Excelsior true believer! While Joel Duscher’s away the other two idiots will play! Zammit’s been reading about Marvel history and has come away with a very important finding. Sometime in the 90s we almost had a James Cameron directed X-Men film until Stan Lee wrecked it. You see, Stan Lee was a crazy man who loved Spider-Man and shouldn’t be invited to non-Spider-Man meetings (to his credit, he did have a brilliant idea for a van based X-Men cartoon that never happened). So let’s have a famous think and ponder what that film might have been like and how Leonardo DiCaprio would have been shoehorned in as one of the merry mutants. As always you can watch us on YouTube and now on to today’s ape fact! Some scientists have observed apes carving sticks into spears to help hunt for food and bonobos use sticks as weapons! Can you imagine that? A bonobo with a big stick? Damn. What a powerful bonobo with a powerful stick. We are all incredibly jealous of that little bonobos and its mighty stick. Maybe it’ll let us hold it for a bit? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Star Wars, a film series that historically has never once been political in any way, shape or form, has gone too far this time by hiring women? Non-whites? Goes against canon?? It’s hard to say. Fragile babies are upset and maybe gen-z think da prequels are better than the original series?? We don’t know. We also don’t know why a bison time travels. There’s a lot we don’t know to be perfectly honest. Except Yoda’s political leanings. That we get. So listen in (or watch us on YouTube) for the next hour while we momentarily distract you on the road to the grave as we try and figure out what will happen in Star Wars: Acolyte. Oh, we also know howler monkey’s are not only the loudest monkey, but they’re also the loudest land animal. Their little yells can be heard from 5km away! That’s 3 miles to you filthy imperialists. Or around about 50 odd football fields if you need that visualisation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Those little guys in our brains who control our every waking moment are back! And this time there's more! Be it cute boys, friend politics, a potential queer storyline that won't go anywhere, puberty is rough and Disney's Inside Out 2 is here to remind you just how terrible it was (or is, depending on your own personal timeline). The boys spend too much time working out how farms work, get confused and angry at how the Northern Hemisphere does school and delve deep into the emotion disgust using a watermelon, a toilet brush and a britta. Once again, you can watch us on YouTube, and now for this episode's ape fact! Female geladas delay sexual maturation until a new, sexy and not-at-all-genetically-related-to-them male takes over the troop. For geladas, cousins is NOT okay. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The bombs are falling and JD has gone on a sacred mission to stop them with his mighty fists so instead we have Guest Joel, Adam Carnevale from the hit podcast D&D is for Nerds and Beyond the Map! The boys try to remember West World and can't refute any of Jackson's claims, get distracted by their own tangents and marvel at the man that is Walton Goggins. Adam, otherwise known as Johnny Fallout, makes a bold prediction and is immediately concerned, Zammit doesn't know half of what is being said but is excited to be there and Jackson thinks an infamous number gets a bad rap. If you're watching the filmed version of this on YouTube, we are sorry Adam is blurry. The studio horse got into the studio again and kicked the camera and broke the lens. We didn't notice this until the edit. We are sorry. Instead here's this episode's ape fact! Did you know that the collective term for mandrills is a horde, which is fitting as they are god's nastiest monkey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We don't know why film studios are now fed on an exclusive diet of crab and prunes but we do know it makes em sleepy! With the recent announcments coming out of Marvel, we thought now would be a good time to explore some of the dangling plot threads and give a big think about which ones are going by the wayside. It's probably most of them but all of the Eternals. We imagine how it must feel to wake up and delete a movie, are shocked no one loves apples we deficated on and completely forget Emilia Clarke character so much that when writing this I had to google "dangling plot threads marvel" because I knew we forgot to talk about one of em but I forgot what it was again. If you want to watch us instead of just listening to us, the show is also on YouTube, but now, here's this weeks ape fact: In the rainforest of Guinea, it has been observerd that chimpanzees regular fish for crabs and while we couldn't verify their stance on prunes we reckon they'd love them! It's nice to know that an ape could run a movie studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every movie is now Deadpool, Bad Boys or Guardians of the Galaxy and we're here to tell you that Borderlands is no different! What looks like a middling to adequate film has a surprising tumultuous production with directors giving up, writers joining 6 months after filming is wrapped and producers really wanting people to know some of their past hits! Zammit doesn't know what a Borderlands is, JD is excited for films and Jackson refuses to do any introspection. The main takeaway from this is that people contain multitudes and it's never too late to have your name taken off a project you care little about. The show is also on YouTube now, so you can see our best Now You See'd Me expressions! Now for today's interesting ape fact: Ape love TV! At Wilhelma zoo apes are allowed an hour of movies a day. They love the documentaries, they love seeing other animals but they hate seeing the zoo vet on TV with the bonobos going nuts as they shake their fists and shriek! They truely are just like us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Truely an historical moment for the BS Boys as they gear up to talk about a film that no matter the success, guarentees a ticket to the zoo! If Deadpool & Wolverine cracks a cool billy the boys are off to the Melbourne Zoo on Duscher and Jackson's dime, but if Deadpool & Wolverine comes out to the fanfare of not making a billy then Zammit foots the bill. Zammit also made the claim he'll pay for the overnight zoo under the stars experience. This was not really covered at length in said bet and Zammit is feeling he may get shafted. Either way, the boys get to see some apes! As for this film? Deadpool will do something wacky, Duscher will loathe every moment Ryan Reynold's is on screen, Zammit thinks they'll make an Onslaught/Cassandra Nova amalgamation and Jackson just wants to know when everyone was last excited for a cameo. The show is also on YouTube now, so you can see just how JD jerry-rigs his mic fix. He wants a poll. I don't know how to do that. Instead here is an interesting ape fact! Did you know that gorillas like to swear? Apparently if you teach them the sign words for cussin' they love to use them! We truely aren't so different. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Da BS Boys are back in town! Back on Sanspants Radio AND our own bullshit! To celebrate such a wonderful occasion, we all went and saw the next installment of Sony's Spider-Man Cinematic Universe: Madame Web and now we're treating you all to a Based Reaction! It's full of spoilers but let's be honest, you don't care. You're not gonna watch it, so why not listen to three buffons give you a run down of what happened with unique and colourful commentary? If anyone knows how to get milk to sponsor us, please let us know and of course, if you stumble upon any great ape video please send it our way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the final episode of Baseless Speculation for the year and what better way to celebrate than by reflecting on the state of movies in 2023 and predict what's going to happen in 2024. Plus, a big Ryan Gosling side bar as a treat for the listeners. What more could you want from a podcast? Baseless Speculation will return Feb 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Another perfect episode of Baseless Speculation as the BS Boys dive incredibly deep into the weeks old trailer for the upcoming movie, Godzilla x Kong: A New Empire. There's a lot to unpack this week but i think the most important take away is that JD never ate that hot dog and that everyone is fine. We have ape fever!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The BS Boys have done it again! Another magnificent podcast celebrating Australian film, politics and arguably education if you went to a Catholic High School, which two thirds of the hosts did! Listen in as we get excited for George Miller’s return to the world Mad Max with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, compare the awesome names of Mad Max with the terrible names of the Hunger Games and reminisce about our favourite and least favourite MPs. When you’re sitting down to watch the next instalment of our National Anthem Movies, you’ll be thankful for the beautiful context we provided to help you fully understand how Australia ended up like this. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The BS Boys have turned their back on the sea of trailers flooding the internet and instead focused all their attention on a 60 second bonus feature of the 4K home release of Wandavision that gave them a tiny bit of information on the upcoming MCU television series Agatha: Darkhold Diaries. It went about how you'd expect Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The BS Boys are back in the studio to dissect the incredibly exciting and hugely entertaining trailer for the follow up to beloved film Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. This franchise is extremely important to the world and Baseless Speculation are enthralled to see that the studios are finally paying it the respect and reverence it deserves. Plus, passing the torch; is it good?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Madame Web trailer is officially out and therefore it is the happiest day in the BS Boys' lives. The trailer is full of big ideas, big dialogue choices and more cuts that you could ever imagine. Basically, it is perfect. Movies are good. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Actors Strike is over and to celebrate 100,000 different movies have been announced and this week The BS Boys turn their focus to the potentially most surprising/least likely to be good movie announcement of them all: The Sony/Nintendo Live Action Legend of Zelda movie. There's a lot going on here as the boys figure out who they'd cast, what the story will be and plead with the audience to watch Dear Evan Hansen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The BS Boys went to the cinema and saw the latest Marvel film, The Marvels, and here are their thoughts. Was the movie good? Are the BS Boys right? What is going on at da movies these days?? Spoilers for The Marvels but they give you the heads up in the episode so don't even stress. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The BS Boys recorded this episode two day earlier than usual and thought "there wont be any movie trailers or news to talk about so let's speculate on the success of FnaF and what it will mean for the industry." They were wrong and lots happened. Enjoy this irrelevant episode and let us know what movie idea you like best! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The BS Boys have reunited and this week they're tackling the most dangerous topic of all; comic books. The movies are gone, so it's time to conquer the final frontier of superhero media and dig VERY deep to figure out what Hickman's run on Spider-Man will bring, what it will be influenced by and just how much will it repeat the past of the Ultimates universe. A lot of questions and just as many answers in this week's episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 1-3 OF LOKI SEASON 2 With Joel Zammit still missing in action and Hayden now also gone, it's up to the two remaining BS Boys to try to figure out exactly what is going to happen in the remander of Loki Season 2 plus what's next for the MCU. It's been rough sailing for Kevin and the team over at Marvel HQ and hopefully it's smooth from here on out! Wait, they're doing WHAT? Oh no. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Another week, another missing BS Boy (Joel Zammit is gone?? But where?!) so this time Jackson and Joel have asked their good friend Hayden to jump in this week to figure out what is going to happen in Frasier (2023). Prepare for yelling, crossover ideas and Ray Romano movie plugs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.