Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast
By Nathan Rabin
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Description
Author and former The A.V Club and The Dissolve staff writer Nathan Rabin and co-host Clint Worthington bring the cult pop culture website Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place to the world of podcasts with Nathan Rabin’s Happy Cast, an audio wonderland for special snowflakes where we discuss bad movies, bad people (such as Donald Trump), new movies (lotta overlap with ‘bad movies’ on that one) and the happy places in pop culture and life that make all of the hassle worth it. Make our Happy Cast your Happy Place as we lovingly massage your eardrums all up in cyber space.
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Explicit#34: You Cold Farted Itch | Everything is awesome this week, as Nathan and Clint go it alone to delight in the toyetic goodness of The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part! Of course, every rose has its thorns, so we have to balance out the pure-strain awesomeness of that film with th .. | 2/13/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#33: Bea Wildering, Jedi Master (with Eric Szyszka) | Grab some tiramisu and your favorite comic books, because for this Happy Cast we’re going spelunking down the deep, twisty well that is M. Night Shyamalan’s mind! Eric Szyszka of We Hate Movies returns once again to talk about the ego, ambition and | 1/30/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#32: Ernest Builds a House | Now that the joy of the new year has passed, and we’ve all forgotten our resolutions, it’s time for a Happy Cast that is decidedly less happy! This week, Nathan and Clint go for a double-dose of arthouse didacticism with indie provocateur Lars Von T | 1/16/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#31: The Star Wars Holiday Special Holiday Special (with Brock Wilbur) | Happy Life Day, listeners! It’s 2019, so we thought we’d look back at that most hallowed of holidays, when the coke piled up like snow and Bruce Vilanch was allowed to touch the Star Wars universe! The Star Wars Holiday Special is an infamous piece | 1/2/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#30: The Sigh-tacular Spider-Dan (with Dan McCoy) | 🎵Happy Cast, Happy CastHas no deal with Conde NastStill we try, as we mightTo fill your earbuds with delightLook out!Here comes the Happy Cast!🎵 Howdy, true believers! For this friendly neighborhood episode of Happy Cast, we were thrilled to pull | 12/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#29: The Ballad of the Bandit (with Adam Rifkin) | Howdy, listeners! This week, we’re thrilled to bring on writer-director Adam Rifkin to talk about his latest film, The Last Movie Star, which features the wonderful final performance of Burt Reynolds. Among other things, we talk to him about what it | 12/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#28: It's a Croquet Christmas! (with Alonso Duralde) | Ho-ho-ho, listeners! We’re celebrating Christmas in mid-November over on Nathan Rabin’s Happy Cast, as we get a sneak peek at the Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles, starring Kurt Russell as a Santa Who F***s. Friend of the show and Christmas film | 11/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#27: I Am Catwoman, Hear Me Bore | (Note: we didn’t even realize when recording that this is the one-year anniversary of Nathan Rabin’s Happy Cast! Thanks so much to everybody who listens, comments, likes, pledges, and subscribes. Here’s to another year o’ laffs!) This week, Nat | 11/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#26: Rolling on Mandy, Smoking Silver Shamrock (with Scott Weinberg) | Happy Halloween, ghouls and goblins! For our spook-tacular horror-themed episode of Happy Cast, we bring on 80s horror movie maverick Scott Weinberg (80s All Over) to take some evil, dark acid and wield overly-long chainsaws as we discuss the psyched .. | 10/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#25: Andrew Dice Clay vs. Julian "Dice" Black (with Greg Sestero!) | Oh hai, Happy Casters! For this latest episode of Happy Cast, Nathan and Clint are thrilled to bring on Greg Sestero of The Room fame to talk Tommy Wiseau, contending with cult fame, and re-contextualizing their friendship in the form of their ambiti .. | 10/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#24: The Gary Busey Origin Story | This week, Nathan and Clint are two ugly motherfuckers trying to catch some prey in an unforgiving world, as we talk about two different entries in the Predator franchise! First, we break down what Clint hated (and Nathan found not so bad) about Shan .. | 9/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#23: PEGOT (EGOT Plus a Purple Heart) | It’s early September, which means late-summer/early-fall stinkers at the multiplex and the anniversary of 9/11. Lucky, for you, the latest Happy Cast has both! In this episode, Nathan and Clint return from the latter’s wedding to talk about Jennife | 9/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#22: It's-a Me, Mario Van Peebles-a! | This week, Nathan and Clint follow Tracy Jordan's credo of "live every week like it's Shark Week" by talking about two toothsome shark movies - Jason Statham's cheese-fest The Meg and the film that bought Michael Caine a very nice house, Jaws: The Re . | 8/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#21: My Phirst Phish Show (with Amy Nicholson!) | This week, we get down with the swing-for-the-fences joints of Spike Lee! Film critic extraordinaire Amy Nicholson (of the podcasts The Canon and Unspooled) joins us to talk about his latest, BlacKkKlansman, and her experiences attending her first Ph | 8/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#20: New Unicorn, Who Dis? | This week, we're dangling off helicopters and running at full speed, desperately trying to catch up to Tom Cruise's tiny, ageless form in Mission Impossible: Fallout. Also, we look back at a younger, Chiclet-toothed Tom Cruise as the elfen lead in Ri . | 8/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#19: Pee-Wee's Big Avengers | Nathan and Clint go it alone for the latest Happy Cast, as we celebrate the Paul Ruddnaissance with a long-overdue discussion of Marvel's latest cog in the cinematic universe machine, Ant-Man and the Wasp! Plus, we talk about the mid-aughts Rudd rom- .. | 7/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#18: Like 'Like Mike 2' As Well (with Andrew Jupin!) | In our ongoing quest to talk to two out of three members of our favorite podcasts, this week's episode of Happy Cast sees us bringing on We Hate Movies superstar Andrew Jupin! Together, the three of us talk about the shockingly charming feature-lengt | 7/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#17: Howie Long in Fire-Whatever (with Charles Bramesco) | This episode of Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast is exclusively for the kiddies, as we bring on pop culture wunderkind and friend of the show Charles Bramesco (The Guardian, Vulture, et al.) to talk about the many efforts of films both Pixar and Pixar-adjac | 6/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#16: A Han, A Lando, A Canal: Panama | addle up, guys and ghouls, because it's another episode of Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast! This episode, Nathan and Clint skip Solo: A Star Wars Story to talk about a smaller film with a bigger body count - Leigh Whannell's 80s-tinged cyberpunk action fl | 6/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#15: The Citizen's Quitting (with Dan McCoy of The Flop House!) | It's time to make the chimichangas this week, as we're joined by special guest Dan McCoy of The Flop House podcast to talk the many faces of that droll mischief maker Ryan Reynolds! From his latest hit, Deadpool 2, to his cult role as cool-guy-waiter . | 5/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#14: The Raccoon Wears People Clothes | This week on Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast, we go it alone to sample from the vast buffet of superhero movies through the ages! First, we jabber about the TV season finale of movies, Marvels Avengers: Infinity War; then, we jam out to the slick 70s music . | 5/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#13: Never the Dwayne Shall Meet (with Brock Wilbur!) | Howdy, Happy Placers! To celebrate our six-month anniversary of Happy Cast (and the one-year anniversary of Happy Place), Nathan and Clint bring on friend and collaborator Brock Wilbur - the man who brought ethics to video game journalism himself! To .. | 4/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#12: A Fanboy Knows a Hater (w/Josh Fruhlinger!) | Strap on your nostalgia goggles and assemble your Funko Pops, it's another episode of Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast! This episode, Nathan and Clint peer through the rose-colored VR glasses of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, desperately dig deep int | 4/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#11: Ruth Gordon Is a Sexual Being (w/Eric Szyszka of We Hate Movies) | The monkey business never stops on Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast, as Nathan and Clint go ape for the second movie where Clint Eastwood drinks with a pet orangutan, 1980's Any Which Way You Can! Along the way, we pick up a friend - We Hate Movies' Eric Sz | 3/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#10: Apes, Trucks and Africa (w/Mike Sacks) | We're going ape on Happy Cast this week, as Stinker Lets Loose! author Mike Sacks joins us for a triple feature of monkey mayhem - Clint Eastwood's cult trucker/monkey saga Every Which Way But Loose, the execrable Golan-Globus comedy Going Bananas, a | 3/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#9: Tales from the Crypt Spook-taculer! (w/Elliott Kalan) | Greetings, all you ghosties and ghouls! For this special pod-AGHAST of Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast, we're de-FRIGHT-ed to welcome the one and only Elliott Kalan of The Flop House, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return and The Daily Show with John St .. | 2/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#8: Stop Trying to Be Fancy, Nicholas Sparks | It's amore over on Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast, as Nathan and Clint light some candles, put on some slow jams, and suffer through some of the hokiest, most hackneyed romantic media the world has to offer! We break down the mysterious appeal of the ki . | 2/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#7: The Water of the Ocean | The latest episode of Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast drops today! This time around, we celebrate the highs of Peak Nicolas Cage with Mom and Dad, the lows of M. Night Shyamalan with The Last Airbender, and the no-respect doldrums of Rodney Dangerfield's k | 1/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#6: No Respect for Old Men | This week on the Cast, Clint and Nathan get through the January blues with Liam Neeson's punch-throwing insurance salesman in The Commuter, gush about the filmmaking mastery of Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, and celebrate the highs and lows of Rodney Da .. | 1/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#5: Steven Seagal-berg | Happy New Year! We're live in-studio once more at Clint's palatial podcast laboratory, with the ever-adorable Declan Haven Dilla Rabin as our special guest. To usher in 2018, we kvetch about everything from the toxic one-two punch of David Ayer's rec .. | 1/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#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 L .. | 12/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#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 t . | 12/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#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 misgu .. | 11/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit#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 .. | 11/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Good podcast
Sometimes Nathan is too quiet but other than that it’s fine
Killer podcast
These guys blow my mind. I’m constantly laughing and learning. I can’t get enough, keep’em coming!!!!
Love this cast!
I can listen to Rabin wax philosophical about pop culture all day.
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