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It's 11.40 p.m. in an airplane hanger in Los Angeles, and you're listening to Night Call.

Hello and welcome back to Night Call, a call-in show for our dystopian reality.

I'm Molly Lambert, and with me are Tess Lynch and Emily Ishida.

Here we are, and today we are super excited to welcome our very special guest, Gia Tolentino,

staff writer for the New Yorker, and author of the essay

collection, Trick Mirror, Reflections on Self-Dilusion. Welcome, Gia, to Night Call.

Hi, guys. It's nice to, you know, talk to someone after a long day alone.

It's nice to everybody figure out complicated audio setups so we can all connect to each other as humans

at home this is how god intended it to be i'm a zoom master now i figured out all the things well we

were all last night connecting with our friend fiona apple whose new album Fetch the Bult Cutters came out.

I fetched the bolt cutters.

Last night, Emily, Gia, and I all fetched the bolt cutters.

Oh, yeah.

We just wanted to give our unbaked takes on the album.

I had been, like, I just filed a thing that I was, like, kind of deep reporting all day, and I had, like, had my head in it, but of course, I'd been listening to Fiona the whole time, and then I went for, like, a walk the length of the album and listened to the whole thing through.

And I, I mean, I'm still very overwhelmed by it, but one thing, I just felt so grateful for an album that, like, it requires and demands your complete attention. Yeah. You know, and, like, the more attention you give it, the more it gives you. It's just, like, I wish that there were, like, I wish that I could be riding the subway and listening to it. Like, I wish I could be driving and listen to it. But it's like, I just hadn't heard an album like that in a really long time.

Yeah, I basically, I was thinking about maybe taking a drive out to the beach, not getting out,

but just driving and coming back.

That's allowed.

This is like an honor that I really only give to like Lana Del Rey albums at this point as far as like having a dedicated listen. So I was thinking it might warrant that. But yeah, and it's also just like she, it's, it's really refreshing to hear a new album that really doesn't sound. I mean, it doesn't really sound like it's in conversation with anything else right now,

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