New podcast The Nod (Gimlet/iTunes) is a banger right from the start. “For as long as we can remember, we have been obsessed with the stories and the people who define what it is to be black,” says Brittany Luse. “That’s Black with a capital B,” adds co-host Eric Eddings.
Formerly hosts of For Colored Nerds, Luse and Eddings are having a whole lot of fun with their new venture. Each episode gets straight down to business – and is over in about 30 minutes. Their observations range from astute to utterly hilarious, as they make good on their promise to dive into “the biggest moments and most under-explored corners of black culture”.
Lurking in one of these corners is YouTube sex empress Tyomi, a woman who grew up writing erotic fan fiction about boyband B2K and can tell you how to surfboard á la Beyoncé (apparently “it’s just cowgirl in a bathtub”). Meanwhile, Eddings’ detailed takedown of Shawn Blazington’s YouTube conspiracy theory about Beyoncé…
