Drag Race Thailand Season 2 (yes that is the full show title) is the best drag TV show this franchise has to offer, and as the pantheon of Queens as my witness I will share this joy with you! The heights, the lows, the empathy, the discipline--let me show you a show that stands head and shoulders above its peers...in heels. Yes, we'll go with that.https://episodes.castos.com/5f33769ad17d84-42436430/TAP-Episode-5-DRThailandS2.mp3

In which Indigo (2003-2005) is remembered for her spirit, her charm, her time with her man, and her strangling by bureaucratic tape. Reminisce over a gynoid you've never heard of, and had no good reason to either! There's gorillas, Buster Keaton, bodily chunks and comic book lore, all made accessible--For You! Listen? Please listen--she's worth getting to know, I promise.https://episodes.castos.com/5f33769ad17d84-42436430/TAP-Episode-4-Indigo.mp3And now, for the more investigative kind,~*A n E x t e n d e d B i b l i o g r a p h y*~(In case you want to meet her yourself.)--Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day #1-3 (Jul-Aug 2003)--It's a superhero shuffle! Indigo debuts, but she's phoning it in, for completionists and lore-enthusiasts only.--Teen Titans/Outsiders: Secret Files and Origins 2003 (Dec 2003)--Provides some much needed context, both on Indigo and others. Must Read.--Yeah I know about the dates, read this one out of publication order, it helps.--Outsiders volume 3, #1-23 (Aug 2003-Jun 2005)--The Main Course, for better or worse. Includes the following storylines:--"Role Call" (#1-3): Sets a stage, a tone, we properly meet Indigo. Must Read.--"Brothers in Blood" (#4-6): Indigo and others are fleshed out, decent story within the tone and goals set out.--"Oedipus Rex" (#7): Required reading. First sign of what we'll come to recognize as Shift. Indigo Was Right And Good First, and she definitely shot first. Must Read.**These first seven issues are collected in a trade paperback ("Outsiders: Looking For Trouble"), which also includes an...illuminating foreword by author Judd Winick.--"Devil's Work" (#8-10): Ugh. Come for the movie date in issue 8, stomach the rest only if you can. I really wouldn't recommend this one, but that date scene is just so good for Indy, that's the Must Read.--#11 spotlights Arsenal, no Indigo, skippable if she's your focus.--#12 is a prelude to "Five by Five!" (#13-15). Decent character work, drama. Indigo gets her moments, as do most the others. Shift assumes his new name. The villain scene I like from this book is here, but so are some I really dislike, give it a try.--#16 is house cleaning for interpersonal conflicts. "Most Wanted!" (#17-19) is a cross-over with America's Most Wanted. Yes, the TV show. Yes, John Walsh cameos...extensively. At best you'll cringe. Grace and Lian get it the worst. Reader beware, this is a dark time.--"Back to Normal" (#20) is an Indigo/Shift-centric story. It includes THE SEX SCENE, which aims for shock value and shoots the moon to land in a territory I actually can like and appreciate. The Best Indigo Content I Didn't Include, check it out.--#21-23 unravel some base assumption of the book's premise and tie into universe-spanning events of the day (see Infinite Crisis). They're nothing to write home about, but they lead into The End.--The Insiders (Jul-Aug 2005). A cross-over with Teen Titans. Indigo is changed forever. She will not survive this story. That being said, part 4 is everything in so many ways, and my disagreements only make it more powerful in a way. Must Read.--Part 1 (Teen Titans vol 3 #24)--Part 2 (Outsiders vol 3 #24)--Part 3 (Teen Titans vol 3 #25)--Part 4 (Outsiders vol 3 #25)--"Letting It Go" (Outsiders vol 3, #28, Nov 2005). 26 and 27 were filler on unrelated characters. This is a wake of sorts for Indigo. Sweet on first read, rots looking back if you follow the Outsiders and Shift further. Poor Shift. The Last Must-Read.--Titans volume 2, #10 (Apr 2009). Judd Winick hints at Indigo's return. He'll leave the book to another creative team and this plot-line will never see follow-up.--Teen Titans volume 3, #98-100 (Sep-Oct 2011). Indigo is a mook for Superboy-Prime. This story is more historically no

At last, the end of the premiere! In an introduction to planned further delvings into the 31st century, we introduce Triplicate Girl, a member of DC Comic's "Legion of Super-Heroes". Because it's my podcast and I'll be niche if I want to. Come for the 60's comic-book cheese, stay for the impassioned pleas to remember a girl who was definitively forgotten, even as she lived on. https://episodes.castos.com/5f33769ad17d84-42436430/The-Audio-Parlor-Episode-3-final-review-draft.mp3

Welcome to the opening episode of The Audio Parlor? Grey's Anatomy has persisted for 16 seasons. Tiktok has spoken, but is it really straight trash? Join us in a journey back to a wedding of the season--the highs, the lows, the character flaws, and the one legend who deigned to appear for this storyline. It's a fun time, I hope you enjoy it too. https://episodes.castos.com/5f33769ad17d84-42436430/Audio-Parlor-Ep-1-final-review-draft.mp3

Remember 2008? I sure do. This is the part that haunts my dreams! Join me in an experiment in tone I am fully unwilling to commit to! Dive into the dark world of pre-teeny-bopper, MySpace-farmed, capital-I-inappropriate pop music. I promise we'll keep our hands clean, somehow. https://episodes.castos.com/5f33769ad17d84-42436430/Audio-Parlor-Episode-2-final-review-draft.mp3