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What's On Draft?
by Paul Valentine
Three hosts do a fantasy style draft around a prompt from movies, TV, music, history, pop culture, or anything else in the universe and then you vote on the winner!Pizza toppings, fictional musicians, obscure sports, mythological creatures, tools, conspiracy theories, actors, Starfleet crews, video game characters, serial killers... we'll make a draft out of anything!
Episodes
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119: Best Current Directors
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…
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118: 2025 Box Office Draft
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...
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117: What Will Be the Highest Grossing Movies of 2024?
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…
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116: Can You Answer These Trivia Questions About Disney, Sushi, U.S. Politicians, and More?
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...
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115: What Themes Should LEGO Make Into Sets Next?
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…
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114: What Are the Best Movies to Be Shut Out at the Oscars?
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...
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113: What Are the Best Films to Win a Razzie Award?
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…
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112: What is the Best Pop Culture Year of the Past Three Decades?
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,...
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106: What Are the Best Fruits for a Fruit Salad?
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...
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111: What Are the Most Essential Kitchen Tools?
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...
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110: What Actors Have Played Themselves in Film and TV?
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...
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109: What Exotic Animals Would Make the Best Pets?
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...
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108: What Popular Toy is the Next Hollywood Hit Movie?
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...
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107: What Are the Best Breakfast Foods?
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...
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105: Can You Guess These Actors Stage Names?
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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104: What Are the Most Interesting Minor League Baseball Team Names?
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…
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103: What Are the Most Important Professions Barbie Has Ever Worked?
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...
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102: Who Are the Best Spies in Fiction?
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…
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101: What are Harrison Ford's Best Movies?
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…
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100: Which Female World Leaders Are the Most Athletic?
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!…
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99: Who Are the Most Clutch Players in NBA Playoffs History?
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....
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98: What Are the Most Desirable Features When Buying a Home?
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!...
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97: What Are the Most Nutritious Fruits and Vegetables?
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...
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96: What Fictional Apocalypse Would Be Best to Live In?
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...
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95: Who Will Win at the 2023 Academy Awards?
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…
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94: Which Countries Have the Largest Populations?
Hello listeners! This week we've got another geography based trivia podcast for you and in this one size does matter because we're looking for the countries that have the highest populations. Returning guest David joins us for a draft board that Cameron put together and we try to put together a...
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93: What Will Be the Highest Grossing Movies of 2023?
Hello listeners! The annual movie draft is here again, and we're here to select which upcoming sequels, comic book movies, and maybe even an original concept (or at least some franchises that haven't had a live action movie yet) are going to gross the most dollars in the U.S. box office. Last…
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92: What Were the Best Movies and TV Shows of 2022?
Hello Listeners!!! We're back after a longer-than-expected break to kick off Season 4 of What's On Draft. Thanks to everyone for the patience while we got things in order. This episode was planned as an end-of-the-year wrap up but instead we're going to use it to lead into the 2023 Box Office...
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91: What Actor Had the Most Successful Year of Work in Film History?
Hello listeners! This week we're thinking about movies (rare around here for us, I know) and the actors who... act in them. Specifically, we're thinking about actors who have a run of success in a single year with multiple films coming out. Which actors managed to put together the most complete…
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90: What are the Scariest Monsters From Around the World?
Hello listeners! Prepare yourself for the spook-tacular event that is our 2022 Halloween special! In this one we're looking to expand our cadre of Halloween monsters beyond the usual werewolves, vampires, and ghosts of the generic monster lineup by taking some inspiration from countries around…
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89: What Would You Bring to a Trip to Middle-Earth?
Hello listeners! We here at What's On Draft have been enjoying the Rings of Power, which has got us thinking about Middle-earth. And, specifically, if we could make a super awesome character that Amazon should totally put into season two (call us, Jeff.) So in this episode we're drafting a...
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88: What Would Be the Most Exciting College Football Conferences?
Hello listeners! The college football season is upon us and wild as usual, but in the background of all the action on the field is the growing changes to the sport brought on by conference realignment. With many long-standing rivalries about to be broken up and college non-revenue sports teams…
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87: Which Places Are Cool During Summer?
Join us this week to learn how to Beat the Heat! This summer was a hot one and we wondered where we should travel for some much needed relief. For this draft, if you manage to pick a place with a low temperature, you are rewarded points which can be cashed in for prizes at the end. But beware, if…
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86: What Is the Best Science-Fiction Technology?
Hello listeners! This week we're turning back to sci-fi to think about what pieces of technology we most wish existed in the real world. Transporters? Robotic suits? Communication devices? Do we draft for money, recreation, quality of life, or all of the above? Listen in, then let us know which...
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85: Who are the Best Stranger Things Characters?
Hello listeners! This week we're looking back on the first four seasons of Stranger Things and pondering which characters would actually be the most useful to have around in a situation where you had to venture into the Upside Down. Well, Eleven would be the most useful to to avoid stacking the...
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84: Can You Answer These Trivia Questions?
Hello listeners! Apologies for the long delay between episodes, but between a wedding and then a run of sick children we've been out of commission for several weeks. But we're back, and we've got a competition episode for you! Alana returns as a guest host to draft answers to trivia questions -...
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83: Who are the Best Saturday Night Live Cast Members?
Hello listeners! This week we're bringing you more cowbell by drafting teams of all-time Saturday Night Live cast members. What sort of skills makes the best SNL cast - impressions? Big personalities? Characters and bits? And which premier players work best on stage together? Listen in, then let…
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82: How Do You Decorate a Studio Apartment with IKEA Furniture?
Hello, Listeners! This episode took longer to assemble because I lost the darned Allen wrench! Listen in as we try to act as interior designers for a studio apartment using EXCLUSIVELY IKEA furniture. There's one more hitch--we have only been given the Swedish names and prices of the items, which...
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81: Which Celebs Would Make the Best Star Trek Crew?
Hello, Listeners! This week we have another Star Trek related draft. This time around we are selecting celebrities to fill the roles of Captain, First Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Science Officer, and Chief of Security. Who can assemble the crew most fit for Starfleet? Listen in, and don't...
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80: What are the Best Wedding Traditions Around the World?
Hello listeners! This week we're celebrating the forthcoming nuptials of Michael by thinking about weddings. Specifically, we're looking at ways people around the world have weddings figured out better than the U.S. and drafting five traditions each that we think U.S. wedding celebrations should...
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79: Father's Day Special 2022!
Hello listeners, and happy almost Father's Day! This week we're reaching back into the vault and taking something Cameron recorded with Holly back before the podcast even had a name, you know, back when it was just a twinkle in its three fathers' eyes (which is many twinkles). Cameron and Holly...
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78: What Are the Best Movie Adaptations of Novels?
Hello listeners! Apologies for the late upload again this week as we continue to experiment with some of the technical behind the scenes stuff. This week we have a novel draft in store for you; we're looking at adaptations from some of the authors Hollywood likes to come back to frequently. So...
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77: What Are the Best Tom Cruise Movies? (Plus Mission Impossible Trivia)
Hello listeners! Have you seen the box office sensation that is Top Gun: Maverick yet? (Shout out to all savvy drafters who took Maverick in the 2022 movie draft). Tom Cruise returning to one of his big hits has us thinking back on his career, so we're drafting the best Cruise movies of all time!...
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76: What Are the Dirtiest Jokes Ever Told?
Hello listeners! This week we're drafting in honor of Gilbert Gottfried, so hopefully you're reading this description entirely in his voice. As before when there's been a celebrity death, we like to take a moment to think back on their career and the way they've influenced pop culture by drafting...
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75: What Are the Best TV Shows of the 21st Century?
Hello listeners! We're two decade worth of television into this century, and that got us thinking what is the cream of the crop so far? But in What's On Draft fashion we also wanted to add a wrinkle to give us a little more diversity in our picks. So we're drafting the best TV shows of the 21st...
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74: Who are the Best Newspaper Comic Strip Cartoonists?
Hello listeners! Since today is ̶C̶i̶n̶c̶o̶ ̶d̶e̶ ̶M̶a̶y̶o̶ National Cartoonists Day we're celebrating today's most famous holiday by drafting cartoonists and their creations, specifically those appearing in your newspaper funny pages! What makes a good collection of cartoonists - old standards?...
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73: What are the Best Tools to Have at Your House?
Hello listeners! This week we're looking at tools for DIY projects - anything handheld and not powered is on the table, but the real question is whether any of us could build the table ourselves with the five tools we have! What tools let you complete the largest number of jobs? Which tools have...
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72: What's the Best Movie Theater Candy?
Hello listeners! This week we're reaching into the vault and pulling out an episode we recorded at the beginning of the year before it sat in the mire of technical difficulties. So never fear, when we speak of February you have not fallen through the space-time continuum! Instead, we're here to...
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71: Celebrating Cameron's Birthday by Drafting His Favorite Things
Hello listeners! This week we're drafting... us? Cameron put together a game for his birthday to see who knew him the best and we invited some of his friends (and former guests on the show!) on to play. Provided lists of movies, tv shows, and fast food restaurants that Cameron had privately…
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70: What Movies Could Have Been Improved By Working With Douglas Trumbull?
Hello listeners! This week we're paying homage to the filmmaking legacy of Douglas Trumbull by drafting science fiction movies that could have been improved had he been working on the movies special effects. What's the best use of a movie icon - turning him loose on some truly bad movies to try…
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Three hosts do a fantasy style draft around a prompt from movies, TV, music, history, pop culture, or anything else in the universe and then you vote on the winner!Pizza toppings, fictional musicians, obscure sports, mythological creatures, tools, conspiracy theories, actors, Starfleet crews, video game characters, serial killers... we'll make a draft out of anything!
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Paul Valentine
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Three hosts do a fantasy style draft around a prompt from movies, TV, music, history, pop culture, or anything else in the universe and then you vote on the winner!Pizza toppings, fictional musicians, obscure sports, mythological creatures, tools, conspiracy theories, actors, Starfleet crews, video...
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