523 – Ne Zha II, K-Pop Demon Hunters in a theater, Highest 2 Lowest
Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast
Katey, Matt, Da7e and David
4.6 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week, David is so busy he only wanted to be on the Spike Lee/Denzel segment, but before David joins us for a review of Highest 2 Lowest, it’s an animation-palooza! First, Da7e and Katey both took in the highest grossing movie of the year Ne Zha II and we’re cooked! Then, Patches took his family to a K-Pop Demon Hunters singalong screening in a real theater and we debate how Netflix kinda screwed the pooch on this one.
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FORMAT
00:00 – Lightning Round: Animated Dragon
01:11 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 523 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Email!
15:59 – Tidbit – Ne Zha II
31:15 – Mini-Segment – K-Pop Demon Hunters in a theater!
44:00 – Segment 3 – Highest 2 Lowest
1:02:28 – Outro
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How many movies do I have to watch to be able to train a dragon? |
| 0:07.0 | In other of Nesia 2, in theaters this weekend, |
| 0:10.3 | what slash who is your favorite animated dragon? |
| 0:14.3 | I'm Katie Rich, and I'm just going classic puffy dragon, |
| 0:17.8 | puffy magic dragon. |
| 0:18.9 | He's green, he's got big belly. |
| 0:20.3 | I like him. |
| 0:22.0 | I am Matt Patches, and I'm going to go with Falkor from the never-ending story, the Wish Dragon. |
| 0:28.7 | I consider puppeteering a form of animation. |
| 0:31.5 | So I'd put it on the list here. |
| 0:34.0 | Okay. I mean, fair enough. |
| 0:36.9 | And I'm David the 7, and I'm going to go with O.G. Maleficent |
| 0:41.1 | turning into that black and purple and green dragon. |
| 0:45.5 | Looks good. |
| 0:46.5 | It's real good. |
| 0:47.6 | You can't fight in here. This is the war room. |
| 0:49.6 | Fine, I can hear you now, Dimitri. |
| 0:51.8 | I can no longer sit back and allow. |
| 0:54.0 | Clear and plain and coming through fine. |
| 0:56.6 | Subversion. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm coming through fine, too, eh? |
| 0:59.1 | And the international conspiracy. |
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