Ultra Podcast Z 187 (The Rings of Power vs. House of The Dragon w/ Badman) Dragons, Elves, & More!11/11/2022 Live Broadcast:
November 8, 2022 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Badman Description: Ultra Podcast Z is finally over the convention stuff that took us by surprise the last few weeks and we came back after the spoopy season to come back around for our second take on the recent fantasy TV shows that debuted this year: "Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power" and "House of The Dragon". Both are prequel series and we had a LOT to say about them before and just as much to say about them now that they have both wrapped. It's kind of clear which one we preferred, but we tried to take our critique of "Rings of Power" in totally different directions than most people online have. You can't really fight it that one of the shows was far more put together than the other, no matter if one of them started filming during the 2020 lockdowns. Anyhow, there are a lot of hot takes and a LOT of spoilers throughout but check it out and maybe we'll do this again next year when the second season drops but maybe with a bit more form to the episode itself. Also, we are nearing A-to-J's anniversary, and the end of the year, so keep watchin to see us wrap up 2022. Will Nyaru will return? We shall see! 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! Live Broadcast:
October 25, 2022 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Photaku DarkWest Description: Ultra Podcast Z has had a shaky Halloween series this year, mainly due to a couple conventions that take place at the end of the month so planning was a bit off this time. We always planned to have a Tier List and a Watch-Along though and we were DETERMINED to fulfill those two scheduled shows! First off, it must be said that this episode has a FEW sound issues as we (the hosts) aren't quite as loud as we probably should be compared to the movie, but due to the nature of the stream, there isn't much we can do about it at the end. Also, this was done fairly last minute, despite the planning, and took place in a very busy time for everyone involved. Nyaru was still missing but the original co-hosts were not available this day (We originally wanted to recreate the "Night of The Living Dead" host crew from last year.) but we did our best. Also, the chat was a little cursed with how dead it was, so we covered it up in YouTube so it wouldn't be too distracting. It was still a lot of fun with Photaku and Weston joining us and we really enjoyed this movie even though it was VERY random at times and not quite what we were expecting even though we were very familiar with it. It's still crazy that this movie was filmed in a weekend and just as crazy that Roger Corman never cared enough to copyright it so he would get nothing from the eventual musical masterpiece this turned into. Speaking of musical, you can find that via a link below, along with the other stream we mentioned above. Halloween this year is coming up fast and we had a lot of fun so far. Did you? Well, we are planning at least ONE MORE Halloween-themed episode to close out the season, even though it'll take place AFTER Halloween, so keep an eye out for 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 185 (Cryptid Tier List w/ Fangy) Bigfeet, Jersey Devil, Jackelopes, And More, Oh My!10/20/2022 Live Broadcast:
October 18, 2022 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Fangy Description: Ultra Podcast Z still hasn't seen Nyaru return but we had another VTuber guest this time around in the form of Fangy! We love doing tier lists in general and we always do at least ONE for our Halloween streams so it only made sense that we plan one out this year. We originally were going to have a Halloween Candy Redux, but we decided to do a Cryptid Tier List since that's actually an idea that's been on our backburner for a few years now and we had the perfect co-host in mind for this one! What's interesting is that we had a lot of trouble finding (and even creating) our own tier list in the typical way so at the last minute, like literally right before we went live, we decided that we were going to do it live in the purest sense. That means that we were going to open up a Paint document and DRAW the tier list as we went along. I say "we" but in fact all the drawing was done by JD, our mod, so be sure to give him a round of applause for this. Also, be sure to give Manuel a round of applause as he had a headache for much of this show and it was quite the effort to get through. All in all, this was a really fun, crazy unique episode the kind that we haven't seen in a bit so check it out and let us know what you think of our list! I guess we'll save that candy redux one for next year! Keep watching in October though as we have more Halloween nonsense planned! 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 184 (Hao-lloween w/ Hao) Trick or Treating, Horror Movies, Twilight Zone, More!10/7/2022 Live Broadcast:
October 4, 2022 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Hao Description: Ultra Podcast Z is back on its Halloween bs and this is an interesting episode as we were originally going to have a completely different JD-centric episode due to some schedule nonsense and put together this episode just hours before go-time. This isn't TOO far from the usual UPZ nonsense, but it is interesting that we got Hao onto the show for the first time, thus completing his trifecta of appearing on every main A-to-J show we have! In the older days of our October episodes we used to cover the same topics with new hosts so we SORT OF did that here and went over some trick or treating memories and horror media stuff, but we kinda lost that plot about midway in. That was fine though as we had more than enough to talk about and even though Hao apparently isn't a big consumer of horror media that doesn't come in the form of movies (he REALLY needs to get on that horror musical thing though!) we still managed to talk a LOT about Twilight Zone towards the end. It's almost as if we had a Twilight Zone themed episode and kind of wasted it on the last segment here. That's fine though, maybe we'll have one in the future complete with monologue and us mouthing the theme. Would that be interesting or just ridiculous? We shall see! Keep watching in October though as we have more Halloween nonsense planned! 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 183 (Welcome to Gamestop w/ Nestor) Gacha Games, "Girl" Games, Inflation, More!9/23/2022 Live Broadcast:
September 20, 2022 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Nestor Description: Ultra Podcast Z is back! Well, we never left this time but there was a lot of nonsense lately that almost made this episode a bit of a lost one as we didn't have a host lined up in light of all the recent stuff going on (such as being busy with PMX and other cons coming up) but Nestor came in clutch at pretty much the eleventh hour. We didn't really mention it live, though it was referenced in the podcast title, but Nestor works at Gamestop and it was an idea that we'd have another gaming topic episode where we covered things like microtransactions / loot boxes / gacha games and other nonsense along with maybe a smattering of retail stories. We kind of went into this without the biggest of ideas of what we were going to talk about but we also had both a fun time and a random time. Excuse all the jumping around, but we did get to most of the key topics we wanted to but only touched on some of the recent Rings of Power & House of The Dragon updates since it turns out that Nestor hasn't watched either, so keep an eye out for that in an upcoming episode. Somehow we even tackled the idea of "girl games" and "gamer girls" without coming off crazy controversial! ... maybe! Anyway, we're all nerds here so just have fun with us for a bit even if this is quite the random episode. Also, Genshin Impact-ing my bank account! Let's go! 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 182 (Nonsense w/ Badman) Nintendo Direct, House of The Dragon, Rings of Power, More!9/16/2022 Live Broadcast:
September 13, 2022 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Badman Description: Ultra Podcast Z had an accidentally long break with both JD and co-host issues causing us to skip about three weeks of shows. We return however with the topic we planned to cover the week before: New fantasy TV in the form of "Rings of Power" and "House of The Dragon", continuations of the "Lord of The Rings" and "Game of Thrones" franchises respectively. During our break a Nintendo Direct was announced and took place the morning before the show so we also covered some bits of that before really diving into things. We didn't really cover all the fantasy stuff we probably intended too since we got some of the hotter takes out of our system before we went live, mainly so we wouldn't add to some nonsense already circling around these new shows. With that said, we had our critiques but they were far more than the "why did they cast THEM!" that you have probably heard in other takedowns of the show. Spoiler Alert: We weren't that harsh on them and we couldn't help but point out that we're comparing them mainly due to the timing of their launch and overall genre, but there really isn't much that you can compare here in general. Also, towards the end of the show we talked about our upcoming appearance at Pacific Media Expo and we wanted to point out that it is taking place at the San Gabriel SHERATON, not the Hilton. You can check out that convention's website below. Also, we missed the UPZ fifth anniversary, so maybe we'll cover that next week. We shall see... 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 181 (Bread & More w/ Jessie & Adam) AMVs, Making Anpan, Pusheen Box Opening, More!8/19/2022 Live Broadcast:
August 16, 2022 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Jessie Adam Description: Ultra Podcast Z has been carrying on without Nyaru for the past few weeks (she will be back soon!) and this week we saw TWO guests! Adam & Jessie are friends of our mod JD, and are also associated with Tora-con, and we had a lot of topics to talk about with them. There was a little bit of confusion on WHAT the topic would be and rather than talk about paneling at anime conventions (what Manuel thought) we discussed the topics that they paneled on. This took us to some interesting places though as an episode on cheap Japan travel, Japanese bread, and AMVs are really interesting topics and we all stayed mostly on point, and active, throughout the entire run time. We honestly could've talked JUST about our experiences travelling in Japan as there was clearly a lot more we all had to say and all the hosts clearly had very different takes on what made up a good trip to Japan. There was even a time lapse bread breaking video towards the end which is crazy when you remember the entire "Boomer Hates Bread" UPZ thing from 2020. Oh, and there is even a Pusheen unboxing to randomly round things out at the end! We hope to have Jessie & Adam back at some point in the future as this was a really fun episode and we think you'll find it so as well! 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 180 (Mahjong Madness w/ Janette) Mahjong Soul, Riichi Mahjong, Anime Cons, More!8/12/2022 Live Broadcast:
August 9, 2022 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Janette Description: Ultra Podcast Z took a week off for random nonsense and came back with a special episode that was supposed to feature Pleiades hosting and Janette on as a guest. As you can probably see from the finished product, only half of that equation came to pass. Thankfully JD was still available to host and this somewhat last minute episode went forward. We were originally going to do a trifecta of con discussion as the three hosts had all been to recent conventions in different parts of the country, but that wasn't to be so most of this show was about mahjong. What started as a thought about how Manuel had got a new mahjong set for his birthday turned into a discussion about the differences between Chinese, Japanese, and American Mahjong, and lots more. What was definitely decided was that we have a lot of strong views on mahjong and probably will be going forward with our mahjong gaming nights that we've been toying around with for the past couple months. When we do, will it be riichi though? Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions on easy ways to play Chinese mahjong online, please let us know in the comments below as that is something we are very interested in. Oh, and we talked a BIT about other stuff, but you can all just consider this the "Mahjong Episode". 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 179 (SDCC News w/ Badman) The Rings of Power, MCU Phase 6, Eighth Anniversary, More!7/29/2022 Live Broadcast:
July 26, 2022 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Badman Description: Ultra Podcast Z returns from its recent one week break (where we actually had NO streams) and we were joined by Badman again as Nyaru sat this one out for reasons we teased live but we definitely aren't going to get into in-depth. We were supposed to talk all sorts of news and stuff that came out at SDCC and this basically became a "Rings of Power" and MCU discussion as that is what we spent most of the show talking about. We talked about recent stuff we've watched on streaming, and briefly covered A-to-J's eighth anniversary towards the end, but that was the big (accidental) focus of the show. It was fun stopping everything to check how long it took Frodo to get to Mount Doom and to rant almost non-stop about how MCU is missing opportunities left and right to bring Warlock into things, but maybe we're in a minority there. This was a bit of a hastily put together show as it was originally going to be ALL anniversary talk with Nyaru and guest, so maybe we'll just have to save that episode for November when we have our REAL anniversary. Yeah, we have two anniversaries because nothing at A-to-J can ever be simple. 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 178 (Anime Expo Recap) AX 2022, Summer Conventions, Elon Musk, Ken Akamatsu, More!7/15/2022 Live Broadcast:
July 12, 2022 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Badman Description: Ultra Podcast Z returns from its AX break with an episode that doesn't feature Nyaru as she unfortunately got the big C over at AX and has been taking it easy following the con. Warren joined and we all recapped the con a bit with some news and nonsense sprinkled in. The opening segment took a bit longer than we intended as we ended up talking a lot about shows we've been watching recently from Stranger Things 4, Marco Polo, The Boys, and Man In The High Castle just to name a few. We then talked a LOT about AX without really covering stuff that HAPPENED at AX. Weird when you think about it, but we are also a lot about the hanging out, the partying, and just experiences overall. Will you be going to AX Ontario and other summer conventions since everything seems in full swing again? Let us know below! We then moved on and talked about some other news topics briefly, like Elon Musk's Twitter deal falling through, the Shinzo Abe incident, and Kem Akamatsu (of Love Hina fame) now becoming a politician? There was a lot there even if we didn't give everything as much time as we probably should have. We're just warming up to a regular stream schedule though as we've had about six weeks of messiness so just keep an eye on us until 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! |
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