What's On Draft?

Who are the best directors currently making films? Hello listeners! In this week's episode we take the place of the big wig exec at a new film studio, and we obviously have a lot to bankroll us because we get our pick to exclusive work from any living director. Which one of us will put together the best set of five directors to launch a studio into stardom? Listen in and tell us which studio y...

What will be the highest grossing movies of 2025? Hello listeners! After a long hiatus we have responded to the desperate pleas for our return and are triumphantly foraying back into the podcasting field. Alright, so we actually got very busy and fell out of our routine which then totally took us out of podcasting rhythm. But we're back and trying out a new schedule that will hopefully keep us...

Hello listeners! This is another episode that we recorded and then dawdled on getting edited and released, so enjoy this record of January 2024 us drafting what we think are going to be the most profitable movies of the year. This year's movie draft has an added twist in that we're considering the budget, so for each of our films we'll be calculating a score based on the total domestic...

Hello listeners! Several months ago we got together for our second ever live and in-person recording of the podcast, the first time since our very first recording! (We will blame the table drumming and microphone adjusting noises in the recording on our inexperience...) We did a follow-up to our previous trivia draft where each drafter had to select an answer to five trivia questions, but in draft...

Hello listeners! Coming to you better late than never we have our 2024 draft celebrating Cameron's birthday. Since Cameron is a big fan of LEGO sets, Paul, Michael, and returning guest David all pitched him on some new sets to try and come up with what he would be most likely to buy. The picks get a little wacky, and a little dark, so tune in to see what you think! ⁠Vote for the winner here!⁠⁠...

Hello, Listeners! In this episode, we are putting together our five picks of movies to watch that received multiple Oscar nominations, but came up with no awards. Which team would you watch all five movies from? Listen in and then let us know! Also, Cameron shares about a mini-midlife crisis brought on by an Oscar-winning film. And Paul lets us know about a not-so-sweet candy store incident. ⁠Vote...

Hello listeners! In this episode (also a dated recording as you'll quickly note!) we are sticking up for the little guy. And by little guy, we mean mostly movies made by big studios and starring big actors that just didn't perform as well as they'd hope. We're each drafting five movies that won the Golden Razzberry award for Worst Film with the goal of making the most watchable col...

Hello listeners! As you'll be able to tell from our discussion up top, this one was recorded way back in the olden times of 2023 but we're finally making our way through editing some of our back log. In this episode, Paul has ranked each year that he's been alive based on the most popular movie, song, TV show, and video game from that year. The three drafters attempt to put together th...

Hello listeners! Very simple theme to this episode - we pick five fruits and you decide who has the best selection! Also, some important announcements and updates up top! Vote for the winner here!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (for now, you can only vote on Spotify) Time Codes: 0:00 Welcome to What's On Draft! 11:33 Question & Answer Time 14:06 Topic Intro 15:56 The Draft 53:56 The Second Half 1:12:37 Recap and...

Hello listeners! When you're making your best meal in the kitchen, what tools are you using the most? Knives? Bowls? Mixers? Forks? In this draft, we each take five things and then figure out how we can still cook without access to the other options! Which set of tools do you think works the best together? Listen in and let us know! Vote for the winner here!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Select this episode in...

Hello listeners, Paul here writing this episode description... As Himself! In this episode, we memorialize the great Carl Weathers by looking back at one of our favorite performances of his, where he played himself as an acting coach in Arrested Development. What makes a good As Themselves performance, and who has done it the best? We each draft the five best examples we can think of to find out....

Hello listeners! This week we're thinking about all the adorable animals out there, and specifically the ones we're not allowed to keep in our homes because of the nanny state and personal safety and ethics and all that nonsense. Each of us is drafting a team of animals that, in an alternate universe, might have been domesticated thousands of years ago and as safe to have as a pet as a dog...

Hello listeners! After the smashing success of the Barbie movie we know that Hollywood is going to learn one valuable lesson from this, that they should give talented filmmakers full creative control of well known properties to make interesting takes on th... oh wait, no, they're going to greenlight hundreds of movies based on toys. Well, if Hollywood is going to insist on it we're going t...

Hello listeners! This week we're staying in the food draft, but we're sticking to the most important meal of the day (allegedly). That's right, we're drafting breakfast food items! Listen in and let us know who's got the best way to start your day. Vote for the winner here!⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (for now, you can only vote on Spotify) Time Codes: 0:00 Welcome to What's On Draft! 4:43 Qu...

Hello listeners! In this draft, the drafters will be casting five actors to star in their movies... the catch is, these actors generally go by stage names, but they'll be picking them based on their birth names! How many names do you recognize? Listen in and see what movies this draft produces! Vote for the winner here!⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (for now, you can only vote on Spotify) Time Codes: 0:00 Welcome to...

Hello listeners! Minor league baseball teams have some of the most creative (or just wacky) nicknames in all of professional sports, so in this episode we're celebrating the off-the-wall mascots by drafting the five we think are the coolest. Do you have a favorite team that made our list? Listen in and find out! Vote for the winner here! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (for now, you can only vote on Spotify) Time Codes...

Hello, Listeners! This week we are basking in the pink radiance of Greta Gerwig’s new Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. To celebrate Barbie’s live action debut, we take a look at all the roles she has had since her creation. Find out which ones we think are Kenough to develop Barbie’s self-sufficient Dream Town. Listen in and tell us whose town gets your vote as the best place...

Hello listeners! Ethan Hunt is back on the big screen with more daring stunts! Hunt, played by Tom Cruise, is known for going rogue in order to achieve his objective. He has assembled a top-notch team of trusted agents. For this episode, our impossible mission is to recruit our own team of spies to go head-to-head with Hunt’s crew to get them back in line. Listen in and tell us whose team has the...

Hello listeners! The next 100 episodes of What's On Draft begins by looking back at one of the preeminent movie stars of our time, Harrison "Don't Call Me Han" Ford! In anticipation of Dial of Destiny we'll be drafting sets of five Ford movies (with the Indy films off the table) to see who can come up with the Ford-iest collection. Listen in and tell us what you think about o...

One. Hundred. Episodes! That's right listeners, we've done 100 drafts so we're coming in strong with a callback to our very first episode. Well, not that strong considering we spend four minutes up top talking about pillows but if you want to skip the pillow talk yo can always hit the timecodes! In our first episode we drafted U.S. presidents and put them into a 3-on-3 basketball tourn...

Hello listeners! The NBA Finals just concluded and another postseason full of dramatic plays and moments just entered the book. In this episode, we look back on a lot of those moments and see if we can guess which players in NBA playoffs history hit the most "clutch" shots at the end of a game. Listen in as Paul and returning guest Nate make their best picks hoping to end with the clutch...

Hello listeners! In this episode, we're taking things a little closer to home... literally our homes, that is. We're going to be drafting the features that we most like to have in a home. Specifically, we're thinking bonus features - everyone gets a kitchen, but not everybody gets a bonus room! What do you think are the most compelling extras in a house? And what would be the worst thi...

Hello listener! This week we're thinking about nutrition and what sorts of food are healthiest to add into your diet, but in usual What's On Draft fashion we're putting a little spin on it - when you draft a food, you have to draft it for a specific nutritional element but you receive no other benefits from it. You want bananas for their potassium? OK, but then you get no vitamins, min...

Hello listeners! In this deadly episode of What's On Draft we're thinking about the apocalypse and the people who make it through. More specifically, would we want to make it through? Each of us are drafting a list of fictional, somewhat-tolerable apocalypses (and then assigning the worst one we can think of to someone else) and then playing a game of randomly selecting one from our team t...

Tomorrow is the Academy Awards, so naturally we hear at What's On Draft decided to put our usual spin on it! We tampered with the rules a little bit to try and make it a little more interesting, but the base is the same as we're drafting the nominees for this year's academy awards and trying to get as many wins on our team as possible. Who has the best chances with their team? Listen in and let us...