OK guys, welcome to another episode of Black Geek Energy,
and today's guest is one of those guys who doesn't quite fit
into a box. He's a father first, someone who
takes that role extremely seriously.
He shows up, still finds time to pour into everything else he's
building. He's in the gym, he's locked in
on his health, and he's carry. And he carries that same
discipline into how he moves life in conversation.
He's also wearing the voices behind the Player Player
podcast, where the conversations go deeper than surface level
takes. They get into real life,
fatherhood, growth, relationship, accountability.
The college officer Ashley, stick with you on top of the
video game hot topics that they usually do.
And honestly, this is one of those guests where, you know,
the conversation is about to go somewhere real.
No fluff, no filter, just somebody who's lived through
enough life to actually have something to say.
Welcome to the podcast, Mr. Arson Lakpa.
Thank you. Welcome to the show.
Thank you all. It's good to be back, you know?
I feel, I don't remember the last intro I got, but this one
feels like it was like a a level above that.
I really appreciate it, it was amazing.
Jared's intros get better the more he likes you.
I appreciate that. OK, I said.
Let's start off this conversation same way we start
off every conversation. How has your previous week been?
Previous week has been pretty, pretty solid, I would say.
I would say it's been a pretty solid week. 32 major things of
note. I would say the first we're
going to start on the, you know, the lower thing of note.
Your boy has been in the gym like you just mentioned.
I hit 225 on the bench. So you know, I'm, you know, I'm
shouting that out everywhere. I put it on the, I put it on the
other podcast, Big Swole out here, you know, but with Jim
Flation, you know, that's not really as, you know, impressive
anymore in 2026. I mean, nowadays everybody,
nowadays, everybody looking at 3:15, they're looking at 3:00.
What happened to the 222? 222225 You know, that's like,
you know, that's like, oh, you should be able to do that as a
grown man. That's what that's the.
It's not. It's not 222, it's like the 1000
lbs. Like between your squats your
big. Yeah, the 1000 LB club.
What's the what's the other one? Your deadlift.
Deadlift, deadlift. So I'm, you know, I'm happy with
my 2:25. I'm just saying, and I know
there's some folks out there that might not be as impressed,
but I think everybody should be impressed and you should always
work towards your goals. And that was one of my goals.
That was one of my personal goals for this past this past
couple years. So happy with that, happy with
that achievement there. Just one, no, just a little one
Rep Max. I was just trying to, you know,
just feeling it out. Didn't have any, didn't have a
spotter with me. So I was, you know, kind of
living on the edge, you know, I didn't want to, I didn't want to
get too crazy with it. But other than that, yesterday
was actually my wife's birthday. So we did some some minor
celebrations with that. You know, it's a little bit
harder to, you know, get out and about and do things lock.
But thank you so much. I will be sure to relay the
message to her on that. We didn't get to get out like we
wanted to just because, you know, we got the, you know,
small kids at home, but you know, we we have fun at home.
You know, we can you can always have fun at home.
You can always make dinner or the DoorDash and all that good
stuff like that. Plus, you know, it wasn't a it
wasn't a complete buzz. You know, I got to get, you
know, got to get presents for my lady, got to get a little bit of
jewelry. You know what I'm saying?
So, you know, we had a good time jewelry.
Yes, of course, of course, but that was my that was my week.
I think I had a pretty low key week this past week for sure.
So did she enjoy her birthday or?
I would say so she, you know, it's like a, you know, not to
put her on blast or anything. She did just turn 29.
So now she's kind of getting in that mindset of like, oh, like,
you know, this is my last year, my 20, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah. So that's kind of weighing on
her a little bit. But well, you know, you just got
to enjoy yourself, girl. You know, we, you know, you can
only be 29 once. So don't be thinking about how
you gonna, you know, it's gonna be gone soon.
You gotta think about the moment that we're living in right now.
So I'm just trying to remind her of that and everything.
But other than that, I would say she enjoyed it.
You might have to ask her, but I I think she enjoyed it.
OK, and you have just graced the world with a friend's baby.
Yes, yes, yes, it is good. This is baby #2A little boy
named Ambrose. We're, we've got a nice little
theme of everybody in the family has a name starting with a, A.
So we want to be, you know, like the, the quadruple a family.
That's where we're at right now. Will we have more kids in the
future? Probably not.
I think the two, 2 might be 2 might be the Max.
That's what I'm, I'm thinking 2 might be the Max here.
It is a lot of work taking, taking care of kids.
But we are definitely very blessed, very happy to have like
a healthy, happy little baby boy.
And you know, the whole family's excited big sister is excited.
Obviously she's been like a big help throughout these, you know,
it's what he's three months now. She, you know, she just loves
him. She just loves being around and
giving him hugs and all that hugs and kisses.
So we're just happy. It's a happy family over here,
man. So is it true what they say that
the first kid, everybody is running around on pins and
needles the whole time, and the second kid, they're just like,
just do whatever we can lock him in a room while he cries?
What it's, I won't say, I don't know how to say lock him in a
room, but you know, it's 100%. I feel like we are experiencing
that kind of second child syndrome where it's just like,
you know, we've been through it before.
We know what, you know, what works, what doesn't work, You
know, everything is way more laid back this time.
It doesn't feel like we're way less stressed, you know, like
back in the first kid, you know, they start crying.
We're just like, oh, I don't know, like what's going on
nowadays. It's just like, just get that
man some milk. Just he'll be all right.
So you know the things to try. Milk, sleep, poop, poop.
You know, give him a couple of Pats on the back, get that gas
out of them. Yeah, yeah.
Second child syndrome is for sure in effect right now.
Hopefully it doesn't. You know, I don't want it to
become like that, like the true second child syndrome where it's
like, you know, we just completely, you know, he's just
off on his own, You know, we, we forget about him or something
like that. But we, we definitely do try to,
you know, incorporate everybody at all times.
But yeah, there's a, there's a little bit of it going on for
sure. And it it just feels easier the
second time. OK, OK, well that's good 'cause
I would hate for you to give less than some attention to your
second child 'cause we have talked about your first child on
this podcast before. Listen, so let's just spell some
rumors if we can, OK? I have talked about extensively.
I've actually made a whole show about, I think it was let's talk
12 or 11 about how you have not given ample attention to your
daughter on her birthday. And you, you did give her a cake
that she needed or ice cream or say you just gave her a sweet
potato and you gave all your relatives, including the one you
did not want to be there. The, the, the big, the big Boo
was the birthday desserts. And So what is happening with
these birthday desserts? I'm here to defend my my name,
defend my family, defend my honor from the slander that I've
been receiving for the past almost two years.
My child is only three years old.
Oh. He he's definitely let it go.
Orson. Yeah, I know.
Hopefully, hopefully today, you know, I can, you know, shed
light, bring it to, you know, to the forefront of what the true
situation is here to to let everybody know what's going on
with my daughter. She does have a dietary
restriction regarding dairy and I understand, you know, some
folks out there that are that are like, oh, well, you know,
why don't you just do this? Why don't you do that?
We do things to make sure that she still feels incorporated.
We're giving her popsicles. We're making sure she like, she
loves popsicles. That's like her like big thing.
She can't have the ice cream, she can't have the cake and what
not like the the dairy cake. And at the time we didn't have
the we didn't have the facilities back then.
What was that? Probably, I think her second
birthday to worry about, you know, trying to, you know, get
some type of alternative cake. So we did not have that set up
at the time. I will say birthday #3 I
personally went to the kitchen myself.
I whipped up the cake dairy free, egg free, you know, free
of everything pretty much. I whipped up the cake for her
for her birthday, dressed it up real nice for her, and she still
did not eat it. She chose not to eat it.
So, you know, she did put me on. She did kind of embarrass me a
little bit with that one. You know, I'm trying to, you
know, I'm doing what I can as a father to try to, you know,
bring her, bring her into, make her feel a part of the family.
I don't want her to feel left out because she can't eat dairy
and whatnot. But she still chose to, to spit
in my face in regards to that. So that's, that's really what it
is, man. It's just a dietary restriction
and you acting like I'm some sort of like terrible father.
I'm just like, you know, treating her like Harry Potter
or something like that. I'm just trying to make sure she
don't throw up. Get.
Dehydrated. Harry got a knot for his
birthday. Exactly.
Like, come on, man. All I'm saying is that first of
all, baking for the first time for your daughter, baking
extremely hard to do. That's all I'm saying.
And and the first time it would I, I, I, I don't think I would
like your cake either. But then you take away the eggs
or sugar to dairy. It was a good cake.
OK, sure. Everybody else like it.
My Mama liked it. My in laws liked it.
Yeah, my wife, like I liked it. My daughter, she just did.
She was, she was nervous. She's too busy worrying about,
you know, toys and, you know, happy birthday.
It was her birthday. She's worrying about baby Shark
and Spider Man. She ain't got time to worry
about this foreign food. She kind of.
Eat no cake right now. But all I'm saying is that the
last birthday party I heard about, you jump all the way to
Atlanta for this cake. There were places along the way
that you could have stopped that gave dairy free cakes.
Why did you stop there? You know, I will say yes,
probably, but you have to consider the fact also we need
to be dairy free and egg free because the the the eggs are
also, you know, on the South side for her.
So we need to have dairy free, egg free, and it just, it just
makes it a whole lot more difficult.
I think you are right. I will say as a, you know, as a
father, there's always more you can do.
You can always do be better, you can always do better.
And that's why I want, that's why I took, you know, my lessons
from that last birthday. And I decided let me just like,
you know, do it myself. You know, I'm not going to put
it in the hands of somebody else and try to figure out what
somebody else is doing. Let me do it.
And that's how we ended up with birthday #3 and you didn't need
a cake. So OK, OK, well, birthday #4
hopefully she will be on. Hopefully she'll be cleared with
dairy. They won't have to worry about
this. This conversation will just be,
you know, to the wayside. And it's just lactose
intolerance, right? It's not like.
It is a if you want to get specific, it's like this whole
thing, it's called F pies, FP i.e.
S It's like this whole like gastrointestinal thing where you
eat something like it's not. Just like, oh, I'm gonna have to
like poop a little more after I had.
It No, no, no, no. She is full, full on vomiting.
You know, we had to go to the ER, you know that type.
Of gotcha, all right. Well, that's why you gotta be
careful around here, man. This ain't no, this ain't no
game we can't be playing around. OK, well take care of your
daughter the rest way. You know how another thing that
we talked about is Halloween 2025.
Here we go. You, your family dress up as
these Amazing Spider Man characters.
They look the part and then you were not even dressed up as a
character from the MCU universe. You decided to dress up as a
Beast Boy. What in the world happened
there? Listen, OK, first of all, my
daughter, this is all the brainchild of my daughter.
She does not know what the MCU is.
She she at the time, she was 2 1/2 years old.
The only show she knows related to the Marvel Comics is Spidey
and his Amazing Friends. It is a specific, a very
specific iteration of Spider Man tailored towards kids less than
the age of five. They have, you know, Spider Man,
Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy are all, you know, it's like a trio
going around fighting, you know, basically in vandalized versions
of all the villains, including Green Goblin.
They don't even call him Green Goblin.
They call him Gobby. That's who I was.
I'm Gobby. I'm not trying to be Green
Goblin Willem Dafoe. I'm trying to be the guy who
looks like an actual goblin or something like that.
That's who I was dressed up as. You can look up, you can look at
the pictures online short, you know, it might not be 100% show
accurate. I don't have like I can't be,
you know, exactly the same. I was a goblin.
I had the ears, I had the green face paint.
I had the, the, the pumpkin bombs and whatnot.
That's who I was trying to be acting like I'm some sort of
beast. Beast boy don't Beast boy.
First of all, beast boy don't wear a hat.
Let's start with that. Beast Boy, don't wear a hat.
Yeah, it was. Just like a old ass Beast Boy
costume. Like a Beast Boy from like 1950.
Three. Yeah.
No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
If you, if you type in Gabi and then Spidey, you'll see exactly
who I'm trying to be. If you if you look everybody at
home, look it up, Gabi. I think I, I mean, I think I'm
looking at him now. Yeah.
That's. What?
He's wearing a purple hat? Look at this guy.
He looks nothing like the Green Goblin that we know and love
from the MCU. They did this.
They turned he. Looks like the green got like
this like, Oh yeah, green. And it's probably, you know,
it's probably like the little aircraft thing like that sells
him as the Green Goblin. Without that he kind of looked
like the guy from a different kids show, like the I think it's
called The Wobbles or something like that.
Wobbles. I don't remember the wobbles I.
Don't remember what it's called but he he looked like the guy
the evil got from that show. OK, well all I'm trying to say
is I did my best to to make my daughter feel happy when she,
when she walked through the door and saw me dressed up as Green
Goblin Gobby, she was happy. I'm not, I'm not here for the
Internet. I'm not here for for y'all to
exactly. That's what y'all here exactly.
I'll do it again next year, same outfit.
I'll put the same outfit. On you said that y'all should
dress up as teen kind characters.
You already have the beast white outfit.
Oh no. Your daughter can be Starfire.
Your wife can be Raven. The.
New child can be Cyborg. You already have the outfits
ready. Mean, I guess like, I guess we
could do that way. Nah, we're moving on to bigger
and better things. Now.
We got four, we got to be the Incredibles.
That's what I'm looking forward to this year or next year.
That's why I'm ready for you. That'll be cute.
Are you excited for the Incredibles movie that's coming
out? Incredibles 3, absolutely.
I've been an Incredibles fan die hard since the first one dropped
2004. I want Frozone to get his own
like spin off movie. That part, that is, that would
be. We need that.
Because I think he's he's got another fan base.
We will. We will fuck with it.
Maybe hopefully after the the third movie, maybe we'll see
we're finally tired of the Par family.
Let's get let's get old Lucius. Get Lucius in there.
OK, seems like you had a great week.
We also have dispelled some or put to rest some of the things
that we. Tankies finally.
I'm tired of being slander. Right.
I mean, you might do something in the future.
But DeMarcus, how has your week been?
How has my week been? Let me think back.
Check my calendar this week. This week's been pretty chill.
We're moving out of my office like at work we're moving to
like a new office. So like been packing up my desk
and bringing stuff home. I went to the dentist, no
cavities. Nice.
Where are you moving? Is it like a new building or?
Yeah, a new building it's going to be.
It's going to be like 10 minutes away from where we already are
and I haven't seen it so I don't know much about it, but I do get
to work home for like work from home for like at least two
weeks. But you don't like to.
It's not my I've grown to enjoy it.
I've grown to enjoy it, you know, but I can't like 2 weeks.
It could be a month. That's what everybody thinks.
But I think longer than two weeks, I'm going to start, I'm
going to start to fall off. My productivity will start to
drop because I'm going to be like, look, I'm at home
chilling. Leave me alone.
This is my relaxing space. You'll be playing games.
Exactly. Exactly.
I already do. Yeah.
I went to this birthday party. What was it?
Friday night? And it was cool.
Like it was. It was a friend of a friend's
birthday party. And it was like a lot of lot of
white folks music. And I was like, this is real.
It's real quaint. What?
What kind of white folk music like?
Like the Miley Cyrus, the Miley Cyrus man, and once when it
goes. Paramore, Paramore.
That's basically black at that point.
No, that's that's that's as good as a guy.
Paramore. I feel like that's as good as a
guy. And I know the all black kids
we're all about. Yeah, but that's as good as a
guy That was like the peak, OK, you know?
OK, but it's not your birthday party, so they listen to what
they wanted to to listen to at their birthday party.
Yeah. And then I went to say it again.
I said it wasn't your birthday party.
They listen to what they want to listen.
To exactly, exactly, exactly. And you know, I got there kind
of late because, you know, I went to a smash room, like a
rage room. That was pretty fun.
I did that before I got a lot of anger inside y'all.
OK, I'm glad. I'm glad you let it.
Out. Yeah.
I mean, you know, I don't know. I don't know.
You know, I've been going through a lot lately.
I just feel like it's maybe it's not all anger.
Maybe it's just maybe some of his frustration.
But I was in there. I was like, you know, I was
like, I was like, I'm kind of strong.
I was like, I'm scaring myself. Oh shit, you shouldn't be able
to break. Yeah, right, because like they
had like these like dense ass printers in there.
And it's like I was beating on it for a second.
I was like, oh, this is pretty dense.
We can just like keep going at it.
And then I was like, I found my Sinner, my my inner rage.
And I was like, oh, I'm destroying this thing.
OK, we're going to have to watch you.
Yeah, no, no, just, you know, just pray for me.
That's all I need. What else?
And then I went to this art show and that was like the best part
of my weekend with this art show yesterday.
And like one of my old coworkers was in it.
It was a bunch of different art. It was like art that I hoped at
like a motel. And each artist was in a
different room of the motel. They turned the, the room.
It's like a gallery. Hella sick, bought hella art.
And I realized like, I'm, I'm, I'm a, I'm one of the people
that buys art. Like other folks, they spend
money on shoes. It's like, oh, I'm spending $100
on these shoes when they come out.
Other folks like almost spend $100 on a brand new game.
I probably spent $300 on art yesterday.
Wow, how many pieces did you get?
A bunch of piece. You got to put a.
Bunch of yeah, a bunch of stuff because I bought, I bought
mostly prints because like after I had bought all the art
yesterday, I was like, I was like, I really could have just
bought like 1 original, you know, I was like, but I could
also have, you know, 15 new prints and small pieces to put
up in my house. OK.
Yeah, yeah. Well, that sounds very fine.
I'm upset you're so angry. Which you weren't so angry.
Less angry now I was in the rage room.
Much less angry, you know. Do you?
Do you think that this anger builds up that you need to?
No, I think I processed. Yourself.
I think I processed my anger, you know, I mean, I'm in therapy
and everything, so, you know, I work through my feelings all the
time. Because, you know, you're you're
kind of kind of combative on this show, so.
Never reigns. OK, I can tell you by looking at
the analytics, it doesn't work. We need to try different
tactics. Fair enough.
My week was OK. My week, the peak of my week was
interviewing the legendary, the great Jamal Simms right here on
this podcast. He can say choreographer and you
can view his episode last week. I haven't started to edit it
because I just kind of don't even remember.
I mean, doesn't even feel real. Doesn't even feel real.
But I know that this episode with my latest guest will be 10
times better than anybody who's ever choreographed for Aladdin.
So yeah, now we are going to move into our Put You On
segment. This segment is I trying to see
what we have really enjoyed this past week, whether it's TV,
movies, comics, games, restaurants and it is sponsored
by our good friends. All right, Movie pass.
DeMarcus, can you tell them not MoviePass, please?
Of course I can. I'm going to read straight from
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theaters for a monthly fee. It was designed to make movie
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You can also bring a friend depending on what time what tier
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Movie Pass card, which works like a debit card at the
theater, covering the cost of the movie ticket.
OK. And I really like it because,
you know, you buy the stuff on the app, which is the app that
you can get it for your, your movies, your, your TV, not TV or
your popcorn or your hot dog or your drink or whatever.
And what I've recently been doing is I've been spinning
dirty points here, 25 points here, just to purchase tickets
for other black movies like you, me and Tuscany, which is out and
just supporting other black movies so that more black movies
can be made. And I am doing that right now.
So one day that I want to put y'all on to that me exit the
movie pass app and go to my notes app is The Pits The pits.
I just now started watching The Pits and they just finished
their second season. I haven't watched the last
episode and it tells about these just emergency room doctors and
emergency room students and nurses in emergency room in
Pittsburgh. It is so good.
I didn't think it's going to be that good, but I kept hearing
people about it, keep hearing people talk about it.
And I was like, OK, let me go ahead and see what this is all
about. And it's really good.
I really enjoy it because they go through the full gamut of
things. And the the catch is it's all in
one day, one shift, and each episode is a different hour in
the shift. So that is the the thing.
But yeah, it is really, really good.
It deserves all the awards and all the recognition.
That how? Many seasons of that shows out.
2. OK in each, is each season 12
episodes? Like 12 hours of the shift.
Each season is 15 episodes because these doctors all work
overtime. They can't leave that hospital
and they come early. So that's why I think that this
show has maybe respect doctors or especially emergency room
doctors. And it has made me really say,
OK, I don't know if I could be with a taught in emergency room
doctor because they do a lot. And on married to medicine, it
really has making me like side eye that one girl who is married
to an emergency room doctor because she doesn't appreciate
them that much. So yeah.
Saving lives day in and day out. Day in and day out.
And people do die too. People do die, but mostly they
save lives and it's. I am just floored every episode
so. I'm too stressed to watch The
Pit. I always, I want to, but I'm
just like, hey, I don't want to be, you know, sweating watching
these people trying to save some.
I mean, obviously this is a drama, but I need to be like in
a certain mindset I guess. Yeah, it is very stressful,
extremely stressful. And then you see in babies and
stuff, I read one time I was watching the episode at the
Chinese buffet. This episode had, you know, it's
HBO, so lady was delivering a baby.
So I'm here with my dim sum and it's full of vagina out on my
phone at this crowded restaurant.
I'm. I'm just eating.
I'm like, I hope nobody's over my shoulder.
But yeah, the Pit, great show. Okay, DeMarcus, what about you?
What do you have to put their mind to this?
What I've been getting into I think, I'm not sure if it just
dropped but a new like Baki series came out.
Yeah. So I'm rewatching the old series
to get ready for it and I was definitely one of those people I
like I would watch Baki and then like or I would half watch Baki,
like watch some episodes, put it on and like do other shit.
But Baki is a good ass fucking show.
And what I love most about it is the fucking dialogue.
Like the they'd be saying be fucking nuts.
Like the especially to do the Unchained which is like the only
black guy in the show. Right.
Yeah, he'd. Be like, he's like, my muscles
are so big. I'm holding the man.
If I was to let him go, it would it would fill up this entire
space and go up to the I'm like, what are you talking about?
I was like, this man is talking big shit.
It's just all they just all bullshitting.
That's the whole yeah. And I think, like, I didn't
really catch on to that the first time I was, I was watching
it because they folks would be like, Oh, yeah, like, I could
put my finger through your skull.
And like, like, with minimal effort, like put in my, like,
poking a hole in a sheet of paper.
And I'm just like, and then they just start throwing hands.
I'm like, OK, like, what happened to the shit that you
was talking about? I want to see anger, anger.
Gun this *** head. My favorite bit was always the
one where one do I think either guy was about to get shot in the
head or he did get shot in the head, but he shook it.
He shook his own skull so fast that it shook his brain to the
side to to like, dodge the bullets.
That's the fuck. Something along those lines.
I'm just like, yeah, yeah, all right, Y'all got it, Baki, y'all
got it. It's like.
A common man. Everything with these fucking
muscles. Right, right.
Yeah, I've never seen it. I just like anyway with magic,
so I don't. I don't think it's for me, but.
Where they be fighting is like magic, it feels like.
It feels like magic is going on OK.
It's all in their imagination. That's what you got to remember.
So if he, if he, you know, could say imagination equals magic,
you know? So it's like demon Slayer?
It honestly it is like demon Slayer in the.
OK, OK, OK, I said. What do you have to put our
listeners on to this week? So I'm going to bring in
something a little bit of AI, don't know if it's considered a
deep cut. This is like a little manga that
I've been reading for the past couple months here.
It's pretty small. I haven't, I haven't heard
anybody talk about. I just saw it randomly one day.
It's called delinquent. Gotcha.
OK, so everybody, we all know what delinquents are.
You know, they're just a bunch of punks.
I'm sure y'all are I'm sure y'all are familiar with gotcha.
Like, you know the game like you know, it's like types of games
where you roll for a certain character like a Genshin Impact
and you know those games where you have to like pull for
characters, right? So in this in this manga,
there's this delinquent school. Everybody in the school is
delinquent. Nobody wants to be there.
The teachers don't even show up. They send robots to like, you
know, teach the kids because, because the teachers are, I
think the teachers like on zoom or something and they like come
in on the robot or something just because nobody wants to be
they scared of the kids. They have like a hierarchy.
There's like one dude on top of everybody.
Our main character obviously is the weakest dude in the school.
He can't box at all. He's sitting there, you know,
just basically the slave to like the, the person on top, right.
So one day this guy, he's like, I'm, I'm, I'm fed up.
I'm sick of it. He, he doesn't want to go
through a training montage or anything like, you know, you
would expect the a protagonist to do.
He goes to a shrine, like a Japanese Shinto shrine.
He starts praying. He's like, please send somebody,
send somebody to, to like to whoop his ass.
Just please send somebody. So they send like lightning
strikes or whatever. The next week of school, some
new student transfers in and this guy, he starts whooping, he
starts whooping, He started, he like, let's go, let's go.
We've got a, we've got this guy's going to take care of us
now. And then that guy comes and he's
like, actually, let's, let's have a new, we're just going to
have a regime shift. I'm on top now.
And so now, you know, it's like a, a whole big battle of like,
oh, I got to go back to the shrine, try to pray for somebody
else to show up. Shut.
The hell. Up, you know, so it's it's just
like a little wacky little comic.
I don't think it's going to be that long.
I think we're only like 20 something chapters, but I can't
really see this being like a super super long like you know,
One piece level story but delinquent.
Gotcha. I think folks should try and
check it out. I don't think this one's going
to get an anime or anything like that either.
So if y'all are into like. Anime that it sounds like.
It could be, it could be a silly one.
Yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a nice little silly 1.
So that's my. Point season give me 12
episodes. Yeah, that's all you need.
That's all you. Need.
Yeah, I got to look that one now.
OK. DeMarcus, do we have an activity
for today? Of course, we have an activity
for today, and I'm going to pull it up for you right now.
You know, everyone here has been here before, but for those who
are tuning in for the first time, I'm going to tell you how
these games and activities go on Black Geek Energy.
DeMarcus is the game master, the game creator in the game
Executioner. I come up with the games, I come
up with questions, I come up with the answers.
I decide who's right, who's wrongs, who wins, who loses, and
pretty much everything else when it comes to Black Geek Energy
games. And today's game, we're going to
do a blind ranking again. And this game is called Rank DS
anime version. OK.
OK, so I have three different lists of five anime each and.
I hate this one. What should you said?
You love this one last time. I hate it.
Whatever. So I am going to give you all
the anime and you are going to rank them in slots one through
5, OK. And whoever's whoever's list
matches mine the most. OK, so we're we're ranking we're
we got DeMarcus in mind. So we that's what we should do
and if. You.
And if you've never seen an anime, I will tell you about it,
and I will even offer a bonus point if you can guess the
category that you are ranking for.
OK. Because all of them do have a
like a common thread a. Slice of life harem anime, those
are his. I don't really like.
Him anime man. It's, it's, it's, it's, I feel
like it's a, it's a old trope and it's getting in his way
over. The trope that you love I.
Don't like him? Alright, Are we ready?
I'm ready. I'm here.
Alright, Pervy. Says he doesn't like isakai
anime but he always constantly watching.
I always say I like Isakai. No, you don't.
You say that. It's over.
You so. It is overused.
I mean, they they they it's starting to get like hair anime,
but. You've been saying that for
years, and yet you. Still, and it's been true for
Dan, it's game time shit too well.
I'll just get a answer ready so we aren't have to agree on no.
No, no, you each are making a list, OK.
We're competing. Yeah, you are each making your
own list. OK, make.
Sure this pin works. If there's a tie, you both get a
point. OK, OK, alright.
Neon Genesis Evangelion. Oh, this is crazy.
OK Oh wait, I got to write it down right.
OK. In in in a slot one through 5.
And we have to, we have to do the the slots before we hear the
whole thing. Yeah.
So you rank each one. That's why I hate this.
You rank each one. OK.
So if you put, if you, if you put.
So if you put this one in slot 4, then slot 4 is taken.
You can't switch it like right? And one is the highest.
One is the highest, 5 is the lowest.
I'm going to put Neon Genesis at at 3 for whatever this list is.
Alright, I'm going 2. OK, you're in Lagan.
OK. Here in Lagan, I'm never in this
anime you. Know girl in Lagan bro, come on
now. Simon Tamina or Simon?
What do you call him? Can the mic is saying the theme
song please? I can't.
I don't know it. OK, well OK, so you should know
that y'all should know this one. This one is when like there's a
human simulation, humans live underground and they start to
try to like reclaim the surface, but the surface is like taken
over by like beast men. I'm playing, I'm saying 1.
I'm saying 5 because he don't even know the theme song.
OK. I don't mean anything.
All right, Big O. Big O what the?
How are you supposed to be anime fan?
You don't know big O bro. Obviously all I know is Naruto
cause I've never heard of Big O. I've never seen Big O, but I
know of Big O. What, you never seen Big O all
the time? I know, I know.
I just never, never watched it. I put it at four.
OK, Wait, wait, wait, wait. We can.
We'll go back through both lists at the end.
Putting that 4 too. Alright, so I said Evangelion, I
said Gurren Lagann, I said Big O the vision of Escaflone.
What? Now you lost one.
Now you lost me on that one. So he hasn't even.
Seen this stuff all the way through so I don't even know why
this stuff is on his list. I've seen escaflone through
twice. What escaflones?
OK, vision of Escafloni. 1996 OK this is 1/19/96 This is 1 cause
the Marcus loves old stuff. Alright, and the last one here
for this list 86. 86 I've heard of OK. 86 two does that the only
number I got left. OK, I'm saying that's three for
me. That's not what I have.
All right, all right, all right. How y'all want to just do?
Y'all want to go through all three categories and then we do
the no. I need to know what?
You did now. I need to know.
What you're I want to, I want to hear it all.
Right. All right, Jared, give me.
Give me your one through 5 what we got.
My one through 5 was vision of That'sco Flonase 186 two and I
read that you're making this up. Big O, Wait 86 Two, Neon Genesis
3, Harem Lagoon 5 and Big O. Gurren, gurren, whatever.
OK, All right, Arson, what you got?
I put Gurren lagoon #1 nge #286 #3 Big O #4 Escala flone #5
which now kind of regretting but it's OK, I locked it in.
You got 86 and #3 yes, OK, all right, I will go through and
tell y'all what's right and what's wrong.
Here we go. I feel like I'm in in school
right now. The teacher out here just just
mutual, Liz. All right, Arson, you're going
to take that one. You have what in the right
position, Jerry? You have none of them in the
right position. Let's.
Go the list as it goes for me is Gurren Lagan.
Big O Yes 86 then Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Neon at the at the end I guess I'm I think about the whole like
IP. Yeah, the whole.
Yeah, that show those 26 episodes.
Yeah, yeah. All of this was like big robot
animes. That is correct, Jerry.
You get the extra point. All of these are all.
Right. All right, so it's 1 to one
right now. You've never seen this stuff.
All right, y'all ready for the next one?
I'm ready. She be cheating.
You be cheating based off of what I say.
You're going to automatically say that That's.
Not all right. Are we ready?
I'm ready. Go ahead.
OK, the faraway paladin. Whoa.
OK, I know what this got to be. Yeah.
All right. Y'all know y'all playing it?
4. Four.
OK, OK. RE0. 2.
Live. OK.
You might have some insider knowledge, I don't know.
I haven't heard you talk about RE0 before so I don't know.
'Cause he doesn't talk about RE0I always talk about RE0.
He doesn't even watch RE0. Along Horizon.
Oh, that's a oh, so these are Isakai's so.
Yeah, you did You get the extra point.
You know, how do you speak up if you wait till I ask for the
category so that they have a chance to get it.
OK, Log Horizon. That's what I said.
Log Horizon. Log Horizon 1.
Wait, why? Why?
OK. Yeah, both quit Log Horizon.
Unless. Unless you do that other one
that I did not like at the end. Oh, you may have that one on the
list. I don't know.
What is this? Oh should I do localizing too
because you like that other anime battle better?
I don't know what you're talking.
About. Trying to play a game.
But now if you put that in here, then lock horizon isn't what?
I mean, OK, well how about we just keep going and you figure
out what else is on the list? Because I can't, because I can't
change. I can't change them you.
Got to learn how to gamble. Yeah, right.
Go with your good. I would do Log Horizon 2.
I'm gonna do Log Horizon. 2 Horizon 2.
May have All right, Mushekun 10 Sai on here as well.
So 'cause if this is R Isakai, you're gonna have Michelle.
Contents, Sai. OK, handyman Saito in another
world. 5I I don't remember you. Ever.
I'm gonna say 5 for that, Yeah. All right, all right.
And this is Michelle got inside. Digimon.
Are you serious? Are you Dino?
No. No, no.
Tell us the original list. You.
No, No. Because you would not not have
Mushoku Tensai Jobless Reincarnation not on this list.
No, no, no. That's why this stuff is not
fair. Because you wouldn't.
You wouldn't. You wouldn't.
Go ahead and tell me the real list.
No, because you wouldn't. But this is the fifth one.
You wouldn't do that. You wouldn't.
Judge, the jury and the execution.
No, he would not have Michelle on the Isakai list.
He he would. He would not include that
because that's his favorite. He doesn't like it.
He liked it and then he liked
how at the end it got really slice of life and got simple.
He likes that Animate the best. Oh my God you be cheating all.
Right, all right, all right, so give me your whole list.
You be cheating. Number one Log Horizon 230.
OK. 3 Digimon. OK. 4 faraway Paladin.
All right. And five, is handyman Saito all?
Right, sounds like a good list. Tell me, tell me a little bit
about the list. Why did you choose these things
in these positions? Oh my God.
So for the bottom 2 faraway Paladin handyman, I have never
heard of those really personally, so maybe I might
have heard of Handyman Saito. It's actually good.
I just don't know anything about them.
So that's why I kind of just defaulted to throw them in the
bottom lock. Horizon, I feel like has like
that cult following and I feel like I remember you talking
about it in an episode in the past.
So I was like, OK, that one's got to be the deep cut.
RE0I know folks like RE0, if they are fans of Isakai and then
Digimon, you mind. Just a classic.
So yeah, I feel like 3 was a good spot it.
Absolutely is. OK, Jerry, give me your whole
list. #1 Jobless reincarnation #2 lock horizon number.
This year you throwing away. Yes, it is.
Shut up. Yesterday throwing away.
Shut up, shut up, shut up #3 Cycling of the world #4 far away
Paladin and number 530. Because law.
I mean Javas being her name, she has to be on this list if you
were actually doing it for real. OK, so you are going to forego
one of the actual. No, no, no.
I am putting in the actual ACT answer that you had on that list
before you decided to change. It I'll go through and I'll tell
y'all which ones y'all have in the correct space.
OK. Just a moment while I'll tell
you how many, and then I'll give you a whole list.
All right, So OK, all right, So Jerry, you get the point for
this round, you had one. Item.
In the correct space or I see you had none.
The correct list reads as follows.
The faraway Paladin digitally. Got 5.
No, from 1:00 to 5:00 the faraway paladin is #1 Digimon
Handyman Saito in another world, Log Horizon, then RE0.
OK, so you got the RE0, OK, I. Have never.
The one you had in the right place was Saito, Jared and I.
Never heard you talk about that. Talk about what?
The Forward Paladin. Saito in other world or the far
away paladin? I talked about Saito when Saito
was on. What is it called Saito?
Handyman Saito in another world. No, you have never talked about
this. It's like, oh, it's a girl with
titties. No wonder.
Saito is a man, what are you talking about?
But there's a girl in titties in armor.
Maybe. I don't know, I don't think you
might be on some sort of you're. Looking at the porn, not that
one Jared the the PG1 all right we got one more list y'all let's
let's let's wrap it up. Let's get through it all right,
one through 5 again, same rules. And the first one I'm going to
give you is Black Clover. OK.
Can I guess the category since I've been cheated out of two out
of the three categories? Say what not?
And I guess the category since I've been cheating.
Absolutely. All right, I'm saying shonen.
Shonen. OK, you know, and I'll and I'll
give you another chance to guess after we get them all.
We. Get them all right.
I appreciate it unless I get it first.
OK, I said. Black Clover.
Naruto. I oh OK.
OK, OK, alright, I got a place. OK, Food Wars.
OK, you'd like this one, right? Alright, Yu-gi-oh.
Damn. OK, he loves nostalgia.
All right. And finally, Samurai Champloo.
OK, I feel I'm not feeling too confident on my list.
I'm gonna tell you right now, OK?
Well, well, run it down for me. Arson.
What we what we looking at? All right, I got #1 Naruto or
two Black Clover, three Samurai Champloo, 4 Food Wars, and five
for Yu-gi-oh. OK.
Alright, alright, alright. Why?
Why those things in these
places? It's just it's the vibes, you
know I'm getting. I feel food wars I feel like
could be a little bit higher, but I just feel like also I feel
like I know what the category is.
But anyways, I feel like food wars could be one up high, like
one higher, but I just don't really know.
Everything else just kind of feels right if this is the
category I'm thinking it is. OK, OK, Jerry, write it down for
me. What you got?
1 Shamrai Champloo, two Yu-gi-oh, three Food Wars, 4
Black Clover, and five Naruto Oh.
You said 3 is food wars. Yeah. 4 Black Clover.
Yeah. And five Naruto.
Yeah. Alright OK, y'all want you know
what this category is? Y'all want a hint and then a
chance to reorder your list? Yeah, 'cause I think that Naruto
and food boys got us. No, no, no.
His if we get a hit, it's not blind ranking.
We we already ranked them blind. We already ranked.
Let's roll the dice. I'm trying.
I'm trying to make it a little more interesting.
I was trying to make it a little more interesting.
All right, do do either of y'all want to try to guess the
category? I hold on.
Alright, Jerry, you go first. I'm I'm still formulating.
I didn't want to guess the category, but I will go ahead
and guess my cover is coming back this year.
Actually, Food Wars is the only wine that is in the showning.
I don't know, I have no idea. I will say, OK, I'm gonna say
these are anime that have had a lasting impact on your life and
your personality. That's a really good guess.
As I'm locking at in. You don't be cooking.
I, I, I don't know, I have no idea what the category is all.
Right, all right, all right. The category is rivals actually.
Yeah, I've never seen food. That makes sense.
All these shows are centered around two people, like a two
person rivalry. I've never seen food wars.
I've also never seen food wars. I don't know.
And in. Naruto New Wars is hilarious.
Yeah, I got to watch that. Naruto and Sasuke are not
rivals, they're secretly lovers. Secretly so you can, you can.
You can be a lover. Yeah, you can be a lover and a
rival. They, they had a whole HBO show,
heated rivalry. They just aired it, same thing.
You know you are correct. You are correct.
How many? Points did we get.
I got to come back. It's not going to happen today.
You did not get you did not get a point for that one.
Here you have three of them in the right place.
No way. And I will read you down the
list right now. Samurai Champloo, Yu-gi-oh,
Naruto, Black Clover and coming in at #5 Food Wars.
OK, I do like. I do like the old shows Jerry, I
do like. The old stuff the Marcus can't
get with the present. I need him to download the CNN
app and learn about the wars that's going on in the world.
Damn. You know I'm but that's how did
y'all feel about that game? How was that?
How was that for you? I liked it.
I don't know why we would, why we would dislike it.
Why wouldn't you include Java's reincarnation when that's?
The That sounds like a personal you.
Ever you? Know, I did think, I did think
about that, but I did not include it because I did include
Log Horizon and I was like, if I put both of these in there, it's
going to be real hard. When has that ever stopped you?
Listen you I heard questioning the judge during execution and
rogue that's. What he does every time, that's
what. So when I do make a game to to
actually embarrass him, he can't be mad.
Because what happens is every time he does stuff like this, he
he'll do stuff like this. And then I was supposed to be
ranking stuff before and I know he's going to include something
he doesn't include. So anyways, I see this show is
all about you. Now I have to ask you a
question. What is going on with Mr. JoJo?
What is whoa, don't get me started right, but what is
really yes the the the going ONS, the Reddit post.
What is the social saying about JoJo?
OK, to get you started, let me take you all back to, I want to
say around 2018-2019 JoJo parts. As we all know, Well I think
most people do know, JoJo is split up into multiple parts.
Each part kind of tells like a different story about a
different Joe star character, a different member of the Joe star
family. Part 6 when it was announced
that it was going to be animated, finally get an anime
adaptation, but also now, no, no, I'm, I'm taking back to 2019
to that 20. What year was that?
Somewhere around 2018-2019. This is part C.
This is not the current one, the one before this one.
When it was when that one was announced, they also announced
that it was that JoJo was now switching to be exclusively not
owned by but like all the anime will be airing on Netflix
exclusively prior to that. You know all you can find parts
one through 5 on Crunchyroll and maybe like Hulu or something
like that, but part 6 and part 7, those are Netflix.
Those are considered, you know, OE and a original Netflix
adaptation, whatever you want to call it.
So well damn that. So you got to go to Netflix if
you want to watch JoJo Part 6. The the first problem that we
had with that is that they decided we're not going to do
weekly episodes like we used to do with JoJo where, you know,
let's say we got 30 something episodes coming out for the part
where instead going to release them in batches.
So when part 6 dropped, they dropped 12 episodes.
It got to a bit of a cliffhanger.
They were like, all right, we'll see y'all in like 6 months or
something like that as Netflix does.
But the fans will live it because imagine, you know, you,
you're used to one way, right? You're, you're not used to
taking these little breaks, these six month breaks as a JoJo
fan, you're used to, OK, this is going to be pretty much like a
yearly event where we're going to go, you know, get our
episodes once a week until, you know, we reach the climax.
So we reach the end. That's it.
That's, you know, and we're done with it.
We move on. We'll wait however many years
for our next part. Now Netflix coming in, shaking
everything up, changing animation styles, doing all
sorts of this and that. And then, you know, they're now
we're saying, OK, we got these batches.
So that was already, you know, a kerfuffle with Part 6.
Now here we go, Part 7. This is what this is the most
recent part, the part that just released in March, right?
You know, there was a, it was announced probably like, you
know, a year or two ago that Part 7 was coming out.
Everybody's super happy. This is probably one of the more
popular parts like manga wise is very, very popular.
Everybody you know is spamming Netflix for I think probably
like the month before it actually came out.
Everybody's spamming Netflix talking about some we don't want
batches release it weekly release it weekly.
If you went to if you go and look at like net like comments
on tik toks and YouTube videos for Netflix or Netflix anime
videos, everybody's talking about some we want weekly steel
ball run. That's the name of the JoJo
part. We give it to give it to Us
Weekly. So finally they give us a
release date, they say all right, it's coming.
Y'all, it's going to be March 24th.
Everybody's like woo, yeah, March 24th.
We're getting a 48 minute long episode.
Never before we we ain't never seen that in anime.
I mean, I don't know if y'all ever seen well, you know, Kodi
have a long episode, but that's yeah, it's it's very rare we get
the episode. It's a a fantastic episode, by
the way, Probably one of the best first episodes I would say
ever. I'm biased, of course.
One of the best first episodes and then nothing.
It goes to credits, complete silence.
Where's episode 2? Everybody's looking around, you
know, you look on Netflix, you're looking for like the
where's play next. I don't see nothing like that.
You go to the page, you don't see nothing about, you know,
episode 2. They don't say anything.
Weeks go by at this point now we're you know, we're getting
into like mid like maybe mid when did it?
OK, maybe it released in end of February and then it was like
probably end of March when we finally get a note from from
Netflix talking about some Hey y'all, the next episode is
coming 2026. What do you mean it's coming
2020? We're already in 2026.
You don't just sit there and tell somebody, oh, it's coming
this year. We know it's supposed to be
coming this year. Y'all ain't telling us.
Nothing. So we finally did get a little
bit of clarity. Now it's kind of, you know,
they've, you know, given us a window fall 2026.
But it's just the whole, the whole like way that it was
poorly handled where, you know, everybody's up in arms.
We got people posting these GIFs of like, it's like a combination
of the main character of this part of JoJo combined with King
Von They, they photoshopped them together.
They're spamming it in the comments everywhere.
They're like, where is it Netflix?
Where's my episode? Where's my episode?
So now we kind of have an idea with the next episode, but it's,
it's been tough being a JoJo fan because we, we just want to see
the next part, the next episode. So.
So they have said wait until the fall for just the second episode
or is it going to be a batches of episode or?
It's most likely going to be batches of episodes.
Again, that's that's pretty much what we're we're leaning
towards, which at this point, I mean, it's like, I guess that's
that's better than nothing. I just want to, I just want to
consume the show. I want to actually, no, it's not
going to be a batch. It's it is going to be weekly,
but it's probably going to, they're probably going to do
weekly. And then like, cut, still cut it
up where like, you know, maybe we'll go for like a couple like
a month or two of episodes and then break and then come back,
you know, a few months later. And then, 'cause this is a
pretty lengthy part of JoJo, so it will probably will take them
some time to get through, but it is just kind of like, what are
we doing there? Yeah.
So. So why would they do it like
that? You know, they just released one
episode like was just a teaser. Like why would they just
released one episode? It did nothing.
Like what is nothing's even thinking?
So the, you know, we've got the, the conspiracy theorists out
there, they're thinking that they just want folks, you know,
to get their, get their subscription started, get them
subscriptions going. Then you hit them with the, oh,
we don't know when JoJo next Jojo's party is going to come
out. You know, there's a chance, you
know, after these folks have started their subscription, they
might not, you know, let it lapse because now they said now
they're back on the platform. Now they're on the platform, you
know, you might see, oh, let me watch Freer and let me watch
something else or something. To the other let me watch
something else. In the meantime, in the
meantime, that's that's what the conspiracy is.
They're just trying to like, you know, generate hype, generate
that buzz. But to the fans, like, it is
really kind of a slap in the face because you're just like,
that's not what I want. I don't want to have to be in
that situation. I just want to watch JoJo and be
done with it. And if I want to continue with
my Netflix subscription, so be it.
Don't don't try to hold me by a leash till I get to the next
episode like you're holding me hostage.
And I'm gonna ask, did anybody, did y'all see this kind of thing
coming when we when the switch from like cable to streaming was
starting to happen? Like were you, did you sit there
like one day they are going to hold these fucking episodes over
our head to force us to buy these subscriptions?
Not in this way, not in this way.
I feel like you can see it a little bit but.
Yeah, I I never watch anime on cable.
I always watched it, you know, so online, so online pirated and
that's obviously the best way to do it because what do you mean
they don't release the whole episodes?
Like what is going on? OK, but I have only seen the
first JoJo and I was on the second JoJo and he was going on
the plane to kill the first JoJo and maybe on the third one I
don't know but I started. You're on the you are on the
third JoJo. OK, He's not.
He's killing the planning to kill the villain from the first.
JoJo OK from the first one, yes. Yes, you are not the main, Yeah.
Yeah, and and I, I was going through it, but then I got
caught up in everything One Piece and I got shifted because
that was around the time I was doing the Enoslavi arc and I had
to go ahead and bend all those episodes.
I have slowed down on One Piece, but I fear that something like
this may happen with One Piece because now that Netflix is
doing One Piece, they have said that One Piece is no longer
going to be year round. It's going to be a couple of
episodes and they are. I think that with JoJo being so
popular you see it all the time with these amazing poses.
One Piece may begin to be doing these type of shenanigans and I
especially because necklace is also doing the reduced One Piece
thing. The remake.
Yeah, where they're remaking it, so.
Well, One Piece is still airing on Crunchyroll too, right?
It is, I believe. So so was the the So what do you
mean since Netflix has gotten a hold of One Piece, are they like
producing it now? Netflix is produced.
Netflix is producing the remake. I don't know who has first dibs
to One Piece. Though Yeah, so the original,
the original was still yeah, it's TV Tokyo, I think the cat
or no, that's. Toy.
Yeah. Toy.
Animation toy, Yeah. But I don't know who has
distribution. That's what I'm that's what I'm
talking about. Yeah, I, I think, I don't think
One Piece going to seasonal is, is the bad thing.
Yeah, I feel like they're trying to just like, 'cause we're, I
think, I think we're getting to the end of One Piece and they're
just trying to like stretch it out a little bit more.
They're trying to. They're trying to milk it.
Well, I don't think it's a bad thing, but if we look at JoJo
then it is a bad thing because they don't know how to release
anime on time for the fans. I think these big corporations
getting a hold of these big NMIAIPS, they going to kill it.
They're they're they're going to they're going to ruin it.
OK yeah. Even even in these small ways
like release dates, I mean, arson.
Go ahead. I.
Was going to say, I think I also agree with y'all where it coming
out, you know, seasonally or you know, with the seasonal weekly
stuff for One Piece, I think it's a good idea, but I also
think it's a good idea just because current One piece, in my
opinion, this is the reason why I don't watch the anime anymore.
I only read the manga is because the pacing has gotten to a point
where you know, we're not having enough.
There's not enough action per episode.
They're stretching it out a little too thin.
It letting scenes like, you know, letting scenes hang on for
a little too long to the point which makes sense because you
know, obviously they don't want to cut that.
You don't want to catch up to the manga.
You don't want to have to have it like happen like that.
So I think let's just have like a natural have natural breakdown
points where, you know, we're releasing the episodes for, you
know, a good portion of the year.
Go on a break, give the manga a chance to, you know, put more
material out. Then you can start, you know,
working on it again and again. I think that that that's what
they should have been doing instead of I think they were, I
think the pre before this year. How many episodes were they
putting out? Episodes like 50 weeks out of 52
weeks of the year. Something.
Crazy like that something. Like, you know, they would, they
would do like maybe Christmas and New Year's off no episode.
Yeah, that's no, that's just too much.
And especially if the episode is just not going to have, if it's
not going to do, if you're not going to show me anything, if
you're just going to show me a still frame of Luffy's face,
he's just like shocked for 10 seconds.
Just because you need the whole space.
I don't need to see that, man. Cut it down.
Cut it. Down now.
I know he's surprised. Move on.
Exactly. Now I just want to say
Crunchyroll does hold the primary long term rights to One
Piece and. Netflix.
It's One Piece anime series offering the entire catalog,
both Duff and so with new ever released shortly after Japan and
Netflix streams many episodes and exclusive home to live
action. So Crunchyroll holds that
distribution deal. But honestly, I have to
completely disagree with you. I love the extra stuff that they
put in because that is where the comedy for one piece happens.
That is where you got all the nuances in One piece.
Like if we didn't get the extra stuff during the Doflamingo arc
that we would not have the person in the baby suit have his
whole arc from being just this womanizer who doesn't even pay
attention to these women to being this person who was
married whose wife is in the hospital because she's in a
coma. We would have that or or his,
his conflict with Frankie, all that stuff.
So I have to. That's where all the One piece
comes. They they, they include
backstories in the manga. The manga doesn't skip down.
You're not missing out on back story.
They'll they'll dedicate. Like I remember 1 specific
character had a back story that lasted probably 3-4 months.
That's what I was, you know, because I'm, you know, reading
week to week. I'm get you, you get your full
back story. Don't worry about that, but you
don't. You don't need to worry about
that with. When it comes to like missing
out, I don't think you're missing anything.
I need that back story in the end I'd be more back.
So like I know they did a a whole new anime about the
lightning guy who was their their first main boss on the
first arc with the little. Giraffe.
He went to the moon or something.
Oh. It's a good.
And that's I I wish that anyway would do that.
I want to see all the back story.
I know I want them to elongate every day like they he was
writing for seven months on the Waterford art.
He was writing. He couldn't make that little.
He couldn't make it to the wall ever.
And I loved every minute of it. So one piece does have a lot of
extra, but it's good extra. It's it's great anime.
I'm like, they're gonna cut down 230 episodes.
You're missing the whole series. You're missing all the stuff
like. You know, I can't I can't agree
with you to to some degree though, 'cause I think it if
you, they are genuine, if they are genuine, genuinely going to
cut down to so few episodes. You have to cut out some stuff
that you know yes, that was a part of the original story to
make it that sure. So I give you that, wait, how
many episodes? Just how many episodes they cut
it down to? They are cutting down like the
they said it was some crazy numbers and I think that
DeMarcus, you send it to me. I think I saw it on Instagram a
long time ago and it was like they they're cutting it down.
They're cutting down different seasons, different different
amounts. So it's not like they're cutting
everything down 50%. It's like this season is going
to have, you know, going to like, you know, 500 to like 200.
This season is going to go from 200 to 12.
Yeah, yeah, this arc is going to do one thing, this arc is going
to do another thing. But yeah, there's a TikTok about
it and where they're talking about how the different arts
going to be cut down for this remake.
So yeah, like the first arc with the lightning, that's going to
be 2024 episodes when they go up to heaven.
They can't do that. Like, how are you going to get,
you know, the people? Thriller Bark, It's just going
to be 12 episodes. I do think, I do think Thriller
Bark could have been shorter. The Thriller Bark arc, I was
like, all right, I'm tired of being here.
There are some like the Land of Wano Ark that could definitely
be shorter because I'm like we like there's like there were
episodes in Wano where like it's just like Zorro or Luffy, like
running around the desert and I'm like, all right.
They said the Fishman Ark is going to be 12 episodes.
Dresser Rosa is going to be 37 episodes.
Go to the next one. Whole Cake Iowa is going to be
27 episodes. You can't even hate Sanji at the
end. Like I'm like what is going to
you can't even hate Big Mom. I know is going to be 37
episodes and that is enough either.
Overall the the whole show is going to be about 203 hundred
episodes. They're kind of have to stop.
If you do I know of only 37 episodes.
You don't get the whole back story of the Prince and and how
he died and the family and you don't know that.
You don't know that for sure in 37 episodes and all the comedy
it you are cutting out the full like, like, like it's just going
to be the bone. There's no meat to these
episodes. I think it's going to be
straight meat, no bone. That's what I'm saying.
All meat. Yeah, we're getting y'all meat
on this one. No fat.
You know, the fat is usually the best part.
Like if there is on a rib eye, there's no no fat in there.
It's no longer a rib eye. Well, I understand what you're
saying. And this is, and this is a truth
when it comes to steaks. You know the where there is fat,
there is flake. Yes.
But I myself like a lean cut of meat.
I need all the fat child. I I needed lean.
I'm trying to build muscle. Yeah, you trying to be like
Swole McGraw down here? OK, so that was a little bit of
one piece, a little bit of JoJo. I stopped JoJo, stopped.
Watched it when it was just being to be silly.
I thought the gist would have started to be.
So I say, OK, let me come back to this.
Let me go wait on full in on full in on one piece.
But I was really interested to hear that there's going to be a
girl JoJo coming up. Yes.
That's Part 6. It's going to take, it'll take
you some time to get there, but you know it is well worth it.
It's pretty much an all, mostly an all female cast for that, for
that season or that part or whatever they're like, well,
I'll say all females, 33 girls. And OK, I'm not gonna say I'm
not gonna spoil anything. Let's just say there there are
girls involved. You're at a girls prison.
It's a. It's a fun time for sure.
OK, OK. Arson.
I really wanted to make sure that we talked about all that
you want to talk about. Is there anything else that you
want to mention regarding anime, JoJo, One Piece, any other anime
you want to mention or anything else?
Video games. We could talk about video games.
He can't because he has only played Mario this year.
But as far as me, I am a video game connoisseur, so I can talk
about stuff well. Sure.
I think I want to use my platform while I have it here to
just throw it on some some more, some more manga.
I know there's not to put you on segment, but these are these are
some important manga, specifically this almost I'm
going to talk about two, OK, because I think we got to get
people out here. We got to get people to to tap
in on these. He's original sin.
Not Taco Bee. Taco.
Everybody's already. Everybody should already be
tapped in on Taco Bee by now. Y'all see if you're not, what
are you doing? Bugle Call.
I think it's called the bugle call.
Song of war. Hold on.
You gotta tell us what these other ways of what these mangas
are about. I'm gonna let y'all know the
bugle call colon song of war is a currently a manga.
I don't know if their plans on an anime yet, but there should
be because this one, I think, in my personal opinion, has the
ability to be on par with Attack on Titan.
That is a, a very, very bold claim I'm making.
When you see, when you, when you read through this story, you see
some of like the parallels between this and Attack on
Titan. I'm like, whoa, this kind of had
me like with that same level, like, you know, intrigue and
mystery that I had while watching Attack on Titan, that
same level of like, you know, deception and like, you know,
kind of like wartime situations going on.
What this is about you have a young boy or in this world, it's
like kind of like a medieval style setting where certain
people have these like tree branches growing out of their
head. OK, seems seems kind of weird.
And you're like, OK, what what is that about?
If you're a tree branch person, you essentially have powers.
So kind of like, you know, parallel being like if you had
like Titan powers and Attack on Titan, our main character, he
has a tree branch little thing coming out of his head, but he
hasn't activated his powers yet. So he doesn't know what he's
going on. They got him on the battlefield
as like a he's like 14 years old.
All he does is like play the trumpet to like let everybody
know, like, all right, everybody, let's go ahead and
like, you know, everybody charge, charge so that you know,
he's he's basically doing nothing.
One day his powers activate and he turns out that he can use his
trumpet powers to essentially like command the entire
battlefield pretty much like almost like a like if you, let's
say you were playing like civilization or like, you know,
some sort of like real time strategy game, you're
controlling the whole army. You can tell him to do these
formations here. So from that point on, he is the
most valuable asset on the battlefield because essentially
everybody on the battlefield on his side that sees that can hear
that music, they automatically are locked in like a full unit.
They're like, oh, he wants us to do to run this route.
OK, we'll do this. We'll circle around here, we'll
stab these guys. Boom, boom, boom.
We're in and out and they have no no more casualties on their
side. They're taking down entire
armies without, like I said, without losing anybody.
And from there things just only get crazier because now he's
like, you know, pretty much a personal assistant to like this
world's Pope, something like that.
They, they're sending him out on missions, but then where the
entry comes, why does he have a damn tree branch coming out of
his head? Why do these people have tree
branches coming out of the head in the 1st place?
That's what you got. That's what you got to learn
about when you read this story because you will, you will learn
why these people are, you know, have trees growing out of the
head where these powers are coming from.
What is the core reason why, for example, the Pope figure, like I
mentioned before, why, why does he wear a helmet that covers his
face permanently? He doesn't, he doesn't like to
take it off. It's all mystery and entry.
So this seems very when you say now it seems more complicated
that you did on your. Podcast.
Political. It is when.
You when you were talking about your podcast, I was thinking
something like Ranking of Kings, like more emotional more.
It's a little bit of that emotional, OK, OK.
But it's more like war, Like, yeah, I feel like it's more like
wartime, like a pure, like true war between two factions where
it's like, OK, we got to figure out how to take over, like, you
know, beat these other guys because they also have tree
branch people that are, you know, a threat to us and have
even more OP powers than us. And this is called Bugle boy
Bugle call. Song of War.
Song of War, yes. All right, all right.
That's my first one. Number two, it's just a a simple
title for you this time. Mad MAD.
OK. This one I thought was just
going to be, you know, kind of I thought it was going to be all
right. It's essentially a world has
kind of been run over by aliens through these alien creatures
that are super Opie and, you know, are going around eating,
you know, eating all the humans pretty much.
Yeah. I I bet you what you will like
this one. Our main character, through a
series of events, ends up, you know, like most shonen
characters do, he ends up having these alien powers.
He ends up being able to turn into one of the aliens and like
and is able to like fight against, you know, the aliens.
But as you might expect, once again in this world is not just
about fighting against the other aliens.
There are other people too that are turning into aliens just
like him. He's got to fight against young
people as well. And so, you know, we've got like
this whole it's a very like dystopian situation.
It really isn't like there's pretty much no civilization
whatsoever. So it's kind of like a like our
hero is really just trying to like make it to the next to the
next day. Just he really just trying to
get to the next point in time it all.
And honestly, I think it starts where he's ready to kill himself
because it's like sister died or something like that.
So I'm just like, I don't even want to be here no more.
But he's able to he's able to find his footing in life and be
able to, you know, start to protect the people that his his
newfound family. So this one also does not have
an anime. Oh, this one might have an
anime. No, I said it doesn't have an
anime yet, but it is should. OK, so this one, it kind of
sounds like it has some Kaiju #8 type of things.
It is a Kaiju #8 kind of vibe, but just imagine, like imagine
the whole world, the Kaiju #8 was already destroyed or
something. And now you've only got like,
you know, a few people running around.
You got like some reminisces, some reminisces society, kind of
like a Walking Dead where you know, only like a few, you know,
small little pockets of people are still existing.
And if you run up on another pocket of people, then you know
it's probably going to be some problems.
OK, OK, OK. I've written that one down as
well. And I will bring I'll bring one
more see y'all to the table here.
This one might be one of my favorite one of my top manga
whole in the in the whole world at this point.
The fact that does not have an anime, it doesn't have a true
anime at this point. I don't know when slash if it is
kind of old at this point, but hopefully we do get an
adaptation at some point. This is called Usogui.
USOGUI, or I think you can also type in the lie Eater.
Yeah, just the light eater if you want to also look it up like
that. This one completely batshit
insane. It's one of those ones that
starts out as like a very simple premise, but then as things just
start happening, you know, you realize you're like, where how
do we end up on where we are at Chapter, you know, 100 compared
to chapter 1. The premise behind this, you
have a young man named Baku who's also known as USO GUI.
They call him the Lie Eater. In this world, you have this
like group of people called, I think it's called Kakaro or
something like Kakaro, which are essentially a, an organization
that overseas games. When I say games, I mean like
let's say me and you DeMarcus, we want to play, we want to play
rock, paper, scissors. And I'm a bet, I'm a bet $500.
We're going to bet 5. We don't put 500 on it.
I'm going to call up Kakaro and they're going to come up,
they're going to show up. They're going to make sure
there's no interference. They're going to make sure
there's no cheating, and they're going to make sure that you pay
that $500 if you lose or I pay the $500 if I lose.
So they're kind of like they're overseeing like the games and
stuff as we progress. You would think that something
as simple as that would be like, you know, OK, they're just
overseeing some games. First of all, no, it's not that
simple. The games that they present to
the table are just completely batshit.
For example, we had this one guy who was like, OK, I'm gonna call
up Kakaro. We're going to try to keep a
mental timer in our head, right? And whoever gets closest to the
time, they are the winner for this round.
And if you're, if you lose or like let's say you lose that
particular round and you're off by like 10 seconds, we're going
to put you inside of a brazen Bull torture device and you got
to survive like being like burned alive for 10 seconds.
So it's, you know, the, the stakes, the stakes are always,
you know, completely maximum. Another one, for example, is
they're playing hangman, but it's a real hangman.
So it's like if you lose the game, you're being hung, you're
actually being hung, you're hanged or whatever you want to
call it, you're being hanged. You're going to be killed at the
end of the game if you actually lose the game.
So the stakes are always high. The the action is always
surprisingly surprising, like a lot of action in this manga
where you would expect it to just be, you know, like a
psychological thriller where it's like, OK, how do I get in
this person's head to figure out the game?
Sure, that's one aspect of it. But then you've got these
cockaroo like this organization, they're doing their own like
shady stuff in the background where people within there like
fighting each other. Like you got like the most
insane, like martial artists and stuff like that doing XYZ type
stuff. And it's just it's just a big
bag of of amazing action and like, just like drama.
I would say this, like I said, you're probably not going to
probably not going to see this one animated anytime soon.
But if you do see it animated, just know that I'm going to be,
you know, I won't be there at day one.
I'll be jumping out of my seat. It says that there's a OVA.
There was there is an OVA for for that, like that one
particular game that I just explained about, like the like
the hangman. Yeah.
So they do show that per that game from the manga, but other
than that, that's it. That's the only bit of the the
show we have or the manga that we have animated.
So I'm I'm the I'm the leader of the campaign.
I would say I don't know how I don't know if I were able ever
able to win like, you know, millions of dollars.
You better believe some of that money is going towards funding
that anime. OK.
I am very excited for you to get
that millions of dollars to help you throw some into BGE.
I will, of course. Yes, I do want to ask you as a
final, final question before the 17 questions, how are you
feeling about the hit that has taken over everything?
It just got ATV show. It just got a movie.
It just got a TTRPG dungeon crawler Carl.
Well, let me tell you about dungeon crawl, OK?
Tell you about I. Don't.
Know. Seth Rogen.
I told you, Seth Rogen. Oh, we did talk about Seth
Rogen. OK, OK.
We did talk about. That for Paramount Plex.
Dungeon Crawler Carl is absolutely fantastic.
It has reignited my love for reading, and I cannot thank Matt
Deniman enough for that. Because I used to, you know, I
think most folks, probably when we were younger used to love
reading, you know, back in the school day age.
But since then I've probably read what, one or two books or
something like that. From February to today, I've
read all 7 Dungeon Crawler Carl books.
I'm completely caught up ready for book 8.
And now I've decided, OK, well now that I got the reading bug,
let me go and start reading some other stuff.
So I'm reading a little bit of 4th Wing.
My wife wanted to try to put me on that one.
So I'm trying to, you know, get caught up on that one and then
hopefully I get to read even more.
So I'm very happy to be back in the reading space.
Dungeon crawler Carl, though, I don't even know where to begin,
man. I feel like it hooks you in with
that crazy premise of just being like, you know, oh, the the guy
and his cat, they're going through the dungeon.
Ha, ha, so funny. But he doesn't have he doesn't
have pants or shoes. Oh, what that that's crazy.
That as a hook isn't was enough to get me in.
And I'm so glad that I've stuck stuck with it all this way.
I feel so attached to all of the characters in the the book so
far that are still with us. And I just really love like that
anti establishment attitude that Carl like keeps through the
entirety of the books. Because, I mean, I would hope
that if I was in a situation like that, this is what I would
want to. That's the character I would
strive to be like. Because what do you mean you're
coming to my planet to farm my resources and kill my entire,
like, you know, my entire people.
Yeah, if y'all bro, like y'all, y'all need to get up out of
here, man. I'm I'm I'm ready to kill all
y'all back like we. And I, and I think that's the
one part that I didn't understand from the book, like
the in the beginning they explained like why they're there
and why they have claim on these resources and something about
like, oh, we seeded this planet with with humans, but y'all
didn't like join the federation or something.
So they take, I'm like, what? Yeah, it's like they will get a
notice. Contact.
They said they like contacted, not us or whatever, but it's
like come on bro, y'all should have sent more messages or
something like that. Have somebody come communicate.
We don't speak this language, we don't speak no syndicate
language. So y'all, yeah.
But you know what, you know, I could, I could see something
like that happening in like the government just covering it up
and like, you know, NATO, whatever, they just be like, all
right, we just going to ignore this, you know?
Man, here we go. That smooshed Demark.
I have done all of the books as well.
I have done the audio books and the audio books is a May Zing I
tell you. I have also looked into other
lit RP GS. I know Chrysalis, I've raved
about Chrysalis as well. I'm doing another one right now.
But the mark is I know we're talking about Dutch acrylic.
I know you're not that far into it.
What chapter are you on? I'm somewhere between like
chapter 8 and chapter 10. Of the first book.
Of the first book, Yes, Sir. OK, so the the cat just
transformed. She can talk now and she's like
a bitch. And Carl.
And that's the part where Carl's like, yo, I'm going to go this
way. You can go the other way because
I'm not doing this with you. Like the only reason I've been
tolerating you up to this point is because you couldn't talk.
And now that you can, I'm not fucking with you.
And that is, as Princess would say, unacceptable.
So it's unacceptable. All right, Doctor, Carla, Carl,
we are excited for what Seth Rose.
Seth Rogen is the second producer on The Boys and
Invincible and Invincible is going crazy right now.
Are you up to date on Invincible?
Arson. I'm 2 episodes behind, but you
know, I read the comic. So yeah, I know.
I know what I was going on. Chad, you, you got to say, I
read the comics too and I'm just like, Chad is crazy.
Oh, and did you see the Avatar leak?
I did not watch it. I was I'm I'm a I'm a fan of
avatar, but like I'm not like a super.
I'm not like so into it like I'll if I stumble across it,
sure, I might watch it. I still haven't watched core or
anything like that. So I'm like, I'm not the biggest
avatar fan. So I don't know anything about
this leak or what's going on. Just know what happened.
Did you watch it? I have it.
I have not watched it yet. I don't know why.
And report it, I got you. All right, before I go to jail,
let me just get out these 17 questions you got.
The person who leaked is going to over Paramount like he
doesn't pay millions of dollars because because they get fired
$175,000 for each person they shared it with and these person
that they in turn shared it with.
So apparently they're going to owe 1,000,000 millions of
dollars, right? Have you heard about the
conspiracy though? Have you heard about that?
Tell me. They're saying that this was
like an intentional like leak, so that way they can like write
it off as a loss or something like that 'cause they're about
to close down the. Animation Studio.
What did that? Well, they closed down
Nicktoons. They closed down Nicktoons, OK.
Yeah, I did not hear about that. I don't know.
It's just, you know, this is all conspiracy.
I don't know. I don't know if it's you know
what the truth behind it is or how valid that might be, but
something to think. About alright, Arson 17
questions #1 would you rather be a werewolf or a vampire?
And you may hear these again, these may be things that you've
heard before, but they are on based on our recent episodes and
and some stuff that we said this episode.
So where would you be? A werewolf or a vampire?
I think I would like to be a werewolf because I think they're
cooler, but in terms of practicality, I'd probably be a
vampire. I don't want to be busting out
of my clothes and people. I'm trying to, you know, eat my
loved ones. You don't know you can control
yourself. I think they know, I just don't
know. Vampires also.
Have that when their first turn they have that little
uncontrollable hunger. True, you know, yeah, the.
Dangers that they are pros and cons, but I think the danger is
persistent across across the choices.
That's true. OK, what TV shows do?
Do you or will you let your kids watch besides spider Man?
Besides Spider Man, we're on. You know, we like Bluey, We
like, there's this new one with a little black girl called Hey
AJ, Very, very new, fresh 2026. I like that one.
I think it's pretty cool seeing black families and whatnot.
And what will I, what will I let her watch?
I'll probably let her watch SpongeBob when she's a little
bit older. Thinking about it, I'm like,
should I have been watching SpongeBob when I was that young?
That stuff wasn't that was dumb as hell.
SpongeBob. It truly is very, very dumb.
It's. Just dumb it's it wasn't TikTok.
It wasn't TikTok you are right. So you got to pick your battles.
And it was funny. It was funny.
It was good, funny humor, but yeah, what about when she gets a
little bit older? Alright, 'cause there's no more
No more kids WB, no more Nicktoons.
We just said, well, no more Nick, Nick, Nick at night or
cartoon Disney or. I mean, yeah, it's like Disney
Plus. I will go back to the 90s
though. I will try to do my best to
like, kind of like, you know, put her on to as much as
possible from that era just 'cause I think like, you know,
it's either that or she's going to be watching whatever new show
from Disney Plus is coming on. And like, it might be good, but,
and it might be a classic in 10 years, but like, I want to, I
want to see the classes of, of that I know of put her on.
At least I can watch that other stuff.
Yeah, she watch other stuff on her own time.
Now let me ask you another question.
These are not part of 17 question by the way.
That's what they call Miles. Something else on that spider
man? They call him Spin.
And that's the only way that's
that's the only thing she knows of Spider Man.
That's that's the only way she knows of Miles Morale.
She knows him as Spin. So she's gonna be in for a world
of trouble when she gets older. And I'm just like, no, that's
Spider Man. Why do they call him?
Should not confuse the kids, most likely 'cause they have,
yeah, it's a kid shot. They have Peter, Miles, and Gwen
Stacy all together. They're not going to all call
him Spider Man. They just want to give them all
their own, like I guess unique names.
Spidey. Spidey and Ghost smiles.
Because he's calling the hero. He's a superhero, man.
You can't be calling him Miles on the streets when they try to
fight against. Ryan All right, all right, all
right. I got that.
So when are y'all going to see into the spider verse?
Oh. I don't know, man, I feel like
maybe as since becoming a parent, I feel like I've become
a bit more like, you know, sensitive to like the, you know,
the media and like what's in the media.
Like I'll be, well, I'll watch on about what's kind of, it's
kind of violent. I don't know if we should be
like even Zootopia. I was like, oh, right in the
beginning where Judy is getting bullied.
I'm like damn, should I let my daughter watch him?
Watch his fox coming from scratch?
Scratch his Bunny Like hey, just.
Got to talk to him about it after they see it.
I do need to talk, I think that's probably the best way.
Yeah, talk to your kids. Arson, but who?
You know what he means. You know what?
He means, but who knows better about kids, Arson or Pixar?
Come on now. And plus, I was watching Oz at
10 and look at me now. OK, what movie or TV show are
you looking forward to for the rest of 2026?
Didn't Spider Man come out this year?
Right. The new one?
Yeah, brand new in July. I'll probably say that one.
I'm probably not going to be able to watch it in theaters,
you know, two kids and all that. You know, we have to coordinate
babysitters and whatnot. But I'll be excited to watch it
when I get a chance to. I love.
I'm a big Spider Man fan. You could do a midnight release.
How Who's going to watch the kids?
Your wife will be in the house. Oh, you want me to go by myself?
I want to go with my wife. Love her bro, she's got to go
with me. You need to shop around for
everything. What is the best manga to read
for a first time reader? 1st timer.
Oh OK I'd maybe say it might be crazy to say but like one piece
it's simple. I mean it's long but like you
can start whenever you want to if you're not feeling.
It One Piece does definitely start simple.
Yeah, it's like a simple situation.
I feel like, I feel and they they have like very maybe like
from the beginning up until they get to Grand Line.
That's like a perfect light little story.
I would say that's the same thing they did in the in the
with the show Season 1 of the the live action.
Yeah, OK. Kevin Feige and James Gunn tell
you to make a solo movie based on one of their characters.
Who do you pick and what is the premise?
OK, let me think. I'm trying to.
I feel like I got to pull in like like a like a deep cut or
something like that. You don't have to I.
Don't have to all right, well, I would want I guess, and right
now off the top of my head, I would just say like absolute
Batman or something like that. Just I was just I was just very
curious to see how they handle all those massive.
I haven't I'm not caught up on that.
An absolute Batman. I've only haven't read like too
much of it. I just know they have those
hulkingly large villains. I want to see how they tackle
that like in this with I guess with the CGI and whatnot.
Also, whoever they get to play Batman has to be an absolute
Hulk of a person anyway so. Yeah, no more these skinny
whips, these little twinks. Yeah, no.
OK, who is the best gay Disney villain?
Best gay Disney villain? Has this question changed?
I don't know, I'm probably wording it differently.
OK, yeah, 'cause usually the gayest Disney villain.
Yeah, who's the gayest Disney villain?
I. Think I'm just trying to think
of the ones that I can think of like, you know, like, you know,
Scar Jafar and Dr. Facilier Ursula.
All Disney villains, Which one? Disney villain.
Which one is the gayest one or the best?
The best gay one. I don't know.
I feel like Ursula, she just has like that power to her, you
know? She is the sea witch.
You know she can, you know, she really, she really knows how to
make shit happen. She's in granting people's
wishes, you know, everybody else, kind of she.
Can that's that's what, four times the gay potential then?
Exactly. They only have two arms.
So I'm I'm gonna say Ursula. OK, Earth was a great choice as
I mentioned every time. She was based off of Devine who
was a dry queen from Florida. Who is the best dad on TV?
Best dad on TV? Let me think.
So we're talking about cross anime cartoons and everything
live action. I'm kind of leaning towards this
is just like my personal, like, you know, personal childhood
growing up watching. I like Carl Winslow.
Carl Winslow just from from family matters.
You know, the fact he even tolerates that boy coming over
to the house. You know, that thing that that
was, you know, always kind of fun.
And you know, as the TV dads actually wait, I take it back.
I'll tell you, I'll say Uncle Phil, I'll say Uncle Phil just
'cause I feel like Uncle will just had it.
James Avery. Yep, he just cause him as a
person. He was a very successful black
man trying to, you know, raise and the still amazing values
into his children. He can't beat that.
And Urkel had his own. Father.
He did have his own father for real, Right, Right, Right.
He was always at the Winslow's house, stealing their resources
when he had his own Stop touching other people.
Food Don't go to the Yeah exactly and beyond in the
refrigerator blowing up their kitchens.
OK, who is your favorite rapper turned actor?
Rapper. Turned actor.
I don't really, you know, I'm gonna say, I'll say Donald
Glover. Don't don't suck your teeth at
that. I mean I could have said 2
pockets. Right there.
I could have said them, but like, also, I'm not even 30
years old yet, bro. I'm like, you know, I'm trying
to in my in my wheelhouse. I'm not going to go talking
about some people that were before my time.
I wasn't really watching, you know, Queen.
I have respect for them, don't get me wrong, but Donald Glover
is like, that's my dude. So you haven't seen any Will
Smith movies you just saw? Seen Will Smith movies?
Yeah, I've seen Will Smith movies.
OK. And and you said Fresh Prince
before. I did say Fresh Prince.
OK, Donald Glover, come on now. Childish.
Gambino but Atlanta, but Atlanta was the basis for your whole.
There we go solo. The movie ever wasn't he in?
That was. Good and solo.
He was good and solo. I enjoyed that.
What is your favorite TV theme song?
TV theme song. I'm trying to think.
I feel like it's got to be some like kids show back in the day.
This is a big rich town. No, I'm gonna, you know, I'm
just going top of the head. This might not even be true.
We'll just go Stevie Universe theme song Crystal Gym.
That was a that was a classic. That's a it's got good.
It's a good. Heartfelt little theme.
Yeah. I remember I was binging it and
at first I was like the Crystal Gems and did at the end.
I was saying it like he said. Good day.
All right? What superpower would you have?
I think I remember this. I remember it's the same one
that I said last time I was on here.
Like barrier abilities like, and he brought up a character,
Dazzler, somebody like that, like an X-Men, like Dazzle.
No dazzler has like fire. Like light light, light
manipulation? OK, maybe not.
Maybe. Not like a Bartolomeo on One
Piece. Yeah, that's what that's what.
That's my inspiration. Bartolomeo from One Piece.
I, I don't know why. Ever since I saw his power, I
was like, I feel like being able to like, combine that with
something like a Green Lantern, being able to like create like
constructs and also like create barriers and stuff.
I don't know. It's, it's, it's quirky, you
know, I thought I could, I feel like I could work with it,
really flex my imagination. OK, OK, OK.
Do you think that comes from like you being a father you want
to protect? No, I had this before.
No, saw me, man. I knew about Bartolomeo back in
high school. I've been, I've been on the wave
since I said ain't protected shit.
That's just like, you know, byproducts.
I just said I'm not just my kids, OK?
I'm a. Myself human.
Being What is your favorite horror movie?
Favorite horror movie? I'm kind of boring, I I don't
get to watch as many horror movies as I would like to.
So I'm just going to say Hereditary because it just
sticks with me, you know, every time, once I get it in my mind,
I start checking corners and stuff.
Like I'm like, wait a. Minute so So do you not get to
watch horror movies because you know you're scared of who maybe
what little tike may be watching around the corner?
Or are you being scared of? It's neither really.
It's just like, you know, with the limited time that I've got,
you know, there are, there's like a hierarchy of things that
I'm, you know, trying to do with my time, you know, spend time
with the wife playing video games, watching anime, watching,
you know, live action TV, watching regular movies.
And then I like I said, I enjoy horror movies, but then, you
know, I can only watch them in certain time.
My wife doesn't like them, so I can't watch them with her.
So it's just like, you know, it's just kind of like bottom of
the totem pole and I would love to watch more of them.
It's just I don't get a chance to.
OK, what show or anime do you wish would come back?
I'm gonna say I'm gonna say Hunter, Hunter just because I
want. There's a specific fight that I
want to see animated. I want to see people's reactions
to this damn cruise ship that we've been on for the past 10
years just because I think like what probably only like 2 months
have passed, if that, on the actual cruise ship, but you
know, in real lifetime, Tagashi has taken his sweet time.
Bless his heart. I know he's, you know, kind of
guy. He's got his bad back or
whatever it's been afflicting him.
But brother, we need to get off. We need to make them.
They've been trying to get to the Dark Continent since we, we
we've all been through various stages of our lives at this
point. So, well, I would like to see it
come back. I would like to see the anime
come back just to maybe, you know, revitalize the fandom and
then, you know, you know, kind of coax him along and be like,
hey, let's get to this Dark continent.
Because I, I think it was, it was hyped even at the end of the
series, at the end of the season 2014, they're like, whoa, the
Dark Continent. What is that?
How come we still don't know? I want to know.
Yeah, because because the writer doesn't know.
He. Doesn't know he's still making
it up. Alias come to earth.
What anime do you make them watch to love humans?
I'm putting them on JoJo. I'm putting them on JoJo day one
so I can see what it what the true, especially starting with
Part 1 of JoJo when it's not too crazy.
Just so that way they can see a young strapping young man out
here fighting for his honor, fighting for his girls honor,
fighting for his family's honor and let him know that's what
civil, that's what society is about.
That's what we're here for. We're just trying to, you know,
come together and protect those that we love.
Did you see the end of Fire Force?
I did not, but I know like the general vibes of like, you know
what, what's been going on, like what it entails.
What anime are you watching right now?
I'll say Doro. Hey Doro.
Oh I love that. I need to keep watching it.
I watched the 1st 2 episodes and then I turned it off and said I
or the 1st 2 episodes of season 2 and I turned it off because I
said I don't remember any of these characters I need to see
I. Need I got to take it from the
top? I was like who I I?
I thought y'all were enemies. Why are y'all jumping it up?
Exactly, exactly. That's exactly how I feel.
Yeah. It's been a while but Dori Doro
is great. Who is your favorite JoJo?
Joe's Gay part 4 is my favorite JoJo.
My favorite JoJo character in the whole series is Gyro Gyro
Zeppoli from this most recent part.
If you watch the if you watch the late the last episode, the
one that we, you know, I was bitching and moaning about 48
minute episode. That's my boy right there.
Mean look at him. Oh, he looks kinda.
Cool. It's kind of what?
It's kind of cool, Gyro. Zeppoli Gyro.
Zeppoli got green lipstick. He got a grill.
He got a grill too. He does have a grill look up
just look up gyro Zeppoli grill. You'll see it says go, go.
Zeppoli on the teeth. He's.
Flexing, you are correct. And who is your favorite JoJo
character? JoJo.
Josuke, JOSUKE and you can take. Just gave part 4.
You gotta be specific. They all look like that guy from
you. You have a show.
Kubara. Yeah.
Yeah, that that particular part of JoJo is about like, you know,
high school age. He's a high school age JoJo and
he's in school. So he's kinda makes sense, yeah.
Jujusu Kaizen Howard Colin, do you understand him?
Enough. I understand him enough to
Goodbye. You know, I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna know what I need right now.
Yeah. I'm not gonna be writing.
No. You know, fan videos and talking
about some fan theories. I just know how to watch the
episode. I know what movie you did.
Yeah, when the narrator. Said it out loud when you did.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, wait, where?
The narrator's voice comes on. I do check my phone, 'cause I
do. I really can't be.
There. No, I, I read the manga once.
He said that all, all of this stuff is based on my engineering
friends who are doctors. I completely, I, I, I completely
be completely zoned out. I completely zoned out.
And from that point on, it's cool animation.
I'm not doing all the background stuff.
And are you watching the new series with the aliens or
whatever? I finished reading, I read the
whole thing. It was, it was meant to be a
short 6 month little thing because it's like a a spin off
series or whatever that takes place 60 years in the future.
It was. It was something, something.
Alright, and what is the best anime that you've seen in 2026
so far? Best anime I've seen.
Whoa, I'm gonna be boring here. JoJo part 7.
That one episode that takes the cake.
It still beats everything that I've seen.
I mean I'm I'm a die hard fan. Even with all the drama.
Even with all the drama, you're not gonna break me.
I'll hurt you, Jack. All right, Arson.
This is another great episode. We really appreciate you coming
on and we appreciate all the things that you're doing.
You're building up your body. I see it in the shoulder areas
looking like like like Magilla gorilla on the on the zoom.
Well, you probably don't know who Mcgilla gorilla.
I know who Mcgilla gorilla is. TV show look cartoon gorilla.
OK, yeah, he had the big bite and the little tiny legs, but
but we are so happy, so proud. You have welcomed a new addition
to the LACBA family. We know you're going to be a
great father as you already have been, always taking care of your
children. Even if you you you have to
overprotect them. And during their birthday
parties, you are making the effort to make sure that they
have the same quality. And that is what it takes to be
a father. And we appreciate you.
We need more fathers like you around.
And thank you so, so much for coming on this podcast, of
course. And yeah, DeMarcus, any final
words? Yeah, we, we, we talked a little
bit about, well, maybe a lot of bit about a bunch of different a
few different anime today. And I think we stuck to the
classics. And so, you know, get out there,
go watching some One Piece, go watching some JoJo.
What else did we talk about? Yeah, I get up and go watch
these anime. Great stories Say again.
We talk about manga. We talk about manga, get back
into reading. You know, black guys read.
I'm reading Arson's reading. Jared is listening to
audiobooks. Get you.
Get out there and read, man. I read comic books.
OK, fair enough. Here's reading too.
Yeah, and we will see you next time on Black.
Geek Energy. I got BGE out.
OK, that was a great. Yeah, that was fun.