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Rabbit Fighters
by Rabbit Fighters
Rabbit Fighters invites you to join three pals as they embark on a cultural misadventure of a podcast. Each week, they randomly select a piece of media from the vast landscape of movies, music, and pop culture. Here's the twist: at least one of them hasn't experienced it before. Armed with just days to catch up, they dive into the chosen cultural touchstone, and then gather to discuss their thoughts, (un)surprises, and reactions. It's a poorly maintained rollercoaster ride of nostalgia, discovery, and banter. Subscribe now and join the conversation as the Fighters explore the ever-evolving world of movies, music, and pop culture, one random pick at a time. Check out our companion playlist at Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/rabbitfighters
Episodes
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60 - Point Break - Young, Dumb, and Full of Meatball Sandwiches
The Rabbit Fighters are back to hang ten with Bodhi, Johnny Utah, and The Ex-Presidents. We're powering up with double meatball sandwiches so we can do it all: surfing, skydiving, shirtless football, bank robbing, and some light homicide here and there. Join us as we decide whether Point Break is...
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59 - Steely Dan: Aja - Peeeeeeeeg!
This week finds the Rabbit Fighters debating Steely Dan's 1977 record, Aja - one of the most celebrated and respected albums ever recorded. Steely D put the "studio" in Studio Album on this one, famously employing over 40 musicians across 7 of the "cleanest" and most sampled tracks in…
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58 - Friendship - We Had A Couple Of Really Nice Hangs
Men shouldn’t have friends. So says the tagline of Friendship, the A24 2025 Feature Length Directorial and Screenwriting Debut of Andrew DeYoung, starring Tim Robinson as Craig Waterman (basically a connection-starved I Think You Should Leave character dropped into the real world, possessing no...
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57 - Whiplash - Full Metal Drumkit
If you want to make an omelette, you've got to break a few eggs. And if by "omelette" you mean "once-in-a-generation-genius-jazz-drummer" and by "a few eggs" you mean "aspiring music conservatory bros" (aka Miles Teller as Andrew Niemann) then 2014's Whiplash "breaks" them by having Terence...
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56 - In the Line of Fire - Fleeing John Malkovich
The Rabbit Fighters put their tinfoil hats on and travel to 1993, when phones had cords, assassins had newspaper clippings all over their walls, and Presidents were bland and actually interested in governing. Enter Mitch Leary, played by America's Sweetheart, John Malkovich. Mitch was a…
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55 - Real Genius - The Government Gets Its Come-POP-ance
The Rabbit Fighters put on their bunny slippers and head over to some random California college where nerds are cool, except for Kent. Kent is a dick. Also a dick? Jerry Hathaway, the dean or something of this mysterious science nerd college. He wants to make a personal space laser that vaporizes...
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54 - Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny - The Only Thing Worse Than Nazis Are American Nazis
We here at Rabbit Fighters have been unequivocally Anti-Nazi and decidedly Pro-Nazi-Punching since the early 1930s (and it’s also worth noting that we have been Pro-Indiana Jones since 1912.) So don your best fedora, scrounge through your closet to dust off your bullwhip, yell out the window at...
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53 - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - It's Just A Sweet, Sweet Fantasy, Baby.
Terry Gilliam's ambitious and fanciful box office bomb, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, about an 18th century German Aristocrat who may be A. dead, B. a demi-god, C. insane, D. all three, or E. possibly none of the above, is the topic on this episode of Rabbit Fighters. Can The Baron survive…
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52 - The Outsiders - A Clockwork Oklahoma
The Rabbit Fighters go back to when America was at its most golden: the 1960s! Towns like Tulsa, Oklahoma blossomed with quality schooling, nurturing family life, great employment opportunities, and roving gangs of murder kids who engaged in rain-soaked death match brawls. Wait a minute,...
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51 - Thelma & Louise - Outlaws on the Other Side of the Fish Tank
The Rabbit Fighters hop in their convertible T-Bird and get the hell outta Dodge (or Arkansas) for a wild ride to NOT MEXICO! Two gals head out of their suffocating small-town lives for a little fun and suddenly find they are outlaws after Louise murders Thelma's would-be rapist in a parking lot....
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50 - End-of-the-Year Re-Grades
The Rabbit Fighters have had a year. We all have, right? And at the end of the year, we all like to look back and reflect on what’s gone well, what’s gone OK, and what we’ve totally effed up. In our final episode of 2024, we look back at our past movie and album grades and make amends for our…
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49 - Trading Places - If There's Anything Worse Than A Billionaire, It's A Billionaire-Sociologist
On this Very Special Episode(TM) of Rabbit Fighters, we find our pals cracking wise about the 1983 John Landis Christmas-(adjacent)-classic, Trading Places: THE FIRST FILM TO BE ADDED TO THE RABBIT FIGHTERS RANDOMIZER 3000! Somehow, Joshua failed to see this holly jolly/racially-and-class-warfare...
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48 - Tron - A Cinematic Cracked Glowstick
The Rabbit Fighters get rotoscoped, forget how to act, and ride their glowcycles back to 1982...when Disney was floundering and desperate to get those hip kids to love them. Jeff Bridges stars as Kevin Flynn/Clu, a software guy who has his ideas stolen by a desk with a British accent. As the only...
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47 - Midnight Run - Brest is Best at Build-A-Bear
The Rabbit Fighters hit the road to examine the frenemy road pic, Midnight Run, which was directed by middle school boy-favorite director Martin Brest. Brest also directed such hits as “Beverly Hills Cop”, “Scent of a Woman”, and “Meet Joe Black,” before the movie “Gigli” made him quit directing...
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46 - Boondock Saints - To Poke A Caveman In The Amygdala
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT - "The Rabbit Fighters would like to wholeheartedly apologize on behalf of the podcast and decent folk everywhere. This movie is all kinds of awful and watching it made us feel icky (Joshua will never be clean again). That said, the Fighters did enjoy ripping on it...
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45 - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart - With A Chicago Style Side Of "Where Are You, Jay Bennett?"
This week the Fighters wrestle with the 2002 Sam Jones documentary I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, about the troubled recording of Wilco's seminal album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot but in doing so, find more questions than answers and so also dive into the 2021 Bechard/Uhter documentary Where Are You,...
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44 - Raising Arizona - Dreams, Hayseeds, And Bad Parenting in Reagan's America
This week the Rabbit Fighters revisit a dreamworld of magic: Tempe, Arizona! In the 80's! Why, it's the Coen Brothers' second film, Raising Arizona! Its a madcap story about a convict (Nicholas Cage) who falls in love with a cop (Holly Hunter), cleans up his act and marries her, settles down to...
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43 - Johnny Dangerously - His Name is an Adverb!
The Rabbit Fighters travel back in time to NYC's Lower East Side in the 1930s, where a humble Irish delivery boy named Johnny Kelly is about to become New York's most notorious gangster, Johnny Dangerously. Amy Heckerling directs this parody of gangster movies that 2/3rds of the Rabbit Fighters...
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42 - E.T. - A Search for Weed Goes Terribly Wrong
The Rabbit Fighters hop on their BMX bikes and pedal past the full moon as they examine this beloved Steven Spielberg movie about a blobby, hammerheaded alien with googly eyes and glowing fingers that fix boo-boos and geraniums. E.T.'s ship lands in Los Angeles to gather California kindbud for...
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41 - Shaun of the Dead - Where Were You When Second Wave Zombie Fever Struck?
Whether it's "Dead," "Un-Dead," "the Zed-Word," "White Walkers," or "Zombies," back in the mid to late aughts you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting some sort of media that featured societal collapse at the hands of these brain eaters. And the 2004 Edgar Wright comedy horror film Shaun of...
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40 - UHF - A Podcast Divided Cannot Find The Marble In The Oatmeal
Never before has a pick proved so divisive to the Rabbit Fighters as "Weird" Al Yankovic's 1989 absurdist opus "UHF." Filmed entirely in Tulsa, Oklahoma and filled to the brim with Weird Al's brand of pop culture parody and inanity, the Rabbit Fighters find themselves debating this time capsule…
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39 - A Playlist for Killing Sharks (Desert Island Jukebox)
In today's episode we hit the eject button on our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a state-sponsored experiment entitled “Desertion and the Psychological Effects of Music.” Liability waivers have been forged, beneficiaries replaced and blindfolds distributed as the gang is whisked…
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38 - American Fiction: Johnny Walker Blues
The Rabbit Fighters dive into this Cord Jefferson-directed adaptation of the 2001 novel Erasure, by Percival Everett. American Fiction follows a frustrated African-American novelist-professor Thelonious "Monk" Ellison. While his novels receive academic praise, they sell poorly, and publishers...
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37 - Bull Durham: The Rose Goes in the Front, Big Guy
What happened to The Bad News Bears? Welllll, we decided to throw Old Uncle Charley at ya and watched this slightly less old Ron Shelton pic about adult men playing a kids' game, and the ladies who love them. So snap on your garter belts, breathe through your eyelids, tap that voodoo charm on…
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36 - The Thermals - Effin' A & The Body, The Blood, The Machine
The Thermals were one of those bands that if you got to experience them while they were making music you felt like you were a part of something special. This week the Rabbit Fighters delve into not one, but two of their albums: Their sophomore release, 2004's "Effin' A" (it's not really called…
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35 - Escape From New York - We're Back! ... in New York
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...
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Persepolis - A Pod-Crossover Between Quarantined Comics & Rabbit Fighters
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...
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Summer Vacation
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...
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34 - The Taylor Swift Episode: (Greg's Version)
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…
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33 - The Wolf of Wall Street: Smoke Crack With Me, Bro!
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...
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32 - Super Troopers: Shoot Me In the D*ck!
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...
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31 - Twister: Tornados Only Suck Up Dads And Doors...
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…
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30 - Boogie Nights: You Got the Touch!
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...
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29 - Junior: Man Gets Pregnant, Has Baby, WTF?!
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...
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28 - Titus Andronicus - The Monitor: The Enemy is Everywhere (But Mostly in Somerville, MA...)
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”…
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27 - The Peanut Butter Solution: Please Skip(py) This Movie
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....
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26 - Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon: Happiness Is Hard To Come By
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...
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25 - To Live and Die in LA: Briefs, Boobs, Butts, and Bills
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...
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24.1 - Dune (Parts 1 & 2): B-Side Bonus Episode!
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...
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24 - Dune (Parts 1 & 2): (Almost) As Written!
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...
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23 - Tenet: ?ezeeuqS eht htroW eciuJ
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…
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22 - Bee Movie: Mister Bee Goes to Washington...and Destroys the World
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…
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21 - Children of Men: NOT the Sequel to "Junior"
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,...
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20 - Weezer: OK Spreadsheet
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…
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19 - Starship Troopers: We're All Doing Our Parts!
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...
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18 - The Impossibles - Anthology: A Valentine for The Impossibles
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…
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17 - Godzilla Minus One: “WE’RE SCREWED!!!”
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...
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16 - Brazil: It's SO "Orwellian."
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...
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15 - They Live: Have a Confusing Day!
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...
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14 - Barbie: Real Men Cry on Planes
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...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Rabbit Fighters invites you to join three pals as they embark on a cultural misadventure of a podcast. Each week, they randomly select a piece of media from the vast landscape of movies, music, and pop culture. Here's the twist: at least one of them hasn't experienced it before.
Armed with just days to catch up, they dive into the chosen cultural touchstone, and then gather to discuss their thoughts, (un)surprises, and reactions. It's a poorly maintained rollercoaster ride of nostalgia, discovery, and banter.
Subscribe now and join the conversation as the Fighters explore the ever-evolving world of movies, music, and pop culture, one random pick at a time.
Check out our companion playlist at Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/rabbitfighters
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Rabbit Fighters invites you to join three pals as they embark on a cultural misadventure of a podcast. Each week, they randomly select a piece of media from the vast landscape of movies, music, and pop culture. Here's the twist: at least one of them hasn't experienced it before. Armed with just...
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