{"id":11914,"date":"2026-04-07T18:19:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11914"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:19:39","slug":"house-to-astonish-presents-the-lightning-round-episode-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11914","title":{"rendered":"House to Astonish Presents: The Lightning Round Episode 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back once again with the renegade Masters of Evil, as we look at the first half of 2004 miniseries <em>Avengers\/Thunderbolts<\/em>. There&#8217;s talk of Spider-Man working down the mines, Jean Grey&#8217;s ex-boyfriends and a deranged neo-Nazi who names everything after the letter X, and even some discussion of the Avengers and the Thunderbolts, so why not come and join us? Exactly, no reason, that&#8217;s what we thought.<\/p>\n<p>The episode is <a href=\"https:\/\/housetoastonish.libsyn.com\/house-to-astonish-presents-the-lightning-round-episode-30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, or available via the embedded player below. Let us know what you think, in the comments, on Bluesky, or via email.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embed Player\" style=\"border: medium;\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/40762555\/height\/128\/theme\/modern\/size\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/87A93A\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/download\/yes\/font-color\/FFFFFF\" height=\"128\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" oallowfullscreen=\"true\" msallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back once again with the renegade Masters of Evil, as we look at the first half of 2004 miniseries Avengers\/Thunderbolts. There&#8217;s talk of Spider-Man working down the mines, Jean Grey&#8217;s ex-boyfriends and a deranged neo-Nazi who names everything after the letter X, and even some discussion of the Avengers and the Thunderbolts, so why not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11915,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions\/11915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}