Sound of Freedom

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4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Wall Street Journal’s John Jurgensen explains how Sound of Freedom, an action-drama about fighting child sex trafficking, beat Tom Cruise and Indiana Jones at the box office. Writer Meg Conley explains the murky truth behind the movie. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael with help from Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The biggest movie in the country is Barbie.
0:02.6	Hi Barbie!
0:03.6	The second biggest movie is Oppenheimer.
0:07.0	But have you heard about the third biggest movie in the country?
0:11.0	It's not Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible 7, Dead Reckoning Part 1.
0:16.8	It's not Harrison Ford and Indiana Jones on the dialed Destiny Part 5.
0:22.0	It's an action drama about fighting child sex trafficking called Sound of Freedom.
0:30.0	Now that makes you feel giving your child is freedom.
0:39.0	Don't go ahead.
0:40.0	On today explained, we're going to figure out how this grim movie you haven't seen a single billboard for
0:46.0	is beating Tom Cruise and Indiana Jones at the box office.
1:00.0	Today, today explained.
1:04.0	It's day explained.
1:06.0	I'm John Jergenson and I'm an entertainment reporter at the Wall Street Journal.
1:09.0	We asked John over to tell us about the third biggest movie in the country.
1:14.0	Yeah, this third movie is Sound of Freedom.
1:17.0	Hear that?
1:22.0	That's the Sound of Freedom.
1:24.0	And, you know, you could call it a dark horse in the box office race this year,
1:29.0	except this is a movie that people didn't even see as in the race going into this summer.
1:36.0	It just wasn't on most people's radars before it opened and before it did big numbers.
1:41.0	It's a crime thriller, kind of an old-fashioned crime thriller about a government agent,
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