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524.6 – Nightmare in Horror Films, K-Pop Demon BBQ, The Smashing Machine
| 10. October, 2025

This week, Patches and Da7e have been watching the old Nightmare on Elm Street sequels on HBO Max and Patches wonders if we’re missing something in modern horror. Then, Patches and David got to meet the stars of K-Pop Demon Hunters in New York, did they earn more cred with their kids? Finally, Katey, David, and Da7e have seen The Smashing Machine and debate the movie’s high aspirations as a character piece with a puzzling execution.

Golden” in the style of System of a Down by Anthony Vincent

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FORMAT

00:00 – Lightning Round: KB Toys Kids

02:24 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 524.6 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Reviews! E-mail!

14:13 – Tidbit – Nightmare in Horror Films

29:57 – Mini-Segment – K-Pop Demon BBQ

40:21 – Segment 3 – The Smashing Machine

58:52 – Outro

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?

THURSDAY 9/25 is the last day to Sign up and join the FITWarriors in the Vulture Fantasy Movie League and still get full points!

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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!

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: 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

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