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What happens to the human brain at midnight on October 31 that suddenly makes peppermint, Christmas music and red cups socially acceptable?

The field trip is over.

Class is officially back in session.

Professor Zaga and Professor Nick are taking on Seasonal Whiplash 203, where we try to figure out why society assigns entire foods, drinks, clothes, activities and personalities to specific dates on a calendar.

Halloween ends and suddenly pumpkin disappears, peppermint takes over, Christmas starts...

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How do you finish a completely reasonable vacation?

Apparently by going to New York Comic Con, spending too much money on mystery boxes, eating a milkshake with an entire slice of cake on top, getting yelled at in a bagel shop, witnessing absolute chaos at Jollibee and limping through New York City until your body finally gives up.

Professor Zaga and Professor Nick are back in the Teachers’ Lounge for the final chapter of Nick’s trip.

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What happens after you survive Salem in October?

Apparently you fake a marriage proposal, scream karaoke on the ride home, sleep for a few hours and immediately drag everybody to New York City.

Professor Zaga and Professor Nick are still in the Teachers’ Lounge for Part 2 of Nick’s trip to New England, picking up exactly where Episode 15 ended.

Nick and Juliana have finally emerged from their suspiciously successful Salem “date,” Copper has apparently decided subtlety is beneath him...

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What happens when two podcast hosts finally record together in person after six years... and then immediately try to survive a trip to Salem in October?

Professor Zaga and Professor Nick are finally in the same room for the first in-person ADHP episode in six years, and class is officially canceled.

Welcome to the Teachers’ Lounge.

Nick has made the trip from Oklahoma to New England, and what was supposed to be a carefully planned weekend quickly b...

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At what point does “I like this” become “apparently this is who I am now”?
Professor Zaga, Professor Nick, and Dr. Copper are taking Full Frontal Nerdity 301, where the lesson is simple: how do you stop hiding the thing you love without becoming the person everybody regrets asking about it?
This class gets into hyper fixations, fandoms, cosplay, ridiculously expensive collectibles, deep-dive research, conventions, tattoos, gaming, wrestling, Marvel, Warhammer, Star Wars, record collecting and the exact moment somebody probably needs to take away your credit card.
We get into:
• The things we absolut...

Your social battery hit zero.

Unfortunately, somebody just said “before you go…” and now apparently you live here.

ADHP University is officially in session, and our first online class is Irish Goodbye 102: how to leave a party without accidentally unlocking another 45-minute event.

Professor Nick considers himself something of an Irish-goodbye surgeon. Professor Zaga has questions.

Together, we're breaking down why announcing “I'm leaving” somehow restarts the entire night, the traps waiting between you and the front door, and how to dis...

Short story long... somehow we're professors now.

ADHP University is officially opening its doors, which feels completely responsible considering one of us never went to college and the other dropped out twice.

This week, Zaga and Nick have one last Faculty Lounge session before classes officially take over ADHP.

We're figuring out exactly how an unaccredited comedy university run by adults operating at roughly 30% is supposed to work, why the 30%ers are now the Student Body, what Professor Zaga and Professor Nick are actually...

Short story long... we had an episode recorded.

Then we got an email telling us not to post it.

So naturally, we handed the backup plan to the 30%ers.

This week, Zaga and Nick are working through ridiculous fan-submitted scenarios and answering one important question:

What would two adults running on 30% actually do?

And apparently the answer is almost always: make the situation significantly worse.

What happens if you're...

Short story long... adulthood finally got the awards show it deserves.

This week, Zaga and Nick host The 30% Awards, where being nominated is less of an honor and more confirmation that adulthood has personally wronged you.

The 30%ers helped nominate the everyday problems, purchases, social rules, minor inconveniences, and outright betrayals competing for some of adulthood's least prestigious awards.

We're deciding:

What should have only taken five minutes?

What normal purchase has gotten offensively...

Short story long... adulthood is just a never-ending collection of side quests nobody trained us for.

This week, Zaga and Nick enter the 30% Side Quest Championship to figure out who is actually better at surviving the tiny adult problems that somehow consume an unreasonable amount of time, money, and emotional stability.

We're dealing with customer service calls from hell, mystery subscription charges, being transferred between the same departments, household repairs that could become significantly more expensive if you touch the wrong thing, grocery-store rage, self-checkout betrayal, and the eternal...

Short story long... we put the two single people in the same episode and let the married guy ask the questions.Juliana is back for the first time this season, she finally meets Nick, and Zaga immediately turns the whole thing into a dating compatibility test.What starts with one simple question, “Are you actually ready for a relationship?” turns into two hours of dating apps, terrible dates, relationship expectations, communication, red flags, green flags, marriage, kids, being single in your 30s, and trying to figure out whether anybody actually knows what they're doing anymore.Nick explains what keeps goin...

Nick believed a GameCube could release toxic gas if you broke it the wrong way.So naturally, he and his stepbrothers tested the rumor.This week, Nick and Copper fall into a nostalgia-fueled nerd fight club covering the games, anime, superheroes, childhood rumors, and fictional universes that raised them.They debate Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 2, Marvel vs. DC, physical games vs. digital libraries, Pokémon vs. Digimon, Star Wars vs. The Lord of the Rings, open-world vs. linear games, and subbed vs. dubbed anime.Copper also faces the Copper Challenge: make one complete argument in 30 seconds without starting five more a...

Short story long... we built a museum.

We thought this would take an hour.

Two and a half hours later... here we are.

This week we're building the Museum of Millennial Culture, deciding which relics deserve to represent millennials forever. Between AOL CDs, Game Boys, Pop-Tarts, Blockbuster, Scholastic Book Fairs, and a shocking amount of debate, we accidentally created the museum we'd all buy a ticket to.

Running on 30%. Still showing up.

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I quit my job… and my friends immediately lost their minds.

In Episode 5 of ADHP: Adulthood Pending Season 2, Zaga talks about leaving the car industry after 10 years to build ADHP full-time.

This is the start of the full-time ADHP era: the podcast, the live streams, the 30%ers, the merch, the guests, the creator program, and the community we’re trying to grow from the ground up.

Nick and @copperhead347 are here for the conversation, which means this emotional life update immediately turns into support, yell...

Nobody hands you the real adult starter pack.

This week we're talking about everything people conveniently forgot to warn us about: grocery shopping every three days, birthdays getting weird, learning to stop caring what strangers think, why your inner monologue runs the company, travelling, hobbies, mental health, crock pots (again), and somehow The Beatles catching strays.

Somewhere between life advice and complete chaos, we accidentally put together the handbook every millennial could've used ten years ago.

Running on 30%. Still showing up.

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What actually belongs in the adulthood starter pack?

Not the fake motivational nonsense. Not “wake up at 5 AM and journal beside a lemon water.” We mean the real stuff: a good towel, an air fryer, a crock pot, a mattress that doesn’t ruin your spine, boundaries, better money decisions, relationship red flags, friendship rules, and maybe a fire extinguisher because apparently adulthood includes preventing your house from becoming content.

In Episode 3 of ADHP: Adulthood Pending Season 2, Zaga and Nick build the official Adulthood Starter Pack 2.0 with help from the 30...

Protecting your peace sounds great until it turns into avoiding every uncomfortable conversation like adulthood is a haunted house and accountability is hiding behind the couch.

In Episode 2 of ADHP: Adulthood Pending Season 2, Zaga’s voice is barely hanging on, so Nick steps in as “Doctor Nick” to help carry the episode while we talk about the difference between protecting your peace and just avoiding life.

We get into boundaries, people-pleasing, saying no, group chats, cancelled plans, work messages after hours, overthinking, social media rage bait, and the emotional damage caused by the words “we need to...

Season 2 of ADHP: Adulthood Pending is here, and somehow we already lost our dignity before the episode even started.

After losing a Season 1 bet, Zaga and Nick kick off the new era of ADHP by paying up, dressing the part, and launching the official Season 2 rebrand: Same chaos, better decisions.

This episode sets the tone for what ADHP is becoming. The 30%ers are official, the battery check-in is here, the live streams are tied into the show, and Season 2 is bringing more guests, more games, more community chaos, more fundraisers, and more proof that adulthood...

We learned nothing…

…and somehow everything.

🎙️ Season 1 Finale of Adulthood Pending is here.

52 episodes later, and we’re still trying to figure out adulthood… except now we’re slightly more self-aware and way more chaotic about it.

This episode was supposed to be a simple send-off.

Instead, it turned into one of the most honest, unfiltered, and unintentionally deep conversations we’ve had all season.

From burnout and people-pleasing… to identity, growth, and why doing absolutely nothing...

This episode was supposed to stay on track… it didn’t.

In Episode 51 of Adulthood Pending, Zaga and Copper start with a simple idea and somehow spiral into one of the most unfiltered conversations of the season.

From “being mean vs being honest” to why entertainment feels fake now, this episode turns into a full breakdown of how people are DONE being told what to like… and why authenticity is starting to win again.

We also get into Hawaii, Ireland, cancel culture, independent creators, and someho...

50 episodes later… and we still have no idea what we’re doing 😂

In this milestone episode of Adulthood Pending, we take a step back and ask the real question…

Did we actually get better at being adults… or just better at pretending?

From missed trash days to DoorDash addictions, failed routines, and the reality of post-vacation burnout, this episode is a full breakdown of what we’ve learned (and what we definitely haven’t) over the past year.

We get into:

Why does adulthood feel worse after vacation?

In this episode of Adulthood Pending, we get into post-vacation burnout, dumb spending decisions, and the reality of being a millennial trying to get your life together… and immediately failing 😂

Zaga is back from Hawaii with a new look, new mindset… and a $65 purchase that completely breaks Nick live on air 💀

We get into:

✈️ Why coming back from vacation hits harder than it should

🧢 The new “uncle era” (mustache + dad hats = dangerous combo)

💸 Spending money on things we absol...

Nick is dying from allergies.

Zaga threw his back out.

And somehow… this episode still happened.

This week on Adulthood Pending, the guys dive into one of the most relatable parts of being an adult:

Pretending you understand things that you absolutely do not.

From credit scores and insurance policies to stocks, crypto, and networking, millennials have mastered the art of confidently nodding along in conversations while secretly having no idea what anyone is talking about.

...

Zaga is officially on vacation… but the show must go on.

While Zaga heads to Hawaii for some long overdue R&R 🌴, he and Nick made sure the ADHP crew still gets an episode this week. So we’re leaning fully into celebration mode.

This episode turns into a mix of vacation hype, St. Patrick’s Day traditions 🍀, travel stories, and the chaos that happens when two millennials start talking about Guinness, tropical drinks, and questionable vacation decisions.

In this episode we get into:

Are there things you’re just too old to start doing in your 30s… or is that just an excuse we tell ourselves?

This week on Adulthood Pending, Zaga and Nick realize they accidentally planned an episode… that they already did before. So instead, they spiral into a hilarious debate about the activities millennials might be too old to start now.

From learning how to skateboard 🛹 to becoming a DJ 🎧, starting a rap career 🎤, or deciding at 35 that you’re suddenly going to learn parkour… some dreams might be a little late to th...

Zaga is out this week… which means things immediately spiral.

Nick and Copper take over the studio and what starts as a normal episode quickly turns into a full-blown interrogation. Nick decides it’s time to ask Copper the questions nobody else will. Life questions. Identity questions. Completely unnecessary questions.

Then something strange happens.

Nick disappears for a moment… and returns as Namaste Nick, ready to conduct the most chaotic therapy session ADHP has ever seen.

Nothing is off limits...

Why are adults still fighting in public?
Why are we awake at 2AM staring at the ceiling?
Why are group chats a full-time job?
And why did this episode start with Copper’s grooming routine?

This week on Adulthood Pending, we argue about things that absolutely should not be controversial… but somehow are.

Bedtimes.
Public fights.
Quitting your job.
Living with your parents past 30.
Being single at 35.
Weddings.
Group chats.
Corporate America.
Comparison culture.

And in between all that?
Copper derailing the...

Why is everything we tried to escape suddenly cool again?

Low rise jeans are back.

Ed Hardy has been resurrected from the Arctic.

Pokémon cards are apparently an “investment.”

And Labubu is just Furby with WiFi.

This week on Adulthood Pending, we break down why Gen Z is thrifting the 90s and Y2K — and why millennials are having a mild identity crisis about it.

Are they stealing our childhood?

Or are we just realizing it mean...

Valentine’s Day is here and Adulthood is, once again, under review.

In Episode 42 of Adulthood Pending, Zaga and Nick hand the mic over to the Discord and let chaos do what chaos does best. From doomsday bunkers and surviving Jurassic Park, to the adult purchases that quietly changed our lives and the painful realisation that the future kind of lied to us, this episode is a full millennial group chat brought to life.

This one is looser, longer, and very on-brand. If you hate Valentine’s Day, feel behi...

This week on Adulthood Pending, there was no outline, no prep, and absolutely no mercy.

Zaga and Nick come in exhausted after Snowpocalypse, dealership chaos, and a week that somehow felt like an entire January compressed into seven days. What follows is a full spiral: shovelling snow for hours, digging cars out of lots, yoga injuries, wrestling hot takes, karma debates, and getting assaulted by household appliances.

There is a Weekly Crisis, questionable life philosophy, unsolicited wrestling opinions, weather beef, adult body betrayal, and the ongoing argument of whether...

Copper’s back for the first time since May 2025, and somehow… adulthood is still exhausting.

In this episode, Copper rejoins the chaos after months away, Nick immediately starts spiralling, and the conversation turns into exactly what you would expect: burnout, money stress, adult responsibilities that never end, and the realization that nothing actually slows down just because life happens.

We talk about coming back after time away, feeling permanently tired, the mental load of being an adult, groceries that never stop costing money, and why “just keep pushing” might be the w...

At some point, adulthood quietly taps you on the shoulder and says, “Hey… maybe don’t do that anymore.”

In Episode 39, we accidentally stumble into a very real conversation about all the things millennials are officially too old for. It starts with weekly crises, questionable food choices, and hot dog steamers… and slowly turns into a full breakdown of physical stupidity, social exhaustion, lifestyle delusions, and why everyone online suddenly thinks they’re an expert.

We talk about:
– Gas station food and ageing bodies
– Staying up late and paying for it for three days
– Blacko...

Episode 38 of Adulthood Pending is completely unplanned—and somehow that makes it one of the most honest episodes we’ve done.

No outline. No topic. Just two millennials catching up, spiralling, venting, and accidentally dropping adulthood advice along the way.

In this episode, Zaga and Nick talk about:

Nobody told us adulthood was a full-time job.

No onboarding. No training manual. No HR department. Just vibes, bills, and constant maintenance.

In this episode of Adulthood Pending, Zaga and Nick break down the unspoken truth of being a millennial adult:

nothing ever finishes, everything needs attention, and somehow you’re always the backup plan.

From forgotten subscriptions and never-ending bills to the invisible mental load nobody warned us about, this episode is basically a performance review for adulthood itself. We talk money stress, health ma...

New year. Same chaos. Same unresolved issues.Because if January magically fixed people, therapists would be out of work and gyms would be empty by February.In this episode of Adulthood Pending, we tear into the lie of New Year’s resolutions, call out fake “healing eras,” and admit that most of us are just recycling the same problems with a new calendar.We talk:Why January feels hostile for no reasonThe gym resolution pipeline (January confidence → February absence)“Protecting my peace” vs actually changing anythingWhy you do NOT need January 1st to start your lifeAnd how the moon, stars, and v...

Christmas is supposed to be joyful.
Instead, it turns fully grown adults into stressed-out, passive-aggressive maniacs arguing over gift bags, traditions, and why ONE Christmas light strand never works.

In this Christmas Day episode of Adulthood Pending, Zaga breaks down why the holidays bring out the absolute worst versions of otherwise normal people — from Christmas dictators and last-minute chaos shoppers to over-gifters, nostalgia police, and the people who mysteriously disappear during cleanup.

This episode spirals quickly and includes:

A Christmas edition of Weekly Crisis

A wildly unhinged Nick Doesn’t Get...

Zaga and Nick break down why December stopped being magical and started feeling like a tactical mission just to make it out alive. From navigating family chaos and PTO guilt to surviving Secret Santas, relationship stress, and social battery burnout, this episode turns holiday dread into organised comedy.

There are unhinged takes.
There is real advice.
There is yelling.
There is growth.
And yes, Santa is absolutely laundering cartel money through stockings.

We cover:
• Why adulthood was not built for December
• Weekly Crisis returns with physical, financial, and emotional dama...

December used to hit different. As kids, Christmas movies told us adulthood would be magical, cozy, and full of perfectly lit trees and life-changing moments.

Now? We’re just trying to not blow a fuse, max out a credit card, or fight a stranger over wrapping paper.

In this episode, Zaga and Nick break down the Christmas movies that straight-up LIED to us about being adults. From Home Alone’s millionaire parents, to Elf pretending corporate America is whimsical, to Santa casually committing identity fraud… we’re exposing every cinematic scam the holidays...

This episode is pure December delusion from the very first “Black Friday ain’t Black Friday anymore.”

Zaga and Nick fall straight into a nostalgic wormhole, ripping apart the modern holiday season and remembering when December actually felt magical — before adulthood turned it into a month-long invoice.

Black Friday used to be combat training:
Parents drawing tactical maps, assigning “units,” circling ads like they were planning a heist, and treating Walmart like the Thunderdome.
Now?
It’s just emails, fake sales, and a toaster that’s $3 off.

From Tickle Me Elmo war crimes...

This episode is pure Thanksgiving chaos from the very first insulted potato.

Zaga and Nick jump straight into the Thanksgiving Food Draft, unleashing every unhinged opinion they’ve been holding in all year. From instant mashed potatoes being classified as a war crime to debating whether lasagna has a place on a holiday plate, nothing is safe and no dish gets treated kindly.

Turkey rankings turn into NFL comparisons.

Mac and cheese becomes a spiritual battleground.

Texas Roadhouse frozen rolls start a conspiracy.

And somehow… “pink stuff”...