Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron, brought to you by The Nation magazine.

You know, we're usually here to talk about the intersection of sports and politics, like,

what is the political significance

of Bam out of bio scoring 83 points in a game? Is it a sign of the apocalypse answer? Maybe.

Or will the Knicks make the NBA finals like I predicted? And that's starting. And to look

somewhat iffy.

It's tough when your two best offensive players

are also your two worst defenders.

Truth.

But today, in honor of the Oscars, we're taking it to the movies.

This year's Oscars has the vibe, at least thematically,

of resistance, if not revolution in the air,

with one battle after another and sinners in the front of the pack. Now, we're not going to talk

about these films too much, just for the record I liked one of these sinners and not the other.

But what's interesting is that they seem to be in conversation with one another,

in looking at issues of race, culture, appropriation, and really how to make a revolution.

In honor of that, we're going to be talking about two other films that are hitting

anniversaries in 2026 and are also in a kind of interesting way

in conversation with one another, saying a great deal about the 60s and the 80s, the politics

of those two eras. It's just too much to resist. Now, one of these films that we're going to

talk about is regarded as one of the greatest

films ever made.

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