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Episode #358 – Grand Isle

Is it Cagemas already? Seems like it comes earlier every year. At any rate, Saint Nicolas Cage has left us something awfully spicy beneath the tree this year. It’s a giant slice of deep-fried southern ham, with big performances from Cage, KaDee Strickland, and Money Plane’s Kelsey Grammer. Dare you join us for a visit to Grand Isle?

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Episode #332 – Primal, with Josh Gondelman

Cagemas comes but once a year! Unless, since this one is a little late, it will technically come twice this year, and none times last year. It’s confusing. It’s annual is what we’re saying. We celebrate the work of Saint Nicolas Cage this time with a discussion of the snakes-on-a-boat-and-also-other-animals thriller Primal. And for an august occasion like this one, you need a special guest! So this episode we welcome hilarious sweetheart Josh Gondelman of Desus & Mero and his book Nice Try.

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!!!EPISODE 300!!! – The Wicker Man

Well, we made it to three hundred, guys. And it only took us 12 years. What a triumph of the human spirit. Or monument to three lives sorely misused. One of those two things. But hey! It’s Cagemas, when we celebrate the work of Saint Nicolas Cage! And Hallie’s here! And we’re talking about The Wicker Man! That’s a 300th birthday to be proud of Meanwhile Elliott and Stu really love pronouncing “raspberries,” Dan wonders how long you can hold bullets, and Hallie isn’t gonna let motherhood tank her Flop House Q rating.

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Episode #273 – The Humanity Bureau

Can the magic of Cagemas overcome the most rote Nicholas Cage vehicle we’ve ever discussed, The Humanity Bureau? Meanwhile, Stuart reminisces about the Cage days of his youth, Dan writes a happy ending for some Foodfight! characters, and Elliott sets down some strict boundaries surrounding his son’s bath time.

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Episode #247 – Inconceivable

Merry Cagemas everyone! Reunited and it feels so good — we recorded this one all together, in Dan’s hotel room in San Francisco. What made we of the Cage-light domestic thriller Inconceivable? You’ll have to listen to find out. Meanwhile, Stu has photographic recall of Unforgettable, Elliott explains the genealogy of the “O” family, and Dan is just a vast expanse of flesh.

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Episode #220 – The Trust

Cagemas comes but once a year. Will Saint Nicholas Cage bring us something glorious or another lump of coal for our cinematic stockings? We discuss The Trust. Meanwhile, Stuart reveals his testicle-based library habits, Elliott explores Paul Verhoven’s love for California Dreams, and Dan solos on the hot sax.

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Episode #209 – Pay the Ghost

Zhubin Parang joins us for the fourth most magical time on the Flop House calandar: Cagemas in July! It’s also time for the political conventions, so more extensive show notes are canceled while Dan jets off to Cleveland and Philly.

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Episode #194 – Outcast

For this year’s Cagemas we honor both the kindly St. Nicholas Cage, and Star Wars by picking the Cage-Hayden Christiansen joint, Outcast. Meanwhile, Stuart does an ad for Clearasil, Elliott contributes his worst Popeye, and, yet again, Stu and Elliott interrupt Dan when he’s trying to do something nice for other people. Merry Cagemas.

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