Every draft board

Snake draft, 5 drafters x 4 rounds of real laws/rules/regulations that aren't the podcast itself (open to interpretation); Nick's idea and intro, Eric ran the order and turns via Sean Bear's site after a 'baker's regulation' of six randomizations; Andrew policed what counted as too 'Regulation'.

• Gavin originally laughed at Nick's pitch and called him a 'silly bastard'; Nick asks 'Who's the silly bastard now, Gavin?' at 63:10.
• Andrew protested Gavin's 'No scrumping' because the Regulation store sells the sign (13:53), but allowed Eric's falcon and face picks.
• Geoff debunked Nick's Connecticut bouncing-pickle law live at 38:27, so Nick switched to the Mardi Gras snake law in Geoff's honor.
• Andrew realized at 58:43 his only Vancouver movie, Meet the Fockers, was seen on a Sunday, possibly breaking Eric's bylaw pick.

Snake draft, 5 drafters x 4 rounds of feuds/rivalries ('beef' as in feud, not meat; no per-round constraint); Eric ran it via Sean Bear's draft site after six randomizations; nobody claimed the idea.

• Nobody would take credit for the draft idea; Eric suspected Andrew (00:30).
• Nick revealed at 32:08 that he snuck off alone to eat a hot dog at Jim's Original during a Face Jam live show trip.
• Andrew claims he hasn't worn pants since 2014 except once during a warehouse audit (44:51).
• Gavin's chromatic aberration example photo at 38:58 looked identical to everyone else.

First ever live (Twitch) snake draft, 5 drafters x 4 rounds, picks are acts in set order (opener to closer), pool is alive or dead; Eric ran it using the Regulation Drafts site, idea was Andrew's.

• Winner: Geoff, by live Twitch chat poll (32%, beating Eric by nine votes)
• Nick sniped Coolio at 03:36, which was both Geoff's and Gavin's planned first pick; Geoff screamed 'Fuck you!' repeatedly.
• A live chat poll at 09:12 voted overwhelmingly (82%) that Phil Collins is not Genesis, against Andrew's pick.
• Eric and Nick noticed at 36:25 that Andrew's picks (Genesis, Outkast, Oasis, Feist) spell GOOF.
• Geoff won the live poll by nine votes over Eric (40:06) and declared he won a draft 'for once in my life'.

Auction draft, not snake: 98 points each, Andrew (remote) auctioneer, films lotted roughly in release order; US box office counts. round = overall = lot number in sale order; slot = winning price. Bonus 'Mario Party stars' wheel (spun 3x, +/-50M each) at summer's end. Drafters listed by order of first win.

• Gavin bought 17 films, mostly for 1 point, plus Toy Story 5 for 40 (39:31); Nick called it 'a gavin summer' (64:04).
• Minions & Monsters went to Nick for 51 points, the most expensive film of the auction (66:22).
• Odyssey bidding derailed at 49:44 as everyone kept hearing '30'; Andrew won it for 44.
• Andrew owned so much horror that Eric called it 'a very scary summer for andrew' (61:14).

Snake draft, 5 drafters x 4 rounds of things beginning with Mc or Mac; Gavin's idea, Eric hosted; winner by Patreon poll.

• Gavin sniped the McPoyles, Geoff's number one pick. (07:16)
• Andrew coined 'cinema pog' to describe McLovin. (13:11)
• Mid-draft, a roach was discovered in the office. (20:19)
• Gavin drafted the Roman numeral MC, i.e. the number 1100. (31:27)

Snake draft, 5 drafters x 4 rounds; each drafter builds a four-course meal of food songs (appetizer, drinks, main, dessert). Geoff opened and handed hosting to Eric.

• Nick googled food song titles and had never actually heard Oysters by Tori Amos. (03:15)
• Andrew and Gavin spent minutes arguing whether Chocolate Rain is even about food. (10:38)
• Eric's Sex and Candy stole Nick's planned dessert. (14:21)
• Gavin had only heard 7 of the 20 songs drafted. (42:51)

Snake draft, 5 drafters x 4 rounds; order set after three randomizations on the Regulation Draft Generator. Eric hosted.

• Andrew brought 25 'ranked' action stars that turned out not to be in any order. (03:38)
• The Rock wasn't even on Andrew's list of 25. (17:00)
• Nick and Gavin both settled their final picks by coin flip (Gavin's at 39:21). (33:28)
• Honorable mentions: Geoff's Bruce Campbell, Eric's Rowdy Roddy Piper, Gavin's Chow Yun-Fat, and Nick's coin-flip loser Liam Neeson. (41:49)

Not a snake draft: 5 rounds, one per recipient (order randomized 26 times: Eric, Gavin, Geoff, Andrew, Nick); the other four each propose a nickname for that host, then a randomizer wheel picks the winner. Eric ran it.

• Winner: No overall winner; the wheel picked: Eric = Lil Sketti (Geoff's), Gavin = Trigger Man (Eric's), Geoff = The Candy Man (Nick's), Andrew = Dilly Pop (Nick's), Nick = Babyface (Andrew's).
• Retired 2025 nicknames: Lil Ricky B (Eric), Gassy Goo (Gavin), Baby Pepsi (Geoff), Gizmo (Andrew), Mecha Nick (Nick) (00:30).
• Geoff's and Nick's nicknames for Gavin both roasted him for never promoting the podcast (09:19, 12:38).
• Nick's wheel spin landed just on the line between Babyface and another name; 'Could have been Baby Milf' (33:01).
• Andrew said the new names read like a D-list Suicide Squad (31:01); Geoff suggested each host make a dirty soda named after his nickname (23:10).

Snake draft, 4 rounds, 5 drafters; invent or name animal hybrids (humans discouraged by pre-draft text vote); order randomized 4 times on Sean Bear's site; Geoff introduced (his idea), Eric ran the board.

• Andrew hand-drew every animal he drafted and shared them on Discord; Gavin wanted a kids' book of them (49:02).
• Geoff's Sea Dog sniped Gavin's planned 'pish' (pig fish) - 'Jeffrey, he sea-dogged me' (38:31).
• Geoff drafted the Hippopotamouse as a peace offering to Canada, thanking it for Jim Carrey and Andrew (43:07).
• Pre-draft text vote on whether humans count as animals; Nick's Fullmetal Alchemist chimera ended up the only human pick (41:21).

Snake draft, 4 rounds, 5 drafters; order randomized on Sean Bear's site (Geoff, Eric, Gavin, Andrew, Nick); Geoff introduced it and Eric ran the board; companion to a Worst Days draft.

• Geoff's entire board was invented 'Regulation Hooky Days': March 4, May 6, July 8, September 10 (06:03-41:40).
• Nick drafted the day after Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, and two days after Thanksgiving (14:13, 31:55, 33:07).
• Andrew's October 5th, 2001 Training Day pick sparked a legality debate; Gavin ruled it allowed (29:54-31:06).
• Eric's December 15th is Andrew's mom's birthday and Andrew's December 16th is Eric's dad's birthday (22:56, 36:18).

Snake draft, 4 rounds, 5 drafters; every pick must be a 'bird, not bird' (bird name/pun that isn't an actual bird); order randomized twice on Sean Bear's website, Eric ran the board.

• Andrew secretly bought Cameo acceptance speeches: Tony Hawk (07:10), Shane Daivari (21:46), TPG for Birdman (28:04) and James Buckley for Chris Andersen (42:59), with no company money.
• James Buckley's Cameo just read out Andrew's request and said he didn't know what any of it meant; Gavin revealed Buckley was at his wedding (44:14).
• Nick tried to draft 'ducking' after already taking 'duck', got mocked, and swapped to crow's nest (17:45-19:12).
• Gavin argued the cuckoo clock was a real bird right after drafting Superman (39:39).

Five-player snake draft, 4 rounds of 'horse not horse' (things named for or related to horses that aren't horses); order randomized 5 times on the Regulation draft generator; Gavin's idea, Geoff intro'd, Eric ran picks and recap.

• Winner: None declared; audience poll to decide.
• Nick took horseradish sauce first overall, then Gavin took plain horseradish second (07:14); Eric: half their lists are the same thing.
• Andrew questioned whether Eric's 1965 Ford Mustang counted, then insisted he was on Eric's side (10:02).
• Nick sniped 'horse shit' right before Gavin's turn (24:32), after also following Gavin's horseplay with horsing around.
• Eric's wife Barbara's suggested pick 'horse' was a setup so Eric could tell everyone to get off their high horse (42:08).

Five-player snake draft, 4 rounds where each round is the next course of your meal; order randomized 4 times on the Regulation draft generator; Geoff intro'd, Eric ran picks and recap.

• Winner: None declared; audience poll to decide.
• Eric's meal: Coors Banquet, french fries, two or three hamburgers, Coors Light, dubbed a 'divorce dad' board by Andrew (17:47).
• Nick revealed he thought prawns were scallops (11:23).
• Gavin's final course, 'the check and a cup of tea at home', was called possibly the worst pick in any draft by Andrew (36:44).
• Andrew's space cake turned out to be a weed edible he hadn't realized; '420, baby!' (42:17).

Five-player snake draft, 4 rounds of the greatest robots; order randomized 5 times on the Regulation draft generator; Gavin's idea, Geoff intro'd, Eric ran picks and recap.

• Running gag: Gavin treats Mechagodzilla as 'regulation robot size', so every pick is a 'little robot' (04:00); Andrew finally drafts Mechagodzilla (38:00).
• Andrew's vending machine pick was voted down: Gavin, Geoff and Nick said no, Eric yes (36:39).
• Gavin's Twilight Zone, Forbidden Planet and Columbo robots are all the same prop, Robby the Robot, revealed only at the recap (43:47).
• Nick claimed Blade Runner 2049 undid Deckard being a replicant without seeing it, spawning the 'Nick News' bit (32:27).

Five-player snake draft, 4 rounds of pet peeves; order randomized 25 times on the Regulation draft generator; Geoff intro'd it, Eric ran the order and recap; Gavin's idea.

• Andrew's 'What's a turbo peeve? Outside of what your uncle was' was dubbed joke of the year (03:31).
• Andrew picked tail syncs as a peeve, so Gavin inserted an 'emergency peeve' about non-editors demanding them (20:22); the episode ends with them doing a tail sync (40:10).
• Andrew's 'Don't at me' pick sniped Eric's next peeve (24:20).
• Geoff's soda-sipper peeve repeatedly 'doesn't name' Bernie Burns (27:51).

Linear draft, 5 rounds; each round targets one host, and the other four (in randomized order) reveal the nickname they wrote for him. Order was shuffled six times; a wheel spin picks each person's 2025 nickname. Gavin's idea; Geoff introduced it and Eric ran it.

• Winner: No overall winner; the wheel assigned the 2025 nicknames: Nick = The Mechanic, Andrew = Gizmo, Eric = Lil Ricky B, Geoff = Baby Pepsi, Gavin = Gassy Goo. Gavin's suggestions won twice.
• Nick's 'Andy Pants' sniped Geoff's similar 'Drew Bear', and Andrew said he'd rather be Plumbum than Andy Pants (07:48, 11:17).
• Eric declared he would never accept Geoff's 'Lil Trump', even if the wheel landed on it (14:23).
• Geoff's sincere best-friend preamble ended with 'Dan's Friend' for Gavin (21:33).
• Geoff practiced the intro as 'Baby Pepsi' with Lil Ricky B, the Mechanic, Gizmo and Gassy Goo, then did the worst-case version (29:07, 29:51).

Auction draft, not snake: each player gets 98 points to buy up to 5 horror films from a list of about 100 (IGN top 100 plus additions). Players nominate in Summer Movie League standings order. Unbid nominations are struck. Andrew ran it.

• Studio names: A24 (Andrew), Lights, Camera, Clunge (Gavin), Shh, It Can Hear You Studios (Geoff), Sauce Boss Studios (Nick), and a foreign-funded name for Eric (06:31-08:02).
• The Thing (58, Andrew) and Aliens (81, Gavin) were the only big bidding wars (13:43, 19:35).
• Nominations nobody bid on: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (17:39) and It (2017) (27:12).
• Geoff's theme was Michigan-made horror, ending with a plan to remake A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night for American audiences (42:44).

4-round snake draft of non-alcoholic beverages, run by Eric; order set by 12 randomizer rolls (Eric broke a 2-vs-12 tie). The winner, decided by Patreon vote, gets their first-round pick.

• Gavin offered to sell his No. 1 pick slot to Geoff for $25 (08:07).
• Geoff's Vimto snipe 'ravaged' Gavin's list; once a spilled Vimto in Kuwait brought out MPs who thought it was a blood trail (13:47).
• The coffee-variant fight: Gavin took coffee, then Nick took an Americano and Eric a pumpkin spice latte. Geoff later said he would have voted against the Americano (36:47).
• Andrew's Big Red projectile-vomit story led to a plan to 'chunk the rainbow' on a leprechaun (27:39).

4-round snake draft run by Eric; order randomized 4 times, then each person picked their own slot (Andrew's rule) and everyone kept their rolled spot. The picks make up a group Christmas playlist.

• Andrew topped the randomizer three times, then landed last on the fourth roll (03:27).
• Gavin hates Eric's first pick, Wonderful Christmastime, and Eric hates Nick's Happy Xmas (06:47, 09:17).
• A mystery noise/voice ('Craig?') cut in as Nick was about to pick Vince Guaraldi (19:31).
• Andrew took the instrumental Christmas Time Is Here only to snipe the version Eric wanted (28:03).

4-round snake draft; 12 randomizer rolls set an order and each person then chose their draft slot (Andrew's twist), which ended up identical to the rolled order.

• Under Andrew's new rule, each drafter chose their own slot, yet the order matched the random roll exactly (08:27).
• Geoff took four 'Time for ___ to Come Home for Christmas' Hallmark movies: You, Us, Them, Him (18:39-39:42).
• Gavin opened with Die Hard, which was 20th on Andrew's board; Andrew said he should have picked third (11:59).
• Nick took Home Alone and The Muppet Christmas Carol, both from Andrew's top three (22:10).

4-round snake draft, order set by randomizing 7 times on randomizer.org; Eric pitched it as a 50-U.S.-states draft but Andrew opened it to anything called a 'state'.

• Winner: Eric claimed the win for playing in the spirit of the draft and Geoff agreed: 'Eric wins by default' (43:38).
• Andrew opened with Empire State of Mind and never picked a real U.S. state, to Eric's frustration (05:39).
• Geoff drafted Utah, Idaho and Nebraska straight off the U.S. News & World Report rankings, sniping Idaho and Nebraska from Gavin (15:38, 26:46).
• Nick went off-script with xXx: State of the Union in retaliation for Eric stealing Pennsylvania (19:07, 35:00).
• Andrew says Gavin's 'liquid' pick is really the T-1000, so it gets bonus points (42:51).

Snake draft, 4 rounds, 5 drafters picking TV commercials from their childhood (Gavin's idea); Eric randomized the order five times and played each ad on air; honorable mentions shown at the end.

• Gavin's banned Xbox ad, which runs from birth to death, was new to Eric: 'Dude, this is insane' (20:12).
• Mid-ad, the panel spotted a young Tony Hale (Buster from Arrested Development) in Nick's Taco Bell chihuahua ad (37:03).
• After the House Hippo PSA, Andrew mocked every earlier pick: 'Spuds McKenzie can't really play the drums' (48:12).
• Honorable mentions were Gavin's Tango 'You've been Tangoed', Geoff's Kool-Aid Man, Nick's Don't Wake Daddy, Eric's Zoo Books and Andrew's 'What's your thing?' PSA (49:39-56:22).

Snake draft, 4 rounds, 5 drafters each building a competing 'dream mall' from stores or mall features (closed stores allowed); order set by random.org shuffled five times; Andrew explained the rules, Eric ran the board.

• The order was shuffled five times on random.org because five is Andrew's lucky number, and Andrew landed the first pick (04:00-05:23).
• Nick's mall fountain pick reminded Geoff that he got a lifetime ban from an Indianapolis mall for throwing a tied-up friend into a fountain (39:33).
• Geoff found a 1994 motorcycle chase in the movie Raw Justice, filmed in his hometown mall in Mobile, with Gayfers in the background (49:27-51:20).
• No winner was declared; it was left to a listener poll, though Geoff said 'clearly I think I had the best' (54:39).

Snake draft, 4 rounds, 5 drafters picking things named 'rock' that aren't actual rocks (the moon and Pet Rock banned); Nick (last draft's winner) set the order, Eric ran the board.

• Geoff brought a slideshow with five facts per pick; his Rocky/Rockford Files pick came with a story about bonding with his late father (20:57).
• Andrew roasted Gavin's crack rock pick all episode; Gavin later admitted it was a panic pick because Geoff took rock candy, which Gavin had planned to pick first (48:27-49:07).
• Andrew couldn't believe Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson was still available in round 3 (26:53).
• No winner was declared and listeners were asked to vote; Geoff said he 'easily had the best four' (43:33).

Snake draft, 4 rounds, 5 drafters picking from 'all falls ever'; each pick's video is played on air; Eric ran the board and randomized the order; audience comments to pick the winner.

• The first ~16 minutes are an argument about what the 'pool' is; Geoff thought everyone submitted four falls to a shared pool (00:29-16:00).
• Andrew drafted Gavin's own real-life fall, which broke Gavin's pelvis: 'the least impressive fall to damage ratio I've ever seen' (43:22).
• Honorable mentions included Andrew's Snow Jogging Couple and Skyfall/Niagara Falls jokes, Eric's Granny Falls TikTok filter, and Gavin's 'Sis Kill' ice video (49:15-52:33).
• No winner was declared; listeners were asked to vote, though Geoff said 'It's going to be hard to beat Nick' (55:10).