Speaker 1: It's PM at Melrose Place and you're listening Tonight Call.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome to Night Call, a podcast for
Speaker 1: your strange days and lonely nights. I'm Molly Lambert and
Speaker 1: with me in Los Angeles is Damaliyoshida. What what? And
Speaker 1: as always teslent, we are all in a room together?
Speaker 1: Um then or not being in a room together. I
Speaker 1: realized that we all, even probably when we're on opposite
Speaker 1: sides of the country, bob our heads a little bit
Speaker 1: when we think that the theme music should be coming
Speaker 1: in for our show. Yeah, we do. I for sure
Speaker 1: bob my head to the imaginary the music. You know
Speaker 1: you're bombing your heads because we can see you for
Speaker 1: maybe we should make some like some solar power bobble heads.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Guys. Welcome to Nightcall, and you should
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Speaker 1: nice are and we got a Facebook group. We do
Speaker 1: in an Instagram and they're all popping off on Twitter
Speaker 1: account just across the web. We're sending out strands. Speaking
Speaker 1: of the Facebook group, UM, somebody posted something that is
Speaker 1: now making the rounds that I wanted to talk to
Speaker 1: you guys about. And it's Cremain's cookies. Um, if you
Speaker 1: guys are listening and eating, put down what you're eating
Speaker 1: for a minute. Because in Davis, California, at a UM,
Speaker 1: I guess it's Da Vinci Charter Academy, a student passed
Speaker 1: out some cookies to her friends that contained human ashes.
Speaker 1: Probably pretty clean, though, I mean I can't imagine clean
Speaker 1: eating clean. Yeah, like, of all things that you could
Speaker 1: put in your bet, I bet chromines are better for
Speaker 1: you than like, you know, aspar team. Do you think
Speaker 1: they have protein? Do you think they retain any? I
Speaker 1: bet nuance. It's probably just a carb, right, Is it
Speaker 1: even a car? Maybe it's just fiber. But though I
Speaker 1: heard things can get toxic when they get really burnt. Like,
Speaker 1: isn't the burnt part of toast supposed to be bad
Speaker 1: for you? Supposed it's a carcinogenic? Well, somebody, anything that's
Speaker 1: charred small an entire human body is I think average
Speaker 1: five pounds of ashes? Am I making that up? That's
Speaker 1: what I think, authority, and I trust you. I believe
Speaker 1: it's between four and six pounds. I think women are
Speaker 1: average four pounds and men are average six pounds of ashes.
Speaker 1: Happy Halloween, by the way, Happy Halloween yet, But you
Speaker 1: know works I did? Um? But the kids who ate
Speaker 1: the ash cookies, some of them knew, some of them didn't.
Speaker 1: Nine of them ate the cookies in total? Um, would
Speaker 1: you ever eat a cookie made with how much? Actually
Speaker 1: a better question, how much? Would you? So? Was an experiment?
Speaker 1: Or was this a kid who had been asked to
Speaker 1: bring a treat to class and had a dead relative
Speaker 1: that he had to do something with. I think it
Speaker 1: was like a prank problem. I think it was a problem.
Speaker 1: Just sprinkle some of those human ashes in your this
Speaker 1: is I think. I believe the kid was a high
Speaker 1: school or the conflicting information picturing like an eight year
Speaker 1: old bringer, I was too something about a teenager that's
Speaker 1: more believable. But where did they get the cremains? Whose
Speaker 1: cremains were they? I believe the grandparents. One of the
Speaker 1: grandparents cremains. See, that's what makes it sucked up somehow
Speaker 1: you think if it will who else, I mean what
Speaker 1: it would be so much worse if it were a
Speaker 1: stranger's cremine, anyone's crew, your own flesh and blood. Because
Speaker 1: so he's like, what at the funeral and they haven't
Speaker 1: earn there and he like sneaks when in the house
Speaker 1: maybe so yeah, well either way he decides, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: will be crazy funked up who took some of my grandparents?
Speaker 1: Like that's like a little sis. It's bad, no question,
Speaker 1: you think. He was like, I'm going to put it
Speaker 1: on YouTube and get like, well guess what it was
Speaker 1: a girl? Oh my god? That changed it. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: empowered empowered from so it's basic female serial killers. The
Speaker 1: police detective said that like, based on a preliminary investigation,
Speaker 1: they felt like it was a credible thing that happened,
Speaker 1: but they weren't sure um, but believed based on what
Speaker 1: the girl said and what the kids that she had
Speaker 1: interacted with said that it had really happened. Um, And
Speaker 1: there was like a boy came home and told his
Speaker 1: parents about it and they were they were like, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: She told anyone that it was cremine because she could
Speaker 1: have has done it and gotten away with it, which
Speaker 1: is also crazy. That's yeah, you wouldn't get any fun
Speaker 1: out of that, though, if you were the kind of
Speaker 1: person who would get fun out of like you would
Speaker 1: have to see the reaction otherwise. There was a girl
Speaker 1: at Tessaized High School who got in trouble for bringing
Speaker 1: weed brownies to school and putting them in the teacher's lounge,
Speaker 1: and this feels very like of that kind of well, yeah,
Speaker 1: in that case, you would actually see maybe some of
Speaker 1: the effects of your work. I hate to bring up
Speaker 1: a forbidden topic on the podcast, but one time I
Speaker 1: was at a party and I ate these chocolate chip
Speaker 1: cookies and then this girl was like, guess what the
Speaker 1: secret ingredients? No, we all know what it is, the
Speaker 1: condiment that we condent. And then I almost speared. I
Speaker 1: think it did spewed, so he just felt. This week's
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Speaker 1: like people did weird pranks with food when it was
Speaker 1: still legal to like have handmade trick or treat candy?
Speaker 1: Growing up, I was never allowed to eat the like
Speaker 1: not packaged unless it was an apple, which also you
Speaker 1: could definitely but none of those things ever happened. I
Speaker 1: think it's so sad because I think that if Halloween
Speaker 1: was a night where you went around and ate cookies
Speaker 1: that like your neighbors made, that would be the sweetest,
Speaker 1: the most wonderful, heartwarming holiday. Human experiment. Yeah, does not
Speaker 1: allow such happy. I think people eat cookies that their
Speaker 1: neighbors make, but sometimes they turn out to have like
Speaker 1: mystery ingredients that you wish you didn't know about. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I find that at least my neighbors, many of them
Speaker 1: have strong feelings about any kind of sugar, including cookies,
Speaker 1: and so the neighbors you have to have some of
Speaker 1: the some of those and some not those. But it's
Speaker 1: hard to navigate on Halloween for sure. Oh that sounds impossible.
Speaker 1: I saw a show once that was called Like My
Speaker 1: Strange Obsession. It was like, oh, yes, I know, the
Speaker 1: parallel show to Like My My Strange Addiction or something,
Speaker 1: but it was just people that were obsessed with things.
Speaker 1: It's the best show. There was one episode about a
Speaker 1: guy who's obsessed with mustard another guy who's obsessed with catchup,
Speaker 1: and they never meet in the episode what they just
Speaker 1: show their parallel lives and they both have wives who
Speaker 1: are like very fed up with them and like, man,
Speaker 1: I wish they would be into anything else. For like
Speaker 1: a moment, the mustard guy like brushes his teeth with mustard,
Speaker 1: and the mustard guy is like a mustard superior. Sorry
Speaker 1: to bring it back to condiments that guys like, he's
Speaker 1: like a mustard supremacist and the other guy is like
Speaker 1: a ketchup supremacist. I have an issue with this. There's
Speaker 1: only one kind of ketchup that's worth its salt, and
Speaker 1: that would behind ketchup and every other ketchup is I'm
Speaker 1: team Mustard for sure. But there was another episode of
Speaker 1: this show about a person who was into dumpster diving
Speaker 1: and was obsessed with dumpster diving, and they foraged a
Speaker 1: meal and then invited over all their neighbors and friends,
Speaker 1: and then everybody ate the meal and then they were like,
Speaker 1: guess what all that food came from the trash and
Speaker 1: everybody had different reactions. Whatever, they all have to get
Speaker 1: over it. It's fine, we should all be dumpstered. Wait wait,
Speaker 1: was this was this captured on film in the show.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch it so hard. Oh, it's just amazing
Speaker 1: because it's like everyone's enjoying it until they find out
Speaker 1: just from the dumpster and then they're like social conditioning
Speaker 1: kicks in and they're all like, oh, no, is this
Speaker 1: on any I think? Okay, I whatever. The people who
Speaker 1: were mad about it can go from You just should
Speaker 1: be given a choice, Yeah, you should. You should be
Speaker 1: given it. I know. I'm just like, I'm such a
Speaker 1: freak about like not wasting cookies. Is you should be
Speaker 1: told beforehand and given a choice, and then it's a
Speaker 1: fun it's a fun and how event at your school.
Speaker 1: Not like I thought it was eyeballs. I thought it
Speaker 1: was Peel's grapes. But guess what it as eyeballs this time?
Speaker 1: We Um, we want to take a bunch of night
Speaker 1: emails slash calls today on the show. Yeah, speaking of
Speaker 1: spooky Halloween spirits, we have a backlog and ghosts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted to return to the topic of whether or
Speaker 1: not Jesus is a ghost and um, we got a
Speaker 1: night email from our friend John the Theologian. Theologian, I'm
Speaker 1: very much the amateur when it comes to all the
Speaker 1: religious matters on this podcast. It's because there's a willco song.
Speaker 1: John wrote, I'm a professor of theology and the Twin
Speaker 1: Cities of Minnesota I want to try and answer your
Speaker 1: question from the last pot on the Holy Ghost and
Speaker 1: whether Jesus is a ghost. There is a word for
Speaker 1: ghost in the New Testament, but it only appears a
Speaker 1: couple of times. The Greek word is fantasma, and it
Speaker 1: means something like specter, apparition or ghost. It occurs on
Speaker 1: both occasions in different versions of Jesus walking on the
Speaker 1: water towards his disciples in a boat and they think
Speaker 1: they have seen a ghost. They are terrified and cry out,
Speaker 1: but Jesus tells them to have courage and not be afraid.
Speaker 1: The ghost and holy ghost is related to the German
Speaker 1: geist spirit, but we do not tend to use ghost
Speaker 1: any longer to mean spirit, which is why the common
Speaker 1: English translation is now holy Spirit. The resurrected Jesus has
Speaker 1: some of the characteristics of a spirit, but also elements
Speaker 1: of his physical body, since he can grill, fish, eat,
Speaker 1: and retains the wounds of his crucifixion on his hands
Speaker 1: and feet. Straightforwardly, the resurrected Jesus is not a ghost
Speaker 1: to my mind, but this amalgam of human and spirit.
Speaker 1: Thanks for your pod, but Molly, please do not hail
Speaker 1: or some in Satan anymore. It scares me. Agreed, John,
Speaker 1: I've been saying, Um, I love that email. It's like
Speaker 1: very it's very informative. Yeah, we also edited down. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of information that was really interesting. I
Speaker 1: can post it just because I think I always assumed
Speaker 1: that the reason that it was spirit now in most
Speaker 1: translations and not ghosts is because like to not scare
Speaker 1: kids or something like. I feel like a lot of
Speaker 1: aspects of a lot of religions gets like some of
Speaker 1: the weirder parts sort of like stand it away in
Speaker 1: different parts. My favorite thing is that like angels or
Speaker 1: like not, like a lot of them are like described
Speaker 1: as like being actually terrifying headless things with like a
Speaker 1: zilian eyeballs all over the wings and stuff. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's cool and metal as hell, and that should be
Speaker 1: the dominant I do when you imagine an angel, now
Speaker 1: you're automatic imagination. Should he Star had a dark fantasy
Speaker 1: novel about cool angels with eyeball when Yeah, yeah, So
Speaker 1: I figured that the ghost thing was just one of
Speaker 1: those things. Anything that seems like a holdover from paganism
Speaker 1: is always a chill part of Christianity. I like the
Speaker 1: idea that Jesus is a spirit who grills in. I
Speaker 1: love that that was the example of what makes the
Speaker 1: human as you can grill and eat fish. Imagine if
Speaker 1: you were like haunted by a spirit that was like
Speaker 1: a benevolent spirit, but that for dinner became not entered
Speaker 1: its material to digest exactly. Yeah, it sounds like a
Speaker 1: lot of people's dream relationship. I feel like this is
Speaker 1: like a common question, but I feel like nobody has
Speaker 1: ever answered it properly for me. But what happens if
Speaker 1: a vampire eats food? Doesn't just hang out inside there
Speaker 1: for a long time. No, they don't, but what if
Speaker 1: they did? But sometimes I feel like in some things
Speaker 1: they do eat food to like like act normal or something,
Speaker 1: and like it's disgusting to them or like or there's
Speaker 1: no no sensation whatsoever. I imagined like a stomach that's
Speaker 1: just a dead end. And maybe that's when the Jesus goes.
Speaker 1: You think about so you're saying us, the sandwich never
Speaker 1: goes the sand which becomes a vampire? Right? Do you
Speaker 1: think it turns into it like liquefies and turns into
Speaker 1: tears and sweats. Maybe it's supplies. It's what makes them
Speaker 1: like Sparkling could be there, sparkles, little sandwiches, liball, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: I know about mythology. That's how it works. How it works.
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Speaker 1: got a night email from Naomi. She sent us a
Speaker 1: link that was so scary, so scary. Okay, Hi guys,
Speaker 1: love you guys so much, best podcast ever. You're welcome, Naomi,
Speaker 1: Thank you. Watch this a mr video of a guy
Speaker 1: in a plague doctor costume, which you probably know is
Speaker 1: like a mask with a beak beaking you to sleep.
Speaker 1: Very cool and thought you guys would enjoy if you
Speaker 1: haven't seen it already. He also did a video of
Speaker 1: a health exam in the costume. I can't stop watching.
Speaker 1: With a link that we will, we can maybe throw
Speaker 1: in a little bit of audio here, Yeah, live audio.
Speaker 1: It's so scary. Are you pulling it up and pulling
Speaker 1: it up so it's gonna hunt you? That is so
Speaker 1: very good. Don't be seeing you. It's this time once
Speaker 1: more you're baking. I feel I have not already done,
Speaker 1: so make yourself most pools. What the pick? Okay, and
Speaker 1: that's enough for a while. Um I don't know what
Speaker 1: beaking you to sleep means outside. I don't think that
Speaker 1: would think that would not anything me to sleep. Um,
Speaker 1: that would keep me awake. It's like a hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy four thousand views at time of recording. Um, there's
Speaker 1: another one that's got a million. That's the plague. Patiently,
Speaker 1: there's a burgeoning subculture. I mean this is a good
Speaker 1: if you wanted to create like a constructed urban Internet
Speaker 1: urban legend or like creepy pasta type thing. I feel
Speaker 1: like Plague dr A SMR is pretty good. Well also
Speaker 1: because when you guys tried to put it in, it
Speaker 1: came out as like a phone number for both. We
Speaker 1: should try calling the phone. No, you know, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that it was. When I forwarded the email, I
Speaker 1: was also looking up a spam call and it ended
Speaker 1: up pyperlinking. But do you guys know what those like
Speaker 1: what the mask is from, and stuff like why people
Speaker 1: wore those masks? Why don't you tell our listeners? Okay,
Speaker 1: it was because I just looked it up. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to Um, they weren't actually doctors. They were like
Speaker 1: the kind of like moonlighting doctors who weren't totally certified, uh,
Speaker 1: treated patients with the bubonic plague, and so they would
Speaker 1: wear these giant beak masks that were filled with like
Speaker 1: different herbs and you know, things that smelled good because
Speaker 1: the smell was what was thought to transmit the plague.
Speaker 1: So he's he's being a plague doctor a s MR.
Speaker 1: Because he's wearing his creepy anti plague mask. Yeah were
Speaker 1: they This one looks like it's leather though or skin,
Speaker 1: just like a fetish item for people that are into
Speaker 1: like steampunk, right, plague steampunk because they're so creepy looking.
Speaker 1: And there's one in Yes, I feel like most people
Speaker 1: associated with Ice wide shut now in our modern era,
Speaker 1: which because I turn you associated with a sex cult. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a kink object. I don't know. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were like what is it? They're like Venetian masks, and
Speaker 1: it's a mask representing this thing everybody would know about
Speaker 1: of the plague doctors. Uh, and then we all associated
Speaker 1: with ice Wade shuts. The lighting in this video and
Speaker 1: the perspective is what also just makes it super scary. Well,
Speaker 1: all you see is the beat, you're getting beaked. You are.
Speaker 1: Masks are terrifying. Masks are the worst. This is what
Speaker 1: I'm saying when we were talking about scary things, like
Speaker 1: I can't think of that many movies that scare me,
Speaker 1: but person in a mask, that's a lot of them. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: like even just when Tom Cruise shows up in his
Speaker 1: Max because he has like the tragedy mask like looks
Speaker 1: like which I and it's so scary. It's so scary
Speaker 1: that there's a face on the outside, but it's not
Speaker 1: the actual face. I don't know what it is. It's
Speaker 1: just the scariest thing in the world. You're afraid of
Speaker 1: being tricked. I am. I'm afraid of I'm afraid of
Speaker 1: people's That's the most interesting thing to think about, though,
Speaker 1: the scary mask that everybody wears. Man, it's on your mask,
Speaker 1: on your face. No, it's weird too, because it's like
Speaker 1: there is a thing where like when a face becomes
Speaker 1: too mask like, it's scary. Certain people have made their
Speaker 1: faces look more like masks and it's become sort of
Speaker 1: like like do you mean future human diamond Chris Janner. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the thing is like, what at what
Speaker 1: point does it become like it crosses the on Canny
Speaker 1: Valley until like that's not exactly what a human faces. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I had this idea for a short film that
Speaker 1: would just be about like the creation of you know,
Speaker 1: the opening titles of a housewife film they say their
Speaker 1: name and their catchphrase for the season. But like the
Speaker 1: idea a housewife film. Did I say a housewife film?
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, yes, um no, but like like
Speaker 1: the idea of like a woman who's on one of
Speaker 1: these shows and then has had so much work done
Speaker 1: since filming that part that like she's going in to
Speaker 1: approve that and like do her like voiceover for it. Uh,
Speaker 1: but like she doesn't recognize herself and the image anymore
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, I've been watching Real Housewives of Orange County,
Speaker 1: which is the scariest and worst but also like interesting
Speaker 1: bad of all the Real Housewives. Did you just call
Speaker 1: it the scariest? Yes, the Trump voters, Yeah, Orange County. Um.
Speaker 1: But it's also the oldest in the franchise, which means
Speaker 1: they're now dealing with mortality, which is also so weird.
Speaker 1: How old are that? Oh? And to bring it back
Speaker 1: to mains, I told you guys about when I was
Speaker 1: keeping up with the Kardashi. That's where I brought it
Speaker 1: Chris check. They did a whole plotline about Kim wanting
Speaker 1: to become a mortician. That was actually a good plotline
Speaker 1: where they went to do makeup at like a funeral
Speaker 1: home and she was like, are we going to do
Speaker 1: makeup on a dead body? I don't know if I
Speaker 1: can handle it. And then it's like a person who
Speaker 1: plays a dead body for you to do makeup. So
Speaker 1: it sounds like Kardashians is just becoming cruel show. Now, Oh,
Speaker 1: it totally is the house over here. I don't At first,
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to think about putting makeup on
Speaker 1: a dead body, but then I said, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: second and go for it. It It turns out putting makeup
Speaker 1: on dead bodies is my passion and I love it.
Speaker 1: You know, they did like a contour on the dead body.
Speaker 1: She was like, it's amazing you can make someone look
Speaker 1: perfect for their afterlife forever. The other thing was Chris
Speaker 1: Jenner finding out about a thing where you can have
Speaker 1: your cremines made into a diamond, and she was like,
Speaker 1: should I do that? I'm saying I would do That
Speaker 1: issue inevitably was that she was like, I have too
Speaker 1: many relatives and I'd want them all to have one. Oh,
Speaker 1: and they'd all be beaten down the door for some
Speaker 1: of that Chris Jenner Haunted Diamond. They were like all
Speaker 1: into it. They were all like, oh, you could become
Speaker 1: a diamond, Like, let's all be diamonds when we die.
Speaker 1: When you think about it, almost anything is better than
Speaker 1: the kind of prevailing to popular options. You know, like
Speaker 1: you want to you don't want to just be like
Speaker 1: sitting in an urn waiting to become cookies. You don't
Speaker 1: want to be like in the ground taking up all
Speaker 1: this real estate. They could be like and all your
Speaker 1: chemicals leashing into the reaching out. Um. Do you guys
Speaker 1: know about the mushroom bag? No? Oh yes, because General
Speaker 1: Mlini got into it. It's called I think it's called
Speaker 1: like the mushroom death bag. I know about this because
Speaker 1: David met the woman who invented it at a at
Speaker 1: a festival somewhere. But it's supposed to be just like
Speaker 1: a zero footprint um burial method, because you know, if
Speaker 1: you just bury a body raw, if you raw talking,
Speaker 1: that's actually really bad too, because like our bodies have
Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff in them, Like it's not like
Speaker 1: just I don't know, putting your dog in the backyard
Speaker 1: or something, Well, that's not supposed to be good either.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're supposed toning you're supposed to
Speaker 1: I think usually when you put down your animal, like
Speaker 1: they suggest cremation, right, Um, So the mushroom death bag
Speaker 1: is zipped up like body bag that you're put in,
Speaker 1: and there are like spores in the material of the bag,
Speaker 1: and so when you're buried, they basically eat you. Um.
Speaker 1: Smart so that there's no don't maggot seat bodies anyway.
Speaker 1: Isn't that what really happens to bodies in the ground supposedly,
Speaker 1: I think eventually, yeah, But I think first it's all
Speaker 1: your good kind of Yeah, you have a lot of
Speaker 1: I was really into mummification always sure. That always seems
Speaker 1: like a like a great So I think it's a
Speaker 1: fantastic a biodegradable bag, like the whole thing. It's like annihilation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's weird because I was going to be like, what
Speaker 1: about just like planting everyone's bodies in a grove you
Speaker 1: can go see, Yeah, mushroom death bags see your dad friends,
Speaker 1: that would be weird. I guess, yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: about that. Oh you mean like, oh, when you grow
Speaker 1: into a tree. Oh when you know you mean the
Speaker 1: annihilation treat people? Yes, yeah, death suit. I'm sorry, it's
Speaker 1: a death. I would like to be eaten by mushrooms
Speaker 1: because then you'd be like a mushroom. What kind of
Speaker 1: mushrooms do you think they are? They like edible? Could
Speaker 1: this become another then somebody eats it and gets your personality? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is what I thought the Cremine's cookies were going
Speaker 1: to lead to. There was a really good erie Indiana
Speaker 1: about a girl getting a heart transplant from a kid
Speaker 1: who dies in their class, and then she becomes the
Speaker 1: kid who she got the heart transplant from. When you're
Speaker 1: a kid, that's the only thing that makes sense. But
Speaker 1: also when you think about yeah, like the like you
Speaker 1: know I transplant and then you're seeing things through it
Speaker 1: makes no logical sense, but like as a child, you're
Speaker 1: like sure, of course, because it's their eyes. It's in
Speaker 1: your head. Guys, would you like to hear a spooky
Speaker 1: tale from producer Rachel? Yes? So this night email comes
Speaker 1: from none other than our own producer Rachel, who says,
Speaker 1: when I was nineteen, I worked at a grocery store
Speaker 1: as a cashier, it was always cold, so I was
Speaker 1: wearing a hoodie and it was really cold, so I
Speaker 1: had the hood up. A customer sidled up to the counter,
Speaker 1: a middle aged man, but he didn't have anything to buy. Instead,
Speaker 1: he said, where's your bag. I had no idea what
Speaker 1: he was talking about and gave him a look. He
Speaker 1: asked again, where's your bag? And I thought he had
Speaker 1: left bags at a different cashier and had come back
Speaker 1: for them, and then that was what he meant. But
Speaker 1: he said again, where's your bag? Come on, let's go. Finally,
Speaker 1: I took down my hoodie and said what. Immediately he recoiled, muttered,
Speaker 1: you're not my daughter and slink off back into the store.
Speaker 1: No word on why he thought his daughter would be
Speaker 1: behind the cashier's counter, but it was definitely the weirdest
Speaker 1: story I've ever experienced about a mistaken identity. And I
Speaker 1: tell this story to anyone who insists they know me
Speaker 1: but who I've definitely never met before. Stay spooky, Rachel,
Speaker 1: I find the thing that that thing of when somebody
Speaker 1: uh is like you look just like something I know.
Speaker 1: I that is the number one conversation killer of all time,
Speaker 1: especially because it's usually the first thing that somebody says
Speaker 1: to you when they meet you, and there's nowhere to
Speaker 1: go after that. Yes, exactly, no idea what to say.
Speaker 1: I would love some advice from people if they know
Speaker 1: what to say. If somebody says you look just like
Speaker 1: my friend Beth, I always say like, I am your friend.
Speaker 1: It's me. She says, Hi's that just happened to me?
Speaker 1: A traitor Joe's the guy said. He asked if I
Speaker 1: was from upstate New York, and I was like, not really.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just a pickup line. Sometimes no, no, But
Speaker 1: he was like, like, you have my friend's face. Well
Speaker 1: we've been talking about yeah, exactly, it's in the air. Oh.
Speaker 1: We actually got another night email about voiced appelgangers Emily.
Speaker 1: Emily has a voice doppelganger. Right, hey, night call. It's funny.
Speaker 1: Emily mentioned that she's never been presented with a doppelganger
Speaker 1: because her voice, specifically her laugh, reminds me of a
Speaker 1: friend's voice. I even texted my friend about it back
Speaker 1: in February. The similarity between the voices is sort of uncanny,
Speaker 1: because it's not that Emily and my friend have the
Speaker 1: exact same voice. And laugh. It's more that when I'm
Speaker 1: listening to Nightcall and Emily laughs, I have a brief
Speaker 1: but distinct reminder of my friend. It's like they are
Speaker 1: somehow linked in the spiritual realm. Two ghost that's us,
Speaker 1: the two ghosts. Thanks. Um. I wish that that person
Speaker 1: would call in so we could we could hear yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're our doppelgangers or voiced. I did a podcast
Speaker 1: I did a while ago. I forget what podcast of mine.
Speaker 1: It was with Shelby Faroh, and I felt like she
Speaker 1: and I it was like talking to myself kind of.
Speaker 1: We talked about Archie a lot, and I was just like,
Speaker 1: it was like that Jeff of like the two Spider
Speaker 1: Man's pointing at each other. Just wait, like all the
Speaker 1: same things. Um, what's up, She'll be Come on Niccall,
Speaker 1: come on Nightcall. Talk about Sabrina. I'm so excited for
Speaker 1: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. It's like the only TV show
Speaker 1: I care about. We were talking about that with somebody
Speaker 1: at the film festival this weekend because we were like,
Speaker 1: we're excited about Suspiria, but also like we want the
Speaker 1: light version of it too, we want version No. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited for that. I also I've heard good things
Speaker 1: about the Hulu show Light as a Feather. I don't know,
Speaker 1: apparently like a like a craft knockoff TV show about
Speaker 1: girls who play light as a feather and spooky things happened.
Speaker 1: Anybody watched the new Charmed No, I think it just started.
Speaker 1: It's not. I heard it's not so great because it
Speaker 1: should be. My mom watched the original. Really, we just
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Speaker 1: it's great. It's a great book. I was saying. Shirley
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Speaker 1: gotta do our Halloween deep dive. Oh yeah, I need
Speaker 1: to go and I need to watch them all because
Speaker 1: I've only seen the first one. And Halloween three, which
Speaker 1: is the scariest Halloween that has nothing to do with
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Speaker 1: That terrifying. It'll make an imprint in my face. This
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Speaker 1: Readboot Someone was like, it's Halloween. I wonder if they're
Speaker 1: going to do the girls in booties. We are always
Speaker 1: booties and always We have one more night email that
Speaker 1: we want to read before we uh right off into
Speaker 1: the spooky sky. Um. This is from Rony in Australia
Speaker 1: and she says it's currently oo to one in Sydney,
Speaker 1: which is very Australian and uh. I just drove from
Speaker 1: the South coast of Sydney to the city. It's about
Speaker 1: an hour and a half and it gave me time
Speaker 1: to catch up on two of your podcasts. I'm currently
Speaker 1: at the Pablo and Cheese episode. I love a good
Speaker 1: night drive with podcasts. That's good. She has two questions. What.
Speaker 1: I recently turned thirty and I received a swim with
Speaker 1: the Sharks Aquarium voucher for the Sydney Aquarium. I've grown
Speaker 1: up surfing on the South Coast of Australia and now
Speaker 1: Sydney most days, and I'm terrified of sharks. I freeze
Speaker 1: and grab onto my board when I get a freaky
Speaker 1: feeling out the back when I'm solo surfing. It usually
Speaker 1: drives me to paddle into shore. I'm not sure whether
Speaker 1: or not I should cash in this voucher. I need
Speaker 1: your advice. Well, either freak me out even more and
Speaker 1: I won't go into the ocean, or will it help
Speaker 1: me overcome my fear of sharks. I'm worried I will
Speaker 1: also freeze up and be like a floating starfish on
Speaker 1: the surface of the shark tank. Also strongly against animal
Speaker 1: captivity in any form. Help and number two in relation
Speaker 1: to culing hippos. We have a similar problem in Australia
Speaker 1: with wild Brumbies horses that aren't native to Australia and
Speaker 1: they were brought out here during the captain cook time
Speaker 1: I presume, and now they're destroying native flora and fauna,
Speaker 1: especially in our national forests. There are four and against
Speaker 1: arguments for the culling of these animals destroying native life
Speaker 1: and plants. Are not killing an animal that has become
Speaker 1: super iconic to our snowy Mountains region. Please weigh in
Speaker 1: and yes we have snowy mountains in Australia. Banky face,
Speaker 1: happy night call, thank you, RONI too good eat nine
Speaker 1: emails in one Um, do you guys want to start
Speaker 1: with the shark tank? I would not swim with the sharks.
Speaker 1: Putting it out there, I wouldn't do it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it either. I feel like why because I
Speaker 1: feel like if you're already surfing, you probably are already
Speaker 1: swimming with sharks. Isn't there something about like actually being
Speaker 1: just being able to see them that would be different?
Speaker 1: Like I I know what she's talking about. Because like
Speaker 1: even when I was just in the cape like earlier,
Speaker 1: this earlier, this summer, and I'm not I don't ever
Speaker 1: think about sharks. I don't think I have a particular
Speaker 1: like phobia or hang up on them. But at one
Speaker 1: point I was out there and then I thought for
Speaker 1: a second about sharks, and then I was like, oh God,
Speaker 1: there's like a shark, you know, in every corner of
Speaker 1: this kind of inlet here, like they're all waiting for me.
Speaker 1: I don't think it would help. Um, I don't think
Speaker 1: it would tame any fears, if you know, because it's
Speaker 1: such a different scenario. Those kinds of those are like
Speaker 1: tame sharks. Yeah. And also I really I find it
Speaker 1: so depressive and those I mean, after after Blackfish and everything,
Speaker 1: I was like, I just don't like the where I
Speaker 1: draw the line is like we have a science center
Speaker 1: out here where you can do the touching tank, and
Speaker 1: it's like it's starfish and stuff. I'm kind of okay
Speaker 1: with that. They kind of cut things off at a
Speaker 1: level where I can deal with it. They're not like
Speaker 1: mammals or like giant fish. Um, but I feel like
Speaker 1: if you if you do that, that might karmic lee,
Speaker 1: or like the plot of your life might somehow involve
Speaker 1: sharks after that in a way you don't want. I
Speaker 1: feel like it might just be depressing, which, on the
Speaker 1: one hand, might give you like more empathy for sharks
Speaker 1: in the wild. Maybe they should be able to eat. Well,
Speaker 1: they don't really eat people though, the thing. It's like
Speaker 1: they just bite them. Yeah, and it's it's like by accident,
Speaker 1: it's not on purpose. So it's not like sharks are
Speaker 1: malevolent towards humans. We just project that on them because
Speaker 1: they're like beautiful, prehistoric monster looking things. It's an interesting
Speaker 1: gift for somebody to give somebody that is like that
Speaker 1: without it being asked for. It sounds like, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: also just think it's cool that you serve all the time. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would like to learn to serve me too. Guys,
Speaker 1: what do you think about the Wild Brumbies which is
Speaker 1: also the name of our folk album Nothing more than
Speaker 1: Australians Slaying On North Mollywood. We had Brodie Lancaster on
Speaker 1: and she taught us about shoe ease, which is an
Speaker 1: Australian slang for a thing where you like make your
Speaker 1: mates drink a beer out of their shoe, right, on
Speaker 1: a dare. That's awesome. If I were going to move anywhere,
Speaker 1: I would be moving to Australia, I think, I really guys, Yes,
Speaker 1: I've never been to Australia. I'm looking into it though
Speaker 1: that that's the longest fight you can take. Like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do it and then I'm never They're gonna put
Speaker 1: like little gyms on on the Quantas flights out there
Speaker 1: because like just to help people not get deep fainthrombosis
Speaker 1: or whatever, little little gyms. It's like a slim gym
Speaker 1: that smaller. Yeah, they decided that was going to be
Speaker 1: their their their X factor and getting passengers on like
Speaker 1: free slop sh Well. I have a suggestion about calling
Speaker 1: these ponies real quick, which is want to see a Brumbia.
Speaker 1: Look up the Brumbies, show me the show me the um.
Speaker 1: But could there not be like a misty of chink
Speaker 1: a tigue solution to this, because that growing up, I
Speaker 1: was like I thought the Misty of chink a tige
Speaker 1: tail was the most ingenious a children's book about a
Speaker 1: beautiful horse. So's it's true. Okay, they're called the pony Penning.
Speaker 1: There are these little islands chink a Tigue and as Satigue.
Speaker 1: All right, there's wild ponies that live there, but the
Speaker 1: they were you know, overpopulating the islands and causing issues.
Speaker 1: So what they do is they swim the ponies to
Speaker 1: the mainland and it's the big thing, and like people
Speaker 1: come from everywhere. They auction them off to people who
Speaker 1: want to breed ponies or have farms or whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: they give them like veterinary care, They do counts of
Speaker 1: how many there are, and then they send back a
Speaker 1: sustainable population. And so Misty was one of the you know,
Speaker 1: ponies that was penned or whatever and then she became
Speaker 1: but it was like a I think Misty was a
Speaker 1: true story. Definitely. The pony penning is a real thing.
Speaker 1: But could you not could there not be like a
Speaker 1: pony penning situation where you round up the wild the
Speaker 1: wild brown vies. It never gets not. They do fertility
Speaker 1: control as the main population management method. That's viewed as
Speaker 1: the most humane. Uh, but it's also like this is
Speaker 1: human being's fault, you know, yeah, exactly, so we have
Speaker 1: to fix it in a like good way. They're so cool.
Speaker 1: It's like, what do they look like. Let's see if
Speaker 1: they're just there their horses. There's kind of little their
Speaker 1: regular horses that they brought to Australia from like England,
Speaker 1: and then they got wild, they got lost and became feral,
Speaker 1: like cool, free running tribes of horses. But it's bad
Speaker 1: for the environment because they trample stuff, trample stuff. But
Speaker 1: just the image of like beautiful like herds of like
Speaker 1: freerunning wild horses just another selling point to move to Australia.
Speaker 1: I know Australia has its problems too, but it's like
Speaker 1: many many problems, many many many problems. That does it
Speaker 1: for this week's Now, thanks everybody for Thanks everyone for listening.
Speaker 1: Don't get eaten by a shark, don't eat cookies with
Speaker 1: cremins in them, don't get trampled by a brownbie, don't
Speaker 1: get trampled by it. But make regular cookies for your
Speaker 1: friends to celebrate the holiday, and you know, have a
Speaker 1: nice time, and don't worry about types of sugar and
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