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528 – Slow Xmas 5, Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc, Hamnet (w/ Ben Hosley!)
| 3. December, 2025

This week, we have replaced a still-absent David with Ben Hosley from the Blank Check podcast and producer/creator of the Slow Xmas music project or “bit” that we also discuss on this episode.

If you want to buy a vinyl copy of SLOW XMAS 5 head to madebymutant.com

You can also buy it digitally at outlets like Bandcamp!

Ben also saw (pun not intended) the Chainsaw Man movie and informs Katey, Da7e, and Patches about this anime hit that beat out Bugonia at the box office when it was released. Then, your three regular co-hosts talk about Hamnet and if their hearts were ripped out of their bodies by pure emotion or not. We talk about the end, I guess, but even the director Chloe Zhao says this movie can’t be spoiled.

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: Best Deployed Christmas Song

02:41- Intro – Welcome to Episode 528 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Review! E-mail!

15:30 – TidbitSlow Xmas 5

32:11 – Mini-segment – Ben saw Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc

42:28 – Segment 3 Hamnet

1:10:49 – Unboxing and Outro

Live From The 48th Denver Film Festival
| 5. November, 2025

This week, Patches and Katey flew out to Denver to join Da7e, Denver Film Festival Artistic Director Matthew Campbell, and Denver Film Festival CEO Kevin Smith to have a conversation about fighting about movies in front of a live audience. We haven’t done that in over a decade!

This week’s episode was recorded live, but the pauses when the audience was speaking that were not picked up by the mics were deleted.

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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A Fighting In The War Room Show (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes)
| 15. May, 2024

This week, Patches and Da7e have been left alone again, so they invite returning guest Jordan Hoffman back onto the show for a free-form discussion about recasting Gilligan’s Island, Starcrash and torrent ethics, Unfrosted again, cereals (and hot cereals), Blue Angels and Deep Sky in IMAX, solar flares and go bags, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (with a spoiler section!), how to stay awake in screenings, and bad things in food. Most importantly, they do not cancel the podcast.

Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@kateyrich), Da7e (@da7e)  Patches (@misterpatches), and  David (@davidehrlich) .

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FORMAT

0:00 – Intro – It’s a special episode

1:14:45 – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes SPOILERS BEGIN

1:28:59 – Outro

423 – The new DC movies, How do you wipe?, Knock At The Cabin
| 9. February, 2023

Knock At The Cabin

With Returning Guest Host Jordan Hoffman!

This week: Ehrlich’s out having a child, so Jordan Hoffman returns to Fighting In The War Room to NOT cancel the podcast. First, Da7e attempts to lay out the new plan for DC movies at Warner Bros and noted Green Lantern fans Patches and Jordan react to an “Earth-bound” series for those heroes. Then – Patches want’s to know how we wipe our butts after pooping and questions how we know if we’re “doing it right,” and that conversation goes exactly like you think it would. FINALLY, Jordan, Patches and Da7e weigh in on M Night Shyamalan’s latest: Knock at the Cabin with a spoiler section tacked on the end.

Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@kateyrich), Da7e (@da7e)  Patches (@misterpatches), and  David (@davidehrlich) .

Please subscribe on iTunes and KICK US A REVIEW if you like what you hear!

FORMAT

00:00 – Lightning Round:  Titanic Lines

4:11 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 423! Reviews!

15:17 – Tidbit – The new DC movies

36:10 – Mini-Segment – How do you wipe?

44:33 – Knock At The Cabin (SPOILERS starts at the GONG at 59:33)

1:21:31 – Outro

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