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Call of Duty talk with sharp edges.
The Dropshot treats Call of Duty as both obsession and grievance machine. Episodes move from Season 3 roadmaps, Black Ops Royale blogs, audio tuning debates, and Warzone changes into loose riffs about old games, tech upgrades, cars, Vegas hotels, and whatever annoyance catches fire.
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The Dropshot is a long-running gaming talk show with Call of Duty at the center and patience in short supply. Warzone is the regular battleground. Multiplayer, Season 3 news, Black Ops Royale, Blackout-style modes, roadmaps, maps, loadouts, audio design, and developer decisions all get pulled apart with the energy of players who have spent years developing very specific complaints. The show is fast, loose, and openly argumentative. It can start with Patreon notes, live-stream housekeeping, or a listener question, then skid into the real subject after a few rounds of teasing and interruption. That mess is not incidental. It is the format. A segment about the Season 3 roadmap can turn into cautious surprise that something might finally be good. A blog post about the Blackout experience can become a test of what older Call of Duty ideas still mean to current Warzone players. A discussion of Artiswar audio tuning can widen into a debate about footsteps, competitive advantage, streamers, cheese, and whether Activision's silence makes something acceptable. The show is especially good at converting tiny design details into larger complaints. It does not treat official framing as sacred. If a mode looks like the same old thing on a different map, the show says so. If a fix seems obvious, the show tends to ask why nobody is already doing it. Its gaming interests are not limited to Call of Duty, either. Recent episodes drift through Ark Raiders, stream sniping, cheating, Shroud, Marathon, Battlefield 1942, SWAT 4, Halo 3, Galaxies, and old PC gaming habits. Personal tangents matter too. Car trouble, Best Buy memories, mall wandering, Vegas lodging mistakes, mattress rankings, phones, TVs, and computer upgrades all become part of the room. The appeal is not clean structure. It is continuity, specificity, and friction. The Dropshot assumes the audience can keep up with community lore, recurring jokes, and half-finished pivots. For newcomers, that can feel chaotic. For regular Call of Duty players, it offers something more useful than a press-release recap: a sharp, irritated read on whether the game is actually fun, fair, broken, stale, or briefly moving in the right direction.
Made for: For Call of Duty, Warzone, and multiplayer players who prefer blunt community analysis over sanitized patch-note summaries. It also suits gaming fans who enjoy side tangents, live-show texture, and recurring inside-room banter.
What sets it apart: The show combines specific Call of Duty literacy with an intentionally messy conversational rhythm, turning roadmap details, audio settings, streamer issues, and mode changes into running arguments. It feels less like coverage and more like overhearing the group chat after everyone has already played too much.
The Dropshot is a twice-weekly Call of Duty Warzone and multiplayer podcast hosted by two young men who are deeply passionate about the game. Through years of playing Call of Duty on PC, Razinon and Tanner have developed a level of insight - and strong opinions - that they are happy to share with the world via The Dropshot. The podcast is streamed at TheDropshot.com/live and is also available on YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit TheDropshot.com for links to all of the podcast's varied content, including the vibrant Discord community, the Patreon for bonus...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Casey and Tanner measure Call of Duty's updates against lived play, past disappointments, and the harder question of why anyone should return.
The Dropshot turns Call of Duty into an ongoing conversation about how a game earns, loses, and occasionally recovers its players' trust. Casey and Tanner move between season updates, weapon balancing, map changes, cheating, patch-note accuracy, and the pull of competing…
Casey and Tanner put patch notes on trial for anyone still sore about a Verdansk spinbot.
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A blunt upgrade debate about cars, mattresses, and TVs, with a Vegas Uber gripe thrown in.
The episode turns a simple ranking question into a small study of what people value when they choose what to upgrade. It moves through cars, mattresses, cell phones, computers, and TVs, and the strongest stretch comes when the hosts explain why one upgrade feels necessary while…
A long-running audio tweak gets dragged back into the open, and the game feels smaller for it.
The episode centers on Artiswar's pro tune and the Call of Duty audio setup that lets comp players and streamers quiet their own footsteps while making other footsteps easier to hear.
A loose nostalgia run through early games, old stores, and the habits that shaped both.
The episode leans into gamer nostalgia more than a tidy topic block, moving from early hours in Battlefield 1942, SWAT 4, and Halo 3 to memories of Circuit City, Best Buy price matching, and mall hangs.
A blunt take on a Warzone update that feels familiar on paper but still earns attention in the details.
The piece treats Season 2 Reloaded as a familiar update with a louder label. It keeps the focus on what Warzone players will actually feel: a new map, no loadouts, and the question of whether that adds up to much.
A blunt, messy rant about cheating, stream sniping, and how creators can shape a game's fate.
The episode settles into a blunt, sometimes rambling argument about cheating and stream sniping in Ark Raiders, and about how trust starts to slip once those problems keep surfacing.
A blunt autopsy of Call of Duty's long slide.
The episode starts its long postmortem on Call of Duty by getting straight to what put the hosts off: patch notes that felt off, cheaters, and Warzone turning into more trouble than it was worth.
A grim, funny check-in on a season update that feels smaller than the title suggests.
The Dropshot treats Season 1 Reloaded like a blunt reality check: enough changes to talk about, but not enough to leave the hosts sounding impressed.
Three former Kotaku journalists dig into modding, early access, and JRPG history.
Gaming news, argued in real time.
Nilay Patel presses tech and media CEOs on how they actually run their companies.
Physician Shoshana Ungerleider pairs TED talks with interviews on aging, drug prices, and menopause.
The episode opens with sponsor reads, then settles into a listener ranking question.
It opens with sponsor chatter and then veers straight into a Call of Duty kerfuffle.
Two podcast hosts tackle listener questions in a rare Saturday episode, covering everything from childhood habits to gaming disasters.
The hosts discuss Warzone season 3 news and the game's roadmap, with casual banter about taxes and birthdays.
A podcast host recounts a frustrating experience with a car battery issue and a misleading AAA service call.
The hosts discuss Call of Duty's Season 2 Reloaded patch notes and the new Black Ops Royale mode, criticizing its lack of loadouts and predicting bots will invade all matchmaking.
The hosts discuss the Call of Duty Blackout experience and a related blog post, with casual banter and podcast network announcements.
Two Call of Duty podcasters discuss recent gaming controversies including Warzone's latest updates that have frustrated players, cheating problems plaguing The Finals despite initial praise, and New York's lawsuit against Valve over loot box gambling.
The hosts discuss the possibility of Call of Duty dying and introduce a new micro topics segment for the episode.
The hosts of the Dropshot podcast announce the arrival of season 2 in Warzone and Call of Duty.
The hosts discuss recent developments in shooter games, including Warzone's new Iron Gauntlet ranked mode, disappointing updates for Battlefield and COD, and the announcement of Marathon as a potential savior.
Two Call of Duty podcasters launch a brutally honest retrospective series examining why they believe the franchise has declined since 2019.
The Dropshot hosts Casey and Tanner break down Call of Duty's Season 1 Reloaded update with characteristic skepticism, highlighting new maps, weapons, and the Fallout collaboration.
A casual conversation about wearing new clothes without washing them, interspersed with ads for FedEx and PlayOjo.
The hosts of Dropshot discuss the end of back-to-back Call of Duty releases and banter about losing their podcast documents.