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The ApeCast

In The ApeCast, talking apes and best buddies Geoff and Jack go ape for every ape they see! Join them for spirited discussions of every Planet of the Apes movie, book, television episode and as many of the comics as they can get their hands on! And you won"t want to miss their bonus episodes about all the other great ape-based entertainment out there. Grab a beer and a banana, sit back, and enjoy the best guide to wide world of apes you"ll ever hear!

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02:51:11

Boom! POTA Explorers #10 -- The Utopians 3

The ApeCast ·

2022/05/02

The final Mak-down is here! Jack and Geoff discuss the final chapter of The Utopians, which concludes Boom! Studios’ superlative saga on the POTA. As Sullivan, Alaya, Nix and co. face down seemingly impossible odds against the Golden Khan and his Great Horde, a glimmer of hope gleams in the future. Wrapping things up, your Ape hosts also discuss their favorites of the entire run and get into some dream casting for the characters—ape, human and mutant alike—they’ve come to know and love throughout

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02:36:34

BOOM! POTA Explorers #9 - The Utopians 1-2 (with...

The ApeCast ·

2022/04/13

Jack and Geoff are joined by Kevin Young for the penultimate chapters of Boom! Studios’ POTA epic, The Utopians! As Sullivan and her army poise to re-take the city of Mak, the Golden Khan enacts a sinister plan of his own. And all the while, Brother Kale and his cadre of crafty mutants are cultivating a veritable mutopia of their own!

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02:59:43

Boom! POTA Explorers #8 - The Half-Man 3-4

The ApeCast ·

2022/03/25

It’s coup season in the Ape Republic of Mak, as Jack and Geoff look at the second half of The Half Man in the Boom! POTA comics! Headshots abound as Sullivan and her newly-armed band of humans strike back at the apes, while in Mak itself, palace intrigue takes a turn for the mutated!

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02:52:20

Boom! POTA Explorers #7 - The Half Man 1-2 (with Sam...

The ApeCast ·

2022/03/13

As Jack and Geoff adjust to a sudden time-jump in the pages of Boom! Studios’ POTA comic, they are joined by Sam Stovold for a wide-ranging discussion including Mak, Shaq, and everything in between!

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02:10:27

Boom! POTA Explorers #6 - Children of Fire 3-4

The ApeCast ·

2022/02/18

Back to Mak in the winter when it sizzles, as Jack and Geoff look at issues #11 and #12 of the Boom! Studios POTA comic. As a captive Sullivan gives birth to a suspiciously silent son, Alaya enacts her masterstroke, Bako and Nix meet for a final showdown, and yet another blimp goes Boom! There’s much to discuss here, and as always, your Apes hosts are having a helluva time doing so!

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02:44:29

Boom! POTA Explorers #5 - Children of Fire 1-2

The ApeCast ·

2022/01/30

The heat is on as Jack & Geoff move into the next arc of Boom! Studios POTA comic, Children of Fire! As the apes go full Auschwitz on the humans of Mak, a plucky group of bazooka-wielding blimp hijackers make their move! Once again your Ape hosts are amazed by the craft on display here, so listen in and hear all about it!

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02:49:04

Boom! POTA Explorers #4 - The Devil's Pawn 3-4

The ApeCast ·

2022/01/15

As a new year dawns, Jack and Geoff return to the Mak for a conflict-laden Caesar’s Day! It’s all-out war between the humans and apes in issues #7 and #8 of the Boom! Comics POTA series, and your Apes hosts are loving every gorgeously-rendered panel! Ancillary characters are grabbing the spotlight, Nix’s tank squad is on the move, and brains are EXPLODING. Things are indeed grim on the POTA, but the ApeCast wouldn’t have it any other way!

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03:07:22

HOLID-APE BONUS – Marvel’s Hit-Monkey: Pilot (1x01) /...

The ApeCast ·

2021/12/25

A year after last Christmas’s incredible game show, Geoff and Jack reunite with their siblings Erin and Sam {Marvel Star Wars Explorers, Young Jedi Knights Club} and Kevin {Reopening the Wormhole} for another wacky box office trivia-based game, this time revolving around POTA actors! Before that though, they dive into a fun discussion about the premiere of the hottest new Marvel show that ISN’T Hawkeye, Hit- Monkey! It's a cartoon about a monkey who becomes an assassin in Japan mentored by the

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02:10:09

Boom! POTA Explorers #3 -- The Devil's Pawn 1-2

The ApeCast ·

2021/12/03

Moving into issues #5 & #6 of Boom! Studios’ POTA series, Jack and Geoff find themselves playing with The Devil’s Pawn! Things are looking grim for the human denizens of Mak, but help from an unexpected source just might even the odds! While marveling at the fine work on display here, the two also discuss Stan Lee’s final cameo days, classic steamroller kills, and the blimps and box-visits of Batman!

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02:31:39

Boom! POTA Explorers #2 -- The Long War 3--4

The ApeCast ·

2021/11/19

The Boom!aissance continues as Jack & Geoff look at issues #3 and #4 of Boom! Studios’ POTA comic! The identity of the Lawgiver’s ninja assassin has been revealed, but a further act of violence threatens to throw the city-state of Mak into all-out war! Amidst their continued appreciation of the masterful art, plotting and world-building, your Ape hosts also get into the logistics of Darth Vader’s funeral, the wonders of sign language, and a heaping helping of Sacred Scrolls!

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02:27:11

Ape Day Bonus #27 - Any Which Way You Can (with Barm...

The ApeCast ·

2021/10/29

In this bonus Ape-isode, Jack and Geoff finally finish off Clint Eastwood’s orangutan duology with a look at Any Which Way You Can! The movie was a smash hit in 1980, and it hits pretty hard here too, as our hosts—along with guests Barm and Sean Davis—marvel at its shaggy, shambling charms and surprising horniness. They also touch upon Canadian chocolate bars, Apecast favorite Deep Roy, and the usual digressions. You will BELIEVE an ape can scrap a Merc!

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02:16:05

Boom! POTA Explorers #1 - The Long War 1-2

The ApeCast ·

2021/10/20

A new comics Ape-och begins as Jack and Geoff begin looking at the first storyline in Boom! Studios’ 2010s Apes series The Long War! Set 600+ years after the events of Battle for the POTA, the sudden, brutal murder of the Lawgiver by a machine-gun wielding ninja throws the city-state of Mak into chaos! These introductory chapters bear several classic POTA hallmarks: well-rounded characters on both sides of the ape/human divide, simmering inter-species tensions that mirror the real world, and some

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02:11:18

Ape Day Bonus #26 - Ed (with Barm)

The ApeCast ·

2021/09/24

In this special bonus Ape-isode, Jack and Geoff are joined by Barm for a look at the little-remembered 1996 chimp baseball movie Ed! Matt LeBlanc’s big-screen ambitions got off to a rocky start, and there are myriad reasons why: the jokes are flat, the story is hackneyed, and the chimp at the center of it all elicits more contempt than any ape discussed in the history of the podcast. Listen in and learn exactly why nobody needs to watch this movie ever!

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03:02:12

Apeslayer #4 - Marvel UK POTA #29 & #30

The ApeCast ·

2021/09/10

It’s the final Slaydown! Jack and Geoff have come to the end of 70’s Marvel UK POTA mag’s ill-advised attempt to graft an Apes narrative onto unrelated material, as the Apeslayer visits Yankee Stadium for his final adventure! The two marvel for the last time ever at an ape-faced crab monstrosity, a scantily-clad molecular biologist with a heart of gold, and the surprisingly-humiliating defeat of the title’s best ape villain. Farewell Apeslayer; we hardly knew ye!

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01:46:16

APE DAY BONUS #25 - Primal - Slave of the Scorpion...

The ApeCast ·

2021/09/04

Jack and Geoff are joined by Sam Stovold for a return to the world of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal! Season finale Slave of the Scorpion has ape-men in it, which is excuse enough around these parts for another in-depth discussion of this vibrant, violent masterpiece. The three have a lot of love for this episode and Primal as a whole, and still find time for frequent digressions into dogs, SPACE PLAYERS, and other assorted nonsense!

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02:15:01

Apeslayer #3 - Marvel POTA UK #27 & #28

The ApeCast ·

2021/08/20

The Apeslaying insanity continues in Marvel’s UK POTA magazine, as Jack and Geoff stop off at the Museum of Terror before arriving at the Airport of Death! Apeslayer’s got a new look, his double-froed friend Mala is starting to come into his own, and the book finally has an ape worth giving a damn about. While marveling at the new creative team and the editors’ continued inability to prevent the War of the Worldliness from peeking through, your ape hosts also take a deep Earth history dive into

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02:36:19

Apeslayer #2 - Marvel POTA UK #25 & #26 (with Sam...

The ApeCast ·

2021/08/01

Jack and Geoff are joined again by Sam Stovold for a look at the continuing adventures of Apeslayer in Marvel UK’s POTA mag! This time around, Apeslayer is fighting for his life against ape tripods, giant lizards, and increasingly bizarre ape-headed robot/mutant creatures that definitely scream Planet of the Apes! The three also get into some Earth history from a year that may or may not be germane to the time these issues were originally published.

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01:53:23

Apeslayer #1 - Marvel POTA UK #23 & #24

The ApeCast ·

2021/07/18

In a return to the weird world of 70’s Marvel comics, Jack and Geoff turn their gaze toward the UK’s POTA mag, and the Apeslayer contained therein! Chained to a weekly publishing schedule and starved for fresh Apes content, the editors made the only logical choice: they took a bunch of War of the Worlds comics, drew ape heads over the aliens, re-christened its protagonist, and called it a DAYpe! In this episode, your hosts meet the Apeslayer, and ponder just how well this bizarre repurposing

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02:16:35

Dark Horse POTA Explorers #3 - Bloodlines

The ApeCast ·

2021/07/02

Winding down their coverage of the Chronicles of Ashlar, Jack and Geoff discuss the last three issues of Dark Horse’s short-lived POTA series, Bloodlines! Amidst the wildly-vacillating art, same old same-old storylines and surprising number of decapitations, the ape hosts also find time to discuss Darth Vader, fancy grownup words from old Star Wars and Calvin & Hobbes comics, and their thoughts on the Burtonverse as a whole. Goodbye Ashlar, it’s been nice…

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02:17:27

Dark Horse Explorers #2 - Old Gods

The ApeCast ·

2021/06/19

First there was nothing…then there was Old Gods! Jack and Geoff continue their exploration of Dark Horse’s early 00s comic output with a look at the first three issues of Planet of the Apes! With the Human War behind them, Esau and Seneca are on the run. Will they see their dream of a truly equal ape/human society realized? Will a new-yet-familiar status quo be established? Will more than one character form the 2001 movie deign to make an appearance? Your Ape hosts are here to answer all of these

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