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Draft Punks
by Draft Punks
The Draft Punks are three friends (and a special guest each week) who decided just ranking a list wasn't competitive enough. So we each draft a team based on a specific category, and then ask you, the listeners to tell us who wins each week.
Episodes
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Episode 78: Chill Songs - Bracket 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…
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Episode 77: Jackbox Games
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...
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Episode 76: Zelda Casting
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…
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Episode 75: PAX East Things
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!...
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Episode 74: Driving Games
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!
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Episode 73: 2022 Movies
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:...
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Episode 72: Fantasy Critic 2023
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...
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Episode 71: Wholesome Games
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...
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Trivia Punks: Jacob McCourt
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,...
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Episode 70: Valorant Agents
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…
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Episode 69: Nice (Things)
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!
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Episode 68: Stephen King Novels
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)…
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Episode 66: Casting Special: X-Men in the MCU
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...
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Episode 65: Meta
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...
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Episode 64: Law
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…
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Episode 63: Legends of Arceus
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…
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Episode 62: Time Travel
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…
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Episode 61: Fantasy Critic 2022
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...
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Episode 60: Game of the Year 2021
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!
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Trivia Punks - O'Dell Harmon Jr.
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...
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Episode 57: Animal Groups
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…
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Episode 54: Nerds
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...
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Episode 53: Elements
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…
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Episode 52: Self-Indulgence Anniversary Spectacular!
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…
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Trivia Punks: Bob Buel
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...
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Episode 51: Video Game Vacations
Brian and Travis are joined this week by Ryan and Alex to talk about the places they'd most like to vacation (and hopefully not get brutally murdered) from some of their favorite video games! From Final Fantasy 7 to Final Fantasy 8, we really cover it all in this episode! Please consider joining…
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Episode 50: Star Wars Characters
Jedi Master Brian, Sith Lord Travis, and Astromech Droid R0-B1 are joined by the scruffiest looking of nerf herders, Erik Hiles, to talk about our favorite characters from a galaxy far, far away. Who is the #1 pick? Who is the biggest meatbag? And who did Erik pick in round 2 that put Brian in…
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Episode 49: Donuts
Brian is back, but maybe a week too early as he's dealing with a slight cold. Travis, Rob, and special guest Holden Hintz help get him through it so the crew can talk about their favorite donuts, a subject certain to make anyone feel better. If you enjoy the episode please consider joining our...
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Episode 48: Bloodborne Bosses
Brian's on vacation, so Rob and Travis found the perfect guests in Isla Hinck and Chris Babbino! And since Brian was gone, the crew took the opportunity to draft a very personal topic, their favorite bosses from Bloodborne! From Vicar Amelia to Father Gascoigne, all your favorite members of the...
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Episode 47: Gen 1 Pokemon
Rob, Travis, and Brian are joined by Spelunkers and Gotta Rank Em All host Chris Bartlett to talk about the best pokemon of the OG 151 (and then some). Come and join in as we kick off a fun crossover week that features Chris joining us and Travis joining the Gotta Rank Em All show! If you like…
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Episode 46: Fair Food
Rob, Travis, and Brian are joined by Jonah Gomez of the wonderful Great Game Debate podcast to talk about a summer tradition unlike any other: Going to the local fair and eating greasy fried food! Join us as we cover it all, from turkey legs to deep fried oreos. Then join us on discord to talk...
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Episode 45: Secret Societies
Rob, Brian, and Travis are joined this week by Prima Games editor Jesse Vitelli to talk about their favorite shadowy organizations, secret societies, and cults on this new episode. If you enjoy listening, please consider leaving us a review or giving us a star rating to help new people find the...
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Episode 43: Game Trailers and Reveals
Rob, Travis, and Brian are joined this week by Game and Make Up's Mike Tucker to talk about our favorite video game trailers and reveals of all time! Oh, and one more thing... If you enjoy the episode, please come check us out on our Discord and help decide the winner! A link can be found on our...
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Episode 42: Muppets
Rob, Brian, and Travis are joined once more by Dory and this time it's to get things started and talk about our favorite muppets! We hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed making it! If you want to join our community, check us out on Twitter @realdraftpunks and you can…
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Episode 41: Community Q+A
Explicit Language Warning! Brian, Rob, and Travis are joined by Katy, Ali, and Jess for our first ever live, in person show! Instead of doing a traditional draft episode we took questions from the community, and then picked our favorite to award them with a fabulous prize! Fair warning, this...
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Episode 39: The Good/Bad Name Game
This week Rob, Brian, and Travis are joined by the Great Game Debate's Kaedhen Bharathae-Lane (good name) to talk about our favorite bad games with good names, and good games with bad names. If you enjoy the show, please consider going to our twitter @realdraftpunks and joining our Discord...
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Episode 38: Video Game Narration
Travis, Brian, and Rob are joined by Chris Babbino of the Hello Hyrule podcast to talk about our favorite video game narration and announcing. This was an episode full of controversial and interesting picks, and we hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed recording! Find our twitter...
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Episode 37: Baby Names
Rob, Travis, and Brian are joined by mom-to-be Mikel to celebrate the newest addition to the Draft Punk family by picking our favorite baby names. This episode was a mix of fun and poignant moments. Thanks so much to our community for celebrating this big milestone with us! Find us on twitter as...
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Episode 36: Game Shows
Come on dowwwwwn! Holden joins Brian, Travis, and Rob to talk about all of their favorite game shows, from childhood to today. Stick around to the end to hear if Holden can defend his crown on our own long running, totally real game show, Stump the Punks, and thanks for listening! Happy birthday...
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Episode 35: Video Game Levels
TW: This episode begins with a short statement about the recent, and re-occurring, gun violence in America. Then, this week, Rob, Travis, and Preston are joined by Game Informer's own, Alex Stadnik! Alex talks to us about a changing of the guard at Game Informer and filling the shoes of some of…
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Episode 34: Xbox Exclusives
We are joined this week once again by Ryan Stabell to talk about our favorite Xbox and PC Exclusive games. For more wonderful content like this, please check out the PSPremiere podcast and youtube show! Those folks really know and love their Microsoft games.
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Episode 33: Pizza Toppings
This week we were joined by Ryan to talk about the best pizza we can make with five toppings. Similar to our sandwich episode, each of us will be making and tasting our pizza, so check out the Discord if you want to see the madness! And stay tuned after the end of the episode as we introduce a…
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Episode 32: Cardinal Directions
Brian, Travis, and Rob are joined by Nick Vanunu to take the show in a whole new direction. Many of them, in fact. We talk about how Nick and Travis met, try to promote his new twitter account, and then get down to it. Big thanks to Nick for helping me out with the time stamps on this one, and we...
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Episode 31: Arcade Cabinets
Rob is back! And he, Travis, and Brian are joined by Bob Buel of the 99 Questions podcast to talk some nostalgia. In this episode we picked our favorite Arcade Cabinets from our youth, debated Ms. Pac-Man's relationship with Pac-Man, and wondered if the King of Kong was secretly a Christopher…
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Episode 30: Better Horcruxes
Brian and Travis are joined by Mikel and Miranda to talk about the controversy around JK Rowling, and then make our picks for better horcruxes. If you have the time and means, please take a moment to consider donating to one of these wonderful organizations. National Center for Transgender...
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Episode 29: Zelda Games
This week we were joined by the lovely Haley MacLean of Game Query to finish up our celebration of Zelda's 35th anniversary by talking about the best games where you can play as Link or Zelda! We also announce the start of a big giveaway of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD and talk about Voidigo, a new…
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Episode 28: Zelda Items
Brian, Rob, and Travis are joined by Spelunkers co-host Chris Bartlett to continue our celebration of all things Zelda by talking about our favorite items and weapons from throughout the series. We hope you enjoy! Please consider leaving a review and subscribing for more future content, and check...
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Episode 27: Zelda Music
The Punks were joined by Kyle Hilliard of the MinnMax show this week to talk about our favorite Zelda music. For such a broad category, this might be the hardest draft we've ever had to do. So many incredible options! We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed talking! Review and subscribe...
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Episode 26: Zelda Locations
Travis, Brian, and Rob are joined by Spelunkers co-host and Zelda fanatic Tyler Carver to talk about all of our favorite places to chill, explore, and kill Ganon in the Legend of Zelda franchise to help celebrate its 35th anniversary. If you're a fan of the series, you'll love our slate of…
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Episode 25: Fictional Presidents
Rob, Travis, and Brian are joined by real life history teacher Craig Wheeler to talk about our favorite not so real Presidents. From a Senior Class to the United States to the entire World, we cover it all this week. Also, our winner of our Pixar giveaway is revealed, and an exciting announcement...
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The Draft Punks are three friends (and a special guest each week) who decided just ranking a list wasn't competitive enough. So we each draft a team based on a specific category, and then ask you, the listeners to tell us who wins each week.
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