What Next - QAnon Goes to the Movies
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🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Beat it, Barbie; outta the way, Oppenheimer—this summer’s biggest box office surprise is “The Sound of Freedom,” a low-budget search-and-rescue thriller that Hollywood doesn’t want you to see—or so the implication goes.
Guests:
Sam Adams, Slate senior editor
Will Sommer, media reporter at the Washington Post and author of Trust the Plan The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America.
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| 1:05.5 | So Sam, is Sound of Freedom a good movie? |
| 1:09.5 | No. |
| 1:13.6 | It's not. |
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