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If you smell what CABBAGES is cooking... then you know our Wrestling Season is back at last, with returning guest Ham El-Waylly . Fresh off the release of his new cookbook Home Cooking: Do-Able Dishes for Every Day , the celebrated chef behind Brooklyn seafood outpost Strange Delight joins the pod to discuss the massive WWE x Hanna-Barbera crossover movie event SCOOBY-DOO! WRESTLEMANIA MYSTERY (20...

Following an extensive Spring break (about which we shall never speak), CABBAGES Wrestling Season is back in action with returning guests and longtime friends of the show Duncecap and Samurai Banana . The dynamic duo behind the recently released joint album Comfortably Suffering for Fused Arrow Records joins the pod to discuss the devastatingly sad family drama THE IRON CLAW (2023, dir. Sean Durki...

Despite some bad movie setbacks, CABBAGES Wrestling Season perseveres with help from special guest Action Figure 973 . The masked New Jersey mystery emcee behind projects like Luchador Body Odor , DOOM Was Right , and The Most Interesting Man In The World stops by to discuss the genuinely gonzo genre classic THEY LIVE (1988, dir. John Carpenter, starring Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David). Watch f...

CABBAGES goes totally '90s (again) with help from special guests BBGuns . Fresh off the release of their new UDDTBA album Rust Belt , the Pittsburgh hip-hop duo add to our Wrestling Season canon with a 35th anniversary chat about the Vanilla Ice infused, fast-tracked feature film sequel TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II (1991, dir. Michael Pressman, featuring Kevin Nash as Super Shredder). Watch ful...

CABBAGES Wrestling Season takes a virtual trip up north for a Canadian kayfabe extravaganza. Special guest Len Bowen , the veteran Winnipeg rapper behind 2025's If You Don't See Me, You Saw Me , joins us to discuss the heels-as-heroes horror flick DARK MATCH (2024, dir. Lowell Dean, starring Ayisha Issa and Chris Jericho). Watch full episode video on YouTube . For more podcast episodes and hip-hop...

On this episode of CABBAGES, Wrestling Season is forced to reckon with our former Rapper Movie Season past. With help from special guest Chester Watson , whose latest P.O.W. Recordings project Psychic Warfare Department is a must-hear, we face the fate of WWE Films' late 2010s fare with the cat-and-mouse thriller BLOOD BROTHER (2018, dir. John Pogue, starring Trey Songz, Fetty Wap, and R-Truth). W...

CABBAGES Wrestling Season makes its 2026 comeback with special guests Jason Griff and Alex Ludovico . These core figures of the Insubordinate Records hip-hop imprint stop by to discuss the wholly sophomoric WCW feature film READY TO RUMBLE (2000, dir. Brian Robbins, co-starring former Heavyweight Champion David Arquette, Oliver Platt, and Scott Caan). Watch full episode video on YouTube . For more...

As John Cena makes his final bow in the ring, CABBAGES Wrestling Season closes out 2025 with a timely salute to a key flick in his acting resumé. To help us do it properly, we've invited Pittsburgh rapper Beedie on the program, fresh off his pro-wrestling themed album Beedromania , to discuss the raunchy family comedy BLOCKERS (2018, dir. Kay Cannon, co-starring Leslie Mann & Ike Barinholtz)....

CABBAGES Wrestling Season proudly hails the return of rapper Zilla Rocca for his third-ever appearance on the show. Having just dropped his new album Fast Eddie on Black Friday, the Philly phenomenon stops by to discuss WWE Films' shoulda-been-a-TV-pilot buddy flick BENDING THE RULES (2012, dir. Artie Mandelberg, starring Adam "Edge" Copeland & Jamie Kennedy). Watch full episode video on YouTu...

CABBAGES Wrestling Season goes international with this week's special guest Shad . Fresh off the release of his latest album Start Anew , the critically acclaimed and Juno award-winning Canadian rapper joins the show to discuss the utterly grim WWE Films feature THE CONDEMNED (2007, dir. Scott Wiper, starring "Stone Cold" Steve Austin & Vinnie Jones). Watch full episode video on YouTube . For...

This XXL-sized episode brings two of CABBAGES' most frequent guests into the Wrestling Season mix. After dazzling indie hip-hop heads all summer with their three-album run The Triple Steel Beam Collection , our four-time returning champs Curly Castro and PremRock of the rap duo ShrapKnel head back to the beach to catch the TV-turned-movie reboot wave of BAYWATCH (2017, dir. Seth Gordon, starring D...

CABBAGES' Wrestling Season continues with Wave Generators , one of the best rap duos in the game right now, as our esteemed guests. Fresh off touring behind RUN AWAY WITH A WILD AND A RARE ONE , their stunning sophomore album, Nosaj from New Kingdom and Height Keech step into a veritable hell-in-a-cell to confront the pseudo-existential thriller KNOCK AT THE CABIN (2023, dir. M. Night Shyamalan, s...

CABBAGES' Wrestling Season commences with a New York City tag team bout that's truly for the ages. Resident babyfaces Gary and Jeff join underground hip-hop/rap legends junclassic and Uncommon Nasa in the ring for a once-in-a-lifetime confrontation over the WWE's first official film NO HOLDS BARRED (1989, dir. Thomas J. Wright, starring Hulk Hogan and Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.). Watch full episode v...

It's our TOTALLY '90S season finale here at CABBAGES and we needed to go out with a bang—blockbuster-style. So we invited New York City rap star BUB STYLES , fresh off the release of OUTERWEAR SZN 5 , to join us in a death-defying discussion of the hit movie / multiple Razzie nominee CLIFFHANGER (1993, dir. Renny Harlin, starring Sylvester Stallone and John Lithgow). For more podcast episodes and...

We're nearing the end of CABBAGES' TOTALLY '90S season, sad to say. So for this penultimate episode, we brought on JAY CINEMA , the Harlem-based rapper behind be a better friend , to help us break down Michael Crichton's jungle adventure CONGO (1995, dir. Frank Marshall, starring Laura Linney and Ernie Hudson). For more podcast episodes and hip-hop newsletters, subscribe to CABBAGES at cabbageship...

Here at CABBAGES , we don't like to repeat ourselves. Yet this TOTALLY '90S season demands a repeat performance from one of that decade's biggest stars: Bruce Willis. So with Bronx rapper Bloo Azul as our special guest (and his latest albums Déjà Bloo and Sacré Bloo in heavy rotation here), we get into the Hollywood remake mess that is The Jackal (1997, dir. Michael Caton-Jones, co-starring Richar...

CABBAGES' TOTALLY '90S season rages on as friend-of-the-show PremRock stops by. Still riding high after the release of his latest Backwoodz Studioz album Did You Enjoy Your Time Here...? , the NYC-based rapper, barroom bard, and notorious flibbertigibbet makes his third appearance on the podcast to chat about the screwball comedy Joe Versus The Volcano (1990, dir. John Patrick Shanley, starring To...

It's a big day for CABBAGES' TOTALLY '90S season when none other than Sage Francis stops by the show. Following the release of his recent mixtape A Sick Twist Ending , the veteran indie rapper and Strange Famous record label mogul breaks our long-running bad movie streak to discuss the genuinely great Twelve Monkeys (1995, dir. Terry Gilliam, starring Bruce Willis and Madeleine Stowe.) For more po...

We simply couldn't have done a TOTALLY '90S season of CABBAGES without talking about one of the decade's biggest movie stars. So we brought on Q No Rap Name , the Philly-based producer behind the incredible dope LIVING ROOM , to discuss the utopian / dystopian / fruitopian cryogenic sci-fi extravaganza Demolition Man (1993, dir. Marco Brambilla, starring Wesley Snipes .) For more podcast episodes...

CABBAGES' TOTALLY '90S season has already tackled its share of cinematic tropes, but the decade's tough-teacher-in-a-public-school film subgenre needed to be addressed. With seasoned indie rapper Stik Figa as our esteemed guest, his latest album A Small Fortune getting plenty of play on our speakers, we zig instead of zag with a rather extreme take on the format: One Eight Seven (1997, dir. Kevin...

Following a recent foray into space (aka Philly) CABBAGES' TOTALLY '90S season takes a detour into Valkenvania, New Jersey with the Garden State's own NAHreally as our guest. On this episode, the Jersey City rapper behind this year's self-produced Secret Pancake discusses an infamous horror comedy with a hip-hop twist: Nothing But Trouble (1991, dir. Dan Aykroyd, starring Chevy Chase, Demi Moore,...

Welcome once again to CABBAGES In Space ! For the second time in the show's history, Gary and Jeff head into OUTER SPACE (aka Philadelphia) to chat with special guest Small Professor . A member of the illustrious Wrecking Crew, the producer behind notable beats for everyone from Sean Price to billy woods comes through to discuss the movie Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves (1991, dir. Kevin Reynolds, c...

Who's ready for the hip-hop podcast crossover event of the season? CABBAGES and Call Out Culture collide for a two-part discussion of the infamous hood classic Belly (1998, Hype Williams, starring DMX and Nas). On the CABBAGES side, we chat with rappers Alaska, Curly Castro, and Zilla Rocca about the movie in depth. Be sure to pop on over to the Call Out Culture pod for Part 2, where Gary and Jeff...

It's about to get sleazy up in here, as CABBAGES reaches the NC-17 portion of our TOTALLY '90S season. We invited iconic indie rapper Psalm One and her Is This A Safe Space? producer Optiks on the show to discuss the infamously over-the-top Las Vegas fantasy flick Showgirls (1995, dir. Paul Verhoeven, starring Elizabeth Berkley and Gina Gershon.) For more podcast episodes and hip-hop newsletters,...

It's a brand new year, but CABBAGES is still TOTALLY '90S . The season continues down an unhinged path with rapper guest Stan Ipcus stopping by the show in support of his recently released album Sleep If You Want and its mixtape predecessor The Mask Tape .  Naturally, we had to discuss The Mask (1994, dir. Chuck Russell, starring Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz.) For more podcast episodes and hip-hop...