Fantastic Four MEGA EPISODE (Fantastic Four Pt 1 & 2, Silver Surfer, Doctor Doom, Best FF Team Ever)

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Film History, Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 299 minutes

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Summary

Today, in celebration of Fantastic Four's fourth cinematic debut season we tie the threads between The First Family, The Future Foundations, and some of their most iconic baddies with some of our favorite Baxter Building-themed episodes from the archives for this MEGA EPISODE:

GHL 75: Fantastic Four – Explore the science and the fiction behind Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Ben Grimm, and Johnny Storm
GHL 76: Fantastic Four Pt 2 – Study up on the greatest moments of Marvel Comics' First Family - including first steps!
GHL 370: Silver Surfer – Discover the far out & trippy origins of Norrin Radd
GHL 250: Doctor Doom – Follow the journey of the fifth member of The Fantastic Four on his descent into villanry
GHL 77: Best FF – Jason & Ashley build their ultimate Fantastic Four line up with other members of the Marvel Comics Universe

Suit up in blue and white, jump into the Negative Zone, and enjoy in this epic celebration of all things Fantastic!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Geek History Lesson. I'm Jason Inman. I'm Ashti Victoria Robinson. Welcome to your Mind
0:08.1	University because you have stumbled onto the podcast where one Canadian comic book writer and one
0:13.6	screenwriter from Kansas teach you everything you need to know about a character. And today we have a
0:19.0	very special mega episode where we're going to do
0:22.0	this for about six hours today celebrating. This is a six hour one, huh? It's going to be real
0:27.6	close to six hours. Celebrating the release of Fantastic Four for Steps. Yes. So everyone, pull out
0:35.2	your tricorders. Get into the Excelsior.
0:39.3	Slam together your suits because we're hopping into the negative zone, but we're going to be calling it the positive zone because we're celebrating one of the greatest superhero families of all time.
0:52.3	The fantastic four.
0:53.4	We're going to be talking about a lot of Dr. Doom saying,
0:55.8	we're going to be talking about Ben Grimm sounding like rocks every time he takes a bath.
1:01.4	Because he would.
1:02.0	He would sound like a boulder rolling down a hill everywhere he went.
1:05.7	He would sound like a rock tumbler.
1:06.7	Yeah, he would.
1:08.5	You know, oh, let's get your opinion on this.
1:10.6	Sure. A quick fun bit for the Fantasy 4 mega episode here. Some people are a little mad that the things voice and all the trailers for the new film that's coming out, he doesn't have like a rocky voice. He just has a normal human voice. Thoughts? Doesn't bother me. I have no opinions either way.
1:27.8	No.
1:28.2	I like the actor a lot.
1:29.5	So I'm fine with it.
1:30.8	Sure.
1:31.3	So,
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