The Speculators

The one where we watch Wall Street

It's time to throw this franchise into the fires of Mount Doom once and for all, as we wrap up Lord of the Rings with the final instalment, Return of the King.

Jack heroically uses the sword of Narsil to revive the Army of the Dead and defeat Sauron's forces, Kohl goes mad and sets himself on fire, and Callan gets wrapped up by a big spider.

The gang keep on truckin' to Mordor for the second instalment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. 2 Fast 2 Towers.

You've got one guy's bow, another guy's axe, and now you've got this podcast. This week, we're Tolkien about the first film in the epic Lord of the Rings franchise, The Fellowship of the Ring.

Callan tries his best to do a Kiwi accent, Kohl plays a prank, and Jack recommends you listen to the new podcast he's doing with Callan called The Secret World of Cal and Jack (in which Cal and Jack watch Alex Mack) here -https://open.spotify.com/show/1F8GWhlUAXTSsG5XINShwT

The one where we watch The Addams Family

We're back! If there is one good thing to come out of social distancing it's that the boys are back. We've had a lot of time on our hands and decided put on our winter coats and watch Frozen and Frozen II. Jack reveals he's now a slick DJ, Cal grapples with the mortality of snowmen and Kohl watches each movie 1.5 times.

The boys talk about a wet bandit, rats driving tiny cars and how to solve Melbourne's swamp problems.

We're back from our sabbatical with an exciting new episode of The Speculators. On this episode we untangle a web of conspiracy around area 51 and blink 182, we try not to get too creeped out by Hide and Seek AI, and finally we talk about Kanye West's plan to solve domelessness.

This week we talk about Facebook's creepy new pre-shipping feature, a possible solve for climate change and a way to check if YOU ARE DREAMING RIGHT NOW BRO!

This week we talk about Nectome uploading your brain to the internet, Trump's Space Force/ Space wrestling federation, 90% off Amazon ghost writers and we try and find a new job for Flippy the burger flipping robot.

Stop looking in my windows:
Robot fails
Australian Biohacker Who Implanted Transit Pass in His Hand Was Convicted for Not Using Valid Ticket

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On this, the final episode of Would You Like Franchise with that Jack and Cal talk about the back half of the Final Destination series. We also talk about our favorite episodes of WYLF and tease our new podcast

This week on Would You Like Franchise With That, we put a kink in Death's Design and spend the rest of our lives outrunning our inevitable demise with Final Destination and Final Destination 2!

Callan identifies death as a puddle and Jack's favourite character is Agent Shrek.

Welcome to the jungle, we have fun and games. Well not games as such, movies about games. Well... a board game and a video game. Actually a board game that turns into a video game... A video game staring Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson. We have Jumanji ok! You happy? Jeeeez.

This week, the boys watch... well they are not really sure what that was, but whatever it was it had Rihanna in it. Jack and Cal work on thier Keanu Reeves impersonations and we re-imagine spiderman for a new generation of babies.

This week our Summer spin-off series I Would Like Franchise With That we hack your earholes with Hackers. Jack remembers over his favourite Joey moments in friends and Cal reimagines the bible. Hack the planet!

This week our Summer spin-off series I Would Like Franchise With That continues, as Jack respectfully requests a sequel to 1995's Waterworld! Callan remembers a disturbing scene from Seaquest, and Waterworld made Jack realise he liked movies. MUTATION!!!

We've franchised ourselves, and are very excited to present the first episode of our spin-off series, I Would Like Franchise With That! Strange as it may seem, not all movies have sequels, prequel, four-quels or more-quels, and after 50 episodes of celebrating all the best franchises, we're flipping the script a little. We'll spend the next few months exploring our favourite one-off movies that we wished had sequels, but don't. Yet.

This week, sail the seven seas, put your mind at ease, protect the motherland and join your fellow men Jack and Cal as we join the navy and place some pegs with Battleship! Callan doesn't care for Blade Runner or the Godfather but loves Battleship and still expects people to take him seriously, and Jack is reminded of a simpler time.

Get ready for an episode so spooky you'll want to rip off your ding dong. It's the halloweeeen special of FWT feat. Cal, Jack and the titular Castle Freak. Cal tries on a Italian accent and Jack wishes that we had watched The Craft instead. Awwwwww freak out!

This week, we get get wet and multiply after watching Gremlins and Gremlins 2: A new batch.

This week, in protest of the killing of unarmed aquatic reptiles by a trigger-happy force of militarised bushmen, we take the Crocodile Dund-knee and wrestle our way through Crocodile Dundee, Crocodile Dundee 2 and Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles.

Jack has a run in with a deadly Australian bike-spider, Nick uncovers Cheech Marin's finest hour, and Callan peed on a snake when he lived under a house.

That's not a knife, this is... well actually, I suppose by definition it is a knife, albeit a small one in comparison to my quite big one. I may have jumped the gun on my evaluation. Carry on.

The Knuckles are Up and the Mountains are Mega as we karate chop our way through the third and fourth 3 Ninjas movies.

This week, Nick submits some child actors to modern societal beauty standards, Jack still loves movies set in amusement parks, and Callan remarkably manages to be granted a Working With Children Check.

This episode we tackle Nick's childhood favourite, 3 Ninjas and 3 Ninjas Kick Back. Jack went to high school with Sonic the hedgehog. Nick regrets picking this franchise, and Cal... well let's not talk about Cal.

AYA!

Join us as we don our buttless chaps and journey into the wasteland for a Max-travaganza of V8's, violence and thinly-veiled homoeroticism with Mad Max and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior!

Jack plays one video game a year, Callan introduces us to Mad Max's Scottish counterpart, and special guest host Nick Taras learns about modern match technology.

This week, we re-acquaint ourselves with the Tall Man as Phantasm 3: Lord of the Dead introduces some new members to the gang, nothing happens in Phantasm 4: OblIVion, and a fan-made tribute gets out of hand, resulting in Phantasm 5: Ravager.

Callan is still loving Twin Peaks, Alex remains concerned about Reggie being a sexual predator and Jack tries to watch Phantasm 5 with some friends and now no longer has those friends.

Thanks again to Alex for filling the third chair in the Franchise With That studio for the last few months. We wish him all the best for his big exciting overseas adventure!

This week on WYLFWT we get goofy with The Naked Gun, The Naked Gun 2 1/2 and The Naked Gun 33 1/3.

Jack get's some good hard rubbish, Cal tries out a new accent and Alex does his very best to remember the paper thin plots of the 3 movies.

This week on Would You Like Phranchise With That, we phace our phears with Phantasm and Phantasm II!

Callan has a fever dream, Alex can't make it though The Babadook, and Jack wishes he was watching a Sandra Bullock movie.

On this episode of WYLFWT we step into our sarcophagus, scoop out all our internal organs and wrap ourselves in bandages for The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and The Mummy : Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

Jack get's hung up on snake grammar, Callan finds out some bad news about Billy Zane and Alex "The Rock" Robertson appears as a giant computer generated scorpion at the end.

Buckle your seatbelts and charge your proton packs, this week on WYLFWT we take on Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II and Ghostbusters 2016.

Jack has some suggestions for alternate reboot titles, Cal starts a new business venture and Alex kinda didn't mind the new Ghostbusters movie. I ain't afraid of no Ghost!

Yo Adrian, we did it! We came out bruised, bloody and with big gross swollen eyelids, but we made it through seven rounds of going toe-to-toe with Sly Stallone's Rocky series. This episode of WYLFWT? covers Rocky IV (incl. the sex robot Rocky buys for his best friend), Rocky V, Rocky Balboa and Creed.

Alex keeps us updated with the scores of the Federer/Kyrgios match, Jack would watch another 7 Rocky movies, and Callan keeps talking about reacharounds. Also, Rocky buys his best friend a sex robot in Rocky 4. We really can't stress that enough.

Welcome Mister Carlton, Mister Yarraville and Mister Preston to the First Annual Mister Podcast Australia Pageant! This week, in preparation for the swimsuit round and the talent quest, our lovely contestants settled in for a viewing of the early-to-mid-2000's lady-led comedy masterpiece duo of Miss Congeniality and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous.

Callan wishes he'd Missed Congeniality, Alex learns the wonders of 1.5 speed, and the only thing Jack likes as much as Sandra Bullock is Tom Jones.

We're back in back in black twice over, as we wrap up our look at the Men in Black series with Men and Black 3 and spiritual predecessor Wild Wild West!

Alex regails us with stories of his favourite childhood film, Henry the 5th, Jack explains the most recent developments at MovieWorld: Hollywood on the Gold Coast, and Callan tells of his exploits as an extra in Flipper the TV series. No more Mr Knife Guys!

Pour yourself some sugar water, avoid pressing the big red button and prepare to be neuralised as Callan, Jack and Alex enjoy the intergalactic hijinks of Men in Black and Men in Black 2 in this week's episode of Would You Like Franchise With That.

Agent J reveals his favourite close-up in film history, Agent A once built a guinea pig hutch and Agent C is a Velcro aficionado. You know what the difference between you and us is? We make this sound gooooood.

On this episode of WYLFWT the boys marvel over the Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four colon Rise of the Silver Surfer.

Jack laments that Sue Storm wasn't played by Sandra Bullock, Callan defends Chris Evans' hair and Alex admits he knows very little about comic books.

Ho Ho Ho. Merry Christmas! On this special Christmas episode of WYLFWT we all lost our minds and watched not one, not two but three The Santa Clause movies with Tim Allen.

Jack found his christmas spirit, Alex fell for Santa's blind date and Callan tries to keep from vomiting at all the Christmas Joy.

A noble spirit may embiggen the smallest man, but Wayne Szalinski's shrink ray embiggens our excitement as we welcome new co-host Alex Robinson to the Would You Like Franchise With That studio! This week we scale inconsistently as we hold a microscope up to Honey I Shrunk The Kids, Honey I Blew Up The Kid and Honey, I Shrunk My Interest In This Franchise By The Time The Third Movie Came Around. From little things, big things grow...

Back soon mates

This week on WYLFWT the boys have zombies on the brain as they watch the first two films from George A Romero's highly influential Dead series. First off 1968's black and white classic, Night of the Living Dead, followed by 1978's rambling tale of undead consumerism, Dawn of the Dead.

Kohl pitches another terrible business idea, Callan seems to have a personal vendetta against Sack Snyder and Jack recommends a movie that is actually loosely related.

This week on WYLFWT - Pack your swimmers, pack your sunscreen, pack your dead guy... We're spending the Weekend at Bernie's! And then the next Weekend at Bernie's too! Callan mentions Batteships again, Jack wonders if Bernie is a modern-day Jay Gatsby, and Kohl tries to sell his 3DS. Can you Bernie lean?

This week, our residual self-images took the red pill, returned to the Source and plugged ourselves in to watch The Matrix, The Matrix: Reloaded and The Matrix: Revolutions. Callan goes a whole episode without talking about Battleships, Jack tries his hardest to explain the second and third movies, and Barack Obama does Back to the Future. Operator, I need an exit!

In this week's episode of WYLFWT, we unravel a series of clues, each more difficult than the last, in order to uncover the franchise most beloved by divorced dads struggling with tenuous relationships with their children - it's National Treasure and National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Callan pitches a crossover between the National Treasure and Tomb Raider cinematic universes, Kohl reveals the deepest and darkest secrets of the Freemasons and Jack puts the costume designer of National Treasure in their place.