116: The Fireworks Conspiracy Fireworks Spectacular!
Night Call
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The ladies take on the fireworks conspiracy! But first, a night message about Colorado intentional community Drop City. More commune geodesic domes and experimental theater companies. What is the most Night Call time zone? How should we return Mount Rushmore to its former sacred natural state? Then, checking out the story about the shitposting cult DayLife Army. What does it look like when a cult is extremely online, seemingly self-aware about being a cult, and dead set on exploiting people's better instincts? Then, it's the moment everyone's been waiting for: ten thousand hours of incredibly loud nonstop fireworks. We lay out the various theories about the fireworks and our own personal takes. Is it the cops? Just kids? Professional fireworks enthusiasts? Or the ghost of dead Paris Review legend, fireworks hobbyist and CIA plant George Plimpton? The big differences between the fireworks in different cities, and why this specific conspiracy feels convoluted but not far-fetched. Is it all a big psy-op? Just innocent 4th of July fun? Or something even more sinister...
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | It's 2.21 a.m. in Drop City. And you're listening to Night Call. |
| 0:18.1 | Hello and welcome to Night Call, a call-in show for our dystopian reality. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Molly Lambert and with me are... |
| 0:25.9 | Tess Lynch and Emily Yoshita. |
| 0:28.3 | We're going to talk about some cults today. |
| 0:32.0 | And some fireworks. |
| 0:33.8 | Everyone's favorite. |
| 0:35.8 | I feel like the conspiracy theory is whether it's a conspiracy theory. The |
| 0:39.3 | conspiracy theory du jour. We got a lot of good calls and emails about fireworks. So thanks to |
| 0:47.8 | everybody who sent in your bang bang discourse. Yeah, we're going to get into it in the second half of the show. |
| 0:55.1 | Before we do, let's take a night call about Drop City. Hi, my name is Ben. I'm an artist living |
| 1:02.4 | and working in Denver, Colorado. And I was just listening to your latest episode and you're |
| 1:07.1 | talking about, I guess, biodome and spaceshiper, |
| 1:11.3 | but also Buckmeister Fuller. |
| 1:14.5 | And I was listening to it in my art studio, |
| 1:17.6 | and my studio mate actually started one of the first |
| 1:21.9 | artist communes in the country, in the 60s, |
| 1:26.5 | based off of Buck Monsterster Fuller's like geodesic domes. |
| 1:33.4 | What they did is they bought a piece of land in Trinidad, Colorado, and they built a bunch of |
| 1:40.5 | geodesic domes in the middle of like this kind of plot of land and they built |
| 1:47.0 | them out of like just wood and like car tops that they bought for like pennies it was super cool |
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