#8 Will Machines Take Our Jobs? Big Rascals Discuss Player Piano!

BONUS!!! BIG RASCALS WRITING CHALLENGE - Alien Encounter

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2531009/fan_mail/new] Come join us as we put our writing skills to the test! Big Rascals Writing Challenge is a new BONUS segment that we will be doing monthly along with our Book Club Podcast.  We are all aspiring writers and need all the practice and help we can get. Please let us know what you think. Leave a comment and give us feedback.  Feel free to join the challenge with your own short story as well. Send it to bigrascals.podcast@gmail.com and we will pick one to read for our next episode.

#10 "AMAZE! AMAZE! AMAZE!" BIG RASCALS discuss PROJECT HAIL MARY!

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2531009/fan_mail/new] In Episode 10 of Big Rascals, we discuss our TOP 5 Aliens, Geoff's Tropical HOT TAKE, and the book and movie PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir. We have also continued our new segment BIG RASCALS WRITING CHALLENGE where we all write a short story about an Alien Encounter. Check it out on YouTube. There will be SPOILERS!!! So go read the book and watch the movie, then make your way back here and give us a listen! Project Hail Mary is a 2021 hard sci-fi novel by Andy Weir (adapted into a 2026 film) about Ryland Grace, a science teacher who wakes from a coma with amnesia on a spaceship. He discovers he is on a last-ditch mission to save Earth from "Astrophage," a microorganism eating the sun. We want Big Rascals to be a community or a "CLUB." So don't hesitate to Subscribe, Like, and leave a Comment or suggestion on what next book you would like us to discuss and we will do out best to accommodate. Find us on Social Media for extra content. We are also looking for Sponsors or Donors. We can be reached at bigrascals.podcast@gmail.com. We are extremely grateful for any and all support! Thank you! For our next book to read as a club, Geoff has decided on "Red Wall" by Brian Jacques. Keep READING, keep WRITING, and stay RASCALLY my friends!

#9 INCONCEIVABLE! Big Rascals said "AS YOU WISH" to discussing The Princess Bride!

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2531009/fan_mail/new] In Episode 9 of Big Rascals, we discuss Greg's Magical HOT TAKE and the book "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman. Also stay till the end to see the Writing Talent(or lack there of) of the Big Rascals(Greg, Geoff, and Derek). There will be SPOILERS!!! But could we really spoil something that everyone has seen or read? "The Princess Bride" is a framed fantasy-adventure novel following Buttercup, who, believing her true love Westley is dead, reluctantly agrees to marry Prince Humperdinck. Kidnapped by a trio—Vizzini, Inigo, and Fezzik—she is rescued by a mysterious "man in black", sparking a tale of revenge, romance, and satire. We want Big Rascals to be a community or a "CLUB." So don't hesitate to Subscribe, Like, and leave a Comment or suggestion on what next book you would like us to discuss and we will do out best to accommodate. Find us on Social Media for extra content. We are also looking for Sponsors or Donors. We can be reached at bigrascals.podcast@gmail.com. We are extremely grateful for any and all support! Thank you! For our next book to read as a club, Greg has decided on "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir. Keep READING, keep WRITING, and stay RASCALLY my friends!

#8 Will Machines Take Our Jobs? Big Rascals Discuss Player Piano!

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2531009/fan_mail/new] In Episode 8 of Big Rascals, we discuss our TOP 5 Movie Scores, Derek's spicy HOT TAKE, and the book "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut. There will be SPOILERS!!! So go and read this book that is extremely relevant for today, then come back and listen. "Player Piano" is a dystopian satire depicting a highly automated America after World War III where machines have replaced human labor. The story follows Paul Proteus, a disillusioned manager in Ilium, New York, who rebels against an elite, technocratic society that has rendered the populace purposeless. We want Big Rascals to be a community or a "CLUB." So don't hesitate to Subscribe, Like, and leave a Comment or suggestion on what next book you would like us to discuss and we will do out best to accommodate. Find us on Social Media for extra content. We are also looking for Sponsors or Donors. We can be reached at bigrascals.podcast@gmail.com. We are extremely grateful for any and all support! Thank you! For our next book to read as a club, Derek has decided to do a fan recommendation and picked "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman. Keep READING, keep WRITING, and stay RASCALLY my friends!

#7 Break the Chains: Big Rascals Discuss Red Rising!

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2531009/fan_mail/new] In Episode 7 of Big Rascals, we discuss our TOP 5 Wing flavors, Geoff's nerdy HOT TAKE, and the book "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown. There will be SPOILERS!!! So go and read this "Rising" in popularity book, then come back and listen. "Red Rising" follows Darrow, a low-caste "Red" miner on Mars, who discovers his people's grueling work to terraform the planet is a lie, as the ruling "Golds" have lived on the habitable surface for generations as slave masters. Betrayed and driven by vengeance after his wife's death, Darrow disguised as a Gold, to infiltrate their elite command school, the Institute, to dismantle the oppressive color-coded society from within through brutal games, politics, and warfare. The story blends dystopian sci-fi with Romanesque fantasy, exploring themes of class, identity, sacrifice, and rebellion. We want Big Rascals to be a community or a "club." So don't hesitate to leave a comment or suggestion on what next book you would like us to discuss and we will do our best to accommodate. We are also looking for sponsors or donors. We can be reached at bigrascals.podcast@gmail.com. We are extremely grateful for any and all support! Thank you! For our next book to read as a club, Geoff had decided on "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Keep reading, keep writing, and stay rascally my friends!