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Nicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO

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Nicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO

Season 2012 Episode 18 | 4m 23s

Legendary actor Nicolas Cage is renowned for his reliably weird roles across many genres of modern film. Is he just a victim of a bad agent, or does he instead follow the philosophy of Taoism, or as its modern derivative is known - YOLO ("you only live once")?

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