The Captain’s Log is a podcast from The Whatnauts where we can talk about all the pop culture news that has caught our attention, share stories from our lives, and get into all kinds of shenanigans. We play games, talk about the movies and TV shows we are watching, and have a great time just hanging out.
We're celebrating 10 years of The Whatnauts with an end of the year "grand prix" because you can call anything a grand prix, there's no rules stopping you! Two people talking about pizza can be a grand prix!! Kyle sees a chicken. Melissa sees a big glove. Between the two of us, we've seen Tenet 3.5 times and Interstellar 1 time and we're going to try to understand both. We also give out the yearly Review Show superlatives, recap the F1 season finale and the Game of the Year awards, imagine a Scrabble game that takes up your whole house, and talk about cow cinema.
Click here to watch a video of this episode. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZJqWUWI71g)
(00:00) - Intro
(00:04) - Welcome and banter
(05:01) - Cinema corner
(51:33) - Review Show awards and superlatives
(01:39:11) - Episode 300 again
(02:03:20) - Melissa's BIG news
(02:20:31) - Formula 1 corner
(02:36:11) - Pop culture lightning round
(02:43:10) - Detour to The Game Awards
(02:52:40) - Last bit of the pop culture lightning round
(02:55:16) - Outro
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4 Dec 2025
Rotten Tomatoes Movie Predictions 2026
Episode 310. We discuss the uncertainty of the F1 drivers championship going into the final grand prix of the season, and then get into our own show's "season finale" with the Rotten Tomatoes game! We predict the critics scores for 40 films premiering next year, and see how close our guesses were for the cinema of 2025. After being delayed multiple times, how was Kraven the Hunter received? Which family-friendly adventure and satirical horror movie both received a score of 93? What are our expectations for the tentpoles of 2026, some of which haven't even been officially titled yet? Will any movie include Lobo? How many distinct streets will be fought on in the new Street Fighter movie? Join us for the thrill of numbers!!!
Click here to watch a video of this episode. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojKzigXSz5E)
(00:00) - Intro
(00:04) - The F1 corner
(12:03) - Rotten Tomatoes movie predictions from this past year 2025
(52:23) - Housekeeping
(57:10) - Predicting the Rotten Tomatoe scores for 2026's movies
(02:16:13) - Bonus predictions
(02:30:05) - Outro
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20 Nov 2025
Teen Columbo is real and I met him
Episode 309. Is Louvre Detective going to be Teen Columbo's best friend or greatest enemy? What do you have to do to get a key to your city? Would you vote for a peanut over a human man? Could movie theaters drum up attendance by playing their movies in new weird colors? If you could schedule all of a year's sneezing into one day, would you? We also discuss night beef, big dumb action blockbusters like The Running Man and the Now You See Me franchise, the Miss Piggy movie, and Vegas, baby!!!!
Click here to watch a video of this episode. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17B_GDktE1A)
(00:00) - Intro
(00:04) - Kyle's got a Karting helmet
(05:30) - The Proclamation
(08:29) - Keys to the city
(12:11) - SLIFF
(16:47) - The Cinema Corner
(28:01) - Teen Columbo is real
(34:34) - Housekeeping
(43:28) - Maybe Melissa will like The Game Awards
(46:28) - Could we teach a class on podcasting?
(49:20) - Pop culture lightning round
(54:50) - The F1 corner
(59:55) - Outro
Reply on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zm3ob3wwbbllyu6kqmldoety/post/3m62zvrmikw26)
★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (https://www.patreon.com/thewhatnauts)
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
Apple Podcasts (US)
3.7 / 5
6 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
2 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
Quality
82
Social presence
0
YouTube
0
Engagement
31
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