Speaker 1: It's three am in Seattle and you're listening to Nightcall,
Speaker 1: a podcast for those strange days and lonely nights with
Speaker 1: me Molly Lambert and my friends Test Lynch and Emily Yoshida.
Speaker 1: Today's episode of Nightcall is brought to you by Hello Fresh.
Speaker 1: We're in Seattle tonight. To pour out a cappuccino in
Speaker 1: a large ceramic mug for John Mahoney. But honestly, Marty
Speaker 1: would never he would never drink. No, he would peep
Speaker 1: a drink of what is drink? Yeah, that's right, Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: pouring out our balantines for John Mahoney. Alright, one of
Speaker 1: those beers you have to like open with a knife.
Speaker 1: Real men use their teeth. Only ex cops are allowed
Speaker 1: to drink it. Um. Yeah, we lost John Mahoney this week.
Speaker 1: R I p um. He you know, of course, played
Speaker 1: Martin Crane on Frasier, but was also just a stand
Speaker 1: by dad of TV and cinema for many years decades,
Speaker 1: even moonstruck say Anything, struck anything. He was also right
Speaker 1: on cheers um as a like piano player. Really yeah,
Speaker 1: and then they had to they dropped details about him
Speaker 1: that they then had to like, I guess go back
Speaker 1: and kind of rewrite for Fraser the red cond a
Speaker 1: couple of cheers things for Fraser, is what I've learned,
Speaker 1: because that's why he has a piano in his apartment.
Speaker 1: Maybe he really played the piano. Emily, you posted a
Speaker 1: good meme that you made that was fifty shades of
Speaker 1: Crane involved. Let's let's not dive right into crossovers. We're
Speaker 1: gonna we'll get there eventually. But doesn't he sexually play
Speaker 1: the piano in fifty Shades of Gray? Is that why? Yes? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And he he sexually plays the piano to I think
Speaker 1: purposefully comedic effect in this most recent one. But we'll
Speaker 1: get there. We'll get there to our our Seattle trueba
Speaker 1: doors in their high rise apartments. What what? What else
Speaker 1: do we want to say about John Mahoney. He's a
Speaker 1: good actor. He started late in in in life. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's very inspirational. I think he didn't start
Speaker 1: acting until he was in his late thirties. He had
Speaker 1: some completely other career that was not showbiz related before that. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then you know, fell to Colleen, took some acting
Speaker 1: classes and you know, it was a successful working and Uh.
Speaker 1: I think he did some theater. But he also did
Speaker 1: a lot of voice work for a long time. Uh,
Speaker 1: he was he had he um it's a voice worked
Speaker 1: in Iron Giant, I remember. Uh. And also aunts which
Speaker 1: I never saw, but I saw that when I looked
Speaker 1: at his Wikipedia. Uh, the the off brand Bug's life. Uh.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I just I think he was always such
Speaker 1: a reassuring presence, not just because of my own association
Speaker 1: with him with Fraser, but because he was just he
Speaker 1: had such a good voice and like a good a
Speaker 1: good dadlike demeanor, whether he was on the cranky end
Speaker 1: or or less cranky. But Martin Crean's relationship with Eddie
Speaker 1: was one of the least obnoxious, um fictional you know
Speaker 1: person dog relationships. Think. You know, it's a fine line
Speaker 1: between that being charming and it being like a little tweet,
Speaker 1: especially when you start thinking about dog actors. You know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't that dog an asshole. There were two dogs.
Speaker 1: There was one dog, and then it was taking the
Speaker 1: job was taken over by his son, who I think
Speaker 1: it was name And I'm not sure this is right,
Speaker 1: but I feel like I remember his son's name was Enzo.
Speaker 1: And he did not take to the to the actors.
Speaker 1: Something I just learned is that the horse that played
Speaker 1: Mr Ed when he died was replaced with a different
Speaker 1: horse for nine years and they just never told anybody.
Speaker 1: Of course, of course, so r I P. John Maloney,
Speaker 1: Uh and uh, yeah it was. It was sad, a
Speaker 1: bittersweet note to begin Night Call on with his passing,
Speaker 1: but we uh we honor him here at the at
Speaker 1: both Night Call offices. Yes, across coast to coast, coast
Speaker 1: to coast, Um, speaking of Seattle and luxury high rise
Speaker 1: apartments with views, and uh, the erotic potential of piano playing,
Speaker 1: so much potential, so much potential. Uh, Emily, you saw
Speaker 1: the new fifty Shades of great movie, fifty Shades Freed,
Speaker 1: Freed Freed. Um. Yes, I saw it, not even twenty
Speaker 1: four hours ago. I saw here to a press screening. Um,
Speaker 1: and it will be out by the time our listeners
Speaker 1: here this. So I'm gonna go all in unspoilers. I
Speaker 1: do not care. And I know you guys haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: but I said ahead of time, I was like, you
Speaker 1: needn't to see it to talk. I'm seeing it. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I hadn't seen the second one confession, and
Speaker 1: it did not prevent me from writing a review about it.
Speaker 1: I think that the mythology and continuity across these three
Speaker 1: films is probably the least important thing about them. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you all about the second one now, because
Speaker 1: it's been nameless. Well no, because the second one has
Speaker 1: all the revelations about him being his his biological mom
Speaker 1: being like a crack addicted prostitute or something. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's really like brushed right past. It's like the
Speaker 1: set up this sort of I think it's like a
Speaker 1: blackmail plot or something, but it's like it's like an
Speaker 1: anti plot movie. It's constructed in the weirdest way, and
Speaker 1: this one has that in common. Then Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: everything that you think because of the poster and like
Speaker 1: just the way it was marketed. Like there's this masquerade
Speaker 1: ball that is supposed to be like the crazy climax,
Speaker 1: but then it happens for five seconds. It's like one
Speaker 1: of the characters who I think causes conflict just like
Speaker 1: disappears and never returns to the movie. It's like, um,
Speaker 1: it's like a weird It's like the Room. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: was this. I was reading the Wikipedia summary just so
Speaker 1: that I would kind of have an idea of what happened,
Speaker 1: and there's like the funniest like Wikipedia, whoever wrote this
Speaker 1: this entry is doing so much work for the movie
Speaker 1: to try to make it make sense. Uh right, So
Speaker 1: this is about the ending of of fifties shades darker
Speaker 1: um as fireworks erupt in the sky. So so I
Speaker 1: guess Christian Jean Gray has a helicopter accident, and then
Speaker 1: because his life is in danger, Anastasia realizes that she
Speaker 1: cares about him and wants to marry him. Uh, and
Speaker 1: so so they proposed whatever blah blah blah okay, As
Speaker 1: fireworks erupt in the sky, Jack Hide, who is like
Speaker 1: her other boss that I guess she like dumped h
Speaker 1: Jack Hide watches the festivities from Afar and burns Christians
Speaker 1: face through the Gray family picture with the cigarette, silently
Speaker 1: swearing revenge against silently swearing revenge against Christian and Anna
Speaker 1: parentheses he he presumably had a role in sabotaging Christians helicopter.
Speaker 1: It's just wow, they really really are trying trying to,
Speaker 1: uh to clean up after the movie. There. No, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You should watch the second one because
Speaker 1: because the first one I think is good like I
Speaker 1: will go to bat for the first one because Sam
Speaker 1: Taylorson did such a good job with it and made
Speaker 1: it so much better than it totally that it needed
Speaker 1: to be eat. Yeah. Book is so incredibly bad, right.
Speaker 1: They made Anastasia like really funny and identifiable, and Dakota
Speaker 1: Johnson is just so charming that even though the plot
Speaker 1: is ridiculous, you're still like, I want to just see her,
Speaker 1: Like I just want to like follow her wherever whatever
Speaker 1: kinky mischief she gets up to. You know, we Emily,
Speaker 1: did you read did you read Fifty Shades? No? I didn't.
Speaker 1: I remember this being an early thing that we talked
Speaker 1: about because I I feel like you wrote something tests
Speaker 1: about how um or maybe Molly wrote I can't remember,
Speaker 1: but about how it was one of these big um
Speaker 1: what would you call it? Console killers? Like what? Like
Speaker 1: you know they have that phrase for video games, like
Speaker 1: the game that makes you get the console, but it
Speaker 1: was like that for kindle because because you didn't have
Speaker 1: um yeah, because the cover of it is not identifiable,
Speaker 1: so people on the train can't see that you're watching
Speaker 1: or that you're reading in fifty Shades, which is brilliant. Um.
Speaker 1: Of course, I totally, I'm such a snoop. I read
Speaker 1: over everybody's shoulder. It is the least sexy book anyone
Speaker 1: has ever written in their life. It's intensely on. Second,
Speaker 1: we were trying to remember, there are words and phrases
Speaker 1: that are repeated so odd, like I think one of
Speaker 1: them was damn, damn damn. There's also whenever she gets
Speaker 1: turned on the she says her inner goddess did the room.
Speaker 1: But it is it is written like a seventh grader
Speaker 1: who's never had sex or done anything, but as eaves
Speaker 1: dropped on someone at some point, only gotten and it
Speaker 1: reads like fan fiction, which is what it is. And
Speaker 1: then the movie was like I because I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know how you could make a watchable
Speaker 1: movie out of this garbage. And then yeah, the movie
Speaker 1: was like incredibly decent and uh, she's so great. He's
Speaker 1: such a locks. It's too bad. Yeah, somebody in my
Speaker 1: in my review of the um of the most recent film,
Speaker 1: I kind of positive that the film is really just
Speaker 1: all along. The appeal of the film is that you
Speaker 1: identify with this, you know, bright, charismatic, funny girl who
Speaker 1: is just like wrapping her life around this like void,
Speaker 1: this this moneyed void. Uh in Christian Gray and that
Speaker 1: there is something like you're like, why are you doing this?
Speaker 1: Like you should be with anybody else, But she keeps
Speaker 1: doing it and there's something kind of like face palmy
Speaker 1: and identifiable about that. Uh. She's very good and she
Speaker 1: makes it watchable. Although every time I see the trailer
Speaker 1: for the new one, I'm just like, man, get your paycheck.
Speaker 1: And she's out. She's already done her Luca Guadanino movie.
Speaker 1: She's got two tracks going right now. I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about her. She can just room balling out of there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's so. It's so interest seen though. So like one
Speaker 1: of the controversies I think about the book too, but
Speaker 1: before the movies came out, was just that the way
Speaker 1: that it kind of completely missed that for hens, I
Speaker 1: think like what D s M even is and and
Speaker 1: and what draws people to it, and that it's like
Speaker 1: somehow some kind of symptom of childhood trauma as opposed
Speaker 1: to just like a consensual thing that people do because
Speaker 1: it's fun. It's also written from this weird, like moralistic
Speaker 1: point of view where it's like he's like a bad
Speaker 1: person for wanting to be into B D S M.
Speaker 1: And she's like this good girl who would never do that,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, she never does discover her like
Speaker 1: in her love of it. She hates it the whole time,
Speaker 1: which she hates it in the book, because that's one
Speaker 1: of the fun things about the movies at least, is
Speaker 1: that she seems to be really enjoying herself. And there's
Speaker 1: this sequence in the most recent one that involves like
Speaker 1: a giant glass but plug that Um, of course we
Speaker 1: don't see an action, but it's just alluded to and
Speaker 1: then it's kind of cutting back, so it starts the
Speaker 1: scene there in the playroom and uh, and then it
Speaker 1: kind of cuts between her later in her office at
Speaker 1: work kind of remembering it and like having this big
Speaker 1: goofy smile. Is she kind of flash reminiscing about the
Speaker 1: giant Yeah, it's sweet. I was like, Oh, this is
Speaker 1: like somebody who's just like having a an active and sexy,
Speaker 1: like like healthy sex life and uh, and you know
Speaker 1: it's it's satisfied with it and it didn't seem to
Speaker 1: have any of the shame or like this is naughty
Speaker 1: around it. That the rest of the weirdest thing about
Speaker 1: fifty Shades Darker is that it's like the most wholesome
Speaker 1: movie you've ever seen. What, Yeah, you like, you think
Speaker 1: it's going to be like fifty Shades like Darker, and
Speaker 1: then it's like about like no, it's all about like
Speaker 1: monogamy leading to marriage and reproduction and like buying property.
Speaker 1: It's like the most regular stuff this one too. They
Speaker 1: get married at the beginning of it, and and they
Speaker 1: are like sitting on the lawn with their bouncing babies,
Speaker 1: like she has one baby and then she's pregnant with
Speaker 1: another one, and it's just like this is what it
Speaker 1: was all leading to. Um And don't they buy like
Speaker 1: a giant real estate porn house. Yeah, they get this
Speaker 1: like old mansion and and this like a sexy architect
Speaker 1: by the way, I love that there's like a sexy
Speaker 1: architect character in this this movie who's like trying to
Speaker 1: get her to tear it down and build some modernist
Speaker 1: thing and she's like, no, I like the old house
Speaker 1: and has character. So but that's like one scene at
Speaker 1: the beginns in the trailer. Uh, and it's like never revisited,
Speaker 1: um as as I think a lot of the film
Speaker 1: is not in the trail Uh No, it's completely ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I mean the one thing it kind of tries to
Speaker 1: do this thing of like, now that she's a married woman,
Speaker 1: she's going to be the dom Uh. But I did
Speaker 1: appreciate ultimately that it didn't extend that into the bedroom
Speaker 1: like it wasn't she suddenly wanted to be dominant, because
Speaker 1: I just would feel ridiculous. It was like nobody, I
Speaker 1: don't know, it didn't it would feel disingenuous or something. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know, at least could acknowledge that somebody could
Speaker 1: want to be like a career woman in the like
Speaker 1: a bizarre flat way that she is a career woman
Speaker 1: in the fifty Shades movie and she working like she's
Speaker 1: like what does she do? Oh my god? This is
Speaker 1: the best part of the new movie. She gets promoted
Speaker 1: to fiction public or fiction editor at this at this
Speaker 1: publishing imprint that she works at um and because because
Speaker 1: Christian bought the company, I guess in the second the
Speaker 1: second movie. Uh, and she's and then at one point
Speaker 1: she's sort of worried because she thinks, oh, I only
Speaker 1: got this job. I only got promoted because you're you
Speaker 1: own the company. And he's like, no, you you learned
Speaker 1: it with hard work and talent, and everybody in the
Speaker 1: theater just burst out or just it was too bad.
Speaker 1: He's like cotic. Is what makes it weird is that
Speaker 1: he's psychotic and he's treated is like the romantic hero.
Speaker 1: But then it's like his whole personality is like he
Speaker 1: has to surveil her at all times and like control
Speaker 1: every aspect of her life and the company that she
Speaker 1: works for, and the books too is about her being
Speaker 1: like well, actually, like that's the most romantic thing, like
Speaker 1: anyone could do. Like he loves me so much. She
Speaker 1: wants to possess everything about me. It's such a weird
Speaker 1: inverse of how I feel, like any other writing I've
Speaker 1: ever read about, like like the dynamic of a submissive
Speaker 1: dominant relationship is like it's just like that's let's like
Speaker 1: not sexy at all to have somebody who's not going
Speaker 1: to let you hang out with your friends, which does.
Speaker 1: But she also references like wathering it hights a bunch
Speaker 1: of times, which I think is what she's going for.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like you know Heathcliff that it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's so bad, but you have to do it anyway.
Speaker 1: And then you're in too deep. But then it's like,
Speaker 1: of course it has end in marriage, like I don't
Speaker 1: know if you could have that story. But then it's
Speaker 1: like this is also going to be your husband. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's also how it reads like, I mean it
Speaker 1: is literally Twilight fan fiction originally. Yeah, that is kind
Speaker 1: of still how it reads like, alright, like a person
Speaker 1: who doesn't know anything about sex, and it's like basing
Speaker 1: all their ideas off movies and books like Weathering Heights,
Speaker 1: although like I don't think the Bronte Is had maybe
Speaker 1: had sex when they wrote those books. The way you
Speaker 1: phrased it, I was like, wait a second, what don't
Speaker 1: I know about the Bronte sisters, But it's hard to
Speaker 1: know if they had sex. But I mean, what's interesting
Speaker 1: about like fifty Shades Yet? We were talking before we
Speaker 1: started recording about how it is just so so on sexy,
Speaker 1: but that so many people responded to it as if
Speaker 1: it was sexy, and then you, especially reading the book,
Speaker 1: you're just like, wow, it's like it's been vampire of
Speaker 1: all it's sexy, right, It's just it's just like kind
Speaker 1: of consumer symbols or something at this point, like it's
Speaker 1: just something so that somebody on like Real Housewives of
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills can be like, oh, we're having a fifty
Speaker 1: Shades party tonight. It's like it's like a meme. It's
Speaker 1: just a it's like a yeah, just like a trope
Speaker 1: or something that doesn't it's completely devoid of anything resembling
Speaker 1: sex or imagine if it had actually been sexy. Well,
Speaker 1: the movies, I mean the movies again are like better
Speaker 1: than the books because there's like moments where you're like, sex, no,
Speaker 1: but there's a pardon is it the first one where
Speaker 1: he like she like bites his toast or something where
Speaker 1: you're like that's weird, Like, well, can I tell you
Speaker 1: some a couple of things just isolated incidents, and so, um,
Speaker 1: she gives him a hair cut at one point that
Speaker 1: like it cuts to her starting to cut his hair
Speaker 1: and it's playing like the sexy you know, neo soul
Speaker 1: music or whatever like that's the dominant sound of of
Speaker 1: the Fifty Shades movie, like an a Dell cover of
Speaker 1: like Feeling Good or something like that. That's um, and look,
Speaker 1: those movies gave us the Weekend's worth it and love Me,
Speaker 1: Love Me like you do, which they both good songs.
Speaker 1: Come on. They run that back at the end with
Speaker 1: like a literal super cut of all the movies. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing. And maybe a string section. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: Actually it's like an orchestral rendering of love, like Molly's
Speaker 1: writing the fourth right now. You can do fan fiction
Speaker 1: of fan fiction, um for the strings and what else.
Speaker 1: There's a scene where they are in a kitchen in
Speaker 1: a vacation home and she's eating Ben and Jerry's and
Speaker 1: then um, they start to have like I guess food
Speaker 1: sex with the ice cream and he appears to spoon
Speaker 1: a dollop of it into her vagina. It's not also
Speaker 1: also not clear, and I was sitting next to Rachel Handler,
Speaker 1: my editor at Vulture. You guys, uh, you guys know,
Speaker 1: and she uh pointed out that that was terrible for
Speaker 1: her pH absolutely awful. You're going to get an infection
Speaker 1: for sure, and also freezing cold. Yeah, not fun? What else?
Speaker 1: Uh oh yeah, what's Yeah. The haircut scene is like
Speaker 1: bizarrely sexy without being sexy at all. But they're just
Speaker 1: like playing seductive music while she's getting giving them a haircut.
Speaker 1: And I thought that was pretty great and the best
Speaker 1: line of all and the whole thing is when she's
Speaker 1: being a successful career woman like editor at the at
Speaker 1: the publishing company, and he's like instructing a group of
Speaker 1: underlings and points to one of them, says, increase the
Speaker 1: font size by two points, and uh yeah, I was
Speaker 1: that's what I'm publishing is like, well, publishing is all
Speaker 1: about like her. I guess her boss, the guy who's
Speaker 1: like trying to have as venge is she was sleeping
Speaker 1: with him in the second one, and I just feel
Speaker 1: like it all feels a little bit uh you know,
Speaker 1: shitty medium in uh oh yeah, her one. In the
Speaker 1: first one, he was like her evil publishing boss like
Speaker 1: trying to get him get her to sleep with him
Speaker 1: like advance, and she won't. She doesn't even sleep with
Speaker 1: him because the movies aren't that interesting. Wait, she doesn't
Speaker 1: sleep with him. No, it's like you have to watch
Speaker 1: the second one. You're missing so much contexts mythology. What
Speaker 1: I'm going to say about those movies is that in
Speaker 1: two of them, uh, they sold me a lipstick because
Speaker 1: Dakota Johnson is so beautiful that I was like, I
Speaker 1: must know which lipsticks she's wearing in the second one
Speaker 1: because it looked so good and then I bought it.
Speaker 1: She's so great. I can't wait. Ilia ellipstick called Arabian Nights.
Speaker 1: It's like a very um she's got like a very
Speaker 1: glossier type look like it's like a half tinted kind
Speaker 1: of it's the Deweys, that's what. Yeah, she looks very
Speaker 1: very aspirational in all those movies, and that's part of it.
Speaker 1: It's just it's they're fine, they're enjoyable. Fine, yeah I'm
Speaker 1: not when I am more actually like opposed to in them.
Speaker 1: Aside from whatever ridiculous sex stuff they get up to.
Speaker 1: Is just like the way that they feel dated even
Speaker 1: now is how like um, like rich porn. They are
Speaker 1: like billionaire poor they are porn there. It's just like
Speaker 1: very it feels very gossip girl in a very low
Speaker 1: rent way, and it's just not at all interesting at all,
Speaker 1: and it feels like it's cushion, Like we can get
Speaker 1: away with the sex stuff as long as we like
Speaker 1: really double triple reassure you that this guy is super rich,
Speaker 1: because then it's like okay for him to do devian
Speaker 1: sex stuff. He's like the youngest millionaire billionaire in Seattle.
Speaker 1: It's so it's so silly because the thing is like
Speaker 1: it's not even like an older man thing like you
Speaker 1: thinking would be. It's like she's like twenty and he's
Speaker 1: like a twenty six year old million year It's so
Speaker 1: weird year old anyone ever met. Yeah, he's like a
Speaker 1: tech billionaire. But you know, yeah, there's like something interesting
Speaker 1: that could be in these movies about like oh, you know,
Speaker 1: she is so into him and he can buy her everything,
Speaker 1: but it's like this empty life but they don't go there.
Speaker 1: There just like, oh, he can buy her everything, and
Speaker 1: that's the best thing anyone could want. So like that girl,
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Speaker 1: So fifty Shades of Gray is coming out? Um, what
Speaker 1: came out this Friday? And you know this? It's it's
Speaker 1: it's Valentine's Day movie season. There are plenty of movies
Speaker 1: to to check out and and and date options if
Speaker 1: you have something, if you have a significant other you'd
Speaker 1: like to go see a picture show with. I think, um,
Speaker 1: I would like to make the official night call Valentine's
Speaker 1: Day movie suggestion. UM be a little movie called Double Lover,
Speaker 1: the new movie by Francois Ozone. He did probably the
Speaker 1: most famous film here is uh Swimming Pool, which came
Speaker 1: out around like two thousand two or something like that. Um.
Speaker 1: He's known for, uh erotic dramas, unconventional erotic dramas, and
Speaker 1: this is definitely this definitely fits the bill. And I
Speaker 1: was telling Molly and tests about it last night even
Speaker 1: though they haven't seen it, because, um, this might be
Speaker 1: a huge spoiler for it, but I feel like we
Speaker 1: must talk about it. It involves cannibal fetuses, um, and
Speaker 1: the easiest way to get Molly and Me to see
Speaker 1: a movie like cannibal fetuses. Well, it's based on a
Speaker 1: novel by Joyce Carol Oates, which I had never heard of.
Speaker 1: But that's like not out of the realm of possibility.
Speaker 1: The novel is called The Lives of the Twins. I
Speaker 1: think it came out in or eighty seven or something
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah. Um, And so the story, as far
Speaker 1: as I can tell, has just been transposed to Paris
Speaker 1: instead of New York. And I won't get into it
Speaker 1: that much. It's a little bit twisty attourney. Basically, this woman, uh,
Speaker 1: she starts seeing Uh, she's she's you know, she's depressed
Speaker 1: and she has these like stomach pains that she thinks
Speaker 1: are from stress and Uh, sorry, it's such an amazing movie. Uh.
Speaker 1: And she starts seeing a psychiatrist and then ends up
Speaker 1: falling in love with falling in love with him, and
Speaker 1: they get married. Lots of inappropriate relationships and movies are
Speaker 1: like line crossing relationships, whether it be your boss or
Speaker 1: your psychiatrist. Um, so happy Valentine's Day, everybody in this
Speaker 1: year of our Lord. Um So yeah, there's uh but anyway,
Speaker 1: she starts seeing uh, she starts seeing her psychiatrists and
Speaker 1: they they they start living together, and then she discovers
Speaker 1: that he has a twin who's also a psychiatrist, and
Speaker 1: she thinks, like, oh, her husband or her boyfriend must
Speaker 1: be hiding something. So she goes, and she goes and
Speaker 1: makes an appointment with the twin psychiatrist and begins a
Speaker 1: relationship with him too. Um. And he practices a very
Speaker 1: different type of psychiatry and uh, there's just a lot.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, Wait a second, how different? Is
Speaker 1: this a sexy free Yeah, basically it's about brother psychic
Speaker 1: brother shrinks and this woman basically she's Mariss except she's
Speaker 1: not an heiress. Uh, but she's caught between them and um,
Speaker 1: I mean his his methods involved like his office. His
Speaker 1: office basically looks like Christian Gray's apartment, and he has
Speaker 1: um like a fur covered bed um to do practical
Speaker 1: application in quotes with her um, it's it's a super
Speaker 1: wild movie. Where are the cannibal I'm not getting a
Speaker 1: lot of the cannibal fetuses. It's it's it's at the end.
Speaker 1: But I mean, all you need to know is that
Speaker 1: there are there's a set of twins um and there's
Speaker 1: a kind of like like from from the womb conflict
Speaker 1: between them. And then she basically suspects from from the
Speaker 1: beginning of the film that she has, uh she has
Speaker 1: a twin somewhere else, and at the end of the
Speaker 1: film it has revealed where that twin is. Is it
Speaker 1: inside her? Inside her? Because wait, so we were talking
Speaker 1: about this because one of my kids is left handed
Speaker 1: and I am not left handed, but I have a
Speaker 1: lot of family members who are, and I was googling
Speaker 1: it and one of the it's been discredited, but a
Speaker 1: theory about left handedness, because I guess it only occurs
Speaker 1: in like ten to twelve percent of the population, is
Speaker 1: that it is uh like an identical you know, you're
Speaker 1: one of like two two twins obviously, and then you
Speaker 1: kind of absorb your other twin and your mirror twins,
Speaker 1: so you absorb your right handed twin. But it's been discredited,
Speaker 1: but I was like super feeling that. I was like,
Speaker 1: that's a very cool dark origin story for you. This
Speaker 1: is not true. This is a well that is explored
Speaker 1: in this film. H And I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if what happens when, like with a cannibal fetus, if
Speaker 1: it does actually remain in the kids, it's absorbed, it's absorbed,
Speaker 1: but it just becomes like another child, like it doesn't.
Speaker 1: It's not like it's not like a m what are
Speaker 1: they called? The that the what what are the what's
Speaker 1: the name of those tumors have teeth? And I was
Speaker 1: just about to tak um um there's an X Files
Speaker 1: about this, the X Files about everything. But I feel
Speaker 1: like that, I feel like I knew you were going
Speaker 1: to say that she had a twin inside her before
Speaker 1: we got there, because I feel like I've seen that
Speaker 1: twist in something else. Maybe it's just in that X Files,
Speaker 1: but oh yeah, it's a very and the way it's
Speaker 1: revealed in the film is very X Files Like it's
Speaker 1: totally I was on the edge of my seat, just
Speaker 1: like with the biggest dumb grin on my face because
Speaker 1: I was like, show the baby, Show the baby. Is
Speaker 1: it aft French extremism? Um, it's not. It's not like, um,
Speaker 1: it's not as crazy as like a gas bar NOI.
Speaker 1: There is definitely like a gas bar NOI version of this.
Speaker 1: It feels much more like um Cronenbergian I would say,
Speaker 1: I don't really care for the French extremism. It's too extreme. No,
Speaker 1: it's too like being so extreme. Yeah I can, I
Speaker 1: can do that. Well. The other thing about this, and
Speaker 1: this is like our most this We're doing our our
Speaker 1: gynecological pod this this this week. But it starts with
Speaker 1: like a speculum eye view of her and then does
Speaker 1: her vagina or okay nice? Yeah, so literally I was like,
Speaker 1: maybe she means it like, you know, through her that's
Speaker 1: a haircut. It opens on a haircut as well, haircuts
Speaker 1: and and orifices, and then it comes in speculum. I'll
Speaker 1: find haircuts sexy at all, and then um, but it
Speaker 1: goes from that shot like people to touch your head
Speaker 1: tests not particularly we were just talking about a sm
Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, I want to go back to the speculum,
Speaker 1: because we want to go back to the speculum. It
Speaker 1: goes from that shot, that super close up shot to
Speaker 1: like cross fading a perfect match cut with her eye
Speaker 1: like lying on the side and a tear coming out
Speaker 1: of it. Um, it sounds like a man made this
Speaker 1: movie totally, Oh no, are you kidding me? Of course,
Speaker 1: although the one thing that's kind of good about it
Speaker 1: is that like she's the person who's solving the mystery
Speaker 1: of these crazy men instead of like her being I
Speaker 1: mean she she does obviously have a problem, but uh,
Speaker 1: but it's mostly about how these guys are so fucked
Speaker 1: up because of their their their twin relationship. Is there
Speaker 1: a better Is there is one like the good psychiatrist
Speaker 1: and the other ones the bad psychiatrist? Or are they
Speaker 1: both the bad? Okay? Nice? Yeah, although one of them,
Speaker 1: the one is like the good one in quotes, he's
Speaker 1: also not great anyway. Well, speaking of reproductive anomalies, Um,
Speaker 1: there's a story this week about crawfish in Europe that
Speaker 1: have been taking over all the bodies of water everywhere,
Speaker 1: and apparently it's because people in Germany started raising crawfish
Speaker 1: as pets for a while and then got bored of
Speaker 1: it and put them in the water. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: how boring a pet crawfish would be. I mean it's
Speaker 1: like shocker, Like they're not that interesting. You know, there
Speaker 1: are people who have pet shrimps and it seems like
Speaker 1: sort of a person raised lobsters. They're really pretty shrimp
Speaker 1: that you can have, but then they're also just like
Speaker 1: gray colored shrim like a like a grayfish. You want
Speaker 1: those splashy pizzazi, Well, okay, I'm going to sell you
Speaker 1: on crawfish now, because what these crawfish we're doing is
Speaker 1: apparently reproducing just like crazy. And then they figured out
Speaker 1: it was because they were reproducing a sexually. They were cloning.
Speaker 1: They're cloning themselves and they're all just females and they
Speaker 1: make like hundreds of eggs. Yeah, that sounds like our future.
Speaker 1: It's also crazy because I guess it was just like
Speaker 1: a random mutation because there were these crawfish and then
Speaker 1: this one's the marbled crawfish and they're like pretty, you know,
Speaker 1: they're all ladies and uh, and they don't have any
Speaker 1: like normally, when there's a genetic mutation like that, there
Speaker 1: are drawbacks, like biological drawbacks. But these seem healthy and there.
Speaker 1: It's just that they clone themselves and they reproduce like crazy,
Speaker 1: and they're like taking over. Are they eating the other crawfish? Yeah,
Speaker 1: are eating all the local crawfish and becoming the only um.
Speaker 1: So you know what the answer to this is a
Speaker 1: crawfish boil. Wait what a crawfish? What a crawfish boil? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: to to solve their problem. Well, I mean it sounds
Speaker 1: like a model though for like a like a post
Speaker 1: male future. Also, that's what I'm saying. Also, just an
Speaker 1: al famale society, everybody lays a million eggs, it can happen.
Speaker 1: That's what this proves. Yeah, well we could call the
Speaker 1: herd by doing an enormous crawfish boil. I know, Molly's
Speaker 1: a big crawfish. I do I like, I like can't.
Speaker 1: I can't do it. I wish I could look so fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just it's like a big table full of bugs
Speaker 1: and it's just I am. It took a lot for
Speaker 1: me to get over my my anti crustacean uh fear,
Speaker 1: which I'm glad I did because I like crab is
Speaker 1: probably one of my favorite foods on the planet. But
Speaker 1: I can't it over. I can't do the little head
Speaker 1: pop thing. It's so no. I mean, you know, Arthur
Speaker 1: problems are scary, but that's kind of what's cool about them.
Speaker 1: It is because you can lean into how scary they
Speaker 1: are and be like, Wow, isn't it cool that these exist?
Speaker 1: And I'm eating one like eating an alien. The weird
Speaker 1: thing about eating crawfish it's like this commitment because it
Speaker 1: messes up your hands so bad, and it's crazy because
Speaker 1: you get all these slices all over your hands and
Speaker 1: then you're like putting lemon on them to get the
Speaker 1: smell out and stuff. So you're just like it's a
Speaker 1: very kind of like masochistic experience. I like so good.
Speaker 1: I like that it feels like a weird like prehistoric
Speaker 1: like oh, I'm you know, I don't know, I'm into it. No.
Speaker 1: I like that. I love the optics of a of
Speaker 1: a crawfish boil. I just can't bring myself to eat it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We're gonna, we're gonna, we'll we'll get you,
Speaker 1: speaking at you, thinking of things that will get you.
Speaker 1: That was I'm very excited for Molly to talk about this.
Speaker 1: I was going to talk about also how crawfish look
Speaker 1: like spiders and that's what makes them scary. I mean
Speaker 1: they're underwater spiders. But like, what if spiders are delicious
Speaker 1: and we're just conditioned against wanting to eat? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean crabs are I would I would venture that
Speaker 1: crabs are better than lobster um. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I haven't had a nice enough This is going
Speaker 1: to be the next Night Call pole? Yeah, this should Yeah,
Speaker 1: lobster we should bring up our our our first pole,
Speaker 1: our pole pole. Oh yeah, well we'll get to that
Speaker 1: after we talk about the ancients. Okay, alright, So, uh,
Speaker 1: if the Cannibal Fetis movie is the official Valentine's Day
Speaker 1: movie of Night Call, then this ancient spider that was
Speaker 1: just discovered is the valid our Valentine, official Valentine creatures.
Speaker 1: It's our centerfold, it's our centerfold, our Miss February. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it was discovered in Amber. Uh. But there
Speaker 1: was a picture, a drawing of a ancient spider with
Speaker 1: a tail that I sent to test Emily. Lest you know,
Speaker 1: Testa's first reaction was was going to be mine, honestly,
Speaker 1: which was like the illustration had it by this hole
Speaker 1: that freaked me out more than the tail did. There's
Speaker 1: a name for this phobia of not tripped to phobia,
Speaker 1: but like tripopophobia, the phobia of holes or like there's
Speaker 1: one of those perfect circles that are that that is scary.
Speaker 1: And I had a little bit of this as a kid.
Speaker 1: I remember that there was some something on our windshield
Speaker 1: when I was a kid made when the car fogged up,
Speaker 1: it left these perfect little thoughts that gave me like
Speaker 1: they freaked me out so badly when and they were
Speaker 1: they looked like that whole, like these perfect little things.
Speaker 1: And so when I that was what my eye went to.
Speaker 1: It was a contest. It was like spider with tail
Speaker 1: or or a little hole it the next BuzzFeed dress.
Speaker 1: It's like, what do you see? Do you see a
Speaker 1: freakish ancient spider with like a ten ft on tail or?
Speaker 1: Do you see the hole that it's emerging from? Your
Speaker 1: fear of perfect circle? It sounds like some some gingi
Speaker 1: edo stuff. Yeah, Yeah, there was this image that I
Speaker 1: saw on the internet many years ago that went around
Speaker 1: That is where I learned about the thing that's the
Speaker 1: fear of little holes um which was like a lotus
Speaker 1: pod you know, do you know what a lotus look
Speaker 1: had kind of and yeah, someone photo shopped it onto
Speaker 1: a human breast so that it looked like there was
Speaker 1: a breast that had just like all these holes in it.
Speaker 1: And it was like the scariest thing I'd ever seen.
Speaker 1: And even when it was like demystified as like this
Speaker 1: is a photoshop, it's not a real picture, it's like
Speaker 1: this thing, but it was just like somebody just started
Speaker 1: putting lotus pod like transposed on like human faces and things.
Speaker 1: It was the scariest body horror thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: I feel like they that, yeah, we link to it.
Speaker 1: I feel like they use your batty Valentine's Day. I
Speaker 1: feel like they use a photo like that um in
Speaker 1: one of those um what's it called, like those adsibles
Speaker 1: that are like, yeah, it's a really weird trick, or
Speaker 1: this one food you should never eat and it's like
Speaker 1: a finger with a little bunch of little tiny holes
Speaker 1: in it. It's so scary, exactly. Yeah, And the spider picture,
Speaker 1: every time I opened the text to you, I kept
Speaker 1: seeing the spider again and being like, but well, speaking
Speaker 1: of holes, can we talk about poles? Perfect? That is
Speaker 1: the best transition we will ever have on this show,
Speaker 1: so welcome. So UM, first of all, if you're not already,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be following Nightcall on Twitter at Nightcall pod
Speaker 1: on Twitter dot com. UM. And to kick things off
Speaker 1: on our first date, UM sort of related to I
Speaker 1: mean related to our interests in general, but also related
Speaker 1: to UM the episode of Molly's Sleazy Friends that we
Speaker 1: did together. UM that was posted basically right after I
Speaker 1: think the day after the first Night Call episode was published,
Speaker 1: and definitely go check that out. UM. We discussed the polls.
Speaker 1: We discussed the North Pole and the South Pole, Antarctica
Speaker 1: and the Arctic, and which was our favorite and the pluses,
Speaker 1: the pros and cons of each and UM, we decided
Speaker 1: to put it to you, the listeners, to decide which
Speaker 1: pulls the best poll and uh, we're at six hundred
Speaker 1: and nineties seven votes right now. UM, so thank you
Speaker 1: all for letting your voice be heard. And the winner,
Speaker 1: it was a fifty five to The winner is the
Speaker 1: South pol. I knew it. I knew it too. I honestly,
Speaker 1: the South Pole is just it's a crowd pleaser. Everybody
Speaker 1: loves everybody loves Antarctica. You're right about polar bears. The
Speaker 1: polar bears are cool bears. Whatever. Arctic foxes and polar
Speaker 1: bears are just the best. Also, animals are great. But
Speaker 1: just because a bear is blonde, you know what I mean? Like, no, no, Um,
Speaker 1: the other better than a brown bear. The other the
Speaker 1: other Arctic animal that we should have brought up. That Um.
Speaker 1: I would be remiss if I didn't mention, because all
Speaker 1: all Arctic animals are hardcore and somewhere another in a
Speaker 1: way that a penguin cannot can never approach. Penguins are
Speaker 1: too soft and cute. Um. The other is um the
Speaker 1: greenland shark. Y'all know about a greenland shark? Go on, Uh,
Speaker 1: you don't know about greenland sharks. They can live to
Speaker 1: be up to like eight years old. They are like
Speaker 1: the oldest um evolutionary form of shark that is still alive.
Speaker 1: So they look like they are made of rocks. They
Speaker 1: look like some first draft of a shark. I love
Speaker 1: stuff like that, like the spider with a tail, Yes exactly.
Speaker 1: And they um, they swim around in the dark um
Speaker 1: for hundreds of years and uh, they attract this this parasite,
Speaker 1: this worm that lives on their eyeball, so they're mostly
Speaker 1: blind throughout their lives because these worms live in their
Speaker 1: eyes and they just chill in the dark and float
Speaker 1: around and look for food and like barely move. Um,
Speaker 1: this is like an under we're looking at it now,
Speaker 1: you've got to look at it. No, no, Um, it's
Speaker 1: the oldest vertebrate animal. Yeah, what's with its wire? Its
Speaker 1: teeth that way? Um, because it's a first draft, like
Speaker 1: a total first draft exactly, they're figuring it out. No needs.
Speaker 1: Definitely go google a picture of a greenland shark there. Um,
Speaker 1: they're really they look if you've seen a dog fish,
Speaker 1: just imagine a dog fish, but really big and like
Speaker 1: all funked up looking. And if you don't want to
Speaker 1: look at it now, don't worry because it will be
Speaker 1: the last thing you see before you die. Uh. Let's
Speaker 1: do some listener questions. We got some good ones. Thank
Speaker 1: you guys for for giving us your questions and thoughts,
Speaker 1: and as always, please call us at one to four
Speaker 1: oh four six night if you would like to leave
Speaker 1: a question yourself. But we got some good ones. Especially
Speaker 1: we were talking last week about um Instagram listening to us,
Speaker 1: and uh, it's always good to know We're not alone
Speaker 1: on this on this particular island. Um, should we roll
Speaker 1: the first one? I think from Dylan, our friend Dylan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I called the right number, Dylan, leaving you
Speaker 1: a nightcall. Um, So something about targeted. Have I've said
Speaker 1: something about how I was very upset that there's a
Speaker 1: new Coke it's Coke zero, replacing the old perfect Folk zero.
Speaker 1: And then I got an add on Twitter that was like, Dylan,
Speaker 1: there's someone else and awesome have an awesome uh someone
Speaker 1: else not the name Christ or something who also didn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't ready for the new Coke zero to come out,
Speaker 1: but look at this video we made that convinced them.
Speaker 1: And that was when I threw my phone into the ocean.
Speaker 1: And uh, I'm calling you from a tin camp. Thanks
Speaker 1: for coming back? Ye. Well, I appreciate this call because
Speaker 1: it's uh it combines two of my favorite things, which
Speaker 1: is uh u Instagram conspiracies or social media conspiracies and
Speaker 1: Coke zero. Um r I p actual Coke zero because
Speaker 1: what did they do to Coke zero? How did they
Speaker 1: reach history? They kind of changed the formula and they
Speaker 1: called it and now it's called Coke zero. Sugar the
Speaker 1: way it's been in Europe and I think Japan for
Speaker 1: a while. Um, And I never really liked Coke zero.
Speaker 1: I couldn't put my finger on it. I never liked
Speaker 1: it in Europe that much. And now we just have
Speaker 1: European Coke zero. I think this is it's the only
Speaker 1: soda I drink, and I'm very I'm very I can
Speaker 1: sense it's it's uh, it's peculiarities. So, um, I is it?
Speaker 1: What is it Stevia? Like? What did they put in it?
Speaker 1: Do you know? I'm not going to Stevia to know
Speaker 1: if it was Stevia. I we got a headache from it.
Speaker 1: Almost all of those artificial sweeteners give me a headache,
Speaker 1: but Cooke zero it's not. Um, So I'm I'm in
Speaker 1: I'm in Dylan's boat. I was. I was feeling the
Speaker 1: same way. I probably had a conversation like that about
Speaker 1: how I I didn't I didn't want the Coke zero. Um,
Speaker 1: that's really weird that I never got any of those ads.
Speaker 1: But so they made an ad. They made an ad
Speaker 1: that targeted him saying like, hey, we heard that you're
Speaker 1: not into this, Hey Dylan, So we got another one.
Speaker 1: Um that was from our friend Douglas and it was
Speaker 1: a screenshot of an Instagram I'll read it, he says.
Speaker 1: I've attached a screenshot of an Instagram ad uh that
Speaker 1: I got over my phone over her my coworkers talk
Speaker 1: about sign language one day. I've also gotten ads related
Speaker 1: to things mentioned on podcasts I've listened to. So that's
Speaker 1: happened to us. That's happened to us too. We're going
Speaker 1: to solve this, you guys, we're gonna have this cut. Um,
Speaker 1: your mic is always on, I think is the Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: there's a way. I think that there's a guide somewhere
Speaker 1: to like at least minimizing or changing the options so
Speaker 1: that you have less of that. You can take away
Speaker 1: the permissions, but then you can't make an Instagram video
Speaker 1: with sound if you're right once turned off. Um, that's
Speaker 1: the thing is you assume that it's like when you
Speaker 1: give it, when you grant a permission to your mic,
Speaker 1: that you're like for videos, and it's like for any
Speaker 1: taking that at your word, Now one of our batteries,
Speaker 1: I'll run out so fast. They're like always running the microphone.
Speaker 1: Well at least they admitted to that too, being like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, we do totally slow iPhones down when oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you upgrade the OS so that you'll have to buy
Speaker 1: anyone was so numb, but that was so gratifying to
Speaker 1: hear when that came out. I remember telling that. I
Speaker 1: think guy was home with my mom when that news
Speaker 1: came out or I saw that like on Twitter or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I like told her, I was like, Mom, they
Speaker 1: just confirmed they are slowing down your phone. Um, I
Speaker 1: just well. There was also that creepiece was in the
Speaker 1: New York Times, and I think it was by John
Speaker 1: Herman about the death of his like five year old iPad.
Speaker 1: Oh no, did you guys really? I didn't really sad,
Speaker 1: and like point, it was just about how it still functioned.
Speaker 1: But it functioned so slowly that like you would have
Speaker 1: no idea looking at it. It was like in Christine condition,
Speaker 1: and it had been held by like you know, his
Speaker 1: family members and people who had died, and all this
Speaker 1: time had gone by, but it showed no evidence of
Speaker 1: ever having been a human possession. And then it was
Speaker 1: just kind of like becoming obsolete, and it, you know,
Speaker 1: just useless because the world was moving on with it
Speaker 1: was depressing, but it wasn't then it was just it
Speaker 1: was just slowing down because Apple needed it to slow
Speaker 1: down so that he'd have to buy another iPad right,
Speaker 1: well exactly, yeah, exactly, but also that it could it
Speaker 1: couldn't update like it was. Yeah, like Apple was just
Speaker 1: kind of icing it out, I mean moving it into
Speaker 1: the assisted living Molly. I know, until very recently was
Speaker 1: still rolling with a iPhone for us or something. Is
Speaker 1: that what you had? Yeah, I just never update the OS. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's what does it when you when you update
Speaker 1: the OS? Because um, because David also still has a
Speaker 1: four S I think, and he updated. He was forced
Speaker 1: to update at some point, and yeah, I was forced
Speaker 1: to update eventually on the phone I have now. And
Speaker 1: also I was like, okay, fine, now I can use
Speaker 1: the avocado emojis. Um, let's take another question. Okay, wait,
Speaker 1: so I really am eager to answer the one about
Speaker 1: mailing mushrooms, but I'm not eager for us to give
Speaker 1: our opinions. But I did some research. Well, let don't
Speaker 1: know the answer, so let's uh, let's read I can
Speaker 1: read it if you want. Yeah, why don't you? And
Speaker 1: well and all of this, of course, you should never
Speaker 1: do anything illegal. It would be a mistake. Yeah, We'll
Speaker 1: preface all of this by um by saying that don't
Speaker 1: don't do anything illegal. Um. All right, So a subject line,
Speaker 1: and this is from Jeff says, uh, best practices for
Speaker 1: mailing shrooms. Hello, asking for a friend, of course, and
Speaker 1: and a bit time sensitive. But how stupid would it
Speaker 1: be to try to send magic mushrooms through the mail?
Speaker 1: I'm going camping later this month and want to imbibe,
Speaker 1: And the only way to do that so that I
Speaker 1: can think of, is to mail them to the friend
Speaker 1: I'm meeting ahead of time. The friend in question doesn't
Speaker 1: have access herself, and God forbid, we immerse, we immerse
Speaker 1: ourselves in nature, soberly parentheses. This is my favorite part
Speaker 1: of the email. This is not a phantom thread situation.
Speaker 1: You guys haven't seen phantom thread yet, but you'll appreciate
Speaker 1: look forward to know what that means. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: it next week. If you were in my position, how
Speaker 1: would you approach this dilemma? Thank you for your help
Speaker 1: with this very pressing matter. Um. Well, I I'll just
Speaker 1: give my two cents and then I'll let Test address it,
Speaker 1: because tested the research, because she is the gray smith. Um.
Speaker 1: But that's what I'm saying she does the research and
Speaker 1: she brings in notes. It's great, it's been very busy woman.
Speaker 1: I have no time for that. I would say, don't that.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that to be a nark. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that I would not if I were. Okay,
Speaker 1: now that Emily's outed herself as a nark, so I
Speaker 1: would also I would never be able to bring myself
Speaker 1: to do it. But if I were to bring myself
Speaker 1: to do it, then I would probably look at the
Speaker 1: all the mushroom boards available on the internet. So I
Speaker 1: did that for our friend, and I found from shrewmery
Speaker 1: dot org. You can't imagine how long I had to
Speaker 1: search to find the answers to this question. Kids are
Speaker 1: going to be really good for a long time. So excited.
Speaker 1: Um so from shroomery dot org the question was, and
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I don't know, like some of these
Speaker 1: I think we're from like two thousand six, and so
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, like these people were like very
Speaker 1: lazy in the questioning and answering that they were doing
Speaker 1: on this message board, probably because they had just done
Speaker 1: some shrooms. Question quote, well, what would be safe to
Speaker 1: with an extra mail and eighth of shrooms in the mail.
Speaker 1: Best answer was it had like a Nabokov quality, like
Speaker 1: picnic lightning, peanut butter, comma care package. The alternative suggested,
Speaker 1: think I'm going to put them in gel caps, then
Speaker 1: in some kind of container that used to have herbs
Speaker 1: in it, with a note saying here's the herbs your
Speaker 1: grandma wanted for her arthritis. It's fool proof. Ground up
Speaker 1: shrooms look like look like herbs for show. Sketchy answer
Speaker 1: would be powder them and put them in an envelope.
Speaker 1: They need a federal warrant to open those, but they
Speaker 1: can open a package more easily. And then there's a
Speaker 1: whole debate about first classmate ale versus private carrier. And
Speaker 1: then someone suggests to put them in chocolate, and then
Speaker 1: also have some kind of a note along the lines
Speaker 1: of like here's some delicious chocolate that has herbs in it,
Speaker 1: and I was like that sounds good, and then from
Speaker 1: Reddit's shroom's board, uh yeah, they were just like, you know,
Speaker 1: put it in chocolate, put it and make something chunky.
Speaker 1: And I would say the peanut butter would be my
Speaker 1: would be my um go too. If I had to
Speaker 1: choose any of us. And I would say, a friend
Speaker 1: of mine traveled across country, um, through states that are
Speaker 1: not four twenty friendly, and my friend put um marijuana
Speaker 1: in a plastic baggie and then put it in a
Speaker 1: shampoo bottle, and uh, there was a leak in the
Speaker 1: bag and so my friend ended up smoking pot that
Speaker 1: was like you know, suave enhanced, which is just terrible
Speaker 1: experience reporting to my friend and it definitely I was like,
Speaker 1: that's not the way I know, my poor friend. For him,
Speaker 1: my friend who's male and uses swave. You know, a
Speaker 1: friend of mine transported mushrooms crustrate lines okay recently, pretty
Speaker 1: recently for uh she was coming. I won't give you
Speaker 1: any details, um, but I don't remember if she mailed
Speaker 1: them or if she brought them like on her body
Speaker 1: through airport security, which is like even scarier seeming to me.
Speaker 1: But she did successfully transport them from one state to
Speaker 1: another with seemingly no problems that I imagine lots of
Speaker 1: hippies have thought about this and have ideas there was someone. Um.
Speaker 1: So apparently mushrooms are very effective treatment for cluster headaches,
Speaker 1: because I was when I was googling something that came
Speaker 1: up was like a cluster headaches for them, and they
Speaker 1: were like, you know you, if you really don't want
Speaker 1: to like do that, you should just buy mushroom spores
Speaker 1: and like grow your on. I was just like, what,
Speaker 1: my psychedelics are good for all kinds of things, but
Speaker 1: the government invented them, and then I won't let people
Speaker 1: have them because they know Backsey's government. Um, they're always
Speaker 1: like almost being brought into psychiatry, and probably not right
Speaker 1: now under this current administration. But they they do have
Speaker 1: some purpose, you know, some some legit medicinal purposes besides
Speaker 1: making nature look even cooler than it already is. Um.
Speaker 1: I want to say that my my real advice would
Speaker 1: be if you can get mushroom chocolates or put put
Speaker 1: it in chocolate or peanut butter. That seems probably like
Speaker 1: the best idea to transport it in food, because like
Speaker 1: who could tell, and you would obviously not want to
Speaker 1: use your real name or address actual return just in case.
Speaker 1: I just think if that were if you were risking
Speaker 1: it again started advice that that would be the footnote
Speaker 1: of the advice. We also, yeah, I also knew someone
Speaker 1: whose mom went to jail for sending cocaine from Australia,
Speaker 1: So so really don't do it, you know, but maybe
Speaker 1: do chocolate if you're doing it, but don't do it.
Speaker 1: Don't do it. But if you're going to enjoy natures
Speaker 1: where we can see, let us know how it was
Speaker 1: to or drive nature. Nature is also good nature and
Speaker 1: camping basically have to drive or enjoy nature, like, those
Speaker 1: are your choices. I feel in life, um and enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: So do we have any more questions today? I think
Speaker 1: that was well, we did have one, but I don't
Speaker 1: We're not. I don't right, We're not going to answer
Speaker 1: that question. We as for se. We also had a
Speaker 1: movie related question that we're going to address. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that next week. So thank tight, um cool, thanks
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