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We're wrapping up our Peter Parker Character Corner with the third and final part. We go over (quickly) the introduction of Carnage and then Peter & Harry's final confrontation. Then its on the one of the most controversial storylines: The second clone saga. No matter where you fall in the debate, we can all agree things got a bit out of control. It's not all bad though since Ben Reilly has become a pretty popular character and so despite the mess, there were some good outcomes. We then get into Civil War, One More Day and where Peter is now. Our Rogue Wars character corner covers a lot of the later issues of Peter so you'll definitely want to check that out.

Issues:

• Carnage
  • Amazing Spider-Man #344 - Cletus Kasady
  • Amazing Spider-Man #360-361 - First Appearance of Carnage
• The Spectacular Spider-Man #200 - Harry Osborn Dies
• The Second Clone Saga (won't list out all the issues, there are too many)
  • Amazing Spider-Man #418 - Return of Norman Osborn/reveals he was behind everything
  • The Clone Saga Mini-Series - 6 issues that follows the original script
• Amazing Spider-Man vol 2 #38 - The Conversation
• Marvel Knights Spider-Man 1 - 12
• Doctor Octopus: Negative Exposure - Brian K Vaungh
• Spider-Man The Other - gives him new powers
• Civil War #2 - Peter reveals his identity to the world
• Sensational Spider-Man Annual #1
• One More Day - Peter & MJ make a deal to give up their marriage to save aunt May
  • The Amazing Spider-Man #544
  • Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #24
  • The Sensational Spider-Man vol 2 #41
  • The Amazing Spider-Man #545
• Amazing Spider-Man #638 - 641 - One Moment in Time 
• Amazing Spider-Man #655 -656 - No One Dies
• Superior Spider-Man
• Spider-Verse
• Spider-Men - 616 Peter meets Miles Morales
• Clone Conspiracy 
• Ultimate Spider-Man (the entire run)

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On this Labor Day Weekend Insanity Check, Kriss is joined by Ashanti (DocuDrunks, Scarestalgia). We talk Joel Osteen and prosperity preaching, Antifa vs Neo-Nazis & the dangers of "both side-isms", Cops violating people's rights again and more. Oh and Ashanti gets her fun in by talking sports. Yes sports.

Make sure you stick around for the last 11minutes for a special message from Latoya about the FEMA response and how to get help because of hurricane Harvey.

Topics:

• Joel Osteen is a scam artist
  • If you're worth $50 million, you don't have to ask to host flood victims
  • Mattress Mack didn't have to ask (or be asked)
• Prosperity Preachers are basically pimps
  • Juanita Bynum and her $5000 pen & $20,000 threshing floor
• Antifa vs Nazis...its really not a choice
  • This is a bad article on "both side-isms"
  • Really say out loud the differences between Antifa & Nazis to see how silly it is
• Cops being terrible
  • Black Lives Matter are "rabid animals"
  • Cop arrests nurse for protecting a patient
• Great Moments in White Privilege
  • White rapist gets sentence postponed so his internship isn't affected

Guest:

Ashanti - @NotThatAshanti 

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Welcome back to another artist spotlight from Awesome Con 2017. This time I sit down with Ashley Gonzales of Zeefa Studio, an artist whose fantasy based pieces find their way into your spirit.  We discuss her journey as an artist, her affinity for fantasy based pieces, Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 6 (come on, EVERYONE is talking about THAT ending), her commission work, and the importance of family support in the life of an artist pursuing their dream.

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Leslie from Safety Pin Box is back on the Insanity Check with Kriss to give us an update on Safety Pin Box, white allies not "getting it", Trump's Friday new dump and how to navigate and reconcile wanting radical change but also dealing with the reality of what America is.

Topics:

• Safety Pin Box Update
  • Netroots direct action
  • Book deal and navigating the publishing world as black women
  • Expanding Safety Pin Box
• Daniel Radcliffe tells us racism isn't enough to end a friendship
• The Friday Trump News Drop
  • Neo-Nazi sympathizer Sebastian Gorka is fired/resigns (but it doesn't matter)
  • Trump signs a memo telling military to ban transgender people
  • Trump pardons Joe Arpaio  
• Reconciling wanting to end imperalism but also recognizing what the military is for transgender people
• Joe Arpaio is a terrible human being
• Yes we would have been better under Hillary Clinton, no we don't think she was our white savior 
• How do we reconcile wanting radical change but also live in the reality of today?
• Dems & the Left have an uphill battle because of gerrymandering 
• What's the balance between activism and dealing with the reality of America and actually getting governing done?
• Great Moments in White Privilege
  • Pastor says there would be no white supremacists without Obama
• Black Woman Shoutout
  • Dr. Zohra Aziza Baccouche is a Ph.D.-level theoretical physicist; one of a very few Black women, let alone blind Black women, theoretical physicists.  
    She's is currently raising funds for her next documentary called "Seeking Vision" and will be a guest on "Molecules & Shit" soon

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Leslie - @LeslieMac - Safety Pin Box

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We took a little break but we’re finally back with another Character Corner. We still have to finish up our Peter Parker series but we wanted to take a bit of a detour from Marvel and head over to DC and cover one of the most confusing comic book character histories ever: Hawkman.

Now you may be asking yourself “Why Hawkman? Why now?” And that’s a very valid question. Why would we tackle one of the most confusing comic book characters of all time at this point? The answer is simple: Scott Snyder’s Dark Knights: Metal. Snyder wrote an incredible 52 issues of Batman during New 52 and he’s now back with a series that not only answers questions about Batman but also Hawkman, Nth Metal and the rest of the DC Multiverse. While it’s a daunting task to take on Hawkman’s history (one that rarely works out), Snyder definitely has our attention with the first issue of Metal, as well as the preludes Dark Days: The Forge and The Casting.

Key Issues:

• Flash Comics #1 - First Appearances of Carter Hall and Shiera Sanders
• Brave and the Bold #34 - First Appearances of Katar Hol and Shayera Thal/Hol
• Crisis on Infinite Earths
• The Shadow War of Hawkman
• Hawkworld - Tim Truman's mini-series
• Hawkworld - John Ostrander's ongoing series
• Zero Hour: Crisis in Time - Merges Carter, Katar and Shiera
• JSA Secret Files #1 - First appearance of Kendra Saunders
• JSA
  • The Return of Hawkman (Issues #16 - 25)- Carter Hall returns
  • Black Reign
• Hawkman Volume 4
  • Issues 1 - 25 Geoff Johns Run 
  • Issues #43- 45 - Charlie Parker reveals that Fel Andar was his father
  • Issues #47 - 49 - Rann/Thanagar War
  • Issue #50 becomes Hawkgirl
• Hawkgirl
  • Issue #60 - Kendra/Shiera defeat Hath Set, ending the curse

Justin from Three Fifs Podcast is back on the Insanity Check with Kriss. We'd like to say this was an episode about nothing but fun stuff but thanks to having a white nationalist and racist man in the White House...well...things don't go that way.

Topics:

• Taking mental health days from work
• The new Academy President doesn't seem to get it
• How to deal with the Nazi/Neo-Confederate/White Supremacists
  • Stop romanticizing the Civil War
  • Stop entertaining the ‘its about protecting history’ argument
    • Why all Civil War Statues look the same
    • When the most Confederate Statues were erected 
  • Stop Interviewing "The Black friend"
    • Gianno Caldwell cries 
    • But this is also Gianno 
    • The LGBTQ rainbow flag is the same as the confederate flag
  • #NeverForget Neo-Nazis were even too racist for Boston
  • Stop letting the GOP get away with calling themselves “the party of lincoln”
    • The DCCC found a backbone and calls out racist GOP members of Congress 
    • Look at the GOP Platform vs the Democrat Platform
    • Where is racial justice in the GOP official platform?
    • Why is bigotry a part of GOP platform? (against gay marriage)
    • Why is there no mention of African Americans in GOP platform?
    • Where are the black lives matter/the police are attacking black people candidates in the GOP?
    • Both Sides are the same?
  • Remember, white supremacy is more dangerous to America than “radical islam”
    • The almost terror attack you didn't hear about
  • Shaming Not Sheet Caking Works
    • The Rise and fall of Chris Cantwell
  • Don’t let people off the hook
• Do You Even Sci-Fi Bro?
  • Alexa can control exoskeletons? This will end poorly
• Great Moments in White Privilege
  • Man brags about getting paid while not going into his 166k job
• Black Woman Shoutout
  • Takiyah Thompson, the hero who helped bring down the Confederate statue in Durham 
    • Her venmo for support

Guest:

Justin - @LJay90 - Three Fifs Podcast

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On this episode of the Insanity Check, Kriss is joined by Joi from Black Girl Nerds and we talk about the murder and mayhem that happened in Charlottesville, VA due to white nationalists showing their asses. We push back against the narrative that "this isn't America" because the truth is, what happened in Charlottesville is very American.

Topics:

• Rotten Tomatoes and white critic's narrow views
• America treats Nazis & Hitler as end game bosses that were defeated long time ago
  • The Nazi summer camps for kids in 1930's America
  • Operation Paperclip
  • Wernher von Braun not only was a Nazi who became the head of NASA but almost got a Medal of Freedom
• America has been the melting pot for racists from the KKK to Nazis for ever
• The Myth of Robert E Lee
• Trump has these people in his own administration
• Extremism and the Military 
• White Supremacists want to start their own tech companies
• Do You Even Sci-Fi Bro?
  • Sure..let's make cyborg beetles
• Great Moments in White Privilege
  • Mom surprised other parents are upset she used her breast milk for brownies for the whole class
• Black Woman Shoutout
  • Precise Portions

Guest:

Joi - @JumpedforJoi - Black Girl Nerds

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One of my goals at Awesome Con this year was to find and highlight creatives of color who were engaged in inspiring and interesting pursuits.  There were so many individuals at the convention this year involved in outreach and development.  I was able to sit down with two representatives from a few of these organizations.

PBS Media Creative Director Naseed Gifted talked to me about the organization and their new graphic novel PB Soldier, which Gifted created.  The novel is drawn and colored by Abel Garcia.

PB Soldier follows Nat Cummings, a hacker turned government operative who finds himself in the middle of an intrigue he must extract himself from before it is too late.  Billed as The Bourne Identity meets V is for Vendetta, Cummings' adventures takes him and the reader all over the world.  We also discuss the importance of representation and connecting youth with the material that they are interested in by cultivating their interest in creating art.  Find out more about their graphic novel and their outreach efforts by visiting their website at www.pbsmediastudios.com.

Art Way Alliance Communications Director Sierra Dangerfield-Harris sat down with me to discuss the mission of the nonprofit, it's diverse artist staff, and the importance of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) to the K-12 educational system and how their organization seeks to promote this creativity in youth of the D.C. area.  If you would like to assist or have their artists visit your venue, information is available at their website at www.artwayalliance.org.

I hope you enjoy the interviews with these engaged and talented individuals.

We're back from the two week break! We took some time off for San Diego Comic-Con but we're back now and here with a great episode you're not going to miss. Kriss is joined by the host of Unanimous Decision, Dpalm and...right out the gate things get out of hand. We mix the funny (Men taping their dick tips as an alternative to condoms) to the serious (Addressing and calling out transphobia) and finishing off with a recap of news out of San Diego Comic-Con. You're not going to want to miss this episode.

Topics:

• Dpalm Strikes Back
• American Vandal - #WhoDrewTheDicks
• Jiftips - For the idiots who want raw sex and think scotch taping their dicks is smart
• Being Transphobic isn't funny
  • Dave Chappelle opens with 20 minutes of transphobic jokes
• The danger that Transgender men & women face from just admitting they're transgender
• You can't #NotAllChristians the history of transphobia/homophobia away
• Profiles in Courage
  • Ivanka Trump
  • Caitlyn Jenner
• SDCC News
  • What's DC doing this time?
  • Will Ben Affleck stay on as Batman?
  • Is Flashpoint going to happen?
  • The Defenders and Inhumans
  • SKRULLS!!!!
  • Thor Ragnarok, Black Panther, Infinity War
• Black Trans/Non-Gender Conforming Shoutout
  • 10 Trans woman/Non-Binary activists to follow

This is a list that I got from Leslie from SafetyPinBox of transgender individuals and groups you can donate to. You can also sign up for the Marsha P Johnson Safety Pin Box for a list of ally tasks:

Guest:

Dpalm - @Dpalm66 - UDPod

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I know I know, we weren't supposed to have any more Insanity Check episodes this month. But then Buzzfeed dropped an article about what one of America's most infamous serial pedophiles is up to currently and well, fuckery happened. It's no secret that R Kelly is a pedophile but the way he's able to not only get away with it but thrive financially from it is sickening. And I'm tired of it. I'm tired of the defenses of him. I'm tired of him being able to get away with it. I'm tired of the blame going solely to black women. I'm tired of people acting like R Kelly is able to be a sexual predator because of the enablers around him.

So that's why there's a show. Its just me (Kriss) with a bit of a rant. But I needed to get this shit out of my head before I fly out to San Diego. Don't need this bullshit to follow me to the West Coast.

For those that can stomach it, the Village Voice article on all the claims against R Kelly.

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