The Reel Debaters Podcast

12/24/2025

He’s a smart one that
Do you think the duffer brothers meant break the normal family tension with the release on day just for all of us?

12/24/2025

This Saturday,the wrapping paper comes off and the gloves come on.
It’s our Best Secret Santa Debate, where the gifts are as questionable as the wet bandits watching your house for the holidays.

Trivia Watch
Right now, Gilmore Girls is sipping coffee in the lead ☕
If it holds, we’re heading back to Stars Hollow on January 29 for trivia night at The Handsome Daughter. Babette energy encouraged.

📞 Your Mission This Week
All week long, leave us a voicemail with:
👉 Your favorite movie of 2025
👉 Your favorite TV show of 2025

You will more than likely get air time and spark a debate.
Leave it at thereeldebaters.ca

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12/23/2025

I KNEW THEY COULDN’T LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE.
This is a shareholder decision at Disney and a lazy creative one. Will I go see it, hell ya, but I won’t change my mind.

get its first official poster and teaser trailer, which confirms Chris Evans is back as Steve Rogers (who is also a new dad). The Rogers teaser is now available to watch online after premiering exclusively in movie theaters in front of “Avatar: Fire and Ash.”

The Marvel tentpole opens in theaters December 18, 2026.

12/23/2025

This was my favourite season. He played such a great hopeless hack just trying to get his dad to love him

James Ransone, the actor best known for his roles as Ziggy Sobotka on The Wire and Eddie Kaspbrak in It: Chapter Two, has died. He was 46. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, Ransone died by hanging on Friday.

Ransone appeared in 12 episodes of The Wire’s second season, portraying dock worker Chester “Ziggy” Sobotka. His character’s arc followed a volatile descent from an insecure, often-mocked stevedore into a tragic figure within Baltimore’s criminal underworld. Frequently humiliated by fellow dockworkers and low-level criminals, Ziggy ultimately reaches a breaking point. After committing a violent act against his partner, he remains at the scene, waiting for police and confessing to the crime.

Ziggy’s story concludes in the Season 2 finale, where he is shown beginning his prison sentence, marking one of the show’s most haunting and memorable character trajectories.

12/23/2025

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” And other smart s**t I could say.

Also thank sweet baby Jesus I didn’t have to see to see it.

“The Odyssey” trailer is here. The film opens in theaters July 17 from Universal Pictures.

12/22/2025

Let’s send off 2025 with a tussle.

We’re locking in our 2025 Year in Review episode, calling the hits, calling the misses, and settling some arguments about movies and TV.

We want your take, not the safe one.

🔥 Best movie or show of 2025
💀 Biggest disappointment
💎 Most underrated
⚔️ The opinion you’re ready to defend

💬 Comment or DM
📞 Drop a voicemail at thereeldebaters.ca and you could be on the episode

Recording Sunday the 28th. Speak up before we do. 🎬🎧

RD Trivia+ Nights

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Next Trivia Night: January 29th at The Handsome Daughter
Theme: VOTE NOW! At the pinned post on our page till December 31st.

Colouring Contest, Cosplay Challenge and 5 rounds of Themed Trivia. The best trivia night in Winnipeg.

trivia

12/22/2025

Let’s go for a walk ?

We’re joined by Doug Morrow & Ashley Hyra, the makeup artists behind The Long Walk, for a deep dive into:
🩸 On-set makeup methods
🎥 Behind-the-scenes stories from production
🎭 Working in today’s film industry
📺 What they love watching when the brushes are down

This one goes beyond the screen and straight into the craft.

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

RD Trivia+ Nights

Follow for the date the theme and where to get tickets
**Next Trivia Night: January 29th at The Handsome Daughter
Theme: VOTE NOW! At the pinned post on our page till Dec 31st

Colouring Contest, Cosplay Challenge and 5 rounds of Themed Trivia.

Episode Sponsors:
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12/21/2025

New Episode! " #306 Doug Morrow and Ashley Hyra. The Make Up From The Long Walk"

This week on The Reel Debaters , we’re heading behind the blood, sweat, and prosthetics with Doug Morrow and Ashley Hyra , the makeup artists behind The Long Walk . Doug and Ashley take us deep into the creative trenches of m...

This week on The Reel Debaters , we’re heading behind the blood, sweat, and prosthetics with Doug Morrow and Ashley Hyra , the makeup artists behind The Long Walk .…

12/19/2025

SECRET SANTA… BUT MAKE IT DEBATABLE

This weekend, the Reel Debaters are hitting the mall for a Secret Santa Debate. Which one of us can buy the best gifts for our favorite characters?

We’re also taking a moment to remember Rob the only way we know how… with quotes.

New episode dropping soon. Expect wild logic, pop culture passion, and debates that would get us banned from the food court.

👉 Which character deserves the BEST gift?
Leave us a voicemail at thereeldebaters.ca (bottom right corner of the page). GO!

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RD Trivia+ NEXT TRIVIA NIGHT!

January 29 | The Handsome Daughter
Theme: voting open on our pinned post until Dec 31. Vote for your choice now! Tickets on sale Jan 1st.

🎨 Colouring Contest | 🎭 Cosplay Challenge | 🧠 5 themed rounds

Podcast Episode Sponsors:

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🪓 $15 off your first hour + $5 Trans Canada Bluebeary when you mention Dr Smashington

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12/18/2025

Cap is a dad?

The first teaser trailer for “Avengers: Doomsday” has revealed that Steve Rogers, the star-spangled Avenger portrayed by Chris Evans, will return in the next Marvel team-up adventure, set to release Dec. 18, 2026. In a twist, Captain America is the father to a newborn child.

Marvel is building up to “Doomsday,” which hits theaters exactly one year from Thursday, with this Cap-focused teaser attached to screenings of “Avatar: Fire and Ash.”

There will reportedly be more teasers that focus on other characters in the coming weeks”

Nostalgia is one hell of a drug it seems.

12/18/2025

has coined the genre we all just had to sit through. is back to regular scheduled programming if you switched the channel.

Non consensual staged reality tv propaganda
, you’re welcome.