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🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Freelance journalist Kelsey Atherton joins Angry Planet to talk about Oppenheimer. The movie does a good, but not perfect, job with history and tends toward mythmaking. Matthew loved it and Atherton had some issues with it. In this wide-ranging conversation that covers nuclear history, our renewed atomic fears, and the people left out of the story, the two nuclear journalists dissect Hollywood’s latest blockbuster.
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0:15.0 | By way of introductions here at the beginning, as we experiment with the new softer opening on Angry Planet, |
0:20.0 | I am Matthew Galda do various things at Vice Media for now. |
0:23.8 | I'm joined by Jason Fields, she's the opinion editor at Newsweek |
0:26.9 | and Kelsey Atherton, consummate freelancer, |
0:31.5 | and nuclear expert who lives in New Mexico. |
0:37.0 | And we're going to be talking about the movie Oppenheimer. |
0:39.6 | But first, you've been on the show twice before Kelsey and I'm sorry we have to do this. |
0:47.0 | Both times it's been to talk about UFOs. |
0:51.0 | I'm going to I think I've decided I'm just going to full-on call them UFOs now. |
0:56.4 | I don't want to call them UAP anymore. I'm so irritated by the by the |
1:00.2 | coverage and by the audience reaction to anything that has ever done about |
1:04.8 | UAPs or UFOs. So the last time we had you on the show we did we got some more |
1:11.4 | upset audience feedback. |
1:13.0 | And they were from subscribers who I dearly love and I'm very pleased with, |
1:18.0 | but I can't stress enough that this... |
1:20.0 | I can't, like there's not... the information that you all want is does not exist. We don't have it and I very |
1:28.3 | seriously doubt that the people who are testifying before Congress today, which is the day that we're talking, |
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