You've been interested in conspiracy theories your whole career or some might even say your films, some of them are around conspiratorial thinking. How do you feel about the mainstreaming of conspiratorial thinking that's happened in this country? There's been a surge. It's inevitable. I don't have to go any further than Hillary Clinton. No matter what you think about Trump and what he did...he still did not get a chance to really be the president because he was so reviled off the top from a phony investigation.
After a quick rundown of the summer’s hottest films, Nayeema and Kara turn to our guest today: acclaimed (and controversial) filmmaker Oliver Stone. The man behind classics like “Wall Street” and “JFK” has turned his lens to climate change solutions in a new documentary, “Nuclear Now.” We discuss the good question of why there isn’t more nuclear energy in the United States, the roots of Stone’s distrust in convention, and the challenge of a world where distrust can turn into conspiracy theory.
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