Ep 197 - Drive Angry Deep Dive + Top Good and Crazy Cage

Ty & That Guy

Wes Chatham & Ty Franck

After Shows, Science Fiction, Tv & Film, Fiction

5.0 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Ty & That Guy, Ty Franck is joined by special guest co-host Dan Nowack (filling in for Wes) as they dive headfirst into the high-octane, full-tilt madness of Drive Angry—the 2011 supernatural revenge thriller that gives Nicolas Cage the wheel and lets him absolutely floor it. Ty and Dan break down the film’s grindhouse energy, its over-the-top world of satanic cults and spectral accountants, and why Drive Angry is secretly one of the most unhinged gems in Cage’s filmography.

But that’s just the beginning.

Inspired by the flaming tires and fiery monologues, the guys shift gears into a lively discussion of the Top Good and Crazy Nicolas Cage Movies—those glorious entries where Cage walks the razor's edge between genius and insanity. From the psychedelic horror of Mandy, to the face-swapping lunacy of Face/Off, and the bug-eyed brilliance of Vampire’s Kiss, Ty and Dan break down what makes a Cage performance unforgettable—and why we keep coming back for more.

Fast cars, fiery vengeance, and full-blown Cage energy—this episode has it all.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Ty and some other guy.
0:10.4	There's no Wes Chatham today because he's a big loser.
0:14.7	So instead, I brought in his much more handsome replacement, who actually did most of the
0:19.8	body doubling for him on the expanse.
0:22.1	Whenever Wes took his shirt off, what you were actually saying was Dan Noak with face replacement.
0:28.1	So Dan is here to talk about a movie that Dan told me to watch.
0:33.3	Because my brother told me to watch it.
0:35.5	Yes. And the thing that convinced me to watch this movie was the line that your brother used to convince you to watch the movie.
0:43.4	So if you're trying to convince somebody to watch the movie, this is the line you say.
0:47.3	So the movie is what, Dan?
0:49.4	The movie is Drive Angry.
0:52.2	And before I get to the line, my brother is really good at telling like basically
0:58.1	describing a movie I haven't seen yet and why I need to see it and it's like I'm like oh that
1:03.3	sounds amazing that's damn that that sounds hilarious I got to go check that out and 99% of the
1:08.5	time I'm disappointed with the movie the way my brother describes it is way more entertaining. And so Drive Angry comes around and he's describing
1:16.1	Drive Angry to me. This was like 2011. And he's describing like, yeah, Nick Cage is this
1:22.9	convict and he's in hell and he needs to escape to help out his granddaughter who's about to be
1:30.1	put into a cult or sacrificed or something like that. And I said like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
1:35.2	He escapes from hell. How does he escape from hell? My brother just looks at me and says,
1:41.0	he steals a car. Like, why didn't I know that? says, he steals a car. Like, like, of course, like, why didn't I know that?
1:47.0	Obviously, he steals a car to escape from hell. It's like, who wouldn't, like, that's, that's on me.
1:52.0	It's like the most obvious answer. Yeah, obviously. Yeah. And so how many movies,
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