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of pretzels the driest much. Man, Guys, there's some breaking uh. I feel like Night Called Relevant news just yesterday as of this recording. True Detective three, m get that Truda who's ready for the critical reevaluation of season two? This guy, really, I've already seen it out there. I know you're not on Twitter anymore, but it's out there and I'm out of the TV take economy. But two Detective Season two not as bad as everybody thought. It was pretty bad

in one not as good as everybody thought. Disagree finale, I would have to. I think if I think, if you went, oh yeah, the finale is terrible. On I've remained but it kind of doesn't matter because it took us on such a journey, like I've never seen my husband get into the Reddit conspiracy that whole thing. He was up for like three days. A different time that one I know. And it looks like the new season of True Detective will also take us to a different time.

Looks like the either the late seventies or eighties. I think so. Um. I think Rolling Stone said that there's an eighties timeline for sure, but that it jumps around and the premiers is the third season at premieres in January. Um, and Nick Pizza Lotto is coming, which is probably he was back in the second one to just saying was he wait really yeah? Was out? And that led me to believe, I'm sorry, Molly, that he was the secret Sie.

He definitely was, I mean he the direction was what made the first season seem better than maybe it actually would have been with some some other direction. But again, the second season not so bad. Well, I mean what I kind of thought that, like, when you're riding that high on the first season, you have so much momentum, and then you have to reinvent a universe for a second season. Is a sophomore slump. But go with me here, Like co Can Farrell was so funny in that show.

Everything he did was like very hilarious. Rachel McAdams was great. I am personally very interested in the infrastructure of Vernon, California. To me, it was kind of like a lettuce sandwich where you're like, it's good, but there's nothing, there's just let us. Yeah, let us sandwich is such a perfect way to describe that show. The second season, why thank you? And not even open face meat. Yeah, it was just like it was one of those double decker KFC. It

could have been that. I would have called it like a ruben because it was funky. It had fun. It was funky. Matthew McConaughey's mustache is exactly you were like, what's different about Yeah. They did not grill the second season at all. They didn't even toast a second. As I was reading about the third season of True Detective, Um, I found the fact that I did not invent a lobster farm. And I'm only saying this because I was like, was the first season a lobster So? I did not

invent my childhood lobster farm. There was an article on buzz feed about a woman who has a child had ordered the exact same thing from the Feo Shorts catalog, and uh it was. It was a crazy story. I highly recommend you read it if you're interested in lobsters. Yes, it was about the lobster. What the lobster did. Okay, so she got the lobsters. I think you got nine. It was like a three by three grid of like these tiny little cubicles. And some of her lobsters died

pretty early, some of them hung on. And then there's one lobster named Big Joe who lived a really long time, like more than five years. I mean, imagine having twelve years. You said twelve years, No, she said more than She said five more years, and I was like, I don't know how many years have passed. But so you picture a kid, right who's like nine years old, and they're like lobsters in my bedroom. So now they're dating, and there's a lot there's a huge ass lobster in their room.

And the lobster was over his life. He was like in a small thing, and so he tried to commit suicide by climbing out of his cubicle and into her dad's shoe closet to die. I know worth reading the thing big r I p Big Joe the lobster. I mean they lived to be super long, like he still would have been kind of a young in at that age. I have no idea. I just found out that chickens live to be ten and I was like, what can you?

I mean, it just seems unfair that a dragonfly lives for like, you know, in the blink of an eye they're gone, and meanwhile the chicken is and they stopped laying eggs after a certain point, and then there are you against them having a long lifespan. I'm confused. Are you? Are you saying that chickens aren't useful as after their past? Never say that. I would never say that the hand chicken sale, I'm just hand chickens and under his cluck. Um. I just feel as though it's not fair how long animals.

It's just like luck of the draw doesn't there's no rhyme or reason how long an animal lives, like a big dog leading a shorter life than a chicken. You know, it just doesn't seem right. It's all over they it's a mess. That's our review of me. Sure it's all over the place. Get it together, guys. The fab Fit Fun Fall boxes here. Fab Fit Fund is a seasonal subscription box delivered four times a year with full sized fashion, beauty, home, fitness and wellness products for just we all got a

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of wood that some girls wanted him to. We're going to pay him to make a newich board out of and we pulled our listeners on Twitter, we pulled our listeners and then the listeners pulled themselves on Facebook, listeners, thank you for the Facebook page. We love that you've become a sentient organism. And they were really good options too, so froma wait, wait, so go over them. Yeah, they're better than the Twitter ones because you can have the answers be as long as you want on Facebook. On

Twitter they have to be super short. So the options were returned. Would to its ominous origins, then build a Weigia board out of non murder. Would don't tell them what you did, charge them double voted for that, build the Wigia board, and except that you might be cursed, don't build the Wigia board, or just build the Wegia board. Um,

there's currently return would to its ominous origins. Uh is tied with build the Weigia board and except you might be cursed, still beating, don't build it, which was my against it, against it from the beginning. I mean, honestly, I've been thinking about this question last week a strangers asking strangers, Um, you know, the jury is really out. Some people have very very strong opinions on not building

the board. Well, also when you brought in, oh, build it and then use it to solve the murder, which some people are really swayed by that into like, oh, yeah, you have to build it. It's a moral responsibility. And I think I also realized that in prior night called canon, we've said that like, ghosts won't actually harm you, they just want you to solve the mystery or whatever. So

maybe that preclude it's a curse. Yeah, I mean, I think I think listening back to that episode, I was very much compelled by your argument about the tackiness of it. You're haunted by your own tacky and everyone is like, well, I guess it's like you don't have the luigia board in your house, but come on, there's going to be like an ill heart situation. I'd have to see the wood honestly to know how tacky. Because it had a dark stain and had discoloration on it. It depends on

what that means. If it looks obviously like a blood stain on it, then that's really fucked up. And they know I wouldn't know if it if it's like god blood on it. He said it had a had discoloration on it. What else could it be? Dr Pepper, It's blood somebody damage? Yeah, somebody spilt some milk on the

floor was like before. And I also say that I think for some maybe this is not correct to think this, But for some reason, it's also like the fact that the murder was so recent that this was like they read about a murder in the newspaper, presumably, and then went to the house where it happened. It sounds though, like enough time has passed that it's like nobody's ever going to be able to sell this house. But it's people.

I imagine a house it's like fallen into disrepair, this boarded up that has long grass in the front yard, like it's a lot. It's it was recently enough the people remember it, but like it's not like it happened last summer or something. I think it's been a few years. Do you guys know about that murder house? Yes, I was just thinking about that. I think Emily may have

been on her honeymoon if we talked about this. But there are several murder houses in Los Filas, but I think the one you're talking about, Molly is um the one that is north of Los Sphilas Boulevard. The Manson, not the law Bianca House, not the law Bianca house, and also not the Frank Lloyd right Black Dahlia house, but the other house where I believe it was a doctor who had fallen into financial straits and he ended up um attacking his family, and then the house I

think was sold to someone else. And I might be wrong in the details because I didn't gray smith my way through this topic, but the house was abandoned with like all of the stuff in it, including I believe a Christmas tree and unopened Christmas presents, and so people would come by and poke around and kind of trespass and look at it, and then they most of them would get so scared that they would like flee. And there are a lot of accounts online of people who

have tried to poke around that house. And then I think it was sold, and I think it was sold to someone of note, but I'm having trouble remembering who. Probably Nicholas, cause all the murder hose. Does he seem cursed them? Yes, yes, so there we go, but I don't know it's it's a chicken eggs. He's already a vampire. Yeah. I just want to say that I have gone to lots of murder house sites as like a tourist, which is probably I could do. Yeah, I would like to

read a night email if I may. Sure. Okay, So this comes from Dan. I'm writing to a thank you for your contributions to the neglected deep sea content sector and be share the origin story of my fascination with our creepy abyssle neighbors. I was twenty four years old and living in a small brick walk up in a part of a storia near a bunch of auto shops and the ravens would power plant. I spent most nights watching Netflix, eating Jamaican food from a neighboring takeout place,

or working late shifts at my job in Midtown. But one night I went out and got ripping drunk with a friend I knew from high school. I woke the next morning with a hangover and my laptop open on my bed on the screen with the Wikipedia page for goblin sharks, which I had no memory of looking at, but apparently had decided to read after getting back to my apartment in the early morning. Goblin sharks have a mouth inside their mouth, and we're an inspiration for the

monster and Alien Covenant. I have since developed a deep interest in deep sea creatures and now completely understand why James Cameron views his movie career as a way to fund his Captain Nemo fantasies. We will try to include content pointing everyone to the goblin shark with a mouth inside a really good sound. I've definitely seen this guy before, though, so he looks like a goblin because like his first his beak is like a nose sort of. It looks it's got like a he has a beak. A beak?

Why what you call it? It's like the protrusion that would normally be the top of the shark's mouth is like a like a proboscis. Yeah, okay, a shark. Oh god, oh my god. It's so weird looking. I love. Also, I love that this guy, whoever he is, when he gets ripped and drunk, as he says, he googles goblins. I call listeners very that's very charming. What do you guys go when you're drunk? Um? I mean sharks probably.

I think I tried to talk about this a little bit last week, but I was reading about the Bobbit worm. Oh yeah, I think I sent it to you. It is a worm that lives at the bottom of the ocean and has an tanna and teeth. Emily, look up the bobbit worm, please, Bob, I have my computer day. Oh it's a second. If you put in bomb, it's the second that makes sense. Oh oh yeah, that's cool. It's like that, um, that kind of shrimp, Yeah, rainbow shrimp. And it like jumps out of the bottom of a

tank and like eats things. It jumps out of the water. Well yeah, no, it's like in the sand. It's like a sand worm. It looks like a sand worm under color sand worm. It's beautiful. And then it just like kind of like jumps out with its crazy teeth mouth and eats fish like much bigger than itself. Um. But it's called the bobbit worm because it has all these

sharp teeth. And then in the Wikipedia it says the name bobbit worm was coined in nine in reference to la Bobbitt, who was then very much in the public consciousness. That's a polite way to put it. The name is inspired but only by the scissor like jaws of the worm. The common supposition from the name that female uniseids cut off the male's penises is baseless. In fact, the worms

lack penises entirely. I'm glad that our listeners are so into our sea creature material already gotten such a strong response. It says they are they are broadcast spawners, which means they release all their gam meets sperm and eggs into open water for external fertilization. There is no subsequent parental care. That sounds crazy air orgy. How does that work? I mean, it's just like the ocean is so big, like how

do you odds? It just seems like bad family planning, Like you should go to a tidle pool at least where there are walls, well about nature, you like, try everything, see every possible different method of parenting and see what works. And I guess it's a very retro way to parent well or future that's true, that could be. It's a very it's a very um commune way of parenting. Like the idea of just like throwing a bunch of sperm and eggs out there and just being like, whatever happens happens,

it's all you can do. What you could do a little frasier riff on that sand woman? What is it? Let's visit the duke. Let's visit the Duke. We just found out Jonesy always says let's visit the Duke to end a segment, and I just found out it's because it's Cockney rhyming slang for the Duke of Kent. Visit the Duke of Kent means pay the rent. Wow, that's British,

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we have a mystery. Another one in another mystery. Um who is Redfinn Nightmares the Instagram account that looks through Redfin and finds the most amazingly horrible real estate that is all super expensive. Also it's it's a lot of shot of walk in closets with like one there was a picture of a walking closet with like a Gucci box on an ottoman and it was totally empty other than this one Gucci box. And then another one that looked like an attic with a pitch ceiling and two

giant stuffed bears at a table. Otherwise completely empty. It's a great account, very evocative. I first thought it was our friend Brooke Baker, who came on the pod before. Then I thought it was tests. Totally not it's never test. You could you could compete with this? No, I never could. It's so good. I've not seen any of these. I I read Finn obsessively. Any look at red Fins. So I just thought it was you. And also they were talking to me, and sometimes I just assumed people are

my friends, which is not. What were they saying to you? Nothing? They just tag nights nothing, nothing. They tag night call in a house that was really insane. And then I posted it on our account. It was like, this should be the night Call house, because I'm now end up posting haunted houses that other people post as potential nightcall communes um and this one had like a lot of

like black light art all over the walls. Oh yeah, and like an Egyptian ancient Egyptian like bedroom and like kind of a jungle room, uh, kind of a Graceland vibe. I was into it. It It costs like million dollars. Maybe maybe, Molly, you have carbon monoxide poisoning and you've started Redfinn nightmares

and you don't remember, well, somebody else. Okay, So there's another really great account called Valley Haunts that is a person who goes around the valley and takes pictures of great buildings and weird parking lots, um much like I also do in my free time. And so other people were like, I thought it was me, and we're like your Valley Haunts, right, And I was like, no, I'm not somebody else. And then I messaged that person to be like, who are you and they said they're just Yeah.

They said they were like a guy from the valley who also likes to drive around and take pictures of weird buildings. Do they follow you? Yeah? Yeah. And there's like a small there's like a community of including value friend Kali Parton. Yeah, there's a community of people who like, we all haunt the valley. We all haunt the valley. Posted photos of Hodyesty video when it was closing. Oh my god, is the Iliad bookstorest um Iliad and The Odyssey used to be next to each other. Oh that's

so cute. The Honesty video just closed. It was sad their landlord just up their rent. They actually still had like a customer base and people who rent there. I met a woman who had been working there for like eight years. She was bummed. A million books. Go to Alien Books and support it. It's the best. It's a good valley haunt bookstore with cats bookstore cats. Um. Can I tell you what are some more valley haunts that

you guys like? Because I was kind of thinking about this last night, as I tend to do when it's like not a thousand degrees, And I'm like, when I missed the valley. That's the mini golf course that shaped like a castle and has an arcade. It's like on sepulvida um. Teenagers love to go there still. It has like a real weird, wholesome kind of like group date vibe.

Always nice. And I think I saw Justin Bieber went there and I was like, the kids still mini golf, Emily, what's your favorite place to go to in the valley. I don't know. I'm trying to think of my sentimental faves. I mean, like fries, But isn't Friesn't fries like like this, isn't there something crazy or dark? Probably that has got

that you're talking about? The alien themed one like and that I remember going there so early and um in my time in Los Angeles because I had to get UM, I had to get a hard drive for and our and our hard drives. The only place to go is Fries in the Valley. So me and my boyfriend like did the trip out there from like we were down by Nearer like uh god, mar Vista, and so we were kind of on a on a trek to go get this hard drive at the Alien. That's really funny

because Stare are definitely Fries closer to Marfa. You got and I think Manhattan Beach that is maybe themed. There's like that's what's so great about them. They all have different themes. I had no idea about Alice in Wonderland themed one. Like the value one that we're talking about that's Alien Invasion themed is amazing and probably it's a pretty favorite. Dude, Fries. If you're not a bad company and you're listening, you should totally sponsor Nightcall. Sponsor Nightcall.

We love hard drives. I actually am in the market for a hard drive. Ye with a hard drives and Aliens, that's pretty much hard. Have you guys ever been to game? Dude on Sherman way. That's a good that's a good game, dude. That is like if you want to go to a place that's like a nineties video store, but for video games, it's like being in an alternate high fidelity or something where everyone works there is super cranky, but it's great.

They're cranky because they know so much about video games. Yeah. Oh, also, so occasionally I find myself in a market for an old door knob. So I live in super old house and all our door knobs are falling off all the time. And apparently like there's anyone you ask where You're like, where do it? Like if you're handyman's like, I don't know what to do with these doorknobs. They're always like,

you've got to go to Ricks. And there's this place called Ricks and I think it's on Lankershim and they specialize in like super old hardware, and I guess they supply a lot of production companies with all their like antique hardware. But it is a really strange store and it's really good. It's a good weird valley hunt. Oh that's great. Um. I went to the Disneyland auction, which was in the valley at a giant former sports store, sports authority, sports authority. Um, and that was a really

weird good Valley scene. What's the what was the deal with that? Emily? Did you hear about this too? I posted some photos from it. There was like a Disneyland auction of a collector's personal collection of Disneyland memorabilia. So it wasn't a it wasn't a Disney It wasn't sponsored by Disney, although I think they were like Disney managed. Yeah, it was. It was funny because it was a thing for people who are like fans of being fans of something. Yeah,

you know, it's like a meta meta yeah. And we and you waited in a line, um, and then we waited in a line with all these other like Disneyland heads, um. And then you get in and you just kind of walk around. And they put the best thing at the front, which is that they had the Sea Serpent from the twenty Leagues under the Sea God, which scared the hell out of all of us as kids. I think, well, now it's even worse. Well no, now it's a Finding Nemo ride and it's scary, though it's also scary. That

ride is inherently scary. This is the submarine boy, I tried at Disney End, and I presume this one in Disney World, but uh yeah, the Disneyland submarine, right, they were built by like the same people who built Soviet era submarines for the US, so they feel like Soviet era submarines. It's like you're packed in there, real tight, and then there's like the weird smelling water dripping in.

I remember as a kid being like, this is the most claustrophobic situation ever, But it's worth it because I'm going to see underwater animatronics. Um And it used to be Weeks under the Sea themed and it was like sort of nature based. Some of the animals were real, but then there were also like mermaids and then a giant sea serpent at the end that just comes out.

And I remember, even as a child, scene like and I went to Disneyland when I was five and the mermaid feeling like I just thought it looked like it was molding. That's part of it, too, yeah, is that the tronics do not do well underwater obviously, and that's super chlorinated. I'm sure water. I mean, now they've kind of done away with like a portion of the experience is not animatronic. It's almost like a projectile productions now for it's a fine much worse. It's got like a

couple of moments. There's a part with like some underwater volcanoes that are there's like a couple of practical effects. But they mostly replaced the practical effects with projections. But this was like just a warehouse full of like stuff. I heard Slash was there. He's a big fan of Disneyland and he waited in line for many hours. I think Slash, Yeah, you know, everybody from l A loves Disneyland.

We're very basic. I mean there are some detractors I know if I will not take their children to Disneyland and they only go to Legoland. Oh, Legoland is actually amazing. Also it's better for baby. Different things. They're different things, they're different both. I was like, it's very far uh, but Disneyland as the best drives. This auction didn't have as many animatronics as one may have hoped. You know,

they don't have any pirates or anything. They mostly had didn't take out like the racist Pirates or whatever I mean, or whatever whatever they were, the Rapi Pirates, the Rapi pirates are finally being uh they just did it finally. I think they changed the scene the famous Pirates of the Caribbean ride scene, that is the the horror auction. Where else are the kids going to learn about this stuff? Right?

It was my favorite because they have the red heat and everybody's going, we want the red head, and there's like all the like other chicks for sale, and then there's like the one hot chick who's the redhead and everything. Now you guys are Emily crossed over into red hat redhead. Now Emily welcome. Hi. Well, when it was first died, it was very it was a little run, a little run. It was actually more like um archese hair in Riverdale, like that kind of unnatural head. Um. But it's sort

of teams itself. Since it looks great, were like Leulu a little bit. Yeah, yeah, Actually honestly, the blonde York is my actually so m well, they change the redhead. Um, the redhead who is on the auction block is now a pirate apparently, Um if any one wants to buy a pirate consumer as feminism in action, they were like, no, she's a lady pirate and she's one of the pirates instead, and now we can sell merchandise. That's like we've got

a new pirate who's a lady. Right, We'll always remember, um, the original Pirates of the Caribbean Red Oh, and they had a coyote for sale that was four to five thousand dollars and animatronic coyote from thunder Mountain. No, it was from the lake Loop around the river. It was from the former twa yeah, the Mark Twain. So if anybody wants to nightcall five thousand dollars for an animatronic coyote,

please do. As soon as you said that, I was like, damn it, Molly, the first things first, we need to get our our Redfitt nightmare. First. At the night Call Haunted Mansion. Well, I also posted it was at Starbucks and there was this ad for a open house for a house that was so haunted looking. I put no, I posted it on the night Call Instagram. Uh spoiler,

I'm the night calls him. Um. But it's like this terrifying looking shambling like colonial mansion wave set way back and it's like built by the person who built like Griffith Observatory or something's seper historic. But it just looks so haunted and it's only a million. It's what I'm sure it's Yeah, it does literally look like everything. Somebody was like, it literally looks just like the Disneyland Haunted mansion. I was like, Oh, you're right, That's why I was

drawn to it immediately. Oh my god, can we please live there? Um, it's only one million, I knew it. It's totally affordable. Four million. Um. I was just reading about a house that was for sale because it was the house of this woman who put out a cookbook about foraging where all the recipes were poisonous. Wait, what feels very nicall, please tell us more. I believe she

lived in the Minneapolis St. Paul area. She put out a book she had Instagram lifestyle thing about foraging that was like, I live in the woods and like, I forage all the food and then I make weird like natur e food that's things like charcoal biscuits or stuff charcoal cinnamon rolls. I believe it's cool recipes. Um. And then apparently nobody like checked out her book or something, and it got published and it had a bunch of recipes in it that had poisonous things in the like

mushrooms or herbs or just a variety. It was like a variety of things. Uh. Some of the things were like things you shouldn't eat raw, you know. Um. I learned sort of not that long ago because I was like, why don't people chop up like the pits of fruit and the reason it's because they're poisonous. Really, yeah, like peach pits. If you ate a peach pit, it's like arsenic because there's there's cyanide and apple seeds. Right, there's

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been to a restaurant? Hold on, So I saw a movie this weekend that I had somehow eluded me at a couple of festivals I've been at that it was at. And then I didn't I miss the screening that it was at, and I was I was destined to watch it at the Alamo Drafthouse with a glass of wine and a salad, because that's how I roll at the at the Alamo Drafthouse. Um, but absolutely, you want to know what worst movie food to eat, like the most

awkward movie salad, what kind of salad? Just so let's set the scene it's a it's an Asian salmon salad, Salmon sal expensive, the most expensive salad on the menu. Not to break. The album was very convenient where I live, so I end up going there a lot. But Um, I saw Support the Girls, which is a new movie by or Swile Mumblecore Ohtour slash founder uh Andrew Boelski, and it stars Regina hall and Hayley Lou Richardson and a bunch of like cool actresses also that I had

not seen before. And it is about the staff of a restaurant, not a Hooters, independent neighborhood restaurant on like a frontage road somewhere in Texas called Double Whammy's Um And it's kind of just like a day in the life of this restaurant and kind of following the manager played by Regina hall Um. And it's really good. It was I've been hearing really good things about it and I kept meaning to see it, and I was glad.

I was kind of glad I actually got to give my money to it because man went about a chess competition that was like computer chess. Yeah, and the last movie he did I didn't see. But now I want to go back and watch it um about personal trainers

called Results. Um. It's like the best kind of aspects of the mumblecore ethos, which is just sort of like there's a there's a sense, especially like near the end of the film that you genuinely don't know what's going to happen, because it feels like you're literally just like sitting in this restaurant as everything goes haywire. Um, and none of it feels like composed in a very movie

ish way. Um. But yeah, I feel like I kind of wonder if this was viral viral marketing for the film that UM Complex had this post that kind of went viral about how um, Hooters is closing locations and restrategizing because millennial don't like breasts anymore. Uh, they don't like big breasts anymore. Sure, Yeah, it's true, like butts have surpassed they just like it was a porn Hub pole, which porn hub is becoming one of the more useful

institutes for cultural study. Uh yeah, seriously, Yes, the post was. The post was based off of the porn hub study and not recent New Years about anything happening with Hooters. Although it is true that in the last few years, they have been closing a lot of locations. They're kind of like trying to like restaurants, like chain restaurants are clothed. Yes, yeah, I think it's a widespread problem that I for whatever reason, is hitting Hooters particularly. I mean for a very obvious reason.

I think mostly that it's embarrassing to go to a Hooters. Yeah, but there's one. Are the other ones there's Yeah, have you guys ever been to a Hooters or Yeah? I went to the one and I was I was telling my husband about this because I don't think he had ever gone to one. It's funny how like I know more girls who have gone to them than guys. I feel like it's just like, what's like, what's going on there? It seems safer than a shady strip club or something

like that. It's like it's just like a chain restaurant with like girls who wear short shorts, a waitresses are forced to dress sexy. Yes, yeah, that's just their brand. It's like we forced the waitresses to be sexy. Yeah, And I mean all the other restaurants, Like when I remember going out for restaurant jobs for a while when I was in college and afterwards and and half of the restaurants in l A. And I'm sure it's the

same in New York too. You have to submit a headshot with it, Like it's not it's not like it's an industry for of hot people to work at Friday's. You guys test worked at Friday's. Tests had problems. We talked about this, but like that is like I'm just saying, that's a very unsexy, like if you are looking to the stripe, like I want to say, it was just

like a solid color polo. But then we had Hawaiian a Hawaiian period where we had to wear Hawaiian shirts and I couldn't spend money on a Hawaiian shirt, so I borrowed a frat boyfriend's Hawaiian shirt and wore that one shirt every day. Literally, Jennifer Anderson an office space I try. But yeah, I remember going to the Hooters and just being like, it feels like it's a Porky's themed restaurant, Like that's the level of sexiness here. It

feels like you're at summer camp. It feels like you're like a brightly lit summer camp, and it's like a very perky, upbeat atmosphere because it's like a family restaurant. Sex. Yeah, I feel like families go there. Well, they actually did do a spinoff, I guess in an attempt to diversify, Hooters did and they have an actually explicitly family oriented restaurant where I think the girls maybe just don't have their midrift spirit or and then the uniform was somewhat different,

but it's just called it's called which is incredible. Did you guys see the threat on Twitter? Oh? No, Molly, you didn't, but there was a thread who there was a thread on Twitter where there was this guy who swooped in after the news that Hooters was closing a bunch of stores, and he was like, I can save Hooters, he suggested. He said the girls should go for a more natural look, not so Barbie, and then he said they should host debate nights where you'd bebate b waitress.

And then he was like, I'm looking for a modern day Gaish yes, literally with no iron at all. And then he sul, you can have problem solving hostesses who like you bring. I mean this if they were your therapist, and you can kind of get therapy at Hooters. I mean these all sound like hostess clubs. But yeah, but that exists. Yeah, that exist. It's just like you want, but you want it under the auspices of going to

like a mainstream restaurant. Well, also, he kept saying it has to be super cheap, which you like, I don't want to pay anything, but I want a girl to take care of me and solve all my prom and have an intellectual discussion with me. Barf on that guy's head, right, Yeah, I don't think the issue is um breasts being unpopular. I really think it's that Hooters is like so eighties. You know, it's like but but right now the eighties

are back. No, but like you know what, You're right. Actually, if people are, you think they'd be flocking to a right. The uniform is like bike shorts. Now that you mentioned it, I think they should play up the retro aspect more though. I think that they should make it explicitly like a late seventies themed restaurant. So you want them on roller skates? Yeah? Want that? I mean that guy should have just done his whole Twitter. I think you should have been like,

well they're not on roller skates. That would save it, and he'd be right. What about waitresses riding Bird scooters. Guys, the Bird scooters know the scoot the Bird and the Lime scooters. I have no idea? What here? What can we please talk about this? Okay? Can I just say so? Uh? There are these two scooter brands, Bird and Lime, and they're everywhere in Los Angeles, Emily, it's nuts. It's Limes. Sounds like what I would like at that brand name.

They started in San Francisco, and then they took over a Lime. They came here. They don't even have an amber sand or a plus sign. It's a n D. Do they know what they're doing? You know, they don't. The Birds and the Limes are competing brands, and people either love them or hate them. But the people who

hate them will do things like cut their brakes. And then all of a sudden, and so Katie and Annopolis said, BuzzFeed just went through a whole thing about how people are getting injured on these scooters, but they're not like quantifying it, and people who are like, you know, but cars are super dangerous. Guys like but the scooter and it's like, but the scooters aren't regulated and nobody's wearing helmets. No,

it's very funny. Okay, So, like I have have this argument on a hundred times now, including with people who play Devil's Advocate, where they're like, don't don't put the old person, Who's like, that's the kids, the damned kids and their scooters. What my issue with it is that they regulate what's allowed to be on the street so intensely and don't let homeless people live on the street

even though they already do. You know, um that the fact that they just let the scooters be everywhere is shitty. Are they on this sidewalk? Put them out? What are they doing? It's that tech thing of like break the law and then regulate it later, you know, move fast, break things. That's mean. The sad thing is that they can't do a bike share like they having literally every other city in America because they don't have enough sharrows and bike lanes in Los Angeles and stuff, just like

down and Santa Monica, maybe in Koreatown. Uh, these are everywhere my like, and especially they're like right outside where we record this podcast in Los Angeles now, which is really funny because like we've seen them like up here and then like you see like morph sort of on the fly. I've seen now like a lot of like couples riding them together, which is really cute, and a lot of people doing tricks on them, which is great because it both fucks them up and show off and

you show them. I saw somebody last week on Melrose. But it's also like it's funny because it's like it's making Melrose specifically sort of like more and more crazy, which is funny. I saw a kid last week. I saw like this dude with like a Fannie Pack shoulder Fannie pack, totally like driving away from somebody on one and he went like, I'm gonna get you, you pussy. He was like, it's not cool to just tase people.

What You also just see people who don't have a clue as to how to ride these scooters and they just hop on and then you see the learning curve in real time and they go really fast, so they are like super dangerous and they kind of have made navigating the dangerous. It's such a clueless It's like these people are not from l A. And the argument people make is like their transportation for like you know, like

people will use them as as transportation. Well, because people don't really need a car to drive two miles, you know, so this is like a good alternative to that. I mean, they're just if they were regulated, that would be fine. I mean, if you if there was things I'm like or just like, don't hurt you know, the streets belonged everyone, you know, make them right on the road. They're supposed to ride on the road. I don't think it's since they've been out for like about a month, you know,

people complained it's become a big thing. And so they've added some labels to a lot of them that say like you need a helmet or you're supposed to get some permit it or something, and that you can only ride them in the street. And they started ticketing people who ride them on the sidewalks in certain places. So I saw people riding them the other day in Santa Monica on the street and it was also hilarious because I was like, luxury cars are going to hit people

on that's a good business. I made some money off of that. And then I saw a lot of them, like on in Venice on the boardwalk, and I was kind of not that I came back around, but I was like, nice, is the makes sense? They're like any place that's wide open enough, it has the tiny little streets, right, this is this is infuriated. Wait until you're in town, so you're going to freak out. But they're in certain Did we talk about what the guy said that we

met on mel Road? Please you should tell the story. Okay, Well we there's a lot of scooters on Melrose, and like three weeks ago, Molly and I were lamenting the scooters as we passed by a store and we saw the store owner come out, like, pick up a scooter that it just been discarded in front of his door, throw it into the street. And then he heard us talking about scooters and he looked at us and I was like, no, no, no, we're on your team. We're

on your team. We don't like scooters. And he was like, I'm from New York. That's how we do it in New York. You leave trash outside my place. I shipped on your head and we were like, right, that's right. I was like, I'm from New York. I saw that. Now I'm glad that I have the content. Now you know people are destroying them in all kinds of funny ways. That makes me happy. Let's go and destroy some while

I'm just sure. I mean, people learned how to cut the brakes, which is funny because that's also bad though, because it just turns them into a regular scooter, Like somebody would be pumping those brakes freaking out. And like I've seen like kids on these things, which by the way, very illegal. Don't do it, kid, And it's like that's

who it's for. Like that I understand, Like I don't think anybody is ever going to be like commuting to work on one of these, and that's their excuse they use for what they're supposed to be for, but they're totally for like teenagers to like like teenagers have learned how to like grind with them and stuff, and like I can't be mad at that because it's too funny and it's going to fuck them all up so fast. It's like just the company is going to end up

paying for it. So like there's a weird way to make money by charging them and also by like hiding them and finding them. It's like Pokemon Go. I I got real deep on like what is going on with the scooters, and I could made me feel so old. I was like I don't that's the name of our foraging cook That's that's why we should name our breastaurant. Yeah, or our butt staurant or whatever restaurant our restaurant. Hey, guys, maybe when this podcast post, people will still have two

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