Trapped in the Cage with Nicolas Cage
72 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAre you dazzled and mystified by the works of America's Acting Treasure, Nicolas Cage? Your two brotherly hosts, Josh and Alex, certainly are. So much so that they made a podcast all about the man. Every episode features a brief guest interview* with Nicolas Cage himself. Yes, the real Nicolas Cage, for sure!
Join the brothers and a variety of special guest stars from poets to professional ding dongs every week as we desperately try and get un-Trapped in the Cage with Nicolas Cage. That sentence is terrible. Stop writing all this, Alex!
*: Nicolas Cage is, of course, ephemeral and capricious like a trickster god, and we cannot guarantee he will appear as promised on every single episode. It's all jokes, guys. Live a little.
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Episodes
Episode 22: It Could Happen to You (OOPS! All Brothers Edition)
August 02, 2017 14:38 - 46 minutes - 32 MBOk, there's a technical whoopsie in the middle of this episode. Blame Josh for spreading forbidden, forgotten knowledge that sends ripples throughout space-time in our reality and the neighboring branes on our multiversal stack. I have some pamphlets from Warren Ellis and Grant Morrison if you want more on the nature of multiverse-interrupting facts, but for now, Josh and I are gonna talk about It Could Happen to You, one of the more boring and rote Nicolas Cage movies we are going to see. P...
Episode 21: Guarding Tess (W/ Josh Thorud and Brad's Bud)
July 25, 2017 20:35 - 57 minutes - 54.4 MBWelcome to the end of our grand world tour, this time seeing Josh on his own discussing Guarding Tess with returning guests Josh Thorud and Brad's Bud AKA Thrillhammer. You get two episodes this week because your two dingus brother podcasters dinged it up again and didn't do an episode last week. Ooops! Join us at the Coalition Theater at 10:00 on Friday, July 28th for our live show! We'll talk about The Rock and possibly a cock and our favorite Vulcan, Spock.
Episode 20: Deadfall (W/ Geoff Stone)
July 25, 2017 20:32 - 36 minutes - 24.6 MBIt's part two of our fabulous road tour! This week, join Alex in the far-off land of "less than a mile away from the studio" as he discusses Deadfall with local advertising legend Geoff Stone, who has a very peculiar painting on his wall. Deadfall features what may be Nicolas Cage's worst crazy performance, and that brings no small amount of sadness to say. Join us at the Coalition Theater at 10:00 on July 28th to see our live show! We're gonna talk about The Rock and maybe throw peanuts a...
Episode 19: Red Rock West (With Guest Host Phil Shepard!)
July 11, 2017 16:00 - 59 minutes - 40 MBJosh done got himself in a whole heap of trouble this July, and he's out of the country. WAY out. Phil Shepard, frequent guest and Friend of the Show, fills my dear brother's size 9 Chuck Todds rather nicely as we talk about the cult darling Red Rock West, where Nicolas Cage flexes his range quite nicely by giving a nuanced performance and allows himself to be overshadowed by the late, great Dennis Hopper. Also, we have a live show in Richmond, VA coming up July 28th! Listen at the end of ...
Episode 18: Amos and Andrew (OOPS All Brothers Edition)
July 05, 2017 15:36 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBHey everyone. Take a seat over here near me. We've got to talk about race in this episode, thank you very much E. Max Frye, writer and director of Amos and Andrew. It's uncomfortable, discussing a movie as awakened about racial issues as you could be in a mainstream Hollywood comedy in 1993, but our uncomfort is your pleasure. That's what mom always said!
Episode 17: Honeymoon in Vegas (OOPS! All Brothers Edition)
June 27, 2017 16:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBHave you ever wanted to get married, but your partner has commitment issues? Did you partner pawn you off for a passionate weekend in Hawaii with James Caan? Have you ever spent two hours watching a movie where the titular event never actually happens? Well, good God, you have issues. Also, you might actually be Nicolas Cage from Honeymoon in Vegas. Nice to see you again, Mr. Cage. Can I take you jacket? NO MISTER CAGE STOP ASSAILING ME WITH YOUR TENEBROUS ENERGY TENTACLES ARRRRGLGLGLGL
Episode 16: Zandalee (OOPS! All Brothers Edition)
June 13, 2017 16:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBHey friends, remember how we said Vampire's Kiss was the most Nicolas Cage we'd seen? Zandalee gives it a run for its money while also being just the absolute pits of a movie. Judge Reinhold with a thin mustache and a terrible Nawlins accent and Nic Cage high kicking the air in silhouette is just the tip of this iceberg of insanity. This is The Room not made by a team of complete incompetents while also being just as inscrutable and inane as Tommy Wiseau's classic. Strap in for Zandalee, g...
Episode 15: Fire Birds (OOPS All Brothers Edition)
June 06, 2017 21:27 - 52 minutes - 35.3 MBYou ever watch Top Gun and say, "That was great, but what it really needs is to be about 75% shittier, less than 90 minutes long, and featuring slower aircraft?" If so, Fire Birds is the movie for YOU! You wouldn't say that, though, right? It's important that I know you don't ask for things to be actively shittier for no reason. Please tell me privately that you wouldn't do that. I don't know WHAT I'd do with myself if you didn't. Anyway, Nic Cage stars alongside Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Y...
Episode 14: Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (OOPS All Brothers Edition)
May 31, 2017 21:16 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBDid you guys ever watch a really well-funded college project featuring a group of incredibly talented performers and gorgeous set and sound design, yet so completely bereft of watchable, coherent contact? I know I have, and the ones I've seen have also had random topless women and a giant skinned deer god. Art schools, man. That's Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted, and more than anything I'm glad I never have to type that whole title for a while. Content warning: Alex...
Episode 13: Wild at Heart (W/ Bookhouse Boys L. A. Miner and Josh Thorud)
May 23, 2017 16:00 - 1 hour - 48.4 MBPour up a mug of damn fine coffee and a slice of cherry pie as we welcome David Lynch Week into our podcasting existence. Through what was almost certainly coincidence, we're here with Nicolas Cage's debut performance for acclaimed surrealist Montanan David Lynch. Alex decides to get real in this episode and admit he's only seen one other David Lynch movie, and that's Dune, and also he had to watch it in two sittings. Also, I guess he was in that one Louie story arc? Either way, he's on this...
Episode 12: Vampire's Kiss (W/ Phil Shepard)
May 16, 2017 16:00 - 1 hour - 52.3 MBOk, gang. We made a oopsie last week, and we'll own that. To apologize, here's an extra huge episode where we talk about the one, the only, Vampire's Kiss: the movie that in itself comprises 2/3 of all Best Nicolas Cage freakout videos on all of the internet. Even the dark web! Got enough bitcoin, and you can buy yourself an AK-47, some molly, a person, and three Nicolas Cage videos! Man, the dark web is cool. Wait, no it isn't! Also, we talk about the little-known and even littler-seen Ti...
Episode 11: Moonstruck (W/ Jesse Hill)
May 02, 2017 15:45 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBDid something weird happen last week? We're really psyched to bring you our conversation about Moonstruck, the Nic Cage/Cher romantic comedy all about how there are only Italians in New York City, and they're all obsessed with the moon. We're talking werewolves obsessed with the moon. We're talking Northern Water Tribe obsessed with the moon. The moon that we definitely didn't land on. This conspiracy-laden episode features Jesse Hill, comedian and possibly also the inspiration for Bruce Wil...
Episode 10: Raising Arizona (OOPS All Brothers Edition)
April 26, 2017 20:25 - 57 minutes - 40 MBTRANSMISSION BEGIN TRANSMISSION ADDENDUM PREVIOUS AUDIO RECORDING WAS MISSING CRITICAL DATA FROM THE LAST FIVE TO TEN MINUTES. EVEN AN ALLCONSUMING MANGOD LIKE MYSELF MAKES AN OOPSIE DAISY ONCE IN WHILE. SUBJECT YOURSELF TO MANDATORY MEMORY SCRAMBLING AND PROCEED TRANSMISSION RESUMES AS NORMAL THIS RECORDING WAS RECOVERED FROM THE RUINS OF WHAT WAS ONCE RICHMOND VIRGINIA. IT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE NEW AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. ANY CITIZEN WITH INFORMATION ON THE WHE...
Episode 9: Peggy Sue Got Married (W/ Thrillhammer)
April 18, 2017 16:00 - 1 hour - 49 MBYou read the guest right. Just go with us on this one. Francis Ford Coppola's third outing with Nicolas Cage results in Peggy Sue Got Married, featuring young Master Cage as a twenty-two year-old playing a forty year-old that flashes back into a seventeen year-old. All the while he maintains an accent something along the lines of a more lifelike Professor Frink. Wait, that's just Jerry Lewis. So I guess a cartoonier Jerry Lewis? No, that seems wrong too. I'm gonna go sit on this one a bit an...
Episode 8: The Boy in Blue (W/ Josh Blubaugh)
April 11, 2017 16:00 - 1 hour - 46.1 MBConsider The Boy in Blue as the film industry's final, bated inhalation before Nicolas Cage picks up the definition of a Hollywood star and dashes it upon the rocks of his performance like so much detritus, and also Josh Blubaugh, Richmond's funniest comic, is also there to make gags and goofs along with your lovely two brother hosts. We also feature a one on one interview with Nicolas Cage, recorded prior to the show with Brother Alex. Subscribe to us on itunes and shit, PLEASE WE LOVE YOU
Episode 7: Birdy (Oops All Brothers Edition)
April 04, 2017 13:02 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBBirdy is the first legitimately great movie we've had the pleasure to watch here on Trapped in the Cage with Nicolas Cage, and it's just your two brothers Alex and Josh talking about things today. Somehow, we have our strangest overall film coalescing with the most restrained yet powerful performance Nicolas Cage had given as 1984, and yet we're still talking about it as one of his greatest of all times. Also, we envision the colorful ways in which a bird may engage in sexual congress with a...
Episode 6: The Cotton Club (W/ Phil Ivanhoe)
March 28, 2017 17:24 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBThis might be Francis Ford Coppola's worst film, and I'm including the weird thing he did with Val Kilmer he did a few years back. I bet you forgot about Twixt, didn't you? We remember, Francis. We do. Join us for a spirited discussion of the Jazz Age period piece gangster flop, The Cotton Club, featuring a rapey Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins walking away with the picture, and a very special guest star, Richmond comic Phil Ivanhoe. That's worded weirdly, he's not in the movie that was filmed bef...
Episode 5: The Best of Times (W/Francesca Lyn)
March 21, 2017 15:41 - 56 minutes - 48.4 MBHoo boy, today's something of a double goof, and you can blame each individual goof on each brother. First, Alex didn't set up the recording equipment right, so the audio quality's a bit off, and Josh managed to not get a copy of The Cotton Club in time because Frankie Ford Coppola is super ashamed of it. HOWEVER! We found the legit first professional acting work for Our Sainted Cage, an ABC pilot called The Best of Times. It's only forty-eight minutes long, and it's all right here on Youtub...
Episode 4: Racing with the Moon (Oops All Brothers Edition!)
March 16, 2017 13:57 - 52 minutes - 57.3 MBFor this melodramatic World War 2 period piece, you've got nothing but your favorite two brothers, Alex and Josh, on this episode. Wait, we're probably not your two FAVORITE brothers. I mean, I hope if you've got a real related brother you like them more than us. Respect if you think we're better, though, no shade thrown on someone's messed-up family sitch. Anyway, here's Racing with the Moon starring Sean Penn and our darling Cage boy. Starting next week, now that we're on the iTunes and ...
Episode 3: Valley Girl (W/L. A. Miner)
March 05, 2017 22:20 - 1 hour - 83 MBFinally, after this one we're back on track, and we aim to stay that way! Valley Girl is pretty worth it, though. We get the first moment where Nicolas Cage hits Peak Cage, almost Super Saiyan-like in his bizarre fury. It's a weird picture, but man, do we dig deep for this milestone performance.
Episode 2: Rumble Fish (W/Zach Marson)
March 05, 2017 22:13 - 54 minutes - 84.9 MBOh Jeez, we goofed on this one. I know we said we'd do Valley Girl, but it turns out that's really tough to find. So we did Rumblefish instead, and that's got a drunk Dennis Hopper, so you're welcome.
Episode 1: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (W/Brad's Bud)
March 05, 2017 21:40 - 1 hour - 102 MBOur inaugural episode! Unfortunately, Nicolas Cage is barely in this one, and he's billed for the first and only time as Nicolas Coppola, so we mostly just talk about Cage in abstract and cringe at how racist and homophobic this "classic" gets.