Bonus: A Good Black Time/Don't Trust Trees with Queen It Shall Be

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo AKA Kid Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome Tanisha Hall, founder of IAS Games and known as Queen It Shall Be, for a bonus episode of Black and Snerdy centered on tabletop games and Black joy. Hall traces her path from childhood game nights with Clue and The Game of Life to founding IAS Games after connecting with the Black Game Makers Association, and she explains why A Different World, rather than The Cosby Show, shaped her sense of HBCU culture given the Cosby Show controversy.

The three also swap notes on age-gap relationships, using shared references like Anita Baker and Lil Wayne's "Lollipop" as generational markers, and revisit an ongoing bit about sabotaging each other's Spotify algorithms. The group plays several rounds of Hall's YouTube trivia series Get to Guessing, moving through the Black Firsts, Black Cartoon Characters, and Black Singer Zodiac Signs categories, with answers touching on Phillis Wheatley, Gordon Parks, Sade, and Chaka Khan.

A later segment turns to frustrations with vague dating-app messaging and continued discourse around code switching, followed by a lighter round on what is bringing everyone joy, including news that Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested and face extradition to the UK and reports that George Zimmerman is unhoused. The episode closes with Hall sharing that she lost her home to a fallen tree and is raising funds to rebuild, along with details of her upcoming live game show event.

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