Rabbit Fighters
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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 pseudonym Stagg R Leigh…except the book rockets him to fame in the publishing and movie world. He has to decide whether to reveal himself and accept the fame or blow the whole thing up.
The film stars Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody and Keith David.
Next Week - Brian's Pick: Desert Island Selections
And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on Spotify and Youtube.
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..the rose goes in the front, big guy.
Next Week - Greg's Pick: American Fiction
And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on Spotify and Youtube.
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 America album "The Body, The Blood, The Machine."
Strap on your ear goggles and join us as Joshua & Greg try and convince Brian that this band ruled.
Next Week - Random Pick: The Bad News Bears (just kidding it's actually Bull Durham...we'll explain)
[Originally Published September 24, 2024]
And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on Spotify and Youtube.
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 hostage? We’ll get into it, I promise. But more importantly, there is only one man (literally one guy) that can navigate the prison underworld and rescue the president - newly minted convict, Snake Plissken. A highly decorated war hero turned bad guy who has 24 hrs. to accomplish an impossible mission – save the president … before his head blows up.
Hop aboard our chandelier clad Cadillac because this episode is rolling out.
Next Episode - Joshua's Pick: The Thermals 1. Effin' A & 2. The Body, The Blood, The Machine
[Published September 22, 2024]
And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on Spotify and Youtube.
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" when you stop on over on his two podcasts, won't you?
QUARANTINED COMICS: Comics aren't just about superheroes in capes. Each week we'll discuss, debate, and nerd out on some of the medium's greatest, latest, and strangest works. From Alan Moore to Uzumaki, to everything in-between, we aim to smash, and talk for far too long on the books we love.
Hosted by reporter/podcaster Ryan Joe and recovering marketer Raman Sehgal. We're setting phasers to...fun?
MODERN MINORITIES: Sharon Lee Thony and Raman Sehgal are two MODERN MINORITIES - Asian-American industry pros making it in NY & LA - even though they never became the doctors their parents wanted them to be. Each week, they are joined by fellow Modern Minorities of all stripes - entrepreneurs, corporates, athletes, reporters, politicians, entertainers, and more - to uncover how our different cultural backgrounds shape how we uniquely experience the world.
MODERN MINORITIES is a collection of conversations about work and life through the lens of race and gender. It is a show where we talk about “the thing” that everyone is thinking about, but nobody is actually talking about.
And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on Spotify and Youtube.