Hello, friends, and welcome to this week's geek history lesson.

It's a very special beginning for geek history lesson because, well, it's not really a beginning.

It's actually a begin cast, as they would say, or a recast as they would say.

Because if you know, if you've been listening to the podcast, we have been doing a little journey through something I like to call Nolan Club.

Yeah, that's right.

We are so excited about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey coming soon this July of this year that we've been going through his filmography.

We've covered Memento.

We've covered insomnia.

We're going to save his original film the following

for a little special bonus at the end. But now it's time to talk about Batman Begins. And,

you know, it's one of those nerdy movies that on the podcast, we've already talked about it.

We did it. We celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Batman Begins in 2020 with a very special guest, comedian, host,

all-around awesome guy, Mark Ellis.

And so, this installment of Nolan Club is all about Batman.

We're going to watch Christopher Nolan walk his way into Batman.

Feel Batman out.

Caress those capes and figure out if that is sort of the impulse that he got that led him on the road to make a sword and sorcery epic starring Matt Damon, who is not in Batman

begins.

But Christian Bail is here.

So, you know, there's a big actor around.

There's a big British actor around.

So we're going to be just fine, everybody.

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