Drink Talk Learn - A-to-J Connections

Drink Talk Learn #28 : XMas Mix Tape, Outlaws of The Marsh, Animating A VTuber, YouTube Channel Recs

12/18/2021

0:00:00 Introductions & Opening
0:15:30 Warren's XMas Mix Tape (Warren)
0:38:35 Randomness & Nonsense
0:49:35 Outlaws of The Marsh (Manuel)
1:33:10 Randomness & Nonsense
1:47:45 Creating Vtuber Timer-chan (Callie)
2:44:10 Randomness & Nonsense
3:01:10 Pleiades' YouTube Recommendations (Pleiades)
3:46:20 Closing Nonsense

Description:
Welcome! Here's the twenty-eigth episode of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and this is probably the first of our "Lost Episodes". This one has an interesting story as at the time we had been hit HARD with copyright claims from our older episodes of "A-to-J Talks" and the early (first 40) episodes of "Ultra Podcast Z". This issue, which still plagues us today as these old episodes are mostly lost even to this day, caused us to be a lot more careful about using music during our Drink Talk Learn streams (this was before Twitch would start all its nonsense regarding licensed music too) so this episode was always pegged as one that we'd put into the vault until some time later. LATER IS NOW! It's another Christmas season, Drink Talk Learn is on an early hiatus (lots of nonsense brought about that, but that's another story) and we decided now is a good time to release this as we don't have a holiday one this year. This is definitely a time capsule of sorts for us as the show has gone through a LOT of changes since this first year, and there are another 30 episodes from this one, but it's fun and crazy how many presentations were lost here. Namely Manuel's "Outlaws of The Marsh" presentation (which has been referred to in later DTLs) and Callie's first attempt at VTuber Timer-chan (which she completely redid in two separate DTLs later). Elsewhere Warren talked about his favorite XMas music (which honestly is why this episode took so long to come out!) and Pleiades gave some YouTube recs. Not the most seasonally specific topics but we were having fun! Check it out and wait for the DTL return in January! As always, be sure to let us know what you think about this series, 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 #61: Vlad III "The Impaler", Random Trivia, Executive Functioning, ACME (The Band)

11/17/2021

0:00:00 Introductions & Opening
0:27:00 Vlad III: Myths & Truths (Manuel)
1:09:00 Randomness & Nonsense
1:32:00 Warren's Random Trivia (Warren)
2:12:00 Randomness & Nonsense
2:28:45 Executive Functioning (Molly)
3:15:00 Randomness & Nonsense
3:27:40 ACME (The Visual Kei Band) (Pleiades)
4:05:20 Closing Nonsense

Description:
Welcome! Here's the sixtieth-first episode of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and we had a lot of fun with this one! That's a funny thing to say since they're ALL fun in their own ways, but it's been many months that we've broken the four-hour limit on stream length and it was for reasons we all gel with live. All our presentations ran a little longer than usual so we got to that limit quickly even though we were moving relatively fast in-between. Warren did his third random trivia game, Manuel dragged another Halloween topic out of October and talked about Vlad III (AKA "The Impaler"), Molly had a loose talk about executive functioning that actually has been proving beneficial to us after the fact, and Pleiades talked about the band ACME, which is a band we really love here at A-to-J Connections! Lots of fun to be had and there was even a very annoying cricket who decided to show up here and there to ruin Manuel's day! Anyhow, check it out and be sure to remember... "What is a Christmas? A miserable little pile of presents!" since we ARE moving towards that time of year quickly and we DO always tend to overdo it with holidays over here! As always, be sure to let us know what you think about this series, 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 #60: Hmong Cryptids, Prion Diseases, Halloween III: Season of The Witch, Gorefield

11/3/2021

0:00:00 Introductions & Opening
0:36:50 Hmong-sters: Hmong/SEA Spoops Folklore (Warren)
0:59:30 Randomness & Nonsense
1:08:50 Prions: The Scariest of Pathogens (Molly)
1:45:00 Randomness & Nonsense
2:08:00 Halloween III: The Best Halloween Movie (Manuel)
2:40:00 Randomness & Nonsense
2:50:00 Gorefield (Pleiades)
3:37:10 Closing Nonsense

Description:
Welcome! Here's the sixtieth episode of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and it was just in time for Halloween! The season kind of snuck up on us this year and we didn't properly prepare stream-wise as we have in previous years but we DID make sure that this episode was 100% spoopy topics! Warren talked about "Hmong-sters" and Hmong/SEA cryptids, a lot of which apparently have backwards feet btw, and Molly talked about the horror of prions and prion-related diseases. There was a lot of randomness here but we kept it pretty tight throughout with only a few presentations running a little long and we also covered Halloween III and Gorefield to round out the show! There wasn't a lot of spookiness in terms of presentation, but Manuel's camera quality was quite a scare, as was Leslie's random appearances behind Warren from time to time. There was a bit of costuming in terms of backgrounds and headgear but the spirit was really in the presentations and the fact that we got pretty drunk during this one, probably a bit drunker than we intended to when we started! It's worth mentioning that we did back-to-back DTL streams because of a cancelled episode earlier in the month so we're going to go back to our bi-weekly schedule for the foreseeable future so be sure check out our schedule for more! As always, be sure to let us know what you think about this series, 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 #59: The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel, Top 5 Cryptids, Uninvited, Demonology 101

10/27/2021

0:00:00 Introductions & Opening
0:31:30 The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel (Molly)
0:55:50 Randomness & Nonsense
1:18:30 Top 5 Cryptids (Hao)
1:49:50 Randomness & Nonsense
2:13:50 Uninvited Game (Manuel)
2:39:00 Randomness & Nonsense
2:48:00 Demonology 101 (Pleiades)
3:12:10 Closing Nonsense

Description:
Welcome! Here's the fifty-ninth episode of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and we hosted a special episode on what is normally our "off week" since we had to reschedule the last one. This means we went about three weeks without a DTL but we are going to have two back to back! We'd probably have just let it go but we were excited to do some "spooky" DTL episodes since we're well into the Halloween season at this point and we only had two episodes left with this timely theme available. Anyhow, due to the change, Warren was not able to show up but Hao took his place which is probably for the best as he was to be on the previous DTL that was shifted over anyway. Even though there was a long intro where we discussed all sorts of things pertaining to alcohol, we moved very quickly and had a string of shorter presentations and quick breaks in-between them. Topics were all spoopy per the theme and we covered things from Demonology, Cryptids, Exorcism, and even Spooky Video Games! Did we mention we all got pretty toasty this one and forgot to take a thumbnail? Because that was a thing too! This is always a fun season for us and we hope that you enjoy the spookier-than-usual presentations and come back for the next one which takes place the night before Halloween! As always, be sure to let us know what you think about this series, 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 #58: Two Truths & A Lie, Baccano Relationship Chart, Cultivation Fantasy, SUNDS

10/6/2021

0:00:00 Introductions & Opening
0:19:35 Two Truths & A Lie (Molly)
0:55:35 Randomness & Nonsense
1:04:35 Baccano! Relationship Chart (Callie)
1:45:20 Randomness & Nonsense
1:57:00 Xianxia & Cultivation Fantasy (Manuel)
2:39:00 Randomness & Nonsense
2:47:00 SUNDS: No Sanctuary In Your Sleep (Warren)
3:05:00 Closing Nonsense

[Note: We still never calculated the "winner" of Molly's presentation as there is no visual representation of who voted for what besides gauging each player's reactions. We're still going to go with Callie winning though just for fun!]

Description:
Welcome! Here's the fifty-eighth episode of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and Callie is back! Just for this one episode though and even though we advertised the stream as "The Return of Timer-chan", there was still no Timer-chan here and probably won't be in future episodes. With that in mind we went ahead with Callie replacing Pleiades who bowed out this episode and caused some confusion as we forgot that it was he who was going to host it in the first place. Once all that nonsense was sorted we actually had a very tight episode that only goes a bit over the three hour mark even though we had some longish presentations here and there and had a pretty normal amount of banter in-between things. Molly had a "Two Truths And A Lie" thing about herself and it was quite fun and had the hilarious "circus penis" moment, Callie did a Baccano! relationship chart that was interesting even if the Discord window reformatting her screen constantly could be a little jarring, and Manuel took a request from Callie and talked about Xianxia & Cultivation Fantasy. (Which would've been a better title for the quickly written presentation) We WERE going to have spoopy presentations since we're nicely into Spoop-tober by now but Warren was the only one who did so with his presentation on SUNDS but that was a really fun one and had some ties into topics that we kept covering throughout other streams. Keep an eye out for future DTLs to have more spoopy presentations until we leave October though! As always, be sure to let us know what you think about this series, 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 #57: Random Trivia, The Ring Franchise, Mario Trivia, WTF Is Up w/ Winnie The Pooh

9/23/2021

0:00:00 Introductions & Opening
0:25:30 Warren's Random Trivia (Warren)
1:06:50 Randomness & Nonsense
1:28:20 The Ring Franchise (Manuel)
2:04:20 Randomness & Nonsense
2:21:45 Mario Trivia (DarkWest)
2:54:40 Randomness & Nonsense
3:06:00 TF Is Up With Winnie The Pooh? (Pleiades)
3:51:00 Closing Nonsense

Description:
Welcome! Here's the fifty-seventh episode of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and this was a fun one where we literally were saved from a three-person show hours before when Weston agreed to be on. Molly had told us weeks ago she couldn't make it (since we're bi-weekly these days) and decided that we'd do a shorter three-person show like we have a couple times in the past. That changed when Warren decided he wanted to do another trivia game and wanted another person to play it so we asked Weston literally around noon that day. This did mean the show was not a particularly short one but we had a lot of fun both in Warren's trivia game and in Weston's last minute one, which is something he does during cons might we add. Elsewhere Manuel talked a lot about the "Ring" franchise, mainly the Japanese media and not the US movies, and Pleiades talked about Winnie The Pooh and some deep thoughts regarding it beyond its history. Basically this became a trivia and history episode so check it out! Elsewhere it was a tight episode that had a lot of jokes as this was the night after the "Drink Talk Roll" episode that was interrupted by an earthquake, so keep an eye out for references for that. Anyhow, Warren hosted so take a gander at this look that we haven't seen in several episodes! Oh yeah, this was one of our "Glizzy/Sausage Party" episodes lol. Anyway, Molly returns next time and who knows who will host! As always, be sure to let us know what you think about this series, 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 #56: All Night Nippon SMB, Cryptic Crosswords, Bartending Tips, Star Driver Anime

9/9/2021

0:00:00 Introductions & Opening
1:06:50 All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros (Manuel)
1:41:50 Randomness & Nonsense
1:50:50 Cryptic Crosswords (Molly)
2:38:20 Randomness & Nonsense
2:43:50 Bartending Tips (DarkWest)
3:05:10 Randomness & Nonsense
3:14:30 Star Driver Anime (Pleiades)
3:51:00 Closing Nonsense

Description:
Welcome! Here's the fifty-sixth episode of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and this one was both one of the funner episodes and one that was full of the most technical difficulties! It turns out the stream was only broken up once truly but if you watched live you'll have noticed a few breaks, including one long one where about three minutes of Pleiades' presentation was lost. That last part sucks as his was pretty popular but he did talk for a while so we'll just assume that he got most of what he wanted out even in the video we have here! Don't let that deter you from watching it though as the presentations here were great and barring the really slow intro (we were actually killing time so Molly could get home) we moved really fast once we got the presentations on the roll. There was a bit of Kyoko Koizumi to appease a new subscriber (don't let it be said that we don't listen!) but it was mainly a presentation on a unique Mario game. Some cryptic crosswords, which was a long presentation but a lot of fun and really had us all drawn in. Weston, who replaced Warren who cancelled last minute, showed us some mixed drinks and even dranks some live, including an absinthe shot that we didn't react crazy enough too. Lastly, Pleiades talked a lot about Star Driver and, besides the aforementioned issues, was interesting as Manuel learned that Pleiades' self-intro was a reference to this anime after over a year.... So yeah, watch, enjoy, comment, and maybe give us some future topic ideas! As always, be sure to let us know what you think about this series, 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 #55: Super Bowl Halftime Shows, Heechulism, Nintendo Wii, Hedgehogs & Evangelion

8/28/2021

0:00:00 Introductions & Opening
0:21:20 Super Bowl Halftime Shows (Molly)
0:49:20 Randomness & Nonsense
1:18:20 Heechul Yoon & Heechulism (Warren)
1:56:30 Randomness & Nonsense
2:13:20 The Nintendo Wii (Manuel)
2:50:20 Randomness & Nonsense
3:03:50 Hedgehog's Dilemma & Evangelion (Pleiades)
3:45:40 Closing Nonsense

Description:
Welcome! Here's the fifty-fifth episode of our "Drink Talk Learn" streams and it's the first bi-weekly episode since Callie's departure, and there's a lot of the usual randomness in here! Moving bi-weekly so we can have Molly on with no real fuss to find another co-host she opens with a talk about Super Bowl Halftime Shows which lowkey ended up with us talking about Prince, Left Shark vs. Right Shark, and wardrobe malfunctions all over the place. Warren talked about a South Korean YouTuber, but it's really hilarious that we interrupted him so much that he decided to go fold his laundry at least twice during his segment. Manuel did a longer redux of his OG Nintendo Wii presentation (ALL THE WAY FROM DTL #1!) that was recently found after having been thought to be lost. Pleiades busted his usual bait and switch by talking about hedgehogs before going on a rant about Neon Genesis Evangelion. One could complain about the latter bait and switch if it wasn't for the fact that we leaned into this discussion to make it into the UPZ topic a few days later so yeah, great stuff here! Check it out as it is at both times somehow one of the messiest episodes we've done in recent memory, and one of the most well put together. You can tell us which side we leaned more towards in the comments below! As always, be sure to let us know what you think about this series, 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!