108: Unhappy Science

Night Call

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.6 • 564 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

A night email about Instagram face and The Twilight Zone episode "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" start a discussion about transformation narratives that turns into Emily describing a terrifying YA series called The Uglies and Molly explaining what POT LEDOM means. A discussion about whether wellness will merge fully with beauty, and how that turns into eugenics. Then we learn about Happy Science, the Japanese cult promising followers that Coronavirus can be cured by the sound of their leader's voice. Emily explains the very unfriendly rivalry between Happy Science and another cult, Aum Shinrikyo. Then a Night Call about the Real Housewives of New York objecting to new housewife Leah having had a tattoo when they have all had vaginal rejuvenation on camera leads Molly to desperately try to convince Tess and Emily to give the franchise a chance. Plus nightmarish plastic surgery reality TV like I Want A Famous Face, Botched, and Extreme Makeover. And of course, The Swan. What the hell was going on in the mid 2000s on television? Find out on the last episode of Plastic Surgery April!

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.3	It's 11.10 p.m. in New Pretty Town.
0:07.6	And you're listening to Night Call.
0:17.5	Hello and welcome to Night Call.
0:19.9	A podcast. A call-in show, rather, a call-in show for our dystopian reality.
0:27.4	I'm Emily Yoshida. I am in Los Angeles. And with me on the other end of the line are, I'm Tuss Lynch.
0:34.7	And I'm Molly Lambert. Did you guys face off?
0:39.6	We got our larynxes exchanged.
0:42.1	We did.
0:42.9	It's going great.
0:44.0	Yeah.
0:44.4	Yeah.
0:44.6	I have many more cats now.
0:47.3	Yeah.
0:47.7	I have so many children in a geodesic dome.
0:52.6	And two giant geodes to take care of.
0:55.3	We wanted to kick things off this week with a night call, or night email rather, from our
1:00.9	listener, Lacey.
1:02.2	Lacey writes, after listening to your conversation with Gia and reading her article,
1:07.1	I could not stop thinking about the OG Twilight Zone episode number 12 looks just like you.
1:12.4	I'm sure you all have seen it, as I've heard you reference the show often, but basically
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