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524.5 – Alien: Earth, Rod Patches Reports From the Sphere, One Battle After Another
| 2. October, 2025

This week, everyone is back in the war room! The guys talk about Season 1 of Alien: Earth which has recently concluded on Hulu and it seems like they’re mostly positive on it. Then, we get a dispatch from Patches’ father who has seen The Wizard of Oz at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Finally, in a long segment that assumes you have also seen One Battle After Another, the hosts discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest. AGAIN – SPOILERS – SEE ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER FIRST IF YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT PLOT SPOILERS.

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FORMAT

00:00 – Lightning Round: Just Quit

01:56 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 524.2 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Review! E-mail!

14:04 – Tidbit – Alien: Earth

34:17 – Mini-Segment – Rod Patches Reports From The Las Vegas Sphere

40:32 – Segment 3 – One Battle After Another (Spoilers)

1:25:49 – Outro

524.4 – Disney’s Panic, Predators, The Aggression Dichotomy
| 25. September, 2025

This week, David’s solo-parenting attempt left him unable to podcast, so we decided to save our discussion of Alien: Earth and One Battle After Another until next week. Katey, Patches, and Da7e get together this week to discuss seemingly nonsense that quickly boils over. First, we attempt to talk about one studio’s panic in the face of the government and that quickly spirals out, then Katey’s seen the new documentary Predators, it’s about the old reality series To Catch A Predator and is about entrapment by the police (partially). Finally, Patches is playing a game that is aggressively annoying to play and loving it, he wants to know if there are other extremely aggressive movies that fail (HIM) or succeed (A Serbian Film? – just kidding, don’t subject yourself) – We’re calling it The Aggression Dichotomy – can you attract someone by media that is constantly daring them to walk away?

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FORMAT

00:00 – Lightning Round: Car and Chase

02:17 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 524.4 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Review! E-mail!

14:59 – Tidbit – Disney’s Panic

42:11 – Mini-Segment – Predators

50:45 – Segment 3 – The Aggression Dichotomy

1:11:07 – Outro

524.3 – Silksong, MegaDoc, Vulture Movie Draft and Festival Reactions
| 18. September, 2025

This week, David’s coming in hot and is mad that Da7e saw HIM over doing this podcast. Katey listens as Patches and David inform her about the Hollow Knight sequel Silksong before talking about Megadoc, the Megalopolis documentary with David. Then, Everyone talks about the VULTURE MOVIE LEAGUE and what they’re picking this year. Sign up and join the FITWarriors!

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FORMAT

00:00 – Lightning Round: Doors

02:13 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 524.3 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Review!

09:54 – Tidbit – Silksong

22:16 – Mini-Segment – Megadoc

32:32 – Segment 3 – Vulture Movie Fantasy League

1:02:06 – Outro

524.2 – The Long Walk, Katey’s Covered TIFF, Is Paramount Buying Warner Bros?
| 12. September, 2025

This week, Katey is still in Toronto, but the boys get together to talk about The Long Walk, this year’s third Stephen King movie, and discuss the breaking news that Paramount/Skydance is considering putting in a bid on Warner Bros. While the boys worry, Katey calls in with (her new fancy Tik Tok microphone that she went into the Criterion Closet with) a report from TIFF and how, yes, Hamnet rips out your soul (apparently).

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

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

FORMAT

00:00 – Lightning Round: Bad Future Teens

01:31 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 524.2 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! E-Mail!

14:44 – Tidbit – The Long Walk

31:46 – Mini-Segment – Katey’s Toronto International Film Festival Check-In

38:23 – Segment 3 – Is Paramount Buying Warner Bros?

57:21 – Outro

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