{"id":12063,"date":"2026-06-08T21:29:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12063"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:22:40","slug":"house-to-astonish-presents-the-lightning-round-episode-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12063","title":{"rendered":"House to Astonish Presents: The Lightning Round Episode 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of <em>New Thunderbolts<\/em> is just around the corner, but first Paul and I are polishing off the Avengers\/Thunderbolts miniseries with issues 4-6, as one fight runs for three issues and we learn just how much of a petty dillweed Captain America can be. Along the way, we&#8217;ll be ruminating on the possibility of Magnesium Man, boggling at an advert for the concept of doing things, and learning about &#8220;an MTV film that extreme right-wing moralists can be proud of&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast is <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.libsyn.com\/episode\/index\/id\/41577695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, or available via the player below. Let us know what you think, in the comments, via email, or over on Bluesky.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: medium;\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/41577695\/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\" width=\"100%\" height=\"128\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of New Thunderbolts is just around the corner, but first Paul and I are polishing off the Avengers\/Thunderbolts miniseries with issues 4-6, as one fight runs for three issues and we learn just how much of a petty dillweed Captain America can be. Along the way, we&#8217;ll be ruminating on the possibility of [&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-12063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063","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=12063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12066,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063\/revisions\/12066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}