
I said SHAZAM-A not SHAZAM-er!
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02/10/21 • 50 min
There are few words in comic books that evoke the level of power that SHAZAM does. Imagine being able to say a single word and transform a life r empower and depower others. While SHAZAM bestows Billy Batson the power of a pantheon of Gods, the word Nigga/Nigger carries a very different kind of power. In this episode we will explore the awesome power of words in both comics and politics and those who wield them!
There are few words in comic books that evoke the level of power that SHAZAM does. Imagine being able to say a single word and transform a life r empower and depower others. While SHAZAM bestows Billy Batson the power of a pantheon of Gods, the word Nigga/Nigger carries a very different kind of power. In this episode we will explore the awesome power of words in both comics and politics and those who wield them!
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Superhero Politics Podcast - I said SHAZAM-A not SHAZAM-er!
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What's up everyone, and welcome to superhero politics. I am your host, Michael Holmes. And here we are with episode number eight. And we're about to kick off also our first YouTube, like so you'll be able to find us and SuperHero Politics, Podcast. So as we're recording this, we're actually video taping it as well. So once this is all done, we'll upload the video once it's fully edited to YouTube. And so it's pretty, pretty awesome day. So I wanted to kind of get into
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