950 Club Podcast

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY! In honor of Halloween 2026, the 950 Club returns with Tyler from the Anime Degens podcast to return to our roots and deep dive into an overlooked anime from this year, Release That Witch. This show was a classic Jack hype bomb but we made the decision to all watch the show and record our thoughts. Sadly, due to creative differences and budget issues, the show did not eve...

Summer has come and gone which means its time for the 950 Club and Tyler from the  @AnimeDegens  to drop another seasonal review! We've tinkered with our format a bit so things were a bit but we eventually caught a vibe. We read our top 15 list of the season (top 8 for Jack, no Myspace) and chose shows from each other's lists to discuss. There were 27 different titles that made it onto our collect...

The 950 Club is back with a brand new episode and the latest installment of our 950 Club Interviews series! In our first interview of season 6, Jack and Jamaal sit down with the emerging voice acting talent, Peyton Howard! It was an absolute delight to sit with Peyton for over 2 hours to get to know him and his journey. We discuss:-Peyton's, acting, anime, music, and tattoo origin story-How he cam...

The fellowship is back with an Isekai Special! We'll be diving into top isekai favorites: That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime and Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation. We discuss the show's various themes and critique the differences in tone and story. Also, we'll be discussing our concerns over sex with anime troupes, what exactly is "fan service" and how isekai uses Re...

This journey started on August 12, 2021 with our debut episode. We thought that it ended August 28, 2024. As the 5th year of the 950 Club Podcast comes to a close, we all decided to get together and look back over our 5 year journey and what's ahead in the future. All in all, we're just 3 friends that are in the content creation space reflecting on what we've accomplished. We said some thank yous...

Jamaal and Josh are back along with Ethan to talk some wrestling, dating, NBA, NFL, and much more! Also, we are joined by our mutual friend, Isaiah! Isaiah is someone that Josh and Jamaal has interacted with for years on social media and recently reconnected with and we were happy to have him join us! In this recording, we cover:-All In-Women-Fantasy Football-NBA-Celebrity Deaths-9/11 Memories-Bat...

Our debut episode!  We set the tone of the show with our first selected shows: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! and How NOT To Summon A Demon Lord (Spoilers abound as this podcast is introspective heavy) We also introduce Jack and Edwin with their beginnings with anime and how their friendship formed with Japanese media and games.  But most importantly, our retrospectives showcases Jack's favorit...

This particular episode highlights the ethos of our show: two great non-traditional anime that need proper exposure! We talk about Ascendance of a Bookworm and Odd Taxi!  Ascendence of a Bookworm is a world building isekai that not only educates about serfdom but also engages you in this story of a sickly girl and how she becomes an all powerful mage!  While Odd Taxi is a modern city noir that is...

We are BACK with our seasonal review! In the latest 950 Club X Anime Degens collaboration, Edwin, Jamaal, and Tyler sit down for another marathon session discussing the spring anime of 2026! Typically we would do a top 10 but this time we didn't. We freestyled this one a bit and just highlighted shows that we enjoyed, shows that didn't quite hit the mark, and shows that surprised us. Jack didn't j...

In the latest installment of the 950 Club Interviews series, Jamaal sits down and has an fun, insightful conversation with the star of The Warrior Princess and Barbaric King, Madeleine Norton! During this 2+ hour discussion, we learn about a lady of many talents and discuss:- Her acting origin story- Being the "Snowqueen of Texas"- Photography- Burning CDs - The importance of physical media- Futur...

Surprise! Jamaal and Josh are BACK to discuss the latest in the NBA and the wrestling world! Jack is out living his dream this weekend in Vegas so Ethan tapped in with us again to join the discussion. Topics covered:- The Knicks playoffs performance- Josh FINALLY getting over the Spurs losing- Was Chris Paul a year too early? Could he have influenced the NBA Finals?- Potential Spurs targets- NBA D...

Happy Pride Month everyone! In the latest installment of the 950 Club Interviews we interview our first LA based voice actor. Jamaal holds down the fort for the 950 Club and has an open, in depth conversation with rising, Queer voice acting star Kimoy Lee. In this nearly 2 hour conversation they discuss:*Working in a comic book store*Her acting origin story*Being president of the anime club*Being...

Another wrestling season is in the books as WrestleMania 42 has just come to an end. Josh and Jamaal join forces to break down what WrestleMania has to offer and Ethan joins us to further discuss the world of wrestling. Topics covered:-Should the NBA go back to a Best of 5 first round series?-The San Antonio Spurs-Issues with Night 1 of WrestleMania-The pacing of Night 2's matches-Is Brock act...

Josh and Jamaal stop in briefly before WrestleMania to preview Mania, talk Darby Allin's AEW title win, and discuss some playoff basketball! Topics covered:- Should there be an NBA play in tournament and how to improve it- Should we keep the East and West playoff format or just the top 16 teams?- Jimmy Butler's excellence- The Chicago Bulls development issues- The San Antonio Spurs greatne...

We are back for another supersized episode of the 950 Club podcast! Tyler from the Anime Degens podcast joins Edwin, Jack, and Jamaal to review the stacked winter season of anime! If you've heard any of our other collaborations, you know that we LOVE to talk and this episode is no different! We're leaving the preshow discussion in this one so we start with a small discussion about the curr...

Josh and Jamaal are back to talk some wrestling and basketball! In this previously recorded episode, they discuss:-Sol Ruca-The importance of Aaron Gordon to the Denver Nuggets-WWE Roster Size-Cam Johnson underperforming-The poor booking of the Zaria/Sol Ruca feud-Is the WWE pandering by (allegedly) having 6 women's matches at Wrestlemania 42?-NBA MVP debate-AEW talent developmentand much, muc...

For the first time ever, Edwin, Jack, and Jamaal combine forces to to interview a very special talent in voice acting: Jim Foronda! In this 2.5+ hour discussion, we cover just a fraction of Jim's career but we learned a LOT about Jim the person and Jim the geek! In this interview we cover:*Jim's background in advertising*Some of his favorite ad campaigns and stories*What's the best Borderlands gam...

We continue Season 5 of the 950 Club with another interview with a major player in the voice acting community, Marisa Duran! In this expansive interview, led by Jack and Jamaal we discuss:-Marisa's appreciation for Jack's Saigiri merch-Her acting and anime origin story-Voice vs. Theater vs. On Screen Acting-Something's Amiss At Juniper's House-The freedom of recording audio dramas-Reverse Engineer...

In the first installment of 950 Club Interviews of 2026, Edwin makes his interviewing debut as he and Jamaal interview the multitalented Rebecca Chiara Marano! In this wide ranging discussion, we walk through Rebecca career in voice acting and discuss:*Her acting and anime origin story*Rebecca's Circus Arts talent*Being an escape room master*Being an indie casting director*AI *Dealing with rejecti...

The OG crew got together on Valentine's Day to record a surprise, impromptu love letter to the winter 2026 anime season! Our text group has been blowing up every week discussing the progress in our favorite shows from this season so we decided to bring it to you on camera. There is no real structure to this recording; we just kind of freestyled it and talked up the shows that has captured our...

Josh and Jamaal are BACK with another 5 hours of content! We discuss fallout from the NBA trade deadline, Cooper Flagg, Josh's beloved Spurs, and the NBA Trade deadline. Disclaimer, to begin this video Jamaal expresses some thoughts that are his own and is outside the confines of this discussion. If you are not interested, please feel free to skip.#wwe #nba #wrestling #viral #fyp #basketball #...

2025 will go down as one of the best years in anime. We are able to watch a lot of great shows but it made for a difficult time determining a top 20. Along with our guy Ty, we sit down for a record 6 and a half hours to discuss our 5 honorable mentions and our top 20 shows of 2025. We cover a lot of ground with a lot of different anime. We surprised each other with some shows and the placement of...

2024 was a monster year for anime and the 950 Club is here to look back on what will go down as one of the best years in anime history. The OGs are back as Edwin, Jack, and Jamaal discuss the results of the 2025 Crunchyroll Awards, the winners we would have chosen, extra categories that we added ourselves, and our top 20 anime of 2024. Strap in because this is going to be a LONG episode but a very...

On this episode of the 950 Club Podcast we are joined by our first 3 time returning guest, Kyle! After some preshow banter, we start the show by discussing Kyle top 10 favorite anime of 2023 as we tell him what our favorites were. We then transition into a deep dive into a show that we all enjoy: Eminence in Shadow! Finally, we end the stream with our new segment What We Ate we we discuss where we...

A huge episode to close out the year as the 950 Club presents: The Last Catch-Up of 2023. Featuring the return of our friend Kyle, we are not messing around with the heavy hitters, including: Zom 100, Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2, My Happy Marriage, Heavenly Delusion, Mushkou Tensei Season 2, and the Eminence in Shadow season2. We also bring you up to speed on some overlooked shows like The Great Cleri...