Adulthood Pending

🗳️ VOTE FOR ZAGA — TOP HOST 2026 https://tophost.org/2026/anthony-arzaga Short Story Long...... 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 unti...

🗳️ VOTE FOR ZAGA — TOP HOST 2026 https://tophost.org/2026/anthony-arzaga Short Story Long...... 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,...

🗳️ VOTE FOR ZAGA — TOP HOST 2026 https://tophost.org/2026/anthony-arzaga Short Story Long...... 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. Wel...

Short Story Long...... 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 collec...

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&#3...

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 adult...

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 wors...

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...

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 subscriptio...

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, rel...

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,...

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...

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 @copperh...

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...

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 pre...

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 av...

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...

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 se...

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 star...

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...

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 vac...

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...

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 Gu...

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 🎧,...

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 Na...