Best Fictional Schools

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Film History, Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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School may be out for the summer, but comic book always have havens for the strange and nerdy to find refuge in. On this week's episode we step into the hallowed halls of The Umbrella Academy, Kamar Taj, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, and Starfleet Academy to conclude which Universe offers the best education to a young superhero type. Did we miss your fave?

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0:00.0	Jason, to your memory, what was the most magical thing about school?
0:16.2	Oh, well, okay.
0:20.2	I don't know if I should really be telling this on mic
0:22.6	But so I used to live under a staircase
0:26.1	And
0:27.7	Not the opening volley I would have expected
0:31.3	Oh okay, you've heard that before
0:32.8	Okay, so all right
0:33.9	I probably shouldn't be talking out of school
0:35.7	But all right
0:36.8	I used to work at this bar with my uncle.
0:40.4	And no matter how many times I asked him to go to school, he really didn't want me to go to school.
0:46.5	And so eventually he took me to school.
0:48.8	And I was so excited to go.
0:50.6	But unfortunately, when he took me to school, we time travel back to 1947 Roswell, New Mexico,
0:56.0	and we actually became the Roswell alien. So that was one of my favorite school memories.
1:00.1	Wow. Thank you so much for being so brave and sharing that with us. And I think I'm going to take this
1:05.1	moment to say hello and welcome to Geek History Lesson. I'm Ashton Victoria Robinson. And Jason
1:10.6	Inman, still not one of the Roswell Gray aliens, but we are here to talk about schools because this is the podcast that we also like to call Your Mind University, where a Canadian comic book writer and a TV writer from Kansas to tell you everything you need to know about one little subject or school.
1:28.5	And I'm sorry I was not serious with your answers, but I did give two school-related references.
1:35.0	Yeah, I did not understand the second one.
1:36.7	Oh, you know what?
	...

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