Wakanda MEGA EPISODE (Black Panther, Shuri, Dora Milaje, Ironheart)

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Film History, Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 250 minutes

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Summary

Today, in celebration of Ironheart's first season on Disney+ we tie the threads between Riri Williams' Wakandan origins and her status as MIT's greatest superhero with some of our favorite Wakanda-themed episodes from the archives for this MEGA EPISODE:

GHL 198: Black Panther – Explore the science and the magic of the OG Black Panther king with Special Guest Jay Washington
GHL 201: Shuri (Black Panther) – Study up on the genius kid sister of T'Challa who became Black Panther in her own right
GHL 438: Dora Milaje (Back Panther Wakanda Forever) – Discover the elite female fighting force who hold up the Black Panther
GHL 437: Ironheart (Black Panther Wakanda Forever) – Follow the journey of Riri Williams who upgraded Iron Man's classic design with Wakandan flare

Suit up in red, black, and gold and time travel your way through the spirit plane of podcasting in this epic celebration of all things Wakanda! (Additional research and writing by Diego Anthony Nuñez)

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0:21.9	Plus, get 10% off if you buy two tubs.
0:24.2	All trade prices XVAT at 20%.
0:26.8	So now you can keep up with the Joneses and the Evanses.
0:30.9	Hello and welcome to geek history laws and I'm Jason Inman.
0:34.4	I'm Ashley Victoria Robinson.
0:36.2	Welcome to your Mind University because you have stumbled onto the podcast where we take one
0:39.8	character, one construct, or one Black Panther from popular culture and teach you everything
0:43.3	you need to know about them in about an hour except today because it's a mega episode day,
0:47.2	which means you get many hours.
0:49.3	One Iron Woman.
0:51.3	That's true.
0:52.1	Not Black Panther.
0:53.0	And several Dora Malachias. That's right. This Black Panther. And several door malachés.
0:55.7	That's right.
0:56.1	This week we're going to suit up.
0:57.3	We're going to grab our vibranium gloves, our vibranium boots, and our vibranium heads-up
1:03.9	display.
1:04.8	Because, yeah, it is a mega episode celebrating all people iron.
1:10.0	All things. Iron heart heart everyone who touched riri
1:13.6	williams is a wakondaish or riconda adjacent it's wakonda flavor definitely yeah because you know
1:19.7	we got to talk about you know who's going to wear the black ears who's going to wear uh the new
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