Ezra Edelman is the director of O.J.: Made in America.\n\n \u201cWhen I say what I learned is that America is even more fucked up than I had previously thought, it\u2019s that\u2014the superficiality of it. How we are willingly seduced by these shiny people and these shiny things. And, again, when I looked at O.J.\u2019s trajectory, that was an operating principle.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, Squarespace, Casper, and Secrets, Crimes, & Audiotape for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@ezraedelman\n[00:45] "Vanish" (Evan Ratliff \u2022 Wired \u2022 Nov 2009)\n[00:45] O.J.: Made in America\n[02:30] Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals\n[10:30] The Straight Story\n[20:30] Tamara Rosenburg on IMDB\n[38:15] Caroline Waterlow on IMDB\n[39:15] Nina Krstic on IMDB\n[46:30] "What Football Does to the Brain" (Mike Orcutt \u2022 MIT Technology Review \u2022 Jan 2016)\n[52:15] "Most Black People Now Think O.J. Was Guilty" (Carl Bialik \u2022 FiveThirtyEight \u2022 Jun 2016)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices