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 you would be most excited about!
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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 on track! To kick things off, we return to our annual tradition of starting the year with the box office draft. Listen in and see what movies we think will crown the box office this year! Then vote on who you think will end up on top!
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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 profit versus the film's budget in a way that will weight movies that exceed their budget much higher in the ranking. This means a lot more horror films drafted by three guys who don't watch horror films, so what could go wrong! Listen in and see if you agree with our selections, and let us know what you think we got right/wrong!
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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 style only one person could have each answer. How did they prioritize which answers to draft early on, and did someone come away as the winner? Listen in, play along, and let us know how you did! If you'd like to follow along with the draft questions, you can see them on this quiz sheet.
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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!
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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.
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0:00 Welcome to What's On Draft!
1:00 Cam’s Crisis
10:00 Paul’s Candy Conundrum
20:30 2023 Box Office Draft Results
25:30 Topic Intro & Draft
59:44 Cameron Nitpick
1:17:24 Three Round Rundown
1:44:45 Recap
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90: What Are the Scariest Monsters from around the World?
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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 collection of five films. If you had to, which team would you watch all five movies from? Listen in and then let us know!
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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 the top scoring collection of years, but you can also just listen and try and decide which years you like the best! Let us know what your favorite year was and make sure to share this episode!
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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!
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14:06 Topic Intro
15:56 The Draft
53:56 The Second Half
1:12:37 Recap and Alternates
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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!
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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. Listen in and tell us who you think has the best collection of performances!
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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 or a cat is today. Who has the best team of animals? Listen in and let us know!
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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 to try and put them in the best place to do so. So if you're a Hollywood studio exec listening to this episode, we're going to draft the top 15 toys we think would make solid movies and give you a pitch for each of them! Also, there's one very shocking revelation from Paul in the up-front chit chat!
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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.
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9:27 Topic Intro
15:43 The Draft
1:09:48 The Second Half
1:44:11 Recap and Alternates
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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!
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0:00 Welcome to What's On Draft!
3:27 Topic Intro
11:58 The Draft
36:37 The Second Half
59:20 Recap and Alternates
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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!
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0:00 Welcome to What's On Draft!
4:05 Question and Answer Time!
8:16 Topic Intro
11:15 The Draft
1:01:20 The Second Half
1:29:17 Recap and Alternates
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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 to live!
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0:00 Welcome to What's On Draft!
3:08 Question and Answer Time!
12:55 Topic Intro
17:55 The Draft
55:08 The Second Half
1:14:32 Cameron’s Nit Pick
1:21:21 Recap and Alternates
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Check out the Barbie episode of The Toys That Made Us! Season 1, Episode 2, currently on Netflix.
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 best chance of success!
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0:00 Welcome to What's On Draft!
2:25 Question and Answer Time!
11:28 Topic Intro
16:07 The Draft
48:26 The Second Half
1:28:43 Recap and Alternates
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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 our sets of films!
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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 tournament. Of course, using U.S. presidents meant we had an all-male tournament so we decided to flip the scale and produce an all-female basketball tournament by drafted female world leaders throughout history. Which leading ladies did we find that could produce on the court? How much harder was this to research than the presidents? Listen in and find out!
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