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always thought it was higgy? And then that commercial where it like walks you through the pronunciation really kind of shook me. But I don't he is it higa or like uga? It's a hookah whoga is what I would trust because it makes the least amount. And it's a Scandinavian lingo. I mean it's just like cozy, right, Yeah, it has like a meaning though that's deeper than cozy. It's a Danish and Norwegian word for a mood of coziness and comfortable conviviality, with feelings of wellness and contentment.

That's great. I'm going to completely batch it, but there's like the Japanese concept where it's like you're you're both successful in your career and happy with your personal life and like everything's working at It's like basically Nirvana, but it's like earthly Nirvana, a German version of what do you What are your guys favorite cozy things to do during the holiday season? Where it's about eighty five degrees here in Los angele it oh, it sure is. I

went to the Hollywood Christmas Parade yesterday. It was the eighty ninth year of this celebration. I don't even know. Okay, I had never been to it before I knew about it. It's like a local parade and they show it on TV. I was trying to explain it to my friend. I just got into the dude oh parade, and then I realized I like to go to parades apparently, And I was like, the dude Oh Parade is to the Rose Parade, as the Hollywood Christmas Parade is to the Macy's Thanksgiving

Day Parade. It is like an extremely bootleg Christmas parade. It is so bootleg you would not believe. Tell us why, well, I don't exactly know why, but it's kind of amazing. It's like, first of all, it happens now before it's even December. And I explained to someone that that's so they can film it and show it later. Oh my god, guys, don't you know that the holiday shopping season starts the day like Thanksgiving Day? It's it's Chris it And it's

just like they filmed this. They filmed this parade. It was hosted by Eric Estrada, and they got a real late start. Um. And it's basically like if Marty Grass were like a quarter full, if Marty Grass sucked, No, because it doesn't suck. I mean it's like you can't like have a beer while you're watching. You can't. You can't, definitely you cannot. But you can like buy an led

wand and sit on the It's like not crowded. If what you want out of a parade is to be in a not crowded place, it's a good parade for that. What were the floats? Like, the floats are what make it kind of junkie. Um. There was like one giant inflatable that I saw that was a cat in the hat balloon and it was actually amazing to see a giant inflatable balloon in real life and made the whole thing worth it. But it was also the slowest parade and I kind of like walked down the line before

it started to see what it was. And the main thing that I did see. First of all, it started with like a million cops doing a sort of like terrifying demonstration of power where they like ride motorcycles around in crazy curly cues informations. Um. But then it was weird to know they have a lot of time to

practice therapy, right. It's like, first of all the police cars drive through, and then all the fire trucks drive through, and then after that came a fleet of cars from TV and film because I saw the Two Deloreans and just like many but it was all like I think in advertisement for a company that will rent you famous cars or doppelgangers, the two Deloreans that are frequently seen

around the Hollywood and Los Filas areas. Yeah, I'd also seen the Blues Brothers car before for sure, and I just in my mind was like, there's just guys who have a Blues Brothers car, because that was a thing in Providence. But this is more of a like for profit Blues Brothers Venture. Um, so, yeah, it's a really silly parade and I saw about an hour of it

and that was about it. But if you like free public experiences and spectacle, I think the big star was Ernie Hudson from Ghostbusters was like the mayor of the parade. Actually it was. I mean, it's not bad. It's like true to its roots. I think it was like the first place Sonny and Share ever performed. Like the fact that it's almost ninety years old to me makes it you know, it's hilarious old, but it's not like a very big thing. Um, I mean, are there any new parades?

Like what's the most recent major parade that was starting? Is it's really hard to think about parades in our modern era, Like it's easy to imagine being like, yeah, parade, that's what we'll do. Parade started in the seventies and the Dude Parade is the most seventies parade because it was started to start a grosse parade paroity parade. And that parade is also free, and I guess most parades are free. It's free to like it's like ten bucks a person to participate in. Anyone can and it's all

super weird stuff. Um. But my friend was like the theme of this parade is everybody smoke Swede, And I was like, yes, that's definitely what connects all the floats in this parade. I feel like those are two incongruous themes though, like a parade, it's like like a kind of like fake military exercise, like I don't know what, and getting sucked up is against it. Yeah, it feels like like getting in order or doing formations or like caring you my friend should come to New Orleans eight

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and data rates may apply. Nine twenty eighteen nineteen. I did also go to Marty Gras because it turns out I'm such a parade head, and that's I think I was like missing the Disneyland Christmas Parade is why I wanted to see the Hollywood Christmas Parade, which is less impressive but also free. Um Marty Gras is like truly an amazing parade and like a crazy, giant spectacle of being overwhelmed by just like human beings capacity to make weird things and be excited. And the floats aren't corporate.

My boyfriends from New Orleans, he's pointing that out yesterday. He was like, those floats aren't corporate. They're like sat satirical and sometimes very weird, because like I went right around the election and it was like very strange. They were like politics themed floats and they were just creepy because they're just like giant you know the ways that like giant effigies of politicians are creepy, and they do that more in England. They love to do well, we've

imported that. We've totally you know the Genesis video with the scary puppets that are all the oh, they love that. It was like that. It was like some there was like a Bernie float and a Hillary float and a Trump float and they were all like mocking them, you know.

And then there's just some weird things about Marty grab because it's so old that some of it is just very feels very like you're in like an eyes wide shut parade, you know, where you're like, this is gonna end with like some kind of a really cool like pagan thing that we all do because it feels very like older than time or like, um, it's great, I recommend it, but it's it's like many days of parades. And what's cool about is everybody gets like the week

off from school. We should read we should revisit this when it's actually Marty season. But the sounds called Marty Gras corporate sponsors send us to Marty Gras. Yeah, put us on a float. We should just have like a giant phone, like a nightscape. What's your dream, slow, what would you like to ride on tested a giant phone? Well, no, I was thinking like a landline, and I do kind of like that idea, but I really like the idea

of being inside a clam that opened and shut. Yeah, I just I just think it's I was going to say a moon pie. Oh, that's a good one. I would like something I could close myself up in if I got shy. When I went to Marty Gras, I saw Solinge was the the Grand Marshall. I think it's called a parade, and she was in a giant shoe. That's a parade whose theme is a giant high heel shoe. That's like the women's parade. It's the best parade, is

that like her? The crew, Yeah, the crew is muses and it's like the all female crew and their thing is like a high heeled shoe. So she rode in a giant high heeled shoe. And she actually lost her wedding or engagement ring because she was doing throws all night and at some point, like accidentally, her ring came off while she was like throwing beads and stuff. Emily, what's your dream float? I was in a float when I was a kid. This is like a very early

childhood money. But there's there's a kind of funky parade in Seattle called the Seafair Parade. It's kind of like well known around there isn't but my mom was a part of a Habitat for Humanity float and they made like a like a house, like a big kind of crazy house float and I was in it, Like I rode in the float and kind of was like in one of the top like little windows, the window. Yeah yeah, it kind of was this the real thing of like

a trailer house, um being you know, taken down the road. Um, like the kind of weird dreamy thing of being in a house. But it's a movie sort of wizard um. But I had a very cool memory of why so, I guess any kind of house thing they I think the Thanksgiving Day Pride they have like an old Mother Hubbard float that's like the shoe house, that one miniature golf. Yeah. Well, speaking of British puppets, speaking of British people and their puppets. Yeah,

and the Holidays. This this topic came as a suggestion to us um on Twitter because I was sort of on this kick that we had been from uh from doing the Big Chill episode and then talking about Phantom of the Opera. And there are a lot of things that could qualify as eighties themed themes, but they're like sensations where I genuinely I can't really understand why they were so popular. Guys, Big Chill is great. I don't know it's great. I'm not saying it's not great, but

I'm s a sensation. No, yeah, yeah. I mean it's hard to imagine any movie that's like about real people, right just being have superpowers, yeah, or are animated being like a huge, huge hit. So we had a we had a suggestion from a Twitter They did suggest to it talking about charity songs, which I was just like, oh yeah, that's one of these other things where when I think about any of those songs like We're the

World or in this case, do they know it's Christmas? Charting, especially in those days when charting was based off of buying a single and radio play, I guess I can't imagine those songs Pizza, Like, who would buy the single of do they know it's Christmas? I mean, I'm glad they did because I think there's what I think. Let's talk sports again like we did last week. We love we love to talk sports. Spot Hearts Take It's like

a super team. It's like just because you put all of the greatest players in history on a team, like they might be a terrible team. Uh. There's something about the idea of like putting all these stars on a track together. Well, It's also interesting because if it's for charity, if you say no, and then that becomes public knowledge, it's obviously like yeah, and and maybe rightfully because you're like, well, it was recorded in a day, so it literally took

like a couple of hours of time. Then it did generate a bunch of money, but it also created one of the worst right. It depends who's running the charity and where the money actually goes. I knew it was a Bob Geldoff joint. Yeah, it was above or uri Urie, Let's go Urie. And it is a terrible song. It's so bad. You guys think it's better or worse than the version about Ebola. So I was just listening to

fourteen a version. It's so funny because it's tough, yes, and it was Ellie Goldine And I don't even know about the mean It's like, I think there's something about that song in particular. What makes it so offensive is that it's like so colonial lists. Oh, it's so colonialist. It's like the craziest and it's the thing of like you're like, you're you should know better than this by now. The the kind of the rampant, the rampant cluelessness feels

feels shocking now. Um. Also, I mean it, it is one of those things that feels like it would be a song in a South Park episode without a single lyrics exactly. You know, we all spent time in the eighties, which is what differential we did our time in the eighties, what differentiates us from from the young millennials. Um, because the eighties are the weirdest decade by far to me. Like, when you look at things from the eighties, they're so

weird because they purport to be wholesome. It's like trying to reset things to the fifties and well, bizarro fIF it's bizarrot, but things are like, things are so dystopian and weird, and that was very apparent. What's strange is that I remember this song. Obviously it's still plays, but I remember it as if I were there when it came out. But I was one year old when did it come Okay, I just remember like the SMaL parody. Yeah, you know, like I feel like I was more aware

of the parodies than the thing itself. Well, there's this weird thing where I feel like if someone plays the like bells, you know, of the like like ding ding ding, you know, like any kind of like Christmas e bell or a whistle or a handclap, like I will listen to the song, you know, I'll give it a heavily synthesized yes. And I actually think that musically this song isn't that bad, right, just the lyrics are. It's the lyrics that are terrible. And then okay, So the thing

going back to the super super team thing. I think the super team thing works in sports because you're tuning into an event and you're like watching to see how something plays out in real time. Yeah. So now I feel like instead of these songs, we don't really get charity songs anymore, but like we have the big like like fifty people fifty big stars singing at the Grammys or whatever, which is like you don't really want to ever like go back and watch that again or listen

to the counting. Yeah, the Lucky lou aspect of it and that kind of stuff. I kind of I think it's usually kind of boringly done on the Grammys. I mean there's some exceptions, and sometimes the combinations are so WHA could do that you kind of just have to

watch with your jaw open. But one of my earliest writing jobs was was recappying The Voice for the A V Club, Like when The Voice was new and I had been doing American Idol stuff before then, and I was like, well, this show is fun because they have the battle rounds where people are just sing fighting, and that's always kind of entertaining, like when people are just in real time trying to one up each the love the battle rounds. Yeah, and that's when people like about

charity singles. I think you're right, is there's an element of like all these stars trying to be leading, who will be the memorable person? Yeah, but I think it's not. It's not it's no, it's no VH one Diva. Yeah, that's true. Just because you mentioned the Voice, I have to say like in the early days of The Voice, I was like, I'll give this show a shot, and I really liked the Battle rounds, but that that show is such a pale, like awful substitute for American Idol.

Guys have strong Idol strong. This is like when we talked about astrology the other week and I just dropped out for ten minutes. You you are not into I was like, I don't think this has ever happened before that I've stopped talking for that long on the podcast. I mean it feels of a piece with them. I mean American also has that creepy thing of like trying to recapture something from the phase like American. They all exist in the same like Paul Verhoven universe. Yeah, yeah,

that informed us all as people. Bob Geldoff, by the way, in said that he was responsible for two of the worst songs in history, and one was do they Know It's Christmas? And the other as we Are the World? Like admitted it. What about one day taking no responsibility the world is incredible. I was more aware of we Are the World when I was a kid than then. Which came first? That's a question. I was just gonna say,

do they know It's Christmas? I think came first. Here's what I was saying to you guys also in an email, is that I feel like I knew for some reason that the race to get a number one for Christmas. It's a huge thing in England, much more so than in America, I think, and it's always like it's sort of like a eurovisiony thing where it's like, you know, the favorite and like somebody will do and it's always

people doing like sentimental covers of songs. I feel like Adele has just like one with if she song out it wins for her and Sam Smith have just been owning. I feel like Ed Sheeron like really wanted it one year and got it. But then there was a year when everybody just got totally one up by a song from a tea commercial that has really cuddley polar Bear.

It was awesome. It was like everybody was like no, no, the by like the no name band from like the cuddly polar Bear t commercial that all of England has fallen in love with. It captured their heart like the crazy Frog. The funny thing about the most recent do they know it's Christmas? Did you see? I guess it would be like on a four year yeah, um, is that it feels even more British than the first one

for some reason. Uh, A lot of the people who pop up on it, you kind of do this weird thing of like who's that person because you know them from like exactly one song, like whatever the one song was that came to the States, so like the guy from POMPEII, the Bastilda, so I can't even yeah, and he has a really distinctive voice, but I've never heard another song by them ever again. And so he pops up on this song and I'm like, who's that? You call him? Who's who? Of Who's It's yes exactly because

that's great. You like like we do talking about minor British pop stars that other people might not care about, but you obsessively follow the details, like j j Dating Channing Tatum is talking about how she looks just like Jenna Dowan. Yea, um, yeah, yeah it is um and she like went on a Chinese The Voice and one she was she was on either X Factor and yeah

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Know It's Christmas? Though? Before we move on, I think it was Simon Labond who like showed up like having not like just come from a party, like not having slept the night before, and like how many people recording that song knew it was Christmas? Yeah yeah, or like we're aware of much may not be snow in Africa, but there was snow yeah yeah, well yeah, he dumped out a bag of cocaine on the table and everybody

partook um. And then fast forward to I think the one that was recorded in the nineties and it was like Damon Alburn was there, but he wasn't even a part of the track. He was just there to serve everybody. T is what you're saying. I love him. That might be the official night Call crush, I mean, is it? I think I think we might all just see that one. Yeah, he has the boyish we like British novelty songs. I mean British like anything that they're probably sick of in England.

Like I'm like, bring it to me, I will take it. Yeah, but there is some stuff that's like not quite good enough to actually crossover that I'll listen to. But I feel like lucky that we are spared it like the work of Sheryl Tweety. What is the best Christmas song of that? There's no other answer. Do you like Christmas music? Um? I know it's probably not cool, but yeah I do. There are certain that you like it. I just do

like it. I've been listening to the country station out here Go Country one oh five one because they started playing the Christmas music like about three weeks ago, if memory serves, But there are a few that make me like deeply depressed. I'll just turn those off, like see you like a happy Christmas? I like the Zippy Ones, what about you, Emily? Um, I mean I'm a big fan of the Phil Specter Christmas just kind of like

it doesn't it doesn't never get old. But my real favorite, and this is just like a sentimental favorite, is um a Steven Eadie recording of Let It Snow? Do you like the Christmas music? Do I like the Christmas music in general? Not really, I'm not a big Christmas music fan. There's like this one tape that we just have had since I was a kid that has it's kind of a very sixties seventies Christmas tape Pencil Steven Eadie, And there's like Julie Andrew singing a ballad, a Christmas ballad

I can't remember. And then yeah, it's just a very kind of like like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is on it, and and that one I just have a soft spot for because every single one of those tracks I just have imprinted on my brain. But I'm not a big like I'm not one of those people. I think a lot of people are like like Thanksgivings over, time to break out the Christmas music, time to play Mariah Carey like five times a day, and well, I mean it's

a it's a it's a good one. I feel like everybody in the modern day, if there's a contemporary pop star who is trying to do a Christmas track, everybody is kind of secretly just trying to to best Maria. No, I don't ever do that much because I'm like generally a little lukewarm on the diva's But for Christmas, make an accept Christmas diva Christmas. I love Maria. I She's my favorite. Ever. I will worry about this forever. I so glad the Lamb's got the Glitter soundtrack to the

original Stars Born got it to number one. Good job, Lamily as a Lambert identified with the Lambs. Um. I like Christmas cheese. I was gonna say, I like the melancholy Christmas music. I like the Charlie Brown Christmas. I also just rewatched Charlie Brown Christmas. I mean Charlie Brown Thanksgiving with my kids. Uh. And it was like the hardest thing in the world. Convinced that they seem to

think it was from like the sixteen hundreds. It was that, Yeah, they were like these that makes me stoons and I was like, yeah, why are they flat? They don't look like like why why is their hair that way? And I was like, you guys watched like you know, Captain Underpants like that way. Yeah, it's experimental. It's hard. It must be hard to want to pass on those traditions and the your kids are like, oh god, it's so hard. I mean, I just remember my dad doing the same thing.

It's like, no, it's not cool, right. I love the Peanuts like all people Millennials. Well, it wasn't contemporary for us either, but I feel like everybody in our generation loves loves the Charlie Brown Christmas and all the Charlie Brown movies in general. Right, And I think on some level we have like a deep need to forge tradition, and that is one of them that we're all agree that there are certain things that are good. That's one

of them. Sesame streets one things that you would like want your children to be into because they're like, they teach fine lessons and they're they're hegan, they're very heagon about the flat two D animation thing. Um. I was a screening of Mary Poppin's Return, Oh shit, And and there's a part where they do kind of like try to redo the super califragilistic against like with where they go into an animated world and even even being me like a person who grew up with with two D

animation and do not find it alarming. I was like, children are going to be I don't know what to make of this, especially because the style of the animation they totally go back to like the sixties Disney style with like these kind of kind of spinley like animal characters and stuff, and like they have the penguins there and it's very cute, it's fun, but it's like kids are not going to be able to wrap their heads

around the dimensionality of this. I just want to say that we had who Framed Roger Rabbit, which is a terrifying children's movie that we also all love that goes in the damon albarn Uh and I call ven diagram. We should have like a like a virtual Hall of Famer, a list of things we all. It's just a website, but it's a museum for things we like that our old Wait. I want to know about Mary Poppins. Can you tell us since you saw it already, was it good? Um?

Will it bring the musical back again. All the songs are cute when you're listening to them, and they all started to run together for me, um, I had thought that Limnuel Miranda like wrote on them or something, but I don't think he did. I'm not. I actually have to fact check on that, but I mean, she's great in it, Like it kind of feels I'm like a little bittersweet about the fact that, like, finally it feels

like there's been justice for Emily Blunt. Well. I was gonna say, I feel like she's kind of a genius because I was like, Mary Poppins is more famous than Black Widow, Like she she made a right choice by holding out on all the superheroes until she got fucking Mary Poppins. Yeah, that franchise will go forever. And she's so perfect in it, Like she's just picture perfect in it and like perfect. Yeah, she was practically perfect and

every way. And I my my weird hot take. While I was watching it, I was kind of crossing my mind and I was like, I don't really think this, do I, But I think I do. It's like, is Mary Poppins hot? Like she's buttoned up, so you know, I meant as Julie Andrews, because you know, Julian is hot, but Andrews was like de sexualized in all of her movies, which is why then there's a movie where she shows her shows her boobs later on? Why do you whisper that?

Because it's like anybody It's like, isn't there a movie also where you, like Mary Tyler Moore's boobs where you're like, there's something that feels like you're seeing like your friends moms that you're not supposed to see, you know, um,

Julie Andrews. I don't feel like it's supposed to be hot in Mary Poppins, but I don't think anyone's supposed to be I think that Mary, well, she's I was just trying to think about the appeal of Mary Poppins because it's really peculiar, right, She's like super hardass, but she also is like a total hedonist, like I remember in the original one where she she makes the children's medicine taste better mixed up in my mind with Mrs Pigglewiggle. Oh I love Mrs Pigglewiggle too. Yeah, is there any

politics in this one? Because I feel like what makes the first one Petty Good. Is there some politics in it? Yeah? So in this one, um with Jane, she's the girl. Um, she's played by m Emily Mortimer. In this one she is a labor organizer. Uh Okay. This is a thing about Disney movies that I've noticed, is there are like a bunch of Disney movies about labor organizing. Yeah. Yeah, and the Yeah it's really weird. Like the Christopher Robin movie is all about like benefits for workers, and yeah,

that's about too. And I was like, this is very weird because this is not in line, right, y'all like to behave. I think Mary Poppins there is this kind of like she's just mysterious. She's well, she's mystical because

someone you guys probably didn't ever watch Supernanny. It's interesting because it kind of like is a horror movie for parents in a way of like you could hire someone who like presumably has no children because they've got all this time, and then nation show up and they're better parent than you, and they like they almost have this like magical ability to transfix your children. Well, it's also like they're somebody don't form an attachment to your children

that that would keep them there forever. Otherwise it would be just like a real horror movie. It's just interesting to think about when you're like Mary Poppins, like she came and she like bewitched the children and was like really good at like parenting them basically, and then was like peace. But isn't it also like this fantasy of like she has no inner life, She's just there to

like serve. Yeah, and the children are like they grow up to think they imagined everything that they wait is there and does it imply that she might just be a figment of their imagine? So it is a horror movie. Well, it's funny they buried the nutcracker because I was like, they must really be betting at all on Mary Poppins nutcrackers. Real bad. I had to see both of those. Speaking of Emily Blunt, we got an email referencing the Double Wares product and about our last week's episode People Got

Takes on You've Got People Got Takes this night. Email comes from Stephen. I grew up in Winston Salem, North Carolina, which was a series of mostly empty strip malls surrounding and economically depressed downtown in the nineties. I distinctly remember when we got our first Starbucks and Barnes and Noble, and how excited the adults in my life for as

a result. I remember my mom telling me about all of the new variations of coffee she could try, and how we could now buy virtually any book we wanted. I had never been to New York or any other cultural center, so in my mind, this was exactly what Winston Salem was missing out on. Seeing successful, charming New Yorkers and You've Got Mail hang out in Starbucks and Fox and Sons affirm disbelief, and I felt like I finally had access to a richer world. Watching You've Got

Mail in still stirs those feelings. I also rewatched the Double Wares product recently and was struck by how much of a prerecession movie it is. I can't believe all the rasing and Hathaway gets for taking a job that is not in line with her interests, even though it is explicit that it could help her career in the long run. It's peak, you went to college, so now the world will give you whatever you want. I watched it when it came out and was fully on her

friend's side. On my watch, I was team anne Hathaway all the way. The job you gotta take. Well, I hate the Devil Works. I was just going to say I hated the Devil Works for Emily Bloody. Emily blood is amazing. That was her big entree. Yeah. I know everybody came away from that loving Meryl Street, but I remember being like, Emily blood is the best part of this. I don't like to hate on Anne Hathaway, so I

won't do it. But there's something about the Devil Wares product where I was like, it just it takes all the boxes of my least favorite things and I put them in a blender and was like here you go, sit and sit and need it and wait. Okay, well it's been a second since I watched it, but I kind of like it. Can you explain to explain the

hate for it, because I also don't remember. I feel like it's like the Tertiary characters are good and like interesting and well acted and written, and then Anne Hathaway is just kind of like a Merry Sue where it's like she's this person working for this like crazy boss. If I remember correctly, it's like you have to like humanize in a win tour by showing that like she is sad sometimes too um, but she she ended up being like a kind person. I don't remember that being

the takeaway. It's like it acknowledges that she's sad, but does she end up like being redeemed at all? I remember there were like some I just remember there were a lot, like the love interest is very boring, and yeah, the love interest is like the least. Yeah, I can't really it's like so uninteresting to like watch a movie about the fashion industry just for some reason. It's it's how do you feel about zoo Lander that I will

watch a parody for of anything. There was a whole series of like two thout I think exactly what this is what this night caller is talking about. It's like that these two thousands movies that were about being like a career girl who's like out in the big city to make a ton of money and like smash the glass ceiling a terrible company and do so by like buying a lot of name brand things can be accepted by you. But Stanley Tucci is so good. He's really good at so that one. I love Stanley. He's good

at everything. I mean it's like, so that one's like the best one. But then there was like Confessions of a Acoholic, which some people like, and she doesn't even job. The Nanny Diaries. This was like peak people being like, like so peak. But there's something about some of these movies that make me feel like they like think women are really dumb, you know where it's like, here's what women like. Like. That was when the term chick lit became.

Was like four books, like double Wares product. There are enough good things in that movie. I don't know. I mean, I know people like Get, but for me, it's never been I watched it once and I've never felt the need to revisit it. Life is short. If you love the devil Wares product or give us a show the Mary Poppins franchise or the alternate universe Mary Poppins that might be in the center of the Night Call ven Diagram, Badknops and Broomsticks, which also has an animated part. Hope

that they do it. I hope they do a sequel to Mary Poppins Returns called Mary Poppins Forever. Okay, you guys, we have a night call And this is kind of a corrections Desk Nightcall. This comes from Hannah high night Call. I'm sure other people have pointed this out. They have, but according to the waffle House website, twenty five states have waffle House locations in them, including Colorado and Pennsylvania, neither of which I would consider Southern states, never having

been to a waffle house. I've lived in Washington, New York, in Alaska. I guess I hop would be considered the waffle house equivalent in non waffle house states, or Denny's. Maybe Sherry's. By the way, I've never heard of shapes Sherry's, Okay, Sherry's. Literally my only interaction with waffle house comes from a John Green short story, so I have almost zero frame

of reference. I have heard of the waffle House Index, though, which is a female rating system that categorizes storms based on whether or not the waffle house in the area is open. I'm off to find some waffles now because I'm hungry, happy, haunting. So that is like a very strange thing that the waffle House weather Index exists. I mean, but this this goes back to I will explain Sherry's for you for a second. I mean, it is basically

just a diner like it's a Denny's style diner. It feels like more seventies, Like at least when I was a kid, it felt very even at the time in the nineties it felt seventies. But it's just a diner. But it's in Washington, And I remember Sherry's being the one place in town when there was this freak blizzard and all the power went out for like two weeks, and Sherry's was one of the few places in town that was like on a generator, like a public place on a generator that you could go to if you

wanted to. So like that kind of holds water, like being the light in the storm, because like, if Sherry's is open again, this is twenty four hour establishments are the best. I mean we're missing, Like was do parts twenty four hours? I thought, No, it's only stood up until three to a certain point. We we are losing some diners, but new ones norms just moving to ventur Bolevard, loses Cafe Fifties on Vermons Up and we could talk

about this part of all day. First of all, I just want to say, I hope it's not as good as waffle House. I hope it's not great. You don't refer Denny's or I hopan but I don't really like either of them. There's an Eyehop kind of near me that I go to more than the Denny's. But I just mind it strange because of all the things that are that you could like eat at a restaurant or make at home. It's like, so it's so easy to

make pancakes. It's so easy to make pancakes. Even had a spray molly that looked like ready whip and you could just spray it into the pan and it was like, no, it was good. It was. It blew my mind. International House. It's just not as good as waffle House in terms of twenty four hour diners. I like the no frills aspect of waffle House. A lot Um Village in was

the chain in Iowa that and Perkins. Perkins was twenty four hours and their specialty with muffins, so you could always go get a muffins, you always bring it back to muffin. This is an Iowa muffin. But it wasn't at all open twenty four hours. In fact, it had like really limited hours. If I recall, because everything in New England does. But I always loved Friendlies. Friendlies is like friends, such a good diner. I mean, I've only been to one Friendlies, and I think it was in Hawaii. Weirdly,

there's Friendlies in Honolulu. I think I went to a diner a twenty four hour dinner in Vegas with Emily called the pepper Mill. The pepper Mill is like the in Vegas. There's something this is fantastic. Which club's close? Some things do close. I mean this was I don't even remember what I had, but I had a great time. That's what I had. Oh Ship Molly. What was the place in Seacock, Massachusetts that was? There's a really great diner in Sea Cock. I think it was in Sea

conk right. It was nothing in nothing in Rhode Island, I think was. I can't remember, but there was this one in Sea conk Um that we would drive to our senior year. That was a really good diner. What are your favorite night colors? If you have a favorite twenty four hour diner, you'd like to alert us too, or non twenty four hour diner or a twenty four hour anything, give us a call at to four oh

for six night. We did get several several emails pointing out that there are waffle houses in non Southern states, So I was thinking of that more as I said, I think when I said it originally it was more a heart feeling, more spiritual feeling, less of factual feeling. So I think we said we can, yeah, yeah, so can. I will acknowledge that I was wrong about that, however, because I've discussed this with several people off the pod,

just like, is Missouri as southern state? And I think I've really come to the conclusion that if you had slavery, you have to be a southern state forever. But you it, you feel like you're really Midwestern if you had wasn't it. This is a Missouri compromise that we have talked about. This is the whole thing. I believe it is like sort of was up for debate where Missouri was going to go. But from what I've heard from Missourians, it's the Midwest wish they wish. I'll give it to them.

There's been some discussion of like, are we too coastally elite, even though Emily is obviously you know, has has spent a lot of time in the middle the only one of us who've been to have been to Branson so exactly, so I think we should honor the folks from Missouri being whatever they want. And also, oh yeah there's I mean, if you can go to waffle House exactly, this is also a waffle house. This is the main takeaway at

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