Black and Snerdy Podcast

Black and Snerdy welcomes actor, playwright, director and music artist Le’Asha Julius for a bonus episode as Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo “Kid” Licorish (@licorishislegit) trace a career that runs from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and SUNY Purchase to NPR’s Tiny Desk with The LOX. Le’Asha explains how the hip-hop duo Quincy Vidal started with classmate Caleb Eberhardt when DJ equi...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo “Kid” Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome Percy (she/they), a comics, gaming and literature devotee whose fandom began with Sailor Moon and grew through years of high school fandom blogging. Percy explains how New X-Men made Quentin Quire a favorite mutant, while Mo stands up for Beast and Ode claims Mystique and Storm. The conversation moves through DC’s Speed...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome Kai Grayson to a Black and Snerdy bonus episode, a screenwriter, producer, cosplayer and pro wrestler whose credits include Work It Out Wombats!, The Creature Cases and Genevieve's Playhouse. Kai arrives with blue hair from her Mollymauk Tealeaf cosplay from Critical Role's The Mighty Nein and traces h...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo “Kid” Licorish (@licorishislegit) open Episode 203 of Black and Snerdy with a weekend recap featuring Blerd by Nature, then break down Megan Thee Stallion’s debut at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Mo crowns her “Megan the Pegasus” for wearing the brand’s signature wings, while Ode points to Meg’s resurfaced 2011 tweet about one day walking that runway. Ode...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome D. Frie, founder of the SOLC Network and host of The Lando Cal Experience, to a Black and Snerdy bonus episode. D. Frie starts at the beginning: a February 1981 birth in Chicago delayed by the bad brakes on his father's Gremlin, then a St. Louis childhood on rollerblades in the Mighty Ducks era, with Nas&#...

Howard alum Keith Benn, host of the Build Different podcast on the Watts Productions Network, returns to Black and Snerdy for the first time since episode 50 to sit down with Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo “Kid” Licorish (@licorishislegit). Keith explains how a producer’s pitch for a politics podcast became Build Different, a show about perspective, Black love and late-night rabbit holes abo...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome S. Carlos Carbon, co-host of The Blerd Effect podcast and founder of Harlem Cinematic Universe, to this Black and Snerdy bonus episode. Carlos traces his fandom from West Baltimore, where Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series and Kevin Conroy's Batman were his way into DC Comics, to a...

Black and Snerdy clears out months of headlines in this bonus episode, as Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo “Kid” Licorish (@licorishislegit) record from opposite coasts, with Mo in Oakland and Ode at home in Brooklyn. Their one-word rapid fire round opens with #EmmysSoWhite after the 2026 Primetime Emmys, Jasmine Guy’s return as Whitley Gilbert in Netflix’s A Different World sequel, and ER Fig...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome Malcolm McFadden, the writer and founder behind Six Fifteen Comics and the voice of Yo! A Nerd, into the Black and Snerdy universe for a bonus conversation about building an indie comic book universe from the ground up. Malcolm explains that Six Fifteen Comics is named after the address of his late friend Kevi...

Black and Snerdy reaches episode 200 and its five-year anniversary as Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) open the archive for a night of clips, questions, and callbacks. They revisit the Episode 50 celebration with Keith, Ben, and Sam, reopen the "good host versus amazing host" debate, and compare their nerves now with how they felt at episod...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome Yusuf In The BUILDING of the Relationship Status Podcast for a bonus crossover episode covering podcasting, dating culture, and a deep rewatch of a 1990s Black cinema classic. Yusuf shares the origin of his seven-year-old show, launched in 2019 with co-founder CL after an earlier coaching podcast attempt, and...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome author, speaker, and Brace No More founder Casey Muze for a bonus conversation built around a phrase Casey Muze repeats after being told a music therapy idea was "stupid": this is stupid, but I'm going to do it. Casey Muze traces a path from a depressive episode in a Dallas, Texas apartment through discovering box breat...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome rock journalist and MP3s and NPCs founder Terrance Pryor for a conversation that traces his path from a college radio host at UCCR through booking tours and writing for NJ Underground and Examiner, all the way to launching his own outlet in June 2019 after years of frustration with industry access. Terrance re...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcomed Cleo and Callie of the Melanin Muses Podcast for a bonus episode built around Hamilton trivia, anime, and mental health advocacy. The conversation traced how Melanin Muses began during the pandemic, moved through the meaning behind the podcast's name via Disney's Hercules, and dug into how algorithm b...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) sit down with advertising veteran and author Mark Robinson to discuss his book Pitch Black: The Best Black Ads of the Past Fifty Plus Years. Robinson explains how he assembled a panel of Black creative directors, each assigned a specific decade, to select the ads that shaped the book rather than choosing them himself....

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome filmmaker and musical artist Marck Angel to discuss the making of his film Seraphim: The Motion Picture, tracing its origins back to the Trayvon Martin verdict and his 2019 album Angel Dust. Marck Angel walks through the film's COVID-disrupted production, the diverse cast and crew he assembled, and the spe...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome Dominic Jordon, founder of Slevin Studio, for a bonus episode of Black and Snerdy. Jordon traces his path from an early clothing brand and freelance photo and video gigs into founding Slevin Studio, drawing a comparison to the HBO series How to Make It in America along the way. He points to his manga-style photo book, T...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) are joined by stand-up comedian and film critic Rallo Boykins for a conversation that moves through his path from Howard University to stand-up comedy and Instagram film criticism, including his takes on I Got the Hook Up , Christopher Robin , and the difference between Joker and its sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux . The...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) sit down with author and world traveler Phil the Blerd Explorer to unpack his journey from a university job board ad to nine years teaching English in South Korea, and eventually a second career as a licensed ESL teacher in Atlanta, Georgia. Phil explains how teaching pay, employer-covered housing, and currency exchan...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo AKA Kid Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome Davies and Tiffany of the Anime Nokori podcast for a wide-ranging conversation on Black and Snerdy. Tiffany opens up about how Fruits Basket helped her rebuild her sense of self after ending an engagement she entered right out of high school, while Davies credits Princess Mononoke with expanding his imagination beyond...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome comedian and podcaster Kendrick Tucker, host of I Kennot with Kendrick Tucker , for a bonus episode built around reality TV debate and career advice. Kendrick traces his path from watching Unsolved Mysteries as a kid to launching his own podcast during COVID, and discusses topics from Real Housewives reunions to X-Men '...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo aka Kid Licorish (@licorishislegit) sit down with Coach Toci, founder of Mompreneur Academy, for a conversation on entrepreneurship, branding, and mental health. Coach Toci traces her hustle back to selling CDs and candy as a child, then walks through her path into motherhood in 2021, a home birth experience, and the realities of Black maternal and infant morta...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo AKA Kid Licorish (@licorishislegit) sit down with Keith and MarkDub of the Blerd-ish podcast for a wide-ranging bonus episode marking Blerd-ish's ten-year anniversary. The conversation traces the show's start around the release of Black Panther, its roots in an earlier basketball podcast called Basketball and BS, and its growth into a platform for independent B...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo AKA Kid Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome DJ Sir Daniel and Jay Ray of Queue Points podcast for a bonus crossover centered on Netflix's The Greatest Night in Pop. The conversation traces the recording of We Are the World, covering the roles played by Harry Belafonte, Ken Kragen, Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, and Quincy Jones in assembling the session, a...

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo AKA Kid Licorish (@licorishislegit) open with Marvel's announcement that David Johnson will play the new Black Panther in Black Panther III, working through Ryan Coogler's comments on the casting from a Griot article, the Chadwick Boseman legacy woven through Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and the online diaspora war discourse that followed. They also...