524.2 – The Long Walk, Katey’s Covered TIFF, Is Paramount Buying Warner Bros?
Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast
Katey, Matt, Da7e and David
4.6 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
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).
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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
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | These guys would never make it to Mordor. |
| 0:04.5 | In honor of the long walk in theaters this weekend, |
| 0:07.2 | what's your favorite dystopian future movie |
| 0:09.4 | featuring young adults? |
| 0:13.4 | Katie is not here today, so I'm going to kick off Matt Patches. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm going to say, The Maze Runner. |
| 0:20.8 | Ooh. Where Dylan O'Brien's running that maze |
| 0:24.6 | in the dystopian future with |
| 0:26.6 | those creepy spiders. |
| 0:29.5 | Hey, it's me |
| 0:30.4 | David the Senate. I'm going to go with the |
| 0:32.4 | Warriors. When gangs |
| 0:34.7 | rule New York, |
| 0:36.6 | heaven forbid you have to get back to Cody Island. |
| 0:41.6 | And I am David Ehrlich and I guess, |
| 0:46.6 | I mean, |
| 0:47.7 | I feel like the kids in Mad Max beyond Thunderdome |
| 0:51.3 | do not qualify as young adults. |
| 0:53.5 | Maybe the kids in |
| 0:54.9 | in Mad Max Furiosa. |
| 0:58.1 | Or Furiosa, a Mad Max saga. |
| 1:00.7 | Whatever the fuck of them's dull. |
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