What's On Draft?

Hello listeners; this week we're continuing to resolve our various technical issues that have been delaying episodes, but we've got one (barely) out in time for Oscars season for you here! We're doing a fantasy style draft of the Academy Award nominated films trying to grab the movies that will win the most awards, but we're putting a slight limitation on it - each nomination a film has counts for...

Hello listeners! In this episode Alana returns as a special guest as we all draft teams of sidekick characters from Disney animated movies. In the episode we talk about what constitute a sidekick character, what qualities we want in a sidekick, and Paul first thinks Whoopi Goldberg did a voice for Tarzana and then once corrected still mixes up Rosie O'Donnell and Rosanne Barr. Listen in and let us...

Hello listeners! Apologies for the upload delay but we're back with a follow-up to the 2022 Box Office draft and this time we're talking about the highest grossing movies of all time! Returning guest Gentry joins us to try our luck at taking the highest earning movies, adjusted for inflation, from a list of the top 30 - the drafter at the end with the highest box office dollar figure wins! Listen...

Hello listeners, we're back in action with Season 3 of What's On Draft! As is our tradition we're kicking off the year by crowning the winner of last year's box office movie draft and then getting into this year's. We're back to our more normal format for this year - domestic box office movie, no drops or bonus picks, and just five films. Who's picks will top the box office this year? Listen in an...

In MLB if you have a free agent you've offered a qualifying offer to sign with another team you receive a compensatory pick in the next draft; well here at What's On Draft? when we remove the chat time at the front in the episode you the listeners receive a compensatory bonus episode all about content! In this one we talk about all the things we've been watching lately. Time Codes for Specific Con...

Hello listeners! This week we're anticipating the release of Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth, so to get in the mood we're thinking back on the movies directed by Joel and Ethan and picking our favorites. With a deep catalog of critically and commercially successful movies, which ones will we prioritize? Does anybody draft the Ladykillers? How many times can Jack White come up in a conversation...

Now this is podcasting! Listeners, this week we're sitting down and drafting the currently canonical Star Wars material from film and television. Each of us takes one pick each from the prequels, original trilogy, sequels, other live action properties, and the animated television shows. Which Star Wars properties are the best? And which ones came off the board strategically just so we wouldn't end...

Hello listeners! This week we're glad your tune-ing in as we're drafting the best TV themes songs of all time! We each take five songs from different decades to round out our teams. What makes the best theme song - one that's just fun to listen to? One that sets the mood for the show but has no direct connection? One that spells out the central conceit directly? Listen in to what we decided and th...

In MLB if you have a free agent you've offered a qualifying offer to sign with another team you receive a compensatory pick in the next draft; well here at What's On Draft? when we remove the chat time at the front in the episode you the listeners receive a compensatory bonus episode all about content! In this one we talk about all the things we've been watching lately. Do you want our opinions on...

Hello listeners! We've got an interesting mashup (smoosh up?) for you this episode - we're combining Dungeons and Dragons with Jersey Shore, you know, the two properties with huge crossover fanbases? Cameron and special guest Virginia will be put through five Jersey Shore-ified dungeon scenarios where they'll have to draft a cast member into their party and have them roll to get out of The Situati...

Hello listeners! We're in the nice sweet spot when lots of professional and college sports are all happening at once, which means lots of people are gathering for the time honored tradition of the tailgate party. And what tailgate party is complete without a big assortment of food? This week we're planning two tailgate parties that contain a variety of meats, snacks, drinks, sweets, and other food...

It's Draft... What's On, Draft and this episode is shaken, not stirred, because we're once again doing Hollywood's job for them by casting the next James Bond. Yes, that's right, we continue our tried and true tradition of bringing you news that was topical when we recorded but old hat by the time the episode is produced and released (now that everyone won't shut up about sand worms and spice!) We...

Heyyyy Jude (maybe we have a listener named Jude) and other listeners! This week we're trying to put together the best album we can for you to listen to, but we're only looking for songs that have a person's name in the title. Think My Sharona or Annie's Song. We added a little more difficulty to ourselves by blocking picks both by artist and by letter - so if somebody drafted My Sharona, nobody e...

Hello listeners! With the news dropping recently that there is going to be a new Super Mario movie with the obviously very Italian Chris Pratt as Mario we started thinking about what other video games could be put to film. The history of video game adaptations is full of failures and some mediocre to fun films, so it's not an easy task. Who did we think was up to the challenge and what video games...

Hello listeners; here at What's On Draft we were fans of Norm Macdonald's work and were, of course, surprised and saddened to learn of his death ( we didn't even know he was sick! ) Since we were already thinking about Norm it got us onto a broader discussion of stand-up comedy so we decided to take it to the podcast. This week we're each drafting five of our favorite stand-up comedians (dead or a...

Hello listeners! We're here to help you solve the case of where we were last week - we were busy! With that detective work done, we bring you a duo-pod where Cameron and Michael design their own continuation of the True Detective anthology series. Each one drafts a setting, a crime, a villain and, of course, the two lead detectives. Who will craft the most interesting new season of television? Wil...

Hello listeners! New week, new upload day! We're switching our schedule up to begin uploading episodes on Thursdays (well, Friday this week due to technical difficulties but that's the plan!) This week, we're thinking about #1 movie in the world Shang-Chi, which got us thinking about other awesome martial artists in movies. Each of us is taking a team of 5 fictional characters and you vote to let...

We ended up going on a 4 minute rabbit hole about Mandy Patinkin, Criminal Minds, and podcast content in this week's Jeopardy episode . We took it out of the main episode but are placing it here for you, the true What's On Draft/Mandy Patinkin enthusiasts! 

We're Drafting People for This Role Today. Who is: the New Host of Jeopardy? That's right, we're making Sony's job easy for them and giving them three slates of hosts perfect for taking over for longtime host M̶i̶k̶e̶ R̶i̶c̶h̶a̶r̶d̶s̶  Alex Trebek. We each take a permanent Trebek replacement and then guest hosts for the Kids, College, Champions, and Celebrity tournaments. What skills make for...

Hello listeners! This week we're thinking about the underrated stars of many works of fiction - the bands, singers, and other musicians that are created for the story! These are sometimes heavily featured, sometimes playing in the background, but either way our picks today make some solid music that's just as good as anything you'd see topping the charts. Listen in and let us know which of these t...

Hello listeners, welcome to our back to school special! Our podcast over-indexes with educators so we're currently back in the midst of back to school season. That got us thinking - if we drafted school supplies, what combo would work the best if you couldn't use anything else for your entire academic career? So we decided to settle it by doing just that! Returning guest Holly joins us and we each...

Hello listeners! This week we're celebrating the Milwaukee Bucks Finals victory behind the performance of Giannis Antetokounmpo's big performance. Paul, Cameron, and our returning guest sports specialist Nate are each drafting a starting 5 of all-time NBA players born and raised outside of the U.S. Which players do we rank at the top of the all-time list? How do the new era of international player...

Time Codes: (3:08) - Reviewing the Results of Our Draft Polls (21:37) - Topic Intro (25:15) - First Half of the Draft (54:56) - Second Half of the Draft (1:23:04) - Recap and Alternates (Some of the) Previous Episode Callbacks: 49: Celebrating Conan O'Brien by Drafting His Best Remote Segments 48: New Sports for the Olympics 47: Drafting Toppings for New Pizza Restaurants 43: Reimagining Non-Music...

Hello listeners! In this clip we're checking in on our 2021 movie draft to see what movies are really pulling their weight at the box office, what movies are no longer even coming out this year, and, most importantly, who is technically in second place as of right now.

Hello everybody! A few weeks ago the tallest and longest running late night host hung up his microphone for good (to go off and do a different type of show.) It's the last passing of the torch to the new crop of hosts and for those of us who grew up watching Late Night it's not a torch we wanted passed, damnit. But in this episode we're looking back on Conan's career and celebrating it by drafting...