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

532 – Disney World and IP, Train Dreams, Marty Supreme

January 8, 2026·1 hr 13 min·1 clip

Canadians kidnapping the president would be hilarious and patriotic.

It opens with Heated Rivalry and a lightning-round prompt about the next great Canadian TV show. Katie Rich bristles at the format and wants the panel to stay with Heated Rivalry; the bit quickly turns into a joke about a season two making-of project that does not land in the United States until the American government gets its act together, after which the fans somehow help make America better. Matt Patches answers with the day 30 Helens disagreed, which is exactly the kind of line the show is happy to treat as a serious contribution. David the Seventh pushes a TV show about Canadians kidnapping Donald Trump, then reaches for a Mick Jagger example to give the riff a little fake history. The conversation then shifts to Train Dreams. One speaker notes that the movie had been on the radar, played Sundance, and then appeared on Netflix. The railroad work is tied specifically to the Spokane International. Early on, a Chinese worker is thrown off a bridge, and the movie declines to explain the moment. Joel Edgerton's face becomes one of the film's main ways of communicating feeling. Will Patton's voiceover narration gets a long, favorable shrug, and the panel says they would listen to him narrate almost anything. The movie is described as something that can simply wash over the viewer. The discussion then moves through the film's quiet progression and the way it handles the arrival of a wife. It keeps a dry eye on how little the movie needs to spell out. The closing stretch turns to a Michael B. Jordan argument and a question about rewarding both characters in Multiplicity. That disagreement derails any tidy wrap-up. The opening fantasy about the next great Canadian TV show never fully lets go, because the show keeps folding politics, fandom, and nonsense into the same joke. Nobody stays on script for long. That is the appeal here: a panel that can start with Heated Rivalry, drift through Train Dreams, and end in a fight over who gets rewarded for which performance. The sign-off is brisk. Listeners get the usual closing chatter, the Blue Sky and Letterboxd plugs, and the sense that the episode enjoyed every detour it took.

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A loose, funny panel turns Canadian TV talk into a shaggy, amused take on Train Dreams.

The panel opens on a fast, joking pass at the next great Canadian TV show, with Heated Rivalry as a springboard for fandom, politics, and the joke of keeping a season out of the United States.

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A Canadian TV joke opens into Heated Rivalry and then Train Dreams.

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