Speaker 1: Welcome to Nightcall, a production of I Heart Radio. It's
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Speaker 1: night Call, a call in show for our dystopian reality
Speaker 1: My name is Emily Ushida, I'm in Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: with me on the other line is Molly Lambert and
Speaker 1: Tess Lynch. And we're going to start off this week
Speaker 1: with a night email from our listeners. Solely. I think
Speaker 1: I'm pronouncing that right, she writes longtime listener first time
Speaker 1: an E. Coller. I saw this link on Reddit and
Speaker 1: could only think of this podcast. It's a video of
Speaker 1: drunk people in Miami, unbothered by coronavirus in the name
Speaker 1: of spring break, watching a herd of people rationalize the
Speaker 1: irrational through the power of alcohol as profound, one might
Speaker 1: even say cult like. Also, thank you guys for reporting
Speaker 1: on the issues at hand with the usual dose of
Speaker 1: dark silliness. This pot has been both an uplifting and
Speaker 1: informative resource in trying times. Wishing you all safety and health.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Slowly again, I hope I'm pronouncing
Speaker 1: your name right. Um, yeah, definitely saw this making the
Speaker 1: rounds uh this week on the socials, Um, Miami remains
Speaker 1: undaunted in the face of coronavirus. Are we surprised? I mean,
Speaker 1: ring break is all about a immortality complex though, I
Speaker 1: mean just poisoning yourself and harming your body over and
Speaker 1: over and over again because it is help you, alright,
Speaker 1: he heatonistic celebration Again. I blame this more on all
Speaker 1: the cities for not shutting down in time. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's also a big pile of blame on STS,
Speaker 1: the travel agency that has been booking these like massive vacations.
Speaker 1: They have not canceled. I mean as of recording. I
Speaker 1: don't think that they have canceled anything, um, which is
Speaker 1: mind boggling. But then you're then you have to think
Speaker 1: about the fact that under normal conditions, this is a
Speaker 1: travel agency that's just like taking a big risk on
Speaker 1: people getting their stomachs pumped and stuff. So maybe they're
Speaker 1: just used to that. But I was astonished that there
Speaker 1: was that video of that one guy going around where
Speaker 1: he was like, oh, if I have to go down coronavirus,
Speaker 1: Like I've been waiting for the spring break for a
Speaker 1: long time, so I gotta do it. You're just like, Wow,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't seem like even like surely people are
Speaker 1: like at least a little bit stressed or something, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I just can't even if he decided that it wasn't
Speaker 1: going to kill you, like, why would you be in
Speaker 1: the mood for this at all? I can't. I can't.
Speaker 1: I feel like they also made the mistake of being
Speaker 1: like it doesn't affect young people in the news for
Speaker 1: a while, and then they had to walk that back.
Speaker 1: Probably a lot of young people were like, well, it
Speaker 1: doesn't affect me so like a toilet seat. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: been really um, quite embarrassing for for a lot of
Speaker 1: millennials and and gen Zeros. I will have to say,
Speaker 1: but well, I mean for what you were saying though
Speaker 1: about the city's like the mayor of Miami is not
Speaker 1: happy about this. He's like trying to get people to leave.
Speaker 1: And he gave a quote where he said spring break
Speaker 1: is over over. Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber says, we
Speaker 1: cannot become mkitri dish for a very dangerous virus. Spring
Speaker 1: break is over. The party is over, man, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: Miami says the party is over. Well, I mean we
Speaker 1: have to wait until Pitbull always in the true mayor
Speaker 1: of Miami. But but that's pretty serious. Well Mr Worldwide
Speaker 1: knows that this is a worldwide pandemic. Yeah, no, Mr
Speaker 1: Worldwide is a collectivist. He gets it. I would assume,
Speaker 1: So I don't. I haven't actually heard from pit Bull.
Speaker 1: What I like listening? Please call in tonight, call and
Speaker 1: let us know the official Pitbull stands. I'll spring break
Speaker 1: pit Bull records a special track, like an uplift, like
Speaker 1: like does his version of the horrible Galga dot like
Speaker 1: celebrity imagine video. But if he does like a party track,
Speaker 1: I'm going to weep like that to break me. It
Speaker 1: will make me so happy. I'm probably here for you know.
Speaker 1: I don't think there should be no coronavirus novelty songs.
Speaker 1: I think just the Maudlin ones are like terrible. But
Speaker 1: there's a version of fuck Corona. Uh that is the
Speaker 1: song fuck Katrina. It's like a New Orleans Bounce song.
Speaker 1: It was called Katrina. Somebody did an update called fun Corona.
Speaker 1: I've been listening to that a lot. Makes me good.
Speaker 1: It's great. Well, just puts you put you in a
Speaker 1: good mood. You guys know, I was like obsessed with
Speaker 1: the video from Italy of the guy playing Rhythm of
Speaker 1: the Night office balcony, but that's the artist is Corona,
Speaker 1: Like oh got a doubles? There are all sorts of
Speaker 1: Corona party songs. Of the Night is a great song.
Speaker 1: It's a fantastic cry. I've hated the song Imagine. It's
Speaker 1: in my top ten hated songs anyway, So I felt
Speaker 1: I was glad. I was like, finally everyone else's catching
Speaker 1: Now we can finally agree. This isn't Imagine. We can
Speaker 1: all hate. But yeah, handedly killed the song, I hope.
Speaker 1: So Johnny had Imagine in his head because of it
Speaker 1: and all the parodies, and he was like, well you ease,
Speaker 1: like put some other song in my head because I
Speaker 1: hate Imagine. And so I started singing Mambo number five.
Speaker 1: I have been listening to Mambo number five because when
Speaker 1: you're in a very like heightened emotional stay, you feel
Speaker 1: really nuji. There's something it just gets you. Yeah. No.
Speaker 1: I tried to make a quiet Storm mix because I
Speaker 1: was feeling so stressed out. I was like, I have
Speaker 1: to make a mix, and I thought quiet Storm would
Speaker 1: relax me. But then it was like too emotional and
Speaker 1: it was too late at night, so that I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna make a mix of nineties R and
Speaker 1: B songs about like sitting in your room and staying home,
Speaker 1: set up in your room, perhaps sitting up in your
Speaker 1: room just kicking it. Nothing depressing, nothing. Yeah. No, I've
Speaker 1: realized now that a lot of my music is too
Speaker 1: scary to listen to now, which is fine other times. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, anybody who's been to a nightcall nights knows
Speaker 1: that I tend to play like some spooky vibes and uh,
Speaker 1: and that's not for night call, Like that's my taste
Speaker 1: in music, and a lot of it I'm just put
Speaker 1: on for five seconds and I'm like, nope, nope, I
Speaker 1: can't listen to this right now. Um. I feel the
Speaker 1: way about movies. There's a lot of movies I don't
Speaker 1: want to watch. Specifically, what did you watch if all?
Speaker 1: As I was thinking, I was like, I'm in the
Speaker 1: perfect mood for it follows right now. You watched Annihilation? Also,
Speaker 1: you're really leaning into it. I didn't like Annihilation that
Speaker 1: much the first time we saw it and covered it on.
Speaker 1: I know you guys really found on It's super hard, yes,
Speaker 1: but look who gets the last laugh. You know, I
Speaker 1: and I enjoyed it. My husband's first time seeing it,
Speaker 1: he enjoyed it. I mean, I don't know where you
Speaker 1: were right all along? I thank you get it up. Um, well,
Speaker 1: speaking of Florida, U on on all accounts. Uh so,
Speaker 1: so what's the situation with the Disney properties right now?
Speaker 1: Disney World remains open, they're all closed so forced to close. Um,
Speaker 1: there was an exception in the California bill that they
Speaker 1: could stay open, but they're not doing it because they
Speaker 1: don't want people to get coronavirus at Disneyland. I believe. Um.
Speaker 1: I heart radio podcasts own Jamie Loftus went the last
Speaker 1: day before Disney cland closed forever and had had a
Speaker 1: great time, but they shut it down. And in Disney
Speaker 1: World they did something seemingly worse, which is that because
Speaker 1: people like travel to Orlando, you know, maybe just stuck
Speaker 1: in Orlando. Um, the president of Disney World did something
Speaker 1: where they like brought everybody out for one last firework
Speaker 1: show to be like, hey, you know, we know you're
Speaker 1: not getting your Disney World trips, so here's a a
Speaker 1: little nice thank you anyway of a firework show. But
Speaker 1: it was like a billion people crowded in a plaza together.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, such a bad idea. Yeah, I've been
Speaker 1: appreciating that so far my limited experiences outside, people have
Speaker 1: been respecting the social distancing, you know, like six ft ya.
Speaker 1: But I know that that has not been the case everywhere.
Speaker 1: I know in New York a lot people have been
Speaker 1: complaining that people just don't seem to be I think
Speaker 1: it must be a lot harder in New York because
Speaker 1: you're in a much denser space. Uh. People wise, it
Speaker 1: definitely seems pretty easy in l A. If you are
Speaker 1: in the an area, that's not super Even if you are,
Speaker 1: it's like you can in Marriage Story. Your guys favorite
Speaker 1: it's just more space have thought of that. But they
Speaker 1: did shut down. They shut down the Chinese theater, they
Speaker 1: shut down all the big tourist attractions for real. Bourbon
Speaker 1: Street is shut down in New Orleans. Um, And there's
Speaker 1: a really good cam network I'm sure I've talked about
Speaker 1: before called Earth Came UM that just has live cams
Speaker 1: on a bunch of basically tourist areas around the world,
Speaker 1: and I've definitely been looking at those. I posted some
Speaker 1: spooky screen grabs on my Twitter, um the other night,
Speaker 1: but just Bourbon Street is totally empty. I watched just
Speaker 1: a rat run around and be the King of Bourbon
Speaker 1: Street and it was the best. But there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of good animal videos again, like very um very
Speaker 1: annihilation ee. Yeah. And I think I think the people
Speaker 1: who are being eco fascist about it and being like
Speaker 1: it's because the earth is like reclaiming it's it's time
Speaker 1: are not good obviously, but it's just yeah, it's not sorry,
Speaker 1: run it back right well and this will be coming
Speaker 1: before we talk about that. It's just h yeah um yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it just shows that we obviously also need
Speaker 1: to deal with climate change and talk about that and
Speaker 1: in a way it's all one problem. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: the thing that's driving me crazy right now is that
Speaker 1: like obviously, like this is not unrelated to climate change,
Speaker 1: Like this is something that has been predicted for a
Speaker 1: long time, the ability for these mass pandemics to to
Speaker 1: break out because of climate change. Um. And like I
Speaker 1: went out to take the trash out today, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like I am way on one end of a
Speaker 1: scale as far as like um, recycling food waste stuff
Speaker 1: like that. I'm hyper visual about it. And I try
Speaker 1: to generate as little waste as possible. So I was
Speaker 1: like bringing out my two little like Trader Joe's bags
Speaker 1: of trash and recyclables and just seeing like people piled
Speaker 1: up like all their pizza boxes and stuff. Because everybody's
Speaker 1: just ordering delivery, I guess, and like um and ordering
Speaker 1: ship off of Amazon. It's just like, oh God, like
Speaker 1: this is sort of compounding this no, and it it
Speaker 1: feels like a reckoning because it's like we're in techno
Speaker 1: feudal is um where we have all this useless like
Speaker 1: baroque stuff. We have the weirdest things that people don't
Speaker 1: actually need, but we don't have any of the baseline
Speaker 1: things we actually do need. Yeah, and that, But also
Speaker 1: on the flip side, I will I will just play
Speaker 1: Devil's advocate and say that I think families who have
Speaker 1: little kids, we're creating a ton of trash right now
Speaker 1: and feel terrible about it. But it's like I don't
Speaker 1: know even where to begin with that because everything has
Speaker 1: to be delivered, and yeah, it's not and it's not
Speaker 1: on the individual, it's just this entire system that we've
Speaker 1: grown up and where it's just like, oh, you can
Speaker 1: order a cable that you need that comes in an
Speaker 1: entire box with shipping materials all over it, and that
Speaker 1: makes sense, and there's and it's cheap, so why not
Speaker 1: do it? But do you guys remember when people made
Speaker 1: when bottled water was like a rich people thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember when bottled water used to be made fun
Speaker 1: of it. Now everybody just yeah, and now it's just
Speaker 1: how people drink water. Yeah. It definitely feels like we're
Speaker 1: being forced to walk back some of the things that
Speaker 1: everybody took for granted about how the world works. Maybe again,
Speaker 1: possibly for good, because some of those things aren't great.
Speaker 1: Never forget that Avian is naives backwards from This is
Speaker 1: totally off topic, but I will just say that one
Speaker 1: thing that this shift has made me consider is owning chickens,
Speaker 1: which I never want a chicken. Yeah, I try. I
Speaker 1: was wanting to sell my family on it, and everyone
Speaker 1: was like, we really, like even my kids were like,
Speaker 1: we don't want more animals to take care of, like
Speaker 1: we're stretched so thin. And I was thinking, guys, I
Speaker 1: can't find any eggs, I don't have much to do.
Speaker 1: It's time to get chickens. And I couldn't even know
Speaker 1: the kids get a chicken, I'll compare it your chicken
Speaker 1: with you, because yes, let's do that should be worried
Speaker 1: about that it would be eaten by a coyote. And
Speaker 1: then we both not if it's in a coup, not
Speaker 1: if it's in a coop. Do need to start taking
Speaker 1: suggestions now for the name of the night called chicken? Yes,
Speaker 1: our feature mascot watched a lot of this show Doomsday
Speaker 1: Preppers the other day, so you were in the mood
Speaker 1: for that, but you know I didn't. It ended up
Speaker 1: being really funny, not on purpose, but it also had
Speaker 1: some good tips. I'm just gonna say such. Well. Also,
Speaker 1: another friend of mine, my friend Lizzie, was saying she's
Speaker 1: a researcher for films and for the last like three
Speaker 1: months she was doing research on a film about a
Speaker 1: pandemic and read everything about pandemics and then kind of
Speaker 1: like became not a prepper, but like bought a lot
Speaker 1: of food as soon as she heard about coronavirus. And
Speaker 1: she said she was like the first person at the
Speaker 1: store doing it, and the store employees were like, why
Speaker 1: are you buying so much food? She's like, because it's coming. Well,
Speaker 1: we're all living in it now. I still can't find
Speaker 1: any toilet paper. It's fine. Um, We're going to take
Speaker 1: a quick break and when we come back, we're going
Speaker 1: to have a very special night call. For a very
Speaker 1: special nightcall, correspondent, We'll be right back. Hi. What l
Speaker 1: like you've all at the school with anything? I've got
Speaker 1: ghost to l A. Do you believe in g I don't,
Speaker 1: even though my dad does. I don't even alien stuff,
Speaker 1: do you bi? So Emmett, it's my kid and he's here,
Speaker 1: he's going to be answering that nightcall of it came
Speaker 1: from Adeline from New York. So, Emmett, what's it like
Speaker 1: living in l A? Well, it's extremely fun. My mom
Speaker 1: does not want to go back to Connecticut and video games?
Speaker 1: Do you know any famous kids? Not at all? Not
Speaker 1: at all? And do you believe in ghosts? You've got
Speaker 1: a maybe? Okay, we've got a maybe. We've got a maybe.
Speaker 1: Do you believe in me? Do you believe in aliens? Totally?
Speaker 1: That was awesome. We had a couple of other questions,
Speaker 1: um from readers. Let's see, okay, so we haven't wanted
Speaker 1: to get an idea of what it was like to
Speaker 1: be a kid during COVID nineteen, So we're getting we're
Speaker 1: getting the voice of the youth here. Yeah, what do
Speaker 1: you think what's it been like for the past week
Speaker 1: since you haven't had school? Awesome? It's been awesome. Why
Speaker 1: because I get a video games all day. I get
Speaker 1: to fun home school, no crazy ore, and I get
Speaker 1: video game play dates. Yeah, video game play dates have
Speaker 1: been really clutch. Who do you play with? Is he
Speaker 1: as good as you are at Zelda? No? No, is
Speaker 1: anyone as good as you are at Zelda? No? Dad?
Speaker 1: That is really good at Zelda too. Um. From Eric,
Speaker 1: we had a question, what do you think school will
Speaker 1: be like next year? Since everybody had so much trablically,
Speaker 1: I'll be infurred grade since it's like a whole summer stuff.
Speaker 1: Do you feel prepared for third grade right now? No?
Speaker 1: Um and everything? Yes, what do you know about coronavirus?
Speaker 1: I'm not a grown up. I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 1: All right, good, I'm doing len the affording stuff. Thank you?
Speaker 1: I were you nervous to be on this podcast? Oh much?
Speaker 1: Extremely extremely nervous. I can't tell how much money are
Speaker 1: you getting? Okay, buddy, thank you so much. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let emt um go, I'm gonna free him. Thank you, Emmett,
Speaker 1: and you walk yourself back. Thanks, thank you. I would
Speaker 1: have a good day. I love hearing from the single
Speaker 1: digit uh cohort. We need to get a diversity of
Speaker 1: viewpoints and right now a night call for the our
Speaker 1: extreme times right now. So thank you very much to
Speaker 1: Emmett for that. Me too. It is really interesting to
Speaker 1: think about too, because it's like we keep placing it
Speaker 1: in terms of like, our entire adult lives have been
Speaker 1: so weird, but we had like a period of normalcy
Speaker 1: before that. If you're a kid right now, you're you're
Speaker 1: just like, that's just what it's like. Everything, it's weird
Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, I think it's actually harder for
Speaker 1: kids like Emmett is kind of able to roll with
Speaker 1: it a bit better than my daughter because she she
Speaker 1: doesn't she can't understand what is happening. He kind of can.
Speaker 1: And it's so far, so good. But I think when
Speaker 1: we enter week three, it's gonna not be good for anybody. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think human all humans of all ages
Speaker 1: are encountering like the limits of indoor time, but also
Speaker 1: the importance of indoor time what have you been doing
Speaker 1: to keep everybody occupied? Tests? What kind of programming have
Speaker 1: you have you moved into this week? Um, okay, so
Speaker 1: every day both kids have were Actually my daughter has
Speaker 1: zoom meetings with preschool, which us sophisticated. I know. Um,
Speaker 1: they do circle time zoom meetings and uh, Emmett's his
Speaker 1: second grade teacher does story times. So she's reading fantastic Mr.
Speaker 1: Fox every day and we take a walk any day.
Speaker 1: Uh that it's not raining and other than that, right
Speaker 1: up television all the time. That's what I've heard. That
Speaker 1: is what I've heard from many parents is that it's
Speaker 1: really hard. Screen time rules are off, they are off,
Speaker 1: and I mean they're really good. Like, we have a
Speaker 1: couple of different educational software things in the mix. There's
Speaker 1: Freckle con Academy and Prodigy um and so we've been
Speaker 1: trying to do some of that. And you can earn
Speaker 1: video game minutes if you do reading minutes. But it's
Speaker 1: so hard, because it's really especially if you have multiple kids.
Speaker 1: I think you have to be so on top of it,
Speaker 1: and being managing both kids different activities from home is
Speaker 1: so hard, especially when you're just trying to like maintain
Speaker 1: your your chill level. Yeah, it's On the other hand,
Speaker 1: is it nice to like have a attack, Yes, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's also nice to have the company. Like
Speaker 1: we're all kind of we're like hunkered down and trying
Speaker 1: to make the best of it. But it's hard when
Speaker 1: they get cranky, and it's you know, trying to explain
Speaker 1: that we can't go anywhere, um as of yesterday, and
Speaker 1: it's I'm very supportive of that. I want everyone to
Speaker 1: stay home, and other than our walks around the block,
Speaker 1: we've been staying home. But like explaining to my daughter,
Speaker 1: you know, that we can't go on a plan trip
Speaker 1: to Lego Land or a school trip that she had
Speaker 1: been looking forward to and that kind of stuff. It's
Speaker 1: just it's a bomber. Yeah, even if you're not a kid.
Speaker 1: This has been a weird thing. I've noticed with my brains,
Speaker 1: you know, fleeting grasps of reality with all of this.
Speaker 1: Like there was a point last night, and it was
Speaker 1: some time after they issued the shelter in place or
Speaker 1: or for Los Angeles that you know, and again it's
Speaker 1: this thing where it's like I was fine to stay
Speaker 1: I was more or less doing shelter in place before
Speaker 1: there was an order for it, but now they've kind
Speaker 1: of made it official and and and given all these recommendations,
Speaker 1: and then kind of having that order come down, it
Speaker 1: was just like, oh God, wait what wait, what's happening? Wait,
Speaker 1: not like suddenly I started having a freak out moment
Speaker 1: last night, even though I wasn't really fundamentally changing my behavior,
Speaker 1: but just the your brain does a lot of work
Speaker 1: to kind of screen you from thinking about the reality
Speaker 1: of it moments a moment, and sometimes that screen falls
Speaker 1: a little bit at some point. Every night, I've had
Speaker 1: like a wave of panic wash over me where I
Speaker 1: just think, Okay, this this could really just I mean,
Speaker 1: you couldn't end up knowing all of these people who die.
Speaker 1: It's just like your you go down into the dark place,
Speaker 1: and then in the morning I wake up and I
Speaker 1: feel okay because for a minute, I don't remember what's
Speaker 1: going on. Johnny Johnny said, it's like the time loop,
Speaker 1: the time loop from Russian Doll. Yes, exactly. It's like
Speaker 1: each day it's it's like memento. It's like each day
Speaker 1: you learn this information again and you're like, what the
Speaker 1: fund is going on? Yeah? There is though that blissful
Speaker 1: couple seconds when you're just waking up and or if
Speaker 1: you get up to go to the bathroom in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night and managed not to think about
Speaker 1: it at all, like where everything is fine. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's or just the surrealness of it of like
Speaker 1: going outside and like it's a beautiful day and you're
Speaker 1: walking around and like everything is normal, but also it's not. Um,
Speaker 1: it feels a little bit like an alien invasion, although
Speaker 1: Johnny also said that would be worse. Don't compare it
Speaker 1: to to that. Well, Um, I've been volunteering at this
Speaker 1: nonprofit project, Angel Food. It's here in Los Angeles. It's
Speaker 1: a meals on wheels program, and there's a chef there
Speaker 1: who's like, you know, a full time UM employee there,
Speaker 1: And he was saying, like he was saying, this didn't
Speaker 1: even compare to the riots and as far as like
Speaker 1: unusual circumstances in Los Angeles, because at least with the riots,
Speaker 1: if you're privileged enough to not live in a certain neighborhood,
Speaker 1: it didn't affect you as much. Um, oh, for sure,
Speaker 1: that's out. That is definitely true, And like I think
Speaker 1: that is sort of what happened with America on this
Speaker 1: is that like they could have been showing footage of
Speaker 1: what was happening in China on American television. They just
Speaker 1: weren't at all. And now that we know that, like
Speaker 1: people in the government like knew about this for a
Speaker 1: long time, and we're selling stocks because they knew it
Speaker 1: was going to tank the business market. But like it
Speaker 1: almost feels to me put my tin hat on here,
Speaker 1: Like it does feel a little bit like the American
Speaker 1: government purposely didn't talk about it so that business could
Speaker 1: go on as long as possible and they could like
Speaker 1: sell all their stocks and buy those telemarketing stocks. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't put it beyond anybody. Yeah, I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I think it's no, it's logical. But it's like that
Speaker 1: some of the things that it's also crazy to see
Speaker 1: things happening that we've been told that could not happen,
Speaker 1: and now they're like doing those things. Some of them
Speaker 1: are good, um, such as trying to house people, although
Speaker 1: again it's like we could have been doing this for months.
Speaker 1: We should have been preparing for this, like you prepare
Speaker 1: for a big storm or something. And like now the
Speaker 1: way that humans brains work though, and that's why I think,
Speaker 1: like I don't know, I was really uh. I think
Speaker 1: you posted this on your feed, Molly, and I've I've
Speaker 1: gotten in and out of listening to this podcast, but
Speaker 1: I did revisit true and on UH this this week
Speaker 1: because I had heard that they're one of their most
Speaker 1: recent coronavirus episode was pretty good, and I think that
Speaker 1: they had a really good perspective there of like not
Speaker 1: necessarily like I mean, there are some people who are
Speaker 1: like the sky is so beautiful, air pollution is down,
Speaker 1: like like coronavirus is a blessing, and no, that's very ghoulish,
Speaker 1: Like do not say that, Like that is the wrong
Speaker 1: attitude to have. But I think that like the opportunity
Speaker 1: it presents at least to like really change things up,
Speaker 1: it's some kind of it's still it's not going to
Speaker 1: happen on its own, but it's going to take work.
Speaker 1: And I think that was something that I took away
Speaker 1: from that. And I think it's like it does accelerated
Speaker 1: in two directions. Like there is the eco fascist people
Speaker 1: who are like the earth is cleansing itself by like
Speaker 1: killing poor people. It's like the group approach to uh, well,
Speaker 1: some of the some of the eco fascists and white
Speaker 1: supremacists are like drifting off of this and have podcasts
Speaker 1: about it that are like I explained coronavirus and why
Speaker 1: it's you know good in some way. Um, and those
Speaker 1: podcasts are like number one on Apple right now. Because
Speaker 1: people are still aren't monitoring things like this in any
Speaker 1: meaningful way. So it does feel Yeah, it just feels
Speaker 1: more insane. It was like what comes after hypernormalization. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm glad. I think maybe I've just blocked it
Speaker 1: out by now because I did drive by the crimes
Speaker 1: Global Warming is Good Billboard a few times because it's
Speaker 1: sort of near where I live now. It's actually in
Speaker 1: between our studio and where I live now. But uh,
Speaker 1: we're not going into the studio obviously. But is that
Speaker 1: what that whole deal is? Is that what her? Her? Her?
Speaker 1: I think it's we don't know. I mean, nobody who
Speaker 1: could say yeah. Well, people were like, you know, tagging
Speaker 1: Elon Musk on Twitter and being like, hey, why don't
Speaker 1: you because he fought to keep TUSLA factories open, and
Speaker 1: he wrote his letter to his employee saying that you
Speaker 1: were more likely to die in a car crash than
Speaker 1: from coronavirus US. So keep coming to work. And then
Speaker 1: people were like, hey, why do you convert these into
Speaker 1: ventilator factories like they're doing in Europe And he was like, well,
Speaker 1: if we ever ran out of ventilators, I would consider that.
Speaker 1: And everyone's like read the news, yeah, newspaper, like this
Speaker 1: is the chance for all of those techno crack guys
Speaker 1: to step up to the plate and like put their
Speaker 1: money where their mouth is, and none of them are
Speaker 1: doing it. They all yeah, it's disgusting. It's like none
Speaker 1: of them want to be have the legacy of being
Speaker 1: the person who like save the world. Yeah, which just
Speaker 1: weird considering they all have this messiah complex, but not
Speaker 1: when it actually matters, right, It's like a narcissistic messiah complex.
Speaker 1: Also like literally the good work of making masks. Oh
Speaker 1: really guy? Yeah? Yeah, well again, it's like on the
Speaker 1: flip side, there is this thing of people with three
Speaker 1: deep printers offering to print ventilators for free and print
Speaker 1: masks for hospital workers. Like there are a lot of
Speaker 1: people fighting, but it isn't any of the people with
Speaker 1: a lot of money. It's all the little people. And
Speaker 1: that's just been the story of everything lately anyway, and
Speaker 1: now it's like but in a crisis. Yeah, yeah, it's really.
Speaker 1: I mean I've been really my only outdoor activities have
Speaker 1: been going into volunteer in this kitchen, um, and it's
Speaker 1: it's just like it's it's heartening. Like if you want
Speaker 1: the opposite of being on social media all day and
Speaker 1: like feeling your like your head is about to explode
Speaker 1: because you've read about another senator who like dumped their
Speaker 1: stocks after they got the briefing about coronavirus, Like, the
Speaker 1: opposite of that is being among people who are like
Speaker 1: willing to go out and help like very impacted people,
Speaker 1: um through this. And there are lots of them out there,
Speaker 1: and like if you choose to put yourself among them,
Speaker 1: I swear it's it's very good brain vibes. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: have been out a little bit to support a group
Speaker 1: called Reclaiming Our Homes that is like inspired by Moms
Speaker 1: for Housing doing a similar action in l A, where
Speaker 1: they liberated a bunch of houses in El Serino that
Speaker 1: are owned by Caltrans. Those are the ones that have
Speaker 1: been vacant for twenty years, vacant for twenty years. Um,
Speaker 1: they opened up a few more of them for a
Speaker 1: few more families, and then like today, they sent in
Speaker 1: all these California Highway patrolmen to guard the remaining houses
Speaker 1: to make sure that no more houses were turned into houses.
Speaker 1: It's just insane. So it's so horrible. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: also interesting because, like the it's really hard to wrap
Speaker 1: your mind around how in l A and particular. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess in California this is going to impact on
Speaker 1: housed communities. And so I mean, we have rain coming,
Speaker 1: which by the time you threw this in the already
Speaker 1: be raining. But it's raining, it's cold, there's a pandemic.
Speaker 1: And then there are these houses that have been vacant
Speaker 1: for decades. It's it's you bought. Anyone could try to
Speaker 1: defend them as like a useful vacant space right now, right,
Speaker 1: it's evil because it's just evil. But you can support
Speaker 1: Reclaiming Our Homes project from home, um by calling There's
Speaker 1: a number I posted on my Twitter with ill taget
Speaker 1: I'll flag it. So yeah, support from home. You can
Speaker 1: still do things from home, even if it's just calling
Speaker 1: your council members to yell at them about getting people housed.
Speaker 1: Welcome back tonight call, we're talking about spring breaks. Theyll
Speaker 1: because it's still spring break March, and today we're talking
Speaker 1: about the most two thousand three movie ever made, the
Speaker 1: Real Cancoon. This movie came out when reality shows were
Speaker 1: getting really popular and the movie business was thinking maybe
Speaker 1: reality shows were the future of movies as well, that
Speaker 1: all people wanted was a reality show but longer and
Speaker 1: on screen. I mean, it's just the execution. It didn't
Speaker 1: land like they thought. They conducted a nationwide search for
Speaker 1: the sixteen hottest spring Breakers in America and ended up
Speaker 1: with these people who are also boring. That they make
Speaker 1: what might be one of the most boring movies ever made.
Speaker 1: But that, to me is what I think is interesting
Speaker 1: about it in a weird way. It's a it's in
Speaker 1: him a very tee. It's so boring. Heard so apparently
Speaker 1: loves it. Yeah, this is amazing to find out. So
Speaker 1: this was from the Globe and Mail. Uh, there's an
Speaker 1: article that we'll put in our show notes. Um Berner
Speaker 1: hurt Zog did catch one documentary he quote liked very much.
Speaker 1: Hurt Song says over the phone with the Globe and Mail.
Speaker 1: His voice is smooth and assured. It's a bit monotonal.
Speaker 1: He speaks monotonal, which do you think, guys? Anyway, what
Speaker 1: I forget going to talk to them who made it.
Speaker 1: It was about the spring break in Congcoon, Mexico, and
Speaker 1: the sole focus of the film was who who who
Speaker 1: would get laid first? It was so straightforward. I liked
Speaker 1: it for that is that Okay, oh yeah, somebody as
Speaker 1: somebody who has had the honor of sitting across the
Speaker 1: table from from Mr Hertzog, from her Hurtzog, I did
Speaker 1: my best. I think that. I think that really sums
Speaker 1: it up. It's a very it's a very hurt Zog
Speaker 1: opinion to have, because it is because I think even
Speaker 1: when you start to get into like why this film
Speaker 1: is a failure, these are all like arguments that Hertzog
Speaker 1: has about documentary, like this is the like I think
Speaker 1: for our eyes now this is such a tranceparently like
Speaker 1: doctored and kind of tweaked and and and voiceover reality
Speaker 1: product um. But I feel like that's totally his vibe though,
Speaker 1: is like you know, print print the legend uh like
Speaker 1: not the you know whatever? Wait, which do you print
Speaker 1: and which do not print? I forget print? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: put the legend. I don't really care about who, whether
Speaker 1: or not somebody was exactly saying that line in that context,
Speaker 1: that sort of thing, which is like kind of I
Speaker 1: feel like the first wave of sort of criticism around
Speaker 1: um reality TV was really about that, like, well, it's
Speaker 1: not reality. I think we've all kind of been a
Speaker 1: nerd to that at this point, right, because the documentary
Speaker 1: is also always like structured in in ways and narratives,
Speaker 1: And that's why we all like Ross mclwee's Sherman's March. Um,
Speaker 1: we all love it. We all love it. Have you
Speaker 1: guys seen it. It's just it's supposed to be a
Speaker 1: documentary about Sherman's March to the Sea. It's like a
Speaker 1: piece of Southern history. General Sherman and then tried to
Speaker 1: sell me on this before. It's so good, you would
Speaker 1: both love it. It's supposed to be the time to
Speaker 1: watch Sherman's. It ends up great. It ends up just
Speaker 1: being this guy going around the South and talking to
Speaker 1: all of his ex girlfriends and making a documentary just
Speaker 1: like about himself. And it's very good. But it's about
Speaker 1: how documentarily documentary is inherently personal. Nothing is objective, even
Speaker 1: the real Cancun, so do. The cast of characters is
Speaker 1: very I mean they were cast correct, Like these these
Speaker 1: people were scouted basically, they were scouted. Some of them
Speaker 1: seemed to be a su students. Yeah, but they're from
Speaker 1: all over. So you've got the twins of course, You've
Speaker 1: got the guy who's never had an alcohol before. Um,
Speaker 1: You've got Laura Ramsey who was then who is the
Speaker 1: only person who went on to have an acting career
Speaker 1: of these people, Um, it's a it's the casting at
Speaker 1: the beginning when they were interviewing, like I think it
Speaker 1: was the third casting call, when they were interviewing everyone
Speaker 1: that was I thought the best part of this totally
Speaker 1: like a total Christopher guest type open yeah, And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, is this going to be like a
Speaker 1: comic gem and then it was not. It not. It's
Speaker 1: very disappointing. That part also feels a little bit like
Speaker 1: pornography when they're like, so do you like to party?
Speaker 1: Tell us about partying, especially when they have the twins
Speaker 1: to be like, so you guys don't like to watch
Speaker 1: each other naked? And they're like gross. I was like,
Speaker 1: what are you like, we're gonna They're like, we're going
Speaker 1: to challenge that notion later in this movie as one
Speaker 1: of the tiny plot arcs. Yeah, they yeah, one of
Speaker 1: the like they're they're barely arcs. They're like plot bumps there, pimples.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I didn't that feel relaxing in a way
Speaker 1: right now, something so absurdly low stakes? No, because, um, well,
Speaker 1: for one, there's so much body contact in this all
Speaker 1: I was doing about body contacts and how much I
Speaker 1: miss it. Um, there's a lot of that. And then uh,
Speaker 1: it was so the twins, particularly, Um, we're so cokey
Speaker 1: that I couldn't um like I was. I felt like
Speaker 1: I caught it by osmosis, Like, I'm glad you were
Speaker 1: bringing this up. It's such a strong reaction to the twins.
Speaker 1: The twins are horrible, Like there's something really about them. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I will say all twins have a connection that we
Speaker 1: non twins can never understand. It's not that it's not
Speaker 1: their connection though, it's like their vibe. It's very weird.
Speaker 1: And Joquin she like, doesn't it remind you how bad
Speaker 1: the early two thousands? Also like again, just like, don't
Speaker 1: romanticize this. It was gross. Nobody had eyebrows. Still, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think like you are in the other direction with
Speaker 1: the eyebrows as well. See after this, we're gonna eyebrows
Speaker 1: are going back to the land. I agree. I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't even think of like now. It feels also
Speaker 1: super unheard of to do a whole plot line around
Speaker 1: like this person has stated that they don't want to drink,
Speaker 1: and so we're going to make it a gag to
Speaker 1: peer pressure them to drink. Like that feels not like
Speaker 1: something like something that would happen in a movie, like
Speaker 1: a scripted film. Um, like an American Pie or something
Speaker 1: specifically is from Can Hardly Wait. They play the music
Speaker 1: cue from Can Hardly Wait. It's the cool nerd from
Speaker 1: Can Hardly Wait to get drunk and becomes cool and
Speaker 1: everyone likes him. Yeah, but also that guy is like
Speaker 1: the most the only real character. Oh but I would
Speaker 1: actually I would argue against that. I think he is
Speaker 1: the most doctored character in the whole show. Right. They
Speaker 1: committed to it. They were like, if you're gonna make
Speaker 1: them these types on a spring break trip, then like,
Speaker 1: at least give us some editing that makes it seem
Speaker 1: like these people have any personalities at all. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: the best scenes are like with him and um who
Speaker 1: is the there's like the two black guys and there's
Speaker 1: a bigger guy who doesn't get any girls. Um what
Speaker 1: was his name? And paul I think, yeah, yeah Jarrelle
Speaker 1: So is Darrell, and they like have this really sweet
Speaker 1: friendship where they're just sort of commiserating about like not
Speaker 1: being able to talk to girls, and in a way
Speaker 1: that doesn't feel like sad secky, like whiney MOPy, why
Speaker 1: don't like in selly, why don't girls like me? It's
Speaker 1: just like these you're just figuring out life and it's
Speaker 1: it was a nice relationship. They're in a different movie
Speaker 1: that is fun. Yeah, and that plot line too with
Speaker 1: is the Girls Sky that he likes. Yeah, yeah, with
Speaker 1: that plot line of like the girl like t too,
Speaker 1: of the people in the house getting sort of just
Speaker 1: learning the whole time. And then he hooks up with
Speaker 1: somebody else and she's like, well, you're supposed to wait
Speaker 1: and fight harder for me. Yeah. He's like, we're only
Speaker 1: here for four days, right, Well, she she came in
Speaker 1: with like a real wasn't she the one in the
Speaker 1: costume video at the beginning to where she had like
Speaker 1: this this whole speech about how she only wants to
Speaker 1: be with a guy where she's like wondering where he
Speaker 1: is double she started being hard to get. She doesn't like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was like the nice guys, those are the ones
Speaker 1: that I like, don't end up with because I'm I
Speaker 1: like the guys. He seems like ahead of she seemed
Speaker 1: from now you know what I mean, like the most
Speaker 1: relatable person in this movie on the show, because it
Speaker 1: just well, that's the thing is like, it demonstrates why
Speaker 1: reality TV baby does work better in a TV format.
Speaker 1: There's not enough time if you build anything out on
Speaker 1: these people. I've been watching Bravo's Summer House, which is
Speaker 1: basically like this, but summer and over a long period
Speaker 1: of time, over an entire summer, but only on the weekends. Um,
Speaker 1: and we're only recorded on weekends. No, they only go
Speaker 1: to the Summer House on the weekends. So much transportation,
Speaker 1: too much drive, They're going to just stay in the
Speaker 1: Summer House once. Why don't you just live in the
Speaker 1: Summer House. But like when you good hits right, No, guys,
Speaker 1: you have to listen to my new podcast, Summer House Quarantine,
Speaker 1: that I've been making to stop myself from going crazy, um,
Speaker 1: because they all work in Manhattan and they that's how
Speaker 1: they can afford the share house for the summer is
Speaker 1: that they have the summer house Mont Talk oh monk okay,
Speaker 1: And the main characters in the first two seasons are
Speaker 1: twins called The Work Is Twins. They called themselves the
Speaker 1: Work Is Circus in a really forced way over and
Speaker 1: over again. Yeah, it's not gonna have to listen to
Speaker 1: my podcast about it. But it made me also understand
Speaker 1: Emily's love of Terrace House because I think just spending
Speaker 1: weeks with people makes you develop affection for them. Where
Speaker 1: you're spending it's not a forced like you don't have
Speaker 1: to be around them all the time, so you're just
Speaker 1: having a normal life alongside people. Yeah, and more boring people.
Speaker 1: Boring people reveal layer is over a long period of time.
Speaker 1: This is just like, none of you guys are using
Speaker 1: this opportunity that I get into terrace House that I
Speaker 1: will watch terrace House. If you watch Summer House terrace
Speaker 1: House for summer House, that's the barter in the new
Speaker 1: barter economy. I'll watch use the free Emily, I'll be
Speaker 1: your past who's bartering? Um? Yeah, I need watched. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I need to. I mean I haven't even really started
Speaker 1: the watching part of this whole experience because I only
Speaker 1: just got a couch yesterday. But I I will be
Speaker 1: uh spending a lot of time on the couch. So's
Speaker 1: what I'll say. Though, there is a limit to the
Speaker 1: amount of screen time that any human can tolerate, and
Speaker 1: you come up against it faster than you think. You think,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch ten movies every day and it'll be fine.
Speaker 1: But I can watch like a movie or two every day,
Speaker 1: and then I need to like be off a screen.
Speaker 1: I want to get into puzzles. Yeah. Well, I've been
Speaker 1: doing a lot of cross words. Well, speaking of things
Speaker 1: that are pleasantly monotonous, back to real cancoon real quick? Um. Actually,
Speaker 1: I don't think it was that pleasantly monotonous. I found
Speaker 1: it very pleasantly monotonous, and that is why I recommended it.
Speaker 1: I like Werner Herzog enjoy well. It does feel like
Speaker 1: it does make you really um makes you aware of
Speaker 1: I think the particular like Bunn and Mury slash MTV
Speaker 1: style reality um television or media making because so much
Speaker 1: so many of the rhythms of it are still even
Speaker 1: though this was you know, five years before Jersey Shore.
Speaker 1: They well, that's what I was gonna say. That's what's
Speaker 1: funny is that this was a failure and then they
Speaker 1: essentially did the same thing but with like more interesting people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: over a longer period of time and that Jersey Shore.
Speaker 1: But that's also like, it's not just that they found
Speaker 1: more interesting people, it's that people understood how to be
Speaker 1: on reality television more by the time the Jersey Shore
Speaker 1: rolled around. And then even like the best I mean,
Speaker 1: the first season, it is still the best season of
Speaker 1: Jersey Jersey Shore, because they know how to be on
Speaker 1: reality television, but they don't know what they look like yet.
Speaker 1: On reality television. Yes, they become self aware. It goes
Speaker 1: downhill so fast, true, but the first season show is
Speaker 1: sort of pleasant because of that. The first season of
Speaker 1: Jersey Shore is actually like it's great. I think that
Speaker 1: was great because its own thing that there was a
Speaker 1: weird kind of like innocence and it had kind of
Speaker 1: a genuine heart that in retrospect you're like, no, was there,
Speaker 1: Like I think at the time we were all sort
Speaker 1: of being a little skeptical about it, or maybe maybe not,
Speaker 1: but I mean it was fascinating because like half of
Speaker 1: them weren't Italian, and it's sort of ship the universality
Speaker 1: of Guido culture. Yeah, that's a thing that anyone can
Speaker 1: decide is there is their identity, but also beyond the
Speaker 1: Guido culture thing, and beyond it being like a document
Speaker 1: of you know, a subculture. I guess I I feel
Speaker 1: like and I can't remember if I've said this on
Speaker 1: the podcast or just to you guys off offline, but
Speaker 1: like I do feel that the more I think about
Speaker 1: Jersey Shore, that and more it feels like this sort
Speaker 1: of um multi year project to like exercise two thousands
Speaker 1: culture out of pop culture, because it was basically like
Speaker 1: showing the most exaggerated cartoonist version of all the stuff
Speaker 1: that you see in the Real Cancoon and all the
Speaker 1: stuff that had been on seasons of Real World before
Speaker 1: that and other reality shows, and and the the the
Speaker 1: type of clubbing, the methodology of clubbing, like the music,
Speaker 1: like all of it kind of like just pumped up
Speaker 1: to eleven to like make it into like an object
Speaker 1: of mockery for a lot of people. Even though like
Speaker 1: I would agree that there's like a lot of part
Speaker 1: in that show, most of it is sort of a
Speaker 1: send up of this totally. It's like a satire, but
Speaker 1: it also it has more of there's something to believe in.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm saying this, but with Jersey more
Speaker 1: you can there's texture that when I was watching the
Speaker 1: real Cancun, I think I expected that same texture of
Speaker 1: just like, oh, that person is so ridiculous, But like
Speaker 1: with time you kind of grow fond of them and
Speaker 1: you realize like that they're getting this kind of sense
Speaker 1: of who they are through this remove and canco And
Speaker 1: you're right that it's so even though it's only a
Speaker 1: few years of five years before you said five years
Speaker 1: before Jersey short because this was two thousand four key
Speaker 1: out Jersey shows oh nine, I believe so yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's not that much time that's past. But the difference
Speaker 1: in I mean, these people I think are just so
Speaker 1: much more like not reserved, but their their personalities are
Speaker 1: flat in real which I was surprised to see. And
Speaker 1: it's also just like they made a very one oh
Speaker 1: one level mistake of just casting a bunch of like
Speaker 1: interchangeable blondes to that you literally cannot tell apart, like
Speaker 1: I couldn't understand what's going on for so long? So
Speaker 1: I'm like, who's that? And all the like half the
Speaker 1: dudes look the same too. It's just like and I
Speaker 1: thought shows that better about that over time, like not Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just want to make out Roman from Party Down. Yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: party Down. I saw somebody on social media starting a
Speaker 1: party down watch for the first Yeah, that's a good downer,
Speaker 1: but a fantastic show recommended. Um. I I think also
Speaker 1: Jersey Shore came out of the the MTV documentaries, the
Speaker 1: MTV True Life. They had a few episodes that are
Speaker 1: true life. I'm going to the Jersey Shore, and they
Speaker 1: must have known always that those episodes were particularly good
Speaker 1: and that that was just a gold mine reality television.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and it's and that's the difference in like,
Speaker 1: you know, whoever is producing these episodes, those episodes of
Speaker 1: true life where it's like you stumble across a scene
Speaker 1: that has legs, it has like you know, has some
Speaker 1: places you can go within it, um as opposed to
Speaker 1: just setting up this sort of um cookie cutter situation
Speaker 1: of like we're just going to throw a bunch of
Speaker 1: young hot people in a house and give them alcohol.
Speaker 1: That's not a scene like that's just like a that's
Speaker 1: a very um, actually pretty banal situation as opposed to
Speaker 1: like this very specific place in New Jersey where a
Speaker 1: very specific kind of like party culture happens. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about Jersey Shore because I've been watching
Speaker 1: Summer House, which is basically Jersey Shore but with wasps,
Speaker 1: and it's just interesting. Is like ethnography because again they're
Speaker 1: kind of boring and repressed, but then occasionally they do
Speaker 1: you get really drunk and reveal some weird thing about themselves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a subculture in its own way. Repression is a subculture.
Speaker 1: Um well, I had never watched this. I remember it
Speaker 1: being in theaters though. I feel like I had some
Speaker 1: friends who worked at the movie theater that summer didn't
Speaker 1: watched it, and then a month later it was like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is just straight because it was it lost money
Speaker 1: at the box office. Yeah. I think I watched it
Speaker 1: on ti vo maybe like the first ti vo. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: I thought it was oh four, Wikipedia saying it was
Speaker 1: it was oh three that it came out, So it
Speaker 1: must have been about a spring break a year before tests.
Speaker 1: You're going to spring break around this time, but your
Speaker 1: experience realistic. I mean, I didn't go to Cancoon, but
Speaker 1: it's it was totally realistic to me. Uh. The only
Speaker 1: thing that wasn't realistic was the fact that there were
Speaker 1: so many people who were who had like these kind
Speaker 1: of inner relationships, whereas in my experience it's like you
Speaker 1: and your small group and then you hang out with
Speaker 1: a couple of people and then the next night different people. Um.
Speaker 1: I feel so embarrassed every time. And honestly, this whole
Speaker 1: month has been a therapeutic delve into like how do
Speaker 1: I feel about my time doing all those spring breaks?
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it it was pretty faithful. A
Speaker 1: lot of like I mean the did you go to
Speaker 1: a club like Club Cocabonga? Yeah, but I well, I
Speaker 1: actually don't remember. But I was thinking when I was
Speaker 1: reading the Wikipedia about this about the real Cancoon. After
Speaker 1: I finished it, I was like, man, I think I
Speaker 1: booked um or no, it was it was after we
Speaker 1: were after I was reading the articles about spring break
Speaker 1: like not being canceled and people continuing to go on
Speaker 1: spring break with coronavirus, I was like, I think I
Speaker 1: booked through sts or maybe it was like s t A,
Speaker 1: but it was I was like man, these travel agencies
Speaker 1: that exclusively work in spring break, it is like it's
Speaker 1: still the same agencies, which seemed right, It's probably in
Speaker 1: the same It's probably the same since like where the
Speaker 1: boys are, it's probably probably UM. But yeah, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the names of any of the places
Speaker 1: that we went to. But as I talked about in
Speaker 1: our newsletter for spring break monthum and if you want
Speaker 1: our newsletter, you should subscribe to our Patreon. But honestly,
Speaker 1: the best spring break was the shankiest spring break, which
Speaker 1: was UM in Panama City Beach, and that had a
Speaker 1: club that was very real. Cancoon? Did you do like that?
Speaker 1: And I want to go so bad? It looked so fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been the clubs in Vegas. That's the
Speaker 1: closest thing. I mean, now those clubs sound appealing because
Speaker 1: we're we've been under quarantine, and like Emily said, did
Speaker 1: you just be like a bunch of bodies smashing together? Now?
Speaker 1: My first thought is like, that's so we're responsible, and
Speaker 1: then it's like, only now in general, that's actually maybe good.
Speaker 1: I saw one business advertising a strip club that they
Speaker 1: were going to stay open and offer dances through a
Speaker 1: glass panel and also antibacterial wrestling. Wait, that's a waste
Speaker 1: of anti Are they wrestling in antibacterial bell? Supposedly but
Speaker 1: probably not really. But it's really a funny image and
Speaker 1: a great idea because it did make me think, like,
Speaker 1: what if everyone was just doused in antibacterial it wouldare
Speaker 1: but we could just party at Club Cocoa Bongo. That's true.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to Club Cocoa Bongo. I'm sure. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's like thriving right now. I'm sure with disease. UM. Well,
Speaker 1: I was glad to watch l Cancoon, a very important
Speaker 1: chapter in the history of American spring break. Um. But
Speaker 1: we'll be back next week with another episode of Nightcall.
Speaker 1: Will still be churning out the Epps from home, so
Speaker 1: we expect no gap in our broadcasting, So stick with us,
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