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We had no idea we had entered the Mass Singer era. Uh we we We waltzed into nineteen so naive, thinking, you know, it's just another year, but in fact we were living in the world of the Mass Singer, now the Mass Singer extended universe. It felt like we were entering a new era. Yeah, the bird mask a s MR Plague doctor thing that we watched since discussed on the podcast a while ago. It's like it ruined the Mass Singer. It came to life. It came to life, and I just picture them singing in a s m

R voice. Well people, I know, like the billboards for the masked singer were amazing because they were so it looked like a Vega show, yeah, or like a black mirror. They were just like the masks are particularly creepy on purpose, it seems. Um. I guess it's originally a Korean show and this is the American reboot, but maybe they don't know if the aesthetic of the original show was I would imagine it was this because it's very memorable. I saw a clip where they were like, it was not

just a mask. It's like they have like whole costumes. Yeah, it's like a whole. Like there's a lion one I saw it's a full body. Ken Jong is like I know that lion. Yeah. My friend Sarah Johnson was saying it's part of the ice wad Shut universe. Yes, sure, absolutely, it's because they don't want you to recognize people by their bodies either, I imagine because that's really easy to do. Well, it's even hard. I don't know how anyone sings when

they're inside like a hippo costume. Well, we were discussing this. I mean, is it recorded inside their mask or is it prerecorded? I have so many to know. That was her main question was are the vocals. How do you sing in that thing and have the vocals come out? How weird is it going to sound with the you know, there's probably a microphone inside the mask. Yeah, but that's going to sound it's probably so big. But maybe the acoustics inside the head are really good. They've created an

acoustic environment inside the head of the mask. How you know what it kind of reminds me of is ending? Did you I's ever see Tony Erdman, which is like getting New Christian Wig and Jack Nicholson. The original is incredible. I highly recommended to everybody suit in it. There. Yeah, there's this like weird traditional Scandinavian suit that comes into play in the end, like this monster suit. Uh. And it's so it's so bizarre and it's like I can't even describe it. I mean, I can't spoil any This

is like this is like a singing competition. So it was like something about it that's really funny because you're like, oh, yeah, it's like Kaiju suits, Godzilla suits, people singing and it's not evil seemingly, That's what I was saying. It's like, even though it's like a dystopian reality show that feels good for our current moment. It's not like The Swan,

the all time benchmark for feel bad reality TV. Yeah, I think it's sort of reassuring in some ways, like to think back on The Swan and think, well, not everything gets worse that we don't have. That was the point where I was like things. That was when I thought everything was going to be so bad forever. Did you guys, how much of this one did you watch? It?

Not horrifying it was. I found it so hard. Like we've talked about this one so much on this show, but we will talk about it again, which is that it was a reality show where it was like they gave a bunch of average women insane plastic surgery makeovers and then had them in a beauty contest. Uh, and somebody won and they were the Swan. I just can't believe it was real. It's one of those things that I feel like we have to talk about to remind ourselves.

What was amazing was then they like followed the contestants after the makeovers and they ruined all of their lives. But I know that they showed that they were like my husband doesn't recognize me anymore, and like we've grown apart. It was so fucked up, and you were just like, not everything that's entertaining should be on television, because like

people would watch Execution. But it's all so in the same vein of Temptation Island where it really took, you know, finding out that a couple had a secret child and that they were like a casualty of the show to make you be like, oh, it was really a bad show. I don't know about this Temptation Island. Well. The most singer is also like, it's funny that people are talking about such a January show. I love August entertainment. I

love January, best months for new stuff. So yeah, the judge, Escape Room, the judging panel, Yeah, you loved Escape Room. The judging panel is like Ken Jong uh, Jenny McCarthy boom thick boom okay, and one more person no booo. I'll tell you a fun factor about Nicole Shares gender. Yeah, but can you say your name? One more Shares shares in I got sharts. The original read aura Um is that the song Amber by three eleven is about her,

the color of her energy, her energy. Yeah, she dated the guy from three eleven and he wrote that Amber a bad energy color. No, I don't know anything about the color of your energy. It's chill, guys. I just I just totally remembered something I buried for years. I had a sociology teacher, I believe, who had us read each other's aura's freshman year. I believe and I have I have completely that just like came back to me in a flash. Were talking about what was the color

of your teen energy? I don't remember at all, but I remember thinking, why are we doing this in sociology? Did they interpret your for you? Somebody did we like took turn standing up in front of the like pulled down overhead screen, uh and and turned the lights out and apparently tried to read each other's or I don't really remember. I'm just like there was not an aura camera. First of all, I understand nothing about aura photography because no, I don't know anything about it. I could not tell

you anything because it's not real. It's I know it's not real, but I mean, like, how do they make that? It's your heat, your body heat, I know, but how do you capture it? Like heat? Can't that thing in the terminator's head? Okay, you know? So he was just an aura reader. Yeah, or Terminator is a mood ring, He's a he's a walking story everything. Terminator apologists New age. Terminator is very much our vibe on this podcast is I just want to hear a little tiny bit more

about the Mass Singer. So, Molly, you watched it. They're both masked and they it's two people battling. I just need to know different battles. And then I thought it was just the guessing part. No, it's there's also a complicated it is versus. And then at the beginning they tell you what the battles are and it's literally like hippo versus unicorn, peacock versus horse. Um, and you said

one of the masked singer spoiler alert. They reveal one of the Mass singers at the end of each episode, and I was mostly curious about, like what like level of celebrity we're talking about here, Like you got your answer, I got my answer, and the answer was Joey Fatone.

Oh my god, right, do you ever have like you know, when you're watching something from the seventies or eighties and you're like, oh my god, everybody was on so much cocaine, Like people are going to look back on this air and be like, oh my god, everybody was on so much CBD. It's like the weirdest most like half awake, half remembered idea for a show like I think a hippo and a lion battled each I only complained is like the song selections are very American Idol. I wish

it was weirder fight song. It would be great if it was just all like the Pinion Colada song. I always want them to choose their own song. I mean, that's always been my issue with Idol. It's interesting to see like what the mentors choose, of course, because it makes them all seem like they just stopped listening to music at a certain point a long time ago, and they're just like, I only know four songs. Now, we'll get you something edgy, how about Benny and the Jet exactly.

But I feel like that's what's nice in a way about the voice. They choose their going your false, going your fault. They like get to choose. I would assume I always thought on the voice they chose their own songs, but it seems like in particular with the mass singer, even if there should be that element because it speaks to who you are inside, right, Well, maybe give it

away too much. Yeah, but in a way, it's like a it's a good clue because you could choose a song that doesn't fit with your image and trick everybody. It also fits into the bird Box universe. You know that. I'm thinking about it. It's all about things you can't see. Things you can't see exactly. You're going just by voice, and you can be tricked and escape room to right, is there some sense isolation and escape room? Go with

me here? No, But there's like the elements. There's like there's like a room that's just ice, in a room that's just fire. Do they take place in reality? In reality, like in the world, or like in a constructed environment? That's what I mean. Uh, they go to they go. The people in the movie think that they are in an escape room, like a really really detailed, like high budget escape room. It's still like but yeah, in fact,

there they are trying to be killed by somebody. It's so good, it's highly recommend it too spooky maybe for me, but no, No, this is the thing about it. It's like not a horror movie. It's just a suspense movie with puzzles, Like, it's not there's not that much gore. It's rated PG. Thirteen. It's just like we're in a crazy upside down room. Now, how are we going to get out of it? It's a puzzle, which I've recently gotten really into puzzles me too. Really, yeah, is this

the new coloring? Is everybody just simultane say like, I love puzzles? You know? I was always really underwhelmed by the coloring fat I don't know. I mean, I understand it's very soothing, but I didn't care and I never wanted to see what anyone was coloring like. It didn't interest me. But puzzles, But puzzles are very interesting. I got these cube butts. I got them from a friend

of mine. I stole them from my kid, and they're really, really hard, to the point where I have to there are three dimensional puzzles that look like little men made out of wood cube and it's so hard. There's one that's teeny tiny and it's been like months, it's been months. I can't find a YouTube on how to solve him. So I've just been like, like nice wedding, I just get frustrated and give up. Try it now, Molly, you might be in a different place. I don't think. I

found I like Tetris Dr Mario the other day. How was it fantastic? Imagine Tetris, but like without the time constraint and then with at the music getting faster, like you can just chill out and stare at the puzzle. I mean I did. I did like a regular puzzle over the holidays. I feel like people were posting puzzle content because it's a wholesome, wholesome activity, very stress relieving, because it refocuses your stress back onto yourself where it belongs.

You know, kind of just defaults to like your lizard brain a little bit exactly. Yeah, like baking, blinking baking. If I said blinking, suppose you have to do it? You really have no charge? Terrible. There's some lizards who don't blink. Well, there's the ones that lick their eyeballs get goes. How does that make you feel that they like their eyeballs? Feels great? I wish you could, wouldn't you? Yeah?

I was just thinking, I wish we all could. If you have something in your eyes, thinking when you were in high school, like you would like each other's eyeballocking somebody's eye, and it was kind of like it was kind of a sex thing, but it was like people would do it on a day or kind of like going to spin the bottle type area. You just dressed a really memory of mine. I don't even know. You don't remember there was that was a thing. I don't

know what you're talking about. I was too busy just putting stack in those quarters on domin Oh, guys, should we take a nightcall. Let's take any Let's take a night email. This is a night email from friend of the podcast to Aurora, who came to our first live show. Shout out Aura um Aurora wrote with more information about the Integratron. More about the Integratron and its creator, George

van Tassel's direct connection to UFOs. The Integratron was originally built as a rejuvenation machine, an electromagnetic wave oscillator contained in a fifty ft diameter dome in the desert near Landers, constructed in the fifties and sixties by George van Tassel, a former test pilot for Hughes and Douglas aircraft, who moved into a hollowed out boulder near the Integratron site

in seven that'll come into play later. Van Tassel was interested in UFO contacts and the metaphysics of George Lahovski, on whose principles the Integratron is based. The mechanical apparatus that generated the healing energy disappeared after Van Tassel died in in the early two thousand's, sisters Joanne Nancy and Patty Carl purchased the Integratron. It has since become a popular attraction, known for its sound bath meditation sessions. There

you go. George Van Tassel also lived underneath Giant Rock nearby, where he organized several UFO conventions in the fifties to the seventies. Nation. Yeah, I mean, I do remember hearing that the Integratron is not actually the way it's supposed to, like the way that he intended it to be built, like rejuvenation machine. Yeah, like like it's not the full thing,

the full uh finished product. If you are going to build a compelling like if you wanted to either you know, trick people or you thought like something might actually work and you were building a rejuvenation center, what would be in it? I mean, I think you just get people out to the desert and they're willing to bite on whatever you tell them. It's going to happen. I think you want a really hot salty salty salty we've been

talking about a hot salty bath. A hot salty bath to me, Well, I mean, send along an article then we'll talk about in a minute about the school of

practical philosophy. But it made me think about how like there's this weird kind of gray area between reality and the constraints of physics, and you know that certain things can't be done, but then there's that like what if kind of zone you know where you're like, but yeah, but it's also like you know, epsom salts for instance, like taking an epsom salts bath if you look online about like the uses of epsom salts, and like the the qualities that people think that up some salts have

and like you know, how they can truly heal you and stuff. You're like, Okay, I believe it up until here, and then I don't believe it past then. But it made me think like I'd be really great at starting like a kind of like a cult because because there are so many things like the absence this is that's obviously what this podcast is eventually about many times I feel some salt of podcasts exactly like Emily's aura reading

teacher and our math teacher who's into the zodiac. I always think that's interesting where it's like you you just assume that like science, people don't believe in like crazy things, but that's not true at all, Like so much of science. I was really obsessed with alchemy for a long time. You wrote a great player about but I was just like the idea was, like so much of chemistry came out of alchemy, right, stem Like do crazy impossible things

also crystals? I mean, like, look, do I have any understanding, like any any cause effect, whether it's actually real or not. But like to be able to think about some sort of taxonomy and system of like one thing affecting another, like that can be fun, like even if it's totally fake, Like just to think about, you know, a way of organizing your understanding of the world. It makes things makes sense,

so you don't feel crazy some people. I went into crystal store the other day and sort of reached my limit of crystals, which is that I was like, here's the thing, because like the person who worked there was talking about like charging them in the moon and they

will give you positive energy. And I was like, no, but you know what's very therapeutic is making yourself go through these weird rich It's not the people who are really into like holding them, because it's like a worry stone exactly, like something to absorb your anxiety if you're like on a plane or something. But in a way, it also has like a video game quality of like giving yourself a task that doesn't it's not a practical task.

I mean literally being like picked up an object, put it in the moonlight, like it means you're going outside like an area at night, and then like going inside, like having completed this weird task that you assigned yourself. I feel like that's a very as soon as people are spending money on it, I feel like, but here's what I was gonna say. It's like what I find so silly about that kind of crystal stuff, and obviously

it's a big part of New Age stuff. Is what's amazing about crystals is that the fucking Earth made them. Like when you go to the Hall of Gems as a kid, and you're just like, all of these things exist in nature for some reason, Like that is amazing to me. You don't need to put anything on top of that exactly. But if there weren't people who were obsessed with categorizing them and like talking about their energies and talking about their differences, you might fail to like

notice them in the way that you do. Man mean for me also, like for something like a diamond, like the fact that it's so dense that light moves through it in a different way, that's enough for me, Like that's interesting. I mean that was like a prism, just

a good old fashioned prism. Is PRIs are cool. I wanted to bring up, just as a side note about the integratron because I think I was kind of when I was trying to summarize the integratron last week, I was kind of, I think, blending the mythology of the Integratron and Star fire Water. Yes about Star fire Water. Uh, Star fire Water. It is a water bottled water that is sold. I've only ever seen it in Los Angeles, but I note for sure they sell it at M Cafe,

and I make a point of getting one. We've had our last couple of like night call lunches at M Cafe near the studio spoiler, and they sell star fire water because I need it for can I guess what? I think? It is full of charged crystals. Well, it gets better. Um, I'm gonna read you. This is the label of star fire water. First, the fire legend has it that the mystical star fire was the liquid manna of the divine, used by the ancients for ultra focus,

extreme performance, and even enlightenment. In that vein, we introduced star fire Water, a proprietary alkaline performance bio holographic living water produced using Breakthrough twenty one century quantum water technology. Star Firewater is treated with ultra violet ox oxygenation, infra red stimulation, and electromagnetism for a negative parentheses negative sign ion charged water as in nature, allowing deep cellular intake

through your aquaporins. The flood gates to hydration vortex induced that this is not about halfway done. More text induced. Using a solar helix and pyramid grid pattern to give it a hexagonal structure and infused with monotomic elements, we are able to achieve a water with cosmic healing energy. This water is amplified with some kind of sonic wave.

I can't read it on the label. Oscillation tuned to the planet's frequency, and it becomes illegible after a certain point out here because I'm looking at a bad picture. Um yeah, all together, we've created the words world's finest performance living hexagonal superstructured water. So you can go. There's a YouTube address on the back bottle, a YouTube hyperlink which I I did look at and it has like

one thousand views on it or something. But it's just somebody at like some kind of health food fair talking about how oh yeah it does. I do feel energized with this water. Um it has a picture of like a like a bird and a ying yang and stuff. Didn't make you feel hexagonal. It's nice tasting water. It's cost about six dollars for a bottle, so that's that's hexagonal, Like six dollars six sides, not some living water. You can make a pet, you can make a buck, yeah,

seeing guys, but it's like the only bottle. Yeah, you get it at a at a cafe. There's like another place, I think downtown somewhere where they had a selection of waters, and um that was one of them. There was also the Beverly Hills Water b H two. Oh yeah, I mean it's fun to one of my favorite waters. Water saved my life with that hidden water. Are you still thinking about that? Him? Yeah? Is that the slightly minty water?

Now it's a slightly flavored with fruit water. It's like a flat LACROI, but it has a stronger flavor of lacroy And. I don't know though, Emily, if you smells a lot of weed, you might like this water. That was what led me to this water, was being like, I don't like the taste of normal water, like I need something punchier, but not like some normal water. I'm not into normal water in general. I don't drink a lot of water. I should got to drink your water.

I don't like to drink. I brought it open the floodgates to hydration, O the porous. My mom doesn't like the flavor of water. She only drinks carbonated water. She will not drink flat water. And I felt weird about carbonated water because when you're very thirsty, like burns. I was so thirsty last night because we ate raman, and then you offered me a water. I always have water in my purse. I can't water. Please sponsor and star

fire water. We can have a conflict of interest. I'm I'm like a little sauce of the Star fire Water. I gotta be real Star starfire Water Delivery dot Com and see become a believer. Next time, ladies drinking, we should all go to Arijuan and just all pick out the they definitely have or Arijuan And it's a made

up thing. It's nowhere, but I've been there. It's It's one of those places that I go and I can't find anything to eat in there, Like nothing's ring in any bells for me, Like activated am no, I don't like sprouted things. Not a grain person. You adle person. I'm such a help noodle person. Oh my god, they're so good. They don't have any calories. That's I like all the silly health food. I feel like it's something

about being from California. Just like salad. I love salad too, but I but the salads that I like are not Where do you fall on a hippie sandwich? I like hippie sandwich is fine, but the bread cannot have seeds in it because they can't ice and they can't about it. I'm okay with oh, sprouts are a deal deal killer. I like the leaving an entire plant that makes me feel powerful. Sprouts Yesterday, I buy sprouts, go to Sprouts.

Oh you go to Sprouts. Sprouts Sproud squared. So we're going to take a night call from our buddy Holly, who has a question about the desert again. Hey, night call. This is Holly, and I was wondering, what do you think it is about the American Southwest, like geographically that inspires so many other worldly stories or inspires actual aliens to land there? Who knows? Thanks, love you guys, bye, Thank you Holly for giving us a good question. Thanks Holly.

Full disclosure. That's Holly Anderson, friend of the Pod. So I, um, this is like barely related, but it made me think of this. I got the like one of the only blue rays I own. Um, but it's one of my favorite movies and came out on Criterion. But True Stories,

the David Byrne movie. And there's some quote in it because it takes place in Texas, and there was some quote I think from I think it was from David Byrne, who is like, there's something about a like the bigger spaces, the wider the space, the more empty space there is theoretically everybody should have space to do whatever they want and be into whatever they want, and nobody should feel like somebody else doing what they're into or getting into

whatever weird thing they're into, is infringing on their space. And I think sometimes that doesn't always bear out, maybe especially in more conservative parts of Texas, but I think like that's sort of the thing I when we were talking about um New Mexico yesterd Or last week, that

was sort of the thing I dug about it. It felt like you're kind of you have the real estate to wave your freak flag, to believe the things you want to believe, to get into whatever conspiracy theories you want to get into, and nobody's gonna nobody's gonna rain on your parade, literally because there's no rain. Yeah, it seems very conducive to UFO stuff is just being having a lot of time to look at the sky and having a lot of sky not blocked out by skyscrapers.

I think they're so also something at this point. And so we're gonna be talking about Roswell New Mexico again because it's going to be on tomorrow. If you're listening to this the day the podcast comes out, and there's something about now, especially like at this point someplace like Roswell. It's also like a like a self propelling myth, like it's part of the DNA of that area. Now it

is just like alien ship. Yeah, and it's like Americana because it's like yeah, and it's like very atomic age stuff and right side attraction stuff of like yeah, you have a car and you can drive places now, and like what will make you go to a place? Yeah, I'm just still thinking about why aliens would land in the desert, and yeah, let's talk about this question. I just wanted to say that it's because it's the only place where there's enough like clearing to land yourself, right right,

that's it. No, it's not theory, that's just the truth. Like, think about it. What else would they do? I liked when we came up with last which is that they're coming for the Christmas style chili. Well that's definitely true, but it's also like you don't want to if you're landing a spaceship. What if, like at your home planet, you don't have trees, you don't know what they are, like the mountains, irregular terrain, it's all like really hard

to look the most like the Martian landscape. Yeah, and it's also like it's like if you pass, you know, a supermarket, and you see like a big, huge empty parking lot, even if you don't need anything, you're like, seems really easy to just pop in. So that's what

they're thinking. If we were if you think about humans going and exploring other planets and trying to find a place to land that feels like it would be um like friendly or at least easy to traverse, we would probably look for a place that's like near a body of water that has growing things and that kind of like with something that feels earth like. And if you're coming from say Mars Like, you're gonna look for the thing that looks most Mars like. It makes sense. And

the place with the Christmas chili and life giving nutrients. Also, like the desert has been subbed for alien places in film and TV so much like the soundtrack is all just shot in like the desert there, like we're on another world because it's California. The idea that they're not inhospitable to life, they're just hospitable to different kinds of life. Different kinds of life you guys went to the Interactive

Experience Boulevard for Rosalond, New Mexico. And in the show, So Liz, who's the main character, her family owns this diner called the Crashed Down Diner, which is like an alien theme diner, which looks super awesome, and I wish we could hang out there and record our podcast there. Well, I r l, but you did the next best thing, which is you went to like a recreation of it

that was on Sunset Boulevard. Yeah, it was called Crashdown on Sunset and it was in the Old Tower Records, which I was obviously very excited about on the Sunset Strip, And so I picked us up and we went there last night and it was super fun and they had the crash Down Cafe inside and we legit like hung out there for so long, for so long. It's like a very Twin PEAKSI type like fake diner. And they had a jukebox that was playing like three Dog Night one,

Harry Nelson's one. It was all like songs that we like anyway, and there was fake food. There was fake food. Top food and drinks are like something that I just never gets there. Looking at the fall, there was like a fake cherry pie and like a fake some of the things could be moved off the table, but others could not, so we had to go through everything to find out what things love that. That sounds so fun. It was so fun. And then the Sheldren's Museum um um.

And then there was like a setup with some alien eggs that color when you touch them. Spoiler alert there are alien eggs in Roswell, New Mexico the show. And then it was funny, yeah, because all the like alien environments just felt very like a chill out room. Yeah I did. Yeah, like, oh I could just hang out here. That had been like an attent to Coachella, you know, it would have been totally totally By the way, that's

a good idea to bring. Let somebody get on that sponsored tie in pop ups to Coachella so that you can hang out, ride out, your your freak out with the alien eggs into it. It was really it was fun and everybody there was really nice. Yeah, we did all of the things and then we went back to the diner. That was the thing. We like finished the course of photo things and then we were like, let's just go hang out in the diner. Some more, what if they just like leave it, Like nobody else wants

that space, so they just like make it a real diner. Yeah, we were saying, there's also there's like a Saved by the Bell diner that's a pop up that's just kind of seemingly semi permanent, and it's it was always really busy because it's the Math. It's by Target, so you're milling around outside and you're like, Oh, I should go in,

and then it's like weirdly always crowded. It's going to be featured on this season of vander Punk Roles apparently, which is going to be featured on this season of Yeah. So we talked to the people also who did the Roswell pop up because we were like, oh, we're here from a podcast and like, what, how do you guys

involved with this? And they were saying they worked for the company that put on the pop up that has also done other like experiential l a pop up things, including the House from It that was at Hollywood and Vine for several months. Um, and then I guess you went through it and it eventually became like a larger haunt somewhere else. But it looked terrifying because there was

like it looked too scary. I almost went and then I was just like, I don't know, Actually the clown well, I think like you guys wanting to hang out at the diner kind of speaks to I don't know. I think I really like dig the world of the show because it's like it is that kind of thing that's super Americanish and kind of cookie and you kind of feel like there could be a lot of interesting things that happened in a town where everybody's like kind of

obsessed with slash, sick of hearing about aliens. Yeah, and we were hearing actually from our producer Roy who knows some people in New Mexico, that it is like that that everything the local culture of the town, so everybody celebrates it as like the town's culture. And there's a UFO festival tests go with the pronunciation of upology uthology uthology,

and we should go. Um, there's another one in the l a in the High Desert, I think, which we could also check out thanks passing like a Joshua tree, Like, I'm fine, I could skype into that, though, you guys want. I also like in Roswell, I became very fond of the like nostalgia aspect. Liz is ending up going back, and then there's high school reunion and obviously you know there are tensions that are existent still from um high school years. It's their tenth three union, I think. But

they played I was Molly. Molly and I were watching the show at the same time, and uh, definitely harkened back to the Counting Crows record that came out. Oh my god, yes, well yes, yeah, But also, did you guys know that Mrs Potter's Lullaby was about Monica Potter the actress ended up going on some dates with Adam Durret's which is also just like a strange addition to that. Yes, it is that. This is the rumor. This is the rumor. Song Facks backs me up. I don't say it's about ufs. No,

it's not. One of Counting Crows is about us. Well, if there's going to be an alien walking among us, could it be Durrets. Oh, I was gonna say animal crow. Yeah, they're so smart, they're very smart. But there are a lot of birds. Let's get back um right in the In the pilot episode, Liz comes back to a town she kind of reunites with her high school sweetheart and Max,

and then very quickly it becomes apparent. But Max is one of several aliens that landed in Roswell in the famous nineteen is that right crash and he's just kind of been chilling incognito as a hot police officer, as a hot copt very confusing. Can you imagine it's high end and be like I'm gonna police this, I'm it's Julius for like you just want to like hang out

and live our lives. Well, because they're by a lot well spoiler spoiler spoiler there they are both assimilated humans and aliens because you were a true blood, right, And I was saying that too, But I think the interesting thing about this one because it is it does have a lot of that kind of like it also from was in tu Yeah, but like Jessica the hot vampire, right, But like, I think the thing that makes it kind of interesting is not that they're these predators that are

kind of living among the humans, but that they're like actually scared and like trying to like hide themselves, which feels a lot more interesting, Like they're more vulnerable than just like sexy predators, No, for sure, and they make it very apparent early on that like the metaphor is intentional, Yes, yeah, but it seen as you were saying, it's like somebody getting stopped by ice and other Lizz's father is documented. We're talking about one would you dated an alien if

a body of a human? And also what if you found out your high school sweetheart had been an alien all along? There are so many people who you wouldn't be surprised if you found out they've been an alien all along? Who was chief among them? Test made a list of hot aliens. I think the idea that maybe super hot people are aliens is a good theory. Remember that period when models all look like aliens. The very high cheekbones, right, I have the triangle face looks like

an alien. So Tess was saying, she was like, who's the hotest alien? And I was like, our aliens really hot? Normally because I think of an alien from alien who's hot in their own way? Obviously that's generous, but I feel like we should check in with these hot aliens. I have Jeff Goldblum from Earth Girls are easy, of

all the Earth Girls are easy? Yeah, Bowie, we mentioned last week, but still like re emphasized that Jeff Bridges in I must say that I have to qualify that he is taking a human form of a dead husband. If memory serves, I think he's like shape shifting. I like that aliens hot seventies guys like the dad in Um in Contact too, Like that's an alien in the shape. I don't know if that counts because obviously, if you shape shift, you're going to shape shift into someone hot.

It's not like how you look. But again, the idea is like, maybe we wouldn't know, we wouldn't be able to comprehend. It would be as though we were wearing a blindfold from bird Box. It's true, exactly, keep trying it back to bird Thank you, thank you. And then also Mila Djovivica number one obviously who who I think

is like a believable personification of a hot alien. I was also to bring it all background saying the fifth Element opera scene is exactly what the masked singer is like, Oh yeah, what you think the future will be like? And now in the weird cyberpunk future, it's like, give us the weird cyberpunk show. Yeah as well, it's like in episode three of Star Wars the the Prequels where they go to an opera and it's just like balls of light in an in an arena. Anyway, I'm gonna

bring up another. I'm gonna bring another really geeky example of a hot alien, which is gen Zia Dax in uh Star Trek Deep Space nine. But she's not so again, it's it's sort of a stretch. She's a host body for um a trill, which is like a it's like this many hundreds I think hundreds of years old creatures. Yeah. No, not for me, but like a lot of people think, I like, I like the Zachary Quinto Spock. I think, yeah, right,

um no, I won't let you do that. Um. Also christ and Johnson and Third Rock from the Sun. Uh, that's uh. Those are all the hot aliens. Who else is a hot alien? There have to be more So if somebody wanted to get with you but they were an alien, would you feel like they automatically had ulterior motives? Oh? Species, That's what I was thinking of. She's a yeah that would you get with an alien or would you be

like nervous that they were going to, like what abduct you? Also, this is a I was looking this up for other reasons this week, but this is considered a um close encounter of the seventh kind. When you mate with an alien, Uh, that's there's levels here the seventh kind. Before that, there's all sorts of the like where are you, uh, communication touch all that, but like mating or or when a hybrid is produced. I believe it's the seventh kind. Is

there stuff beyond seventh? Is that like to eight base an e shase? But the alien? I mean I would do it. I wouldn't be too paranoidal. I think what we've learned is that the aliens are going to be really hot, so that would be you know, if that's something you're concerned about. I love how the aliens are hot on Roswell, but they also like arrived in these glowing pink eggs, Like that's so adorable to me. I I just like it's so in deary. I think we have yet to learn if they have any memories of

for Earth. That's like kind of what I am curious about is because if they don't, then aren't they just like super They basically are like people with superpowers? Kind of did you like the powers. Out of This World was so good. It's my other favorite. Do you ever watch Out of This World? I did not. It was a sitcom about a girl who was an alien and she talked to her dad through a glowing orb. It

was like Crystal. He gave her advice from It was just part of the weird eighties shows where people were doing so much coke that they were like, yeah, she's an alien. It was an alien. Well, there's also the one Small Wonder I was thinking about. Small Wonder was good too. Yeah, Robot robaby robots come after aliens. I mean they can all exist in the same plane. Like

with crystals. Man, They're just like they are what you want them to be there, just other So the premiere of Roswell the premiere episode is on January fift which, if you're again, if you're listening to this the day we dropped, then this should be tomorrow, uh, and then it'll be available on CW to stream on CWS app. I don't know. I'm excited to see more of it.

It's it feels like good to have a good paranormal teen show, or like why a adjacent show it to the happy about I like a big practical effect egg

hot guy in it who doesn't so. Um, we wanted to really quickly just talk about slash point people to an article on the outline UM about the School of Practical Philosophy, which if you have ever lived in New York you are probably familiar with or have seen adds for on the subway, articled by Katie Bloom, and she kind of just like decided to take the bait because these these posters are have always been in the subway, I think, for you know, I've seen them as long

as I've been here. I think they've been around for decades. But UM kind of offering these introductory general practice philosophy classes and they you know, promise happiness or you know, a greater understanding of life all things that sound great. And the School of Practical Philosophy that sounds like like I'm interested in practical philosophy. I think we talked about this a little bit when Richard Lawson was on the podcast, because he's also kind of that's something. It's a New

York specific it is it from growing up. But obviously have there plenty of billboards for weird things in l A. Yeah, this is a very I don't know, it's like the New York version of it, and it doesn't seem as dippy as like the l A version of it. Well, also because it's cheap, which is the best thing about it is that it's ten dollars. Yeah, and it's like

a ten week course. And so anyway, uh, Katy Blue and the writer went and you know, was not impressed with her first class, and it just seemed like philosophy for people who don't want to like actually grapple with any questions. Like everything was just sort of like we're all a part of the truth of the world, like that kind of stuff. But then she kind of best nugget was when she said that her instructor posed a question for everyone to think about a challenging situation that

they were like didn't know what to do. And then she the kind of solution to this that was supposed to be revelatory was well, what would a wise person do? And the it's like, well, if I knew that, it wouldn't be a problem, like what almost like a question, you know, it's like smooth brain philosophy. But it's a really interesting article. Uh, we wanted to get more stories.

I think I think they're not nearly enough about things that are like not cults but kind of have the feeling the sort of packaging of a cult, especially things that exist in cities. I think, because that's that's a little it's you know, I feel like the image of an American cult is some kind of like commune out

in the country. But I feel like if you were offering some sort of life improvement course or some kind of ten week program to improve your life or take money from people, I feel like city dwellers are like easier marks, just because like you're more likely to be run down and feel like, oh yeah, I could use some practical philosophy. But also the SPP like when she goes into the background of it, it does have many

of the kind of like markings of a call. I mean, it has disconnection from family members who aren't involved, a lot of volunteer requirements. So I think we're looking for stories of things that are somewhere on the cult spectrum

wherever that may fall. Right anything culty, but you should call us and tell us your experiences with these things, or your thoughts or fears about things to four oh four six night, or you can email us at Night Call Podcast at gmail dot com And if you want to be anonymous, just let us know and we reveal your identity so the cults can't come after you. Um, but thanks everybody for listening this week. Will be back next week and yeah, give us a call, Ye, give

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