Bonus: The First Black Man to Survive in Space with D. Frie (The Lando Cal Experience)

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's "Project Windows" as the soundtrack and neighborhood guys asking about Green Lantern back issues. The three trade notes on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, One Piece in both its anime and live-action forms, and the night each of them gave up on the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender movie.

He also explains his show's name, crediting Lando Calrissian as the first Black man to survive in space after Yaphet Kotto in Alien, and shares the story that Billy Dee Williams was once positioned to replace Harrison Ford's Han Solo. From there, D.

Frie breaks down the SOLC Network, named for Straight Outta Locash from CB4, and its twelve shows, including I Only Listen to 90s Music, Womanology, Everyone Needs an Aquarius with its Surviving Diddy series, and Hip-Hop What Ifs, which has tackled Canibus and LL Cool J, Lauryn Hill, Eminem and Dr. Dre, and Tupac and Death Row.

He gets candid about editing, YouTube analytics, and why consistency beats polish. Ode then hosts a Star Wars edition of Emoji Me, Senpai, where Mo and D.

Frie race to name Chewbacca, Palpatine, Jar Jar Binks, Jabba the Hutt, Mace Windu and more from three emojis each. The hour closes with a mental health check-in, gripes about YouTube monetization and MTA subway etiquette, and praise for A Different World, Mahershala Ali's new film, and JoJo's Steel Ball Run.

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