527 – PTA vs. ICE, Who Will Make More Avatar?, Bugonia
Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast
Katey, Matt, Da7e and David
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week, David is out but Katey is back in, even after spending a stressful week reorganizing her community to respond to the governments immigration enforcement thugs. For a mini-segment, Patches is anticipating another AVATAR movie this year and is wondering if that kind of blockbuster motion-capture movie can be replicated after James Cameron is done. Finally, the three members of the podcast who liked Bugonia the most take advantage of David Ehrlich’s absence to talk about what they liked about it.
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FORMAT
00:00 – Lightning Round: It Was All A Dream (Word Up Magazine, Etc)
02:19- Intro – Welcome to Episode 527 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! E-mail!
13:04 – Tidbit – PTA Vs. ICE
24:25 – Mini-segment – Who Will Make More Avatar (We Love James Cameron)
37:50 – Segment 3 – Bugonia (Spoilers start at gong – 53:46)
1:03:54 – Outro
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It'll be short. This is just not a good way to start a show. It's just not a good vibe. No one wants to hear this. No offense. I mean, it's not a good vibe movie. I think it's a perfect episode to start with Ice First the PTA. Oh, I don't know. Guys, guys. Well, guess who just hopped on late and decided you want to contribute too late. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm ready to come out of ideas. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey, no, the podcast has started. |
| 0:25.1 | Yes, I know this isn't what the movie is about. |
| 0:27.9 | In honor of Wicked for Good in theaters this weekend, what's your favorite pop culture moment where it was all a dream? |
| 0:34.8 | I'm Katie Rich. |
| 0:35.6 | I don't really know why I'm sitting here trying to come up with a better answer |
| 0:38.0 | than the Wizard of Oz. It's a really popular movie that is better than wicked and we'll get more into that next week. Was it all a dream? Good question. You were there and you were there. You know, we were like, as like three men and a woman, And like we do have a Wizard of Oz vibe going on. |
| 0:55.8 | So like you guys can start taking dibs on which when you want to be. You know, we were like, we're like, as like three men and a woman. Like we, we do have a Wizard of Oz vibe going on. |
| 0:55.8 | So like you guys can start taking dibs on which money are we right now. Yeah. I mean, are you automatically Dorothy? I mean, I don't know. I guess we can fight for it. Like, I've always like the scarecrow. Listeners can decide who among us are. only needing to have a heart |
| 1:09.4 | might come up a lot. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.1 | David gets tid man. |
| 1:13.4 | I might be brains. David only needing to have a heart might come up a lot. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.1 | David gets tid man. |
| 1:13.4 | I might be brains. |
| 1:15.0 | In need of them. |
| 1:16.1 | I'm Matt Patches. |
| 1:17.5 | I was going to say Inception. |
| 1:20.5 | Ooh. |
| 1:21.8 | Was it all a dream? |
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