The Salty Nerd Podcast

Things are heating up as the Best Friends return to San Francisco to discover Father Jun isn't too happy with them. After an impromptu coup, the Mayor gets drunk and then gets super D E A D, thanks to Jacob the valet. This sets up a major crackdown on Chinatown during which Ah Toy's former business partner sends some bigass goons to M U R D E R her, and she has to show them the true meanin...

It's that time again for JUNE CLAUDE VAN DAMME! The show where the Salty Nerds celebrate all things Jean-Claude Van Damme related, and this time we have a classic for you all! At sometime, somewhere, someone thought it would be a good idea to put basketball bad-boy Dennis Rodman in a movie. And not only did they think it was a good idea to put him in a movie, but they thought it would be a goo...

Season 2 of the MAX original series WARRIOR (based on the writings of Bruce Lee) get absolutely BONKERS with the midseason episodes. First off, we have a MAJOR shake-up in Chinatown as Chow, Li Yong, and Big Bill team up to take down Zing and those pesky Fung Hai in what basically amounts to a Kung Fu version of the Red Wedding. Then, we have an AMAZING bottle episode where the three best friends...

The Salty Nerds talk about what is widely being hailed as one of the worst MCU movies ever - Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania. What was supposed to be a big kick-off to Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe landed with a resounding wet THUD as the third installment of the Ant-Man series strayed from the fun heist formula in an effort to launch the new villain Kang the Conqueror (played by th...

Things are heating up as Big Bill gets fed up with working for the Fung Hai and quits. But no one ever quits on the funnest guy - Zing! Big D Lee is suffering from headaches, but Ah Toi knows just the remedy. Ah Sahm and Young Jun are getting into the Molasses business with Happy Jack, and welcome a new member to the Hop Wei wolfpack - Hong Solo! The gayest fighter you've ever seen fight! Come...

The Salty Nerds talk about the Fast and Furious franchise and about how much they disliked Fast X, the latest entry into the Fast saga. Too long, too bloated, and not fun at all, the Salty Nerds really HATED this movie, especially compared to the previous films (which they mostly enjoyed). Directed by newcomer to the franchise, Louis Leterrier, and supposedly the first part of a "finale trilo...

Hold onto your onions, folks, because things are about to get STICKY with the return of the MAX original series WARRIOR, starring the totally awesome (no pun intended) Andrew Koji as everyone's favorite Bruce Lee surrogate. Warrior season 2 kicks off with a bang and an episode directed by showrunner Jonathan Tropper. In this edition of the Salty Nerd Podcast, we cover the first two episodes of...

The Salty Nerds have a discussion about why people like horror movies, because half of the nerd crew hate horror films, and the other half love them. What is it about horror movies people like? Is it the gore? The fear of the unknown? The supernatural element? Or are horror movie fans just pure psychopaths that like seeing mindless violence? Speaking of mindless violence, the Nerds also review the...

The Salty Nerds talk about one of the greatest actors of all time - Nicolas Cage, and his storied career while giving a spoiler-filled review of his most recent movie, Renfield. The Nerds talk about Cage's start as a quirky character actor, his Oscar win, his time as a leading man in action movies, his financial troubles, his straight-to-netflix era, and his comeback by doing some insanely awe...

The Salty Nerds talk about the epic final two episodes of Season 1 of the incredible HBOMAX series, Warrior. Episodes 9 & 10, entitled Chinese Boxing and If You Have To Bow, Bow Low, pay off all the epic story threads of the Tong War and the San Francisco labor clashes that had been building up all season long. Ah Sahm gets demolished in a brutal duel, but finds new purpose just in time to fac...

The Video Game Adaptation Curse is a real thing, because Hollywood is stupid. Apparently, it's impossible for Hollywood creatives to take a great video game's story and just make a live action version of it. No, they have to ruin it by putting all their dumb ideas into what should be a straight-forward adaptation. But things are starting to change! There's actually a video game adaptat...

The Salty Nerds continue their recaps of the excellent Kung-Fu crime saga Warrior, covering Season 1 Episodes 7 & 8 - "The Tiger and the Fox," and "They Don't Pay Us Enough To Think." These two episodes have a ton of action and set up the impending Tong war in Chinatown. Come join us for the fun! What do you think of Warrior season 1? Are you liking it so far? Who do yo...

The Salty Nerds talk about The Whale (2022) and the controversy surrounding Brendan Fraser playing a morbidly obese man when he isn't actually morbidly obese. How much does representation matter when casting a movie? Why does Hollywood hate fate people? Do fat actors lose their talent when they get healthy? We talk about all this and more in this episode of the Salty Nerd Podcast. What do you...

The Nerds talk about The Blood And The Sh*t - one of their all-time favorite episodes of MBOMax's WARRIOR, where Ah Sahm and Young Jun fight cowboy bandits in one of the most epic barroom brawls of all time! Then they discuss episode 6 called Chewed Up, Spit Out, and Stepped On, where the gang war between the Tongs begins to loom as the Long Zii attempt to assassinate Father Jun, and the Hop W...

The Salty Nerds review "John Chinaman" and "The White Mountain" as the continue with their season 1 recap of the awesome Kung Fu crime drama from HBOMax, Warrior! If you're not watching Warrior on HBOMax, you are missing out on some darn good TV! The show has action, drama, crime, sex, nudity - everything an audience could possibly want! lol. What is your take on episodes 3...

In 1878, newly arrived immigrant Ah Sahm arrives in San Francisco and joins Chinatown's most ruthless tong, the Hop Wei. Thus begins the epic crime saga from the mind and writings of legendary martial artist Bruce Lee, brought to life by producer Jonathan Tropper. This show has action galore, and more than a bit of cut-throat politics, Game of Thrones style! In this episode, the Salty Nerds co...

The Salty Nerds watch The Wandering Earth, a movie that ignores science so much it's insulting. In what is meant to be a fun, science fiction adventure film, we get one ridiculous scenario after another. Basically a full-fledged Chinese propaganda film based on a similarly propagandistic novel, the movie is about the sun going supernova so the Earth's population builds a bunch of engines t...

The Salty Nerds discuss the recent trend of Gingercide in Hollywood, where redhead characters are targeted and replaced with people of color in movie and TV adaptations. Are gingers being unfairly targeted in the entertainment industry? Let us know what you think on our Discord server at http://www.saltynerddiscord.com And if you like our content, consider supporting us by signing up for our membe...

RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD - A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers. Whether it's the jail escape or fighting in the jungles of Vietnam, John Rambo is not a man to be trifled with. Unless you're Jude JuJu, then you can badmouth him all you want apparently. Let the Sylvester Stallone hate...

Jung_E movie review from the Salty Nerds have them marveling at how good Korean cinema is at making awesome sci-fi movies. Jung_E takes place on an uninhabitable Earth that has been ravaged by ecological disasters and a drawn-out civil war.  Victory hinges on cloning the brain of an elite soldier to create the ultimate robot combat AI.  However, corporate politics and greed get in the wa...

65 movie review from the Salty Nerds has them split on whether this is a good movie or not any why people seem to think Adam Driver is actually a movie star.   In the immortal words of Ian Malcolm "..uh Hello? are there eventually Dinosaurs in your dinosaur tour?"     65 (million years ago) staring Adam Driver is about an astronaut that crash lands on a doomed planet called Ear...

John Wick 2014 movie review by the Salty Nerds lets you know what happens when you kill a man's dog.  We have no sympathy for the bad guys in the beginning of this Keanu Reeves action franchise that started off as a sleeper film that grew into a world-wide phenomenon.   With John Wick Chapter 4 looming on the horizon, the Salty Nerds decided to take a look at the OG John Wick and revisit...

Better Off Dead (1985) Movie Review - join Jude, Alex and Kadish as they gush over this classic 80s high school comedy created by Savage Steve Holland. Where's Vader you might ask?  He's off wondering why we haven't reviewed "Porky's" yet.   Better off Dead is a portrayal of high school life in the '80s. John Cusack stars as Lane Meyer, a lovestruck teenager who is crushed when his girlf...

Is Brahmastra Part One: Shiva Bollywood's version of Star Wars? Join the Salty Nerds as we discuss our latest venture into International Film - particularly Indian cinema.  Brahmastra, a 2019 Indian film directed by Ayan Mukerji, is the TOTALLY original story of Shiva, a young man who discovers he has magical powers and is destined to save the world from an ancient evil force. (Wow, we've def...

Join The Salty Nerds as they discuss the HBO movie "The Menu" (2022). How much Christian allegory can you fit in one movie? We're about to find out!     The Menu is a 2022 American comedy horror film directed by Mark Mylod, written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, based on an original story created by Tracy, produced by Adam McKay, Betsy Koch and Will Ferrell (yes, that Will Farrell),...