WEBVTT - Twas The Night Call Before Christmas 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:13.200 It's eleven PM at Jacob Marley's grave and you're listening 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:31.360 Tonight Call. Hi everybody, and welcome to Night Call, the 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:36.640 podcast for your holidays and jolly nights. I'm Molly Lambert 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.840 and with me in Los Angeles, says Lynch. And over 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:44.519 in New York, we have Emily Oshida your Ghosts of 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:49.040 Christmas Past, Present in future. Well, this is a very 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.800 special episode where we reflect on the night Calls we've 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:56.520 had this year and all the things that happened on Nightcall. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.400 But I wanted to pose a question much like we 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.920 original We started our show deciding which of the members 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.680 of the movie Zodiac we are, um, which we can 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:12.560 maybe cut to a clip of here, even what are 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:16.080 you guys feeling right? What's your sign? What's her Zodiac? Well, 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.520 I said, because tests just showed up here today with 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.840 a stack of papers printed out from the Internet, and 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.520 I decided that means that she's the Robert Gray Smith. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.160 And I just took that well, because he's the one 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.720 who like does all the research and has all the papers, 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.760 all the files. He's a doodler. Yeah, he's a doodler. 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:37.640 I'm a doodler. And Molly, Emily you expressed an affinity 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.760 for Ruffalo. Well, I feel like I'm I'm Mark Ruffalo 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.320 in most movies if he shows up. I do think 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.440 in this case too, especially when I was an editor, 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.480 I feel like you have to be the no fund 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.600 person a lot. And so I had sympathy for for 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.160 Tasky because he's like a detective and he's not like 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.880 he doesn't get to have crazy conspiracies or like go 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.000 on crazy benders like like Grabbertanny Junior does. He kind 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.840 of has to just like be a regular detective and 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.200 like carry out the you know, he gets to wear 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.120 a cool side arm though right like he does like 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.240 a cool gun holster. Yeah, and he has good ties. 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.720 He has bow ties. I like his style a lot, 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.720 probably of all of them. Um. I do like how 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:23.200 he kind of as as things go on and as 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.760 Gray Smith kind of takes the case into his own hands. 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.919 I love the way that he sort of secretively aids 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.079 him by like saying, well, I didn't tell you this, 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.520 but blah blah blah. Um So yeah, So I don't know, 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:38.920 I have a soft spot for Tasking and I feel 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.320 like nobody else would pick them. Also, so my friends 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:45.119 have a Colombo party Apparently every year it's a Columbo 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.480 Halloween party where everyone just comes dressed as Colombo, and 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:54.720 this year it was apparently Colombo or Mark Ruffalone Zodiac. Um. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.519 I feel like this is all pointing towards Molly being Avery, 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.880 which I think is uh. I mean, I know you 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.600 at that house boat. You know I want to be 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.560 the Robert Downey junior character in anything. Yeah, I mean 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.640 me too, but when I'm honest until up until Iron Man, 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:10.520 at which point I don't care anymore. You don't want 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.120 to be an arms dealer. No, I don't want to 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:17.120 be an arms dealer superhero. I mean, there's just a 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:22.280 string of performances where he's so amazing starting with less 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:28.040 than zero zero. R d J is not too shabby himself. Um, 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.760 and uh, you know Chaplain is a good movie. I 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.679 enjoyed him in Wonder Boys. Yeah, there's just you know, 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.680 I love Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. There's just a long, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.840 a long period where he's really great and everything, and 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.560 then you had that last little come back and now 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.680 he makes Marvel movies. That's our our final answer. Molly 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:51.400 is Avery, Test is Gray Smith and I'm Tasky and 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:57.560 that's it. There's no more argument that it's settled. Um. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.600 I was thinking maybe we could decide which of the 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:04.200 ghosts of Christmas past, present or future do you identify with. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.880 But so, the ghost of Christmas Present is like the big, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.240 like fat guy with the fruits and all the like 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.360 plentiful like a turkey around him. I think, so, yeah, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.400 he's a jolly man. Um. And then the ghost of 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:23.520 Christmas future is like the devil. Basically, I believe it's 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:28.760 like the ghost of Christmas past is Jacob Marley. Um no, No, 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.240 the ghost of Christmas past is like a little boy 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:37.919 or girl. I feel like it's a child spirit and 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:43.320 it brings you to your own Christmas in the past. Yeah, 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:45.919 you get to look at Christmas in the past. And 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:49.240 then the Christmas present is you go to your nephew 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.040 at already that you didn't actually go to and they're like, 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:56.320 where is Uncle Scrooge. We all love Scrooge. Everyone misses him. 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.080 And then his wife is like, isn't he kind of 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.360 a horrible person? And they're like, oh, he's a Emily 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.599 Holidays sing, don't they sing? Thank you very very much? 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.719 Or no, no, no, that's when he died. That's in 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.440 the future. One the Future, and then everybody's celebrating his death. 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.000 Everyone celebrating his death because he wouldn't let anyone have 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:19.120 time off for Christmas from work. Um, I feel like 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:24.240 the Ghost of Christmas Future is pretty cool, pretty metal. Wait, 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:31.279 that's the one who's like the scary your grave and 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:35.440 it's like, this is what happens if you don't repent. Yeah. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.760 I really liked Christmas Carol. Did you guys get into 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.200 like Dickens and stuff? I really liked it. I haven't 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.039 read it or seen it in such a long time. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.560 I just love anything where there's like a million iterations 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.960 of it. It's like in the public domain, so anyone 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:49.960 can do it. You were trying to get us to 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:51.920 do a scrooged episode, and I feel like we both 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:56.799 vetoed that. Well. If there are some other good Christmas 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.280 Carol remakes, there's like a Muppet one that's good. Them 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.600 up at one is good. There's a Mickey Mouse one 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:05.920 that I watched a zillion times as a child. Right, 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:07.760 They're all just like wedged in that weird part of 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.880 your brain, and there's something really nice about the format. Yeah. Um, 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.080 I love when I realized anything is going to be 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:19.560 either a Christmas Carol themed or it's a Wonderful life themed. Um, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.120 are you guys it's a wonderful life heads? Absolutely, I 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.920 love it's a wonderful life. I'm too fragile, man, You're 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.200 too fragile. I'm really fragile about it. It's very dark. 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.960 It's like the darkest movie. I remember there was one 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.680 winter when I when I watched it and just thought 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.040 like I kind of just made myself like I midway through, 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:40.719 I was like, I don't think you can handle this, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.599 And by the end, I was just crying so hard. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.039 I don't do this to yourself. Test that's why people 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.200 like it, though I know, I know gives you the 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:54.200 you can just ventilate all your tears, your holiday tears. 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:59.760 As Jimmy Stewart just like, yeah, I'm Jimmy Stewart. That's 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.800 my answer to this question. Uh No, I guess. I 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.680 guess I'm the ghost of Christmas past. Um, if we 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.800 have to choose, I'm an angel e spirit, You're you're 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:16.640 the A. I think I'm present, like I like that. 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.880 I think I'm I think I'm very paranoid. It's all about, like, 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.600 you know, here's what everyone thinks of you should feel terrible. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.400 Oh no, but you also just talked about how you 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.520 like a bounty of sauces, which is what I feel like. 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.680 But it's also paranoia. It's like, well, you also have 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.720 strong negative feelings that you wish to express recently about 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.440 holiday food that you realize you actually hate holiday holiday food. 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.600 I pumpkin pie has been spared my wrath, but the 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:45.280 rest of it fu itself to be honest, Happy holidays. Yeah, 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.760 you know what it's It's one of these weird contracts 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.920 that you sign into as a human being where you 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:55.400 agree to make the same thing everyone else. I mean, 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.360 you don't have to, but I did this for a 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.360 long time. You have to make it and then you 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.000 have to eat that. You have to sit down and 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:02.920 eat it for as long as it takes to finish it. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.160 And it's it's just a terrible soul crushing exercise and 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.960 like being a lemming, you know, don't do it. Question reality. 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.440 Make your own Christmas meal next year. I'm having duck 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:21.720 coffee there. That sounds great with dipping sauce. Duck alla 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.760 sauce exactly. Uh. This is all to say that we 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.960 are doing a little bit of a clip show this week, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:32.320 um and going through some of our favorite nightcall moments 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:37.280 PLO plot lines, themes, recurring recurring issues that we visited 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.160 over this first year of doing our podcast, and a 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:44.360 lot of that comes courtesy of our wonderful night callers 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.120 and night calls that we get. So I think we 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.080 are We all want to say thank you to our listeners. 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.600 Thank you your weird stories and questions and stuff, because 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:57.079 a lot of them went to unexpected and fun places. 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.000 I think we genuinely have some of the best listen 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.120 as of any podcast. They're just the most interesting. There's 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.400 very little like everyone seems to have something that's so 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.160 vague in common, where it's just kind of like a 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:12.400 weird vibe that we all have in common, and it's 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:16.520 led to super interesting discussions across I would also like 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.079 to do we did a live event close to Thanksgiving 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.760 this year. Maybe we can make it a Night's Giving 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.360 tradition and that would be great. Have Emily next time 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.199 and we'll all eat something that's not holiday food, sauces. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.880 We're gonna do sauces at every night Call event. There 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:34.080 will be sauce. Uh, So we're gonna kind of take 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:35.800 a little I don't. I don't think it's definitely going 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.960 to be uh linear time wise, but just sort of 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:45.040 meander through night calls, passed uh some of our favorite 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:51.440 murder boards, ice cream trucks, and other uh familiar faces 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.840 that we that we uh that we have fun with 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.000 over the year. So so yeah, meditate on the past, 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:03.839 enjoy the present, and think about the future. Hey, and 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:09.160 I call ladies. It's eight forty four pm in Hot Austin, Texas, 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.200 and I've got a question for you. My name is Maggie, 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:17.880 and I just found out what muck bang is in 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.880 the UK d A n G. It might be muke thing, 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.120 and I want to know what you girls think of 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:30.560 it because I think it's horrifying and I also feel 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.360 that it's a tool that anorexics could use to you know, 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:40.160 essentially get their fixed without eating food. UM. Yeah, So 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.120 if you guys can weigh in on muck bang or 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:53.120 muke thing, I appreciate that. Thanks by UM. I have 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.720 to say that mayonnaise being killed by millennials is awful. 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.360 It's a travesty. Somebody on Twitter recently UM called out 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.240 the fact that like when people don't like mayonnaise and 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.000 they try and put other stuff on their sandwiches. It's 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.560 beyond disgusting. I think some of the substitutions that he 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:15.000 listed were hummus, pasto also wrong. I mean, there were 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:19.160 so many things that just can't replace mayonnaise. I would 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.520 put all these things on a sandwich over mayonnaise, hummus. 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.960 I mean, if it's a peda Okay, the thought of 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.520 me and a peter bread just made me like throw up. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.800 I love it and seek, which is like Mayonnai's adjacent. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:37.760 So I know. Taziki is fine because sziki is yogurt. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.400 It's just a mayonnaise. So it's the fact that it's 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.960 not dairy. It's like Uncanny Valley for a texture. It's 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.120 like that. It's like gross, It's like I hate the 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:50.360 taste of it. What about tartar sauce. It's that's the exception. 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.920 That's my thing, a tartar sauce. If it's in something 0:11:56.120 --> 0:12:00.840 and I can't taste it, it's like, you know, good direction, Okay, okay, 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:04.640 if I notice it, it's bad. It's this bias that 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.320 you have against what mayonnaise stands for. It's like, no, 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.800 it's not It's like literally sometimes I'll try something and 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.720 be like, oh no, there's mayonnaise in this. I'm out 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.199 like a dip. Ruins a lot of dips for me. Yeah, 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.760 I mean, it's definitely better to air on the side. 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.440 I think of yogurt or sour cream in a dip. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.679 I bet I could make you a dip with those ingredients. 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.640 Sneak in some mayonnaise and you have no idea. I'm 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.439 saying if you sneak in and I have no idea, 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.800 that it's fine. If it's in like a deviled egg, yeah, 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.720 maybe it's fine. Mix up in a yoke if there's 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.040 something else to like. So if you make it more 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.199 mayonnaisy by adding yolk, but again, it's like something it's 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.920 like swimming in mayonnaise. I'm just like swimming in anything's 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.000 a bad idea. Other than the sauce. They have a 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.800 dent Tai fung, which is the black vinegar and the 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:54.480 soy sauce. And I'm just saying, there's so many other 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.560 sauces that are better than your sauces. Mayonnaise like a spread, 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:02.440 there's no time the I don't want mustard more. What 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.520 kind of mustard do you like? Just like any kind really. Yeah. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:09.160 My parents think I'm crazy because I'm into yellow mustard. 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:11.400 I think that's like like a like a hot dog 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.960 or something. It's trashy people's mustard. They mustard. So the 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.600 five mother sauces, I don't know if you have any 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:23.960 feelings on these in French cooking on basamal, velute espanol, 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.800 French tomato, sauce that has a name that I forget, 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:31.120 and hollandaise. I mean, are you going to nix hollandaise 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.080 because it's too much like mayonnaise? No? I like hollandaise. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.280 You're such an enigma. I don't know where you're coming from. 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.480 Half I have it on eggpned act. I've made it. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:42.960 I feel like I went through a so you can 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.160 make it in the microwave. Um. I like mustard the most. 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.840 I think mustard does the most. Word limited capacity for mustard. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.640 I did you turn on soy sauce? Thought that was 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:56.920 your favorite favorite sauces? My favorite sauce, but also ponds. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:58.760 When you have pondzo, all of a sudden, you're like, 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.599 soy sauce is pretty basic. Where do you fall and 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.280 catch up? I like catch up, okay, but I do 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:07.560 not accept any ketchup, but Hines every other ketchup tastes whack. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:12.559 I don't know why. It's something they're sweetness. Sugar ratios 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.320 are off on other people's Can I mention for anyone 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.640 in l A that one of the sauces that I'm 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.560 really addicted to right now is from Dave's Hot Chicken, 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:26.160 and they have like this really it makes your heart race, though, 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.280 which is like, I'm sure because there's a lot of 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:32.600 salt in it, it must be that. But well I 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.400 was I wasn't going to bring it up, but yeah, 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.320 you did. You you drank a bunch of Sayce shauce 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.320 and then you get really concerned that you were going 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.400 to die, and you you get too sliders and they're huge, 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.840 and then you get like a bunch of tubs of 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.480 sauces because you take and take, and then you go 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.600 home and like fifteen minutes later, you're sweating your heart. 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.800 Is a lot of salt in everything good, It's true. 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:57.160 I love the Zancou garlic sauce, the Zancu chicken they 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.080 have that. It's like basically the same thing that you 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.320 can get a trader ship Si garly spread. Well, that's 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:02.840 like when you get fried clams, and you have the 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.840 cocktail sauce and the tartar sauce, and you can like alternate. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.320 I always go for the cocktail sauce though, and that 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.320 now you got alternate, yeah, or because the cocktail sauce 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.400 eventually it's too if you just alternate with the cocktail 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:19.440 sauce and like vinegar vinegar, you need to like I 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:24.320 like to like pickly, the pickly smooth, you know what 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:30.040 I mean. The pick smooth get sponsored by Hines Tartar sauce. Seriously, No, 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:38.960 well honestly, so he just Hi, I'm very behind and 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.200 I'm just now listening to you guys talk about whales 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.240 and how whales came from the land, which is creepy. 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.040 But then he talked about hippos and had to call 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:50.240 in because, um, I'm obsessed with the story of hippos 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.280 moving to Columbia, so you should definitely look it up. 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.920 But Pablo Escobar had a weird zoo on his property 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.960 and he had all these hippos brought from Africa, and 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.320 when he was arrested, they started escaping. And now Colombia 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.680 has all of these hiccos and it's like exactly the 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.120 same climate of Africa, but without the drought. So they're 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.240 becoming the dominant predator. And everyone thinks HIPOs are cute 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.480 and cuddly, just like Carvel died, but actually they are 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:19.240 dangerous and terrifying. And I think like the second or 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:23.360 third most like deadly credittor. So it's a huge problem 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.120 and Columbia doesn't want to kill them because Columbia has 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:30.400 reputation problems, and so it's just becoming this like epic 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:34.320 problem and they're just everywhere and it's an amazing story. 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.400 And I just thought you guys should know, so happy 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:49.760 nightcall the side note. UM. Like very shortly after I 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.760 got married, UM, I bought my first pair of Teva's 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.840 UM and I feel like this, like this transformation took 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.800 place over the course of one week where I'm like, 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.080 I love my Tevas. I'm gonna go be a tourist 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.600 and wearing my squashy sandals. You entered the mode seriously 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.920 because like when it's raining that much, you can't even 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:14.040 really wear boots because they'll just get inside the boot. 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.879 So I just thought, why fight it, Just be barefoot 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.960 and let the water wash over. You became a forest crab. Yourself. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:25.320 I did. Yeah, I I became slightly amphibious. So we 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.280 were leaving non Zenji, which is this huge Buddhist temple, 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.359 and of course as we're leaving, like the five pm 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.400 was the closing time, so we couldn't be inside anymore, 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.760 and then it just starts pouring down rain. So we 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.240 were just like running, like bolting down this path um 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.400 trying to get back to the subway, which basically took 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.000 an hour because it would start to lighten up and 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.320 then we'd start walking and then I would start pouring 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.359 again and we'd like find shelter under the nearest thing. 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.280 But we're staying outside of Kyoto in this um like 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.520 a yokam which is like the kind of a bed 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.800 and breakfast, like the Japanese version of a bed and breakfast, 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.679 and the one we stayed as like they had this 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.640 river side thing where they turned off all the lights 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:04.800 at a certain points so you could see the fireflies, 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:06.520 which was so funny because it reminded of you me, 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.600 of you, Molly, because there were like three fireflies on 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:13.000 the river when I saw the firefly in New York. 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:18.320 And yeah, well I think I've said this before, but 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:20.439 this is like a lot of l A kids I 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.400 know have this thing. We're the only place we've ever 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:26.080 seen fireflies is on Pirates of the Caribbean. Yes, you 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.800 know at this bed and breakfast, did you have to 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:33.040 have communal breakfast and dinner? Um? Yes, it's very old school. 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.520 Communal tables are tests worst nightmare. You don't have to 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:41.480 talk to anybody else there except this this place. Like 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.720 many of these types of super traditional like I would say, 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:50.480 like fancy Rio cons had Geisha's, Like they come through 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:52.639 and they like perform some kind of dance or whatever. 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:54.879 But then they come through and they talk like to 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.200 each table and you have to talk to them and 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.760 you have to talk to them. It's like one of 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.359 them that came through and talked, she spoke a little 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.119 more English and it was okay, But then those of 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:07.199 them mostly don't, and so I was speaking to them 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.520 in Japanese and my Japanese is really bad. I would 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.600 rather be at a communal table with other people who 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:19.840 are staying than than with what did you guys talk about? Like, oh, 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.639 where are you from? And I found it to be 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:26.359 supremely awkward. But like the drunk businessmen who were there 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:30.119 for dinner, gotta gotta kick out of it. So this 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.960 campaign was started a few years ago in Kyoto to 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.919 get more people to use public transportation and to use 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:40.399 the subway. They decided like the best tactic to attract 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.879 people to the subway would be to make like cute 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:48.520 anome girl mascots for the train. And so it's called 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:54.280 like the Moe Moe Kyoto like campaign. UM, and they 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.200 have like they have this full cast of characters. UM. 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.520 And there's uh, like the main or all she has 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.400 like a brother, and then another one of her friends 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.320 as a brother, and they're all these bios for them. 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:08.560 And I think they made some kind of short animation, 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:12.199 but it's just hilarious because like all of the subways 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:15.800 are plastered with these ads of like these cute autome 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.879 girls like holding their their subway passes and like showing 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:20.800 how cool and cute it is to have a subway. 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.639 Doesn't work? Did people ride the subway more? I guess. 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.159 I guess it's been successful because they've kept it up. 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:31.480 Somebody at this who works for the city get characters. 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:33.720 But there's one of the guys who's like kind of 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.960 like a jockish guy wearing a pink Cootie is named 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:40.359 Takeru and says Takara attended the same high school as 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:42.760 Rio and his best friend, who's like the other boy there. 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:46.400 He has an easy going and optimistic side. After graduating 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.119 from high school, his desire to become a breadmaker let 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:51.680 him to study at a bakery in Kyoto. He likes 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.800 how people can buy bread around Kyoto's subway stations. Now 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:57.840 I'm just picturing somebody riding the train and falling in 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:07.000 love with one of these characters. Hey, I think I 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:10.720 called the right number. Dylan leaving you and night call 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:16.879 Um so something about targeted ads. I said something about 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:19.119 how I was very exset that there's a new Coke. 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:24.119 It's Coke zero, replacing the old perfect Pope zero. And 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:27.560 then I got an ad on Twitter that was like, Dylan, 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:32.000 there's someone else in Austin had an Austin, Uh, someone 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:35.879 else not and named Chris or something who also didn't. 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:39.200 I wasn't writing for the new Coke zero to come out, 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:41.920 but look at this video we made that convinced them. 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:46.399 And that was when I threw my phone into the ocean, 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:57.040 and uh, I'm calling you from a tin camp. No, 0:21:57.320 --> 0:21:59.800 but you know it's like the things I find charming 0:21:59.880 --> 0:22:02.399 up at it are like the fandoms and stuff like that. 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:06.119 Fandom for Disneyland has always been like, by far the 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:12.280 best Disneyland fandom. Yeah. I've never been a bad stay, 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.960 but I did. I did grow up golf. I started 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:18.320 dyeing my hair black at like twelve, and my have 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:21.080 very curly hair, and my sisters would sing share songs 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:24.800 to me to Tommy and I was like, no, Ali, 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:28.960 why were you so golf? You know, I grew up 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:31.440 in this town that was wealthier than we were but 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:34.000 had good schools, and so there were people like like 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:37.560 Hill the guard in my high school and I transferred 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.120 there in sixth grades and I's like, you've never been 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:43.720 to a Benetton store. You don't have anything Benetiti Like no, 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:46.359 And so I think I just was like, well fucked, 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:48.720 I'm not gonna I'm not gonna assimilate that way. So 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:51.119 I'm just gonna go head the other direction. So I 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:54.160 was like, all right, I only wear old military things 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:57.280 I get from just from thrift stores. Before you know, 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:00.040 it's a slippery slope. You're wearing black eyeliners, lips it 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:03.040 you guys, how long? How long? Was this period of 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:10.159 your life, probably like thirteen to like two commitment. I know, 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:12.280 I went to l A and was like, oh, I 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.160 guess it doesn't work here. It's just it's the best 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:17.480 place to be a goth. I didn't know that I 0:23:17.560 --> 0:23:20.880 didn't find my people yet. I I remember I drove 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:22.800 down to like go to Helter Skelter a couple of 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:25.520 times when I was like in college, but I never 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:27.760 went to a bad day, but it always I found 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:31.720