108: Superman (The Golden Age)

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Film History, Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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He's called the Man of Steel! But did you know that when he first appeared Superman couldn't even fly? Hop back to 1938 with us as we reveal the origin and history of Superman in the Golden Age! So sit back and enjoy as Ashley and Jason begin their lesson. You might learn something. Enter your Mind University! Be careful! This podcast contains SPOILERS. So if you don't want to know what happens, then you should come back later.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by ITVX.
0:03.0	Whatever is you're looking for from hard-hitting drama to side-splitting comedy, ITX marks the spot.
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0:27.7	freshest streaming service. Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman, this is a good history lesson on Superman.
0:39.0	Nicely done. Thank you. Thank you. Hello and welcome to Geek History lesson I'm Jason
0:57.3	Krypton has blown up in men I am Ashley Victoria Robinson and welcome to your mind
1:01.8	University because you have stumbled
1:03.2	onto the podcast where we take one character or construct or last son of krypton
1:07.0	from popular culture and teach you everything that you need to know about them in
1:09.6	about an hour and today we are finally
1:12.7	finally tackling the man of steel himself.
1:15.4	That's right, this little known hero known as Superman,
1:18.2	many people I don't think read his comic books anymore.
1:20.5	No.
1:21.3	But we're finally tackling him. He's been requested for a long time. We've got
1:24.7	108 episodes without talking about the Man of Steel. Superman, one of my favorite superheroes
1:30.2	of all time, because I'm from his home state and we're kind of talking
1:33.4	about him because we're in the middle of Batman v Superman hysteria yeah we sure
1:37.4	are which mainly exists in Ohio I've heard oh yeah Midwest they love the
1:42.3	Superman you know I actually know the state of Kansas.
1:44.3	I showed my home state. This is going nuts about Batman v Superman.
1:47.0	There you go. Go Kansas. They love wheat and they love their superman.
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