Mostly Nitpicking

We recklessly speculate on the 2015 Oscars, listen to see how right and wrong we are or might be.

This week we have a real treat. DJ and Dan Ward (over skype) are greeted by three members of the crew of the USS Enterprise. They sit down with Captain James Tiberius Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Mr. Sulu to talk Trek. They even hail some other members of the team and we get to talk with more Captains from the bracket. Remember to vote all week on the Craziest Captain bracket at www.madbracketstatus.com/p/polls

We're almost there. This week we have Kevin Su, the original guest, on to talk about the final round of out Craziest Captain bracket. We break down the final two competitors and analyze them to determine who is truly the craziest. We also talk with superfan Dan Ward about his take on the bracket and we bring on CTO Caroline Amaba to discuss the next bracket, The Ultimate Android. Vote at www.madbracketstatus.com/p/polls all week on the final round.

What a treat. We have the opportunity to speak with legendary racer and Smash powerhouse, Captain Douglas J Falcon. He won the Grand Prix. He defeated Master Hand. Now he is coming to our Bracketeer Interview segment to talk about his incredible career and some of his amazing future projects. Vote on our Craziest Captain bracket all week at www.madbracketstatus.com/p/polls

Thar he blows! We bring on friend of the show Chris Diggins to analyze the Elite Eight round of our Craziest Captain bracket. We determine the Final Four with a winner from the Space, Hero, Sea, and Other divisions. We also get a chance to talk with Tavit from King Post Games, the creators of Moby Dick or The Card Game. He schools us on why Captain Ahab should win the entire competition. We take a look at some of our prospective future brackets and plug a million things at the end. Classic Mad Bracket Status. Vote on the Final Four in the Craziest Captain bracket at www.madbracketstatus.com/p/polls all week long!

I hope everyone enjoyed the big game. We recorded an episode of our show LIVE at Jay's Super Bowl party and it is hysterical. We go through the results of Round 2 of the Craziest Captain bracket and we make some predictions on the new round. Musical contributor Nick Porcaro and frequent guest Jay Van Buiten join us as well as Jon Muzikowski a.k.a. Muzik. We get them answer the tough questions. If you could, who would you switch bodies with? What is Captain Kangaroo up to now? What is Captain Falcon all about? We will get to the bottom of all of this and more! Remember to vote all week on Round 3 of the Craziest Captains bracket at www.madbracketstatus.com/p/polls

This week on Reckless Speculation, we are talking to everyone at special guest Jay Van Buiten's Super Bowl party. We have at least ten different bits of Reckless Speculations that span from Marchawn Lynch's future in football to the halftime show to whether someone is or is not an obscure video game character. And yes we did technically put this up before the game. So if anything here is right, here is proof that we are magic.

It's not TV. It's Reckless Speculation! This week we sit down with fellow podcaster Nick Berrios to talk about the best network in all of creation, the Home Box Office or HomeBO for short or HBO for shortest. DJ thinks HBO will be forced to put Game of Thrones on hold until the new books are written because no one has ever stretched one 300 page novel into three two hour long movies with all kinds of new dwarf/elf love triangles and forty five minutes of f*@king Radagast! Nando thinks Westworld will grow faster than the mega hit Game of Thrones thanks to a production team that includes J J Abrams, a man known for quality television that comes to a satisfying conclusion. Nick thinks that True Detective Season 2 will start strong and fizzle once audiences realize that the second guy is Collin Farrell.

Big week guys! Big week! We are one week into our Craziest Captain bracket. The amount of votes we are getting is kinda insane. We bring back frequent quest and fellow podcaster Nick Berrios to go through the results of the first round. Nick even knows who some of the guys are! Not all but some. We have a bunch of crazy upsets and the next round of match ups is even crazier. We also go through some Oscar predictions in the beginning because we lack self control. Vote this week on www.madbracketstatus.com/p/polls.html

It is clear that 2015 is going to be the biggest single year for movies since possibly 1994. We have assembled Nando and DJ, along with faithful guest Chris Diggins, to speculate about some of the possible successes and failures that we can look forward to this year. Obviously mega hits like Avengers and Star Wars will be great but what about some of the smaller films? Will Mad Max have a strong enough start to reboot the franchise? Will Pitch Perfect 2 sour Anna Kendrick's popularity? What on earth will happen with Fox's Fantastic Four reboot? All of these questions and more will be answered on this week's Reckless Speculation.

This week DJ and graphic designer Michelle Coraci sit down to talk with one of the Captains from our Craziest Captain bracket. Digger Harkness a.k.a. Captain Boomerang stops by to give us some insight into his boomerang themed process. He gives us a behind the scenes look at the recent drama concerning the Suicide Squad movie. He also talks about his appearance on Flash and his unbelievably stupid origin story. Vote for Digger and the other Captains at www.madbracketstatus.com

This week we have graphic artist Michelle Coraci on to talk about more Crazy Captains. We take a closer look at the round one match ups between the Space, Sea, Superhero, and Other divisions of our Craziest Captains bracket. Some patterns emerge. Are all of the space captains intent on killing their crew members? Are all of the superhero captains incredibly insecure? All of those questions and more will get answered this week.

Oh Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The Greatest Conspiracy Theory bracket is over and we are staring our new bracket this week. We bring on actor/comedian Chris Diggins to talk about who we think are the Craziest Captains. We have Captains from the four major Captain divisions; Space, Superhero, Sea, and Other. Vote all week on your picks.

What's that you say? Paul McCartney is still alive? Do we have an interview for you! Apparently, not only was Paul McCartney killed in a car accident in 1966 and it was covered up by the Beatles BUT Paul McCartney chose to, as a ghost, come on Mad Bracket Status to talk about the truth with DJ and Caroline. He talks about the conspiracy, the afterlife, and all kinds of other stuff. Its great.

This is it! This week we finally finish the Greatest Conspiracy Theory bracket once and for all. Will is be 9/11 Truth? Will it be the Moon Landing? It will be the Moon Landing. They win. Bracket over. Now onto the future. We bring Mad Bracket Status CTO, Caroline Amaba, on to discuss our new Craziest Captains bracket! This one is going to be fun. Love us again! Also there is a post credits conversation from last week with Zane Schacht about the Star Wars prequels that we thought was too fun to throw away.