Jeff Stormer joins Juliet and Katherine to talk Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro alongside its modern christmas mirror, Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star. What makes a christmas movie Good? What makes a Lupin story a Lupin story? Just how weird can the future of the franchise get from here?

Along the way, we cover Fast Five, commedia dell'arte lazzi, the Now You See Me franchise, The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, the Vanessa Hudgens Cinematic Universe, Ocean's Twelve, and the Assassin's Creed series.

Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network.

This Christmas in July, Juliet and Katherine celebrate the heist genre with the genre-defying Vanessa Hudgens vehicle Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star alongside the genre-defining Maurice Leblanc short story compilation, Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar.

Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network.

Juliet and Katherine dive deeper into the sadness, joy, and realism of the characters of Gavroche, Eponine, and Javert through the lens of Jorge Luis Borges' "The Shape of the Sword" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "It's Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries".

Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Readings from the text are provided by Max Newland.

Transcript of this episode is available here.