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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://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener fo

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 deathFOOTNOTES: 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

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 @

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 histo

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 Fri

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://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for

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://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati

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://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat

This week, Night Call is unlocking their Valley of the Dolls book club episode, previously only available for Patreon supporters. Escape from your family this Thanksgiving with Jacqueline Susann's 1966 proto-beach-read, or impress your grandparents with your new knowledge about the author's famous poodle Josephine. The ladies of Night Call delve into petty icon Jackie Susann's subtle (and not-so-subtle) airing of celebrity dirty laundry, the book's origins in '50s showbiz, the real-life midcentury pill epidemic, and of course, our personal Dollstrology.FOOTNOTES: Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After a brief recap of our live show with Aimee Mann, Baby Yoda fever sweeps Night Call nation when we plead with Disney to release The Ewok Adventure so we can pod about it. Werner Herzog falls for the wrinkly baby puppet and the superhero movie wars come to an end. The Cybertruck is a garbage truck, except garbage trucks actually work. And Warren Beatty’s REDS divides Tess, Molly and Emily into factions, but can they find common ground in Maureen Stapleton’s portrayal of Emma Goldman? Find out on Night Call!FOOTNOTES: Baby Yoda Star Wars Holiday Special Star Wars bar Tesla Cybertruck unveiling Max Read's tweet Cait Raft on the cybertruck Krotona The Creation of Beachwood Canyon's Theosophist "Dreamland" Inside the meditation building converted to a studio apt Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ladies of Night Call are joined by Tom O’Neill, author of CHAOS: Charles Manson, The CIA, And The Secret History Of The Sixties to discuss his book, getting addicted to an obsession, MK Ultra, the Manson family and much more! And break out the gabagool for the first in our new series of ongoing segments about The Sopranos! Plus movie chat, a mouse deer, and Emily’s review of The Irishman!FOOTNOTES: Suzan Pitt on Criterion Human/waterbear DNA splicing Critter of the week 1 and Critter of the week 2 Tony Soprano Dirty Work Paulie's car horn Tom O'Neill Chaos UK vs US libel laws 2019 Polanski rape allegation Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Molly, Tess and Emily are joined by poet Elizabeth Cantwell to discuss her book All The Emegency Type Structures, leftist prepper culture, what kind of dwellings are the most haunted, and how to deal with weather that wants to kill you. Plus underground tunnels and secret societies! And...it’s Los Angeles November 2019, do you know where your blade runners are? We return to Ridley Scott’s 80s sci fi opus just as we pass its start date, to talk about LA architecture, the dystopian gentrification of downtown, and whether Blade Runner is now a utopian movie (spoiler: we say yes?)FOOTNOTES: Emma Best's tweet/link to CIA astrology psyops report Tess & Molly on Behind the Bastards Channing Tatum, like Molly, thinks his phone listens in therapy Period tracking apps selling your data And this backs it up Uber self-driving car hit pedestrian Recycling plant fire Bradbury building Zhora's raincoat Jonny Coleman/Jacob Woocher article on the Staples Center and LA gentrification LA Eyeworks Elizabeth Cantwell's book,

Apple TV Plus show Dickinson’s creator Alena Smith joins us to talk about Emily Dickinson, the weird American 1850s and transcendentalist author rivalries and fun facts (Edgar Allan Poe was VERY catty and also married his own underage cousin). Then we get into current American history, taking on the modern conspiracy we’ve all been thinking and talking about constantly this year! Plus we answer some Night Calls, and talk about everyone’s favorite viral meme: long Russian novels about class war!FOOTNOTES: Crazy Days and Nights Vanity Fair profile of Enty Pouring one out for a Himmmm  Night Callers facebook group Twilight Zone movie deaths Alena's book, Tween Hobo: Off the Rails  Dickinson on Apple Plus TV  Alena on Girls in Hoodies Thoreau's mom did his laundry Dickinson costumes article Prairie dresses: don't do it Yankee Doodle macaroni Poe hated Transcendentalists Poe and his cousin Headless horseman Hessian soldier  Epstein was murdered? Mark Epstein  1953 boomer trust Ghislaine's father/Mossad Epstein's

Tess, Emily, and Molly dig into The Lighthouse, Parasite, and Vampire In Brooklyn as spooky szn comes to a climax. Where is Jonesy's Jukebox, the freeform radio show on KLOS that mysteriously left the air weeks ago? Plus the weird Nazi ranch in Malibu, Emily's journey to the center of the mind in Topanga Canyon, and whether ominous weather leads to more ominous happenings or just ominous thoughts. And an extended discussion about what theme park rides we'd like to exist. Oh yeah and SEX COMEDIES!FOOTNOTES: Jonesy's Jukebox Twitter Most common zodiac signs Rustic Canyon Nazi retreat She shed KOA camping The case for letting Malibu burn LA faultline map Tornado video Secret Disney tunnels Exit to Eden poster Echo Mountain Tess's weather newsletter The Awl weather reviews Dick's Last Resort Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener f

Molly, Tess and Emily embrace the many-sexed indeterminately specied newly discovered blob creature of our dreams. Then we talk about how scientists implanted birds with false memories (chill!) and devices spying on podcasts you listen to and serving you Swedish fish ads. Then we are joined by special guest Karina Longworth, who tells us about the new season of her podcast You Must Remember This, focused on Disney’s Song Of The South. Why did Disneyland build a whole ride about a racist cartoon they scrubbed from existence? Why did Bob Iger call it the one thing you’ll never find on Disney Plus? Did humans truly land on the moon? And will we ever live on an exoplanet? Find out on a Night Call to remember.FOOTNOTES: The Blob twitter thread about the 720 sexes  Ribbon worms Scientists implant memories into bird brains We won't live on an exoplanet Does Ring share information with police? Jitterbug phone Pokemon Go tracking you You Must Remember This YMRT Patreon Disneyland death  Night Call Patreon Night Call

***SPOILER ALERT FOR THE JOKER FILM***Cait Raft, co-host of the daily Twitch stream and podcast Jack AM and This Podcast Is Self Care with Drew Spears joins Tess, Emily and Molly to talk about all things autumnal. Molly and Cait argue for an extended fall while Emily and Tess, who have lived through midwest and New England winters, say no thanks. Is fall mania just a fugue state reaction to fire season? And of course we discuss October's two biggest movies: Joker and Oliver Stone's JFK. Emily braved Todd Phillips' clown prince origin story (SPOILER ALERT!!), while Tess and Molly delved into the 3 hour long epic about the 20th century's #1 hottest conspiracy. But are there really more people who believe in conspiracy theories than ever? Or might that also be...a conspiracy. Find out on Night Call!***SPOILER ALERT FOR THE JOKER FILM***FOOTNOTES: 1. 25th anniversary retrospective of JFK2. Joaquin Phoenix's current roles are origin stories for future roles3. Which Internet Girl Are You Quiz4. And another5. Cait R

It’s the long awaited Eyes Wide Shut special! Tess, Molly and Emily take on Stanley Kubrick’s enigmatic questionably erotic psychological drama from 1999 and take a detour that leads directly to reconsidering Vanilla Sky! But first, early takes on Joker, a movie none of us have seen yet! Molly tries to convince Tess and Emily to read Demi Moore’s excellent memoir Inside Out by telling them about how Bruce Willis romanced Demi with flair bartending! Why can ghosts walk through walls? Can you intervene in your own night terrors? And a return to beautiful Winnipeg for haunted houses and “If Day”! TECH SUPPORT!!!1. Aimee’s Joker tweets2. Demi Moore: Inside Out3. Cameron Diaz’s memoir about health4. Natasha Lyonne on why ghosts can walk through walls- Winnipeg Hamilton House5. If Day6. Fire An Employee simulator7. Gabe Delahaye’s Purge tweet8. Jeffrey Epstein’s piano room9. Larry Celona connection to EWS and Epstein10. subliminal images in Midsommar11. Night Call Patreon12. Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpo

This week, the hosts welcome Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) to chat about his new film, The Parts You Lose, as well as blenders and JFK conspiracy theories. Plus: the Ukrainian news you might have missed about an adoption with a twist, and a strange mystery involving mutilated cows in Oregon.FOOTNOTES:1. The couple who adopted a Ukrainian child who was actually an adult2. Ukrainian President Zelensky's past as a comedian3. Ken Burns' Country Music4. Gene Autry's Flying A estate5. Oregon Cow mystery6. Trailer for The Parts You Lose7. The Mask comic book series8. Hale Boggs9. Linda O'Leary's boat incident: 10. Badge Man11. George de Mohrenschildt12. Elizabeth Cantwell's book All The Emergency-Type Structures13. Night Call Patreon14. Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast // Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.