Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast #17 - Howie Long in Fire-Whatever (with Charles Bramesco!) — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

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-adjacent! First, we squeeze into some tight spandex and discuss the surprising joys of Incredibles 2; then, we curl into a collective ball and weep at the masterful Inside Out.

After that we get a little more downbeat, with a curious look at the what-if-planes-had-sex-and-fought-fires movie Planes: Fire and Rescue, and a sobering discussion on the ways we grieve for famous people who've taken their own lives online. It's a wild, crazy ride, so leave your capes at home and fire up your podcast player!

3:35 - Scalding Hot Takes: Incredibles 2
26:19 - Lukewarm Takes: Inside Out
45:54 - Control Nathan and Clint: Planes: Fire and Rescue
1:06:32 - Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, and the Complexities of Social Media Grief
1:23:24 - Happy Places