Hello everybody, and welcome to another episode of Black Geek
Energy. DeMarcus, you got your hair
done. I I had it in a like a
protective style so I took that down.
So kinda, but not really. What?
Does that mean a protective? Style like my go to protective
style is like 2 strand twists Yeah, I don't know what that
means yeah I also done like Bantu knots so.
That's like the little. Yeah, but they'd be real big
'cause my hair look. Yeah, your hair is crazy.
You know. Your hair is insane, actually.
How do you this thing is about to die?
Alright devices, let's start off this week's episode the same way
we start off every week's episode.
How was your previous week then? It's it's been up and down, man.
You know, you know what? I what all I got going on and
I'm yeah, in Atlanta right now. It's been really good to be like
around my family and hang out with them and see my friends
from like high school and stuff. And yeah, so it, it hasn't been
bad, but there's just been like a lot, yeah.
I'm trying to come see you, but it's a lot of drama.
Yeah, like I'll say like we can get the game together and come
down to where you are if. You want to come down here all
the way to Noonan and we can record an episode.
Well, I'll leave Wednesday, so. Are you leave Wednesday and are
you staying for weeks and weeks and weeks?
Two weeks. So I got here with like last
Thursday and I'm leaving. I said Wednesday.
I'm leaving Thursday, alright. Well, you can come over if you
want to. Let me see.
So what you were doing in Atlanta, you've gone to the
strip club, have you had some wings?
Have you? I have had some Queens I had
some miss winters, some miss. Winters.
Where's Miss Winters? I love.
Her as far as I know there's only two left in Atlanta
specifically there is one at like headland and the low I
don't you actually I don't even know it's all it's all Headland
though near Greenbrier Mall and the other one is at 285 in
Glenwood on the east side. So like Candler Rd.
OK. Yeah, so those are the only two
I know about, and luckily one of them is really close to my mom's
house. So.
Yeah. That is really nice.
Of course, it's always a pleasure to have some Miss
Winters. I haven't heard that day in so
long. Yeah, the green beans.
Still good chicken, still good cinnamon rolls.
The rolls are not as it's not as much icing as they used to do,
but it's still pretty good. They changed the recipe in
everything. Oh I didn't even notice they
changed the recipe. Well, I'm just saying in general
because, you know, they changed the recipe of the biscuits at
Golden Corral and. In general, folks be changing
their recipes. Yes, yes, yes, I agree with you.
Yes they do. How's my week been since?
Yeah, how has your week been? My week has been uneventful just
building all these rejections going on these interviews.
I actually rescheduled 2 interviews because I can't take
it anymore. I just couldn't because it was
just too many knows you're not good enough, say your experience
is great but you won't be a good fit at this company and blah
blah blah blah, whatever it was. Just do you find yourself
missing the culture fit more often or is it like a skill fit?
No, I find myself getting these emails at 3:00 in the morning
like I did this morning. This morning is Sunday saying
that my culture. Doesn't fit.
It's wild that they're sending rejections out on a Sunday.
Yeah, especially when I apply at after 5:00 on Friday.
This is, this is the Lord's Day. You should not be doing that.
No, nobody should. But yeah, I just got tired of
it. So I actually had two
interviews. I had to reschedule 'cause I
didn't, I didn't feel like it. I didn't feel like faking it
through an interview and smiling and saying, hi, how are you when
nobody really cared and they were just gonna reject me
anyway. So I didn't feel like it.
I, I have an interview scheduled for Tuesday and I think that I
can have the bandwidth to do with them, but I just didn't.
I I I didn't want. I love that you are mindful of
your capacity and rescheduling interviews, the, the, the
narrative that you're writing that they're just going to
reject you anyway. I don't, I don't like that part,
but you know. I mean, but they are.
You don't know that. DeMarcus, I know that these
people are not going to give me a job.
Well, they did give me a job by the end of February.
They're right now going to give me a job.
I'm not going to be working by the end of March, probably.
I don't know when I'm going to be working again.
These interview processes do be taking a long time.
Like I think there was like 5 rounds, four or five rounds for
the job I have now. And it was, yeah.
And I did 5 interviews two weeks ago and they haven't contacted
me back. So I'm like what what what?
What do I have to do? What do I have to do?
And I did. E-mail them.
They haven't responded. What was the fifth interview
like? Was it like you spent like a
whole day talking to different people?
No, I mean I have 5 separate. Oh, OK, OK, OK.
But they were like, I had a second round with somebody.
I had a third round, you know, I had, I was on all stages of the
interview process. And OK, actually usually like
the. 3456 interviews two weeks ago.
Usually like the fifth round interview is like not
necessarily a panel. They usually do like an on site,
then they have you talk to like the manager, the team, somebody
from the team, some like adjacent people.
So that's kind of what I was. That's what I was asking.
Was that like the fifth round interview you did?
I mean, I, I did have a fifth round if I had five separate
interview process, well, six separate interview process two
weeks ago and I was at all stages.
I don't think that my. Oh, it was with six different
companies. Yes.
Oh, OK, OK, OK, OK.
OK. And I, I don't think that my
highest stage was beyond sorry, but if they haven't contacted me
back, I don't know what's going on with these people.
But I've been doing that and suffering in silence while I
listen to and we talked about this two weeks ago while I
listen to probably the best audio book I've ever listened
to. And we're gonna talk about that
more in the Put You On segment. OK.
But I, but it has really taken over my life.
I haven't been doing nothing else but listen to that audio
book. I was the only thing that's been
making me happy and other than that I don't really have
anything really. Just trying to catch up with
anime. Oh yeah, let's do a little anime
catch up while we have some time.
How are you doing with Summer Days animes?
We're about at mid season for like my last.
Actually, I think we're like close to the end of the season
actually, yeah, I think I've seen some like Episode Nines,
episode 10s. Yeah.
Yeah, kind, yeah. So like fate, Strange Fate is on
episode 9. Kunan the first was on episode
10. That's really good.
It's. Loving that you know Algus Hodge
is on cross now and he just. Came.
He's on what? Cross on Amazon.
Oh, the show Cross. And he just came out as a huge
anime person and he listed a lot of everything I'm watching now,
like he is watching the anime, he is in there and he said.
The deep cuts. Yeah, the deep cuts and he said
that fake, strange fake is amazing.
And that's a bit of a deep cut. Like the fate series in general
is like a bit of a confusing anime because it kind of like
toes the line between like plot and just like a a flashy beat
him up anime. OK, OK, my opinion, my opinion.
I will say that I have completed the Wano art finally.
Yeah, so you caught up, but almost.
And then I got it. So I'm caught up with the dub
and I think there's still some episodes that are subbed that I
have to watch after the dub. So I have about 50 or or so
episodes left, but I'm loving the one on art and I don't want
to go too deep into what I'm doing 'cause we're going to
rehash all of these again for our winter wait.
Winter, Spring. For our spring anime.
I'm loving HELL mode about the, the, the video gamer who I
wanted all his stuff on hard mode and he and he got Isakai
into this world. I'm loving that one.
Yeah, and I'm loving Vigilantes this season.
OK, what are your vigilantes? I love what they're doing.
Their recent flashback art was really, really good, but yeah.
Where they had the flashback 4 eraser.
Yeah. Yeah, that was pretty good.
Yes, yes. What about you?
Well, fake, strange fake. We mentioned that I'm I'm really
enjoying Hell's Paradise. Oh well, I'm watching that,
Doug, so I'm like a lot. Same.
Well I guess the the new episodes aren't.
I thought that was a simulcast one, Like a release.
It dubbed in sub at the same time.
I don't. Think so?
Oh, OK. How?
How is Freire so far? Freire is really good, yeah.
They're in like the North that's supposed to be like the Super
dangerous part of the world, so. They ain't fighting those boring
behind. They, they, they're fighting.
They just fought in the last episode.
I'm enjoying fire force sentence to be a hero is really good.
Oh. I'm watching that too.
What about seminar troopers, 'cause I still haven't gone into
that. I haven't gotten back to that
one. I got up to like episode 5 and I
episode 5 is the next one I need to watch and I just haven't
gotten back to it and I really need to go back and rewatch some
of the earlier episodes. Yeah.
Alright, well, we will talk about all of that stuff when
that episode comes up in a couple of weeks, but now it is
time to, or unless there's something else you want to say
to Marcus. No, man.
I mean some more what I've been doing since I've been home.
I went out to a bar and then like an after hours spot.
That was pretty dope. And then I went to a art show
yesterday, the Vanguard Art Show, Hella dope, hella black,
all black artists. And like all the art was like
really, really good. It wasn't like it was there was
no one there that it felt like oh y'all needed to feel the
space. We just added this person like
everybody seemed. It felt like a everyone was a
master of their craft. OK, yeah, it was it was all
black people or. Yeah, I mean all black people.
Yeah. Selena bro.
Good. Good, good.
So now is the time where we sit back, relax, and we are going to
actually put you on to some forms of media that we are
watching or reading or consuming or listening to or play or
whatever, or even a restaurant when DeMarcus doesn't have
anything else. But we are going to put you on
to something. And this beautiful segment is
going to be sponsored by our pals at Moviepad.
DeMarcus, can you please tell me a little bit about Movie Pass?
Of course, of course. Movie Pass is a subscription
based service that allows you to go see movies for a more
affordable price than your standard movie ticket.
You're paying, you pay upfront per month, you know, choose your
tier of how many movies you want to see.
And then you get credits and you use those credits to pay for
movies as if they were like money.
You'll get a MasterCard in the mail that's going to be your
MoviePass card. And you can use that online or
at the with the, the box office they call it.
Yeah. And I really enjoy it because
First off, I'm saving money on movies.
Yeah, you're saving like about $50.
Exactly. And second, I can combine that
with my like all the the subscriptions or the rewards
that I'm already subscribed to with these theaters, Regal, AMC
Century, whatever. The the loyalty points.
Yeah, so I'm getting points for cheaper.
I'm getting more points because I'm going to see more movies and
I'm spending less money to do it.
Yeah, yeah, say and and you get free popcorn while you do it.
And this weather is going to be a great month.
My horror is back with a 24 undertone.
Scream 7 just came out. I have a lot of horrors coming
out. The horror is back.
The horror is back.
But what? I want to talk.
Oh, go ahead. I was gonna say is like
February, March, like a big horror season for movies.
Child anytime. It's a big season for horror.
OK, that's what it feels like. That's, I don't know when it
happened, but like at some point there was like this switch from
like horror movies coming out around Halloween to horror
movies out like year round. Yeah, yeah, there was that
switch that I, I like it year round.
Scared me all the time. Yeah, there's gonna be a lot
coming out in in March, and I'm very excited 'cause this is
gonna be like my first time actually going back to the
theater since the last movie I saw.
What was the last movie you saw? Oh.
No Chad. Something with some superheroes
or something. Was it Fantastic Four?
No, no, it wasn't that far back. What was the last movie I saw?
Is it kinda? Let me go look at my Fandango
app. Maybe Fandango might be the
regal app? If you use MoviePass, they'll
have your previous reservation. Oh OK, I did not know that.
Yeah, yeah. Let me see how to get to it of.
Course I gotta update the app 'cause I haven't used it in so
long. Oh.
My slipping on your pimper. I know, I know, but.
Doesn't matter, let's move on. Yeah, it said.
The last movie I saw was him but.
That was a long time ago. Yeah, I gotta fix.
That, and that's not a superhero thing at all.
No, it's not. But what I was going to say
earlier is that my latest obsession is this audio book.
Called. Called Dungeon Crawler Carl and
what this is about is I'm going to go ahead and swallow the 1st
chapter. There is a thing called the
collapsing and everywhere where there is a roof like a house,
shed, cars, airplanes, everywhere where there's a roof
it collapses. So if you're in somewhere roof,
it collapses. All the people that are outside
are offered the chance to go into this portal, which leads
them to a dungeon. And once you're in this dungeon,
you have the opportunity to try to survive and you can pick up
power ups and then it becomes like a video game, you can pick
up power ups. So this tells the story of Carl
and his girlfriend's cats who go down into the dungeon and begin
this adventure. And it starts out as oh, I'm
just killing rats and stuff to wait.
That monster is talking Spanish while cockroaches are coming out
of her mouth and to this alien empire.
And like the company that is putting on the the actual show
has changed already 'cause they have in incited A rebellion.
And I just have to tell you this last little bit.
This kind of sound crazy and this always happens in this
book. But the Dodge crawler Carl OK,
they had to kill a well people from outside space because
everybody's watching. If you are really wish you rich,
you could come. You cannot be a spectator to
come inside the dungeon with them.
So Carl actually killed the leaders children, a child then
he was while he was always scheduled to go on her show.
That was, you know, cuz she has to do interviews and stuff while
he's in the dungeon. Sure, sure.
So no, it wasn't a show. It was Comic Con or Crawler Con.
OK. And and she was hosting the
panel, she was very boring. So Carl interrupted her whole
set. Carl just said, yeah, I just
killed your kid and what you gonna do about it?
And, you know, the crowds, like, woo, woo.
And then, like, you know, they had their little back and forth
and then they went off. And then she walked off.
And then he started asking the crowd.
So hashtag kill her kids. It just became a whole thing.
Now her other kids are also in the dungeon.
She has seven in the dungeon. And.
Seven kids in the dungeon. Yeah, she's a praying mantis, oh
person. Sure.
So Carl actually injects a well, he kills 6 out there and he
injects the seven with super painful gonorrhea.
I forget what it's called. And what this does is it
actually burns your reproductive organs.
And then when you're down to what HP, it heals your
reproductive organs and then it does it all over again.
And the way you get rid of it is cutting off your reproductive
organs or passing it on to somebody else.
So her mom gets the the pays exorbitant of money.
He's they're like this money is enough to fund empires.
He pays the exorbitant of money to take the form of a deity in
this world. And this deity is of this this
wood thing that that changes is sex all the time.
And it changes it's sex so it can reproduce with all the
animals. Store.
So I'm sure you can see where this is going.
The mom comes down in the form of this deity and here's her
daughter of this super gonorrhea.
OK. And then later on in the book,
the there's this big party and the mom is reproductive or
reproducing all of these mantises from her God form to
fight off Carl. It's, it's, it's, it's just
madness. Yeah, this doesn't like the way
you're describing it. Like it's like a bunch of
interesting pieces that don't really fit together.
It's like you just took like like a bunch of.
I I mean, I mean I'm missing a lot of 'cause that's like.
Sure, sure. Like this what happened in Page
22, this what happened in 135th, this what happened in.
Yeah, so right. It's a lot going on, but it all
fit. It all fit.
And I was like, so she had sex with her mom.
There's a, you know, there's a category for that kind of stuff.
Yeah, so, so I have been engrossed in these books.
I'm on the 6th one now. There is a 7.
There are 6 books. There is a 7th one with an
eighth one coming out in March, so yeah.
'Cause I have this book, I have the Dungeon Caller dungeon
crawler call book and I thought it was just the one book, one
story in and out. No, this is a 7 book series with
an eighth one on the way. Jesus.
So far, but it's really good. It's really, really, really
good. And I, I just found out that
there's a whole Nova literary genre that has come out from I
think this book and other books called Lit RPG, which is.
Like. Literary books that are set in
video game worlds and I'm really enjoying this.
I may explore some more in. This in this genre.
OK, OK, nice. So that's what I've been doing
this week. Nice.
This week I've been watching, and you might have talked about
the show already, but I've been watching Superman and Lois or
HBO. Dean Cain.
Is that who plays Superman? OK, yeah, that's what I've been
watching. From the 90s.
Wait, no. This is a recent show Superman
and Lois where he has two kids. Oh no.
Yeah. That's not Superman and Lois.
Or. Something else under CW, what
was that called? I was.
It's called Superman and Lois, other one's called Lois and
Clark. Excuse me?
Yeah. Superman and Lois.
OK, OK. OK.
So that's Tyler. Tyler Hochick.
OK, yeah, I've been watching that and it's good.
And his kids, they are not bad, but they, they're stupid.
His kids are stupid. And once they in like, 'cause
they, it starts out, they don't know the secret.
And very soon after the show starts, they learned the secret
that their dad is Superman. And like one of them has powers
the other one doesn't. And you know, they moved to
Smallville from Metropolis. And like in Metropolis, the non
powered kid was like the popular 1.
He had all the, he was like star football player, star
quarterback was like going to get recruited.
Life was great in Smallville. Everything flips and the powered
son who was unpopular and had all this anxiety and had all
these and was on these pills is like, yo, I was never crazy.
I was just trying to control these.
I had all these powers going on inside me.
And that's what's been making me feel like this.
And they haven't, I haven't gotten to the point where they
kind of like dive into like whether that's true or not,
whether his powers are connected to his like psyche things.
But they didn't make a mention of it, as you know.
And one of them, Solo is like, oh, you like your anxiety or
whatever has nothing to do with your powers.
But I'm like, you could. He's the, you know, these are
the first human Kryptonian hybrids.
So who knows? I'm not going to spoil it for
you, but that boy's little whiny little punk.
And I hated him because I've seen all four seeds.
I see every episode. I hated that.
I hated that kid. I.
Hated that boy. Like stop Whiting you have the
powers of a God over your brother Who you?
Your twin Who you envied for your whole entire life.
You finally have a leg up on him and you're still whining.
Shut up and just go save something.
Like you can literally fly and you're sitting here crying
because because of what? You even know why I hated that
child. Yeah.
And you know, that's just going to show that.
Like, it was it, it wasn't the powers.
It wasn't the powers. The powers do not make you.
The powers do not make him. It's got to be in you and it
ain't in him. Whatever.
It's not. It is not.
It is not inside of him. It should have went to the other
child. The child?
Yeah, you should have went. To the one that already had
everything. Yeah, it should have went to
him. It should have went to him
because Clark didn't love him no more, no less.
Like, yeah, girl, I, he really agitated me that whole show.
Are you going to watch any of the other CWDC shows?
Like black lightning. Black Lightning, The Flash,
Supergirl. I watched, I watched a lot of
Black Lightning, I watched a lot of The Flash.
I watched some of Green Arrow. So am I going to watch more?
Maybe not. I'm just going to.
Stick with the man. Now let's see, it was Arrow, The
Flash. Supergirl let it up tomorrow,
which is really good. I didn't like that one.
The team up, I didn't like that one.
Black like being Batwoman, which I only saw one season of with
Jabba who went to Hampton. I asked Batgirl, Superman and
Lois, and star Star Girl, which moved to HBO shortly after, for
the rest of this season, and then Javika.
Who's star girl? About star girl.
Oh, OK. And her dad and and then Javika
went on to the flash as another character when she was already
bat Batwoman. I I I didn't watch the the flash
fidelity. I need to go and watch it but
it. Was surprising.
When they had Grog go back in time to kill Barack Obama,
that's what that was kind of like.
They had grog. Yes, child, you didn't.
See Killed Barack Obama. He he went back in time to kill
Barack Obama when he was in college.
OK, that's a statement I guess. Yeah, I wonder how he feels
about that. I'm I'm sure he's not even
aware. Yeah, I hope.
I hope he never becomes aware. OK.
Can we go ahead and if you have 1 is?
That I do have an activity. Yeah.
OK. And if this is your first time
joining us, which it shouldn't be, the way activities work here
on Black E Energy is DeMarcus is the activity master, the game
master, if you will. The I come up with the games.
I come up with the questions, the answers.
I decide who's right, who's wrong, the winners and the
losers. I am the judge, jury, and
executioner of all things games here on Black Geek Energy.
Energy. Energy.
And so today, what I have for you, Jarrett, it's a game I'm
going to call Binge Batch or Broadcast.
OK. And what you're going to do, I'm
going to give you show titles, TV show titles, and you're going
to tell me whether this was this show was released all at once,
whether for binging, whether it was released in chunks, OK, in
batches, or whether it was released weekly.
OK, by the way, sorry, I meant to say this at the beginning.
I did want to talk about this a little bit.
So sorry. Are you watching Love is Blind?
I'm not. 'Cause I only watch that show
because especially now since they are in Ohio, just all white
people and the one black couple doesn't like black women.
And the one black man, well one black man that made it on out of
the pods, they didn't even bring him to Mexico because he
wouldn't have any conflicts and it looks like he's going to
marry this white woman. But they have no drama.
So it's like why? So then the show is not
featuring them at all. And the other black man was not
making a choice in the pods and he was.
I love you so much and I love you so much.
And you're my best friend. No, you're my best friend.
You're my number one. You're my #1 like, he was so
indecisive. It was crazy.
It's it's, it's, it's just white people acting white the whole
time and. So this season is wack is what
you're saying? It's lame.
It's boring, Yeah. Yeah, it's what?
And boring like the last season. I've only watched this show
because you say you're going to watch it.
I didn't finish. I didn't even finish the last
season of love and smile. So you didn't see none of them
get married? No, not at all.
Not at all. I feel like the last good season
was the one when Tim was on there.
Well, that's the second, the last the the last A1 season was
when was the first season when Diamond and the girls are still
married. To That was the best season.
That's the best season. They but also it was the first
one, so it's, you know, there's no bar you know well.
The bar's in Hades right now. OK, I'm sorry.
It's all good. You ready?
Do you understand what we're doing?
Batch. Binge batch or broadcast?
OK, binge batch or broadcast? OK.
Yep, so, and we're going to start with an easy 1.
The show is Game of Thrones, everybody's favorite dragon
show. Yeah, this was broadcast.
Absolutely. HBO is never HBO is.
Well, they may in the future. Why you say that?
Because they just got bought by this mega company.
Oh. By Paramount.
Oh, I did not know that. Oh, you didn't know Paramount
has bought CBS News and all these mega Well Paramount has
bought CBS which is Viacom, Cartoon Net, no not Cartoon
Network, CBS, Comedy Central, blah blah blah, MTV and they
also got CBS News. So they put the head of CBS News
with this right wing media Blogger.
Yeah. Who is the head of CBS News?
And all of these mega CBS anchors that have held down
journalism for years have quit, Anderson quit.
All the other anchors have quit. And like, they showed a new CBS
News desk. Why did they have Johnnie Walker
in the background? The the the liquor.
Like you don't a new set that looks like this.
They got this big Johnny Walker thing in the background of the
CBS News. So now they're saying that this
company, this MAGA right wing company that's going to purchase
the WB and you know, WB owns DCHBO and CNN.
Yeah. So yeah, it's about to be crazy.
OK. So yeah, CBHBO would never.
Who knows what they're gonna do? Did they buy CBS specifically or
did they buy Viacom? Oh, they have the whole
Paramount. They have everything.
It's it's called Viacom. OK, OK, cool.
Viacom is owned by CBS. They bought CBS.
OK, gotcha. Yeah.
Alright, so #2 Castlevania. Say it again.
Castle. Oh, binge.
Correct, I need. To write these down.
Correct number 3. Oh, and you know that's coming
back. Oh, is it another season of
Castlevania, Nocturne or the original?
I think the original, but that's coming back later this year.
Devil May Cry coming back this month.
OK, nice. Alright #3 invincible.
Batch. That is correct.
Number four, it's. Also coming back this month and
or. I'm ready for that one.
I think, I think Andorra does that thing where it's like 3
episodes. It did.
It goes weekly so. That is exactly right, Jared.
Damn. Oh, I know.
TV drive. Yeah, apparently.
Darley. Alright, The Witcher.
Oh, that's binge. OK, where we at 12345?
This is number six, Watchmen. Watchmen was broadcast.
It was broadcasted. Yeah.
All right.
The Legend of Vox Machina. That was a three pin weekly sell
batch. Correct cyberpunk edge runners.
Yeah, that is binge. OK, OK, alright.
Well, we're that's number eight. We're down to the last two
number nine Attack on Titan. Now I did not.
I saw this as a bitch. I don't like everybody else.
It was broadcast. It has to be broadcast is.
That what you're sticking with? Are you sticking with broadcast?
Yeah, I saw this bitch though. OK, Yeah, it is.
You are correct. It is a broadcast and the last
one Arcane. OK, binge.
Actually, arcane was. Yeah, hello, Yeah.
Binge. Because it was on Netflix.
Actually, Arcane was a batch. They were released like one or
two, like I think like 2 episodes or two or three
episodes every week, yeah. I never finished arcane.
Did you not like it? I just never finished it.
I didn't, you know, gotta. You gotta finish it.
It's it's it's pretty good, but they're 9 out of 1090%.
You was hitting it with this one.
Alright, alright, now I know where your strength lies.
You. You, you know TV.
Yeah, I do know TVI do know TV Raise me town.
But today? My Mama.
So I got it off the screen. Today we are going to be talking
about what's better, binge watching something or the old
school way of watching it weekly.
And nowadays, Oh my God, Oh my God, what?
Like Lawrence's new children don't know anything about the
old school way of watching TV. Like you got to be there when it
come on, sit through the commercials.
Yeah, Nah. And and you may see the episode
that everybody's talking about today in a couple of months, but
you can't see it like next day on blah blah blah demand or next
day online. Hey, Nah, 'cause if you miss it,
if you come on 8:30 and you miss it, you, you got to, you got to
figure out when they're playing that rerun.
Yeah, wow. Well, yeah, TV used to be a
shared cultural ritual, but now on on today's how TV is today,
it is a personalized experience. I don't know a lot of TV shows
that are that are a shared ritual except for RuPaul's Drag
Race, Housewives Married to Medicine and.
When you say a shared ritual, do you mean like by like the
audience at lot, by people at large?
Or do you just mean like sitting down watching it with friends?
I mean, like the audience at large.
Like, I don't mean like you have to be in a room.
Like some people watch RuPaul's Drag Race in bars, but that's
how they watch it. I could.
Never. I see what you're.
Saying I could never do that. But like, I do like, Peyton does
a recap every week. I'm always commenting on hers
and we're talking about it. So yeah, I mean like that I
shared shared ritual. OK.
They also do shared ritual with well weekly with like traders
which has OK. That's the game show, right?
Where? Suppose you got to like, betray
folks and get the money. Yeah, OK, Yeah, it's really
good. It's really good if you haven't
seen it. And I find that a lot of dose
more drama shows or comedy shows, those are the ones that
are the ones that we binge. DeMarcus, do you know what the
first show that people could be as?
You know what that was? Naruto.
No, you can't binge Never Rooto like the first show as it was
airing. No, not as it was airing like
the first episode premiere. You could watch all of the
episodes at once. I do not know what was it.
Yeah, the first show that you could binge, that you can see
all the episodes at once was House of Cards on Netflix.
House of Cards. Yes, I've heard of this show.
I've never seen it. It was a show that was about the
president being stupid. OK, OK, OK.
President being stupid with some white people, but it was really
good. It started Kevin Spacey before
he was found out to be touched little boys.
Oh, OK. Yeah, yeah.
But I the the big difference between appointment viewing,
which was, you know, this culture phenomenon that was like
scandal and how do you get away with murder and all adult shows
and content consumption where you just sit down in front of
ATV and absorb a whole bunch of, you know, content.
I need to ask you a question. It's sure binge watching killing
community conversation. Could you elaborate a little
bit? Like what do you mean community
conversation? Like with Scandal, every time
Scandal had an episode, you would talk about it like or
Lost. Every time you lost had an
episode, you would talk about it the next day.
You would go online and have your theories and everything.
But now with with what's a what's a good bench?
What OK with the Mighty 9? I haven't seen the Mighty 9 yet
because nobody's talking about it.
I know it's a good show. I haven't watched it.
Yeah, I don't think so. I think people are talking
about, because when you binge it, instead of just talking
about what happened the last episode, you talked about the
whole thing. And I think it's, it doesn't
make it harder to have those conversations because if all the
episodes come out at the same time, you know, you might have
time to watch the entire season. And I only have time to watch 4
episodes. And so we're talking about it
and it gets to a point where it's like, all right, this is I
got to stop here. And you're like, the
conversation stops here because you, you, you don't want to
spoil it for me. So is it killing it?
No, but it is changing the way we talk about shows with our,
you know, with our constituents, with our.
Peers, did you see all of Wonder Man?
Yeah. And how do you like?
It I liked it. I enjoyed it.
It's, you know, there was more power.
He uses powers more in it. And when I say he used, I used
to say loosely. He didn't use his power to the
last five minutes of that. Right, the last episode, but I
liked it. I I won a season 2 and I wanted
to be more deliberate. I want him to actually start
getting into his like hero phase.
It's like, OK, cool, we've got to set up.
We know who this man is. I love that they gave like the
Mandarin so much more back story and so much like kind of filled
out that character. But now I want Wonder Man saving
the world me end up with like The Avengers and shit.
Or at least you know some low level other heroes like Luke
Cage. Daredevil supposed to come out
this month too. OK, now in the old school.
Which is such a horrible thing to say, really.
You know, yeah, in in the old school.
Yeah, in the wonder years, network TV was written for
anticipation. Like every episode had to have
some type of cliffhanger, had to have some type of something to
get you to come back next week, you know, for the advertisers.
Absolutely. And everybody watch at the same
place so that, you know, you could go the next day at work or
whatever, have those water cooler conversations about the
show. Right.
I can't wait to see what happens next basically.
Yeah, because blah blah blah blah blah happened, you know,
last night and shows were written for memory retention and
not the instant payoff. Like like shows were written so
that you could remember days. Like on Game of Thrones, they
well on HBO really, But on Game of Thrones they write so that
you can understand this thing that's happening.
Like you can understand me even if you don't understand
culturally what's happening. Because I had to watch Game of
Thrones 2 times to understand what's going on.
But I understood that when the dad died, it was a huge thing, a
huge upset when when he fell out the window, things were
happening there, you know, And when they kept having sex, I
need to pay attention to it. But now shows are written to
have that instant pay off or that instant thing.
Like in House of Cards, you know, he wins the first episode.
It's got to ramp up. He wins the first episode for
the presidency. But yeah.
And but Black House so specifically treated shows like
an event like yeah, Living Single Martin nights like that
UPM block. Yep.
Go to your cousin's house, bring some food.
We all watching it together. I, it was me and my mom watched
hella shows together growing up and it was like an event.
And it's like, oh, tonight charm comes on or tonight girlfriends
comes on. Tonight, the Parkers comes over.
Yes, Sunday chart. I love Sunday chart.
But yes, now nothing's changed all that In 2013, when they
dropped all their season at once, the control shifted from
networks and their advertisers to the audience and what they
wanted, and they started to say, OK, we don't have to appeal to
Nabisco. Or ocean.
Spray We could appeal directly to Sally in in in Wisconsin and
we can we can directly give her what she wants.
And also these stories became more cinematic, they became more
more movie like. With the advent of binging,
things have become more cinematic.
OK, I can agree with that. Yeah.
Yeah, that's why they say, oh, this is like a movie.
Yeah, Because, you know, it was like a movie.
Like they weren't, they, they weren't making things, you know,
for the next episode, they're making things.
So you could watch the whole 8 hours right then and there.
A character arcs became more, well, they became longer
basically. Yeah, more novel like like.
Because now I got more time to like, work with this character
and put them through some trials and tribulations.
Not really more time, but you, but you're going to stay right
there in front of your TV longer instead of I'm like, get this
little bit of their character, Then I'm like, walk away for a
week. You know, like learning about
Olivia Pope and her family. That was the whole whole series.
You've learned about where she grew up, her dad, her mom's in
jail the whole entire series. But you have Poussey on Orange
is New Black. You learned about her in an
episode. You learn where she come from,
what she did. And I think I prefer that.
I prefer like for them to like spotlight different people in a
different in episodes. OK.
Yeah. OK, like like with Poussey or
with Olivia Poe? What, what who say like, you
know, we, we're taking a break from the main story.
We're going to look over here at this person who's going to
become important or who has become important and just tell
you a little bit more about them.
Let me tell you something about the cultural impact.
So weekly is the collective experience where we can all come
in at once and talk about something.
Binging is about individual spirits.
So weekly shows they are, they dominate like mean culture and
they dominate discourse and they dominate fandom longevity.
Sure. Right bench shows they really
dominate completion rates and they dominate emotional death
because you have longer to sit there and be emotional with
those like Bridget. Why are you watching Bridget?
Is good you. I'm watching Bridget, Yeah.
Now. Yeah.
If Bridget was weekly, a weekly show, would you still watch it
as much? I think so.
I don't, I mean, because I don't really for me there's the only
difference between binging and like watching the show week to
week is like I don't have to wait for it.
Like I think, I think you could take any show and make it and
like, give me all the episodes or, you know, dropping me the
week and it doesn't really change the flavor of the show,
you know? Well, now it does.
Now nowadays I can say that. But I think they're like when I
binge like Yu Yu Hakusho, it feels weird to just jump
straight into the next episode. No 'cause like I like what we
talked about before Lois and Clark.
Alright, so just a few things to wrap us up with this
conversation. Let's see, with these new
bingeing shows, of course you need to have the completion rate
to see if a show was going to make it like it's no longer the
weekly ratings of the show. It's like how many people
completed the series that that makes that.
That means, you know, if a lot of people completed it, then
it's going to get another season.
Also with the binge filler episodes are dying.
Which is great. I don't need no filler, just
give me the story. Yeah, filler episodes are dying,
but with that you are getting the rise of limited series and
shorter series like When We were Little episodes.
A season is 22 to 24 episodes. Right.
Now is 8 to 10. Four season of a show.
Yeah, name a season with more than 10 episodes.
I mean most anime has like 12. I'm talking about hour long.
Yeah, 'cause I think Nine of the Seven Kingdoms was only, what, 8
episodes? 6.
Six, yeah, you're not wrong. But if you were to I guess like
translate that into regular weekly broadcast that we used to
watch, that would be like 16 episodes because you would cut
each of those into like 30 minutes, right?
Because I don't feel like, I don't feel like hour long shows
were a thing when I was, you know, like when I was watching
stuff on TV. Like it could have been the best
show like Smallville that wasn't like our own episodes.
Yes. It was.
Smallville No. Yes, yes, it was.
Smallville was like 30 minutes. No, Smallville was an hour long.
Well, it's an hour. It's an hour long on network,
which is like 4045 minutes when it's an hour long.
It took off that whole block, yeah, all the, ER, all.
The Oh, OK, yeah, you know, you're right, 30 between 39 to
52 minutes. Yeah, but yeah, then let's talk
about it. There's also been a rise limited
series like Adolescence, which is still winning awards 2 years
later. I love that show and.
Adolescence. Yeah on on Netflix it was 4
episodes long. OK, and Watchmen, let's talk
about Watchmen cause Watchmen really pisses me off with what
people say. Watchmen, from the start,
everybody was a limited series. It was not a series.
It was not cancelled. It ended 'cause they never said
that Watchmen was going to continue for more than one
series. In fact, they said in the
beginning that it's a limited series and HBO is good for their
limited series. Right.
And all y'all are mad because they canceled Watchmen when they
did it. They they said it was a limited
series 2 years before it showed to you.
Y'all need a y'all need to read. Sometimes read.
Read the article people. But yeah, DeMarcus, what's the
first show that you bitch watch that you can remember?
That's a tough question because I really can't, I really
couldn't tell you at this point. Do you binge watch?
Oh yeah, Oh yeah, absolutely. I I've been, I was, I've been
binge watching Superman and Lois.
I've been binge watching Bridgeton.
So yeah, I've been, I've been watching a lot of stuff, but I
love, I think I'm, and maybe this is me being old school, me
being like, you know, a 35 year old guy.
I love a good cliffhanger. I love watching stuff week to
week because it gives me something to look forward to.
I like the anticipation so. You don't remember the first
show that? You the first show that I've
been watched. I want to say like ever.
The Last Airbender comes to mind.
You bench, you get big. We watch that together.
We did, but like after all the episodes were out and online I
watched. I binge watched it.
After you've. Seen it already, yeah.
I'm talking about the. First, oh, like the first show
that I watched. I I don't remember mine either.
OK, cool. Great.
It was probably. Yeah, it was probably House of
Cards or Orange is the New Black 'cause I think that it was the
novelty of, oh, episodes of Aveo.
Yeah. But.
Yeah.
Orange is the New Black. Wasn't it like week to week
before it got on Netflix? It was net.
It's it's a Netflix original. Oh, OK, OK, OK.
Where'd you think it was on? I thought it was on like HBO
first. No, that's a Netflix original.
OK. You never seen Orange is the New
Black? I have.
I did. I haven't finished it, but I've
seen it. OK, now with binge watching and
what they're doing now with the bat shows where they bombard you
with three episodes and then they do the week to week that
started when the streaming wars were on.
The Streaming Wars. Like like you had Disney Plus,
Netflix, yeah, yeah, yeah blah blah, HBO blah blah blah.
All these people were vying for your money and and to.
Sure. Buying with them.
So what they did was they would do what people wanted to do, do
the first 3 episodes and then they would have come back for
next week for the rest. Because we got you now.
We got you for a month at least. Yeah, yeah.
At least a month enough for you to remember no love for you, for
you to forget that free trial so you can go ahead and bill you.
But but that's what they started doing is doing that mostly that
start up in 2020 while. People which, which?
Which service started that first?
Was it Netflix or? No, it wasn't Netflix.
I think it was Hulu or OK it wasn't Netflix just recently
started doing stuff like. That right, right.
OK, Yeah. But yeah, I think that that is
it for my episode on bingeing, broadcasting or badge democracy.
You think we'll ever go back to purely weekly?
Nah, Nah, because like kind of like what you were saying that
like binging is sort of like a different modality of watching
TV. So like the story is different.
The you can you know, the way you write a story is different,
the way you consume it is different.
It's it's, it's distinct from watching something weekly and so
and it now there are people who who write shows to be binged.
Yeah, question for the future. Since AI is bombing children in
the Middle East, do you think that AI could determine for you
specifically if you if this show is a bingeable show or if it's a
weekly show? Do I think AI will be able to
would be able to like, recommend or tell me?
No, I'm talking about where do you think that they would start
throttling shows to your? Oh, it was like, oh, because
DeMarcus is a week to week person, you know, you give him
one episode at a time, but Jared's Avengers will give him
all of it. No Jerry's a binger but he will
pay if the show's good so give it to him weekly.
DeMarcus doesn't like shells but he will stick around and watch
it so give it to him as their AI is being used to get more money
out of people so. Yeah, of course, of course.
So. They would ever do something
like that? Man, that's crazy.
Maybe because Amazon already like shows, different people,
different prices. Like if you look at an item on
Amazon, you might see a different price than I see it
looking at the same item. Like they're already doing that.
So yeah, I I can see them definitely doing that with TV
shows. Yeah, I I could see that happen
to somewhere down the line. It's not going to work with me.
And they will market it to you like, oh, this is your TV, your
TV Guide assistant thing. And it helps you watch TV the
way you want to watch it. Yeah, it's not going to work
with me, not as long as I have my parody models, but yeah, I
was about to say something else, but I forgot to.
Marcus, do you think we have time for a question?
Let me blow my nose in there. Yeah, OK.
You know how this works. I read the first sentence of a
couple of questions. 4 questions exactly.
The markets is going to pick which sentence he wants to hear
more of and that would be our question for the week.
Alright, here we go. 6 brown chicks.
Oh, this one's gone from six brown chicks. 6 brown chicks.
Here we go. I thought the grass was greener
at another woman's house and I foolishly left my wife for a
month. I've been with Amari often long
since we were in school. A full decade of this BS lies,
cheating and my 2 abortions. Married 11 years with two kids.
Wife wants to spice up the marriage and ordered sex toys
for us and for. I've met a great older man and
we're getting married in December.
What was the first one again? I thought the grass was greener
at another woman's house and I foolishly left my wife for a
month. Let's do that one.
Alright, here we go, 6 brown chicks.
OK, OK, I thought the grass was greener at another woman's house
and I foolishly left my wife for a month.
My wife told me if I attended the Wednesday night church with
her, I could come back home. Church was packed.
The preacher, don't worry about it.
Go. Don't worry about going to hay.
HE double hockey sticks. All the devils are here and
we're exposing these devils tonight.
I should have bolted for the door, but my wife wanted me
there. The choir sang a haunting song.
Truth cleanses the sin away. WTF.
Now I knew why the church was packed in therapy.
You sit in a circle and tell your dirt at Pastors Wednesday.
Cleanse. Your significant other tells
your dirt. My wife testified about my
affair and I felt so low I wanted to melt into a puddle and
slide under the door. I apologize with tears streaming
down my face. She forgave me and as the
congregation to pay for him to pray for our marriage, I felt
cleansed. Until two women accused my wife
of sending nudes and offering blowjobs to their husbands.
The men turned her down, but she didn't apologize.
A third woman caught her man with my wife.
During that woman's testimony, my wife shouted.
It ain't your turn, Brenda. Then my wife stood up and left.
She refuses to discuss this advice.
This took a turn. I have been avoiding this one
because I thought it was going to be basic, but damn.
All right, so we will, we will, we will break it.
Down this one for months. Yeah, we gonna break it down
now. So dude, dude left his wife for
a month. They didn't get divorced.
They were like separated or some shit.
He just was at some other woman house.
Yeah, she's like, all right. You know, he comes back.
He wants to come back home. She's like, all right, you can
come back if you we go to like the Wednesday confessional
search. And at this service, you get to
air out your partner to the to the church congregation,
whoever's here, and they basically shame you.
Well, he didn't know that. He did it.
But right he's he knows he he saw church was packed on a
Wednesday. Yeah, so and then after she airs
him out, he apologize, he cries, the whole shebang.
She forgives him. She started getting aired out by
everybody else at the church because she been doing dirt too.
And then she won't take accountability for she's like,
fuck it. She's like, yeah, it happened,
whatever. No apologies, no matter like
what My question is like, what do you want from this situation?
Like, do you want her to apologize?
Like do you want her to at least like talk to you about why it
happened or or just be be accountable for it?
But yeah, I did it, and This is why I did it.
He just wants advice. My advice would be to, because I
got to, I got to know what your goal is like if you want to, if
you want to stay in this marriage, y'all will have to
talk about this and get it ironed out or else it's going to
be a sore spot forever. But if you, you know, if it, if
this is a deal breaker for you, then you know, just go ahead and
leave. Like no conversation like she
don't want to talk about it. You ain't got to just pack your
shit up and go. Look, y'all got an open marriage
now they're not over marriage or it's time for a divorce.
But even then there's, there's like, you know, there's respect,
there's like a grievance and boundaries and stuff like you,
they just, they just do whatever you want, whenever you want with
whoever you want. Well, obviously it is.
At the at the church that we both attend regularly.
Obviously it is. It is.
Yeah. It's it's it's an open marriage
or is divorced. I don't know what to say to you.
I you stepped out on your wife, but then lo and behold, she's
been stepping out on you. Step off you.
I was doing wrong. So you need to reconcile with
her non apology or you need to divorce her Like there ain't
nothing necessary. Yeah.
There really ain't been necessary.
I think this is just her get back.
And that's why it's so spiteful. That's why she ain't giving no
explanations, no apologies, no nothing.
Because you stepped down on her. She's like, OK, babe, I'm going
to do you worse. And she did it close to home.
So yeah, she definitely was it close.
To home, it was just some people from church that he don't go to.
That's their church though, right?
Like it's their, it's their church that they go to
regularly. Because I don't, I don't imagine
she just found a random church that does this like aerial
partner out thing and say, all right, we're going to go to do
this with some strangers. Well, he doesn't say it was her.
Well, he he doesn't say it was his church.
He says his. Wife goes off there and she is
sitting there with popcorn. OK, it's her church, and by
extension, their church because they're married.
Yeah, yeah, it's divorce or y'all got open marriage.
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words? Whether you're binging or
broadcasting or batching, man, enjoy these shows.
There's a lot of good content out there.
I am a batch and or broadcast person myself personally and
that's 'cause I like the anticipation, I like the way I
like the build up, but I I'm not shy about binging.
OK about you Jerry. You find words.
No. No, OK.
And we'll see you next time. I'm black geeky.
Out.