Prime Mates
Join Australian Comedian Matt Stewart (and regular second banana Evan Munro-Smith) with rotating guests, as they explore primates in popular culture from Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
The first Star Wars movie of the decade is out and it includes a bunch of monkey and ape-like aliens!
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On this week's episode second banana Evan Munro-Smith is back to talk about the recent news of Punch the Monkey having intruders in its enclosure!
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...On this week's episode returning guest Erika Fleury (NAPSA) returns, this time to talk about songs with lyrics about monkeys and apes!
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Better Man is music biopic about a chimpanzee who becomes a famous musician based on real life musician Robbie Williams!
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The Wendigo is a North American cryptic, listen to me read all about it!
article: mythfolks.com/wendigo
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes is a wild movie, the follow up to the original Planet of the Apes - let outsell you about it!
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Punch the monkey has taken social media by storm in 2026, but what's his story?!?
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This week we are joined by Plumbing the Death Star to ponder the question what if Harambe was buried in Stephen King's Pet Sematary? Happy APEril! This was the fourth most voted for topic this year!
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Planet of the Apes was rebooted in 2001 by Tim Burton - we watched it so you don't have to! Happy APEril! This was the fifth most voted for topic this year!
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Contac...
Once again we have assembled the crack squad (Evan Munro-Smith, Adam Carnevale, Jackson Baly and introducing Sure Jayemanne) and are back on the Ape Titty Slide beat, looking to blow this case even further wide open! We’re starting to think this goes all the way to the top - and then all the way down again! (If you aren't up to date, check out the first four episodes of the saga: ep 124-127 and 135.)
Monkey Dust! It's a drug maybe!? We're just dropping in for a quick ep while we had some spare time in the studio, why not record a Prime Mates?!?!
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Did you know Suren loves bald uakari? Did you also know he was featured in the MCU? Well tune into this late night recording to hear him spill the beans!
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It's Christmas time so Adam Carnevale is here to help answer the question "Is the Grinch an ape??" and also in a quick episode of Getting Fruity with Matt and the Boys we talk fruit cake!
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This morning we woke up to the sad news of Jane Goodall's passing, so we've met in the Monkey House for an emergency episode!
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Article discussed: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/primatologist-jane-goodall-obituary/102197696
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...Dave and Jess return to the monkey house to talk about Robert Dudley's The ‘drunken monkey’ hypothesis!
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What the hell, another new super hero movie (very briefly) featuring a primate?! We're in a new golden age baby! To talk all about it we are joined in the Monkey House by Connor Schmidt (Who Knew It with Matt Stewart)!
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Superman is back, as is Lex Luther - now with added monkeys! Joined in the Monkey House by Connor Schmidt (Who Knew It with Matt Stewart) we get stuck into it, enjoy!
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Bedtime For Bonzo (1951) is a film about a chimp named Bonzo though it is probably best known for starring future president of the USA, Ronald Reagan. Back at episode 40 we meant to watch this film but accidentally watched the sequel, so we finally right that wrong today!
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We're back in the Monkey House (and drunk, honestly don't listen it if you can't stand rambling)! Pod fave Suren Jayemanne is here to try and get us from Aus music legend Farnsey to a Monkey in 7 steps (kinda like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, only better... but we get distracted)!
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The Planet of the Apes is/are back! This series of films is what inspired this whole podcast so we're so stoked to cover the new instalment and have recruited the 2nd banana Evan Munro-Smith and pod favourite Suren Jayemanne to talk it all through!
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