Baseless Speculation

In what might be the quickest derailment of an episode yet, the boys misremember who directed Mortdecai and that was all it took. We had every intention of doing an episode on Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, but you must understand it got away from us. If you had to try and remember Mortdecai and what that movie was about, it would happen to you! We scoured our little brains trying to think what the plot...

Ryan Reynolds just dropped the trailer to Deadpool & Wolverine on YouTube and it’s already gotten 20 milly views in 24 hours, well on its way to make that sweet, sweet billy! So to celeblate we run through our theories about what’s going to happen in what will be this years most wonderful of films! How they get into the time bin? What Cassandra Nova want? She gonna go full Zazlav and delete th...

Joker: Folie a Deux, a sequel that has the chance of alienating fans of the first but luring those that had nothing but disdain for it has released a trailer and your boys are nothing if not topical! A brave and bold choice to follow up a segma male’s anthem with a jukebox musical. A brave and bold choice we respect. We do our best to remember the original film, try to figure out the big connectio...

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 di...

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 hone...

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,...

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 John...

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 fee...

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...

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&#...

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 buf...

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.

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! 

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 abou...

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

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 goo...

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.

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 audienc...

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.

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!

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 jus...

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&#3...

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.

The BS Boys have lost Joel Duscher (where'd he go??) so no one was around to prevent Joel Zammit from talking about his favourite topic of all time - the X-Men. This week Baseless Speculation dives headfirst into the MCU to try to figure out how those mutants are finally gonna get back into da movies.

Disney have had a bad run of misses lately and The BS Boys are diving head first into their newest offering to see if this will fix everything! Lots and lots of BIG calls straight off the bat in this one and a walk down memory lane to the season 7 finale of The Blacklist. Great podcasting as always.