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Premium Episode 44: Burn After Reading feat Molly Jong-Fast (Sample)

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Stupidity, self-serving politics, senseless intelligence gathering and cartoonish vanity. The Coen brothers' 2008 film, Burn After Reading, couldn't be more apropos. We examine it in light of the military intelligence LARP known as QAnon, as well as Never Trumpers, Reagan Era CIA operatives and the MAGA intelligentsia. Our guest is Molly Jong-Fast, author and political columnist. Subscribe for $5 a month at patreon.com/qanonanonymous You'll get a premium episode every week and access to the archive! Plus you'll be supporting us :) Thanks! Follow Molly on twitter: twitter.com/MollyJongFast

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0:00.0

Welcome listeners to the 44th premium chapter of the QAnonymous podcast, The Burn After

0:21.2

Reading Episode.

0:22.8

As always we are your host Jake Brachotansky, Julian Fields and Travis View.

0:27.2

In 2008 the Coen Brothers released Burn After Reading a tragic comedy about citizen researchers

0:32.7

larping his spies and the very real consequences of their interactions with the vicious and

0:37.3

incompetent United States intelligence apparatus.

0:40.2

Eleven years later the movie has proven to be a blueprint for the stupidest conflicts

0:44.7

of our era.

0:45.7

The battle between the QAnon military intelligence lovers and their highly selective version

0:50.3

of the deep state.

0:51.8

Orange Man Bad versus the All American Good Guys of the FBI.

0:55.6

And of course this podcast versus your tenuous hold on reality.

1:00.0

As such we felt it necessary to examine the movie in the context of our current nightmare.

1:04.7

And to this effect we are joined by repeat guest Molly, John Fast, writer and political

1:09.4

columnist.

1:10.4

Welcome back to the show Molly.

1:11.4

Thanks for having me guys.

1:13.2

Yeah thanks for being on.

1:14.6

It's a real pleasure.

1:16.0

So yeah we're discussing Burn After Reading.

1:20.1

There are it's a huge hugely star-studded cast right off the top.

1:25.4

Here we've got George Clooney, Francis McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton,

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