One Oscar Battle After Another with Traci Thomas

Vibe Check

SiriusXM

Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Vibe Check, Saeed and Zach are joined by Traci Thomas, host of The Stacks podcast, for an in-depth pre-Oscars chat. They break down this year’s awards season chaos and dig into Sinners and One Battle After Another, exploring how both films depict Black life in America from very different angles. They also get into Hollywood’s habit of rewarding negative tropes about Black women and debate what actually makes a movie a “Black movie.” Then, they wrap with their Oscar winner predictions.

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0:00.0	Girls.
0:01.0	Girlies, plural.
0:02.0	Girls.
0:04.0	Girlie's, plural.
0:06.0	Trace Gurlays.
0:09.0	Trace Gurles works on so many levels.
0:13.0	I love it.
0:14.0	I'm so excited to be a girl today.
0:17.0	That is actually so funny.
0:20.0	We are so excited for you to be a girl today. That is actually so funny.
0:24.7	We are so excited for you to be a girl today.
0:29.3	Well, let's get into it so we can introduce our special guest.
0:30.7	I'm Saeed Jones.
0:33.8	And I'm Zach Stafford, and you're listening to Vibe Check. Okay. As you already can tell, we have a very special guest, the one, the only Tracy Thomas is here, joining us from her podcast, The Stacks, which is our favorite podcast.
0:50.9	Yay.
0:51.1	Our favorite podcast.
0:52.3	Even if you're watching this, I have the same background intentionally as Tracy. Mine is chaotic. It's not as organized. But I chose to sit in a similar background to be with my fellow mulatto sister, Tracy. We're just mulatto twinning. Oh, no, I'm outnumbered. You're outnumbered? Oh, God. Oh, God. I'm thrilled. I know you're the, like, real author here, and you don't even have books.
1:13.8	The two of us are just posing.
1:15.6	Yeah.
1:15.7	Wow.
1:17.4	What?
1:17.9	You're going to make me move my damn computer screen so people can see all for the jam.
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