A Real-life Multiverse of Masked Vigilantes in "The Superhero Complex"

All Of It with Alison Stewart | May 20, 2022

The Rain City Superhero Movement was a vigilante organization led by Ben Fodor, an MMA fighter-turned-crime fighter who sought to thwart wrongdoers in Seattle while wearing a yellow and black bulletproof suit, under the name Phoenix Jones. A new podcast, "The Superhero Complex," explores Jones' rise to (and fall from) fame alongside the phenomenon of real-life superheroism. Host David Weinberg joins us.

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