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 government assassin until they turned on him, and now he wants to assassinate the head of our government, the extremely bland President Traveler or something. BUT WAIT! Old-ass Clint Eastwood wants a word or 50,0...
Jun 24, 2025•54 min•Season 3Ep. 56
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 people on Earth, and has mobilized his army of geeky teens to build it. Chief among the geeky teens is a man who does not resemble a geek at all. In fact, Chris Knight resembles Val Kilmer so much that ...
Jun 12, 2025•56 min•Season 3Ep. 55
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 those damn hippies to turn that blasted "music" down, and join your three pals, The Rabbit Fighters (and their one esteemed guest, Dr. Tim) as we discuss whether it's necessary to have seen Crystal Skull ...
May 06, 2025•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 54
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 a dance with Venus in the age of #MeToo? Can visual effects win the day in a world of Jar Jars? Will an episode with only 2 out of 3 Rabbit Fighters carry a weight of Gilliamesque magnitude? Join us and ...
Apr 22, 2025•58 min•Season 3Ep. 53
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, Ponyboy...this town isn't golden! WHAT THE F*** IS WRONG WITH THIS TOWN?!!! Well, I guess all the murder is OK when the kid gangs are populated by future Hollywood dreamboats like Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon, To...
Apr 11, 2025•53 min•Season 3Ep. 52
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. They hit the road and realize that they are better off as free outlaws than they ever were as trapped women. On the way, they see lots of water, Brad Pitt's hairless chest, a weepy desert cop, a surpris...
Feb 04, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 51
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 snap judgments. What did we rate too high? What did we rate too low? What’s the dumbest thing we've reviewed this year? What pleasantly surprised us? What do we wish we’d seen/watched sooner? We hope you en...
Dec 31, 2024•55 min•Season 2Ep. 50
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 charged buddy comedy when he was 5 years old, starring Eddie Murphy, Dan "Too Many Y's In His Name" Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Amtrack. It's a pseudoscientific glimpse into the 80's day trader psych...
Dec 24, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 49
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 person in the movie who can act, he must jump into a supercomputer to save the day! Bruce Boxlightningpantstner stars as Alan Bradley/Tron...a total mopey turd in real life who also plays the titular ch...
Dec 20, 2024•54 min•Season 2Ep. 48
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 forever. Noted comedian Robert DeNiro stars as Jack, a chain-smoking ex-cop bounty hunter who just wants to open a goddamned coffee shop, OK, you sunuvabich?! But FIRST, he has to capture The Duke, a cha...
Dec 10, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 47
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 because in 1000 years (if humanity survives, which, let's face it, ain't looking too great) we'd like to be on the right side of history (cinematic and otherwise)." - The Fighters Next Week - Greg's Pick: M...
Dec 03, 2024•55 min•Season 2Ep. 46
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, Jay Bennett? Was Jay unfairly kicked from the band? Was this the beginning of the end for Wilco's street cred and the beginning of their evolution into Dad-Rock scions? Was Chicago in the late 90s/early ...
Nov 26, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 45
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 experience the "salad days", but things quickly spiral out of control when they discover they can't conceive or adopt. And so they decide to kidnap one of the Arizona Quintuplets (as one does). Is it all ...
Nov 19, 2024•58 min•Season 2Ep. 44
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 absolutely hate. Michael Keaton is the suave, fast-talking gangster Johnny. Former funnyman turned greaseball gym rat Joe Piscopo is the villainous Danny Vermin. Taxi alum, redhead, and MENSA member Maril...
Nov 12, 2024•49 min•Season 2Ep. 43
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 their condom garden. When men with jingly keys approach, E.T.'s comrades ditch him on Earth, where a lonely boy named Elliott lures him into captivity with free candy. From there. E.T. makes a phone out of...
Nov 05, 2024•58 min•Season 2Ep. 42
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 The Dead had a lot to do with that. This Halloween Week we find the Fighters going crate digging across the zombie and horror movie genres and swing by the Winchester to talk about late 90's British Come...
Oct 29, 2024•50 min•Season 2Ep. 41
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 of a film. Will Brian try a Twinkie Weiner Sandwich(TM)? Will Greg figure out how to get turtles unsuction-cupped from the ceiling? Will Joshua finally admit that some of this movie has aged poorly? Join ...
Oct 22, 2024•59 min•Season 2Ep. 40
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 away in their respective ornithopters towards the deep desert. Equipped with piss suits, food pills and a crate of 10 albums, our three Fighters must survive the harsh vastness whilst continuing to bring th...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 13 min
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 reject his latest manuscript for not being "Black enough". In a fit of despair about his writing not being taken seriously, he writes a book full of stereotypes called My Pafology as a joke under the pseudo...
Oct 08, 2024•52 min•Season 2Ep. 38
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 your bats, and follow the Rabbit Fighters as we discuss whether this 1988 movie about minor league baseball in the city of Durham is the best baseball movie...or best sports movie...ever made. Oh yeah, and....
Oct 01, 2024•54 min•Season 2Ep. 37
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 that but we're afraid that if we put the full expletive title in writing the algorithm will punt us into the void...) and 2006's loosely conceptual post-apocalyptic/slice of life in a future Christofascist...
Sep 26, 2024•47 min•Season 2Ep. 36
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 and their leader, The Duke. Why Manhattan? No clue. Did I mention that The Duke is holding the POTUS ...
Sep 23, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 35
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 Fighters, not-quite-Quarantined Comics episode on the house, and tell friend of the show Raman we said "hi" wh...
Jul 12, 2024•43 min
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 .
Jun 27, 2024•2 min
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 was wealthy?) SOMEHOW, 2/3rds of The Rabbit Fighters are pretty oblivious to her and on this episode we d...
Jun 25, 2024•49 min
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, he has to resort to selling penny stocks, and slowly builds an empire of lowlife jerks and terribl...
Jun 18, 2024•59 min
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 Driving drunk Yelling "WOOOOOO!!!" Getting into dozens of fistfights Basically anything except doing the...
Jun 12, 2024•55 min
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 destination? Can a gang of street tough evil corporate sellouts out-predict a rag-tag group of lovably suicidal inte...
May 28, 2024•57 min
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 this flick to answer one burning question. Does Boogie Nights gets the juices flowing down there in ...
May 21, 2024•1 hr
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 Ex Machina or some crap. The main thing to know is that in addition to getting ladies pregnant, it also w...
May 07, 2024•58 min
