Nerdmudgeon

Jeff and John go to the end of the universe and back as they continue the "Two American Noobs Watch Doctor Who" series with Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor!

How many Spider-Mans can ya handle in one movie? Jeff, Dave, and John break down villains, heroes, and bad Sorcerer Supreme wigs in Spider-Man: No Way Home!

American noobs Jeff & John continue their review of Doctor Who with Matt Smith's swaggering, swashbuckling Eleventh Doctor! What makes for a good Doctor? What else should you be watching on streaming? Find out this episode, because you know it's true...bow ties are cool.

If the Internet says a movie is bad, does that necessarily make it so? Join Jeff, Dave, and John as they unpack all the new characters and big ideas in the MCU's newest team of super people, The Eternals!

"Two American Noobs Watch Doctor Who" continues as Jeff and John enjoy some well spent wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey with David Tennant's Tenth Doctor! Is Doctor Who better than Star Trek? Did John wash his jeans? Climb in the TARDIS and let's find out!

The Nerdmudgeon review of the "Hawkeye" series concludes with an INTERNATIONAL edition of the show! With Steve from Paris and John from Italy, Dave and Jeff close out the show with musical numbers (well, references anyway), laughs, and Deep Thoughts about all things MCU. We also rank the D+ shows released thus far so tune in for best friends talking about the nerdy stuff they love the most!

Dave and Jeff discuss "Hawkeye" Episode 5, dropping content and opinions like a Fat Man! We're the Kings of Pinning down our thoughts in this review, we hope you'll join us!

This week as we discuss "Hawkeye" Episode 4, special guest stars include Age-Related Mockery! Drive-by dissing of "A Castle for Christmas"! Wild speculation about Laura Barton's shaded past! And as always, best friends discussing the nerdy stuff they love the most!

Our first sponsored video, from "Daddy Water", the boys review "Hawkeye" season 1, episode 3 and take great glory not only in the derring-do but in pointing out that John is WRONG WRONG WRONG! Wish you were here, Lou Diamond Phillips.

What makes for a good martial arts movie: the punching or the dancing? Jeff, Dave, and John get into the details as they discuss the MCU's newest character, Shang-Chi! Is this Dave's new favorite Marvel movie? And what's up with Jeff and his thing about feet?

Marvel attempts to take over the coveted "Best Violent Christmas Movie" title from "Die Hard" with the first two episodes of "Hawkeye". Find out what three nerdy best friends think about the latest Disney+ series, and what secrets are told when the headphones come off!

Jeff and John boldly go where no Nerdmudgeon has gone before as they kick off a brand new arc featuring everyone's favorite Time Lord, Doctor Who! How did two Americans with no previous Who experience react to this staple of British pop culture? Find out as we trip the time vortex fantastic with Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor!

Multiverses collide as special guest host Steve Leonard returns to help Jeff and John break down the What If...? finale, discuss the existential nothingness of corporate synergy, and look ahead to upcoming nerd projects you may (or may not!) want to see!

First rule of the multiverse: don't let the robot win! All the threads of the multiverse are coming together as Jeff and John have at it with the highs and lows of the penultimate What If...? episode!

It's a full episode of "nerd" AND "mudgeon" as Jeff and John ponder the relative merits of Party Thor, the What If...? season thus far, and the inscrutable delights that *are* munchkin balls!

What if a bad guy became a good guy? Oh, who are we kidding! Jeff and John talk about one of the MCU's all-time best villain STILL being villain, because that's what villains do! Also: the new Hawkeye trailer, and Doctor Who!

The What If...? after show continues as Jeff and John talk all things zombies, marriage negotiation strategies, and Harry Potter! Plus: streaming recommendations for your non-MCU needs!

It's a very special episode as John welcomes his wife Angela to the show as they report live from Atlanta's annual Dragon Con convention! Hear interviews from con attendees talking about their awesome costumes and enjoy a few words from Garrett Wang (Ensign Kim of Star Trek: Voyager) and Rob Paulsen (Animaniacs, TMNT)!

That got real weird, real fast! Join Jeff and John as they take on wormhole tentacles with some mystical punching and throw some cross-nerd-podcast shout-outs on the side in this latest episode of "What If...?"!

It's an action-packed episode this week as Jeff and John talk weaponized shrinking tech, break down the latest MCU movie trailers AND engage in a blistering game of head-to-head comic book trivia!

The guys welcome back one of the MCUs most beloved characters (no, not Howard the Duck) in this second "What If...?" after show! Bonus: the return of Comic Book Trivia!

Jeff and John dive into the newest Disney Plus MCU show "What If...?" while asking the question "What is Cin-ah-mah?" Buckle up for a side trip to Regency Era England, Anne of Green Gables, and the city of Monstropolis!

Finally! The MCU makes its triumphant return to theaters! Find out which Nerdmudgeon went to the theater, which one stayed home, and which one's spouse loved it more as Jeff and John get kicked in the face by Black Widow!

Jeff and John welcome guest host Steve Leonard to the show to ask the burning question after the conclusion of Loki season one, namely, "Where on earth do we go from here?" Join the guys as they deliver their final thoughts on episode six, "For All Time, Always"!

How many Lokis can ya handle in one episode? Join Jeff and John as they go on an MCU Easter egg hunt, make Bold Predictions (TM), and unpack Loki Episode 5!

Whoa! Things kick into high gear as Jeff and John discuss character studies of super-villains, make more bold (and probably wrong) predictions, and wonder where-oh-where is the Superhero of Love?

John and Jeff dive into the character study of two Lokis dodging meteors, metaphors for love, and waking up in the shower with Patrick Duffy as they discuss Loki episode 3, "Lamentis"!

Dave Monteith returns to talk about his love for Loki, mixing in Jack Sparrow, the Joker AND flexing his previously unforeseen comic book trivia muscles! Join the boys as they dive into Loki episode 2, "The Variant"!

Our newest after show series kicks off with the third MCU Disney+ show, Loki! Join Jeff and John as they delight in all things time-travelingly mischievous, with shout-outs to Indiana Jones and Dragon Con along the way!

On a very special episode of the Nerdmudgeon podcast, Jeff reveals his love for pencil-thin mustaches and 1930s-era haberdashery as the boys share their thoughts on Netflix's latest original series, Jupiter's Legacy!

The episode we thought would never happen! Join John and Jeff as they break down the good, bad, and the ugly of DC's SnyderVerse of movies in #TheSnyderCut!

The team is back together, as John, Dave, and Jeff gather 'round to dissect the final installment in "The Falcon And the Winter Soldier"! Find out what they think went right, what went wrong, and most importantly, what John thinks about the new Captain America costume!

John returns to delve into what IS the truth; whether or not this is the greatest game of Frisbee ever played; and what else we can learn about Sam Wilson's journey to becoming the TRUE Captain America!

David Monteith returns to talk about "The Falcon and The Winter Soldier" Episode 4! What is evil? Is violence always the dividing line between good and evil? These question and more will be discussed as we try to marry our opposing world-views!

David Monteith makes a very special guest appearance on the show as we discuss the third episode – or is it the FOURTH?! Don't ask Jeff – of "The Falcon and The Winter Soldier! Can the male bonding and buddy-cop hijinks moments keep up with the action and adventure? Tune in and find out!

Can a chin be a White Supremacist while the rest of the body is a hero? Join John & Jeff as they talk about the second episode of "The Falcon and The Winter Soldier" and all things that involve fighting on top of moving semi-trucks full of super-steroids!

Join John & Jeff to mock their wildly inaccurate speculation; to share their excitement of this fantastic program; and most of all, to have fun enjoying the things you love as they talk about the first episode of "The Falcon and The Winter Soldier"!

John and Jeff thumb-wrestle to see who will get to be Falcon and who will be Winter Soldier this cosplay season, prep you for the newest upcoming Disney+ series, and flagellate themselves over their many and sundry WRONG predictions in WandaVision!

It's Nerdmudgeon's 50th episode! The guys saved one very special movie for this very special episode -- join John, Jeff, and Dave as they revel in 2017's "Wonder Woman"!

Dave's pick rounds out the Non-Nerd Faves arc as the guys travel back to the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in awe of the epic "miracle on ice" in 2004's "Miracle"!

The WandaVision series comes to its Inevitable conclusion! Whose Vision will come out triumphant? Which witch wins?! And what do the guys think about the show now that it's over, as well as what it portends for Phase 4?! Tune in and find out!

It's time for John's pick in the Non-Nerd Faves arc as we try a little tenderness in visiting a band of plucky Irish youth looking to the be the saviors of soul in northern Dublin. We'll do our best to treat her right as this chain of fools reviews 1991's "The Commitments"!

It's the Scarlet Witch Origin Movie you've wanted all along, now in streaming TV form! Prepare for action, heartbreak, and SO MANY answered questions as John and Jeff break down – like, seriously, this episode will BREAK YOU DOWN – the latest on all things WandaVision!

John, Dave, and Jeff take a bit of a tangent with this new arc, as each of them shares their favorite NON-nerd movie of all time! We begin with a story of jealousy, genius, and fabulous wigs in the Best Picture winner, "Amadeus"!

WandaVision breaks the fourth wall OF OUR HEARTS and busts into all new realms of delightful weirdness, troll-ish goodness, and MCU-style awesome storytelling with the latest installment! Check out what John and Jeff get right, what they get wrong, and what you might have missed with our Deep Nerd Takes!

The "Game Changers" arc concludes with a look at 1986's "Aliens" by John Carpenter. Acidic slime will be discussed, M. C. Escher will be idolized, Sigorney Weaver will take her place among the great action heroes of all time, and someone might or might not confess to having watched this through fingers tightly wrapped around their eyes when watching it as a kid!

The hallowed tradition (see what I did there?!) of the sit-com "holiday episode" gets the full MCU treatment in "WandaVision" episode 6! Check out our quick-hitting review of what we learned, what we get wrong, and just how bad Jeff's knowledge of Billy Joel's songbook really is!

John, Dave, and Jeff never talk faster than they can hear, and Jack Burton never drives faster than he can see in this review of the delightful Eighties classic "Big Trouble In Little China"!

Minds. Are. Blown. Questions are answered, but give rise to MORE questions! Who's in control, what counts as "real", and how unreal IS Kevin Feige! All this AND MORE on the NerdMudgeon review of "WandaVision" episode 5!

Controversy ROCKS the podcast as not all of our hosts agree that "Superman II" is, in fact, a gamer-changer! Tune in to hear the nerd rage roar and to find out who thinks what, who stays friends, and who will KNEEL before ZOD!