the pilot and our second episode, "See". We talk about the wonders of short shorts, Tulip being a treat, both in dialogue and action, and how manifest destiny translates to dark skinned folks getting their wigs split. Jesse struggles with trying to build up his congregation, and this week's tasks involve tempering the desires of a pedophile, and finding the right way to address a comatose teenager. All this, as well as properly rating 'The Big Lebowksi' and 'Clerks' on this week's South Kongress Fan X Fan Show!

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * *had an issue uploading the final version, but it's been fixed* No Flash? No Problem! Travis and I team up for a new season of the South Kongress Fan x Fan show to cover one of my longtime loves-turned-show, 'Preacher', based on the Vertigo Comics title of the same name. In the 90 minute premiere, we talk about the great state of Texas, different states of vampirism, and state our undying love for Priscilla-Jean Henrietta O'Hare. We get to see our titular character do his best to balance his commitment to the world with his desire to hold onto a past life, while dealing with momma's boys, funny-style policemen and women that like things... a bit rough. I touch on a few of the other Vertigo comics in this universe, some noticeable differences from the comic continuity/ characterization THAT BIG GIANT EASTER EGG FROM THE JUMP, our new format for this season, and welcome in a new audience to this little thing of ours. And naturally

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * THIS IS IT! Twenty three episodes deep, and that's a wrap on season two! In "The Race of His Life", Barry has to decide on revenge, or saving the world, against hated rival Zoom. We finally learn the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask, and it just may be the catalyst for sending Barry to the (flash)point of no return! Travis and I talk season long payoffs, character progression, what we expect to happen in the future, and all the things we learned about the show on the way. Don't worry, we don't be gone for very long, as we gear up to cover AMC's 'Preacher', and this time around, we'll have some great contributors to the cause! We take the time to thank you all, and each other, for supporting us along the way, because you all make this so rewarding! Get ready for the big one, as we tackle the season finale of our beloved Flash!

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * To quote an anti-hero that wears black, talking to a hero who wears red, in another fantastic comics to film adaptation: "You're one bad day away from being me." Zoom puts this theory to the test in the penultimate episode “Invincible”, as Team Flash faces the loss of one of their own. Barry’s visit w/ the Speed Force has him confident in the team’s ability to take down Zoom, but the other members stress the need for him to curb that enthusiasm. Fitting that motif, a certain deceased Arrow character's doppelganger appears as Zoom's sole surviving lieutenant, leading the hordes of villains at his disposal. Wally can't sit on the sidelines, Henry finds a new love interest, and our young scientists play a dangerous game of dress-up! We get closer to Zoom's ultimate goal, make some progress in the Barry/ Iris love saga, and get vanity headphones that work about at well as... our Earth's vanity headphones! All this, and we're DAYS AW

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * Sorry for the wait! The NBA playoffs have taken up some of our recording time, but uh... we're good on that now. Travis and make appropriate time to gush over the greatness that was 'Captain America: Civil War'. We talk characters, motivations, sounds and sights of what I'm going to say is the best superhero movie ever (Trav refrains from such declarations, but he also thought Eric Bana 'Hulk' movie was good smh). We don't dive TOO DEEP into spoiler territory, but when we do, we give very fair warning. I'll tell you about the web series I worked on this week, and how great the team I worked with made the experience. We're nearing the end of our Flash season. Real Tears. Barry's in Speedforce limbo, and the team's split between getting him back, making sure Jessie hasn't kicked the bucket, and fending off a previously deceased man made of metal. Barry meets the ghosts of cosmos past, present, and future as he tries to find hi

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * (This week, we started the show reviewing Drake's new album "Views", so if that's not your thing, dodge the 32:00 - 55:00 area. Yeah. That much. We even acknowledge, without knowing the time mark, that some on you only listen to the first half of the show, and some, the second half. We dig.) Oh boy. We get QUITE the body count this week! On this episode of 'My 3 Dads'... er... 'The Flash' titled "Rupture", Zoom's back in town, with Caitlyn in tow, ready to do to Earth-1 what he did to Earth-2. The fun thing about serial killers is they lack creativity, so Wells paints a picture that quickly comes to pass. Barry has to face the idea of risking it all to become The Flash again, Iris has to face the fear of risking it all again to get her man, and Cisco has to face the fear of having a conversation with his punk ass brother! As Zooms plans unfold, we get the event that births new speedsters, the long awaited return of Henry Al

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * "Hey, I didn't do a whole lot this week, this should be a pretty fast show!" Yeah... never. "Panda" is the #1 song in the country this week, and I try to explain that because kids are dumb, it's really not Desiigner's fault. I explain my excitement for the upcoming Drake/Future tour, that has it's first stop here in Austin. We both commit to listening to "Views from the 6" this weekend, so we can give an honest review next week. Travis fills us on his continued love affair with "Ant-Man", and his great time at a Polica concert. I talk about the difficulties of eating five times a day, our upcoming flagship episodes, and the homie's new comic series that just went into print! On this week's Flash episode, we see Barry adjust back to life as a normal, the young Miss Wells understand the value in killing the bad guys, and a "flash-off" between Our titular hero and his potential running buddy (see what I did there?)! Our villain o

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * We recorded this hours after learning the world lost Prince, one of it's most important figures of (at the very least) the last century. Travis and I talk at length about Prince's impact on our culture, our families and ourselves. After I shed a tear or two, we get into our weeks, and Travis continues to enjoy his new reads. I'll tell you about the Gilani/Seemion wedding, and my first acting audition in years! Then... oh boy. Travis and I take turns yelling at the television as Team Flash comes up with a plan (kinda) to stop Zoom (maybe?) once and for all (we hoped kinda maybe). Wally decides the rent is too damn high, Cisco decides the dark side is way too close, and Zoom's pops decides the chicken was too damn dry! Some great juxtaposing, more and more insight as to why the supporting cast matters so much, and a room full of killers who can't bring themselves to kill this time. Damn. All this and more on this week's Fan X

*south kongress t-shirts available at https://teespring.com/southkongress * It's still spring break for the Fan X's, as our beloved Flash decided he needed a bit more time in the oven. Luckily, we get to tell you about our super exciting weekend in Dallas for Wrestlemania! We take you through our parallel trips to meet up, the journey that was the Dallas road trip, our fantastic meetup at the Kung Fu Saloon, and of course, the epic tailgate leading to the big event. It wasn't all sweet, and Trav tells you about his often stalled journey home, I fall down in hallways and steal footballs but get away with it because I'm so gosh darn handsome, and I let you know about a very special pair of $300 sunglasses. We also take a bit of time to talk THE AUDACITY OF A BATMAN V. SUPERMAN EXTENDED CUT, Suicide Squad re-shoots, Desiigner having a single that charted higher than any Future single, and why your feedback helps keep the show going. All this and more on this week's Fan X Fan Show!