It's that classic tale everyone knows. A nerdy-looking white dude writes a novel that gets adapted into becoming the biggest and baddest blacksploitation movies of all-time. This week, we're watching 1971's Shaft! Your pals discuss the photographic background of its director, Gordon Parks, African-American modern vernacular, and how cultural osmosis rarely tells the whole story.

In da news, The Oscars isn't mandating vaccines, Futurama is back (again), and Netflix has a lot of ladies working for them.