Ultra Podcast Z - A-to-J Connections

Ultra Podcast Z 147 (Internet Challenges) Milk Crate Challenge, TikTok, Ice Bucket Challenge, More!

9/3/2021

Live Broadcast:
August 31, 2021 6:00 PM PDT

Hosts:
Manuel
Nyaru

Description:
Ultra Podcast Z gets something of a new look on this episode and we're all for it! The thumbnail is a bit of a lie but we plan on changing those starting at 150 and might retroactively do that later.... BUT internet challenges! (Oh yeah, we also ditched the "Knuckles" in the branding) This was a fun topic that we kind of breezed through in spite of it being something that we brought to the topic table really last minute. The trick with UPZ is picking a topic that will hopefully retain relevancy until the show actually happens which we tried to do here but the whole "milk crate challenge" trend had run its course (rightfully so) by the time we tackled it. That wasn't too important though as apparently Nyaru and JD were not familiar with it as it was mainly a TikTok thing so we had a lot more time to fill talking about other "challenges" like the ice bucket challenge, the Harlem Shake, and more. A lot can be said as to what MAKES something a challenge on the internet and perhaps that's a topic we'll tackle another day, what also needed tackling this show was Nyaru, who was present and lively but had some tech issues throughout. The wonders of being a virtual presence! Lots of fun and randomness though, be sure to let us know what challenges you've tried in the past and are familiar with in the comments below! As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST!

Ultra Podcast Z 146 (Overrated Anime w/ Badman) Star Wars, Evangelion, Netflix Cowboy Bebop, More!

8/27/2021

Live Broadcast:
August 24, 2021 6:00 PM PDT

Hosts:
Manuel
Badman

Description:
Ultra Podcast Z continues our string of episodes and this one is one of those "lucky" ones that would've probably been cancelled in an alternate universe as it originally was going to just be a Manuel & Nyaru episode but Warren had such strong opinions on the topic (which was "overrated anime", specifically he cared about Evangelion) that we decided to have him on. About an hour before the show though Nyaru had to dip out due to illness so we went on as a last-minute accidental duo. This made the show a lot more random as there were a couple segments that required Nyaru's presence but we soldiered on and the show was quite fun and had some of the new elements we've been trying to incorporate for a while now, such as on-screen chat. Besides a long rant about Evangelion, mostly from Warren, there was a lot of stuff here such as Manuel going on a bit too much on the failings of English dubs, thoughts on the first looks at both Netflix's "Cowboy Bebop" and "Spiderman: No Way Home", and a lot of other random topics. A very loose show, but a fun one that continues our streak and we can't wait to get back on track when Nyaru returns next week! As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST!

Ultra Podcast Z 145 (Fast Food Tier List) Chicken Restaurants, Little Caesar's, Food Storytime, More!

8/20/2021

Live Broadcast:
August 17, 2021 6:00 PM PDT

Hosts:
Manuel
Janette
Photaku
Badman

Description:
Ultra Podcast Z goes back to that old standby that has gotten us through a weeks where we couldn't be bothered to come up with a proper topic: Tier Lists! We actually decided to do a Fast Food Tier List Redux (the original was about two years ago in the pre-Nyaru days) because Nyaru had done one recently and it was one of our first tier lists that could easily see different results with different co-hosts. Speaking of different co-hosts we had them this time around! Nyaru wasn't around, another reason for the tier list btw, but replacing her was Janette (who hasn't been on since around the start of the pandemic), Josh AKA "Photaku" (who is a first timer but an old friend), and Warren AKA "Badman" (who was actually SORT OF a replacement for Nestor who was supposed to be on). There's not too much to say in terms of lead up to this one except that there was a lot more arguing this time, a lot more restaurants, and we had JD, our mod, breaking up ties and making some executive decisions here and there along the way. Also, we speed up about a third of the way in, but this is the norm in these kind of shows as we always underestimate how much we have to say about each tier list item. Check it out, let us know what you think about our choices, and let us know if there are any other topics you'd want to see us tackle in the form of a tier list or otherwise! As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST!

Ultra Podcast Z 144 (It's Gross! w/ Badman) Fast Food, Retail Horror Stories, Crunchyroll, Storytime

8/13/2021

Live Broadcast:
August 10, 2021 6:00 PM PDT

Hosts:
Manuel
Nyaru
Badman (Last Section)

Description:
Ultra Podcast Z continues a revival with a "gross" episode! This is Episode 144 and for those that don't know, a dozen dozens is called a "gross" so we ran with that last minute even though it was kind of a last minute topic shift. We actually had more "things that are gross" topics but pretty much did all storytime type things with us only covering the Crunchyroll x Sony buyout in the middle. We also touched on "High Guardian Spice" and we were going to talk a bit about "gross fandoms" but were sorta stopped before we got there. That and the Steak-ummm thing we awkward, as was the porn talk at the beginning, but that's what y'all come here for right? Gross stuff is gross and we talked a lot about Taco Bell giving you the shits, cleaning up poop in retail settings, and some of the grossest things we've done/been involved in. Speaking of that latter part, Warren joined us crazy randomly after about the hour mark as he wanted to share stories and he's in the chat where we run the show so BAM, last minute third host. We've been surviving as a duo for the past few weeks (mainly trying to rebuild the core of the show) but it was fun having a guest for the first time in ages. Anyway, tell be sure to share your grossest stories with us in the comments! Oh yeah, we forgot to hit record again so another gross thing is the fact that this video is actually the VOD. RIP. As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST!

Ultra Podcast Z 143 (TV Nonsense) Comfort Shows, Weird ER, Talk Shows, Cartoons & Kid Shows, Feet

8/6/2021

Live Broadcast:
August 3, 2021 6:00 PM PDT

Hosts:
Manuel
Nyaru

Description:
Ultra Podcast Z continues its attempt at revival with another "Shooting The Shit" style episode! This one was about television and was centered around the theme of being young, during the summer, and just having a TV as a friend and watching all sorts of nonsense, so we took that idea and ran with it! This could've easily have been a very thin episode in terms of content but we had a surprising amount of things to talk about and we only went off-topic a few times. We started with some "comfort" shows but only really covered Nyaru's with ER, but we quickly moved into children's shows and cartoons we loved in our youth. It was interesting how similar, and different, both Nyaru and Manuel's experiences with children's TV was and it was even more interesting how many times they still managed to bring up porn and other adult content that is more fitting for the F.A. Podcast. We had a lot of fun going over talk shows too, and honestly that could've been an entire topic for a podcast in and of itself. (There's an idea!) We somehow managed to bring up feet, feet fetishes, and foot drawing nonsense as we were closing out and yeah, another awesome episode wrapped! As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST!

Ultra Podcast Z 142 (TTRPG Nonsense) Perfect Blue, 2 Girls 1 Cup, Vampire: The Masquerade, More!

8/1/2021

Live Broadcast:
July 27, 2021 6:00 PM PDT

Hosts:
Manuel
Nyaru

Description:
Ultra Podcast Z continues its attempt at revival with a "Shooting The Shit" style episode where we only had the vaguest idea of what we were going to talk about going into this one and relied on being able to riff on topics we picked out of thin air. It was a little shaky at times but we think we pulled it off! We were going to talk almost solely on TTRPGs (thing "Dungeons & Dragons" and the like) but we filled the first 30+ mins with a lot of randomness like a deep talk on "Perfect Blue" and yet MORE talk on "2 Girls 1 Cup", the latter meaning that we have now covered that on every single A-to-J live show. When we finally got around to talking TTRPGs we mainly talked about D&D and "Vampire: The Masquerade", the latter of which Nyaru plays with other VTubers and she actually whipped out the model of her VTM character for us a bit! This topic was a lot of fun and maybe we should've relied more heavily on it as opposed to that intro, but that just adds to the random aspect of what UPZ has turned into recently. There's a lot of fun to be had here and hopefully you'll all watch our various TTRPG nonsense with Nyaru's VTM streams and A-to-J's "Drink Talk Roll" D&D streams! We also learned randomly that Nyaru never turns off her Nintendo Switch so be sure to roast her about that! As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST!

Ultra Podcast Z 141 (Anniversary Nonsense) Looking Back On Other Outlets, Random News, More!

7/23/2021

Live Broadcast:
July 20, 2021 6:00 PM PDT

Hosts:
Manuel
Nyaru

Description:
Ultra Podcast Z has some interesting issues on this one when it came to recording. It's come to our attention that the recorded version suffers from a REALLY bad framerate and we plan to fix that immediately for the next episode. Elsewhere, we forgot to hit record on this one so we went with the backup source for it, but it was a rather fun episode where we were all on point, something that has been happening more and more lately tbh! A-to-J has a complicated set of "anniversaries" but for the sake of brevity all you need to know is that the "first" one is on July 22 and this episode was a sort of look back at those seven years. We've done this sort of thing many times before but this time it was with a focus on other outlets that were around at our start, have collaborated with us in the past, and where they are now. It's sad that the vast majority of them are no longer around as we had a lot of friends drop out of the scene because of it. We also talked about other sites we used to like that are now gone and basically how the internet is a very different place than it was seven years ago. Elsewhere we talked about the Steam Deck, Beastars, anime musicals, and the whole Oyamada Keigo/Cornelius Olympics scandal that's been going on. So please bear with the shaky video on this one (and on recent ones in general) and we promise to get that fixed in the future! As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST!

Ultra Podcast Z 140 (Gaming Nonsense w/ Badman) Games, Anime Tube Kickstarter, Horror, GACKT, More!

7/16/2021

Live Broadcast:
July 13, 2021 6:00 PM PDT

Hosts:
Manuel
Badman
JD

Description:
Ultra Podcast Z had another of our infamous "cursed episodes" as this was very nearly cancelled but we decided to soldier on, THEN all sorts of technical issues meant that we started a bit late and a lot of other random nonsense kept this episode from being up to par in general (also a nice place to mention that we're aware that it isn't the best quality and the audio does slowly drift out of sync from the video as the show goes on, but we did our best from the sources we had) but once again we're soldiering on. The show itself was quite fun and featured JD in a speaking role replacing Hinacchi who was supposed to be on. Originally we were going to focus far more on gaming and related topics but we decided to kind of float this one all over the place talking about such randomness as the joy of annoying cosplayers at cons and how GACKT recently became an anti-vaxxer. More on topic we talked about a bunch of games we're looking forward to and things we're playing now. Namely we mentioned a "sexy Dark Souls" game with "She Will Punish You" and updated everyone on the Cannibal Holocaust game we mentioned over a year ago now titled "Borneo: A Jungle Nightmare". All the technical stuff aside, this was actually a very fun, on point episode and we just wish that everything visually and audio-wise followed suit. There's always next week though. As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST!

Ultra Podcast Z 139 (Recap Attack) | AX Lite Review, Vin Diesel Memes, Big Brother Season 23, More!

7/11/2021

Live Broadcast:
July 6, 2021 6:00 PM PDT

Hosts:
Manuel
Nyaru

Description:
Ultra Podcast Z is continuing its onward and upwards trend with an episode fully dedicated to... nonsense! Actually, we had two big tentpole discussions here that bookended the episode: AX Lite Recap, and Callina/Sarah in Big Brother Season 23. We had a lot to say about the former as it was an odd con to experience as the US is opening up and pretty much cemented online cons as a thing that, while perhaps here to stay on a small scale, will always be a relic of the highest points of pandemic lockdown. After we went over the pros and cons of AX Lite we tackled some random topics like the rise and fall of the "family" Vin Diesel memes, a new animated Night of The Living Dead movie, upcoming anime, and the new Nintendo Switch. Nonsense done with, we moved onto what was probably the biggest topic of the night: Callina/Sarah on Big Brother Season 23. Basically, there is a new contestant on the long-running reality show that comes from the overseas idol world and we discussed both this as news, and about the arguments that are currently going on online, within the overseas idol scene and without, regarding Callina's old content which has mostly been scrubbed from the internet. This was an interesting discussion and the centerpiece of this UPZ episode, but you can of course let us know if you agree or disagree with our views on this complicated topic. As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST!

Ultra Podcast Z 138 (Random Topics w/ Pleiades) | New iCarly, AX Lite, Storytime, John McAfee, More!

7/6/2021

Live Broadcast:
June 29, 2021 6:00 PM PDT

Hosts:
Manuel
Nyaru
Pleiades

Description:
Ultra Podcast Z took an accidental week off but came back with a pretty random episode featuring Pleiades! We had a million little topics to cover on this one but it was always envisioned as a riffing episode with Pleiades without as much form as we usually try for in these kind of things. That said we managed to at least MENTION every small news topic that we wanted from the Tamagotchi Watch to the new Final Fantasy IX animated show. We also had deeper dives into the new (and old) iCarly show and how the internet has changed over the decade it's been on and the death of John McAfee. These are all very different topics from each other and if it seems random well, that's because it is. With that said we tried to keep it interesting and we think we did that. Also now is the time to mention that this video is a mashup of both the live stream version (with JD's active topic changes on the lower left) and Manuel's recording (which had wonky audio this time around) so bear with it as it can get a little rough at times though we think it's still very watchable. There was more covered here but we'd be killing some of the surprises if we just tossed it all in the description, so check it out! As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST!