⚠️ Full spoilers start around 25:00.

We get into where it lands next to No Way Home, why Destin Daniel Cretton's Shang-Chi fight choreography and the PlayStation games are all over the web-swinging, and whether the new cloth suit is the most comic-accurate Spider-Man we've had on screen. Then the gripes: organic web-shooters vs. Peter's science brain, a Jean Grey who might be a little too mean, the Yelena spa scene, and the eternal question: how does a broke kid in New York afford the rent, the flowers, and that many Little Caesars?

Plus: a debate about theater-crowd etiquette ("on your left" cheerers vs. pin-drop-silence purists), the Hulk-remembers moment, and a villain wishlist that runs from Hobgoblin to the Jackal.

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• Bero Kingston Golden Pils
• Bero Spider-Man: Brand New Day x Pils
• Sam Adams Summer Ale (2025 vintage)

Special Guest: Vactor.

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Sam Adams Porch Rocker Lemon Radler (Frank)
Stormalong Legendary Dry Hard Cider — Millis, MA (Tim)

In this episode

• Sam Adams Porch Rocker returns — the annual visit, and this year it's slightly less tart (in a good way)
• Sam Adams's new can design — Sam covering his own letters with a raised mug (or is that Paul Revere? or Thomas Jefferson?)
• Stormalong dry cider, heirloom + bittersweet apples, and the cracking-tentacles Kraken can
• H.P. Lovecraft geography detour: Providence vs. Newport, the racism asterisk, where Arkham actually came from
• The main question: is Spider-Man a street-level superhero at all?
• Defining street-level: it's about the tone and the stakes, not the powers — Daredevil pounds the tar, Batman is technically anything but blue-collar
• Peter Parker's sci-fi problem: his origin is basically Fantastic Four, the web shooters make him genius-tier, and Frank once asked his dad to build a pair
• Kraven the Hunter's magic jungle potion goes golfing
• A live tally of Spider-Man's rogues gallery — chameleon, vulture, Doc Ock, Sandman, Lizard, Electro, Mysterio, Green Goblin, Kraven, Scorpion, Morbius, Venom — and where each one lands on street / middle / cosmic
• The verdict: 5 street, 6 in-between, 1 cosmic — Spider-Man's distribution skews low-end, but he's genuinely hard to pin down
• "Spider-Man is a street-level hero the same way Breaking Bad is a show about a chemistry teacher." — the Breaking Bad Test
• Why pigeonholing hurts long-lived characters, and why the supporting cast is really what makes a hero viable
• Reading from Superman: The Never-Ending Battle by Roger Stern — Clark Kent finally becomes Superman across an entire beautiful page of prose

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Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey
Bird Dog Maple Flavored Whiskey
Tuckerman Lime After Lime

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Jack Daniel's & Coca Cola Zero Sugar
Sam Adams Take-A-Day IPA

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Upper Pass First Drop IPA
Sam Adams White Christmas

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No beer!

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Unknown Hoppy Pilsner (Tim says its good)
Abita Turbodog Brown Ale

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Upper Pass First Drop IPA
Sam Adams White Christmas

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Links:

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Wikipedia
• How the ‘Spider-Verse’ Animators Created That Trippy Look - The New York Times
• Brian Michael Bendis's Tweet About the Script

Beers of the Week
Narragansett Town Beach Day Pass IPA
The Alchemist Crusher

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