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

542 – Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, Pragmata, and The Pitt Season 2

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

Katey, Matt, Da7e and David

Film Reviews, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary






This week, we had to wait for the embargo to be lifted on Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, and once everyone knows the podcast is actually going up on Thursday, we can’t stop referencing it. First, David tells you about Lee Cronin’s The Mummy – out this weekend if you need some goop. Then, Patches talks up a new game called Pragmata which is out (checks watch) – tomorrow! For Segment Three, all the hosts talk about watching Season 2 of The Pitt, which ends (checks watch) – tonight! on HBO Max.



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FORMAT



00:00 – Lightning Round: Mummy Movie



01:37 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 542! E-Mail!



10:35 – Tidbit – Lee Cronin’s The Mummy



24:21 – Mini-Segment – Pragmata



34:24 – Segment 3 – The Pitt Season 2 (No finale talk)



1:04:07 – Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

Brendan Frazier, Lon Cheney, Dark Universe, in honor of Lee Cronin's The Mummy in Theatres this weekend, what's your favorite movie with The Mummy in it?

0:10.3

I'm Katie Rich. I'm going to cheat and pick a television show, which is a preschool show called Ridley Jones.

0:16.2

Yes, it is a rip-off of Indiana Jones. It's also kind of like Night at the Museum.

0:19.9

And one of the kid characters lives in this museum is a mummy who had two dads. I think the dads weren't

0:24.7

mummies, but they were just like Egyptian statues. I don't remember. But anyway,

0:28.7

kid mummy. It was fun. Good show. Interesting. I'm Matt Patches. This feels like bait.

0:35.2

Probably should pick The Mummy 2017

0:38.7

out of respect

0:40.9

for my boy Nick Morton.

0:43.3

So I'll go with that.

0:45.5

Greatest hero.

0:47.7

To be Dave of the 7.

0:48.9

I'm going with the Mummy's hand.

0:50.7

This is the 19, I think it's 41 or 42 one.

0:53.2

Sending the Universal Mummy franchise onto the Tanna Leaves

0:56.1

potion subplot.

0:58.7

If you know, you know,

1:00.0

you don't want a nine leaf put formula.

1:03.5

And I'm David Ehrlich, and I'm going to go with the

1:05.4

mummy in the opening credits

1:08.0

of Phineas and Ferb.

1:10.6

Ooh. Mm. Nice. You can't fight in here. This is the war room. Fine. I can hear you now, Dimitri. I can no longer sit back and allow. Clear and plain and coming through fine. Subversion. I'm coming through fine too, eh? And the international conspiracy. Well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine. The sap and impurify. I agree with you. It's great to be fine. All of our precious bodily fluids. It's a podcast. Hello and welcome to Fighting in the War Room of this episode 542. It is the week of Wednesday, April 15th.

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