Can you introduce yourself, please?
Sure. I'm Ben Fritz.
I cover the entertainment industry for The Journal.
And fans of your podcast, remember,
I was the host of a journal podcast miniseries a couple of years ago called With Great Power,
all about superhero movies.
Ben is our in-house superhero expert.
And I wanted to talk to him about one of the first superheroes, Superman.
He's the template on which every other superhero has been based and he's such a symbol of like Truth and goodness and old-fashioned values and doing the right thing,
you know that he's always this this icon I think for anybody who cares about superheroes comics You probably know the story Superman is from another planet as a baby his spaceship crash landed in the little town of Smallville,
Kansas He embodies everything about a traditional superhero He's got the square jaw,
perfect hair, and big red cape.
And he's faster than a speeding bullet.
More powerful than a locomotive.
I'm able to leave tall buildings at a single bound.
And today, the latest version of The Man of Steel flies back into theaters.
My father once told me, it's not about what you can do, Clark.
It's about what you choose to do.
That's why I choose to protect this world.
It's a reboot, which, you know,