Speaker 1: It's eleven forty eight pm in sun Spot, New Mexico,
Speaker 1: and you're listening tonight. Call Hello and welcome tonight Call
Speaker 1: a podcast for your strange days and lonely nights. Here
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, I am Test Lynch with Molly Lambert,
Speaker 1: and joining us in New York is Emily Oshida. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: y Hi. We're now separated by an entire nation. Once again,
Speaker 1: You'll be back. I will literally be back in a month.
Speaker 1: Yea more of that hot live podcast vibe. Also in
Speaker 1: the astral plane. We we meet in the pod plane.
Speaker 1: It's true, Um, I wanted to start off real quick
Speaker 1: by shouting out a movie. It's so funny how infrequently
Speaker 1: I talked about movies on this podcast, despite it like
Speaker 1: taking up my entire the entire rest of my life.
Speaker 1: Did you know you're a film critic? I forget sometimes
Speaker 1: I'm working on it, trying to trying to get the
Speaker 1: proper amount of takes to officially be considered a film critic.
Speaker 1: I feel like we should have like Emily's Movie Corner,
Speaker 1: Emily's movie Corner, what's the movie in in Emily's movie Corner.
Speaker 1: This week we're going to be talking about Mandy. Um
Speaker 1: a movie that I have not reviewed because um, I
Speaker 1: am buddies with um. The co writer of it, Aaron
Speaker 1: Stewart on with some bad ideas on Twitter. Um, he
Speaker 1: Panos wrote the story. He co wrote the script with him,
Speaker 1: so it's like it's officially Panos the story, but he,
Speaker 1: like you know, helped make it become a movie. And
Speaker 1: what a movie. What a movie. It's Molly. You watched it.
Speaker 1: It's available now on demand on iTunes. It's in some theaters.
Speaker 1: Check your check your local listens. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of Alamo drafthouses. Yeah, I gotta say that because Emily
Speaker 1: shamed us about watching it on a computer and said,
Speaker 1: come on, go watch it in a theater, which you know,
Speaker 1: she's right, but I definitely looked it up and it
Speaker 1: was only playing in Santa Monica. Also, even Nick Cage
Speaker 1: has acknowledged in a recent interview that is just really
Speaker 1: expensive to go to the movie. Like he said, he
Speaker 1: was like, it's a hundred dollars. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I was like, just sell one of your haunted mansions.
Speaker 1: Nick afford it. Um, Yeah, I didn't know it was
Speaker 1: only as Santa Monica. That's a bummer. No, I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it, and then I was totally like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: the person who's looking up where it is in New York,
Speaker 1: like everywhere in New York and like only at the
Speaker 1: Santa Monica Emily. So chainsaw fights are way less big
Speaker 1: in l A, apparently, unless you're very far west. It
Speaker 1: seems so counterintuitive to because I think of so many
Speaker 1: big like genre fans than people who write about film
Speaker 1: who are really into horror stuff. Maybe out I don't
Speaker 1: even know that. I watched it. Um. Watching it in
Speaker 1: my bed though, was also like a great decision. I
Speaker 1: watched it in my bed last night at midnight headphones.
Speaker 1: Uh no, seriously listen to the Johan Johanssen his last one.
Speaker 1: It's the last one, I think. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's officially his last one. It might not the last
Speaker 1: one he actually wrote, but out posthumously, I think I
Speaker 1: saw that was he the person somebody who was involved
Speaker 1: in the sounds on Mother was also? Was he involved
Speaker 1: in this? It is an oral ind visual our, our
Speaker 1: roll and visual delight. But I'm saying when a testament
Speaker 1: to it that even from my small screen in my bed,
Speaker 1: it was great you know it was. It was a
Speaker 1: great midnight movie. I was like, Oh, this is the
Speaker 1: perfect time to watch this, And then I wrote you
Speaker 1: guys an email because I was like, this is the
Speaker 1: third week in a row I watched a super scary
Speaker 1: movie on Sunday night. Um, yeah, send you into the
Speaker 1: week with with the shivers, Send me into Sunday night
Speaker 1: Monday morning with not sleeping because movies are scary. So
Speaker 1: the movie is kind of I mean, it's more or
Speaker 1: less a straightforward revenge film, except stylistically it's just drawing
Speaker 1: from hinting Panos is deep and lifelong love of heavy
Speaker 1: metal and heavy metal album art specifically. Um, all of
Speaker 1: the kind of visuals of it, Like every single frame
Speaker 1: feels like it could be an album cover. It feels
Speaker 1: like it comes it comes from the same universe as
Speaker 1: heavy metal. The movie, it's great. Everybody should see it.
Speaker 1: It is super entertaining and just you know, Nicolas Cage,
Speaker 1: great Nicolas Cage performance. I think I think it's mostly
Speaker 1: liked by everybody, and then some people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's a great, ridic careless movie, and I actually think
Speaker 1: it's like very sad and moving to Like I think
Speaker 1: that Nick Cage's performance is kind of legitimately heartbreaking. Is
Speaker 1: he's got you know, they wanted him for the Cult
Speaker 1: Leader and he was like, no way, I have to
Speaker 1: play Red And then it took a year and he
Speaker 1: finally got it. Well, I like the guy who plays
Speaker 1: the cult lead. No, I didn't know that. It's a
Speaker 1: good fact. Tests who hasn't seen the movie yet, you know,
Speaker 1: it's but a fair Um. The guy who played the
Speaker 1: cult leader was also really great. Um. He had a
Speaker 1: real buffalo bill vibe vikings right. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I thought of him as like evil Speccoli to be fair,
Speaker 1: like real Speccoli is evil Spiccoli more evil fictional evil spo.
Speaker 1: He has this kind of like surfer dude hair. Look, Um,
Speaker 1: all the people in the guy like the iggy pop
Speaker 1: I make up to. Yeah, he's just he's he's a
Speaker 1: freaky man. And you know, Nicholas Cages, I want to say,
Speaker 1: restrained for much of this movie. Are you serious? Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm totally serious. I only saw the trailer and I'm
Speaker 1: still going to come burn. It takes a long time,
Speaker 1: you know, but it is like it made me think
Speaker 1: about like that thing of people, you know how like
Speaker 1: Stephen King hates the shining because he's like, you know,
Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson's gonna get crazy at some point, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's satisfying to wait for that to happen for
Speaker 1: like an hour and a half, you know, And then yeah,
Speaker 1: there's just the first like half or third or so
Speaker 1: of it. My friend so Hale saw it and texted
Speaker 1: me afterwards and he's like, the first third is relationship goals,
Speaker 1: like because it's just Nick Cage and Andrew Risboro who
Speaker 1: plays Mandy his wife, just chilling out in their forest
Speaker 1: cabin like smoking pot and like drawing sea demons and
Speaker 1: stuff and talking about the planets, and it just seems
Speaker 1: so chill and beautiful. And so when you know, when
Speaker 1: it inevitably falls apart or gets taken away from him.
Speaker 1: So the deal is that like a lot it's it's
Speaker 1: also it's set in three right, and they're like reclusive
Speaker 1: in the beginning, Yeah, they're They're like they just want
Speaker 1: to do their own thing. In the fours, man, that's
Speaker 1: just goals in general, is to like back to the
Speaker 1: beginning of our lives. And it is one of the
Speaker 1: most actually romantic looking relationships I've ever seen on film. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they just like sit around and draw like a demon,
Speaker 1: horn things together and like watch horror movies on TV.
Speaker 1: And I love the shot where they're just like watching
Speaker 1: some ridiculous looking movie and it was Yeah. There's also
Speaker 1: there's a fake commercial in the middle that's directed by
Speaker 1: the guy who directed Too Many, Too Many. Really yeah, yeah, test,
Speaker 1: So now she's gonna watch called and it's like a
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Speaker 1: good job of also being like, like I was like
Speaker 1: fake real? Is this a real commercial? This seems like
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Speaker 1: Hey guys, speaking of homework, and also people out there
Speaker 1: who are up late for whatever reason, maybe because of homework,
Speaker 1: maybe not. Can we take a night email? Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: take a night Okay. This comes from Carly, so hey,
Speaker 1: night call. It's four am, and I'm so sorry for
Speaker 1: this mess. It's okay, Carly. I love your podcast so
Speaker 1: much and I've had a million thoughts to email you
Speaker 1: about but I always mean to and later forget or
Speaker 1: by the time I remember. It's about a topic from
Speaker 1: a Path episode, and I feel like a ship head
Speaker 1: mentioning it when it's irrelevant. Now, So I guess my
Speaker 1: random thought I've had at three am for the past
Speaker 1: week is that Molly has a doppelganger that I'm aware of,
Speaker 1: and it's Abby Russell with a link to Abby Russell's handle.
Speaker 1: She's Internet weird in my ideal way, like Molly or Darcy. Also,
Speaker 1: please have Darcy on again all the time. Where is
Speaker 1: her podcast? Darcy r Darcy has a podcast? What's her podcast?
Speaker 1: It's called d s A which has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the Democratic Socialist stands for. I think Darcy sewn
Speaker 1: and Andrew okay, um so so on brand listen to
Speaker 1: Darcy's podcast. We love Darcy. Darcy's a genius. She is
Speaker 1: go on so but yeah, you're both super cool and
Speaker 1: I don't want to imply she's like your lost twin
Speaker 1: or anything, but you both reminded me of the other.
Speaker 1: That's all. Sorry, And then she says, we don't have
Speaker 1: to read this on the year, but we just did
Speaker 1: so well doppel. First off, I want to get out
Speaker 1: of the way for Carly um. Our podcast is flat circle,
Speaker 1: and like, don't do not be afraid to email us
Speaker 1: our calls about any topic that we've ever discussed, even
Speaker 1: if it's like from like eight years ago. If we've
Speaker 1: been doing the podcast. Topics are the all topics are
Speaker 1: in the eighth third at all times exactly, yes, all
Speaker 1: fair game. So so please send us everything. But Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this girl. Now. I looked her. I
Speaker 1: looked her up. What do you think? Yeah, totally, she
Speaker 1: is Molly. She does. She is. She does kind of
Speaker 1: look like me. She's making face in photos that you make,
Speaker 1: and she also has the same jackets that you have
Speaker 1: when she does what I like to call the Molly
Speaker 1: Lambert tumbler expression, which is kind of like a head
Speaker 1: tilted back. Very it's very it's very uh spot on. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's funny when somebody tells you that someone is your
Speaker 1: doppelganger and then you're like, well, what does that mean?
Speaker 1: The first post I ever wrote, maybe for this recording,
Speaker 1: one of the first posts I a wrote on the
Speaker 1: Internet was about how some friends of mine were like, hey,
Speaker 1: there's this comedian who totally reminds us of you exactly,
Speaker 1: and I was like, what does that mean? What am
Speaker 1: I like? And then it was Morgan Murphy and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, totally. And then I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: am I a type of person? Like is like stoner
Speaker 1: redhead with like a like a dead pan, like just
Speaker 1: a type and we're all like this type? Um, And
Speaker 1: then I posted about it and then I was like,
Speaker 1: is that weird. Is Morgan going to like find this
Speaker 1: and think it's the super Um I have met Morgan. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's great. She's the reason nobody would ever actually mistakes
Speaker 1: for each other. She is super tall. She's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have we have differences. She's she's tall, she loves baseball,
Speaker 1: there are things. Um. I think she's funny though and great. Um.
Speaker 1: And I you know, I was like flattered that they
Speaker 1: thought that, but I was all so like, very like,
Speaker 1: what what is my personality like from the outside. Have
Speaker 1: you guys had doppelgangers that people thought were you? I
Speaker 1: feel like, no, I think that's I think it's a
Speaker 1: It must be an interesting feeling, kind of like having
Speaker 1: a sibling, I guess too. Or you can like look
Speaker 1: at somebody and say, oh, you come from the same
Speaker 1: dream pool as me, even though a doppelganger is a
Speaker 1: little more eerie than that, I think, But I've never
Speaker 1: really had that experience. The only person I've ever been
Speaker 1: really compared to it all is Byork, and I think
Speaker 1: it as a huge compliment, But we don't really actually
Speaker 1: look that much like I had a doppelganger. It maybe
Speaker 1: one doppelganger, it maybe multiple doppelgangers. But there's one who
Speaker 1: lives in my like general neighborhood, and people are often
Speaker 1: like texting me that they saw they saw me at
Speaker 1: the grocery store where I always am, But it's not me,
Speaker 1: it's the other person, because she goes to different grocery stores. Yes.
Speaker 1: And then someone sent me a picture I think from
Speaker 1: the Last Bookstore and I was Molly, and I did
Speaker 1: a reading at the last bookstore like a year and
Speaker 1: a half ago or something, and someone took a picture
Speaker 1: of this other girl in the background of a photo
Speaker 1: at the last bookstore about on a different day than
Speaker 1: the one we'd been there, and was like, look, there
Speaker 1: you are the last bookstore and it looks so much
Speaker 1: like me that I was like, was that is that me?
Speaker 1: That there was some photo on the internet once that
Speaker 1: I like stared at it for so long because I
Speaker 1: didn't know if it was me or not. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: a weird feeling, like it almost because sometimes you see
Speaker 1: a picture of yourself and it doesn't look like you,
Speaker 1: so it opens the possibility, you know, the photo really
Speaker 1: looks like you. That's the whole thing about photos is
Speaker 1: that everybody can look so many different ways. It makes
Speaker 1: you like or like, from one angle, you look totally
Speaker 1: different and it kind of shakes your Everybody is like
Speaker 1: that Seinfeld episode about the girl who like looks completely
Speaker 1: different face to face girl to face girl. I I
Speaker 1: relate to that because I'm always like, doesn't everybody look
Speaker 1: like good sometimes and like horrible sometimes, depending on like
Speaker 1: lighting and situation. It's also like when you see people
Speaker 1: who are who have wet hair and they look totally different.
Speaker 1: For a long time, I really didn't like anyone with
Speaker 1: wet hair, putting myself the deal break celeb face, I mean,
Speaker 1: trust nothing. Um celeb face has been posting a lot
Speaker 1: of really spooky uh edits recently that involved people just
Speaker 1: like shaving like the smallest amount off their waist that
Speaker 1: you would never notice, but you realize that every famous
Speaker 1: hot girl on Instagram is like photo shopping her waist
Speaker 1: to be just like tiny. It's so weird everything. And
Speaker 1: he finally got it. Took me forever to get accepted
Speaker 1: by um celeb face, you got in, but I finally
Speaker 1: got let in, and now I can see all the secrets.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I feel like sometimes I'm confused about
Speaker 1: what I'm supposed to take away from celeb face, I
Speaker 1: have to say, well, I don't know if anybody has
Speaker 1: an experience with a doppelgang, or we'd love to hear
Speaker 1: about it, or if you ever became friends with your
Speaker 1: doppel ganger, or if you discovered that you were actually
Speaker 1: twins separated at birth or cousins. I have a come
Speaker 1: friends with all my duppelgangers. Well, isn't that nice for you?
Speaker 1: Form an army army of me guys tying it all?
Speaker 1: You have you guys seen Three Identical? I was just
Speaker 1: going to say, I'm dying to see Three Identical? Do
Speaker 1: you know about it? Documentary about triplets that were separated
Speaker 1: at birth and found out about each other. That should
Speaker 1: be a future movie corner. I watched the first like
Speaker 1: two thirds of it on a plane, and I haven't
Speaker 1: seen the ending, and I don't know if anything else
Speaker 1: crazy happens, so I'm kind of in suspense. I would
Speaker 1: finish it up later for sure. Uh yeah, maybe we
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Speaker 1: speaking about secrets, you guys, we were alerted to the
Speaker 1: fact that a new Mexico observe tory had shut down
Speaker 1: mysteriously a couple of weeks ago on the night Call
Speaker 1: Facebook UM. Basically, there there's been an update in this,
Speaker 1: but we wanted to have a brief chat because it's
Speaker 1: it's mysterious and we like mysterious things. So the National
Speaker 1: Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, which is run by
Speaker 1: the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy or AURA,
Speaker 1: was um shut down and evacuated, and then the FBI
Speaker 1: got involved, UM, and so everybody was like trying to
Speaker 1: find information and they didn't find any so they assumed
Speaker 1: that an alien had been spotted in a telescope. Uh.
Speaker 1: That was one conspiracy theory. There were a lot of
Speaker 1: other ones. UM. So the FBI wasn't like giving any
Speaker 1: information even to local law enforcement, and everybody was in
Speaker 1: the dark about it UM and the fact that they
Speaker 1: got involved so quickly was weirding everybody out. So the
Speaker 1: director of the observatory, whose name is James mcinteer, issued
Speaker 1: a statement. At first of all, he was like, there's
Speaker 1: no way that the telescope caught an alien because if
Speaker 1: there are aliens, they're probably microscopic and so the distance
Speaker 1: is too great whatever, Right, they're just bacteria have our homeside.
Speaker 1: But it's bacteria. But THENLI yesterday, so for listeners. A
Speaker 1: week ago, another statement came from AURA, which UM reads
Speaker 1: in part, AURA has been cooperating with an ongoing law
Speaker 1: enforcement investigation of criminal activity that occurred at Sacramento Peak.
Speaker 1: During this time, we became concerned that a suspect in
Speaker 1: the investigation potentially posed a threat to the safety of
Speaker 1: local staff and residents. For this reason, or a temporarily
Speaker 1: vacated the facility and ceased science activities at this location,
Speaker 1: which is so vague if you're trying to put people
Speaker 1: at ease and be like, nothing creepy or weird is
Speaker 1: happening here. UM, So a terrorist was working at the
Speaker 1: or it sounds like maybe like a disgruntled employee. We
Speaker 1: don't know, We don't you think they think this happened
Speaker 1: like the same week that they found what I'm looking
Speaker 1: this up now, seventy two signals from an alien galaxy, yes,
Speaker 1: three billion light years away. And I had originally conflated
Speaker 1: these two news stories because I thought that they found
Speaker 1: the signals and then shut down the facility, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, guys, this is It's like,
Speaker 1: that's so much better than what really, haven't they have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with each other at all, but they
Speaker 1: shut it down because they were like, we achieved our
Speaker 1: goal at the end, Yeah, we're done, we should accomplish No,
Speaker 1: but this is like, uh, this one was at the
Speaker 1: Green Bank Telescope, so it's like a completely different place.
Speaker 1: I still got very excited about it. Well, they're not
Speaker 1: not related. All these things are happening in outer space. Also,
Speaker 1: I think it's super weird because if it were just
Speaker 1: a disfrountled employee or somebody, you know, like a pretty
Speaker 1: basic crime, then it would have been handled by law enforcement,
Speaker 1: right instead of going to the FBI. What if there's
Speaker 1: like a bomb involved or something. Sorry for being the
Speaker 1: skeptic and not just saying it was obviously aliens. No.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like interesting because I guess like perhaps
Speaker 1: the FBI could have gotten involved that quickly if it
Speaker 1: was it was like a Russian spy or something like
Speaker 1: who knows it cares about the spots. Yes, um, I
Speaker 1: love that it's in a place called Sunspot, New Mexico
Speaker 1: also Future nightcalled Commune location. I'm I'm like a little
Speaker 1: nervous about New Mexico in general. You guys are way
Speaker 1: more open to the new the desert. I'm terrified of
Speaker 1: the desert. Test is afraid of the desert, which I respect.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this before. I'm very afraid of the desert.
Speaker 1: I'm also afraid of the desert because I respect it.
Speaker 1: It's like the ocean. You're like, it's so big. It's
Speaker 1: the opposite of the ocean. Actually, well they both were,
Speaker 1: Like I find they're just as hostile to human life.
Speaker 1: I find their hostility welcoming because it's like it's reassuring
Speaker 1: to people don't want to be a part of a
Speaker 1: club that would have you, Like, it's reassuring to be
Speaker 1: like there are things so much glader than humans and
Speaker 1: bigger than me. I like that. That's it's cool about
Speaker 1: outer space. I just don't like feeling dry is like
Speaker 1: really what that's the main The main thing is not
Speaker 1: wanting to be dry. But I went to New Mexico
Speaker 1: up a year ago, and um, I was totally like
Speaker 1: shocked because there was rain because it's high up. There's
Speaker 1: like rain and snow in Santa Fe. But just like
Speaker 1: in tusd like well on like I guess it's hot
Speaker 1: and tuside, but it's like you get the rain where
Speaker 1: it's like very sudden dramatic rain and then ten seconds
Speaker 1: later it's gone, Right. We live in Los Angeles, which
Speaker 1: is super hot and dry and it never rains. You
Speaker 1: can pretend that it's not the desert, but it's not
Speaker 1: the desert. It is a savannah and it's also several
Speaker 1: ecosystems connected. Another thing from the Facebook Nightcall is thank
Speaker 1: you for posting on the Facebook Nightcall. Oh I love Honestly,
Speaker 1: the night Callers group is like a pretty amazing It's
Speaker 1: the organism from space. I was nervious. I've never moderated
Speaker 1: a group before, and I was like, oh, if everyone's
Speaker 1: like mean, I belonged to many groups and there's like
Speaker 1: we cannot reiterate enough. How cool all the Night Called
Speaker 1: listeners are from our brief sampling of the movie. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it was also cool that it was like a
Speaker 1: lot of different types of people. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's no one like, they're not all doppelgangers of us.
Speaker 1: It was great, exactly. Uh. Someone posted about the Gray
Speaker 1: Man in advance of Hurricane Florence. Um, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: if you're in the Carolina's we're thinking of you and
Speaker 1: hoping that you're okay. UM. But somebody was like, hey,
Speaker 1: have you guys heard about the Gray Man? And I
Speaker 1: feel like this was actually a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: So it was before Florence was you know, had grown
Speaker 1: to the size that it was predicted to be. Um.
Speaker 1: But the Gray Man is a ghost that supposedly appears
Speaker 1: on the coast of Pauli's Island in South Carolina just
Speaker 1: before a big storm or a hurricane hits. And I
Speaker 1: guess he's been popping up since eighteen two. Um, but
Speaker 1: he was just sited before Hurricane Florence. Said, if you
Speaker 1: want to look at YouTube footage of the tiny blurry
Speaker 1: thing that is supposedly the Gray Man. Um, they've he's
Speaker 1: been caught on tape, but according to felt like caught. No,
Speaker 1: he's not. They haven't got it. It's hard to do.
Speaker 1: He can move through walls. Um. According to people on
Speaker 1: Polic's Island, he's his main point, Like the reason he
Speaker 1: exists is just to like be benevolent and just warn
Speaker 1: people about storms and if you see him, your house
Speaker 1: will be spared. Legend says Um. So he his appearance
Speaker 1: is like he's a see through guy, as they all are,
Speaker 1: and he's wearing a cloak as they all are, um,
Speaker 1: and he's been spotted before hurricanes Hazel and Hugo. Like
Speaker 1: it's a big there's stuff in the Georgetown Museum about him,
Speaker 1: and you can like find a bunch of articles about him. Uh.
Speaker 1: But anyway, they think that who he was when he
Speaker 1: was alive, Like one of the possible uh legends of
Speaker 1: him is that he was a sailor who was coming
Speaker 1: back to his fiance. And then it's like there's divergent
Speaker 1: points of either like his fiance screwed him over and
Speaker 1: he jumped into a you know, into the sea, or
Speaker 1: um he was on his way back to see her
Speaker 1: on horseback and he got sucked into quicksand with the
Speaker 1: horse and then she the next day discovered his body
Speaker 1: and was heartbroken and crying, and then a hurricane hit
Speaker 1: and her house was like the only one that was spared.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that reminded me that I also had a
Speaker 1: weather ghost story and that I heard a Weather ghost
Speaker 1: story and then found out there was a Weather Channel show.
Speaker 1: I think it's called like Supernatural Weather or something, but
Speaker 1: it was a five episode show from the Weather Channel.
Speaker 1: Got into the original content game and it was like
Speaker 1: just different a whole show about like a legend a
Speaker 1: ghost story involving weather. And that was how I found
Speaker 1: out about Full Skate and and the Jack Parsons thing
Speaker 1: was because they're one of the episodes was about that.
Speaker 1: We'll tell us briefly about that in case anyone listening
Speaker 1: doesn't know. I think we've talked about it before on
Speaker 1: this But there is a spooky place in Pasadena that
Speaker 1: is right by jet propulsion labs. That the reason they
Speaker 1: put jet propulsion labs there's because they would go test
Speaker 1: rockets in this canyon, the Arroyo um, and there's just
Speaker 1: a lot of creepy things about it. It's super haunted
Speaker 1: for many reasons. Um, somebody killed a bunch of kids
Speaker 1: around there and then ground them up and put them
Speaker 1: in the freeways. So uh in the fifties, So it's
Speaker 1: just well they were building they were building the freeways then, um,
Speaker 1: what were they supposed to build them out of? But
Speaker 1: I also my personal weather ghost story that I just
Speaker 1: was reading about I brought some research today too, is
Speaker 1: that I went on a swamp tour in Louisiana where
Speaker 1: they told us this story about how there was a
Speaker 1: voodoo priestess who lived there and had would sit on
Speaker 1: her front porch and sing songs. And one of her
Speaker 1: songs that she's sang was when I die, I'm going
Speaker 1: to take the whole town with me, um, and that.
Speaker 1: Then she died, and then there was a storm and
Speaker 1: the town was buried, the town sank into the thing.
Speaker 1: So I looked up the story to see if, you know,
Speaker 1: there was any truth to it, and apparently, uh, sort of.
Speaker 1: But her name was Julia Brown, and there are a
Speaker 1: bunch of historic documents that kind of testified to the
Speaker 1: fact that she existed and was a real person and
Speaker 1: practiced voodoo. And the twist is that she was like
Speaker 1: she was good and um, she was probably the midwife
Speaker 1: of the town and so they were like people misinterpreted
Speaker 1: her message. She wasn't like putting a curse on the town.
Speaker 1: She was just sort of like stating facts. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: maybe she knew because she was psychic what was going
Speaker 1: to happen. So not so much like I'm taking the
Speaker 1: whole town with me, as like when I die, the
Speaker 1: whole town is just gonna be buried. She didn't cause it,
Speaker 1: She just knew that something crazy was. Yeah, she was
Speaker 1: like the town doctor and healer. Probably also so probably
Speaker 1: also the town wasn't going to function. When was this
Speaker 1: Apparently this was like nineteen fifteen. There was a newspaper
Speaker 1: account from the New Orleans Times. Pick un Um. Anyway, Yeah, weather, ghosts,
Speaker 1: supernatural weather stories. I do love because weather is scary.
Speaker 1: Another big scary thing you can't predict. This isn't a ghost.
Speaker 1: But but there was a second where people were saying,
Speaker 1: and of course it was completely a hoax, but the
Speaker 1: possibilities out there for a second that there could be
Speaker 1: a real life shark nato situation and her hands with Florence,
Speaker 1: just because it's shark season. I what is a real
Speaker 1: life sharknado? Utail would be the I mean, it would
Speaker 1: be a several concerns over several of the things that
Speaker 1: could be swept up by Florence. H like a storm
Speaker 1: of that magnitude going over that part of the country.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think that they're there tend to
Speaker 1: be more sharks in late summer than and like early fall,
Speaker 1: I guess around around the Carolinas. I don't think that
Speaker 1: it's possible for them to be a sharknado, but people
Speaker 1: were speculating, and then there's also like a bunch of
Speaker 1: um like pig manore farms. Oh, I did see, I
Speaker 1: did see. That would have been a bummer. I did
Speaker 1: not realize a sharknado. I never thought about the scientific
Speaker 1: underpinnings of a sharknado until right now. Why not? Now,
Speaker 1: what else have you been thinking about? Has been spilled
Speaker 1: about the possibility of a real sharknado. I remember when
Speaker 1: the Weather Channel like really tried to like expa and
Speaker 1: it's programming and it was not super successful. You were like,
Speaker 1: but alternate alternate position. Though, I again, like I have
Speaker 1: a hard time with making entertainment out of like these disasters.
Speaker 1: There's something that feels very i don't know, like explicitly
Speaker 1: right wing about it, but it feels like, um, it's
Speaker 1: like it brings out everybody's inner prepper. Yeah, to have
Speaker 1: like a huge disaster, it is explicitly right wing because
Speaker 1: like if you look at Katrina obviously, well yeah, like
Speaker 1: they use the fact that there's like a big disaster
Speaker 1: to funk up a bunch more ship you know what.
Speaker 1: It's all like the purge, it's all like rich people
Speaker 1: can get out of it, but exactly left to deal.
Speaker 1: But also the whole activity of gearing up for it.
Speaker 1: It's like a weird kind of like a political war,
Speaker 1: like a very like military heuristic scenario where it's like,
Speaker 1: let's send in our troops to go fight the weather.
Speaker 1: I think the n r A, the n r A
Speaker 1: on Twitter, I think had something about like how important
Speaker 1: it was to arm yourself during the hurricane, as if
Speaker 1: like you could prevent the hurricane by fire, pogne at
Speaker 1: it um. But I also think that it's it's there
Speaker 1: is like a right wing kind of overtone to it,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, like I think it, you know,
Speaker 1: acknowledging climate change is a left wing thing, so in
Speaker 1: a way, like I think there was a video that
Speaker 1: I forget what weather station posted when they were talking
Speaker 1: about the water levels for Florence, and they used a
Speaker 1: green screen and positioned the weather person in front of
Speaker 1: like a rising you know, it looked like she was
Speaker 1: kind of submerged in this water to show what nine
Speaker 1: feet of water looks like. And I don't think it
Speaker 1: was borne out by the storm itself, but I think
Speaker 1: that a lot of you know, when people are commenting
Speaker 1: on weather like this, like there for me, at least,
Speaker 1: like the underling messages like look at climate change, which
Speaker 1: doesn't seem right wing. Um, But I mean I'm just
Speaker 1: like fascinated by weather because we don't have much of
Speaker 1: it and I miss it. But it also I also
Speaker 1: like fear and respect it. Hey, we have weather, just different,
Speaker 1: but we don't really we don't have weather events. The
Speaker 1: fires are weather events. The fires are hurricanes. I hate
Speaker 1: it fires. Um. Nothing, So you're there is weather. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not your favorite weather. Shitty weather to be. I
Speaker 1: mean it's great weather. And then it's like when there's
Speaker 1: a big event, it's like snow storms in a way.
Speaker 1: I miss snowstorms. When I lived in a city, When
Speaker 1: I lived in a rural area, snowstorms were It can
Speaker 1: be kind of scary. Yeah, they're scary, and I find
Speaker 1: them deeply depressing, just because it limits your resources so much.
Speaker 1: It makes you understand how Stephen King wrote all those
Speaker 1: books exactly hold up in that cabin. No. I was
Speaker 1: always so jell us of snow obviously, um, and I
Speaker 1: had so many fantasies about how great it would be
Speaker 1: to live in a cold place. And then I never
Speaker 1: understood until I finally did that, it was like, oh
Speaker 1: it can like stop you from going outside. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's not healthy, but sometimes you really need that excuse.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're so grateful to just have to stay in
Speaker 1: for two days or something, right, But it's fun for
Speaker 1: two days and then and then it goes on and on.
Speaker 1: That's the thing is that you you know, if you're
Speaker 1: lucky enough to have like a warm shelter and enough
Speaker 1: food and power and stuff, it's like we and then
Speaker 1: it gets boring, But then it's so inhospitable to life
Speaker 1: that it's also like deeply depressing. Yeah. I always thought
Speaker 1: that seemed like fun and cozy, and then I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: when you like literally can't go outside, it's different than
Speaker 1: when you're like choosing not to go out exactly. Um,
Speaker 1: there was a freak uh snowstorm in Washington when I
Speaker 1: lived there that put out the power for I feel
Speaker 1: like a week and and almost the entire town was
Speaker 1: out without power, and a tree fell on our house.
Speaker 1: But I remember, I all I remember about this as
Speaker 1: like there was one restaurant, Sherry's, uh that had a generator,
Speaker 1: so people would go there, and I learned how to
Speaker 1: play poker during that time because there was nothing to
Speaker 1: do Have you guys ever been in a tornado? So
Speaker 1: now I want to I want to have you ever
Speaker 1: but with weather, you know what, I drove through a sandstorm. Um,
Speaker 1: I've all been in a standstorm really if if that's
Speaker 1: what you're talking. No, it was on the way to Vegas. Um,
Speaker 1: and when I was going to interview a superstar, d
Speaker 1: J Martin Garrick's, and I was like, sandstorm. It's like
Speaker 1: a portent because trance chances alive. Um, but it was
Speaker 1: so scary, and I was like I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do. Like other people, like you're supposed to pull
Speaker 1: over and wait for it to be over, but nobody
Speaker 1: was doing that. Everybody was just yeah everyone. It was
Speaker 1: like truckers and stuff. So everybody was just like continuing
Speaker 1: to drive through it. And then I got this like
Speaker 1: alert on my phone I'd never seen before that was
Speaker 1: like weather alert sandstorm. Um. It was terrified. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's weird because the sky turns like a different color,
Speaker 1: you know, thank you. I don't want to apocalyptic unsubscribed.
Speaker 1: Everything becomes brown. Yeah, I mean it's again, it's kind
Speaker 1: of amazing that things like that can happen. I'm very
Speaker 1: interested in lightning because when I was a kid, I
Speaker 1: went to Benjamin Franklin. Yes, I went to a carnival
Speaker 1: with a friend of mine and her mom took us,
Speaker 1: and her mom was nine months pregnant, and while we
Speaker 1: were at the carnival, there was like a power outage
Speaker 1: and the generator broke and we were stuck at the
Speaker 1: top of a ferris wheel in the middle of this
Speaker 1: horrible storm and they had to like manually crank us down,
Speaker 1: and then on the way back to my else being
Speaker 1: very nervous that the mom was going to go into
Speaker 1: labor because she was like, ha ha, what if I
Speaker 1: went into labor. Oh, it's such a disaster right now
Speaker 1: in this big storm, and we were like, um, we
Speaker 1: tried to get into like, you know, to turn into
Speaker 1: my parents driveway, and uh, like a power line or
Speaker 1: something that had been hit by lightning close by, and
Speaker 1: there was like a giant line of fire running and
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa lightning. And then recently one of
Speaker 1: my relatives exactly their prius was struck by lightning and
Speaker 1: when they took it to get repaired, the repair guy
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, we see a lot of prius.
Speaker 1: This struck by lightning. I have not verified this information
Speaker 1: because no clue. High lightning is terrifying. I mean I
Speaker 1: I saw a really amazing lightning storm in New Mexico
Speaker 1: bringing it all back right last year. That was like
Speaker 1: the most amazing thing I've ever seen, because again, like
Speaker 1: we don't have a ton of storms out here, um,
Speaker 1: And it was like one of those storms that just
Speaker 1: like all of a sudden, this big bank of cloud
Speaker 1: sweeps in and then it was just like thunderstorming with
Speaker 1: this crazy lightning over the Rio Grande. That's beautiful, Rio Grande,
Speaker 1: Rio Grande. It's nice when you were in those big
Speaker 1: open spaces because you can really like see it. No,
Speaker 1: it was crazy. It was either movement of it. We
Speaker 1: were at like a like a historic site, like a
Speaker 1: historic pueblo site, and it was just like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just so vast nature putting on the ritz. You put
Speaker 1: on the ritz for me. I dazzled you. It was
Speaker 1: very like a spiritual experience. I was like, it's crazy
Speaker 1: that this exists, you know, like and I exist. Um,
Speaker 1: that's why weather can be cool. Tests And I love rain.
Speaker 1: We Emily probably loves rain too, do you, Emily? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I love range. You seem like a rainy gal like us.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I grew up in Seattle, but
Speaker 1: you survived it. Doesn't that make you feel like I
Speaker 1: never need, I never need to be in another wet
Speaker 1: place again to say I'm not I'm not into the damp.
Speaker 1: Give me that wet. We've had mosquitoes here this year too, though.
Speaker 1: It's it's been a new strain of mosquito called apparently
Speaker 1: the Ninja mosquito is here. Wow, that sounds not at
Speaker 1: all like like apocalyptic. No, right, I know there's we
Speaker 1: have like a bunch of new kinds of mosquitoes and
Speaker 1: some of them carry West Niles. It's been. There's those
Speaker 1: signs at the playground in Griffith Park that I saw.
Speaker 1: It's like a children's playground that you I think you
Speaker 1: have taken your kids too. And there's that big sign
Speaker 1: that's like ps West Nile virus everywhere. Ye, you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to leave out any standing water because I think
Speaker 1: it's like the eggs get laid and hatch within a day.
Speaker 1: This should have a trigger. People don't all be the
Speaker 1: first to go I'm I get I might get it anywhere.
Speaker 1: We all got that sweet blood. I think it's less.
Speaker 1: I think everyone supposedly gets bit roughly the same. It's
Speaker 1: how you react. Maybe it's like how allergic you are
Speaker 1: to it. No I get. I feel like some people
Speaker 1: get avoided it, and I always get all of it.
Speaker 1: I've gone out, like for five minutes to take some
Speaker 1: trash out in Los Angeles and come back with a
Speaker 1: like two mosquito whites. It just happens to me. Hey,
Speaker 1: it's fall, it's time for spooky weather, and we're about
Speaker 1: to enter sp October, and weather is just as much
Speaker 1: of a haunt as any of any others. It's nice
Speaker 1: today in Los Angeles. If you have thoughts about whether
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