Daft Monks
Two best friends. Both named Nate. One cyberpunk city full of terrible decisions.
Daft Monks mixes irreverent conversation with an improvised comedy adventure. Hosts Nate Casimiro and Nate Stalcup turn games, pop culture, and everyday frustrations into a world where corporations run everything and their heroes can barely manage the commute.
Meet Roy, a corporate overachiever convinced his promotion is coming, and Ash, an electrical worker who would prefer everyone leave him alone. Together, they stumble into trouble far beyond their job descriptions.
Start with Season 3, Episode 1: A Breakdown in Commute-ication. It introduces the city, the characters, and their first disastrous day. No earlier seasons are needed to follow this story.
Explicit language and adult humor. Earlier seasons remain available in the archive.
Episodes
35 episodes
Season 3 Theme Music
The Daft Monks Season 3 theme song, created by @northsidenate (yes, another Nate). This bonus track introduces the sound of our cyberpunk campaign.New to the story? Meet Roy and Ash in Season 3, Episode 1: A Breakdown in Commute-ication...
Season 3 Story Teaser | The Underground Podcast
Welcome to Beacon City. This fictional underground broadcast offers a first glimpse of the corporate-controlled cyberpunk world of Daft Monks Season 3. Its sponsors, warnings, and interruptions are part of the story.For the full comedy ...
Season 3 Launch Announcement (July 2023)
An archived announcement for the July 31, 2023 launch of Daft Monks Season 3 and its new cyberpunk story in Beacon City. Any release-date references in this recording refer to that original launch.To begin the available story with Roy a...
A Breakdown in Commute-ication
Roy wants a promotion. Ash wants to get through the day. In a city run by corporations, neither ambition should require a traffic catastrophe—but here we are. Meet the new characters of Daft Monks’ cyberpunk comedy adventure, including a corpor...
What Goes Up Must Come Down, Eventually
Roy and Ash finally cross paths deep inside Beacon Group HQ. Roy’s conscience kicks in while Ash goes from late to lost in the company’s facilities. Their disastrous workday continues in Daft Monks’ improvised cyberpunk comedy. The Nates also t...
Love Thy Neighbor's Utilities
Roy and Ash team up to escape Beacon Group HQ and look for refuge off the grid. Their improvised cyberpunk adventure continues as the Nates also discuss equal opportunity training, miniature ponies, and American Gladiators.This is Seaso...
High Noon Nail Salon
Roy and Ash meet Proxie, a mysterious cocktail waitress, and Roy gets one memorable manicure and pedicure. Alongside the improvised cyberpunk adventure, the Nates discuss Barbenheimer, bodybuilding, and the realization that they will not be on ...
All That Glitters is Midas Underbite
Roy gets help from an old friend as a new threat emerges by the Beacon City docks. The improvised cyberpunk story continues, with the Nates also talking about bringing home the gold and Las Vegas Sith lords.This is Season 3, Episode 5. ...
Paradigm for Your Thoughts
Ash’s truck breaks down at a rest stop, where Roy and Ash meet an unlikely ally and his grandfather. Alongside the improvised cyberpunk story, the Nates discuss Justin Benson’s cerebral horror films and Netflix’s live-action Avatar series.<...
The Boy with the Handgun Tattoo
Roy and Ash make a pit stop in an unexpected part of town before picking up the boy for a company picnic. The improvised cyberpunk adventure continues, with a brief conversation about Deadpool and Wolverine and ways listeners can take part in t...
The Lady of the Lens
Roy and Ash face Gunco goons, return to the Inferno’s hideout, and receive a special invitation to the Paradigm Games. Guest “Mechanics Master” Ryan joins the Nates to help bring game mechanics into the improvised cyberpunk adventure.Th...
Season 2 Trailer | Introducing the Daft Monks
Season two features everyone’s favorite deviants, the notorious Abraham Van Helsing and Trevor Belmont, as they zero in a coherent story and struggle to do anything right while uncovering the revival of their old nemesis, Dracula.
A Fate Worse Than McDeath
On the Season 2 premiere of Daft Monks, the Nates discuss the upcoming Monsters of the Multiverse sourcebook and workshop the plots of major 2022 blockbuster movies. Meanwhile, after months of retirement from the monster hunter business, Van He...
Leave It to Beaverlon
Nate discusses his second go-around with Covid-19 and the growing popularity of the game "Wordle." Nate gives a skeptical review of Critical Role's new animated show, Vox Machina. Bruce Wayne appears on a 70s-style dating show with criminal mas...
Nun Other Than Sister Brother
The Nates talk scandal at the Winter Olympics, what the Chernobyl Olympic Games would look like, the Director of Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and more. With Valentine's Day this month, Nate takes a stab at guessing some of the most ic...
Juan Life Gives You Lunar Trouble
Nate discovers he was his team's handicap on his teenage bowling team and they both discuss the fairy tale setting of Children of Earte coming to Twitch. In anticipation of Robert Patterson's Batman movie, the Nates take a BuzzFeed qui...
A Rack to Remember
The Nates address their year-long hiatus, the ridiculous potential of AI, and a series of avatars they created in an AI mobile app. Meanwhile, the Daft Monks return to Belmonts childhood home to better arm themselves for the fight against Dracu...
Saved by the Swami
The Nates discuss new year's health goals, and one of the hosts recalls how he was almost cast for a Squid Games Reality television show. Meanwhile, Bingo helps Van Helsing reconnect with his true self through a series of training montages whil...
The Enemy of My Enemy is... Nayenezgani
The Nates discuss season 2 of Vox Machina, their casual Tomb of Annihilation campaign, and the new Dungeons and Dragons movie trailer. Meanwhile, Belmont is thrown into a prison cell in the depths of Dracula's castle, where he meets an unlikely...
Go Big or Go Groshurberger
The Nates discuss even more Squid Games reports, merch ideas, and hairdresser-turned-martial artist spear-wielding vigilantes. Meanwhile, Bingo sends Van Helsing on some errands to prepare for a special dinner with some infamous guests. Van Hel...
Flaw and Morder, Featuring Jacques Ze Whipper
The Nates interview Guinness World Record holder and whip-wielding circus performer, Jack Lepiarz (a.k.a. Jack the Whipper, a.k.a. Jacques Ze Whipper). Meanwhile, Van Helsing recalls back to the time when he represented a friend in Dracula's co...
A Walk Down Memory Plane
Nate ranks various Dungeons and Dragons source books and materials and laments a recent jiu jitsu injury and getting old. Meanwhile, Belmont and Nayenezgani enter the portal swallowing their ancestral land in an effort to shut it down. But what...
The Spy Who Gagged Me
The Nates recall their first hangout at a renaissance faire, discuss axe throwing, and rank some of the most disappointing magic items in Dungeons and Dragons. Meanwhile, Van Helsing makes a move against Bingo and joins forces with his portly f...
Sons Out, Guns Out
Nate shares how he faired at his jiu-jitsu tournament, a reoccurring trend in 80's movies, and some of the worst spells in Dungeons and Dragons. Meanwhile, Belmont joins Naya in his dreamscape, where he recalls his mother's murder and a familia...
One Good Turn Deserves a Turnbuckle Teddie
Nate recalls chaperoning his child's recent field trip, his latest 80s movie binge, and his take on the HBO Max series Velma. Meanwhile, Van Helsing and Ginger make their getaway from Gröschureburgher, but not before an epic encounter ...
