Draft Punks

Hey folks! We've got a new format for you to check out this episode. This is a capture of our audio recording from Twitch where we let Ali and Travis debate and try to convince us of what the most chill songs are. We matched up 8 songs from each of them in a tournament bracket and voted each round to see which songs would advance to the finals. Let us know what you think!

Whoa, we're back! Happy New Year punks! As a heads up, we recorded this episode through Audacity, and Brian forgot to take any time stamps, so a couple of swears snuck in. This episode is marked as explicit, but we still wanted to warn you in case you listen with your kiddos! In this week's episode, we're joined by the inimitable Holden Hintz of How To Waste Your Time, along with Chris...

Our extended Summer Break is over and we're back with a new episode featuring Pete of the incredible Hello Hyrule podcast! In this one, we try to make the definitive list of who should be cast in an upcoming Zelda project. The lists quickly go in *very* different, sometimes bewildering directions, but hey, we hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed recording!

Preston and Ryan are joined by Bob Buel and Jacob McCourt to draft all things PAX East 2023! Whether it's games, food, interactions, or, yes, PINS, anything is fair game in this draft! Thank you  @JacobMcCourt  and  @bobbuel  for joining us. Click their names to find their YT channels! https://twitter.com/JacobMcCourt  Jacob's Video Game Trivia Live Panel: https://youtu.be/g_oSfL6AUx8  Bob...

We were joined by the king of the road himself, Ryan Stabell for this episode which was recorded out of order to talk Driving Games. You can hear more of Ryan on the Friendly Fire Podcast feed , available anywhere Draft Punks is found!

If you had to draft some of your favorite movies of the absolutely stacked year that was 2022, how many do you think you'd get to pick? There were shambles galore in this episode with Michael Moran of List Wars and Zach Orts from Stream it!  Check out their podcasts at the links below:   List Wars: https://open.spotify.com/show/0OhDRj7NSVtSZsjWEvIcBm   Stream it!: https://zvazda.pod...

After an epic intro by the queen of Fantasy Critic herself, Isla Hinck, the Punks are back with a TEN person draft to kick off the new year. That's right, it's time for us all to put on our reviewer hats and talk about our most anticipated games of the year in our annual fantasy critic draft! If you enjoy the episode, consider checking us out on twitter and twitch @realdraftpunks, and joining our...

This week we're celebrating the wholesome games that bring us together with Janet Garcia and Haley MacLean! Whether you're listening to this during the holiday season or in the middle of summer, we want you to reach out to someone who matters to you and let them know. And we want you to know that you matter too! Thank you so much to Janet and Haley for taking time from their busy holiday schedule...

We're back baby! It's been not quite a year since our last episode of Trivia Punks, and we're bringing it back with a banger. We're joined by Jacob McCourt of the Left Behind Game Club podcast, and Video Game Trivia show on YouTube. In this episode we talk about whether Kirby spits or swallows, Cold Play vs. Coldplay, and perhaps the hottest take in gaming history. Is Mario the best Mario brother!...

Travis, Preston and Brian are joined by the ever eloquent caster Vansilli in this episode to talk about their favorite Valorant agents! Who will go first? Who will build a team of all duelists, and who will draft Yoru? You'll have to listen to find out. At the end, Preston and Vansilli have a great chat about what it takes to be successful in the world of casting and esports. If it's a field that'...

In this episode, Preston, Travis, and Brian are joined by a very nice man named Bob to draft very Nice things. This one was a bit of a wild recording, and we let Preston handle the editing, so fair warning. We hope you enjoy!

Travis and Brian are joined by a couple of Constant Readers named Mike and Brian's Mom to talk about their favorite Stephen King novels. We hope you enjoy floating with us, and follow the beam to our twitter and twitch, @realdraftpunks. And if you're super keen, join our Discord (Link on Twitch) to vote for your favorite list and help decide who gets #1 pick next week!

We are back with our first newly recorded episode in 4 months! And to celebrate, we're trying something slightly different with the format. To celebrate our long anticipated (by us) return, we're talking about another hotly anticipated project- aka whatever the heck it is Marvel plans to do with the X-Men. In this episode, we fancast our own X-Men MCU film along with guest host from The Spelunkers...

So we recorded an episode of the podcast... back in March. Real meta is apparently having a kid, and being so stressed out and tired all the time it takes you 4 months to feel capable of editing for an hour! I'm not sure what the future holds for the Draft Punks, and maybe that's the most meta piece of it all. Join Rob, Brian, Travis, and special gueston Preston as we draft our favorite meta momen...

Brian, Rob, and Travis are joined by the wonderful Haley MacLean of Game and Make Up to talk about the LAW! We cover it all here, from birdmen, to wizards, to Bob Loblaw's best Law Bombs. We hope you enjoy the episode, and listen to the end where we discuss a special streaming event we'll be doing the weekend of March 5th, 2022. 

Brian is joined by three amazing guests this week! Ryan Stabell and Chris Bartlett from the Spelunkers along with Mike Tucker of Game and Make Up for the last game Brian will get to enjoy with any of them before they're all lost to Elden Ring. We break down our favorite (mostly new) pokemon of the Hisui region in Legends: Arceus! Follow us on Twitter @realdraftpunks and join our Discord to vote on...

Rob, Brian, and Travis are joined by Werehog Review Club Founder and our Logo Designer Alex Brinegar to tackle a tricky topic, time travel! Join us as things get weird from the jump and we spend a couple hours trying to piece together what just happened! As always, if you enjoy the episode, please consider writing us a review or leaving us a star rating on iTunes or Spotify!

Rob, Brian, and Travis are joined by a plethora of guests for the kickoff of the Fantasy Critic 2022 League! We are joined by Level Zero's Preston Willke, Game and Make Up's Mike Tucker and Haley MacLean, Hello Hyrule's Chris Babbino, The Spelunker's Ryan Stabell, 99 Questions host Bob Buel, and Werehog Review Club's Alex Brinegar! Each of us chooses 5 games we think are going to crush it in 2022,...

Brian, Rob, and Travis are joined once more by the wonderful Cam, aka Mahvl, to talk about their games of the year. As per usual, things get off the rail quickly, but the crew fought through audio hiccups and Cam's anachronistic list to have a blast discussing the best games they played this year!

Preston and Brian were joined for the newest episode of everyone's favorite trivia show by O'Dell Harmon Jr.! O'Dell has worked with Game Informer, GameSpot, Game Fanatics, and is the host of the wonderful The Full Circle Podcast. Please go check it out after you listen to this episode, where we talk about traveling to Tokyo, the many regions of Pokemon, and enjoy our wildest music round yet.

Rob, Brian, and Travis are joined by the lovely Ozzie Seshie to talk about our favorite Animal Groups, from rats to hippos, from bats to buffalo, and the biggest shambles in the episode seems to be one pick that DIDN'T get taken, somehow. We hope you enjoy listening, and go check us out on twitter @realdraftpunks to hear more! Join our discord (link in our twitter bio) to vote for your favorite li...

Brian, Rob, and Travis are joined by the host of the Calm Down, Nerd podcast, Eric Smith! You can probably guess what we drafted, but AKSHUALLY, you should listen to the episode if you want to find out who we picked, and *pushes up glasses with awkward asterisk text describing actions* then come join us on Discord to let us know what we got right so we can prove you wrong. Link to our Discord on o...

Rob, Travis, and Brian are joined in their season 2 kickoff episode by honorary Punk Ryan Stabell, making his record 8th appearance on the show! And for this one, we're tackling an oldie but goodie from the Discord server, our favorite elements. This one goes all the way back to an in-joke from our original trailer, but we're excited to finally bring it back around to a real episode. We said we'd...

It's season finale timeeeeee! We are so proud of all we've been able to accomplish the last year thanks to the contributions of our incredible community and server, so we took an episode to reflect on lots of our favorite, funniest, and most heartwarming moments of the last year with good friend of the show (and great sport) Preston .   At the start of the show, we make a huge announceme...

Trivia Punks is a brand new show where Preston Willke and Brian Keese bring in a new guest each month to play a game show completely tailored to them based on their interests, hobbies, and more! For our premiere episode, we are joined by 99 Questions host Bob Buel to talk about everything from Professional Wrestling to Final Fantasy 9! We hope you enjoy the show, and please consider joining our Di...