Black Geek Energy

D'Marcus is about to leave for Japan, so this one turned into a spooky send off. The game is Fright or Flop, where D'Marcus names a horror anime and Jardo has sixty seconds to say whether it actually earns the label. Dandadan, Berserk, The Promised Neverland, Attack on Titan, Uzumaki, Paranoia Agent, Parasyte, and Akira all get taken apart, and the running argument is that most horror anim...

Some villains are wrong. Some of them just lost the argument because nobody wanted to hear it. Jardo and D'Marcus go through the ones they actually agree with, and they do not agree with each other about all of them. D'Marcus runs Manifesto Match, reading villain philosophies out loud for Jardo to name, from Magneto to Killmonger to Stain to Pain. Then they get into Mr. Freeze as an Americ...

People love to say comics got political recently. Jardo and D'Marcus go back 85 years and prove that is a lie. They run a game called Banned, Boycotted, or Bad Sales on ten canceled comics, then get into the real history. Superman taking on the Klan in 1946. The Green Lantern panel where a Black man asks Hal Jordan why he has never helped anybody with Black skin. And John Stewart's 1971 de...

There's a pattern nobody names out loud. The Black girlfriend shows up, she's smart, she's capable, she has a whole life, and then the writers throw her away. Jardo and D'Marcus break down the disposable Black girlfriend trope. D'Marcus lays out a three question test for spotting it, then they run Amber from Invincible, Valerie Gray from Danny Phantom, Daisy from Static Shock,...

Nintendo picked the wrong week to test our patience. Jardo and D'Marcus go all the way in on the Switch 2, the pricing, and the Nintendo Direct that reheated old news like Star Fox Adventures. We get into the Wii being the last great Nintendo console, what actually got announced (Monster Hunter Wild, Persona 6, the new Kirby), and a Put You On for the anime short Pretty Please, I Don't Wan...

Most of the time we talk about running games. This time we go behind the screen. Jardo brings on Michael, a FAMU grad and one of the players trying to survive his Dungeon of the Mad Mage campaign, to break it down from the player's side. Michael tells how a Twitter invite turned into a seat at the table and introduces Lenore, his Bladesinger, an Eladrin wizard who thinks magic should be free and d...

We linked up with Ode and Mo from the Black and Snerdy Podcast, dropped the positivity, and turned it into Rant Day, where everybody airs out what really grinds their gears. Jardo goes off on fake job interviews that cancel the position the day after they contact you. D'Marcus is still not over the MCU erasing Kang and he's seeing Doomsday anyway, complaining the whole way. And Mo makes th...

If you love anime and video games but never heard the word litRPG, this is the episode that puts you on. Jardo and D'Marcus break down the fastest growing genre in fiction from the ground up. They cover what actually makes a book a litRPG, the history that traces it back to 1978, and the subgenre map from system apocalypse to monster POV. Then they get into the books that hooked them, Dungeon...

Every 10 episodes we drop the prep and the topic and just talk, and this time it turns into two friends realizing they barely know each other. We quiz each other on siblings, first cars, and first jobs in a round of He Don't Know Me, then get into a real debate about whether that isekai everybody watches is as creepy as Jardo thinks. Plus the 2 Chainz memoir, a litRPG called Life Reset, the new Av...

Before blending hip hop and geek culture was a lane anybody understood, Young Deuces was already building it. The Milwaukee rapper turned Geekset founder and WatchMojo voice pulls up to Black Geek Energy on his birthday week, and we get deep into everything out of D23. We break down the D23 reveals, the Avengers Doomsday theories, and the new X Men casting. Young Deuces gets into how he built Geek...

New season, way too much anime, and two friends who cannot agree on any of it. Jardo and D'Marcus break down everything worth watching this season. They get into Bleach Thousand Year Blood War's final run, the return of ReZero, and the Tomb Raider King versus Solo Leveling debate everybody is about to have. D'Marcus champions Snowball Earth and its kaiju chaos, Jardo puts everybody on...

Most people apply to be on Survivor. Desi Williams got recruited, then went and won The Challenge, all while holding a doctorate in physical therapy. Dr. Desi Williams pulls up to Black Geek Energy, and small world, she coached Jardo's little sister back in the day. She breaks down how her first pageant ever, Miss Hampton, opened the door to Miss USA, Survivor, and a Challenge championship. Sh...

She just won her primary for Texas State Representative, sits on the State Board of Education, and went viral for standing her ground when a man tried to bring a Confederate flag into a public meeting. Staci Childs pulls up to Black Geek Energy to break down what is actually happening to Texas classrooms right now. We get into why Texas textbook decisions ripple out to the whole country, the fight...

He went viral for a drum major move that wasn't even his, and he's been putting people on to HBCU band culture ever since. Isaac Williams, the Bethune Cookman drum major turned content creator, pulls up to Black Geek Energy. We get into what people still get wrong about HBCU bands (spoiler, cranking is a culture, not a lack of musicality), the real story behind uniform deductions and Dr. W...

Which spells in Dungeons & Dragons are the most brutal? Jared and D'Marcus debate the deadliest and most powerful spells in D&D, test each other's knowledge with a spell component challenge, and discuss why some spells can completely change the outcome of a campaign. We also talk House of the Dragon, fantasy storytelling, tabletop RPGs, and what's been keeping us entertained th...

Christopher and Steffon from The Creative Extreme join Black Geek Energy to discuss building their original comic universe Project 365, creating Alpha Initiative Zero, collaborating as creative partners, and turning big ideas into reality. We also dive into X-Men '97, Star Wars, world building, writing advice, independent comics, our Name That Universe game, and plenty of geek culture along th...

Why do Black comic characters keep getting mini-series while everyone else gets ongoing runs? Comic creator Kaden Smith (@KDComics) pulls up to Black Geek Energy to break it down. Jardo and D'Marcus get into the DC Blackout movement, why Static's 12 issue plan got cut to 7, and whether white writers can really write Black characters better than Black writers. Kaden makes his case for Static Shock...

Would you really pay $120 for GTA 6?This week on Black Geek Energy, that question sparks one of our biggest gaming debates yet. Jardo and Black are joined by Joseph, creator of the PlayerPlayer podcast and the Can'tPaus newsletter, to break down everything happening across gaming, geek culture, and beyond. We kick things off with a Game of the Year trivia challenge covering 2021 through 2025 befor...

Jardo and D'Marcus pull up to break down everything hitting our queues right now, from Marvel's Wolverine on PS5 to the music ranking debate that got way too heated. We look back at our favorite interviews so far (shout out Sean of the Chained Saints and Jamal Sims), then dive into the Put You On segment with MoviePass and whether Mortal Kombat 2 actually delivered. Things get competitive...

Before Aaron Pierre suits up as Jon Stewart in HBO's Lanterns, we're taking a deep dive into one of DC Comics' most important heroes. This week on Black Geek Energy, we break down the history, impact, and legacy of John Stewart Green Lantern. Was he originally a token character? Why did an entire generation grow up thinking he was THE Green Lantern? And why did Hollywood wait so long to put him fr...

He sang opera in a classical choir before he ever screamed into a mic, and now Sean Sterling and the Chain Saints are headed to Europe to open for Slaughter to Prevail. Sean pulls up to Black Geek Energy to talk real metal. Why the band refuses to write throwaway TikTok tracks, where a song actually starts (hint, it's the riff), and why "Demon Inside" is about beating your own head,...

This episode gets ridiculous fast. We sat down with director Will Adams, the creator of Tube-E Movie, the comedy where the characters realize they’re trapped inside their own movie and completely lose their minds. It’s giving Tubi chaos, fourth-wall breaks, and the kind of jokes that make you laugh because you cannot believe somebody actually put this on screen. We get into Black movies, anime, st...

The anime streets are FEEDING right now, so we had to do another quarterly anime check-in episode. Jardo and D’Marcus talk everything from One Piece Egghead Island to Fire Force, Frieren, Hell’s Paradise, Re:Zero, Witch Hat Atelier, Dorohedoro, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, and way too many new anime for two grown men to realistically keep up with. We also get into anime hot takes, One Line One An...

Jordan Clark is back on Black Geek Energy for the third time, and this episode gets deep, funny, and a little chaotic all at once. The writer behind Aquaman, Star Wars Adventures, and the new sci fi graphic novel Ancestral Recall joins us to talk Black history, mental health, comics, horror, D&D, and the power of storytelling. We get into the inspiration behind Ancestral Recall, authentic Blac...

We got Arsene Lakpa from the Player Player podcast in the building, and he comes in talking fatherhood, hitting a 225 bench, celebrating his wife, and somehow we still arguing about a dairy free birthday cake like it’s a court case. Life updates one minute, chaos the next. Then it’s straight into BGE mode. “Put You On” goes crazy with anime and manga picks, from Baki to some deep cuts you probably...