32. She's Gotta Have It

“A three-and-a-half-hour podcast has every fan’s wish as its subject. For some they enrapture the ear. For others they play on forever, never fading to white noise, never getting interesting until the listener turns their podcast app off in resignation, their dreams mocked to death by time. That is the life of a podcast fan. Now, podcasters omit all the things they don’t want to cover and cover all the things they don’t want to omit. The dream is the truth. Then they record and say things accordingly.”

SPOILER WARNING: Autumn recounted the entire plot of Deep Cover (it’s from 1:31:23 to 1:45:07 if you want to skip spoilers). If you just want to hear the discussion of She’s Gotta Have It I guess skip ahead to, uh... 2:24:10. Listen, this was a long one, but we think it’s a good one.

Next week we will be back to talk about the collected short films of Akosua Adoma Owusu. You can find these all on the Criterion Channel if you are looking for them on streaming. Here’s the full list:

Ajube Kete (2005)
Tea 4 Two (2006)
Intermittent Delight (2007)
Boyant: A Michael Jordan in a Speedo is Far Beyond the Horizon (2008)
Me Broni Ba (2009)
Drexciya (2010)
Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful (2012)
Kwaku Ananse (2013)
Bus Nut (2015)
Reluctantly Queer (2016)
On Monday of Last Week (2018)
Mahogany Too (2018)
Pelourinho: They Don’t Really Care About Us (2019)

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