#MagicMics: The Channing Tatum Podcast Joey Lewandowski and Joe Two

#MagicMics is back! Who knows how long it’ll last? (Email magicmics@cageclub.me if you want us to stick around.) We’re joined by Brian Rodriguez (Uncle Francis’s Wine Cellar, High School Slumber Party) to talk about the Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried film Dear John, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel. We complete our Nicholas Sparks “tic tac toe” between our podcasts, discuss the unspoken politics on display in this movie, and wonder why Channing is perpetually typecast as a soldier. We also talk about Amanda Seyfried being a monster in Dear John and how this movie ties into Avatar. Brian offers dating advice (or dating troll antics). Joey tries to explain GAC and GAF (and then forgets Channing’s titular name). We bring back all the Channing Tatum games.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is a difficult movie to talk about. Do we love it? Do we hate it? The reality: it's somewhere in between. G.I. Joe feels like the movie that Channing Tatum has been working his entire (short) career (so far), and he's genuinely great in it as a squadron leader. The problem: the movie is too long with too much nonsense. Oh well! The most important thing about this movie is that it hits the Channing Tatum superfecta: he dances, he fights, he's shirtless, and he strips. That's all that really matters.

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In August 2015, we released our very first podcast and proceeded to tear through Nicolas Cage’s filmography at a breakneck pace. We had no idea that we'd continue after we finished Cage’s filmography, but we asked, “What’s next?” and went from there. After nearly four years, we are releasing our 1,000th episode.

In this episode, Joey Lewandowski talked many of your favorite CageClub Podcast Network hosts: Mike Manzi of Third Time’s A Charm, Joe Two of 2 Fast 2 Forever, Chris Podcasts of Now and Again, Brian Rodriguez of High School Slumber Party, Kyle Reinfried of Foodie Films, Jordan Polan-Clarke and Cara Gael O’Regan of Wistful Thinking, Aislinn Addington of The Contenders, Lindsay Gibb of Winona Forever, Jonah Rubino of X is for Podcast, and Nico Vasilo and Kevo Risse of .html.

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While we've already covered a movie for this podcast that Channing Tatum wasn't in, seeing him show up for one minute (of a 131 minute runtime) in Public Enemies somehow seems even more underwhelming. In this episode, we dust off the mailbag (which hasn't been opened in three months) and peer inside, then try to separate the story (blah) from the filmmaking (interesting!). Why are there so many known actors in here? Why was Channing Tatum cast? Is Christian Bale just playing Batman? All of these answers -- and more! -- on this episode of #MagicMics!

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We pumped the brakes on #MagicMics to focus our attention on 2 Fast 2 Forever, so what's another slight delay in programming? Before we get to Public Enemies, we're jumping all the way forward to Smallfoot, Channing Tatum's newest movie. It's strange watching a movie where Channing's role is so prevalent! Between the animation style, musical numbers, and the return of Zendaya, Smallfoot feels more like a #ZacAttack movie than a #MagicMics movie... so how does it compare to the rest of Channing's filmography? Listen and find out!

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Fighting reunites Channing Tatum with Dito Montiel after both Joes' favorite #MagicMics movie so far, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, but is the pairing as good the second time around? In this episode, we strip down to our undershirts to talk about Channing's many fight scenes, whether or not Terrence Howard is a good actor, and if this movie would be exactly the same if Channing Tatum was replaced by a dog.

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