Ep 198: Children of Blood and Groan [lsQ5ZVKleHx]
Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) break down Tomi Adeyemi's public statement distancing herself from Paramount's Children of Blood and Bone adaptation on this episode of Black and Snerdy. The discussion covers Adeyemi's account of the production's toll on her, prior creator-versus-studio disputes involving The Witcher and Mark Hamill's experience with Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi, and concerns about the film's Nigerian setting being generalized alongside broader comparisons to Black Panther's Wakanda. Adeyemi's upcoming novel, Siren, also comes up, along with two differing takes on whether to see the film once it releases. The episode moves into a report that Anthropic destroyed millions of physical books after scanning them to train its AI models, referencing related court cases including Authors Guild v. Google, Bartz v. Anthropic, and Kadrey v. Meta alongside comparisons to Fahrenheit 451 and the Superman villain Brainiac. Tuskegee University's new dress code under president Dr. Mark A. Brown gets weighed against norms at Howard University and Georgetown, followed by a Howard University enrollment controversy involving roughly five hundred students. The episode closes with a lighter update on Law and Order's newest seasons arriving on Peacock and Netflix. Connect with the Snerdy Crew:Watch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: