The Mandcave with Mandy Kaplan & Mandy Fabian

Let’s get this out of the way: Waiting for Guffman is not a risky pick for Mandy. It’s a classic in the Christopher Guest-and-crew improvisational film oeuvre. The only contentious part of the show? When should Mandy sing?

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Mandy brings the adaptation of one of the duo's past book club books this week, the Andrew Garfield, Daisy Edgar-Jones Hulu-drop, Under the Banner of Heaven. By all rights, it has everything they should love: Crime, cults and murder. Does it hold up?

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Mandy and her offspring see the touring show of Tootsie and they change all the things. It doesn't work maybe as well as they think it does.

But who cares about all that crap. We're here to talk about Nick Cage playing Nick Cage in a movie about a guy who loves Nick Cage a lot. It's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent day in the Mandcave and despite the fact that this movie wasn't made for Mandys, like, at all, well, surprises abound this week.

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If you're listening to this show, you're probably a human that would get some enjoyment out of Colin Jost's book, A Very Punchable Face. But if you're a fan of his punchable face on Saturday Night Live, you should make sure you get the audiobook version so you can hear him read it. Then your hands are free to punch images of him as you listen. It's a real multimedia experience.

So, cat's out of the bag, the Mandy's actually agree on this. It's a funny book. So you're not here for the fights this week. What you are here for may or may not include a digression on vegan cooking and the scatological perils of being an adult. You have been warned.

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The Mandys are as split as the emotional haunting that comes from the vast sucking blackness of grief over HBOMax adaptation of The Girl Before. It’s based on the 2016 book of the same name by J.P. Delaney. But don’t worry, you don’t have to have read it to get it.

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The Mandy's roll hard with Brené Brown's latest courtesy of HBOMax and her own heart. Plus, a dissertation on everything they learned over spring break with a special tear shed for live theatre.

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Mandy really wants a press junket. She saw The Lost City and just feels like she could really rock the circuit. Let's see what we can do to get a real cool podcast junket vibe going this week, k?

The real story is about Judd Apatow and his efforts to tell a pandemic story of filmmaking under the bubble. Clearly they had money and time, and a fantastic cast, and cool locations maybe? But, and this is a big but (and we can not lie): Did they have any sort of story?

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The Mandys talk true crime and offer their services as PSA creators this week as they take on ‘The Thing About Pam.’

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Mandy and Mandy fawn over the Amys, led primary by Schumer this week in her latest Hulu exclusive, Life & Beth.

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The Mandys turn to the ultimate VIP in their effort to not look poa with the latest Netflix hit from Shonda Rhimes’s Shondaland, Inventing Anna.

Here's the original story from New York Magazine by Jessica Pressler that started all this Anna Delvey/Sorokin stuff. "How Anna Delvey Tricked New York's Party People". You should read it.

Then, check this one out about how "Netflix paid fake heiress Anna Sorokin $320,000 for its show about her, and she's already used the money to pay off her victims

Along the way, the Mandys review Mandy’s latest performance of Miscast, then they celebrate the woman-kissing efforts displayed on Family Feud by America’s Favorite Uncle, Richard Dawson.

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