This would be a great podcast if David Ehrlich had a time or word limit.

Love these folks and look forward to every episode. I’ve followed Dave around through many different shows and can’t get enough of him. Glad to hear Dave is healing up. Bummed to hear Katy’s VF news - but VF has been falling off for a while Ave I’m sure you will move in to better things.

Real quick on the colonoscopy thread - I waited until 45 to get mine done and it was oddly very pleasant. I’ve had surgery with anesthesia before and I woke up confused, strapped to a gurney and in a lot of pain. Totally different with the colonoscopy! I was out for a very short period of time and woke up refreshed, pain free and in a great mood. It was like I took a really good nap and woke up after being asleep the perfect amount of time. Ok, the night before isn’t so awesome as you basically chug stool softeners to clear everything away, but it’s really not that bad. The important thing is I got the screening done and they removed two polyps. Not all polyps are cancerous but all colon cancer starts in polyps so I’d prefer to have none. I’ll have it done again in ten years. Totally covered by insurance, no claims of rectal bleeding necessary as I was at the recommended age. Love the show!

Hello, FITWR hosts! I have been fans of all of your work separately for a long time, but I’ve never listened to this podcast because I felt I already had too many pop culture podcast listens. However, I have been listening to Little Gold Men for almost its entire run, and I am INCENSED on Katey’s behalf by VF’s stupid and short-sighted decision to let her go. I don’t want to be in a world where I don’t get to heat Katey’s takes, so I’m here, reporting for duty 🫡

Hey there! Love the show! I’ve been listening for about a year or so now, I guess. My b on taking so long to do this. Initially found my way here for more Katey content - been a Little Goldie since the verrrry beginning, woulda done better in the Oscar pool if I’d remembered my dang login to change things at the last minute…and devastated to hear the news of your forced departure…thank god I’ll still have this one! Also found my way here shortly after discovering Trial By Content, and happy to have double Da7e doses too! I knew Ehrlich from Blank Check, and Patches was mostly new to me, but this show has quickly become one of my favorite hangout pods. No goals, just chat. You’re all excellent bus companions. So glad Da7e is recovering well, hope it stays that way with your gnarly open wound! Be well, all! —JK (that’s my name, not kidding about everything I said!)

Was always waiting to write a review for the right time and today seemed like the time to do so. In the world of online film criticism that can be so pompous, overly defensive and gratingly self-righteous, Katey brings a sense of joy and passion that can make it worth wading through all that other muck. I’m so sad to hear about the news at Vanity Fair but I’m so glad this podcast exists if for nothing else but to be able to hear one of my favorite voices on film. Corporations crumble and fade away, Katey Rich is forever!

Feel better, bud. We love you. (Erhlich: if you read this out loud on the podcast, don’t say that sarcastically, please)

David Ehrlich is too much of a depressive bloviator—in both his words and his tone—even when I agree with him. The other hosts are great, but David too often causes me to stop listening. Drop David and it’d be 5 stars. Sorry, Dave.

Team David

I hope Da7e is pleased that one of my first thoughts after I biffed it running with my 4 year old niece this weekend was that I needed to let FITWR know. And it was big fall unfortunately. I skinned up my knee in a real nasty fashion even though the tights I was wearing came away completely unscathed. Buy Snag tights! (Not sponsored) Anyway love you guys! No marvel snap talk but please more Zelda talk! -Tammy (not sure how to change my name on here)

I've been listening for years and just needed the right review title to actually get me to write this. Thanks, Da7e! I know this will probably encourage the wrong behavior, but I kind of like all the background noise that various mics (David's?) pick up. It's immersive! Anyways, ya'll rule. Never change.

I heard about you folks through Katey’s annual Thanksgiving appearances on THOB, plus them using part of your URL. So far, it’s been a fun listen of film criticism and pop culture ephemera. Where else would you hear Ehrlich’s contrarian preference for the auteur driven films to Patches takes on broad appealers. I’m also glad that Da7e is able to breakdown the convoluted cash cow known as the MCU. Aside from current media, your references ranging from Titanic to obscurities (e.g. Home Fries, Drop Dead Fred, etc.) remind me of exposures that were carried down to me after the fact from my older sibling. Even being a decade younger, her opinions being similar to your takes is coincidental. Also I’m laughing at the shout outs to Plymouth Meeting, PA since I live near that area. But overall, I’m enjoying my time of having my tastes be broaden. So keep up the entertainment. - Peter

For my 10th anniversary review of the podcast. (A wonderful show you should all listen too). I present the idea of the FitWR Hall of Fame! These are movies which have had a significant impact on the show as a whole. Define that as you will. For this inaugural hall of fame class I present these “10” films: Aquaman Carol Forgetting Sarah Marshall Foxcatcher The Lion King (2019) Lyle Lyle Crocodile The Mummy (2017) The Road to Welleville Soul Surfer And Every Marvel Movie Prior to Avengers Endgame, but only if you watch them back to back in the same theatre or if you write a book about them after you are finished. To the amazing hosts, please add or remove any films to the hall that you feel is correct. Also, thank you for decade (plus) of this amazing show. You all (and your many shows) make my week much, much better! Thanks for being you and sharing that with us.

I came to this podcast like many others, through some combination of Blank Check and finding Ehrlich’s year end movies on kottke.org. I love the hosts old friend group vibe combined with the knowledge and and insight you get from a getting a bunch of people who do media commentary for a living together. In a different era I would have loved to follow everybody on Twitter but I’ve abandoned that husk of a site, and at the end of every episode I sure wish I’d hear at least one host call out a Mastodon handle. Yes I did write a whole dang review just to plug non-corporate social media, but podcasts are such a great example of decentralized media I don’t understand why people don’t consider that other forms of media can work that way too 😭

Updating my previous five star review to a five star review. I just didn’t realize how much this show would come to mean to me after going through a series of life challenges last year. Always interesting conversations that can be sometimes contentious, but always respectful. Some of the best laughs I’ve had recently haven’t been from movies, but from the FITWR group bantering. I’m going to selfishly use this space to hopefully have a question answered on the pod. I just watched Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. It rules. I’m a huge fan of Stop Making Sense as well. I trust y’all’s taste, so any additional music doc recs that are in that vein. I feel like modern music docs are so aggressive in their presentation. As much as I like it, The Eras Tour sort of comes to mind. There’s a calmness and frankly craft that is far more apparent in the Scorsese and Demme films. Truly, thank you all. I have a huge backlog of podcasts unfortunately, but this is one that I always stay up to date on.

I started listening as research for a comic book that’s set in 2015. I just heard them talk about Age of Ultron and immediately felt seen when David suggested the game ‘every time you hear the words Infinity Stones shoot yourself in the face.’ I doubt that by the time I catch up to the present they’ll still be reading reviews at the top of the episodes, but just in case, I am leaving this as a time capsule. A time capsule within a time capsule, because that’s the incredible value of this type of show, it gives a window into what people were actually saying in the moment. Trying to explain to a current fan of anything that people didn’t always think the way the online discourse would have them believe is tough and often met with anger, as if knowing that Keanu Reeves was used as a punchline stand-in for bad and dumb for years. or that Mark Hamill was so secondary to Harrison Ford that he could play David Spade’s stalker (as himself) on Just Shoot Me will rob them of some more pure truth cemented by marketing spin. Listening to this show feels like an anathema to all that and I am delighted.

Foxcatcher, especially post Trump, is one of the young century’s great films

I’ve been listening since the OpKino days, love the show, and have an important correction to the latest episode, where David said he was sure Sam Esmail was a “very nice man.” Anyone who has heard his podcasts appearances, including notably his appearances on The Watch, knows that is maybe the wrongest anyone has ever been on the show.

Hello friends, family, and colleagues. My name is David Ehrlich and, no matter what I might say verbally on pod to convince you otherwise, I HATE the Rangers. Even thought they have the best jersey in hockey, the NY Rangers - the team I have pretended to root for over the past couple of years - is actually my least favorite team in the NHL. So, Da7e, Patches, and Katey, please hold my sad, sweaty, cold little hands while I tell you that my real favorite hockey team is the Seattle Kraken. From Vince Dunn to Oliver Bjorkstrand, all I want in life is to give those brave, beautiful little boys in navy blue a sweet little kiss on the forehead and watch them win in the most Kraken fashion possible - complete, unrelenting domination. And, before I finish reading this review that I wrote for my own podcast (sad I know) to admit a truth I’ve been hiding deep down for a long time, I just want to go on the record and say that no matter how much I might try to deny it verbally, what I wrote on the iTunes app is how I really, actually feel. Thank you for listening. Love, David (the Kraken fan)

But a perfect excuse to follow up with a 5 star review (this is Shruti from the email btw)

I enjoy this even though David comes off as your worst coworker who talks way too much, is incredibly dismissive of different opinions, and interrupts you constantly.

Da7e: Samantha Patches: Charlotte Katie: Carrie David: Miranda before And Just Like That ruined her This is without a doubt the only correct answer. Thanks for all the hours of great entertainment and all you do!

I look forward to this show every week. Listening to it just always serves as a reminder that I like movies, and I should make more time to go see them. The hosts’ sensibilities are pretty millennial and hetero, but in the same weirdly comforting way that, like, a greta gerwig movie is. Omg speaking of millennial and hetero… has it been discussed on the show yet, which host correlates to which sex and the city girlie? Dare I say that FITWR is the more iconic foursome? Writing this at 2am btw.

LTL, FTR. I come bearing a confession. I’ve been a listener since at least David’s wedding episode pretty much never missing an episode, and I’ve always thought it was funny that Dave LeSeven (FITWR podcaster), had such a similar voice to Dave Gonzalez, (author and TBC podcaster) (which I also listen to religiously). Of course, despite vocal, nominal, and professional similarities, Dave LeSeven and Dave Gonzalez were just two different podcasters. Until last week. At the end of last week’s episode, Dave hit us with a change from his usual sign off. Instead of “I’m Dave LeSeven”, we got “I’m D - A - 7 - E”. “Da7e”, I think; “what a clever way to spell one’s first name when a number is found in one’s last name”. But something isn’t sitting right. I repeat it again in my head. Da7e? Da7e… Dave WITH A SEVEN. DAVE GONZALEZ. How could I have been so blind!? I write this sitting at my desk, where MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios sits beside me, sneering. Dave - I apologize and would like you to know Dave LeSeven and Dave G were always tied as my two fave podders (sorry to the rest of the gang) Much love.

Hello!I’ve been wanting to recommend a show to you all ever since I heard about its anime adaptation back in 2020. With our recent discussions, from the incredible “Blue-Eyed Samurai” to the latest Miyazaki Studio Ghibli review, I couldn’t help but think of it. The frequent mentions of the name “Mahito” reminded me of my favorite yet most despised villain with the same name in the absolutely fantastic “Jujutsu Kaisen” by Gege Akutami. This series really stands out by how it blends the best of classic Shonen stories and unique power systems,(It echoes shows like “Bleach” and “Hunter x Hunter”), but skips the lengthy training arcs and filler episodes that tend to drag other series down. (Yes, I’m looking at you, One Piece!) The cast of well-developed, endearing characters, mixed with the series’ dark tone set against the backdrop of real-world Tokyo (and Shibuya in season 2), deliver an emotional gut punch that few other series can match. The real-world implications extend beyond the anime/manga itself. The anime’s production studio, MAPPA, has recently been in the spotlight for its demanding work conditions. Their schedule is as tight as South Park’s, with just one week per episode. Despite this, MAPPA has been churning out significant anime shows and movies using a similar timeline over the past few years. There’s been concern over whether episodes would stay on schedule. While they did come out on time, they were rushed and Ultimately aired unfinished. With Season 2 is wrapping up on the 28th, bringing the total to 47 episodes and a movie that made more then Space Jam and The Matrix in 2021. I would say now is the perfect time to jump in on a series that I am unable to look away from, despite the emotional rollercoaster it puts me through

“It looks like butt” the two male hosts kept insisting. How intelligent, how intellectual, height of sophistication! The woman host tried to get a word in edgewise. Indescribably bad.

To whom it may concern, FITWR is the white whale of podcasts I've been obsessively seeking out since my first episode of Filmspotting back in the halcyonic, heady days of the early Obama administration. Hearing the erudite Katy Rich on Little Gold Men, the curmudgeon with a heart of gold David Ehrlich on places like Film Comment, the always peppy and bubbly Dave Gonzalez on Screen Drafts and Trial By Combat, and Matt Patches from the Internet, I thought "What if we could bring together this group of remarkable individuals. To see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we need them to review the movies we never could." It's called The Fighting In The War Room Initiative. The only crack in the otherwise flawless Vibranium shield that is this podcast is is that David Ehrlich has made the baffling decision to not only record in Werner Herzogs Cave Of Forgotten Dreams, but also his lip smacking and addictive compulsive to pop Ricola lozenges mid-recording makes this listeners skin crawl. Otherwise, no notes. Keep up the great work. Damian S, Pittsfield, Ma Host of The Midnight Film Society Podcast

Hey y’all, Fairly new listener, long-time fan of Erlich’s writing and Katy Rich’s Twitter who can’t remember if he learned about the podcast from Little Gold Men or Blank Check, but it was probably one of those. Patches and Dave, y’all seem cool. The show’s great and its been accompanying me on my (hopefully) temporary stint working a night shift job, so thank you. People should listen to this, but I’m really writing in to revisit Ehrlich’s comment about Body Snatching in No One Will Save You in episode 446. Your take seems to involve them not “body snatching” proper because they create a new version of their victims. If you remember back to the two most iconic Body Snatchers films (56, 78) that is how they work, the pods infect you while you sleep and they grow a new you. I’m not bringing this up to nitpick but to say that this distinction is what makes No One Will Save You such a moving piece of genre fiction in my eyes. The reason the Body Snatcher pods replace the body is so that the films can debate the worth of a soul (or whatever you want to call the essential elements that make us human beyond memory and intelligence.) By retaining this element of the Body Snatching including an alien-ified human clone versus infecting a person like many modern entries in the genre do, Duffield uses the intertextuality of genre to drive the very power of the ending. Of course like you said, this story-telling mechanism allows her to defeat the version of herself that she wishes she was. But more importantly, by allowing Dever to live, the film states that her soul has not been ruined by her past and is worthy of preservation, while the townsfolk’s rejection of her, even when she tried to warn them, has cost them theirs. More than simply inverting the genre, Duffield sharpens it. My two cents.

I love this Podcast because it features great banter & insightful discussion on all the new releases. I love all the hosts but I was first introduced to this show because I am a massive fan of David Erhlichs annual end of year video countdowns. I look forward to them every year & think David does a fantastic job editing them all. My question to David is What are the chances that we get a needle drop for Mariah Carey’s “always be my baby” layered over top of 2023 releases such as Anatomy of a Fall?? Anyways Thank You for the great podcast & keep up the good work! - Max

Lady and Gentlemen, Long time listener, first time etcetera. I’d considered posting a review about 18 months ago—IIRC I had some smart things to say about Severance and its debt to Kazuo Ishiguro that I wanted to share—but when I logged into this app, I saw that you already had a review banked for the week and decided to keep my powder dry. (Yes, I’m one of those reviewers at least partially motivated by a desire to never hear about Marvel Snap again. And I’ll take the opportunity to address David directly—David, I sincerely hope you know that anyone who says they’re interested in your latest progress in a corporate mobile game that is your primary means of occupying yourself while you hide in the bathroom from your toddler is lying to you.) So why a review now… well, because as it sometimes (rarely) happens in discussions about pop culture in these United States in 2023… books were recently discussed in the war room. And, more importantly, recommendations were requested. And, for better or worse, that’s something I feel qualified to provide. Though I’ve fallen in this world from optimistic and energetic English Ph.D candidate / adjunct professor to lowly software product manager (at a major studio no less), I still spend the bulk of disposable income and time on books. So when Patches—in his mostly coherent, definitely idiosyncratic, but fundamentally likable way—asked for book recommendations, my ears perked up. Now, I won’t burden this review page or your listeners with a laundry list of books that YOU MUST READ, but I have sent an email with a few books that I think you all will like because I think (a) they fit the general taste of the group and (b) they are really really good. (Fiction only; if you want non-fiction picks, you’ll probably need to reach out to my dad.) Dave, if you want to read the email along with this review, have at it. Katey, no call out for you, beyond: keep killing it. In sum, happy reading, and—truly—continue the great work. Working at a studio, I find myself on daily basis, due to habit and consensus, talking about “content “a lot. It’s an unfortunate reality of the work. This podcast is a welcome respite that reminds me that movies are magic and TV can be engrossing and meaningful. It reinforces that narrative and art are not things that can be abstracted into terminology as glib as “content.” Many thanks for the hours of enjoyment, Patrick

Sorry for the alliteration and use of the word “goodies,” I just recommended this to a friend as “it’s like a grab bag of different pop culture things.” That sold him on trying out the pod, so I hope that sells other people as well! The conversations are varied in perspective and consistent in quality. It wasn’t long after I started listening that I began looking forward to the back and forth from the hosts every week. Last week they discussed books and what they were reading, and while David didn’t have much to recommend beyond children’s books (not that there’s anything wrong with that,) he did recommend one of my favorite books that I read this year. I made a note of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow because of a glowing tweet from David months ago, checked the book back out and absolutely loved it. Keep up the wonderful show!

Like many, I discovered this podcast through Blank Check years ago, and it quickly became one of my favorites. The hosts offer a variety of perspectives and, as the title suggests, they aren’t afraid to disagree! I can’t tell you how refreshing it is to hear genuinely thought-provoking discussions rather than hosts just mindlessly agreeing with each others’ points. I’ve been listening to some of the early episodes, prior to when I came aboard as a fan, and it’s been a delight. Patches exlaiming “millions of people play World of Warcraft, how is the movie not going to be huge?!” Katey earnestly asking “wait, I thought Anthony Hopkins died?” And all the hosts asking for “more Cloverfield movies!” after 10 Cloverfield Lane… It’s nice to be reminded of the simpler times. Anyway, keep doing what you do, FITWR crew!

I really enjoy the show, and always look forward to hearing a discussion of something I've watched. I'm writing because I have a question about unions at media companies like The Ringer and Conde Nast. This is for Da7e and Katey I guess, but I'm mostly curious about how the unionization affects your day to day life at those companies. Are you members? Do you help organize? Do you negotiate on the other side of the table? Have the gains made a marked difference? I guess all of the discussion of WGA and SAG strikes are making me curious about media unions and I was wondering if you could give your perspective.

Hey there FITWRers! Like many listeners I discovered you all through your appearances and mentions on other podcasts, namely Blank Check and Filmspotting and eventually found my way to the mothership and then headed down the rabbit hole of the FITWR Expanded Universe: Little Gold Men, Storm of Spoilers, Galaxy Brains (RIP), etc. I feel like, despite being on average 10 years older than you all (47 soon to be 48), I am the Voltron to your colored tigers as each of you, completely by coincidence, represents some facet of my personality: Dave is my political spirit animal and I often find myself laughing as I hear him hold back from damning the man and burning the motherf***er down. Patches is the nerd all of my gamer buddies wish I was. David’s sometimes detached, exasperated ennui (said with a wink and a nudge) feeds my soul from introducing me to Love is Blind to casually name dropping Pablo Larrain’s sharp elbows all while taunting us all with the legend of pumpkin pie talenti. Katey, I too grew up in the south, moved to a major city and then back to the south. In my case it was Virginia Beach to Chicago and back to Virginia Beach where I try to keep my cosmopolitan street cred here among Pat Robertson’s wreckage. Anyway, enough of my sycophantry. Thanks for getting me through a 22 day covid hospital stay in 2020, providing me with all kinds of pop cultural fodder for my students, and for always responding to my tweets whether they are as sublime as questions about Gene Hackman’s turtlenecks in The Poseidon Adventure or as mundane a a picture of Baja Blast Ice Cream. If you’re ever vacationing here on the coast, drop me a tweet, I’d love to buy you a beer! Stay Weird and Have Adventures, @ryanpshaw1975

Fun fact, there used to be seven friends on this podcast, Katey, Dave, David, Patches, Caroline, Sidney, and Erik, but through a series of mergers and acquisitions we are now down to four. Keep up the good work guys!

Long time listener, love the show - once you get to know each host’s personalities it really feels like a bunch of informed friends just makin’ fun of each other for an hour. Question for the friends: With the changing landscape of films in the last decade (streamer dominance, changes in box office, direct-to-digital movies, social media, era-of-TV, etc) what are some of the changes/challenges you’ve notice in film criticism? Where do you think film criticism is going? Also how would you compare it to television criticism today?

Getting a shout out in last week’s podcast was a nice finish to my Telluride experience, thank you! It was my first time there and it was a pretty balanced experience of getting to meet David, Kitty Green, and Werner Herzog who were all lovely people, met with getting elbowed in the face by Pablo Larraín who was trying to make his way to Ed Lachman… I’d work there again in a heartbeat. Anyway thanks again for this podcast which I look forward to every week, along with all of your various other projects (looking forward to reading the MCU book Da7e!). If you’re ever in the area, come visit Upstate Films, you’re all welcome anytime!

Long time listener, first ever podcast review. I absolutely love this show and can’t thank the hosts enough for being my Thursday pick me up, particularly during the nearly three years of pandemic episodes. I produce media for a large suburban school district and the past years have been a nightmare of crisis communications and board meetings that often teetered on the edge of chaos, but I could always look forward to a calming drive back to the city on those Thursday evenings listening to passionate discussions from people who love each other as much as the films they discuss or debate. Katey, Matt, Da7e, and David have created a special podcast that feels like those rambling late night discussions you had with your friends at the bar while you were buzzing from discovering a new gem at a screening. Messy, opinionated, and glorious fun. Thanks for everything. I was out of the country earlier this summer and missed the Road to Wellville discussions, but can’t help but bring it up one more time. Lousy movie, great novel by one of my favorite writers, and the inspiration for my daughter’s middle name (she’s named after T.C. Boyle—Scout Coraghessan). She’s never seen the movie and I hope she never does.

During the show, I was playing with iron lad and Jeff, and secured my first ever infinite season. Thanks guys.

I am the Architect. I created the matrix. I’ve been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also irrelevant. Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here. Quite right. Interesting. That was quicker than the others. The matrix is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the sixth version. Precisely. As you are undoubtedly gathering, the anomaly’s systemic, creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations. The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is as apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being, thus I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus, the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother. Please. As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99% of all test subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level. While this answer functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo, those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probability of disaster. You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated. Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it. The function of the One is now to return to the source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry, reinserting the prime program. After which you will be required to select from the matrix 23 individuals, 16 female, 7 male, to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix, which coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race. There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However, the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world. It is interesting reading your reactions. Your five predecessors were by design based on a similar predication, a contingent affirmation that was meant to create a profound attachment to the rest of your species, facilitating the function of the one. While the others experienced this in a very general way, your experience is far more specific. Vis-a-vis, love.

Hi FITWR team, I’m updating my annual-ish review of the podcast in light of finally remembering to ask a question I’ve kept forgetting to ask. Did you ever cover the HBO miniseries Chernobyl? I’ve tried looking on your website archives but either the site was down or my WiFi network crapped out so here I am asking you all though I’m guessing this is mostly a Dave question. And speaking of Dave, putting the music cue from the Killers of the Flower Moon is worth 5 stars alone. I wrote this listening to last week’s episode where you were talking about personal archives and the fact that you all are making lists of passwords is extremely useful future planning. My dad passed away from cancer in the spring after several prolonged hospital stays and he made an encrypted list of all his passwords for my mom and it was immensely helpful in dealing with all the chaos that comes after someone passes. Thanks for being a fun weekly listen and for covering a broad spectrum of topics. Where else can I get heated debates about the prestige pic of the week with discussions of Baja blast (speaking of, have any of you tried the hard Baja blast that’s apparently now a thing?) Keep up the great work! Marina

Hi FITWR! I love the show - I’ve been a big fan for years and love the witty banter, movie talk, and random tangents. I’m finally writing in to react to Katey’s comment about pickle pizza at the Alamo for TMNT. One of the BEST pizza places (NY style) in Chicago called Bob’s Pizza is famous for their amazing pickle pizza! It has mortadella, garlic cream sauce, cheese, and pickles and it’s truly phenomenal. Hope you get to visit and try it some time! Thanks for entertaining us every week!

Hi FITWR: I’ve been listening for a while and l’m a big fan of the show, but the main reason I’m leaving this review is that I NEED to know the name of the gibberish song which was mentioned by a reviewer last week and was played at the close of last week’s episode. I’m a relatively recent convert to the show so I’m sure you guys have said the name of it on an older episode, but I’ve never been able to find it. Ever since I started listening to the podcast it’s been stuck in my head constantly and it drives me CRAZY that I can’t find it. Please help! Thank you love the show.

Also, the hosts are always talking over each other and that really gets annoying after a while.

Absolutely love this show (as well as little gold men podcast!) and am a big fan of ehrlich and his reviews (even when I don’t agree on a take, I think his writing is fantastic!) and now a big fan of all of u! Love the breadth of topics u guys cover. The only thing is, u changed the music after u read the reviews from this awesome song and I miss it! It’s a goofy song sung in fake English and it rocks. Bring it back!

A long time ago I wrote a (still positive) review saying that everyone gangs up on David too much. I’m… not sure I believe that anymore. Still love everyone equally!

Love the show, love the insight, a must listen every week. However, I BEG OF THE PODCAST… you can hear a laptop clicking and clacking away in the background, and it’s almost only when Katie or Matt or Dave are talking so I can only surmise it’s David. I love this show but it’s been so grating in my earphones numerous times that I’ve skipped entire sections or just tuned out. I don’t intend this to sound snide or rude, I am genuinely just wanting to provide a little technical feedback about what the listeners are hearing. Perhaps I’ve been ruined by like high quality audio podcasts, but in the year of our Lord, 2023, muting when not speaking is a very simple and efficient option to enhance quality in a meaningful way. Love the show otherwise, sincerely.

FITWR is maybe the best weekly peek into pop culture of the moment. Big fan of the show and the larger FITWR-verse (I never miss an episode of Little Gold Men, I did the Lost rewatch with the Storm, and if Patches or David started any other podcasts, I'd instantly subscribe). My question for the hosts - Are you big physical media collectors? If so, what are the 4Ks, special editions, or collector's versions that you think every physical media collector should have? Thanks for show! Looking forward to reading Da7e and Joanna's Marvel book!

Excellent podcast! I dropped by to leave a review because twice in the past few weeks the hosts have talked about how they wish there was a movie about the guy who invented Corn Flakes. I was going to mention the 1994 Alan Parker film The Road to Wellville, but I see that another listener has already left a review for this exact same reason! Leave it to FITWR fans to have a good memory of poorly-received 90s biopics about cereal magnates! Although now that we’re living in a world with movies like Air, Blackberry, and Tetris, perhaps there’s an argument Parker was ahead of his time, and you all owe The Road to Wellville a watch for your next Quarter Quell.

I’ve been listening for a number of years and this is my number one podcast for walking my dog, which is high praise in my household. Blank Check introduced me to y’all and it is my number one podcast for mowing the lawn. Rank those activities and their accompanying podcasts however makes you feel best I guess. Anyhow, I really just wanted to write in response to the recent mention of Kellogg and let you know that there is a book and film adaptation of that book which attempts to combine cereal making and all his other weird crap: the 1994 film “The Road to Wellville” starring Anthony Hopkins as Kellogg. It has a pretty stacked cast (John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, Dana Carvey) and I remember loving it as a teenager when it came out, but haven’t watched it in over twenty years. I don’t know if I can recommend it based on that, but it’s certainly trying some things. Keep up the great work!