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days and lonely nights. You can also send us an email at Nightcall podcast at gmail dot com and yeah, tell us what's on your mind? So what's on your guys is mind tonight? Uh? I feel like it's been a while since we last spoke, because it actually has been, even though the pods keep it coming. But my head is like a balloon today, floating away from my body. And why could that be? Molly? Because I went to Las Vegas with Emily. Yeah, we we We spent some good time in Las Vegas. I would say it's a

pretty successful trip. It was very successful in that I was so ready to get out of Las Vegas. On day three, I was like, I need to escape and then by the time I was on the plane, I was already like, what a great trip and that was fun. If you're gonna have nostalgia for the thing during the thing, Um, yeah, we uh we went. I guess we got there. It wasn't even quite a weekend, but it felt like mom seen we got there on Thursday. We thought, okay, so

here's what we thought. We thought we were picking like a dead weekend that nobody would be there because it's like the middle of March, and who's in Las Vegas? And we picked like like, what's the point. Yeah, we were like, it's the Presummer rush, there's like no holidays. Turns out a it was St. Patrick's Day on Saturday.

Who among us could have ever known when since Patrick spent that on my calendar, And it was March Madness weekend, which none of us even knew existed, because it's not like we worked at ESPN for several years and we haven't gone mad I don't have ESPN. We were so like, what is this and then we were like, oh no, it was the world have convened in Las Vegas. I have never seen so many men in my whole life. Wait, so I want to before we get into like the

full rundown of the trip. I want to like one of my early observations because I got there a day early and I spent a night uh at the Palms uh and this was just off strip. But like, if anybody watched any MTV reality show at any point in the two thousands, they know the Palms because I feel like there was always like people partying at Ghost Bar or whatever. It was like the hang out for the

cast of the Hills and Paris Hilton and everybody. Um. And now I mean they're in the middle of this huge overhaul, so it's sort of sad it's been all ripped up. Um. But I uh, but now it just kind of feels it's halfway there too. It's it's it's

it's remodeling, but it's also now just an odds themed casino. Like, Yeah, you were sending these like really sad pictures of like Dave Navarre, just like you were saying, it's like they're halfway through trying to turn it over from being the two thousand's place, but they still have all the two

thousands people in billboards on the walls. Yeah, there's this walkway the sky Tube to like their fancier hotel, Palms place, and it's just these huge murals of like Alicia Keys and Dave Navarro and the cast of Entourage and stuff, and it's just like such a weird motley. It's so strang and like yeah, and then like Nellie I think is in there in the middle. It's just it's it's

it's very evocative. I mean, I spent I had like a very memorable experience with the Palms in probably at the very last year that it was like super the spot to be and I was a little sad to see it all ripped up and unrecognizable because I had I had, I had some good times at the Palms in my day. But yeah, I it was, it was, it was. It's it's a theme. It's a theme hotel of its own now, yeah, it's the theme is death

and Resurrection. Oh. The other thing is that Adrian Malouf I don't think her family doesn't have any ownership over it anymore, Like the maloof name is no longer on it. Um Really I don't think. I think they got bought by like the people who on the station, the Palestation, I think or Sinset station. I can't remember anyway, I know too much about Vegas. Well, one thing about Vegas casinos is don't ever get attached to anything about any

of them, because that is their their reality. Wouldn't that be so sad if you made a habit of getting attached to Vegas casino's. What I keep saying is like a really smart person if they were going to open another casino, Um, if they want to make a nightcall casino in old Las Vegas, because like the best casinos are the ones that are still feel a little old

and weird to me. To me, um, and that's why I like like the old strip with like the Fremont Street casinos because they are a little like older and sleazier and own it. Whereas the new ones are like new and sleazy and have like are so characterless in the same way. Um, they have their forced character, like like the Cosmopolitan. But if they didn't blow everything up all the time, and they had let some of the sixties stuff exist long enough to still exist, it would

be so popular now. And you know retro casino, like if there was like a sands, like a you know, may build the original sands and make like a utpack theme casino people would love that. Especially it's like the next phase now that, like the E d M phase of Las Vegas, is maybe on its way out. I guess well, I think it is peaked. I think this is maybe a separate discussion for another day, but I think that we're certainly in the twilight of of the d and like the Vegas E d M thing, and

I wish I could write something about this. This is like something I thought was happening four years ago, but it's just taken longer. Emily and I both also had only been to Las Vegas most recently on work trips, which are great way to go to Las Vegas, and we both realized that that is why Hunter Thompson went there for Fear and Loathing is because it's like the place you can scam people in the letting you go. Yeah. Also, we both were like should we be taking notes? And

then we're like, no, we're just here. I was so sad to miss this trip. Husband had work, and uh, I have We have no babysitter, which is fun to have no babysitter and just be looking at Instagram. But it was you guys did a good job of we missed you very much, especially at Magic Mike. Oh my god, we will get to Yeah. So yeah, we met up at the Venetian, which is where this this all took place, which I had also never been to before, which is

a great silly Las Vegas hotel with fake canals. It was very like floral looking or was that somewhere else that you guys wan that was the wind. The wind is like rose Parade. We should like do the disclaiming that all of these places are owned by the most evil men. Uh, and that's just a fact of going to Vegas. It's like you're gonna eat the burger and it's going to have like hooves in it. Although the win even though um, when Steve Wyne is very evil, um,

he's also a vegan. He's an evil vegan, So the burger isn't the most apt. No, they have like lots of vegan options. And we actually went there on St. Patrick's there because it was like they were like my friends that were left were like, uh, this one might have vegetarian options remain Yeah. Trip. Well, I thought that was interesting to the evil vegans because it's become such a trope, the like the evil billionaires and evil tech guys that are into like health and wellness and like

fake into Eastern religion, you know, but are evil. And did you guys see that article about Um this is totally separate Powder Mountain. No, it's like an elite club for like millennials who are trying to have spiritual awakenings. It's like a place to do mushrooms with billionaires. And it sounds awful. It's like Ana somewhere. Um you should it's almost like my nightmare. Um. I heard that the tech yuppiece have taken over Lyn, which is not super surprising.

That's that's a part of that story too, so we should hate Yeah. Sorry, let's get back to last. Speaking of journeys to the inside of the self. Well, okay, so so we mentioned that we went there during March Madness and it was just this complete and total like when did you realize it was March Madness? When I got on the plane to go to Vegas and it was all dudes, and I texted David and I was like,

I've made a horrible mistake. Yeah, I didn't even really like I I remember when we booked and somebody was like, oh, you know, it's gonna be a busy weekend. And I was like, oh, like, you know, aren't they all uh But no, this was on a different level entirely. So everywhere we went, it was it was packed with dudes. Everywhere. It was like, I can't even describe it because I've

never been in that experience. I kept saying, it was like we were in a zombie movie where all the women had been killed and we were the only women left. So like every time we did see a woman, we would be like hello. And so this being this was you know, we haven't mentioned this is my bachelorette party, and so this being a special occasion, I you know, I really wanted to work some some uh some looks or as you may pronounce them, Luke's um during the weekend.

And the first second that Molly and I stepped out to go to walgre Is to get something, it's like just a bunch of guys being like interesting outfits ladies. And I was like, cool, I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna change into something even weirder. Yeah, we kind of we kind of decided against our like hot outfits in favor of our like scary outfits because the first time we went out in our hot outfits, the men who like hit on you that are super normy and

are like weird, what's up? Weirdos like but yeah, so do you like books? What? Um? But we so we had been kind of dealing with this, like guys who were just so in their zone that they you know, don't like in the elevator door for women, like, oh no, we didn't exist to them. Every time we were in an elevator, they were having like an impassionate you know,

like did you see that play? Like like really loud, like over us if we wanted to have a conversation, which we weren't even trying to, but just like it was just we we were completely invisible to them. It was like they were saying, did you see that play? My first thought was like theater Nert, that's madness. You know, we were so divorced, but it was hilarious. We were like,

we didn't We didn't think about it at all. And then I didn't even know that it was like a thing in Las Vegas, even though of course it is. But yeah, it's like the guys aren't even there to like party and get laid. They're literally just there to bet that's all they care about. Probably, I mean there's probably plenty of well, they wear their like daytime visor to the casino and then they have their nighttime visor sex visor the club. We were visors the whole time.

But yeah, then we went to the club. We went to Hakkasan, which is the super super club, the like three stories to have to take an elevator like in the Haunted Mansion to get in um and I only and I both enjoy those sorts of things. We enjoyed spectacle, and I had always wanted to go there out of

just like like sheer kind of morbid fascination with like Vegas. Well, the last time I went to Vegas was I was profiling Martin Garrick's superstar DJ Martin Garrick's for MTV, and we got to go to like a superclub through like the back door entrance, the good Fellows entrance, and it was like the best experience of my life. I was just like, can't be jaded about this. Yeah, this is pretty cool, although I'm sure it gets old if you're

like doing it every night one of those DJs. But Hakasan was like I was just like walking into a room of like testosterone using. It was like everyone was just hitting on like any woman in sight. I felt bad for any woman who was there because it was just like that kind of getting hit on where it has just so it's so indiscriminate. It's just like you okay, no you well yeah no, And I and I always try to just be like, hey, everybody in our group is spoken for, and then somebody will make fun of

me for using the turn of phrase spoken for. It's just like there's no way to have a Niles. Yeah, I'm so sorry. We are all spoken for here. Um. That was funny too because there was nobody was single, but everybody came out of it like, man, I'm so glad I'm not single, because like what a nightmare. But so on our last night, um, we we went to uh maybe the pullar Uf. We we had like the best palate cleanser. Yeah, we counter programmed. Um. And the

first I went to the National Atomic Testing Museum. There was that so we meant to talk about that radiation and yeah, we looked at a lot of that is a great museum that I recommend to everybody at the National Atomic Testing Museum it uh is really scary. And the first time I went it was before the election, so I had such a different experience of it because I was just like, Wow, the twentieth century was so scary,

you know. I was like, yeah, I was like, imagine living under the like terror of nuclear threat all the time. That must have been so scary. No wonder, everything got so paranoid and weird. And then this time it was even weirder because it's a Smithsonian museum. But the way the captions work, it's like, and then we made the bomb because we had to because of the Russian arms race, and then the text democracy, yeah, and then there's got

to have it. They very they like don't go into Hiroshima Nagasaki at all in terms of like what happened after you did that. It's just like, here's what you know, Then we made this bomb, and then we made this bomb, wasn't it? And then at the end it's like and

then we won the Cold War. I think it was Dulcia who was saying that who had been to the museum in in Hiroshima the about the bomb there, And it's also equally like kind of gliding over the fact that there was even a war before the bomb was off. It's like, you know, you get the selective story no matter where you are, if you're easy, and that covers any kind of war conflict whatsoever. Yeah, it definitely was

a national museum. Yeah, there's also like an incredible movie that I don't Molly, you weren't in there with us, but I'm sure you saw when you were there before where it starts with a bomb countdown and then they like filled the theater with smoke and like it and like jets of air blasts at you and all nerves were so afraid because it had been like a very long night before. Were also called the ground zero Theater, Yes,

it's called. And like immediately my friend who was sitting next to me just like collapsed and coward and like wide into my arms. It's like too much, too much, too much, we can't do it. Uh, yeah, it was.

It was. It was a lot. But then we got to see the sad little collection of alien memorabilia, which is the alien exhibit I saw when I first went was no longer up, but they had sort of like moved the remaining stuff into a sad corner, which was great because one of the things in the alien display was just the collection of vape juice that was called Area fifty one vape juice, like the last case in a museum that it has like the Smithsonian logo outside of it. There is they divide the like the real

history stuff from the Area fifty one stuff. But they know that people are super interested in that also, um so they a little bit catered to it because I mean it's it's a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. It's very interesting just from a point of view two of like, you know, because it's in

Las Vegas. It's outside Las Vegas because the Nevada test site is where they tested all these atomic bombs, so it's technically a museum about that, but it's you know, they talked about like, oh in the Earth, the places they considered for testing the atomic bomb? Where else New Mexico and Utah? And I think they picked last, like Nevada because there was like relatively nothing around it. And then Las Vegas was piste at first because they were like,

please don't test atomic bombs. Everybody wanted to watch the bomb go off. Yeah, and then they just coveted to promoting it and being like, come get blown up in Las Vegas, which you know, to be honest, that's still a draw. Yeah, although now that I say that, I realized how tasteless it is because they just had a big mass shooting, so uh they I think sometimes I

don't know. That's what's part of weird about the sort of erasing of history in Las Vegas is that it was interesting to be there and be like, oh, like, there's some like veiggat strong hashtags and stuff, but other than that, every and there were some bomb sniffing dogs, but other than that, it was very like business as usual.

Don't think about it being scary. It's so funny to me that you guys love Las Vegas because I hate lass I truly hate Las Vegas, and my my uncle lived there for a long long time, which maybe is

part of why I not know. My uncle was great, but like, when you live in Las Vegas had the experience of like the non tourist well yeah, I mean, and also I had, like I just when you were talking about the guys going up and hitting on you and how awful they were, I was like, huh, maybe I was doing that back when I was in Vegas where you're just like anyone, anyone, and that's like part of that Vegas experience. I just felt bad for them. I wasn't like I was like, I know, but it's

like that weird desperate Yeah, the desperate energy. I I enjoy observing that because I want some money in Las Vegas, the like one time that I went there in recent memory. Um, because I have a rule that I can only ever gamble twenty dollars what I do and I saw you with avouch. Yeah, but I spent five dollars, so it wasn't that loss. What's the best thing about Las Vegas? Okay? I think Emily and I probably both like it because it's like, you know, a postmodern fantasy and we like

to think about it. Yeah. And uh, I also just like any large machine, and when you're you're driving into Vegas and you see all the resorts and they're just colossal, Like they're bigger than any building that you see in New York, just in terms of like the stats, like not in terms of height, but just in terms of like the mass of them. It's just so it's such an alien scale to be in and then to think about like like cities worth of people that just work there. Right.

It's it's so far out in the desert that it has a real like space colony feeling to it. You're like, this is how we are thinking about, like how we would colonize Mars, you know, because you're like, what do you need? And how can you make buildings that have every possible thing you could ever need in them so you never have to leave the building, But then you always get that biggest casino space madness where you're like, I have to go outside where that day is night

and night is day. And that accounts for a lot of my wooziness now, is just being so outside of like any kind of natural time cycle or like day cycle.

I don't know, it's so weird. I felt like fine on St. Patrick's Day, which was also hilarious because we were like at the end of our trip and then everybody else was like just getting there for St. Patrick's Day on Saturday, you know, so it was like, you guys are also lucky that you missed the spring break crowd or maybe not, like that would be more fun, that would have been better than this. This was like not there would have been more women there, like it was.

That was the thing. On St. Patrick's Day. I was immediately more comfortable because there were suddenly like packs of sorority girls and I was like, right, you know what, my sisters, when else are you going to say, like think that? But then you're left like but no, I was like, the bros can't exist like alone. The bros need to like rove amongst the packs of like lady bros, you know, and find each other. When it was just bros and they were just like there to gamble and

that's all it was. I don't know. That was maybe too dark for me, I think. I think also another part of me being always like drawn to Vegas from the first time I ever went there is like it's so outside of anything that I like, I would never have gone on a Vegas vacation when I was a kid one because we would have had the money into because it's just like completely not I'm aligned with any

values I grew up with. So there's a sort of like forbidden fruit aspect of it, but like in a not in a like I'm gonna go and I'm gonna like shower myself in champagne and do all of the Debaucher's things. I'm mostly just like, what is it like all the crazy stuff that you can do here? Beautiful

lights were like suckers for beautiful. There was that meme going around that was like about like how Neon and fog is so tired the Blade Runner like cyberpunk esthetic, and then it was like, also me, like, oh, Neon like a foggy nie. I do like the Neon. I just feel like there's a certain element of like being trapped with the bad decisions you're gonna make in a big giant hotel that just feels like the Twilight Zone that I would least like to experience. But yeah, the

ship exactly. I mean I hated Las Vegas when I went there as a kid. I went there for the first time as a kid to see a Grateful Dead concert with my family. During the Bob were and Jared Garcia were wearing shorts a lot phase um, and I hated Las Vegas because it was like a hundred and twenty degrees um. I like the luxe mark because I was into ancient Egyptian art, but you know, I was like,

I don't know, I hated it. I thought I just really hated Las Vegas, and then I went back for the first time as an adult to a b N for Gretland and that was the best experience of my life. Fell in love with Las Vegas. I was going to say, we should we should break and do a question and then do something just on magic Mike, I think, yes, brilliant. Okay, Uh, We'll be back with the rest of our Vegas adventure after a night call. UM, Yeah, let's take a night call.

Who do we have on the on the old message recorder, on the old voicemail box, we have a call from Kevin. Good evening, night call. My name is Kevin. I'm speaking. I'm talking from Los Angeles. UM. Extent of the podcast so far, I had a question for all three of you. UM, I wanted to get a sense of any experiences that you've had in terms of deep dives looking for stuff online,

anything that is sort of inevertly become nightmare fuel. UM. Sometimes they'll spend a lot of times just doing deep dives on YouTube, and then I'll come across some strange pod video, kind of watch half of it, freak out a little bit, and then I kind of meditate on it and then did a little bit deeper looking for related content. I just wanted to know if there was anything in terms of what I described that you could identify in terms of your own internet or online deep dives.

Al Right, have a good night, Hey Kevin, thank you so much for calling it. So we're we I think we are all mega deep divers, Is that right? Guys? UM? What this is interesting to me? So you you kind of accidentally stumbled on something that was really creepy, and then instead of closing the window, you were like, here into the darkness. I'm going in my the one that's kind of like terrible catnip for me. Well, there's two, and I think we'll probably have a whole episode devoted

eventually to ghosts. One of them is ghost stories. But I am a'm I get very obsessed with medical mysteries UM, and so I tend to go like really really deep on those UM and that's a huge mistake that I don't think anyone should do. I signed up for UM this website called crowdmed after trying to solve several acquaintances medical mysteries by like obsessive Google. I got a couple solved.

So then crowd met is basically if you have something that doctors can't figure out, you post like an exhaustive account of your symptoms, and you get an anonymous handle and then, um, anyone can kind of weigh in and try and solve it for you, and there's like a cash reward if they get it right. I guess I'm not even sure how it works because I have not

felt like an expert enough to actually diagnose someone. So I just look at their problems try and diagnose them and keep that information to myself, which is so horrible thing to do. Um doctor test, but it's been it's been super super interesting. So that's that's my deep dive nightmare fuel. Um. And I feel like I already know what Molly's is by wonder should you think I thought it was lotus bressed? Oh well, I mean, you know, fear of fear of holes, fear of our text thread

a lot yeah. Uh, but I'm trying to think, like what a recent one is, Sumily, what are yours? Well? This one, I mean I've been I've been watching this video since the beginning, like bench just freaked out. Uh, and it really has been uh since I was in college. Uh. There's a long story about what what opened me to the world of videos. But I haven't watched videos. You don't know about this now, this is legitimately a huge thing.

Um it's I've learned a lot about you also on this trip, such as that you were a hair model. Oh yeah, yes, Emily's secrets. She's got great hair. She was like, I haven't been been to Vegas since the hair show. Oh no, I've been to Vegas since. They hadn't been to the Vegas was for the hair show. No, it was my second time, and it was. But it was the first time I stayed at the Venetian for inter coffee or two thousand and seven. It was there

with the doll sets. Soon it was very fun. We did everyteen to the Clackson's if want to date that so Dave Navarro and the Palms. Yeah anyway, But okay, so there's that. I mean, those are two Sist videos. I can't funk with that. I know I can't. Yeah, I know it's not for everybody. I don't want to get too much into it. I honestly haven't watched a lot.

Last time I went to go see how this sist scene on YouTube was going, it was like, very very it was extremely like curated like all things on YouTube now, like a dermatologists who have UM channels endorsements. Yeah, yeah, it's totally crazy. Like before it was always just like beauty bloggers. That's yeah, it's crazy. So like before it was just like my cousin has this thing on his back and we're going to take him out back and

rip it open, Like I mean, there's by that. But she's like, I like to google medical Mr. Internal Medicine. I'm an internist. I'm a fake Internet amant, but I like to read about disappearances. I had one other one that because that one, like, I don't know, that's not like a really a current thing. That's just not anymore. The scene is dead, guys. But the one that I got into like a couple of years ago is UM kids who like you know, these like evangelical kids who

record um their gloss alalia um. They do their speaking in tongues like in like you know, a lot of the videos would be kind of long because they have to wait for the spirit to take them over and then they start um, you know, doing They're they're leaning and rocking and doing all the speaking in tongues and everything and that can be very haunting and unsettling sometimes. Um,

do you ever get too creeped out? Yeah? For sure, Like there are ones where it's like this kid is too young to be doing this on YouTube, Like there's something very like I think we're all too young to do. We know what I actually, Um, Molly Soda, who is

an internet person, I really like she's an artist. She was posting yesterday about how like tween girls will like put up videos on YouTube of like dances they made up, and then there are all these mean comments from adult men being like you're ugly, like this dance sucks, and she was just like that should be like a safe place for people, Like girls should be have a phase where they get to like make up dances where they aren't like being critiqued by men about what they don't

like about it. I was. I was like, she's so right, Um, but also like we all did that stuff. I feel like we were like eighties video cameras, Like we definitely have the tape of I Believe You're on It, Molly that my parents said, and I was like, oh, what if anyone has seen it? Can I tell you guys? Because Molly, I think you mentioned miss like disappearances. Um, I was. I did a deep dive where I was trying to see if I could find this woman who's been missing for gosh, I mean it must be like

more than a year. Her name is Nancy, and there's a website for her called Nancy is Missing, and she has a Facebook page. She went she has Alzheimer's and she went missing from LACMA, and I decided to take it upon myself to try to find her. But in like, because there's a huge homeless population obviously in l A. And I was like, I'm just going to keep an

eye out. But then I also started looking through um the databases of missing people in Los Angeles, and I was doing it so much that I like, I just feel like I maybe wanted to find like I wanted it to happen. And so I thought I found a missing person who had gone missing near my house a long time ago, and I thought I found him living on the streets, and I sent my husband to he was in a parking lot of a drug store, to go be like, hey, we found you, yeah, to to

say his name just to see if he responded. But but he did respond. But then was like it's not me. But then they ended up having this long conversation. My husband had a hard time extricating himself from and he made me promise to to never do that again. But I like went so deep on it because I was like, I think I could find like half these people. I've got a lot of time on my ends. Like you've been a detective a few times. Actually it's always worked

out so well, that's what I'm saying. You're such a great smith. Wow. Um, well, thank you so much for the caution. UM. I like Kevin's attitude also about like um, just sticking with it and waiting for an epiphany to happen, or meditating, or that you go too deep and you get spooked, which can happen, and then either way we have We've gotten so many good night calls and we're

trying to work through all of them. It's going to take some time, but we've gotten a lot of very heartfelt UM questions and messages and we love them, so please keep them. Just because we don't play them doesn't mean we we don't see them. We read them all. So now that we've we've we see you and hear you, and we and we love your emails, yes, and we're going to get to more of them. Were going through slowly,

so back to Vegas really quickly. UM. So we mentioned it was a complete manfest the entire time we were there, and it was a little overwhelming. But on our last night we had the palate cleanser of palate cleansers. Um. We went to Magic Mike Live, which was which is the live show they've had for about a year and a half now. I think at the hard Rock Hotel um produced by I think Cheney Tatum has like a producer role in it, but I could be mistaken. It's uh they saw his vodka at the bar, so he's

definitely he's in it. He makes a voice cameo in it. Um. But it is uh something I kind of had to be talked into it first. You did totally have to be talked into it. Uh. You were more leaning towards the Boss Lerman review, which is incredible and I will go to that someday. But I was totally the I am such a bro because I was the person who's like, it's your bachelor getting strippers, even though it's like it's not like you're getting strippers it's like they're going to

a play no that has men dancing in it. Well, the thing that's funny is that I when I came back, Um, David was watching Atlanta and I don't remember what it's from the new season, but there's like a scene that was in a strip club and I was just sort of like, it's so different from like strip reviews, like male strip reviews, Like it's more like an ambience where like a strip like for like a female stripper in scenario, it's like the musical cabaret. It's right, yeah, it's not

a no you're in like Weimar, Germany. You know everyone's in the club. Yeah, um well they come we're studying in a balcony, but they came up to the Belfi, right, so yeah, it's uh, first of all, well okay, so my my, I'll tell you my my reservations were just that,

like I love both Magic Mike movies a lot. I think they are so fun and like very life affirming in right, I also had no interest in being one of the women in it, like even in those like really incredibly choreographed ones like the mirror dance at the end of Magic Mike XXL like, I don't want to be the person who's being thrown around on a chair like and like yeah, or being made to do the split. Right, you don't want to get called on stage at the

Magic show. You're not like a volunteer. Well, I have been called on stage in a magic show. That's sort of fun. Um, Okay, you're a selective but not where you might have to like spread eagle in front of a crowd or whatever like that then or so you sawn um. I was really campaigning for the Magic Mike Show also because like three out of the five people at this bachelor att party or film critics or film programmers, and so I thought it would be funny to go

to a strip show based on a Steven Soderberg movie. Yeah, and it was, but also to encourage like more Las Vegas reviews based on Steven Soderberg movie. What would be the what would be the next on like obviously Behind the Candelabra Lives, Yeah, you would be that would that would definitely bring me to Vegas if I could go to Okay, when we build the nightcalled Casino that's the sixties, that will be the in how show is the liberat

Behind the Candle labbr show, it would be amazing. So uh, I don't know how much we want to spoil from The Magic Mike Show because there are some like definite surprises. And this is the other thing that intrigued me about the show and kind of won me over is that on Yelped, people are like, the Magic Mike Show is so amazing. I kind of don't want to go into too much detail here because I want to like preserve the experience for people who come to see it later.

So maybe, like, but there is like a total there's a fake out moment in it that like it's very rewarding. We were all faked up. Yeah, but but but it has it has this incredible female m c which I think is like the reason so much of it works. Much like reason it works, yeah, much much like in

Magic Mike XXL with Jada Pinkett Smith. I mean she's not really doing the same thing as Jada Picket Smith, but it's just like this like female like this like dominating female energy, and the room is like what makes us Like Ben having been in March Madness for like the previous day, it was like the opposite. It was like she was like here's a space that's just for you, the ladies. Nothing is about anything but like what you're

interested in and like catering to your needs. And we were like a great thing about it is that so many of the like when they have you know, she does like little interactions with some of the guys and like they've all they all just like act in the cutest like kind of dumb puppy dog way, like they're they're legitimately hot. Yeah, they are like waxed in some incredible way. Yeah, which we know because well everybody was like you thought they'd be gross to touch, but then

they were kind of like very soft. We thought that they'd be grew. Somebody was saying that they weren't sure if they wanted to about that person, but yeah, it's it's great everybody around. Um, it was just like a room full of women, you know. It was like, oh,

here's where everybody is. Like it was like ten different I was telling David, like, upon reflection, it was kind of like being in a big banquet hall and like Game of Thrones or something, except it was just all bridal parties and like all the different instead of all the different houses, and so it was like here's one one group, but they're like their queen and her veil, and here's the group where everybody's wearing like mass like

glittering and masquerade masks, and everybody sort of gathered in the round around all the male strippers. It was very kind of incredible. Um, yeah, you could tell who the bride, like the bride would be wearing. Everybody was wearing like a like a slutty bride dress with like a bride sash, you know, and then their bridesmaids wearing like slutty bridemaid's dresses.

And then all the brides are the people who got the like special dances because their parties told them in advance, and our party also told the show, and you know, uh so they asked Emily if she wanted to come on stage and she said, yes, yeah, I wouldn't. Well because you said you weren't. You didn't want to. You thought you didn't want to at all. But then they came over and by that point you were because it

was like a few numbers into the show. At that point too, you knew they were going to like take care of you and they weren't gonna like, yeah, it wasn't going to be a bad experience. It would be like a lovely and tender experience. We also, the whole thing is so based on consent, so like they So they came up this guy, like not one of the dancers, just like another guy working the show, came up and asked me would you like to go on stage for a dance? And it was like very like gentlemanly. It

was like would you care to have this dance? And I was like would I? Like, you know, I thought about it for a second, was like yeah, sure, And then the whole time was that they were like bringing me down and like prepping me for what's going to go on. Like the whole thing was very like are you okay with this? Is this? Are you going to be okay doing this and this? And it was just like so gentlemanly the entire experience. I was like, wait, so Millie, what did they do? Um? So I got

an aerialist. There we go. She got the nine inch which is so perfect that we were all like did they how did they know she would get the industrial music aerialist song? Sir? Of course, of course, okay, And maybe I didn't know. Maybe it was going to be strapped her down to a big round leather bed in the middle of the floor, and then a guy did an aerial routine over her that she had to participate in. Well, he's like so it they he comes down like he's

spinning around and stuf. First of all, it just feels like a dream because you're like lying down you just have this man like spitting above you. There's not that much contact for most of it. No, it wasn't like you didn't get like grinded on drip on you. I'm sorry, but they're sweat dripping on you, and it's I know it's gross, but I just on my face. Molly was like, looking at my face is so horrified. Look at your face. But I've also seen pictures of you from college. He girl, No,

there was no sweat. He was surprisingly dry. He but there are these moments where he'll like he came down and was like, okay, like grab onto my jacket and just pull and then he would like and then he would like lift himself up and somehow his jacket would just like come off into my hands. I was like, wow, I'm part of the trick. It was like you ripped his pants off and then he would like slide away and then come back, and then at the end he like lifted it Emily onto his lap and then like

they flew together. There is video of this somewhere, but oh my god, it was the greatest. I'm so happy that didn't stay in Vegas, right, Yeah, I mean it was incredibly like do you don't have to tell anyone about this? Just for you? But then there's nothing to be embarrasseduff, because all I did was just like lie there and enjoy the show. Yeah, it was it was all. It was also, like I was saying, it was like the pit and the pendulum, like part of it was

like is he gonna fall on you? It's but we we left and we were just like, I think we're all just in this like crazy euphoria because it was just the most like it was better than I think any of us could have imagined the like, aside from even me going on stage, just the entire atmosphere and it was great and just there were like a million

women around and they were so happy. So we were also just like because we hadn't seen any women all weekend, we were like, yeah, like the end of the sci fi movie we found like the secret part of Logan's Run. Totally always do a Logan's Run metaphor because it's the only metaphor. Uh. Hey, guys, want to take another night call? Yeah? This one comes from Darcy Wilder. Hello, guys, it's Darcy Wilder. Um. I saw a post on Instagram and I'm gonna ask a few questions. I don't know exactly what is type

you're looking for, but I have a few. How come when I, um pour tap water into a cup its cloudy? Um? Did you guys go to Chuck E Cheeses when you were kids? And was there an animatronic can? Because I never saw one. I r L and I think that would be cool. Um. What are you guys as skincare routines? And if you have, it's an exhausting conversation. I understand if you don't want to do that. Um huh uh all right, I hope you guys are doing well. Very m fan Um. Other questions Uh all they're also boring.

It's like, do you have you ever repotted a plant? Because like, I need to repot a plane. Okay, bye. I love the Lightning round from Dark. Um. I feel like we should just like all go around and answer all four questions. Oh yeah, alright, okay, should we just start? Okay? Why is tap water cloudy when you poured in a cup? I always thought it was because there were bubbles bubbles, because then like if you leave it long enough, it is kind of weird. Is that does that happen in

in l A? Because it definitely happens everywhere in New York. But oh yeah, I also think the top water in New York is better than the top water in l A. It is, it definitely is. Maybe the cloudiness is like delicious fluoride um. The the rookie move of the few people who moved from l A to New York is that they have brittle pictures, which is just like you don't need it. It's fine everything else, Well, we don't have the fluoride. Also because they thought that it was

gonna like allow communists to put messages into your brain. Well, to be fair, if you overdo it on the flooride, your teeth turned brown. Really yes, so don't drink too much tap water? Yeah, well, it's just if you were getting like floride treatments using floridated tap water, you need us in floridated toothpaste and drinking a ton of top water, you run the risk. Okay. Now I don't remember any of the details about why we don't have fluoride and

California top water. We still did, I know we don't. We don't. We're like the only piece that doesn't. I think I'm going to find outa tell you next time question to question two, and I couldn't check to understand this an animatronic aunt an animatronic Okay, So she asked if we had gone to Chucky Cheeses and if we had seen an animatronic because she never saw one in real life ant but in animatronic, no, it would have been it would have been Charles Entertainment Cheese. Yeah, Chucky Cheese.

Charles Entertainment Cheese is his name, is his real real full name. Um, But he's not animatronic. He's a man in a suit. No, there's animatronics. There is animated them. That's what I was going to say. They got rid of the animatronics. But in the eighties there were animatronics. So this is the true. This is the millennial old millennial divide. But that's weird that they would have done that. Now they're doing. They got rid of them because they're

like expensive to repair and they were terrifying. I'm like, did you ever see them? I think so. I mean, this is the thing about Chuck E Cheese is it was such a like event place to go to that I did not form the bond around like whatever characters they tried to sell you on at Chuck E Cheese, the same nay that you do even like a McDonald's. Like I definitely remember Grimace and the Hamburgler, but I

couldn't tell you. I know that there were other characters that like populated the land of Chunky Chucky Cheese Chuck E Cheese, but I don't remember them. Um, it's just Chucky Cheese. And then uh, he has like a band and when it is someone's birthday, the band would like rise up on this. I do remember that because you

grew up in the eats. And then, uh, my boyfriend who is from the South says, they didn't have Chucky Cheese and instead they had Showbiz pizza, which was like a rip off of Chucky Cheese, or maybe Chucky Cheese riped off Showbiz Pizza, but it was the same idea or it was like an animatronic band rises out the rock a fire explosion, and then that guy made a documentary about it a little while ago where the guy

like bought the whole band. We had a place locally in Tacoma, Washington, shout out anybody from Tacoma called Pizza and Pipes that had a live organist, like a huge organ that took up the entire room, and it was awesome. He could play, he could do any requests at all. That was where we always went after like softball and

oh we always went to Shaky's. I feel like I was just talking about we're talking about and we're talking about where you go after the like the sports tournament, the soccer tournament trophy where they give you the participation trophy if you're a Cadi baded sports. My old thing growing up was we had we would go to the really shitty McDonald's, but tell them about Stu Letters. Do you know about Stu Leonards? I think it actually closed, but that was like the only real East Coast It

was a destination grocery store. And I'm trying to remember if it was in like mon Talk or nut. It was in some place that was a drive outside the city and it was a grocery store with like I mean, it was amazing. It had animatronic cows, animatronic chickens. Oh yeah, and it was like the kind of place where you went and like the groceries all seemed really fancy and they were all like your towards. Like it was like

a bougie dream of like kids food. Like you would buy eggs and you'd see like the animatronic chickens as if they were like laying the eggs that you would buy. So yeah, and they had like a lot of samples. But it was my favorite place. And I think it closed a couple of years ago, but that was that was another big thing of like, oh, let's take a weekend trip to this fun grocery store. That sounds like it was No, it sounds it was pretty grocery store.

It was pretty awesome. A true dream. Um. Have you guys ever seen the Five Nights of Freddie's video game? Uh, it's they're making a movie of it. It was popular with kids. It's like a guy who made this video game and as like the only video game he made. It's like a homemade video game called Five Nights at Freddy's, and it's about your the security guard at a pizza

chain that is clearly Chucky cheeses is called Freddy's. And it's the scariest game because the whole thing in the game is that you just have five surveillance cameras and you just click on the windows to see the different rooms of the You see the different rooms of the pizza place other than the security room that you're in, and at a certain point in the night, the animals animatronics come to life and start walking towards the security room, and you have to make it through the night, so

you keep like clicking on the cameras to see how close they're getting, and they just start like in these like scary positions in the scary surveillance rooms. Um, and then they either get to you before the night is over and eat you, or you make it through the night, and then you have to do it for four more nights. And it's great because it's like a weird it's the weirdest game play. It's like so slowly, Yeah, they don't

you don't see them move. You just see them when you click on the lights on the pause in place, so they just it's really frightening. And I think they've made like a bunch of sequels to the game, but are all kind of the same but with like more animatronics.

But it's such a simple concept and it's really it's really scary um and kids love it, Like I It's a thing that kids like, which is interesting because those kids never went to Chucky Cheese, so it's not based on like nostalgia, because that that fucking animatronic band was so scary because they were so they were so rickety, you know, even though they were like theoretically top of the line, there was something so off brand and kind

of like uncanny value about it. UM. That reminds me of the really scary show I watched on the plane to Las Vegas that was called Spy in the Wild. It was narrated by David Tennant and it was like a BBC Nature documentary, but it was about placing robot

animals in animal packs to observe the animals. So they made like fake baby animal but then they were so obviously robots, so they'd be panning across like African wolf pups, and then they get to this one wolf pop and it's a robot with a robot, I like a camera lens I and I couldn't get through it because I was so it triggered some uncanny values where the other animals just like, you know, the other animals like accepted it as they were like they just think it's one

of them, and you were, like, nobody thinks since one of them. There was one where it was like a crocodile like picking up all the crocodile picks up all its babies in its mouth to carry them to like the water, and it just kind of sees the robot one just like whatever, like crunch, I'll take you. But it was so it was yeah, yes, I m Darcy's last couple of questions. Uh I I do actually plead that that's too exhausting for me to get into. And

I also don't want to run the risk of like plugging. Um, Hey, if anybody wants us to recommend their skincare line, just send me, send me the free stuff. Yeah. Yeah, here's all I'll ask because how many steps? How many steps? One, two, three, three? Nothing? Nothing? How about you too? Yeah? Yeah, what about you? I can't get Yeah, I can't, but I do have to say that occasionally I add a mask so that I'm bordering on three. Yeah, okay, Tess, you will know the

answer to the repotting a plant. I love plants. It's crazy how much recently I've loved plants even more because I realized that those like figs that are in all of their in every like interiors magazine and stuff, and they're described as looking like babies. They have the broad rounded leaves and they're kind of fig but they don't

bear fruit. But you can take one of the leaves off those things, put it in a glass of water and give it like it takes a long time, like six to eight weeks, and then as soon as it will sprout roots and then you can repot it. But those plants are expensive and they're beautiful, and so I just did that, but just learned about taking clippings and making plants. I've done it for a while, but I had never done it like I hadn't done it with green onions, and I didn't know that you could do

it with U with tree. I didn't have any I tried to do with green onions recently and I couldn't. I couldn't get it to work. I don't know what you couldn't make it, but I put mind getting northeast light, and I found that that help. No one's for real because with orchids too, you need to get the north or the east light. I think is that's the only way I can cacorn. You know, I was literally getting the southwest light. So this explains everything. Great question, Darcy,

A great series of questions, Darcy. Thank you for calling in. Yeah, Darcy, come on nightcall. Yeah, Darcy, come on nightcall. So, guys, I don't know about you, but I am deleting my Facebook. Yeah. I haven't been signed in for a while, but I was very impressed that you were actually deleting it. Trus, We're what's your status, dude, I don't care. I mean, honestly, I'm sorry, Like I I believe that all of these.

So we're bringing this up because of the data breach, which, which to be technically clear, is not a breach, but because Facebook security with information is like so lax and terrible, they didn't like qualify as a breach for them because like, you can find out so much about people on Facebook

without technically violating any of their security. So there's that. Uh, but yeah, the go ahead though this this breach, this the Cambridge Analytica UM story that came out in The Guardian, in the New York Times, and that data was used by the Mercer and Bannon think tank, right, and then yeah, they also like they did it through a quiz. They did through a quiz, and they gave it like an

Anglo you know, tell there for white nationalists. They gave it like a real anglophone name that would make idiots be like, oh, a trusted source for Cambridge, anneal would Cambridge. But I think what it really comes down to with all this stuff that, you know, in terms of the legality of it is so hazy because it's so new. Um, the idea that we've let all this stuff happen and now we have to roll it back and regulate it seems like pretty hard to do, like kind of like already.

I mean, I think the thing that's so insane that was only like banned from Facebook as of was that when you know, you you get you sign up for some app or service or something that uses your Facebook profile and then they ask, you know, uh, can we look at your your your friends list, or your your information on your about you or your likes and all that stuff, and um, for a very very long time, like it was totally fair game to use like have in among those permissions be to like look at the

profiles of your friends. So like even if you personally we're not going to give permission to an app to you know, look at your information, one of any of your friends could do that, and then it's like who cares, Like you're still you're still being used for that purpose.

I mean, I don't know. I I kind of early on I've had a policy I do not like things on Facebook, so I try to make it very hard for it to know how to target me because I just don't have any Like I know people who like everything so that they get like the weirdest mixed possible of stuff. I'm a big like yeah, they like to like stuff that they don't like in order to see

what like someone else might get from their feeds. So they get all this weird, like all right meme stuff because I want to see what those people's feeds look like.

I mean I think that Okay, So that's what the deal is with this stuff is, you know, didn't influence the election, and my feeling about it is like there's this group of people that are like still looking for this authoritarian out from the reality that we live in now, you know, who are like Mueller is going to fix it, or like we're gonna sue Facebook and that's going to fix it. You know, like we're gonna put the genie back in the bottle, which is just like, no, we

clearly can't do that. And if these people were making memes and fake accounts and all this ship all this like cyber you know, seating stuff that they were definitely doing, but they were stoking you know, you can't stoke racism that isn't already there, you know, like America was having already like a crisis of escalating police violence. That like was an easy thing for people to prey on. But but a lot of it is also the thing we always talk about, like you know, the like like make

Nazis scared again. Like like I think a lot of that that meme stuff can make people feel the permission to like exercise and bully like people that they wouldn't normally feel like because they would feel more alone in their beliefs. And then you like see enough memes on the Internet and you're like, hey, more people think the way I do. And I think that that gives you much more of a past. Well, these people found their community. I mean, like Jay Kang was tweeting about this today,

What up ja King? Come on? I call uh uh? And he was saying to that, Yeah, it's like this is a place for alienated white men on the internet. They you know, they knew that they were all these white men who felt forgotten or whatever, um, young and old, who were like the world is changing in ways that don't benefit me, and that they could find like a community online of people that were like fuck everyone else

except us, like let's torture them all. Uh. And you know you were saying also that like four Chan in Japan also turned into like a nationalist long ago, you know, right, which is also like again kind of off last week's episode, like that's not what we thought the internet was going to do. And when you oh, go ahead, oh go ahead.

I think the thing that's like also like more of a macro thing in looking at this story is just how it only took one eight year cycle to go from like wow, the first presidency that was one with Facebook to like, oh god, the second presidency that was one with Facebook it's just like because there was so much optimism about and like this has also been brought up to like the Obama campaign used a lot of a lot of like you know, information collecting apps, but

there was much more transparency with those, and it was like not it was like you know, direct, like you were giving and like what is that Shepherd Faery poster? If not like a meme? Totally. Yeah, It's just like there there's a there's a way for all of these you know, supposedly good and powerful currents to be used

for ill. Well, if it's powerful, it can be used in both directions that I also find the political discourse on Facebook is um it's it seems as though people like lead with their pain a lot in a way that they don't on Twitter and Instagram. And I'm guessing that's because it's older people. Um, but I think that

it was just like more text based. It's like a good place to a long I mean it's also family members are often like the disagreements that I see on Facebook are often between family members, like you know, a younger person and then maybe an aunt or an uncle

or you know, grandparent or whatever. And I think it's given me I mean, granted, like I'm not I'm among the people who are not big fans of news outlets giving a voice to the same conservative people over and over to make the same conservative points about why they voted for Donald Trump. I wanted to listen the first time, and then I'm not anymore my same story over and

over over, exactly. I I like watching the debate though, between those people, because I do feel like I get very isolated and indignant in my opinion, and seeing kind of like you know, being a boyor and other people's politically based family dramas gives me a really I feel like it's a healthier insight into how people are negotiating their politics now, and like if they can find a

middle ground, which often they can't. It's like a civil war thing, families divided by that, and you don't on Twitter. I mean, I feel like you're you're getting a younger demographic that's um most interacting among people who don't know each other, or they know each other from work, like they're both political writers or you know, working in the

same field and they're having an argument. But you don't often see people online having these fights amongst themselves that really kind of could be had on the phone, but for some reason they're happening on someone's wall, and I

think it's I think it's fascinating. But I think the thing you said about people coming on Facebook and leading with their pain is like so true, and like even outside of the context of a political campaign or like a an election season, like when I was so I'm I'm deleting everything and I'm kind of going back and looking at because I archived everything just for my own personal information, and just like realizing how the most active

I ever was on Facebook. And I was never like super active on it, but was definitely when I was like the most like having the most problems and was like the saddest and wanted to go on and just like demonstrate my sadness to like all my friends, which I'm sure was super fun for all of them. But did it help, I mean, did you find it there? I felt I always really knew it was like a

new way to do that. And I think everybody of our generation that was like the inn you know, the pioneers of using social media and getting it right when it first started. You know that we've all gone through the cycle of being like, yeah, my parents thought it was scary to like talk to people on the internet, but like we're beyond that now. And but again, I think there's just like all these ways in which it does overlap with real life that we're still coming to

terms with. And this is a big one of them. Is like, hey, something that happened on the Internet totally influenced things that happened in real life. So it's not just this like repository where you put all your like dark energy. It's and you know, attention seeking it like you can have real life consequence. There's no it's like, yeah, there's no divider anymore between like your I AM chats

and seeing people have to say too. In other defenses of Facebook, which I totally agree needs to be held accountable for the day, I mean, the data breach is terrible, and I think it does need to be held a cable. But I can't ditch my account also because I've been playing scrabble on that thing for years. But that scrabble

app has no doubt been like scraping your information. You can have it all, No I have, but I play the same three I've been playing the same three people who are friends from college um, and I've been playing them for so long and it's like I just can't cut that court. And then the other thing is like I have to say I have a secret mom's group on Facebook and that I can't participating communities on I mean, that's my feeling to those is like they're all evil.

There's a lot of other evil companies that were all like entangled with Ralph's Club, and you know, quitting one won't has not like and I I it's easier for me to quit than I think for a lot of other people because but Facebook does have the way like it has can have multiple tentacles around different portions of

your life. I just feel and I feel like with this story specifically, what I'm afraid of happening with people rallying around it with like the neoliberal take on it is like we'll send Mark Zuckerberg to jail and then everything will be I don't think that's what the idea is. I think it's like we need to have a lot more regulation over this tool that everybody has in everybody's life. How why didn't we talk about that when we started.

Everybody was just so like when there's a when there's a um, when there's a democrat and in the presidency, then we're all like, oh, all of the big businesses are good and fine and they're like working in our favor, Like that was how we were that Yeah, and now we kind of have the Wold pole from our eyes in a way, and we realized, oh no, they were always just working in their own interests and yeah, well, I mean we all saw The Social Network, like all

those guys are evil, but like but they were played by just so it was fun. Uh well, I mean I think also, like there is a thing about movies like The Social Network and Wall Street and Wolf of Wall Street that enforced this idea that like you have to be ruthless, you have to be an evil on empathetic person to succeed, And I don't think that's true.

I think we should especially given you know, the political climate. Now, I think we're all seeing like, oh maybe actually, like letting narcissistic sociopaths like rise to the top of every field is like a terrible idea. Well, once we can legislate that will be on a really good path when we can ban assholes. Uh well, we should probably call it a show. If this has been a long one, a night packed with Yeah, call it a night, guys, I'm trying to start a new end of our show.

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