Battleship Pretension

Battleship Pretension

Hosted by David and Tyler · Tyler Smith & David Bax

4.4from 315 ratings

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80Podcast AuthorityScore out of 100 · How it is scored
1,458
Episodes
169
Transcribed
315
Ratings
Weekly
Cadence
2007
First episode
86K
YouTube views

About Battleship Pretension

Battleship Pretension is a podcast that represents the kind of conversations that film geeks have when they get together. There are strong opinions, in-jokes, obscure references, and wild tangents. And, since Tyler and David are two of the sharpest wits ever fused together, there are laughs aplenty.

Publisher
Tyler Smith & David Bax
Category
tv & film
Language
en
Explicit
Yes
First episode
6 Mar 2007
Latest episode
21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

169 of 1,458 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    1022. Bee Movies

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    1021. A Few More of Our Least Favorite Things

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    1020. Sam Neill

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1022. Bee Movies

Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And it's got honey, but it's also covered in bees. And again, not looking, he just shoves it right in his mouth. And then, you know, he doesn't scream in pain or terror. Instead, he just feels the buzzing and starts shooting the bees out of his mouth and acting like he's shooting a gun. And it's delightful. All right, I have two more. One, we haven't talked about documentaries at all, but I do want to specifically mention Honeyland, which is an Estonian documentary. It is a beautiful piece of work. It is about a... woman and who is herself an older woman but is also taking care of her very elderly mother they're the only people who live on this property she keeps bees that's how she makes her living is by selling honey that she keeps on her property um and then the property next door uh a new family buys it and moves in and they also decide to start keeping bees um And it's been years now, so I don't remember the exact context, but basically they're, like, doing it wrong. […]

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  • Julie Sesnovich
  • Scott Nye
  • Josh Long

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YouTube views
86,253
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
4.4 / 5
292 ratings
Spotify
4.7 / 5
23 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100

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Quality
91
Social presence
0
YouTube
76
Engagement
96

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Who hosts Battleship Pretension?

David and Tyler host the show. Published by Tyler Smith & David Bax.

How often do new episodes come out?

The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.

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