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🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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This week, we speak to Palestinian-American actor Sara Alami (Guardians of the Galaxy) about navigating Hollywood in a time when speaking out against genocide can mortally damage your career.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. We are brought to you, as always, by the Nation magazine. Thrill this week to have on the show, and I've wanted this to happen for a long |
0:21.6 | time. |
0:22.4 | We are talking to an actor of the highest note, a voice artist, somebody who people pay to take |
0:30.0 | their picture, which has yet to occur to me, but it's on my bucket list. |
0:34.7 | And also somebody who's not only from Chicago extra props for this show, |
0:39.0 | but also received training at the legendary Second City Theater. |
0:44.2 | My goodness, walked in the shoes of John Belushi and we've got her on this show. |
0:49.9 | She also, though, and this is why we're talking about her, she's been one of the rare souls in the world |
0:55.8 | of entertainment to speak out against the horrific genocide taking place in the middle east her voice |
1:02.2 | is a brave one we're thrilled to have her sarah alami sarah how are you i'm great what an intro |
1:08.5 | thank you so much does there anything i missed because you have credits upon credits. I just didn't want to read your IMDB page. |
1:16.4 | No, I was actually shocked that you knew about the whole Second City stuff. |
1:21.7 | Because that's regardless of like any TV credit that I've done or movie, Second City is like my love. |
1:29.8 | It's my love. |
1:31.0 | Yeah. |
1:32.2 | So that's where I got my start, Chicago. |
1:35.4 | And yeah, I think that's a good, that's pretty good intro. |
1:38.2 | I, so. |
1:40.2 | Well, let me ask you this before I get to super serious questions, |
1:43.9 | you know, like anybody who's into comedy, the Second City Theater, you know, you say that with, you know, hush tones. I've always wondered, is the community there generational? Like to the people who, whatever, either made it big or didn't make it big. Do they come back and talk to the young folks? |
2:02.1 | Does it work that way? |
2:03.3 | Or is it just one generation at a time? |
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