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This week, whoops, there’s a new biggest movie in theaters and this one is setting records. Matt Patches and Katey Rich were unable to catch Spider-Man: Brand New Day in theaters, but Katey shows up to referee a discussion between Davids, one Ehrlich who did not like Brand New Day as much as one Da7e who thought it’s a new kind of Spider-Man installment that points towards some good tidings in Marvel’s immediate future. Will they return next week with a single topic show? Not intentionally, but don’t count us out.

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FORMAT

00:00 – Lightning Round: Legislate something

02:07 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 552!

10:12 – Spider-Man: Brand New Day Review

01:08:14 – Outro

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This week, everyone is back in the War Room and not on vacation with multiple children and everyone has seen The Odyssey! We figured it was about time that we devoted an episode of one of TIME Magazine’s Best Podcasts of All Time to this all-timer cinematic experience (that nevertheless has nitpicks our hosts will nitpick). That’s all we had to talk about to fill a whole episode. MAKE SURE YOU’VE SEEN THE ODYSSEY FIRST IF YOU CARE ABOUT SPOILERS.

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FORMAT

00:00 – Lightning Round: Worst Houseguest

02:07 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 551! Review! E-mail!

10:12 – The Odyssey Review

01:08:14 – Outro

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AKA NONE OF US ARE FIFTY YET BUT ALL THESE MOVIES ARE.

It’s another Fighting in The War Room Quarter Quell! 

For this edition of a FITWR Quarter Quell, each host picked a movie that was released 50 years go in 1976 and was NOT one of the super popular ones (no Network, no Rocky). Katey finally watches the Barbra Streisand/Kris Kristofferson version of A Star is Born, Da7e caught up on a Sherlock Holmes movie he had never seen with The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Patches picked the final Alfred Hitchcock film called Family Plot, and David exposes his cohosts to In Realm of the Senses .

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Format

0:00 – Welcome

04:56 – Katey – A Star Is Born

23:04 – Da7e – The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

40:51 – Patches – Family Plot

58:27 – David – In The Realm of the Senses

Previous Quarter Quells:

• OpKino Classic: First Quarter Quell (August 26th 2011)
• OpKino Classic: The 2nd Quarter Quell (Feb. 22nd 2012)
• OpKino Classic: Storytelling Quarter Quell (Aug 10th 2012)
• OpKino Classic: Family Interview Full Quell (Feb 8th, 2013)
• FITWR 025 – The Filmmaking Quarter Quell (June 3rd, 2014)
• FITWR 050 – QQ2: Movies for the Moment (Dec. 2nd 2014)
• FITWR 075 – QQ3: Movies We Wanted To Be When We Grew Up.
• FITWR 100 – Significant Other Full Quell
• FITWR 125 – Movies We Want to Show (Our) Children
• FITWR 150 – Movies That Represent What We Want For America
• FITWR 175 – Revisiting Previous Infamous Discussions
• FITWR 200 – Foriegn Netflix Quell
• FITWR 225 – The Lifelong Evolving Obsession Quell
• FITWR 250 – The New York Movie Quell
• FITWR 275 – Movie of the Decade Quell
• FITWR 300 – The Call-In Show
• FITWR 325 – The Exceeded Expectations Quell
• FITWR 350 – The Summer Movie Quell
• FITWR 375 – The Anniversary Quell
• FITWR 400 – Call in Show 2
• FITWR 425 – The Date Quell
• FITWR 450 – The “Not For You On Paper” Quell
• FITWR 475 – The Elder Millennial Canon Quell
• FITWR 500 – Call in Show 3
• FITWR 525 – The Movies About Subjects That Scare Us Quell

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This week, David can’t make it to the War Room, but is locked in with the rest of the hosts for next week’s QUARTER QUELL – 1976. On this episode, Da7e has questions for Patches about the no-good-very-bad news for the console gaming industry over the past couple of weeks. Then, Katey reports on Minions and Monsters, which sounds fun but is underperforming at the box office. Then, Katey and Da7e talk about The Invite, expanding to more theaters this weekend and though since they disclose the premise the trailer is hinting at, consider it LIGHT SPOILERS, I guess.

BACK NEXT WEEK WITH EPISODE 550, HE TYPES, JINXING THEM ALL.

Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us, follow on BlueSky! Follow the show (@fitwr.bsky.social), Katey (@kateyrich.bsky.social), Da7e (@da7e.bsky.social),  Patches (@misterpatches.bsky.social), and David (@davidehrlich.bsky.social).

One of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Podcasts of All Time

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FORMAT

00:00 – Lightning Round: Streaming Expectations

02:08 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 549! E-mail!

13:28 – Tidbit – The Death of Console Gaming?

30:00 – Mini-Segment – Minons and Monsters

39:04 – Segment Three – The Invite (Light Spoilers)

01:18:19 – Outro

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