Action-movie arguments with comic recoil.
WHAT’S UP, BRO is a comedy-first conversation show built around movies, sports, TV, pop culture, internet arguments, and whatever tangent survives the room. Its Kickflix episodes turn action and martial arts films into spirited play-by-play, with broad criteria, spoilers, running jokes, and plenty of side-road observations.
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WHAT’S UP, BRO is a loose, joke-dense pop-culture show that treats movies, TV shows, sports, internet arguments, and everyday absurdity as material for a running conversation. It is not polished critic-table talk. It feels closer to a live room where a film reference, a bad caption, a Disney argument, or an AITA-style premise can derail the path without killing the momentum. Recent episodes revolve around Kickflix, the show’s martial arts and action-movie review lane. The rules are intentionally flexible. Fighting counts. Emotional beatdowns count. Montages help. Tournaments may help, but the speakers keep arguing about whether any of these criteria should matter as much as the feeling of watching the movie. That lets the show place Demolition Man, Equilibrium, Universal Soldier, Warrior, Nobody, By the Sword, and The Accountant into the same comic testing ground. The pleasure is in the stretch. A dystopian cop movie can lead to Taco Bell jokes, banned chocolate, and the three seashells. A revenge thriller can turn into a specific detour about whether a neck injury scene is plausible. A fencing drama can become a discussion of bad training choices, strange computer effects, and exposition that works harder than expected. The show uses spoilers freely, so it is better for listeners who enjoy recaps with punchlines rather than pristine first-watch preservation. It also has a blunt, adult-comedy register, with insult humor and rough edges cleaned up here into plain terms. Beneath the noise, the movie affection is real. The speakers are not trying to flatten action cinema into trivia or prestige analysis. They are asking why a scene works, why a plot choice is ridiculous, why a performer lands, and why some films remain fun even when the logic barely survives. WHAT’S UP, BRO suits listeners who want comedy with their genre talk, not genre talk drained of comedy. It is sharp, messy, specific, and happiest when a fight scene opens the door to three unrelated arguments before the next beat of the plot.
Made for: Best for listeners who like spoiler-heavy movie talk, comedy energy, and action films judged by feeling as much as formal genre rules. It especially fits fans of martial arts movies, dystopian action, revenge thrillers, and chaotic pop-culture banter.
What sets it apart: The show’s Kickflix format treats “martial arts movie” as a living argument instead of a fixed label. That gives the reviews room for sincere genre affection, loose comedy, plot nitpicking, and recurring debates about what really makes a movie kick.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed, funny scene analysis turns movie fights into arguments about technique, physical credibility and character.
WHAT'S UP, BRO turns action movies into lively arguments about how fights work, why characters make certain choices, and when spectacle outruns credibility.
A tracheotomy fact-check crashes a Nobody brawl recap, exactly when you hoped the tangent would win.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Movie jokes give way to a thoughtful take on watching without expectations.
A joke about forgetting films leads to the conversation's best thought: one speaker envies his wife's ability to watch a movie without nostalgia or expectations getting in the way.
Mike and Nary debate a knife fight in Nobody, then consider what the hero's wife knows.
Mike and Nary take up Nobody (2021) as a family-man action fantasy whose hero takes real damage. Their sharpest disagreement comes when someone pulls a knife on him: one sees his response as murder, while the other calls it self-defense.
Kick Flicks finds the funny details in By the Sword, especially its fencing warm-up.
Mike and Nery give the 1991 fencing movie By the Sword a close look on Kick Flicks. Eric Roberts and F. Murray Abraham star, but one training scene holds the hosts' attention: a character attempts a pull-up before practicing lunges.
Mike Mercadal and Mary Zines pick at odd details in The Accountant and disagree about a reveal.
Mike Mercadal and Mary Zines linger on the odd little choices in The Accountant. A character at a robotics company gives an embezzlement figure down to the dollar, then adds "and some change." If he knows the exact dollar amount, they wonder, why get vague about the rest?
A Joker disagreement sends the hosts back to Marvel movies they watched together.
The hosts start with the musical direction of the Joker sequel and Lady Gaga's involvement, then find they disagree about more than that movie. Their different reactions to the first Joker lead them back to superhero films they watched together.
Three friends recap Daredevil, Fallout, and new releases scene by scene, in Spanish.
Slasher talk with sharp teeth.
The hosts of the WuBro podcast discuss and dissect the movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in a spoiler-filled special episode.
The hosts introduce the podcast and discuss the 1993 martial arts film Iron Monkey starring Donnie Yen.
What's Up, Bro Podcast spends this episode on vertical video, YouTube Shorts on a TV, and how that changes the way Mike Marcadon and Nary Signs watch movies and podcasts.
The hosts introduce the podcast and announce they are reviewing the 1993 martial arts movie Demolition Man.
The hosts of the Kickflix podcast introduce their discussion of the 2002 film Equilibrium, including their podcast format and a spoiler warning.
The hosts of the Kickflix podcast introduce their review of the 1992 film Universal Soldier, discussing their criteria for martial arts and action movies.
The hosts introduce their podcast about martial arts movies, discussing the criteria for a 'kickflix' movie, using Warrior (2011) as an example.
Kickflix hosts Mike Mercadal and Nery Ongar review the 2021 action film 'Nobody,' starring Bob Odenkirk as Hutch, a retired government operative turned docile suburban dad who is pushed back into violence by a series of indignities culminating in a burglary at his home.
Kickflix hosts Mike Mercadal and Nery Ongar review the 1991 fencing film 'By the Sword,' starring Eric Roberts and F.
Mike Mercadal and Mary Zines review 2016's The Accountant on the Kickflix podcast, debating whether the Ben Affleck-led film about an autistic forensic accountant qualifies as a 'kickflix' movie.
The hosts introduce the podcast and discuss the 1993 martial arts classic Iron Monkey starring Donnie Yen.
What's Up, Bro jumps from a live-show intro by Mike Marcadon, Nary Signs, and Steph Annie Mayer Sr.
The hosts of the What's Up Bro Podcast banter about the disappointing Los Angeles weather and the misleading promise of sunshine.