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:

1. Nien Nunb
2. Beck out of Scientology
3. Leah Remini says method of departure is a "pussy move"
4. Beck on Scientology in 2005
5. Lily Simonson 
6. Lily Simonson 2
7. Night Call Patreon
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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:

1. Night Call Patreon
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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:

1. Baby Yoda
2. Star Wars Holiday Special
3. Star Wars bar
4. Tesla Cybertruck unveiling
5. Max Read's tweet
6. Cait Raft on the cybertruck
7. Krotona
8. The Creation of Beachwood Canyon's Theosophist "Dreamland"
9. Inside the meditation building converted to a studio apt
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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:

1. Suzan Pitt on Criterion
2. Human/waterbear DNA splicing
3. Critter of the week 1 and Critter of the week 2
4. Tony Soprano Dirty Work
5. Paulie's car horn
6. Tom O'Neill
7. Chaos
8. UK vs US libel laws
9. 2019 Polanski rape allegation
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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:

1. Emma Best's tweet/link to CIA astrology psyops report
2. Tess & Molly on Behind the Bastards
3. Channing Tatum, like Molly, thinks his phone listens in therapy
4. Period tracking apps selling your data
5. And this backs it up
6. Uber self-driving car hit pedestrian
7. Recycling plant fire
8. Bradbury building
9. Zhora's raincoat
10. Jonny Coleman/Jacob Woocher article on the Staples Center and LA gentrification
11. LA Eyeworks
12. Elizabeth Cantwell's book, ALL THE EMERGENCY-TYPE STRUCTURES
13. The House Next Door
14. UCLA tunnels
15. UVA's Seven Society
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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:

1. Crazy Days and Nights
2. Vanity Fair profile of Enty
3. Pouring one out for a Himmmm 
4. Night Callers facebook group
5. Twilight Zone movie deaths
6. Alena's book, Tween Hobo: Off the Rails 
7. Dickinson on Apple Plus TV 
8. Alena on Girls in Hoodies
9. Thoreau's mom did his laundry
10. Dickinson costumes article
11. Prairie dresses: don't do it
12. Yankee Doodle macaroni
13. Poe hated Transcendentalists
14. Poe and his cousin
15. Headless horseman Hessian soldier 
16. Epstein was murdered?
17. Mark Epstein 
18. 1953 boomer trust
19. Ghislaine's father/Mossad
20. Epstein's front door 
21. Epstein theories merch 
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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:

1. Jonesy's Jukebox Twitter
2. Most common zodiac signs
3. Rustic Canyon Nazi retreat
4. She shed
5. KOA camping
6. The case for letting Malibu burn
7. LA faultline map
8. Tornado video
9. Secret Disney tunnels
10. Exit to Eden poster
11. Echo Mountain
12. Tess's weather newsletter
13. The Awl weather reviews
14. Dick's Last Resort
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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:

1. The Blob
2. twitter thread about the 720 sexes 
3. Ribbon worms
4. Scientists implant memories into bird brains
5. We won't live on an exoplanet
6. Does Ring share information with police?
7. Jitterbug phone
8. Pokemon Go tracking you
9. You Must Remember This
10. YMRT Patreon
11. Disneyland death
12.  Night Call Patreon
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***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 JFK

2. Joaquin Phoenix's current roles are origin stories for future roles

3. Which Internet Girl Are You Quiz

4. And another

5. Cait Raft's Patreon

6. Jack AM

7. Cait's instagram

8. This Podcast is Self Care

9. Night Call Patreon

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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 tweets

2. Demi Moore: Inside Out

3. Cameron Diaz’s memoir about health

4. Natasha Lyonne on why ghosts can walk through walls- Winnipeg Hamilton House

5. If Day

6. Fire An Employee simulator7. Gabe Delahaye’s Purge tweet

8. Jeffrey Epstein’s piano room

9. Larry Celona connection to EWS and Epstein

10. subliminal images in Midsommar

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