Volume 1 – Fighting In The War Room

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This week, we’re changing up the format for our 25th Episode Quarter Quell Special! If you haven’t bopped over to FightingInTheWarRoom.com/XXV/ to watch short films from Da7e, Patches and David, queue that up now! Don’t start yet, though, because Katey kicks things off with the story of her film’s absence. After that, Da7e attempts to make something out of nothing, Patches adapts a short story and isn’t sure he’s satisfied and David learns about being a director while on the job, commanding a crew.

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00:00 – 01:45 – Welcome to Episode 25 and Quarter Quell Explaining.

01:45 – 17:08 – Katey’s Student Film

17:08 – 34:12 – Da7e’s Little Dude

34:12 – 53:04 – Patches’ Mudder Tongue

53:04 – 1:14:30 – David’s Proposals

1:14:30 – 1:17:03 – Outro

“Fancy” by Iggy Azalea

Guess what? TOMORROW is our first Fighting In The War Room Quarter Quell!

What is a Quarter Quell?

A podcast Quarter Quell represents a break in our usual format. Every 25 episodes, Katey, Patches, David and Da7e stop talking about current pop culture and cover a topic/movie that let’s you know a bit more about the four of them as people.

It’s humanizing, like naming a cow before the slaughter. Especially this Family Interveiw Quarter Quell, which is pretty humanizing, parents and siblings wise.

Leading up to Fighting In The War Room 25 (June 3rd!), we’ll be seeding our previous Quarter Quells under that other podcast name.

This week, we are amazed and delighted to be celebrating our 100th episode! As we have for every 25th episode– or “Quarter Quell”– we’ve changed up the format, and this time we’ve each brought in one of our family members for a discussion about… well, ourselves. In each of the four segments one of the usual podcasters is replaced by a family member, who is forced to answer questions about how in the world we turned out his way. Katey’s sister reveals how their entire family got obsessed with Titanic, Patches’ father admits he doesn’t share his son’s enthusiasm for The Smurfs, Da7e’s mom shares some of the slightly too explicit home movies he made as a child, and David’s brother-in-law– who likes even more obscure movies than David does!– calls David the most knowledgeable film lover he knows.

You can click here to watch one of the home movies that Da7e made, starting with an appearance by his mom and ending with a brotherly wrestling match. The thumbnail image for this post is Matt Patches as a young child.

Guess what? We’re coming up on our first Fighting In The War Room Quarter Quell!

What is a Quarter Quell?

For fans of The Hunger Games book series, a Quarter Quell takes place every 25 years and something about those Hunger Games is different. In Catching Fire, the movie and the book, the Quarter Quell features a culling from the surviving tributes and…now this has nothing to do with the podcast.

A podcast Quarter Quell represents a break in our usual format. Every 25 episodes, Katey, Patches, David and Da7e stop talking about current pop culture and cover a topic/movie that let’s you know a bit more about the four of them as people.

It’s humanizing, like naming a cow before the slaughter. Especially this Storytelling Quarter Quell, which might be our best. You decide!

Leading up to Fighting In The War Room 25 (June 3rd!), we’ll be seeding our previous Quarter Quells under that other podcast name.

This week, we’re changing up the format for our third Quarter Quell, celebrating our 75th episode by revisiting movies from our past that come with a particularly good story attached. No tidbits this week, no dessert, just a lightning round then storytelling, in which Katey revisits a rainy night in Amsterdam spent watching Charade, Da7e recounts multiple trips to see South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Patches has a particularly strong memory attached to X2: X-Men United, and David is inspired to conduct his own secret tour of Tokyo based on Lost in Translation.

00:00-00:44 Lightning Round

01:07 – 3:05 Introductions and Quarter Quell explained

4:47 – 12:38 Charade and a rainstorm in Amsterdam, by Katey

14:28 – 25:23 South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut and growing up in Colorado, by Da7e

26:31 – 36:14 X2: X-Men United and high school memories, by Patches

37:42 – 52:30 Lost in Translation and a secret tour of Tokyo, by David

52:30 – 55:18 Farewells

Guess what? We’re coming up on our first Fighting In The War Room Quarter Quell!

What is a Quarter Quell?

For fans of The Hunger Games book series, a Quarter Quell takes place every 25 years and something about those Hunger Games is different. In Catching Fire, the movie and the book, the Quarter Quell features a culling from the surviving tributes and…now this has nothing to do with the podcast.

A podcast Quarter Quell represents a break in our usual format. Every 25 episodes, Katey, Patches, David and Da7e stop talking about current pop culture and cover a topic/movie that let’s you know a bit more about the four of them as people.

It’s humanizing, like naming a cow before the slaughter.

Leading up to Fighting In The War Room 25 (June 3rd!), we’ll be seeding our previous Quarter Quells under that other podcast name.

This week on Operation Kino, we’re throwing out the usual format and celebrating our 50th episode with our second Quarter Quell. Last time each of us brought in a movie that represented how we thought about film, but this time we’re getting nostalgic, with each podcaster revisiting the first movie that ever got them really into film. We kick things off with Da7e, who fell in love with monster movies at an early age thanks to this obscure foreign monster Gojira– or, Godzilla to us Americans. Then Patches recalls how exciting it was, as a sheltered youth, to come across the comedic insanity of The Blues Brothers. David takes us back to his film school days with the experimental travelogue Sans Soleil, from the same director who brought you La Jetee. And Katey wraps things up by reviving her pretentious 15-year-old self who thought she was really, really smart when she first saw American Beauty. We do have a lightning round in this episode, so we end, as always, with your lightning round answers for dessert.

00:00-01:08 Lightning Round

1:28 – 2:43 Introductions and explanation of the Quarter Quell

3:23 – 17:20 Da7e’s tribute: Gojira

18:03 – 32:28 Patches’s tribute: The Blues Brothers

33:05 – 49:54 David’s tribute: Sans Soleil

50:28 – 1:06:20 Katey’s tribute: American Beauty

1:06:20 – 1:12:34 Dessert!

Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@KateyRich) Patches (@misterpatches) and special guest Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) on Twitter!

Please subscribe on iTunes and KICK US A REVIEW if you like what you hear! It helps us with expanding to new listeners, especially in these early days of the new podcast!

Guess what? We’re coming up on our first Fighting In The War Room Quarter Quell!

What is a Quarter Quell?

For fans of The Hunger Games book series, a Quarter Quell takes place every 25 years and something about those Hunger Games is different. In Catching Fire, the movie and the book, the Quarter Quell features a culling from the surviving tributes and…now this has nothing to do with the podcast.

A podcast Quarter Quell represents a break in our usual format. Every 25 episodes, Katey, Patches, David and Da7e stop talking about current pop culture and cover a topic/movie that let’s you know a bit more about the four of them as people.

It’s humanizing, like naming a cow before the slaughter.

Leading up to Fighting In The War Room 25 (June 3rd!), we’ll be seeding our previous Quarter Quells under that other podcast name.

This week on Operation Kino, we’re doing things a little differently. It’s been 25 episodes since we first started keeping official count, and we decided to take this little anniversary as an opportunity to change up our format and tell you not just what we think of this week’s crop of new releases, but how we think about movies in general.

All four of us came prepared with one movie that we don’t just love, but that we think explains something about the way we look at movies. We’re calling this format the “Quarter Quell,” which will sound familiar if you’ve read The Hunger Games– don’t worry, our version is far less violent.

David starts things off with Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, which he fits in with the idea of film presenting “ecstatic truth”; Patches adores Groundhog Day not just because it’s funny and well-made, but because it’s a movie he can show anyone; Da7e watches Fight Club as an example of how characters can develop even in a really non-traditional narrative; and Katey closes things out with The Apartment as a way to get a glimpse into a far-away time, and also just a damn well-written movie.

But even with the new format, some things stay the same–we start things off with a summer-ending lightning round, and end, as always, with your lightning round answers for dessert.

And one more thing– if you’ve been listening to the show and enjoying it, please write a review of it on iTunes! We’d greatly appreciate it.

00:00-01:08 Lightning Round

01:24-4:46 Introductions and explanation of the Quarter Quell

5:17-18:10 David’s pick: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

18:44-30:06 Patches’s pick: Groundhog Day

30:40-42:51 Da7e’s pick: Fight Club

43:18-55:06 Katey’s pick: The Apartment

55:06-1:00:00 Dessert

This week, Katey, David, Da7e and Patches all bring two music recommendations to the table for a tidbit about 2014’s new music they’ve been listening to. Patches and David have high praise for the Swedish We Are The Best, then Patches wants to talk about movies that have motivated us to take action in our real lives while he’s lounging in The Hamptons. Da7e tries to convince everyone that life it pain and advertising from his hole in Brooklyn. That plus a Lightning Round Question about comedies you like regardless of how stupid they seem.

Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@kateyrich) Patches (@misterpatches), Da7e (@Da7e) and David (@davidehrlich or @CriterionCorner).

MUSIC RECOMMENDATIONS:

David

Katey

Da7e

Patches

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00:00 – 01:11: Lightning Round: Comedy You Like In Spite Of Yourself

01:11  – 01:43:   Intro: Welcome To Episode 24! 

01:43- 14:57:  Patches Tidbit: Everyone Recommend TWO Albums from 2014

14:57 – 19:22 – Mini-Segment: We Are The Best

19:22 – 42:24 – Segment 3 – Movies that motivate action

42:24 – 47:20  Outro

We Are The Best Trailer

“Night Moves” by Bob Seger

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This week, Da7e returns and demands everyone spend a few more minutes talking about Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla and how it fits into the grander tradition of Godzilla movies now that we know there will be a sequel. Then, Katey has devised a round of trivia comprised of quotes from the Top 20 Box Office hits of 2014. You’ll be surprised what’s made it up there. Finally, all four hosts discuss binge watching and how it’s transformed our view. That plus a lighting round question about dream duos that have duo’d poorly in the past.

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00:00 – 01:16: Lightning Round: Duos That Could Duo Better?

01:16  – 01:46:   Intro: Welcome To Episode 23! 

01:46- 14:40:  Da7e Tidbit: Da7eZilla

14:40 – 22:25 – Mini-Segment: Katey’s Cine-Quote Madness Trivia Round

22:25 – 42:23 – Segment 3 – Binging Stories

42:23 – 46:46  Outro

“Do You Know Where Your Children Are” by Michael Jackson

“Fancy” by Iggy Azalea