Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast · Katey, Matt, Da7e and David

528 – Slow Xmas 5, Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc, Hamnet (w/ Ben Hosley!)

December 3, 2025·1 hr 18 min·5 clips

Dave opens by plugging Slow Xmas 5 vinyl and sending listeners to madebymutant.com. Katie catches him after he puts the wrong number in the notes doc, and the correction lands before the episode really gets underway. From there, the group settles into a simple prompt about the best use of a Christmas song in a movie. Katie goes with A Hard Candy Christmas in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Matt says he keeps hoping for a Sufjan Stevens Christmas jukebox musical, then lands on Carol of the Bells in Home Alone, the wordless, eerie version that plays while Kevin gets the house ready. Dave answers with Last Christmas. The conversation keeps circling back to the appeal of Slow Xmas as a slower, sadder seasonal mode. Ben Hosley joins for a movie the main show will not cover. Dave says Katie is not going to watch it, and the joke works because everyone in the room knows that limit. Ben says he has spent time with the Chainsaw anime, though he has not read the manga. He talks about Chainsaw Man, the movie, Reza arc, and says he loved it. Dave keeps returning to the image of a man with a chainsaw head. The exchange moves quickly, with room for corrections, jokes, and small pivots. It also comes back around to how listeners can find Slow Xmas on vinyl or by streaming. The closing stretch runs through Blue Sky, Twitter, and Letterboxd plugs, then wraps on the week’s lightning-round question about the best use of a Christmas song in a movie.

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A Christmas-song debate that opens into Slow Xmas and ends with Chainsaw Man getting its turn.

Fighting In The War Room starts with a Slow Xmas 5 vinyl plug and a quick correction after Katie catches Dave reading the wrong episode number, then moves into a Christmas-song debate that ranges from A Hard Candy Christmas in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas to Carol of the…

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You get a Christmas-song debate, a Chainsaw Man movie aside, and a very real Slow Xmas 5 vinyl plug.

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