2 Nerds And A Universe

Alex and Brandon are back and October is officially over — but we are NOT slowing down! This week we’re paying tribute to the legendary Patrick Stewart, losing our minds over GTA VI coming November 19th, and getting into a full-blown debate over whether 2026 is the greatest year in movie history, going head to head with 2005’s legendary lineup. Hope you enjoy!

Alex and Brandon are back for a special Halloween week episode — and DC just dropped something that might change everything! We’re reviewing the brand new Clayface movie, breaking down the stop-motion animated film Wildwood, debating who should play Batman in the new DCU, and talking about where DC goes from here. Hope you enjoy!

Alex and Brandon are back with a massive Halloween episode — we’re recapping our Scary Movie in the Park event (90-100 people showed up!), and then going head to head on the greatest horror movies of all time! Old school vs. new school, iconography vs. pure fear, Hereditary vs. Friday the 13th — and yes, they disagreed on almost every single one. Hope you enjoy!

Alex and Brandon are back and it is officially spooky season on the pod, nerds — October means ALL horror, ALL month! This week we’re diving into the brand new movie The Other Mommy, breaking down why it got a brutal 16% from critics but a 48% from audiences, debating the movie’s biggest failures and surprise wins, sharing some wild childhood nightmare stories, and previewing everything we’re watc...

Alex and Brandon are back and October is HERE, nerds — which means it's time for the ultimate Halloween episode! We're building our definitive Top 10 Slasher Movies of All Time list from scratch, debating whether Terrifier deserves a spot, breaking down the difference between slashers and creature features, rating our own survival odds in each movie, and reacting to Smile 2. Oh, and don&#3...

Alex and Brandon are back and we are going somewhere we've never gone before on this podcast — dog movies! The new Brad Pitt film Heart of the Beast just dropped and Alex gave it a perfect 10, and honestly after this conversation, you'll understand why. We're breaking down the full review, ranking the greatest dog movies of all time, getting into veteran and combat dog PTSD representat...

Alex and Brandon are back and we couldn't wait until October — the new Resident Evil movie just dropped and it is THAT good, nerds! We're breaking down the full review, the Raccoon City lore, the Umbrella Corporation deep dive, Jordan Peele vs. Zach Cregger filmographies, whether a sequel should happen, and we're ranking the best and worst of the franchise. Hope you enjoy!

Alex and Brandon are back with their brother Raul for one of the most chaotic and hilarious episodes yet — a full movie fantasy draft! With only $50 to spend, they're bidding on mystery movie descriptions across every genre from action to romance, and let's just say some of the placements are… questionable. We're also getting into the Notebook debate, Star Wars prequel rankings, Incept...

Alex and Brandon are back for a special Labor Day episode and we brought the squad — guests Aron and Eric are back at the table and we are talking football, nerds! We're breaking down our fantasy football draft drama, debating Bijan Robinson vs. Jamir Gibbs, ranking the NFL's top Super Bowl contenders, giving our Cowboys season predictions, previewing Week 1 against the Giants, and droppin...

Alex and Brandon are switching it up this episode, nerds — we're finally taking the rap debates from behind the scenes and putting them on the internet! We're getting into the Drake vs. Kendrick beef, who actually won, whether the whole thing was a hoax to save hip hop, the GOAT debate across every era, Megan Thee Stallion vs. Nicki Minaj, NF vs. Dax, Eminem's legacy, the future of rap...

Alex and Brandon are putting their movie knowledge to the ultimate test in Episode 36 — our producers are hitting us with movie soundtracks and iconic quotes completely off the top of our dome, and we have NO idea what's coming! From Interstellar to Lord of the Rings, Pulp Fiction to The Greatest Showman, Creed to Rush Hour, we're guessing, debating, and going deep on why these movies matt...

Alex and Brandon are back and D23 just dropped a TON of news, nerds — and we're breaking ALL of it down! We're reacting to the full X-Men casting including Kit Connor as Cyclops, Sadie Sink as Jean Gray, Adam Driver as Sinister, Indy as Rogue and more, debating the Incredibles 3 Jack Jack villain theory, breaking down the Beyond the Spider-Verse leak, reacting to the new Doomsday trailer,...

Alex and Brandon are back with a fun one, nerds — back to school season is here and we decided to settle it once and for all: what are the greatest school movies of all time? From Breakfast Club to Dead Poets Society, Mean Girls to Coach Carter, Billy Madison to Chronicle, we're debating, ranking, and arguing our way through a massive list to land on our top ten. Oh, and yes, the High School M...

Alex and Brandon are BACK with a very special episode — guest Daniel (Zuko) joins the pod fresh off San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H to break down everything: the Ryan Gosling Ghost Rider reveal, the Doomsday footage, AND the full spoiler review of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which just hit $1 billion worldwide! We're talking ratings, Jean Gray, the inhibitor, the Punisher's role, the X-Men...

Alex and Brandon are back and Spider-Man season is officially HERE, nerds! We're breaking down everything leading into Spider-Man: Brand New Day — our wildest predictions, the symbiote theory, Jean Gray as the mystery villain, mutants entering the MCU, Ryan Gosling as Ghost Rider, the new Doomsday trailer breakdown from San Diego Comic-Con, and we're recapping our very first Spider-Man tri...

Alex and Brandon are back and THIS is the one you've been waiting for, nerds — the full breakdown of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey! Alex caught it in rare 70mm format at AMC River Center right here in San Antonio, and Brandon saw it in premium large format, and let's just say they didn't walk out with the same score. We're getting into everything — the ratings, the gripes, th...

Alex and Brandon open with a tribute to Sam Neill, then Alex pulls up the Dune Part 3 trailer so Brandon can see it for the first time live on camera. From there they go deep on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey: the Imax 70mm technology, the cast, the marketing controversy, and what the box office number needs to look like. The back half of the episode is a first-to-ten movie guessing game that...

Welcome back to Two Nerds in a Universe! Alex and Brandon are joined by special guest Daniel from Legacy of Nerd — a San Antonio content creator who started with Power Rangers and branched out into everything nerdy. Before the ranking begins, there's a Spider-Man event announcement you don't want to miss. Then we throw 30 sequels into a blind tier list and see where the chips fall — and wh...

Supergirl dropped and James Gunn's DC universe is in trouble. Alex and Brandon break down the movie in full, including their split ratings (7.0 vs 4.0), why Millie Alcock gave it everything she had, and why the script let her down completely. They dig into why Krem is one of the most forgettable villains in recent memory, why Jason Momoa as Lobo was perfectly cast and completely wasted, and wh...

Alex and Brandon open with a response to a military friend who felt alienated by how faith-heavy the last episode's alien debate was. The guys get real about what their platform means to them, why they will never quiet their faith to grow an audience, and what Christianity is actually supposed to look like vs. what it often looks like in practice. Brandon shares how meeting Alex in the militar...

The nerds are back and we are going into three different universes that have taken Hollywood by storm — Iron Lung, Obsession, and Backrooms. All three directed by YouTubers. All three made for a fraction of what major studios spend. All three crushing at the box office. We give our honest ratings on each, debate which one actually wins, and talk about what this means for the film industry going fo...

The nerds are back for Episode 23! We kick things off with a Spurs playoff update before diving deep into the series finale of The Boys — was Homelander's death satisfying? Did Butcher deserve his ending? And why did the final season leave so many plot holes? We break it all down. Then we shift to upcoming movies everyone's talking about: Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and whether the...

On today's episode of Two Nerds and a Universe, Alex and Brandon are back from a seven-day Disney World trip with the whole family — 22 deep — and they've got a lot to catch up on. We're talking SeaWorld, Magic Kingdom, Epic Universe, and Busch Gardens. We're talking Spurs vs OKC Western Conference Finals, Wemby vs Chet, and Darren Fox's ankle. And we still somehow had time to...

On today's episode of Two Nerds and a Universe, Alex and Brandon go full nerd mode in honor of May the Fourth. We're breaking down the just-dropped Darth Maul Shadow Lord season finale, debating the entire Star Wars timeline from Revenge of the Sith to the disaster that is the Acolyte, and settling the age-old question — could Mace Windu survive Knightfall Anakin? Plus NBA playoff predicti...

On today's episode of Two Nerds and a Universe, Alex and Brandon are covering everything happening in the nerd universe right now. The Spurs are heating up the playoffs and Wembanyama is proving the doubters wrong — but is this a fluke or a sign of things to come? Then we get into the Michael Jackson biopic: critics gave it 38% and audiences gave it 97% — and we have thoughts. We're also d...