He's the herald of Galactus, the friend of the Fantastic Four, and one tubular dude.

He is Noren Rad, the Silver Surfer, and his gig history lesson is now in session.

Welcome to Geek History Lesson. I am Jason Radicalman. I am Ashley Victoria Robinson. Welcome to your mind university because you have stumbled onto the podcast where we take one character construct. Oh, super deep from popular culture and teach you everything you need to know about them in about an hour. I was not emotionally prepared for Jason's introduction. So I'm very excited to see how the rest of this lesson goes. Geek History Lesson fans, my university fans, you know of my love.

For the Fantastic Four. In fact, we did three episodes, four episodes. I don't remember the numbers of those. Ashley, could you do a quick, quick Google? And this has been one that we have been waiting a long time to do. Silver Surfer. I'm very excited. I love the Silver Surfer. And I'm so happy that so many listeners out there have requested this episode. Here is everybody that requested that we do a Silver Surfer episode.

L. Bird, oh, I say a Quinn, you who mother can say the last part, Ron Tamir at T Wild Discover, Victor Rebella, Matt Mitchell, at Beardman Comics, James Wilson, at Mick Gar Studios, at Linux Fan Comics, Marquis Belton, and at smoother gamer.

Ashley, do you figure out what what numbers did we do the Fantastic Four quadrileteers? Okay, so we did two lessons on the Fantastic Four. We did part one and part two. That was Geek History Lesson 75 and 76 taught by Mr. Inman. Geek History Lesson 77 was our best Fantastic Four teams ever. And then Geek History Lesson 250 was Doctor two. So he is in the family. I will share a link to all these episodes in case people haven't listened to them or just want to revisit them. Yeah.

So you've heard me talk about the Fantastic Four before, and we've never gone that deep into the Silver Surfer as well. So this is where you're going to get all the good stuff. Now, we just want to remind you that if you want more Geek History Lesson podcasts, go support the show at patreon.com slash jawin. That's J.A.W.I.N. There are three exclusive podcasts every month over there, including Jason and Jeremy John about Justice League, which is our Justice League podcast plus you get sneak peeks.

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Yes, the 10 cent origin is the first part of the podcast where Professor Jason is going to teach you all the basics that you need to know about Silver Surfer in case you go to a dope.

Fantastic Four themed cocktail party. And someone's like, who's that Norton Radguy?

Well, he's to be there. The first appearance of the Silver Surfer was in the Fantastic Four number 48 in March of 1966.

He was created by Stanley and Jack Kirby, the legends of comics. His alter ego is Norton Rad, and that is Rad with two D's.

His species is he Zen Lovian. His place of origin is the planet Zen Law. His team affiliations have been the heralds of Galactus, not quite a team.

The United Front, the defenders, the order, the starmasters, the guards, the God Squad, the annihilators, and his partnerships have been with the Fantastic Four and the Avengers.

I have a question. Okay, sure. Is the are the starmasters? Are they like stairmasters?

No, they're just people that fly around in space and say they master the stars.

Also, the God Squad.

Yeah, wow. Yeah, man, that's it. That's my whole thought. Thank you.

Thank you for indulging me.

We're Norse mythology and Greek mythology are very real.

I mean, that's you know what? You know what? Fair. Fair.

All right. Now, his powers are mainly the power cosmic.

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