Luse was raised in Farmington Hills, Michigan by parents from Detroit who met at Cass Technical High School.

"[3] Despite critical praise, Luse and Eddings reported struggling to persuade Gimlet of the worth of the stories they were telling and said they faced questioning their white colleagues did not.

[1] Friction grew when they supported a drive to unionize, in which one goal was to improve conditions for people of color working at Gimlet; the effort met with antagonism from some peers.

[1] The pair left the company in January 2020 and in March 2020 began appearing on a video streaming version of The Nod on the network Quibi.

CBC News said, "They dive into what's going on in the zeitgeist, and peel back the layers of Black culture that are rarely discussed in mixed company.

"[10] In The New York Times, Reggie Ugwu described it as "a playfully erudite conversation show about hot topics in Black culture (the history of 'passing,' Lawrence from 'Insecure')".