Rabbit Fighters

We’re back, baby! The RF gang is locked and loaded for the back half of Season 2. Armed with new episodes, repartee, random rating scales and a low listener count, The Fighters soldier on into the cultural unknown.  Join us this week as we cram into the red egg escape pod and jettison ourselves towards the prison island of Manhattan. Now a dystopian wasteland hellscape occupied by lawless crazies...

While Rabbit Fighters is officially on Summer Vacation please enjoy this pod-crossover episode!  Joshua joins his buddy Raman over on comic book centric podcast Quarantined Comics to discuss the Award Winning/Oft-Banned/Frequently Censored Autobiographical Graphic Novel PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi.   (You may remember Raman from the legendary  Weezer episode ). So enjoy a not-quite-Rabbit Fighte...

Rabbit Fighters are taking a much needed break from publishing new episodes, but FEAR NOT, we'll be back week after week with new episodes in September. Until then, feel free to listen into our back catalog. See you soon! And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on  Spotify  and  Youtube .

At the time this episode was recorded, Taylor Swift had not yet ascended to the Diamond Throne as Empress of The Known Universe, no, she was still simply a beloved (and occasionally divisive) Global Ultra Star whose wealth, beauty, influence (and wealth) continued to inspire legions, and we review her rise to fame as chronicled  in the 2020 documentary/film  Miss Americana.  (Did we mention she wa...

The Rabbit Fighters take a trip to Wall Street to sell some penny stocks, smoke some crack, trash a Lamborghini, dance with hookers in the office, and ruin some average peoples' lives with terrible stock tips. Little Jordy Belfort is a fresh-faced stock broker wannabe whose first day on the job happens to coincide with the biggest stock market crash since the Great Depression. Freshly out of a job...

The Rabbit Fighters visit the fine state of Vermont circa 2001, home to apparently the worst crop of state troopers and police on planet Earth. The state troopers have an idea of what constitutes policing the highways, and it's this: Shooting each other in the dick Wrestling pigs Boning speeding German motorists Chugging maple syrup Sexually harassing colleagues who then fall for them somehow Driv...

This week your pals The Rabbit Fighters are joined by friend of the show and  Mediocretologist, Tim , here to help us ring in the Summer Blockbuster Season™ by going back to 1996 to uncover the deep, unanswered questions surrounding the OG disaster flick,  Twister !  Such as:   What are the hallmarks of a good disaster movie?   What makes the path of a tornado such a dependable honeymoon destinati...

In this episode, we cannonball into the vibrant and tumultuous world of PT Anderson's 1997 sophomore film "Boogie Nights." Set against the neon glow of the 70s and 80s San Fernando Valley, "Boogie Nights" tells the story of Eddie Adams, aka Dirk Diggler, and his meteoric rise and fall as an adult film star. Fleshed out by a standout ensemble cast and a groovy script, our faithful Fighters revisit...

The Rabbit Fighters strap their sympathy bellies on, don their wigs and aprons and go Full Mrs. Doubtfire as they discuss the truly bizarre and unlikable  Ivan Reitman  film,  Junior . Arnold Schwarzenegger  and  Danny DeVito  are two scientists who invent a blue juice that gets people pregnant without any actual biology or science involved, so it's amazing. It's called Expectra, or Expectorum, or...

The American Civil War never ended!  It has raged on in one form or another from Fort Sumter to Appomattox Court House all the way through this, the 28th Episode of Rabbit Fighters, where this week we examine the much beloved punk rock anomaly that is The Monitor, the 2010 Civil War “concept” album by New Jersey’s finest, Titus Andronicus.  Joshua is a huge fan (+@ forever!) and Brian and Greg are...

The Peanut Butter Solution Recipe The culinary concoction of Michael Rubbo, this delectable French Canadian dish dates as far back as 1985. Most notable for its ability to make children misremember having eaten it at all, The Peanut Butter Solution has a way of sticking to the roof of your brain.  Cooked atop the flame of immolated winos. You'll soon enjoy ghostly fragrances of hair loss, sinister...

Join The Rabbit Fighters this week as we discuss Grant Lee Buffalo's 1994 album  Mighty Joe Moon .  Greg is "Ride Or Die" for GLB, and neither Joshua nor Brian had ever heard of them, which (statistically speaking) means 66.6% of you out there have never been acquainted either. (That's just math facts.) So tune up your  Dobro , pop on an episode of  Gilmore Girls , and turn an ear or two to the ol...

The Rabbit Fighters get their briefs on and head to the gym to loudly discuss their illegal counterfeiting operation amid the general public as they review the 1985 William Friedkin thriller, To Live and Die in LA. Rick Masters is Willem Dafoe. Or is Willem Dafoe Rick Masters? We forget. William Petersen is definitely crooked secret service agent Richard Chance. Chance is hell-bent on bringing dow...

But wait, there's more!  The Rabbit Fighters had way more to say about Dune than even a single episode could contain! So here's a special B-Side to Episode 24 where you'll hear the Fighters 1. bring back our beloved Krautrock Fremen from Episode 5, 2. make fun of Walken: Emperor of the Known Universe, 3. wage a Jihad of Butlerian proportions against 4D Theaters, 4. rank the Frank Herbert novels po...

Kull wahad!  Calibrate your thumper for a great grandfather of a worm and join the Rabbit Fighters as they discuss  Denis Villanueve's Epic translation to the big screen of Frank Herbert's sci-fi masterpiece,  DUNE . Which film will reign supreme: Part 1 (2021) or Part 2 (2024)?  Or will David Lynch's 1984 version surprise us all? (Much like Shai-Hulud breaking through the Shield Wall carrying an...

After a raucous Spring Break adventure to Señor Frogs, The Fighters triumphantly return! … OK, nobody invited us to spring break, BUT we did revisit the 2020 sci-fi action thriller, Tenet. Released mid-pandemic, this mind, time and narrative bending journey escaped the radar of at least two of our kin. Today, we right that wrong as we attempt to wrap our heads around a plot square rooted in theore...

The Rabbit Fighters put on their best striped sweaters and fly high over Manhattan with The Pollen Jocks in this strangely misguided 2007 Dreamworks animated film crafted by Jerry Seinfeld and Steven Spielberg.  Jerry Seinfeld plays Barry B Benson, a recent graduate of bee college.  His family wants him to be a humble honey-stirrer, like his father. But Barry yearns for life outside the hive! So h...

It's the year 2027 (gulp!) and no babies have been born for 18 years. People have collectively lost hope. Society is in ruins. There are riots, shortages, wars, nuclear attacks, migrants detained in cages, and an alarming uptick in the number of white people with dreadlocks! Our central figure, Theo, is a humdrum desk jockey played by Clive Owen when he was popular. When SUDDENLY, his ex-wife, pla...

In a first, the Rabbit Fighters welcome a special guest: noted podcaster and Weezer Apologist, Raman! We talk about Weezer's 2021 pandemic album,  OK Human , and the sweep of their 30-year history as a band. Will the band be haunted by their first two albums forever?  Has Weezer made anything good in the last 20 years?  Did OK Human pull the band out of a creative tailspin? Can you write a good so...

This week we find The Rabbit Fighters talking about everybody's favorite "so bad it's good/but it's also just kinda bad" B-Movie-with-a-huge-budget action flick, Paul Verhoeven's  Starship Troopers . Is it a tongue in cheek send up of Robert Heinlein's love letter to military dictatorships?   Is it a surprisingly deep commentary on how fascist ideology dehumanizes us all?  Or is it just an excuse...

As the saying goes, "hell hath no fury like a nerd scorned for ska-punk."    This week, The Fighters take the opportunity to revisit a beloved band from their youth. The Impossibles, a power-pop, pop-punk, ska-punk band from Austin, TX. Armed with baseball jerseys, "chucka-chucka" ska rhythms, catchy lyrics, and a penchant for explosive choruses, The Impossibles rocked our young hearts from 1994-2...

Up from the depths! 30 stories high! Brea-thing fire! His head in the sky! GODZILLA! GODZILLA!  and Godzuuuuki The Rabbit Fighters don their rubber monster suits and freon tanks as they plumb the depths of despair experienced by Japanese survivors trying to rebuild their lives after the horrors of World War II. The country is reduced to zero. And then Godzilla comes and brings zero to minus one. ...

Join the Rabbit Fighters as they debate the dark truths behind Big Duct, which was brought to light in the revolutionary 1985 smash hit documentary  Brazil , by Director and Expat-Midwesterner Terry Gilliam.  Just kidding.  It's a dark, depressing tale of pointless jobs and crushing mediocrity in a soulless hyper bureaucratic vision of the past/present/future.  But there's room for dreamers too, y...

The Rabbit Fighters kindly ask that you take off your sunglasses. In this episode, join us as we dive into the cult classic film, "They Live," directed by the legendary John Carpenter. We unravel the layers of this sci-fi thriller that goes beyond its seemingly simple plot. From its iconic sunglasses that reveal hidden messages to its social commentary on consumerism and authority, we explore how...

Barbie is a Barbie girl, living in a Barbie world. Literally. There is a separate universe in which Barbie products live and interact. Barbies have all the power. The Kens just kind of...beach. And everything is perfect. Every day.   UNTIL! ONE DAY!  Stereotypical Barbie is stricken with thoughts of death.   Barbie and Ken travel to the real world for answers. In so doing, they become Margot Robbi...