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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.511.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is the sequel to 2018's Black Panther, which starred the late Chadwick Boseman. This film begins with T'Challa's death and allows its characters time to grieve him, including his sister Shuri (Letitia Wright) and his mother Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett). But a new threat rises out of the waters in the form of Prince Namor (Tenoch Huerta). The film is directed by Ryan Coogler.

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Black Panther Wakanda Forever is the sequel to 2018's Black Panther, which starred the

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late Chadwick Boseman.

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He played T'Challa, super-powered protector of a hidden Afro-futurist country, which is

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the sole source of a rare and powerful metal.

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The new film opens with T'Challa's death, which makes Wakanda the target of many nations

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seeking to exploit its wealth, including a mysterious undersea realm led by the powerful

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Prince Namor.

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The defensive Wakanda now falls to many characters we met in the first film, as well as some surprising

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new allies.

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I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're talking about Black Panther Wakanda Forever on pop culture

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happy hour from NPR.

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Joining me today is Ronald Young Jr.

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He's the host of the film and television review podcast Leaving the Theta Hello, Ronald.

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Bob Beglin.

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Bob Beglin.

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Also joining us is Daisy Rosario, senior supervising producer of audio with Slate where she works with

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shows like I see why I'm I fun show about internet culture.

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Welcome back Daisy.

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Thank you for having me.

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Good to see you Glenn.

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Good to see you.

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Can I call it Ikemi?

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