Kicks and Comics Podcast

For our first ever outside recording we sit down with 4th generation Austinite and friend of the show Jose Velasquez. We talk about growing up broke and only getting one pair of shows each year. What music influences us, in Jose's case Tupac and WHAM of all things. Our love for the show Scrubs and our striving to be better neighbors and human beings in general. This is a very Austin, Texas centric episode as Jose discusses his announcement to run for the District 3 seat on Austin's City Council.

Marco does a fantastic job of defending Spider Man: No Way Home, a film that the 82nd Astronaut had a Thanos sized seething hatred for. Join us as we talk the OG Spider-Man films, the Holland verse Spider-Man films and a tangent into the "Slap Heard Around The World."

On our latest episode we talk to Alex Wong author or “Cover Story.” Join us a we discuss comics, trash sneakers, refusing to wear Nikes for a year, and of course his fantastic book. You can find "Cover Story: The NBA and Modern Basketball As Told Through Its Most Iconic Magazine Covers" at all your favorite book stores and e-retailers.

ATL's finest The GrailSeekers join the Kicks & Comics Crew to discuss the most anticipated film of 2022, The Batman. Grab you black eye liner, put on The Cure and make sure all your hair is in your face as we take a drive into the seedy corrupt cesspool that is Gotham City

Before Steve Rogers was given the super soldier serum to be transformed into Captain America 8 black soldiers were experimented on first to ensure the serum would be a success. This is the story that the 82nd Astronaut is reviewing today, Truth: Red, White & Black. Join us as we take a look into this fictional story as well as several all too real and disturbing tales of human experimentation of people by the governments they are told to trust.

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The 82nd Astronaut chronicles his first attempt at restoring yellowed Air Jordan sneaker soles back to their icy glory. The forecast for this episode is CHILLY.

1999 was an incredible year in film. Several were released that year that dealt with reality and our perception of it. Of those releases, Fight Club seemed to catch the cultural zeitgeist with memorable scenes, quotable lines and a twist that would make Rod Serling proud. In this episode we mine the depths of Fight Club and discuss what it meant to us in 1999 and if it holds up 22 years later.

The 82nd Astronaut, Marco and Roly Dizzle follow the white rabbit into the latest installment of The Matrix franchise for the first episode of Kicks & Comics of 2022. Will they take the Red Pill and help Neo reunite with Trinity or tell the "suits" at Warner Bros to shove this film up their collective...?

Senior Entertainment Weekly writer and all around funny and great person Clark Collis sits down with the 82nd Astronaut and Marco to talk about his new book "You've Got Read On You: How Shaun of the Dead was brought to life." This wouldn't be a Kicks & Comics episode without going off into tangents about Judge Dredd, Jon Hamm's shortest interview and scaring the pants off of tourists at a wax museum.