Teebs and KidPhoenix VS

All good things must come to an end! (At least season one of a good thing must come to an end, anyway…) Today is part one of the huge season finale of the Teebs and KidPhoenix VS podcast. It is a finale and an idea so huge that your hosts could not even try to tackle on their own, so they’ve enlisted help. Vince Alvendia (the artist on the “Dr. Janina Scarlet's Dark Agents” graphic novel) and Jame...

It is the penultimate episode of season one for your hosts Teebs and KidPhoenix. We've all had a lot of laughs -- mostly with the hosts at their own expenses. Where does that charm... that wit... that skill for the chucks come from? Quite simply put, your favorite duo had to watch a lot of comedians growing up. They watched comedians of all types, but the African-American comedian is one that is v...

Your hosts, Teebs and KidPhoenix, are very much nerds... ... but they also cross over in to the "jock" realm every once in a while because they're passionate sports fans. (This is something that happens when you grow up in a city like Philadelphia.) One sport in particular, football, has been a big part of their lives for as long as they've been fans of comic books and nerdy pop-culture as a whole...

When George Romero created a movie in 1968 called "Night of the Living Dead", it became the first in a genre. The concept was simple: "What if the dead walked the earth?" Since that film, there has been so much zombie-related media in the pop culture landscape. Romero returned in the early 2000s for yet another "___ of the Dead" movie, but before that, Resident Evil took the genre to newer, more f...

A long time ago (1977) on a planet far far away (maybe not... it's just Earth), George Lucas created a movie that sparked a phenomenon. Star Wars is a cultural backbone of many nerds (enthusiasts) around the world. Teebs and KidPhoenix tackle the impossible duty of going through the entire Star Wars filmography. (They mean no disrespect to those who are fans of the TV shows, but they don't have th...

It's time to nuke this podcast from orbit! 42 years ago, Ridley Scott took an idea imagined by H.R. Giger and created a great science fiction/horror thriller known as "Alien". 35 years ago, James Cameron expanded on that idea to include his own fingerprints of science fiction, noir and action to create "Aliens". The rest is history. A great movie franchise was born, and it has spawned two other se...

Sometimes, it works when a previously made piece of media (movie/television) gets remade or rebooted in some way. Is that all that studios are capable of these days? Maybe. Maybe not. Your hosts Teebs and KidPhoenix discuss the direction that film and media studios have been trending over the last two decades or so. Why is this the new direction and what has led to it versus how it was back in the...

Remember that feeling of heading down to your local comic book shop, the newspaper stand close-by, or in Teebs's case -- the 7-Eleven (that is now an A-plus) at the corner of Farragut and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia -- to get that sweet super hero goodness? That's what Teebs and KidPhoenix are talking about today. For many people, comic books are the first foray into super heroes and the ensuin...

If there is one movie that our beloved hosts, Teebs and KidPhoenix, hold on a pedestal more than any movie in the entirety of cinema, it's Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters is a classic. It has aged incredibly well since its release in July of 1984. It spawned a sequel in 1989, a remake/reboot in 2016, a three-season animated cartoon, millions of dollars in merchandising and a cult following that very fe...

If our calculations are correct ... when you hit "play" on this podcast ... you're gonna hear some serious s&*! That's right! Teebs and KidPhoenix are having an in-depth talk about time travel plots and stories in popular media. From "Back to the Future" to the new Disney+ series "Loki" and everything in between, your favorite pair of brothers are talking about everything that makes going back...

We have returned! Teebs is here. KidPhoenix is here, and this time, they've brought help in the form of some really amazing, talented, scholarly guests. This week, Professor Mary Beth Ray, Ph. D (Plymouth State University) and Professor Carrie Teresa, Ph. D (Niagara University) join our hosts to discuss their project: The Adolescentia Project. The project is their baby. Their brain child. The Adol...

The Royster Brothers will be returning! It's been a bit of a hiatus. Teebs and KidPhoenix had to get in the training room and work out some new ideas, some new combos, and some new equipment. (Seriously, Teebs got a new microphone, and it sounds amazing!) The return is on! June 30, 2021. We're back with fresh content, fresh takes, and fresh opinions on almost everything inside the nerd lexicon! Su...

It is the mid-season finale of Teebs and KidPhoenix VS! In today's podcast, our hosts erect the "Teebs and KidPhoenix VS Content Hall of Fame". With the help of a winning lottery ticket, this may be an actuality at some point in the future. In the meantime, they'll just have to settle for the podcast airwaves plus pen and paper. Oh, well. Teebs and KidPhoenix go back to the year 2016 and pick wort...

The brothas are FLYING in off the top rope this week! Teebs and KidPhoenix put on the singlets and the tights with some flair and have what they feel is a much needed discussion about professional wrestling -- some of its history, influences its had on their lives and upbringing, where it is now, and what they feel some of the problems that these companies have in 2021. Professional wrestling is s...

When you watch television ... When you watch movies ... When you watch anything in the pop culture realm, you want whatever race, creed, sexual orientation, etc., to be "validated" as Teebs says on this podcast. That's where representation comes in. On today's episode, Teebs and KidPhoenix discuss the concept of representation -- strictly from an African-American male point of view. (The explanati...

**Trigger warning: Points about racism, sexual assault, homophobia, and transphobia will be made on this podcast as part of our discussion on this topic.** "Sometimes, we just want to make sure people know we're not just clowns out here. We have serious discussions about serious things." - Teebs Today's episode is one of those topics. The idea of cancel culture has been in the consciousness of eve...

Coronavirus. What can we say about it that hasn't been said, already? This pandemic sucks and continues to suck. It has fundamentally changed so many things about our way of life as it pertains to how we view new content. Netflix and Hulu have shown the ways to companies like Disney and TimeWarner, so Teebs and KidPhoenix discuss what the future of the movie industry could look like after we've re...

"All this content coming out. Is it just empty calories?" That's how Teebs starts out this podcast, and it's an interesting one. Teebs and KidPhoenix are talking about fan service. Lost of entertainment companies are pumping out content targeted at specific parts of "nerd culture", but how much of it is actually good versus the ones that are basically done half assed to cash in? The dynamic duo di...

It's time to get serious. Hopefully, that's not too much of a stretch for Teebs and KidPhoenix, but we'll see how this goes! Have you ever wondered about Black Cinema but have no idea how to go about it? What to watch? After the certified bona fides, what are those "deep cuts" that you never thought about? Well, that's the education Teebs and The Kid get into today. Each decade has its pieces of f...

On this episode of "Teebs and KidPhoenix VS", your hosts with the most get into a very near and dear topic: video games. Video games are very influential to Teebs and KidPhoenix. They bred a sibling rivalry that was already pretty heated in the beginning, and it has kept growing ever since that first Ken vs. Ryu match in Street Fighter II. The pair discuss the Console Wars over the decades, where...

This conversation had to be had within the first couple of episodes, so Teebs and KidPhoenix decided to do it, now. It's the sequels podcast, and the brothers are going all in on them. What are their choices for the best? The worst? The most over-rated? The most under-rated? They promised their intent wasn't to upset people or get them to angrily get into the DMs on Twitter, but if it happens, the...

It is the inaugural episode of the “Teebs and KidPhoenix VS” podcast! Thank you for bearing with us in anticipation. We’ve been teasing for about a month, now, but we’re delivering freshness to the people. This week’s episode is “staff picks”. Remember the old days where you’d walk into a video store or a music store, and there would be a shelf of selections by the gomers working there? That’s wha...