Black Adam And What's Making Us Happy
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's hard to believe Dwayne Johnson hasn't played a superhero before. |
| 0:08.6 | He's played plenty of very tough guys, but he's finally filling this gap in his resume |
| 0:14.4 | with Black Adam, in which he joins the DC Universe. |
| 0:18.2 | Brought out of a tomb after thousands of years, Black Adam is a character with tons of |
| 0:21.9 | backstory and a mostly dower demeanor that doesn't exactly play to the wisecracking |
| 0:26.2 | side. |
| 0:27.2 | He showed in things like the Fast and the Furious franchise. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm Glenn Weldon. |
| 0:30.9 | And I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about Black Adam on Pac-Culture Happy Hour |
| 0:34.7 | from NPR. |
| 0:36.5 | Joining us today is Ronald Young Jr. |
| 0:38.7 | He's the host of the film and television review podcast, Leaving the Theater. |
| 0:43.1 | Hello, Ronald, welcome back. |
| 0:44.7 | Hello, Linda. |
| 0:45.7 | Hello, Glenn, glad to be here. |
| 0:47.1 | We are so excited. |
| 0:48.1 | All right. |
| 0:49.1 | Officially, Black Adam is a spin off of the 2019 film Shazam. |
| 0:54.2 | Watch the whole movie had no idea. |
| 0:55.8 | Let this story largely stands on its own. |
| 1:00.5 | Sarah Shahi plays a woman named Adriana who goes searching for a lost artifact and wakes |
| 1:06.5 | Black Adam from his tomb. |
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