The 2026 Hype Draft
House of R
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 98 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome back to House of Our. I'm Joanna Robinson. That is the beautiful Mallory Rubin. That is the wonderful Rob Mahoney. And Sean Fennessey is also here. |
| 0:24.6 | What the fuck? Brutal. Welcome back to the pod, Sean Fennacy. My mortal enemy on the hype draft pods. |
| 0:33.5 | Great to have you. My annual visit to one of my favorite podcasts that otherwise pretends I don't exist. I hear you. I hear you out there. Okay. Anytime. It's nice to have you. My annual visit to one of my favorite podcasts that otherwise pretends I don't exist. |
| 0:38.3 | I hear you. |
| 0:39.3 | You're welcome anytime. Anytime. It's nice to be here. So you're not destroying anybody this year, but you are. You're still planning to destroy people in this draft. I don't know that that's my energy. Is that what I'm bringing to the table here? I'm just here for 90 minutes of fun with my friends. friends. That's it. That's all I got today. |
| 0:53.4 | Rob, how do you feel about being here? |
| 0:55.6 | I feel great. Okay. |
| 0:57.0 | I mean, I will win this draft as 90 minutes of fun with my friends. That's it. That's all I got today. Rob, how do you feel about being here? |
| 0:55.6 | I feel great. |
| 0:56.3 | Okay. |
| 1:08.5 | I mean, I will win this draft as I win all draft. So I guess I am here to destroy somebody. What if you ever want a draft? I've won every draft that I've ever participated in. Deeply untrue. In the logic and space of my own mind, anything is possible, Joe. There you go. |
| 1:09.1 | All right. |
| 2:01.9 | So this hype draft has been a little bit delayed, but that does not mean we don't have a lot to talk about in terms of what's coming this year. But just for programming reminders, we are in the thick of it with the Nine of the Seven Kingdoms. So every Sunday, there's an episode of Talk the Thrones. Molly Rubin, Chris Ryan, yours truly. Yeah. Three R's on one podcast. I'm in the CRC right now. I feel like I'm channeling his great, powerful. Yeah. Yeah. I feel assured in my convictions about everything but how to spell the names of Westerosy figures. Hitching for a Zen or like, how are you feeling? Yeah. You feel tall? Yeah. I feel fueled by nicotine substitutes. I have a sudden urge to put on a filly's hat, which I've never felt before in my life. So, yeah. Perish the thought. CR. Yeah. On Tuesday, House of our deep dives into Nine of the Seven Kingdoms. And those could be anywhere like three times as long as the episode, four times as long as the episode itself, who's to say? That's what you're here for. What's the vibe? Is it good? That's great. We love the show. I've seen the first episode, but not the second yet. It's eligible for the draft today. You can select it today. I'm aware of that. I enjoyed the, it is, but should it be? Yes. This is like retroactive rule. It's a 20206 hype draft. It's only because the hype draft's a little delay this year that it feels iffy. |
| 2:20.5 | I get it. |
| 2:20.5 | I get to the rules in a second. Last but not least, Buffy Season 3 Part 2 we were doing next week. So that is what is happening on House of R. Are you a Buffy watch? I don't know if you ever watched Buffy Vampire. I did watch a couple of seasons as a young lad. Yeah. Did you want to fuck Rupert Giles? |
| 2:36.9 | Wow. |
| 2:37.2 | That's my experience. |
| 2:38.1 | I didn't know if you ever watch Buffy Vampers later. I did watch a couple of seasons as a young lad. Yeah. Did you want to fuck Rupert Giles? Wow. That's my experience so far. Didn't come up back then when I was watching. It wasn't really on my mind. Revisited and get back to me. No, but I mean, SMG, you know, that's very powerful. Formative. Yeah. Yeah. I was recently revisiting Andy Greenwald's book about emo and I had forgotten that Jim Adkins of Jimmy World was obsessed. Oh, wait, no, sorry, Chris Crabb of Dashboard Confessional, apparently obsessed with Sarah Michelle Geller to a point where he had to stop, like, talking about it in her interview. So, who among us? Oh, wow. Making her feel uncomfortable. That sounds great. She popped back up in the, I know what you did last summer, sequel last year. |
| 3:10.7 | And it was And she was the only good thing about the movie. It was really remarkable. She brought it for like three minutes in a dream sequence. That's definitely true, actually, of that movie, which I did see. Okay, so we are doing a snake style draft. I definitely understand what that means. You do it means it goes like this. You're a draft. snake-style draft. Yes. I definitely understand what that means. |
| 3:25.0 | You do. |
| 3:25.4 | It means it goes like this. |
| 3:26.8 | You're a draft, bro. |
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