Hey, DeMarcus, how you doing? Hello, Jerry.
How are you doing? I'm doing well.
Welcome to another exciting episode of Black of Black of
Black Geek Energy. We decided episode yesterday, so
I don't know. You going back-to-back?
Did you miss me like do? You back-to-back.
Like what's going on? I don't understand.
This is crazy. I was I was excited to report an
episode again are. You right.
OK, cool. I agree.
Me too. OK, DeMarcus, that's all this
week. Like you said, every week a
black geek energy. How was your previous couple of
hours? I mean, I was going to say, I
was like, is that really like, why don't, why don't we say,
what do you have planned for the for the upcoming week?
How about that? For the upcoming week I don't
got nothing planned applying to these jobs, looking at these job
rejections and I being mad at those and then hunting them down
on LinkedIn to tell them how stupid their process is mostly.
OK. What about?
You well, we have, well, you know, I got to work all week.
I'm, I'm, I'm back. I'm gonna be back to playing
pool on the 18th or on Wednesday.
Season is back. Well, the pool is it would Pool
has been back. I had just not been playing.
We were like in the middle of the season.
That took some time off. I have Daggerheart this
Thursday, most likely I. Played Daggerheart on Friday.
Oh nice, how'd you like it? Well, you know, I've played
before. Yeah, but how did you like
playing on Friday? Well, I play every other Friday
with Neil, so God. And yeah, it's, it's fine.
It's fun. It's really, really fun.
I feel like playing with Neil is like make leagues will like make
any game fun. Like any tabletop, it's fun
playing with you. Yeah, it it, it feels like the
big leagues over there, like, like they have this person who
is just there for the audio and you know that 'cause he's he,
he's pre recording it to edit. It's appearing online.
So he has one place that is just doing all of the editing in the
background and making sure that nobody crazy comes in.
And it's a whole production over there, child.
So I'm just happy to be a part of my little self.
Are you going to watch our thing when it goes up?
Yeah, of course I am. No.
You're not. I don't believe it 'cause you
never watched the Marvel thing. I didn't watch the Marvel thing.
I never, like watched it. I didn't finish it.
Yeah, there. Well, now I didn't finish.
It yeah, we didn't finish it. There's only two episodes so.
Yeah. So yeah, like I'll watch it and
I'll try to, I'll like, I'm gonna try to watch it at work.
So I could like really have like the time to do it, you know?
They let you watch this stuff at work now.
Like I can put it on my phone. Oh yeah, it's a new.
Supervisor or something because there is an issue.
Before I mean shit is like chilled out.
I mean I I care less. It is chilled out.
Shit has chilled out and I care less so and I think it's I don't
know, man, I don't know. It could have been just like
like a power move when he first started.
Like I got to, I got to show this guy I'm in charge.
And it kind of felt like that he was, he was doing that with
everybody. He's like, I'm trying.
I got to show everybody I'm in charge and that you got to do
what I say. And I'm like, you know, one
person got one person got let go.
You know, a few people, a few other people cried in there, one
on ones. Yeah, so say what now?
Were you in there? When they cried, no, it's their
one-on-one. It's their one-on-one with the
manager. So how you know they was crying?
They told me about it. These are like white girls.
Everyone I work with is not white, but I am the only black
man so I'll let you do the information what you will I.
Mean that's not an answer. That is an answer.
I feel like that gives you a very.
No, like a good answer be a yes or no.
So are you, are you not going to say yes or no to my question?
Of the two of the people who I know for sure know they were not
white. OK.
Yeah. Oh, wait, maybe.
No, no, she wasn't white either. Not, not American.
White. What the What's American White?
Like they like they identify as white from America.
DeMarcus, let's not be xenophobic.
White is white like I. Don't.
How's that being xenophobic? Because you're, you're
classifying people by their country and by their race.
So it's like something else. I'm not asking about their
country. I I know that.
You're asking what their skin looks like.
I know that they're probably not America because America is a
melting pot. Everybody's from somewhere else,
especially if you're white, because they're the original
colonizers. So it's probably it's, it's so
more than 9 times out of 10, they're not from America.
You're breaking up, You're breaking up.
So I, I don't I I I don't get why you would say that.
Like does that make them any less of a white person?
They still can't say the N word. I don't.
I don't think there is a a a, I don't think there is a a a
lessened level of whiteness. You can have to say the N word,
that is. I think that's more about being
black than it is about not being white.
OK, but you classified them as American whites, which means
nothing. I didn't say they were American
whites. I said they are not OK, I said
they do. As a matter of fact, I said they
do not identify themselves as American whites.
Whereas. Oh man, no.
No. No, no I don't.
Care 1 is like you're why? Where?
Where were they born? I think they were all born in
America. I don't know.
So how are they? They not American.
I said they're not American white.
How, how, how, how they were born here.
And I said and I said they do not identify themselves as.
Oh my God, do you work with fools and idiots?
How are they not American if they were born here in?
America, I did not say they did not identify as American.
I said they did not identify as American whites.
What does that mean, DeMarcus? They don't feel like they they
don't relate to George Washington.
I guess I don't fucking know. I'm not.
Like they never relate to George Washington.
George Washington? I'm a black American.
Don't you talk to these? People, Monday through Friday,
8:00 to 5:00, George Washington. Came hang up.
No, George Washington came from Europe.
They came from Europe. They're more like George
Washington than anybody else here.
Bro I just said I do not know. I made a guess.
My guess was not satisfactory. I don't care.
No. 'Cause I'm a black American, no.
Period. Your guess it it wasn't about
being satisfactory or not satisfactory enough.
It was about you not explaining it.
I would have confused and I have questions.
I'm confused. Well then, go ask them.
Go finally. Why would I?
Ask them when I'm asking you you because.
I don't know, Jared. Who are you getting mad at?
I'm. I'm not mad, but you ain't.
Yelling at me. You can't wait.
I'm not yelling, you're yelling. You're yelling at me.
You've been yelling at me for a minute, Jerry.
I'm not yelling, you're yelling. No, now you're not yelling.
Never yelling. You were yelling at me.
We can't even get past the how your week was 'cause.
We ain't 'cause we just had an episode yesterday.
OK, So what are we saying something about work and white
people saying it in Word and you talk Sunday through Friday?
You love to twist some shit up. That is what was said.
Anyway. So what else do you have planned
for this week, Paul and. Daggerheart maybe?
Maybe Daggerheart. I got to see if the group wants
to cause our regular meeting was last Thursday, but yeah.
So y'all don't have scheduled meetings?
We do, I said our regular meeting was last Thursday but I
wasn't here so also. Wait, aren't you the DM?
Yeah, so we didn't play 'cause I wasn't there.
OK, OK, OK, so Daggerheart pool. You.
Said yesterday that you were going to see a movie.
I said I might see a movie. Which one?
I didn't go see a movie. I downloaded Pokémon instead.
Red. Fire red.
Yes, Sir. Yeah.
And I chose Charmander as my starter.
Really. I was really torn.
I was really torn between Squirrel and Charmander 'cause
sometimes like when it's I I never had growing up, I never
had red or blue version. I had yellow.
So I started with Pikachu. So it was, you know, not none of
the all of that was neither here nor there for me having to
choose between those 3 and I but I think I think the first time I
had fire red, I chose Squirtle and this time I chose
Charmander. So I'm.
I'm always the Bulbasaur. I played through that game
multiple times. I have multiple says but I've
always did bubble sore. I mean sometimes I play through
with Charmander but my main one was bubble sore.
I bubble sore was the one I was like, I definitely don't want a
bubble sore so. Why?
And this is he just always felt like the weakest 1.
The Mic is the first gym. Battle is a water gym.
No, the first. In there.
OK same thing. You're walking in there with a
fire type Pokémon? How is the weakest 1?
It's it's it's it is the best choice for the first two gym.
Sure it is the IT is a smart choice.
Now, I won't say the best. It is a smart choice for the
beginning of the game. If you're thinking about getting
past the first two gems, OK, I will not argue with that.
OK. So I do not think the in the
long game I've never felt threatened by a Venusaur.
OK, well you I think played with Razor Leaf.
Razor, I think by and large. Most powerful attack in the game
that you get especially early on what you doing?
I'm looking something up. Now, Razor Leaf is the best
attack in the whole game. You can't go wrong with Rice
Leaf, especially at the beginning.
And Rice Leaf comes in very, very soon, like UTM out of all
those other abilities. Is that for Razor Leaf?
And then we get some beam, it's over.
Sorry, nobody worried about the damn Sunbeam and if.
I worry about no firewheel you. Mean flamethrower.
I think flamethrower is the equivalent of Sunbeam but the
the weakest Pokémon typing is ice but the next one up is grass
so. The weakest Pokémon type.
Yeah. What, what what the weakest
Pokémon typeface on who? Yeah, this is this is Reddit.
Reddit and. Get off the Internet please.
It's here because that's I hate how you say the weakest Pokémon
tight when it's all balanced like you say the weakest talking
about tight. I don't think so.
I I think it's definitely not balanced because sometimes have
like a lot more weaknesses than others.
I wasn't like talking. I will say Grant, I didn't learn
this until like I was playing like Pokémon and maybe like I
wasn't bold. Oh, my bad.
Go ahead then. You say the weakest Pokémon type
is ice. The weakest thing in D&D is
magic users. I never said that is.
When all of this stuff is balanced to contradict each.
Other I never said that the weakest classes are are the
magic classes in D and DI just don't play them often.
And I thought you said they were weak and I don't like them.
OK. You said they were weak and
they're bad for beginners. I, I did not say they were weak.
I did say that they are a they are not the best choice for
beginners. I don't remember.
Maybe I said bad and I I could I'll I'll I'll I'll allow that.
I said it's a bad choice for beginners because are they're
complex. I mean, I started with a magic
user. I think for a certain type of
person to a spell Class, A spell casting class is a great idea
for a certain type of person. Do you think I'm that person?
I mean the history shows us that you are that certain type of
person that chose a magic class. Like with the your first your
first time playing, your first time playing DND chose spell
casting class. How was it for you?
Was it fun? Easy.
Oh, it was fun. But like I I, I just, it seems
like people who don't respect the spell casters, they just
don't like to read. It seems that reading trips them
up with spell casters. They aren't thorough in their
reading comprehension schools. But yes, Pokémon, you chose char
and then like you know, you can always build out your party like
what was about the only thing that's going to be in your
party? No, it's not, but a lot of times
your starters like your main, right?
Yeah. I mean, there's always what was
or you always got to be at a piggy, you know?
Yeah, definitely call me a piggy, definitely call it a
ratatat. But I I feel like I catch
ratatat just for like completion.
I don't really plan to use ratatat after like getting
through the Veridian Forest. Yeah, where you?
Get and then like I I think I catch my rat.
Usually I catch my ratatat. I make it evolve into eradicate.
I think that's like at level 16. And then I'm like, all right,
into the box you go, because I'm not fucking with you.
Like now since they got the 150 core they are all the way up to
like 1000 now. I would still want to play like
I want to play the new one, but I still want my Bobasaur, my PG,
my MU too I. Feel like I feel like my like my
life starting team changes with the generation because it
definitely was, you know, like PG who else?
Like a a good little mankey. That was I used to always I love
to have a mankey on the team. That's what I would.
That's what I get for the the rock gym and then I have a
Pikachu for the water gym coming next.
So. What is your starting 5?
My starting 6. Right starting Starting 6 dream.
Starting 6. I have my Charmander.
I have a Caterpie. Dream starts like.
Oh, oh, the ideal. The ideal, Yeah.
I want me a fur alligator. I want a Dragonite in there.
I want. Maybe I'll go like one
legendary. They could be as many
legendaries as you want. It's your no, because I don't
like the I don't like the use. I don't like the spam legendary.
It's not fun for me and it and it doesn't feel realistic
because I like the you know, when I play when I play Pokémon,
I'm trying to like role play an actual trainer, an actual
trainer. They wouldn't you know, ain't no
trainer for real. Ain't no average Joe smoke
trainer going to have like 5 legendaries in in in four of
them in the box. You know I mean.
They could be gifted. Like you mean 1 exceptional
trainer? He might have one legendary.
OK, so for alligator. Dragon Knight.
Dragon Knights Charizard. No, not Charizard.
This is tough, man. This is tough 'cause I can't
remember at this point. I'll do mine.
What is it? It is Venusaur.
Meganium. Me too Venusaur, me too
Articuno, Zapdos, Maltras, and I'll just throw one in there and
I'll say Jinx. So loaded up with legendaries.
I mean those are my favorite ones.
That's fair. I'm not put my favorite ones.
In hey man, it's fair. I would love a Gengar on the
team. Oh, that's, that's good.
That's good. Yeah, I like AI like AI like a
nice gengar good ghost. Mm hmm mm hmm.
I'm not sure what flying type would be.
Maybe piggy eye, maybe you. Said Dragonite.
Dragonite is dragon, dragon and flying.
But yeah, yeah, I don't know. I think on this some more I
won't be like a oh emperors for an electric ties.
That's. Emperors, Emperors, I gotta look
these up. 'Cause you know all the new
stuff. I don't know.
Nothing new. Stuff these are these are both
these Pokémon are from like the original 151 and then the Joto.
I just thought it once from the song Chad.
I don't know these new. Songs.
Only the ones from the song. There was a Pokémon song for
JoJo. That must have been when it
moved to Cartoon Network on Netflix.
I do not know that. OK, well, I'll let you think of
that. I might ask you that at the end,
but now's the town where we do our But You Are segment.
So this segment is sponsored by our good pals at Movie Pass
DeMarcus, can you please tell them about MoviePass Silver
Plates? Yeah, man, Movie Pass is a
subscription based service and it is meant to make movie going
cheaper and more affordable and more accessible for the average
person. And the way it does that is that
it allows you to purchase a subscription where you will
receive a certain number of points per month.
And you can use those points to purchase your movie tickets.
And you know, for starting as low as like $10 you can get I
think what like 30 or so points, 34 points per month.
And you can, you split those points up so you see as much 2
to 3 movies a month. I'll say it's got to be I'll,
I'll keep it conservative. 2 to 3 movies.
It's. Got to be 300 because a movie is
like. Eight points.
Yeah, no movies like 30 points, right?
I think it's when you go see it. I think if you see it like pre
opening night, your first person in the theater type shit, then
yeah, it is like 30 points. And actually, you know, I
haven't, I haven't checked out this math in a while 'cause I
know this. This math is when I went with
like when I very first started MoviePass like a while ago like
when it came back, but I'm not sure that math checks out.
Y'all go go go check out MoviePass check out the how many
points you get in that first tier and let me know.
Because when I was doing it, I do remember I was seeing 2 to 3
movies per month. And that would be, but you know,
I'm, I'm seeing movies in like Thursday night, you know,
something that's been out for a while, maybe a week or two.
I'm seeing movies on like Tuesday afternoon right when I,
I get off work. And then I might go see like one
movie on like a Saturday afternoon while I'm out running
my errands and shit. How was the ping pong movie with
that? I didn't see.
That ballet and opera was low form of art.
Say what? He said that ballet and opera
were low forms of art. That I I saw, I think I saw that
on Instagram. So you didn't watch his little
movie That's up for Oscar tonight?
The ping pong joint. Whatever.
No, I didn't. Are you going to watch the
Oscars? Probably not.
Why not? You're not going to watch
sinners get. Snuffed.
Yeah, that's what we're all thinking.
And when I say we, I'm in the black community.
Did you hear about what happened at the Baptist with them?
You don't listen to the news. I.
Didn't. Really didn't hear anything.
Michael B Jordan and I forgot his name from Sinners.
Is it? I want to say Leroy Johnson, but
that's not it. It is Lynn.
Let me just go to cast. His name is Delroy.
Delroy Linda. They were on stage presenting
something and this guy was Tourette's.
Called them the. Oh, I did.
I did see that. I did see that.
He he said something, he said
something. He said the N word.
But I'm glad that they had the N double ACP awards 2 weeks after.
Got some applause for who they are.
But yeah, I am going to really, really need for them to do
better. The Baptist, you know that
because they cut out when he said when he called Alan coming
to F word, they cut out with other presenters were saying
that the war in Iran or Israel or Palestine didn't need to
happen. But they chose not to cut out
when he was called, when they were called the N word.
And I thought that was just funny.
That's crazy. Yeah, that was crazy.
And it is, but you know what? It's always like that.
So I'm not surprised. So like, like they like even on
Instagram, like a lot of that stuff gets like a lot of that
kind of like political stuff gets flagged or it's it's, you
know, it's like taking down as like, oh, you can't say like you
can't say white, you can't say, you know, can't say shit about
Israel or whatever. But the N word be popping up all
over the place. Yeah, alright, DeMarcus.
So what do you have to put them on to this week?
I'm gonna put y'all on to a show that I watched quite a bit of,
but not in order, and it was called 1923.
It is the 23. It is the prequel to
Yellowstone. And what made me want to watch
it is I saw a clip from the show and it was, you know, back in
1923. I suppose they were I.
Mean. That's what the show's called
you. Know they were rounding up the
Native American children, women specifically and putting them in
this specific instance, women, the little girls in putting them
in like these Catholic schools for girls and teaching them how
to be real women. And they would Canada or this
was this is in no, it takes place in like Montana, Wyoming,
like the Great Plains States. And these girls was getting the
the getting, getting the shit beat out of so like, and these
are and so these are like nuns. This is like a Catholic school.
So like nuns, a father that type of deal.
And so, you know, Catholic schools are known for like, oh,
you get the answer wrong. We smacking them knuckles.
And so like the clip I saw is like this nun was like ask this
girl the answer to a question and she was answering the
questions but she got like 1 little part wrong.
She said alka line instead of alkali and like rap.
And she like wrapped them hands and was like it kept on wrapping
them for like dumb little shit. And you could tell like this
nuns didn't like this girl. And then the girl she's a Native
American girl. So you know, she's like look,
don't you know, I guess she was raised like don't take no shit
off these people. And so she jumped on this
fucking nun head and like beating the fuck out of her.
And I was like, oh, I was like, I got to see what else happens
from this shit. And so and I'll and I'll go
ahead and flesh out the rest of the scene for you.
What happens is they both get sent to like the Father's
office, which is the principal I guess of the school.
Headmaster, the Nun and the Little.
Girl, the nun and the little girl, 'cause they, you know,
'cause the little girl got jumped on her head.
So the other nuns pulled her off and they sent them both to the
principal's office. And the nuns trying to tell
like, oh, like this girl, you got to beat these savages.
You got to beat the savagery out of them.
And the, the father's like like, like, like he basically he's
like, huh, He's like, I can see why she jumped on you because I
can like, I can see all the bruises across her fucking hands
when you was smacking the fuck out of her.
And then he's like, he's like, alright, sister, put your hands
on my desk right here. And so he pulls out his own
paddle and he's like, recite this verse or whatever.
And so as soon as she started going, he's like rap start
smacking the fuck out of her hands like faster sister, and
then she like messes up a word. He'll like smack it like
basically paying her back and and the girl.
Was right there. Yeah, the girl was right there
watching. And the girl and the, the, the
Native American girl is eventually like, like, yo-yo,
like stop, like stop, stop, stop hitting her, stop hitting her.
Like, like it's, it's OK. Like not it's OK, but like
that's enough. And and he's like, he's like,
he's like, look, he's like, you know, the girl you was beating
is asking for mercy for you, But it takes a turn because he's
like, he's like, look, he then he talks to the neighbor girl.
The neighbor American girl says, I understand why you jumped on
her. He's like, but if you jump on
her, everybody else going to jump on all the other nuns.
And I can't have that shit at my school.
So put your hands on this wall. And then he starts spanking her
with the damn paddle. And I was like, this is that
kinky Catholic shit that everybody be talking about this
the the show is about much more more than this as a whole.
But that was the scene that made me like want to get into it.
I was like, why the fuck? I was like damn.
Like he like she beating that bitch ass.
I got to see why this is happening.
Well. Now that sounds kind of
interesting. Right.
That's an episode that happens in episode 1 too.
So, you know, you start episode 1 and you'll see it.
Wow. That sounds interesting. 1923,
the prequel to Yellow Star. That's on Paramounts, right?
And it's also, and there's they, they have a mini series called
like 1883 or something like that that is a prequel to 1923.
So. And what's that about?
I'm not sure I think it. I think it, I think they are all
generally about like this Great Plains region and these people
like settling this region called the Yellowstone region and like
the families that live there and them trying to, you know, just
make a life for themselves basically.
OK. Because they're ranchers in this
well, in 1923, everybody like all the families like out there
are ranchers and the and the big things like the war is over.
And I think they mean World War One, Like World War One is over.
So livestock ain't selling like that.
So they got all these cows and sheep and like not enough land
and grass to like graze them on. Alright, the mic is well you are
watching Catholic nines and priests beat up on young school
children. Girls.
I've been watching Fiona and Cake which is the second series
of the of Adventure Time spin off that shows what happens when
you go into mind of Finn and you make that real.
So I'm watching viewing and Cake is much more laid back than
rulers getting smacked on people's hands.
But it's also complex. It stars our friend who played
Lando Carissian, and he's a rapper.
This is America. Dallas Gambino, David Donald
Glover. Yeah, yeah, it stars him as a
gay man. Well.
A gay cartoon man, and it's very, very fun.
He of course sings as the creators of this series does
have songs scattered throughout there, so he of course sings a
lot about the love of his life, which is a white man.
Of course. Feeling a Cake is a great little
show. I remember I watched it while I
was at the Chinese buffet and and I stayed there and I got my
$40 worth of. Food buffet that day.
So feeling a cake now going back.
So 1923, you said you're watching this out of order.
I watched it out of, I just like, 'cause I saw that clip and
I was like, and I looked online and I was like, what episode is
this clip in? And it gave me the wrong answer
like twice. And then I just finally started
from episode 1 and I saw, well, so I need to see, I saw a bunch
of other stuff 'cause I watched like at the end of this ordeal,
I watched like a three whole episodes.
They're each hour long. So I was like, I was like, this
is not a bad show. It's like, and it's like a
really calm show. So calm, like, like it's, it's
like, it's kind of like like the pace of the show and only the
pace and nothing else is kind of like a night of the Seven
Kingdoms where it's like every episode ain't like knocking you
off your feet. Alright, the market stand
activity for today. OK, let's do it.
Excuse me, let me just pull it up here.
I'm on the computer. Alright.
Oh, that's it. OK, great.
Alright. And if it if it is your first
time joining us, which it should not be, the way gangs work here
on Black Geek Energy, DeMarcus is the master of the games.
He is the judge, jury and executioner.
He's the creator, the alpha and Omega when it comes to Black
Geek Energy games. He decides the winners, the
losers, the right answers, the wrong answers, what questions
there even are and who gets asked the questions.
So today's game, I'm going to call it It's electric.
And what I'm going to do exactly, and what I was going to
do, what I'm going to do for you, Jerry, is I am going to
describe a power set for you, OK?
And you are going to have to tell me which black superhero
this power set belongs to, OK? This will be a moderately
difficult game because these power sets can and or may be
very similar because, as we know, all black superheroes have
electricity powers. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
OK. So you're going to have to
really pay attention to how these electricity powers show
up. Or you know what, it might not
be that hard because some of their some distinct things like
if they're 3 powers, like one of them is always distinct enough
to where you can be like oh that is this.
Person And is this Jess? Oh, excuse me, is this Jess?
Am I boring you, Jared? Yeah, like God, every, every
time, every time. Is this Jess comic book or is
this like comic book, anime, TV or?
Just comic books. Just comic books.
DC, Marvel. Oh, OK, so I mean I should get
it right? Yeah, you should be fine.
OK, let's do.
It alright, Are you ready, Buggy Woogy Woogy.
That's from Princess and the Frog.
Number one. I'm.
Still thinking it's. Electric #1 Generates and
controls electricity. Can absorb electrical energy.
Uses electricity to enhance strength and flight.
Generates and controls. You said flight, so it's not
Static Shock. Well, Static Shock just upgraded
his powers in the latest comic book, but that's in the future.
Do you want a hint? I do have hints.
Not yet, I use flights so it's not storm.
I'm thinking black lightning maybe?
You said generates and controls. Right.
It could be actually Electro because Electro also what you
said superheroes, so it's not super villains.
OK, I'm still thinking static shock.
I'm not static shock black lightning.
Electro isn't black. You talking about Electro from
spider man? Yeah, Electro from Spider Man.
Is he black? No, he's not black in the
comments. OK.
Let's see, I'm really thinking black lightning.
OK, is that the one you want to go with Final answer.
You say generates and controls light and what else?
Generates and controls electricity.
Can absorb electrical energy. Uses electricity to enhance
strength in flight. Yeah, white lightning, that's
what you. Wanted does all that stuff.
Is that, is that the one you're going with?
Yeah, I'm. Gonna go with black.
Lightning, all right, that's correct.
It is black lightning all right #2 can summon lightning storms,
manipulates weather, can fly using wind currents.
Storm. Absolutely.
That is storms. That is one of the easier ones,
all right. Controls electromagnetic energy.
Can generate electric blasts. Can ride on metal objects like a
flying surfboard. This is sounding like static
shots. Shotic shock.
That's who you're gonna go with. Static Shock.
Yes. Virgil Hawkins.
Static Shock. That is correct, Jared.
OK, alright, alright. We.
Got there, by the way, who else? Now he's starting to get tricky.
What I did not say earlier is that all of the heroes in this
game will have electric power, so just be mindful of that.
Are are are, are they all black? They are all black, OK.
OK, OK. All right, superhuman strength
and durability, unbreakable skin.
That's pretty much it. Where's the electric powers?
I just said that all of these people will not have electric
powers, but the but they will all be black.
OK, so Luke Cage. That is Luke Cage, correct?
All right. Enhance strength and agility.
Genius level intellect. Enhance strength.
I mean, this is sounded like Mr. Terrific kind of.
I didn't know he had a hand strength and a jealousy.
Maybe it's like Olympic level 'cause what's it enhanced by?
Enhanced strength. And when I think of enhanced, it
is more than what the IT is more than what a a, a person, a
normal human can accomplish. Like no matter how much you
train, no matter how given athlete you are, you will not
have enhanced strength. You will only have really good
human strength. Yeah, like Olympics so.
I think that's just really good human strength.
Yeah. And I don't so it was enhanced
by something outside of him self.
That's what you're saying? I'm, I am saying enhanced
strength, like let me think, let me try to think of somebody like
Luke Cage has enhanced strength in my opinion.
Because he was a scientific project for the government while
he was in prison, correct? Sure, sure.
OK, Let me try to think of somebody else.
Wonder Man has enhanced strength.
Right, because he controls the ions.
Yes, but would you say that his enhanced strength is due to the
ion stuff or does he just have in hand strength and can do the
ion stuff? Literally do that due to the ion
stuff when he was a a scientific project with Baron Zemo.
I didn't know that. I didn't know he did a science
project. OK, but anyway, what is your
guess for #5? I'm still stuck on what does
enhance. Does enhance mean something
outside of yourself? I'm not sure.
I'm not sure how Marvel defines that.
How do you define it? You're the alpha and the Omega
here. Is that what you said?
I just defined it. I just defined it and gave 2
examples. So.
So according to your examples, it does mean that it is outside
of yourself. That's not what I thought it
meant, but apparently the 2 examples I gave they are they
were enhanced by something outside of themselves.
OK. So in this example that we're
saying this question is the enhancement outside of yourself.
Are you asking for a hint? Sure.
OK, because I I, I I'm not getting this question.
Yes, in this in this case it the enhancement does come from
something else. He was not born with enhanced
strength. He has a hand strength and a
genius level into like anything else.
Now you want another hint. No, no.
I mean, is there anything else in the question?
Is there anything else in the question?
OK, I'm thinking Black Panther. I'm thinking Goliath, but you
did say can grow, enhance, strengthen to this level
intellects. So yeah, I'm like Panther,
'cause you all said Dexterity, right?
I did not say anything about oh, I said agility.
Yeah, agility. Yeah.
OK, so Black Panther. You're going with Black Panther
then? Yes.
Alright, that is correct. OK, it is the Black Panther.
Alright, number six spider like agility, camouflage ability,
bioelectric venom blasts. That's Miles Morales, spider
man. Correct if.
I were to say Spider Man. I would have got that.
I should've just said Spider Man.
You would have also gotten it correct had you just said spider
man. You know he goes by something
else in the cartoon. Manipulates antimatter Who?
Monster Rallies goes by. Something.
I don't think so, I think. Yeah, he does.
He does. It's like Jolt or.
Look are some. The Spider Man, His Amazing
Friends. That's on Disney Plus now.
Oh alright #7 Manipulates antimatter energy, super
strength and durability, flight and energy blasts.
God, I I know who this is. He wears a blue costume.
He's older. He was in the 1950s and we're
underground by the president. I'm forgetting his name.
He married a white woman. He was made by Kevin Grievous.
He's power is antimatter. I can't remember his name.
I just said that. I just said it was antimatter.
Great. I know who you're talking about.
You know I know what you're talking about.
I cannot remember him. Why do I think it's like Bill
something? Oh, the blue Marvel.
The Blue Marvel. Oh, OK, I'm gonna say Bill.
What's his name? You think like beta Ray Bill?
Adam Ray. Yeah, yeah.
No, Bill is the first name of Goliaths.
Goliath. Yeah.
It's like Bill something. Oh I got squeeze alright #8
Cybernetic body with advanced technology.
Energy cannons and electrical weapon systems can interface and
control machines. Cyborg.
That is correct. I don't even know Cyborg's.
Oh no, I don't know Cyborg's real name.
Victor Stone, Yes. Yes, yes.
All right, bionic arm with super strength can generate electrical
shocks. Skilled martial artist.
I don't know if that's, I'm hesitant to say that one because
it's not really a superpower or anybody can learn martial arts,
no. But it breaks it down.
I'm taking Misty Knight. That is correct.
It is Misty Knight. Alright, the last one here.
Mystical magic, sorcery and spirit summoning.
Supernatural combat abilities. Mystical magic.
Magical magic, Jared.
You just said magic three times. So mystical magic sorceress
abilities. Sorcery and spirit summoning.
OK, so you. Said magic.
Magic. And guess what?
More magic. Who's this person?
Is his magic more in the home of necromancy?
Are you asking for a hint? It's Doctor Voodoo.
I'm just going to Doctor Voodoo. No, it could be blood wind.
Hold on, hold on, hold on. It could be blood wind.
It could be blood Wind. You said visco, magic, sorcery
and spirit. OK, you said spirit, Sonny.
I'm going to think. Yeah, it's it's Doctor Voodoo.
I'm going to give it to you, but his name is Brother Voodoo.
His name was Doctor Voodoo on the comic book.
His comic baby was source was Supreme I.
Was just about to say, was that when he took over the Doctor
Strange comic? Yeah.
So OK cool. So his name is Brother Voodoo in
HP? His name is Jericho Jerome, his
brother is the Brother Voodoo. That's it.
All right. But you got them all right.
100%, bro, 100% congratulations. Yeah, I think this is your first
100% in a while. Well.
You be cheating. And on this episode, we're going
to talk about this whole conundrum.
We're black people in comics and black people only having
electric powers today. There's been a lot of electric
black characters. In fact, it's a weird pattern in
cop pop culture. You know these black superheroes
end up with lightning energy or electricity based commerce, and
once you start naming them, it's hard to ignore the trend.
Black lightning static black Vulcan juice, soul power.
That's juice. So Juice was a homage to Black
Lightning in the Super fans, no? That's and then soul power.
Come on. Injustice League cartoon Soul
Power was a pastiche of black lightning in Sex Shock.
There's also, of course, Storm Miles, Bumblebee.
Even in the Hidden Cloud Village, The 4th right cards,
Killer Bee, and of course Vaults.
See the whole damn, The whole damn Village Hidden in the
Clouds. Yes, and vaults in the kind of
book Irredeemable. Did you ever read Irredeemable?
I remember I was reading Irredeemable, Irreplaceable and
Vince Bar at the same time. Those are great books.
But yeah, yeah. Do you see the trend?
Like why do you think there are so many black characters at
electric powers? That's a good question.
I have no idea why that would even be a thing.
It's. A thing?
So do you not think it's a thing?
I mean, it's it is a thing. I definitely agree, but why?
But like, what is the point of that?
Like where did and I, you know it and I and I guarantee is
something like like one of the early these black characters had
electric powers. So let's just give them all
electric powers. It was black lightning.
Black lightning. Well actually it may have been
storm cause black lightning came two years after storm came in
1977. Storm came in 1975 and Black
Lightning kicked it off for everybody, especially for DC.
And Storm she did, but she was mostly in the comments back then
when she appeared. She was mostly just a nudist and
free. She didn't really use her powers
that much, you know? So she was just, she was just a
fan service. Kinda.
Yeah. Well, some people think that
lightning is visually dramatic, easy to animate in comics,
animation and movies. As the lightning is easy to
animate, it's. Just some lines, I guess.
I don't think so in movies, but in Congress.
I mean, it's very dramatic. It's very, it looks very
dramatic. But why would they give that
immediately to a black person? I don't know, electricity
immediately communicates power in danger without a lot of
explanation and it creates dynamic visuals.
You know, energy sparks emotions on the pages screen.
I don't really know why that would suffice to give rid of the
black characters. Can we name any white characters
with lightning base powers? Thor.
OK, but he's mostly known for
that hammer. Like lightning and the hammer?
Sure, Yeah, I wouldn't take the lightning away from him.
OK, alright, cool, cool. I I don't, I don't even, I can't
even name anyone, but is there anyone in DC let?
Me, Let me look it up bro 'cause I don't know.
I don't know either. I know that yeah.
I, I, I don't think there are any white people with.
I know that Thor is 1 in Marvel. This.
Villain. Had lightning vase powers and
Marvel called lightning lad or lightning something.
He destroyed the West Coast Avengers.
There's also Electro in Marvel. Limewire.
Laugh Wire is white. Oh, oh, she's she's a girl.
Yeah. OK, who's a villain?
OK, I'm starting to get the drift because besides the door
lightning lots. Of villain Electro.
'S a villain. Nope, even this even this person
is a black guy. I was going to say Jaquin
Thunder but who doesn't actually have the powers themselves but
controls a like lightning bass genie.
He is also black. And and the weather master, he
controls the storms and he is a a lightning based villain who is
a Flash villain. OK.
So maybe that's why black people are given these powers.
'Cause they're seen as evil. 'Cause they're seen as evil.
I don't. I guess I don't see lightning as
evil. I see lightning as pretty
neutral. It's like a naturally occurring
thing. Yeah.
But maybe it's pretty brutal, like to get struck by lightning
lights, you probably gonna die. Yeah, and it's easier to get
struck by lightning than like a heat blast from your eyes.
Is it? Like I don't know, people have
been getting struck by lightning for millions of years and people
haven't been getting struck by lightning for millions of years.
I mean by heat blast for millions of years, so or ionic
blast. Like, even though getting shot
by lightning is pretty rare, especially more so nowadays.
Maybe because it's more common? I don't know.
I do not know. Yeah, who knows?
Yeah, I mean, this is this is a tough one 'cause I'm and I'm on
Reddit right now trying to see if there's any.
So anyone else has any ideas? There's a YouTube video that
goes over this strobe, but I don't really want to watch a
video right now. I just want to.
Read some Yeah, Black Folk and Bumblebee, Static Rapture.
These are all black people votes.
Even Aqualad. Yeah, but they don't say why
they have. Yeah, Yeah, I want to talk about
this. I really wanted an answer to
this or just like a theory because I can see if it's like I
can see if it was like all black people have like light powers
because our, you know, our skin absorbs more sunlight.
So that would make sense or if or even if it was, or even if
you know something more stereotypical, like if it was
like, oh, all, all the black superheroes have like some kind
of like sound like noise power because black people are loud,
right? You know, But the lightning
thing, I don't it doesn't follow any of the stereotypes or any
facts about black people. But are we tried to make
something into something else like I, it's, it's, it's
everything in the world races? Or is this just a coincidence?
You know what? There's an exception to every
rule, and this could be the exception.
However, in my experience, in my 30 or five years of life,
whenever I have been like, oh, this is like not a thing.
This is just a thing is not a racist thing.
It always kind of leads back to like racism or slavery.
For instance. Do you know why splitting the
pole is a thing? So you don't get bad luck in
your friendship. But do you?
Yeah. So that is why, you know, that's
the that's that's that's that's what the the mindset is.
It's like, oh, don't split the pole because it's it's it's bad
luck. Yeah.
But do you know where it comes from?
I do not. Splitting the pole comes from
slavery. When black people were escaping
from slavery and they were running through the woods, they
ran like a straight line. And so, and often times they're
running at night and you know, folks, they have like lanterns
and flashlights and shit back then.
And even if you did, you weren't using them because you were
trying to stay hidden. And if you were to split a tree
or something, an obstacle in the forest, you could very easily
lose your way. And like half of the people you
running with could end up lost. So don't split the poles so you
don't get lost running on your way to freedom.
You know, I just thought about something that maybe it isn't a
bad thing about being inherently racist.
Maybe it's just like a subconscious racism, like how
how black people get stereotypes.
I think it's that like black people, all black people have to
like rap music, all black people have to root for Issa Rae, gone
to these award shows, all black people, you know, blah, blah,
blah. All black superheroes have to
have electric powers. So I think it's more of a
stereotype, which is inherently racist.
I don't think it's a bad thing because the people who have
these electric powers, storm, Wally W, Static Shot, they're
extremely popular, but I just think it may be a stereotype.
Yeah, like, like once they did it once, they're like, OK, this
is what you do with black, black characters.
Yeah like like how it was said before, all black people have
electric powers, no black people have telepathy powers, and no
black people can what reality like Scarlet Witch?
Because we would get rid of the racism and that would be bad for
everybody except the black people.
And really, it won't be bad for anybody except for the
pedophiles. Except for the, you know, except
for the capitalists. Yeah, I, I, I, I think it may be
more of a stereotyping type of thing than a what are they
thinking type of thing. So.
You know. Oh, go ahead.
I was, I was, I was going to say often I was like, you know,
often, you know, racism does not have racism and stereotypes do
not have, do not make sense. They do not have any sort of
like factual grounding. So this is.
If Storm had Jean Grey's power. Oh, she would be badass.
She would be bad. She and she and she would still
find a way to control the weather.
Like I think the weather is her lane, but I think that if she
controlled mind and movie matter and Jean Grey controlled storm,
I really don't think that the impact of those characters would
be any lesson. Oh absolutely not.
And I think but I but I also think that Storm would have her
powers under control a lot better than Jean Grey did.
Like the? Only thing, yeah.
Jean Grey, like Storm, would be passing out every time she did
like a psychic. In the cartoon, don't do that,
store in because Jean Grey passed out.
Well, I don't know, they both kind of got weak every time they
did something big in the cartoon.
And I think, but I think the difference is the difference for
me is, you know, Jean Grey, you're knocking out five people
at one time. Storm just changed the weather
for an entire region of the United States.
You deserve a break after that. Yeah, yeah.
But yes, some people don't think that the electric hero trend as
black people are even. Is even a real thing?
Bad. Oh, I mean, I don't know if it's
bad or not, it's just a thing. Yeah, it's a thing.
I mean, even the latest character that I could think of,
Miles, he has electric power. So it's still a thing.
Like he he didn't originally have electric powers.
No. Did he?
He did not. He got that later.
But somebody was like, whoa. A black person.
Oh yeah, juice him up. Where's his electric power?
Put his fingers in a socket quick, they said.
Yeah, they just gave him that sword like last year.
But that was a black person who gave him the sword.
Yeah, 'cause he got somewhere from Blade.
Right. I think it was that storyline or
or right before that storyline, but where we got the electric
sword. But he had the electric blast
before that. Yeah, he had electric blast
before that, but he just got his electric sword.
OK, OK, OK. I need I I've been trying to get
him on this shelf for a while. I gotta ask him some questions.
Too Miles Morales. The writers.
His name is Ziggy. OK, OK, OK.
Ziggy, you know, do you think that the writers like can get
like pigeonholed into like what The Who and what the character
is they like, or like do you think, do you think it's like,
alright, Jerry, we're going to get you the right storm, but
here's what's going to happen with Storm.
So you need to write these plot points that we've already came
up with. So we have Mariah on here.
We did. You know who who actually does
write Storm? Yeah, yeah, she does write
Storm. He, he.
And that's another thing there. I've read articles by white
people, they call him a she. Like you don't even like a quick
Google search. But Mariah said that he pitched
his storyline and there were no notes from Marvel.
So I think that's how it goes. Like he pictures his storyline.
And when I asked him, you know, how all the pressure of writing
Storm was with a 75 year, well, with a 75, with his over 40 year
history, he said it was hard. It was hard to not be
pigeonholed. But if you are reading Storm and
what he's doing in that book, it's the day I've ever seen done
in comics before. He has taken this level, who was
at Omega level already and he is up that to.
Cosmic. Cosmic.
So not since Jean Grey has a person been up that much.
And yeah, yeah. And I think that what Storm is
doing now on the rain that he's doing is amazing.
So I don't think that they pigeonholed her and I'm really
will pigeonholed him. And I'm really confused that
because if he can write this for Storm.
Why can't other? People write books in their solo
series for other characters like like what he's doing.
Like I don't think every carrot needs to be up to the moon and
back, but he is 3 days I've never been done before in comic
books and y'all are still following the same yeah same
outline. I like a good, I like a good,
like street level, city level story on a superhero.
Yeah, like make it in. Make it intricate, intimate and
personal. But see, that's the thing, this
one still is extremely personal. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, 'cause I
was reading. I mean, I, I'm, I'm still buying
the comics. I just am not making time to
read them as much, but I will. Start.
Well, it's good to mark this. We wouldn't have them on if it
wasn't good. OK, I think we figured it out.
It's a stereotype thing. It's a stereotype thing.
And I think that I think. There's reason behind because I
feel do you think there's reason behind like black characters not
having powers like telepathy or reality warping or like the
things that would heavily influence someone like can
heavily influence the person? Tell, tell, tell me your
thoughts, Jerry, tell me your thoughts.
And this was. We talked about this when we had
that person on who would not be named anymore.
But if a black person got telepathy powers, like the
person who taught Emma Frost her powers, if a black person got
telepathy, then all this stuff wouldn't be going on like it is.
This stuff wouldn't be going on like it is.
I guess so, I guess so. Like I can't think of no other
cause in Marvel and DC they black people don't have
telepathy and I've never seen a black person with telepathy
outside of the big two. Invincible no.
Anime no. They just don't want black
people to read, to be able to read their mind.
Can you think of any other power set that black people just do
not have? This telepathy reality warping.
I don't see ice. I feel like they're black.
Who wear ice powers? I can't think of one right right
now, so you might be right. Is Mr. Freeze black in some
instances? Ciao.
No, you guys have ice powers. He just has to be cold all the
time. Oh, Frozone.
Oh, right, the most important one.
Black people with heat powers. Do we see that a lot?
Are we breaking reality? There is a mutant that has ice
and. Oh yeah.
There's her. There are no black people with
Jesse powers. Not that I know of.
Oh, in the anime in Fire Force, there's the black guy who has
the firepower. Well, they're all going to have
fire powers there. That's the point.
They all have fire powers in Fire Force, but I do not see any
black people with ice powers besides the one.
Sunspot. Well, sunspots Afro.
Japanese. Ro Roberto Dacosta.
He's Brazilian. Afro, Brazilian.
Well, I wish the comic book artist would get that right
'cause he look straight from Portugal.
He look, he look, he look. I know.
Black poppy. Brazilian.
Right, right. But Robbie raises as Ghost Rider
also has fire powers. Is he black or or Latino?
You know what you might be. 'Cause he ain't black.
Let's see. Eddie Okonkwo is a mutant that
has both fire and ice power. Yeah, I said.
Yeah, I know who to my Oh yeah, I remember reading about her.
Yeah, Temper is her name. Yeah.
Oh, first she was oy oya, and now she is Temper.
But yeah. And that's weird.
Like, let's give them all strength.
Let's give them all. They so they told me Robbie
Reyes, but Robbie Reyes is is is Mexican.
He's Mexican American. Yeah.
Oh, the AI told you Robbie way is.
Yeah, it was the AI. Girl.
So yeah, let's give them all super straight.
Let's give him all electric, let's give him all or some
flights. Let's get one or two
teleporting. But that's.
It you can't, you can't give him these mobility powers either,
then be taking people to freedom.
We can't have that. I mean, there's there's Gateway
and his grandfather with mobility powers to be.
Gateway is his name manifold. Manifold to his grandfather's
called gate. Gateway.
OK, OK, OK, OK. But they are not black American,
they are aboriginal. Are they aboriginal?
But it was African. No, they're Aboriginal from
Australia. Interesting.
Yeah, Luke Cage, he he, he gotta get hit for he, I think powers.
I think super. Cage, Lucas Bishop.
Oh yeah, yeah, I think super strength is the most common
power for black people. It's probably also the most
common power in the superhero universe, too.
Yeah, yeah, it would be nice if black people could have a
variety. More variety.
Yeah, Yeah. All right, DeMarcus, we're at
14. Do you think that we have time
for a question for today? Sure, let's do a question.
OK, so I'm about to do a question from six brown chicks.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to 1st read out the first
sentence of the question and I'm going to let DeMarcus pick out
which citizen he likes the best and then I'm going to read out
the whole of the question for DeMarcus.
Ready. I'm always ready.
OK here we go, 6 brown chicks if I can get to the bottom and here
I am. OK, I been with Amari off and on
since high school. A full decade of his BS, lies,
cheating and my 2 abortions. Question 2.
Married 11 years with two kids. Question three.
I met a great older man and we're getting married in
December. More question 4.
I'm a member of his of a historic black sorority.
I'm always in the street supporting local black-owned
businesses, events and causes. Let's do that last one because
like you're in a sorority and you do a lot of community
service. What do you so OK.
And this is long too. All right, 6 brown chicks.
I remember historic black sorority and there's a elephant
by that. So yes, she's a delta.
I'm always in the street supporting local black-owned
businesses, events and causes. I met David at a Black book
festival. Shoulder.
Locks, brown skid and Hazel eyes.
He's an art teacher by day and it's spoken word artist by
night. He's my spirit animal.
My soror was all over him offering him homemade Peach
cobbler back at her place, so I interrupted them and invited.
What that mean? So I interrupted them and
invited David on a cruise with me.
I pay for everything I was looking forward to.
Getting to know him better and finally getting some cruise
convo was amazing. He interrupted the words of
Nikki Giovanni and I know he he interpreted the words of Nikki
Giovanni and I sucked through my panties.
He we danced, drank, ate and drank some more.
We were that sexy cruise couple and all eyes were were on us.
No sex the first night breakfast time I woke up first and David's
lock with slid off and it was stuck to the pillow.
He's completely bald and according to his tan lines.
Oh God. Oh no.
And according to his tail lines, David is a white guy.
He was embarrassed I glued his wig on with my eyelash glued and
I dumped him. I didn't appreciate him
cosplayed as a black spoken word artist.
He accused me of feeling guilty after swirling and showed me a
very old pig. We have we.
He had natural locks. I lost my hair.
I wear man units to feel young again.
I wasn't cosplaying after this convo.
David and I continue enjoying ourselves on the cruise and we
both hooked up with others. Truthfully, I was jealous when
David hooked up with another with another woman.
I like David, but I can't bring that bald white guy into my
inner circle. I would be an art, an outcast,
but he's still my spirit animal and I miss him.
Sound like she's at peace with where things are.
I don't really. I don't really know what kind of
advice is needed here. I am drained of everything in me
after reading that. Do you want to go first or do I
want to go first? I mean please, Jared, by all
means 'cause I don't have anything to say.
First thing you did is that you looked at your starboard talking
to a man and while they were getting tots, while he was
inviting, while she was inviting him to her house, you.
Took for homemade Peach cobbler. Yeah, for homemade Peach
cobbler, you said. Oh, well, you can go to get that
steak. Peach cobbler or you coming to
cruise with me? Let's go Carnival.
Bring your own beer. I think that is that doesn't
that part did not surprise me because I feel like that kind of
stuff happens all the time, especially in sorority world.
I mean, just because it happens all the time doesn't mean it's
right. Fair enough, but it does mean
I'm not surprised. And then y'all have fun on the
cruise. Y'all didn't have sex the first
night but that morning you find that he has a team move lock wig
on and like the Marcus does and he and after you glue it back on
you're then not not ready to have a relationship with him.
Y'all hook up with other people? You're not attracted.
You're not attracted to that man no more, no.
No, no, no, no no no because y'all hooked up with a few on
that cruise. I don't know what type of cruise
this was. Maybe not Carnival, maybe it was
a Virgin Voyages, but y'all hooked up with other people.
And then you said that you didn't want to bring him around
because he's white. You didn't want to bring him
around because he's bored. You would be outcast by your
sorority sisters whom you do not like enough to let them have a
man that they saw first. But he's still your spirit
animal. You miss him and you still like
him. Girl, what do you want?
Like, what is this? Do you want to be with him or do
you want to look good in front of your fake friends?
You're fake sorority friends. Like, I don't know what you want
because you took us all around the world with this white guy
who was cosplayed as a black person and now you're like, but
I like him, girl. No, you don't.
You just want to say that you. She liked the way he looked.
She liked what he represented. Right, but then you found out
that he wasn't even representing that.
You know, she, she got to know the real him like more of his
true self. And she was like, oh, actually,
I don't like who you really are. I just like who you pretend to
be. I don't know what to tell you.
If you want to be happy, you need to do what makes you happy
and this man makes you happy. You need to be with him because
like you doing stuff so that your sorority sisters you look
good for your sorority sisters in Delta, Sick with Data
Sorority Incorporated. If you are doing stuff for them,
then how are you going to be happy?
You need to do something for yourself.
I think that is a that is a dangerous pitfall of Greek life,
is that it can become more about perception then what you more
about. Yeah, you know more about how
people see you then what you're putting into.
Right. Let's meet you on the outside
looking in So. 'Cause you said all this stuff
you haven't mentioned no community service, haven't
mentioned no outreach, no reading to kids, no reading to
all people named. Nurse said hug.
You haven't done none of that. Yo sorority sister is trying to
feed the homeless by giving this man a A He wasn't.
Homeless, though they never said he was homeless.
Well, feed the hungry. OK, and you know, if you invite
me over for homemade Peach cobbler, you, you really invited
me over for home grown each toddler, you grew it yourself.
But, but yeah, I, I, I don't think there's any advice to be
given. It's like, hey, look, you you
got to know this man on a cruise that you fully paid for, which
is an amazing first date. It didn't work out.
You, you know, you there's no bad blood.
Y'all still have fun on the cruise and you still like them.
It's like, sure. I don't, I don't believe you
should have friends that you don't like.
So yeah, you've been like, oh, I still like them.
It's like cool, great. And y'all would be great friends
now. Nothing, nothing to miss here.
Thanks for sharing your story. Cool story, sis, right, I do
think there's a lot to be a lot to unpack around like, you know,
around like, you know, chasing this pursuing this man while
you're soror also pursuing him, because I know like in girl
world, there's like a lot of rules around that kind of stuff
in girl world. Child this is everybody.
This is like friendship code like.
I mean, I think it depends on the friends, on the friend
group, because I've definitely like I definitely, I've
definitely pursued the same woman as one of my friends, but
we had a conversation first. So maybe that's the the rule.
Yeah. And around that last time, pack
around that last time pack around like this perception
thing. And like he has his own shit to
unpack around like he's like, because how did you confuse him
with a black man? Like, what was the Because
someone just having unlocks is not going to make me be like, Oh
yeah, they're a black person. Yeah, how did you confuse him?
Yeah. Like what is like the tan lines?
Like how deep were these tan lines?
Like was it like was it like this to this like darker who?
Knows who knows child Anyways girl get you some real friends
and keep your little white man ain't nobody studying him and
nobody studying you DeMarcus. That will be the end of our
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Any final words? Give black people black
characters more than just electric powers.
Give somebody telepathy and give somebody a reality warping
powers and let us run with that. I want to see what happens and
let a black person write it. Let a radical black person write
it. Let let let a black person like
Angela Davis write it did. She die.
Is Angela, I don't think is interested in that, I think.
She's dead. Oh, OK.
Well, I I didn't mean Angela Davis specifically, but Sheldon.
Oh, no, she's 82 years old. She's still alive.
Oh. OK, well Sheldon Allen writes
comics and he is radical. He had a comic about killing
racist white people by IDW. So yeah.
Yeah. And he was just nominated for N
double ACP awards. So Sheldon Allen.
Yeah, Sheldon Allen let him write it.
Yeah, Sheldon, write a comic about a black person with
telepathy. Yeah.
Or reality warping powers. I'll be interested to see
either. He just got a new comic where he
is writing about Richard Sherman, so comes on.
Now who's Richard Sherman? He's a football player.
He's really funny. OK, cool.
Alright guys, we'll see you next time on back energy.
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