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Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast

524.8 – Black Phone 2 and Roofman

Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast

Katey, Matt, Da7e and David

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews

4.6992 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary






This week, Patches was tired and David hadn’t seen the movies, so Katey and Da7e DARE TO GO OFF FORMAT for this really-really-really last episode before next week’s Quarter Quell. For the first half of the show, David, Katey and Da7e announce FITWR’s next two weeks (Quarter Quell! Live Show in Denver!), read your reviews and answer an e-mail from Brazil. Then, David checks out to work on his book while Da7e and Katey talk Black Phone 2 and Roofman, two things you can see in theaters right now.



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FORMAT



00:00 – Lightning Round: Spooky Movie



03:24 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 524.8 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Reviews! E-mail!



34:05 – Black Phone 2 (Spoilers for The Black Phone)



45:29 – Roofman



59:55 – Outro




Transcript

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0:00.0

we do this question every year in honor of the spooky season what's something you've watched this

0:07.0

October to get in the mood uh i'm katy rich and my kids are trying to do the thing that kids do

0:12.5

which as soon as they like don't care about something they decide they hate it and they never

0:15.3

want to watch it again but we put coralline back on which is what sam was for Halloween last year

0:20.2

corline still hits.

0:21.4

I think it's going to be an annual thing.

0:24.0

Matt Patches isn't here, so it's me, Dave of the Seven.

0:27.0

And I have also done an annual thing, but mine is the animated, the Adventures of Iqabod and Mr. Toad.

0:33.4

The Mr. Toad part, not as spooky.

0:36.3

But The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Disney is top, top tier Disney for me.

0:41.6

Is that one of those cozy Halloween ones more than scary Halloween?

0:45.4

I mean, there's definitely a headless horseman at the end.

0:48.0

But I like how you could also interpret the story that the schoolmaster is just kind of an asshole in the town chased him out.

0:54.0

Fair enough.

0:55.5

And I am David Ehrlich and because my daughter, my two-year-old daughter is so excited about all

1:05.4

the Skelingtons in Brooklyn every time we see a Skelington just to stop and she likes to shake its hand and she was introducing itself to them. It was very few. I want to be specific. This is not Jack Skellington the Carren. This is just skeletons. This is what you're seeing. No, but yeah, but we just started calling them Skellingtons. I think it's like a Griffin Newman tick that Ray adopted because Skellington is a lot easier to say This has been indoctrated into your family. What a monster.

1:27.7

It's just,

1:28.3

it's for a two-year-old

1:29.1

Skellington

1:29.6

rolls off the tongue

1:30.4

a lot more naturally. It's true. It's fun to say. So inevitably, I popped on the night remember before Christmas starring one Jack Skellington. And Ray immediately pointed at the TV when Jacks Collington came on and said

1:42.5

da-da!

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