540 – Sora is Dead, Toothpastes, Project Hail Mary
Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast
Katey, Matt, Da7e and David
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This week, OpenAI killed Sora 2 while Da7e wasn’t paying attention, so Katey, Patches, and David fill him in on the death of the copyright-violation machine. Then, Patches has been saving Big Questions for this exact podcast moment: what toothpastes do the hosts use? Finally, after a month of promising, we all review Project Hail Mary, which most of us seemed to enjoy (some of us despite ourselves).
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FORMAT
00:00 – Lightning Round: Rideable Dinosaur
02:45 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 540! E-Mail
09:25 – Tidbit – Sora is Dead
23:00 – Mini-Segment – Toothpastes
28:56 – Segment 3 – Project Hail Mary
1:04:58 – Outro
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The week before Mario, in honor of Super Mario Galaxy and the second cinematic Yoshi, what's your favorite writable dinosaur? |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Katie Rich. I don't think I realize there was a first cinematic Yoshi. And I'm having trouble thinking of any dinosaurs that humans actually did ride. So I'm just thinking about the land |
| 0:21.3 | before time dinosaurs and how little foot, I feel like that'd be fun. I think he'd let me ride him. I'm going to say that one. I think he'd let me ride him. In a nice friendly way. I met Patches, of course, there's a first cinematic Yoshi. Did you not see the end of this from Mario Brothers' 1993 movie where little Yoshi comes out. |
| 0:38.7 | Definitely not. |
| 0:39.4 | He looks like a horrific dinosaur, |
| 0:40.4 | like a velociraptor. |
| 0:41.5 | So. Yoshi. Did you not see the end of this for Mario Brothers 1993 movie where little Yoshi comes out? |
| 0:38.7 | He looks like a horrific dinosaur, like a velociraptor, |
| 0:41.4 | so it was not the best rendering. |
| 0:42.9 | But Dennis Hopper says, Yoshi, so we know |
| 0:45.2 | that's who it is. You really know that Dennis Hopper |
| 0:47.3 | is aware of who Yoshi is. |
| 0:49.4 | I don't feel like there are many |
| 0:51.2 | good cinematic examples |
| 0:53.5 | of this. So I'm going to go and talk about |
| 0:56.4 | the Dinotopia TV show and TV movie. Dynatopia being an amazing book and the TV show |
| 1:03.6 | being something that no one remembers happening. And it's not good, but they do ride dinosaurs in that. |
| 1:09.2 | And the book's amazing. Yeah, I loved all the books. I used to try to learn how to write in the dinosaur alphabet. It was real dumb, but I was young and I had time. Is there something my kids would like? Is it holding up? Oh, my God. I think so. We need some book recommendations. No one talks about it. Okay. They're expensive to get on the secondhand market is is what I've found but they are very nice books |
| 1:28.8 | okay uh my answer is the rule on controlled T-rex in the 1980 animated series dino writers |
| 1:36.5 | uh very good uh action figures that was david's pick that's so weird yeah i know i took it right |
| 1:43.5 | from david uh but i also had those somehow my family got my uh That was David's pick. That's so weird. Yeah, I know. I took it right from David. |
| 1:52.3 | But I also, somehow my family got our hands on like the three-part VHS first season, animated season. |
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