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Geek History Lesson

Inception (2010)

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Tv & Film, Arts, Film History, Visual Arts

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Upside down. Three levels down. A dream within a dream within a podcast as #NolanClub continues with Christopher Nolan’s 2010 black slate smash hit that redefined films, Inception! Jason and Ashley explore the dream-bending tale of a man fighting his dreams (or nightmares?), played by Leonardo Dicaprio and series of Dark Knight trilogy staples: Joseph Gondon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine, and Ken Wantanabe, who take Nolan's affection for a non-linear storyline to new heights. Together we unpack the layers of this cinematic dream and examine why Inception has been copied for years to come.

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0:00.0

Now that we've come to the end of the podcast, the final segment of this episode of geek history lesson.

0:19.5

Ashley, I have to ask you that as soon as you

0:22.8

walk out that door through that hotel in a van that rides off a river to a snow-capped mountain

0:32.5

with a safe inside to the beaches of Malibu where there are cities of crumbling.

0:39.1

For your final dream, as they would say, what would be your impossible dream location?

0:47.1

Where would you go in your dream?

0:49.2

Would you be a city that folds in half, a hotel with no gravity, or a waffle house with a

0:54.1

floor is lava?

0:55.4

This is so easy. It would simply be the nine-tiered city of Minas Tirith Gondor.

1:00.2

You nerd. Would it not be anything else for me? I thought... Is this episode sponsored by Warner

1:05.7

Brothers, who also made Inception? I thought what you were going to ask me was to give you, what

1:10.5

have we learned today

1:11.5

and that we would circle back to that at the end of the pod and see if we remembered what

1:14.9

we'd learned today.

1:15.9

We can do what have we learned today?

1:18.1

On our episode of Inception that is just now ending.

1:21.7

What have we learned today?

1:23.7

Today we have learned that Nepo Nolan babies do appear in his movies.

1:28.8

We have learned that when you name a character, evil, they're going to be evil.

1:33.5

And we've learned that Leonardo DiCaprio's peak attractiveness was in the movie Inception.

1:38.2

Wow, that's a great way to go and say hello and welcome to geek history lesson.

1:42.6

I'm Jason Inman.

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