Super mad about Superman

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a bunch of pundits acting like Superman was ever anything but an immigrant and a humanitarian. This episode was produced by Rebeca Ibarra, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. A Dairy Queen ad promoting the Superman movie. Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The number one movie in the country is Superman.
0:03.0	It might be the number one movie in the world.
0:06.0	Are you being serious right now?
0:08.0	Yeah.
0:09.0	But not everybody is loving it.
0:12.0	Recently, you've come under a lot of fire for what some might...
0:15.0	It's a lot of fire.
0:16.0	It's a lot.
0:18.0	Kellyanne Conway is mad about it. The guy who stars as Superman had the audacity to say
0:24.4	instead of fighting for truth, liberty, and great values in America,
0:28.5	he refused to say the last part.
0:30.2	Ben Shapiro is mad about it.
0:32.0	The reality that Hollywood is so far to the left
0:34.3	that they cannot take a core piece of Americana
0:36.4	and just say it's about America.
0:38.8	Even TV Superman Dean Kane is concerned.
0:42.2	Look, don't try and make it all woke and crazy.
0:45.0	What, if anything, is woke and crazy about the new Superman movie coming up on Dean Cain explained.
1:00.9	Rated T for Teen.
1:04.3	Each year, thousands of adults lose their shred.
1:07.2	It's an epidemic simply known as shred loss.
1:08.8	But it doesn't have to be this way.
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