Drink Talk Learn - A-to-J Connections

Drink Talk Learn #8: Struggle Foods, Game Development, Three Kingdoms, Noodles, MKULTRA, Korean VK

7/20/2020

Hosts & Topics (In Order of Presentation):
Warren: "The Struggle Foods" (18:10)
Callie: "Careers In (AAA) Game Development: It's more confusing than you'd think" (53:46)
Manuel: "The Quotable Three Kingdoms: Popular Quotes & Idioms from RotTK" (1:41:20)
Danny: "Noodle Soups That Aren't Pho" (2:27:40)
Pleiades: "Project MKULTRA or "That time the CIA drugged unaware U.S. citizens to develop the perfect Mind Control drug" (3:08:35)
Matt: "Korean Visual Kei" (4:03:40)

Description:
Welcome! Here's the eighth of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and we are coming off what was a six hour stream the week before so we made it a point to at least attempt to bring shorter presentations and move a little faster. We probably managed half of that as we were able to keep our presentations a lot tighter than last week but we managed to goof off a lot in between our presentations as per usual! It's worth noting that this episode sees a break in the "Peachy Takeover" as we called it, where various members of the group Peachy Parade would join us weekly, and this one was a reunion of sorts for our very first episode! Warren is still around (and starts the week again) as he has become a fixture in these streams but the big news here was the return of Danny who won our first DTL and basically died immediately afterwards. Things were a little lighter this time around but it's clear that we all got more than a little drunk at various points throughout this one! We managed to cut things short just a bit over five hours this time though and that's something to be proud of perhaps? As always, be sure to let us know what you think about this new format, how we can improve it, and what your thoughts on our topics are in general! Catch future Drink Talk Learn streams at 6 PM PDT on Saturdays and be sure to follow/sub to us on Twitch at: twitch.tv/atojplays! And always remember: Drink responsibly and never drink and drive!

Drink Talk Learn #7: Drunken Tiger, Naruto x Sasuke, Xiyouji, Mo Dao Zu Shi, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Lasagna Cat

7/13/2020

Hosts & Topics (In Order of Presentation):
Warren: "Drunken Tiger & The Origins of Hip-Hop In South Korea" (10:50)
Cat: "Naruto and Sasuke: Lovers?" (1:10:25)
Manuel: "Xiyouji (Journey to the West): A General Overview & Some Popular Adaptations" (2:09:05)
Haro: "Mo Dao Zu Shi: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation" (3:26:30)
Dangelo: "The Spices of Yu-Gi-Oh!: A Beginner's Guide to a Trash Fire Game" (4:40:00)
Pleiades: "Intro to Lasagna Cat or 'What's with the Garfield Suit?'" (5:20:50)

(Note: We apologize for the continued audio issues. Everything seemed fine in the tests and in the VOD, but the audio in the file has some peaking issues. We plan to do more pre-recording tests using different levels in the future.)

Description:
Welcome! Here's the seventh of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and just to give everyone a brief primer, we all came up with a (hopefully! lol) ten-minute presentation and must drink some sort of alcohol every minute starting at the three-minute mark! This usually leads to a lot of nonsense and the entire stream usually starts to unravel as the final presentations are being done. This is the second DTL stream where Callie was not present though she basically WAS during most of it, so it's a hard point to make. This was a stream that continued the Peachy Parade invasion with Cat! Also, it's the stream where we ALL apparently decided to do 45 minute presentations! This stream stretched well into six hours and we couldn't really stop it as it was going on so we just went with it and surprisingly so did a lot of people watching us online. That said, this one has a bit more drunken nonsense than usual (a presenter stopping their presentation to talk about Dungeons & Dragons anyone?) and while the energy seen here will most definitely see a reappearance in future streams, we don't intend to ever let our time run this far off course again. So watch this one of a kind stream here! As always, be sure to let us know what you think about this new format, how we can improve it, and what your thoughts on our topics are in general! We plan to continue these streams on Saturdays (at 6 PM Pacific) in the future so be sure to follow/sub to us on Twitch at: twitch.tv/atojplays! And always remember: Drink responsibly and never drink and drive!

Drink Talk Learn #6: Budaixi, KPop Meets JRock, Bunnies, Nafla & Korean Rap, FGC Controversy, More!

7/5/2020

Hosts & Topics (In Order of Presentation):
Manuel: "Budaixi: The World of Taiwanese Puppetry" (19:30)
Matt: "KPop Meets JRock" (1:01:00)
Ren: "buny: It bnnuy time" (1:32:00)
Warren: "Nafla & Other Korean Rappers" (2:09:18)
Pleiades: "FGC Controversy" (3:16:50)

Description:
Welcome! Here's the sixth of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and just to give everyone a brief primer, we all came up with a (hopefully! lol) ten-minute presentation and must drink some sort of alcohol every minute starting at the three-minute mark! This usually leads to a lot of nonsense and the entire stream usually starts to unravel as the final presentations are being done. This one saw the first DTL stream where Callie was not present. This particular one was actually almost cancelled many times and was originally going to be a Fourth of July stream, thankfully we switched it up to a Friday one (avoided the insane fireworks on the 4th) and we snagged Ren as a co-host for this one! Since Ren is another member of Peachy Parade (we previously had Megan on before) there was an attempt to pick some fruitier drinks to go with our colorful presentations! Speaking of presentations, even though we only had five of them, we somehow managed to make this stream run for almost five hours, a crazy feat. We also implemented a new voting system here, but that definitely needs some work... Anyhow, this one was a lot of fun and even though Callie wasn't on to reign us in, we still got through this one! (Oh, and Callie would make a guest appearance at the end!) As always, be sure to let us know what you think about this new format, how we can improve it, and what your thoughts on our topics are in general! We plan to continue these streams on Saturdays (at 6 PM Pacific) in the future so be sure to follow/sub to us on Twitch at: twitch.tv/atojplays! And always remember: Drink responsibly and never drink and drive!

Drink Talk Learn #5: Tommy Wiseau, Claire Luvcat, Zhaiwu, KPop, Silent Hill, Kaikan Phrase, More!

7/1/2020

Hosts & Topics (In Order of Presentation):
Warren: "Favorite Anime OPs & EDs" (9:45)
Molly: "Why I Think Tommy Wiseau Is An Alien" (41:30)
Racheal: "From Tiddies To Kitties" (1:05:09)
Manuel: "Zhaiwu: The World of Chinese Dance Covers" (1:25:00)
Callie: "Deepstudio Makes KPop More Fun With You" (2:16:56)
Pleiades: "The Silent Hill Circumcision Theory Shitstorm" (2:45:42)
Matt: "Kaikan Phrase and Why It's One of My Favorite Animes" (3:25:55)

Description:
Welcome! Here's the fifth of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and just to give everyone a brief primer, we all came up with a (hopefully! lol) ten-minute presentation and must drink some sort of alcohol every minute starting at the three-minute mark! This usually leads to a lot of nonsense and the entire stream usually starts to unravel as the final presentations are being done. This one saw a LOT of technical difficulties and other oddness that started with us not bothering to explain what a "Drink Talk Learn even is and continued with a lot of lost content, some of which had to be recovered via the twitch VOD, some with the original video sources, and some just lost forever. There was also a nice discussion that we decided to keep live only, so there's a nice little cut towards the last two presentations! Watch live if you ever want to join in the nonsense! Anyhow, this one saw seven hosts return and the actual full live stream went on for almost FIVE HOURS! Needless to say we were all tired by the time we were done, but everyone pretty much brought their A Game here and we had a lot of fun! Lots to talk about here, but we'll leave to watch it to learn more and once again we apologize for the countless technical difficulties (which thankfully only plagued the middle of the show) and some of our nonsense, BUT we did keep the interruptions down to a those being on topic this time around, so there's progress! As always, be sure to let us know what you think about this new format, how we can improve it, and what your thoughts on our topics are in general! We plan to continue these streams on Saturdays (at 6 PM Pacific) in the future so be sure to follow/sub to us on Twitch at: twitch.tv/atojplays! And always remember: Drink responsibly and never drink and drive!

Drink Talk Learn #4: Arlequin, Onyanko Club, Cream Lemon, Baccano!, Childish Gambino, J-Metal, More!

6/21/2020

Hosts & Topics (In Order of Presentation):
Matt: "Arlequin" (14:05)
Manuel: "Onyanko Club: The World's First "True" Idol Group" (35:20)
Callie: "Baccano Pt. 2" (1:08:05)
Racheal: "Cream Lemon: A Hentai with History" (1:44:35)
Pleiades: "Childish Gambino" (2:15:10)
Warren: "J-Metal Nonsense" (2:36:54)

Description:
Welcome! Here's the fourth of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and just to give everyone a brief primer, we all came up with a (hopefully! lol) ten-minute presentation and must drink some sort of alcohol every minute starting at the three-minute mark! This usually leads to a lot of nonsense and the entire stream usually starts to unravel as the final presentations are being done. This one saw a slight reduction in hosts in the hopes to get the length of these streams a bit more under control (they were just getting longer and longer!) and while this show was awfully messy with the drunken interruptions, and talking over each other, we DID present a much more tighter show overall! Lots of presentation with some of the idol girls sitting out this one (Hina, Megan, Molly) who would be replaced by Warren and Racheal, the former being someone who was originally supposed to be on last week and they both brought some cool stuff to this one as the winner ended up coming down to their presentations. As always, be sure to let us know what you think about this new format, how we can improve it, and what your thoughts on our topics are in general! We plan to continue these streams on Saturdays (at 6 PM Pacific) in the future so be sure to follow/sub to us on Twitch at: twitch.tv/atojplays! And always remember: Drink responsibly and never drink and drive!

Drink Talk Learn #3: Arte, Fried Chicken, Look-Alike Animals, Hello! Project, Magical Girls, More!

6/15/2020

Hosts & Topics (In Order of Presentation):
Megan: "The Anime Arte" (13:54)
Matt: "Matt's Top Rated Fried Chicken" (40:30)
Callie: "Ranking Anime Cons On Severity of OSHA Violations" (1:13:44)
Molly: "Animals You Think Are The, Same But They Aren't" (1:35:35)
Hinacchi: "Hina's Personal Hello! Project Ranking" (2:13:16)
Pleiades: "Broken Promise (Dreams)" (2:54:08)
Manuel: "Magical Girl's 101: A Beginner's Guide" (3:24:22)

Description:
Welcome! Here's the third of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and just to give everyone a brief primer, we all came up with a (hopefully! lol) ten-minute presentation and must drink some sort of alcohol every minute starting at the three-minute mark! This usually leads to a lot of nonsense and the entire stream usually starts to unravel as the final presentations are being done. This one featured ALSO featured a whopping SEVEN HOSTS! (This time around we lost both Megan and Hinacchi before we wrapped though the latter DID make it to the thumbnail this time!) The topics are listed above and even though we didn't have a runaway topic this week that went on for a ridiculous amount of time, we still managed to go on for over four hours! Also, there felt like there was WAY more talking over each other in this one with a very active chat so be sure to check these streams out live if you ever have the chance! As always, be sure to let us know what you think about this new format, how we can imporve it, and what your thoughts on our topics are in general! We plan to continue these streams on Saturdays (at 6 PM Pacific) in the future so be sure to follow/sub to us on Twitch at: twitch.tv/atojplays! And always remember: Drink responsibly and never drink and drive!

Drink Talk Learn #2: Ice Cream, Takarazuka, Baccano, Satoshi Mizukami, Cheesecake Factory Desserts

6/7/2020

Hosts & Topics (In Order of Presentation):
Janette: "Frozen Treats & You" (approx 7:45)
Manuel: "A Century of Takarazuka" (approx 27:30)
Rose: Satoshi Mizukami (approx 1:00)
Callie: "WTF is a Baccano?" (approx 1:20:30)
Matt: "Lead Vomit" (approx 1:43)
Pleiades: "The Dangers of Simping" (approx 2:24:30)
Molly: "A Definitive Ranking of the Desserts at the Cheesecake Factory" (approx 2:43:45)

Description:
Here's the second of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and just to give everyone a brief primer, we all came up with a (hopefully! lol) ten-minute presentation and must drink some sort of alcohol every minute starting at the three-minute mark! This usually leads to a lot of nonsense and the entire stream usually starts to unravel as the final presentations are being done. This one featured SEVEN HOSTS! (Though Janette didn't survive all the way until the end of the stream, nor did she make it to the thumbnail) and our topics were all over the place from desserts, someone's alternate history fiction story, and Takarazuka! Lots of topics and we even chose a winner! Be sure to let us know what you think about this new format, how we can imporve it, and what your thoughts on our topics are in general! While our future DTL schedule is still somewhat undecided (though we're thinking Saturdays!), be sure to follow/sub to us on Twitch at: twitch.tv/atojplays! And always remember: Drink responsibly and never drink and drive!

Drink Talk Learn #1: Isekai Villainesses, Nintendo Wii, Terrace House Dream Cast, Notes On Eczema

5/25/2020

Hosts & Topics (In Order of Presentation):
Pleiades (Gurren Lagann, The Anti-Spiral & The COVID Situation)
Manuel (Why The Nintendo Wii Is GOAT)
Callie (A Deep Dive Into The Villainess Isekai Genre)
Matt (Terrace House Dream Cast)
Danny (Notes On Eczema)

Bonus Topics by Callie!

Description:
Originally thought of as being the 99.5 Episode of Ultra Podcast Z (and was introduced as such) we decided way before we were done that this was going to be its own thing both here and on the regular. Used as a filler due to the fact that we couldn't get the panel cast for the Eroguro panel together for a podcast version, Callie suggested that we do a "Drink Talk Learn" stream where we present a presentation of our doing, while trying to keep it within the ten-minute frame, and taking a drink every minute after the third minute. Hilarity and drunkenness ensued and while we can't guarantee that you'll enjoy the entirety of this show's content (we actually had to cut one minute out for copyright reasons, but it was not from a presentation, just a random bit) and even decided to age-restrict it as there were some suggestive moments here and there. So watch if you're so inclined and be sure to let us know what you think and how we can improve this new style of show! (Besides tightening up the pacing of course!). While our future DTL schedule is still undecided, be sure to follow/sub to us on Twitch at: twitch.tv/atojplays! Drink responsibly and never drink and drive!