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It's true, Um, I wanted to start off real quick by shouting out a movie. It's so funny how infrequently I talked about movies on this podcast, despite it like taking up my entire the entire rest of my life. Did you know you're a film critic? I forget sometimes I'm working on it, trying to trying to get the proper amount of takes to officially be considered a film critic. I feel like we should have like Emily's Movie Corner, Emily's movie Corner, what's the movie in in Emily's movie Corner.

This week we're going to be talking about Mandy. Um a movie that I have not reviewed because um, I am buddies with um. The co writer of it, Aaron Stewart on with some bad ideas on Twitter. Um, he Panos wrote the story. He co wrote the script with him, so it's like it's officially Panos the story, but he, like you know, helped make it become a movie. And what a movie. What a movie. It's Molly. You watched it. It's available now on demand on iTunes. It's in some theaters.

Check your check your local listens. I think a lot of Alamo drafthouses. Yeah, I gotta say that because Emily shamed us about watching it on a computer and said, come on, go watch it in a theater, which you know, she's right, but I definitely looked it up and it was only playing in Santa Monica. Also, even Nick Cage has acknowledged in a recent interview that is just really expensive to go to the movie. Like he said, he

was like, it's a hundred dollars. All of a sudden, I was like, just sell one of your haunted mansions. Nick afford it. Um, Yeah, I didn't know it was only as Santa Monica. That's a bummer. No, I couldn't believe it, and then I was totally like, oh, I'm the person who's looking up where it is in New York, like everywhere in New York and like only at the Santa Monica Emily. So chainsaw fights are way less big

in l A, apparently, unless you're very far west. It seems so counterintuitive to because I think of so many big like genre fans than people who write about film who are really into horror stuff. Maybe out I don't even know that. I watched it. Um. Watching it in my bed though, was also like a great decision. I watched it in my bed last night at midnight headphones. Uh no, seriously listen to the Johan Johanssen his last one. It's the last one, I think. I don't know if

it's officially his last one. It might not the last one he actually wrote, but out posthumously, I think I saw that was he the person somebody who was involved in the sounds on Mother was also? Was he involved in this? It is an oral ind visual our, our roll and visual delight. But I'm saying when a testament to it that even from my small screen in my bed, it was great you know it was. It was a

great midnight movie. I was like, Oh, this is the perfect time to watch this, And then I wrote you guys an email because I was like, this is the third week in a row I watched a super scary movie on Sunday night. Um, yeah, send you into the week with with the shivers, Send me into Sunday night

Monday morning with not sleeping because movies are scary. So the movie is kind of I mean, it's more or less a straightforward revenge film, except stylistically it's just drawing from hinting Panos is deep and lifelong love of heavy metal and heavy metal album art specifically. Um, all of the kind of visuals of it, Like every single frame feels like it could be an album cover. It feels like it comes it comes from the same universe as heavy metal. The movie, it's great. Everybody should see it.

It is super entertaining and just you know, Nicolas Cage, great Nicolas Cage performance. I think I think it's mostly liked by everybody, and then some people are like, oh, it's a great, ridic careless movie, and I actually think it's like very sad and moving to Like I think that Nick Cage's performance is kind of legitimately heartbreaking. Is he's got you know, they wanted him for the Cult Leader and he was like, no way, I have to play Red And then it took a year and he

finally got it. Well, I like the guy who plays the cult lead. No, I didn't know that. It's a good fact. Tests who hasn't seen the movie yet, you know, it's but a fair Um. The guy who played the cult leader was also really great. Um. He had a real buffalo bill vibe vikings right. Well, I don't know. I thought of him as like evil Speccoli to be fair, like real Speccoli is evil Spiccoli more evil fictional evil spo.

He has this kind of like surfer dude hair. Look, Um, all the people in the guy like the iggy pop I make up to. Yeah, he's just he's he's a freaky man. And you know, Nicholas Cages, I want to say, restrained for much of this movie. Are you serious? Yes, I'm totally serious. I only saw the trailer and I'm

still going to come burn. It takes a long time, you know, but it is like it made me think about like that thing of people, you know how like Stephen King hates the shining because he's like, you know, Jack Nicholson's gonna get crazy at some point, and I'm like, yeah, but that's satisfying to wait for that to happen for like an hour and a half, you know, And then yeah, there's just the first like half or third or so

of it. My friend so Hale saw it and texted me afterwards and he's like, the first third is relationship goals, like because it's just Nick Cage and Andrew Risboro who plays Mandy his wife, just chilling out in their forest cabin like smoking pot and like drawing sea demons and stuff and talking about the planets, and it just seems so chill and beautiful. And so when you know, when it inevitably falls apart or gets taken away from him.

So the deal is that like a lot it's it's also it's set in three right, and they're like reclusive in the beginning, Yeah, they're They're like they just want to do their own thing. In the fours, man, that's just goals in general, is to like back to the beginning of our lives. And it is one of the most actually romantic looking relationships I've ever seen on film. Yeah, because they just like sit around and draw like a demon, horn things together and like watch horror movies on TV.

And I love the shot where they're just like watching some ridiculous looking movie and it was Yeah. There's also there's a fake commercial in the middle that's directed by the guy who directed Too Many, Too Many. Really yeah, yeah, test, So now she's gonna watch called and it's like a fake macaroni and cheese commercial, but like does a really good job of also being like, like I was like fake real? Is this a real commercial? This seems like

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nothing would happen. Well, wasn't that like yeah, oh yeah, like of the Future length butthead but not the feature about a movie that's just all fake YouTube videos strung together. I would watch that. I would go to Santa watch we just got in the Whitney Biennial. With that exactly, it would be called Hey guys, I would say sorry, sorry, I haven't been posting for a while. Look that they always do. I don't know why. I've had finals. That's what all the Fall instagrammers say, because a lot of

them are in school. And then they're like, sorry, i haven't been posting that many Fall Instagrams because I've had homework. Hey guys, speaking of homework, and also people out there who are up late for whatever reason, maybe because of homework, maybe not. Can we take a night email? Yeah, let's take a night Okay. This comes from Carly, so hey, night call. It's four am, and I'm so sorry for

this mess. It's okay, Carly. I love your podcast so much and I've had a million thoughts to email you about but I always mean to and later forget or by the time I remember. It's about a topic from a Path episode, and I feel like a ship head mentioning it when it's irrelevant. Now, So I guess my random thought I've had at three am for the past week is that Molly has a doppelganger that I'm aware of, and it's Abby Russell with a link to Abby Russell's handle.

She's Internet weird in my ideal way, like Molly or Darcy. Also, please have Darcy on again all the time. Where is her podcast? Darcy r Darcy has a podcast? What's her podcast? It's called d s A which has nothing to do with the Democratic Socialist stands for. I think Darcy sewn and Andrew okay, um so so on brand listen to

Darcy's podcast. We love Darcy. Darcy's a genius. She is go on so but yeah, you're both super cool and I don't want to imply she's like your lost twin or anything, but you both reminded me of the other. That's all. Sorry, And then she says, we don't have to read this on the year, but we just did so well doppel. First off, I want to get out of the way for Carly um. Our podcast is flat circle, and like, don't do not be afraid to email us our calls about any topic that we've ever discussed, even

if it's like from like eight years ago. If we've been doing the podcast. Topics are the all topics are in the eighth third at all times exactly, yes, all fair game. So so please send us everything. But Okay, I'm looking at this girl. Now. I looked her. I looked her up. What do you think? Yeah, totally, she is Molly. She does. She is. She does kind of

look like me. She's making face in photos that you make, and she also has the same jackets that you have when she does what I like to call the Molly Lambert tumbler expression, which is kind of like a head tilted back. Very it's very it's very uh spot on. Yeah. Yeah, It's funny when somebody tells you that someone is your doppelganger and then you're like, well, what does that mean?

The first post I ever wrote, maybe for this recording, one of the first posts I a wrote on the Internet was about how some friends of mine were like, hey, there's this comedian who totally reminds us of you exactly, and I was like, what does that mean? What am I like? And then it was Morgan Murphy and I was like, oh my god, totally. And then I was like, wait, am I a type of person? Like is like stoner redhead with like a like a dead pan, like just

a type and we're all like this type? Um, And then I posted about it and then I was like, is that weird. Is Morgan going to like find this and think it's the super Um I have met Morgan. Um, yeah, she's great. She's the reason nobody would ever actually mistakes for each other. She is super tall. She's like, yeah, we have we have differences. She's she's tall, she loves baseball,

there are things. Um. I think she's funny though and great. Um. And I you know, I was like flattered that they thought that, but I was all so like, very like, what what is my personality like from the outside. Have you guys had doppelgangers that people thought were you? I feel like, no, I think that's I think it's a It must be an interesting feeling, kind of like having

a sibling, I guess too. Or you can like look at somebody and say, oh, you come from the same dream pool as me, even though a doppelganger is a little more eerie than that, I think, But I've never really had that experience. The only person I've ever been really compared to it all is Byork, and I think it as a huge compliment, But we don't really actually look that much like I had a doppelganger. It maybe

one doppelganger, it maybe multiple doppelgangers. But there's one who lives in my like general neighborhood, and people are often like texting me that they saw they saw me at the grocery store where I always am, But it's not me, it's the other person, because she goes to different grocery stores. Yes.

And then someone sent me a picture I think from the Last Bookstore and I was Molly, and I did a reading at the last bookstore like a year and a half ago or something, and someone took a picture of this other girl in the background of a photo at the last bookstore about on a different day than the one we'd been there, and was like, look, there you are the last bookstore and it looks so much like me that I was like, was that is that me?

That there was some photo on the internet once that I like stared at it for so long because I didn't know if it was me or not. Yes, that's a weird feeling, like it almost because sometimes you see a picture of yourself and it doesn't look like you, so it opens the possibility, you know, the photo really looks like you. That's the whole thing about photos is

that everybody can look so many different ways. It makes you like or like, from one angle, you look totally different and it kind of shakes your Everybody is like that Seinfeld episode about the girl who like looks completely different face to face girl to face girl. I I relate to that because I'm always like, doesn't everybody look like good sometimes and like horrible sometimes, depending on like

lighting and situation. It's also like when you see people who are who have wet hair and they look totally different. For a long time, I really didn't like anyone with wet hair, putting myself the deal break celeb face, I mean,

trust nothing. Um celeb face has been posting a lot of really spooky uh edits recently that involved people just like shaving like the smallest amount off their waist that you would never notice, but you realize that every famous hot girl on Instagram is like photo shopping her waist to be just like tiny. It's so weird everything. And he finally got it. Took me forever to get accepted by um celeb face, you got in, but I finally got let in, and now I can see all the secrets.

And I mean, I feel like sometimes I'm confused about what I'm supposed to take away from celeb face, I have to say, well, I don't know if anybody has an experience with a doppelgang, or we'd love to hear about it, or if you ever became friends with your doppel ganger, or if you discovered that you were actually twins separated at birth or cousins. I have a come friends with all my duppelgangers. Well, isn't that nice for you? Form an army army of me guys tying it all?

You have you guys seen Three Identical? I was just going to say, I'm dying to see Three Identical? Do you know about it? Documentary about triplets that were separated at birth and found out about each other. That should be a future movie corner. I watched the first like two thirds of it on a plane, and I haven't seen the ending, and I don't know if anything else crazy happens, so I'm kind of in suspense. I would finish it up later for sure. Uh yeah, maybe we

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I got a Crown Brush, six piece brush set and silver black of makeup brushes, which is great because makeup brushes or something I've totally been interested in, but I wouldn't have maybe gone out and got for myself, But just getting a whole set was really cool. Did you get a teapot or a French I got a French press. Yeah, okay, nice. Nice.

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get ten dollars off your first fab fit Fund box. Well, speaking about secrets, you guys, we were alerted to the fact that a new Mexico observe tory had shut down mysteriously a couple of weeks ago on the night Call Facebook UM. Basically, there there's been an update in this, but we wanted to have a brief chat because it's

it's mysterious and we like mysterious things. So the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, which is run by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy or AURA, was um shut down and evacuated, and then the FBI got involved, UM, and so everybody was like trying to find information and they didn't find any so they assumed that an alien had been spotted in a telescope. Uh. That was one conspiracy theory. There were a lot of

other ones. UM. So the FBI wasn't like giving any information even to local law enforcement, and everybody was in the dark about it UM and the fact that they got involved so quickly was weirding everybody out. So the director of the observatory, whose name is James mcinteer, issued

a statement. At first of all, he was like, there's no way that the telescope caught an alien because if there are aliens, they're probably microscopic and so the distance is too great whatever, Right, they're just bacteria have our homeside. But it's bacteria. But THENLI yesterday, so for listeners. A week ago, another statement came from AURA, which UM reads in part, AURA has been cooperating with an ongoing law enforcement investigation of criminal activity that occurred at Sacramento Peak.

During this time, we became concerned that a suspect in the investigation potentially posed a threat to the safety of local staff and residents. For this reason, or a temporarily vacated the facility and ceased science activities at this location, which is so vague if you're trying to put people at ease and be like, nothing creepy or weird is happening here. UM, So a terrorist was working at the

or it sounds like maybe like a disgruntled employee. We don't know, We don't you think they think this happened like the same week that they found what I'm looking this up now, seventy two signals from an alien galaxy, yes,

three billion light years away. And I had originally conflated these two news stories because I thought that they found the signals and then shut down the facility, and I was like, oh my god, guys, this is It's like, that's so much better than what really, haven't they have nothing to do with each other at all, but they shut it down because they were like, we achieved our goal at the end, Yeah, we're done, we should accomplish No, but this is like, uh, this one was at the

Green Bank Telescope, so it's like a completely different place. I still got very excited about it. Well, they're not not related. All these things are happening in outer space. Also, I think it's super weird because if it were just a disfrountled employee or somebody, you know, like a pretty basic crime, then it would have been handled by law enforcement, right instead of going to the FBI. What if there's like a bomb involved or something. Sorry for being the

skeptic and not just saying it was obviously aliens. No. I mean it's like interesting because I guess like perhaps the FBI could have gotten involved that quickly if it was it was like a Russian spy or something like who knows it cares about the spots. Yes, um, I love that it's in a place called Sunspot, New Mexico also Future nightcalled Commune location. I'm I'm like a little nervous about New Mexico in general. You guys are way more open to the new the desert. I'm terrified of

the desert. Test is afraid of the desert, which I respect. We've talked about this before. I'm very afraid of the desert. I'm also afraid of the desert because I respect it. It's like the ocean. You're like, it's so big. It's the opposite of the ocean. Actually, well they both were, Like I find they're just as hostile to human life.

I find their hostility welcoming because it's like it's reassuring to people don't want to be a part of a club that would have you, Like, it's reassuring to be like there are things so much glader than humans and bigger than me. I like that. That's it's cool about outer space. I just don't like feeling dry is like really what that's the main The main thing is not wanting to be dry. But I went to New Mexico up a year ago, and um, I was totally like

shocked because there was rain because it's high up. There's like rain and snow in Santa Fe. But just like in tusd like well on like I guess it's hot and tuside, but it's like you get the rain where it's like very sudden dramatic rain and then ten seconds later it's gone, Right. We live in Los Angeles, which is super hot and dry and it never rains. You can pretend that it's not the desert, but it's not the desert. It is a savannah and it's also several

ecosystems connected. Another thing from the Facebook Nightcall is thank you for posting on the Facebook Nightcall. Oh I love Honestly, the night Callers group is like a pretty amazing It's the organism from space. I was nervious. I've never moderated a group before, and I was like, oh, if everyone's like mean, I belonged to many groups and there's like we cannot reiterate enough. How cool all the Night Called listeners are from our brief sampling of the movie. Yeah. Yeah.

And it was also cool that it was like a lot of different types of people. I was like, oh, there's no one like, they're not all doppelgangers of us. It was great, exactly. Uh. Someone posted about the Gray Man in advance of Hurricane Florence. Um, which, by the way, if you're in the Carolina's we're thinking of you and hoping that you're okay. UM. But somebody was like, hey,

have you guys heard about the Gray Man? And I feel like this was actually a couple of weeks ago, So it was before Florence was you know, had grown to the size that it was predicted to be. Um. But the Gray Man is a ghost that supposedly appears on the coast of Pauli's Island in South Carolina just before a big storm or a hurricane hits. And I guess he's been popping up since eighteen two. Um, but

he was just sited before Hurricane Florence. Said, if you want to look at YouTube footage of the tiny blurry thing that is supposedly the Gray Man. Um, they've he's been caught on tape, but according to felt like caught. No, he's not. They haven't got it. It's hard to do. He can move through walls. Um. According to people on Polic's Island, he's his main point, Like the reason he exists is just to like be benevolent and just warn people about storms and if you see him, your house

will be spared. Legend says Um. So he his appearance is like he's a see through guy, as they all are, and he's wearing a cloak as they all are, um, and he's been spotted before hurricanes Hazel and Hugo. Like it's a big there's stuff in the Georgetown Museum about him, and you can like find a bunch of articles about him. Uh. But anyway, they think that who he was when he was alive, Like one of the possible uh legends of him is that he was a sailor who was coming

back to his fiance. And then it's like there's divergent points of either like his fiance screwed him over and he jumped into a you know, into the sea, or um he was on his way back to see her on horseback and he got sucked into quicksand with the horse and then she the next day discovered his body and was heartbroken and crying, and then a hurricane hit and her house was like the only one that was spared.

Oh yeah, that reminded me that I also had a weather ghost story and that I heard a Weather ghost story and then found out there was a Weather Channel show. I think it's called like Supernatural Weather or something, but it was a five episode show from the Weather Channel. Got into the original content game and it was like just different a whole show about like a legend a

ghost story involving weather. And that was how I found out about Full Skate and and the Jack Parsons thing was because they're one of the episodes was about that. We'll tell us briefly about that in case anyone listening doesn't know. I think we've talked about it before on this But there is a spooky place in Pasadena that is right by jet propulsion labs. That the reason they put jet propulsion labs there's because they would go test rockets in this canyon, the Arroyo um, and there's just

a lot of creepy things about it. It's super haunted for many reasons. Um, somebody killed a bunch of kids around there and then ground them up and put them in the freeways. So uh in the fifties, So it's just well they were building they were building the freeways then, um,

what were they supposed to build them out of? But I also my personal weather ghost story that I just was reading about I brought some research today too, is that I went on a swamp tour in Louisiana where they told us this story about how there was a voodoo priestess who lived there and had would sit on her front porch and sing songs. And one of her songs that she's sang was when I die, I'm going to take the whole town with me, um, and that.

Then she died, and then there was a storm and the town was buried, the town sank into the thing. So I looked up the story to see if, you know, there was any truth to it, and apparently, uh, sort of. But her name was Julia Brown, and there are a bunch of historic documents that kind of testified to the fact that she existed and was a real person and

practiced voodoo. And the twist is that she was like she was good and um, she was probably the midwife of the town and so they were like people misinterpreted her message. She wasn't like putting a curse on the town. She was just sort of like stating facts. Yeah, like maybe she knew because she was psychic what was going to happen. So not so much like I'm taking the whole town with me, as like when I die, the whole town is just gonna be buried. She didn't cause it,

She just knew that something crazy was. Yeah, she was like the town doctor and healer. Probably also so probably also the town wasn't going to function. When was this Apparently this was like nineteen fifteen. There was a newspaper account from the New Orleans Times. Pick un Um. Anyway, Yeah, weather, ghosts, supernatural weather stories. I do love because weather is scary. Another big scary thing you can't predict. This isn't a ghost.

But but there was a second where people were saying, and of course it was completely a hoax, but the possibilities out there for a second that there could be a real life shark nato situation and her hands with Florence, just because it's shark season. I what is a real life sharknado? Utail would be the I mean, it would be a several concerns over several of the things that could be swept up by Florence. H like a storm of that magnitude going over that part of the country.

So you know, I think that they're there tend to be more sharks in late summer than and like early fall, I guess around around the Carolinas. I don't think that it's possible for them to be a sharknado, but people were speculating, and then there's also like a bunch of um like pig manore farms. Oh, I did see, I did see. That would have been a bummer. I did not realize a sharknado. I never thought about the scientific underpinnings of a sharknado until right now. Why not? Now,

what else have you been thinking about? Has been spilled about the possibility of a real sharknado. I remember when the Weather Channel like really tried to like expa and it's programming and it was not super successful. You were like, but alternate alternate position. Though, I again, like I have a hard time with making entertainment out of like these disasters. There's something that feels very i don't know, like explicitly right wing about it, but it feels like, um, it's

like it brings out everybody's inner prepper. Yeah, to have like a huge disaster, it is explicitly right wing because like if you look at Katrina obviously, well yeah, like they use the fact that there's like a big disaster to funk up a bunch more ship you know what. It's all like the purge, it's all like rich people can get out of it, but exactly left to deal. But also the whole activity of gearing up for it.

It's like a weird kind of like a political war, like a very like military heuristic scenario where it's like, let's send in our troops to go fight the weather. I think the n r A, the n r A on Twitter, I think had something about like how important it was to arm yourself during the hurricane, as if like you could prevent the hurricane by fire, pogne at

it um. But I also think that it's it's there is like a right wing kind of overtone to it, but at the same time, like I think it, you know, acknowledging climate change is a left wing thing, so in a way, like I think there was a video that I forget what weather station posted when they were talking about the water levels for Florence, and they used a green screen and positioned the weather person in front of like a rising you know, it looked like she was

kind of submerged in this water to show what nine feet of water looks like. And I don't think it was borne out by the storm itself, but I think that a lot of you know, when people are commenting on weather like this, like there for me, at least, like the underling messages like look at climate change, which doesn't seem right wing. Um, But I mean I'm just like fascinated by weather because we don't have much of it and I miss it. But it also I also

like fear and respect it. Hey, we have weather, just different, but we don't really we don't have weather events. The fires are weather events. The fires are hurricanes. I hate it fires. Um. Nothing, So you're there is weather. Okay, that's not your favorite weather. Shitty weather to be. I mean it's great weather. And then it's like when there's a big event, it's like snow storms in a way. I miss snowstorms. When I lived in a city, When I lived in a rural area, snowstorms were It can

be kind of scary. Yeah, they're scary, and I find them deeply depressing, just because it limits your resources so much. It makes you understand how Stephen King wrote all those books exactly hold up in that cabin. No. I was always so jell us of snow obviously, um, and I had so many fantasies about how great it would be to live in a cold place. And then I never understood until I finally did that, it was like, oh it can like stop you from going outside. That's the thing.

It's not healthy, but sometimes you really need that excuse. Sometimes you're so grateful to just have to stay in for two days or something, right, But it's fun for two days and then and then it goes on and on. That's the thing is that you you know, if you're lucky enough to have like a warm shelter and enough food and power and stuff, it's like we and then it gets boring, But then it's so inhospitable to life

that it's also like deeply depressing. Yeah. I always thought that seemed like fun and cozy, and then I was like, oh, when you like literally can't go outside, it's different than when you're like choosing not to go out exactly. Um, there was a freak uh snowstorm in Washington when I lived there that put out the power for I feel like a week and and almost the entire town was out without power, and a tree fell on our house.

But I remember, I all I remember about this as like there was one restaurant, Sherry's, uh that had a generator, so people would go there, and I learned how to play poker during that time because there was nothing to do Have you guys ever been in a tornado? So now I want to I want to have you ever but with weather, you know what, I drove through a sandstorm. Um, I've all been in a standstorm really if if that's

what you're talking. No, it was on the way to Vegas. Um, and when I was going to interview a superstar, d J Martin Garrick's, and I was like, sandstorm. It's like a portent because trance chances alive. Um, but it was so scary, and I was like I don't know what to do. Like other people, like you're supposed to pull over and wait for it to be over, but nobody was doing that. Everybody was just yeah everyone. It was like truckers and stuff. So everybody was just like continuing

to drive through it. And then I got this like alert on my phone I'd never seen before that was like weather alert sandstorm. Um. It was terrified. I mean, it's it's weird because the sky turns like a different color, you know, thank you. I don't want to apocalyptic unsubscribed. Everything becomes brown. Yeah, I mean it's again, it's kind of amazing that things like that can happen. I'm very interested in lightning because when I was a kid, I

went to Benjamin Franklin. Yes, I went to a carnival with a friend of mine and her mom took us, and her mom was nine months pregnant, and while we were at the carnival, there was like a power outage and the generator broke and we were stuck at the top of a ferris wheel in the middle of this horrible storm and they had to like manually crank us down, and then on the way back to my else being very nervous that the mom was going to go into labor because she was like, ha ha, what if I

went into labor. Oh, it's such a disaster right now in this big storm, and we were like, um, we tried to get into like, you know, to turn into my parents driveway, and uh, like a power line or something that had been hit by lightning close by, and there was like a giant line of fire running and

I was like, whoa lightning. And then recently one of my relatives exactly their prius was struck by lightning and when they took it to get repaired, the repair guy was like, oh, yeah, we see a lot of prius. This struck by lightning. I have not verified this information because no clue. High lightning is terrifying. I mean I I saw a really amazing lightning storm in New Mexico

bringing it all back right last year. That was like the most amazing thing I've ever seen, because again, like we don't have a ton of storms out here, um, And it was like one of those storms that just like all of a sudden, this big bank of cloud sweeps in and then it was just like thunderstorming with this crazy lightning over the Rio Grande. That's beautiful, Rio Grande, Rio Grande. It's nice when you were in those big open spaces because you can really like see it. No,

it was crazy. It was either movement of it. We were at like a like a historic site, like a historic pueblo site, and it was just like, yeah, it's just so vast nature putting on the ritz. You put on the ritz for me. I dazzled you. It was very like a spiritual experience. I was like, it's crazy that this exists, you know, like and I exist. Um, that's why weather can be cool. Tests And I love rain. We Emily probably loves rain too, do you, Emily? Oh yeah,

I love range. You seem like a rainy gal like us. Are you kidding me? I grew up in Seattle, but you survived it. Doesn't that make you feel like I never need, I never need to be in another wet place again to say I'm not I'm not into the damp. Give me that wet. We've had mosquitoes here this year too, though. It's it's been a new strain of mosquito called apparently the Ninja mosquito is here. Wow, that sounds not at

all like like apocalyptic. No, right, I know there's we have like a bunch of new kinds of mosquitoes and some of them carry West Niles. It's been. There's those signs at the playground in Griffith Park that I saw. It's like a children's playground that you I think you have taken your kids too. And there's that big sign that's like ps West Nile virus everywhere. Ye, you're not supposed to leave out any standing water because I think it's like the eggs get laid and hatch within a day.

This should have a trigger. People don't all be the first to go I'm I get I might get it anywhere. We all got that sweet blood. I think it's less. I think everyone supposedly gets bit roughly the same. It's how you react. Maybe it's like how allergic you are to it. No I get. I feel like some people get avoided it, and I always get all of it. I've gone out, like for five minutes to take some trash out in Los Angeles and come back with a

like two mosquito whites. It just happens to me. Hey, it's fall, it's time for spooky weather, and we're about to enter sp October, and weather is just as much of a haunt as any of any others. It's nice today in Los Angeles. If you have thoughts about whether or anything else, please give us a call at two four oh four six night or you can email us at Night Call podcast at gmail dot com. Weather, Mayonnaise, gray men, sun spots, whether or not, mosquitoes, Ninja, mosquitoes,

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