434: Black Adam

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Tv & Film, Arts, Film History, Visual Arts

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

What made Teth Adam, soon to be played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in a major motion picture, go from a villain who appeared only once during the 1940s to one who changed the hierarchy of the DC Universe? Let’s dig deep into the history of Black Adam, Shazam’s greatest foe!

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0:19.5	11 million dollars! Critics are calling it hilarious and wildly entertaining. If he's in, I'm in.
0:26.4	Don't money. In cinemas Friday.
0:56.4	Hello and welcome to Geek History lesson. I am Jason Lighting Boltonman.
1:07.1	I am Ashley Victoria Robinson. Welcome to your mind university because you have stumbled onto the
1:11.7	podcast where we take one character construct or dwayne the rock Johnson from popular culture and
1:16.7	teach you everything you need to know about them in about an hour. And this week we're talking
1:20.6	about the character who's going to change the power dynamics of the DC universe whatever that
1:26.8	means because black Adam's coming out. Yes. In the most confusing of all movie taglines it probably
1:33.6	is it is a look like I'm excited for this black Adam movie that's coming out. That's the reason
1:37.9	what we're doing this Geek History lesson podcast. Everybody knows spoilers for black Adam. We haven't
1:41.3	seen it yet. But yeah, we're a confusing tagline. I don't understand. I really feel like the rock
1:46.6	was like I want to be able to say that I am more powerful than Superman. And so marketing was like
1:50.5	we can't say that because it is patently untrue. So just change the power dynamics of these
1:57.4	universe forever. Let's take this little phrase that Dwayne keeps saying and let's put it into an
2:01.5	AI program hit the button. Okay, there's a cinnamon's the hierarchy of the power is going to change.
2:06.2	Yeah. You're probably you're probably exactly right. That's probably exactly what happened.
2:12.6	So yes, this is an honor of the new black Adam movie. No spoilers again. We haven't seen it. This
2:16.9	was requested by a bunch of our listeners. Actually, if you want to if they want to request a future
2:21.8	episode on some of the other characters that might be in the black Adam movie, where can they do it?
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