Hey, it's Ben here.

Just want to let you know before we begin

that this episode contains depictions of sexual violence.

I'm a long time woman

and I feel no pain.

I'm a long time woman

and I lost my game.

Pam Greer does not sound like she's 73 years old.

She's sitting across from me in a hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

I mean, you sound like somebody who sings every day.

I do.

Pam first sang that song in the early 1970s.

I'm a long time woman.

Just months before she became famous as an action hero

in the movie's coffee and foxy brand.

By the end of the decade, while little boys were playing Luke Skywalker and Han Solo,

young black girls were playing Pam Greer, beating up pretend bad guys.

Pam mattered to the culture in a way not many movie stars can claim.

For 75 years, black audiences rarely saw themselves on screen.

Pam was the face of an era that changed that.

But then she all but disappeared.

Two decades later, she showed up in one of my favorite movies of all time,

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