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Review – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
| 18. December, 2015

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Fighting in the Star Wars Room

This week, David, Patches, Da7e and Katey have all seen J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens. You probably have too! If you have, you want to talk about it. If you haven't, prepare to pause this episode or delve into spoilers.
 
Yes, spoilers. The first 29 minutes and 42 seconds of this podcast are SPOILER FREE.
Then there is a lightsaber and the spoilers come fast and hard with more than usual amount of tangental cross-talk (it was hard only talking to a handful of people about this movie)

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

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NOTE: 29:42 – Begin Spoiler Section.

 

STAR WARS SPECIAL – Episode 2: Revenge of the New Hopes
| 14. December, 2015

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Plus The Force Awakens speculations

The Fighting In The War Room podcast family acknowledges that Star Wars Mania is here to stay now that Disney-purchased Lucasfilm plans to spin the saga and anthology movies out into the foreseeable future. It's time to fight in the galactic war room.

In the second Star Wars Special, Matt Patches (who has managed to avoid all information about the Force Awakens except that the Millennium Falcon is in it) and Joanna Robinson engage with Da7e on what level of Star Wars minutiae is a step too far. Trivia? Expanded Universe? Then, Katey Rich and Joanna entertain Da7e's R2-D2 theory as a way of talking about how to improve the prequels.

Then – This is the LAST PODCAST RECORDED before everyone sees The Force Awakens! – it's finally time for The Storm of Spoilers crew to apply their Game of Thrones Citadel of Crazytown to Episode VII. No one has actually seen the movie, but everyone has questions. Then, the hosts brainstorm possible titles for Episode VIII.

A Note on SPOILERS: On a scale from Mister Patches (knowing nothing) to Storm of Spoilers (spoiling everything), this episode's final segment TOTAL SPOILAGE POSSIBLE. There will be a GONG SOUND 1 hour and 27 minutes in in to warn you when that the speculation is about to happen. 

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

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

FORMAT

00:00 – It's A Star Wars Special!

02:10 –   Intro

04:18 –  RETENTION QUIZ – Revenge of the Sith Vs. Katey

17:56 –  RETENTION QUIZ – A New Hope Vs. Neil

32:08 – How Much Star Wars is Too Much Star Wars (Expanded Universe)

57:06 – R2-D2, Withholding Droid and What You'd Change About the Prequels

1:27:35 –  SPOILER GONG! The Force Awakens Spoiler/Speculation Free-For-All

2:13:56 – Outro

 

Review – The Big Short
| 12. December, 2015

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The financial sky is falling

This week, David, Patches, and Katey bet against the banks, make a billion dollars, then quit the podcasting business. Just kidding. They made a billion dollars and decided to review The Big Short. They also pick answers to a lightning round question about celebrity cameos.

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

Please subscribe on iTunes and KICK US A REVIEW if you like what you hear! We read new reviews on the show!

Music

"Higher and Higher" by Craig Wedren

 

STAR WARS SPECIAL – Episode One: A Phantom Jedi Awakening Menace
| 9. December, 2015

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The Phantom Menace > Return of the Jedi

The Fighting In The War Room podcast family acknowledges that Star Wars Mania is here to stay now that Disney-purchased Lucasfilm plans to spin the saga and anthology movies out into the foreseeable future. It's time to fight in the galactic war room. In the first of our Star Wars specials, Joanna Robinson from Vanity Fair's Hollywood (and the Thought Bubble and Storm of Spoilers podcasts) takes a quiz to recall The Phantom Menace followed by spoiler-phobe Matt Patches' quiz to recall Return of the Jedi. Then, the two lock horns like two sons of Dathomir to debate Patches' theory that The Phantom Menace is a better movie than Return of the Jedi. Finally, Katey stops by to kick Patches out and finally talk freely about The Force Awakens for the first time on a FITWR podcast.

A Note on SPOILERS: On a scale from Mister Patches (knowing nothing) to Storm of Spoilers (spoiling everything), this episode's final segment is in the middle. There will be a GONG SOUND 22 minutes in to warn you when that the speculation is about to happen. The rest of the podcast is spoiler free! 

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

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

FORMAT

00:00 – It's A Star Wars Special!

01:25 –   Intro

03:01 –  RETENTION QUIZ – The Phantom Menace Vs. Joanna

14:00 –  RETENTION QUIZ – Return of the Jedi Vs. Patches

28:36 – The Phantom Menace > Return of the Jedi

22:11 –  SPOILER GONG! Living in a Force Awakens world w/o having seen The Force Awakens

1:21:36 – Outro

 

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