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.

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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!

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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.

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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

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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.

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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!

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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.

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