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Wahhhh but also ACK! We are leaving you with some wonderful night calls from our wonderful listeners. But of course there is also a call about how The Big Chill and Cathy comics are connected, some rhapsodizing about monoliths (new and old), and a decision on what show is better: Frasier or Cheers. Some sentimental night calls to send us out, our favorite episodes and guests, reminiscing about Girls In Hoodies, and where we’d send our listeners to help fill the void. We promise we’ll be back someday on some astral plane. So long for now. Thanks for listening to Night Call.  NOTES HelloCullen Frasier tweet https://twitter.com/HelloCullen/status/1333086443481141248 Alissa Walker tattoo tweet https://twitter.com/awalkerinLA/status/1332887007161270272 Third monolith https://www.npr.org/2020/12/03/942056802/the-monolith-mystery-deepens-as-a-3rd-oddity-pops-up-in-california iamamiwhoami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamamiwhoami Maryhill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryhill,_Washington Hot and Rich https://twitter.com/hotandrichshow?lang=en Joan Haley Ford on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/joanhaleyford Sound Only https://www.theringer.com/2020/8/4/21354364/introducing-sound-only-with-justin-charity-and-micah-peters Bad Gays https://badgayspod.podbean.com/ Scary Cool Sad Goodbye https://scarycoolsadgoodbye.substack.com/p/scary-cool-sad-goodbye-01 Creature Feature https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-creature-feature-30054205/ Ologies https://www.alieward.com/ologies Jane Marie's substack https://seejanemarie.substack.com/ Tess's weather newsletter https://tinyletter.com/LAWeather Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

We are joined this week by writer and actress Mara Wilson to discuss how acting classes can function like cults and why. Mara reveals her personal Alison Mack story and talks about how we can protect child actors on sets. Then she tells us about her personal isolation tank experience and we try to figure out hacks for making isolation tank like experiences at home. At the end of the episode we have a very bittersweet important announcement about the show. Notes: Mara's Substack https://mara.substack.com/ Mara's Twitter https://twitter.com/MaraWilson Mara's book, "Where Am I Now?" https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318758/where-am-i-now-by-mara-wilson/ The Landis Twilight Zone lawsuit https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-29-mn-2189-story.html ...and how he broke child labor laws https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/30/us/assistant-on-fatal-film-says-he-didn-t-want-children-in-scene.html Franco's acting school https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/james-franco-acting-school-lawsuit-894571/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Emily is off this week, but Tess and Molly are taking your night calls about Joseph Smith, sphinx monuments, and the devil's tritone! First it's a night call about the Devil's Note, which some listeners liked and others did not at all. Then an email about Joseph Smith's head on the body of a Sphinx, and whether the "Salamander Letter" is a forgery (yes.) Molly waxes philosophical on the newest Housewives franchise: Salt Lake City, and reveals some behind the scenes info she got about why this series is so bonkers. Then it's prophetic dreams - who had them and why? Are they real, or self-fulfilling prophecies? What are our recurring dreams and nightmares? All this and women who marry their step-grandfathers, on an all new Night Call! NOTES Play around with creepy musical intervals on this handy virtual piano https://www.musicca.com/piano "Happy Birthday" copyright https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/happy-birthday-is-public-domain-former-owner-warnerchapell-to-pay-14m/ History of "Happy Birthday" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You Joseph Smith sphinx https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11817 Salamander letter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander_letter Cafeteria Cathoicism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafeteria_Catholicism Mary Crosby https://www.bravotv.com/people/mary-cosby Clay Higgins dream tweet https://www.huffpost.com/entry/louisiana-clay-becca-higgins-premotion-guns_n_5f93691bc5b6a2e1fb615ae1 Abe Lincoln's dream https://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln46.html Did MLK know he would be assassinated? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43545620 Ariana Lenarsky twitter https://twitter.com/aardvarsk Titanic prophetic dream https://wormstedt.com/GeorgeBehe/page9.htm The Test Dream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Test_Dream More dreams! Dreams galore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dreams Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

November is Dreams Month at Night Call, and we're kicking it off with some incredible dream calls and emails from listeners. Of course there are also more pyramids and architecture talk too. This time it’s Brasilia - the faded poppy mid-century utopia that is Brazil’s capital, and The Summum Pyramid - the mummification temple from 70s religion Summum in Salt Lake City, Utah. Would we get mummified and more importantly, would we let Summum do it? But also: a viral Tik Tok about the Christian conspiracy that the COVID vaccine will implant a chip in your body that is actually the Mark Of The Beast (this makes it sound cooler than it is). And our first in depth missive from dreamland - a listener who believes they heard a weird frequency online that led them to have an experience they interpreted as demonic possession. We interpret their experience and talk about the power of frequencies and music to influence or induce emotional states. All this and Exploding Head Syndrome, on an all new Night Call! Notes: Dramatic MAGA tiktok https://twitter.com/AndreaRussett/status/1323878382975676417 Background on on vaccine/mark of the beast conspiracies https://www.crosswalk.com/church/pastors-or-leadership/ask-roger/is-the-covid-19-vaccine-the-mark-of-the-beast.html Do not work order for Songbird https://deadline.com/2020/07/sag-aftra-songbird-do-not-work-order-los-angeles-shoot-pandemic-1202976458/ Valley of the Dawn/Dawn Valley https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/09/religion-psychic-medium-extraterrestrial-sunrise-dawn-valley-brasilia-brazil/ Dawn Valley wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vale_do_Amanhecer Summum Pyramid https://www.summum.us/pyramid/ Exploding head syndrome https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150409-i-have-exploding-head-syndrome More on EHS https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/45532-exploding-head-syndrome-sleep-disorder.html Molly on brain zaps at MTV http://www.mtv.com/news/2742210/lexapro-kanye-me-molly-lambert-on-the-ghosts-of-ssris/ Explore dot org https://explore.org/livecams Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

This week we delve into the OTHER cult Mark Vicente was a member of: Ramtha! Learn how putting a tiny paper pyramid on your head might make you channel an ancient racist spirit. Then it’s even more pyramid pals and a general spooky season and Halloween roundup. Notes Ramtha More Ramtha Salma Hayek rude at lunch  Faith Chapel Christian Center  AT&T City Center Ave Maria Grotto Grotto Photos Flinstone House Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

We’re joined by Lazor Wulf writer Nikki Mayard to wrap up The Vow with a nylon sash. Why did the editors save all the men’s rights stuff for the 8th episode? Did seeing Keith Raniere go full Frank TJ Mackey explain how people got so deep into this cult? Did he also maybe murder a bunch of women? Who is the best Vow character: Mark, Sarah, Catherine or Nippy? How privileged do you have to be to get into this kind of group? Will season 2 explain it all or just make everyone more frustrated? Then it’s another edition of Pyramid Pals with a great call and email about our fave buildings. What’s the deal with ancient mounds? What is the best corporate pyramid, and should we save corporate pyramids from the wrecking ball or let them be lost to time? All this and more on a new Night Call! Notes: Nikki Mayard's TwitterNikki's InstagramDid Keith Raniere poison his girlfriends?Lazor Wulf on HBOMaxCahokia Mounds CLUI pyramids listCenter of the World pyramid& moreSteelcase/Switch pyramid& walkthroughApex pyramid Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

This week on Night Call we have Sadie Dupuis aka Sad13 as our guest! But first it's an update to Pyramid Pals with a call about a recently demolished but also fairly recently built glass walled pyramid for a pharmaceutical company. Why wouldn't Amazon want to operate out of this futuristic pyramid building out of a dystopian movie, too on the nose? Then we're joined by Sadie to discuss haunted portraits, haunted studios in Texas, and isolation tanks (probably also haunted). Notes: Richardsonian Romanesque Massachusetts pyramid pic  MA pyramid demo video Miles Klee on 12' skeletons Ryan White Stew Leonard's animatronics Haunted Painting Sadie's haunted painting inspo Carradine doppelganger No music for ICE campaign Sonic Ranch Tornillo hauntings Sadie's website DOT HORSE Sadie's twitter Sadie's 'gram Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Emily is back with tales from the Pyramids of Wyoming and Nevada: the railroad ghost town of the Ames Monument, and driving past the current ghost town of Las Vegas glimpsing the Luxor Pyramid after whispers that MGM plans to blow it up soon. Then it's all calls and emails, starting with another call about the New Age to Q Anon phenomenon (Q Age). After that a listener in Australia calls in to talk about climate change around the globe, and why AQI (Air Quality Index) sites are all over the place. A night email about a public art project involving payphones leads to a pleasant discovery about its purpose. We finish up with time travel paradoxes, real and created by people on drugs, to talk about Twelve Monkeys and what you'd warn people about if you travelled back to January 2020.  Notes Ames Monument  Blowing up the Luxor "Conspirituality"  Purple Air Futel phones  Cicada 3301 Futel site  The Call Center  Marina Abramovic Microsoft ad  Time travel paradox  "Sinbad's Shazaam" Evil eye pendants   Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Emily is on the road again, so it's just Tess and Molly this week taking calls calls calls, calls from the public! First we get a call from a listener debating whether or not to go to a family wedding. We talk about the no-win situation that is Coronavirus weddings - what to do when your family won't cancel, and why everyone should cancel big family events this fall and winter if possible even if they put money down. Then it's Spanky's, the secret Los Angeles afterhours speakeasy that went viral for sending out this email: “Somewhere in Los Angeles, we’ve curated a small intimate space where friends, lovers, bartenders and bootleggers, DJs, musicians, wanna-be celebrities, drug dealers and baristas, pimps, prostitutes and Johns can come together and reacquaint ourselves with the nightlife that we once loved and lost.” Would you go to a sketchy after hours listed at a location that turns up as a random houseless section of Mulholland Drive thrown by promoters who are known creeps? Then it's Altered States!!! Ken Russell's 1980 drug nightmare comes to life through our words. Now more than ever we need movies about sexy druggy academic types putting themselves in drug induced dream states to push it to the limit. Tess and Molly talk about whether we'd get in the isolation tank, with or without William Hurt, Bob Balaban, and Blair Brown, and why Total Recall raves and San Junipero type digital escapism are so appealing right now. Take some mushrooms in a cave and get in the tank with NIGHT CALL! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

A listener calls in with a harrowing tale of getting pressured into going to Disney World and then having a panic attack immediately afterwards. We discuss the prevalence of lockdown cabin fever leading to risky decisions immediately followed by intense regret. Then we get into The Social Dilemma on Netflix, and why we didn’t really like it. For the second half we are joined by writer Justin Charity for a reunion of Emily’s pod It’s Cool To Like Anime to chat about Psycho-Pass and more. Notes elemental article about covid transmission criticism of the social dilemma justin charity at the ringer sound only at apple podcasts travis scott x mcdonalds psycho-pass season 1 trailer ergo proxy trailer Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

First it’s a night call about Esoteric Catholicism! Then we get into The Vow more deeply. In the second half we are joined by Samer Kalaf from Defector to discuss haunted New Hampshire and haunted new media. Then we get a truly weird tip about a youtube user named sweet peach and speculate about what the hell these weird animated videos are attempting to do. Plus the conspiracy about frequencies that make you go crazy and the trend of online it girls succumbing to conspiracy theories. Notes How to tell if you're in a high control group Camp Nowhere To Be Magnetic  Subscribe to Defector defector.com Defector Twitter twitter.com/defectormedia Samer's Twitter twitter.com/samer An assortment of chihuahuas: tororo/maguro Popo and Pom Sweet Peach Youtube Reddit thread on SP Webdriver Torso NH Magazine ghost article Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Tom Cruise’s crazy trip to the movies to see Tenet prompts Night Call’s finest thoughts on Christopher Nolan’s latest movie that none of us have seen. Then we investigate Halo, the Amazon device that says it can read emotions, and debunk its dubious, dangerous claims. Two listeners provide us with their very different experiences with Kratom, off last week’s discussion. Then we are joined by food writer Katherine Spiers of Smart Mouth podcast and newsletter to talk about community fridge projects in LA, the immorality of food waste, the Black Panthers’ breakfast program, and how to support small local restaurants when the government has failed everyone during a pandemic. On an all new Night Call! NOTES Tom Cruise Tenet tweet  Tenet review  AV Club on going to theaters  The Vow  The Verge breaks down the Amazon Halo  Fitbit and coronavirus  Smart Mouth podcast Smart Mouth newsletter  Katherine Spiers on Twitter  NYC community fridges  LAist on community fridges Food insecurity during COVID  Los Angeles Community Fridges instagram  The People's Bodega  The People's Bodega NYC Black Panthers free breakfast program LA Taco  We Like LA  Luv2eat  Ruen Pair  Desano Pizza  Zen Mei  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Molly and Emily delve into the world of kratom, the Midwest’s favorite legal drug! What is kratom and why are opioid users using it to get off opiods? Molly’s tales of caffeine psychosis. Will Emily try kratom for the pod? The outlook is good! For the second half we are joined by Tess and special guest tech journalist Nitasha Tiku to talk about unfriendly AI, the singularity, the paperclip experiment, the dark enlightenment and more! Why racist workplace culture thrives in Silicon Valley, and how employees get punished for calling it out. Are the promised imminent human linked neural networks just gonna be more vaporware? Who is Roko and what is their basilisk? Bad machine learning, racism at Pinterest, and other algorithmic fables about the limits of rationalism, on a new Night Call! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

We take a night call about Evangelion and neurotic artificial intelligence from a listener that gives Emily a great excuse to explain Eva to Molly and Tess. Then it’s the saga of Jordan and Mikalya Peterson, the Canadian father daughter grifter team. All meat diets, gothic intrigue, Russian doctors inducing comas for benzo withdrawal, the Numa Numa song and maybe even...murder? For the second half of the show we are joined by writer and comedian Joan Ford to talk about her new Twitch show Fall Talk, cosplaying as girlboss Michael Myers, and why Halloween starts in August this year (hint: it’s a lot like the fireworks surplus). Get cozy with a pumpkin spice latte and your favorite Halloween candy for an all new Night Call! FOOTNOTES Evangelion wiki on the Magi supercomputers https://wiki.evageeks.org/Magi Out of This World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_This_World_(TV_series) Peterson and pronouns https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37875695 Peterson family meat diet https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/08/the-peterson-family-meat-cleanse/567613/ Jordan Peterson explainer thread https://twitter.com/RationalDis/status/1293292933807058948 Cider of doom https://www.reddit.com/r/enoughpetersonspam/comments/8x1tgw/jordan_peterson_drinks_apple_cider_causing_him_to/ Herman Cain "boo!" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/13/herman-cain-twitter-democrats-joe-biden Joan Haley Ford https://twitter.com/joanhaleyford/ Joan on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/joanhaleyford Early Halloween candy https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/halloween-candy-hitting-stores-early-2020 Fall Talk premiere link https://twitter.com/joanhaleyford/status/1294025388104904704 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

A night call from a data scientist offers more accurate information about how our phones are “listening” to us. Then we take a road trip of the mind to the haunted Clown Motel in Tonopah, Nevada and find out why the graveyard next door is doubly haunted for reasons not related to clowns (hint: plague). Then a night email prompts a fun chat about the sentience of A.I. as Molly puts forth the theory that the A.I. revolution could be stopped by making the robots neurotic. Another email endorses delicious fresh milk.  For the second half we get back into Italian Futurism and end up talking about the Bon Appetit debacle and the politics of food. After a serious discussion about food and fascism it’s cocktail time as Emily, Molly and Tess reveal our favorite non-milk beverages for the summer, both alcoholic and non. All this and Excited Pig, on an all new Night Call! Footnotes: Apophenia  Privacy International on Bluetooth tracing  More on Bluetooth beacons  Clown Motel Old Tonopah Cemetary  1905 newspaper article on Tonopah plague  Italian Futurism  Bon Appetit exodus Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

We start off with a night call about whether your phone camera knows which part of a photo you’re looking at (it does). More chat about phones and surveillance leads to Elon Musk’s Neuralink and a discussion of futurism (both kinds) and transhumanists. Then we get a night email from a listener in Key West about the bind faced by tourist towns with reopening. Emily makes a case for seeing the ocean safely. Then we are joined by comedian and podcaster Brandi Brown (The Bill Corbett Show) who tells us everything you want to know about the Minnesota State Fair, butter busts, her ongoing State Fair related feud with Amy Klobuchar and much more. Foot Notes Neuralink in Tech Crunch  Musk worrying about AI  Thiel worrying about AI  Brandi on Twitter Grain entrapment  Unofficial rundown of crop art rules  Princess Kay of the Milky Way  Klobuchar's state fair debacle  Seed Queen: The Story of Crop Art and the Amazing Lillian Colton  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Emily returns with tales of a haunted hotel she stayed at in Mobile, Alabama. Then it's the #babywitches who hexed the moon, followed by a listener email about the queer Sapphic aesthetics of cottagecore. This of course leads into some discussion of Taylor Swift's new album Folklore, and how in a way it's always fall right now. We read a listener email about the struggles of international students right now, and another about working in a plastic surgery clinic during the pandemic. Then the girls are joined by Meredith Whittaker - Research Professor and Co-founder of the AI Now Institute at NYU. After working at Google for over thirteen years Meredith helped lead the Google Walkouts to end AI contracts with the Department Of Defense. We talk to Meredith about racism in tech, the biased badness of algorithms, and the human beings behind most "artificial intelligence." And, of course, Robocop. How can we organize to prevent tech companies from say, building war machines for the government? Plus one hot but easy tip for avoiding facial recognition software at protests. All this on the all new Night Call! Footnotes: Haunted Malaga Inn  Moon hex explained  Marianne Williamson moon hex tweet Why are people angry at witches on tik tok?  Paper Mag on cottagecore Correction: Sean Penn's COVID test is CORE, not Curative Meredith and the Google walkout  Facial recognition/surveillance in schools Meredith testifying before Congress The AI Now Institute  Meredith Whittaker on Twitter  Tech Workers Coalition  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

A night call from a teacher about the back to school catch 22 facing all teachers and students right now. Tess blows the lid off the secret pandemic pod tutoring circuit. Then it’s the rebooted Unsolved Mysteries and the Howie Mandel Tik Tok teen conspiracy! Is Howie okay? Has Howie ever been okay? A night email about the club at the top of the Baltimore hotel featured in the new Unsolved Mysteries, and the Berkshires UFO sighting of 1969. For the second half we are joined by Jay Kang from the Time To Say Goodbye podcast to go deep on the NBA Bubble in our special sports segment Night Ball/Sports Call! Jay explains the NBA Bubble and we discuss why it’s such a bad idea from a labor angle and whether they’ll make it through the season. And we answer an Orlando-centric theme park question about the Aerosmith Rock N Roller Coaster at Disneyworld. We also take some questions for Jay related to his infamous Diva Rankings, and revisit them to see if he’s changed his mind about some of his more controversial positions on divas. (Emily will be back next week after completing leg one of her cross country road trip to see her mom.) All this and sports gambling on an all new Night Call! Wealthy parents forming pods with private tutors  More on how tutors and pods can contribute to education inequality Howie Mandel's Tiktok  Baldiyadi, the Tiktok user who brought attention to Mandel's weirder videos  Message in a Bottle  Berkshires UFO Rock n Rollercoaster  Nights in White Satin dark ride  Time to Say Goodbye, Jay's podcast  Jay on Twitter Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

We kick it off with a night email from an anonymous listener working at an unnamed theme park about how unsafe reopening is. Then Emily explains “Dark Academia” the college themed Tik Tok teen trend that feels extra dystopian now that school reopenings are being threatened for the fall. Then we are joined by special guest writer Hannah Giorgis from The Atlantic to discuss Polish erotic thriller and viral hit 365 Days! Does this movie resurrect the erotic thriller as Night Call has been hoping it would? Or is it just a Polish rip off of 50 Shades Of Grey? Why would people flock to an erotic streamer like 365 Days during lockdown? Plus what are the sexiest movies and what have we all been watching lately? The mind reels, on an all new Night Call! FOOTNOTES Scream inside your heart  21 Pilots PPP loan  Dark Academia  Cottagecore  Harvard's online tuition  Belle Delphine Ursula le Guin Hannah's piece on 365 Days 50 Shades/365 Days connection Duffy's open letter  Background on Duffy's kidnapping (TW: rape)  Hannah on Twitter  Hannah at The Atlantic  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

The girls are joined by writer Ezekiel Kweku for the top half this week. A Ghislaine news roundup and some television show fueled speculation about why Ms. Maxwell was staying in New Hampshire. Then it’s Randonautica, the creepy geocaching app taking Tik Tok by storm. Would any of us be game to follow a set of random directions to potentially enchanting surprise locations? Or does that sound like the worst idea ever? Then it’s a deep dive on the American flag with noted flag expert Ezekiel. Can the flag be reclaimed for good or is it out of bounds forever? For the second half of the show, Super Producer Joelle Monique joins us as we talk about Paul Verhoeven’s satirical adaptation of Robert Heinlen’s Starship Troopers. Is an obvious critique, like Verhoeven’s critique of fascism in Starship Troopers, always implicit in images or will it always go over some people’s heads? Does good intent matter if your image goes viral out of context as a GIF? Fascism, flags, and flaming bugs on an all new Nighy Call! FOOTNOTES Ezekiel's website Randonautica at The Cut Randonautica at Vice Ezekiel on Twitter Flag Tumblr Jasper Johns flag Sarah Rahbar flag Stanley Forman flag Ezekiel on the history of flags in Black protest art (for MTV News) Ezekiel's DJ twitch stream Starship Troopers trivia Verhoeven interview in Empire Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

The ladies take on the fireworks conspiracy! But first, a night message about Colorado intentional community Drop City. More commune geodesic domes and experimental theater companies. What is the most Night Call time zone? How should we return Mount Rushmore to its former sacred natural state? Then, checking out the story about the shitposting cult DayLife Army. What does it look like when a cult is extremely online, seemingly self-aware about being a cult, and dead set on exploiting people's better instincts? Then, it's the moment everyone's been waiting for: ten thousand hours of incredibly loud nonstop fireworks. We lay out the various theories about the fireworks and our own personal takes. Is it the cops? Just kids? Professional fireworks enthusiasts? Or the ghost of dead Paris Review legend, fireworks hobbyist and CIA plant George Plimpton? The big differences between the fireworks in different cities, and why this specific conspiracy feels convoluted but not far-fetched. Is it all a big psy-op? Just innocent 4th of July fun? Or something even more sinister... FOOTNOTES Drop City the place Drop City the novel  Murder Mountain  Tumple/Day Life Army  Ex-DLA member's Instagram  Daily Dot article  Son of Baldwin thread  The Atlantic article on fireworks   TL Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Today we take a night call about problematic Disneyland rides and suggest alternatives. Should we replace the torn down Splash Mountain with a Princess And The Frog Ride? (Yes) What is the most racist ride at Disneyland? Can theme parks be divided from themes of imperialism? Then it’s a listener query about Synanon, the self help drug rehab retreat on the Santa Monica strand that turned into a cult in the seventies. For our second half we are joined by Behind The Bastards host Robert Evans to discuss citizen journalism during the uprisings era! Robert discusses covering the Pacific Northwest, the Boogaloo creeps, showing up to face fascists. Then he takes our listeners’ questions about storing rations in small spaces, how to combat fascists flyering in your town, and where the best place to be during the revolution is (hint: among friends). Plus Molly exposes Robert as a full on pumpkin spice Fallhead! Footnotes: Splash Mountain Petition LA Mag on Synanon Paul Morantz on the Snake in his Mailbox Behind the Police Podcast Behind the Bastards Podcast LOL Surprise Steals Rainbow Raver Look LOL Surprise Bondage Doll Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Tess is off this week so Molly and Emily are joined by Night Call’s fabulous producer Joelle Monique! We start off with an email from a listener who was disappointed with our Lana Del Rey talk recently and take the opportunity to examine our own blind spots. We solicit more critiques from our listeners, and ask how we can be more helpful during this critical time in our country’s history. Then it’s a trip to the CHAZ! Emily learned about the history of autonomous zones and yes it does get weird. The connection to Burning Man and Santa Con is unveiled, and Emily provides the requisite Seattle context for the CHAZ and the French origins of the ZAD. Then we are joined by boy band expert Maria Sherman, author of the new book Larger Than Life, to dive into the recent radicalization of k-pop stans online. Sherman explains what exactly the “fan cams” are that stans have been overloading American police departments asking for footage of rioters with. Night Call is an autonomous zone of the MIND! Footnotes: The Demands of the Collective Black Voices Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone  In defense of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone: The noble history of a utopian idea (Matthew Rosza, Salon) The Cacophany Society  The Temporary Autonomous Zone (Full Text) by Hakim Bey a.k.a. Peter Lamborn Wilson  Leaving Out the Ugly Part — On Hakim Bey (Robert P. Helms)  ZAD Battles Thousands of Police During Attempted Eviction of Autonomous Zone in France (Andrew Neef, Unicorn Riot)  The Paris Commune  Freetown Christiania  K-Pop Fans Defuse Racist Hashtags (Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker) BTS’ Fan ARMY Matches Group’s $1 Million Black Lives Matter Donation Within 24 Hours Why K-pop Fans Are No Longer Posting About K-pop (Kaitlyn Tiffany, Atlantic) Netizens criticize BTS member SUGA's mixtape track for sampling speech of a controversial cult leader (AllKPop)  Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS by Maria Sherman  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

We start with a serious moment from Night Call about the current Black Lives Matter protests and our support for them. We plan to cover historic current events this month by looking into America’s past. Then we take some night calls and emails. Then the first (and most likely last) installment of Ramblin’ Gamblin’ June is our discussion of Robert Altman’s California Split! Who is horny on main for Elliott Gould and who is decidedly not? What is the secret to a gambling buddy comedy? What are our games? We are back and we will be here for our listeners all year, at Night Call. FOOTNOTE Restless leg/Parkinsons drug can cause gambling addiction TekWar Marge Simpson's gambling problem Oscar Zeta Acosta Elliott Gould interview Synanon RESOURCES Peoples Budget LA Louisville Community Bail Fund ActBlue’s Community Bail/Mutual Aid/Racial Justice Split Fund Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Night Call finishes up Y2May with some great calls and emails about the 2038 Problem that explain what it actually entails. Then we debate the merits of parallel universes and whether people just like theories because they offer a way out. And a surprise venture into the recent rash of cancellations and Cancel Culture in general. Does cancellation provide people with a sense of control in a time when there is none? Can any societal ill ever actually be corrected by cancelling a singular person? How long is the cycle for cancellation narratives really? What are the possibilities cancellations open up for larger conversations about culture, racism and capital? Does anyone ever actually get or stay cancelled? Should we retroactively beloved artists for fucked up shit? Can you separate the art from the artist? Then we receive an amazing call about the “WWW = 666” Y2K era conspiracy, and finish up with a discussion from our home bunkers about end of the millennialism and prepping for disasters. FOOTNOTES 2038 Problem 2038/Gangnam Style Tik Tok Houses in Quar Parallel Universes, Sounds Good Parallel Universes, Not So Fast Vox Piece on Anxiety vs Anger and Conspiracies Joni Mitchell Blackface Molly Soda's Instagram Dial-the-truth Ministries/ www 666 Detroit Y2K Preparedness Video "Man Emerges From Bunker After 14 Years" Joke Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

A listener question about the 90s and early 2000s celebrity sex tapes prompts a discussion about Tommy and Pam, Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton’s tapes that leads into a talk about Only Fans. Molly tells Emily and Tess a story about the 528 Hz “love vibration” necklace that Denise Richards owns which turns into a story about shady right wing new organization Epoch Times and how it relates back to Shen Yun. Plus, the terrifying robot dog right out of Black Mirror and Christopher Meloni’s haunted house! Then it’s more Y2K May! Emily listened to a podcast about how Y2K was averted through IT workers working together, and how depressing it is that tech is only becoming more dystopian now faced with the current crisis. The incredible tale of the real Bob Loblaw’s Y2K blog, still available to view as an artifact. And Molly watched a famous SportsCenter commercial about Y2K that ends up with chaos that feels like now. All this and more podcasting by candlelight, on an all new Night Call! FOOTNOTES Whistle Vibration Meloni's Haunted House for Sale And More NYT Article on Quarantining with Ghosts Robot Dog Social Distancing Narc What was Y2K? Surviving Y2K Podcast Y2K Fears and Fixes Origin of "Y2K Bob Loblaw's Y2K Site SportsCenter Y2K Commercial Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Y2May continues with a listener query about the millennium celebration at Epcot, leading us down a hole about theme park rides like The Great Movie Ride and Superstar Limo that are no longer with us, the weird retro futuristic aesthetic of Epcot, and why Mickey Mouse can never be cool. Then it’s the Y2K movie chat everyone’s been waiting for, we break the first rule of Fight Club! We take on David Fincher’s 1999 satire to talk about capitalism, men’s rights groups, and whether the movies can ever blow up a building for fun ever again. Why did we all love this movie so much as kids and how do we feel about it now? Soap, eco-terrorism, homoeroticism and school shootings around the turn of the millennium on an all new Night Call! Footnotes Disney Superbowl Celebration "Celebrate the Future Hand in Hand" Giant Disney Puppets from the Millennium Celebration Superstar Limo Fight Club and Columbine Fight Club Trivia Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Welcome to Y2May! Our monthlong celebration of all things related to the year 2000 and the end of the 20th century. We start off with some William Gibson inspired chat about the current dystopian moment and then head back into the relative calmness of the near distant past. What were each of us doing on Y2K itself? But first it's our new sports show within the show Sports Call, where we take a call about Dennis Rodman and The Last Dance, the new ten part ESPN documentary about Michael Jordan's last season. Molly recommends The Last Dance to Tess and Emily, who remember their own sports thoughts. Our producer Joelle jumps in with some basketball facts after Molly wonders why the Bad Boys of Detroit were allowed to foul like that. As a new generation discovers Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra for the first time, is anyone surprised they're going viral again? Then we get down to Y2K color schemes with a query from a listener about the late nineties Pacific Northwest color scheme of purple and forest green. We discuss what color schemes and design elements remind us most of Y2K, and why we all wish we could go to a late nineties Taco Bell. On a new Night Call! FOOTNOTES: William Gibson Quotation The Last Dance Lakers Threepeat Decade Color Schemes 90's Colors, Textures 90's Taco Bell Aesthetic Blackbirds Slate Gray Interview with Evan Collins, Y2K Aesthetics Enthusiast Molly Soda Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

A night email about Instagram face and The Twilight Zone episode "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" start a discussion about transformation narratives that turns into Emily describing a terrifying YA series called The Uglies and Molly explaining what POT LEDOM means. A discussion about whether wellness will merge fully with beauty, and how that turns into eugenics. Then we learn about Happy Science, the Japanese cult promising followers that Coronavirus can be cured by the sound of their leader's voice. Emily explains the very unfriendly rivalry between Happy Science and another cult, Aum Shinrikyo. Then a Night Call about the Real Housewives of New York objecting to new housewife Leah having had a tattoo when they have all had vaginal rejuvenation on camera leads Molly to desperately try to convince Tess and Emily to give the franchise a chance. Plus nightmarish plastic surgery reality TV like I Want A Famous Face, Botched, and Extreme Makeover. And of course, The Swan. What the hell was going on in the mid 2000s on television? Find out on the last episode of Plastic Surgery April! FOOTNOTES Andre Leon Talley vs Anna Wintour The Skin Witch Number 12 Looks Just Like You Sandy Ganzer Instagram Anythingforselenaas Instagram The Uglies YA Series Modelland Happy Science Real Housewives Surgery vs Tattoo It's Always Sunny Extreme Makeover The Swan Nely Galan Sunscreen vs vitamin D Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

The ladies are joined by Jia Tolentino, staff writer for the New Yorker and author of the essay collection “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion” this week. First up we fetch the bolt cutters for our first impressions of the new Fiona Apple album. Plus, pandemic dreams! A scientific explanation for why people are having such weird dreams during self-isolation. Then we talk about "Instagram Face," which Jia wrote an incredible essay about. She also describes her experience meeting the Kardashians' plastic surgeon Dr. Ourian. Who has the most Instagram face? What will the beauty standards shift toward next? Can you facetune reality? We take a Night Call about Heidi Montag and recall the first phase of young people getting extreme plastic surgery. Then Tess, Molly and Emily take on another classic plastic surgery movie for Plastic Surgery April: John Woo's Face/Off! First time viewer Emily talks to seasoned Face/Off fans Tess and Molly about the operatic silliness of John Travolta and Nic Cage in this movie, the low-key sci-fi world it takes place in, and whose faces we would personally like to take off. More fun in the new world at Night Call! Footnotes: Jia's Book!  Fiona Apple's Feature in 1997 Spin "Girls" Emily Nussbaum's Fiona Apple Profile Rachel Handler's Fiona Apple Interview And Rachel's Texts from Fiona NY Times on Corona Dreams And Nat Geo on 'rona Nightmares  How to Lucid Dream Jia Tolentino on Instagram Face Heidi Montag on her Plastic Surgery Face/Off Trivia  Night Call Patreon Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Plastic Surgery April continues with a call about the multiple sets of "Twinfluencers" that get matching plastic surgery - The Haze Twins, The Clermont Twins, and a debate about whether the Olsen Twins had a particular procedure done. Where is the most state of the art plastic surgery getting done right now? What's up with the private jet trips and plastic surgery makeovers rich people in Houston are doing during the pandemic? Then we are joined by Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus from our station sisters, film pod The Bechdel Cast! Jamie and Caitlin form a Voltron of feminist movie criticism with Tess, Molly and Emily to discuss Robert Zemeckis's Death Becomes Her (1992). Can a movie whose message is "women be vain" also be subversively feminist, even if it doesn't technically pass the Bechdel test? Whatever DID happen to Baby Jane? All this and a rousing back and forth about the imagined feeling of sitting on butt implants, at Night Call! Footnotes: Simi and Haze Before Simi and Haze After Plastic Surgery and Private Jets in Houston "The Gloriously Queer Afterlife of Death Becomes Her" at Vanity Fair DBH Trivia Listen to Bechdel Cast And Go Here to Become a Matron to their Patreon Caitlin's Twitter Jamie's Twitter Bechdel Cast's Twitter Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Plastic Surgery April begins! How are influencers coping with staying indoors and who is still doing lip injections for the Kardashians? A night call from another medical professional says it’s probably okay to get take out right now and explains why. Then we get into our personal feelings about plastic surgery, insane beauty standards, and whether botox makes people look young or just rich. A night caller asks about Bella Hadid’s transformation into Carla Bruni and we spend a long time contemplating what it’s like to get a new face and have society treat you totally differently. Is this the end of decadent celebrity? We sure hope so, on an all new Night Call! Footnotes: Baby birds babbling Kylie's pregnancy lockdown prepared her for Covid Drake "Tootsie Slide" Kelly Ripa's last Botox March 11th Martha Stewart thanks her glam squad Subbing blood for eggs in baking India Sweets and Spices County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer cautions restaurants cannot operate as groceries:  Eater LA on the grocery/restaurant debacle Carla Bruni/Bella Hadid February 2020 And in May 2019 Celebface Facebook bans "plastic surgery filters" on Instagram Simon Ourian Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Greetings fellow homebodies! This week Tess, Molly and Emily spend some time delving into our nightmarish techno-feudalist world. Where are the billionaires now? How do you shop for food ethically right now when the options are all bad? How are we, if not keeping sane exactly, at least muddling through? Some of us enjoyed watching Netflix's Tiger King, and some of us did not. A fun back and forth about ethics in documentary filmmaking, private zoos, and whether Joe Exotic is a Tony Soprano for our times. Then it's the conclusion of Spring Break March and the weirdest spring break in history with Magic Mike XXL, the Gregory Jacobs directed sequel to Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike. Male objectification, Channing Tatum's career, Joe Manganiello's Backstreet Boys number, and how these movies quietly and expertly reinvented the movie musical for a new era without being annoying or twee about it. Escape on a mind vacation with Night Call, today! Footnotes: Instacart Strike How long can coronavirus survive on surfaces/in air?  LA's Stay at Home Order Runyon canyon shutdown Darcie in Times Square Tokyo Rescheduling Olympics  Brigitte Bardot's Racism  It's Always Fair Weather NC Patreon  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

We are celebrating our inaugural episode of the Night Call Movie Club by putting it on the main feed! New episodes will come out every month for $5+ Patreon subscribers, along with our Book Club and other bonus episodes. Join us now at patreon.com/NightCall! To kick things off, we're watching the 1997 Robert Zemeckis-directed adaptation of Contact (after our 5-star experience with Carl Sagan's 1985 novel on the Book Club.) And who better to help us do it than writer, director and friend of the pod, Rian Johnson! We chat about how the movie has aged since its release, differences between the novel and the film, the filmography of Robert "Bobby Z" Zemeckis, sourdough starters, user interfaces of '90s Hollywood, loudmouths in Hawaiian shirts, and so much more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Hi listeners - today we wanted to give you a preview of the newest project from Robert Evans (host of Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here and co-host of Worst Year Ever). It's called The Women's War, and you can listen to episode 1 now over in that feed here. And don't forget to subscribe in the new feed so you never miss an episode! These are...not optimistic times for most Americans. Across the world, the dangers of climate change and the terror of creeping authoritarianism present an increasing danger to all of us. After covering this degeneration for four years, Robert Evans went looking for hope. He found it in the unlikeliest of places: Northeast Syria, in a region known as Rojava that’s become host to a feminist, anti-authoritarian revolution.  When you’ve heard about these folks in the mainstream media, they’re usually just described as the “Syrian Kurds”, and credited with beating ISIS. They did, in fact, beat ISIS. But their military successes were just part of the story. In The Women’s War, Robert will introduce listeners to dozens of men and women fighting a war for the future of the human soul.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

A night caller asks and we deliver on covering the spring breakers and Disneyworld trippers who just wouldn’t stay home, as well as the too late response from Florida to prevent party rocking. Then a very special guest presents Dispatch From A Kid - Tess’s son Emmett! Emmett joins to tell us how kids feel about Corona and being off from school. More virus talk from the ladies leads into our penultimate week of Spring Break March, with The Real Cancun! The most 2003 movie of all time beloved by Werner Herzog, we look at why it failed where the Jersey Shore would succeed not too long after. Is any movie about thousands of people touching skin now a horror movie? Mayhaps! Molly tries to sell Tess and Emily on Summer House again and Emily counters with Terrace House. Come to Club Coco Bongo, with Night Call! Footnotes: Spring breakers in Florida ...During Coronavirus: Disneyland closed: "A petri dish": Conspiracies about coronavirus: Werner Herzog on The Real Cancun: Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Well our Spring Break theme month has taken a turn due to reality. But we will be here for you at Night Call, some of us calling in remotely, to keep taking your night calls. Pandemic talk leads to a condemnation of wellness grifters giving junk advice about Coronavirus and selling garbage dust. Then Emily has a serious q&a with a listener who responded to our call for doctors and medical professionals to give real advice about the crisis. But it’s still Spring Break March, so we tuck into the appropriately weird Stravinsky piece The Rite Of Spring and the riot-causing Nijinsky ballet. Also spring rituals from around the world and Molly’s Excellent French Canadian Spring Break.  Footnotes: - Moon Juice coronavirus protocol - *NIGHT CALL CANON!!!' - Alison Roman caramelized shallot pasta - The UCSF conference notes post, that Molly and Emily described and debunked, has been deleted since we recorded - Rite of Spring  - Nicolas Roerich - Circle Dance - Dancing in the Streets - Baba Marta Day - Marzanna - Maslenitsa (butter lady) - Explore.org Animal Cams Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Molly, Tess and Emily continue Spring Break March with a listener email about alternative spring breaks and community service tourism. Then it’s social media breaks and more Coronavirus panic, as we speculate how the festival economy and economic in general will be affected (spoiler: it’s not good!) Plus a testimony about successfully using CBD for animals. The main feature this week is Where The Boys Are, the 1960 beach romp that invented the modern spring break tradition and sex comedies too. Why does this movie from 1960 still feel so deeply modern? When will we get more movies about women taking trips? And where exactly are the boys? Find out on Night Call! FOOTNOTES: Ultra Music Festival canceled UPDATE -- SXSW canceled (the day after we recorded) TP shortage Washing hands with cold water works as well as hot water CBD pillows First birth control pill Invention of the teenager Where the Boys Are invented spring break as we know it George Hamilton Forever Amber The Group Where The Boys Are trivia  Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

The ladies are joined by dialect coach Samara Bay, from new IHeartRadio podcast Permission To Speak, to talk about accents, voices and power. Is there a more famous example of a "bad" accent than Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins and is it really even that bad? Then a night email about the movie Road To Wellville prompts a talk about Kellogg's Corn Flakes as health food fad of the past, and graham crackers as very ineffective anti-masturbation tool. And of course, Coronavirus! We discuss how misinformation spreads virally online and why the real culprit in any health pandemic or natural disaster is really human error and lack of preparation. Plus the tale of a cat who was cursed and then saved by a magical charm. Then it's a night call from listener Leah about a very existential spring break getaway, which leads to a reevaluation of Girls In Hoodies classic Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers (2012). Has it stood the test of time and space melting since then? Does it play like a period piece or have something real to say? Emily has a new Spring Breakers theory, and Molly and Tess decide we agree. All this and more on an all new Night Call! FOOTNOTES: Samara's Permission to Speak pod Samara on Twitter KXLU Pandemic weather John Harvey Kellogg CORRECTION - Spring Breakers got 67% on Rotten Tomatoes Makeup-free dinner Schools closed due to coronavirus Akira meme Wuhan punk during coronavirus Corona beer panic Coronavirus cruise ship Girls in Hoodies Spring Breakers episode Riff Raff allegation #1 And #2 Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Jane Marie, creator and host of The Dream podcast, joins the Night Callers this week to break down the wellness industry. Are all essential oils a scam? What’s up with the influencers who stopped drinking water? Do I need to sell my crystals? Plus the creepy unregulated world of therapy apps, and a long dip in the pool for Ron Howard’s 1985 wellness opus Cocoon! All this and Steve Guttenberg too on an all new Night Call! FOOTNOTES: Jane Marie's The Dream podcast Jane Marie on Twitter Not that Rick Ross Dry fasting Goop lawsuit Donald Gary Young wikipedia Gary Young/Young Living Behind the Bastards episode "Free birth" article Gold dildo Jezebel on online therapy data-mining Smarterchild Ancestry.com's roots Esquire article on Aesop Anti-MLM reddit on Aesop Wilford Brimley on cockfighting AARP Cocoon article Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Poet Elaine Kahn, author of Romance or The End, joins the girls this week. “Where have all the great movie sex scenes gone?” A Zalman King inspired listener asks in a night email, and we answer. Elaine explains her favorite British reality dating show Flirty Dancing, and where the American reboot went wrong. A discussion of reality dating shows from around the world, with an emphasis on weird formats (including Netflix’s new show Love Is Blind.) Plus, why none of us enjoy The Bachelor! Then it’s a long piano recital about The Hunger - Tony Scott’s 1983 new wave vampire movie starring David Bowie, Catherine Denueve, Susan Sarandon and a scary posh Manhattan townhouse. We are divided on vampires and what they represent in fun ways! All this and a reading from Martine’s Sexual Astrology for this week’s Spooky Love February episode of Night Call. FOOTNOTES: Elaine Kahn's website Poetry Field School Elaine's Instagram Flirty Dancing UK The vast dating game show wikipedia well from which Molly drew examples I'd rather cry in a BMW Solitary British Sex Box Nathan For You sex box Sexual Astrology Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Podcasts for dogs, or dogcasts, are all the rage. Emily listened and reports back, leading to a talk about Dog TV and whether animals can learn to see screens. Then writer Heather Havrilesky guests to tell Molly, Tess and Emily about love...exciting and new. Come aboard? We’re expecting you. It’s a fun free for all about The Love Boat and weird 70s television. Then it’s Spooky Love February with two stories of creepy love cults - The Doomsday Couple and Twin Flames Universe. FOOTNOTES: Heather Havrilesky's twitter Ask Polly Dog Podcasts Dog TV Taylor Armstrong cat meme Jeraldine Saunders List of guest stars on The Love Boat Twin Flames Landmark Forum & Cafe Gratitude Doomsday couple Chad and Lori And update Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

It’s Spooky Love February at Night Call! First a followup about Wall-E and robot genders! Then it’s Ballie, the nonthreatening spokesthing robot surveillance ball shaped robot! Molly went to Britneyland and tells Emily and Tess about her journey there, prompting a fun chat about escape rooms, pop up museums and staring down a Britney infinity mirror at the last twenty years of your life! Then it’s the mystery of The Golden Suicides - revisiting Nancy Jo Sales’ Vanity Fair article about Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. Was it a case of cult stalking, drug addiction, or both?  FOOTNOTES: Kate Borenstein re: Wall-E's gender Disco Robots of Pasadena Ballie the non-threatening robot EMPs Luna-P Molly covers the Britney pop-up for LAT Sleepcasts Dion McGregor Epley Maneuver The Golden Suicides Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Unnerving CGI January closes out with the truly awesome Species, which all three of us loved. Plus a healthy disagreement about The GOOP Lab. Emily defends Gwyneth, Molly calls Gwyneth the new age Joe Rogan, and Tess moderates pragmatically like a new age Judge Judy. Is The GOOP Lab sinister or silly? The "Wellness" discussion becomes a chat about Jane Marie's podcast The Dream, whose second season is covering wellness scams including essential oils and their "vibrations." Then it's back to weird CGI with a night call about the first ever computer animated character to express emotions, followed by a rollicking celebration of Species. CONTENT WARNING: a discussion of pet death FOOTNOTES: Gian-Carlo Coppola's death The Giphy Suicides GOOP Lab On MAPS/mushrooms Betty Dodson Sue Johanson of Talk Sex with Sue, Tess apologizes for prematurely aging her The Dream Season 2 Don't eat essential oils! ProPublica series on maternal deaths NY Times series on maternal death rates among black women Tony de Peltrie More about TdP Cloaca Species/Chupacabra What is a lion cut? Taylor Swift sticks up for CATS Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Unnerving CGI January continues with The Lawnmower Man, the best Stephen King movie completely disavowed by Stephen King! Plus: what is Swedish Death Cleaning and should we all get into it? A trip back to our haunted doll roots with a talking Elsa from Frozen doll that cannot be vanquished. And we are joined by guest cyber-security activist Emma Cunningham for a chat about predictive policing and other pseudoscientific software. Should we get wrapped in Faraday bags forever? Find out on an all new Night Call! CONTENT WARNING: molestation in The Lawnmower Man is discussed FOOTNOTES: Swedish Death Cleaning Haunted Elsa doll Stephen King vs. Lawnmower Man lawsuit We quoted from the synopsis on Wikipedia Lawnmower man sex scene Aerosmith Amazing video Lawnmower meme David Koresh loved The Lawnmower Man Tweet tip re: DK and the LM Emma's twitter Faraday bags Hacking key fobs SCAN Facial recognition's racial bias Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

A night call about "very special episodes" ties into last week's discussion about spooky fridges. What are Tess, Molly and Emily's favorite traumatic very special episodes? Speaking of traumatic - it's the Seinfeld Sex Poll! Who won the one night stand choice poll: George, Jerry, or Kramer? Then it's time for self-care with human vagina candle Gwyneth Paltrow. Is Gwyneth harmful or just a troll? Speaking of trolls, Grimes and Elon Musk are procreating for some reason. And then it's nature horror: we stan the giant tumbleweed that wants to take over the earth. For the main event in our Unsettling CGI January this week it's James Cameron's The Abyss! What's up with this movie that everyone involved almost died making? Why is James Cameron so obsessed with almost dying underwater? Why aren't there more underwater space trucking movies? Why does the NTI look so good? (hint: puppet)? What made Ed Harris cry? All this and more on Night Call! FOOTNOTES: Punky Brewster "Cherie Lifesaver" full episode And an oral history of the episode Tom Hanks as Family Ties' Uncle Ned Seinfeld poll results Goop show Giant tumbleweeds Postmates robot Baby Grimes The Abyss, the shoot from hell Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Tess, Emily and Molly are joined by Molly's former co-host Alex Pappademas (North Mollywood) to discuss the most important movies of all time: Cats and Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker! But before that, it's the first Night Call mystery of 2020: THE SPOOKY FRIDGE! What does the spooky fridge know? Should it be exorcised, replaced, or made peace with like a wandering ghost? Plus an update about Disneyland's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge from our friends at Podcast The Ride! Other than Splash Mountain, where did they repurpose the other retired animatronics from deadly stage show America Sings? And Emily tells us about the Museum Of Things in Berlin, prompting a chat about weird and niche museums like The La Brea Tar Pits, The Bunny Museum, and The Mushroom Museum! Then a roundtable with Alex Pappademas about the badness (and bright moments) of Star Wars: TROS, the greatness of Cats, and who really deserved to win the Jellicle Ball. Night Call, now and forever. FOOTNOTES: Alex Pappademas Twitter Don't Play in the Fridge PSA from the 70's Museum of Things The Bunny Museum Museum of Jurassic Technology Mushroom Museum (it closed! No!):  La Brea tar pits Grant Museum of Zoology Garfield's nightmare Tales of the Okefenokee ending scene Monster Mansion Alex's essay "the decade comic book nerds became our cultural overlords" Tuxedo cats invisible mode Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

We are releasing our book club episode for Communion by Whitley Strieber as a holiday bonus! If you like this book club episode, please join our book club by subscribing to our Patreon at Patreon.com/nightcall and we’ll be back in the new year with more scary puppets, alien buddies and all new night calls. Thanks for listening! FOOTNOTES: Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Molly reviews the theme park dystopia of Star Wars Land (aka Galaxy’s Edge) Emily is out this week but Terrifying 80s Puppet Movies For Children December continues apace with 1986’s Little Shop Of Horrors! Plus a night call from Molly’s dad about The Blob! Tess and Molly nurse their pet theories about Home Alone and what exactly “The Wet Bandits” are all about! And another call about Roz Chast and the unclaimed baggage center! Happy holidays and man eating plant nightmares from Night Call! FOOTNOTES: Star Wars land tour  Star Wars land merch You Must Remember This Song of the South Rise of Resistance ride in Orlando Oga's cantina menu List of Star Wars creatures for the NC hosts to study Sad LAX robot Jack Nicholson Little Shop clip Original Little Shop ending Tyler Coates' Cats review Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Tess, Emily and Molly are joined by Katie Goldin of Creature Feature to chat about monkey pigs and other hybrid animals! Plus she explains the penis fish that fell from the sky. Then Terrifying 80s Puppet Movies For Children December rolls on with Return To Oz, the only movie directed by editor Walter Murch. And a Night letter about the rotting Hoggle puppet from Labyrinth! Also: Marriage Story, why you can’t photograph the moon on your phone, and Ring cameras getting phone phreaked! Make like a fat innkeeper worm and burrow in for Night Call! FOOTNOTES: Why you can't photograph the moon Alex Myles full moon astrology Podcast hacking Ring users What happened to Hoggle? TW CURSED HOGGLE IMAGES Creature Feature podcast Fat Innkeeper Worm/Penis Fish ProBirdsRights twitter Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

It’s Horrifying 80s Puppet Movies For Children December here on Night Call and we’re kicking it off with Labyrinth. Will Molly dance magic dance for the Jim Henson classic when she sees it for the first time? Will Emily and Tess remember anything weird about seeing it from childhood? (yes) Plus a night call about whether Gremlins is about parenting and whether Baby Yoda is a psy op to boost the flagging millennial birth rate! Also: a fan theory about Star Wars’ Nien Nunb. And we welcome guest Lily Simonson to talk about diving under Antarctic ice and new developments in the personal life of her teenage idol Beck. FOOTNOTES: Nien Nunb Beck out of Scientology Leah Remini says method of departure is a "pussy move" Beck on Scientology in 2005 Lily Simonson  Lily Simonson 2 Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers