Starkville's "House of El" Podcast (Standard MP3)

February 11, 2011 –  Tess discovers that the alternate-universe Lionel has taken over LuthorCorp under the guise that he only faked his death years prior. Martha Kent holds an anti-VRA rally that results in her being shot by a spectator. Lionel finds the Lex clone in an abandoned building and realizes that he is the one who shot Martha, though his real intention was to kill Clark with krypton...

February 4, 2011 –  After being knocked unconscious at Carter’s funeral, Clark and his friends wake up without their powers and flashbacks of Chloe experimenting on them in a secret lab. Chloe informs Oliver that the government has put everyone in a coma and imprisoned their minds in a virtual reality. Clark and the team learn that the government is attempting to find a way to turn on and off...

Steve Glosson returns to Starkville’s House of El along with Derek Russell to cover the entire first half of the final season of Smallville. There’s a lot to discuss in those first eleven episodes from Lazarus to Icarus, that will shape what is to come when Smallville returns next Friday.

January 17, 2011 – An oldie but a goodie! Steve and Derek bring you a full length running commentary from 2009 of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Since we never got to release it via SHoE we thought it was a good a time as any since Smallville has been delayed a week. Enjoy!

December 10, 2010 –  Clark proposes marriage to Lois and she accepts, but shortly after their engagement party Oliver is attacked by Metropolis citizens which sparks a manhunt for Queen and the rest of the heroes. Realizing General Slade is still alive, Clark orders all heroes underground until he can find a way to stop Slade. Subsequently, Slade brings in Emil, Tess, and Lois for questioning...

December 3, 2010 –  Clark learns that there is another Lex clone in existence, and that Tess has been keeping him alive behind everyone’s back. Clark also discovers that Tess has a Kryptonian box, and when he activates it, it sends him to a parallel universe where Lionel Luthor is his adoptive father and not the Kents. While on the alternate Earth, Clark learns that Tess is actually a Luthor,...

November 19, 2010 –  Oliver registers for the new vigilante registration law, now being overseen by Col. Slade Wilso n , in order to protect the rest of the team and find out what the government is planning. Oliver’s suspicions are confirmed when the registration location is revealed to be a trap designed to locate and arrest superheroes. Clark teams up with Arthur Curry, now aware of his Atl...

November 12, 2010 –  Lois watches a video tape left by her mother, where Ella Lane tells Lois not to let the loss of a loved one keep her from living up to her full potential. Subsequently, Lois goes to the Fortress of Solitude and pleads with Jor-El to reconcile with Clark so that Clark can be the hero he needs to be. Meanwhile, Clark helps Tess uncover the truth about a dream Tess had about...

November 5, 2010 –  General Sam Lane and Lucy Lane, Lois’s father and sister, come into town to celebrate Thanksgiving with Lois and Clark. While visiting, the General reveals that he is a proponent of a new vigilante registration law, much to the dismay of Clark and Lois. Tess and Oliver discover that the team is being tracked by Rick Flag, who is reforming the Suicide Squad and has sent out...

October 29, 2010 –  Clark and Lois get a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, so Clark goes to the nearby town to fix the tire while Lois stays behind. Lois meets a young girl who takes her to a village where the water supply has been contaminated with blue kryptonite. Clark returns to find Lois missing and sets out to look for her. Lois discovers the villagers are planning to sacrifice her to...

October 22, 2010 –  Clark contemplates telling Lois his secret, while Lois also decides to reveal to Clark that she already knows he is The Blur. Before either can say anything, Lois unwittingly becomes possessed by the Egyptian Goddess Isis, who sets out to resurrect her long lost lover Osiris. Clark and Oliver look to Tess for help in trying to stop Isis, as Osiris’s return will unleash Hel...

October 15, 2010 –  Clark and Lois attend their five-year high school reunion, which triggers memories of Lana Lang and Chloe. Brainiac 5 arrives from the 31st Century and takes Clark on a journey through his past, present, and future. Brainiac shows Clark that he still blames himself for his adoptive father’s death years prior, he is abandoning his friends in the present, and that his fear o...

October 8, 2010 –  Radio personality Gordon Godfrey becomes possessed by the dark force Clark was warned about, and begins waging a crusade against all super-heroes. Kara comes back to Earth and tells Clark that Jor-El has sent her to take care of the evil that is coming, as the doubt in Clark’s heart will allow it to possess him and use Clark’s powers as the ultimate weapon. Lois returns fro...

October 1, 2010 –  Lois takes a Daily Planet field reporter position in Egypt, so Clark sends Carter Hall to look after her. Subsequently, Carter and Lois discuss her running away from Clark in order to protect his secret. Oliver discovers that Chloe erased all records of herself before she disappeared, so he sets out to track her down. He discovers that she traded her life for his, and after...

September 24, 2010 –  Following in the previous season finale, Lois removes the blue kryptonite dagger from Clark’s body and hides as he heals. Chloe uses Doctor Fate’s helmet to see her future and later swaps herself for Oliver’s return from captivity. Tess wakes up healed in Cadmus Labs and discovers Lex Luthor clones. One clone escapes and forces Clark to choose between saving Lois or...

It wasn’t known at the time of recording, but this is the last episode featuring Steve Glosson as a regular host here on Starkville’s House of El. And as sad as that is, there’s not a more fitting time for it to be released than one hour before the final season premiere of Smallville.

Many SHoEligans died to bring you this episode. Rumors of SHoEligans deaths are highly exaggerated. We’re back with an all new episode, featuring the SHoE Braintrust and TV Guide’s own Damian Holbrook who were in attendance at SDCC 2010 and specifically at the Smallville s10 panel as well as the press junket afterwards.

On the eve of ComicCon, Steve and Joe tackle all the latest Smallville news, including hopes for who will be returning season ten and more! Plus news on the rumored Christopher Nolan Superman movie and the upcoming season nine Smallville DVD.

May 31, 2010 – Here is our exclusive interview with Smallville’s own Tess Mercer, Cassidy Freeman. Cassidy talks about her sophomore season on the show, gives some great insight to specific episodes (especially the season finale ‘Salvation’) as well as where she’d like to see the character to go for season ten.

May 14, 2010 –  Zod appears to Lois claiming to be The Blur and accusing Clark of trying to reveal Zod’s secret. Tess confronts Zod at the Fortress, in an effort to save Clark, but Zod gets the upper hand and uses his heat vision to burn her and leave her for dead before destroying the main console of the Fortress. Clark takes Tess to the hospital, where she tells him there is a second consol...

May 7, 2010 –  Maxwell Lord kidnaps Tess in an effort to find the Book of Rao. Tess escapes only to be caught by the Red Queen, and is forced to give the book to her. Martha returns to Smallville with Perry White, whom she is dating, to the surprise of Clark. Lois informs Clark that they should break up, as she needs to find her true calling in life. Subsequently, Lois and Perry team up on a...

April 30, 2010 –  Checkmate breaches the Watchtower computer firewalls and begins stealing information. Clark, needing to find Zod, sends Oliver to the Luthor mansion to look through Tess’s things to see if he can find any information. At the same time, Clark talks to Faora and reveals to her that Zod has had powers for weeks and that he was the reason Krypton was destroyed. Armed with this n...

We’ve got a huge episode to make up for being a week behind (that will also line us up with Salvation being our 150th episode) with some amazing surprises awaiting you inside. We’ve got two special guests to help us cover the last two weeks worth of episodes, plus lots of news surrounding the end of season nine.

April 9, 2010 –  Tess and other agents from Checkmate successfully kidnap Green Arrow and transport him to the Checkmate organization. While in transport, Amanda Waller attempts to recruit Green Arrow, unaware that he is billionaire Oliver Queen, to a government cause designed around preparing for a potential alien invasion. Green Arrow declines and escapes. With Oliver still missing, Clark a...

April 2, 2010 –  Clark and Lois head to a bed and breakfast for the weekend, but when they arrive they find Chloe and Oliver having their own romantic getaway. While settling in, Lois unwittingly releases the spirit of Siobhan McDougal, who was cursed and sent to live in the underworld, from a painting at the bed and breakfast. Known as the Silver Banshee by the villagers, the spirit transfer...