Plastic Surgery April continues with a call about the multiple sets of "Twinfluencers" that get matching plastic surgery - The Haze Twins, The Clermont Twins, and a debate about whether the Olsen Twins had a particular procedure done. Where is the most state of the art plastic surgery getting done right now? What's up with the private jet trips and plastic surgery makeovers rich people in Houston are doing during the pandemic? Then we are joined by Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus from our stati...
Apr 14, 2020•1 hr 11 min
Plastic Surgery April begins! How are influencers coping with staying indoors and who is still doing lip injections for the Kardashians? A night call from another medical professional says it’s probably okay to get take out right now and explains why. Then we get into our personal feelings about plastic surgery, insane beauty standards, and whether botox makes people look young or just rich. A night caller asks about Bella Hadid’s transformation into Carla Bruni and we spend a long time contempl...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr
Greetings fellow homebodies! This week Tess, Molly and Emily spend some time delving into our nightmarish techno-feudalist world. Where are the billionaires now? How do you shop for food ethically right now when the options are all bad? How are we, if not keeping sane exactly, at least muddling through? Some of us enjoyed watching Netflix's Tiger King, and some of us did not. A fun back and forth about ethics in documentary filmmaking, private zoos, and whether Joe Exotic is a Tony Soprano for o...
Mar 30, 2020•1 hr 2 min
We are celebrating our inaugural episode of the Night Call Movie Club by putting it on the main feed! New episodes will come out every month for $5+ Patreon subscribers, along with our Book Club and other bonus episodes. Join us now at patreon.com/NightCall ! To kick things off, we're watching the 1997 Robert Zemeckis-directed adaptation of Contact (after our 5-star experience with Carl Sagan's 1985 novel on the Book Club.) And who better to help us do it than writer, director and friend of the ...
Mar 27, 2020•56 min
A night caller asks and we deliver on covering the spring breakers and Disneyworld trippers who just wouldn’t stay home, as well as the too late response from Florida to prevent party rocking. Then a very special guest presents Dispatch From A Kid - Tess’s son Emmett! Emmett joins to tell us how kids feel about Corona and being off from school. More virus talk from the ladies leads into our penultimate week of Spring Break March, with The Real Cancun! The most 2003 movie of all time beloved by W...
Mar 24, 2020•56 min
Well our Spring Break theme month has taken a turn due to reality. But we will be here for you at Night Call, some of us calling in remotely, to keep taking your night calls. Pandemic talk leads to a condemnation of wellness grifters giving junk advice about Coronavirus and selling garbage dust. Then Emily has a serious q&a with a listener who responded to our call for doctors and medical professionals to give real advice about the crisis. But it’s still Spring Break March, so we tuck into t...
Mar 16, 2020•52 min•Ep. 102
Molly, Tess and Emily continue Spring Break March with a listener email about alternative spring breaks and community service tourism. Then it’s social media breaks and more Coronavirus panic, as we speculate how the festival economy and economic in general will be affected (spoiler: it’s not good!) Plus a testimony about successfully using CBD for animals. The main feature this week is Where The Boys Are, the 1960 beach romp that invented the modern spring break tradition and sex comedies too. ...
Mar 09, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 101
The ladies are joined by dialect coach Samara Bay, from new IHeartRadio podcast Permission To Speak, to talk about accents, voices and power. Is there a more famous example of a "bad" accent than Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins and is it really even that bad? Then a night email about the movie Road To Wellville prompts a talk about Kellogg's Corn Flakes as health food fad of the past, and graham crackers as very ineffective anti-masturbation tool. And of course, Coronavirus! We discuss how misinfo...
Mar 02, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 100
Jane Marie, creator and host of The Dream podcast, joins the Night Callers this week to break down the wellness industry. Are all essential oils a scam? What’s up with the influencers who stopped drinking water? Do I need to sell my crystals? Plus the creepy unregulated world of therapy apps, and a long dip in the pool for Ron Howard’s 1985 wellness opus Cocoon! All this and Steve Guttenberg too on an all new Night Call! FOOTNOTES: Jane Marie's The Dream podcast Jane Marie on Twitter Not that Ri...
Feb 24, 2020•55 min•Ep. 99
Poet Elaine Kahn, author of Romance or The End, joins the girls this week. “Where have all the great movie sex scenes gone?” A Zalman King inspired listener asks in a night email, and we answer. Elaine explains her favorite British reality dating show Flirty Dancing, and where the American reboot went wrong. A discussion of reality dating shows from around the world, with an emphasis on weird formats (including Netflix’s new show Love Is Blind.) Plus, why none of us enjoy The Bachelor! Then it’s...
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 98
Podcasts for dogs, or dogcasts, are all the rage. Emily listened and reports back, leading to a talk about Dog TV and whether animals can learn to see screens. Then writer Heather Havrilesky guests to tell Molly, Tess and Emily about love...exciting and new. Come aboard? We’re expecting you. It’s a fun free for all about The Love Boat and weird 70s television. Then it’s Spooky Love February with two stories of creepy love cults - The Doomsday Couple and Twin Flames Universe. FOOTNOTES: Heather H...
Feb 10, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 97
It’s Spooky Love February at Night Call! First a followup about Wall-E and robot genders! Then it’s Ballie, the nonthreatening spokesthing robot surveillance ball shaped robot! Molly went to Britneyland and tells Emily and Tess about her journey there, prompting a fun chat about escape rooms, pop up museums and staring down a Britney infinity mirror at the last twenty years of your life! Then it’s the mystery of The Golden Suicides - revisiting Nancy Jo Sales’ Vanity Fair article about Theresa D...
Feb 03, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 96
Unnerving CGI January closes out with the truly awesome Species, which all three of us loved. Plus a healthy disagreement about The GOOP Lab. Emily defends Gwyneth, Molly calls Gwyneth the new age Joe Rogan, and Tess moderates pragmatically like a new age Judge Judy. Is The GOOP Lab sinister or silly? The "Wellness" discussion becomes a chat about Jane Marie's podcast The Dream, whose second season is covering wellness scams including essential oils and their "vibrations." Then it's back to weir...
Jan 27, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 95
Unnerving CGI January continues with The Lawnmower Man, the best Stephen King movie completely disavowed by Stephen King! Plus: what is Swedish Death Cleaning and should we all get into it? A trip back to our haunted doll roots with a talking Elsa from Frozen doll that cannot be vanquished. And we are joined by guest cyber-security activist Emma Cunningham for a chat about predictive policing and other pseudoscientific software. Should we get wrapped in Faraday bags forever? Find out on an all n...
Jan 20, 2020•55 min•Ep. 94
A night call about "very special episodes" ties into last week's discussion about spooky fridges. What are Tess, Molly and Emily's favorite traumatic very special episodes? Speaking of traumatic - it's the Seinfeld Sex Poll! Who won the one night stand choice poll: George, Jerry, or Kramer? Then it's time for self-care with human vagina candle Gwyneth Paltrow. Is Gwyneth harmful or just a troll? Speaking of trolls, Grimes and Elon Musk are procreating for some reason. And then it's nature horror...
Jan 13, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 93
Tess, Emily and Molly are joined by Molly's former co-host Alex Pappademas (North Mollywood) to discuss the most important movies of all time: Cats and Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker! But before that, it's the first Night Call mystery of 2020: THE SPOOKY FRIDGE! What does the spooky fridge know? Should it be exorcised, replaced, or made peace with like a wandering ghost? Plus an update about Disneyland's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge from our friends at Podcast The Ride! Other than Splash Mountain,...
Jan 06, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 92
We are releasing our book club episode for Communion by Whitley Strieber as a holiday bonus! If you like this book club episode, please join our book club by subscribing to our Patreon at Patreon.com/nightcall and we’ll be back in the new year with more scary puppets, alien buddies and all new night calls. Thanks for listening! FOOTNOTES: Night Call Patreon Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast // Instagram @nightcallpodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at h...
Dec 30, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 91
Molly reviews the theme park dystopia of Star Wars Land (aka Galaxy’s Edge) Emily is out this week but Terrifying 80s Puppet Movies For Children December continues apace with 1986’s Little Shop Of Horrors! Plus a night call from Molly’s dad about The Blob! Tess and Molly nurse their pet theories about Home Alone and what exactly “The Wet Bandits” are all about! And another call about Roz Chast and the unclaimed baggage center! Happy holidays and man eating plant nightmares from Night Call! FOOTN...
Dec 23, 2019•56 min•Ep. 90
Tess, Emily and Molly are joined by Katie Goldin of Creature Feature to chat about monkey pigs and other hybrid animals! Plus she explains the penis fish that fell from the sky. Then Terrifying 80s Puppet Movies For Children December rolls on with Return To Oz, the only movie directed by editor Walter Murch. And a Night letter about the rotting Hoggle puppet from Labyrinth! Also: Marriage Story, why you can’t photograph the moon on your phone, and Ring cameras getting phone phreaked! Make like a...
Dec 16, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 89
It’s Horrifying 80s Puppet Movies For Children December here on Night Call and we’re kicking it off with Labyrinth. Will Molly dance magic dance for the Jim Henson classic when she sees it for the first time? Will Emily and Tess remember anything weird about seeing it from childhood? (yes) Plus a night call about whether Gremlins is about parenting and whether Baby Yoda is a psy op to boost the flagging millennial birth rate! Also: a fan theory about Star Wars’ Nien Nunb. And we welcome guest Li...
Dec 09, 2019•57 min•Ep. 88
This week, Night Call is unlocking their Valley of the Dolls book club episode, previously only available for Patreon supporters. Escape from your family this Thanksgiving with Jacqueline Susann's 1966 proto-beach-read, or impress your grandparents with your new knowledge about the author's famous poodle Josephine. The ladies of Night Call delve into petty icon Jackie Susann's subtle (and not-so-subtle) airing of celebrity dirty laundry, the book's origins in '50s showbiz, the real-life midcentu...
Dec 02, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 87
After a brief recap of our live show with Aimee Mann, Baby Yoda fever sweeps Night Call nation when we plead with Disney to release The Ewok Adventure so we can pod about it. Werner Herzog falls for the wrinkly baby puppet and the superhero movie wars come to an end. The Cybertruck is a garbage truck, except garbage trucks actually work. And Warren Beatty’s REDS divides Tess, Molly and Emily into factions, but can they find common ground in Maureen Stapleton’s portrayal of Emma Goldman? Find out...
Nov 25, 2019•58 min•Ep. 86
The ladies of Night Call are joined by Tom O’Neill, author of CHAOS: Charles Manson, The CIA, And The Secret History Of The Sixties to discuss his book, getting addicted to an obsession, MK Ultra, the Manson family and much more! And break out the gabagool for the first in our new series of ongoing segments about The Sopranos! Plus movie chat, a mouse deer, and Emily’s review of The Irishman! FOOTNOTES: Suzan Pitt on Criterion Human/waterbear DNA splicing Critter of the week 1 and Critter of the...
Nov 18, 2019•58 min•Ep. 85
Molly, Tess and Emily are joined by poet Elizabeth Cantwell to discuss her book All The Emegency Type Structures, leftist prepper culture, what kind of dwellings are the most haunted, and how to deal with weather that wants to kill you. Plus underground tunnels and secret societies! And...it’s Los Angeles November 2019, do you know where your blade runners are? We return to Ridley Scott’s 80s sci fi opus just as we pass its start date, to talk about LA architecture, the dystopian gentrification ...
Nov 11, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 84
Apple TV Plus show Dickinson’s creator Alena Smith joins us to talk about Emily Dickinson, the weird American 1850s and transcendentalist author rivalries and fun facts (Edgar Allan Poe was VERY catty and also married his own underage cousin). Then we get into current American history, taking on the modern conspiracy we’ve all been thinking and talking about constantly this year! Plus we answer some Night Calls, and talk about everyone’s favorite viral meme: long Russian novels about class war! ...
Nov 04, 2019•53 min•Ep. 83
Tess, Emily, and Molly dig into The Lighthouse, Parasite, and Vampire In Brooklyn as spooky szn comes to a climax. Where is Jonesy's Jukebox, the freeform radio show on KLOS that mysteriously left the air weeks ago? Plus the weird Nazi ranch in Malibu, Emily's journey to the center of the mind in Topanga Canyon, and whether ominous weather leads to more ominous happenings or just ominous thoughts. And an extended discussion about what theme park rides we'd like to exist. Oh yeah and SEX COMEDIES...
Oct 28, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 82
Molly, Tess and Emily embrace the many-sexed indeterminately specied newly discovered blob creature of our dreams. Then we talk about how scientists implanted birds with false memories (chill!) and devices spying on podcasts you listen to and serving you Swedish fish ads. Then we are joined by special guest Karina Longworth, who tells us about the new season of her podcast You Must Remember This, focused on Disney’s Song Of The South. Why did Disneyland build a whole ride about a racist cartoon ...
Oct 21, 2019•55 min•Ep. 81
***SPOILER ALERT FOR THE JOKER FILM*** Cait Raft, co-host of the daily Twitch stream and podcast Jack AM and This Podcast Is Self Care with Drew Spears joins Tess, Emily and Molly to talk about all things autumnal. Molly and Cait argue for an extended fall while Emily and Tess, who have lived through midwest and New England winters, say no thanks. Is fall mania just a fugue state reaction to fire season? And of course we discuss October's two biggest movies: Joker and Oliver Stone's JFK. Emily b...
Oct 14, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 80
It’s the long awaited Eyes Wide Shut special! Tess, Molly and Emily take on Stanley Kubrick’s enigmatic questionably erotic psychological drama from 1999 and take a detour that leads directly to reconsidering Vanilla Sky! But first, early takes on Joker , a movie none of us have seen yet! Molly tries to convince Tess and Emily to read Demi Moore’s excellent memoir Inside Out by telling them about how Bruce Willis romanced Demi with flair bartending! Why can ghosts walk through walls? Can you int...
Oct 07, 2019•59 min•Ep. 79
This week, the hosts welcome Chris Cantwell ( Halt and Catch Fire) to chat about his new film, The Parts You Lose , as well as blenders and JFK conspiracy theories. Plus: the Ukrainian news you might have missed about an adoption with a twist, and a strange mystery involving mutilated cows in Oregon. FOOTNOTES: 1. The couple who adopted a Ukrainian child who was actually an adult 2. Ukrainian President Zelensky's past as a comedian 3. Ken Burns' Country Music 4. Gene Autry's Flying A estate 5. O...
Sep 30, 2019•58 min•Ep. 78
