WEBVTT - 81: The Last Splash with Karina Longworth 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:07.280 Welcome to Nightcall, a production of My Heart Radio. It's 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:30.520 PM on Main Street, USA, and you're listening to Night Call. Hello, 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.440 and welcome to night Call, a podcast for your strange 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:36.080 days and lonely nights. I'm in Los Angeles and I'm 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.120 Tess Lynch. With me as always are Molly Lambert and 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.400 Emily Oshda. Guys, we have a special guest coming later on. 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.480 But before we have our special guest, we have another 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:55.240 special guest. This is my favorite science news of the year. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.120 We got a lot of requests for the blob, certainly did. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.480 But we'll read a night email from Josh that says, Hi, 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.160 this may be too soon following the worm with eyes 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.560 on its butt. But the para Sue has a blob 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.679 that has no mouth, no stomach, and no eyes, but 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.560 it can detect food and digest it. It also has 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:17.360 seven hundred and twenty sexes, can move without legs or wings, 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.480 and heals itself when cut in half. Oh, and it 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:25.800 apparently learns to sleep well. Josh, I will sleep well 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.040 because I love this blob. I'm obsessed with it. It 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:33.520 looks kind of like yellow lace. It kind of has 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.760 a coral like appearance. It's sort of cloudy and sort 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:40.280 of brain like, and it's it's structure, but it's well, 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:41.920 it's hard to tell when you look at the pictures 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.120 because I at first thought that it was that the 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.920 log that it's on was part of the blob. But 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.680 I think it's just the kind of fungus looking thing. Well, 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.000 they don't know if it's a fungus or an animal. 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.520 When you click on the link, it doesn't get less scary. 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:03.480 Is it's a collection of unice, cellular or ganisms, slime mold. Yeah, 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.400 I don't know if this is a time lapse or not, 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.560 but that kind of branching thing that it does as 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:11.640 it moves around, it does look like the um ribbon worms. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.440 You guys ever seen these videos? Oh, it's really upsetting. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.960 Um there are these sea worms that live really like 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.440 at the bottom of the ocean. There are some viral 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.119 videos that went around where and if you bring them 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:30.360 up to sea level, they're not really built to withstand 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.480 the pressure or the lack of pressure I guess at 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.240 sea level and um, so they kind of become really 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:41.360 red and inflamed, and then they throw up their digestive 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.560 system and it looks like that it looks like this 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:48.600 sort of lacy thing that kind of just shoots out, um, 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.720 but it's actually uh basically killing itself to try to 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:56.200 find food. Uh. Sad, But it's also kind of like awesome, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:00.400 not in the sense it's yeah, it's like something Russian 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.840 deep sea fishermen would have. Yeah, I think he might 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.320 have maybe had one of those. I can't remember. It 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.040 definitely looks like a c sponge or something. It looks 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.960 very much like an underwater feature. Well that's like that 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.440 kind of stuff like coral and sponges, which is like 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:18.200 really in this like weird gray area between being an 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.080 animal and being a plant or like a mold or 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:25.320 something like. It can learn, right that they didn't give 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.160 enough information about the learning, because yeah, they say that 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.320 you can you can mush two of them together and 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.160 what one has learned will be transmitted to the newly 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.040 formed blob, and that you can cut it up and 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.520 it will come back together. But like, what does it learn? 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.000 What does it? What did you teach? The one thing 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:49.320 I feel like it should be a master of Isa 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:54.080 has seven sexes? What does that mean? Okay, so that 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:59.400 means the seven sexes are really mating types as explained 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.760 there was a thread one of my favorite Twitter accounts, 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.160 NYC Southpaw. I was like, what is this and then 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.800 had a clip from an article from j Store where 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.480 they were like, basically it is. It's so hard to 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.320 wrap your brain around. They're so cool about sources of 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.800 mitochondrial DNA available to the blob, any of which can 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.080 combine with another to produce a zygote. I think I 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.000 read it like four times, and I think that's when 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.120 it was yeah, I can I can wrap my head 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.600 around that, versus when I thought it was someone genders. 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.240 I was like, yeah, tell me all of them. I 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.960 want to know them. All that rules it does. I 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:41.360 love things that are in between species and we don't 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.359 know what they are. It seems like it must have 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.480 been um like very like it's one of these things 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.200 that must be like super ancient. It's just one of 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.800 these very rudimentary life forms that also feels like hyper advanced. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.280 When you start thinking for people are very like, oh why, 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.120 because they were like it's going to take over like 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.400 the blob Well yeah, I mean they did name it 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.200 after I. The way, it was so weird because I 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.560 just recorded the blob that blob for a minute. The 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:10.640 Horror movie. I love that movie. It's so scary. It's 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.159 really scary. It takes a long time to get into 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:18.160 its freakiness. A face yeah, um, I like movies like that, 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.839 and the remake also scary, pretty gross. I've always scartting 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.240 the Blob to be one of the scariest monsters of 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.640 all the monsters because you can't get through to it 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.479 because it has no face. It has no face. It 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.520 like isn't a thing that we recognize as being like 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.240 an animal that we know, but it's totally blievable, as 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.080 like space goo would be some sentient space goo. Well, 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.039 it's like the kind of scary aspects of the Terminator, 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.400 but without a human body exactly identify with. It's just 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.880 the metal coming together. That's the scary part is that 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.479 you can't destroy it. It will and in a way 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:56.000 it becomes like more invincible, or it heals itself because 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.520 it can learn, because each new Blob becomes a big 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.400 blob again because but all so because it can learn 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.599 from the experience of having been cut in half, presumably, 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.520 and it can learn new tactics to avoid being cut 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.840 in half. So essentially like by being able to continually 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.560 merge with other blobs. It could be completely omniscient, a 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:19.760 giant organism made up of a billion tiny little omniscient organism. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.480 That's what we're going to be one day. Can't wait 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:28.600 a borg my hive. But for good Um, guys, is 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.360 the blob our animal of the month? Oh for sure. 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.159 We don't know if it's an animal. It's just start 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.760 our friend. Yeah, it can be the Night Call mascot. 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:42.000 Very close. We might be the mascot. Yeah. Should we 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:46.920 take another science icebreaker? I think so. Um. This one 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:53.159 is also from Live Science, our favorite source of science news, vetted, vetted, 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:58.880 and forget it um. This story is by Stephanie Poppas. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.440 It's a scientist implant false memories into bird brains. This 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.960 one blew my mind even more than the blob thing 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.360 because it's impossible, presented very matter of fact. It's a 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.160 scientists of taught little birds to memorize a tune without 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.560 ever learning it, and they did so by implanting memories 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.720 of the songs in the bird's brains. Okay, so basically 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.160 what this really is though, So zebra finches learned to 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.400 sing from their father's like baby zebra finches are taught 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.240 by their fathers. They're so cute, adorable. There are some 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:31.800 of the cutest birds. So scientists used um some optogenics, 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.160 which is basically kind of pulsing light to control the 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.120 bird's brain cells. And I think there's a there's a 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.200 quote from Live Science. By pulsing light in a rhythm, 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.120 the researchers were able to encode memories in the finches 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.080 brains such that the bird's notes would match the duration 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.400 of the light pulses. It was as if a father 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.280 figure were making these instructions for the bird to memorize, 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:57.000 but no father finch was present. God, it's terrifying. What's 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.400 really interesting about it is so I guess scientists were 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.800 doing this kind of to see if they could teach 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:06.200 nonverbal humans to speak by kind of bypassing any therapy 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.480 and going directly into the brain, which I suppose could 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.120 be good and useful, But we're kind of cynical. It 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.200 seems like maybe not did we I don't know if 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:16.720 we talked about it on the show, But there was 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.480 another article about some experimental military technology that was about 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.400 like beaming sound messages to people from far away, so 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:25.600 that it's like you can hear it inside your brain. 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:30.200 I think I remember that stuff like that, just real 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:33.000 man Charian candidate. I think we'll be texting each other 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.199 with our brains within the next thirty years. This was 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.080 something about people getting chips and planted no thanks, oh 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.120 oh yeah, like the people are starting to do the 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.120 credit card stuff and personal information. Don't do that. Yeah. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.040 I was already against Apple watches, like using Apple watches 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.120 to like have your your your credit card and you're 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.360 getting texted, getting a vibration on your body. I hate 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:00.120 Apple watches so much. I'm still shocked that I I'm 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.320 friends with people who have Apple watching. Oh I'm not 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.080 friends with any of your friends with them. So you 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.160 can push them over so that their watch will hit 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.720 the ground and chatter, you're doing them a favor. I 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.440 feel like, um, what what was the thing? I'm trying 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.880 to remember what you're talking about though? With the the 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.960 sound waves like uh, like triggering a memory or something 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:24.160 or like transmitting information. I mean, I know, I don't 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:28.120 know if you've been watching country music still, but there 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:32.400 was a radio station that this guy, this crazy guy 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.200 started just on the other side of the Mexican border 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.719 that was like a super transmitter station that was like 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.600 the signal was the strongest, Like I don't think it's 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.480 even legal to make a signal this strong anymore, but 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.400 it was like so strong that in nearby farms, if 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.400 you had a fence, like a metal fence, you could 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.520 you could touch it and you would hear the radio 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.800 like it would transmit through your body. I used to 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.720 get this will be foreshadowing for our guests, but I 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.640 got Radio Disney through my phone line always. I remember 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.200 that because we live near a radio transmitter that was 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.320 at the time Radio Disney, and so anytime I was 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:11.920 on a landline phone, it would here faintly like Britney Spears. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.840 Because it was in the late nineties, early um, which 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.599 explains a lot about me. Obviously. I had an acquaintance 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:23.640 Onan's who received a radio station through his I think 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.760 I think it was his landline and he lost his 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.000 mind and covered his house in tinfoil. Who yeah, I mean, 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.679 it would do something that's inescapable like that, that just 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.440 feels like it's in the air that's being transmitted either 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.079 through your phone line or through like you know, the 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:38.880 footage in your house or something. I mean, that would 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.200 make you go crazy. Yeah, that's very disruptive. Then what 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.720 if it trained you to sing a song? Right? Right? Like? 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.720 How do that's how? That's how. That's how. When you 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:50.520 know a pop song for the first time, you're like, 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.360 I feel like I know it already. It's because it's 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.679 been a plant in your brain already. It sounds like 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.920 a good ginge Eeto story. Right, I'm gonna go work 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:03.080 on this or flash research and confirm it. Speaking of 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.800 things listening to you and you listening to things, should 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.160 we take a night call? Yes? Okay, this one comes 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.920 from April. Hi. Friends, I've been a big fan since 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.200 the Girls in Hoodies days. I've been going through your 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.160 archive and wanted to share my personal My phone is 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.360 a spy experience. I was listening to another podcast where 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.120 they made a joke about Swedish fish, the candy. They 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.640 maybe said the brand four times. I laughed a lot 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.720 for several minutes. I never said the word Swedish fish 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.080 nor retold the joke to anyone, Yet one day later, 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.280 there were ads for Swedish fish on my Facebook account. 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.080 This was terrifying. Have any of you received ads for 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.480 something you never googled nor said, but heard through your 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:45.600 phone via a podcast or other audio Thanks night call, April. 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:50.120 I mean I'm almost positive I have. Yeah, I mean 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.120 I guess it makes It depends maybe if you're listening 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:54.679 to it on speaker phone, which I'm half the time. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.440 If I listened to a podcast, I'm just listening to 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.080 it on speaker phone or like in my car, so 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.440 my phone would be hearing it. Uh, But I don't know. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.200 It's also but it's also kind of hard to tell 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.440 something like Swedish Fish, where it's obviously you're not listening 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.640 to a podcast. It's like the Swedish Fish podcast. But 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.360 like a lot of times I'll get stuff like you know, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.319 uh like blank check recently or they're still in the 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.280 middle of like doing a mini series on me Azaki, 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.360 so I like get a ton of mi Azaki ads 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.680 and stuff. But it's also like that's just the content 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.320 that I crave anyway, So I don't know, I can't 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.760 really differentiate it, but I feel like I feel like 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.440 there have been I've definitely like to keep mind confused 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:35.240 by what just talking about nonsense, listening to nonsense, just 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.400 by my own media consumption habits that are probably weird 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:42.240 and confusing. Like I got concerned because I got there 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.880 was like a d WP rebait where you could get 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.640 a Nest thermostat for free. No no no, no, no 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.720 no no no I did it. No no no no 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.600 no no no no. Well my reasoning was, I was 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.600 just like, my DWP bills really high. Maybe this will help. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.320 But then I just saw today about how the Nest 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.640 is just always listening to you, always kind to recording 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.360 what you're saying, listens. It has an audio function. Well, 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.120 it lights up, it lights up in front of it. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:10.960 There was the thing that came out. I came out 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.080 that the people do Nest and Ring whoever that is, 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.240 well Nest is Google or its Google, that they were 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:22.240 trying to like make partnerships with police service people, being like, 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.320 we will give you whatever we hear. Okay, but theoretically 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.120 Ring has issued a statement claiming that they don't. It's 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:29.880 up to you to believe it or not. I mean, 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.520 I'm not sure, but I ended up getting the ring 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.480 just because someone rang my doorbell a ton of times 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.400 when I was in the shower and it made me 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.240 absolut Maybe they were doing it to try and get 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.600 you to buy a ring. I know now I'm under 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.000 the silver Lake about it. But well the next thing, 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.760 I mean, I feel less anti nest just because it 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:53.120 like will supposedly reduce your energy. That's good thing I felt. 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.760 I felt almost like I had to because I was, 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.560 you know, I live in an old house with like systems, 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.320 and I was like, anything to it away reduced my 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.480 energy and take by moving off the grid, Okay, we'll 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.480 let us know when you do that time. I think 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.400 it's okay, it's okay to have enough surveillance devices out 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.680 of my life, I want. I was just thinking about 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.400 it today because I was like, I went for a 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.520 walk without my phone and I felt so relaxed, and 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.960 I was just like, what if I was never stressed out? 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.440 But you could just do that too, like you can 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.160 just like, but maybe how hard it would be? Because 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.920 I was like, I have a computer, all the computers 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.520 or microphones now and cameras, Like what would it take 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.400 to actually get back to a because it is crazy 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.560 just to think about, like in the Watergate era when 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.520 people were taping things, how much more you need to 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:46.120 do to make that happen. Now it's like everyone is 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:50.320 carrying a free surveillance device on them all the time. 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.000 I think that there's something to be said for trying 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.960 to like have a lot of time away from those 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.800 things but still having them because you kind of need 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:01.760 them to be part of society and you really don't 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.240 want to be catering to topple. This was posting about 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.720 a phone that's supposed to be for kids, but she 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.320 was like, it's really for parents. It's like a throwback phone. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.480 It's like a Jitterbug. It's which is the phone for 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:17.000 old people that I would also interested in Jitterbug. They 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:22.560 only advertise it in like Parade magazine. It's so good. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:29.440 It's like phones too hard, too small and hard to read, 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:31.640 and you too many functions, and you don't want all 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.120 these apps and things. It's just a phone that's got 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:38.240 like two buttons, and the buttons are like call emergency, 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.120 so you can't text from it. I don't think you 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:42.640 can text from it. I think it's just like a 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.680 brick phone. This is the problem with those phones is 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.880 that I feel like it's not that uncommon. My perspective 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.480 on it is that I wish phones only texted and 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.200 you could not speak with someone on the phone. I 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.120 want to do away with. I also don't want the 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.280 internet on it. I don't want the Internet. I want 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:03.040 it to be a texting phone and camera phone. Yeah, yeah, exactly. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.440 I think that's what the baby phone might be, Like, 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.920 give it to me, jitterbug, jitterbug and or baby phone 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:14.360 whatever it's called. Sponsor nightcall, please sponsor nightcall. I think 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.400 I just want the jitterbug because I I like, as 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.640 you guys, now, I like to talk on the phone. Still, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.160 Oh yeah, it's like, hey, do you still like to 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.440 talk on the phone. But the numbers and letters need 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.920 to be really big for you to see they're dialing. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.800 And one of the buttons is like life alert. Probably well, 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.440 I mean you never know, Like I'm never gonna say no, 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.280 like never to having a life alert phone. You can't 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.960 get up, you need a jitterbug. Yeah yeah, falling and 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.239 not being able to get up as U does not discriminate. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.920 That's the reason to have a phone. I mean, honestly, 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.040 that's yeah. That's like I'm not saying there are no 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.440 times when it's good to have a phone. Can I 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.400 tell a quick story? The other day I went to 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.520 the dentist. I've already told Molly and I only like 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.400 so much about my trip to the dentist. But one 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.160 thing I don't think I told them yet was I 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.200 went with my husband to the dentist because we hadn't 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:05.520 been to the dentist in a really long time. We 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.560 wanted to do more moral support, so we went and 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.399 then he got a call that he had to be 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.639 at work in like half an hour, and I was 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.840 still getting dentist did so I was like, okay, you 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.199 go and all like get a ride share and then 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.320 I realized my phone was dead and it took we've 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.679 Eventually I was like, I'll walk home and he was like, 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.679 but it's like two and a half miles, and I 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:30.159 was like, I can do it. But then I was 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.480 kind of like, but without my phone see things like 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.640 that I want. That's what else. It's like, what if 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.199 the power did go out for some reason, what if 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.480 theres an what if there's yeah, what if the big 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.920 one happens or whatever? And we're all like, I don't 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:43.960 have our phones and then your phone won't work because 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.600 in a huge emergency like that, then the cell everything's overloaded, 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.159 so your phone's like like everyone's so unprepared for their 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.960 phones not to work. We had an event where we 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.000 tried to do a meet up recently that was thwarted, 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.440 in part by the fact that our phone and work 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:04.879 on top of the mountain and Griffith Park. It's the 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:09.879 mountain's right to take away. I prefer not having service stuff. 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.040 That was also humbling to me because I was like, 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:16.000 we are no better than Caroline callawe. We you know, 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.520 sometimes things go wrong on the day of an event 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:20.560 and there's nothing you can do because it's out of 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:24.560 your control. Whenever Mason Jars are just piling up to 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.320 do whenever like the power goes out, You're just like, 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:31.480 oh right. The one thing that I kind of try 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.640 to pride myself on, especially now that I'm driving again 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:38.440 in Los Angeles, is like I can get around without maps, 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:40.760 like and I know, yeah, but you know what's crazy 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.879 is that David recently tried to get a map, like 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.320 a paper map, just to like have out so that 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:47.720 he could kind of get a lay of the land 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:52.000 of Los Angeles. You cannot buy one anywhere, really, yeah, 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:54.879 I mean you have to like order one online, but 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:57.120 you can't just go to like seven eleven or like 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.040 any random like news stand or whatever you want. But 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.280 you could get one drug store triple a for sure. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.040 Still maybe and I bet you could get one maybe 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.600 on Hollywood Boulevard, but probably a star map right might 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.520 be limited. How maybe the DMV I face you can 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.960 just swing by easily and take anything a number for 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:19.960 your map. David might enjoy a star map, which is 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.920 different from like an observatory. Star maps are terrible. I'm 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:27.119 very really outdated. Most of them are like like Johnny 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.120 Carson's house, right, some of them are not. I feel 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.520 like star maps are like I have a real vogaboo 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.560 about star maps, and I wish I didn't exist. But 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:39.240 there should be a restaurant's map that's just like cool, 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.439 like historic restaurant. I just like a map, like I 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.399 like a Thompson guy that has like every single street 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:48.240 you know, alle maps I really like, or those novelty 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:50.760 maps they have on the walls places sometimes where things 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.119 are drawn in a cartoon fashion on it. I had 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.600 one of those of my neighborhood where I'm just like 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:59.040 looking at my house. Some cartoon is like, there's one 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.600 at the Laurel can in a county store country store 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.760 that is really good. Um is it just a Laurel 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.440 Canyon offair? It's love Laurel Canyon, which is also really 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:10.960 interesting to look at at a big Griffith Park map 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:15.480 today also, and maybe we should all go back to maps, Carphy. 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:18.439 I love maps. I'm so bad at reading them. You 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.680 know my position on maps. I love them. I would 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:22.960 I'd like my dad would always just be like, just 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:24.359 look at a map, and it would be like, it 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:28.320 means nothing to me. Landmarks. I want landmarks. Are you 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.119 good with directions? Like with like north southeast west. I 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.320 need the kind of directions that are like make a 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.639 left at the church, you know, like if you're like 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:39.360 go north and then go west. I'm like, well, now 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:43.840 all the Google navigation services are like take a left 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:47.720 at the Starbucks. Like it's like Starbucks and other companies 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.240 paid for them to be off right. Well that too. 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.840 It's like, am I if I gave up the convenience 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.720 of having maps on my phone? I would have to 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:58.520 learn how to read a map really Like I know 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:00.760 that I'm not going to go back to the Thomas Guide, 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:03.880 but what you know, i'd probably be better for me 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:07.960 speaking of maps really quickly. Um, we were talking at 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:13.920 some point about Pokemon Go collect Yeah Pokemon, Yes, this 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.199 is like prime nightcall to the point where I was like, 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:19.159 did we already talk about this? Yeah? Did we know 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:23.800 this already? It feels in retrospect obvious. I'm bringing it 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:25.680 up even though we didn't have it on the agenda 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:29.040