Baseless Speculation

Kraven producer Matt Tolmach said they were "excited about [Kraven] and Christmas is the best release period there is, when you get people with time to go back to the movies over and over again. That was a real reflection of how the studio felt about the movie. We're really excited. But that's a great move that reflects just the feeling about the movie". Was he right? Is Kraven the kind of movie that benefits from multiple rewatches? We here at Baseless Speculation had to find out. So with no concern for our physical or mental health, your three favourite boys (who love movies, who love their friends and who love seeing movies with their friends) decided to watch Kraven four times in one day. That meant arriving at the cinema at midday and leaving at midnight. Is Baseless Speculation stupid for doing this? Yes. The answer is yes. We shouldn’t have done this. Matt Tolmach lied to you, he lied to us and he lied to himself. If there was any justice in the world he'd give us $168 AUD.Want to get in touch with your favourite boys? Just hit us up on bsboyspod@gmail.com and if you want to support your favourite boys just sign up to BS+ for an ad free listening experience and the occasional bonus episode on our website or through Apple Podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the end of the year and the BS Boys have decided to take a break from speculating to answer questions from the BSBoys discord channel. Jackson pitches the greatest and most realistic Young Avengers treatment ever, Zammit envisions a genre bending Dexter Jetster cinematic universe, and Duscher (and Zammit) list movies for about twenty minutes. Seriously, if you love hearing movies listed then wow is this the episode for you. The back half of the episode is basically only that. See you in the new year!This episode's fun ape fact is that my child has wonderful hairy ears and often looks like a chimp when we try to burp him when he's sitting up. I love my chimp son. Want to get in touch with your favourite boys? Just hit us up on bsboyspod@gmail.com and if you want to support your favourite boys just sign up to BS+ for an ad free listening experience and the occasional bonus episode on our website or through Apple Podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The year is almost over and that means it's time for the BS Boys to look back over all the movies that got released and figure out what stupid lessons movie studios are going to learn for 2025. Jackson makes a pretty good prediction regarding Thunderbolts, Zammit thinks the Minecraft Movie is gonna do good, and Duscher yells at someone. Cinema rots on the vine and the BS Boys, like malicious little catterpillars, feast and feast and feast. At the movies!!While neither an ape fact nor did we discuss it in the episode, but we reckon next year (and every subsequent year) will be the year of the ape. Apes are gonna be on the big screen, the silver screen, your little machines and reality TV. Don't be suprised when you go to the movies, you'll be greeted by an ape while another ape hands you a popcorn. Need a seat warmer while you have to quickly run to the loo so you can drop your phone in the toilet? Ape got you covered. There's gonna be so much ape thrust upon you in 2025 you won't know what to do with yourself. And that's a Baseless Boys guarantee!Want to get in touch with your favourite boys? Just hit us up on bsboyspod@gmail.com and if you want to support your favourite boys just sign up to BS+ for an ad free listening experience and the occasional bonus episode on our website or through Apple Podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a shock to everyone but Agatha All Along is actually pretty good. Probably the best Marvel TV show of the Disney+ era. Who'd have guessed? But now, with a certified hit on their hands, what's Disney Marvel gonna do with it? Jackson apologises for his lack of faith, Zammit predicts Agatha going into Vision somehow, and Duscher almost gets very sick. So join the boys as they walk the witches road together and try not to kill each other along the way.For today's sad ape fact, did you know that in certain parts of the world ape bones are used to make charms to render the user invulnerable to wild beasts? Ape body parts are used in medicine, trophies, ornaments, magic rituals, ceremonies and other cultural practices with the most sough-after and expensive being the ape's left hand as it holds particular spiritual power. You see, to the gods, ape equal to man so spirit of ape is as powerful as spirit of man. So why sacrifice man when ape will do? I mean, personally I'd sacrifice neither, but who am I to say?Want to get in touch with your favourite boys? Just hit us up on bsboyspod@gmail.com and if you want to support your favourite boys just sign up to BS+ for an ad free listening experience and the occasional bonus episode on our website or through Apple Podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marvel just released a bunch of tv trailers and announcements and that means it's time for Baseless Speculation to get back in the saddle and do some speculating. Zammit has some useful advice regarding babies and screens, Duscher thinks it's time for another American Pie, and Jackson is tricked by his good friends into agreeing to watch Defenders somehow. What show will be good? What if S2? Iron-Heart? Daredevil Born Again? Marvel Zombies? Eyes of Wakanda? Wonder Man? It is truly exhausting to have this much content.Did you know that Kanzi the Bonobo has a favourite film? It's Quest for Fire! Kanzi probably sees themselves in at least all of the main characters we reckon. That ape can also play Minecraft, make a campfire and cook food. We really are doing great stuff with apes.Want to get in touch with your favourite boys? Just hit us up on bsboyspod@gmail.com and if you want to support your favourite boys just sign up to BS+ for an ad free listening experience and the occasional bonus episode on our website or through Apple Podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been a long road but we're finally here. A fourth spiderman movie. A quadology. Tom Holland's Spiderman's adventures continue. And the BS Boys are here to say how they reckon that would happen and weather or not Sony's gonna get it's grubby little hands into the mix. Jackson revolutionises names, Zammit draws comparisons between cricketers and Dave Warneke, and Duscher becomes momentarily obsessed with people net worths. The boys also get extremely heated about grapes. Extremely heated.Did you know that chimpanzees prefer grapes over carrots? Willing to climb higher and walk further for grapes instead of a little stroll for carrot. And rightly so. Carrots are dirt food that grow in the dirt like horrible sweet potato which is a suck ass food for dumb little babies. Want to get in touch with your favourite boys? Just hit us up on bsboyspod@gmail.com and if you want to support your favourite boys just sign up to BS+ for an ad free listening experience and the occasional bonus episode on our website or through Apple Podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The BS boys are back and, well, not better than ever certainly but at least back to normal. It's time to talk about the future of the DCU and what the hell that's going to look like. Jackson becomes momentarily obsessed with water going up him, Duschers favorite superhero is revealed to be Gogmagog, and Zammit has faith in gun. Also everyone's Jerry Seinfeld impressions are good and accurate. It's like they never left!Did you know that the first reported case of gorilla's getting covid was at San Diego Zoo 2021? We can only assume they got it by performing to a large audience of other gorilla's at some kind of annual gorilla nerd convention. Want to get in touch with your favourite boys? Just hit us up on bsboyspod@gmail.com and if you want to support your favourite boys just sign up to BS+ for an ad free listening experience and the occasional bonus episode on our website or through Apple Podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Next week the boys are flying out to the UK leaving behind Zammit. Not in like, a malicious way, he just can't make it due to wife being pregnant and it just felt a bit rude to go visit her home country while she is in no position to fly? But have no fear, James Sunday Movies (from the Weekly Planet) will be there (but no Mason)! Some tickets are still available or just opened up or sold out or has been and gone, depending when you are seeing this? If you're consuming this in like 2030 or whatever, what are you doing here? We'd love to know! And you can let us know by sending in an email to bsboyspod@gmail.com. By the way, we're taking a bit of time off due to the aforementioned UK trip, we'll be back in October sometime so rest up, let your brain cells bulid back up and your phone dry out from all the toilet water and we'll be seeing you in the UK.Did you know that during the Napoleonic Wars a French ship was wrecked in a storm off the coast of Hartlepool with the only survivor being the ship's mascot. Who was a monkey. In uniform (for the amusement of the crew). The Hartlepudlians, presumedly never seeing a monkey nor a Frenchman held an impromptu trial, found the monkey guilty of being a French spy and was hanged for its crimes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

JD is out with covid this week so Zammit and Jackson decided a good use of everyone's time was to answer some questions put forward by you, the listener, from the Sanspants+ Discord! If you want to send JD well wishes you can by sending them directly to at bsboyspod@gmail.com! Speaking of bsboyspod@gmail.com you can now send us email to an address we have the password to! If there's ever been a question you want answered by the three dumbest podcast hosts on the dumbest podcast on the internet now's your chance.Did you know that the most emailed address by any kind of ape is bsboyspod@gmail.com? You don't want an ape sending in more emails than you, do you? You're better than an ape and what better way to prove it by sending in an email to bsboyspod@gmail.com. Best to give us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts as well. It's for the best. Don't let those apes win. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's part 2 of the now I assume world famous two part d23 episode of Baseless Speculation. This time the boys are tackling all the animation anouncements, including a huge slate of sequels to classic Pixar and Disney films we all know and love. Toy Story 5 looks to be pretty good, as does the incredibles 3 probably.There's also a pixar tv show (Win or Lose) coming that looks pretty cute, and another one (Dream Factory) that seems mostly confusing. Disney also announced Frozen 3 and Moana 2, which could be good. Finally, there's Mufasa, a prequel to the Lion King that makes all the boys sick when they look at it. Also Jackson has an alarm for Spaghetti on his phone, for 8am. What's that about?Did you know that in the Jungle Book King Louie wants to be more human-like by gaining knowledge of fire but in reality if orangutans found out about jobs, taxes and rent, King Louie would be exiled for his idiotic desire to lead his people away from Nirvana. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get ready for the very first two part BS episode, as the boys trawl through every Disney anouncement from D23. Before that though, Deadpool and Wolverine made a billy (and then some) so it's time to talk Zoos and make enemies. With that out of the way, let's see what Disney's got on the slate for the next couple of years. Tron's back, so is Freaky Friday for some reason, and David Blaine is doing magic still. Star Wars promises some future highs (Andor, Skeleton Crew) and possible crushing lows (Grogu and the Mandalorian). The MCU is still pumping out content with the new Daredevil: Born Again and Agatha All Along on the horizon. Most exciting of all, Avatar 3: Fire and Ash is coming, that's extremely exciting. For everyone.Did you know that in the live action remake of The Jungle Book, they made King Louie a Gigantopithecus instead of an orangutan as orangutans are not native to India and the film makers wanted it to be authentic as possible! A film about a feral boy raised by wolves. Who can talk to him. Where monkey want fire. Authentic. Gigantopithecus. Extinct for at least several hundred thousands years. Authentic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The boys are a little tired from Deadpool & Wolverine but surely all the news that’s come out of Hall H in San Diego Comic-Con will perk them up?! It’s not like they’re tired of the dangling keys in front of their face? They love it when a thing is shiny! And the noise that key makes? You better believe that’s hootin n hollerin worthy. Can’t wait for the eventual Deadpool & the Exiles film but we can’t get too excited for that because we have Hall H news! Or should we say Hall H News? Really emphasis the importance with that capital letter. Bob’s back, but this time he is Doom. The response has been: mixed. We got a bit more about Fantastic Four that’s not soul crushing and we finally found out who Giancarlo Esposito is playing in Cappy America: Please Ignore Real World Geo-Political Events. Are we excited for any of this? Time will tell (no).Apparently only like, five days ago, chimpanzees may be capable of learning human-like words. Scientists watched some controversial footage of chimpanzees and they reckon they can do it with one saying “[g]reat apes can produce human words; the failure to demonstrate this half a century ago was the fault of the researchers, not the animals”. Now that should be capital N News.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You knew this was coming. The movie which will decide who takes who to the zoo! If Deadpool & Wolverine don't make that billy Zammit is going to have his pockets turned inside out, looking sad while Jackson and JD get a free trip to the zoo! But if Deadpool & Wolverines make that billy? Then it's Jackson and JD with their pockets turned inside out, looking sad while Zammit gets a free trip to the zoo! Either way, a zoo is in our future and we're very excited about that. Do you reckon they'll let us feed and or touch an ape?? Surely they'll let us play Nintendo with a gorilla or something? If you work or know someone who works at some kind of gorilla sanctuary, hit us up. Let us shake hands with an ape and feed it leaves and shrubs or whatever! We promise we won't feed a gorilla spaghetti. Unless like, you want us to and actively encourage that?? No no. That would be silly. Right? Either way Deadpool needs to save his universe and to do so he needs to find a Wolverine and you better believe he meets some familiar faces along the way or whatever. Is this the greatest nerd movie ever made? Do the BS boys love it? Or did their souls leave their bodies? Fun fact, ape can eat pasta! too excited. Just learnt fact. Here video. Watch pasta ape watch pasta ape watch eat pasta ape eat pasta watch ape eat pasta watch ape you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g44u3_XhUJ8You can see us live, follow links but watch video first https://linktr.ee/sanspants. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Immediately distracted, JD cannot be trusted to look at a laptop when discussing Captain America: Brave New World. A film that used to be called New World Order but that big rat quickly backpaddled on that one. It seems the rat is trying really hard to not be political and avoid anything that could be seen as controversial but then accidently being political and creating their own controversies! It's almost like not saying anything is in itself a political statement? Hard to say. But look, Sabra no longer works for the IDF, is a Black Widow and is called Ruth now! See! No controversies now! Don't look up what the actress playing her volunteered to do though, it's not important. What is important is there's a Red Hulk president! And someone tries to assassinate him! Surely that won't be controversial? All we're saying is that for not a Hulk movie there's an awful lot of Hulk characters and that the Young Avengers is not happening. Props for the big marble baby shoutout. Once again we're all reminded that Kingo is movies. Captain America: Brave New World in cinemas February 14 2025.While no apes have ever been president, a spritely baboon by the name of Jackie did reach the rank of Corporal in the South African army during World War I. Injured quite heavily during the war he received the Pretoria Citizens Service Medal. He made it home. Many, many soldiers did not. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Remember that meme? Agatha? It was her all along! From the Scarlet Witch? Wanda?! Beloved by everyone for a week maybe? Then they announced the Agatha show? And we were all excited? Then they gave us a couple of different names for the TV show because aha! It was a trick and a marketing genius move and not at all reshuffling? Anyways, we got a trailer for it and it’s CSI: Witch for a bit until it’s not. So let’s all enjoy three grown men try to remember what happened in Wanda Vision, guess at Agatha’s motivation and get waylaid by Bewitched and the two Darrens. While we do talk about Agatha Jackson and Zammit love to get sidetracked by imagining how they’d ruin a genie’s day and JD once again just wants media with an audience in mind. Maybe we’ll get a Ralph Boner cameo? Baseless Speculation gets the joke!While no ape has successfully practiced witchcraft (that we know of (now thinking about it, it’d be more appropriate to say that no ape has been observed successfully practicing witchcraft)), in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust they go to a Witch’s Kitchen and a lady ape is tending to the cauldron. Some other apes are there chilling, playing dice, having a sing, chatting. They bring the devil a crown but as they are clumsy (like all apes) they break it in two. While not witches per se, they are her assistants and that’s neat! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It shouldn’t be this hard to make a vampire movie and yet here we are. Join us in a brief trip down memory lane as we walk through the many ups and downs of the MCU doing their darndest to make a Blade film happen. So many stinky scripts that sucked, a period drama that didn’t have one (1) Blade and everyone except us wanting to forget Eternals happened. All we know is that Blade is the antithesis to quips-laden MCU, Riz Ahmed may be the missing piece to this whole messy affair and sometimes the audience shouldn’t be you and that’s good. Even though a monkey as a vampire film would be incredible, Hollywood are cowards and haven’t made one. Apes are on everyone’s lips as Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes made back its budget and Godzilla x Kong was the 3rd highest-grossing film of 2024! It’s never been a better time to make some kind of incredible vampire ape film. Vapeire? Is that good? What about chimpanvamp? Dracuchimp? Now we’re cooking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new Hellboy movie is coming out and Jackson LOVES Hellboy! Unfortunately the trailer looks bad to not very good so our excitement for this film is barely there. On the bright side we won’t be disappointed if it’s bad but will be ecstatic if it’s enjoyable. The bar is low and we’re fine with that. So let us take you on a side journey about fat juicy holes, the recent history of getting slopped off and the 2009 classic Gamer. We ensure you these things are all relevant to the upcoming Hellboy: The Crooked Man film starring the guy who played Juggernaut’s boyfriend in Deadpool 2.For this episode’s ape fact let’s instead have an ape hypothetical, an apothetical if you will. Given that Elon Musk’s neuralink is already ruining a monkey’s day, what genre of game would you love to play if it involved mind-controlling a monkey to do your bidding? Let us know in the comments, the discord or even in our Facebook group xx o Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After the whirlwind success of Patfleck’s The Batman, audience all over the world was clamouring for more! And we here at Baseless Speculation are no different (unless we said differently in the Based Reaction episode of The Batman, we cannot remember if we liked it or not)! The last time we had a think about Gotham, it was flooded and underwater and Paul Dano made a great face. Jackson also has a vague memory of Batman stuck in his Batmobile lost under a bridge calling Alfred for help. It’s safe to say we do not remember The Batman. But we are excited for The Penguin as a gritty mob TV series. What’s going to happen now with the power vacuum left by the Falcones? Is Oswald going to slowly rise up the ranks or join forces with Sofia and tear it apart from the inside like how he says in the trailer? What powers, if any, will Clayface have? And most importantly, when does Cobblepot buy two penguins from the docks? Our money’s on episode 5. Let’s all get excited for the soon to be hit on HBO’s Time Warner’s MAX as studio execs around the world can be heard screaming at James Gunn “why can’t Patfleck be our Batman?? It made money!”Did you know that some Japanese macaques love to relax in natural hot springs? After a long day at the being a monkey factory, they love to soak their weary bones in some fabulously hot water. They learned to do this by copying visitors to the resort area. It goes to show that while we can learn a lot from our furry cousins, they can learn a lot from us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last year Peter Weyland did a TED talk and now we’re here, watching the new trailer for Alien: Romulus. In space, no one can hear you suckin on a wolf titty. Which is a shame, as surely the wolf milk is what gave those twins the power to build the twin cities of Rome and Reme? Either way, we need to be funding more research into the power of wolf titty milk instead of spending all our hard earned space dollars on xenomorphs or whatever. But here we are again, having some sneaky secret android convincing a bunch of plucky space-farers to capture da perfect organism so our beloved Weyland-Yutani can use Alien jelly to make da Olympics good. Come with us on this wild ride as we poorly remember the Alien franchise, try to figure out why Alien: Romulus is set between Alien and Aliens and learn too much about the Alien comics. Jackson thinks the problem with the Alien films is a problem of escalation and let me tell you, the comics clearly do NOT have that problem. Did you know the Gorilla-Alien or Gorilla-Morph happens when a facehugger face hugs a gorilla? It’s big, blue, could be described as “brutish” will walks on their knuckles. They are known as being highly aggressive, as opposed to the regular Alien which is more docile so only regularly aggressive? Or maybe they just mean it’s not as sneaky. Love to swing on vine though!Get episodes early and bonus eps with a Baseless Speculation+ subscription available from our website or through Apple Podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The third instalment of the spectacular Venom franchise is nearly upon us! A small part in the much beloved Sony Spider-Man Cinematic Universe that is yet to feature a single Spider-Man! But at least they have vampire, bird, cat-guy and maybe Spider-Women? Although Madame Web might not be part of the SSCU now? It was just a cool thing that happened! Don’t worry about it! We’re not here to talk about that, we’re here to talk about Venom! And more importantly how does Venom kill that horse he turns into? Off a cliff? Into a helicopter like an incredible horse torpedo? Or is it just ground into a red smear by going to fast? These are the important questions we here at Baseless Speculation want to know! There’s also some cool bug looking lad that wants to eat Eddie or maybe a plan that we all think resembles the xenophage from comics, but Jackson thinks they might be those Venom predators that are bones whom ate symbiotes from a limited series that was not popular nor fun to read. Anyways, Kraven comes out this Christmas and we know you’re all excited to see it multiple times! So why not join us in the Kraven Quintupple Challenge?! Where you attempt to see Kraven 5 times in one day! You wake up on December 17th get dressed and head out the door for a Pre-Breakfast Kraven followed closely by Early Morning Kraven then a quick stop to Gold Class for Lunch Kraven and while that’s digesting have a brief Post-Lunch Kraven then it’s back to Gold Class for Dinner Kraven and then top it all off with a Nigh Cap Kraven! It’s truely the best way to get into the festive spirit. And you can help ruin our Christmas by becoming truly Based with a Baseless Speculation+ subscription available from our website or through Apple Podcasts.Did you know that in Earth 8101 Venom is a full on gorilla, part of the Thundermonks team and loves to throw his feces at his teammates. Comics are good. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.