Night Call Museum

his school, and he was like, no, thank you. He's like, I'll just have some thoughts for a while before I'm for to monetize them. Or he's like, actually, you don't have to go to school for podcasting, mom, as you know, yes, and he can get into the podcasting empire through nepotism. So it's okay. Because did you prove to him that you were a DJ through the photos of our last life? Still doesn't believe me. Didn't you show him that you were like throwing your hands in the air like a

cool DJ. Molly took a lot of pictures of me where I look like I'm having so much fun and you are so nervous, But I really did have had a great time, and we should plug. We should Yeah, And now we're going to have another night Call live event at gold Diggers on February five. Mark your calendar's lab and I'm there and I'm going to be there in person time. It's a Valentine's Nightcall extravaganza. I have an important question, Emily. Last time you were DJ ghost

DJ because you weren't there. Are you now going to come up with a new DJ name or are you still going to be DJ ghost DJ? Yeah, I gotta figure out my actual DJ name because I've had several over the course of the years, but I feel like I need a fresh one for this this run of my career. So I'll think about it. But you know, when I used to play radio when I was a kid, because of course I did, My my DJ name was Eminem,

but it was before Eminem was a Reppert. So test went through a lot of potential DJ names before so many settling. I love DJ sinking feeling. That's a great jinking feeling. It's great. What were some of the other ones? Personal TJ meet Sandwich DJ Meet Sandwich was a close second. I was very distressed that DJ Clams Casino was taken. It was like Clams Casino and I was like, that's already a producer and you were like what. I was

so upset in my mind. I've been DJ Clams Casino for such a long time, but DJ sinking feeling it's like modern and appropriate to the incarnation of me that exists now. So I'm thinking for life, you've been DJ for a long time. It's my my true spirit, true self. Um. Speaking of my true self, I honored my true self by going on a weird trip to a museum when I was in the Bay Area this past week that I wanted to talk about Night Call because it was such a night call place to be. A friend of

the podcast Sarah Johnson told us about it. It's a fisherman's war. If it's called the muse a mechanique, and it is, I think mostly a Playland memorabilia museum. I'm not sure if all this stuff comes directly from Playland, which was the weird old boardwalk arcade amusement part kind of thing at the Pier in San Francisco at the Wharf. But this is just a bunch of weird old arcade machines, sort of like predating gaming. Even do you know when they're from like six or something. No, I think they're

from the twenties and thirties, is my impression. There is one at the door that's the Laughing sal which is like a famous carnival thing that's just a terrifying, like large animatronic sort of scary looking men who just laughs just like jiggles and laughs. It's kind of like the stuff from like big sideshow stuff sides definitely like the weird dark underside of that stuff for sure. Like you walk in the museum and the first things you see are like, watch these zoo tropes of the San Francisco

fire and earthquake of nineteen o six. We like what they had instead of disaster movies. Yeah, and like some you know, kind of silicious stuff, but less of that than I expected and just more weird animatronic machines. The museum is free to go to, but everything costs like a quarter. A couple of machines that cost more than that that I didn't get into. But there's a lot of like weird dioramas where you put in a quarter and they kind of like move around a little bit.

So there's one that's like just like people exploring with a form that just got invented, being like we can make anything into a weird mechanized miniature, kind of like a flea circus, but a doll flee. Well, there was one that was very a flea circusy because it was a toothpick carnival. And my friend was saying, you can see that the inside of the glass hasn't been cleaned in like a hundred years. There's definitely like you spend a little time in there and then you're like, I

have to go outside. I have to be in the sunlight. Again. This is reminding me of the Pike Place Market, and I think a lot of the funkier stuff there's is not there anymore, but there used to be a lot of that kind of stuff, like yeah, looking through some little goggles to see a little diorama and something like kind of fake freak show type peep show things where you could like look inside and see like a headless

woman or something like that. Okay, well, funny you should say that, because the thing that I found really scary and dystopian and reminded me that like it's always been dystopian is that they had these machines of executions that we're doll executions, and there were four of them, like they saw the first one and I was like, this is crazy, but like in a weird way makes sense. And then I was like, oh, there's a bunch of these. Um, I've never heard of this in my life. I watched one.

It was like, watch this like genuine old timey British execution with like a priest reading the last rites and then it's like a castle. You put the corner and then like the doors open. You see this little like priest next to this guy who's like kneeling and he reads the little last rites to him, and then a door opens in the basement and the guy gets hung. But it's a puppet. It's a puppet. It's a doll. And I watched it. I was like, wow, I wish I hadn't watched that. And then later on Johnny, my

boyfriend was like, oh, there's a guillotine. Listen to that one too, and we watched it and there was like a tiny little guillotine. It's like a little puppet execution. It's terrifying. That's horrible. But it's weird because you're like, I spent money on this because I wanted to see and then I saw, and then I couldn't unsee. But

something about watching like dolls execute each other. It's also bizarre because who who accept us is that kind of museum catering to if it offers that which, like even was too much for you. I just imagine kids going in and being like, oh cool, let me uh no, there's like kids like to get creeped out by that stuff. Yeah, I think maybe we underestimate because I certainly remember being kind of creeped out and made uncomfortable, but in like kind of fun way. But the whole Fisherman's Wharf, like

it has that weird boardwalk Carnie kind of atmosphere. Even sometimes when they try to like sanitize and city walk places like that, there's just like such an undercurrent of haunted noush And this museum is so super haunted and you should go there because it's great. Um, except if you spend money on seeing. Yeah, you can go in, but you won't see anything unless you have a bunch of quarders. You can go get your quarters, you can

never really check out. No, there is one machine my friend seremon or hand, and there's this thing that was like a Roman like fortune telling machines. And there was one that was like a Roman coin on the wall with a mouth, and my friend like put her hand in it, and I was like, I can't believe you're putting your hand in there, like you could just like chomp down on your hand. Well, you had just seen the guillotine. Totally true. Yeah, Well, we love a haunted

museum at Nightcall. We're connoisseurs of a good museum. This was very actually museum on the rock seeming oh house on the Rocks on the road. Yeah. Yeah, And we've talked about it several times also with the the Black

Mirror episode the Black Museum. I think we're a fan of the kind of homemade museum, and we wanted to induct a few special things near and dear into our heart into our own Nightcall Museum as a special end of your treat for all of our listeners who've been with us for the almost year that we've been on the air. We're not quite ready for our Our first anniversary was somebody was treating recently when they were like, was this the same year that Paddington two came out?

And I was like, yes, yes, because that was one of our first episodes. That's crazy. But I was like, this has been the longest year in history, but we really measured it in Night Calls. At the same time, I feel like Pattingtons came out yesterday, so it's like both feelings. Well, it's timeless, and I'm glad it's available this Christmas treat now for everyone who didn't catch it the first time around. But somebody else was saying, like, did did the movie I Feel Pretty come out this year?

And I was like yes because Emily, you and I saw it together in Times Square and I was They were just like, how did all of these things happen this year? Like anything? Uh, it feels ancient. It's the end times, so time is stretching and contracting. But let's make our own museum while we can. Hall of Fame for Night Call virtual for now unless we get that

big grant. Uh. We've picked a few things we think fall into our ven diagram of the things that we all enjoy that we think all night callers enjoy um and just put them on a special shelf of the mind. So with that, this is the first ever Night Call Hall of Fame. So for our first inductee. Night Call is not a podcast that necessarily condones or promotes, or

UM endorses any particular diet. But I feel that over the last year the three of us have all kind of come down on UM, at least with the agreement that we will not eat a certain creature anymore. Also just out of honor and respect for this creature. This creature is perhaps the most iconic of cephalopods, and and it stalks the night see changing colors and adapting to its environment in a beautiful way. It is a monster that haunted my dreams, a sea monster that haunted my

dreams from a very young age. So I will always have respect for this creature. UM. They are also great viral stars UM. There are many good videos of UM, this year's inductee getting into into and out of jars particularly. I think we have to honor that, and so this year eighteen I would like to induct into the Night Call Hall of Fame. Occupy. Also, they're probably aliens unilat to mention. I think that's why they are the most

Nightcall of all animals. They are aliens that swim among us, misunderstood, strange looking, probable aliens who like to collect things, have senses of humor, and you shouldn't so I I have been reading a bit about um octopi or octopus is actually in this in this book that I read that is by ah Um. He's both the philosopher and Um a scuba diver. He refers to them as octopuses, So I don't know if octopi is incorrect in the scientific community. I like the way octopi sounds, so that's why I

said that. But they and also I was reading about this about raccoons also, which I feel like are maybe like a runner up or maybe next time for for for the night Call Hall of Fame. Raccoons their their hands are like antenna and an octopi or like that too. Like most of the information they get about the world comes from their tentacles. That's where they're just like so active and they feel like they have minds of their own. Uh is just because that's where so much of the

brain activity is. Like they have neurons in there in their tentacles, which is cool. Um. When you do see a video of a raccoon that like kind of feeling things out. They've kind of got this like grabby grabby thing. It is because they're getting information through their little raccoon hands. I've started referring to them exclusively as trash cats. I endorse that name to be used more broadly. I've heard trash pandas also interesting. I endorsed both trash Panda. Yeah.

I saw two really big raccoons a cross the street. I think it was right after our last night called Live of hen was very magical. They were like helping each other cross the street. Do you guys have any particularly favorite octopi or ones? You know, they don't need to be famous, but maybe ones that you had an encounter with or watched a video of any to call out specifically. I have a tragic thing that Molly I

think we've already talked about it. Molly sent us the saddest article in the world that I posted on the Nightcallers Facebook group of like the mother octopus like cannibalizing herself. Um, and that was I'll never forget that. I wish I could. I wrote a short story once about an octopus that was rejected every place I submitted It still man, it still slaps. I was going to go on a side tangent about cuttlefish, but I won't because they're not the

same thing. Cauttle Fish are amazing too. I mean we we like all cephalapods. I think that's safe to say. They're okay by us. But I feel like the reason I don't eat them isn't necessarily just because I respect them so much. It's also because I'm not into their texture for food to rubbery. Yeah, I mean I've eaten calumary like I do. You see, I'm not into the columulary squid. Yeah, yeah, the same. They're definitely the same.

It's it's different, but it's different. But their tentacles yeah, big gear for tentacles, guys, really big ear for tentacles. Tentacles are only going to get bigger and bigger. So congratulations to octopi octopuses, however you want to say it. You will be you'll have a special place in the Night Call Hall of Fame. Yeah, we will be happy to serve the octopi when they take over. Not but not literally, so we're not really serving octopied not guys.

We've discussed this, uh, this place a lot over the past year. It's a place. There are many of them, but it's always really the same place. It's always right where you expected to be, and you always know that when there's nowhere else, it feels like the right place for you. This place has its doors open, ladies and gentlemen. It's the twenty four hour diner, a dying day, dying breathe. I really thought you were going to stay cheers. That's why I was trying to do. It is wherever nobody

really knows your name. In fact, that's a plus. I don't want to go to a place where everyone knows my name, because usually when I go to a diner, I'm just like getting away from some other the cloak of fried um. Someone chimed in. Recently, we were talking about a twenty four hour diner in Cconk, Massachusetts. I think it was. Two listeners very uh generously reminded us of the name Bickford's Bid and we heard that it's been kind of redone and fancified, and that it's kind

of lost some of its chime. I don't care if it's still twenty four hours, and actually I'm not sure if it was actually twenty four hours, because Fred sixty two, for instance, Lose Feel is quote unquote twenty four hour diner, not actually four Oh, I think so. I think they're closed at four until seven. They take a three hour break. I believe like a lot of diners that are supposedly twenty four hours will also take a break if there's

like no traffic at a certain point, as they should. Yeah, as long as you're kind, you're if you're almost twenty four hours, I'll give it to you. Fatburger. Also, I think closes at like four. Bob's Big Boy, I believe

is the full two four. Yeah, there's some and is a Norm's opening in the valley that will be twenty four hours supposedly really great uh specials really yeah, there's like the lesson I went through, there were all these seniors there to get the senior special, and my friend was like, this is the best argument for getting old. I've ever like this looks awesome. I feel like senior

specials are always the right amount of food too. I had the same experience last night when I tried to go to the local Italian restaurant at like seven pm and they were like, we are all booked up Sunday night at seven pm? Are you kidding me? Was actually the Columbos Columbos, the jazz club and Italian restaurant in Eagle Rock that we also would put on the Hall of Fame if everyone had been there, which I have not been there, but well, you'll love it. It's like

a David Lynch movie. Inside, it's like red velvet curtains, a weird painting of val Pacino um and a kind of uh, you know, like a lounge e caparet music vibe of local local musicians. Are twenty four hour places really going away? Are they endangered? I? I personally don't. Well, you live in never sleeps, never at a twenty four hour diner, even though in the afternoon I was not

taking advantage of the twenty four hours. But I do like the fact that even if it's not, you know, late at night, they'll still let you sit there forever and ever evening close. Do you ever go to French Roast? Isn't that the twenty four hour diner on the corner of eleventh and sixth I don't. I've ever been there before.

I got a Connecticut muffin franchise. It is it's like a bougie twenty four hour It's it was like the place in college where you're roaming around and it's like three in the morning and you're like, let's all go, we're so drunk, let's go eat some French onion soup and terrible. There's a place like that in Manhattan Beach called the Kettle that I feel like. It's also I think the cattle is twenty four hours, like where they're like, it's five am. Wouldn't you like some hot onion soup

melted on it? In a way, yes, I would. To Keel his shots, It's like, please do not get French onion soup. God. I mean I think when do Pars closed, I think that that right, the one in the Farmer's market whatever. That one's like fake. I know that people don't respect that one, like everyone all of the like you know, seventy year old men who like really feel like they know l A will be like, no, that's the Dow Pars, that's the Dow Parts. They're just totally wrong.

It was the Valley dew Pars. Last time I was there, I think we saw Ian zerringh uh, Steve Sanders and then I was like, who is that cool couple over there that are like very engrossed in each other, And then when they were leaving, I was like, it's Delta Burke and oh my god, whoa. It was amazing experience. At least glad to have that memory. Yeah, everybody should pick one diner their faith, and in the realm of the twenty four hour diner, I guess Norms. Norms is

the best. I I can't say Bickford's now because I haven't been since two thousand five, but I'm going to go ahead and time travel back to like two thousand three, two four, and Bickford's it. Pickford's. Well, if if you guys aren't going to pick waffle House, and I'm going to pick waffle House even though it's been a second since I've actually been to one, because in Chapel Hill, where I most frequently am in the south now, there's

a place that the locals consider superior to the waffle house. Um, but I do love a waffle house. But is that local place open twenty four hours? It is not. Baffle House is the one place where you're like, the chain is probably just as good as the local place because it's like really good chain, right, kind of an underdog can tell under for the Hall of Fame. Although Emily said, who doesn't like it? You know what I'm talking about? The moon? Guys, how I didn't know what you're talking about?

It so fucking cool. I love the moon. God, I love the moon. Who could who could argue against the moon? The older I get, the more I believe in the powers of the moon. My mom for the longest time has been like, you seem a little high strung? Could it be the moon? And I'm like, no, I don't think so. And now I'm like, well I don't maybe it was. Wouldn't it be nice if it was? My favorite conspiracy theory that's not real is the like, well, your body is like water, isn't it? You are the tie?

And it's true. Much like astrology. You're like, wouldn't it be nice if there was a system that governed everything and things made sense? A lot of calls. You know, there's stuff goes on though astomatically with the moon, Like there's more crimes and stuff. I have all the scientific

evidence to back it up clearly. Sometimes there more crimes when the moon is bright or when there is because that is when everyone can see you doing your crimes in the break but your crime, But do your crimes in the new moon, in the dead of night, trawling the night see like an octopus. Yeah, do your crimes when there's snow moons you can be like if everyone else is also doing their crimes with the full moon, you want to do your crime. There's less cops. You

know what I'm saying. Resources are spread thin. It's power in numbers. Emily, where do you fall on the moon? Does everybody know where their moon is and they're in their chart? Speaking of astrology, our math teacher in tenth grade did it for Tessa and I but I have forgotten that was a twelfth grade math teacher, Molly, really yeah, okay, he did our right, he did our charts bears my moon is in scorpio. Oh my god, Oh my god. Because the math teacher was like, well, that's why you

know you're a virgo. But you've got this this because I was tried to lead a lead a walk out in the class one time or something. Shockingly, but the tyranny of your astrologer math teacher he was he was just so nice that we pushed him around as a class because he was such a nice dude, and we were a bunch of senior who were who were in remedial math. By the way, it was remedial math. Do you feel like you're more of the horse shack or

the viney Barberino. I think, see this is this bears on what we'll be talking about later, of what rules we occupy. I have no objectivity about that math class. Who would you think? Okay, I kind of I'm kind of flat. I did my my end of the year project on the echo boom population and it was just me being like, see all these people had babies and then they went on to have babies. Look at that

math math right there? Got an anyway, the moon the moon, um, I will say, when one note from the cinema about the moon, there there are some good depictions of the moon in cinema going all the way back to the Silent era. If there was one movie of the moon that I wish I could cut out from another movie and just enjoy on its own, it's the end of First Man, a movie that we will never discuss on

this podcast. Whatever again, we'll not see that movie. But I laughed very hard at Ira Madison's description of it when he was like, the reasonly people don't like this movie is because it's just about like Ryan Gosling wants to suck the moon. Well, I don't know about that, but the end of it, like you know, especially on the big screen, is a very good case. Yeah, he foxed the moon. It's a good case for the wonders

of the Moon. It's very it's very cool looking. Don't you wish that movie weren't about Neil Armstrong or whoever it is, And it was just like an hour long just about there, you know, the real thing. And he doesn't want to suck the moon. He wants to like throw a necklace into the moon, which is like stupid. It's like the entire scene of like not a spoil first man for people, but the entire scene is this wonderful,

like like stately scene of grandeur on the moon. And then it becomes like, oh, because he's still sat about his daughter, and then that's the like and it kind of cuts cuts the mood. But up until then it's pretty rad. Molly, you recently talked about the moon landing with a friend of the pod. I will not reveal this friend's name because they do not want to be outed in public as a moon landing truther. But Steph Curry just said he doesn't believe in the moon landing.

So I feel like it's a hot topic. Friends, Steph Curry, Well, I feel like it's a hot topic. I feel like all the big conspiracies of history come back up. We talked about room two, theories seven a lot um. They're basically just their argument was like, if we can do it, why haven't we ever done it again? Because it's really expensive. But they're like, we went four times under like one president.

I think it's really expensive, and it's sort of like once you've done it once, it's like, cool, we can The whole point was to prove we could do it, and then after that it's like, I don't know. But their their argument was also that like it all took place under one president, did it? Didn't they go to the moon again? Not with Kennedy or not with them, not under Nixon. I think they were saying that it happened all four times under Nixon. I can't prove this

fact check um. And they were like, what is Nixon known for lion about stuff? Oh? I mean like, it's it's not an unpopular conspiracy theory, So yeah, it's a it's Schrodinger's moon. Yeah, exactly how do you prove it? Especially if people don't just automatically believe video of things, which now we know you should not. So yeah, well now shouldn't should we fake a Mars landing? I said, we should fake it and get all the men to move there with So that's our plan. Don't tell them

our plan. Did I ever tell you guys that I met somebody who was like a finalist for the Mars one thing? Oh? Yeah, probably not happening anymore. I also wouldn't wish humans on Mars. I don't want to go to space. I just feel like humans don't deserve another planet. And also, I mean, if you're going to go to a planet, shouldn't you go to one of the very earth like planets that have been discovered within the past like two years? Yes? Is that just too far away? Yeah?

Too far away. We don't have we don't have faster than light, we don't have FTO. I want to conserve our resources until we can, though I don't really think like I think we're jumping the gun and being like let's just see what we can do, see if we can go to Mar. It's like, let's wait, let's hold like, hey, also, uh as a control look at this other planet we

sucked all the way up exactly maybe. And I saw some article that was like, colonizing Mars will destroy any life that might exist on Mars, and we'll just never know, right. I still think that the best option is to do like they did in Wally, where they have like the giant by and large ship where people go around in their little floating seeds million years. I hate it, but at least you're not destroying other planets. At least you're in a vessel. But they've seen in your own planet

to destroy. They still make trash and throw it into space, the space trash. Yeah, but I mean it's it's a very it's a dim view of the future. For sure. It's bad. But let's leave Mars alone. So for our next nominee, I feel like there were many potential films and or television shows that we could have inducted into the Night Call Hall of Fame, many works of art that are near endeared our heart, that speak to us,

that embody our values. But I think that if we had to pick one, at least this time around, for this first this first year, we would go to one. That's kind It goes all the way back to the beginning of our show and our identity who we feel we are within the podcast world. This is a film by a filmmaker that I think we all generally like,

but I don't think we necessarily have. Maybe we don't agree about all of his movies except for this one, um and it gives you a little bit of everything, namely three dudes, three of the best dudes, a alcoholic reporter, a cartoonist who turned detective, and a cop play mark by Mark Ruffalo, the best kind of cop. If you have to have one. This movie that we are inducting into this Yerares Night Call Hall of Fame is Zodiac. Heay, I fully forgot you were going to do Zodiac, and

you had no idea what she was talking about. When you were talking about it, I was like, this is the best description of show girls I've ever heard. Next year, next year because another possibility or eyes wide shut that, I was like, she describing it has to be Zodiac.

Those are they orbit at our center? Is Zodiac? Yeah? Yeah, Zodiac. Okay, So I was going to ask about this because I was I was trying to like put together some that's of what I was going to talk about in my opening and night, and I was I was thinking, I was like, I think, in general, I'm a Fincher fan, but I feel like I feel like we have some wildly varying opinions on the movies of his that we like. Like I'm like, probably not as big as a Gone Girl fan is. I feel like you guys are, but

I like it, Okay, It's just not my favor. And then I just saw I recently saw a Girl at the Dragon Tattoo for the first time, and I was like, this movie is trash. And before I know the Hacker the industrial Hacker, and made didn't get it too close to home. We talked, I just want to watch a movie about me. The Nordic noir Boom a little bit. We talked about Snowman a bunch of my other podcast,

Molly Sleusy Friends. We gave you all the clues. We gave you all the clues, just the Nordic Boom when people were like green lighting all this stuff just because it was like it's in the snow people get murdered. Um, there's that one black mirror. But I feel like Zodiac is like the best example of that kind of that kind of vibe of like the mystery that's sort of pointless because like what is Life's yeah, yeah, and and that I feel like it is the pinnacle of that

kind of mystery. And it's got that like you know, shiny finch or sheen, but it also has a real kind of like rough around the edges are kind of hang dog feel to it. That is, it's just like a perfect meal. It's got everything that you want in it. It's like an action movie where the action is thinking really hard, Yeah, wow, did I crash? Did You're right? There's like mental you're right because there's barely any actual like violence shown on screen, right, but you see everyone's

thinking so hard they're like sweating up. Also, the violence you do see is like so intense scary. And it was also one of those first movies where I was like, there are so many CG effects in it, but they're not They're not for action or violence. It's like the like the shot of the car going down the streets

is like heavily digital. He's like one of the people I feel like who knows how to actually like use digital Yeah, yeah, because the whole thing is like if you can use it sparingly, like this is what nobody does. Like Jurassic Park, they used it sparingly. That's what people forget, and then as soon as they had done it once, they were like, let's just do it all for everything, and then you never had practical effects again. But like, the best thing is a blend. That's my fine blend.

Do we all feel comfortable still with our assignments as far as the Three Eat the Three Dudes of ZODIACO, I think we're pretty much. I'm sitting here with notes on my lap. They're really in depth notes about mostly diners. Um, so I think I'm still Gray Smith. Do you guys still feel right? I mean, I'd like to live on a houseboat. Yeah, well they in theory, and now you love Fisherman's Wharf, so you'll just like live on your house boat and go to Fisherman's Warf all the time

in San Francisco. Life by the Weird. I think that's almost the Rockford Files. I think he's in a van again great life. So wait that reminds me I have another nominee. Oh, speaking of things and things about detectives, I would like to nominate for the Night Call Hall of Fame. Angela Landsbury. Speak on it. Angela Landsbury. She's only in really good things. She was in Blue Hawaii. Really yeah. I think she had like a long you know,

she started the theater. I think, um, she's cool as hell. Murder, she wrote, is a great show that stands up well. I love a show about people underestimating somebody and then that person solves the murder every time. I like all the shows like Colombo, I like The Rockford Files. Um, I love Murder, she wrote. And we were talking about bed knobs and broomsticks recently because I think why it came up. Um, but you've never seen, especially now that

you've seen Mary Poppins. It's like the so weird Mary Poppins where she's just openly a witch. Right. Well, so, I don't want to spoil this for you guys too much, but I think by the time this episode comes out, the world will now so I might as well get it out there. But did you know that Jelia Landsbury is in Mary Poppins returns no is she a human

teapot basically, I mean she may as well be. She's at the very end, and it's the part that's clearly it was clearly written to be the Julie Andrews cameo. But I think but then Julie Andrews didn't want to be in it because and the like the line that she gave was like, oh, I don't I didn't want to. I didn't want to hog the spotlight from Emily Blunt. I wanted to let her have her moment. But I

think she can't really sing anymore, Julian. She doesn't want to ruin the illusion and this and the scene is a song, like she sings a song. So instead we have Angela Landsbury there who's like, it doesn't many make any sense, but it's totally not unwelcome. Well, it's just like Droomsticks. It's almost like a side called Mary Poppins. It's the same kind of like weird Victoriana kind of

stuff that we're talking about for the Weird Museum. I'm talking about weird boardwalkie stuff that I love to laugh vibe. There's like being in a room with some old men and then laughing and going to the Sea. That part is so weird and Mary Poppins I forgot about love it. There's a part where the Knights of Armor come to life in bed the remember but she's a very long

movie long. She's a witch. It's weird. Um. And then she was also in the Manchurian Candidate, like not that far off from then, where she gives the greatest performances. She's she's so she has like a warmth but also a depth that's really hard to She has the warmth and then then they use it against you, and like Charian Candidate, it's like somebody who you love and trust being scary. Yes, exactly. Um So, Angela Landsberry, we salute you.

Welcome to the Night Call Hall of Fame. We will dedicate all of our eventual Night Call Murder Mystery novel series to Yes. Absolutely yeah. If we ever get that Netflix deal, we demand that it stars Angela. When Big Art, Big Art is going to give us that grant money,

Big Art Museum, test, you have another nominee. I do now. Listen, this might make some people upset, but it shouldn't because what I am about to nominate is less a singular thing and more a giant umbrella if you or maybe a giant bowl a serving vessel that you can fill with whatever you need. And I think that that is really why this uh, this nominee speaks to all of us. It is exactly what you want it to be. It's not what other people tell you it is. It belongs

where it belongs. This sounds like a lot like my pitch for the for the Diner, but it's a different thing. Guys, dipping sauces give it up. We've had some of our most heated conversations on this podcast about dipping sauces, most notably when I cannot mention this starts with an M. Well, there are so many dipping sauces that involved that. There's the thing in these mentioned. It's the base men. We're going to mention it at the end of the year.

I'm talking about nai. It was really really mannaise in the Holliday was that thing you're into, like confrontational honesty, radical radical honesty, radical honesty time I just state apasta salad with mannaise with a dressing that definitely I realized as soon as I started eating it, huts mayonnaise in it ate it anywhere pretty good. You loved it, ate it of it, but I didn't like look at you.

You loved it. Now you're trying to hide it when you tell if I loved it, I would say if I turned completely, But it was more just that I I just want to you didn't You didn't bomb. I didn't bomb. What I'm really getting behind now here is a having a million differences that a variety of keeping sauces. I'm just saying that I wanted to say mayonnaise out loud, which someone forbade us from doing. We we obliged them, and now I'm rescinding that it's the holidays where we

can do. We want the marvelous Mrs Mayonaise. Um. So this variety that you speak of, I'm trying to think of some real life examples, and the first one that comes to mind is the tower of onion rings at a little establishment known as Birds. Uh. I don't think I've ever had this onion ring tower, but are you very close to Birds? And I know I stand an onion ring tower. I thought you're gonna say the bloom and onion. Oh yeah, well it's similar concept, but it

comes out it comes out like it's a dowel. That's just a tower of onion rings stacked up on it. And I think they have three different dipping sauces and one of them is like an a ol A. One of them is like a barbecue sauce, and I forget what the other one was, but it's wonderful and it's and you kind of bury it up as you go down the tower. And who doesn't want that? I love that. There used to be a like a healthy fast food restaurant called I Believe Tops. They had a condiment bar.

Well that's the thing is that Tops with the Z it was like not as good as real fast, like the food that it was trying to improve on. It did not succeed there, but it had so many condiments. It was an embarrassment of condiments and I would just

go embarrassment. It was an embarrassed Sometimes there's a place that will have like the good salsa bar, so you go like, I'm going to get the most options, Baha Fresh, Baha Fresh, but also Ricky's Fish Tacos, which is the fish taco truck, and then you get your like I want this one, but then this one's also good. You could just have them all you could have it all.

I got two kinds of sausa yesterday from haraces Tacca, which I also endorse and who goes as Tacca the best place in the world um, And they just gave it to me like giant cups and I was so happy. But what kind of salsas? Um? A green and a ret But I also like almost drank it several times, and then I was like, what would be wrong with that? Well, we know it would be to soup. When you drink a sauce. You've been down that road, Molly, soy sauce. I'm just not allowed to drink soy sauce and great

quantities anymore. That's the other thing, like having a soys, having a soy based sauce and then making a kind of like all of these different iterations of the soy, Like now you you have the sauce. Doctor. We always talk about Dr John on Top Chef when they had the Hot Sauce making competition and his number one thing that he was like, what I'm looking for is a hip tang. We talked about it all the time because it is exactly it describes something so well. It's like

a doctor John is like a language. Know it when you taste it. It's no translation that hip tang or not. That's why Crystal hot sauce is superior sauce. Crystal endorse night call Oh please Crystal, we love you. Yeah. I love Crystal vinegar hot sauce. Also, I will say to night callers interested in getting into making your own hot sauce, It's are easy. I learned. Did you make a hot sauce? I made like a sausa and a hot sauce. Yeah,

you just like boil some peppers with vinegar. Doesn't about your eyes and your lungs when you're boiling it, not if you're not like standing right over it. See I hover. It's too dangerous for me. Did you drink our Top three? Top three sauce was so hard? Okay, well I'll name one right now. Um. I love honey mustard, either dipping sauce or dressing, and it is my favorite, my favorite flav It's very good. I like the Ken's honey mustard. I'm if I had to choose one single sauce, it

would be Ponzo. But if I got two would be Ponds and Tardar sauce. But never together. Never together. I'm not crazy. Um yeah, I feel like soy sauce has to be number one if I could only choose one for the rest of my life. But remember when you were used to soy sauce and then you had pond zu the regular soy sauce so good. Second might be malt vinegar. You're vinegar. I mean, I love them, but I love your sauces are like the darkest, most watery sauce.

Well maybe the second one, like mustard mustard counts mustard counts mustard and Emily on honey mustards. I didn't want to steal her mustard veilor the honey mustard dressing is like a combination of things. Only what's the best mustard? Um, I have no idea, but it's one that they have at the diner that I was just at. That's like pale yellow. I wonder if it's kens. I don't know. Is the kn's one have a grain in it? Because

the one in the tiny tub does. The one in the squeeze bottle doesn't, because it is just like a plain yellow colored sauce, kind of heavy on the honey. Yes, we're gonna have to make a nightcall. Sauce. Now, yeah, that would be awesome, you know, and it's gonna be though it's gonna end up being a remo lode, so good combines all the things we like. Wait, I like that when we should we bring a nightcall sauce to because money high last time. Yeah, maybe I'll make some

some sauce. Let's make sauces. My other sauce that I would choose is going to be controversial, but it's because it's a mayonnaise. But it's Cubi mayonnaise. Rest your commitment. We all decided that cub mannaise is the Kremla manise. Oh no, I'm gonna bar. A lot of things make me bar, so don't even take your person. What a lovely museum we've created to our favorite things. I I picture us walking down the halls. We have Helloon and

Angela Lansberry and some some sauce. We're riding those bicycles with one giant wheel in the front. We we definitely need to have those audio guides where you hold up the thing to your ear, the like little stick and it tells you facts about each thing. Um, we weren't we weren't please heavy on the facts today, but facts don't. This was a feelings hall of the mus the of Jurassic Night Callery. Yes, so I have I have a something of late, a late entry that almost made my

list because I saw it today. It's a movie, it's another movie. And I immediately texted Molly and Tests and said that it was perhaps Night Call Night Calls movie of the year. Uh. And that is the movie Aquaman, which is incredible and I feel like us all of our favorite things in it, including OCTOPI ties in perfectly with my plan to make the cool new catchphrase it's wet I wish. The catchphrase for for for Aquaman was get wet. Well after it's like a picture of Jason Momoa.

After Iris said that thing about First Man being about a guy who wants to suck the moon, and I was like, Aquaman looks like it's about a guy who sucks the ocean. Yeah, yeah, and that is I guess what it's about. It sounds like well, riding the sea creatures. I mean, come on, well. Emily just texted Tess and I and her cell which was very good. Was Willem Dafoe riding a sea horse? Yeah? Who doesn't want that

from a big blockbuster. Apparently it's being very well in China, and it does feel like one of those movies it's like engineered to do really well in China, but like I can't like it's it's engineered to do really well in my heart too. It's so it's so wacky, and you know, it looks like a black light poster. It's so great a kingdom. It's true. We love a wacky see it as it kind of sounds like a deviant art like fan art thing come to life where you're

just like, what is this? Oh, look it exists? What is this? Oh? Here you go? You know, I feel like a lot of the stuff about dark, gritty superhero movies has like rob superhero movies of what would make them fun, which is like being very weird. And so it seems like the weirdness is coming back, and not just in a deadpool like zingary way, but maybe like a Willem Dafoe riding a sea horse way. I really want. Patrick Wilson's all so in it, and he wears like

a Mercape. You said something else about like Nicole Kidman and Crabs, just like on Nicole corn it's wearing like a crab arm as like armor at one point and then like throws it off and you realize what it was like a crab arm and I just like started laughing out loud. It was so happy. Sounds sounds like

a weird George Miller. Yeah, listeners, if you have any recommendations for the Night Call Hall of Fame, you should give us a call at to four or four six night or an email at Night Call Podcast at gmail dot com, or you can hit us up on Twitter at Nightcall pod, on Facebook at Nightcall podcast, or on Instagram at Night Call Podcast. And we plan on doing this every year as long as we're around so and and we'll also link to some kind of virtual place where all of our Hall of Fame picks can live.

And maybe, like I would love to have like one of those old guest books, like an angel Fire site where people can write their their comments and rebute to each of our picks. Um. So we'll we'll figure out a way to get that up off the ground. Happy New Year, everybody, Happy New Year. Oh. We I have one last thing. I'm just gonna make a wish right now on the podcast. I didn't get permission from Emily

or Molly, but I'm doing it anyway. So I've noticed that there has been some kind of campaign to get Oh Hello to host the Oscars, and I need to put it out onto somewhere that I just need that to happen, and so just send good vibes because that's the only way the Oscars, the only way they could redeem it at this point. It's the only redemption. So that is my that is my wish for all of us for the new year. I'm right there with you. Oh my god, that would be the best. Happy New Year, Happy New Year.