'The Nod' Creators Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings Talk Turning their podcast into Television Gold with Quibi

Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings creators of popular podcast The Nod Talk Turning their podcast into Television Gold with Quibi.

Brittany and Eric from the knod. I'm sure listeners will recognize the nod. You guys have been doing this for a long time. And yes, you have right and that's one of the things you talk about a lot on your podcast is how long you guys have been friends. And I love that about you all. I love your rapport and I want to start there. I know you have shared the story before, but let's just start with how you all built your relationship prior to the podcast.

Yeah, I mean, honestly, it's just, you know, kind of regular degular friends, you know, we, we met, we met, at Howard University, what feels like forever ago, but it's actually probably about 15 years ago at this point, and, and yeah, we just met at a party and kind of and kind of, you know, fell in as friends do--first within a circle of friends. 

And then you have that big transition, where, you know, you graduate from college, and everybody's kind of like, you know, moving to different places. And I think that's actually probably when Britney and I got closer like we were close in college, but definitely after graduation, like when we really started our relationship because we were just trying to figure it out. You know, it's like, do I take this job? This doesn't feel right and like life is a little crazy. No, but I think we were lucky to be able to have each other and our circle of friends was also really tight. So we just just stayed in touch and then as life continued to happen, I think it brought us kind of close together Brittany at one point  move to New York. a while, to stay stay with me for a little bit 

and yeah, six months on the futon. Yeah, yeah. [laughs]

Yeah.

But yeah, I mean, it each point I think we kind of turn to each other. And so you know, I will say like, it was a different...... it was definitely a different journey when we started when we kind of decided how to decided to work together creatively. But you know, we had like, known each other for so long at that point. It was strictly not like that knew of a process because we knew the person it was just we didn't know the work that we had to do.

Yeah, we didn't know the work that we had to do and we were figuring the work out along the way. It was like podcasting is very much a thing. I don't know if you've experienced this RaVal, but like, podcasting is a thing. I think for the most part where you are learning as you're going, you're like, I'm gonna do it, and you're like, I'm just gonna talk, we're gonna record it, we'll put it out, I'm just gonna do it. Everyone's gonna love it and it will  be amazing. And that is not how it is. is not how it is. But I do think that the process of like learning to do something creative together, learning to be accountable to another person, in a creative endeavor, and also learning the work side of each other, I think was also definitely it has been eye opening experience. We've definitely grown closer and continue to grow as friends in those ways as well.

I love that I love that you're friends and that you can work together. And I think that's something that's so important. Essentially, you guys are producing partners at this point, right? Because you've transitioned from the podcast producing that to now producing a television show. So I would love to get your thoughts on how you ... How do you choose the right producing partner? So many times we see people go into business, we've seen major directors and producers, of these companies have great success then split up and kind of it become a nasty sort of thing. How do you make sure that you're selecting a friend that you can actually work with? Or how do you isolate  those characteristics?

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