Travolta/Cage

A deep dive into the strange, fascinating careers of two of cinema's most prolific weirdos -- John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. With Nathan Rabin (Nathan Rabin's Happy Place) and Clint Worthington (Consequence, The Spool).

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#4: Saving Christmas from Kirk Cameron (w/Alonso Duralde)

To usher in the Christmas season, we brought in special guest Alonso Duralde (What the Flick?!, Linoleum Knife, author of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas) to spin some Yuletide yarns with us. This week, we ruminate on the fan blowback to The Last Jedi, trade our top ten lists for the year, discuss the curious resurgence of Rachel Dolezal, and help each other through the Noel nightmares of Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas and Pottersville. Enjoy! 3:38 - Scalding Hot Takes: Star Wars: The La...

Dec 19, 2017•1 hr 31 min

#3: Leave Your Stupid Comments in Your Podcast!

Oh hai everybody! Welcome to Episode 3 of Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast! This week, we worship at the altar of 2017's creative oddballs with The Disaster Artist and Brigsby Bear, tune our Videoboxes to the madness of Rapsittie Street Kids, and succumb to Hulkamania with Suburban Commando. 05:28 - Scalding Hot Takes: The Disaster Artist 21:10 - The Big Whoop: Depression 32:14 - This Looks Terrible: Rapsittie Street Kids - Believe in Santa 48:27 - Lukewarm Takes: Brigsby Bear 59:44 - Control Nathan an...

Dec 05, 2017•1 hr 25 min

#2: Cape Punch Men for Little Babies

This week, Nathan joins Clint in-studio in Chicago for a real-life in-person episode of Happy Cast! For our second episode, we moan about kids these days and their Emoji Movies, suit up for the messy Justice League, and get prehistoric with the misguided Whoopi Goldberg/dino buddy cop movie Theodore Rex. Oh, and more sexual assault allegations out of Hollywood, because men are garbage! 4:55 - Control Nathan Rabin: The Emoji Movie 21:52 - Scalding Hot Takes: Justice League 36:25 - Control Nathan ...

Nov 22, 2017•1 hr 8 min

#1: This Might Totally Suck

Nathan Rabin's Happy Place enters the exciting world of podcasting with an opening extravaganza featuring the following segments: 00:45 - Introductions 06:30 - The Juggalo March on Washington 28:34 - Scalding Hot Takes: Thor Ragnarok 47:22 - Harvey Weinstein/WTF is Wrong With Men? 1:02:35 - The Weird Accordion to Al 1:16:47 - Listener Mail

Nov 09, 2017•1 hr 32 min

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